Chapter 14: Advanced (32)

Mall, chaos.

Zhang Guangwei doesn't remember how many times he quarreled with the army commander Mo Shujie. The focus of the quarrel was the Japanese army's attack on Jingfu and Huangchuan. In Zhang Guangwei's view, since the Japanese army dared to come, they set up a position and met the battle. But Mo Shujie's view is different, in his opinion, letting the enemy in, it is bound to smash some of his own pots and jars, rather than fighting with the opponent on the inner line, it is better to exchange fire with the opponent on the outside line, even if the battlefield is rotten, it is someone else's territory, and it has nothing to do with himself. Zhang Guangwei judged the situation and insisted on his own point of view, the Japanese army in the north, south, west Taihu Lake, Hefei Mall, and the three armies converged to attack Dabie Mountain, and at this time should be the main defense rather than the main attack, although the inner line battle will suffer a small loss, but the important thing is to protect the territory without loss. Mo Shujie thought that Zhang Guangwei was too conservative and did not want to forge ahead, so he asked the headquarters of the 21st Group Army for instructions on the decision-making of the upper peak. Zhang Changchun, deputy commander of the 21st Group Army, who received the order, also had a strong conflict of opinion with Zhang Gan, who was in charge of military affairs, on this issue, and the focus was the same, as a local, Zhang Yichun cherished the jars in his hand even more, and without thinking, he strongly supported Mo Shujie to go to the outside line to fight and not let the battlefield erode his own jurisdiction. Zhang Gan is biased towards Zhang Guangwei, and at this time, it is better to defend than to attack.

The result of the argument was to ask Li Pinxian of Xi'an for advice.

Li Pinxian's call back was simple and crude: Zhang Yichun was in charge.

As a result, the soldiers of the 84th Army divided into two routes, and under the leadership of Mo Shujie and Zhang Guangwei, they took the initiative to meet the enemy respectively. Niu Bingxin's 174th Division faced Huangchuan under the leadership of Mo Shujie, Zhang Wenhong's 189th Division met Jingfu under the leadership of Zhang Guangwei, and as for the mall, Liu Fang's 173rd Division, which was stationed at the southwest gate of Lihuang, was transferred to assist in the defense, leaving only a lone army of the 517th Regiment on Lingyun to garrison Banzhuyuan.

Less than half a day after the 84th Army left the camp to meet the battle, the news reached Guilin. Holding the telegram, Yang Bin asked Mo Di what he thought of the next development. Mo Di thought about the telegram for a long time, and said to himself: Entangled the 48th Army, pulled the 7th Army, transferred the 84th Army, who else has the strength to fight?

"Liu Heding's Thirty-ninth Army." Wu Tingjun replied quickly, these days, he followed the map every day, and the enemy and friend arrangements around Dabie Mountain were well memorized.

"Liu Heding's Thirty-ninth Army!" Yang Bin gasped, this army has no strength to fight. Yang Bin, who was in turmoil in his heart, no longer paid attention to the discussion of the invincibles, and trotted all the way into the confidential room, he wanted to report his views as soon as possible, he believed that the entry point of the Japanese army's attack on Dabie Mountain was neither Hefei, nor a mall, nor Taihu Lake, but Luotian, Tengjiabao, and Liu Heding's 39th Army.

As soon as the boss leaves, the venue will be chaotic, smoking for smoking, peeing for peeing, and bragging about the New Year, just like a vegetable market.

"Liu Heding's 39th Army, it is not an army at all!" Wu Zhongjian said to Mo Di and Wu Tingjun. Wu Tingjun asked Wu Zhongjian why he said this, and Wu Zhongjian told him that in the Yizao area, the Seventh Army and the 39th Army had fought side by side, and they knew the 39th. Speaking of which, this unit is also a part of the Gui army, but it is a miscellaneous card in the Gui army. Relative to the Central Army, it is a miscellaneous card in a miscellaneous card.

Hearing Wu Zhongjian's evaluation, Mo Di also became interested in the 39th Army and listened attentively. With an audience, Wu Zhongjian became interested and put on a storytelling frame: To tell a long story, in the Northern Expedition of the 15th year of the Republic of China, our army incorporated the remnants of Ma Xiangbin's division and Wu Xintian in Sun Chuanfang's "Five Provinces Allied Army", and combined them into the 56th Division, the division commander Zhang Yichun, which belonged to the Guijun system. In the spring of the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, Ning Gui broke up, and the division commander Zhang Yichun was driven away by Liu Heding, chief of staff of the division, and Liu Shangzhi, the brigade commander, and the troops were reassigned to Chiang Kai-shek, and Liu Heding was appointed as the division commander. In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, in the Battle of Songhu, Liu Heding led his troops to participate and fought well. After the war, the Central Committee assigned the 34th Division to the 39th Army, and Liu Heding finally got rid of the embarrassing situation of having only one division in an army. After that, in the Yellow River bombing Huayuankou, the Battle of Wuhan, and the Battle of Suizao, they all participated. After the establishment of the 11th Group Army, it was under the command of the 11th Group Army and the 84th Army, and once again became part of the Gui Army.

Sure enough, it's a miscellaneous card among miscellaneous cards!

After the Battle of Dahongshan, the Fifth Theater was adjusted, and the 34th Division of Gongbing Fan was transferred, and only one 56th Division remained in the 39th Army. After garrisoning Tengjiabao, the Fifth Theater thought that the 39th Army was indeed too thin, so it organized the personnel of the 38th Supplementary Training Office into the 51st Division, the division commander He Guangqian, and the 39th Army had two more divisions. It's just that the strength of this temporary 51st Division is not ordinarily poor, and Wu Zhongjian believes that he will definitely not be able to defeat one of his own regiments.

If the Japanese army chooses the 39th Army as the breakthrough point, Dabie Mountain will be more auspicious and less auspicious.

Sure enough, the news came, on the morning of December 26, with the cooperation of five planes, the main force of the Japanese Third Division surrounded Luotian County in three ways. Garrisoned in Luotian County was the 56th Division of Kong Haikun, and the Confucian Division stubbornly resisted, how could the enemy be strong and I was weak, and the battle lasted until the evening, and the county town fell. On the 28th, Kong Haikun collected the remnants and retreated to Banqiao.

The temporary 51st Division, which came from Macheng for reinforcements, did not know that the 56th Division had been defeated, so they hurried to reach Sunbu in the evening. When setting up camp, the division commander Lin Maohua kept an eye on it, and let the guard company and the baggage brigade stay in the camp, and the main force was stationed in Laotang Niche and Shilongtan, which were five miles away from the camp.

After the Japanese 3rd Division occupied Luotian, it sent the 4th Cavalry Brigade and the 6th Wing to attack Macheng, trying to annihilate the temporary 51st Division in the field. Late that night, the Japanese army arrived at Sunbu and resolutely attacked the camp despite the fatigue of long-distance people. As soon as I got in touch, I knew that it was an empty camp, and I knew that I had been fooled, so I didn't dare to carry out a night attack again. After dawn, the Japanese army discovered that the main force of the Provisional 51st Division was in Laotang Niche and Shilongtan, and the Japanese army, which had lost the first attack, had to launch a strong attack on the Temporary 51st Division.

The news of the Japanese army's attack on the Sunbu camp had already reached the division commander Lin Maohua, who knew that a vicious battle could not be avoided, but fortunately there was time to prepare in the middle of the night, although in a hurry, only simple fortifications were built, and the troops were simply deployed, but the 51st Division at least had the strength to fight back.

Seeing the Japanese 6th Wing attacking from the front, division commander Lin Maohua breathed a sigh of relief, defending against attacking, waiting for work at ease, there were fortifications, and there was enough firepower, although it could not win all, the strength of the first battle was still there. Unexpectedly, at noon, the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army came around from behind and attacked from both sides, and the 51st Division was defeated temporarily, and almost the entire division was destroyed.

On December 28, the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, which occupied Luotian, was personally deployed by the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Takahashi Tagaji, and invaded Dabie Mountain in three routes.

At this time, the battle of Taihu Lake had come to an end, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. The Aoki United, which came from the direction of Taihu Lake, was not far from Jinxi when they were attacked by Zhong Liang for the first time. In the Hanging Sheep Village and the Confession Valley, a platoon of Zhong Liang's department caught Kazuo Aoki off guard. Although Zhong Liang's attack did not cause much substantial damage to the Japanese army, it effectively slowed down the Japanese army's marching speed, allowing Zhao Xueliang, who was following behind, to bite the tail of the Aoki Wing. Zhao Xueliang fought aggressively and fiercely, almost annihilating the Japanese support brigade. Next, in Li Dudian, Xin Jiachong, and Zhong Liangbu, they carried out two more attacks on the Aoki United, and in these two attacks, Zhong Liangbu and Zhao Xueliangbu cooperated almost perfectly, and the results were huge. On the 28th, Kazuo Aoki arrived at Tianjiatan, and there were less than 800 men left in a wing.

Hou Quan is a goblin who knows what Kazuo Aoki wants, so he asks the local peasants to take Kazuo Aoki to the tomb of Tsukada and get the body out. After confirming that it was the 11th Army's Tsukada attack, Kazuo Aoki burned the corpse to ashes, found a jar to put it in, and returned to the dynasty on horseback. Hou Quan also planned to cause some trouble on the way back to Aoki Kazuo, but was stopped by Zhao Xueliang, Zhao Xueliang told Hou Quan that it was not the poor Kou Mo chasing, it was Liu Qinglong and Shi Zhong who put heavy troops on the way back, and waited for Aoki Kazuo to be caught, we were tired, take a break and see the excitement.

At this time, the Sekine United team has fallen into a place of no return. In a big battle with He Shusheng in Mida Temple, both sides were defeated. He Shusheng's 412th Regiment, reinforced by the troops directly under the 138th Division led by Li Benyi, played Li Benyi's style, and everyone was not afraid of death and moved forward bravely. The Guan Gen United lost their baggage, and they were caught between their hands and feet, and finally repelled He Shusheng, and when they planned to cross the river from Lengshui Bay to Tianjiatan on the opposite side, they were hit by Ouyang Jin on the opposite bank. Finally got rid of the trouble on the other side, continued to cross the river, and halfway through the crossing, he didn't watch out for Zhong Dingnai rushing out from behind, and the Sekine team was squeezed down the ditch. The repulsed Ouyang Jinbu reappeared on the opposite bank, and the two pairs fired indiscriminately at the Japanese troops in the middle of the river, and the Japanese troops fell into the water one after another. In the cold winter, the water was cold and the bones were cut, and the Japanese army was fluttering in the water, and after a while, they were lying stiff in the water. The remnants of the Sekine Wing knew that the Aoki Wing had found the bones of Tsukada Tsukashi, which was considered to have completed the task, and then looked at the ambushes one by one, and they didn't dare to stop for a minute, so they turned around and ran back. He Shusheng's 412th Regiment was full of wounded soldiers, worried that the Japanese army would be trapped and fighting, so he did not dare to intercept it, and watched the Sekine Wing leave. When the Sekine Wing returned to Huangmei, they learned that the stronghold had been destroyed early, and with the reinforcement of Qin Lianfang's Eastern Hubei Column, Pan Demin repelled the Japanese army and successfully broke away from the battlefield. Retreating to the Yangtze River, the Guangen United, which had stopped, had time to count the heads, and after counting, there was a loud cry of sorrow, and a wing crossed the river to the north, and only more than 400 people escaped.

Just when the Japanese army's attack on Luotian began, Su Zuxin felt the threat from the west, and quickly transferred the 414th Regiment of Wei Jiebo, which was stationed in Qianshan Meicheng, to the military headquarters, and at the same time ordered the mobile troops of the 176th Division to return to Shengoupu under the leadership of Wu Tinghuan. On the 28th, Wei Jiebo's department and Wu Tinghuan's department arrived at Shengoupu.

As soon as he arrived at the deep ditch shop of the military headquarters, he found that there were already soldiers here, and when he saw the arrival of Wei Jiebo's department and Wu Tinghuan's department, Su Zuxin almost jumped up with joy. It turned out that at noon today, a Japanese army suddenly appeared at the Eastern Boundary Ridge at the junction of Huoshan and Yingshan. Garrisoned in the eastern boundary ridge was the Huoshan Security Regiment, and the two sides fought, and the Japanese army had a limited number of people and retreated. An hour later, the Japanese troops who had received reinforcements came to the East Boundary Ridge again, and the Huoshan security guards were caught off guard and retreated in embarrassment. The personnel of the military headquarters of the 48th Army formed a mobile unit and went to intercept it under the leadership of Guan Shanyue. With the cooperation of Li Baicheng of the artillery regiment, the Japanese army retreated after burning the grain depot of the 48th Army at Zhongjieling. With Wei Jiebo's department and Wu Tinghuan's department, the security of the military department has been greatly improved, how can Su Zuxin not be overjoyed. Ordered Wei Jiebo's Wu Tinghuan Division, Li Baicheng's Division, and Guan Shanyue's Department to form a defensive force and go to the area of the Eastern Boundary Ridge to deploy defenses.

The sudden attack scared Su Zuxin out of a cold sweat. Zhongjieling is only four miles away from the deep ditch, which can be described as under the eyelids and on the side of the couch.

"Is Luo Tian very close to the deep ditch shop?" Yang Bin asked Mo Di.

Mo Di shook his head, eighty kilometers is not too close.

"There is a big road to connect you?" Yang Bin asked again.

Mo Di nodded and said, "The big post road from Yingshan to Huoshan has existed since ancient times. The deep ditch is next to the big post road. Not far away is the Manshui River, which is a large market town on the ancient post road. ”

Yang Bin nodded, found the Manshui River on the map, drew a circle at the location of the deep ditch, and asked, "Is there a road leading to Lihuang from the Manshui River?" ”

Mo Di replied: "Yes, I have walked this road, although it is a lofty mountain, the mountain road is crooked, but the road is not small, can pass carriages and pack horses, is the main post road of Lihuang to Yuexi Qianshan Meicheng. ”

Yang Bin marked this road on the map and said: "Tianzhong, do you think that the Japanese army on this road happened to come to Shengoupu, or did they come here intentionally, to find trouble with the 48th Army, or for something else?" ”

Mo Di thought for a while and said, "It shouldn't be a coincidence, it was intentional, but it wasn't deliberately looking for trouble with the 48th Army, they didn't dare." I guess the Japanese army wanted to explore the road and find a way from the Manshui River to Lihuang. ”

"To Lihuang!" In the office, everyone froze!

The best way to go from Luotian to Lihuang is to pass through Tengjiabao, where the 39th Army is stationed, and then enter Songzi Pass, enter Wujiadian, or enter Changling Pass, cross Banzhuyuan, this road should be the main offensive line of the Japanese army. However, finding a way to attack on the side is the operational thinking in the bones of the Japanese. Yang Bin seemed to understand something, and immediately dictated the message and reported it to the imperial court.

Zhang Yichun of Lihuang was basically able to determine at this time that the target of the Japanese army this time was not Taihu, not Luotian, not Huangchuan, not Lu'an, but Lihuang.

When the 4th Cavalry Brigade and the 6th Wing of the 3rd Division quickly arrived at Tengjiabao and occupied the headquarters of the 39th Army after annihilating the 51st Division on 30 December, Zhang Yichun knew that he had fallen into the center of the typhoon. Only then did he realize how wrong he had made by transferring the 84th Army to the periphery. Mo Shujie was urgently ordered to rush to the aid of Lihuang, and transferred the 21st Group Military Police 2nd Regiment, Police 3rd Regiment, Lihuang Self-Defense Brigade and Bao 4th Regiment to take over the second line of defense of Lihuang - Songzi Pass.

However, Zhang Yichun miscalculated again!

Just when the battle was set up in front of Songzi Pass, the battle started at Wengmen Pass, which was twenty kilometers away from Songzi Pass. The attack on Wengmen Pass was the main force of the 3rd Division, based on the 68th Wing, with troops directly under the division and regimental headquarters, and the Lu Tian Detachment headed by Major General Lu Tian Kakutaro, chief of staff of the 3rd Division.