As for why Jiang's army was defeated so badly in the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi, there is naturally a reason here.

The main reason is that Chairman Jiang wants to preserve his strength.

On the one hand, on the battlefield behind enemy lines, the confrontation between the Eighth Route Army and the main force of the Japanese North China Front Army intensified, and the chairman of the committee still wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

If this were the case, the chairman would wake up laughing in his dreams.

On the other hand, the United States, Britain, and other allies are implementing the concept of fighting first in Europe and then in Asia, and they have to settle the war in Europe first, and then deal with the war in Asia.

Therefore, effective military assistance to the Nationalist Government has been almost non-existent for most of the past six months.

Chairman Chiang was naturally not happy when he saw this situation.

The United States always didn't come to help, but let my Central Army go up on its own, didn't this just want me Jiang to lose his troops and lose his generals?

Naturally, the chairman of the committee could not do this kind of thing that made his relatives bitter and enemies happy, and he did not want to shift the focus of the Japanese army's operations against the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines to his Central Army.

The chairman of the committee is eager for the US military to replace him and the Central Army to fight the devils on the front line.

Thereupon......

After the outbreak of the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi, although the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee particularly strengthened the defensive forces of the Third Theater, he even mobilized nearly 300,000 troops before and after.

However, the Nationalist Government was bent on preserving its strength, and also wanted to rely on Britain and the United States and other countries to deal with the Japanese army, so that when the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi reached a critical juncture, the chairman of the National Committee suddenly issued an order for the troops to retreat, passively resist, and avoid the decisive battle of Quzhou.

Based on past experience, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee preconceived that after the Japanese army occupied Quzhou, it would choose to retreat, and in this way, Chiang's army would only lose some territory, but it could save examples and wait for the United States and Britain and other countries to take action, continue to sit firmly on Diaoyutai, and wait and see the death battle between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army behind enemy lines.

The end result is:

The Japanese army drove all the way in, almost devastating, and encountered little effective resistance at all.

The devils conquered the city, destroyed a large number of military airports, and plundered a large number of young people and resources, achieving their strategic goal of "feeding war with war".

In addition, the Japanese army successfully completed their pre-war plan of "destroying airfields to prevent the US army from bombing the Japanese mainland".

In the whole campaign, the Japanese army killed and wounded more than 70,000 people, and the military and civilian casualties totaled more than 200,000, and the combat strength of the third theater suffered serious losses as a result.

In the whole battle, the Japanese military offensive went smoothly, and the international countries were surprised, the Eighth Route Army was stunned, and the Jin Sui Army and the 35th Route Army sighed.

Even the little devil himself felt like a dream.

The whole military operation went smoothly and it was simply unbelievable.

Later, in the diary of a Japanese officer who participated in this battle after the war, he wrote the following paragraph:

"After the battle broke out, the middle *** was far more unbearable than we thought, and there was basically no active resistance along the way.

In the operation of our army to open up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, the first in this aspect did nothing, blindly retreated, and our side did not even lose a single soldier, and completely completed the task of opening up.

Since then, the trend of the Chinese army has become more negative, but considering the turn of our army, our army took the opportunity to advance, rapidly expanded the results of the battle, and completed the great victory of this campaign."

After the war, the chairman of the committee also regretted this, but he didn't expect that the little devil would get so much.

Of course, that's all for later.

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Monsi area.

The two generals, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong, led the rapid reaction force directly under Taihang, as well as a team of armored corps, successfully completed the combat mission and successfully defeated the Nanzhi Tank Brigade active in the Mengxi area.

and cooperated with Commander Fu's 35th Route Army to take Baotou, the base camp of the devil's army in Mongolia.

The two generals became famous in this battle.

The armored units of the Eighth Route Army also

It's just a blockbuster.

After the news broke, the entire North China, the entire Chinese battlefield, and even the international parties were shaken.

At this point, the battle between the two sides is far from over.

Under the command of the newly appointed division commander, Lieutenant General Shigetoku Kuroda, the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Datong, and in accordance with the order of the commander-in-chief of the North China Front, Okamura Ninji, all the mobile units of the 26th Division were temporarily transferred and a mixed mobile brigade was cobbled.

Lieutenant General Kuroda's abacus played well.

He was ready to command the mobile troops of his 26th Division, and after the Nanzhi Armored Brigade had gained an advantage, he would take the opportunity to enter the battlefield and expand the results of the battle, if he could successfully insert into the junction of the Eighth Route Army and the 35th Army, and attack the Hetao area on both sides with the Baotou garrison.

Not only can the mobile troops of the Eighth Route Army that appeared in the Mengxi area be wiped out in one fell swoop, but they can also take the opportunity to take the Hetao area and inflict heavy losses on the 35th Route Army in one fell swoop.

As a result, Lieutenant General Kuroda never imagined that, as the elite of the Empire, the commander of the armored brigade, he commanded the most elite tank units in the Empire.

Nanji would have been defeated so quickly!

Even the mobile units of the 26th Division, which quickly arrived, did not have time to react at all.

In the end, when the 26th Division's improvised mixed mobile brigade rushed to the battlefield day and night, it accidentally collided with an armored unit led by Li Yunlong on the way.

Li Yunlong had just led his armored troops at that time to defeat a tank squadron of the Nanzhi Chariot Brigade, and he was leading his troops to pursue all the way, preparing to expand the results of the battle!

News came from the motorcycle reconnaissance platoon:

"Report to the head of the regiment, there is a large mobile force of devils coming towards us from the east!"

Li Yunlong was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Is it the devil's chariot troops?"

The reconnaissance platoon commander replied on the walkie-talkie: "Regiment commander, it's not like the chariot unit of the Nanzhi Brigade, it seems that the situation is a little devil coming from the direction of Datong, although they are a mobile unit, there are not many tanks and armored vehicles in the mobile combat vehicle.

There were more trucks and cars in the team, and there were also a lot of devil cavalry.

There are a lot of troops, one piece of black oppression, at least one or two wings."

When Li Yunlong heard this, he was happy.

"Haha, damn it, someone brought us a pillow when we were sleepy!

Lao Tzu ordered that we should not chase the chariot troops of the escaped devils, and we can't lose watermelons in order to chase sesame seeds.

All the chariots rushed directly to the east, and with a frontal charge, they directly crushed the mobile force of this devil who rushed over!"

After the encounter between the two sides began.

It's basically a one-sided slaughter.

There was no danger to defend in this prairie, and the mixed mobile brigade of the 26th Division was hurrying, and the battle broke out in the surprise of the devils.

The level of armor and combat effectiveness of both sides is not at the same level at all.

On the Japanese side, it was only a temporary mixed mobile unit from the 26th Division, and there were not many tanks and armored vehicles attached to the team.

Speaking of which, the mobile units of the 26th Division originally had more combat vehicles, but after the surprise attack of the mobile units of the Eighth Route Army on Datong, the 26th Division's accumulated family funds for many years were captured, and the level of armor declined sharply, which was the embarrassing side in front of the eyes.

The makeshift mobile units were mostly trucks, cars, motorcycles, and many primitive cavalry units.

The number of tanks and armored vehicles is extremely limited, and some of the older ones are still relatively old.

As for some of the newly equipped armor and tanks, according to the order of the command, they were temporarily transferred to the Nanzhi tank cluster.

On the other hand, on Li Yunlong's side, it was the most elite armored unit in the mobile unit directly under Taihang of the Eighth Route Army, although there was only one armored battalion.

When all modified tanks and armored vehicles, as well as all kinds of combat vehicles, launched an all-out attack under the roar and strafing of the additional artillery and machine guns, such a battle made the little devils who witnessed this scene at that time the scalp

Numbness, liver and gallbladder cracking.

It was just a wave of confrontations, and the devil's mobile brigade directly bombed the battalion.

When the few tanks and armored vehicles of the Japanese army were knocked out by the anti-tank guns and self-propelled guns on Li Yunlong's side at the first time.

The devil major who led the team didn't have time to complain, and hurriedly ordered a strategic transfer.

- Run!

If you don't run away, or even the danger of the whole army being wiped out, the combat effectiveness of the armored vehicles that these damn Eight Roads have at hand is simply terrifying.

He suddenly understood why the Nanzhi Brigade had been defeated so quickly.

The Japanese army's temporary patchwork is not a mobile unit of armored forces at all, and it is not much different from flesh and blood in the face of these torrents of steel.

But the problem is that even if you run away, it seems that it is difficult to escape.

Whether it is the two legs of a soldier, or the four legs of a war horse, or all kinds of vehicles, it is difficult to get rid of the pursuit of armored vehicles on the side of the Eighth Route Army.

Li Yunlong was so excited, this battle was really happy.

Under his leadership, the soldiers drove chariots back and forth to assault, strangled many times, and after pursuing dozens of kilometers all the way, the entire mixed mobile brigade of the devil was completely disabled.

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]

Come here!"

Kong Jiele said: "Lao Li, if you want to talk about this braggadocio kung fu, no one dares to admit the second if you think about it, ten or eight chariot clusters, you really dare to think about it!"

After a change of words, Kong Jie continued:

"However, after this battle, the armored units of our Eighth Route Army have completely made a reputation, and as long as the devils are sure that we are operating in the Mengxi area, there will definitely be new chariot troops to reinforce us.

Considering that the Nanzhi chariot cluster was destroyed by us, there are definitely only a lot of chariot troops sent by the devils."

"Haha, that Lao Tzu just killed him!" Li Yunlong said.

Kong Jie shook his head with a smile, and analyzed according to the actual situation:

"Lao Li, it's a pleasure, but if you really fight like this, our rapid reaction force directly under Taihang and all the armored troops are afraid that it will become history.

Before the start of this battle, we also discussed with the chief of the general and deputy chief of staff at the headquarters, this time our armored troops were able to achieve results in the Mengxi area, in the final analysis, it was still taking advantage of the little devil to underestimate the enemy and take the devil by surprise.

took advantage of the Japanese army's sweep.

But this time, we have completely exposed, once the devil has equipment, there will definitely be a series of combat means against our armored forces in the future.

With the strength of the little devil's military force, there will definitely be no shortage of bombers and fighters aimed at our armored forces, including the tank troops that will encircle and suppress us in the future.

Therefore, it can be said that this battle is the first battle in which the chariot unit of our Eighth Route Army became famous in World War I, but for a long time to come, I am afraid it will also be the last large-scale armored operation!

After this battle, we must change the strategy of the armored forces, temporarily disperse our armored forces, and assign them to the front line to support."

Li Yunlong didn't know the situation, he was just unwilling, and finally sighed.

"Damn, one day the armored troops belonging to our Eighth Route Army will really grow, and there will be no need to be tied up like now, and we will have to kill him when the time comes!"

Kong Jie smiled, "Don't worry, one day we will do it."

"But...... Lao Li, although the withdrawal and dispersal of our armored forces will definitely be unavoidable, it does not mean that we have to do this right now.

Since this is our first and last battle.

Naturally, it's time to have a good time.

How about we him again?"