September 6, 1944. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoQidong, Yongzhou, Lingling, Quanzhou, Xing'an line.

Hengyang is a transportation hub. There are two railways from Hengyang to the south, one goes to Shaoguan and enters Guangzhou. One goes to Yongzhou Xing'an, goes to Guangxi, and the important cities of Guangxi Guilin and Liuzhou walk on this line.

A transport plane, escorted by an airplane, flew on this railway line.

On the plane was Isamu Yokoyama.

Isamu Yokoyama is 55 years old this year. He graduated at the same time as Ishihara and became the commander of the 1st Division of the Kwantung Army on September 12, 1939. At that time, the Nomenkan incident was nearing the end, and the crushing defeat of the 6th Army of the Kwantung Army made a deep impression on Yokoyama. He has been stationed in Sun Wu, and on December 22, 1942, **** received an order to transfer to the south. Historically, he went to the Central Plains from the northeast, and now, he participated in the war against the Soviet Union, rushed to the front, and flew to the Central Plains from the territory of the Soviet Union.

Yokoyama Yong fought several big victories in the Central Plains, and in Changde, Yu Chengwan was defeated by him and abandoned the city.

Since then, Yokoyama has recovered his true colors, and the edges and corners have become more and more magnificent.

Historically, in August 1944, Okamura Ninji was transferred to the commander of the 6th Front Army, commanding the Japanese army to attack Guangxi. In November, it successively occupied Guilin, Liuzhou, Nanning and other places. In late November 1944, he took office as the commander-in-chief of Japan's "China Dispatch Army", commanding all the Japanese forces invading China except Northeast China and Taiwan.

Because Okamura Ninji was assassinated in the North China Front, history changed, and Shunroku Hata still served as the commander of the 6th Front, commanding Operation No. 1 in Wuhan.

After these victories, the contradictions between Isamu Yokoyama and Shunroku Hata gradually came to the fore. Historically, Isamu Yokoyama and Okamura Ninji had a great contradiction, and they were dissatisfied with Okamura Ninji's command and often made their own decisions. This time, he began to have a conflict with Shunroku Hatata.

Hatatakeroku told him not to attack Guilin first, so that the staff of the Sixth Front Army would encircle and annihilate the Chinese troops in southern Hunan and northern Guangxi. And Yokoyama believes that that it is too slow, and the Chinese army will collapse as long as it fights, and there will not be many vicious battles like Changde and Hengyang.

In order to march into Guilin and Liuzhou, Isamu Yokoyama personally took a plane to reconnoiter the situation along the way.

Because under Hengyang City, Yokoyama Yong was blocked by a broken Tenth Army for more than forty days, and he almost committed suicide by disembowelment. Then, although Hengyang was occupied, the surrendered army was taken away. marched south, but was blocked on the Yongzhou front. Although the Chinese reinforcements were killed in Yongzhou and Wang Jiaben was killed, they were attacked and harassed many times by the militia groups, and the losses were very large.

Wang Jiaben's army liaison was very chaotic at that time, and the imperial army troops used mobile and flexible soldiers, thousands of people disguised as militia groups and Chinese troops, and encountered a small army led by Wang Jiaben, and after fighting bayonets, Wang Jiaben was killed. This victory convinced the whole army, even the base camp, that the success of the No. 1 battle plan was only a matter of time.

The next step is to be cautious.

After forcing Fang Xianjue to surrender, he could have enjoyed the honor of victory, reorganized his armaments, and marched to Guilin.

At this moment, Isamu Yokoyama felt as if he had entered a swamp. He returned to Manchuria, and at that time, he also felt that he was in a swamp, and if he was not careful, he would sink into the mud.

The railroad was damaged, very badly. I couldn't even do it on foot, because in some places even the roadbed was blown up. Walk? Unless you're willing to go down the Xiangjiang River for a while. Is this still a line of traffic?

The plane followed the railway line all the way to Jeonju. Suddenly, he saw something different in a forest next to the railway, and said, "Scout here." ”

Comparing the map, he knew that this was the northeast of Xing'an County, by the Xiangjiang River.

After turning around this hill a few times, Yokoyama Yong, who has a lot of mountain battles, can see that there are soldiers hidden on the entire mountain.

Isamu Yokoyama estimated that there were about 30,000 people in this unit.

What kind of troops are so good at concealment?

Yokoyama knew the detailed information on the distribution of the National Revolutionary Army along the way, and even the daily movements. All this information came from the spies in Nanjing. These spies were originally officers in the army, and some of them drew up battle plans. Can Isamu Yokoyama's information not be detailed?

But there is no such army of more than 30,000 people in the intelligence.

Guerilla? There are several thousand guerrillas, and they are near Hengyang, how can they appear here?

Thinking of this, Yokoyama Yong said: "Issue an order to ask all the planes in Changsha and other places to come here and bomb this mountain." Reconnaissance planes were to observe the results of the bombing. ”

As soon as the order was issued, Yokoyama said, "Continue to scout around here, so that the army on the mountain will think that we have not discovered them." ”

After reconnoitring in the vicinity for another ten minutes, Isamu Yokoyama's plane left.

After more than 20 minutes, more than 30 planes flew to the top of this mountain. As soon as the planes arrived, aerial bombs and machine guns were aimed at the hill and bombed intensively.

First, horses frightened by the explosion ran wildly, then people were killed, and soon there were people running on the hill to escape.

The bombing lasted more than ten minutes, and when the bombs were exhausted, the plane retreated.

The whole hill has completely changed, many of the trees on the mountain have been blown up, and there are bomb craters everywhere.

The bombed on the mountain was the Guangxi troops of Commander Wei, who had just arrived, with a total of more than 10,000 people. This time, more than 200 people were killed and more than 800 injured by the plane.

In the history of the Guangxi troops, they have firmly remembered this bombing for several generations. Later, they created the Air Force, which they always wanted to take revenge on the Japanese. It's a pity that their air force was formed, and the Japanese army had already surrendered.

At the same time as the Air Force bombed, Isamu Yokoyama's reconnaissance plane reconnoitred Jeonju. The county seat of Quanzhou, Huangshahe Town, and along the railway line all reconnoitred and saw clearly the deployment of ground troops, and then left.

The 93rd Army is stationed in Jeonju and is the next target of Isamu Yokoyama. The first town in Guangxi when Quanzhou entered is worth paying attention to.

On September 8, 1944, the railroad was fully opened, and about 100 people in the vanguard of the Japanese army took the train and continued to advance to Jeonju. Because last time they bombed a large partisan force, this time, the Japanese army marched all the way.

The 93rd Army was already panicked at this time.

After the Japanese army occupied Hengyang, in order to save the crisis, ****** ordered the 93rd Army of the Nationalist Government Army (i.e., ****) to be stationed in Quanzhou, Guangxi.

The 93rd Army of the National Government Army (i.e., ****) was originally stationed in Qijiang, Sichuan, and was later incorporated into the Kunming Expeditionary Force. Now that the military situation in Guangxi is urgent, this unit has been transferred to Guangxi. The 93rd Army, with American-style equipment, is a descendant of ******.

Chen Munong, commander of the 93rd Army, was born in 1900, a native of Sangzhi, Hunan, and graduated from the first phase of Huangpu. He has participated in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan, and now he has come to participate in the Battle of Guiliu.

The 93rd Army arrived in Guilin in early August and entered Quanzhou, that is, the whole county, on August 29. After arriving in Quanzhou, the 93rd Army was placed under the command of Zhang Fakui, commander of the Fourth Theater of Operations.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from entering Guangxi and then attacking Guizhou, Lao Jiang issued three orders: Chen Munong's 93rd Army was required to "defend the county for three months", Wei Yunsong, lieutenant general and deputy commander-in-chief of the 16th Group Army of the Gui Department, was required to "defend Guilin for three months", and Zhang Fakui led the Guangdong army to "defend Liuzhou for three months".

Chen Munong swore to stick to the whole state.

The 93rd Army has three divisions, equipped with the 3rd Tank Battalion and the 2nd Anti-Tank Battalion (belonging to the 48th Mechanized Division). The deployment is as follows: the 10th Division of the Huangshahe garrison, and the newly formed 8th Division stationed inside and outside the county. Fortifications were built in the 15-mile section of Shuangqiao east and west of Yongsui Township in the north of the county, a reinforced regiment was sent to guard the Huangsha River, and a search battalion directly under the army was sent to garrison Longshui Township and Daxijiang Township in the west of the city to prevent their flank attacks, and the main force of the military headquarters was stationed in the area of the county seat.

This defense plan was reported to Chongqing, and Lao Jiang personally approved: "It should be implemented according to Case A." Zhongzheng. ”。

There is also a plan to deploy along the railway echelon, but Lao Jiang did not approve it, thinking that it is difficult.

At this moment, the two troops of Commander Wei Guoqing and Dong Zhentang were stationed near Jeonju, and the two guerrilla commanders met in the mountains near Jeonju. The two forces finally met.

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1 Isamu Yokoyama and Ishihara graduated together, and both of them were one of the three birds of the 21st phase of Lushi. The third of the three birds of the same period was Iimura. During his time in the Kwantung Army, Isamu Yokoyama was the supreme commander stationed in Sun Wu (remember, the big Sun Wu, the little Harbin. ）。

2 Isamu Yokoyama and Ninji Okamura were at odds and were transferred out of the Chinese battlefield after the Battle of No. 1. He insisted on directly attacking Guilin and Liuzhou, resulting in Okamura Ningci's plan to gather and annihilate was not realized.

3, Wang Jiaben, Yunnan, graduated from the 14th phase of Yunnan Jiangwutang, is a famous general of the Yunnan Army, and participated in many battles against Japan. In June 44, on the order of Jiang, he galloped thousands of miles to help Hengyang. In July, he fought against the enemy on the outskirts of Hengyang and did not cooperate well with friendly forces. On August 8, the defenders of Hengyang felt that the 10th Army had run out of ammunition and food and surrendered, so they were ordered to withdraw to Lengshuitan to set up defenses to block the Japanese army. On September 7, thousands of Japanese troops disguised themselves as friendly soldiers and peasants and attacked Wang Jia's main military headquarters. General Wang Jiaben originally wanted to personally command a certain regiment under his command to annihilate the devils of the unit, but the commander of the subordinate regiment delayed reporting the military situation, and the division commander pulled away the troops, so that when General Wang arrived at the expected battlefield, he did not see his own troops, but encountered thousands of Japanese troops. At the critical juncture, General Wang personally led a pistol platoon to cover the transfer of the military headquarters, fought a bloody battle with an enemy dozens of times his size, and finally fought with the enemy with a bayonet, and died tragically under the enemy's bayonet at the age of 43, becoming the highest-ranking general in the history of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression who died on the bayonet battlefield. Wang Jiaben became the only army commander who fought with the enemy and sacrificed his bayonet in China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Zhu De and other generals of the Eighth Route Army wrote a couplet for him to express their sorrows: "In Dong'an County, the sad sun, the Yuji Pavilion is mixed with the sky." Wang Jiaben was also approved as a "revolutionary martyr" by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1985. Wang Ningsheng, the son of General Wang, participated in the 93 military parade on the veteran car.

4. Some people believe that the 93rd Army still has the 116th Division, and some people say that there is a temporary 2nd Division, but some people have verified that these two establishments do not exist. These two divisions are not mentioned in Guo's book.