Chapter 816: Attack on Xinxiang
"Too much deception!"
"Lao Luo, dissipate your anger, Tang Keqin is the chairman's favorite general, if we don't make some military achievements, I'm afraid we won't even be worthy of lifting shoes for others." Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" Qin Yankun persuaded him.
"Guoguang just swallowed his anger like this?" Luo Yufeng asked.
"Kunimitsu has his thoughts, Kenji Dohihara is not the stupid guy of Seya Kai, since someone is going to gnaw bones, why should we stop it?"
"Is he really going to go to northern Henan?"
"It should be, it's almost summer harvest, northern Henan is a major grain producing area, we can't let small Japan take a big advantage, this is related to our future rations, and it is far more important than competing with Tang Keqin."
"It's also said that we have been fighting continuously, and the casualties are not small, and the troops are tired, since someone has taken over, let's take the opportunity to rest and recuperate."
"Telegram from Chief Cold!"
"Read!"
“……”
"Wonderful, so that we don't need to fight a positional battle with the little devil, we can make full use of our flexible and mobile characteristics, quickly intersperse detours, and stir up the rear of Kenji Dohihara!"
"That's right, Kenji Dohihara is most worried about fighting on two fronts now, he left Toshima Fangtaro behind, the purpose is to drag us down, but Toshima is a dead brain, he only thinks about holding Caozhou at this time, shrinking his forces, we don't need to attack at all, just send troops to monitor, Toshima is hiding in Caozhou and doesn't dare to come out......"
"Our goal is to ......," Luo Yufeng and Qin Yankun smiled.
Robbery!
In the blink of an eye, May has passed, and June has arrived.
Under the command of Xue Boling, the 1st Corps of Eastern Henan stubbornly resisted the attack of the Japanese 14th Division, and fought until June 1, when the news of the fall of Kaocheng by the Japanese came.
The main force of the Japanese army approached Lanfeng like locusts.
The 71st Army, which had retreated from Kaocheng, built fortifications at the Red Temple in the east of Lanfeng and continued to hold back the Japanese army, while another Japanese army attacking Yifeng also broke through the defense line of GJ and was advancing along the depth.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese heavy mechanized corps is indeed amazing, even if GJ has the advantage of numbers, in the face of equipment superiority, it will not play much role at all.
Originally, in the plain area, the mechanized corps should have given full play to his advantages of rapid assault and roundabout outflanking, but Kenji Dohihara was still a little conservative.
There is no way, the chips on Tufei Yuanxian's second-hand are limited, which restricts him from daring to let go of his hands and feet.
Hu Shoushan's First Army, under the personal leadership of Li Tiejun, the newly appointed commander of the First Army, drove over from the rear, and after the Battle of Songhu, the First Army withdrew to the rear to rest and replenish, and was one of the first elite units of GJ to recover its combat effectiveness.
After more than half a year's hard work, he will finally be ashamed on the battlefield in eastern Henan.
In order to support the 1st Army, in addition to the support of an elite brigade from the Kwantung Army, a detachment was also drawn from the 108th Garrison Division stationed in Shandong to reinforce the 3rd and 13th Japanese brigades of the Japanese army in Tai'an.
In addition, nearly 30,000 puppet troops were also transferred from the puppet state of Manchukuo, led by Zhang Haipeng, to the south from Rehe to support the 2nd Army of the Japanese North China Front in Shandong.
The 109th Division, a newly formed garrison division formed in China, also came over, preparing to replace the 20th Division to take up the garrison work in the occupied area and release the main field division.
Obviously, the forces of the main battle faction in Japan have grown a lot, and the Japanese navy seems to be ready to move, and the ships of the navy's Third Fleet are also taking advantage of the rainy season and the rising water level of the Yangtze River to attack the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and seize the opportunity to attack the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, so as to contain the strength and energy of the GJ.
The Central China Front Army's combat troops north of the Yangtze River already have a size of 80,000 troops, and the strength of the troops is still increasing, and the daily expenditure on combat operations is even more astonishing.
The battle line is too long, the law and order in the occupied areas and the Chinese people are increasingly awakened to resist Japan behind enemy lines. The tide is surging, and the effect of the war of resistance behind enemy lines is gradually being reflected.
In order to maintain the security of their supply lines, the Japanese army needs to devote at least one-third of its energy and strength to deal with it, otherwise, they will not be able to guarantee the supply of supplies, food and ammunition to the front line.
In the situation that the G Army took the initiative to abandon the strategic retreat of Xuzhou, the Japanese army continued to advance on the surface, occupying one city after another, but in fact, every time it occupied a county, it was necessary to leave the garrison troops, otherwise the Japanese army left on the front foot, and the back foot was recovered by the anti-Japanese guerrillas or the national army.
In addition to constantly increasing his troops, Shunroku Hata also bribed and cultivated a traitor puppet army and adopted the means of "using China to contain China" to achieve the goal of occupying the area.
But this required a process, and the continuous withdrawal of the national army in the Xuzhou area strengthened the resistance of the northern Anhui passage, and the frontal pressure of the Japanese army in central China also increased.
Although the Japanese army on the southern front crossed the Huai River and advanced the front to Suxian County, the southern gateway of Xuzhou, they no longer had the ability to advance northward when they arrived here.
The Battle of Xuzhou, Japan had no such preparation before, if it was a quick decision, it would be okay, but now it has become a protracted one. After a long tug-of-war, the consumption of materials was amazing, and the Japanese army wanted to achieve the goal of nourishing the war with war, but it was subject to the fact that China was not an industrialized country, and even if it plundered resources, it could not be turned into guns and ammunition in a short time.
Japan was not ready for a full-scale war, but this could not keep up with the ambitions of the generals on the front line, who wanted to force the government to surrender at a relatively small cost.
The wishful thinking failed, and it could only be forced.
When the war is fought to this point, stopping means admitting defeat, and if you want to make the Japanese Empire admit defeat, this is an impossible thing, and it is a matter of national dignity.
In any case, you have to take Xuzhou, and you have to pay no matter what the price.
The Japanese Empire could not let the European and American powers see it as a joke.
The news of the fall of Juancheng surprised the new commander of the 1st Army, Umezu Mijiro, the retreat of Tufeiyuan was cut off, Puyang was besieged by the Chinese army, and although there was a brigade of the Japanese army and an independent garrison in northern Henan, the total strength was only seven or eight thousand.
These seven or eight thousand, in addition to the security of the garrison and occupied towns and railways, can draw out no more than four thousand troops.
So a mixed detachment of almost 4,000 Japanese troops, led by Major General Kawamura Dong, the commander of the 4th Independent Brigade, set out from Xinxiang and killed Puyang!
This Japanese army now repelled the cavalry regiment led by Liang Dong in Daokou Town, rescued more than 200 remnants of the Japanese army trapped in Daokou Town, and then waved its division towards Puyang!
Zhang Zhongling commanded the New 39th Brigade to block the Japanese army in the vicinity of the Jinti River and Huimugou.
Liang Dong led the cavalry out of the battlefield, joined the arriving spy group, and made a long-distance attack on Xinxiang!
This is a bold and top-secret plan formulated by Leng Feng, besieging the city and sending reinforcements is not the goal, the real purpose is to lure out the main force of the Japanese army in northern Henan.
Xinxiang is the nest of the Japanese army in northern Henan, not only stationed heavy troops, but also a large number of puppet troops, and also set up an independent garrison.
You must know that the Japanese army in China will only set up independent garrisons in particularly important cities, such as Qingcheng and Tianjin.
And Xinxiang, a city that is not very famous, has also set up an independent garrison, which shows that the Japanese army attaches great importance to it.
The Northern Henan Plain, the granary of the Central Plains, the Japanese army set up an independent garrison here, which is also understandable.
Tu Fei Yuan Xian thought that Leng Feng would take the initiative to give up the opportunity to fight him for the last time, and instead went directly to his old nest in northern Henan, and by the time he understood, it was already too late.
Not only did Kenji Tufeihara not expect it, but even many people in GJ didn't expect Leng Feng to abandon Tufeiyuan and go to northern Henan, giving up the sky-pouring battle exploits that might have eaten Tufeiyuan Division to others.
After Li Delin fully understood Leng Feng's thoughts, he also sighed: The future is terrifying! If it were him, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to make such a choice.
When the Japanese Hecun detachment fought with the new 39th Brigade at the Jinti River, Dai Xu led the new 40th Brigade to quietly pass the pontoon bridge of the Yellow River, reach the north bank of the Yellow River, and detour westward along the north bank of the Yellow River.
The goal was to rush to the crossing and cut off the retreat of the Japanese Kawamura detachment.
On the side of Juancheng, the new 36th Brigade is also preparing to cross the river, Leng Feng originally wanted to leave a division in the east of the river, that is, two brigades of troops, Lao Jiang wants to transfer the 20th Army Corps to Luxi, the GJ strength in Luxi has increased greatly, and there is no need for him to leave too many troops, on the side of Juancheng, the old regiment commander led the new 37th Brigade to stay and recuperate, and by the way, he received the personnel and institutions of other honorary first divisions in Luxi, and the other personnel entered northern Henan with the command.
Leng Feng is sitting and watching the wind and clouds rise, Xue Boling is under great pressure, and the attack of the Tufeiyuan Division is too sharp, even if he personally commands the battle in Lanfeng, he is a little unable to hold down.
This is not better than not knowing, the gap is coming, the Tufeiyuan Division that the first division of honor can fight is a loss of soldiers, although it is also forced to almost retreat, but after all, they still fight a close match.
How did it come to his side, and the 71st and 74th armies, known as the elite, couldn't stop the Japanese attack?
Could it be that Kenji Tsuchihara showed mercy to the subordinates of the first division of honor?
This is wronged by Kenji Tsuchihara, he let Leng Feng calculate at the beginning, and the fuel supply is difficult, he doesn't dare to let his tank troops kill in all directions, then it doesn't work, before a few battles, his tanks and cars will become scrap metal.
It's different now, the fateful moment has come, he can't hide it, it's not his enemy who is cheap in the end.
Now there is as much strength as there is, and as much strength as there is.
But on this speed of progress, it still makes Kenji Dohihara dissatisfied, the battle situation in northern Henan is too weird, he has a feeling of panic, it stands to reason that he took the main force to raid Lanfeng, Caozhou must be empty, at this time, with the forces in Leng Feng's hands, he should storm Caozhou and oppress his living space.
However, Caozhou was not attacked obviously, but sent troops to the east to guard were attacked and harassed by the new 38th Division of the Chinese Army from time to time.
This was unusual, but most of his energy was held back by the current battle, and he had no time to care about the analysis and judgment of the Honor First Division.
By the time he noticed the signs, the detachment led by Major General Kawamura Dong had already arrived in Puyang and exchanged fire with the Chinese army surrounding Puyang.
He hurriedly sent a telegram to the commander of the 1st Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, that Puyang was trapped, and he should evacuate quickly, or it would be too late!
(To be continued.) )