Chapter 212: Counterattack (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Tickets, Asking for Various !! ）

With the addition of the 40th Group Army, the pressure on the Lunan battlefield and the Jinzhong battlefield has plummeted, especially on the side of the Second World War Zone. Some time ago, the surprise attack of the two master regiments of the Japanese army suddenly crushed the front of the second war zone in the Xinkou area, and the Sixth Army and the 14th Army were defeated one after another, and they withdrew to the periphery of Taiyuan in just one week.

Originally, Yan Laoxi was still preparing to defend Taiyuan, but when the military meeting was held, almost all the officers in the Second War Zone believed that holding Taiyuan would only make the elite of the Second War Zone lose everything, and in desperation, Yan Laoxi had no choice but to send a division to symbolically defend Taiyuan City, and before the Japanese 14th Division launched a general attack, the division received an order to retreat, and Taiyuan City changed hands.

The division commander of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army was none other than the Japanese Army's special high-tech agent Tu Feiyuan, the large Tu Fei Yuan Kenji, who was extremely cunning in battle, and was also extremely conceited, and always looked down on the Chinese army. After conquering Taiyuan City, Tu Feiyuan originally had to take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely destroy the will to resist in the second war zone. Moreover, judging from the situation at that time, it was almost impossible for the Second War Zone to resist the attack of the Tuhihara Division.

At this time, the 40th Group Army launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese army, and the North China Front Army knew that this was an extremely rare opportunity, and if it was well operated, it could even capture Shanxi in one fell swoop. However, he had to forcibly order the 14th Division to stop the attack, and the captured Taiyuan City was immediately handed over to the 108th Division, and the 14th Division immediately returned to Beiping to reinforce the Shanxia Division.

The 14th Division's northward march greatly relieved the Second World War Zone, and Yan Laoxi, who had turned his senses, was furious. The 300,000 troops in his hands were beaten by less than 50,000 Japanese soldiers and lost their armor, which is really a fucking shame. After the withdrawal to Linfen, the Second War Zone held a meeting of officers above the division level, at which Yan Laoxi scolded the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army for being paper-paste, and at the same time strictly ordered all units to immediately reorganize, replenish guns and ammunition, and then formulate an operational plan for counterattacking Taiyuan on the spot.

The Lunan battlefield was the same, with the addition of the 40th Group Army, the situation on the Shandong front also changed dramatically. On June 28, just as Chen Feng's troops launched a full-scale attack on the North China Front, the main force of the Japanese army attacking Taierzhuang began to move south. Rendezvous with the Taierzhuang dispatch team to launch a greater attack on Taierzhuang. The conspiracy to occupy the west gate of Taierzhuang and cut off the connection between the Chinese defenders and the village. Chi Fengcheng, commander of the 31st Division of the Chinese defenders, commanded his troops to launch a counterattack from the east, and organized dozens of daredevils to rush into the position and engage the Japanese in hand-to-hand combat.

Guan Linzheng's 52nd Army and Wang Zhonglian's 85th Army of the 20th Army of the Central Army launched attacks on the flanks of the Japanese troops in Zaozhuang and Yixian on the outer line. Then. The main force of the 31st Division, as well as the troops directly under it and a regiment of the 30th Division, were all thrown into the city. It is divided into the North Station Garrison, the Central Garrison and the Taierzhuang Garrison. Implement divisional defense. Tian Zhennan, commander of the 30th Army of the Second Group Army, and Feng Anbang, commander of the 42nd Army, also went to the left and right flanks to supervise the battle. At the same time, the theater ordered the 20th Army Corps to make a feint attack on the enemy in Yixian. The Japanese army in the area was held back to move south, and the other part cooperated with the Second Army to eliminate the enemy near Taierzhuang.

On the 30th, the Seya detachment carried out Isogu's order and moved south from Yixian with the main force to ensure the rear and two flanks of the Taierzhuang attacking troops, and engaged in fierce battles with the 27th and 30th divisions. At one point, the 27th Division counterattacked Liujiahu, intercepted the Japanese artillery unit, and destroyed 5 Japanese tanks. On this day, the Japanese attack on Taierzhuang reached its peak, occupying the eastern half of Taierzhuang in the evening and arriving at the Grand Canal; Fukuei Daisa's 63rd Wing also attacked more than 100 meters into the city from the southeast gate, and at the same time threw tear gas canisters. The Chinese defenders suffered heavy casualties, leaving only the northwest corner, and most of the streets had been lost, and the situation was very critical. Sun Lianzhong, who supervised the battle in Zhuangnai, ordered Chifeng City to hold on to it to the death. Chi Fengcheng organized a death squad of hundreds of people to launch a counterattack in groups, and some officers and soldiers armed with broadswords fought fiercely with the enemy. After several days of bloody fighting, the Japanese army was exhausted, and in the face of the brave fighting of the Chinese army, they could only respond to the battle in a hurry and make a mess. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the Japanese army was forced to retreat to the north gate, and 3/4 of the market in Taierzhuang was recaptured by the Chinese defenders. Subsequently, the Japanese army near Taierzhuang was surrounded by the headquarters of the Second Army and the Twentieth Army Corps.

The main force of the Japanese Sakamoto detachment was to rescue the Japanese troops near Taierzhuang, and it had also reached the area of Xiangcheng and Aiqu, posing a threat to the flank of the 52nd Army. Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, ordered Tang Enbo's troops to quickly move south and flank the Seya detachment. Tang Enbo immediately transferred the 1st Division of the 85th Army to block the Japanese army in the area of Aiqu and Zuoyugou. The 20th Army Corps also adjusted its deployment and turned to the Japanese Sakamoto detachment with the main force of the 52nd Army. The Japanese Sakamoto detachment left one unit to resist near Aiqu and Lanling Towns, and the main force advanced to the southeast of Taierzhuang.

At this point in the battle, the situation on the battlefield began to become clearer, and although the Japanese Sakamoto Detachment and Seya Detachment were tightly encircling the 31st Division in Taierzhuang, they were counter-encircled by the 20th Army Corps and the Second Army on the outer line, in several directions to the west, south, southeast, and northeast. At the same time, part of the main forces of the Third Army had also crossed the Grand Canal to the east and attacked the rear supply lines of the Japanese army on the Jinpu Road and the Yimeng Mountains, and the Japanese army began to enter a passive situation and faced the danger of being annihilated.

Although the Japanese army still had an absolute advantage in terms of the situation in the entire Xuzhou battlefield, the Taierzhuang battlefield did indeed change the Chinese army from weak to strong and completely occupied the initiative.

When he learned that the situation in the Jinzhong Battlefield and the Lunan Battlefield had improved, Chen Feng was overjoyed and ordered the 101st Division, the 222nd Division, and the Guard Brigade to leave only a small part of the troops to besiege Chasuqi County, and the main force was divided into three routes, one way to meet the Japanese Fourth Division, the other way to meet the Japanese Army's independent mixed 15th Brigade, and the last road to the north to attack Wuchuan.

At this time, the situation in Suiyuan was also very clear, the Japanese puppet army from Jining to Guisui had been wiped out, and the 40th Group Army had also captured Guisui City. However, in Wuchuan, 40 kilometers north of Guisui, there are still more than 4,000 remnants of the 26th Division, and more than 3,000 Japanese troops are also stationed in Damaoqi, northwest of Wuchuan, plus the defenders of nearby Guyang, Salaqi and other places, the total strength is nearly 11,000 people, and this part of the force poses a huge threat to Guisui City. However, the headquarters of the Japanese army in Mongolia is now surrounded by Chen Feng's headquarters in Chasuqi, and there is a threat of destruction at any time. In addition, the situation of Major General Seiichiro Yuhara's independent mixed 15th Brigade was not good, with the 101st Division blocking the road in front and the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army attacking and harassing the enemy. Although the losses of the Fourth Division were not large, the combat effectiveness of this unit was not strong in the first place, and it was impossible to rely on this unit to solve the crisis in Suiyuan.

Chen Feng is a person who is good at seizing opportunities, and he can see the current situation of the Japanese army clearly, in order to defeat the Mongolian army as soon as possible and seize the resource base Baotou, Chen Feng even dispatched the only aviation brigade of the 40th Group Army.

However, to Chen Feng's disappointment, the air brigade was shot down by the Japanese in the first battle and damaged three, but the results were few. In fact, Chen Feng also knew that he was in a hurry this time, thinking about the aviation brigade of the 40th Group Army, which had been established for less than four months, and the instructors were only three pilots who did not have much combat experience, it would be good to be able to fly the plane into the sky in such a short period of time, and as for the hit rate of the aerial bombs, it was really embarrassing for those children.

After figuring this out, Chen Feng didn't bother. In the final analysis, Zhiludao still has too little training, and he has no actual combat experience. For this reason, Chen Feng specially ordered Liu Jiani, deputy commander of the aviation brigade, to make good use of this opportunity to train his troops, but he warned Liu Jiani not to engage in air battles with the Japanese air force, because the strength of the 40 th Group Army's air brigade could not compete with the Japanese air force, mainly because the air force of the 40 th Group Army lost one plane and one plane, while the Japanese army could make a steady stream of replenishment, and it was not cost-effective to fight them.

Taking advantage of the Japanese Air Force's flight to Guisui to bomb the 40 th Group Army, Liu Jiani led 96 fighters of the air brigade to bomb Nanyuan Airport, Dongjuzi Airport, and Baoding Airport controlled by the Japanese army on 3 July.

On July 3, the 306th Regiment of the 101st Division captured Wuchuan County, and the 13th Wing of the 26th Brigade of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army retreated to the Kulai Mountain, waiting for reinforcements from the direction of Damao Banner, in an attempt to counterattack Wuchuan.

On the same day, the main force of the cavalry group, with the assistance of the Mongolian National Salvation Army, composed of the tribesmen of the Four Princes, successfully captured Xilinhot. The cavalry group also swept the middle banner of the right wing of Chahar and the late right wing of the other way, and the Japanese puppet army defending the city fled without a fight.

On July 5, the cavalry group of 30,000 troops besieged Duolun and Kezhi. Immediately attacked to the east, King Tokuro and others were shocked and immediately asked the Kwantung Army headquarters for help.

At the same time, the 150,000 troops of the sixth, seventh, and fourteenth group armies in the Second World War Zone were also assembled and launched an attack on the Japanese puppet army on the outskirts of Taiyuan on July 4. This time, Yan Laoxi made a bloody investment, not only took out all the weapons and equipment in stock, but even pulled out the 36 heavy mortars he bought from Chen Feng, putting on an endless posture.

The Lunan battlefield also entered the stage of counteroffensive, starting from July 1, the defenders in Taierzhuang City took advantage of the favorable terrain and the fortifications built by the houses to deal with the enemy, and after nightfall, the death squads attacked one after another, harassed the Japanese army, and captured the commanding heights of the temple. The positions of the Japanese army were overcome one by one, and under the flanking attack inside and outside the city, the remaining troops could only parry and had no power to fight back. (To be continued......)