Chapter 1000 wolf bèi for rape

Although Tang Qiuli's operational deployment of the Southern Japanese Dispatch Army was swift and timely, Terauchi Shouichi still ran away, and without warning, slipped away from the battlefield of Songshao Pass.

The tactics drawn up by Li Honggang, commander of the 29th Corps, could not be said to be the wrong way, and if he continued to fight according to his methods, Terauchi Shouichi would not want to get out of the Songshaoguan battlefield and entangle the Japanese army for three to five days, and there would be no problem at all.

There is no omission, Tang Qiuli calculated the thoughts of Terauchi Shouichi and the next step of the Japanese base camp, but he did not expect that Terauchi Shouichi was willing to abandon the Japanese Seventh Army surrounded in Chengjiang and resolutely took the road away, and he couldn't understand what was the reason for Terauchi Shouichi to be so determined, could it be that the actions of the Sulu Mobile Corps exposed his campaign intentions?

Terauchi Shouichi suddenly broke away from the Songshaoguan battlefield, disrupting Tang Qiuli's campaign deployment, and the left and right flanks of the Sulu Mobile Corps were still outflanking according to the original plan, and there was still a day and a night away from the predetermined destination, and when Li Honggang's troops found out that the Japanese troops had withdrawn, it was already a day and a half later.

The directly subordinate corps surrounded the Japanese Seventh Army, far away in Chengjiang, unable to get out for the time being, more than 200,000 Japanese troops, just disappeared in Tang Qiuli's sight, without a trace, he could only roughly judge that the Japanese army should go south to Southeast Asia, so he ordered Li Honggang's corps, follow the pursuit, Ma Chaoyang's corps, in the Sino-Vietnamese, Burmese border, block the passage where the Japanese army may pass Guò, and try to force the Japanese army into the Savage Mountain.

On 17 September, Tang Qiuli ordered the Sulu Mobile Corps to immediately stop the original battle plan, gather the troops, assemble on the front line with Songshao Pass, and wait for the next order.

On 18 September, Li Honggang telegraphed to the division that after two days of tracking, the Japanese troops had not been bitten, but had found traces of the Japanese troops heading west in the Geyitou area north of Songshao Pass.

Tang Qiuli found the location of Ge Yitou on the map, and also confirmed his judgment, the main force of Terauchi Shouichi was indeed going in the direction of Southeast Asia, but it was impossible to judge which route it was taking, and then, he received a call from Li Honggang, "Division Commander, in view of the Japanese army disappearing from the sight of our army, it is currently impossible to judge the specific location and destination of the Japanese army, therefore, I build yì, the 29th Corps, the troops are divided into seven routes, in the possible direction, search and track, this plan is appropriate, please give instructions to the division commander!" ”

Tang Qiuli thought twice and rejected Li Honggang's plan, the reason was very simple: the troops were divided into seven routes, each of which was only about 10,000 people, and in the face of the main force of the Japanese army of more than 200,000, even if they caught up, they would suffer a big loss, and if they did not do it well, it would be the result of the annihilation of the entire army, and the risk would be too great, and this matter would never be feasible.

On 20 September, after four days of tracking, Li Honggang's corps had reached the Wuding area, which was more than 400 kilometers west of Kunming, but it still did not bite the Japanese army, and more than 200,000 Japanese troops mysteriously disappeared in this way.

He had to do this, more than 70,000 troops, aimlessly wandering around northeast Yunnan, to no effect, if this continues, it will drag down the troops, so far, the whereabouts and whereabouts of Terauchi Shouyi and more than 200,000 Japanese troops have become a mystery, not only Tang Qiuli racked his brains, Chutian's special operations detachment, there is no news of the Japanese army.

Since Terauchi Shouichi was gone, the Japanese Seventh Army, which was surrounded in Chengjiang, lost its role as a decoy, and on the same day, Tang Qiuli issued a general attack order to the directly subordinate corps.

On 20 September, after a day of fierce fighting, the four corps units directly under the corps and the attached Yunnan Army captured the outlying positions of the Japanese army on the periphery of Chengjiang and pressed tens of thousands of Japanese troops in the core area.

On 21 September, Chang Feng, chief of staff of the Corps directly under him, concentrated all his artillery fire and violently bombarded the Japanese position, and by the evening of that day, more than 50,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and the next day, the remaining 20,000 Japanese troops, under the command of Lieutenant General Kenji Iijima, commander of the Seventh Army, held the core position in Chengjiang.

On 23 September, the Corps launched its final general attack on the Japanese army, and by the afternoon, the Japanese army had been completely annihilated, and more than 10 senior officers under Lieutenant General Kenji Iijima, commander of the Japanese Seventh Army, committed suicide by caesarean section.

After four days of fierce fighting, more than 80,000 people of the Japanese Seventh Army were annihilated in Chengjiang, and in this battle, more than 3,000 casualties were inflicted on the corps directly under the Independent Division, and more than 8,000 casualties were inflicted on the Yunnan Army.

In Kenji Iijima's underground headquarters, Tsunekaze found a telegram from Shouichi Terauchi to the Seventh Army, "Iijima-kun, going south to Kunming, there are many difficulties, Songshaoguan has become an insurmountable obstacle for the imperial army, the strategic direction of the base camp has been transferred to Southeast Asia, and the dispatch army is ordered to go south immediately, and Jun's situation is really worrying to me, if you can break through on your own, you can deal with it as appropriate." ”

"With the existing strength of the dispatch army, it is impossible to rescue the Seventh Army from danger, but I hope that Iijima-kun will cherish himself and shed the last drop of blood for my great Japanese empire and His Majesty the Emperor, and in the Yasukuni Shrine, there will be the spiritual position of the monarchs of the Seventh Army, which will be admired by all generations, and you should be a model for our emperor."

I don't know if it was this telegram that made Kenji Iijima, who was already desperate and desperate, finally have a nervous breakdown, took a dozen senior officers, cut open his stomach, and brought tens of thousands of soldiers into death, however, this also proves that Tang Qiuli's judgment is basically correct, and the main force of Terauchi Shouichi has retreated in the direction of Southeast Asia.

As soon as the Chengjiang Battle ended, Tang Qiuli ordered the Corps directly under him to immediately go south to join Ma Chaoyang's Corps and block Terauchi Shouyi in China.

On 24 September, the Fifth Fighter Regiment of the Southern Flying Group finally received good news: In the Baicaoling area of northern Yunnan, a large number of Japanese troops were found to be rushing to the areas of Binzhou and Cangshan in western Yunnan.

When Yang Ketian, the chief of staff, connected the Japanese army's marching route on the map into a curve that meandered to the border area, Tang Qiuli also had to admire the cunning and sophistication of Shouichi Terauchi.

Undoubtedly, this time, more than 200,000 Japanese troops were able to complete the strategic retreat without being discovered by Li Honggang's corps, and Terauchi Shou took the wrong line with his sword, and no one expected the route he chose.

If you want to reach the border, you can only go west, and the traces left by the Japanese army in Ge Yitou also prove this, so Li Honggang's corps has been chasing westward according to this logic, in fact, Terauchi Shouichi commanded the Japanese army, all the way north, into Panzhihua in southern Sichuan, and then, turned west, along the direction of Baicaoling, and went straight into Binzhou and Cangshan in western Yunnan.

Tang Qiuli used a pencil to extend the current march route of the Japanese army, from Baoshan and Tengchong in western Yunnan to Myitkyina in Burma, and finally made it clear that Terauchi Shouichi's ultimate goal was to capture Myitkyina in Burma, which was linked to why Japan's newly formed Southeast Asian Dispatch Army had recently been active frequently in southern Burma and Yangon.

Originally, landing on the Indochina Peninsula in Haiphong in Vietnam was the quickest and easiest route, and using Hainan Island as the starting base to cross the Indochina Peninsula could also achieve the strategic goal, but Tang Qiuli sent the Ma Chaoyang Corps to carry out this task in order to clear out the two divisions of Japanese troops operating along the border between China, Vietnam, and Burma.

Vietnam's coastal defense is too close to China's Guangxi, and if the Japanese army lands here, it will certainly be fiercely attacked by Ma Chaoyang's corps.

Southeast Asia is the traditional sphere of influence of Britain and France, and the combat target of the Japanese army is the British and French army, and the battle with Tang Qiuli's independent division is to add an unnecessary opponent to himself in the Indochina Peninsula.

At this time, the European battlefield has entered a new stage, France was occupied by Germany, has already died, his colonies in Southeast Asia, has been fully accepted by the British, the Japanese have only one opponent, that is, the British, at this stage, Japan and Britain have not yet declared war, so Japan Southeast Asia sent troops, through the Strait of Malacca, into the Indian Ocean, there will not be too many obstacles.

Although the British maintained a high degree of vigilance against the activities of the Japanese in the Indian Ocean, in the European theater, the British expeditionary force was defeated by the German ** team, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, where was there any extra energy to pay attention to Southeast Asia, thousands of miles away, and, from the heart of the British, they definitely did not want to annoy the Japanese, as long as they could seek peace and quiet, the British would burn high incense.

Tang Qiuli synthesized a series of complicated situations that had occurred in the European battlefield and Southeast Asia, and came to his own conclusion that the Japanese would soon make a move in Southeast Asia, and at that time, the international situation would undergo drastic changes.

However, Tang Qiuli would never have informed the British of this astonishing judgment, which was originally part of his strategic plan for Southeast Asia, to send troops from southern Japan to Southeast Asia, and to find a reasonable reason for the independent division troops to go out to fight.

What's more, he didn't even have the slightest affection for the extremely selfish John Bull, and what made him even more unbearable was the attitude of the British army towards the troops of the Independent Division.

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