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Li Zongren smiled slightly: "Everyone, there are two other people here I want to introduce to you, they are all from the bloody battle in Shanghai with Gao Fei. One is called Lao Hei, and the other is called Jin Lock Pillar. Lao Hei, at least more than 50 devils have been killed in Taierzhuang, although the lock pillar is young, it is not bad, and the devils killed are not less than Lao Hei! ”

At this time, the attention of the reporters quickly shifted from Goofy to Lao Hei and the lock pillar.

Lao Hei is very arrogant, but the lock pillar always can't change his nervousness and shyness.

The "old" reporter seems to feel that he doesn't know what to call Lao Hei. "Old gentleman"? "Old sir"? are not so appropriate, only vaguely perfunctory:

"Now that the battle is over, what are your plans?"

Lao Hei didn't care, and said without thinking at all: "Marry Widow Yuan"

Before the words came out, everyone was stunned, and then burst into laughter.

Lao Hei only felt inexplicable, what's so funny about this? Now that the battle is over, when will I wait until I don't take this opportunity to marry Widow Yuan?

"That, who is that Yuan widow?" Li Zongren asked with a smile.

Gao Fei couldn't help but laugh and said loudly: "Report, it's Lao Hei who is a good friend, and now he has Lao Hei's seed in his stomach!" ”

This time, the laughter became louder, and Li Zongren made a straight face:

"Well, since you have your seed in your belly, Lao Hei, you have to be responsible for others to the end. Gao Fei, I will give you another task, if he is not responsible for that Yuan widow, military law will be involved. ”

"Yes!"

Li Zongren immediately looked Gao Fei up and down: "Gao Fei, the battle is over for the time being, I think your marriage should also be considered, right?" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Jing Lianyu and Fu Xiaogan.

This time, it was Goofy's turn to turn red

The Fifth War Zone, Taierzhuang Temporary Headquarters.

The senior generals sat together, and Li Zongren glanced at his subordinates: "Jiansheng, let's talk about the current situation first." ”

Bai Chongxi nodded:

"The Battle of Taierzhuang is one of the components of my Battle of Xuzhou. On March 20, the 27th year of the Republic of China, after the Segu Detachment of the 10th Division of the Yue Army advanced south and captured Lincheng, Zaozhuang and Hanzhuang, despite the fact that the attack of the 5th Division and the 10th Division Commander's Detachment was blocked on both sides, the lone army went deep and advanced to Taierzhuang, in an attempt to capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop. Tang Enbo, commander of the 20th Army Corps, led his troops to open the front of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and turned into Lanling and its northwest Yungu mountainous area to lure the enemy deep and wait for the opportunity to break the enemy. On March 23, the army moved south from Zaozhuang and engaged the garrison troops in the Kangzhuang and Nigou areas on the north side of Taierzhuang. From the 24th, the army repeatedly attacked Taierzhuang and attacked the village many times. The defenders resisted stubbornly and engaged in a fierce battle with the Yue army. The Fifth Theater of Operations used the main force of the 20th Army Corps to maneuver towards Taierzhuang, pinched the enemy's flank, formed an internal and external attack with the 2nd Group Army, and ordered the 3rd Army to advance to the north of Lincheng and Zaozhuang to cut off the enemy's rear route. In order to relieve the danger in front of Taierzhuang, the army quickly rushed to the aid of the 5th Division Sakamoto detachment from Linyi and entered the Qiuhu area north of Lanling, where it was surrounded by the 20th Army of the 52nd Army. Beginning on 3 April, the Fifth Theater launched a counteroffensive on all fronts, fighting fiercely for four days, annihilating more than 15,000 people from most of the Seya Detachment and the first part of the Sakamoto Detachment. The rest of the remnants of the army retreated to Yicheng and Zaozhuang on the 7th. In this battle, Gao Fei has made a lot of contributions! ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Gao Fei and continued:

"The current Supreme Commander of the Fifth Theater, Chief Li Zongren, has decided:

"First, the enemy near Taierzhuang who was defeated by my Sun and Tang's armies is now fleeing in the direction of Yixian. Second, the Tang Army cleared the battlefield with one part and pursued and advanced to Yixian County with the main force from the east of the Tai and Zaozhi roads and along the areas south of Xiazhuang, Mashan, Jiushan, and Tanshan. Third, Sun Jun commanded Zhang Zhen's division to pursue and advance from Tai and Zaozhi to Yixian. Fourth, Cao Fulin's blocking corps should intercept the enemy in the area north of Yixian County and not let him escape. Fifth, if the enemy retreats to Yixian County, Sun and Tang's armies each occupy the eastern and western heights of Yixian County, and after the main force coordinates to destroy the enemy's field army outside the city, they will besiege Yixian County.

Sixth, if the enemy took Yixian County as the rear guard position, Sun and Tang armies each monitored it with one part, and the main force pursued the enemy exhaustively. Seventh, Sun Zhenjun's 22nd Army should cross the canal by Xinzhazi and pursue the enemy on the Hanzhuang side. Eighth, Li Xianzhou's division should continue to pass through Xiangcheng to the east, sweep away the remnants of the enemy west of Linyi, and advance to Linyi. After arriving, it will be under the command of Commander Zhang Zizhong"

One after another, orders were given, and there was silence in the conference room.

Bai Chongxi paused, picked up the cup and took a sip of water:

"Despite the great victory in Taierzhuang, the situation is still serious, and there is a huge disparity between the forces of the enemy and us. But we're trying to bridge that gap.

In terms of the air force, after the failure of the attack at Taierzhuang, the army aviation added eight reconnaissance squadrons, three combat squadrons, and seven bombing squadrons, and the naval aviation added the 14th aerial reconnaissance squadron, the Kaohsiung air squadron, the 2nd air squadron, and the Canglong flight squadron. In total, there are more than 250 combat aircraft.

On the other hand, for a period of time after the fall of Nanjing, because the Chinese Air Force had not yet completed replenishment and reconstruction, the air supremacy in various battlefields was basically in the hands of the Chinese army, and in addition to directly supporting the operations of its ground troops, the Chinese air force also frequently carried out strategic bombing of important strategic bases in China's rear. However, on February 18, it was hit by the Chinese Air Force over Wuhan and 11 were shot down; On the 25th, 59 planes of the Chinese army bombed Nanchang and 8 were shot down. On February 8, the 3rd Flying Regiment bombed the Chinese defenders at Xiaobengbu with 20 planes to support its 13th Division in forcibly crossing the Huai River; On 17 March, the 1st Flying Regiment bombed the Chinese defenders in Tengxian County with more than 20 planes to support its 10th Division in attacking Tengxian County. By the time of the battles in Linyi and Taierzhuang, the military aviation units were extremely active, and basically every day they dispatched planes to support the front-line troops in the battle.

When the number of military planes increased, the strategic bombing of Wuhan and other places began, and at the same time, the task of the so-called aviation annihilation war was added, that is, bombing the bases of the Chinese Air Force and conducting air battles in order to destroy the Chinese Air Force. However, due to the heroic battles of the Chinese Air Force and the Soviet Air Volunteers, the Yue Army not only failed to achieve its goal of destroying the Chinese Air Force, but was shot down by dozens of planes, which weakened the air support capability of the Yue Army to a certain extent.

In the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Air Force suffered huge losses. By the end of the Battle of Nanjing, the Chinese Air Force had less than 30 aircraft available for combat. The National Politics and Aviation Committee moved westward and was reorganized in March, with the Counselor's Office, the Adviser's Office, the Director's Office, and four departments: Military Orders, Technology, General Affairs, and Air Defense. Some of the pilots were transferred to Wuhan, Nanchang and other places, and some went to Lanzhou to receive short-term training from Soviet instructors.

The Soviet planes purchased by the National Government with a loan from the USSR were successively transported to China from the end of November 26, and the National Air Force received a new replenishment. By the time the Battle of Xuzhou began, the total number of combat aircraft of the Chinese Air Force had reached 217. They are stationed at airports in Nanchang, Wuhan, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Wuwei, Jiuquan, Xiangyang and other places. In addition, on 7 February, China and the Soviet Union signed the "Military Aviation Agreement," and the Soviet Union supported China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

In terms of air defense operations. China's air force has repeatedly inflicted heavy damage on military planes over Wuhan, Guide, Luoyang, Changsha, and other places. On 18 February 27, when the Huaihe River Blockade Battle and the Lunan Liangxiadian counterattack were raging, 12 bombers of the Chinese Army attacked Wuhan, the center of our command under the cover of 26 fighters, and Li Guidan, captain of the 4th Brigade of the Chinese Air Force stationed in Hankou and Xiaogan, led 29 fighters to meet the attack, and fought fiercely over the Hankou Airport for about 12 minutes, shooting down 11 planes, and 5 Chinese planes were also shot down, and 5 Chinese planes were also shot down.

In terms of strategic attacks: The Chinese Air Force has carried out two surprise attacks on Taipei and the mainland of Taipei, which have had a great impact. In the early morning of 21 February, 28 bombers of the Soviet Volunteer Corps of the Chinese Air Force stationed in Hankou flew over the Taiwan Strait and arrived at Taipei's Songshan Airport and the Hsinchu Power Plant at about 7 o'clock to carry out dive bombing. This action was completely unexpected by the Chinese army, and the Chinese side was defenseless. It was not until around 9 o'clock that the military planes flew over Taipei, but the volunteer team had completed the bombing mission and flew back to China after flying around Taipei City at a low altitude for a week. The raid blew up 12 planes and several warehouses of the Navy's First Combined Air Force, and seriously damaged the Hsinchu Power Plant.

In terms of tactical attacks: Although the Chinese Air Force has fewer aircraft to directly support ground forces in combat, it has also carried out many active operations. It has bombed military airfields in Nanjing, Wuhu, Guangde, Hangzhou, Xinxiang, Bengbu and other places many times. In early February, when the 3rd Flying Regiment of the Central China Front was using Hangzhou as a base to support its 13th Division in attacking the Chinese defenders on the north bank of the Huai River, the Chinese Air Force attacked the Hangzhou airfield and destroyed several enemy planes.

During the fighting in the Taierzhuang area, he also directly supported ground battles on many occasions, and on 24 March he bombed the Hanzhuang and Lincheng armies with 14 bombers, and on 4 April he bombed the enemy's positions in the northeast and northwest of Taierzhuang with 27 bombers and fighters."

Bai Chongxi's introduction was very detailed and very inspiring.

"The battle of Taierzhuang is over, and the next is the battle of Xuzhou." After Bai Chongxi finished speaking, Li Zongren said: "Taierzhuang's victory is of great significance, but there are gains and losses. Goofy. ”

"Here!"

"As the commander of the front line, you participated in the whole process of the bloody battle in Taierzhuang, so let's talk to everyone."

"Yes!" In the face of those commanders whose ranks are much higher than his own, Goofy does not have any stage fright:

"Since the 77 Incident, the commander of the army has driven straight in, although he has occupied 620,000 square kilometers of Chinese land in Pingping, Tianjin, North China, Shanghai, and Ningbo within half a year, but in many battles such as Xinkou and Songhu, he has been strongly resisted by the Chinese [***] team, and it has not been like the general Sugiyama Moto, the prime minister of the land, boasted to the emperor that 'the China incident can be resolved in only one month'.

The allotted 'three or four months' to wage an all-out war to destroy China's central power and solve China's problems in one fell swoop. However, the army has never carried out a retreat within the scope of the campaign, let alone admitted defeat in the battle, and has always regarded itself as an 'invincible' 'imperial army'.

The battle of Taierzhuang caused the 10th Division and the 5th Division of the Chinese Army, two so-called elite troops, to retreat in a hurry under the encirclement and attack of the squadron, and even a large number of heavy weapons, military supplies and soldiers' corpses had to be abandoned on the battlefield. In this regard, the army only said that it had "destroyed the traditions of the army," and the staff officer of the 2nd Army, Okamoto Kiyofuku, only admitted that the army "fell into the encirclement of the vast number of enemies as soon as it arrived in Taierzhuang" and that because of the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us, our detachment retreated,' thus covering up the fact of defeat.

But the soldiers who experienced the battle of Taierzhuang had their own feelings. For example, in a book of military records seized on the battlefield, Shibuya of the 2nd Brigade of the 63rd Wing of the 33rd Brigade of the 10th Division of the Army wrote in the chronicle only about the local battle situation of the brigade that he had personally seen:

'Our casualties were heavy, all of them were heavily defended day and night, the number of each squadron was only sixty or seventy men, the brigade headquarters could not support the sacrifice of hundreds of lives, and the occupied places were taken by the enemy, our squadron retreated with the brigade headquarters in tears, and temporarily bid farewell to the war dead when retreating. ’

Of course, our victory in Taierzhuang was only a partial victory, and the battle itself could not play a decisive role in the overall situation of the Sino-Japanese war, but it dealt a heavy blow to the aggressive arrogance of the Yue army, proved with actual combat examples that the Yue army was not invincible, thus inspiring the will of the national government and the people of the whole country to resist the war, enhancing the confidence of the whole Chinese people in winning the war of resistance, and eliminating the fear of some people, and this is precisely one of the important conditions that China must have for a protracted war of resistance.

In addition, the victory of Taierzhuang not only made the Yue army begin to reassess China's anti-Japanese forces, but also changed the international view of the Sino-Japanese war.

It is said that due to the lack of troops and insufficient preparations, after occupying Nanjing and Taiyuan, the base camp originally decided to temporarily suspend the large-scale offensive, formulated the so-called policy of 'not expanding the war situation,' and issued a plan to gain time to establish a general war system and expand its military strength.

However, due to the defeat of Taierzhuang and the invasion of China, in order to save face, I believe that the Yue army will inevitably strongly demand the expansion of the war situation, and because of the discovery of a large number of Chinese troops gathering in Xuzhou, they passively changed the established strategic policy, and under the conditions of insufficient troops and insufficient preparations, we carried out the battle of Xuzhou in advance according to our plan.

At present, the Chinese army has not yet completed its plan to expand its troops, and it is simply unable to send additional troops from within the country, so it has no choice but to mobilize troops from the army that invaded China, which already felt that its troops were insufficient.

With a total strength of about 15 divisions and regiments in China, I believe that the transfer to Xuzhou will reach about 20 divisions, and the only result for Yue himself will be that the forces involved in the battle of Xuzhou will not be enough to complete the strategic and campaign tasks of encircling and annihilating the 500,000 or 600,000 squadrons near Xuzhou, and the troops left behind in the rear will be even more overstretched, and even the key points on the main railway lines of Tongpu, Pinghan, Beijing-Shanghai, Jiaoji, Zhengtai, and Jinpu will not be enough.

Before the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese [***] team basically adopted a simple positional defensive war, and they were often in a passive position, and they were inferior to the army with weapons and equipment, so they were defeated in every battle. After the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, our high command accepted the lessons of the past and began to adopt a new policy of offensive defense, that is, to closely integrate the defensive position of positional warfare with the offensive of movement warfare and the attack and harassment of guerrilla warfare. In the pre-selected battlefield area, hold the position with a force of force, attract and consume the enemy; Guerrilla behind enemy lines with a force of troops, disrupt communications, harass strongholds, and contain the enemy; The main force corps should make a detour to the enemy's flank and carry out a powerful attack, so as to change the internal line of operations into external operations and strive for the initiative in passivity. The battles of Taierzhuang, the battles of Linyi, and the battle of blocking the Huai River in the prelude stage were all won under the guidance of this kind of operation.

The operational plan drawn up by our Fifth Theater when it was established was originally divided into three stages: The first stage was for the First Line Corps to stop the Chinese Army on the north bank of the Yellow River and delay its southward advance in order to gain time and cover the assembly and deployment of the Second Line Corps. The second stage was for the first-line corps to withdraw to the first-line defense in the mountainous areas of Laiwu and Tai'an, and to cooperate with the second-line corps to fight the Yue army in Yanzhou and Jining. The third stage was a decisive battle near Xuzhou.

The operational guidance for the decisive battle was to 'hold the core with a very small number of troops and use the majority of the theater of operations' to carry out guerrilla offensive operations on both sides of the Jinpu Road and flank the enemy. However, due to Han Fuyu's retreat without a fight, this operational plan in line with the strategy of a protracted war of attrition was aborted. Far before the troops of the Fifth Theater were assembled, the army penetrated deep into the line of Jining and Zouxian.

In order to curb the advance momentum of the Yue Army, our Fifth Theater adopted the operational guidance of 'taking attack as defense' and launched a counterattack in Lunan Province, ordering Sun Tongxuan's 3rd Group Army to counterattack Jining and Wenshang, and Sun Zhen's 22nd Group Army to counterattack Zou County and Liangxiadian. Because our army lacked the powerful firepower necessary to attack the fortified positions, it was really beyond the reach of the well-equipped Syrian army, supported by aircraft and tanks, and occupied strongholds, and it was difficult to succeed, and it was quickly defeated by the Japanese army. The army took advantage of the situation to attack, and the battle situation quickly developed to the situation in the third stage of the battle plan.

In the battle of Taierzhuang, our Fifth Theater basically operated in accordance with the third phase plan, guided by the idea of offensive defense: to order Sun's 2nd Army to hold its position and attract and consume the enemy from the front; ordered Sun Tongxuan's 3rd Army to attack to the east and south, cut off the Jinpu Road and move south to the enemy in the Zaozhuang area; Ordered the main corps, the 20th Army Corps of Tang Enbo, to detour to the areas of Xiangcheng, Lanling and Baoqinggu. On the one hand, the 10th Division of the Isoya Army was cut off from the 5th Division of Itagaki and, on the other hand, a powerful flank attack was carried out on the Yue Army attacking Taierzhuang.

The 2nd Group Army, which was responsible for positional warfare, did not devote itself entirely to the defense, but only held Taierzhuang with one part, and deployed Huang Qiaosong's 27th Division and Zhang Jinzhao's 30th Division on the east and west sides of the city respectively, and constantly organized frontal or flank counterattacks, so that the army had to often divide its forces to respond to the battle, and could not concentrate all its efforts to attack Taierzhuang.

It was under the guidance of this kind of operation that the two armies attacking Taierzhuang were finally defeated and fled, and won the victory of Taierzhuang! ”

(To be continued)