Chapter 178: Serving the Country with Loyalty (9)
Just as Tuesday when the dog was haggling with the Americans, Zhao Dahu was already busy.
After resting, the 12th Army of the Devils in Central Henan launched another offensive in western Henan under the command of Takashi Taka Mori, and then Lieutenant General Ichiryo Banxi, commander of the 20th Army of the South China Devils, also launched an attack on Xiangxi.
At this time, most of the transportation lines of the Wumu Group Army to the Fifth War Zone, the First War Zone, and the Eighth War Zone had been cut off, and the war materials could not reinforce the anti-Japanese war troops in western Henan, so Zhao Dahu ordered Wei Wenyang's troops on the northeast road of Dabie Mountain to advance to the front line of Xinyang and Tongbai, and launched guerrilla warfare around the Pinghan Railway to disturb the rear of the Twelfth Army of the Devils; The troops on the South Road of Dabie Mountain also advanced to the north.
Wei Wenyang's troops had not fully recovered at this time after the early battle of Henan, but only replenished some equipment, but most of the personnel were recruits, and many recruits had not yet participated in the battle. However, the military order was like a mountain, and Wei Wenyang still commanded all his troops to attack.
In order to exert enough pressure on the devils in western Henan, Wei Wenyang had no choice but to join forces with the [***] division of the New Fourth Army to attack the medium-sized strongholds of the devils with the powerful attack power of the Wumu Army, and the New Fourth Army was responsible for sending reinforcements, providing logistical supplies, and expanding the guerrilla zone.
Wei Wenyang mobilized 9 infantry companies on the northeast road of Dabie Mountain, each company reinforced 3 single-shot meteor flying thunder launchers, 3 heavy machine guns, and 1 New Fourth Army liaison team to launch a point-pulling offensive against strongholds of the size of the devil squadron and below.
For the movement of the Wu Mu army, the devil also paid close attention, and ordered the puppet army on the periphery to send a large number of guard posts and reconnaissance personnel to the Wu Mu army garrison to pay attention to the Wu Mu army's every move.
Although the newly arrived Wu Mu Army did not know much about the situation of the devils, the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army who cooperated with them were very familiar with it, and they intercepted the scouts sent by the puppet army, and then launched an attack on the puppet army on the periphery of the devils.
With the support of the well-equipped troops of the Wumu Army, the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army launched an attack on the stronghold of the puppet army.
The puppet army is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and there are original ** regular troops (most of them are non-descendant miscellaneous troops) who surrendered, and they have a certain combat effectiveness; There are local armed forces such as the former security regiment that have been adapted by devils, barely like a unit; Some of them are simply ** troops composed of ruffians and grabbers hastily gathered by devils, and they are not even as good as bandits.
The New Fourth Army took down the second- and third-rate troops of the puppet army in one fell swoop, and then confiscated the weapons and equipment, food, and ammunition of the puppet army, disposed of the first evil puppet army, and dismissed and incorporated personnel.
Most of the first-class puppet armies are forced by the situation to turn to the devil, most of them have no intention of fighting for the Chinese, and at the same time look down on those miscellaneous puppet armies, and are indifferent to the destruction of the miscellaneous puppet army. The equipment and combat quality of these units are far higher than those of the second- and third-rate puppet armies, so although the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army attacked with great fanfare, they were all besieged but not attacked or attacked but not overcome. There is a mystery in this pattern.
The guerrillas of the New Fourth Army and the puppet army were doing a lively job in ping-pong, and the devils naturally wanted to send troops to reinforce them. The guerrillas of the Wumu Army are waiting for reinforcements from the devils.
The guerrillas of the Wumu Army sent 1 or 2 squads to block the devil's reinforcements depending on the devil's strength, and the light machine guns, strange light submachine guns, strange light rifles, and gun grenades of the infantry of the 1 squad were enough to resist the devil's squad for a while.
When the devil is eliminated, the puppet army will naturally collapse, and those who surrender, retreat, and flee will all be left with a large number of supplies.
Wu Mujun and the New Fourth Army advanced steadily, opened up a large number of base areas east of Xinyang, and captured a lot of materials.
Wei Wenyang saw that he didn't hurt the devil's vital point, so he discussed with [***] to continue westward, take Xinyang, and then go north to capture Zhumadian. At the same time, the 15 companies of the Wumu Army on the South Road of Dabie Mountain, together with more than 3,000 guerrillas of the New Fourth Army, also occupied a large area of Luotian, Macheng, Huang'an, Dawu, Xiaochang, and Anlu counties, and could also advance to the northwest to Dahongshan. At the same time, Wu Mujun was asked to dispatch 3 to 6 companies to the Henxi detachment of the New Fourth Army northwest of Nanyang to plunder the transportation lines and rear supply bases of the first-line devils and destroy the foundation of the devils' offensive troops.
Wei Wenyang is also an expert in guerrilla warfare, and he very much agrees with [***]'s proposal of more ** and less losses, so he launched an offensive war in the rear of the devil according to [***]'s plan.
Wei Wenyang found that wherever the guerrillas of the Wu Mu Army went, the guerrillas and militia units of the New Fourth Army cooperated, so he repeated the old tune, the guerrillas and militia of the New Fourth Army cleaned up the puppet army, and the Wu Mu Army sent reinforcements to the devils, uprooting the devils and puppet army forces piece by piece, and establishing and expanding the base areas.
The devil was annoyed by the combined forces of the New Fourth Army [***] and the Wei Wenyang Department of the Wumu Army, but because of the thin troops, he could only compress the rear occupation area and ensure effective control of strategic points.
After the nine companies of Wei Wenyang's northeast road were stationed on the front line of Tongbai and Queshan, the New Fourth Army was busy adjusting equipment, mobilizing the masses, raising supplies, and collecting intelligence, while the Wu Mu Army carried out looting and raiding on the military stations, rear hospitals, and transportation lines of the devils in Zhumadian and Xinyang.
Six of the 15 companies on Wei Wenyang's South Road were dispatched to western Henan, and the remaining nine companies relied on the base areas on the front line of Dahongshan to launch peripheral attacks on Zaoyang, Xiangyang, and Yicheng, and the Fifth Theater also sent troops to recover the lost territory.
With the cooperation of the guerrillas of the Wumu Army, the Fifth Theater quickly regained the lost territory. After distributing the spoils of war with the Fifth Theater and the New Fourth Army, the Wu Mu Army sent 6 companies to follow the westward route of the devils, chased the devil's logistics troops to plunder, and joined the 6 companies of the Wu Mu Army in Funiu Mountain and the Henxi Detachment of the New Fourth Army, relying on Funiu Mountain to launch a real and beneficial plundering war against the surrounding devils again.
In the south of Funiu Mountain, there are 6 companies of the Wumu Army that arrived in advance, they are like a group of lazy killers, just waiting for the New Fourth Army to send information and rush up, knocking out the devil's transport team, supply station, ambulance station, logistics station, rear hospital, because of the well-equipped, tactical cunning, it didn't take much effort to seize a large number of materials on the front line of the devil's Xichuan and Xixia, so the company commanders realized that the persimmon still has to pick up the soft pinch, delicious!
The later 6 companies were not able to rob the friendly army's jobs, so they had to move north and ask for their lives and rob the devils on the front line of Songxian, Luoning, and Lu's family.
The guerrillas of the Wumu Army are very particular about their operations, and every time they attack the main force of the devils, they either tear open the devils' defense line with powerful firepower, or hunt and kill devils reinforcements with sports warfare, or rob the devil's transport teams, supply depots, and ambulance stations with fierce assaults, gnaw their own bones, and give meat to the New Fourth Army guerrillas. The New Fourth Army is also interesting enough, and the spoils of war have always been chosen by Wu Mujun first.
Due to the cooperation of the New Fourth Army and the Wu Mu Army, Wei Wenyang and [***] each transferred another unit to carry out a sabotage battle along the Pinghan Railway, killing the enemy and capturing it. Soon, Wu Mujun and the New Fourth Army were once again integrated, which made the Military Commission very jealous.
In this battle of western Henan and northern Hubei Province, the squadron divided labor and cooperated to annihilate a large number of devils, and the devils also sent military headquarters to China to report their merits by occupying strategic points such as Laohekou, and both sides insisted that they were the winners.
The battle of western Henan and northern Hubei has not yet ended, and the devils have launched an attack on Xiangxi again. At this time, the devils had occupied the first line of the Xiangjiang River in the Battle of Henan-Xianggui, and the Ninth War Zone was compressed in the Luoxiao Mountains and the Mufu Mountains to fight hard, and most of the troops were withdrawn, or transferred to the front line of Xianggui with the Battle of Henan-Xianggui, and the transportation line of the Wumu Army to the rear was also cut off.
According to the analysis of various aspects of the situation in the past year, the signs of weakness of the national strength have been very obvious, and the Pacific Theater has suffered successive defeats, but it has continuously launched large-scale operations, which shows that it is already the end of the strong crossbow and is fighting for the trapped beast.
Tuesday dog doesn't want to lose the opportunity to give the devil the final blow, so every time there is a big battle, Tuesday dog wants to intervene, this time the devil launched a large-scale operation, decided to get a handful from the devil again, but the Wumu Group Army is the closest to the battle line only Zhao Chongshan, Wu Lei, Wu Ting's small force, the scale of the army is Li Jinshan's mobile corps in the Mufu Mountains, and there is also the instructor of Lu Qingyang who was separated from the Wumu Army.
Tuesday Dog wanted to intervene no matter what, so he asked Zhao Dahu to arrange relevant matters.
After discussion, Zhao Dahu and Xiang Qingyun decided: Li Jinshan's troops launched a large-scale reconquest operation south of the Yangtze River and north of the first line of Pingxiang in Nanchang; Jing Yukun commanded the detachment to aid Hunan to attack again, rendezvous with Zhao Chongshan, Wu Lei, and Wu Ting, and at the same time cover a transport team to transport a large number of weapons and ammunition to the front-line troops.
After Li Jinshan received the order, he immediately distributed a large number of javelin flying mines, meteor flying mines, grenadiers, and mortars to his subordinate guerrillas, and the Xishan side printed a large number of leaflets, preparing to send them to the various units in the devil's area with flying mines. The leaflet states: Only fight devils, and incorporate the puppet army! The treatment of the puppet army is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and those who kill the devil's supervisor and take the initiative to attack the devil will not change the original establishment of the troops, and the officers will continue to lead the troops according to the original structure; Those who took the initiative to kill the devil and surrendered to the Wumu Army after supervising it, the original formation was dispersed, the soldiers were mixed into the Wumu Group Army, and the officers were trained in a centralized manner; If the Wumu Army surrenders to the Wumu Group Army after defeating the devils, the soldiers are mixed into the Wumu Group Army, and the officers are put into prisoner of war camps; The puppet army fighting against the Wumu group army, the officers were shot, and the soldiers went to the prisoner of war camp.
After the weapons and equipment were in place, the guerrilla units of the mobile corps of the Wumu Group Army turned from sneaky guerrilla warfare to a fierce battle.
The guerrillas first attacked the devil's stronghold with their main force, and controlled the puppet army with a small number of troops. After the demons were defeated or completely annihilated by a series of artillery fire, the puppet army was absorbed by Li Jinshan.
Li Jinshan's psychological warfare really worked, and many puppet troops took the initiative to break through the devil's stronghold and handed it over to Li Jinshan, or when Li Jinshan attacked the devil, he fought back and helped Wu Mu's army kill the devil; More puppet armies do not help each other, and only after the Wu Mu army gains momentum will they fight back, and only a very small number of puppet armies help the devils fight.
Li Jinshan had already prepared, and all the puppet soldiers who helped the devils fight, the officers were naturally shot, and the soldiers with hot barrels were also shot together, and the heavy responsibility of the 50 military sticks with smoke in the muzzle of the gun was sent to the prisoner of war camp.
The murderous Wu Mujun shocked the puppet army, and the devils couldn't believe the puppet army, causing many puppet army mutinies.
After occupying the stronghold, Li Jinshan left the puppet army to supervise the formation of light and serious wounded to defend it, and the main force attacked the city and the village all the way, and within 10 days, the devils in the predetermined area were besieged in several large strongholds.
Li Jinshan ordered Zhong Limin to transport Han Jinkui's anti-tank brigade over, and dismantle part of the Tianyu Flying Thunder Launcher of the sailor brigade, and equipped it with dozens of captured mortars and heavy machine guns, and formed several firepower units to attack Ruichang, De'an, and Yongxiu respectively.
Ruichang, De'an, and Yongxiu are important towns guarded by devils, although the troops are insufficient, but artillery, pillboxes, and fortifications are readily available, and they are all difficult bones to gnaw.
Li Jinshan ordered the firepower troops to cover the newly incorporated puppet army to take the lead, and the troops of the Wumu Group Army to suppress the formation.
In the west of Ruichang City, Li Jinshan deployed 9 mortars, 12 20mm anti-aircraft guns, 3 8-mounted Tianyu Flying Thunder launchers, 12 4-mounted Tianyu Flying Thunder Launchers, and 15 heavy machine guns to cover the infantry's charge.
Nine mortars and four four-mounted Tianyu Flying Thunders fired at the suspected artillery position of the devils, and immediately moved after a round of four consecutive fires.
The devil responded with artillery firepower, and Li Jinshan's other Tianyu Feilei on standby immediately set up to shoot Zhuyuan to cover it with firepower.
Looking at the powerful firepower of the Wu Mu Army, the newly recruited soldiers were more confident, and they were eager to launch a charge with high morale, but Li Jinshan did not give the order to attack.
1 Banwu Mu Army veteran divided into 3 groups to charge the devil's position. The veterans set up light machine guns in the back, and the other soldiers charged forward in a zigzag line.
The devil is not stupid, and only uses light machine guns to block the attack of the Wumu army.
Wu Mujun's gun grenadiers immediately used gun grenades to solve the devil's light machine gun.
The devil's grenadier was also immediately colored, but it was immediately smashed into a sieve by the Qiguang submachine gun and rifle fire.
After the first batch of Wumu troops attacked within 100 meters of the devil's position, the second batch of 2 squads launched another attack, followed by the third batch of 1 platoon.
The devil finally couldn't bear it anymore, and the heavy machine guns began to strafe to block the attack of the Wu Mu army.
The soldiers of the Wumu Army did not fight to the death, and took advantage of various terrains to hide and engage the enemy at the same time. The firepower of the two platoons of the Wu Mu Army was 6 light machine guns, 16 Qiguang submachine guns, 12 Qiguang rifles, and 12 gun grenades, which was stronger than the firepower of the 1 squadron of the devils. The devils had no choice but to use heavy machine-gun fire positions.
What Li Jinshan wanted was for the devil to expose his firepower, and then use anti-aircraft guns to eliminate the devil's heavy machine gun, which was as simple as killing chickens with a knife, and the veterans of the Wu Mu Army quickly opened a breakthrough.
This was just an offensive drill conducted by Li Jinshan for the recruits, and then Li Jinshan gave an order to launch an offensive on all fronts. So, the recruits rushed forward like hungry wolves with fat.
The ferocity of the recruits is not inferior to that of the veterans, but there was no heavy firepower before, the weapons and equipment were too simple, and the officer command was too poor, so they had to be **.
Li Jinshan has just taken Ruichang, and De'an and Yongxiu have successively reported good news: take it!
Then, Wuxue, Yangxin, and Daye were recovered one after another. After a few battles, the newly incorporated puppet army has become fierce veterans, with strong firepower support and sufficient logistics support, the soldiers dare to charge regardless of their lives. In the past, no one provided them with the opportunity to die as they deserved, and the failure after defeat made them lose the confidence to pursue victory, and became greedy for life and afraid of death.
Li Jinshan led the murderous soldiers to the city of Xianning.
Xianning is an important stronghold of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and the devils are heavily guarded. However, under the bombardment of dozens of rain and thunder of the Wu Mu army, they could not wait for the reinforcements sent by Wuhan, so they were scattered and fled and abandoned the city.
Li Jinshan's troops rapidly expanded to more than 20,000, so he once again waved his troops westward, all the way along the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway down Chibi and Linxiang, and approached Yueyang.
Just when Linxiang was resting, the Military Commission sent a telegram to Li Jinshan, instructing him to take advantage of the emptiness of troops behind the enemy to capture Yueyang City.
Li Jinshan knew this in his heart, reported to the Military Commission to express his agreement with the CMC's proposal, and then summoned all the departments together to make operational arrangements.
**A total of 3 divisions and 3 regiments, 30,000 people, equipped with a small amount of American-made equipment, were designated by Li Jinshan to set up a number of regimental and battalion-sized blocking positions, ambush positions, and mutual countermeasures and plans on the periphery of Yueyang, and Li Jinshan led the Wumu Group Army to launch an attack on Yueyang.
Yueyang is one of the most important strategic support points in the south of the Devil's River, once it is lost, the plan to open up the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway will come to naught, and at the same time lose the important supply base of the Xiangxi offensive troops, and the connection between Nanchang and the western Xiangxi team has also been cut off by most of the troops in Xue Yue's Ninth Theater, and the Xiangxi troops are likely to be completely surrounded, plus the ** in Xiangxi has been equipped with a large number of American-made equipment, and the combat effectiveness is not the same as before, and the devil's offensive in Xiangxi is also at a disadvantage, so the devil's high-level will to fight in Xiangxi has been shaken, Therefore, it was decided to withdraw troops and end the Battle of Xiangxi.
Li Jinshan received a notice of the withdrawal of the Sixth Front Army and the Twentieth Army of the devils, and the Military Commission soon issued an order that the purpose of the operation had been achieved and that the battle could be withdrawn, but Li Jinshan was a guy who could not afford to be unprofitable, and of course he would not be busy in vain, and he instigated the leaders of the ** departments, and everyone unanimously decided to launch a sabotage battle on the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway from Yueyang to Changsha.
In the case that the mobile force has been defeated by the remnants of the army, the limited garrison of the devils has become a big fat meat for the squadron to raid and plunder, and the squadron armed with shotguns and American-made equipment has killed and injured a large number of personnel and plundered a large number of materials, making it a problem for the devil troops to eat. (To be continued.) )