Section 7 The Battle of Siege and Annihilation in Northern Hubei VIII
"Order Lan Yundong, strengthen the offensive, don't be afraid of sacrifice, be sure to drag Kanda and don't let him divide his troops to cross the river. \\. QΠβΈγ CoΠ/β
"Telegraphed to Guo Yan that Yamamoto's troops were only a few thousand people, and the 92nd Army and the 86th Army were nearly 100,000 people, why did they continue to delay, and those who delayed the fighters and those who were ineffective in combat should be dealt with by military law."
"Telegraphed to Sun Zhen and ordered the 39th Division to be annihilated tonight, and the 126th Division must occupy Zhongxiang tonight without delay!"
"Telegraphed to Du Yuming that the 102nd Division of the 60th Army immediately turned to Anlu and established a blocking position on the west bank of the Fuhe River, on the front line of the Shutai. The rest of the ministries pursued boldly, without any worries. β
"Telegraphed to Feng Zhi'an that the task of the 33rd Group Army was changed to contain and drag the 104th Division, which is the only force that Anan can save the situation, and tell him how much he will lose, how much I will replenish him after the war, as long as the 104th Division does not appear in the Dahongshan area, he will be a great achievement."
"Telegraphed Fan Hanjie, our army has broken through the middle line of the Japanese army on the southern front, separating the main force of the Japanese army on the east and west lines of Hanshui, the Japanese front is in a state of collapse, the Japanese army in North China is bound to go south to reinforce, and it is very important to cut off the communication of the Pinghan line, in order to ensure the success of the counterattack on the southern front, the Fifth Army must cut off the Pinghan line and prevent the Japanese army in North China from going south."
"Telegraph, Sun Lianzhong and Li Pinxian, strengthen the attack on Xinyang, the 31st Army immediately turned to Wusheng Pass, and did not let the 3rd Division go south, and the 48th Army let go to attack southern Henan and take Shangcheng Guangshan, or that sentence, fight well, expand after the war, fight badly, I don't care which faction he is, all of them will be downsized and withdrawn after the war."
He Wei recorded quickly, Xu Zuyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, judging from Zhuang Jihua's deployments, it was comprehensive, there were almost no loopholes, and the possible changes in the Japanese army were calculated.
"Send a telegram to the chairman of the committee, the counterattack in northern Hubei has been launched, the 39th Division has been completely divided and surrounded, the 58th Division is fleeing south in panic, and the main force of the Japanese army is isolated on the west bank of the Han River. If this battle is won, the main force of the enemy's 11th Army will be completely annihilated, and Wuhan can go down in a battle, in order to achieve this goal, I request that Commander Xue of the 9th Theater be ordered to immediately send troops to northern Xiangbei; Commander Gu of the Third Theater immediately counterattacked Nanchang, and Commander Wei of the First Theater immediately counterattacked Zhengzhou and dragged down the Japanese troops from all directions. β
Xu Zuyi nodded lightly, Zhuang Jihua had already expected all the possibilities, if he did act like this, the main force of the Eleventh Army would be even more difficult to escape from northern Hubei. Still, he intends to add:
"Order all units to attack overnight, and don't give the Japanese any respite."
"Chief of Staff Xu said it well, whether Kanda can be eliminated depends on whether Sun Zhen can annihilate the 39th Division tonight." Zhuang Jihua said calmly, tapping his fingers on the map, and the location was the inn.
This is destined to be a night without unrest, and both sides are seizing the time to adjust their deployments and mobilize their troops. The artillery fire in northern Hubei did not stop all night, and the squadron attacked at night regardless of fatigue and casualties, and did not give the Japanese army a chance to breathe.
The artillery fire around the inn lasted for two days, and the 102nd Army and the 41st Army surrounded the small inn, and the artillery fire tore through the night, dyeing the inn sky blood-red; The guns of the surrounding mountains were not extinguished, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the figures of Chinese soldiers flashed everywhere.
The entire 39th Division was in complete disarray, and the remnants of each division, under the leadership of the officer, shrank in one place, struggling to resist the rain of bullets from all sides under the artillery fire of the squadron.
Yuan He has been completely desperate, the inn town is surrounded by mountains, the whole town is surrounded by mountains, once these hills are lost, the fate of the inn is self-evident. Now the three brigades of his wing have all been engaged in blocking on all sides, but in the middle of the night before the call for help kept coming, the baggage troops were dispatched, the search wing was dispatched, and only two engineer squadrons were left in the town.
The atmosphere of the headquarters in the town was heavy, and communication with the rest of the division and regiment had been cut off, but even if they did, it did not help in the slightest. Harada shouted at his subordinates on the phone, shooting this one and that at the other. But I still can't stop the constant ringing of the phone.
Before dawn, the 122nd Division first broke through the Dishuyan in the west, Zhang Xuanwu personally went to the front line to command the 364th Brigade to break into the town, officers at all levels pressed forward layer by layer, company platoon commanders took the lead in charging, political workers in the ranks continued to boost morale, the Japanese army's interception was destroyed again and again, and rushed to the Bazhu River when he saw it.
Yuan He was no longer able to fight back, and could only watch the entire defensive circle being torn apart.
With the breakthrough of the 122nd Division, the 123rd Division and the 124th Division also broke through the Japanese defenses one after another, and the 102nd Army and the 78th Army pressed from the north and west also occupied Dongzi Mountain and Laowu Mountain in the north.
Further south, in Zhongxiang City, the headquarters of the puppet army, the headquarters of the 29th Division of the Puppet China Central Bank Battalion and the ** Pingjian **, a middle-aged man in a Zhongshan suit sat on a chair, and the puppet army officers in the room were all looking at the division commander Zou Pingfan who was pacing back and forth in the center of the house.
"Master Zou, what are you hesitating about? All of this Ling Zun has already said in the letter, if you return to ** now, you will atone for your sins, not only your father will forgive you, but you can return to your hometown and re-register the Zou family tree. The country will forgive you, and the lives of the 6,000 brothers in the 29th Division will be saved. The middle-aged man said calmly and steadily.
Zou Pingfan is now in a dilemma, he is a serious 800 Whampoa student, graduated from the sixth term, and is Dai Li's classmate. Originally served as an operational staff officer in the First War Zone, and was later transferred to the Chongqing Garrison Headquarters with Liu Zhi as the regiment commander, he escaped from Chongqing the next year, ran to Wuhan, defected to Wang Jingwei, and was wanted by Chiang Kai-shek.
He was a native of Fushun, Sichuan, and after escaping from Chongqing, his father immediately published a newspaper to break off the father-son relationship with him, erased his name from the family tree, and expelled him from the Fushun Zou family tree.
But not long ago, the military commander came to him with his father's letter, asking him to return.
Zou Pingfan was not worried about the Japanese army in the city, there was only one squadron of the Japanese army in the city, and his 29th Division had 3,000 people in the city. But he hesitated whether the Fifth Theater could defeat the Japanese army, and if not, his 29th Division would fall into the Japanese encirclement.
The middle-aged man was not in a hurry, he took the time to pick up the teacup, while he was drinking tea, he quietly glanced at his watch, there was still half an hour, and after half an hour, the 126th Division would rush to Zhongxiang City, and then it would attack the city.
"Division commander, I think it's okay, as long as the ** siege is made, our department can cooperate in the city." Chief of Staff Yang Dongcheng spoke.
The middle-aged man smiled coldly in his heart, Yang Dongcheng understood what he meant, if ** couldn't attack Zhong Xiang, then they didn't need to do it anyway.
"Okay," Zou Pingfan put away the letter of appointment on the table, which had been there all night: "Order the troops to enter a wartime state." β
An hour later, the 126th Division rushed to Zhongxiang, and the division commander Yang Shuxuan took the lead, and led the charge into Zhongxiang without fear, and after a short battle, the whole city of Zhongxiang fell into the hands of the squadron.
The connection between the eastern and western fronts of the Japanese army was completely severed.
However, Zhuang Jihua was not satisfied with this result, and scolded Sun Zhen, Guo Xunqi, and Zhong Bin in the telegram.
"..., the 39th Division is the key to the entire battle situation, if you hesitate and delay, Kanda is bound to escape, I repeat again, any behavior of preserving strength will be investigated after the war. The 45th Division of the 126th Army boldly assaulted and successfully conquered Zhongxiang, and is hereby commended, and the 125th Division occupied Changshou and was commended. β
Zhuang Jihua's anger frightened all the generals of the participating troops, they knew that Zhuang Jihua could do what he said; And at this time, Chiang Kai-shek's telegram also arrived.
Chiang Kai-shek summoned He Yingqin, Chen Cheng, and Lin Wei to discuss, and decided to seize this opportunity to turn the tide of the war in one fell swoop.
"The Northern Hubei Campaign has developed into a decisive battle, and all units participating in the war must bravely kill the enemy, and the Military Commission will severely punish any cowardice and cowering. The 19th Theater has been mobilized and will launch a containment attack on the Japanese army, hoping that you will work hard to create a great victory and inspire the confidence of the whole people in the War of Resistance!! β
Chiang Kai-shek's telegram made all the generals no longer have any scruples, and on the west bank of the Han River, Guo Yan commanded the 92nd Army and the 86th Army to storm from the left and right flanks, and engaged in a fierce battle with the 17th Division and Yamamoto's troops at Kongwan. The commander of the 17th Division, Hirabayashi Morito, had no choice but to leave the 81st Wing and led the 53rd Wing and the 54th Wing to retreat north.
When the sun dispelled the darkness, the Chinese Air Force once again dominated the skies, and the 4th Air Force Division in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River was subordinate to the 4th Air Force Division, which, on Chiang Kai-shek's orders, threw all its forces into northern Hubei; The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Air Force, which were responsible for guarding Chongqing, were also all thrown into the skies of northern Hubei.
On the ferry, Niu Daoman, commander of the 36th Brigade, stood among the broken tiles near the ferry, and on the Han River, the sappers were struggling to repair the bridge, and in the sky, the Chinese Air Force roared to the ground, and a string of bombs set off water columns one after another.
Last night, Ushijima Mitsuru led his troops to this place, and began to build the bridge without stopping, and by dawn, the pontoon bridge was finally reached, but as soon as a large group was crossed, a large group of Chinese planes roared and launched an indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese troops who were crossing the river, and the pontoon bridge was blown up three times in just one morning.
"Order the troops, disperse across the river, have a boat with a boat, and assemble on the opposite bank! Act now! Move fast! Ushijima had no choice but to give this order, and the situation on the east bank of the river was already critical, and it could no longer be delayed: "Order Chaoben Dazuo to immediately lead the troops crossing the river, seize Yangjiagang, Ganjiapo, and Taihe Mountain, and cover the main force of the division to cross the river." β
"Boom!" "Boom!" The Chinese Air Force had already spotted the Japanese troops assembled on the shore and began to bomb them non-stop, and the Japanese troops waiting to cross the river were forced to disperse, and the horses neighed irritably in the sound of explosions, dragging carts and galloping wildly on the shore.
A bomb exploded in the midst of the concealed baggage troops, triggering a series of explosions that made the crossing even more chaotic.
"Bastard!" Ushijima was so angry that he drew his knife and cut the pillar next to him in half, the logistics supply route has been cut off, and there will be bloody battles along the way, ammunition is extremely precious, and these lost ammunition are likely to be fatal soon.
The explosion also announced the end of this round of bombing, and the Chinese air force gathered in the air in a hurry, and then flew towards the west, leaving a mess behind.
After the plane flew away, the sappers rushed up again to repair the blown up pontoon bridge, the officers shouted loudly, trying to gather troops, on both sides of the pontoon bridge, some small boats carrying a few people to a dozen people to the opposite bank, the sound of artillery faintly heard in the distance on the opposite bank, the sound of artillery made all the officers and soldiers fill their hearts with gloom, which means that the squadron is not unprepared for their actions.
The Japanese army on the west bank desperately crossed the river to reinforce, but on the east bank, the center of the entire battle situation, the town of Hakdian, could no longer hold on.
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