Chapter 1148: The Great Defeat (Medium)

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The night of May 7, 1941, was a night of darkness, chaos, and shame for the defenders of Nakajo Mountain.

The Japanese army came prepared, and the various units coordinated with each other, detouring, interspersing, and encircling, fighting in one go, and it was as classic as a selected courseware in a textbook; On the battlefield, most of the headquarters of the group armies, corps, and divisions were airdropped by the Japanese army early and the hidden troops were eliminated, and the soldiers could not find officers, officers, generals, and generals, and they became a pot of porridge.

It stands to reason that there is a favorable mountainous area in Zhongtiao, and there is night cover, the Japanese plane has flown back to lie down after completing a wave of bombing in the evening, this condition is suitable for the squadron to fight at night and counterattack, but now the situation is reversed, the night has become a paradise for the Japanese army, the little devil under the guidance of spies and traitors, under the guidance of the small troops infiltrated in advance, marched forward, and tore a bloody hole in the junction of the various units of the defenders, bravely interspersed and pursued (). The defenders, who were unprepared in advance, struck so suddenly, and the Japanese artillery shells and bombs knocked out the firepower points of the front-line troops as soon as they came up, and the heavy machine gun positions and mortar positions on which the defenders relied on the enemy were all destroyed by the Japanese at the first time.

The horrors are yet to come.

After the forward troops were attacked, they were anxious to ask the command for instructions on what to do, but as a result, explosions sounded one after another in the defense area behind them, needless to say that the arsenal was detonated by the Japanese army. When they contacted the regimental headquarters, division headquarters, army headquarters, and group army headquarters, they were all unable to get along. Could it be that the commanders have abandoned their troops and fled?

Just when the front-line troops were hesitating, the Japanese spies and traitors began to shout, shouting the names of the company commanders and battalion commanders of the garrison troops, such as Company Commander Wang, Battalion Commander Zhang, Staff Officer Li, and Adjutant Chen. The traitors told these grassroots officers in their shouts that the commander, army commander, division commander, and regiment commander had all been captured, and only by surrendering their guns could they obtain the leniency of the Imperial Japanese Army. Otherwise, they'll all die!

In front of the Japanese army was like a frenzied attack, behind him was the sound and fire of the constant explosion of the arsenal, and the boss could not be contacted, and the defenders of the front-line positions collapsed at the first moment of the Japanese attack, the positions were broken through, and the troops began to retreat.

A defeated army is inferior to a flock of sheep. The flock is led by a sheep, and even if it runs for its life, it will also run in one direction with the head sheep. The defenders of Nakajo Mountain now have no heads, and some only have officers and soldiers who have been demoralized.

It was not only the army that was in chaos, but also government offices at all levels and ordinary people in the Zhongtiao Mountain area who joined the ranks of the fugitives under the blows of the Japanese army. At night, the mountain roads, avenues, and paths were crowded with officers and soldiers, local government personnel, and ordinary people with children and daughters who were eager to flee for their lives.

** The officer would rather give his head to the Japanese than resist! This is the evaluation of the defenders by the common people of Nakajo Mountain, who were lucky enough to survive after the war!

Fortunately, the Japanese army's Xiao Luo circled his legs too short and ran not fast enough (). Otherwise, in just one night, the Japanese army would probably be able to drive all the defenders of Nakajo Mountain into the prisoner camp.

By dawn, the Fifth Army on the Western Front had collapsed; The Ninth Army on the Eastern Front also abandoned Jiyuan and Mengzhou and retreated westward; The northern line connecting the Fifth Army and the Fourteenth Army was Gao Guizi's 17th Army and Zhao Shiling's 43rd Army, of which as soon as the 43rd Army's 18 Ping position was broken, the army commander Zhao Shiling ordered to withdraw to the Wanxianzhuang line, completely ignoring the safety of the 17th Army on the left flank and the 14th Army on the right flank, resulting in the 17th Army having to retreat although it had put up relatively effective resistance. In this way, the Japanese army easily severed the connection between the Fifth Army and the Fourteenth Army, the main force of the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain, and created conditions for the Japanese army to divide and annihilate the two group armies.

In the evening battle on May 7, when the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain began, the only bright spot of the **180,000 defenders was the Battle of Wangcun under the command of General Wu Shimin of the 98th Army of the 14th Group Army. On the evening of the same day, the Japanese army launched an attack on the 98th Army of Samurai Min, and finally encountered a hard bone. In the face of the sudden attack of the Japanese army, Wu Shimin, the commander of the 98th Army, led his troops to resist desperately, fought fiercely with the enemy on the east and west lines of Dongfeng, and repelled the Japanese attacks many times. In the first battle of Wangcun, the enemy 2,000 were defeated, and more than 700 people under Hamada Daisa were killed.

Overnight, the Japanese army's tactics of detouring on both flanks and breaking through in the middle were extremely successful. It is ridiculous that the headquarters of the commander of the 1st Theater of Operations, which finally received the report after dawn, was still daydreaming, and strictly ordered all units to "stress the current situation, smash the enemy's attempt to encroach on Zhongtiao Mountain, lure the enemy into a favorable area, turn to the offensive, and flank him."

What is bureaucracy that kills people? This is a living illustration of this.

By the time Chiang Kai-shek knew that the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain had broken out, it was already the morning of May 8.

In the past two days, the Japanese army launched a three-sided siege on the central and southern areas of Shandong, and Chiang Kai-shek was still thinking that Liu Yimin had also made a mistake in judgment, and the Japanese army was obviously going to attack the main force of his Shandong Eighth Route Army, but he said that he was going to hit Zhongtiao Mountain. Where did the Japanese army have so many troops?

To tell the truth, when the Japanese army first attacked Lu Zhongnan, not only Chiang Kai-shek, but also the bigwigs of the Military Commission turned their attention to Lu Zhongnan. In any case, Liu Yimin's troops in central and southern Lu attracted the elite troops of the Japanese army, and in case Liu Yimin's troops were wiped out by the Japanese army, then several elite divisions of the Japanese army besieging central and southern Lu would be able to free up their hands, no matter which direction this part of the Japanese army was used in, it would be a terrible force ().

Because of the heavy siege of central and southern Lu by the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, and Xu Yongchang, the minister of military orders, misjudged that it was impossible for the Japanese army to launch a large-scale offensive in two directions at the same time. Even if the Japanese army wants to hit Zhongtiao Mountain, it will only be carried out after the battle of central and southern Lu can be carried out.

At this point, Chiang Kai-shek and his assistants have a relatively objective view, that is, Liu Yimin is the main general with the most overall concept in the army. Several battles benefited from Liu Yimin's attack on the enemy. With Liu Yimin's character and style, if the Japanese army launched the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, no matter whether other units of the Eighth Route Army would cooperate in the battle, Liu Yimin would definitely not sit idly by, and he would definitely send troops to attack the Japanese army and cooperate with the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain. This should be the reason why he made a statement in advance and peeked into the scheming of the Japanese army.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek realized that what Liu Yimin said was accurate and right, and the Japanese army was indeed going to encircle and annihilate the 180,000 defenders in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.

Chiang Kai-shek couldn't figure it out, Zhongtiao Mountain, high mountain and dangerous road were not conducive to the action of the Japanese mechanized troops, and it was conducive to the defenders holding on to the danger. How did it happen that many troops lost contact and all the defensive lines were broken through overnight?

Chiang Kai-shek, who was so anxious that his forehead was bruised, directly ordered Wei Lihuang, who had finally left Mount Emei and was about to go to Chongqing to meet Chairman Chiang, and immediately returned to the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater in Luoyang to direct the operation. Then he ordered all the units of Nakajo Mountain to concentrate their forces and take advantage of the mountainous terrain to drive out the Japanese troops who broke through to Nakajo Mountain in the middle and stabilize the defensive line.

Chairman Jiang is also talking in his dreams, he thinks that the current defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain are still Yang Hucheng and Sun Weiru's Fourth Army who fought to the death with the Japanese army half a year ago!

Without waiting for Wei Lihuang to rush back to Luoyang, the battle situation was further deteriorating. At noon, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of transport planes to drop paratroopers to Yuanqucheng, the fulcrum of the defense of the central line, and cooperated with the ground troops to attack Yuanqucheng.

Chiang Kai-shek had at this time thoroughly recognized the dangerous situation of the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain, because he could not contact Zeng Wanzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army, and it was obvious that the Fifth Army on the Western Front had been routed by the Japanese ().

Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly convened a party, government, and military report meeting to study countermeasures.

Liu Fei proposed to mobilize all party and government organs and associations to call on the Eighth Route Army to send troops to assist the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain in the battle.

Liu Fei said that if the first-class troops do not respond to the battle, it will obviously violate the stance of the War of Resistance and deviate from the will of the people, and the result will inevitably lead to partialization within the Communist Party. If it sends troops to resist the war, it will be enough to cooperate to fight the enemy army, and it will also be a blessing for the country. In short, either send troops to cooperate with the government to attack the enemy, or abandon the anti-Japanese stance.

Liu Fei was actually instructed by Chiang Kai-shek to make this suggestion.

Chiang Kai-shek's current status is definitely extraordinary. After receiving the report of the Japanese army's large-scale attack on Zhongtiao Mountain, he immediately realized that he had underestimated the enemy and fallen for the Japanese army, and immediately began to think about how to rescue the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain. Obviously, Liu Yimin's troops can't count on it, the Japanese army's forces for fighting in central and southern Lu are larger than those attacking Zhongtiao Mountain, and all of them are elite divisions, whether Liu Yimin and his Eighth Route Army can escape death is another matter! He used his descendants Hu Zongnan, Jiang Dingwen, and Tang Enbo to go to reinforcements, because there was no such deployment, and it was too late to go far from the mountains. Only forcing the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army in Shanxi to attack the Japanese army from behind may still be effective. However, Chiang Kai-shek did not want to agree to the conditions proposed to stop, solve the problem of the New Fourth Army, and restore the supply of salaries and ammunition to the three main divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and he was even more unwilling to put down his shelf and plead, so he could only use public opinion to oppress the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi to send troops.

While Chiang Kai-shek was still spinning his brain, the situation on the battlefield at Zhongtiao Mountain continued to deteriorate. By the evening of the 8th, it took only 24 hours for the Japanese army to complete the operational plan of breaking through the middle of the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain and encircling them on both flanks, forming a peripheral encirclement of the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain.

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