This large-scale battle between the Japanese Army and the Eighth Route Army centered around Datong and Zhangjiakou. Anyone who is not blind will know who will win or lose.
Don’t look at the Japanese military’s external propaganda, especially its beautiful propaganda in the international arena:
This operation successfully completed the set campaign objectives and successfully recaptured the two fortresses of Datong and Zhangjiakou.
Privately, the Japanese soldiers were licking their own scars. Only the Japanese knew best whether it hurt or not.
As witnesses who witnessed the Eighth Route Army's encirclement and annihilation of the Jingshang Division, some officers of the Chiang Kai-shek Army were still in a daze until the Eighth Route Army's campaign of encirclement and annihilation of the 14th Division came to an end, as if what they had experienced in the past few days was like a dream.
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After returning, my colleagues couldn't wait to ask. The first thing they received was the news that the Japanese army took the initiative to publicize to the outside world.
"...So the Eighth Route Army lost the battle?"
In response to this, the officers of the Chiang Army who were members of the observation group did not know what to say for a moment and had no choice but to remain silent.
It wasn't until their colleagues asked again and again that they reluctantly answered what they saw and heard in the observation group at that time.
So through these few words of description, the Eighth Route Army, which has been fighting behind enemy lines, once had backward equipment, was short of ammunition, and was even called a beggar team by the Japanese army, now has a shocking image of a strong army.
"Don't listen to the Japanese's flattery, saying that they have accomplished the set campaign goals and re-captured Datong and Zhangjiakou. But from what we have seen, Datong and Zhangjiakou were clearly chosen by the Eighth Route Army to give up their garrison and leave them to the Japs.
Who wins and who loses?
Although the Japanese army reoccupied Datong and Zhangjiakou, the entire 14th Division of the Kwantung Army, including the Japanese division commander Inoue, may have become history from now on.
Do you think the near-annihilation of a Kwantung Army division is more important than the two empty cities where all supplies and equipment have been evacuated by the Eighth Route Army, and even the people have been relocated?"
"Eighth Route Army! Hum, the Eighth Route Army is no longer the Eighth Route Army we remember!"
...It is said that after Jiang Gong heard what the officers who participated in the observation brought back what he saw and heard, he locked himself in the room and saw no one. He almost didn't get any water for the whole day.
In the West Inner Mongolia area, Commander Fu took the opportunity to take action this time and won a great victory. Not only did he kill the Japanese's Morita Chariot Division, he also attacked several cities and conquered a large amount of lost territory in one go.
As a master of stealing chickens, the little devil made one mistake and even Baotou, the base camp of the Mongolian army, was occupied by Commander Fu.
In this battle, the strong combat effectiveness displayed by the 35th Route Army and the special reinforcements of aerial firepower by the Eighth Route Army almost scared the courage of the Japanese army.
Now that Commander Fu had the aerial firepower reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army that could arrive at any time, he was completely hardened. He not only captured Baotou, but also occupied it and never left again.
As a nominal Chiang Kai-shek unit.
No matter what Mr. Jiang thought, after learning about this incident, he continued to publicize it vigorously to highlight the remarkable achievements of the National Revolutionary Army in resisting Japan.
It was a pity that when Commander Fu asked Duke Chiang for benefits under the guise of resisting Japan again, Duke Chiang refused to say anything and found various excuses to excuse himself.
When Yu Xiaohou left the 35th Route Army Headquarters, he seemed to have a thousand words to say, but when the words reached his lips, they were swallowed into his stomach again. He just said something before leaving: "Brother Yisheng, maybe your choice
It’s right, but unfortunately, I have no choice!”
Fu Yisheng said with a smile: "What are you talking about? At least now our goals are still the same. If we want to go back to our hometown of white mountains and black waters, we have to join hands and find a way to kill these sons of bitches first.
Let’s wait until the little devils are driven out of China!”
Yu Xiaohou said: "Brother Yisheng is absolutely right, but I am narrow-minded. Take care!"
"Take care of yourself!"
the other side.
As the initiators of killing the 14th Division of the Japanese elite Kwantung Army in the Yangyuan area in front of the two major Japanese armies, they were several main commanders of the Iron Triangle Army.
Inside the Eighth Route Army Special Experimental Military Region Headquarters.
After the victory of the war, Li Yunlong proposed that a group of generals including Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Commander Wang, Zhao Gang, Cui Zhengwei, Li Wenjie, Xu Guoan, Shen Quan, Wang Huaibao and other field warriors in the experimental area
The main commanders and others were in the compound of the headquarters, drinking and discussing the battle to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army.
It can be regarded as an alternative post-war military analysis and summary conference.
After a few sips of spicy wine, Li Yunlong was the first to speak as usual:
"Haha, I have to say that this battle to encircle and annihilate the bastard Kwantung Army 14th Division around Datong and Zhangjiakou was such a damn pleasure!"
One sentence directly set the cheerful tone of the discussion.
"Starting from the Hua Shao Camp, the old Japs Inoue was tricked step by step by our bait. The Japs attacked the city and occupied a large number of our positions along the way, and also seized a large amount of materials and equipment that we deliberately left behind.
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There are all kinds of guns and artillery, including some military vehicles.
Don't tell me, if I were a little devil, I would definitely be fooled!
But what happened in the end?"
Li Yunlong said happily: "Many of those materials were improperly stored in our warehouse and are useless at all. We just threw them to the little devils.
The machine guns and artillery captured by the Japanese were basically single guns and single-family cannons. You don’t need to know this, but once you use it, you will know that these things are useless.”
Political Commissar Cui asked curiously: "Old Li, what is a single-door gun or a single-family cannon?"
Li Yunlong said: "Well, the unique guns are the miscellaneous weapons we have captured over the years, including various old-fashioned rifles of different calibers.
There are also various miscellaneous brands of machine guns, including imitation versions of the Maxim heavy machine gun, imitation civilian 24 heavy machine guns, imitation heavy machine guns of the 30-section heavy machine gun, and even Maxim heavy machine guns equipped in the Beiyang period, etc.
These heavy machine gun parts are not universal. If they break, they can only be processed and installed separately. In addition, they are extremely easy to damage. Basically, problems will occur as soon as they are used.
On the battlefield, many times the machine gun suddenly stops firing while firing, which is very easy to delay things.
In addition, the overall wear and tear of the parts is very large, and it cannot achieve long-distance suppression effect. You can't carry this heavy machine gun weighing several kilograms with the commando to 200 meters to support it, right?
If we mix these various machine guns together and throw them away, can the Japanese tell them apart?
This single-family cannon is mainly made in Shanghai or Shanxi. Its parts have been worn out a lot, and it has long lost its accuracy. It can only be shot when it is close enough to the enemy's eyes, and it has no value for installation.
Just take it out to fool the little devil.
And to be honest, these no-name machine guns are lagging behind and are almost on the verge of being eliminated. In the past few years, we still treasured them!
It wasn’t the main force at that time and it still didn’t have the equipment!
When I first took over the new regiment, there were only a few old-fashioned machine guns in the entire regiment, and there was not a single heavy machine gun.
This is the first time that the 14th Division has gone south to fight with us. Maybe people think that our Eighth Route Army is still using outdated equipment from a few years ago."
"Wonderful!" Political Commissar Cui sighed with emotion, "The 14th Division of the Kwantung Army deserves its misfortune. This devil is arrogant and arrogant. He is probably used to being pampered in the Northeast. Now that he suddenly encounters a team like ours, he will not
Who perishes?"
"Old Cui summarized it very well!" Li Yunlong said: "Having said that, in this battle to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division, which team performed the most eye-catchingly, it must be our armored force!"
While peeling the peanuts, Ding Wei looked up at Li Yunlong and said:
"Old Li, if you brag like this, I won't be convinced. Although your armored troops fought well this time, the mobile troops under my command are responsible for the follow-up interception, outflanking and elimination. The cooperation of various troops is called a
tacit agreement.
This devil was like a long piece of meat. We chopped it off piece by piece. When we got to the back, we could eat it as we wanted.
If we say it is eye-catching, it should be our mobile penetration troops that are eye-catching!"
Old comrades-in-arms, you and I are bragging one by one.
Kong Jie, on the other hand, was happily drinking the 50,000 yuan special drink. He was smiling and did not open his mouth. You can brag as much as you like. There is no tax on bragging anyway.
However, he is too strong, even if he wants to pretend to be transparent, he cannot do so.
The topic was brought up by Commander Wang, "If you want to talk about the most eye-catching thing this time, don't brag about the mobile penetration force, the armored force, and the artillery force.
Let me tell you, compared with our aviation force, it is far behind!
Let’s just say that this battle around Datong and Zhangjiakou, including the battle to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army, was so smooth for us except for the deployment on the ground.
What does it rely on?
It was our aviation force that successfully seized air supremacy in Yangyuan, Datong, and Zhangjiakou.
Good guy! Lao Kong gave an order. All the six major aviation bases of the Eighth Route Army, including the air transport base in Huangyadong, were dispatched. Hundreds of fighter bombers appeared, flying all over the sky like sparrows, let alone
The little devil was confused, and we ground combat troops were also a little dumbfounded, as if they were dreaming.
With aerial firepower reinforcements, the subsequent battle went smoothly.
Once the Japanese forces concentrate their forces, our bombs will be able to be thrown at them. Machine guns and artillery will not work at all.
As soon as the Japanese troops dispersed, we immediately surrounded them.
To be continued...