Chapter 8 The Battle of Suizao Begins

To meet the old man here, Gao Quan is happy from the heart. When he was in the Second Division, Liu Ruming took good care of him, and Gao Quan had a good impression of all the officers of the 68th Army.

"Master, how did you have time to come here when you are busy?" Gao Quan asked half-jokingly.

"You kid, what kind of teacher is not a teacher, just call my brother. I haven't seen you for a few years, but the little brother at the beginning is now the head of a division! Every time I mention you, Junzuo sighs. Speaking of which, it was really right to put you in the World War II zone at the beginning, otherwise, you would have followed Jun Zuo in the 68th Army, and it was really not easy to become a division commander in the past few years! ”

Tian Wenqi is Gao Quan's old acquaintance, and he has no scruples when he speaks, and he thinks of what to say. In the 68th Army, which attaches great importance to seniority, it is really not so easy to get to the top. Even if Liu Ruming attaches great importance to him, coupled with Gao Quan's ability, it would be good for him to be a brigade commander now in the sky, division commander, there is no need to think about it.

"By the way, Junza is okay?" Gao Quan actually cares a lot about Liu Ruming, and this patriotic general has left a good impression on Gao Quan from the day he first met him. Liu Ruming, like Zhang Zizhong, although he has worked in the old army for many years, they have very strong traditional Chinese virtues, such as filial piety to their parents, loyalty to the country, ruthlessness to foreign enemies, and benevolence to the soldiers under their command.

"Junzuo is all right, but I have always had regrets in my heart for letting you go. When you have time, go and see the division. ”

The two briefly talked about the old days, and then went to greet the troops. After all, this is a time of war, and a vicious battle has just been fought, and the devil may come back at any time, and now is not the time to talk for a long time.

The 119th Division was stationed in Tongbai and often went to the nearby area to fight the devils, which was a bit similar to Gao Quan. This time, I also heard that the devil was going to transport a batch of goods to Xinyang, and Tian Wenqi was also ready to pay attention to these things. However, the information that the 119th Division got was that the devils were in Wusheng Pass, and they would set off tomorrow, they were preparing to attack the devils at night in Wusheng Pass, but they didn't expect to come here, and they met the devils who were fighting halfway, thinking about where to fight was not a fight, so they stabbed the devil in the back, but they didn't expect that it was Gao Quan and his 500 divisions who were saved.

After knowing the purpose of the 119th Division, Gao Quan was a little embarrassed, as if he had cut off other people's financial routes. With a wave of his hand, he took out two large truckloads of goods and gave them to the old commander's troops to try them. After Tian Wenqi talked with Gao Quan, he realized that his news was wrong, but fortunately, he had a little more gossip on the way, and it could be regarded as a battle with the intended target, so he had no regrets. Gao Quan gave him something, shirked it twice, and then smiled. Anyway, the two of them always have a bit of incense, and this gift is always affordable.

After the two of them happily shared the spoils, they went back to the mountains to enjoy themselves, but General Yekan in Xinyang City over there was too unhappy! His grilled salmon, once again, was robbed halfway through! This kind of thing happens again and again, and whoever is replaced will be unhappy! The young man in charge of the escort was scolded by General Yekan, and then thrown into the dungeon, he wanted to teach this guy a lesson!

General Nokan was only annoyed that he had lost his grilled salmon again, but when Lieutenant General Fujita got the news, he was furious. The air force set off immediately after receiving the news, and when the plane flew to the railway line and caught up with the train along the railway, the goods had been robbed, and the Japanese brigade was defeated and fled by train to Xinyang. The plane searched around the vicinity, but did not find the squadron that took advantage, so they had to find a suspicious village to bomb it.

Lieutenant General Fujita refused to give up, and sent a wing of devils to the countryside to sweep, and the sweep lasted for half a month, but no shadow of the 500 divisions was found. Do you have the heart to sweep in the Dabie Mountains? The first is that Dabie Mountain is far away, and the second is that General Gangcun is about to launch a major offensive, and the large troops of the Third Division must obey the arrangements of the military headquarters and act in unison with other units. Even Lieutenant General Fujita could not mobilize troops on a large scale without authorization, and the matter was put on hold for the time being.

The time came to the end of April of the 28th year of the Republic of China. Recently, the intelligence sent back by the scouts always shows that the devils in Yingshan and Xinyang are increasing their troops, and almost every few days, new devils are concentrating on the two cities. The devils in the surrounding counties and towns of Xinyang also began to transfer to Xinyang City. Groups of planes landed at the airport near Yingshan. Based on the intelligence of the recent period, Gao Quan came to the conclusion that the devils are about to launch a major military operation!

At the beginning of May, a famous battle against the Fifth War Zone in the history of the Anti-Japanese War, the Battle of Suizao, was about to start. In view of this situation, Gao Quan informed Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, in advance of the Japanese army's troop build-up in Xinyang and Yingshan. As a matter of fact, in April, various theaters of our country simultaneously launched a nationwide "April Offensive" to harass and attack Japanese troops in various places. The 500th Division's attack on the Japanese transport convoy was also part of the "April Offensive."

Chief Li attached great importance to the information fed back by Gao Quan, and ordered all units in the Fifth Theater to strengthen their vigilance. In order to strengthen the strength of the Fifth Theater, the Central Military Commission ordered the six divisions of the 31st Group Army, of which Tang Enbo was the commander-in-chief, to move to Zaoyang.

At dawn on 1 May, the main forces of the 16th and 13th Divisions of the Japanese Army and the 4th Cavalry Brigade stationed in the direction of Zhongxiang and Jingshan, with the support of aircraft and tanks, launched an attack from Zhongxiang against the 37th and 180th Divisions of the squadron. The Battle of Suijube officially kicked off.

The 3rd Division of the Japanese Army attacked from Yingshan to the Suixian area. After a bloody battle with the Japanese invaders, the 84th Army of the Chinese defenders retreated to the Taerwan position. On 2 May, the 3rd Division attacked Gao Cheng. The garrison of Gaocheng was the thirteenth army of the thirty-first group army of Tang's commander-in-chief.

Although Gao Quan didn't like Commander Tang, Commander Tang was really unambiguous in this battle, and led his subordinates to fight to the death with the Japanese invaders on the positions of Gaocheng and Taerwan. The position was occupied by the Japanese army relying on their strong land and air superiority, and Commander Tang commanded the troops to risk death to recapture it. At all times, bombs were exploding on the positions in Taerwan, flames were burning, and soldiers on both sides were killed.

The position was lost and regained as many as six or seven times, and every time the Japanese invaders attacked the position, our soldiers immediately launched a counterattack and recaptured it. Blood stained the stones, bombs ploughed the land, and our officers and men suffered heavy casualties, but with that soldier's love of serving the country, they never retreated.

In the end, the frenzied Japanese invaders, after our army occupied the position again, suffered heavy casualties, but they took the helpless devils of the Chinese iron-blooded soldiers on the battlefield to exterminate humanity and drop poison gas bombs! Our soldiers withstood the repeated bombardment of tanks, artillery, and airplanes of the devils, and then finally under the attack of poison gas, most of the soldiers on the position were killed and wounded, and seeing that nothing could be done, Commander Tang was forced to give the order to withdraw his troops, and the Taerwan position was finally lost.

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