Katatsu Gangichi is also very helpless, he and Inoue Makoto should have similar ideas, I don't know if I don't fight, and I know that it's unreliable to look at the map and command in the rear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For example, the roads that were riddled with holes, the tanks and armored vehicles that were destroyed one after another by anti-tank mines and anti-aircraft guns, the precious big guy that was specially transferred to mine detectors was blown up by the enemy's cold guns, and the sappers who were clearing mines in front were killed and wounded by cold guns, and so on.

Mechanized movements cannot be carried out, mines and traps cannot be guarded, underground or semi-underground fortifications and bunkers are strong and the defenders are tenacious, and the locust army has to pay a price for every step forward. If the plan based on the map is to be followed, the locust army should rush like a brute bull, regardless of casualties, regardless of the supply lines that are being disturbed, and regardless of the danger of being divided and surrounded by the enemy, and broken one by one......

"Report." A staff officer walked in, opened the clip with a somewhat gloomy face, and presented the telegram to Makoto Inoue.

Inoue Makoto took a look, his face changed slightly, his brows furrowed, and he said dissatisfiedly: "What happened yesterday will be reported today." Do they think that such a big failure will have no effect on us? ”

Katatsu didn't know why, and when Inoue Makoto handed over the telegram, he dared to take it and read it carefully.

The telegram briefly reported the defeat of Long Kang, more than 1,500 locust armies and 5,600 imperial alliance troops were all annihilated, and the enemy had a large number of cavalry participating in the battle in addition to the thousands of infantry of the New Seventh Army, which should be the "Ma Huizi" army.

"The Imperial Alliance Army is unreliable, and it is even more difficult to resist such a strong enemy as the New Seventh Army and the Eighth Cavalry Division." Katajigang shook his head again and again, "It's just a false attack, how can it be surrounded by enemies?" ”

"They even lack experience in fighting the New Seventh Army and the Eighth Cavalry Division." Inoue Makoto explained the key in one sentence, "The top is talking on paper, and the bottom is mechanically executed, do you have to suffer a heavy setback to be sober?" After such a long time to report, don't you know that the change in the enemy situation is only in an instant? ”

"Will the enemy do his best to take action against our army?" Katatsu didn't believe it, and said in a questioning tone: "They don't have such a big appetite and guts, do they?" ”

"Not against us." Inoue Makoto shook his head again and again, and said: "Do you remember the sweep commanded by Matsushima, the reason why it gave up halfway was not because it suffered a major setback in the advance, but because the situation in the rear deteriorated and had to be hastily defended. ”

As soon as he came to his senses, he said: "Long Kang is defeated, and the enemy is no longer contained, so he can let go of his hands and feet and go straight to the railway." ”

"The above explanation is not clear, and the friendly forces in Bengbu have not grasped the true meaning of the so-called containment at all." Makoto Inoue turned his gaze to the map and stretched out his hand, "What else can I do now?" It was difficult for the defenders of Suxian County to take the initiative to attack, and Bengbu could not mobilize enough mobile troops for the time being, so the enemy could confidently advance eastward and strike hard at the Tianjin-Pudong Railway. ”

"Repeating the old trick?" Katatsu smiled bitterly, "If it were me, I would have adopted this simple and effective way of playing." ”

"Why don't you use it?" Inoue muttered, looking at the map carefully, trying to figure out a solution, but after a while, he seemed a little disappointed and sighed, "This sweep is almost halfway through again." We had to make some preparations in advance so that we didn't rush into action when we received the order and suffer another defeat like Matsushima. ”

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Eat a trench, grow a wisdom.

The enemies who have fought with the New Seventh Army and fought with Yang Tianfeng, as long as they do not die, will more or less have a long memory, learn some experience, and learn some lessons.

The time did not delay too long, and on the night of the second day after the Battle of Longkang, Jinpu Road, south of Suxian County and north of Guzhen County, was fiercely attacked as Makoto Inoue expected.

The combined forces of more than 5,000 infantry and artillery did not rest, but fought continuously, first moving from Longkang to Qixian Town, north of Shuangduiji, which was only more than 20 miles away from the Jinpu line. then marched eastward at night, conquered the two strongholds of Longwang Temple and Renqiao Town one after another, and eliminated more than 800 Japanese puppet troops; Advance more than ten miles, capture Zhongxing Station on Jinpu Road, annihilate a Japanese army squad stationed at the station, and a garrison squadron of the puppet army, thus cutting off the main traffic artery of Jinpu Road.

Cutting off the Jinpu Road was not enough to achieve the goal, so Yang Tianfeng commanded the troops to continue to move north along the railway, uprooting more than 10 strongholds along the railway line one after another, eliminating more than 200 Japanese troops and more than 500 puppet troops, and forcing the landing of a regiment of puppet troops in a systematic manner, occupying two stations in Changji and Dadian.

At this point, the Jinpu line was cut off, the railway of more than 20 miles was blown up and demolished, and the strongholds were completely uprooted, and the defenders on the railway line were simply unable to resist this fierce army.

All of a sudden, the situation went bad. A wing in Suxian was pinned down by the 26th Division and could not move; It was difficult for the Japanese puppet army in Bengbu to draw up enough troops, and even strengthened the defense of Guzhen County to prevent the coalition army from moving south. The only ones who were able to repel the coalition forces and restore the lines of communication were the enemy in Xuzhou.

The enemy in Xuzhou found that there was no other way to turn the situation around in a short period of time except to draw troops from the sweeping army.

Because of the preemptive strike of the New Seventh Army, the Japanese army launched a sweep with fewer troops than planned, and if at least one wing was deployed, the situation of taking the initiative to attack would have to change. Moreover, a wing may not be sure to repel the enemy and restore communications, after all, there is still a division of the New Seventh Army around Suxian. Although this division still has to contain the defenders of Suxian, it should still be able to draw a brigade to participate in the battle.

By this time, the Japanese army in Xuzhou knew that this already reluctant sweep could not be carried out. The 13th Mixed Brigade was ordered to return to Xuzhou, and then go south along the railway to Suxian to fight; The sweeping force now only has the 12th Mixed Brigade and the engineer and baggage units left, and it has no strength to continue to take the initiative to attack and advance.

Although the order to end the sweep has not yet been given, either out of the sake of face by his superiors or the illusion of a turnaround, Makoto Inoue knows that the sweep has actually ended here.

Although it was disappointing to give up halfway, Inoue Makoto was still a little glad that the troops were insufficient and he was struggling, and he believed that the preparations for the sweep were not sufficient, and the results of the reluctance to proceed were worrying. Rather than this, it is better to withdraw the troops for the time being, accumulate more strength, and then destroy the enemy with a fierce attack.

Of course, if all the retreats are made, Makoto Inoue is still unwilling. He had some discussions with Katatsu Gangyi and others, made a report to the Xuzhou side, and proposed the next deployment.

A brigade was stationed in Xiao County, responsible for the security of the county, cleaning the surrounding area, building roads, and setting up strongholds; A wing was stationed in Dingli Town, on the border between Xiao County and Suixi, to maintain this forward base, to form a threat and pressure on Suixi, and to wait for an opportunity to carry out a short surprise attack, so that the enemy would always be in a state of combat readiness and would not relax.

A brigade, a wing, this is all the troops in Inoue's hands. It makes sense to make such an arrangement. It took blood to advance here, and it's okay to retreat a little, but it's hard to accept to give up completely.

The reply from the Xuzhou side was delayed, and Inoue Makoto was in a dilemma, and he could not completely stop moving, so he had to send a small number of troops to fight with the enemy in Suixi. However, there were many battles, but the scale was not large, and the perfunctory nature was very strong.

By the time the mixed 13th Brigade arrived in Suxian, joined up with a wing stationed here, and began the military operation to restore railway traffic, the troops led by Yang Tianfeng had retreated westward, leaving the devils with more than ten kilometers of railroads that had been destroyed cleanly.

The situation of the battle was already obvious, and the sweeping enemy was forced to divide into two groups, and the strength of each group was no longer enough to carry out a large-scale active attack, except for the garrison area. There were no big wars, small wars continued, and the two battlefields of Suixi and Suxian formed a similar situation.

More than ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and just in December, the nationwide winter counteroffensive began.

The north wind howled, the cold condensed earth, thousands of miles of broken rivers and mountains, after more than two years of war, a painful and desolate scene. However, the humiliation in the hearts of the Chinese nation has reached its limit, and the vengeful anger in the hearts of the Chinese nation has erupted like a volcano, and its momentum is unstoppable.

On both sides of the Yangtze River, north and south of the great river, and thousands of miles of territory, the officers and men of the Chinese * army are gathered everywhere, and when they give the order, they will let out an earth-shattering cry and bravely rush to kill the invaders!

The first theater launched an offensive in northern Henan, with Sun Tongxuan commanding He Cui's division, He Zhuguo's cavalry corps, and eastern Henan guerrilla troops to cut off the southern section of the Bianxin Road.

The winter offensive of the Second Theater was launched on 10 December, with the three armies of the Southern Route Army, Sun Weiru, Zeng Wanzhong, and Liu Maoen moving westward from the Zhongtiao Mountains, and the two armies of Lu Ruiying and Peng Yubin moving eastward from Xiangning to the east, coordinating the siege of the southern Jinnan triangle, and many strongholds near Zeng Kefu Wenxi, Jiangxian, Xia County, and Yicheng; On the side of the Eastern Route Army, Liu Bocheng's division successively recovered Dongyang Pass, Licheng and other key points, and cut off the traffic between Lucheng and Handan; In mid-to-late December, Van Hanjie's army attacked the eldest son; Pang Bingxun's army broke into Huguan and fought with the Japanese army in the streets.

The Shangguan Yunxiang Group Army and Liu Jianxu Group Army in the Third Theater attacked the Japanese army in Nanchang and Hangzhou respectively, the Shangguan Group Army rushed into Nanchang City twice, and the Liu Jianxu Group Army attacked Hangzhou; A total of 14 divisions of Peng Shan, Zhang Wenqing, Yu Jishi, Chen Wancheng, and Lu Daoyuan, the main forces of the theater, were organized into the Yangtze River Attack Army, which conquered many strongholds along the Yangtze River, and advanced to the river bank between Datong and Ogigang, inviting Japanese ships to attack and lay mines.

When the Fourth Theater launched the winter offensive, the Japanese army was attacking Guangxi and Guangdong, and it was turned into a battle in northern Guangdong and a battle in southern Guangxi, and the battle was very tragic.

The Jiangbei Corps (commanded by Guo Chen) and Zhang Zizhong's Group Army in the Fifth Theater crossed the Xianghe River (Hanshui) to attack. Sun Zhen's group army attacked east of Suixian, and once advanced to the east of Zhuanshui. The Southern Henan Corps (commanded by Sun Lianzhong) attacked from the west of the Pinghan Road to the north and south of Xinyang, and the guerrillas in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui border area (commanded by Li Pinxian) once cut off the communication between Xinyang and Hankou between Guangshui and Xiaogan. After that, a general offensive was launched in the theater of operations. The Northern Hubei Corps (commanded by Tang Enbo) joined the battle with Li Xianzhou's army and attacked the northwest line of Yingshan and Guangshui.

The Eighth Theater cooperated with the main force of the North Route Army of the Second Theater to besiege the Japanese army near Guisui and attack the northwest area of Guisui, and the 35th Army (Fu Zuoyi, the commander and commander of the Third Route Army) attacked Baotou, broke into Baotou City on the 21st, fought with the Japanese army in the streets, and copied the headquarters of the Japanese cavalry brigade and important warehouses. The Japanese army transferred reinforcements, and the Fu army withdrew from Baotou after two days and nights of fierce fighting.

The Ninth Theater occupied many key points on the north bank of the Jinjiang River by the Yu Jishi Group Army and the Luhan Group Army in northern Hubei Province, and once cut off the Yongxiu and De'an sections of the Nanxun Railway. On the southern Hunan, Guan Linzheng's group army, Wang Lingji's group army, and Yangsen's group army successively conquered the important strongholds of Fuyangxin, Tongshan, Chongyang, and Yanglousi, and the Chinese and Japanese armies fought fiercely. After that, the theater was redeployed to attack mainly by destroying communications behind enemy lines.

Behind enemy lines, the Sulu and Jicha Second War Zones responded to the operations of the main offensive theater, attacked the Japanese strongholds with multiple small units, destroyed the communication along the Pinghan, Jinpu, and Jiaoji railways, and delayed the Japanese army.

The sudden counteroffensive caught the Japanese army off guard and exhausted to deal with it. The Japanese troops in Xiao County and Su County were successively transferred by the headquarters of the 13th Army, and their strength was greatly reduced, and they could not even do a short surprise attack, so they could only maintain the safety of the railway line and the county seat.

Time was finally snatched back by Yang Tianfeng, recruiting, training, supplementing, and strengthening armaments, and when the winter counteroffensive was becoming more and more fierce everywhere, the New Seventh Army was buried in its development and growth.

Of course, the New Seventh Army was not completely inactive, but it was mostly auxiliary.

For example, he sent planes and some artillery to aid ammunition and materials, assisted Sun Tongxuan in leading his troops to fight in northern Henan, and helped Liao Lei's troops attack the Japanese troops in Bengbu and Hefei.

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The momentum of the development of various industries is very good, and during the war, there was a shortage of materials, and the sales of civilian supplies were not a problem, and after satisfying the needs of the people in the base areas, expanding production and increasing export sales was also a natural development road.

Yang Tianfeng was glad that he had occupied the eastern Henan Plain, a land rich in natural resources, which not only ensured food and wages, but also population and mineral resources, and provided a solid foundation for the development of the army.

After all, the conscription work was carried out relatively smoothly, after all, it was first implemented in the old areas, and after training and replenishment, the three divisions were already fully manned, and the two brigades also reached 5,000 men.

In two or three months, the conscription work in other areas of the base area will also be completed, and it is expected that more than 20,000 people will join the army, and with the recruitment channel, the total number of troops will be nearly 70,000, right?

Yang Tianfeng put aside the documents of the report, restrained his longing and prospects, and focused his attention on the aircraft drawings on the table. (To be continued.) )