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In any case, after the grievance education was effective, the difficulty of the next ideological transformation was naturally greatly reduced, but even so, Shiraishi Tomohisa and Matsumoto Shingo still only dared to cautiously split a small number of more well-behaved prisoners of war into a group and integrate them into the Japanese column to participate in the battle, until the victory of the battle, these batches all added up to two or three thousand people, It is not at all comparable to Hu Weidong's practice of boldly and directly integrating almost all the prisoners of war of the White Army who had undergone simple education into the Red 15th Army when he raised troops in Jiangxi. However, on the one hand, this move increased the available strength of the Japanese Column, on the other hand, it reduced the potential risks, and more directly changed the strength comparison between the Japanese Column and the Japanese 18th Division, which objectively did lay a solid foundation for the victory of the Bengbu Campaign.

Internal digging is one thing, but Shiraishi Tomohisa and Matsumoto Shingo did not forget to ask Hu Weidong for help, and Hu Weidong was worried that they would make the matter self-defeating, and on the other hand, he was more worried that Ishihara Waner would escape from his palm, so he immediately decided to attack the Japanese 2nd Army, which had quickly retreated to the north bank of the Huai River.

The only regret is that since Hu Weidong is in a hurry to go south, the team of devil gendarmes can only be let go temporarily, Feng Lin, the commander of the 15th Army Guard Regiment, was unwilling to do this after hearing the order, and immediately shouted urgently, "Chief, as long as we give us another day, no, as long as we have half a day at most, we can wipe out all these devils, although they are tenacious, there are less than 500 people left!" ”

"Time is more important now than anything else, carry out the order!" , Hu Weidong decisively refused, but in order to take care of the emotions of his subordinates, he still explained a few more words, "Don't worry, these devils have nothing to do but flee back to Xuzhou." There is no other way out, but Xuzhou is now surrounded by our army on all sides, after we have annihilated the devils in Huaibei. You can free up your hands to deal with the enemy in Xuzhou, and at the latest it will be within this month, so what's the harm in letting them live a few more days? ”

"But then there will be no part of our guard regiment," Feng Lin muttered to himself dissatisfiedly. But he didn't dare to really disobey the chief's order for this, and finally swallowed back the grumbling in his stomach.

Hu Weidong's idea can't be said to be unreasonable, but he didn't expect it. By the time they returned to Xuzhou, the strength had increased to more than 3,000 troops, which was more than the combined strength of all the other Japanese troops who fled back. As a result, Kenzo Kitano was unexpectedly reused at an age when he was almost retiring from active duty, and as a result, he was transferred to the field army as a military commander, and was able to show his outstanding military talent that has been buried in the wrong place for a long time

At this time, Hu Weidong didn't know this, but even if he knew Kitano's ability, he would definitely make the same choice. Because no matter how powerful this old devil is, his value can definitely not be compared with Ishihara's Wan'er, and those thousands of devils are also not comparable to the Japanese 2nd Army, which has a total of 200,000 people on the north bank of the Huai River.

But despite this, Kitano Kenzo still caused a little trouble for Hu Weidong, as early as when the guard regiment broke the siege and went south, Kitano Kenzo sent a telegram to Ishihara Waner to take precautions, and his method of dealing with armored cavalry tactics was earlier informed of most of the troops of the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army, including the Japanese 2nd Army. And Ishihara Waner also has a natural convenience in adopting this method, that is, with his back to the Huai River, so that there is no need to build a complete annular anti-tank trench, but only need to dig an arc-shaped trench like a bowl upside down on the river bankline, and at the same time, there is enough time for the devil to dig out one after another, even Ma Zhongying, who has always been confident, feels a little headache after seeing it.

However, Hu Weidong was pleased when he saw this, "The Japanese army has twice as many troops as me, but they only dare to build a position to defend it, we should be proud." And for the devil's countermeasures, Hu Weidong is not at a loss, "If there is only the new 51st Division (that is, the official name of the armored cavalry division in the National Revolutionary Army), this turtle formation is indeed not easy to break, but are more than 100,000 people in our 15th Army eating dry food?" ”

So Hu Weidong decisively dismantled the armored cavalry division, and temporarily incorporated those relatively thick-skinned "medium tanks" into the 15 th Army's troops responsible for the main attack, with a sufficient number of infantry protection, even the Golan trenches could not stop these big guys, although the small team infantry tank coordinated combat style seems to be relatively backward, but in the current situation it is the most reasonable, and the 15 th Army, at least the main infantry regiments in it, have also received a little infantry combat training, Therefore, as long as Hu Weidong's task arrangement is clear and clear, there is not much difficulty in cooperating.

In contrast, in order to ensure mobility when the 15th Army went south, Hu Weidong did not bring large-caliber heavy artillery, and the largest caliber body-barreled artillery was only 105mm, so the heavy firepower seemed to be somewhat insufficient. However, due to the fact that although the Golan trench restrained tanks and tracked armored vehicles, if it was used to resist the attack of a large number of infantry, it was far less useful than the conventional ring fortifications, and the 2nd Army of the devil also lacked large-caliber artillery, so the 120mm heavy mortars equipped by the 15th Army could boldly put the artillery position on the premise and can fully play its role, this alone is enough to ensure the strength of the supporting artillery fire, and it must be known that the power of the 120mm heavy mortar is not under the 105 mountain artillery, However, the 15th Army was equipped with almost three times as many 120mm heavy mortars as 105mm mountain guns.

In addition, a large part of the artillery shells and infantry grenades carried by the 15th Army were air-burst shells that were lethal and destructive in field battles, and they were not used when they fought the 200,000 Japanese troops in the north because of the outstanding performance of the new 51st Division

Note 1: Although the Japanese army had lost air supremacy in the Xuzhou area at this time, with the airborne radar equipped by the planes of the North China Air Corps, which was only a few kilometers away, the devil planes could still avoid interception by Chinese and Soviet fighters under the cover of night. (To be continued.) )