Chapter 30: Shit teammates
But whoever has written a great book in history, where is there a good person to match. Gu Shoufu can become a sharp sword for Japan's invasion of China, and naturally he has his merits.
After the mixed brigade supported Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division, Gu Shoufu did not feel a trace of joy, but he felt that this was a great shame in his military career.
However, the defense of the Chinese troops on the opposite side was too tough, especially the two commanders sitting in the theater command, Liu Yuan and Li Zongren, were even more remarkable figures.
The two of them commanded their troops to fight against the Empire, and they did their best to cause great trouble to the Empire, and it can be said that the situation has reached a very serious situation.
How to break through the Huai River has become a problem that Gu Shoufu has been thinking about in his dreams.
It was not at all necessary to try to break through the lines of the 33rd Army and the 11th Army, the commanders of these two armies were very wise men, and they could not escape anything good under their hands.
However, Gu Shoufu had an idea, that is, to organize a large number of other mobile teams and change into the clothes of the guerrillas.
Through various means, they crossed the Huai River, and then lurked for three consecutive days, transporting a total of more than 3,000 soldiers.
Gu Shoufu knew very well that these 3,000 people were the key to his victory, and in order to prevent them from becoming cannon fodder under the heavy artillery group of China, it was necessary to carry out the necessary cover.
On 13 August, Gu Shoufu divided his troops into two and attacked two defensive areas at Linhuai Pass.
Huang Jie was very annoyed, damn Gu Shoufu came to find trouble for himself, and he finally asked for such an errand from the principal.
At an internal meeting, when He Yingqin discussed with Bai Chongxi, Bai Chongxi believed that the south would definitely not become an important battlefield in this battle.
So Huang Jie moved his mind to go to the Fifth War Zone, but he saw it clearly, all the old brothers who followed Liu Yuan to the battlefield were also lieutenant generals, and if he went to the Fifth War Zone, he could get something.
The battlefield on the northern front must be extremely stalemate, but there must be no problem on the southern front, and this kind of trivial matter can be solved by Li Zongren without Liu Yuan.
So Huang Jie came to the battlefield on the southern front in this way, and was responsible for garrisoning a ferry of the Huai River generation.
Huang Jie, who originally came with a gilded heart, expected that the famous mad dog Gu Shoufu in the Japanese army would have his own idea after the attack on the Southwest Army and the Gui Army was fruitless.
However, Huang Jie also graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and he analyzed from the deployment of the Japanese army's troops and the arrangement of firepower that the Japanese army was deliberately distracting itself, and it can also be said that the troops that were attacking themselves were not the main force at all, or they were attacking from the back.
However, he was cautious and deployed his reserves near the ferry, ready to support at any time.
However, it was obvious that Huang Jie overestimated his own resistance strength, or the combat effectiveness shown by other friendly forces in the entire Huaihe defense line in the process of fighting the Japanese army, which made Huang Jie think that the Japanese army was vulnerable.
But when the war fell on him, he felt the unparalleled pressure, and the Japanese army had no intention of stopping at all from morning to night.
The Japanese flares never stopped, and the bullets whizzed past their ears like meteors. The Japanese army sat in a simple boat and forcibly crossed the Huai River.
Most of the time, the wooden platoon was blown to pieces, and the Japanese soldiers actually carried guns on their backs and tried to swim over without reluctance.
Machine gun bullets whizzed across the river, and soldiers were constantly hit by bullets and flowed into the distance with the river.
Finally, some soldiers still landed on the beachhead, and under the command of the top soldiers, they began to assault the strategic depth of Huang Jie's troops.
It was finally dawn, and the plane took off in time to come to the battlefield, but by this time the Japanese army had already mixed up with the Chinese troops.
Huang Jie also realized that this was a very sad soldier, and he had to personally go to the battlefield to direct the battle. However, Huang Jie's presence on the battlefield still has a certain effect.
That is, the reserves entered the battlefield with him, which put tremendous pressure on the Japanese army, and the Japanese beachhead was quickly compressed.
Seeing that the commander on the opposite side brought the reserve team up, Gu Shoufu was overjoyed. As long as you drag their main force, then your 3,000 hole cards can create miracles.
"Order Matsushima to launch a strong attack tonight. Let them launch a strong attack on the flank of the Chinese troops, disrupt their positions, and create an opportunity for our large army to cross the river. Gu Shoufu said proudly.
"The general's strategy is really wonderful, I think when our surprise soldiers appear, they will definitely retreat on all fronts, because their reserves have all been pressed down." The chief of staff said with a flattering smile on the side.
"Youhe, although there are elites in China, most people are still very stupid. I just used a little trick, and they did. "Gu Shoufu is very proud of his plan.
In the early morning of 15 August, the Japanese army's Beilu Movement carried out a surprise attack on the flank of the Huangjie Defense Area. Huang Jie's defense line was massively defeated.
After Huang Jie heard the news, he immediately became a six soulless master, but he still stubbornly asked the troops on the flanks to block the Beilu mobile team.
At the same time, the troops directly under the military headquarters were ordered to join the blocking team, and at the same time, the three divisions of the front line were ordered to withdraw from their defensive positions on the Huai River and retreat to the area around the Whirlpool River.
After receiving Huang Jie's order, the front-line troops were even more flustered than Huang Jie, they were fighting with the little devils, and they were retreating in a hurry at this time, and they didn't know how much loss they would have.
However, at this time, they couldn't care about others, because their commander, Commander Huang Jie, had withdrawn from the battlefield and walked away.
And he didn't reply to the telegram sent to him by his subordinates asking for help, he couldn't take care of it himself, he still had the heart to care about others, he was here to gild, but don't die here.
In desperation, his division commander began to order the regimental troops to break off and retreat with a large force. Retreat at this time was very dangerous, and the Japanese were likely to collapse the entire force by attacking at the end of the day.
As soon as Huang Jie left, the other division commanders didn't have the heart to stay in the team, and withdrew from the battlefield with their cronies and went to the vortex river.
When Gu Shoufu learned the news of the collapse of the front line, he jumped up from his chair excitedly and immediately ordered the troops to start a flank detour, hoping to circle Huang Jiejun.
The embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, collapsed in one place, collapsed everywhere, and the entire defense line in the area where Huang Jiejun was located came to a big collapse.
Huang Jie realized what a mistake he had made, but at this time regret was useless, at this time he hoped that the troops directly under the military department could play some role, and on the other hand, he began to ask Li Pinxian and Du Yuming for help.
After Li Pinxian listened to Huang Jie's telegram, he only felt that the world was spinning, and he fainted. Knowing that things would get so bad in Ludao, he should have obeyed the orders of the headquarters and let the Japanese army cross the Huai River, but in desperation, Li Pinxian could only ask for help from Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, which was resting, and build a defensive position in the Whirlpool River to meet Huang Jie and other troops.
At the same time, the 33rd Army and the 11th Army were telegraphed to abandon the defensive line and the whole army to retreat.
It can be said that because of Huang Jie alone, the entire defense line collapsed.