1184 True campaign objectives
Yu Xiaohou was a famous anti-Japanese general of the Northeast Army.
After the September 18 Incident, the Northeast Army was basically dismantled and incorporated into the ranks of Chiang's army, and the commander of the Northeast Army, which remained the largest, was Yu Xiaohou.
From the Battle of Songhu to the Battle of Taierzhuang, and then to the Battle of Wuhan, there are Yu Xiaoyuhou and the Northeast Army led by him.
It can be said that Yu Xiaohou made great contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
If there was anyone in Chiang's army who was most eager to defeat the Japanese.
Probably there is no one who can compare to the filial piety.
When the September 18 Incident broke out, the Northeast Army's failure to resist led to the fall of the three eastern provinces, and the people of the whole country were indignant and scolded the Northeast Army for being spineless, which was a deep shame for the Northeast Army generals like Yu Xiaohou.
Therefore, after the 918 Incident, Yu Xiaohou led the shameful and courageous Northeast Army to actively resist Japan and regain his homeland.
The hometown of the white mountains and black soil is the place where he has always dreamed.
After the 918 Incident, I don't know how many days and nights, he dreamed of the scene of the Iron Horse Glacier, and he led the Northeast Army to fight back to the Northeast, recapture his homeland, and drive out the Japanese invaders.
However, after waking up from the dream, everything was empty after all, only full of indignation and rolling tears.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Xiaohou led the Northeast Army to take charge of the coastal defense of Shandong, guarding against the long advance of the Japanese army, and later he served as the commander-in-chief of the Lusu guerrilla theater, commanding the 51st Army and the 57th Army, and also fought with the Eighth Route Army troops who also resisted Japan in the area of the Lusu border to jointly deal with the Japanese invaders.
Yu Xiaohou's conduct is upright, he doesn't like any deceitful politics, he just silently guards the land and dedicates his own strength in this war of resistance against Japan.
For the troops of the Eighth Route Army who fought side by side, Yu Xiaohou expressed his admiration.
"This is indeed a rare and truly anti-Japanese team!"
So as Fu Yisheng said, if there is really such a stage to beat the Japanese invaders, Yu Xiaozhong thought about it, and he probably would not refuse.
As an old fox, how could Commander Fu not notice Yu Xiaohou's psychological changes, he even jokingly threw an olive branch and said:
"On the Shandong side, the Eighth Route Army has also carried out very good anti-Japanese operations behind enemy lines, Brother Xiaohou, if you are willing, I can build a bridge and match, and the two sides will further strengthen the anti-Japanese joint operation!"
They are all smart people, and they say that they are united to resist Japan, but if they can go further, this Yu Xiaohou may be the next Fu Yisheng.
However, Fu Yisheng knew Yu Xiaohou's temperament, and it was just a joke, if these three or two sentences could impress Yu Xiaohou, he would not be Yu Xiaohou.
Sure enough, Yu Xiaohou declined the proposal with little hesitation.
"If the young marshal were here, he might agree with Yigong's suggestion, but if it's just me Yu Xiaohou, I don't have the right to make a choice!"
After all, he was still worried about the safety of the young marshal in prison.
"That's it, let's not talk about this, Brother Xiaohou, then I'll invite you to enjoy a big drama of beating the Japanese invaders!" Fu Yisheng said with a smile.
With Commander Fu's order issued in an orderly manner, in the direction of Mongolia, the Morita Chariot Division was fiercely attacked by the 35th Route Army.
In addition, with the aerial firepower of nearly ten squadrons of fighters reinforced by the Eighth Route Army, if there were no other accidents, the old devil Morita's team was basically finished.
…… On the side of the 14th Division, the battle lasted until the afternoon.
After defeating the main forward force of Major General Sakamoto of the 14th Division, Kong Jie's main guerrilla force, the 1st Guerrilla Army, immediately narrowed the ambush circle and began to encircle and annihilate Sakamoto's forward troops.
The main regiment of the 386 Brigade Division, which Lao Jiang and others cooperated in the operation, began to dynamically compress with the main armored forces with the cooperation of assault guns and anti-tank destroyers.
The chief of staff of the old devil Sakamoto who stayed behind to block the palace looked at the troops that were maneuvering in all directions, and the more he fought, the more he felt unconfident.
In particular, I saw the intelligence information of the Eighth Route Army's combat vehicles given by the intelligence department, which stated that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with 120 howitzer assault guns, as well as anti-tank destroyers equipped with Type 90 field guns.
But it is clear that the Eighth Route Army also has a larger body, which is clearly not an assault gun and an anti-tank destroyer with a chassis of the 97 medium battle.
Seeing this scene, the old devil suddenly became a little desperate.
The blocking troops could only be ordered to disperse and deploy on the defensive line in the situation of squadrons, and block the offensive of the Eighth Route Army with the most primitive flesh and blood.
Lao Jiang, Lao Feng and others watched so many armored vehicles cooperate with the joy of fighting, and the feng shui took turns, and finally the devil tasted the power of the armored force.
With the cooperation of the Hound Squad observation post that was lurking in the early stage, the assault guns took the lead in firing at the anti-tank gun and artillery positions of the devils, and then the tanks began a full-scale attack with the cooperation of the infantry.
The heavy battalion of the first echelon quickly received fire, and the Devil's Type 90 heavy anti-tank gun and the 47-mm Type 1 anti-tank gun desperately fired cross-fire, but all of them were ricochet, and under the watchful eye of the chief of staff of the Devil, the Eighth Route Army tank guns overturned the Devil's anti-tank positions one by one.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army applied for ground attack aircraft support, and under the attack of rocket teams, aerial artillery, and small bombs, the Japanese defense line was completely blown up.
Hitting the back, the Japanese army could only continue to dispatch death squads to charge when the mountains and rivers were exhausted.
Those little devils also died one by one, and they rushed towards the chariot of the Eighth Route Army with explosives bags and grenades strapped to their bodies.
It is a pity that the various tanks of the Eighth Route Army were equipped with a lot of machine guns.
The officers and men of the Eighth Route Army, who have always had a fear of scarcity of firepower, were eager to load the chariot with guns in all directions, and they were simply a big hedgehog full of fire.
Wave after wave of devil death squads, before they rushed halfway, they were basically gone.
Occasionally, three or two of them were fierce enough, desperately wounded, and sent the grenade shells tied to the body near the Type 42 tank, and then exploded with a bang.
However, the charge of these grenade shells used by the little devils, including the anti-tank grenade shells, is too small, and if they are not tied to the corresponding explosion point position, they will not be able to blow up the Type 42 tank of the Eighth Route Army at all, and at most blow up the tracks.
After rushing like this a few times, I realized that this was a devil who brought about his own destruction, and he was about to collapse.
After a morning of fierce fighting.
Sakamoto's forward troops, except for those who attacked the junction and retreated to some isolated hills, were basically wiped out.
The armored forces of the Eighth Route Army began to advance in depth.
Two days after the fighting.
The scope of activities of the Inoue Division was narrowed from a county to a village area.
The strikers and reserves were almost completely wiped out.
There were not many troops left of the rear army that broke through.
After listening to the gunfire for two days, the old devil Inoue had long lost his original high-spirited appearance, his eyes were red, his face was full of stubble, and he looked like a dry bone in a grave.
In the past two days, all he has received are farewell telegrams from the headquarters of various brigades or wings.
Soon after, these brigades and even the wing command completely lost contact.
How it ended is almost self-evident.
The sad old devil Inoue couldn't wait to immediately lead the last troops to rush out and fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army, but after all, he didn't have the courage and confidence.
Inoue cowered on the top of the hill, unable to help his outer defense troops at all, the shells were almost exhausted, and the most desperate thing was that the reinforcements were nowhere to be found.
As for what the General Headquarters said: The logistics and transportation lines of the Eighth Route Army have been completely intercepted by the aviation units, and the front-line combat units of the Eighth Route Army have certainly run out of ammunition and food, and they can completely drag down the Eighth Route Army only by delaying.
It's just a fart!
Inoue hated and wanted to kill.
Which idiot is this intelligence gathered?
In the past few days of offensives, these Eighth Route Army fought fiercely one by one and had abundant physical strength, how could they have the appearance of running out of water and food?
Not long ago, Inoue had led his troops to capture a small position of the Eighth Route Army, and he had seen with his own eyes some of the strange but obviously food packages discarded by the Eighth Route Army.
This shows that the Eighth Route Army has long been well prepared in terms of logistics, and there has never been a situation where water and food have run out of food at all.
The confrontation is at this time.
Commander Fu's 35th Army had already pursued the remnants of Morita to the area occupied by the devils in Mengdong, and the vanguard had already entered the Chahar area with the assistance of the Daqingshan Base Area and the Jireliao Base Area.
The strength of the devil's area is almost out of the nest with Morita, who would have thought that the army was defeated like a mountain, and there was no large number of reserves in the rear, and there was no power to stop the 35th Army.
Yu Xiaohou followed Fu Yisheng forward, and saw the common people along the way to welcome him, and there were local cadres of the Eighth Route Army everywhere to help replenish supplies, cook, and build camps.
This is also the first time that the Chinese army has fought back since the Northeast Army withdrew from Chahar.
But I didn't expect it to be in this way, in this situation.
Fu Yisheng looked at the late-moving devil pioneer group, as well as the local security garrison, and the members of the puppet government, and said to Xiaohou: "Relying on diary writing to drive away devils, I'm afraid that it won't be completed in the Year of the Monkey."
But with the Eighth Road, now we have arrived in Chahar, although we will return after this battle, but after we have installed and debugged the captured industrial equipment and resumed military production, we will soon be able to regain this place, start a tug-of-war with the devils, and completely consume them! ”
Yu Xiaohou was silent again, why didn't he want the Chinese army to fight back to the northeast one day earlier.
Fu Yisheng said with a smile: "Brother Xiaohou, I know you have doubts, so let's do it, if you have the opportunity another day, I will take you to the base area of the Eighth Route Army, especially to the Eighth Route Army Experimental Military Region, and you will understand why I, Fu someone, would make such a choice!" ”
Yu Xiaohou nodded a little incomprehensibly.
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After successfully defeating the troops outside the city and seizing a large number of baggage and weapons and equipment, Yangyuan besieged the remaining devils near the administrative building of the original Japanese puppet army in the county seat.
Lao Pi took the rangefinder and learned to command the artillery in a decent manner, and the old Gao Le of the northbound detachment said: "I said Lao Pi, you took it backwards, the reading is here!" Even if you're pretending, you have to do some homework, right? ”
Lao Pi scolded and said: "Just look at it, it's not a real report, hurry up, assemble the Type 98 270mm mortar that Inoue sent me to me, put two guns, and the Propaganda Department will take a camera to shoot me a little more majestic!" ”
Lao Gao: "......"
After the last defending Japanese troops in Yangyuan were completely besieged, the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army had no way to retreat.
Inoue fought hard for a day.
In the evening, however, it was not the airdrop that had been requested.
Instead, Harada sat in the Yanggao County Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, wearing a hat of the Eighth Route Army and posing for a photo, and the photo also said Hello comrades of the Imperial Army!
Then there is the photo of Nanchita's subordinates attacking the fortifications outside the north gate of Zhangjiakou, which looks as if they have won a great victory.
Inoue is so angry, air support is not good, reinforcements did not come, but supported Yanggao, Zhangjiakou went.
It wasn't until the fifth day of the confrontation that someone on the devil side realized that something was not quite right.
Originally, everyone thought that the Eighth Route Army was just bragging and engaging in the old routine of encircling points to send reinforcements, so they thought of ambushing the 14th Division as a pretext to attract reinforcements from various units of the Imperial Army, and then wait for an opportunity to send reinforcements.
However, although the 14th Division and the reserves outside Yangyuan City had been defeated, the main force of the Chinese army was still there, and after a day of melee, some troops of the rear army broke through the encirclement, regrouped and moved closer to the vicinity of the Chinese army.
It stands to reason that after the Morita mobile force that returned to Sui to advance was dealt a devastating blow by the 35th Army, almost all the troops were annihilated, and the remnants of the troops even gave up Houhe, and retreated to the area of Mengdong.
The Eighth Route Army had obviously achieved considerable results and completed the set campaign objectives.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army was on the battlefield of Yangyuan, facing the 13th Division of the Imperial Army attacking the Huaxiao Battalion, the 101st Division attacking the western part of Yangyuan, and the 35th Division in Yanggao, which had formed a huge encirclement.
Under such circumstances, why didn't the Eighth Route Army withdraw its troops and accept it when it saw it?
The first to find out that something was wrong was the old devil Bun Taiichiro of the 13th Division.
After his troops marched to Huaxiao Battalion, they were blocked by the Eighth Route Army and became stronger and stronger, and even the mobile troops of the two wings began to outflank in a roundabout way, but they were blocked back by the mobile troops of the Eighth Route Army.
After a day of fighting, there was no progress, but the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was getting stronger and stronger.
"Something is wrong, this is very wrong, how could the Eighth Road spend such a big price to send reinforcements? They seem to be holding on to the death, buying time for the battle in the Yangyuan area! ”
He immediately recruited the remaining troops of the 14th Division who were stationed in the Huaxiao Battalion, and they transferred the materials of the Huaxiao Battalion to the rear.
Only then did I find out that most of these cans were spoiled, and only the top batch was edible.
- This is clearly a trick of the Eighth Route Army, deliberately paralyzing the judgment of the Imperial Army.
Buntaiichiro immediately realized that the tactical intention of the Eighth Route Army was probably to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division!!
This made his heart thump for a moment, and he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly reported his findings to the commander-in-chief.
On the other side, Harada had a whim, and after the black tiger successfully occupied Yanggao County, he walked around the city proudly, randomly opening the materials in the warehouse of the Eighth Route Army to see if there was any fraud.
It turned out that the supplies were all good, so he immediately arranged for the soldiers of the 101st Division and his own division to start a celebration banquet.
A group of people wore military hats of the Eighth Route Army, took pictures at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and said hello to the comrades of the Imperial Army!
When he received a call from Wen Taiichiro in the touting of a group of officers, he was stunned, the rear road and logistics base of the Eighth Route Army were all beaten down by him, why didn't he retreat? Dare to ambush reinforcements?
He immediately secretly said that something was wrong.
When Bun Taiichiro proposed that perhaps the real strategic intention of the Eighth Route Army was to set a trap in the Yangyuan area to encircle and annihilate the Inoue Division in one fell swoop.
Harada, who was shocked, smashed the porcelain bowl in his hand with a click.
A thought that Harada didn't dare to think about at all came to his mind.
If the Eighth Route Army really wiped out the Inoue Division, the situation would be too bad, and it would be an absolutely devastating blow to the Imperial forces.
What worries him even more is that if even the Inoue Division is not the opponent of the Eighth Road, it will even be wiped out by the whole army.
The butcher's knife wielded by the Eighth Route Army, will he be the next target?
You must know that in order to sneak attack in the direction of Datong this time, he even offended Kong Jie, who is known as Kong Jie with the nickname of shaving his head.
Thinking of this, he was excited, and immediately arranged for his subordinates to transfer the materials and prepare to converge with the 101st Division to retreat to Yingxian.
Of course, Inoue still has to go to the rescue, so send a partial division with an artillery wing to listen to the sound of artillery for Inoue and arrange a few more radio stations to shout.
The rest of the action will wait for him to successfully converge with the main force of the 101st Division.
Otherwise, this reinforcement will become a death!
It is difficult for you to imagine what kind of sadness and helplessness a country without the pure dedication and patriotic spirit of the great ancestors will be, we can only remember them and remember them forever in the bottom of our hearts, what a pain!
(End of chapter)