[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 721: Runaway Battlefield (Subscribe Only!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After thinking about it, Lao Jiang could think that there was only one unit to take on this important task, that is, Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army that was fighting guerrillas in the mountainous areas of northern Henan, so Lao Jiang immediately called Sun Dianying and the main force of the Second Army in northern Jiangsu to go north to support Gao Shuxun's department. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Gao Shuxun was not very happy when he received the telegram from Lao Jiang, Gao Shuxun and Sun Dianying both belonged to the battle sequence of the former Northwest Army, so they were very clear about the current situation of Sun Dianying's department. Although Sun Dianying's department is now also the number of an army, it actually does not have many troops.

In the spring of 1938, the Japanese Xiangyue Division launched a large-scale attack on the southeast of Jin, and Jincheng was soon lost, and Sun Dianying's department turned west to Yangcheng and Qinshui. In the ancient town of Fengtai in Yangcheng, Yang Mingqing and Yang Keyou of Sun encountered the enemy, and after several fierce battles, although they repelled the attacking enemy and kept the positions in Yangcheng and Qinshui, their losses were also extremely heavy.

At the beginning of last year, Sun Bu withdrew from southern Hebei to northern Henan, and fought with the enemy in Shahe in Hebei, Jiyuan in Henan, and Dongxiyicheng respectively. In this battle, Shi Zhenwen, the leader of the 1st Squadron of the Sun Department, was killed. After the war, Wei Lihuang, the commander of the theater of operations, issued a commendation and allocated a batch of guns and ammunition to Sun Bu.

In the same year, Sun was transferred to Linxian County, Henan Province for garrison. Not long ago, after Sun Dianying's activities, the unit was soon reorganized into the new 5th Army, which was subordinate to the 1st Theater. Although Chairman Jiang agreed to the reorganization of Sun Dianying's troops into the New Fifth Army, he only gave Sun Dianying an empty number, and there was nothing like weapons and equipment.

As far as Gao Shuxun knows, the current New Fifth Army has two divisions and four independent regiments, and there are a total of 10 regiments, large and small, but in fact there are only six fully formed regiments, and the other four regiments are just empty shelves, and they cannot go to the battlefield to fight at all, so the troops sent by Sun Dianying are really limited.

As for the Second Group Army, it is very good, especially the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, Sun Lianzhong, was originally an old man of the Northwest Army, and he still takes good care of their juniors, but the Second Group Army is now far away in northern Jiangsu, and it is really hard to say whether to rush or not, and the current form of the Second Group Army is also very complicated, and the composition of the troops is very mixed, and it is still unknown how many troops Sun Lianzhong can transfer by himself.

It is important to know that the Second Group Army is a strategic group formed by the former 26th Route Army as the chief editor, Liu Zhi, commander-in-chief of the group army, Sun Lianzhong, deputy commander-in-chief, and the 27th, 30th, and 31st divisions are the basic units of the group army, which are under the command and jurisdiction of the First Theater, and the 52nd, 32nd, and Third armies have all joined the battle sequence of the group army.

The group army was the first army to march into North China to reinforce the 29th Army after the 77 Incident, and fought against the Japanese army in Liulihe, Liangxiang and other areas. Later, he was ordered to be transferred to the command of the Second War Zone and participated in the battle of guarding the Niangzi Pass of the Hebei and Jin Provinces.

At the beginning of 1938, the group army was transferred to the command and jurisdiction of the Fifth Theater, and Sun Lianzhong succeeded as the commander-in-chief of the group army, and its basic troops were organized into the 30th Army and the 42nd Army.

The 55th Army of Cao Fulin, the old department of Han Fuyu, and the 68th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of Liu Ruming, the old department of Song Zheyuan, also joined the battle sequence of the group army. It can be said that the Second Group Army is a group army dominated by the Northwest Army, and Gao Shuxun believes that his former colleagues will not abandon him.

Sun Lianzhong was indeed very good to the generals of the former Northwest Army, so after receiving the order from the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, he immediately sent two divisions to rush to southern Hebei day and night. At the same time, Sun Lianzhong also came forward to send a telegram to Sun Dianying, hoping that Sun Dianying could proceed from the interests of the party and the state, obey the government's orders, and send powerful troops to support Gao Shuxun's department.

However, the Japanese side also intercepted the telegram sent by the Nationalist Government, and the Japanese North China Front Headquarters immediately ordered the troops stationed in Henan to attack the New Fifth Army in northern Henan, and at the same time, the 12th Army stationed in Shandong also received an order from Lieutenant General Tada Jun to immediately attack the Second Army on the Sulu border.

Suddenly, the situation in the whole of North China became even more chaotic, and there were wars everywhere, and smoke broke out everywhere in the Pingjin region, Hebei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Rehe, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui. Originally, it was a local operation organized by the Japanese army against Ma Zheng's department, but in the end, the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, the Jinsui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Northwest Army, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the hostile Japanese puppet army were all involved, which was simply a strategic decisive battle between China and Japan in North China.

Obviously, neither Tada Jun, who provoked the war, nor Ma Zheng, who was forced to fight, did not expect the war to develop in the current direction, and the two sides that were not prepared suddenly became nervous, and the situation became even more difficult to judge.

At this time, the troops on the flank battlefield of the Japanese army were blocking the Kuomintang troops at all costs to reinforce Gao Shuxun's headquarters in southern Hebei, while the Japanese troops in southern Hebei concentrated their forces to storm Wu'an and Yongnian, the gateways to Handan, hoping to defeat the 39th Group Army entrenched in southern Hebei in one fell swoop.

On the eastern Hebei side, the Japanese army also decided to defeat the bridgehead of Qian'an, annihilated the three divisions of Ma Zheng's headquarters in Qian'an, and opened up a safe passage to Chengde. In order to contain the Eighth Route Army in other battlefields in North China, the Japanese First Army in Shanxi and several infantry divisions directly under the Front Army almost all engaged in the encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, the North China Front Headquarters sent a telegram to Isamu Yokoyama on the front line, telling them to intensify their attacks and to capture the outer positions of Qian'an and surround the city of Qian'an within two days. Liu Fengchi, who moved to Qian'an, suddenly felt that the pressure on the battlefield increased sharply, and the Japanese army seemed to be possessed by the god of war all of a sudden, and in just two days, the two defensive lines on the periphery of Qian'an were broken by the Japanese army, and the defenders suffered heavy losses.

Fortunately, the Japanese army also took into account the heavy casualties of the troops and the serious consumption of ammunition, so Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama was forced to suspend the attack, and only let the aviation unit bomb the Qian'an area on a large scale, whether it was military or civilian, as long as there was a little sign of the building, all the buildings had to be destroyed.

Also possessed by the god of war was the Japanese 32nd Infantry Division, and the headquarters of Kimura Hyotaro who went south from Shimen also progressed smoothly, and it took less than two days to attack Wu'an and Yongnian, the northern gateways of Handan.

It's just that Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro never expected that just as he was about to defeat the Shina army in front of him in one fell swoop and capture Handan, a military town, his subordinates encountered such stubborn resistance.

To tell the truth, Kimura Hyotaro has never listed the 39th Army as a strong enemy, they really know this army too well, both officers and soldiers are soft bones, and they don't have much combat effectiveness, just like a leper dog they raised.

However, what Kimura, an old devil, never expected was that this ragtag army, which was like a leper dog in front of them, would suddenly become so fierce. The two sides won and lost each other on the first day of the battle, and the Japanese on the attacking side suffered heavy losses in comparison, forcing Kimura to increase the number of troops in Takeyasu's forces on the second day of the battle.

But what Kimura Hyotaro didn't know was that their fierce attack also made Takashuxun a little overwhelmed. Although Gao Shuxun now has two armies in his hands, he knows the actual situation of these two armies best. Not to mention the New Eighth Army, which has always been on the fringes of the 39th Group Army, the absolute elite 69th Army of the original 39th Group Army, the number and weapons and equipment of this descendant of the original Shi Yousan are not bad, and it should have some combat effectiveness.

However, because of the "mutiny" just experienced, the old commander Shi Yousan was executed, and a large number of officers loyal to Shi Yousan were also suspended or simply executed, so the 69th Army at this time was demoralized and morale was low. Not to mention that they are fighting to the death with the elite of the Japanese army, who are experienced in hundreds of soldiers, even if they are allowed to fight the puppet army with the same low combat effectiveness now, they may not necessarily win. (To be continued.) )