[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 616: The Great War Starts Again (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The reason why Kasawara Yukio put forward such a battle plan is also well-founded, he believes that the most important task of the front army at present is to train soldiers, as long as the soldiers are trained to be qualified warriors, then the front army can show its strength in the next battle and kill all the people of the front army, it can be said that qualified soldiers are the foundation and everything of the front army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, although the number of troops transferred from the country this time was quite large, after inspecting these new troops, all the officers were dumbfounded, what kind of soldiers were these, some of them were recruits who had never been on the battlefield at all, and they had only received three months of recruit training, and then they were sent to China.

Although the remaining large part of the soldiers are in the township, the vast majority of the soldiers have been out of the army for at least ten years, and some soldiers are even veterans of decades ago, and these people do not even know how to shoot and pull the bolt at the slightest. Such troops can barely maintain order in the rear, let alone participate in field battles, and if you want these troops to take the lead, you have to train.

And military training is also skillful, and it is not possible to be capable, even if you run on the playground for a hundred years, it is in vain, and you are still a recruit on the battlefield. Therefore, this training still needs to be trained by battle, and only the team born in the artillery fire can be called elite, otherwise it is a showcase

If we encounter heavy losses in the process of training, then the entire army is likely to collapse, so the whetstone for training is very important, and it can neither be too strong nor too weak. It's too weak to work, it's too strong to be all gone before the soldiers are trained, it's not cost-effective!

In the land of North China, the most suitable whetstone is the Jin Suijun, and of course, the Tubalu. However, although the Eighth Route Army is suitable, but these hateful groundhogs are elusive, if you want to find them as a whetstone, you have to find them first, the problem is that there is no time now, and the other is that you can't find it, and it is obviously not suitable to use the Eighth Route Army as a whetstone, so this whetstone can only find the Jin Sui Army.

Besides, His Excellency the Commander has been thinking about competing with Ma Zheng's subordinates since he took office, but the Suicha Military Region is already full-fledged, and without all preparations, it is impossible to start a war with the army that is like the explosive bag, otherwise it will be the Imperial Japanese Army that will be beaten in the end. Therefore, it is not appropriate to go directly to the door, it is best to lure Ma Zheng's department out, and the two sides will fight tentatively first.

According to the results some time ago, Ma Zheng had a very good relationship with Yan Xishan in the Second War Zone, and in order to help Yan Xishan recover Taiyuan, Ma Zheng did not hesitate to dispatch tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, Kasahara Yukio has reason to believe that as long as the front army attacks Yan Xishan's Jin Sui army again, and Yan Xishan's troops only show a little defeat, then Ma Zheng's troops will not stand idly by.

Therefore, Kasawara Yukio suggested that the front army should mobilize troops to launch a large-scale attack on Yan Xishan's headquarters entrenched in Shanxi, on the one hand, because the front army needed weak brigades like the Jin Sui army to train troops. On the other hand, because the establishment of the various units of the front army has basically been restored, the First Army has the ability and necessity to open up the situation in Shanxi, and it cannot continue to be passive in this way.

Major General Kasahara Yukio's proposal was quickly approved by all the officers present, and finally Lieutenant General Tada Jun made a decision that the attack on the Shanxi Plateau would be dominated by the First Army stationed in Shanxi, with Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka as the supreme commander, and the 5th Division, the 20th Division, the 36th Division, the 37th Division, the 2nd Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the 4th Brigade, the 1st Mountain Artillery Brigade, the 1st Tank Wing, the 3rd Infantry Division of the Imperial Cooperative Army, the Independent Cavalry Independent Regiment, and the 6th Independent Detachment, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops.

In addition, the North China Front Command ordered more than 50,000 people, including the 10th Division, the 16th Division, and the 26th Division, directly under the Front Army, to serve as the reserve of the First Army.

The purpose of the Japanese army's operation this time was to recapture Taiyuan, severely damage the second theater of Yan Xishan, and preferably completely annihilate the Jin Sui army.

The Japanese army's actions were very fast, and all units of the First Army were stationed on the Shimen front, so the troop movement was not obvious, so the Japanese army's action did not attract the attention of the Second War Zone and Ma Zheng's department.

On October 18, the headquarters of the newly formed Second Army of the Sixth Group Army stationed in Yuxian County was attacked by a small group of Japanese troops, and the army commander Xue Wenhua was seriously injured, and the deputy army commander Li Dingguo was killed in battle, and at the same time, one lieutenant general, two major generals, brigade commanders, four colonel regiment commanders, and six lieutenant colonel regimental deputy battalion commanders were killed in the battle.

At the same time, with the cooperation of artillery and armored units, the two brigades of the Japanese army stormed the positions on the line from Yuxian to Shouyang, and overnight the new Second Army, which had been newly established for less than half a year, was routed by the Japanese army, and less than 4,000 of the more than 20,000 people fled back to Jinzhong, and the rest were either killed in battle or captured, and the door from Yuxian to Shouyang was wide open.

After the Japanese army captured Shouyang, Yuxian County, 100,000 troops divided into three routes, one route from Yuxian to Yangqu, the northern gateway of Taiyuan. All the way is from Shouyang to the west, directly attacking Taiyuan. The last way was to advance south from Shouyang and attack Jinzhong.

The army of 100,000 was menacing, and for a time the land of the Three Jin Dynasty was covered with war clouds.

The Japanese moved quickly and attacked sharply. Although the Second Theater also mobilized a large army to block the attack, the effect was minimal, and in just two days, Yang Aiyuan's Sixth Army suffered more than half of the casualties, and Jinzhong and Yangqu were lost.

After the Japanese army captured Jinzhong and Yangqu, they immediately divided their troops to attack Qingxu all the way, and then surrounded Taiyuan with three armies. Yan Xishan hurriedly transferred troops to organize the defense of Taiyuan, but just in case, after determining that Yang Aiyuan would defend Taiyuan, he himself urgently withdrew to Luliang with a large number of officers from the headquarters of the Second War Zone and the logistics of the agency.

Due to the extremely strict secrecy measures taken by the Japanese army, there was no news in the Second World War Zone in advance, and in addition, a large number of special forces of the Japanese army participated in the war, and the headquarters of many divisions and brigades in the Second War Zone were continuously attacked by the Japanese army in a short period of time, losing a large number of middle and senior officers, and were defeated by the Japanese army for a time.

Knowing that he was unable to deal with the 100,000 Japanese troops armed to the teeth on his own in the Second War Zone, Yan Laoxi asked for help from Chongqing on the one hand, and sent a report to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army on the other hand, requesting Ma Zheng's troops to go south to coordinate the operation.

After receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the Second War Zone asking for help, the Chongqing side immediately sent a telegram to Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the Second War Zone, to ask for details, and learned that the situation was indeed very critical and that the Japanese army might attack Taiyuan City at any time. If there are no reinforcements, the Japanese army will soon capture most of Jinzhong, and the second war zone is likely to be cut off.

Lao Chiang sent troops to rescue the Second War Zone, but Lao Chiang was also anxious during this time, the Japanese army in Central China was pressing step by step, and the Battle of Changsha was about to break out, and all the troops in the Ninth and Fifth Theaters were transferred to the periphery of Changsha to deal with the Japanese attack that might be launched at any time, and now there were no troops to be mobilized at all.

According to the inference of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, the Japanese army is likely to launch an attack on the First Theater at the same time as the Battle of Changsha to contain the main force of the First Theater, so the troops in the First Theater cannot be transferred at will.

Originally, Sun Weiru's Shaanxi army was a good choice, but unfortunately in the last war, the Fourth Army had been devastated by the Japanese army, especially the 47th Army under his command was almost wiped out, and it was impossible to recover in less than a month, and now there is no hope.

After thinking about it, Lao Jiang still felt that Ma Zheng's department, which was close at hand, was the only force that could reinforce the second war zone. Moreover, many of the defensive lines of Ma Zheng's headquarters were connected with the Japanese army, and there were no less than 200,000 troops on the front line between the two sides, and as long as Ma Zheng's headquarters launched a hearty attack on the Japanese troops in northern Hebei and the Pingjin area, the Japanese army would definitely withdraw its troops.

Even if Ma Zheng's division sent a partial division from Datong south to reinforce the Xinkou front, the Japanese army attacking Taiyuan did not dare to be too rampant, and could buy a certain amount of time for the mobilization of troops in the second war zone.

Therefore, Lao Chiang personally sent a report to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, ordering Ma Zheng's headquarters to immediately send powerful troops south to reinforce the Second Theater, and at the same time ordered the Eighth Route Army stationed in Zhangjiakou to move to the Pingjin area and make a posture of attacking at any time to contain the Japanese army. (To be continued.) )