[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 624: Annihilation of the 12th Division (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Upon learning that the 12th Division was in danger, the 8th Division left behind its baggage and slow-moving artillery wing, and the infantry rushed to Tongliao by car. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Even so, but it was still too late, and as soon as they arrived in Sumen Huitual, the Kwantung Army Headquarters had already received a farewell message from Major General Suzuki, and then the Kwantung Army Headquarters lost contact with Suzuki's headquarters. In this case, even if you think about it with your buttocks, you can tell that Suzuki's department is probably more than lucky.

However, the 8th Division's march route remained unchanged, and it still rushed straight to Tongliao, because there was still an imperial army in Kailu, not far from Tongliao, which was in urgent need of rescue.

Knowing that the 8th Division of the Japanese Army was stepping up to reinforce it, Liu Fengchi immediately ordered the troops on the front line to immediately launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese puppet army in Kailu City, and be sure to eliminate all this murderous little devil before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, so as to comfort the dead and wounded people in Liaocheng.

In order to break through the city fortifications of Kailu as soon as possible, Liu Fengchi did not hesitate to use all the artillery, and the battle ended on October 30, the city fortifications of Kailu County had all collapsed, if it were not for the Japanese aviation reinforcements to Kailu at all costs in the past few days, I am afraid that Ma Zheng's department has now captured this small city.

Despite this, the Japanese puppet army defending the city also suffered heavy losses, the two infantry wings had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the artillery wing also suffered a lot of losses, and its destruction was imminent.

In order to prevent the 12th Division from being encircled and annihilated, the Kwantung Army Headquarters immediately dispatched two divisions and another brigade, plus more than 30,000 national defense troops from the puppet Manchukuo to Kailu for reinforcements. At the same time, the Kwantung Army Command ordered the 8th Division to speed up the march and rescue the 12th Division at all costs.

The annihilation of a 24 infantry brigade was enough to shake the Kwantung Army headquarters, and they really could not withstand the annihilation of the entire 12th Division.

Under the desperate urging of the division commander Tsukada Tsukashi, the entire division finally arrived outside Tongliao at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon of October 30, and this place was less than 80 kilometers away from the opening of the battlefield, and at the speed of mechanized troops, it could be reached in two hours at most.

But before the 8th Division could catch its breath, they were surprised to find that the Zhina people had arranged a lot of garrisons in Tongliao City, and if they wanted to rescue the 12th Division in Kailu City, they had to take Tongliao first. As a result, Tongliao City once again became the focus of contention between China and Japan.

Attacking Liaocheng was originally not a hard task for the Eighth Division, which had strong combat effectiveness, but this time, in order to catch up, the whole army did not even carry a single artillery, including mortars, and without the support of artillery troops, the difficulty of a simple infantry siege can be imagined.

As a result, Lieutenant General Kamimura in Kailu Castle was waiting for reinforcements with the stars and the moon, while Tsukada's offensive headquarters was blocked by the troops of the Suicha Military Region outside Tongliao City and could not advance an inch, and the anxious Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro's hair turned gray most of the overnight.

In order to break through the Tongliao defense line as soon as possible, Umezu Yoshijiro personally ordered the transfer of the 5th Air Corps stationed in Mukden to Shuangliao to support the battle on the Tongliao front.

Despite this, the positions of the troops of the Suicha Military Region were still as solid as a rock, and the tens of thousands of Japanese troops could not make them retreat even half a step after repeated sieges.

On November 1, the puppet Mongolian army in the encirclement was the first to be unable to hold on, more than 2,000 puppet troops who were unwilling to be cannon fodder suddenly mutinied, they opened the west gate of Kailu County, ready to welcome the troops of the eighth theater into the city, although the Japanese army found and stopped, but more than 2,000 puppet troops successfully withdrew from Kailu County, which caused a great shock to the Japanese puppet army.

In order to prevent similar things from happening, the Japanese army seized the remaining weapons of more than 6,000 puppet troops and controlled the top cadres of the puppet Mongolian army. At this time, the Japanese army in the city was less than 5,000, excluding thousands of wounded soldiers and hundreds of soldiers guarding the puppet army, the real fighting strength was less than 4,500 people, while the Eighth Route Army outside the city had more than 40,000 people.

On the afternoon of the 1st, the headquarters of the 12th Division was once again bombed by the rookie air force of Ma Zheng's department, and this time the rookies with combat experience were obviously much more accurate than the last time.

In addition, this time the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, and a bomb actually fell, and Lieutenant General Uemura of the 12th Division was seriously injured, and a large number of senior Japanese commanders were killed. At this point, the Japanese defense line, which had been held out for three days and four nights, finally collapsed.

In the evening, the troops of the Genan Army Division entered the city of Kailu under the opening of several captured armored vehicles, and the remaining less than 2,500 Japanese troops engaged in fierce street battles with the army until the entire army was annihilated. At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, Liu Fengchi's troops finally cleared the remnants of the enemy in the city, and the 12th Division was completely annihilated.

According to post-war statistics, the army carried out a total of 10,478 Japanese corpses and 2,123 puppet army corpses from Kailu City, and 1,897 puppet soldiers revolted on the battlefield and captured 3,799 puppet soldiers. The 8th Theater of Operations also lost nearly 6,000 people, including more than 2,000 killed, and these 2,000 were mainly killed in last night's street fighting.

The 12th Division was encircled and annihilated, and Lieutenant General Uemura was killed, which completely shocked the top of the Kwantung Army. The terrifying combat effectiveness displayed by Ma Zheng's department shocked everyone, how long has it been, a complete Japanese reinforced division and more than 10,000 puppet troops have been easily wiped out, how can this make them calm.

After the 12th Division was surrounded and annihilated, the Japanese army soon realized that the 8th Division was in a very bad situation at this time, so Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro telegraphed Tsukada Attack on the Tongliao front and ordered it to withdraw immediately. At the same time, he sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Yamada Otozo on the Shuangliao front, asking his troops to immediately send Shuangliao to meet the 8th Division.

When the news of the 12th Division being encircled and annihilated, there was another person who was not calm, and this person was the commander of the Japanese North China Front, Tada Jun. As a qualified commander, Tada is keenly aware of a fatal problem. With the fall of the 12th Division, the 8th Division would be unable to support itself and would soon be withdrawn, and then the Chinese army would soon occupy the eastern steppe.

Once the Chinese people have freed their hands from the eastern grasslands, their next target will definitely be to take advantage of the situation to go south, and together with the Zhina army on the eastern Hebei front, they will attack the Zunhua and Tangshan lines, so as to reduce the pressure of the imperial army on the Suicha Military Region in the direction of Xinkou.

In fact, the troops on the Xinkou front line of Ma Zheng's department are indeed feeling the pressure now, originally Ma Zheng did not think that the Japanese army's attack was any different from the past, but when the two sides really exchanged fire, they knew that the enemy was strong, and it was none other than the Japanese Fifth Division, which was known as the Steel Army, that caused such pressure on Ma Zheng's department.

As the most famous Japanese division on the Chinese battlefield, Ma Zheng has never underestimated the Fifth Division, but even so, according to the battle reports from the front, his estimate of this Japanese division is still seriously insufficient.

The Suicha Military Region fought with the First Army of the North China Front on October 26, and the battlefield was in Xinkou. At that time, after the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, the main force immediately went north, and quickly defeated the defenders of Xinkou in the second war zone and occupied this military stronghold.

After learning the news, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the integrated 1st Division, which was preparing to go south to reinforce the Second War Zone, immediately advance to Yuanping Town, and then the two armies began to confront each other in the Yuanping area.

On the afternoon of the 26th, the 1st Division and the 20th Division of the Japanese Army exchanged fire, and the war began.

With regard to the old opponent of the 20th Division, the reorganized 1st Division still had a very psychological advantage, and they fought with this Japanese field division five or six times, but each time the 20th Division lost its troops, so the officers and men of the 1st Division fought without pressure.

Although the 20th Division came with victory and fought very bravely, it still failed to take Yuanping Town, but suffered a large number of casualties. even included a captain of the Great Zuo Wing, and the reorganized first division gave the Ushijima division a head start with absolute strength.

The new commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, apparently also sensed the fatigue of the 20th Division, and immediately ordered the Japanese Fifth Division, which was the first to attack Taiyuan City, to go north to reinforce the 20th Division in an attempt to break the stalemate.

The arrival of the Fifth Division did change the situation on the battlefield, and after the Fifth Division arrived at Yuanping Town on the 28th, three infantry wings were successively invested to cooperate with the 20th Division to besiege Yuanping Town. It caused great casualties and pressure to the integrated 1st Division defending the city, so much so that Huang Sicheng had to call Ma Zheng for help.

The establishment of 17 permanent divisions and regiments in the 37 years of the Japanese army is roughly the same: the divisional units of the Japanese army mainly include: 3 infantry wings, 1 field artillery (to be continued. )