Chapter 1234 Winter Offensive (for the book friend 1999 existence promotion book elder congratulations)

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The scheming commander of the Japanese North China Front, Okamura Ningji, made a big move, but unfortunately he didn't know what kind of person Liu Yimin was, the strategy of the Eighth Route Army had changed dramatically, and Okamura Ningji was still dreaming of using his self-righteous means to deal with the Eighth Route Army, and the contest between the two sides was divided from the beginning and was doomed. However, due to Okamura's gloomy and ruthless nature, the people of North China will certainly have to endure the test in blood and fire in the course of the struggle between the two sides.

Without waiting for Okamura Ningji to launch a winter sweep of the Shandong base area, the Eighth Route Army launched it first.

On January 20, 1942, the fourth day of the lunar month, it was cold.

This day was only 5 days after the end of the Third Battle of Changsha.

In the offensive operation launched by the 11th Army of the Japanese Army in Central China against Changsha, due to the fact that only the 6th Division, the 3rd Division, and the 40th Division participated in the battle, the troops were insufficient, and the ammunition supply was insufficient. The Japanese army could not attack for a long time, and the supply of ammunition was difficult, so they had to retreat. The Ninth War Zone took advantage of the situation to pursue. By January 15, all the Japanese troops had fled back to their starting positions. The Nationalist Government issued a war report saying that 139 Japanese soldiers were captured, 56,944 Japanese casualties were suffered, and 1,138 rifles, 115 light and heavy machine guns, 11 mountain guns, 9 radio stations and other military supplies were captured. The squadron suffered 31,346 casualties. In fact, **31,346, 6,000 Japanese casualties. ** The soldiers defended the city of Changsha with their blood.

That night, Liu Yimin commanded the 1st, 5th, 12th, cavalry, and artillery columns of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army to suddenly launch a fierce attack on the 39th Division of the Japanese Army, the 22nd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army, and the remnants of the puppet Manchurian Advance Army between Lianyungang and Xuzhou in the eastern section of the Longhai Road. Under the cover of strong artillery fire, the Eighth Route Army broke through the defensive position of the eastern section of the Longhai Road of the Japanese puppet army, and cut the remnants of the Japanese 39th Division, the independent mixed 22nd Brigade, and the puppet Manchurian Advance Army into several sections. For a time, the 12th Army of the Japanese Army and the North China Front Army were all in chaos. Okamura Ninji finally survived until dawn, and Lieutenant General Kinoshita, commander of the 3rd Air Division, dispatched all his fighters to blow up the bloody road, rescue the 39th Division and the 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade, cover the withdrawal of the 39th Division to Xuzhou, and cover the withdrawal of the 22nd Brigade and the remnants of the Puppet Manchurian Advance Army to Lianyungang.

Groups of Japanese planes wreaked havoc on the eastern section of the Longhai Road, searched for the positions of the Eighth Route Army, bombed indiscriminately, wasted a lot of aviation ammunition, and finally rescued the remnants of the 39th Division, the 22nd Brigade and the remnants of the Puppet Manchurian Advance Army from the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army. However, the entire eastern section of Longhai Road, from Lianyungang in the east to the suburbs of Xuzhou in the west, was controlled by the Eighth Route Army, and the two base areas of Shandong and northern Jiangsu were once again connected.

During the day, the Japanese retreated under the cover of aircraft, and at night the Eighth Route Army pursued relentlessly. When the 39th Division withdrew into Xuzhou and the 22nd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade withdrew into Lianyungang, and the losses were reported after the troops were reorganized, the distressed Okamura Ningji shuddered. In just two nights, his 39th Division and the 22nd Brigade were completely disabled, losing 15,000 men and most of their heavy equipment.

In order to save the critical situation in the eastern section of the Luhai Road and prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking advantage of the situation to attack Xuzhou and Lianyungang again, Okamura Ningji was ruthless, completely abolished the establishment of the puppet Manchurian advance army, and incorporated the remaining puppet Manchu army of less than 1,000 people into the 22nd Brigade and Regiment of Independent Mixed Forces, and cooperated with the marines stationed in Lianyungang to defend Lianyungang. The 114th Division was ordered to replenish all the divisional and regimental supplementary teams to the 39th Division, and the 114th Division commanded the 39th Division and the Xuzhou garrison to defend the Xuzhou area. Immediately afterwards, Okamura Ninji ordered the 27th Division, the 37th Division, and the 16th Brigade of the Japanese Army from Tai'an to Lunan to launch an attack on Lunan; The 2nd Guards Division, the 32nd Division, the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 18th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 19th Independent Mixed Brigade on the Jiaoji Road were ordered to attack central and southeastern Luzhong by road, with the aim of forcing the main force of the Eighth Route Army to withdraw from the eastern section of Longhai Road and ensure the safety of the supply port of Lianyungang and Xuzhou.

In this way, Lei Ming, commander of the Fourth Column of the Eighth Route Army in Luzhong, and Yuan Guoping, political commissar, commanded the Fourth Column, the armed forces of the Luzhong Military Region, and the Japanese troops rushing on Jiaoji Road exchanged fire, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army and the Ninth Column of the Eighth Route Army and the Lunan Military Region commanded by Wang Jian'an and Zhang Haitao in the Taiyi Mountains exchanged fire with the Japanese puppet army that rushed on Jinpu Road.

Li Qing commanded the troops of the Third Column and the Qinghe Military Region, and Chen Dayong commanded the troops of the Seventh Column and the Jiaolai Military Region to pounce on the Jiaoji Road, forming a north-south flank attack with the Fourth Column and the troops of the Luzhong Military Region, forcing the Japanese troops on the Jiaoji Road to fight on both sides, and the battle situation was in a state of hanging.

On the 28th of January, that is, on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Yimin led the main force of the Eighth Route Army to retreat from the eastern section of Longhai Road, and suddenly appeared in the Feixian area of southern Lunan Province, and used the Ninth Column and the troops of the Lunan Military Region to clamp down on the 27th Division of the Japanese Army and the 16th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and the main force aimed the attack at the 37th Division of the Japanese Army, and the 1st Column, the 5th Column, the 12th Column, the Cavalry Column, the Artillery Column, and the Military Region's Baggage Brigade, Engineer Brigade, and Air Defense Brigade all went into battle, and the 37th Division of the Japanese Army and the puppet North China Pacification Army under the command of the army were all defeated. Quickly move closer to the 27th Division. The Eighth Route Army pursued all night, and the remnants of the 27th and 37th Divisions of the Japanese Army and the puppet army were about to form a pincer attack.

At this time, Gangcun Ningci was completely panicked. He knew that if the rescue was not effective, it was likely that the 27th and 37th Divisions would be buried in Lunan. In an emergency, Okamura Ningji strictly ordered the 27th Division to command the 37th Division and the remnants of the puppet army to withdraw to Zaozhuang and Taierzhuang to hold the line, and ordered the 114th Division to go out of Xuzhou for reinforcements to meet the remnants of the 27th Division and the 37th Division; The 16th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was ordered to abandon Tai'an and return to the Jinan area. Order the troops on the northern front of the Jiaoji Road to retreat to their starting positions and repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army on the north of the Jiaoji Road. He then ordered the 35th Division stationed in central Hebei, the 59th Division stationed in southern Hebei, and the 36th Division stationed on the Pinghan Line to transfer a wing of troops each to reinforce the Jinan area in the east.

The remnants of the 27th Division and the 37th Division finally joined forces with the 114th Division dispatched from Xuzhou. Before Okamura Ninji could order them to reorganize their troops and concentrate their efforts on opening up the Jinpu Road, the Eighth Route Army surrounded them and put on a posture of swallowing up the three divisions of the Japanese army in one go. Okamura Ninji could no longer care about opening up the Jinpu Road, so he ordered the planes to cover it, and let the remnants of the 27th Division, the 37th Division, and the remnants of the puppet army retreat to the Xuzhou area with the 114th Division.

The Japanese army was defeated, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu and the Henan-Anhui border area all took action and launched offensive operations against the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, so that the Japanese puppet army in these areas held the strongholds and did not dare to move.

At this point, the Japanese army's blockade of central and southern Lu had been broken, and the areas of western Luxi, southwestern Lu, and the plain of Lunan were once again connected with the base areas of central and southern Lu.

The offensive of the Eighth Route Army did not stop. On February 14, the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, our army in Luxi, which had been replenished with sufficient ammunition from central and southern Lu, under the command of Liu Jianjian, commander of the second column of the Eighth Route Army, the main forces of the second column, the sixth column, and the tenth column, launched a fierce attack on the Japanese puppet army defense line between Dexian and Luokou.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yimin commanded the 1st Column, 4th Column, 5th Column, 9th Column, 12th Column, Cavalry Column, Artillery Column, Air Defense Brigade, Engineer Brigade, and Baggage Brigade, and left the enemy in Xuzhou to advance north, and fought with the 3rd Column and 7th Column to Jiaoji Road.

Before the Eighth Route Army launched an attack to the north, the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Tuqiao Ichi, urgently ordered the 32nd Division stationed in Zhangdian to withdraw to Zhangqiu, and together with the 19th Brigade stationed in Zhangqiu, it guarded the eastern defense line of Jinan; ordered the independent mixed 5th Brigade stationed in Gaomi to withdraw to Weicheng, and formed a group with the 2nd Guards Division stationed in Weicheng to strictly defend it; Command to reside? The county's 18th Independent Mixed Brigade withdrew to Qingdao ahead of schedule and held Qingdao together with the Qingdao garrison and marines. For this reason, Lieutenant General Tuqiao was afraid that Qingdao would lose, so he urgently ordered the 60th Division stationed in the areas of Yantai and Weihai in Jiaodong to send troops to reinforce Qingdao.

Liu Yimin had no intention of capturing Xuzhou, Jinan, and Qingdao, nor did he have any intention of capturing Weicheng and Fangzi, which were held by the Second Guards Division and the Fifth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, but only waved his army and slammed the Japanese puppet army on the periphery of Jinan, Weicheng, and Qingdao, forcing them to constantly shrink the defensive circle.

By the time of March 1, the entire winter offensive was over. In this battle, our army launched attacks on the Japanese army in three directions, forcing the Japanese army in Shandong to be trapped in several large cities. Our army annihilated more than 40,000 enemies and captured a large amount of weapons and equipment.

This winter, the invading Japanese army was completely defeated. First, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated in the Third Battle of Changsha, and then the Japanese army was defeated in the Shandong battlefield and was besieged in several isolated cities. The morale of the invading Japanese army was dealt a heavy blow.

Okamura Ninji could no longer take care of his three-light policy, and sent a telegram a day to the base camp asking for help, asking the base camp to transfer the main force of the Kwantung Army south for reinforcements. Otherwise, the North China Front would not be able to restore the lines of communication.

At this time, the Japanese army was advancing all the way in the Pacific theater. Following the surrender of the British forces in Hong Kong, the commander of the British forces in Singapore, Percival, also signed a surrender to the Japanese army, and Singapore fell. On March 9, the Dutch forces in the Indonesian archipelago surrendered. MacArthur, the supreme commander of the US military in the Philippines, left behind a bold statement of "I will come back" and left the Philippines for Australia to take up the post of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces on a torpedo boat with President Quezon of the Republic of the Philippines. The 78,000 U.S. and Filipino troops in the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese army due to the exhaustion of ammunition.

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