...The Japanese 13th Field Division is preparing to evacuate from the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong base area.
At first, it was only under the deliberate instruction of the old devil Buntaiichiro to promote it like this. Who would have thought of promoting it more? This idea actually grew uncontrollably from the bottom of Buntaichiro's heart.
Lieutenant General Buntaiichiro felt miserable!
In this Shanxi battlefield, the Sixth Division was first lured deep into the enemy by the so-called secret aviation base of the Eighth Route Army and fell into an encirclement. After finally breaking out of the encirclement, it shed countless layers of skin. The troop casualties were unprecedentedly heavy.
Then he went to Niu Dao Man and was defeated in Huangya Cave.
Then Taiyuan was besieged.
When the Shanxi battlefield changed overnight, in the Inner Mongolia area, the Japanese troops occupying the Eighth Route Army's oil fields were suddenly surrounded by the 35th Route Army. On the surface, the 35th Route Army fought together with the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army. In fact, it was a tacit agreement to exchange positions, and the Eighth Route Army went to intercept The Japanese logistics are gone.
At the same time, the field group composed of the First Army and the Third Division on the Shandong battlefield was swept away with the assistance of the remaining troops of the Twelfth Army. The various base areas of the Eighth Route Army that had been swept earlier showed little resistance at all, and the Japanese easily penetrated into the core area.
As a result, overnight, a large number of main forces of the Eighth Route Army emerged from the rear to cut off logistics and communication lines. The Eighth Route Army's solid defenses were everywhere. The firepower was also fierce. They even began to intersperse and divide the field groups that dispersed into the base area. It was also chaos.
Buntaiichiro was quite cautious and steady.
As a result, they fell into the Eighth Route Army's trick. During the advance to the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong base area, a large amount of coarse grains were seized, which caused serious health problems for the soldiers after long-term consumption.
Buntaichiro was almost depressed because of this.
I agreed to set off from eastern Hebei to sweep the Eighth Route Army's Central Hebei Military Region. After the center was opened, I would cooperate with the mobile troops of the First Army to advance from western Shandong through southern Hebei to the north of central Hebei. The Zhangjiakou troops broke through the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area and then headed south to the Taihang area in Shanxi. The Twelfth Army's mobile forces defeated the main force of the Taihang Eighth Route Army and then moved eastward, encircling them on all sides.
The result was good.
Except for his own troops, the troops on the other three sides were nowhere to be seen.
Commander Okamura didn't even know how he commanded.
It was agreed that the May Day raids would go straight to the Central Hebei Military Region and destroy the Eighth Route Army's depots. It turned out that this was also the aviation base of the Iron Triangle, the arsenal of Huangyadong, and a large oil field in western Inner Mongolia.
You are making fun of me, Buntaiichiro, for your love. Are you kidding me?
In the end, only his 13th Division went deep into the battle alone.
After the Eighth Route Army's Operation Sky Collapse was launched, under a comprehensive counterattack, not many of the troops that originally planned to cooperate with the 13th Division to encircle the Jizhong Military Region came.
Jingxing was lost, the SJZ troops went back, and the Baoding troops went to reinforce Shanxi, leaving Buntaiichiro alone.
As a cautious and steady battlefield veteran, Buntaiichiro can settle accounts better than anyone else.
He knew very well that without the support of these field groups who were familiar with the Chinese battlefield, relying only on the main force of his 13th Division, plus the security divisions brought from China, which were almost all new recruits and veterans who had enlisted for the second time, would not be able to do anything at all. It is possible to complete the sweep of such a large area in central Hebei.
In the past few days of confrontation, he gradually felt the strength of the Jizhong Eighth Route Army troops.
perhaps……
"For us right now, how to evacuate safely is the primary consideration!"
As for Okamura's raid order.
"Let him go see Amaterasu!" Buntaiichiro scolded fiercely.
Of course, this is what he said when he complained. In fact, Buntaiichiro did not dare to disobey the headquarters' orders at will.
The old devil was also unwilling to give in.
Unwilling to be deceived by the Jizhong Eighth Route Army, tortured by coarse grains, and subjected to such humiliation, they could only stop fighting and choose to retreat.
He began to make preparations.
On the one hand, this old boy was unambiguous. He first asked the local security forces, security forces, and traitor armed forces to prepare to evacuate, and spread the news everywhere that the imperial army would withdraw immediately.
Then let the security divisions from the country begin to concentrate their forces, pretend to evacuate, and secretly let the troops of the 13th Division seize the retreat points, build fortifications, and hit them head-on when the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong troops came to pursue them.
These damn Eighth Route Army must be taught a bloody lesson.
Winning another victory before the evacuation could demonstrate the strength of his 13th Division and the skill of his command, Buntaiichiro.
When the Third Division, Sixth Division and Ushijima Division were all defeated, only his 13th Division calmly evacuated after penetrating the outer lines of the Jizhong base area and seizing a large amount of supplies and food. , and also used false evacuation to severely damage the Eighth Route Army.
Regardless of the outcome of this May Day sweep of the final empire.
The 13th Division is always the victorious division, and Buntaiichiro always has a bright face.
After using this trap to defeat the pursuing troops of the Jizhong Eighth Route Army, and then alternately covering the evacuation, Buntaiichiro believed that this could avoid the sacrifice of his troops to the greatest extent and end the battle calmly.
On the other hand, Buntaiichiro got in touch with Okamura’s headquarters and clearly stated in the communication:
"The 13th Division's sweep of the Jizhong Base Area is progressing smoothly. It has now pushed to the center line and has achieved many results in constant battles.
However, more and more main forces of the Eighth Route Army are constantly gathering towards the Jizhong Military Region, but the empire's reinforcements are still missing.
If this continues, our 13th Division will be unable to support itself and will be in dire straits. Please give us tactical guidance, Commander-in-Chief! "
To put it bluntly, what Buntaichiro means is that if the reinforcements promised by your commander-in-chief don't come, I will run away!
Oka Cun, who was based in Peiping, panicked when he heard this. This time he launched a May Day raid, with the fundamental goal of destroying the Jizhong Military Region, the Eighth Route Army's military station.
As a result, the battle gradually evolved to this point.
The Japanese army has suffered many defeats in a row. If the unprecedented scale of the May Day raids ends like this, the North China Front Army will probably lose all face.
Okamura was not reconciled. He felt that he could still save him for a while.
This was his last stubbornness as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China!
Right now, he couldn't care less about the Eighth Route Army's Huangyadong Arsenal or the elimination of the Iron Triangle base area that he hated most.
Okamura has only one order:
According to the original plan, reinforcements will be sent to Jizhong to encircle, and the Eighth Route Army Jizhong Military Region must be defeated in one fell swoop!
The order was quickly conveyed to all parties, including the Ushijima Manchu headquarters, which had just led some elite members of the Ushijima Division to break out from the Huangyadong area in embarrassment.
And in the Iron Triangle base area, the Sixth Division, which was blocked all the way and was severely damaged, retreated to break through the headquarters.
There are also the Twelfth Army units in Shanxi and the First Army units in Shandong.
According to the old Japanese Okamura's vision, he has decided to give up all other targets and just concentrate his forces, ultimately pointing at Jizhong.
The goal of destroying the Jizhong Military Region can finally be achieved!
Unfortunately, it was too late.
If Okamura starts from the May Day sweeps, he will be able to figure out his own strength.
The Ushidao Manchu Division did not suffer heavy losses in the Huangyadong area, the Sixth Division was not nearly wiped out in the Iron Triangle base area, and the 11th and 12th Army did not suffer any casualties during the sweep.
He might still have a chance at stud.
A wonderful showdown started in the Jizhong Military Region.
It is a pity that Okamura has already lost most of his capital due to the successive defeats of the Japanese army.
After his order was given quickly.
After all, it was the commander-in-chief's order. The various mopping up troops immediately turned around and tried to advance in the direction of Jizhong.
However, he was soon blocked by the Eighth Route Army troops along the way.
Faced with this unprecedented large-scale raid by the Japanese army, the soldiers in various base areas of the Eighth Route Army shared the same enemy and were united as one.
What you think is dazzling is the Iron Triangle Force on the stage, the main force of the 129th Division, and the main force of the 120th Division.
What you think is exciting is that the Iron Triangle Armored Forces in the Western Inner Mongolia region defeated the Japanese armored forces, the 120th Division surrounded Taiyuan, and the 129th Division's Operation Tianbeng defeated the Sixth Division and the Ushijima Division.
But in fact, the stage for the confrontation between China and Japan is composed more of those revolutionary heroes and anti-Japanese martyrs at the grassroots level who are unknown but fought to the death.
The various units of the Eighth Route Army were also going crazy this time, attacking from multiple fronts. As long as the Japanese passed by the base area, they would use all their tricks on the little Japanese, and use all the money they had hoarded for many years.
There was even an abnormal situation in which the main force of the Eighth Route Army attacked more and more reinforcements, and the supplies became more abundant.
Many local main force regiments, county brigades, and guerrillas, after clearing out the Japs in their defense areas, all came to help, carrying supplies seized from the destroyed strongholds. There were even puppet troops who escorted the logistical supplies and surrendered.
The common people who had their hearts set on the Eighth Route Army were also helping secretly, providing transportation and intelligence transmission. They were very busy.
Although the Japanese army was strong, there were so many Eighth Route Army soldiers and civilians in all base areas.
Just as Kong Jie proposed back then, each base area should be built to the point where all the people are soldiers.
Now it really comes true.
The little devil soon fell into the vast ocean of people's war, and it was difficult to move forward.
Not only that, with the efforts of the comrades of the Camouflage Bureau of a team, even the communication signals have been continuously interfered by the Eighth Route Army since various Japanese troops entered the Eighth Route Army base area.
Sometimes it was blocked, and sometimes it was a lot of junk messages, which made the Japanese army dizzy and unable to carry out normal communication at all.
As a result, once the Japanese mopping up troops were dispersed, they would not be able to communicate in a timely manner and reinforce each other.
The Eighth Route Army troops took the opportunity to carry out division and encirclement operations.
In this way, the combat troops that Okamura had been waiting for to reinforce Jizhong failed to arrive on time, and only a very small number arrived.
The reasons given are basically the same:
Along the way, they were blocked by the main combat troops of the Eighth Route Army. The reinforcements suffered heavy casualties and were forced to withdraw to the county town, unable to send reinforcements to central Hebei in time!
In fact, some of this is indeed the case.
There are also some shrewd Japanese officers who have seen the situation clearly. They are not as persistent as Commander-in-Chief Okamura.
It would be good to be able to successfully avoid the crisis and escape from the Eighth Route Army's encirclement and interception.
For example, Major General Ishikawa, an escape expert and commander of the Japanese Third Mixed Brigade.
Ishikawa has always been ridiculed as an escape expert.
But what about this time?
The Kwantung Army's Ushijima Division suffered heavy losses from the Eighth Route Army in the Huangyadong area. Under the leadership of the old Japanese soldier Ushijima, they rushed out in embarrassment, with less than 30% of the team remaining.
Facing the Eighth Route Army troops who were chasing after him, Ushijima was completely confused for a moment and didn't know where he was going to escape.
Ishikawa, who happened to meet Ushijima Mitsuru at this time, took advantage of Ushijima Mitsuru because they were both Imperial officers and graduated from the Imperial Army University. As alumni, he helped Ushijima Mitsuru.
He led Ushijima Mitsuru to the field group directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the field group directly under the 129th Division, the 385th, 386th Field Group, and the Iron Triangle Mobile Field Group. They outflanked the left and right, and once encountered an obstruction, the puppet troops were lost. Abandoning wounded soldiers, discarding weapons, even breaking an arm to survive in the worst possible situation, all kinds of methods are available.
In this way, every time he was overtaken by the Eighth Route Army's pursuing troops, this old devil could always use various means to get rid of the pursuit.
Every time he was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, he could always skillfully lead his troops to escape from the encirclement.
The exquisiteness of commanding the troops to escape and evacuate all the way made Ushijima speechless.
In the end, the two groups merged their troops, bypassed Licheng, grabbed the road to Lucheng, and successfully retreated to their base in Changzhi.
Under the command of Major General Ishikawa, the Japanese troops evacuated quickly along the way, were decisive in choosing the evacuation route, and made precise judgments.
After some operations.
Even Ushijima Mitsuru, an expert in mountain warfare, was dazzled and even more impressed!
If he hadn't followed Ishikawa and escaped all the way this time, he wouldn't know what the situation would be like if he filled up the entire division!
Of course, the Ushijima Mitsuru reinforcements that Okamura Neji was looking forward to all the way ran steadily back to the rear.
Don't ask, the question is that there are too many blocking troops along the Eighth Route. In order to avoid greater sacrifices, our Ushijima Division has no choice but to withdraw. Please understand, Commander-in-Chief.
Not to mention the Sixth Division, which had already been scared out of their wits by the Eighth Route Army.
Even the division commander, Lieutenant General Guancun, would not have been able to lead the headquarters to break out if it had not been for the desperate protection of his chief of staff and brigade commander.
The reinforcements from all walks of life almost refused to save the Sixth Division, and they all rushed to rescue Taiyuan City.
Now that the crisis in Taiyuan has been resolved, Qinggang Village remembered and asked our Sixth Division to continue to reinforce Jizhong and cooperate in the battle?
As for the Japanese troops in the Taiyuan area, they were busy cleaning up the mess left after Taiyuan City was attacked by the 120th Division.
In addition, the transportation lines leading to Jizhong have basically been destroyed by the 120th Division while they were encircling Taiyuan.
It was simply impossible to send reinforcements to Jizhong in time.
In the end, when the news was passed to the headquarters, not many troops came for reinforcements.
Provisional headquarters of the 13th Division.
The leader of the Japanese division, Buntaiichiro, completely understood that there was no such thing as bullshit reinforcements.
It is impossible to destroy such a large place in Jizhong if you expect your troops to destroy it.
What he should consider now is how to evacuate his entire division's troops from the Jizhong base area.
The false news about the evacuation deliberately released a few days ago seems to have had an effect. The early evacuation of the Imperial Army, the garrison, the traitor armed forces, and the security army divisions indeed attracted the attention of the Jizhong Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army dispatched a large number of main troops to pursue them all the way, trying to attack the retreating Imperial Army and Public Security Army divisions.
Now he fell into Buntaichiro's trap.
Buntaiichiro took the opportunity to take action and launched an attack on the pursuing Eighth Route Army troops with the help of combat troops lurking in the fortifications built along the way...
(End of chapter)
