Chapter 60: Shigetoku Kuroda's Death Journey (1)

At five o'clock in the morning of April 16, the fighting of all departments came to an end temporarily, and several regiments attacking Jining had completely occupied Jining City, completely annihilated the Japanese troops of a wing of Jining's defenders, killed the commander of the Jining garrison, Yagi Seiichiro Osa, and also captured most of the two puppet infantry divisions and a cavalry division, and captured a large number of strategic materials.

After completing the occupation task, the New Fourth Regiment and the First Artillery Regiment received orders to quickly return to the front line of Zhuozi Mountain. The New Sixth Regiment was accompanied by the 4th Cavalry Regiment, the 8th Cavalry Regiment, the 9th Cavalry Regiment, and the 2nd Artillery Regiment, together with the Guard Regiment led by Ye Baoguo, the New 5th Regiment, and the 10th Cavalry Regiment to complete the strategic encirclement of the Japanese army on the Datong Front, and to completely annihilate the Datong Front led by Shigetoku Kuroda by April 18.

Wang Huisen, Ye Baoguo and others, who received the order, immediately took action to cut off all the back roads of Kuroda Shigetoku's department, which had broken into the hinterland of Fengzhen.

Major General Kuroda Shigetoku, as the brigade commander of the most elite infantry brigade of the 26th Division, his tactical cultivation is still very good, after receiving the news that Jining City was broken and all the defenders were shattered, Major General Kuroda Shigetoku keenly found that he had entered the hinterland of the so-called base area of the Eighth Route Army of China, and the back road had been cut off by the branch of China that had been fighting with him for four or five days.

While reporting to the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps for support, Major General Kuroda Shigetoku contacted the commander of the Datong garrison, Naganonomura Momoyo Daisa, to inquire about the current situation in Datong Castle.

The reply from the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps has not yet arrived, but the commander of the Datong garrison, Naganomura Momoyo Daisa, soon sent a reply, and Naganonomura Momoyo Dasa said that with the cooperation of Shuo County reinforcements, Datong City was finally quelled after more than five hours of riots, and now Datong City is still in the hands of the imperial army. However, as a result of the attacks on the prisons and prisoner-of-war camps, some 10,000 or so prisoners and prisoners escaped, and these people, who had obtained a large number of weapons after the attack on the arsenals, were still assembled on the outskirts of Datong, ready to attack the city at any time. After the riots in Datong City, plus the reinforcements of a brigade from Shuo County, all the defenders were less than a wing, and they had to defend a large number of strategic points, so they could not draw troops to rescue him.

However, the reply from the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps made Major General Kuroda Shigetoku very excited, and after the investigation of the special high-tech department, it was learned that in order to defend against the powerful offensive of the imperial army, the Han Yunhua division of the Eighth Route Army had withdrawn all the troops in its defense area, so there were no regular troops in its hinterland and Laochao Daqingshan, and only a small number of local armed forces remained. Therefore, the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps ordered Major General Kuroda Shigetoku to lead his men and horses to immediately attack the rear of Han Yunhua's army, and give the Shina Army a center to blossom in the encirclement of the imperial army, and Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, Major General Yamashita Fumi, and Major General Takagi Yoshito to flank Han Yunhua's division of the Eighth Route Army inside and outside.

Major General Kuroda Shigetoku knew that this combat mission was very dangerous, and if he was not careful, the entire army would be annihilated, and if the peripheral troops of Lieutenant General Tani Shoufu and others could not break through the resistance of Han Yunhua's troops for a long time, then his central force, which had only one wing of elite infantry in the core, would be very likely to be surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese army. High risk must be accompanied by high reward, if the plan is successful, then the so-called Inner Mongolia Military Region of the Eighth Route Army will collapse in an instant, and the main force of Han Yunhua's elite Chinese army will also be wiped out, and his promotion to lieutenant general division commander will be just around the corner.

Major General Kuroda Shigetoku, who was a gambler by nature, decided to take a risk, and he ordered his troops to bypass Jining overnight and drive directly from Fengzhen to Xinghe via Qianqi, and he wanted to stab Han Yunhua in the heart.

After receiving Ye Baoguo's telegram and learning the news that Major General Kuroda Shigetoku had rushed to the hinterland of the base area, Han Yunhua just said two words "stupid" disapprehantly. If there is no defense force in the base area, Han Yunhua dares to transfer all the troops?

Han Yunhua immediately sent a telegram to Yang Ruihua, who was staying in the base area, ordering him to immediately lead all the county brigades and district squads in the base area to form a left-behind corps. All villages in the base area were immediately notified to enter a state of war, and all men, women, and children were dispatched to plant mines and explosives in all the valleys and rivers of the main communication routes.

The Eagle Special Operations Squadron, which had completed the combat mission of capturing Jining, also received a new combat order from Han Yunhua, ordering them to quickly attack and bite Kuroda Shigetoku's tail, attack the enemy's fighting spirit with cold guns and guns, and slow down the enemy's marching speed. And Ye Baoguo and others also quickly followed up, and completely annihilated the remaining 6,000 people of Kuroda Shigetoku according to the original plan.

For now, the happiest person is none other than Li Dingguo. During the sneak attack on Datong City, a combat group secretly attacked the prisoner of war camp in Datong City, and with the cooperation of the prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp, the defenders of the prisoner of war camp were completely annihilated and tens of thousands of prisoners of war were rescued. Later, this combat group led the prisoners of war to attack a medium-sized arsenal of the devils and armed the more than 10,000 prisoners of war. Originally, Li Dingguo planned to take this opportunity to take Datong City in one fell swoop, but the defenders in Datong City organized an effective counterattack, and the devil reinforcements from Shuo County also arrived, so after attacking several key military organs, Li Dingguo wisely chose to retreat. ,

However, Li Dingguo did not withdraw far, and still threatened the security of Datong City. In accordance with Han Yunhua's instructions, Li Dingguo temporarily organized the rescued prisoners into five regiments, and temporarily appointed the special combat members of the Feilong Special Combat Team as officers. And Li Dingguo temporarily served as the commander-in-chief of these five regiments, organizing these five regiments to attack those devil mines and coal kilns on the outskirts of Datong, rescuing the laborers there, and preparing to retreat at any time.

Major General Shigetoku Kuroda revisited the road to hell that Major General Shozo Kawabe and Major General Seiichiro Shinoha had walked, and had a good taste of the journey of death. Along the way, there must be ambushes in the mountains, there must be mines in the forest, and from time to time a few mortar shells will fall from the sky, or they will be violently beaten by the machine gun positions set up on the high ground, and what is even more frightening is that the snipers of the Eighth Route Army have a large number, as long as they dare to wear officer uniforms, ride horses and wear command knives, they will be sniped by the snipers of the Zhina. And those technical units with radios and heavy machine guns will also be hit from time to time, and what is even more incredible is that they actually encountered 13 minefields on the short 15-kilometer road, basically reaching the terrifying density of one minefield per kilometer. It stands to reason that there are no regular troops of the Eighth Route Army here, so how many people are there in these local armed forces? For a time, Major General Shigetoku Kuroda was full of bad premonitions about this military operation.

What made Major General Shigetoku Kuroda most anxious was that due to the endless harassment of the Shina troops, the marching speed of the troops was extremely slow, and the journey from Toyojin to Kowa could not be reached at most half a month in a day and a half at most.

In order to reduce the casualties of the Imperial Army, Major General Kuroda Shigetoku asked the Imperial Allied Army to independently mix the 4th Brigade and the Datong Guard Cavalry Regiment to walk in the forefront, and went to do these Imperial Allied Army's minefields to open the way for his elite troops, and in one afternoon, the Imperial Allied Army suffered more than 600 casualties.

However, in the eyes of Major General Kuroda Shigetoku, this price is worth it, and the Imperial Allied Army is used to open the way for the Imperial Army, and it is not a pity to die no matter how much. Even if all the Imperial Cooperative Army is dead, can he still go to the prisoner camp to form a new Imperial Cooperative Army, anyway, there are many prisoners in the prisoner of war camp. It is significant that after an afternoon march, the troops marched more than thirty kilometers, three times the length of the morning march. If this continues, the troops will be able to reach the county seat of Xinghe by tomorrow night at the latest. In particular, this road has always been attacked by a small Chinese army, and has not been blocked by the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army, which has strengthened the idea of Major General Kuroda Shigetoku.

However, the accident happened at night, after a regiment commander of the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army killed the sentry on duty of the Imperial Army, he led the infantry of a regiment and the cavalry of a battalion of the Datong Guard Cavalry Regiment to escape, and also took all the weapons and ammunition of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army and the Datong Guard Cavalry Regiment, leaving only an empty barracks and the bodies of thirteen soldiers on duty to Major General Kuroda Shigetoku.

While Maj. Gen. Kuroda Shigetoku was angry, he also realized the seriousness of the problem, and now only more than 2,600 elite infantry belonging to the 12th Infantry Wing, more than 1,300 Imperial Allied troops, and more than 500 wounded. Although he still had nearly 4,000 men in his hands, Major General Kuroda Shigetoku had lost confidence in completing the mission.

Just as Major General Kuroda Shigetoku was hesitating whether he should withdraw his troops and join up with Lieutenant General Tani Toshio's Sixth Division, the cavalry search team sent out returned in embarrassment and said that a large number of Shina cavalry had been found on their periphery, numbering at least 3,000 men.

Major General Kuroda Shigetoku was shocked, and found that the cavalry meant that the main force of Han Yunhua's department had reached their vicinity, and he knew the combat effectiveness of Han Yunhua's department, if he had a complete infantry brigade, he might dare to fight Han Yunhua face to face, and now he only had less than 4,000 remnants in his hands, and he didn't have the capital to fight hard with Han Yunhua's department at all.

Major General Shigetoku Kuroda immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Corps stationed in Mongolia, requesting urgent tactical guidance, and also requesting strong cooperation from the air force.

The headquarters of the Corps stationed in Mongolia sent a quick reply, ordering the headquarters of Major General Shigetoku Kuroda to retreat in the direction of Zhuozishan County, and the air force would arrive in half an hour.

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