[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 567: The Sichuan Army is Mighty (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

After receiving Yan Laoxi's telegram, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army did not hesitate, and immediately thought of supporting Li Jiayu's troops who were besieged. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoSince it was the defense area of the 120th Division, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army called the headquarters of the 120th Division and ordered them to immediately notify the troops near the battlefield to move closer to the battlefield and reinforce the Fourth Army.

Ma Zheng, who commanded the operation on the front line in Handan, was also shocked after receiving the telegram forwarded by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but he did not expect Umezu Mijiro to be so bold and dare to formulate such a risky battle plan when the number of troops was seriously insufficient.

But as things stand, it's clear that his plan has been successful. Once Li Jiayu's 47th Army was completely annihilated, Sun Weiru's entire Fourth Army would be in a dangerous situation, and even if it could retreat, the battle loss rate would be extremely amazing.

And the Fourth Army is related to the entire battle situation, if their side drops the chain, Yan Laoxi's plan to besiege Taiyuan City will become a lame general, and the plan will be aborted.

However, the toughness of Sun Weiru and Li Jiayu and others also made Ma Zheng extremely admired, and in such a dangerous situation, instead of fleeing in a hurry like other Kuomintang troops, they were willing to feed the tiger with their bodies, and this kind of courage is really admirable.

Especially when Ma Zheng learned that it was Li Jiayu of the 47th Army who was surrounded in the core area of the battlefield, this admiration reached a peak.

Although Ma Zheng knows very well that many people in China now look down on the Sichuan army wearing straw sandals and holding hookahs, Ma Zheng knows what kind of army it is. To be honest, before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the reputation of the Sichuan Army was not good, because for a long time, the Sichuan Army gave people the impression that it would only be in the nest, and the standard foreign war layman was an expert in the internal war.

As the pace of the Japanese invasion of China is approaching step by step, the haze of war has enveloped everyone's mind, and the crisis of the Chinese nation's extinction is deepening day by day. Liu Xiang, the general of the Sichuan Army, who was the king of Sichuan, believed that by unifying with the outside world, he could divert ****** to his spearhead, and at the same time, out of national indignation, he decided to change the policy of supporting Chiang and suppressing the Communist Party, and joined the Communist Party to form friends and participate in the War of Resistance.

In the summer of 1937, he sent Zhang Sike as a representative to Guangxi, and signed a "Sichuan, Guangxi, and Red Agreement" with the representatives of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi, which aimed to "unite as one and jointly resist Japan." At this time, Liu Xiang was aroused by the national indignation and dissatisfaction with the ******'s exclusion of dissidents, and actively prepared for the War of Resistance, so that the children of central Sichuan could win glory for the nation and the country.

Seven. The day after the Qilugou Bridge Incident broke out, Liu Xiang immediately sent a telegram to ******, asking Ying to resist the war. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the whole country, calling for unanimous resistance against Japan. On August 7, Liu Xiang flew to Nanjing to attend the National Defense Conference and strongly advocated the War of Resistance. He said: "In the Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million strong men, and supply tens of thousands of stone of grain. ”

After returning to Chengdu, according to the deployment of the Nanjing government, Jiang appointed Liu Xiang as the commander of the Seventh Theater and organized the Sichuan Army into two group armies, the 22nd and 23rd Army. When the 23rd Group from Sichuan arrived in Hankou, Chiang assigned it to the Chengqian First Theater to defend the periphery of Nanjing.

When Liu Xiang arrived in Nanjing, he didn't know where the defense area of the seventh theater was, and before he knew what the task was, the Sichuan army under his command was completely gone, and Liu Xiang completely lost control of the Sichuan army, and soon died of illness in Wuhan.

The Sichuan army is out of Sichuan, but the Sichuan army is not favored when it goes out of Sichuan. When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it was widely regarded as the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and soldiers still wore straw sandals on their feet when fighting in Shanxi in winter.

However, it was such a unit that made countless of the most arduous and tragic sacrifices in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made great contributions to the cause of national independence of the Chinese nation.

It's not blown out, it's actually played. The Sichuan Army, which was notorious in the civil war, began with the Battle of Songhu, and was the backbone of the three Changsha Battles, and completely annihilated the Kato Brigade of the Ninth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army in the Third Battle of Changsha Zhuyingshan Battle.

The 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, which participated in the Battle of Songhu, was one of the five divisions with the best combat record, with more than 4,000 officers and men in the division, but by the time it was evacuated from the battlefield, only more than 600 remained, and more than 85 percent of the casualties were lost.

In the defense of Nanjing, the 21st Army of the Sichuan Army defended the southern front, of which the 145th Division defended Guangde, under the siege of the superior enemy, the position was lost, the division commander Rao Guohua resolutely led the remaining only one battalion of troops to rush into the enemy formation, in order to restore the position, and finally because he was outnumbered, he was surrounded by heavy encirclement, and the ammunition was exhausted, and the general did not want to be a prisoner, and he raised his gun to kill himself. Guo Xunqi, commander of the 144th Division, was also seriously wounded in the battle.

At the end of 37, the 22nd Group was incorporated into Li Zongren's miscellaneous army theater and participated in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the commander of the 122nd Division, Wang Mingzhang, was ordered to garrison Teng County, and the 5th Division of the main force of the Japanese army, Itagaki Seishiro, stormed Teng County, bombarded with heavy artillery and aircraft, and blew up the city wall. After the martyrdom of the division commander Wang, the officers and soldiers of the department resisted house by house, fighting to the last man, and the wounded soldiers in the city did not want to be taken prisoner, so they used grenades to die with the enemy who rushed in.

In the first battle of Tengxian, more than 5,000 people of the 122nd Division were almost all killed or wounded. Chen Li's Division, the 3st Division of the 31st Division, which was deployed in the Jiehe and Longshan belts north of Tengxian County, also suffered 4,500 casualties. There are winners and losers in wars, but there is no shame. The 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, under the leadership of Wang Mingzhang, died in Tengxian County. In a strictly military sense, it should have been a crushing defeat, because the sacrifice of 3,000 men was exchanged for only 66 casualties of the Japanese army. But in the eyes of various public opinions, the Sichuan army has won respect.

It was the great sacrifice of the Sichuan army that won the victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, Li Zongren once said with tears: "The Sichuan army was outnumbered, did not hesitate to make heavy sacrifices, blocked the enemy from going south, completed the combat mission, and wrote the most glorious one in the history of the Sichuan army." ”

Looking back, the 47th Army of Li Jiayu's department, which is now besieged, has been fighting in the southeast of Shanxi for a long time, and was later organized into the 36th Group Army and stationed in Henan. Li Jiayu himself is the leader of the officer department, the smallest faction among the Sichuan warlords, and once served as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Frontier Army and the commander of the 47th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Not long ago, he was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the Fourth Army.

Moreover, Ma Zheng also knew that Li Jiayu would soon serve as the commander-in-chief of the 36th Group Army and participate in the Battle of Henan-China in 1944. More importantly, Li Jiayu was attacked by Japanese plainclothes troops on the way to retreat after the defeat of the Battle of Henan, and was martyred in Qinjiapo, Shaanxi County, Henan. This is the second group army commander who died in the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression after Zhang Zizhong supervised the battle on the front line and did not retreat after the death, and was posthumously awarded the second-class army general by the Kuomintang government after the war, and was allowed to worship the martyrs' shrine and hold a state funeral.

They are all iron-beaten heroes, who dares to say that the Sichuan army can't do it?

Ma Zheng really wants to help this heroic army in dire straits, but unfortunately it is beyond the reach of the whip commander now. He could only immediately order the army in the direction of Yuan Ping to immediately increase the intensity of the attack, take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the main force of the Japanese army was pinned down in Liushuyan, seize Xinkou, and then attack the city of Taiyuan.

Ma Zheng did not have full confidence in seizing Taiyuan City before, after all, there were still 60,000 or 70,000 Japanese puppet troops in Shanxi, and all kinds of signs indicated that the Japanese high-level had decided to transfer the Fifth Division to fight in Jin. With the strong strength of the Fifth Division, it will definitely give a boost to the already stormy First Army stationed in Shanxi, and the total strength of the Japanese puppet army in Shanxi will be as high as 100,000, and it will be difficult to take Taiyuan City.

The reason why Ma Zheng knew that he still insisted on these things was, on the one hand, that this plan had a success rate of at least five layers, and more importantly, the Fifth Division had been stationed in Qingdao before, which had a great impact on Ma Zheng's seizure of the port.

Now Sun Weiru's subordinates are willing to desperately contain the main force of the Japanese army, and the difficulty has dropped a lot. What's more, not eating the fat sent to the door is not his style, and he is even more sorry for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who fought bloodily on the front line. (To be continued.) )