Chapter 1119 is a victory on all fronts

Hearing Qiao Youhua say this, Zuo Quan, Li Yunlong and others suddenly realized, Zuo Quan nodded excitedly and said, "This method is good!" Indeed, there are little devils in front of us to open the way, and there is a smooth road ahead! The Central Army of the Third and Fourth Theaters, even if they want to trouble us, they probably don't have the guts! ”

Li Yunlong also nodded and said: "That's right, the Central Army may not be afraid of us, but they are still very afraid of the little devils!" ”

Qiao Youhua said: "Actually, this is not to say that the Central Army is a bad race, but the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Xuzhou and other dozens of battles, large and small, the national army was defeated too badly, and it was almost beaten out of the psychological shadow by the little devils!" Especially these anti-Japanese troops who retreated to southern Anhui and the mountainous areas of western Zhejiang.

On the local battlefield, they do not have an advantage in terms of strength and firepower compared to the devils, and if they do not fight a few decent victories, or the overall strategic situation has completely favored our side, it will be difficult for them to establish a psychological advantage over the devils! ”

Zuo Quan said: "It makes sense, in fact, there is no shortage of loyal and brave divisions in the Central Army who dare to die and dare to fight, but the disparity between the enemy and our strength was too great, and their losses on the frontal battlefield were too great, and it was difficult to recover their vitality for a while!" ”

"Although, on the battlefield of Songhu and Nanjing, many of their soldiers still showed the backbone and majesty that Chinese soldiers should have! Throw your head and spill your blood for the country, and treat death as home! He can be called a national hero! National martyrs! "Left Quan made a fair assessment.

Subsequently, Li Yunlong and the divisions of the fourth column acted separately in accordance with the battle plan formulated by Qiao Youhua.

The first to march were the vanguard of the two Class A infantry regiments that had arrived at the junction of Huainan and Hefei, and after receiving the order, they marched rapidly, and in less than three hours, they rushed to Wushan Town, an important town north of Hefei.

The town is located thirty miles north of Hefei and guards a highway from Huainan to Hefei. After the Japanese puppet army shrank its forces from Huainan, Huaiyuan, and Shouyang, these small towns around Hefei were regarded as defensive points on the periphery of Hefei.

Therefore, Wushan Town also stationed more than 1,000 devils and puppet troops to defend, and there are field fortifications such as pillboxes and turrets and trenches built by devils in the early years.

It's just that the devil never thought that the two A regiments in Huainan would suddenly appear outside the town after standing still, and in the face of the sudden onslaught of more than 6,000 elite troops, the Japanese puppet army, which was insufficient in strength and was at an absolute disadvantage in equipment and firepower, was defeated before receiving reinforcements.

Thousands of dragon tooth elites swarmed up and captured this Wushan town, destroying almost all the bunkers and turrets of the devils in the town.

After that, they launched a non-stop pursuit and continued to advance towards the urban area of Hefei, so that the Japanese puppet army that was still in the peripheral strongholds around Hefei had to be forced to take the initiative to abandon the stronghold and shrink closer to the urban area of Hefei.

The Japanese perimeter defense line at Hefei could almost be said to have collapsed completely.

The dragon tooth corps is menacing, the Japanese puppet army in Hefei City is terrified, panicked all day, almost did not wait for the two A regiments to hit the city, the puppet army in the city bred the signs of escape, and finally a few devil officers led the guards to suppress in time, only to stop the puppet army that fled without a fight, to avoid the shameful incident that caused a chain reaction.

Despite this, the devil officers in Hefei City did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, but only shrank their forces and stuck to the trenches under the city and the city fortifications at the head of the city.

The main reason is that the headquarters of the Japanese front army has put the main forces along the railway line in the area of Chuzhou and Pukou, and there are less than one brigade devils in Hefei.

Based on the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the two sides, the Japanese army must have at least more than 10,000 in order to have a tie with the well-equipped and powerful Dragon Tooth troops.

Now the strength of the two A regiments is more than 6,000, and they are all the way like a bamboo, with the victory of Wushan Town, only more than 7,000 devils to defend the city still feel insufficient, how dare to go out of the city to fight back?

Fortunately, they were originally partial divisions along the way, and after trying to attack several times, but no substantial progress was made, the commander of the partial division immediately ordered to stop the attack, and Chen Bing confronted the Japanese army at the north and east gates of Hefei.

From time to time, he ordered the artillery to bombard the Japanese fortifications, so that the Japanese puppet army in Hefei could not sleep well, and they were always nervous and vigilant against possible attacks outside the city.

Li Yunlong himself personally led two first-class divisions, about 60,000 troops, from Bengbu along the Jinpu Railway to the south, straight to Chuzhou, Pukou.

Another division of 30,000 elite soldiers also divided with the main force in the middle of the way, along the south bank of Hongze Lake, straight down to Yangzhou.

Within three days, both armies easily defeated several blockades by the Japanese puppet army along the way, and the Japanese army in Chuzhou retreated to Pukou.

Hongzehu's partial division swept Liuhe one after another, Yi Zheng, and the troops came to the city of Yangzhou, and immediately launched a fierce attack.

The Japanese army did not deploy many troops on the Yangzhou side, and there were many losses in the battles in Yizheng, Liuhe and other county towns, so the regular army of the devils who retreated to Yangzhou only had a brigade plus several thousand local puppet soldiers.

The total strength of 15,000 troops is less than half of the eastern route troops of the fourth column.

The East Route troops immediately implemented the tactics of encircling the city of Yangzhou, launched a fierce attack, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers took turns to storm the three gates of the northeast and west, leaving only the south gate not to attack, but secretly mobilized 3,000 elite soldiers to ambush in the woods ten miles outside the south gate.

The Japanese army could not withstand the onslaught of the dragon's tooth troops, and held on for less than a day, so they took advantage of the thick night at night to quietly break through from the south gate, although they were still discovered by the alert troops of the dragon's tooth corps, which immediately triggered the pursuit of the dragon's tooth troops, but most of the Japanese troops still broke out and fled quickly in the direction of the river.

The main force of more than 20,000 dragon tooth troops immediately launched a full-line pursuit, following the pursuit.

When the Japanese army fled to a wood, there was a sudden burst of gunfire on both sides of the road, and more than 3,000 dragon-toothed elite soldiers waited for work, pouring all their firepower on the heads of the devil rout.

Thousands of devil soldiers were caught off guard and were knocked down in an instant. Although the devils had organized a counterattack, the ambush troops occupied a favorable terrain and had the advantage of equipment, and after a fierce firefight, the Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties, while the casualties of the ambush troops were not large.

At this time, more than 20,000 dragon tooth main forces followed the pursuit from the direction of Yangzhou, and under the front and rear attacks of the ambush troops, the remaining three or four thousand little devils were easily annihilated by chopping melons and vegetables, and finally not even one of them escaped the Yangtze River and withdrew to Zhenjiang.

The troops of the East Route attacked quickly and progressed smoothly, easily recovering all parts of Yangzhou and annihilating tens of thousands of enemies. The main force of the column led by Li Yunlong himself was also storming Pukou, where the Japanese army was stationed.

In view of the loss of Yangzhou and the annihilation of the defenders, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Nanjing issued an order to abandon all positions in the north of the Yangtze River and hold on to the south of the Yangtze River.