1090 The 13th Japanese Division was defeated in the Battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi
...The Eighth Route Army probably did not expect that the so-called main forces that evacuated in advance were basically second-rate troops such as the Imperial Association Army, the traitor troops and the Public Security Army Division.
The elite troops of the 13th Division put on the uniforms of the Imperial Association Army and the Public Security Army Division, and took the opportunity to launch an attack when the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong troops came to pursue them.
In this way, the Eighth Route Army suffered a "big loss".
After the battle, Buntaiichiro, who was sitting in the headquarters, received the news in a complacent mood. On the opposite position of the decisive battle, the Eighth Route Army left corpses all over the mountains and fields and withdrew in embarrassment.
In the following days, the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to avoid the main force of the Japanese army and only conducted raids on some communication lines.
"吆西!"
"In this way, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong has been severely damaged by our army, so there is nothing to worry about. We can then calmly carry out strategic transfers!"
Buntaiichiro officially issued the order to retreat.
The arrogance of the past reappeared on his face, and it seemed that since entering the Jizhong base area, it was not his 13th Division that had suffered.
After all, compared to the Niudao Manchu Division in the Huangyadong area, the Sixth Division in the Iron Triangle area, and the 11th Army of the 12th Army in Shanxi and Shandong, the casualties were heavy.
The performance of his 13th Division this time is dazzling.
Jizhong Military Region Headquarters.
When he learned that the elite Japanese troops of the 13th Division had finally begun to evacuate, Commander Lu was immediately overjoyed. After waiting for so long, he finally waited for the opportunity to counterattack.
Speaking of which, the Japanese army has added the Sixth Division, the Thirteenth Division, the Ushijima Division and the Third Field Division of the North China Front this time. The other three divisions are stronger than the 13th Division.
Better equipment and larger scale.
But only when you actually fight against Buntaichiro, the old soldier of the 13th Division, will you realize that this old soldier is actually the most difficult to deal with.
This old guy was too cautious. Even if Commander Lu set many traps, in the end he only suffered a slight loss by relying on the coarse grains grown outside the Jizhong base area.
But in the end it could not cause too much damage to the 13th Division.
In the process of raiding the Jizhong base area, Buntaiichiro, an old Japanese soldier, has always been fighting steadily, no matter what the fighting situation is in the Taihang base area, Huangyadong area and Mengxi area. Even if Taiyuan City is besieged, Ushijima Mitsuru and the Sixth Division
When he was severely injured, this guy didn't have any distractions.
Neither will they rush in alone rashly, nor will they retreat in embarrassment upon hearing any noise.
Faced with such an inexperienced old guy, Commander Lu actually had a headache.
Especially in the past two years, judging from the combat method mainly based on tunnel warfare that has been carried out in Hebei, it emphasizes attacking while defending.
If the Japanese do not take the initiative to attack, the massive tunnel fortifications and traps prepared in advance will be of no use at all.
If the 13th Division does not choose to evacuate and continues to be stationed on the inherent defensive fortifications, not even Commander Lu can think of a good countermeasure.
Until now, Buntaiichiro decided to lead his troops to evacuate, and the opportunity for the Jizhong troops finally came.
It turned out that the communication lines and transportation lines in the rear area where the 13th Division evacuated had already been completely destroyed by the Eighth Route Army troops in Jizhong using the extended tunnels.
If the little devils of the 13th Division want to return to the stable security area from the outside of the Jizhong base area, they must pass through these uncontrollable areas where the communication lines have been destroyed.
And this is the cemetery that Commander Lu created for the little devil.
Buntaiichiro probably never dreamed that he would stay in the middle line area of the Jizhong base area for a few more days in accordance with the request of Commander-in-Chief Okamura. He was originally waiting for reinforcements from the battlefields in Shandong and Shanxi.
As a result, less than 30% of the reinforcements arrived, and most of them were stopped midway by the Eighth Route Army's reinforcements. Some even suffered heavy casualties on the way to the reinforcements, and were forced to withdraw to the occupied areas and become cowardly turtles.
On the contrary, the mobile troops of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the gap between the Japanese field troops to shrink back to the security area and the urban area, and secretly moved in the direction of the Jizhong Military Region.
What are you doing?
Cooperating with the troops of Commander Lu of the Central Hebei Military Region, they formed a two-sided attack against the retreating Japanese 13th Division.
Almost at the same time, the Eighth Route Army troops in southern Hebei, central Hebei, and northern Hebei launched counterattacks at the same time.
Most of the entire Hebei area is plunged into melee.
The Eighth Route Army in various parts of Shandong also began to counterattack, and Mengxi also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
Facing the Eighth Route Army's comprehensive counterattack, pressure from all parties came.
The evacuation of the Japanese 13th Division from the Central Hebei Military Region suddenly became less conspicuous.
The various Japanese troops have no time to take care of themselves, so what else can they do to help cover the evacuation of the 13th Division?
The decisive battle between the two sides officially kicked off.
The commanders of the various regiments in the Jizhong Military Region, who had long been simmering with anger, led their troops to actively engage in combat and launched layer-by-layer attacks along the Japs' evacuation route. The entire base area was completely turned into a quagmire, making it difficult for the Japs to move forward.
Quagmire.
Lu Dayou, the leader of the 28th Regiment, finally got his wish.
Since the 28th Regiment has developed most rapidly in the past two years, it has all kinds of mechanized combat units and artillery units in the regiment. This time, it is the vanguard mobile unit to pursue the 13th Division.
They pursued relentlessly all the way and had fierce battles with the rearguard of the 13th Division.
At this time, with the evacuation, the absolutely powerful defenses originally occupied by the 13th Division no longer existed.
In this wild combat environment, the Eighth Route Army's familiarity with the surrounding terrain and its proficiency in mobile warfare, ambush warfare, and guerrilla warfare gave full play to its advantages.
The Japanese army encountered great resistance and the pace of evacuation slowed down greatly.
Lieutenant General Buntaiichiro finally realized that he had been too careless before, and the main force of the Central Hebei Military Region did not seem to be destroyed by his tricks.
Now, these damn gangsters are really showing their trump card.
According to the original plan of the Japanese army, it would not take three days for the 13th Division, as well as the Royal Association Army and the Public Security Army Division to withdraw from the Jizhong base area and return to the stable public security area.
As a result, under the continuous obstruction along the way by the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and local army troops, the Japanese army walked for nearly a week before barely escaping from the center line defense zone of the Jizhong Military Region.
The tunnel warfare offensive launched by the Eighth Route Army troops in Central Hebei Province hit the little Japanese in disarray.
The vast ocean of people's war left the evacuating Japanese troops unable to respond.
Almost every evacuation route is covered with Eighth Route Army traps.
Landmines, ambushes, sneak attacks, and harassment are simply annoying.
At this time, Buntaiichiro, who was sitting at the temporary headquarters, no longer had the pride he had before. He looked a little ashamed. Even his headquarters was almost attacked by enemy artillery several times in the past few days.
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He ordered the entire army to speed up the pace and quickly withdraw from the Eighth Route Army base area.
However, two days later he learned that the main retreat routes of the division had been cut off by the Eighth Route Army, and that a large number of Eighth Route Army reinforcements had surrounded him from the back and sides of the 13th Division.
Buntaichiro was completely dumbfounded, and then cursed Okamura.
The rainy season has already arrived.
It has been raining continuously these days, and the originally solid road surface has gradually become soft and muddy under the erosion of the heavy rain.
If it weren't for Okamura's order, the steady Buntaiichiro would have led the main force of the 13th Division to withdraw from the Jizhong base area in an orderly formation.
Due to the delay of these few days, it rains more and more, and the road surface becomes worse and worse.
As a result, the reinforcements did not arrive, but the Japanese army's rear area was cut off by reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army.
"The hemp rope only picks out the thinnest places to break, and bad luck only seeks out the miserable!"
This sentence is aptly applied to Buntaiichiro.
Reinforcements did not arrive, but they were surrounded by reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army.
During the continuous rainy season, the mountain roads were so muddy that it was impossible for mechanized combat vehicles to deploy.
Even the tracks of tanks and armored vehicles, which are like a torrent of steel, can only sink into the big mud pit that cannot reach the bottom at all, and they have to be constantly inspected and repaired along the way, stop and go, stop and go.
The ghost of the pursuing Eighth Route Army lingers.
The continuous heavy rain seemed to obscure their attacks, and the sneak attacks came more suddenly each time.
When they first evacuated, the elite troops of the 13th Division could barely maintain their defensive formations, including the Imperial Alliance Army, which was evacuating in coordination, and the Public Security Army Division troops, who also barely maintained communication and contact with each other.
As time goes on.
For example, the Imperial Association Army and the two security army divisions, which were mostly composed of new recruits, lacked good support and soon became a flaw.
The team that originally evacuated in an orderly manner gradually collapsed under the interference of the Eighth Route Army's occasional raids and continuous rain.
As the team gradually dispersed, the pace of retreat was no longer consistent.
The Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to divide the enemy piece by piece, outflank it, and then annihilate it.
This is a skill that the soldiers are skilled in.
At this point, during the May Day raids launched by the Japanese army on an unprecedented scale, they persisted until the end, and the casualties of the Japanese 13th Field Division, which was the smallest at first, began to spread rapidly, and defeat was inevitable.
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But it is said that these two sides are a big battlefield.
On the one hand, the confrontation between the North China Front Army and the Eighth Route Army was started by the Japanese army in the occupied areas.
On the other hand, in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region, Doolittle and his party bombed Tokyo as the trigger, triggering a large-scale battle between the National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese Army.
On the North China battlefield, the confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army has gradually come to an end.
The Japanese tank troops suffered successive defeats in the western Inner Mongolia region.
To the defeat of the Japanese Sixth Field Division in the Iron Triangle Base Area.
Then to the nearly annihilation of the rampant and arrogant Ushidao Manchu Division in the Huangyadong area.
The Third Field Division operating in Shandong has not made any achievements after all.
The Japanese First Shanxi Army and the 12th Shandong Army were also locked in a bitter battle.
In the end, the 13th Field Division, which raided the Jizhong base area, was defeated.
Although the Japanese army's newspapers tried to cover up this battle in North China, trying to find the last fig leaf to restore morale and military prestige.
But in the eyes of discerning people, it’s just trying to cover up.
The North China Front's defeat has been finalized.
News came from the 13th Division headquarters that the original plan to encircle and sweep the Jizhong Military Region and eradicate the Eighth Route Army depot in one fell swoop was declared bankrupt.
The staggering old devil Okamura sat down on his armchair, looking at the pistol he had pulled out from his waist and placed on the table. He was silent for a long time, wondering what he was thinking...
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Compared with the brutal large-scale confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army in North China, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle that should have attracted much attention seemed less eye-catching.
On the fourteenth day after the Japanese army launched a May Day raid in North China.
The Japanese army sent additional troops from the 14th Army, the 11th Army and North China, totaling more than 100,000 troops, to attack from the Fenghua and Yuhang areas.
On the 24th, the Japanese troops arrived in Wuyi, Jinhua, Xiaoshun, Lanxi, Jiande and other areas.
As the Chinese defenders in the Jin and Lan areas retreated one after another without any attempt to resist, the Japanese military headquarters immediately issued an order to continue their fierce pursuit of Quzhou, forcing the Chinese army to fight decisively.
In early June, according to the original battle plan of the Chief of the Third War Zone of the National Revolutionary Army, the Japanese army was gradually lured to the Quzhou area, and with the help of layers of defense lines outside Quzhou, they launched a layer-by-layer blockade. When the Japanese army's vigor was exhausted, casualties spread.
On this occasion, a decisive battle was finally launched in the Quzhou area, defeating the Japanese army in one fell swoop.
In order to achieve this purpose.
Many patriotic officers and soldiers in the national army fought to the death and refused to retreat.
Major General Zhang Lingzong, who had met and talked with Kong Jie and Li Yunlong in the Yan'an area, led the 58th Division in a bloody battle with the Japanese army outside Quzhou for three days.
The fierce battle between the two sides was so fierce that rivers of blood flowed for a while, and the Japanese army paid a heavy price for this.
Naihe, four days.
Just when Zhang Lingzong made up his mind to lead all the officers and soldiers to fight the Japanese army to the death in the Quzhou area and defend Quzhou to the death.
However, the commander of the Third War Zone suddenly received a death order:
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All combat troops immediately retreated to avoid the Japanese attack and avoid the decisive battle in Quzhou!
When the order came, Zhang Lingzong, who was sitting at the temporary frontline headquarters, was completely stunned.
However, there is no room for protest.
Even if Zhang Lingzong does not withdraw and can lead the 58th Division to hold on, the rest of the combat troops have already chosen to withdraw. If he is left alone, he can only fight alone and perish.
Helpless, Zhang Lingzong could only give the order to retreat amidst roars.
In a daze, Zhang Lingzong's ears seemed to hear Kong Jie's words that day again: "I'm afraid that we will fail at this critical moment!"
This made Zhang Lingzong couldn't help but sigh: Kong Jie really has an exquisite heart with seven orifices. Did he even anticipate the situation in front of him?
What a terrible guy!
...It is precisely because the top brass of the national army are capricious and change orders day by day.
Throughout the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battle, although the National Revolutionary Army invested nearly 300,000 large-scale troops, it ultimately lacked unified command, resulting in chaotic command and disunity, ultimately leading to a major defeat.
The Japanese army pursued the victory and encountered almost no resistance in the battle to completely capture Quzhou.
After capturing Quzhou, the Japanese army did not simply shrink its troops as the top brass of the national army had judged. Instead, they pursued the victory and continued to expand their results, causing immeasurable losses to the military and civilians in the Zhejiang and Jiangxi regions.
At this point, the Japanese army completely destroyed Quzhou Airport, completely eliminating the possibility that Britain, the United States and other countries would use various airports in Quzhou as springboards to launch air strikes on the Japanese mainland.
At the same time, the Japanese army's smooth operation in this incident basically achieved the goal of "confiscating and destroying railway facilities and equipment and other military, political, and economic facilities and materials for cultivating combat power," looting supplies, and abducting young and middle-aged people.
The purpose of "fighting to feed war".
Look at it from this perspective.
In the Battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the Japanese army can be said to have achieved the final victory.
Compared with the disastrous ending of the May Day raids by the Japanese army on the North China battlefield.
The battle between Zhejiang and Jiangxi seems to have allowed the Japanese army to regain a victory...