The predicament encountered by the Japanese army in Sichuan was shocking, and it also made more Chinese people see the blood and strength of the Sichuan army. **Free to provide this book TXT e-book download**As in the previous article, due to Chiang Kai-shek's deliberate suppression, when the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it was widely believed that this was the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and when fighting in Shanxi in winter, the soldiers still wore straw sandals on their feet, and I am afraid that only the equally bad Red Army could be compared with the Sichuan army.

However, it was such a unit that made countless of the most arduous and tragic sacrifices in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made great contributions to the cause of national independence of the Chinese nation. The 20th Army Yang Senbu, which was notorious in the civil war, was the first Sichuan army to fight the Sichuan War of Resistance in the Anti-Japanese War. Strictly speaking, the Sichuan army in the Anti-Japanese War could not be regarded as a regular unit of the squadron, but a local warlord army. Neither the equipment, military quality, nor treatment of the troops can be compared with the Kuomintang Central Army. However, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this unit exchanged its fearless sacrifice for the reputation of "the Sichuan army can fight" and "the army cannot be formed without Sichuan". And in the Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan, which cultivated the Sichuan army, did serve as a model for the whole country, with 30 taxes and 40 soldiers, which represents the greatest glory of the whole Sichuan.

The strength of the six divisions of the Japanese army fell into Sichuan and could not extricate themselves, and on the Henan front, because Okamura Ningji withdrew a large number of Japanese troops from central Henan in order to ensure the safety of the supply line, so the 150,000 troops of Yan Xishan's division and the Central Front Army and Han Yunhua's division met in Kaifeng, and the squadron reached 1.88 million after the meeting. In particular, under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zhu, the squadron advanced parallel to Henan in six ways, and the Japanese army was defeated and retreated, and soon the passage from Henan to Hubei was cut off, and more than 60,000 remnants of the Japanese army retreated to Fuyang and **.

In addition, on the Jiangsu side, Han Yunhua's 150,000 troops landed in Yangzhou, and quickly spread to the surrounding areas, and even threatened Nanjing, the core area of the Japanese puppet Jiangnan rule, causing extreme panic in the Japanese puppet army, Yan Junliu had to urgently mobilize 7 divisions from the Wuhan front line to help Nanjing. At the same time, the main force of the Third Fleet was urgently transferred to guard the Yangtze River channel to prevent the squadron from crossing the river.

Fortunately, the direction of the squadron's attack was to the north, not the south. But the more so Yan Junliu is worried, because strategically the squadron has formed an encirclement of the North China Front, although the North China Front has a total of more than 800,000 troops, but if you throw away more than 100,000 puppet troops, the real Japanese soldiers are less than 650,000, and if you cut out 400,000 recruits, the North China Front has only less than 200,000 Jīng Rui, which is still trained since Okamura Ningji took charge of the North China Front.

The extreme expansion of the squadron has caused Yan Junliu to be extremely uneasy, originally thought that Chiang Kai-shek's 4.3 million troops were surprising enough, but he never thought that the ** side had developed to such a strong side, and he knew that Yan Junliu would not attack Chiang Kai-shek if he said anything, you must know that because of Chiang Kai-shek's containment, he did not dare to go south easily, otherwise the first person to shoot ** would definitely be Chiang Kai-shek. Now it is precisely because there is no restraint from Jiang Zhengf that the ** side will be so unscrupulously rampage.

Yan Junliu didn't dare to imagine what kind of situation it would be like if the North China Front Army fell into the encirclement of the Chinese army, in terms of the comparison of troops, the Japanese Empire was far behind the Chinese people, and the wars of the past few years had cultivated the Chinese people into a real war machine, and Yan Junliu felt extremely frightened every time he thought about it.

However, just after the Japanese base camp agreed to Okamura Ninji's request to withdraw south, it was discovered that the squadron had completed the encirclement of the North China Front from the southwest, north and south, perhaps because the east was a vast sea, and the strength of the Chinese navy was clear to everyone, and it was only in name only, so the squadron did not launch an attack on the North China Front from the east. However, Okamura Ninji's main force was in the Xuzhou area, and if he left Xuzhou, which was well fortified, then the Japanese army might not be able to hold out for even half a month, so it was a very tangled question whether to withdraw or not. …,

It is obviously not possible to stay, you must know that the predicament that the main force of the Japanese army is facing now is definitely not something that ordinary people can imagine, if they do not withdraw to a safe place, I am afraid that the survival of 800,000 troops will not exceed 100,000, and even the entire army will be wiped out.

After struggling for several hours, the North China Front Headquarters finally decided to retreat, but it was not easy to retreat, and the bayonet of the squadron had already been pushed to the nose of the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese army dared to withdraw, the squadron would definitely press up, so Okamura Ningji decided to break the wrist of the strong man and only withdraw the main force.

Okamura Ningji ordered 60,000 imperial troops and 120,000 recruits who had just been transferred to North China from China to garrison the Xuzhou front, and the 280,000 troops of the original North China Front Army were immediately transferred to the east in the name of reinforcing Yangzhou, and the other 100,000 recruits were fully blocked on the battlefield on the western front, and the remaining 200,000 troops were assigned to several other fronts to block, and Okamura Ningji's purpose was only to keep the 280,000 jīng sharp.

At the same time as the retreat, Okamura Ninji sent a telegram to Yan Junliu, commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, hoping that Yan Junliu would transfer the main force of the Navy's Third Fleet to the line of Lianyungang, Jiangsu, to assist the North China Front in retreating from the sea.

Yan Junliu knew that this was the last chance for the North China Front, so he immediately ordered all the ships of the navy to immediately sail to Lianyungang, and also forcibly recruited a large number of large merchant ships and fishing boats from Nanjing, Shanghai, and other places to help the North China Front retreat south.

After receiving a report from the intelligence officers in Nanjing, Han Yunhua judged that the Japanese army was about to flee and immediately organized the redeployment of troops, but Han Yunhua did not stop the large Japanese army from advancing eastward. Han Yunhua was very aware of the combat effectiveness of the North China Front, if Han Yunhua was nervous when he fought the Kwantung Army, then it was still the same for Han Yunhua of the North China Front, because the commander of the North China Front was Okamura Ningji.

If Bīde Okamura Ningci sent Jīng to defend Xuzhou, then even if he could take Xuzhou, he would eventually pay a very heavy price, as for the main force of the Japanese army fleeing east, Han Yunhua didn't care, no matter how powerful Sun Monkey was, he still couldn't escape the palm of the Buddha, and the little devil couldn't escape his Han Yunhua's calculations even if he played it.

On December 12, the day of the 7th anniversary of the Xi'an Incident, the Japanese troops preparing to march east into Yangzhou suddenly diverted to Lianyungang, and on the same day, a large number of naval ships escorted thousands of large and small sea ships towards Lianyungang, preparing to withdraw nearly 300,000 jīng Rui who had retreated to Lianyungang from the encirclement of the squadron.

Although China does not have a strong navy, the best and most effective means of attacking the navy is not the navy, but the air force, as long as there is a large-scale air force, even if it is an aircraft carrier, it is just a group of sheep to be slaughtered.

In addition, Han Yunhua ordered Wang Jian, Xu Shiyou and other front-line troops to immediately launch an attack on the Japanese army on all fronts, and shouted a strong slogan of "the last battle against the Japanese army in the north".

Although hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops also fought very tenaciously, due to the lack of weapons and ammunition and the need to get food, it directly led to the decline of the Japanese army's combat effectiveness, and in just one day, the first line of defense of the Japanese army was almost completely lost, and then a large number of Japanese troops began to retreat in the direction of Xuzhou.

Han Yunhua ordered the troops to continue the pursuit, and at the same time sent a note to the United States and the Soviet Union, hoping that the two major powers could support the squadron to annihilate the Japanese North China Front in one fell swoop, mainly hoping that the Soviet Far East Fleet could enter the battle, of course, the Far East Fleet is still active in the Soviet territorial waters north of Arthur, and the distant water cannot quench the thirst of the near. However, Han Yunhua hoped that the Soviet Navy would take part in the war against Korea, and the Korean People's Army had been fighting against the Japanese puppet army near Inchon for more than 10 days, and more and more Koreans were called up, and the Japanese army was under increasing pressure in Korea, and Han Yunhua hoped that with the cooperation of the Soviet Navy, North Korea would also be taken down in one fell swoop and the problem of northern China would be completely solved. …,

After receiving Han Yunhua's telegram, the United States and the Soviet Union immediately expressed their full support for the squadron's fight against Japan, especially the United States, which originally said that China would provide more B-29 Aerial Fortress bombers and continue to bomb Japan and the surrounding important islands.

On December 13, news came from Lianyungang that the main force of the Japanese army had arrived in Lianyungang and was loading and shipping. Han Yunhua immediately ordered the United Air Force to immediately launch a strategic bombardment of the Japanese army, especially those troop carriers full of Japanese soldiers. For the sake of this bombing, Han Yunhua concentrated all the fighters that China can concentrate now, and even some training planes were forcibly pulled onto the battlefield by Han Yunhua. It is important to know that only a small part of the Japanese soldiers who were transported to retreat this time were armed merchant ships and warships, and the vast majority were ordinary merchant ships or large oil tankers and fishing boats, which lacked the necessary anti-aircraft firepower. Moreover, the Japanese army had a limited number of fighters on the Chinese battlefield, and they had to support several other battlefields, and even fewer could fall out to escort the fleet.

In addition, this time there is only one small aircraft carrier in the Japanese naval formation, and there are very few platforms that can provide take-off and landing for the air force, and this is a good opportunity for Han Yunhua to gather and annihilate the Japanese Third Fleet, and Han Yunhua will especially let go of such an opportunity.

Including the planes urgently mobilized from the Soviet Union and the southwest battlefield, a full 1,666 fighters took off from 88 airfields in northern China and rushed to Lianyungang to carry out a sneak attack on the Japanese army.

The sneak attack was a success, and the battle was fought from morning to night, from the sea to the sky, and the battle was unprecedented. The Japanese suffered heavy losses, one small aircraft carrier was sunk, 4 of the 12 cruisers were sunk, one ran aground, and the rest were heavily damaged; Half of 6 frigates and 8 destroyers were sunk, in addition 19 regular troop carriers were sunk and 12 were seriously damaged, 198 merchant ships were sunk and 188 were damaged. In addition, 18 planes were destroyed, and the Japanese version of the Dunkirk retreat was an extremely unsuccessful one. As soon as the plan was implemented, it was dealt a fatal blow, and only 240,000 of the first batch of 120,000 troops on board successfully reached Shanghai, and the rest were all sent to the water to feed Wang Ba. The entire Lianyungang was completely destroyed, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded. More importantly, in this battle alone, the Japanese Third Fleet, which was already very weak, was basically defeated, and the threat to the Yangtze River waterway dropped to zero.

However, the losses of the Sino-Soviet air force were also staggering, due to the resistance of the Japanese, especially the suicide attack of the air force, which caused huge casualties to the Sino-Soviet air force, and by the night the fighters who had successfully returned were less than 7 floors when they set out for the battle, and more than 500 fighters fell forever in the bō waves of the vast Yellow Sea.

In addition to the 100,000 or so troops who died at the bottom of the sea and the more than 20,000 people who successfully reached Shanghai, there were still nearly 200,000 troops trapped in Lianyungang. Okamura Ninji did not expect that his plan would be ruined by Han Yunhua like this, and instead of withdrawing the North China Front to the south in a short period of time like the British, he also buried a naval fleet.

Now the war is becoming more and more unfavorable to the North China Front, at the same time as the retreat of Lianyungang, Han Yunhua also sent the air force to the Japanese positions to distribute leaflets, the Japanese high-level yù take the new soldiers as cannon fodder, in exchange for the veterans retreating yīn plot to public, in the Japanese army caused a strong reaction, in the next battle, the squadron obviously felt that the Japanese resistance became very weak. …,

Okamura Ningji urgently adjusted the strategic deployment and ordered the troops in the direction of Xuzhou to immediately retreat in the direction of Suqian and Huai'an.

Since the encirclement of the squadron was relatively small only in the direction of Yangzhou and Taizhou, and the distribution was extremely scattered, Okamura Ningji chose to break through from here.

However, the squadron in the direction of Yangzhou has long been prepared, hundreds of thousands of troops have built a large number of fortifications in the vast area, and Han Yunhua also gave a death order to the troops in Yangzhou, holding the gap at all costs, even if it is the last person in the battle, the Japanese must be blocked, the soldiers are killed in the battle, the officer is gone, the commander himself uses his head to block, and he can't block a person and don't come back to see him.

At the same time, Han Yunhua mobilized a million troops on the front line of Xuzhou to launch the final encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army, thousands of tanks rampaged in the Xuzhou area, the recruits of the Japanese army have seen such a scene, in their consciousness, the squadron is still their predecessors in the mouth of those who hold simple primitive weapons of the buns, weak combat effectiveness is pitiful, in addition to the will to fight is commendable, it seems that there is no one worthy of the title of a soldier.

But look at the present, thousands of Chinese tanks are pouring in, and the powerful momentum is overwhelming, and the neatly uniformed infantry is wearing a dark green sè military uniform that is more powerful than the standard military uniform of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The battle lasted until the 20th, and the gap in the south was not opened, but the Japanese army in the north who was responsible for blocking the first team had a major rout, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the scene of hundreds of thousands of troops fleeing was not as spectacular as the scene of ** escaping. This scene was captured by a reconnaissance plane of the Chinese Air Force, and was reported in a series by the military newspaper of Han Yunhua's department and Xinhua Japan, which aroused heated discussions around the world. It also caused the Japanese army base camp to issue orders to reprimand Okamura for his ineffective command, and if it were not for the shortage of people in the country, I am afraid that Gangcun, the commander of the North China Front, would not be able to sit still.

Just when Han Yunhua's troops surrounded and annihilated the North China Front Army, Peng Dehuai led a large number of ** troops into Sichuan, and was warmly welcomed by the vast number of Sichuan troops, and those bigwigs of the Sichuan army had also seen the situation clearly, although Yang Sen and others were not reconciled, but they did not dare to compete with **, especially the ** field army in Yunnan. Although everyone can see that it is resisting the Japanese army, but in the eyes of Yang Sen and others, that field army is not a sharp sword to deter the southwest, you must know that it is not an ordinary field army, it is the absolute jīng Hua, when this field army was resting in Chengdu, Yang Sen and others had also seen the strength of this field army with their own eyes, and the military might was not comparable to the ordinary army, so Yang Sen and others finally welcomed Mr. Peng into Sichuan with an open attitude.

After entering Sichuan, the central government informed the central government's opinions on the unification of the military and politics to the warlords in Sichuan, and at the same time, Mr. Peng also brought the sincerity of the first, although the central government wants to unify the military and government in Sichuan, but it will reuse these bigwigs in Sichuan, and promise not to re-mention the old accounts, let alone deprive them of their military rights at will.

In order not to cause drastic changes in the situation in Sichuan, the central government did not take any policy measures, and even the land reform implemented by Han Yunhua in the northeast region was not carried out in Sichuan, so the first side quickly took over Sichuan. At the same time, there are also Henan and Shanxi, Shanxi because it is Yan Xishan's territory, and although Yan Xishan has many problems, but his love for Shanxi can still be affirmed, and Yan Xishan himself is particularly supported by the people of Shanxi, so the central government directly appointed Yan Xishan as the chairman of Shanxi Province.