7.23 First Arrival in the 5th Theater of Operations

In order to fill the vacancies of officers in various departments as soon as possible and set up the structure of the 25th Group Army before leaving for Xuzhou, Huang Haoran could only dig the foothills of the 99th and 139th Divisions of the basic troops. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The old 99th Division, which was formed before the start of the Anti-Japanese War, was carefully cultivated by Huang Haoran and the German advisory group. After half a year of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many of the officers and men of the old 99th Division already possessed the tactical qualities to serve as officers or to be promoted to higher ranks.

Drawing people from the officers and men of the new 99th Division and the 139th Division, which were separated from the old 99th Division, to fill the vacancies of officers in the new unit is the most direct and effective method at present!

The officers and men of the 99th Division and the 139th Division can basically be promoted to two to three levels after they reach the 121st Division, 187th Division, and 188th Division! It is more than enough for ordinary soldiers of the 99th Division and the 139th Division to serve as squad leaders in the new unit, and as for the third-level officers of the squad platoon company after they arrived in the new unit, all of them were promoted to two levels and directly became the platoon company battalion commander!

Huang Haoran vividly called the behavior of the 99th Division and the 139th Division in sending combat backbones and officers to the units of the same group army as "blood transfusion"!

After the 121st, 187th, and 188th Divisions were replenished with high-quality "fresh blood" from the 99th and 139th Divisions, their combat effectiveness was significantly improved!

In fact, since the 99th Division was upgraded to the 99th Army, Huang Haoran's troops have been using this method of "blood transfusion" to replace officers in new units and fill in the shortage of officers.

Because Huang Haoran adopted the "shadow army" model when the 99th Division was first formed, he has always maintained two sets of command systems and made a certain talent reserve. Therefore, in the early stage of the army expansion, the side effects of this "blood transfusion" army expansion were not reflected.

However, with the increasing number of "blood drawings" from the 99th and 139th Divisions, and the relatively serious losses suffered by these two basic units in the Nanjing battlefield. The problem has finally exploded!

Anqing's large-scale expansion once again caused the 99th Division and the 139th Division to "bleed", and the strength of these two divisions was inevitably weakened!

In the just-concluded all-army shooting competition of the 25th Group Army, the excellent shooting performance rate of the officers and men of the 99th and 139th Divisions dropped to an unprecedented 37 percent, and you must know that this figure was never lower than 95 percent before the start of the Anti-Japanese War! And also the results of the test with the artillerymen!

During the period when the 99th Division was expanded into the 99th Army and retreated to the Changshu defense line, the officers and men of the 99th Division and the 139th Division also maintained an excellent shooting performance rate of more than 70 percent!

That is to say, the quality of the soldiers of the 99th Division and the 139th Division is far inferior to the original 99th Division!

The cruel reality made Huang Haoran realize the seriousness of the problem! If the 25th Army continues to "draw blood" from the 99th and 139th Divisions in this way, then maybe after the Battle of Xuzhou, Huang Haoran's 25th Army will become an ordinary army!

The 99th and 139th divisions will no longer be worthy of the title of ace troops!!

The combat effectiveness of the units of the 25th Army is becoming closer to each other! The reason for this phenomenon is not due to the rapid growth of the combat effectiveness of the new units, but to the sharp weakening of the combat effectiveness of the old units!

That's not a good thing!

Huang Haoran didn't want to train an ordinary central army! There are too many such troops in China......!! On the battlefield of Songhu, under the city of Nanjing! On the Shandong Peninsula! Those armies that were beaten by the Japanese and were embarrassed are!

The army that Huang Haoran wants to bring out is an invincible elite!

The speed of the 25th Army must not be sacrificed at the expense of the combat effectiveness of the "ace troops" in exchange for the speed of the formation of the 25th Army! Huang Haoran would rather take a few fewer divisions to Xuzhou, and he must not watch the 99th and 139th divisions become second-rate!

After consulting with Fan Jie and the German advisory group, the act of "drawing blood" was immediately terminated! Huang Haoran also transferred 2,000 elite soldiers who had recovered from injuries from the Wuhan Supplementary Regiment to the 99th and 139th Divisions, and also took special care of the 99th and 139th Divisions when distributing new recruits.

The officers and men of the former Tax Police Corps of the supplementary regiment have outstanding tactical literacy and have received American-style training, and they quickly adapted to the combat mode of the 99th Division and the 139th Division.

The 25 Army formed a teaching regiment directly subordinate to the command of the army group. Huang Haoran let Feng. Ritchie's gang of Germans took on the task of training officers for the 25th Army. Promising soldiers and officers in each unit will be sent to the training corps on a rotational basis for three months. After a period of time in this way, when several batches of training regiment cadets graduated and joined the 25th Army, the problem of lack of officers would be completely cured! Huang Haoran's "Ace Troop Construction Plan" will also be on the right track!

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The day after Huang Haoran left Lushan, the highest authorities organized a court-martialed trial of Han Fuqu. Minister He served as the presiding judge, Lu Zhonglin and He Zaijun served as judges, and Jia Huanchen and others served as military judges.

Han Fuyu, who was sitting in the defendant's dock, was pale, obviously he had already guessed his end.

Minister He was the first to ask: "You did not obey orders, retreated without authorization, forcibly extorted donations from the people in Shandong, embezzled public funds, confiscated people's guns, forced smokers to buy opium, etc., these many crimes have been verified, do you have anything to defend?" ”

Han Fuyu never looked up to answer, and several jury judges could only take turns to fight, but Han Fuyu still didn't say a word, and the trial was ultimately inconclusive......

At around 7 p.m. on January 24, a spy walked into Han Fuqu's bedroom and said to Han Fuyu, "Presiding Judge He, please go and talk. Han Fuyu believed it, so he got up and went downstairs with the spy. When he was halfway down, he found that the courtyard was full of heavily armed sentinels. Han Fuyu immediately understood that this time he was dying!

Han Fuyu, who wanted to slip away, lied to the spy who went downstairs with him: "I have small shoes on my feet, and I have some squeezed feet, so I will go back to the room and change my shoes." As he spoke, he turned around, and as soon as Han Fuyu took a step upward, the agent standing on the stairs shot him in the head. The first shot was not accurate, Han Fuyu turned his head and said, "You hit my chest ......" Before the words were finished, gunshots rang out continuously. Han Fuyu was shot twice in the head and five in his body, and fell on the stairs with his back facing the sky. This year, Han Fuyu was exactly 48 years old......

After Han Fuqu was shot, the Chinese army was extremely shaken! This is exactly what the highest authorities want! He killed Han Fuqu to boost the morale of the 5th war zone and hold on to Xuzhou for a few more months!

At 10 o'clock in the morning of January 27, the new order given by the Wuhan Military Commission to the 25th Group Army arrived in Anqing, and Huang Haoran's troops were officially included in the operational sequence of the 5th theater!

At 12 noon, Huang Haoran received an order from Chief Li!

At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the vanguard of the 25th Army, Chang Wenyi of the 659th Regiment of the 121st Division, embarked on the journey to the 5th theater!

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In order to capture the important town of Xuzhou, the Japanese army concentrated about 240,000 troops in eight divisions and five brigades. Divided into two routes, north and south, from Nanjing and southern Shandong will attack Xuzhou, in an attempt to complete a north-south siege! Then march west along the Longhai Road, annihilate the Chinese army between Zhengzhou and Wuhan, and take Wuhan in one fell swoop!

The commander of the Japanese army on the southern front was General Shunroku Hata, and because the Central China Front, under the leadership of the former commander Matsui Ishone, invaded and occupied Nanjing, and created the "Nanjing Massacre" that shocked the world, under the pressure of public opinion at home and abroad, the Japanese army base camp had to withdraw to Matsui Ishine, and Shunroku Hata took over as the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army.

General Shunroku Hahata was a rare "enlightened faction" in the Japanese Army. In his eyes, the war that Japan has launched in China has reached the time when it is time to "take it when it is good," and if it continues to penetrate deep into China's hinterland, Japan will be very dangerous.

General Shunroku Hata, who was now in control of the Central China Front, could have ordered his soldiers to stop the offensive, but both the North China Front and the main battle faction in Japan wanted to continue the expansion of the war and completely ignored the attitude of General Shunroku Hata.

General Shunroku Hata once sent a special envoy to report to His Majesty the Emperor about the situation on the mainland, the future of Japan, and changes in the international situation. Emperor Hirohito also vetoed his proposal. Now it is said that Shunroku Hata will participate in a war that he is very reluctant to get involved in.

The Japanese army on the southern front had a total of three divisions and about 80,000 troops, and successively crossed the Yangtze River from Zhenjiang, Nanjing, and Wuhu to the north.

After the main force of Fujita's 3rd Division captured Chuxian, it advanced northward along the Jinpu Road to the vicinity of Xuyi and Zhangbaling; The other part captured Yangzhou, and then attacked the line of Shao Bo and Tianchang to cover the Zhenjiang defense line. Yoshizumi Ryosuke's 9th Division captured Yuxikou and marched north along the Huainan Railway to Chaoxian and Quanjiao, in an attempt to go straight to Bengbu.

The initial progress went smoothly, so that Shunroku Hata thought that it would be easy to capture Bengbu! Unexpectedly, when the Central China Front opened to the south of Mingguang, it encountered fierce resistance from the troops of the 5th Theater. Commander Li deployed Li Pinxian's group and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army in this area, and used the terrain of the Huai River, the Huai River, and the Hui River to intercept the Central China Front of Hatake Shunroku, and the two sides fought a bloody battle for many days, regardless of victory or defeat. The Central China Front is blocked here, and it cannot take a step beyond the thunder pool. Annoyed, Shunliu Hata mobilized a large number of reinforcements and heavy weapons such as tanks and field artillery from Nanjing, and stormed the Mingguang area!

Another Central China Front attacked north from Pukou, and soon after passing Chuzhou, it was heavily damaged by the 31st Army of the "Gui Army" Liu Shiyi in the areas of Zhangbaling, Sanjie, Jiashanji and Lotang.

Liu Shiyi's 31st Army took advantage of the unique mountainous terrain in this area to make frequent attacks, dismantling the railway, and preventing the Central China Front from attacking north.

The 31st Army is a descendant of Chief Li, and the "Gui Army" is famous for not being afraid of death when fighting a war. In terms of the military system, Guangxi Province has adopted a military service system, advocated a martial spirit, and has a relatively sufficient supply of soldiers. The Gui Army attaches great importance to the role of squad leaders, conducts all kinds of training for squad leaders, and focuses on enriching the actual experience of leading troops and combating them, resulting in the fact that the commanders at all levels in the unit are too old, but the troops are very combative. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army was a little afraid of the Gui army, and was impressed by their brave and tenacious rigidity and perseverance.

The "Gui Army" has an offensive spirit in the offensive, and the firepower organization, troop movement, roundabout encirclement, and coordination are all very tight. It is flexible in defense, and has a unique style in fortification construction, firepower development, reserve use, mobile attack and white-knuckle combat.

Seeing that the problem could not be solved by relying on ground forces alone, General Shunroku Hata summoned planes from the Army Aviation to bomb the positions of the 31st Army in turn, causing heavy losses to the 31st Army.

The 3rd Division then launched several group charges, capturing Zhangbaling, Sanjie and Shaheji.

Liu Shiyi dared to skip others and commanded smartly. When the Japanese army occupied Zhangbaling, Sanjie and Shaheji, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat and set up an "empty city plan" in the Mingguang area. The 31 officers and men knew that this was Liu Shiyi's tactic of "avoiding reality and making up for nothing," and their retreat was in an orderly manner.

After the 3rd Division advanced to Luoling, it sent the vanguard to Mingguang City to test whether there was the main force of the Chinese army. The 31st Army was hidden between Mingguang City and Magang and Weigang. The vanguard of the 3rd Division did not find any trace of the 31st Army and directly entered Mingguang City.

After the dark curtain fell, the 3rd Division was burying pots and cooking rice, camping and making beds, and Liu Shiyi led the main force of the 31st Army to suddenly kill. For a time, the gunfire was loud, and the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the 3rd Division was terrified. The battle lasted all night. Most of the Japanese troops in Myeongguang City were annihilated, and only one hundred and nine people escaped, and the 31st Army regained Myeongguang.

Chief Li was excited when he learned that his "Gui Army" had won successive battles! So he called to congratulate the 31st Army, expressing his pride in the Guangxi soldiers under his command.

The commanders of the 5th theater were elated, but Chief Li remained sober, he was not carried away by the victory of the 31st Army.

After the victory in the battle of Mingguang, Chief Li clearly realized that the 3rd Division suffered losses in Mingguang because the Japanese planes could not play a role in night battles. If the battle had taken place in the daytime, the Japanese planes would have bombed indiscriminately, and it was still unknown whether the 31st Army could win!

The 3rd Division, which suffered a loss, will soon carry out a frantic counterattack, this is the character of the Japanese!

In order to prevent the 31st Army from catching up with the Japanese army, Chief Li ordered Liu Shiyi's army to take the initiative to withdraw from Mingguang, get out of the way of the Jinpu line, so that the Japanese battle line was lengthened, and then it was convenient to annihilate it section by section.

Liu Shiyijun was ordered to withdraw from Mingguang. As expected, the Japanese 3rd Division sent 5,000 men and horses, with the cooperation of aircraft, to launch a fierce attack on Mingguang City. How did they know that after consuming a lot of ammunition, what they got was an empty city!

The 3rd Division pounced on Mingguang with the momentum of a hungry wolf, but it was empty and did not capture Li Pinxian's main force. Then the 3rd Division captured Dingyuan, Huaiyuan and other places, but it also gained nothing.

At this time, the 31st Army, which had retreated westward, followed the instructions of Commander Li and attacked eastward from the left side of the 3rd Division, cutting the enemy on the Jinpu Road into several sections and encircling and annihilating them.

The rear road of the 3rd Division was suddenly cut off, and the division commander Fujita Jin suddenly panicked, and the 3rd Division could only desperately attack the 31st Army without knowing the bad luck.

Commander Li then ordered all units in the 5th Theater to adopt the tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the enemy retreating and advancing to accompany the Central China Front Army in circles and firmly stick to the Jinpu line.

On January 28, the Japanese troops of the Central China Front marched north from Mingguang in three routes, intending to conquer Bengbu and forcibly cross the Huai River. Commander Li discovered the Japanese army's attempt and ordered the 1st Division of the 25th Group Army, which had just arrived from Anqing to the 5th Theater, plus Liao Lei's 21st Group Army, to quickly go to the Bengbu area.

As soon as the 25th Army arrived in Bengbu, it gave the Sixth Commander of Hata Jun a dismount!

Huang Haoran directly invested in his most combat-effective 99th Division and 139th Division!

Huang Haoran deployed the 99th Division and the 139th Division to conceal the front line of Zhangdian, Guzhen, Liuji and Huji north of Bengbu, and with the help of German advisers, the 99th Division and the 139th Division completed a perfect camouflage! The Japanese reconnaissance planes in the air did not find a single soldier of Huang Haoran!

When the Japanese army attacked, Huang Haoran's attacks came from all directions like raging waves, surrounding the Japanese army solidly!

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the battle was dark and inseparable. The grenades of the 99th and 139th Divisions fell on the heads of the Japanese troops like raindrops, and black smoke billowed and sand and stones flew across the battlefield. As soon as the Japanese machine guns stopped firing, the officers and men of the 99th and 139th Divisions jumped out of the trenches and rushed forward with submachine guns and bayonets in rows.

Huang Haoran ate a brigade of the six generals of the 6th Hata Army in the first battle in the 5th war zone!

Liao Lei's 21st Group Army was a "Gui system" unit, and Chief Li was handy in commanding it. When the 25th Army encircled the Japanese attacking troops, the 21st Army was not idle, they launched a counteroffensive against the Japanese army!

After this unexpected battle, General Shunroku Hata realizes that he has met a fierce enemy!! According to the news fed back by the combat troops, General Shunroku Hata learned that Huang Haoran's 25th Group Army suddenly appeared in the Huaihe area!

The six generals of Shun Hata were shocked!

The name Huang Haoran has brought too much shame to the Central China Front! After the Battle of Nanjing, the Japanese Army believed that the 99th Army had lost at least 7% of its combat strength even if it did not collapse! According to the inference of the base camp, Huang Haoran and his 99th Army will not be able to pose a threat to the imperial army for at least half a year!

The information on the expansion of the 99th Army into the 25th Group Army has long been grasped by the Japanese intelligence agencies, but General Shunroku Hata did not expect that Huang Haoran could form a new unit so quickly!

What surprised the sixth general of the six generals of Hata Jun was that Huang Haoran actually appeared in front of the Central China Front with this newly established group army!

Looking at the information of the 25th Army collected by the intelligence agency in his hand, in addition to the familiar numbers of the 99th Division and the 139th Division, General Shunliu Hata also saw unfamiliar numbers such as the 100th Army, the 187th Division, and the 188th Division!

Could it be that the Wuhan government reorganized their Central Army into Huang Haoran's new army? Otherwise, how could Huang Haoran pull out a group army in only half a month?

Didn't Matsui Shigen say that Huang Haoran's 99th Army had already suffered heavy losses on the battlefield of Nanjing? With the understanding of the Chinese army by General Shunroku Hata, even the elite troops of the Wuhan government will fall into a complete collapse under the loss of 60% of the troops! Could it be that Matsui Shigen failed to destroy even half of the strength of the 99th Army in Nanjing?

The doubts of the six generals of the six generals of Hata Shun are the chances of Chief Lee!

In order to ensure the security of the Xuzhou area, Commander Li ordered Sun Tongxuan's troops (formerly Han Fuyu's 3rd Army) to advance east of the canal and attack the Japanese strongholds in Jining and Wenshang to contain the enemy's main force.

With the strong intervention of Huang Haoran's 25th Army and Liao Lei's 21st Army, the Japanese army in the south chose to rest and recuperate.

Huang Haoran decided to take advantage of this opportunity to train his troops, and under his instruction, the 187th and 188th Divisions, two newly formed divisions, took the initiative to attack the Japanese army in local areas, and launched raids and harassment operations in the Huaihe area and the Central China Front under the sixth general of General Hata Shunliu. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )