Chapter 707 Get off the horse

Tang Qiuli in Zhengzhou, got two good news, the Taiyuan Campaign, which lasted three days, has ended, the battle annihilated more than 80,000 Japanese troops in Taiyuan, the Japanese army in Shanxi, all were wiped out, Okamura Ningji in order to achieve his own goals, and finally lost all the mobile forces of the Japanese army in North China, more than a month, Tang Qiuli exhausted his efforts, carefully deployed, took great risks, and finally got the result he wanted, Shanxi, officially assigned to the territory under the control of the independent division.

This is a battle of strategic significance, competing for the three sides of Shanxi, the original deep-rooted Yan Xishan, retreated, the remnants of the defeated army will live in Dingbian, the imposing Okamura Ningji, defeated and died, buried 320,000 elite troops, the last laugh, only Tang Qiuli, although also suffered a certain loss, compared with the gained, the loss is insignificant, so far, along the Yellow River Basin, all the provinces, are placed within the jurisdiction of Tang Qiuli.

Its greatest significance lies in the fact that the Japanese army in North China has been at a disadvantage in terms of the comparison of total strength, the independent division can extend the front to the Pingjin area, the strategic space has been greatly expanded, the natural resources of Shanxi, the strong industrial foundation laid in the Yan Xishan era, all for their own use, all regions, forming an organic whole, removing the stumbling block of Yan Xishan, wherever the independent division goes, military orders and government orders are unimpeded, Tang Qiuli has a smooth sense of pulling out the hard thorn in the throat.

To this end, Tang Qiuli specially issued a commendation order to commend the Taiyuan frontline troops, "I am glad to hear that the capture of Taiyuan, the total annihilation of more than 80,000 Japanese troops, so far, the Japanese army's mobile forces in North China have been completely lost, and the first battle to solve the troubles of the Taihang Mountain base area, the significance is heavy, and it is very gratifying, and the whole army is hereby ordered to commend all the troops participating in the Taiyuan front." ”

Jiang Baili and Feng Zhi'an, the two veteran generals who received the commendation order, were even more happy, not because of how brilliant this battle was or what was outstanding, in the near year of the sixtieth year, there was still a chance to go into battle and annihilate the Japanese invaders, this is something that cannot be replaced by any reward, and there are several such opportunities in life.

After conveying the commendation order of the division commander Tang Qiuli to all the troops, the two returned to the command headquarters, drove all the staff officers and correspondents out, cooked a few exquisite side dishes, and specially called Mei Ting, who had been depressed since Tang Qiuli left, to drink and talk happily, during the banquet, I couldn't help but sigh, only a person with such eloquence and strategy as the division commander can have such a big deal and create a new situation in North China, and our two old guys will have the opportunity to lead the troops to fight. The depressed mood is also much clearer.

The front-line troops in Taiyuan, after resting for three days, the troops returned to the formation, the troops were divided into two routes, and immediately entered the Pingjin area, Feng Jiwu led the Niangziguan garrison corps, as well as the newly formed six field brigades, immediately separated from the Pingjin battlefield, passed through the Pingjin corridor, and went straight to the Shanhaiguan line in the eastern Hebei region, preparing to meet the troops of the Kwantung Army going south by land, and Sun Zhenbang's corps immediately marched eastward.

Chang Feng, chief of staff of the Independent Division, led the Taihang Mountain Field Corps, as well as Sun Zhenbang's Yellow River River Defense Corps, quickly entered the Pingjin area, forming a trend of encirclement of Tianjin and Beiping, so far, all the troops of the Independent Division, except for Liu Tie's Handong Command in Shandong, Li Honggang's 29th Corps, and Han Tie's Yellow River Henan Garrison Corps, all the troops were concentrated in the Pingjin area, and his strategic intention was obvious, and he was not prepared to let go of the more than 400,000 Japanese troops in the Cangzhou area and cut off the retreat route of the Japanese army that might retreat north to the northeast. In Cangzhou, the last heavy army group of the Japanese army in North China was completely annihilated.

Another piece of good news is that the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army, which had been exhausted by the Tang Qiusheng Corps, after Feng Jiwu's corps and Changfeng's corps joined the battlefield, fell into a joint encirclement in the Xiongxian, Renqiu, and Hejian areas, and after five days of hard fighting, they completely annihilated this Japanese army, and the generals of the Kwantung Army were too arrogant, and after falling into a heavy encirclement, they neither approached the Japanese army in Cangzhou, nor took advantage of the fact that the back road was not cut off, retreated to the northeast, and fought hard with the main force of the independent division with more than twice their strength.

In the minds of the generals of the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army, all the Chinese army was as vulnerable as the Northeast Army at the time of the "September 18" incident, and the example of a large Japanese army that defeated a division of the Northeast Army is still talked about by all the officers and soldiers of the Kwantung Army.

Arrogant and contemptuous of the enemy, arrogance and arrogance, along the way, Tang Qiusheng's Sulu mobile corps and their inextricable entanglement, did not wake up the Kwantung Army southward corps, after reoccupying Tianjin, only a small number of troops were left to defend the huge Tianjin Guard, and all of them were killed in Shanxi.

This group of mad dogs, after leaving Tianjin, in Xiongxian, Renqiu, and Hejian areas, was stubbornly blocked by the Sulu Mobile Corps, and they were full of bags, but they still did not wake up and attacked frantically, Tang Qiusheng of course could not ask for such a way of fighting the southward troops of the Kwantung Army, although the blocking troops fought very hard, but in the field, using superior artillery fire, relying on field fortifications, to give these arrogant little devils the greatest damage, he was still very willing to do it.

In the later period, when Changfeng's Taihang Mountain Field Corps and Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan Garrison Corps were more than 100,000 horses, killing Xiangxiong County, Renqiu, and Hejian in a mighty manner, the commander of the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army realized that the situation was not good, but unfortunately, it was too late, and they couldn't even evacuate the battlefield, Tang Qiusheng's corps tightly entangled them, more than 200,000 troops, encircled and lost nearly half of the Kwantung Army troops, and there was no big suspense in the battle, and the Kwantung Army troops that went south finally paid the due price for their arrogance, That is, the whole army is annihilated, and there is no life left.

When Tang Qiuli saw Tang Qiusheng's war briefing from the Pingjin front, he was already on the plane to Nanjing, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang personally led the team, twenty-two fighters, and formed an escort group.

Ke Le Yiqin didn't think so, the division commander went to Nanjing, the whole world knew that the Japanese devil was not deaf, could he not get the news, the air team had just killed Okamura Ningji, it was difficult to guarantee that the Japanese would not come to this hand, an ambush in the air, if there was any accident at the division commander, even if he and Liu Cuigang had a hundred heads, it would not be enough to cut off, and there was no big mistake in being careful, so despite the division commander's reproach, Le Yiqin still came according to his own plan.

Le Yiqin piloted the fighter plane, did not dare to relax in the slightest, he extended the air warning range to hundreds of kilometers away, once the Japanese fighter group was discovered, there was enough time to cover the division commander's special plane out of danger, and sat safely in the cabin, Tang Qiuli, who was lightly embraced Mei Xue's slender waist, did not know Le Yiqin's thoughts.

He was thinking about another problem, the Japanese Kwantung Army, known as the "flower of the imperial army," was not as elite as history said, brave and good at fighting, and was not even as good as the Japanese troops in other battlefields in China, because the Kwantung Army troops had always been stationed in the northeast, and there was no opponent who matched him for many years of fighting, and there was no way to talk about combat experience, and from top to bottom he developed an arrogant and arrogant mentality, and once he faced a real opponent, defeat was inevitable.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the fact that in August 1945, the Soviet Red Army sent troops to the northeast, and within a few days, swept through the northeast where the Kwantung Army had been operating for several decades, and the phenomenon of millions of Kwantung Army troops being invincible and collapsing at the slightest touch.

The land of the south of the Yangtze River is full of greenery, passing under the wings, dotted with lakes and puddles, reflecting the sun, like a mirror scattered on the land of the south of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River is like a flowing river of light, appearing in the field of vision, Mei Xue seems very excited, since leaving her hometown to Dingbian, this is the first time to return to the familiar homeland, the beauty of the memory, instantly activated in the mind into a moving picture.

Mei Xue is an innocent little girl, half of her body is lying on Tang Qiuli's lap, lying on the porthole, greedily looking at the scenery under the wings, although Dingbian is a metropolis, but the climate is always not as warm as Jiangnan, the round buttocks are naturally bent into a beautiful curve, Tang Qiuli couldn't help but stroke greedily, the plane suddenly jolted, Mei Xue fell into Tang Qiuli's arms, although the relationship has been clarified, but in the face of other people in the cabin, Mei Xue still couldn't help blushing, buried his head in his generous embrace, but Tang Qiuli didn't care, sooner or later he was his own person, what were he afraid of.

The road was safe, the group circled over Nanjing Airport for a week, and landed in turn, this formation alone is enough to make the citizens of the Shoushan District talk about how many days, so that those high-ranking officials and nobles in Nanjing, the bigwigs in the military and political circles are jealous, I don't know how many turmoil it will cause, a little gossip.

When Tang Qiu left the cabin, a large number of reporters who had been waiting for him on the side for a long time swarmed to surround him in the middle, this formation startled him a lot, but he also carefully observed that unlike the previous visits to Nanjing, no senior members of the state government or the military committee came to greet him, and even Yang Yongtai, who was not annoying, but still liked it, did not show up.

Before he came back to his senses, a young reporter in a suit and leather shoes, quite capable, squeezed into the crowd and asked first: "Vice Chairman Tang, I am a reporter from Nanjing Evening News, may I ask you a question, when the Japanese army attacked Shanxi on a large scale, where were you?" When Commander Yan Xishan's troops defended Taiyuan independently, there was no food and grass inside, no rescuers outside, and when they were forced to abandon Taiyuan after heavy losses, where were your troops? As the supreme military commander of the Yellow River Basin Theater, what responsibility should you bear for the fall of Shanxi? Please give a clear answer?"

(To be continued)