Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 538: The General Attack of Zhan Dezhou Arrives——

Chapter 538: The general attack of Battle Texas has arrived

On November 14, not long after Sato Sadaji's division captured Dong'a, Han Yunhua issued an order for a general attack on the whole front. With Han Yunhua's order, 10 infantry divisions, 1 1 cavalry division, one armored brigade and a large number of directly subordinate troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and then 24 infantry regiments of the 115 division launched a full-front attack on Luxi.

At 8:15 a.m., the city of Liaocheng was broken, and the 1st Brigade of the 7th Division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region broke into the inner city from the west of the city, and surrounded more than 500 people from the remnants of the 5th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade in the Liaocheng Railway Station.

Immediately after the reinforcements led by Sajito Saji, more than 15,000 people of the 50th Division were besieged in Dong'e County, and Han Yunhua ordered Wang Zhaoxiang to destroy this Japanese puppet army at all costs, in case it suddenly turned around and returned to Jining and Heze and caused trouble for the 115th Division.

The most troublesome thing for Okamura Ningji was that when the Inner Mongolia Military Region launched an attack, more than 80,000 people of the 115th Division lurking near Heze also quickly launched an attack, and the two armies of the 115th Division went all the way south to Heze through Yuncheng, and all the way to the east through Liangshan, Wenshang, and Jiaxiang went straight to Jining.

Due to the serious shortage of the Japanese defenders, and they were still in a hurry, they were caught off guard by the 115th Division, and the troops advanced very quickly, and the troops were invincible. With the support of Han Yunhua's department, the 115th Division at this time was also unable to change its guns, and there was no shortage of cavalry artillery, and it was not a problem to attack the city.

There was something even worse for Okamura Ningji, at the same time as receiving a telegram from the 115th Division of the Chinese Eighth Route Army attacking Heze and Jining, Okamura Ningji received a telegram from the Zaozhuang defenders, saying that the three infantry divisions and two infantry brigades under Yu Xuezhong, the commander of the Chinese National Affairs Fǔ Sulu Theater, had suddenly sent troops north, had already captured Yancheng and Cangshan, and could come to Linyi and Zaozhuang at any time. Linyi is good to say that this place is located in the Yimeng Mountains, and the military value is not great. But Zaozhuang is different, it is the transportation hub of Shandong connecting Jiangsu and Anhui, and now there are still a lot of materials hoarded in Zaozhuang Station, and there will never be any mistakes.

Immediately afterwards, Okamura Ninji received a telegram saying that a large number of Shina Zheng Fǔ troops had also appeared in Dongming in Luxi, numbered Pang Bingxun's 40th Army and the 3rd Group Army, with a total strength of more than 50,000 people, as well as a large number of people.

At the same time, the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, which had disappeared in Shandong, and other anti-Japanese armed forces emerged one after another, constantly attacking the communication lines of the Japanese theater and attacking the Japanese puppet strongholds. If it was left in peacetime, Okamura Ningji would smile disdainfully at most, and send an infantry to be generous enough to eliminate these gopher-like Chinese guerrillas, but at this time Okamura Ningji was really anxious, the inexplicable alliance of China's political fǔ army and ** army must have a major plan, just like the two cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party directly fought several major warlords in China at that time, and even directly collapsed Wu Peifu and Chen Jiongming's department. The second Kuomintang-Communist cooperation directly withstood the powerful offensive of the empire and led this holy war to the stage of confrontation of fighting attrition. Therefore, in the eyes of Okamura Ninji, a China expert, the KMT and the CCP are not easy to cooperate, but once they cooperate, there will definitely be a big plan.

Although this is only a partial combat cooperation, since the beginning of the war, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have only been able to fight in limited numbers, and the battle of Pingxingguan that broke the myth of the empire's invincibility is counted once, and the first battle of Wuhan is counted once, and there are very few other than that.

The most important thing is that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have not even heard the slightest rumor on the part of the empire this time, which shows how well it has done its secrecy. Such a thorough cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party must have been directed against the Empire, and it seems that the Chinese army wanted to unite to expel the Empire from Shandong.

After a little confusion, Okamura Ningji calmed down, he looked at the entire Shandong map for a while, and then decisively ordered: "Order: The First Army abandons Dezhou, let Shinozuka-kun immediately lead his troops to retreat to the front line of Linyi, Shanghe, and Huimin to garrison, and be sure to stop the battle line at Linyi and Shanghe." ”

"Order: The 59th Division immediately shrinks its forces, withdraws from Heze City before the Zhina troops rush to Heze, and the whole army immediately withdraws to Jining and joins the 63rd Division to ensure the safety of Jining and ensure the smooth flow of the river."

"Order: The 110th Division and the 1st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade immediately send troops to the front line of Pingyin, ready to meet Sato Sadaji's headquarters at any time, and at the same time order Sato Sadaji to immediately lead his troops to break through in the direction of Pingyin."

"Order: The 8th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade and the 3rd Division of the newly formed chariot stationed in Rizhao immediately reinforce the Zaozhuang and Linyi fronts, repel the attack of the Xuezhong Department at all costs, and must drive the Zhinazheng Army out of Shandong to ensure the smooth flow of the southbound railway."

"Order: The 79th, 81st, 82nd, 84th, and 88th Divisions resting in Qingdao Port immediately rush to Jinan and wait for dispatch."

Okamura Ninji issued a series of five orders, thinking that there was still negligence, and immediately ordered the defenders stationed in Linqing, Leling and other places to shrink their forces and retreat to the hinterland of Shandong. According to the information just sent back by the intelligence department, in addition to the 250,000 troops under Han Yunhua's command, there were 8-100,000 people from the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and 120,000 people from the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army and 120,000 people from the Chinese army, as well as countless guerrillas from China. And their armament is many times better than it was a few years ago, not only with formed artillery, but also with combat vehicles and heavy artillery, as well as mysterious special forces.

Looking at the current situation of the North China Front, the entire Front Army originally had 10 divisions and 6 independent mixed brigades, with a total strength of 220,000 troops, and these 220,000 people were all stationed in Shandong, plus 150,000 imperial troops in Shandong, the defenders of the entire Shandong Province reached 370,000 people, equivalent to about 80 troops in the heyday of the North China Front, but they only needed to guard a quarter of the territory of the North China Front in its heyday, so although it was very difficult, Okamura Ningji still ran Shandong like an iron bucket. Needles can't get in, water can't splash in. However, since the order to transfer troops from the base camp came a month ago, a large number of experienced veterans of the North China Front have been transferred, and although the senior officers of the divisions and regiments have hardly moved, the troops have been reduced to less than half of their original size.

Using half of the original force to defend the same large territory, the troops were already stretched, and at the beginning of the Battle of Texas, a complete infantry division was eaten by Han Yunhua's department, which made Okamura Ningji extremely angry and helpless, fortunately, the base camp promised Okamura Ningci that the 5 infantry divisions and regiments of the reinforcements have all been in place, although the combat effectiveness of these reinforcements is extremely limited, but no division is also a very strong combat force, which should be able to come in handy.

This time the loss is certain, the people of China have been plotting for a long time, and they are well prepared, the front army is in a hurry to respond to the battle, and it is not normal not to suffer losses, after all, it is no longer as great as the difference in the national strength of the two countries when the war started, and the gap in the combat effectiveness of the army is also narrowing, and Okamura Ninji can see this more clearly than ordinary Japanese officers.

The retreat of the Japanese army greatly exceeded Han Yunhua's expectations, although the overall strategy and the distribution of troops in Luxi were indeed at an absolute disadvantage, but the difference between the two sides was not very large, and the Japanese army did not have no chance of turning the tables. Although the Inner Mongolia Military Region has strong troops, it is not without weaknesses. Including the Inner Mongolia Military Region in ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］