The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 9, Rushing, and Section 5 Assault

Nishio Shouzo Itagaki Seishiro didn't answer, instinctively told them that it was not appropriate to act rashly now, the fierce and cunning General Shina had not yet moved, he was like a ghost, floating in the sky over Jiangbei, as long as you showed a flaw, he would pounce from the air, .\

"Don't move for the time being, order Jizhu and Yuan Shou, pay attention to strengthening cross-strait ties, be sure to ensure that the pontoon bridge is unblocked, if necessary, you can abandon the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Anqing City must be defended." Nishio Shouzo shook his head and insisted on not moving.

In the next two days, the squadron's attack on the Anqing area became more and more violent, and the 19th Group Army was worthy of the main force of the civil engineering department, breaking through the two lines of defense of the Japanese army in a row, and the commander of the 9th Division, Yuan Shou, was forced to transfer reserves to counterattack, which prevented the attack of the 19th Group Army.

The 11th Army and the 30th Army, which attacked from the flank, were stubbornly resisted by the 15th Division, and the 30th Army fought fiercely with the 14th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army at Jiuhua Mountain.

On the battlefield on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Li Pinxian commanded two group armies to launch a fierce attack on Anqing from the west and north, the 21st Group Army conquered Teak Ridge and Shiling, and the Fourth Group Army, which occupied Huaining, launched an attack to the south with the 38th Army as the vanguard, conquering Chaling Town, and the Japanese army contracted to the mountains on the periphery of Anqing.

The Japanese army in Hefei held on, which made Zhuang Jihua a little helpless, Yang Sen sent a telegram a day, asking when to start the offensive, Zhuang Jihua and Xu Zuyi Cai Tingkai discussed, decided to change the battle plan, with the 24th Group Army to attack Hefei, but improve the offensive as a containment, the 15th Group Army attacked Shucheng, and the 17th Army belonging to the 15th Group Army immediately went south, assigned to the command of Sun Weiru of the Fourth Group Army, and joined the Anqing battlefield.

As the order was issued, Yang Sen Wang Lingji, who had already been gearing up, immediately dispatched and swung his troops straight to Hefei, and He Zhuguo led the 15th Group Army to attack Shucheng.

In the past few years, Yang Sen has been holding back the fire in the Ninth War Zone, and the logistics supply has never been satisfied, and even the military salary is owed for a year, the 47th Army has been out of the organization, and the 20th Army has been flying alone for several years, and the war zone has not been replenished. Now that the group army has been replenished, it has returned to the command of Zhuang Jihua in the Jiangbei Theater, and as soon as he came over, Zhuang Jihua made up his military expenses, weapons and ammunition, and added a heavy artillery brigade to him.

As soon as the troops arrived in Huoqiu, they immediately reconnoitred and rode out to find out the deployment of the Japanese troops near Hefei, and as soon as the attack order arrived, Yang Sen immediately launched three divisions of the 20th Army in accordance with the predetermined plan and attacked in parallel along both sides of the Hehuo Highway.

It stands to reason that the main force should not be put into use at the beginning, but Yang Sen has no choice but to do this, the 24th Group Army has two armies, the 20th Army and the 22nd Army, but the 22nd Army is the reorganization of the 30th Group Army, and the combat effectiveness has not yet been proven.

The 22nd Army was for the purpose of reorganizing the 30th Group Army, and Zhuang Jihua specifically asked Chiang Kai-shek. The 30th Army originally had 54,000 men, 4,000 more than the 20th Army. When Wang Lingji went out of Sichuan, it was easy to gather 40,000 people, the equipment was quite poor, and the losses in the battle of Wuhan were very large, and there were only 20,000 troops left, he sent people back to Sichuan to recruit troops, Deng Xihou had just become the chairman of Sichuan Province, and he needed to unite the forces of various factions in Sichuan, so he collected his family and gave him 40,000 people, and at the same time provided him with a full set of Chongqing-made equipment.

After Wang Lingji was transferred to Hunan, he did not rest in Hunan, the equipment treatment of the Sichuan army was far better than that of the rest of the armies, and it had long aroused the envy of the rest of the generals, in addition to Chen Cheng's miscellaneous, some miscellaneous troops had the heart to take refuge, so he incorporated several troops, and the entire group army had a corps, two independent divisions, two independent brigades, the number was messy, and the number of equipment was uneven, after arriving in the Jiangbei Theater, Zhuang Jihua asked him to reorganize, according to the three-three system, and the theater with insufficient weapons and equipment was supplemented, Therefore, during this period of time, Wang Lingji spent great efforts to reorganize and train the troops, and in just three months, the equipment and combat effectiveness of the troops were raised to a higher level. But this has not been verified after all.

The three divisions attacked side by side on the front line, quickly crossed the Wei River, conquered Jin'an, and fought fierce battles with the Japanese 15th Division defending the periphery in the area of Shuangmiao and Sanshipu.

Attacking at the same time as the 24th Group Army was the 15th Group Army stationed in Lu'an, He Zhuguo; He Zhuguo was born in the cavalry army of the Northeast Army, participated in the Xi'an Incident, and has been fighting in the First War Zone since the start of the Anti-Japanese War, but because of his background in the Northeast Army, he was very unpopular in the First War Zone, after Zhuang Jihua took charge of the Jiangbei War Zone, he has been worried about being eaten by Zhuang Jihua, but he did not expect that Zhuang Jihua neither embarrassed him nor took care of him, but just transferred him from Henan to Lu'an.

The 15th Group Army actually had only one Second Cavalry Army, under the jurisdiction of two divisions, the Second Cavalry Division, the division commander Wang Zhaokun, the provisional 14th Division, the division commander Liao Yunze, the total strength of the whole army, 16,000 people, of which the Second Cavalry Division had two cavalry brigades, each brigade had two regiments, and the total strength was 7,000 men and horses; The 14th Provisional Division is also a type B division, with three brigades and two regiments each, with a total strength of 9,000 troops.

The combat effectiveness of the 15th Group Army is limited, but most of this army is cavalry, Hefei is all hilly, the cavalry moves rapidly, from Hefei to Anqing to pass through Feixi, Shucheng, Tongcheng, this area is the 15th Division, the Third Division, the Yuan Brigade and the puppet army and the puppet army to save the ** Wang Zhanlin Division.

After six years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army has suffered defeats, especially the recent fiasco in northern Hubei, and the Japanese army no longer dares to hold it up.

He Zhuguo's equipment and troops were inferior to Yang Sen, and his combat methods were also different. He Zhuguo was responsible for the frontal attack with the provisional 14th Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division was dispersed, and the two cavalry brigades were grouped in regimental units to attack in all directions on the long front of the Japanese army.

They either circled behind enemy lines, raided Japanese strongholds, or attacked Japanese transport convoys. This kind of operation made the Japanese army extremely headache, in order to avoid losses, the Japanese army quickly shrunk and retreated into Shucheng, He Zhuguo did not attack Shucheng, he used the temporary 14th division to monitor the enemy in Shucheng, and let the cavalry brigade let go of the activities on the front. However, He Zhuguo still had a cavalry brigade in his hands as the last reserve.

The 24th Army and the 15th Army launched an offensive in Hefei, and Nishio Shouzo breathed a sigh of relief, but Itagaki's words made his heart rise again.

"Only the Twenty-Fourth Army?" Itagaki was completely unaware of the shock that his words brought to Nishio Shouzo: "The 24th Group Army appeared in Huoqiu, Huoqiu can be south and north, is the 24th Group Army preparing to capture Huainan or originally planned to attack Hefei?" ”

This is nothing to hear at first, but when you think about it, it is creepy, and the general of China has always concentrated his forces, if he intends to Huainan, the 24th Group Army is likely to be the force that cuts off the connection between Huainan and Hefei, and the capture of Huainan is likely to be concentrated east of Fuyang and west of Shou County.

Nishio Shouzo's gaze moved up again, there was Bengbu, an important town on the Jinpu line, where 7,000 troops were stationed, but 1,000 of these 7,000 troops were in Mengcheng, 2,000 were in Huaiyuan, and there were only 4,000 people in Bengbu's main city, and there was also a railway garrison of about 1,000 people, which was distributed along the railway line. However, there is still a brigade in Mingguang, this force is to defend the Sulu theater, and there is also a brigade garrison in Dingyuan.

It must be explained that the strength and equipment of the garrison brigade and the field brigade are very different; the garrison brigade has only 900 people, while the field brigade has 1,100 people, and the garrison brigade has half less heavy machine guns and artillery than the field brigade; what is more important is the quality of the soldiers; most of the experienced combat soldiers are transferred to the field brigade, and most of the garrison brigades are new recruits; there are also officers, and the officers of the garrison and the officers of the field units are not at all the same in terms of command ability.

The war has spread from the south of the Yangtze River to the north of the Yangtze River, and there are more and more squadron numbers on the battlefield, and the main direction of attack seems to be very clear, that is, Anqing, but Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki are not sure that this is the last hole card of the squadron.

Of the troops that appeared in Jiangbei, only one of the 24th Group Army was a unit from the southwest, and what about the other troops? In the original Fifth War Zone, what about the elite soldiers who fought the Battle of Northern Hubei? Where are they lurking? Henan? Or is it like the Battle of Northern Hubei, which has secretly gone south to prepare to join the Jiangbei Campaign?

First of all, the Chinese army in Jiangnan invested more than 500,000 troops to attack, and the already tight forces in Jiangnan could not be transferred north. If you can't transfer troops from Jiangnan, then you can only transfer troops from Shandong, which can be .......

If the general of China had not launched an attack on Bengbu? Then he Nishio Shouzo is probably going to create the biggest joke in the history of war.

"Order the Dingyuan garrison, immediately hand over the defense of Dingyuan to the local peace rescue**, and the imperial army will immediately assemble in Bengbu." After hesitating for a long time, Nishio Shouzo issued an order: "Telegraph to the commander of the Bengbu Shicun Brigade, pay close attention to the changes in the enemy situation in the direction of Mengcheng and Wuhe, if the Zhina army comes to attack, the defenders of Mengcheng can shrink back to Huaiyuan, and when it is absolutely necessary, the whole army can shrink to Bengbu." ”

Nishio Shouzo's order was quickly carried out, but the Monjo troops could not be recovered, because the 22nd Army had already begun to move.

The Japanese army in Hefei did not go south to reinforce Anqing, which made Zhuang Jihua a little depressed, Cai Tingkai and Xu Zuyi suggested at the same time that they should immediately launch an attack on Huainan and Bengbu, even if they launched an attack on these two points, the main direction of our army's attack, Xuzhou, was not exposed. Moreover, due to the attack on these two places, Nishio Shouzo is likely to transfer the Xuzhou defenders to the south for reinforcements, so as to cover the direction of our army's main attack.

Zhuang Jihua accepted the suggestion of the two and ordered the 22nd Group Army and the Fuyang Group Army to attack immediately.

But in fact, Sun Zhen's 22nd Army began to dispatch two days before he gave the order, so he gave the order and immediately launched a surprise attack, which surprised the enemy and conquered Shuangjian Ji, cutting off the retreat of the Japanese army in Mengcheng.

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