Chapter 1136: Bloodstained Meng Mi (II)

In the Battle of Degang, the Japanese army Nagumo's troops suffered a big loss at the beginning, which made the heart of the commander-in-chief Ito Yanzaburo pinch, he didn't expect at all that this branch of the devil Tang Qiuli unexpectedly chose the safest middle route army, Ito arranged it like this, in order to let Nagumo's troops play a role in echoing back and forth.

There are the Nomura troops in the front, and there are nearly 400,000 main forces in the back, and Nagumo's troops can move closer in any direction, which is equivalent to being put into a safe, which is what Ito is least worried about.

Ito is in a hurry, if Nagumo's division is killed by the independent division, his battle layout, there will be a rupture of Yan zhòng, to put it nicely, the beginning and the end can not be echoed, Ito believes that the direct cause of the attack on Nagumo's troops is that Nomura's vanguard is advancing too fast, completely contrary to his strategic intentions.

Ito was anxious to lead his troops straight to Degang on the way, received the news of Nagumo Lieutenant General Jade Shattering, at that time, Ito for Nagumo troops to escape this catastrophe, do not report too much hope, he has studied many examples of the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield, there is a common point, as long as the troops of the devil Tang Qiuli shot, the troops of the imperial army, is the result of being completely annihilated, the luckiest, but also heavy losses, greatly damaged vitality.

As for the appointment of Nakazawa as the new commander, it is just a matter of doing some personnel, how can the dizzy Imperial Army troops have to have a commander, Ito only hopes that when he arrives at Tokuka, he will have time to collect the bodies of Nagumo and Nakazawa, but Nakazawa's appearance is unexpectedly good, and he came up with such a clever plan in a desperate situation.

After receiving Nakazawa's telegram, Ito almost laughed, and said excitedly to Chief of Staff Koizumi: "Koizumi-kun, Nakazawa is a good guy, he surrounded more than a thousand Shina soldiers, but did not attack, and took them as hostages, so that Tang Qiuli did not dare to use heavy weapons to attack, the most subtle of which was to drag down part of the main force of the independent division. ”

"According to my understanding of Tang Qiuli, he will not give up the soldiers of this branch, so that Tang Qiuli's troops will be forced to fight a decisive battle with the main force of my superior imperial army in Degang, which he does not want, if this battle can be carried out, we will have hope that before Tang Qiuli and other troops come from the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula, the situation in northern Myanmar will be laid, okay, Zhongze is very good, in the name of the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army, Zhongzejun will be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, in recognition of her great wisdom and bravery."

The main force of nearly 400,000 Japanese troops commanded by Ito rushed to Degang like a wolf smelling blood.

Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps of the Independent Division, commanded the troops of the four brigades, and has been waiting in concealment in the area from Yindunjiang to Mengmi. ”

But since receiving the new order from the division, Yu Guanghan's heart was a little nervous, and he also understood that from this moment on, the nature of the task had completely changed, it used to be a side attack and a delay, but now, it must be delayed, and he also saw another problem from this brief order from the division.

The order does not stipulate that the Japanese army cannot advance in the direction of Degang, how long, this is absolutely not seen in the previous division command order, Yu Guanghan has been by the side of the division commander Tang Qiuli, and has followed him for many years, as the former chief of staff of the independent division, he knows too well the habits of the division commander, and the rigorous process of formulating the battle plan, the time is accurate to the minute, which has made Yu Guanghan amazed more than once.

However, this time, there was no clear time, which meant that the time for himself and the three brigades under the command of the chief of staff to block nearly 400,000 Japanese troops and advance in the direction of Degang would be indefinite, until he received a new order, he immediately convened a military meeting to convey the latest order of the division commander in the original text.

Then, Yu Guanghan said: "Everyone is clear about the task, and they also know what kind of fighting style we are going to face, four words, bite it," it turned out that the brigade commander who had said that he could withstand the Japanese army with a brigade of troops, his face was unusually solemn, and he said to Guanghan: "Chief of staff, it's just a sentence, fight, even if we fight out, we must ensure that the division commander is carried out smoothly in the Degang Campaign." ”

There is nothing fancy about this kind of blocking battle, and the distance of 100 kilometers from Mengmi to Degang can be reached in seven or eight hours at the current marching speed of the Japanese army.

Immediately, Yu Guanghan reported the meeting to Chang Feng, chief of staff of the division, and Chang Feng's reply was very simple, "The flank attack troops must show the strength of a frontal blockade in order to ensure the continuation of the Degang Campaign," Yu Guanghan smelled a smell of blood from Chang Feng's telegram, and the flank attack troops should be used as a frontal blockade, so how should the three brigades and troops that were frontally blocked?

The four brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps, with more than 60,000 troops, carried out fierce attacks on the Japanese troops along both sides of the road, with regiments as units, and the attack movements were fierce and fierce, with a momentum of decisive death, and the mouth was bloody, and the mountain roads in northern Burma were full of gunfire, shouts of killing, and the smoke of gunpowder.

If Yu Guanghan's flanking troops were a ferocious wolf, then the nearly 400,000 Japanese troops commanded by Ito were like a bison with rough skin and thick flesh.

What's more, with Ito's mind, it is not difficult to see that this is a part of the troops of the independent division, in order to block himself from going straight to Degang, and the more he takes action, the more this is the case, the more Ito feels that in Degang, there are unexpected surprises for him, Tang Qiuli does not want his troops to come to Degang, therefore, Ito is not affected by the attack of Yu Guanghan's troops at all, every time he is attacked, he sends troops to meet him, and the rest of the troops continue to advance.

However, Yu Guanghan's attack won more than three hours of precious time for Chang Feng to deploy troops in the Baudwin mining area and establish a blocking line, otherwise, the troops led by Chang Feng would collide head-on with the main force of the Japanese army on the way in, and no one could predict the consequences.

Entangled and scuffled until the afternoon of July 3, Yu Guanghan's troops paid six or seven thousand casualties, close to half of the brigade's strength, and finally failed to stop the Japanese army from continuing to advance northward, fighting all the way, Ito's main force also paid the price of nearly 10,000 casualties, but Ito will never be fooled, he knows very well.

If you stop and clear it, as if you don't want to die all the way, the small unit of the independent division that is fighting with you just fell into Tang Qiuli's trick, and the battle will be fought for a few days, no one can say for sure, this guy Zhongze finally created a fighter plane, and it will be lost in vain, in the words of the Zhina people, the gains outweigh the losses, not to mention, this independent division troops that are entangled with themselves, take a desperate posture, and take the initiative to attack their nearly 400,000 imperial troops with tens of thousands of people, but they are not afraid of dying together.

Ito really figured out Yu Guanghan's thoughts, Yu Guanghan was with the intention of fighting more than 60,000 people, leaving no way back to attack the Japanese army, he very much hoped that Ito could stop, and his troops had a contest of disparity in strength, as long as they persisted for three or five days, with the wisdom of the division commander, there would be a good way to solve the problem.

However, he wanted to work hard, but Ito didn't want to, just in the hands of Yu Guanghan more than 60,000 people, Ito really didn't look at it, he ran to Tang Qiuli in Degang, this time, Yu Guanghan was dumbfounded, wanted to fight hard, the little devil was not accompanied, twisted and couldn't twist, seeing the Japanese army's large troops, rolling towards the direction of Degang, Yu Guanghan gritted his teeth and ordered the troops to "continue to attack the side along the way at any cost," At the same time, he reported the battle situation to the chief of staff of the division, and he also blocked the commander-in-chief of the Japanese troops.

Ito's main force, the Japanese army, arrived at the Baldwin mine area at the same time as Yu Guanghan's troops, and Chang Feng sent Yu Guanghan a reply with only a few words, "Chief of Staff Yu, you and your troops have done your best, and now, I order your troops to immediately withdraw to Wubin to consolidate the second line of defense." ”

This order, with the smell of farewell, only three brigades of troops, to block the Japanese army of hundreds of thousands, Chang Feng is to take all the casualties, but also to take advantage of the favorable terrain in the Boudwin mining area, to frustrate the Japanese army's sharp idea, at least for Wubin and Degang, to win more than three days, he has received the order of the division commander, independent division deputy commander and commander of the Sulu mobile corps, Lieutenant General Tang Qiusheng, with three brigades of troops, is on the way to Wubin, responsible for the overall command of the campaign.

Chang Feng was even more free to fight, the Japanese shelled for more than an hour, Ito nodded with satisfaction, and said to the chief of staff Koizumi: "The Baldwin mining area is the only way to Degang, and it is also the only place where there is available terrain, Tang Qiuli's troops will definitely be here, desperately blocking the imperial troops, and ordering the Fourth Chariot Brigade, after the artillery bombardment is over, cover the 7th, 13th, and 21st Divisions, and the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade to assault the area." ”

"Tell the commanders of these troops, what I want is not the number of enemies to be destroyed, but the troops, the first to break through the blocking positions of the Chinese troops," and then, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, under the cover of tanks, launched a full-line attack on the Baudwin mining area.

At the beginning of the battle, it entered a white-hot process, and the troops deployed by Changfeng on the front line, after repelling three Japanese charges, were broken through by the Japanese army, and more than 7,000 people in two regiments were killed.

On the evening of 3 July, when the sun was setting, the blocking force suffered more than 10,000 casualties, close to the strength of a brigade, and of course, the number of casualties of the Japanese army exceeded that of the independent division, and at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, the blocking force blocked Ito's main Japanese army in front of the Baldwin mining area and could not continue to advance.

(To be continued)

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