Chapter 766: Various Battles (I)
The news of the Wheel King's surprise attack on Zeng Jiayan still detonated the attention of the whole country, but the focus of public opinion was not on the condemnation of the Wheel King's attack on the chairman of the committee, probably because Chang Kaishen had died to the end, and everyone had no hope for him, but many people were still sighing, why did the Wheel King not directly kill Chang Kaishen.
On the other hand, the CPC Central Committee officially announced a new program of action, making it clear that the main task at the present stage is to drive all the Japanese troops out of the land of China, and at the same time establishing the founding goal of establishing a socialist 'socialist' republic, and on this basis, a military reform was carried out. Since the legitimacy of the National Government was no longer completely recognized, it was impossible for the CPC's two major units, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, to use the name of the National Revolutionary Army, so the armed forces under the leadership of the CPC were unified and the Chinese People's Liberation Army was established.
The main force of the Eighth Route Army established the North China Field Army, and the New Fourth Army mainly turned into the East China Field Army, and each of the two armies formed the Central Plains Field Army. After the fertilization of Qi Yuan and its own rapid development, the PLA already has a combat strength of 1 million at this time, but the three field armies can really be regarded as mobile field forces, and the total strength will not exceed 300,000.
The newly formed PLA had two main enemies, the Guofu Army and the Japanese Army. If the national army covers the central army, local warlords, chaotic military organs, logistics units, etc., the total strength is more than 3 million, and the field force is also about 1.5 million. The situation of the Japanese army invading China was not as good as that of the Guofu army, and it was repeatedly attacked by the Wheel King (read as a massacre), and the Japanese army had suffered a great loss. The main force is in the Kwantung Army, and at this time there are only more than 200,000 troops, and the combined number of Japanese troops in Central China, North China, and South China is more than 200,000, so the Japanese army remaining in China is less than 500,000 when it is full.
In the face of the invasion of the Americans, Japan had no experience of being able to manage the affairs of the mainland, and the 500,000 Japanese troops who invaded China were basically abandoned here.
After the Wheel King joined the war to assist the Eighth Route Army against the Japanese army in North China, the Japanese army knew that it was impossible to resist, so they began to withdraw from the city and retreat to the outside of the Guandong in an organized manner, preparing to enter the three eastern provinces to join the Kwantung Army, at least to get more support and provisions. As a result, the form of North China basically collapsed completely, and the original plan of the Japanese army was to wait for the Guofu army to come and take over the city, but as a result, the newly established Central Plains Field Army launched a fierce battle on the front line of Xinzheng and Kaifeng, and launched a fierce battle against the Guofu army troops who were preparing to go north, and without using the Wheel King, more than 40,000 Central Plains Field Army blocked hundreds of thousands of Guofu troops from the door and guarded the gate of North China.
The Central Plains KC War was fought extremely fiercely, and the Central Plains Field Army, which had a small number of people, had the advantages of high fighting will, strong action, advanced weapons, and sufficient materials, while the Guofu Army was several times larger than the Central Plains Field Army, and it attacked from multiple directions, which was quite imposing.
However, for the first time, the national government army also experienced what it is like to fight in a generational way. From the very beginning of the Battle of the Central Plains, the two aviation divisions of the People's Liberation Army Air Force, which had been organized into the People's Liberation Army Air Force, carried out concentrated bombing of the Guofu Army; because most of them used improvised guided bombs and occupied a great advantage in military intelligence, the march of the Guofu Army was extremely frustrated, and several large armies could not complete the march progress in the battle plan at all, and even some units did not move or directly retreated in a roundabout way because they were afraid of being bombed.
In the most difficult battle of Mengzhuang Town, the 100,000 troops of the Guofu Army had just advanced here, and they were cut through by a semi-armored infantry division and a brigade of the Central Plains Field Army. First, the Central Plains Field Army fired 10,000 artillery shots, which made the Guofu Army, which had no time to build any fortifications, suffer a big loss, and then under the leadership of more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles, the Central Plains Field Army troops ruthlessly cut through Chang Kaishen's general Zhang Lingfu's department.
Zhang Lingfu's troops resisted particularly fiercely, but they were successively attacked by close air strikes, multi-level artillery bombardment, and destruction by armored troops, and the death rate of his troops exceeded 70 percent.
In the First Battle of the Central Plains, the People's Liberation Army annihilated 170,000 enemy troops and captured 220,000 enemy troops, almost annihilating the entire front army of the Guofu Army in the north. In addition to the scattered and scattered troops, the PLA soon gained more than 200,000 new troops, and after ideological transformation, it was reorganized and supplemented into the two field armies of North China and the Central Plains.
In the east, the East China Field Army led by Tie Xun also had a main force to follow to the north and join forces with the North China Field Army to liberate Jiangsu and Shandong. Qi Yuan felt that this was basically a copy of the Huaihai Campaign, but the scale was much inferior to the Huaihai Campaign on the other side. The total strength of the two major PLA field armies is only a little over 100,000, while the Guofu army has almost 300,000 and the Japanese army has 780,000.
However, there are also several ace units in the East China Field Army that have participated in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai campaigns, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of their brother units that have just been equipped with new weapons, especially the troops under Commander Qi Yuan's tower control, and their combat effectiveness is even stronger. Obviously, the East China Field Army has a small number of troops and a large number of troops of the Guofu Army, but it looks like the East China Field Army has more troops. In the face of the East China Field Army, the Guofu Army contracted and retreated everywhere, and many CPC underground parties were also active at this time.
Although the Japanese army agreed to cooperate with Liu Zhi, the commander of the Guofu Army, but when the East China Field Army really formed a breakthrough and the Guofu Army was in chaos, the Japanese army ignored the Guofu Army at all, restrained its strength to avoid being broken by the East China Field Army, and actively withdrew to the port.
By this time, the Japanese army had no interest in fighting, they had lost the purpose of fighting, and no matter what kind of victory they achieved, Japan was finished. The emperor died, there was civil strife, and it was quite possible that it would be occupied by the Americans. Even if some of them wanted to remain loyal to the imperial state, they would do so to return to China to protect their homeland, rather than stay in China, which could no longer provide all kinds of resources and wealth.