Chapter 214 Violent Attack on the Soil and Fertile Plains
After the former commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, was recalled to China, the Japanese headquarters sent their Minister of War Sugiyama Yuan to take up this position. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, a person cannot be good-looking, and this person is not good-looking, and he looks honest, but he is extremely stubborn, and he is an active invading faction, and the destruction of China in three months is what he promised the Japanese emperor.
As a result, this is just a matter of talking, now nine months have passed, and the Japanese army now does not even occupy a third of China, and after the defeat in Shanghai, it is now counterattacked by the Chinese army, and this face is absolutely crackling.
Sugiyama was very annoyed by the defeat of the Japanese army in Shanghai, and even scolded Matsui Ishine for his incompetence, and now that the Chinese army had finally moved the battlefield to North China, he himself faced the Chinese army. In any case, in all respects, his current situation is much stronger than that of Matsui Shigen at the beginning, after all, Matsui Shigen was alone and isolated at that time.
And North China is close to Northeast China and North Korea, and Sugiyama Moto's troops are relatively strong, and there is no Matsui Shigen's territory in terms of materials, so when the Chinese army marched into North China, he was very confident, and even prepared to take the initiative to attack, wanting to take advantage of the Chinese army's unstable foothold to annihilate the Chinese army.
However, the Chinese army did not let his fool wait long, and finally launched an attack. As soon as the battle began, the battle situation was completely unexpected by the fool Yuan, this time he was really going to be a fool, and he was completely confused.
First, the air force was in an emergency, and everywhere there were alarms of air raids, and then there was a bad situation such as the interruption of communications, the interruption of railways, the interruption of command, and so on.
Now, on the first day of the elite 14th Division, which is at the forefront, the commander of the division, Kenji Dohihara, has personally issued an urgent message asking for support.
"When did the combat effectiveness of my Imperial Japanese Army become so embarrassing?" Sugiyama Yuan scolded, obviously very dissatisfied with the ability of the soil and fertilizer.
"The flat terrain of the North China Plain is very suitable for the attack of armored and mechanized troops, and the only way to stop the armored cluster attack of the Chinese army is to use the same armor to fight. Our 14th Division is an infantry division, and the number of armor is extremely limited, and it has been wiped out by the Chinese tank group for the first time. ā
"Without armor, with the flesh and blood of a soldier, how can you fight head-on with a powerful torrent of steel?"
In the face of Sugiyama Moto's questioning and scolding, Kenji Dohihara was obviously unwilling to carry the pot, and explained the reason very aggrievedly.
It was the first time he fought against the armored cluster of the Chinese army, and Kenji Dohihara definitely pointed out that against the armored cluster, only the armored cluster was to confront, which shows that his vision is still very good, and on the other hand, it shows that he is also a capable commander, but the situation is not in his favor.
However, Sugiyama Yuan didn't listen to so much, and if he didn't want to find a way to stop the pace of the Chinese army, the Chinese army was about to march to Beiping City.
So, on the one hand, Sugiyama Moto, on the one hand, urgently ordered Kenji Dohihara to stabilize his foothold at all costs and not to retreat, and on the other hand, he transferred the 108th Division to reinforce, as for the armored troops that Kenji Dohihara wanted, I'm sorry, there are not many, all of them add up to less than a hundred, and they are still pieced together.
After all, the Japanese army did not form the idea of armored group combat at all, and still preferred to face to face with real swords and guns, which showed the spirit of bushido, but now this spirit cannot be eaten. The organized armored cluster rushed, and no spirit could stop it.
Perhaps neither Tohihara nor Sugiyama Motomo thought that the armored cluster and six motorized infantry divisions of the Chinese army were only the vanguard, responsible for breaking down the Japanese position, and there were more than 300,000 troops behind to follow.
These more than 300,000 troops were not put together indiscriminately, and in the past few months, various training has been strengthened by German advisers, and weapons and equipment have also been significantly improved, and the firepower of each army is no worse than that of the Japanese army.
The Japanese army in the whole of North China, after several replenishments and reinforcements, only had more than 300,000 troops, and it was still defending the entire area they occupied in North China.
However, in Hebei alone, the Chinese army has invested several armored divisions, six motorized infantry divisions, and more than 300,000 elites. Whether it is in terms of troops, equipment, etc., the Japanese army has been overwhelmed, and Kenji Dohihara is good at fighting, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.
After the armored cluster and six motorized infantry divisions smashed the position of the 14th Division to pieces, before the remnants of the Japanese army could recover their breath, they saw the main force of the Chinese army under black pressure outflanking from several directions.
"Retreat, retreat, retreat......" Kenji Dohihara, who originally wanted to hold on, suddenly lost his temper and hurriedly ordered a retreat.
However, Kenji Dohihara also knew that the Chinese army was much more mechanized than his 14th Division, and the two-legged ones would definitely not be able to outrun the armored cluster, so he left some of his troops to block the attack, and he himself led the few remaining troops to retreat as fast as possible.
There is no way, you can't withdraw together, otherwise, you will be killed by the Chinese army, if the Chinese army is still like the original straw sandal soldiers, it is okay, and now the Chinese army has changed the straw shoes to tanks, and the speed of the tank, it is simply not knowing whether to live or die.
Kenji Dohihara, who did not retreat, did not forget to remind the 108th and 109th Divisions, which were rushing over to support, to quickly arrange the defensive line and adjust their tactics.
The 108th and 109th Divisions, just as they were about to cross through Baoding to support the 14th Division in Shijiazhuang, received a message from Tufeiyuan, asking them to immediately find a suitable position to lay out the defensive line, and the Chinese army was coming.
"When did the Chinese army become a flood beast, how could Tufeijun be so embarrassed?" The commander of the 108th Division, Xia Yuan Xiongmi, was very puzzled, because in his mind, the defeat of the Japanese army in the battle of Shanghai was already the top of the sky.
As a commander, from his own point of view, he believed that the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Shanghai was due to many reasons, the most important of which was that the sea retreat route was cut off and there was no support, so he was trapped and died in the isolated city of Shanghai by the Chinese army step by step.
And even in the face of such a bad situation at that time, the Japanese army in Shanghai held out for so long, but the war in North China had just broken out, and on the first day, tens of thousands of people of the elite 14th Division could not withstand it? How long has it been since the Battle of Shanghai, and the Chinese army has become an immortal?
Because of these considerations, Xiongya Shimoto did not heed Kenji Dohihara's warning, but first reported the situation to the North China Front Headquarters, and then continued to advance with his troops, because before coming, Sugiyama Motomo telegraphed him to explain that Shijiazhuang could not afford to be lost.
The commander of the 109th Division, Yamaoka Shigehou, didn't take it seriously, and he only obeyed the orders of the North China Front Command, after all, in terms of position, he was at the same level as Tu Feiyuan, and he looked down on the losers even more, so he was indifferent to the warnings of the losers.
And here, Kenji Dohihara took a car, frantically escaping, at this time there were no more subordinates left around him, most of them did not keep up, and slowly fell behind.
Suddenly, with a gag sound, the hood of the car went out with smoke directly, and the driver hurriedly went down to check it, and finally shook his head and said that it could not be repaired in a short time.
"Baga...... Thinking that I have been in the soil and fertile plains, and have been crisscrossing Northeast China and North China for decades, are you going to let me be buried here today? Tu Feiyuan looked sad and indignant, in the past few decades, he was very beautiful and made a lot of achievements.
But this time, he was defeated and lost, and he could think that even if he successfully escaped and went back, I am afraid that his career would be ruined.