From battle to battle, and then to the battle of the current scale, the Japanese army's Yellow River defense line has collapsed, and the two battlefields of eastern and western Henan are in passivity. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And around this battle, a larger battle has begun. Pang Bingxun, Gao Shuxun, Tang Weiyuan, and other troops, as well as the Taihang troops, Hebei-Shandong-Henan detachments, and Sulu-Henan detachments of the 18th Group Army, as well as many local guerrilla forces, were all acting under orders to contain and delay the reinforcements of the Japanese army in various places.

Systematically mobilizing the strength of brigades, divisions, and regiments is quite difficult for the unprepared and scattered Japanese troops. Of course, this possibility is not ruled out. However, judging from the current number of troops participating in the battle, the Japanese army of a division and regiment is a great threat, and the brigade level is probably not helpful. And this division does not refer to a patchwork of troops, but a formed division and regiment with complete arms and heavy weapons.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Third Army have been greatly improved, not only the 60 mortars, grenade launchers, steel fists, Czech-made, shotguns, flying thunder cannons, and other weapons aided by Yang Tianfeng. Under the orders of Wei Lihuang and under the guidance of the technical personnel provided by Yang Tianfeng, the Houzhai Arsenal in Bei Tingfang in Nanyang focused on manufacturing 60 mortars, shotguns, flying thunder cannons, mines, and other weapons, and began to equip the troops of the First Theater.

Unconsciously, the overall combat strength of the First Theater has steadily increased, and the Third Army has benefited the earliest, and the increase is also the most obvious. Moreover, from the earliest Zhou regiment to come to the rescue, to the attack on Kaifeng, and the regimental crossing of the river guerrilla, the training and tactics of the units of the Third Group Army were also the first to learn and imitate the three columns.

After attacking and occupying Shangqiu, Yang Tianfeng transferred more than 100 engineers, more than 10 heavy mortars, and 300 ammunition of various types to support Sun Tongxuan. He hoped that by taking advantage of this opportunity, the Third Army and reinforcements from various departments would be able to conquer Kaifeng again and annihilate the Japanese troops defending the city.

The important town of Kaifeng can be recovered, and its significance is self-evident. If eastern and western Henan can be stabilized, they can march into northern Henan in the future, reach the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, connect with the Taihang Mountain base in the first war zone, and even form a whole with the national X army in the southeast of Shanxi.

At that time, there were two large guerrilla zones in the First War Zone: One was the No. 1 Guerrilla Zone in the eastern part of the Pinghan Line, which was located in the areas of Puyang, Neihuang, Junxian, and Huaxian in southern Hebei and northern Henan. To the west of the Pinghan Line, relying on the Taihang Mountains, it has long maintained the second guerrilla zone in the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan border region centered on Shexian County in Hebei Province and Linxian County in Henan.

Judging from the development process of the entire base areas behind enemy lines, the period from July 1937 to the end of 1938 was the first stage, which can also be called the initial stage of development.

From the beginning of 1939 to the end of 1940, not only were the two new guerrilla theaters of Jicha and Lusu established completely behind enemy lines, but also guerrilla zones and base areas were generally established in other theaters including the occupied areas.

During this period, almost all of the occupied areas became guerrilla areas, except for important towns and communication arteries that were controlled by the Japanese puppet army. In areas where Japanese rule was weak and the terrain was favorable, a relatively stable base area was also established.

Moreover, Tada Jun had just taken over as commander of the North China Dispatch Army, and the "cage" and "encroachment" he had invented had just begun to be implemented, and the golden age of the development of anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in North China had not yet completely ended, and it would take some time for his idea of making up for the lack of troops with mobility to be realized.

It can also be seen from this that the Eastern Henan Campaign launched by Yang Tianfeng evolved into a battle, which had many favorable conditions at that time.

Especially in the early and middle stages of the Anti-Japanese War, although the National X Army suffered more defeats and fewer victories, and fought alone in the international arena, it still had an enterprising spirit and a desire to attack. On the contrary, after entering the stage of stalemate, and even after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the National X Army suffered a crushing defeat in Zhongtiao Mountain and a crushing defeat in Yuxianggui due to the decline in resistance, mental slackness, passivity, and lack of progress, as well as the widespread "waiting for victory" mentality.

Regardless of whether there is foreign aid or not, it is very important for the Chinese army to maintain the will to fight alone and the confidence that the war of resistance will be won when fighting against the Japanese devils. If China's X-Army had shown the world that it had the strength to defeat the Japanese army, it might not have fallen victim to the Yalta Treaty, and Maozi's forces would have lost their legal and moral support when they entered Northeast China.

I'm thinking a little too much! Yang Tianfeng shook his head with a wry smile, raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening, but he was not sleepy at all. Because at this time, on the Longhai Road, thousands of troops were launching a fierce attack on the Japanese invaders in the sound of loud trumpets, and thousands of joint defense teams and mobilized civilians were attacking the railway in full swing.

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The station town is already on fire, and the shouts of killing are shaking the sky.

The special combat team disguised as the defeated soldiers of Xia Yi and a brigade of the Guo detachment, dressed in the clothes of devils and puppet soldiers, shouted fluent Japanese, and fled in a hurry. In the end, it was from Xuzhou, and he did not suffer the loss of the three-vertical disguise attack, and such a large-scale camouflage attack, from the costumes to the realistic performance of the language, also deceived the eyes of the devil, so that the defense of the station town was broken through in an instant.

The attack was swift and violent, and before the devil sentry could even draw his gun, he was knocked to the ground by a pistol with a silencer; Before the devils in the machine-gun bunkers made of sandbags had woken up from their slumber, several black shadows jumped up and shot bullets into their bodies and their heads without mercy; The door of the armored car was slammed open, and after a burst of fire, the devil, who was napping on the machine gun, saw Hades in his sleep.

Song Qingpu commanded the special combat team members to rush into the station, and the sound of gunfire and explosions rang out irrepressibly.

Captain Kawaguchi jumped up from the bed, he **** heaved, his throat hissed, and the explosion woke him up, but he thought he was dreaming.

The electric light in the room suddenly went out, Kawaguchi pulled out the pistol under the pillow, the door opened, and several officers ran in in a panic, "Your Excellency Kawaguchi, the enemy has come in." ”

"Who? Enemy, where is the enemy? "Kawaguchi has not been resting well because he is busy scheduling transportation and arranging defense, and he is still a little dizzy.

"I've stormed the station and are fighting the locust army." A staff officer turned on a flashlight. (To be continued.) )