Chapter 366: The Lost Yang Zhen
Even worried that the Chinese army would privately make the decision to retreat, the base camp transferred the 23rd Army from the Chinese dispatch army to the Southern Army, which is now moving its headquarters to Saigon, Vietnam. As a directly subordinate corps of the Southern Army, the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info under the command of the Southern Army. However, in order to compensate the Chinese Dispatch Army, the base camp assigned the Taiwan Army, which was originally directly under it, to the Chinese Dispatch Army.
It's just that under the current situation that the Taiwan Strait has become a strait of death, even if the Chinese army is completely wiped out, the Taiwan army with strong troops. Nor can they send a single soldier to Chinese mainland to support the operation. Although the pie painted by the Japanese army base camp for the Chinese dispatch army is large, it is just a moon in the water for the Chinese dispatch army.
After going around in circles for half a day, the Chinese dispatch army actually did not increase a single soldier. Even more than 80,000 troops of the 23rd Army were rowed away, and only the 10th Front Army was obtained like a flower in the mirror. Although there were still hundreds of thousands of troops on paper sent by China at this time, the number of troops that could be put into the front line from Central China to East China was quite limited.
However, the difficulties of China's dispatch of troops will not be understood by the opponents. In the face of a favorable situation, Mr. Lin continued to increase the intensity of the offensive. By 7 May, the Eastern Front had completed the division of the Japanese forces between the Jianghuai and the Yangtze River. The Western Front cluster commanded by Chen Hanzhang, under the full cover of the air force, also successively captured the Yangzhou, Taizhou, and Rugao lines. Together with the troops of the Soviet-Chinese Military Region and the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, they completed the encirclement of more than 200,000 Japanese troops in the entire Jianghuai region.
At the same time that General Lin completed the division and encirclement of the entire Jianghuai battlefield and more than 200,000 Japanese troops, the 4th and 5th Divisions of the New Fourth Army cooperated with Chen Hanzhang's actions on the Western Front, as well as the 2nd Division of the New Fourth Army and the Huainan Military Region that were originally active in eastern Anhui. Under the unified command of the commander of the 5th Division, a large-scale offensive was also launched on the Western Front at the same time.
The Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, with the cooperation of the First Division of the Second Division, strengthened the mountain artillery regiment directly under the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, a howitzer battalion, a cannon regiment of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and an independent tank regiment to form a campaign cluster and quickly move south from Chuzhou. With the full cooperation of the guard division of the Wang puppet regime of the uprising, a wing of the Japanese army was defeated and captured Pukou.
Pukou was lost so quickly, and the long-range artillery fire in Jiangbei had already fallen to the Japanese positions at Yanziji, Straw Shoe Gorge, and Shogunate Mountain. The Chinese Dispatch Army Command was dumbfounded, so it could only draw troops that were already insufficient to strengthen the defense of Nanjing City, and at the same time strengthen the forces of the Jiangyin fortress group.
And the shells and aerial bombs that constantly exploded outside Nanjing made the gang of traitors in Nanjing who had no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground at the moment also be in a state of panic. None of them imagined that the Japanese, who had concentrated more than 200,000 troops in the Jianghuai region, would collapse so quickly.
In less than a month, more than 100,000 Japanese troops between Jianghuai and Huai were surrounded, not to mention, and the communist army was beaten outside Nanjing in one go. I didn't expect that the Japanese, who were in full swing at the beginning, and these gangsters who had collapsed in just a few years, are now looking for a way out like headless flies.
Some gave up their posts and fled to Shanghai, and some wagged their tails and begged for mercy from Chongqing. Take out a large amount of wealth looted, dredge the intelligence department of the Japanese and Chinese dispatch forces, and want to try to escape to the South Seas. Some even committed suicide by shooting or swallowing opium under great pressure.
On 10 May, the acting chairman of the Nationalist Government in Nanking was preparing to convene a meeting to discuss the next steps and the so-called plan for moving the capital to Shanghai. But I was stunned to find that there were only three or two kittens in attendance. It turns out that most of the members who are fighting for power and profit all day long are nowhere to be found, and this is what it means to fall and scatter.
During this entire period of operation, Mr. Lin's entire deployment and application were like flowing water. However, the anti-United Nations participating units, which have been trained in actual combat for a long time, have become more and more mature and sophisticated in the use of large-scale armored assault tactics. Chen Hanzhang's attainments in the command of armored cluster operations are also becoming more and more profound.
The armored forces participating in the battle on the eastern and western fronts overcame numerous unfavorable obstacles in the water network and ensured the high efficiency and speed of the breakthrough. The anti-United Nations forces, which are responsible for the main combat missions, have the ability of all arms to coordinate operations and the ability to quickly assault each other, which has stunned all parties who have been paying close attention.
However, there are also some discordant elements in this battle. During the Jianghuai Campaign, the anti-coalition air force that entered the customs to participate in the war clashed many times with the US air force stationed in China and the air force in Chongqing. Before the war, the air force repeatedly drove away and shot down US troops and reconnaissance planes from certain quarters that had penetrated deep into North China to reconnoitre.
During the campaign, some were on the ground, though not causing interference. However, in the air, under the banner of supporting operations, they repeatedly dispatched motive groups to greatly interfere with the actions of the anti-coalition air forces participating in the war. There were even attacks on anti-United attack aircraft groups and shooting down anti-United attack bombers.
As for the US military and certain bomber and fighter groups, attacks on the ground forces of the Anti-United Nations have occurred from time to time. Although the other party repeatedly claimed that it was a mistakenly injured after the incident, this kind of knowingly committed the crime made people feel angry. This is not a misunderstanding, but a deliberate act by the parties concerned, otherwise this situation would not have occurred again and again.
The frequent small actions made by the Americans and certain parties eventually triggered a large-scale air war on May 9 within the Chinese themselves and between the Chinese and the Americans, who were still allies. The anti-coalition air force, which could not bear it anymore, urgently took off two squadrons to intercept the US military and the Chongqing plane group that had come to interfere again.
Immediately, under the stunned gaze of the Japanese troops on the ground, an air battle broke out in the air. In this air battle, 27 fighters were shot down by the anti-coalition air force. In the end, the US military and Chongqing side participated in the fighter group, and more than 40 P-51 and P-47 fighters were all shot down.
Although everyone was silent about the air battle afterwards, the central authorities immediately handed over all the more than 30 US soldiers and pilots from certain quarters who had been rescued to certain quarters. However, this air clash undoubtedly cast a very bad shadow over this campaign.
But despite the cost, the results were immediate. After the end of this air battle and until the end of the entire campaign, the planes were really hurt in some aspects, and before they appeared on the battlefield, the American air force stationed in China also turned all their attention to the battlefield south of the Yangtze River.
Compared with the traitors in Nanjing, who were in some respects painstakingly rebuilt, the air force suffered heavy losses and was painful this time. At this time, Yang Zhen, who had already led the Northeast Bureau and the Northeast Military Region Headquarters to move to Shenyang as a whole. Seeing his old subordinates galloping and fighting extremely well in the Jianghuai region, I was relieved and a little lost at the same time.
Think about yourself since the Japanese rushed out of the bacteriological warfare base, from scratch after several painstaking operations, to create a hundred battles of heroic divisions that are unsurpassed in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, including military literacy, even if you look at the whole of Asia. With this army, he walked out of the deep mountains and old forests and fought one battle after another, and today he has recovered all of Northeast China and swept North China.
Whether it is in the Northeast Battlefield or the North China Battlefield, there is almost no service. But in this battle, he could only sit in the position of spectators, which made Yang Zhen feel a little comfortable while being happy about the performance of his troops. It's like after a lot of hard work, I finally raised my son and got married, but it turned out to be a fulfillment of my mother-in-law's mother's family, but I didn't have anything to do with myself.
However, if it is uncomfortable, it is uncomfortable, and Yang Zhen also knows that this step is what he must take. He clearly remembered that he proposed to transfer the main force of the Anti-Japanese Union into the customs and put it under the command of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. After politely refusing the chairman's transfer to command the battle, some leaders of the central government had very relaxed expressions.
At this time of the war, it was a matter of course for the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation to enter the customs. If any one person were replaced, he would not have been placed in a situation where millions of well-equipped and combat-ready troops still controlled a large area by the Japanese army in the Sekinai. Just stay in the Northeast and rest for a long time with nothing to do.
After the end of the South Manchurian Campaign, it was an inevitable choice for the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation to enter the customs. In the end, he chose to stay in the Northeast, although it was his own choice, but it was also in line with the overall strategic arrangement of the central government. Yang Zhen does not think that he will always carry the Anti-United Nations and will conform to the true intentions of the central government. Thinking of this, Yang Zhen touched his nose, and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, this is also a poor person who is alone, and a good one can help the world.
Looking at her somewhat lost husband, Yuan Zhiruo, who has been pregnant for several months at the moment, can only smile and comfort the sense of loss under her husband's calm appearance. Although her husband didn't fully understand the reason for that decision, Yuan Zhiruo, who knew a little bit about it, could do as much as possible to comfort Yang Zhen.
For Yang Zhen, his wife's comfort cannot completely replace the sense of loss in his heart. But for the few secret plans that have entered the final stage of preparation, Yang Zhen, who has no energy to take care of other aspects too much, can only suppress the sense of loss in his heart.
Despite the repeated demands of the Soviet side to extend the period of service of its personnel in the Soviet Navy. But on May 8 the Germans had surrendered, the European theater was completely over, and the Soviets were about to begin a large-scale decommissioning of the army. The shortage of manpower caused by the excessive transfer of the navy will be completely reversed by the first half of four or six years at the latest.
The Soviet Navy suffered heavy casualties throughout the Soviet-German war, but the casualties in naval battles were not large. It's just that the Soviet naval units that were organized into ground forces to participate in the war, this casualty figure is quite staggering. The navy soldiers trained before the war were almost the embers of casualties.
In the words of Li Mingfeng, who has been studying the navy in the Soviet Union, the quality of the Soviet army's tank troops on the battlefield has indeed improved quite rapidly. However, because of the huge casualties, the infantry was generally not of high quality, except for a few Guards infantry. Every attack of the Soviet army was a huge waste of life, and it was all piled up with human lives.
In terms of offensive tactics, the Soviet generals generally fought to the death and caused extremely huge casualties in every attack. In addition to throwing in a large number of tanks and overwhelming artillery fire at a time, there was an endless line of infantry skirmishers. One line of skirmishers was broken, and the other was following.
One division is running out, and another is filling it in. The German positions were often not broken, but were crushed by the Soviet army with casualty figures. It is not easy to be dealt with by the tank clusters of the Soviet army, but it is not difficult to deal with the infantry tactics of the Soviet army, as long as you master their laws.
According to Li Mingfeng's analysis and evaluation, the firepower and tactics of a simple infantry division of the Anti-Union were used. As far as the Soviet offensive method is concerned, as long as there are no major mistakes in the defensive battle, the Soviet army can be defeated by an infantry army without tank cover.
When Li Mingfeng reported to Yang Zhen, he talked to Yang Zhen about the fact that in the later stage of the war, in order to make up for the huge casualties, the Soviet army not only recruited a large number of troops in the liberated areas. Even the newly rescued prisoners of war were not being screened and were directly added to the troops. In order to ensure the replenishment of soldiers on the front line, these recruits were sent to the battlefield after only a cursory training.