Chapter 301: Jin Northwest Battle 1
Noboru Kunisaki's idea of revenge on the 1st Reserve Regiment was rejected by Seishiro Itagaki, who decided that it would be useless to launch an attack on the 1st Reserve Regiment at this time.
However, considering that Noboru Kunizaki was his subordinate, Itagaki Seishiro gave him a little face, and Itagaki Seishiro sent a telegram to the North China Front in the name of the division headquarters, hoping that the North China side could authorize the Fifth Division to encircle and annihilate the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Yangqu County.
However, the North China Front rejected Itagaki Seishiro's request, and at the same time, the North China Front Army Headquarters called Itagaki Seishiro back that the Fifth Division participated in the Battle of Xuzhou!
A large number of Japanese troops entered Shanxi from Hebei by train, and these Japanese troops came to replace the Fifth Division as the garrison of Taiyuan.
In order to allow the troops of the Fifth Division to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese troops even took the initiative to abandon the garrison of some county seats.
As an elite infantry division, the Fifth Division will be involved in the Battle of Xuzhou, which will determine the fate of both China and Japan.
Chinese troops amassed hundreds of thousands of troops in Xuzhou in a vain attempt to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Xuzhou and other areas.
In the face of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, the Japanese base camp almost jumped for joy, and they knew very well that once these hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops were wiped out, then the Japanese army's operations in China would basically be over.
In order to be able to eat these hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, the Japanese army also continued to draw elite divisions from Central China and North China to participate in the war.
The battle between the two sides began to unfold, and this battle was destined to be an earth-shattering battle.
The 109th Division directly under the North China Front Army took over the garrison of the Fifth Division and other areas.
After the 109th Division came to Taiyuan, the Japanese troops were very peaceful, and they did not carry out any action against the troops of the 120th Division.
But the headquarters of the North China Front was not idle, they were planning to strike at the Jin Sui army troops in southern Jin.
The days of preparing the first regiment were very comfortable, and he realized that the Japanese army had never attacked Yangqu County, so Sun Weiguo directly set up his regimental headquarters in Yangqu County.
The battalions under the First Reserve Regiment began to recruit soldiers and train troops, while Sun Weiguo was studying the establishment of a special combat team directly under the regimental headquarters headed by Zhang Junjia and others.
Sun Weiguo himself served as the captain of the special combat team, and the special combat team had one special operations group and four sniper groups under its jurisdiction. Zhang Junjia is the leader of the special operations group, and the four leaders of the sniper group are Yang Tiezhu, Zhang Zhuojia, Han Wei, and Kang Fei.
In order to enable the sniper group to undertake combat missions alone, Sun Weiguo specially reorganized the sniper group, and the sniper group was changed from the original three snipers to two snipers and one submachine gunner.
The special operations group is composed of three submachine gunners, and at the same time, Sun Weiguo requires that the three submachine gunners of the special operations group must be proficient not only in the shooting of submachine guns, but also in the shooting of various weapons, and the training of the special combat team is personally in charge of Sun Weiguo.
In the following days, the 1st Reserve Regiment carried out active training, during which the 1st Reserve Regiment transferred some troops to participate in the battle of breaking railways and highways, and in these small-scale battles, the 1st Reserve Regiment performed very well and was commended by the commander of the 120th Division.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was February, at this time, the North China Front was united with Central China to send troops to open the Jinpu line, and the Japanese troops began to gather heavy forces to attack the Chinese troops entrenched in the Jinnan area, and the Japanese army tried in vain to destroy the Chinese troops in the Jinnan area.
The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army immediately ordered the troops of the 120th Division to fight in response to the troops of the Jinsui Army in southern Jin, and then the troops of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army gathered the main force to cooperate with the troops of the Jinsui Army, and the Japanese troops were continuously attacked by the troops of the 120th Division, bringing irreparable losses to the Japanese army.
The troops of the 1st Reserve Regiment did not participate in the battle to cooperate with the Jin Sui Army, and the 1st Reserve Regiment was always stationed in Yangqu County.
Their existence brought pressure to the Japanese army in Taiyuan, and it also contained a part of the Japanese army in Taiyuan.
Yangqu County, in the regimental headquarters of the first regiment.
Sun Weiguo walked in from outside covered in mud, and it was already late February, and a few days had passed.
"Regiment commander, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram that the Japanese army in Datong and the Japanese army in Fenyang had an abnormal movement, and it seems that the Japanese army intends to take action again."
Seeing Sun Weiguo walking in from outside, Chief of Staff Zhao Lerong immediately came to Sun Weiguo with a telegram, and he said in a solemn tone.
Sun Weiguo came directly to the map, he looked at the map, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.
"The 120th Division should fight in response to the Jinsui Army's troops, which will anger the Japanese troops, the Japanese army will definitely take action in order to plan the action in the south of Jinnan, according to my judgment, the Japanese army is probably going to attack the northwest of Jin, this is the foundation of the 120th Division, occupying various counties in the northwest of Shanxi, the Japanese army will be able to make the 120th Division troops have no foundation, and even they will force the 120th Division to cross the Yellow River west." Sun Weiguo pointed to the location of the northwest of Jin on the map, and he said with a solemn expression.
"Regiment commander, according to what you said, the Japanese army will indeed take action in the northwest of Jin, if this is the case, the main force of the 120th Division is currently fighting in the south of Jinnan, once the Japanese army launches an operation, I am afraid that the troops will be beyond the reach of the whip." Zhao Lerong said very nervously.
"Send a telegram to the headquarters of the 120th Division and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the name of the regimental headquarters to report on the possible direction of the Japanese army's attack." Sun Weiguo immediately gave the order.
The radio immediately sent the message, but it was too late.
At the same time as Sun Weiguo sent electricity, the Japanese troops had already begun to take action, and the troops of the 26th Division of the North China Front Army stationed in Mongolia had begun to be mobilized.
The 26th Infantry Regiment is subordinate to the 26th Infantry Regiment, and below the 26th Infantry Regiment, there are three infantry wings, and the 26th Division is the earlier three-wing division of the Japanese army.
Commanding the troops this time was the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, Major General Kuroda Shigetoku, who divided his troops into three routes and began to attack the northwest of Jin.
The first Japanese army was the 11th Wing of the Japanese Army, which set out from Shuo County and successively captured Ningwu County, Shenchi County, Baode County,
The second Japanese army was the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army, which set out from Jingping Town and successively captured Biguan County and Hequ County.
The third road is the three cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army Li Shouxin, who marched south from Suiyuan Province, captured Qingheshui Town, and entered Biguan County to meet with the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army.
In addition to the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, the 109th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Taiyuan and other areas also began to attack in two directions, in response to the 26th Division.
The 69th Wing of the 31st Brigade of the 109th Division was accompanied by two mountain artillery brigades, and they marched along the railway from Taiyuan to Fenyang.
The 109th Wing of the 118th Brigade of the 119th Division was dispatched from Wenshui County, and they captured Gujiao County, north of Taiyuan.