Chapter 10: Anqing (34)

On the last day of 1939, the Fifth Army of the National Revolutionary Army conquered the north side of Kunlun Pass for the third time and completely occupied the Kunlun Pass. Although he won the Kunlun Pass and won the first stage, he really did not take any advantage. After occupying Kunlun Pass, in the first three days of the new year, the Japanese army stubbornly resisted the North Route Army of the National Army in Jiutang, causing great losses to the National Army, and even exceeding the fortification of the previous ten days.

The front-line command of Qianjiang, Bai Chongxi and Zhang Fakui, Xu Tingyao and others were a little overwhelmed by the victory, and immediately formulated a plan to march south and recover Nanning in one fell swoop. But things are not so simple, the remaining units of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, the 1st and 2nd Wings of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade are still between Jiutang and Batang.

The first battle of the Fifth Army's continued offensive in the direction of Nanning was fought on the 441 Heights between Kunlun Pass and Jiutang.

On January 1, 1940, all the planes of Nanning Airport, which were finally able to come in handy, took off, and the 21st Flying Team of the Army Air Corps, which was transferred from Guangzhou, bombed the north side of the first high ground in Kunlun Pass. After the commander of the 21st Brigade, Nakamura Masao, was killed in battle, the commander of the division, Imamura, transferred back the commander of Ning Ming's 9th Brigade and Major General Kawagen 7 to take over the commander-in-chief of the front.

In the face of the powerful attack of the Chinese army, there were also different opinions within the Japanese army, and the commander of the 21st Group Army, Ando Toshiyoshi, believed that the Chinese army was huge, and the Fifth Division should abandon the area north of the Yongjiang River, retreat to the south of the Yongjiang River, and use the Yongjiang River as a barrier for defense, and the Chinese army did not have the ability to cross the river to attack, so it could ensure that it occupied the area of southern Guizhou and hold the springboard for entering Vietnam. The commander of the 5th Division, Imamura, directly rejected Ando Toshiyoshi's proposal, saying in a telegram to the base camp: "On what front and by what means of warfare will be used to cover the concentration of troops? It should be a decision made entirely by the division commander who is familiar with the terrain and the enemy situation on the spot. At present, the troops in each stronghold are surrounded by two or three layers of Chinese troops, and at this time, let them retreat to the vicinity of Nanning and build defensive positions there, which is tantamount to increasing the feeling of defeat for all the officers and men of the Fifth Division, and on the contrary, it has boosted the spirit of the Chinese army, forming a fragmented situation that cannot be contained, that is, it is the concentration of the army that wants to cover but cannot be. Not only that, if the troops withdrawn from the vicinity of Jiutang today are crowded into this small area close to Nanning, then the Chinese army will divide part of its entire strength against the Fifth Division to the vicinity of Qinzhou and deal with the landing of the main force of the army with a large force, and if the army decides to deal a fatal blow to the enemy, then the division and regiment will consider that it is necessary to carry out the war of resistance with a positive attitude to contain the strength of the Chinese army, so that the Chinese army will not be able to transfer all or most of its forces to other areas. At the same time, the 21st Group Army was asked to quickly rush the 18th Division and the Guards Brigade to Guinan, so as to fight for a decisive battle with the Fifth Army of the Chinese Army, take down the most powerful force in China, and fundamentally hit the morale of the Chinese army.

At dawn on January 2, 1940, the 1st Division of Honor raised all the remnants of the troops to counterattack the south side of the first high ground of Kunlun Pass, and fought fiercely for a whole day, without progress, and the two sides still maintained their original positions.

On January 3, 1940, Du Yuming mobilized the main force of the 200th Division and the first part of the new 22nd Division to cooperate with the Rong 1st Division to continue the battle, and the battle situation was even more tragic, with extremely heavy casualties on both sides. At night, the Japanese army could not resist the defeat and retreat to Jiutang, and the mid-term battle of Kunlun Pass ended.

In half a month of fighting, on the surface, the Chinese army achieved a brilliant victory, taking Kunlun Pass, the Japanese 21st Infantry Brigade was basically annihilated except for those who were wounded outside the encircled circle and those who were wounded in the previous battle to reinforce Kunlun Pass, and only a small number of Japanese troops broke into pieces and ran out of the encirclement, and were contained by the Taiwan brigade and the Jiutang troops left behind outside the encirclement. The Japanese army suffered more than 8,000 casualties in this operation, including more than 6,000 casualties in the 21st Infantry Brigade, Brigade Commander Nakamura Masao, Acting Brigade Commander Sakata Motoichi Sakata of the 42nd Infantry Wing, and Miki Yoshinosuke Osa Commander of the 21st Infantry Wing were all killed, including Deputy Wing Captain Ikuta Tengichi, First Brigade Captain Ki Heisaku, Second Brigade Captain Honto, Third Brigade Captain Morimoto Palace and other middle-level officers were all killed, and more than 85% of the junior officers above the rank of captain were also killed, and more than 4,000 soldiers were killed

In fact, although the results of the national army were great, the losses were far higher than those of the Japanese army, with more than 50,000 casualties, including 28,000 casualties in the Fifth Army and more than 27,000 casualties in other units (blocking troops).

With two pieces of data, Mo Enemy shook his head, fighting for his life, fighting for more and less, it is really not a big victory, on the other hand, the battle by the Anhui River is much more artistic, and on the fifteenth day, he has not injured a single person, and has beaten Liu Maizai to madness.

As expected by the thin monkey, Liu Maizai immediately applied to Liu Zuoxin in Anqing for artillery support. Just when Liu Maizai was looking forward to the arrival of artillery reinforcements, the bad news came that the artillery had been ambushed in Hongpu. Although the infantry artillery squad did not die, most of the shells they brought were blown up, and when they arrived at Jiangjiazui, each of the four infantry guns had only eight shells. Liu Maizai decided to use these 32 shells to carry out an infantry artillery coordinated operation to cross the river, and made careful calculations for this purpose. When the three boats set off from Jiangbei, the infantry artillery began to fire. The infantry artillery was really violent, and the shells smashed on the river beach on the opposite bank, smashing out deep pits one after another, smashing into dusty and wolf tracks. When the three ferries arrived in the center of the river, Liu Maizai found that a group of soldiers with sacks on their shoulders ran down from the river beach, quickly rushed to the river, found a shell crater at random, and swung the sack forward, which was a natural skirmisher bunker.

The three boat souls flew out of the body, directly fighting in the center of the river.

One was still judging the situation, turned around and rowed back, one went down the river, quickly out of the battle circle, and the other was perhaps dizzy, and rushed to the other side of the river.

Zhao Jin made a gesture not to shoot, and he couldn't stop the eager brothers. As they got closer, they could see more and more clearly, and only those who were lying in the bunker realized that the people on the boat had put their guns on the boat, their hands raised above the top, and only a few captains were struggling to move the boat.

Zhao Jin pressed down with both hands, asking everyone not to move, he stood up and shouted to the ships that were getting closer and closer: "Welcome brothers, I am Zhao Jin, do you know my brothers?" ”

"Yes!" Someone on the boat shouted: "I know you, you may not know me, I am Deng Goumao, you are the company commander of the third battalion." I am the leader of a battalion, a company, and a platoon, and now I am a platoon commander of a battalion, a company, and a platoon. Chief Zhao, even if we don't know you, we have all heard of you and know that you are a good man, so we all came to you and begged the chief to take you in. ”

Zhao Jin laughed and said, "My own brothers, what do you say to take in, see you outside, let's eat together, why not." ”

The ships to the south and the ships to the north docked almost at the same time, Liu Maizai did not pay attention to the ships on his side, but looked at the ships on the south bank of the river from a distance, and saw that there were no gunshots on the south bank of the river, and when he saw a lively welcome scene, his heart was dripping blood. This is a platoon, a fully equipped platoon, fled back from Gaohebu, and there was only a battalion commander Li Fugui and a limited number of dozens of people, relying on these dozens of people as seeds, and two more battalions were raised, and now Liu Jin continued to be stationed in Gaohebu with three battalions, he brought one battalion and two battalions to Shipai, originally counting on this battle to play a little momentum, play a little hope, and beat all the bad luck of the past, maybe Zhao Jin can be captured back and rebuilt. As a result, he killed a platoon for the first time, fought again, and surrendered another platoon, and he came to make up for Zhao Jin!

As soon as the troops came ashore, they were just in time for Huaining County Magistrate Hu Jishan to come to the labor army with the squire, and it turned out to be the best top snow tribute cake, which made a group of puppet soldiers look stupid, this is a good thing that the emperor can eat at that time, top snow tribute cake, white and soft, not dry or damp, crisp and delicious, sweet and pleasant. The thickness of the cake is uniform, twisting and pushing like a card, the curved roll is like paper, the ignition is combustible, and the entrance melts. I can see that the eyes are straight, and the cheeks are drooling.

Zhao Jin pulled Deng Goumao to Hao Wenbo and Hu Jishan, and introduced to them that this was Deng Jiumao, the commander of the uprising platoon, who led the whole platoon to revolt and abandon the darkness to the light. Hao Wenbo was overjoyed, pulled Deng Jiumao over, looked anxious, drooled and said: "I will promote you to be the company commander, and you will find a way to go to the other side and pull two more platoons over." Hu Jishan was much more literate, and spoke a lot of Chinese that Deng Jiumao couldn't understand a word, and asked Deng Jiumao to bring their rebels over to sit down.

Deng Jiumao heard Zhao Jin introduce them as rebels, and said that he knew that good days were coming, surrender and uprising, the same action, but the meaning was very different, and the treatment was very different, he just wanted to save a life, and now it seems that this life is not only saved, but also can live very well, thinking of this, he glanced at Zhao Jin with gratitude, and had the intention of regenerating his parents.

Eating the tribute cake sent from the south bank of the Yangtze River, smelling the fragrance, taking a bite is delicious and delicious, the people in the guard camp are full of praise, Luo Wei thinks that this is the cloud cake in Liuzhou, Guangxi, but the raw materials are slightly different, and then the sweetness is slightly inferior. Not a year, the old folks of Shipai actually made a batch of tribute cakes for them to taste, and this affection was felt. Some of the soldiers hid the tribute cakes they had given them a little, which was a good thing, and they were reluctant to eat it all at once.

Soon, the results of the battle spread to Jiangbei, and a platoon of uprising teams was played, the news made the thin monkey laugh so much that he almost fell, Anqing is too good in this place, these puppet soldiers are simply a group of mixed food, where there is food, they will go, there is no sense of justice and national spirit at all, the first element of their life is to live, even if it is to live.

In their eyes, the difference between being a puppet army and being a national army is similar to that of the warlords of the year. These dogs don't know, is this a matter of life and death for the survival of the nation? Zhong Liang scolded: "It's really insulting my personality to fight against these people!" ”

Luo Wei laughed and patted Zhong Liang on the shoulder, he was very impressed by Zhong Liang's opinion, instead of playing with the puppet army here, it is better to go back to Guangxi and fight to the death with the Fifth Division.