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No matter in which time and space, the performance of the Fifth Theater in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is worthy of special mention, in the case that most of the troops are miscellaneous armies, and the good and bad are uneven, Li Zongren's leadership, Bai Chongxi's strategy and the bloody struggle of the vast number of officers and soldiers of the Fifth Theater together constitute the Fifth Theater's powerful combat effectiveness ////

First of all, Chen Mingren's reorganized 88th Division replaced Commander Tang's troops in history, which greatly facilitated the command of the Fifth Theater Command. , which alone is much stronger than Townenburg; The surprisingly cheap, but unusually powerful Type 24 submachine gun allowed the poorly trained infantry to close the gap in combat effectiveness with the elite veterans of the Japanese army

More importantly, the Soviet-aided air force was larger than in history and used the Fifth Theater as the main battlefield, thus greatly weakening the Japanese army's air superiority in the Fifth Theater. In addition, after the previous 15th Army and other squadrons of the struggle, Japan has lost the heavy equipment of the entire five field heavy artillery brigades, although the Japanese base camp also worked hard to rebuild these five troops, but at this time Japan's forging Jishu was not enough, history can build a Yamato-class battleship or thanks to the Germans willing to sell 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses to it, so even if the full production of heavy artillery, the speed is not fast, in the history of Japan 41-45 in the past four or five years, a total of 604 guns of more than 105 calibers were built. What's more, the navy's previous losses were also huge, and the construction and repair of ships also needed to occupy a large part of the production capacity, and the production rate of the army's heavy artillery was even slower, so the fifth theater only needed to face the Japanese army's field heavy artillery brigade that was seriously reduced from the pre-war level, and it was also unable to fully display the power of heavy artillery because of the threat of the Soviet aid air force.

You must know that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history, unless it was a rout and pursued by the enemy, as many as seventy or eighty percent of the casualties in the frontal offensive and defensive battles were caused by the Japanese aircraft's artillery. Under this premise, the strength of the Fifth Theater itself has more than doubled, so that it can be in the absence of superiority in troops. On the plain of northern Jiangsu, where there was no danger to defend, it withstood the siege of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops on three sides for nearly a year.

Unlike the Dabie Mountains in history, which had a retreat from the Dabie Mountains, this fifth theater of time and space was surrounded by the territory and occupied areas of the Central Plains Border Region on all sides, and the situation of having no way to retreat certainly forced them to fight desperately with the Japanese army, but the logistical supply and soldier replenishment were inevitably affected. After Emperor Hirohito of Japan issued an edict to expand the army by 1.5 million people, the Japanese troops attacking the Fifth Theater received the most reinforcements, especially when the tank division led by Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka was expanded into a base camp directly under the mecha devils, and the so-called "mechanized" troops were actually just motorized troops in the modern concept, and the "mecha" troops were the first army of mechanized troops in the modern concept and returned to the battlefield, and the Fifth Theater immediately fell into an unprecedented crisis

Although Hu Weidong asked the Gongxian Arsenal to transfer the hollow charge armor-piercing jishu to the Arsenal of the National Control Region free of charge when the Red Army was reorganized, the state government's finances were tight. In addition, during the Anti-Japanese War, defense was the mainstay, and anti-armor gun grenades were of little use except against tanks and armored vehicles. Besides, the number of tanks of the devils is not large, and they are generally scattered to various divisions and regiments, and most of the elite permanent divisions and regiments only have 15-24 tanks and armored vehicles, and other divisions may not even have them at all, so the senior officials of the national government think that it is a waste to produce too many anti-tank guns and grenades, and as a result, even the ace troops of the Central Army such as the 88th Division are only equipped to the company level

Even so, the little tanks that were attached to the various divisions of the devil were enough, and as for the armored vehicles, they had already been jokingly called iron coffins by the soldiers after the government ordered a large number of cheap steel-core bullets from the border arsenal in order to save money. However. When the devils concentrate their armored forces and use them, they will not be able to withstand them with effective anti-tank grenades and a smaller number of anti-aircraft guns

In fact, Yoshio Shinozuka's chariot division had caused huge losses to the troops in the Fifth Theater before, and this time he brought an entire mecha army, with more than 1,000 tanks under his command alone, and only more than 100 of them exceeded the old Type 95 light tanks, and the rest were more advanced Type 97, 97 modifications, and improved versions of the Type 98 light tanks and Type 95 light tanks, which were permanently discontinued after less than 50 units were produced due to the large demand for rare metals. Among them, there are even twenty or thirty so-called "Type 98 medium tanks" that appeared many years earlier than in history, that is, Japan's "Type 1 medium tanks" in history, but because Japan's current engine level is not as good as in 41, its performance is worse than that of the prototype. , in addition, it is equipped with almost a hundred 75 assault guns that do not yet have a turret structure to perform fire support tasks. Compared with the original chariot division, the strength has increased by more than 10 times?

And Yoshio Shinozuka did not rely on the sharp and hard rush of the armored troops, he first proposed to the base camp command to let the Japanese army in Lunan and Huainan launch a fierce attack on the current enemy at all costs, forcing the fifth theater to send the main force out to support the two defense lines in the north and south, at this time the Japanese army in Lianyungang, which had secretly increased to more than 100,000 troops, suddenly marched west to Xuzhou according to the plan, and more than 300,000 people on the north bank of the Huai River hurriedly returned to the division after hearing the news, but was successfully intercepted by the first army of the devil mecha army, which rushed more than 300 miles in one night, Although the more than 300,000 people who did not have time to build fortifications fought hard, their flesh and blood could not resist the torrent of steel composed of more than 1,300 chariots in the plain area where there was no danger to defend, and the Japanese army and air force desperately tried their best to support, and the result was completely defeated in just half a day, Zhang Zizhong, who had just been promoted to commander-in-chief of the 30th Group Army, was martyred, 200,000 people were killed or missing, and more than 100,000 people were captured, Liao Lei, commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army, led the remnants to retreat westward into Dabie Mountain and counted the troops. It was found that there were only more than 30,000 people left, and under shame and grief, there was a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and the medical conditions in the Dabie Mountains were poor, so they could not be rescued after all

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