Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 457: No War in North China (3) -

Chapter 457: No War in North China (3)

The commander of the Datong garrison, Takagi Yoshito, is definitely an outlier among the Japanese officers, and Yamashita Fengfumi, who was transferred to serve in the Southern Army, has seen the threat of Han Yunhua's department a long time ago, he was not busy attacking outside the country like the vast majority of Japanese officers, but drove the Chinese laborers early to build Datong's city fortifications for the Japanese army, and also built two strong defense lines outside Datong City to prevent the troops of the Inner M-NG Ancient Military Region from directly attacking Datong City from the direction of Fengzhen. "A New Experience of Reading Words"

After receiving the order of the front army headquarters, Lieutenant General Takagi Yoshito was far more sensitive than ordinary people, he immediately issued an order to all the defenders of Datong to enter the combat state, all field troops were issued enough supplies and ammunition for ten days of operation, and even the puppet army was issued with ammunition and ammunition for three days of operation, and all the mines outside Datong City were closed in a short period of time, and all the miners were imprisoned in the dungeons of the city.

Because the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region raided a mine kiln outside Datong City last year, it caused huge losses to the Japanese army, and even the heirs of the Mitsui family disappeared, which also involved many people. This time, Yoshito Takagi decisively transferred all the property and personnel of the company to Datong City, and one side was attacked by the team.

And all the Japanese expatriates in the city were also armed in a very short time, including F-NVs and children. Yoshito Takagi believed that with these strong fortifications and so many troops, even if Han Yunhua concentrated all his troops in Datong, he would not have achieved much success, and would even lose his troops and lose his vitality.

The trend of events was also as Lieutenant General Takagi had predicted, and the first day of the attack was crushed in a matter of seconds, with hundreds of corpses left on the battlefield alone, and the combat team that had lost less than two hours yesterday had lost at least 1,000 men, while the Imperial Army had lost less than 300 men, of whom less than 100 were actually killed. Yoshito Takagi was very satisfied with this result, and the performance of the Takagi division was beyond his expectations.

On November 22, three infantry divisions attacked the left and right and the two counties of Zuoyun and the right, and used the tactic of diverting the tiger from the mountain to break the defenders of the two counties.

Immediately after the squadron in the northwest of Jin gave up the southward pursuit and retreated to Wuning, the strength of about three infantry divisions directly turned to attack Shuo County, which was heavily defended, and Li Jianming, deputy commander of the 32nd Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and Liu Xufei, commander of the 33rd Division, who assisted the imperial army in defending Shuo County, surrendered to the enemy on the battlefield, opened the city of Shuo County M-N and surrendered to the squadron, and the Japanese army stationed in Shuo County, an infantry brigade, three other infantry brigades and a puppet infantry division were destroyed by the team, and only less than 3,000 people fled to Shanyīn County, All the others were killed and captured by the squadron.

In addition, a large number of squadrons were also found in the direction of Yanggao, and the number seemed to be as large as an infantry division, and they were rushing to Datong at the speed of a rapid march. At this point, the team encircled Datong from the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and the entire 20,000 regular Japanese troops, 10,000 expatriates, and 20,000 imperial troops were directly encircled by at least six Chinese infantry divisions.

These things were done in a very short period of time, and even Yoshito Takagi, a veteran officer who had been in battle for a long time, did not have time to react. When the squadron ** troops approached the city on November 27, Takagi Yoshishi thought of ordering the two infantry wings of the northern defense line outside Datong to retreat quickly, but unfortunately it was too late, about three divisions of the squadron ** surrounded the two infantry wings in an area of less than ten kilometers in length and width to carry out attacks in turns, although these two infantry wings have relatively strong fortifications, but want to rush out and withdraw to Datong is not to think about it.

Lieutenant General Yoshito Takagi was shocked and immediately urgently asked for help from the North China Front Headquarters, hoping that General Tada Jun could send one or two divisions of reinforcements to Datong in a short time, otherwise the Takagi Division would be wiped out from the battle sequence of the Imperial Army by the squadron, and the Front Army would suffer heavy losses.

Receiving Takagi Yoshito's undisguised telegram for help, Tada Junda's frightened team launched an all-out attack on North China from four directions, and hundreds of thousands of troops had already put tremendous pressure on the North China Front, plus the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army, and local bandits and rogues also attacked the Japanese stronghold county in all directions, and the North China Front Army was already without troops to adjust at this time. The strength of the front army has been scattered, and now there is only one independent H-N brigade in the hands of Tada Jun who can still be mobilized, but compared to six or seven Chinese infantry divisions, an independent H-N brigade of six or seven thousand people will not play any role at all, and the dispatch is also to deliver food to Han Yunhua's subordinates.

Originally, the so-called Fourth Route Army in Tada Jun's team, especially Han Yunhua's department, was just a joke about the last stop of the front army, although the number of front troops had dropped to only more than 200,000 troops, but he knew very well that these more than 200,000 troops were not much worse than the previous more than 300,000 troops in terms of combat effectiveness, because in order to make up for the lack of strength of the North China Front, the empire transferred more than 10,000 veterans from the two guard divisions to supplement the North China Front. In addition, a large number of veterans were transferred from the Jiangnan Battlefield and the Kwantung Army to supplement the North China Front, so the proportion of veterans in the North China Front at this time was very high, although it was not as good as the jīng soldiers when the war first began, but compared to the North China Front a year ago, the North China Front at this time was much stronger.

Moreover, the theater of eastern Hebei and southern Chahar has indeed shown good results, about 80,000 squadrons in eastern Hebei have been blocked and cannot advance an inch in the periphery of Tangshan, and about 80,000 squadrons in the direction of Zhangjiakou cannot break through the defense line of the Fifth Division. Only those imperial troops in the northwest of Jin Province were not strong at all, and they were driven out of the northwest of Jin Province within two days by the squadron, and they fled back to Shuoxian and Wuning without knowing how many people there were in the squadron.

Just two days ago, the special high-tech investigation found out that the squadron in the northwest of Shanxi Province had three infantry divisions and a guerrilla force of about 5,000 people, with a number of about 65,000 people, and three infantry regiments belonging to the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Although he knew that the number of Japanese troops in the northwest of Jin was not large, it was still incredible that the Japanese army had been defeated in such a short period of time.

However, before Tada Jun could recover his breath, Lieutenant General Yoshito Takagi, who had always been full of confidence, sent a telegram asking for help, and it was the kind of request for help that seemed to be dying and struggling, which made General Tada feel breathless.

In desperation, Tada had no choice but to send a report to General Nishio Toshizo, hoping that the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army could increase troops in North China as soon as possible. However, General Nishio Shouzo's reply made Tada Jun feel cold, not only is the North China region short of troops, but the entire Chinese Dispatch Army is short of troops everywhere, whether it is the North China Front Army, the 21st Army, and the 11th Army are all overstretched, how can there be troops to reinforce the North China Front.

However, the Japanese army in the Datong area still had to be rescued, otherwise it would not be a trivial matter for an integrated division and tens of thousands of expatriates to fall into the hands of Han Yunhua's department, and he could not afford and did not want to bear this responsibility, so Tada Jun immediately sent a harshly worded telegram to Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, ordering the First Army to immediately organize a powerful force to rescue the Datong Takagi Division.

Yoshio Shinozuka also had a hard time during this time, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of central troops in the entire southeast of Jin, there were more than 200,000 Jin Sui troops and the number of ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］