The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 9, the second section, the battle after the war

Zhengzhou in May is still shrouded in the celebration of liberation, the walls on both sides of the Yellow River are tight, and the Yellow River Bridge that used to communicate the north and south has long since left a few bare piers, and the yellow sand roars around the piers and runs into the distance. /。 qВ5, cOm/ With the recovery of Zhengzhou, the aftermath of the Northern Hubei Campaign completely subsided.

As Tatekanosuke judged, the attack south of the Yellow River was insisted on by the First Theater, and Wei Lihuang was unwilling to leave the First Theater calmly, so he insisted on launching an offensive before leaving, and demanded that the Fifth Army, which had already occupied Queshan, be placed under the command of the First Theater.

Just as Tatetakanosuke accurately judged the actions of the First Theater of Operations, Wei Lihuang also concluded that the Japanese army would carry out a strategy of contraction, and the whole army would shrink to the north bank of the Yellow River, at least militarily speaking, this line of defense was more suitable for defense.

The offensive in the First Theater was not violent, and in fact it could not be violent, and the troops under the First Theater were far inferior to the Fifth Theater in terms of equipment and training, and only Tang Enbo's 31 st Group Army was made in Chongqing in the entire theater, and most of the rest of the troops were miscellaneous armies. And more than one-third of the troops in the theater were placed in the Nakajo Mountain area.

However, after mid-April, the First Theater suddenly launched a fierce attack, especially the Fifth Army's attack on Kaifeng on the right flank, the Fifth Army used tanks as a cover, two divisions attacked Kaifeng, the Kaifeng defenders of the 37th Division of the puppet Third Front Army defected, the Fifth Army rushed into Kaifeng, the Japanese defenders threatened to blow up the south bank of the Yellow River, after negotiations between the two sides, Fan Hanjie agreed that the Japanese army could withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River with all heavy weapons, and the Japanese army was peacefully handed over to Kaifeng.

After the occupation of Kaifeng, the Japanese army used the Yellow River to flood the Seventh Army's plan to completely break down, and Gu Shoufu in Zhengzhou no longer had the intention of fighting, so he led his troops to withdraw from Zhengzhou at the end of April, blew up the iron bridge of the Yellow River, and retreated to the north of the Yellow River. The fighting subsided along the south bank of the Yellow River.

After the fighting in Henan subsided, Wei Lihuang led the main departments of the former First Theater Command to cross the Yellow River north into the Zhongtiao Mountains, and established the Second Theater Former Enemy Command and the Jinnan Operational Command, and assumed the post of Deputy Commander of the Second Theater and Commander-in-Chief of the Second Theater Former Enemy and Jinnan Command.

Accompanying Wei Lihuang into Shanxi were the 93rd Army, which originally belonged to the First Theater Sequence, the Mo and Shuo Divisions of the 86th Army, and the Mu Tingfang Divisions of the 94th Army, which were under the jurisdiction of the former Upper Yangtze River Command, to the Zhongtiao Mountains. Gao Guizi of the 17th Army and Tang Huaiyuan of the 3rd Army in Zhongtiao Mountain were transferred south to the south bank of the Yellow River and reorganized.

In this way, Wei Lihuang's Jinnan Command is under the jurisdiction of: Liu Maoen's 14th Group Army, which has jurisdiction over the 43rd Army, 15th Army, and 98th Army; The 80th Army, the 14th Army, the 9th Army, and the 86th Army and the 94th Army were added, with a total strength of 300,000 troops. More importantly, due to the contraction of the Japanese army, the road from Zhongtiao Mountain to the south of the Yellow River was unblocked, and all kinds of military supplies could be continuously sent to the mountainous areas.

After Chiang Kai-shek attended the Zhujie meeting at Laohekou and announced the reorganization of the troops of the Fifth Theater, he left the Fifth Theater and returned to Wuhan, and then went to Nanchang and left the matter of the reorganization of the Fifth Theater to Zhuang Jihua.

Zhuang Jihua had a preliminary reorganization plan for the troops of the Fifth Theater before the Northern Hubei Campaign was over, and the reorganization meeting of the Fifth Theater only officially began after Chiang Kai-shek left.

Zhuang Jihua announced that Song Xilian, commander of the 36th Group Army, was reappointed commander of the Second Group Army, Zhong Bin took over as commander of the 36th Group Army, Lan Yundong, commander of the 49th Group Army, was reappointed commander of the newly established First Group Army, and that the First Group Army was under the jurisdiction of Wang Guobin's 59th Army, Chen Mingren's newly formed Third Army, and Huang Botao's 55th Army. Du Yuming still served as the commander of the 50th Group Army, and the 50th Group Army was expanded into three armies, Wang Guobin's 60th Army, Situ Fei's 77th Army, and An Enpu's new 7th Army; The four youth armies were reorganized into two armies, the third army of the youth army, the commander Li Wentian, under the jurisdiction of the fifth and sixth divisions of the youth army; The Fourth Army of the Youth Army, commander Liu Zhensan, under the jurisdiction of the 7th and 8th Divisions of the Youth Army; Song Xilian took over as the commander of the Second Army, under his command, the 40th Army of Chifeng City and the 68th Army of Liang Dai.

Except for Sun Zhen's 22nd Group Army, the commanders of the rest of the troops were adjusted, and at the same time, the subordinates of the troops were adjusted, such as: the 179th Division of the 77th Army and the 102nd Division of the 60th Army were transferred, and the 180th Division of the 59th Army of the 55th Army was transferred.

Along with the adjustment of troops, Zhuang Jihua announced that the troops would be re-equipped, that the entire 59th Army and the 55th Army would be re-equipped, and that all the 37 divisions under the 77 th Army would be re-equipped.

This was a large-scale reorganization of the army, and it was also a naked annexation, and the strength of the Zhuang system was greatly increased, and some local generals were transferred out of the army to serve as commanders of the Lianghu local garrison sub-divisions, or to serve as county magistrates and district commissioners at the local level.

At another time, such a move would inevitably be strongly resisted by local faction officers, but after the victory in northern Hubei, it was difficult for them to resist, especially the obvious resistance, for three reasons:

First of all, after the victory in northern Hubei Province, the whole country was celebrating the victory, and the prestige of the national government was unprecedentedly high, and it was difficult for them to take strong protest measures;

Secondly, these officers are not without nowhere to go except to leave the army, whether it is the police chief or the commander of the garrison area, it is a very good choice, in addition, there are some officers with interest-free loans provided by the Sichuan Development Bank, with a group of disabled soldiers to open a company and factory in Wuhan, so they are not without a way out;

In the end, Zhuang Jihua cleaned up Liu Ruming's 68th Army with an iron fist before the war, which deterred those officers who wanted to make a move, so that they did not dare to make strong moves.

Before the officers who left the field units left, Zhuang Jihua specially invited them to dinner, and at the banquet, Zhuang Jihua explicitly told them that in addition to enhancing their combat effectiveness, this readjustment also has the meaning of eliminating the miscellaneous cards of the central government, and that in the future, all troops in the five theaters will be treated according to the central army.

"We are fighting in the front, and it is up to you to replenish the rear, we have suffered more than 100,000 casualties in this battle of northern Hubei and need to be replenished, but where do the recruits come from? Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, why these three provinces can provide it, the reason is very simple, these three provinces have carried out social reforms, implemented reserves, and your task is to establish reserves in Hunan and Hubei, carry out social reforms in the newly recovered areas, and complete our great cause of building the country during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. ”

After pushing them to a high moral position, Zhuang Jihua gave them another reassurance: "You went out of my fifth theater, if there are any difficulties in the future, if I, the commander of the theater, can help, you can send a letter, and I will definitely help." ”

Of course, these are the first troops, and they are not so polite to those puppet army troops anyway, all the troops are reorganized, all officers above the regimental level are dismissed, Zou Pingfan and other senior officers are scattered and transferred to Hunan, Guizhou, and all low-level officers are trained in military academies and then assigned to various garrison areas.

After conquering Zhengzhou, the troop adjustments of the five theaters were all in place, and Zhuang Jihua set off for the First War Zone, to be precise, the original First War Zone.

On the northern front, Gu Shoufu led the 63rd Division, the main force of the Japanese army, the 46th Independent Mixed Brigade and the reinforcements of the North China Dispatch Army to the north of the Yellow River, while the independent mixed 48th Brigade on the flank retreated to Shandong and Heze.

Henan offensive, the number of enemies annihilated is not much, but the territory recovered is very broad, including the important city of Zhengzhou, the recovery of more than 40 county seats, fortunately, in addition to Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Queshan and other cities, most of the rest of the area has not been destroyed by any war.

When the headache is that Henan is still the same since last year. Before the Japanese army withdrew, a large amount of grain was looted from the local area, which exacerbated the famine in Henan.

"Deputy Commander Tang, how much relief grain does Henan need?" Zhuang Jihua stood in a shelter department, staring at the other side of the river, but the questions he asked had nothing to do with the enemy's situation.

"I don't know," Tang Enbo's answer was not hesitating, and he was a little irritable, compared with a few years ago, Tang Enbo's face had a few taels of flesh, and his cheeks were slightly bulging: "I have done relief in western Henan, commander, frankly speaking, if the military rations are not delivered within two days, my troops will run out of food." ”

What Tang Enbo said was the truth, Zhuang Jihua began to provide relief to the victims in the Fifth War Zone, especially after the Times and other US media reports, Wei Lihuang ordered the use of military rations to relieve the victims, and Chiang Kai-shek urgently used the air force to transport a large amount of food, but it was a drop in the bucket for nearly a million refugees.

Another problem in Henan is that western Henan and eastern Henan are different, with the Pinghan line as the line, the west is mainly the national control area, and the east is mainly the occupied area, and the national control area has carried out relief, but the occupied area has not, and when the battle is going on, the various ministries have no time to care about the local refugees, and now that the war has passed, they are facing the problem of no grassroots organizations, and most of the recovered areas are still controlled by puppet government officials.

From southern Henan to the Yellow River, dozens of counties, millions of people, almost completely without food rations, not even spring ploughing, the difficulty of relief can be imagined.

"Deputy Commander Tang," Zhuang Jihua said in his heart, Tang Enbo is still the deputy commander of the Jiangbei Theater, and there is a faint politeness and politeness between the two, Zhuang Jihua knows very well that Tang Enbo was deliberately left in the Jiangbei Theater by Chiang Kai-shek, and no one can move Tang Enbo if he can move; As for Tang Enbo, Zhuang Jihua's strength was seen in the Battle of Linyi that year, and he did not dare to be angry at will.

"There may be a few days left in the military rations, from now on, you may have to save food, tell the troops, eat one meal a day, get through these few days, starting with me, now only eat one meal a day, one steamed bun per meal."

Zhuang Jihua's tone was very firm, but Tang Enbo was not ambiguous: "Commander, it's not that I disobeyed the order, how can I explain to the brothers that after such a big victory, in the end I can't even eat enough." ”

"Explain the truth to everyone clearly, I believe that the brothers, for the sake of the country, they can even give up their lives, what else can't be given up, Deputy Commander Tang, as long as the officers can do it, the brothers will not complain. By the way, except for the wounded. ”

"Commander, don't worry, my 31st Group Army will definitely be able to do it," Tang Enbo unceremoniously went up, from when he was forced to help the people near Yucheng rebuild after the war, he knew that Zhuang Jihua was doing what he said, and there was no good fruit with him, but he had to warn him: "But my 31st Group Army only has three armies, and there are still five armies." ”

Today, there is a little less content, mainly because a lot of time has been spent adjusting the preparation.

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