Chapter Forty-Seven: Dead Guard
On weekdays, the war between warlords is relatively simple, and even the artillery is too lazy to fire a few shots, for what? There is no money, and the guns in the hands of the warlords are used to scare the bandits and the local people.
The real combat effectiveness is very poor, of course, there are three warlords with good combat effectiveness, among which Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army is the strongest, of course, they no longer exist.
The second is the Gui army in Guangxi, under the division and collapse of Chiang Kai-shek, and under the pressure of the army, it is also wiped out, as long as Chiang Kai-shek is not moved, the Gui army will not appear again.
followed by the troops of Chen Jitang, the king of the Southern Heavenly Heaven, and Yan Xishan, but their stage was too narrow to talk about again.
When these troops withdrew from the starring stage of history, the most capable troops of the Republic of China were the two, the Central Army of the Whampoa Military Academy, among which there were many generals of the older generation who could fight well, and the generals of the new generation were also very strong.
The other is the 10th Group Army, which is located in the southwest, and they are a unit that has made a name for itself in the north and south of China's great rivers, and no one doubts their combat effectiveness.
In this is the Northeast Army and the Red Army, the Red Army was established for too short a time, and it is good at mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare, as for the combat effectiveness of the Northeast Army, aside, they have not experienced a major war for a long time, and the worse the soldiers' will to fight.
And now, Jiang Xianyun commands three troops with strong combat effectiveness, the Dabie Mountain Corps, which has the foundation of the 10th Army and has strong combat effectiveness.
The elite troops of the Central Army, Chen Mingren's army, Sun Yuanliangshi, etc., are all the elite of the Central Army.
The Red Party also sent 50,000 troops, led by Wang Erzhuo and Chen Geng, two of whom were upright and strange, which was in line with the requirements of leading the troops.
In this war with the Japanese, with the acquiescence of Chiang Kai-shek and the support of Wang Jingwei, the Nationalist Government transferred a large amount of resources, and Sichuan also transferred a large amount of materials.
It can be said that if this war is not won, it is necessary to pay compensation for land cession, but if it wins, it can raise its national prestige and make the powers begin to pay attention to this newly unified Republic of China, but it will not have the ability to continue to wage war in a short period of time, and it can be said that the Republic of China cannot afford to fight.
Jiang Xianyun is an old student, although his old classmates and various classmates in Huangpu have opinions about Jiang Xianyun, but they are not ambiguous about military life at all.
Jiang Xianyun's Dabie Mountain Corps suffered too much losses, and Chen Mingren urgently transferred a brigade of troops to help Jiang Xianyun be stationed in Langya Mountain, while Pan Xingguang's troops, which were abandoned by the Japanese troops, also quickly gave up fleeing and traveled long distances to the area of Mayin Mountain to build positions along the mountain.
Watanabe pursued relentlessly, until the depths of the mountain range, did not realize the problem, it was really they tasted too many benefits in the process of pursuit, the village that had a little resistance, immediately killed and robbed, and the Nationalist government saw that the army had no sense of resistance at all, so Watanabe realized how fragile the Nanjing government's ability to control the local area was.
The crazy Sasaki even threatened that within three days, Jiang Xianyunbu would definitely be eliminated.
"Lieutenant General Watanabe, the commander of the Fifth Division telegraphed to our army, saying that our army's march speed is too fast, it has moved away from the Central Army, it is too prominent, will it be divided and surrounded? In the face of an enemy ambush, let's be careful. The communications soldier walked over to Watanabe with the message in his hand and said.
Watanabe is also arrogant, even if it is a Chinese twin star, what can he do? was still beaten all over the ground by himself, thinking about when he was in Germany, he was looked down upon by the Germans in various ways, and Watanabe's self-esteem was greatly satisfied.
"Don't worry about it, he is just too timid, otherwise how could he only bully the common people, and there is no difference between this national government and the Qing Dynasty? I heard from my predecessors that the Qing Dynasty was a fool except for a Nie Shicheng, and I looked at the Republic of China and there was a Jiang Xianyun, please be destroyed by us, and when the army of our Great Japanese Empire arrives in their Republic of China, I see which of them can resist us. Watanabe said with a smile.
"But General, the commander of the Fifth Division once predicted that the enemy would attack us by the bridge, and he successfully predicted that we should listen to their opinions." Sasaki, the chief of staff who had been the most arrogant at first, began to hesitate, and he felt that it was all going a little smoothly and making him uncomfortable.
"No, Sasaki-kun, in front of the army of the Great Japanese Empire, no one is our opponent, you see that the 88th Division of China is still called the elite of the Republic of China, can it be called the elite in terms of their marching speed? Let's not wait for them, move on. ”
In this way, Watanabe took the Seventh Division of the Great Japanese Empire and walked into the encirclement set up by Jiang Xianyun.
One with two defeats, losing more than 20,000 soldiers back back to the enemy's mistakes. No one was going to say right or wrong, they had only one belief in destroying this Japanese force that was deeply encircled.
With Chen Mingren's support, Jiang Xianyun also mobilized Yu Jishi's Nanjing garrison brigade to coordinate the defense of the frontal defense line, and at the same time deployed Pan Xingguang to hold the left flank of Mayin Mountain, while Chen Mingren's second and eighth divisions were stationed on the right flank of the Niutoushan defense line.
Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division was responsible for cutting off the rear route of the Watanabe Division in the area of Tiger Mountain, and let the artillery regiment stationed at Jijiao Mountain be responsible for eliminating the artillery regiment of the Watanabe Division and the follow-up troops of Watanabe.
In order to complete the strategic encirclement, Jiang Xianyun had to order his troops to be responsible for blocking the troops of the Watanabe Division in the area of Langya Mountain.
"Boom! Rumble! "The shelling of the 7th Division began, and even Jiang Xianyun had to hide in the bomb crater with the soldiers, curling up as much as possible to prevent being taken away by the bombs.
The shelling lasted a full fifteen minutes before the Japanese stopped shelling, and the temporarily erected defensive positions were suddenly blown to pieces.
"Commander, Commander. The Japanese came up. The observer said to the front-line commander on the phone.
"I know it, you can retreat." After the regiment commander on the front line gave the order, he said to the machine gunner, "You are all honest, it will definitely be the enemy's spearhead soldiers when you come up, they are here to test the firepower, you are not allowed to shoot, and don't have a good guy just release the bullet one by one, that thing is far away and can't hit Zhilu Dao?" The regiment commander patted the soldiers around him one by one on the shoulder and admonished.
"Don't worry, regiment commander, we are all old buddies in Dabie Mountain, there is no pressure at all to fight devils, but those children of the Central Army, will they be scared by the cannons of the little devils to pee their pants." The veteran quipped.
"The soldier goes into firing range and is ready to shoot." The regimental commander threw away the pipe in his hand and picked up the gun. The soldiers lying in the trenches shook off the dirt on their bodies, and their heads leaked out of the trenches one by one.
From a distance, the brim of a steel helmet appeared in sight, and there was a black hole in the muzzle.
"Shoot!" The regimental commander shouted.
"Bang! Bang! "The front-line soldiers fired a platoon of guns, and it was impossible to tell where the fire was point.
"Grass! What did the little devil eat to grow up, why is he so strong! The observer muttered, and the sniper next to him clearly didn't care how strong they were, as his bullets had already killed the enemy.
Jiang Xianyun may be the last general of the Republic of China to observe the enemy situation on the front line, Liu Yuan also thought about it, but where he went, he followed hundreds of people in the staff headquarters, and there was a group of party representatives that he could not bear, so Liu Yuan had long since lost this kind of treatment.
Jiang Xianyun held a telescope in his hand, observing the state of the Japanese soldiers, and sure enough, as the intelligence said, the quality of the Japanese soldiers was very high, which can be seen from the number of soldiers who died in the process of climbing the mountain. Especially the 38 big cover on the opposite side is obviously about the same as the soldiers, but they can actually exert a good power, the ghost knows how these little devils are trained, many soldiers have eaten the guns of Japanese soldiers, in the shooting, they can not take any advantage, the shooting accuracy of Japanese soldiers is very high, often the consequences of shooting a Japanese soldier is the sacrifice of a soldier.
The Japanese soldiers were obviously more desperate, and although the front line was defended very fiercely, the Japanese machine gunners dared to shoot at the opposing soldiers in hidden places. Temporary fire points were formed to support the soldiers who were climbing, so that the front-line soldiers suffered very large losses.
"Grass, look down on me, machine gunners go!" The regimental commander's horse card shot a point shot with a magazine, knocking down three or four Japanese soldiers, and a long mark was left on the edge of the steel helmet.
The machine gunners began to return fire violently, and the soldiers on the opposite side of the climb rolled down like rolling stones, and Watanabe's division's first assault failed.