Chapter 310: Jing County's Great Victory

readx;? Guarding outside Yangliu Town was a Japanese brigade, which was a little panicked when it saw dozens of tanks and armored vehicles rushing towards the position in groups. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info In the face of these tanks, bullets and even artillery shells have no effect, and they have no choice but to rush upwards with human bombs.

The Japanese apparently underestimated the sturdiness of the heavy tanks, which were not their own "bean chariots", and most of the flesh bombs were killed by the covering armored vehicles and the fighters of the guard battalion, although the rest rushed to the side of the heavy tanks and detonated the explosives. But the heavy tank rushed out intact in a cloud of smoke.

In the face of such a steel monster, the Japanese soldiers felt hopeless. The chariot quickly broke into the position, perhaps behind it was where the division headquarters was, but this time the Japanese did not retreat, and more soldiers rushed out of the town to block the attack of the ** team. The more Japanese soldiers fought, the more powerful the armored regiment was, it could not attack.

In the temporary headquarters of the division in Yangliu Town, Masaki Ito woke up after being treated by medical soldiers. Washizu Matsudaira was busy directing his subordinates to resist the attack of the squadron, when he saw Ito Masaki wake up, he hurriedly came to Ito Masaki and said: "Ito-kun, the Chinese army is attacking Yangliu Town, the Chinese army has heavy artillery and chariots, and it is not good for our army to defend it for a long time, do you want to withdraw to Huzhou first and then make plans?"

Ito Masakami nodded weakly and said, "Washizu-kun, it's all up to you, please!" and then closed his eyes. Washiyama Matsudaira was about to order the whole army to retreat, when Nishiyama Fukutaro came over and said, "Your Excellency Washizu, do you want to request aircraft support before ordering the retreat?" Nishiyama Fukutaro's words reminded Washizu Matsudaira, and Washizu Matsudaira nodded and said, "Yo Nishi, immediately ask His Excellency the Commander for aircraft support." ”

Fukutaro Nishiyama went to send a telegram, and Washizu Matsudaira began to direct his men to prepare for retreat. Washizu Matsudaira knew very well that if there was no cover from the planes, then the retreat would be the same as last night, a rout, and when the time came, the Chinese army would be blocked from Xuancheng, and his more than 10,000 people would be in danger of being completely annihilated.

So Washizu Matsudaira ordered to hold out at all costs until the planes for support arrived. Unaware of the imminent danger that danger would come, the Panzer Regiment and the Guard Regiment were fighting against the swarming Japanese troops. Behind them, the 569th and 573rd regiments were approaching them, and the main forces of these two regiments, which were only a few miles away from the armored regiment, also rushed up at this time.

Just when the Japanese army was feeling exhausted, the hum of airplanes came from the sky. The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Guards Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 568th Regiment discovered that the two battalion commanders could not care about attacking the Japanese troops in front of them, and hurriedly commanded the light and heavy machine guns in the unit to go all out into the air. The two battalions were armed with heavy machine guns, all of which were Type 67 heavy machine guns, which could be used against small Japanese aircraft. The fighters in the armored car, also risking being shot, stretched out their bodies from the armored car and manipulated the heavy machine gun on the armored car.

Fortunately, the attention of the Japanese soldiers at this time was all on the tanks that rushed into the Japanese crowd, and there were not too many soldiers attacking the armored vehicles and infantry. When the plane reached the sky over the town of Willow, the order for the entire army of Washizu Matsudaira to retreat was also conveyed. The Japanese retreated as if the tide was receding. The squadron did not go to chase anymore, and went all out to prepare for the air battle.

The Japanese dispatched two flying teams at once, and twenty-four bombers each in groups of four took turns to dive and bomb. Hundreds of light and heavy machine guns on the ground weaved a net of fire, confronting the planes in the sky. In ground and air confrontation, and without special anti-aircraft weapons, it is bound to fall behind. The two sides fought for almost an hour, six Japanese planes were destroyed, four were damaged, and the rest flew away.

More than 40 fighters of the two battalions on the ground were killed and more than 30 wounded, and the most heart-wrenching thing for the fighters was that three light armored vehicles, two heavy armored vehicles were destroyed, one light tank and one heavy tank were also destroyed, and several combat vehicles were damaged. After the plane flew away, the soldiers were busy rescuing the wounded, and they did not care to continue to chase the Japanese army.

Li Yuanhong heard in the command that the armored regiment had suffered a lot of losses because of the support of Japanese aircraft, and he was also heartbroken, so he discussed it with Wu Jianzhou, thinking that the purpose of this counterattack had been achieved, so he issued an order to stop the pursuit and clean up the battlefield. After bypassing Xuancheng County, the Japanese army did not dare to delay, and fled all the way to Huzhou City, and there were only more than 7,000 people left in the two divisions.

This time, the battle losses in Jing County were not small, Yangliu Town and Qinxi Town were bombed into ruins, and even the county seat of Jing County was bombed several times. But this time it wiped out nearly 20,000 Japanese troops at once, and captured a large amount of booty, and also occupied Xuancheng County, and a large amount of baggage left by the Japanese army in Xuancheng also became trophies, and more importantly, after this battle, the Japanese army could not mobilize more troops in the short term to deal with the henchmen of Jing County, which gave Wang Haitao time for development, and from this point of view, this was a great victory.

After the defeat of the Japanese army in this battle, they transferred the 101st Division and the 21st Division back to China for rest and recuperation, and reorganized them into the 23rd, 24th, and 25th three-wing divisions and transported them to Shanghai to strengthen the control of the occupied areas in East China and prepare to deal with Wang Haitao's troops in Jing County again.

At the same time, the original Taierzhuang victory on the Xuzhou battlefield did not appear, but there was a Zaozhuang victory, and the Japanese army's North China dispatch army after seizing Jinan and Qingdao, divided into two routes to the south, preparing to encircle Wuhan. The 20th Division, which was heading south from Qingdao, was stubbornly blocked by the **8th Division, mainly the 74th Army, in Juxian and Linyi, and could not advance an inch.

After the 10th Division went south from Jinan, there was a fierce battle in Teng County, and thousands of soldiers from the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army from the division commander Wang Mingzhang were all martyred. After the 10th Division captured Tengxian, it continued to move south, and met Sun Lianzhong's 22nd Army guarding Zaozhuang in Zaozhuang, and after three days and three nights of fierce fighting between the two sides, Tang Enbo's 20th Army outflanked the Japanese army and surrounded the Japanese 10th Division.

Commander-in-Chief Li Zongren lost no time in using the heavy artillery regiment of the teaching corps to launch an artillery bombardment on the Japanese army, and after a hard battle, basically annihilated more than 20,000 people of the 10th Division of the Japanese army, and won a great victory in Zaozhuang. This news was placed on the front page of the newspaper along with the news of the great victory in Jing County. However, on the one hand, the great victory of annihilating more than 20,000 Japanese troops was achieved by tens of thousands of people in two group armies, and on the other hand, the great victory of annihilating more than 20,000 enemy troops was achieved by more than 10,000 people in one division.

The two great victories made the base camp in Japan a chicken, flying and jumping. For the base camp of the Japanese army, Jingxian was secondary here, mainly to capture Xuzhou, and then take Zhengzhou west along the Longhai Railway, and then take Wuhan south along the Pinghan Railway. Therefore, after the defeat in Zaozhuang, the Japanese army base camp dispatched troops to prepare to encircle Xuzhou, and fought a decisive battle with the main force of the squadron under the city of Xuzhou, striving to eliminate the squadron in Xuzhou.

Seeing that the first line of the Huai River could not be quickly broken through, the six generals of Yan Jun sent two divisions of the 3rd and 11th Divisions to continue to attack the first line of the Huai River, and the 13th Division was transferred to attack Xuyi, Suqian and other places, and the 18th Division was dispatched to attack Fuyang and Bozhou. The 16th Division was dispatched to land at Lianyun Port from the sea and attack Lianyun Port.

The commander of the North China Dispatch Army, General Terauchi Shouichi, first sent the 14th Division to attack the front line of Lanfeng [now Lankao City] and Kaifeng, and then the 114th Division and the 108th Division frontally pinned down the squadron on the Zaozhuang line, the 109th Division crossed Weishan Lake to attack Peixian, and the 20th Division and the 27th Division attacked Linyi.

This is a big net for the squadron in Xuzhou, ready to wipe out the hundreds of thousands of squadrons in Xuzhou. Li Zongren was keenly aware of the intentions of the Japanese army and immediately reported the situation to the Chongqing Supreme Headquarters. Before receiving the order to retreat from Chongqing, the most elite teaching corps and the 87th Division were mobilized to hold Lanfeng and Shangqiu to protect the army's retreat.

Because of this, it was no longer meaningful to hold the Huai River defense line, and Li Zongren transferred the 90th Army to Suzhou and Huaibei to Xiao County. Su Zuxin, chief of staff of the 90th Army, immediately telegraphed Wang Haitao of this situation and asked Wang Haitao for instructions on the future actions of the 90th Army. Wang Haitao replied to Su Zuxin that all actions of the 90th Army should be dispatched by the upper peak and must not be disobeyed.

After a few days of recuperation, Wang Haitao's health has improved a lot, and now he can walk on the ground, which is also due to his physical fitness is very good, and his recovery is naturally fast. However, there were many sequelae left by this battle, and Wang Haitao took out another 200,000 yuan of ocean and handed it over to Wei Changhai, director of the logistics department, and asked Wei Changhai to transfer 100,000 yuan of ocean to the county government for the reconstruction of Qinxi Town and Yangliu Town and the aftermath after the war.

With this 100,000 yuan, Wang Daoyuan, the magistrate of Jing County, began to deal with the aftermath with confidence, including the reconstruction of Yangliu Town and Qinxi Town. After the people received the subsidy, they heard that the county government was going to rebuild their homes for them, and there were still those who were not enthusiastic, and soon the reconstruction work in Yangliu Town and Qinxi Town began in full swing.

In order to strengthen the strength behind the enemy, Chiang Kai-shek sent three divisions to Wang Haitao, one was the 150th Division of the Sichuan Army, the division commander Yang Qin'an, and the other was the 170th Division of the Gui Army, the division commander Xu Qiming, the 171st Division, and the division commander Yang Junchang.

After receiving the telegram, Wang Haitao was a little worried: Jing County now has only three county seats, and now there are three more divisions, how should they be accommodated? As if he was the second division of the Gui department, Xu Qiming was his top boss when he was in Nanning. Chairman Jiang has given himself a problem now, and this is really not something that can be dealt with casually.

After listening, Wang Haitao had a general understanding of the situation of these three divisions, and the 150th Division of the Sichuan Army was a unit that had just left Sichuan to resist Japan, with only more than 6,000 people, and the situation was similar to that of the two Sichuan Army brigades that came earlier. The two divisions of the Gui system were both bloody battles in the Battle of Shanghai, and although they had recuperated but participated in the battles on the periphery of Xuzhou, each division now has four or five thousand people, but these four or five thousand people are veterans, and they are two divisions with great combat effectiveness.