The 22nd Group Army was organized in September 1937 by Deng Xihou of the Sichuan Army. The first commander-in-chief of the group army was Deng Xihou. It was under the jurisdiction of the 45th Army, which he also served as the commander, and the 41st Army, of which Sun Zhen was the commander.
Li Jiayu's Department. After the group army was organized, it walked from Sichuan to Baoji, Shaanxi, then drove to the south of the canal, crossed the Yellow River and entered Shanxi. It was under the command and jurisdiction of the Second War Zone and participated in the Niangzi Pass Defense Battle. In early 1938, the 22nd Group Army
He was ordered to go to Shandong and transferred to the command and jurisdiction of the Fifth War Zone. In the early days of the Xuzhou Battle, during the famous defense battle of Tengxian County, the group army's 41st Army 122nd Division Commander Wang Mingzhang, the division chief of staff Zhao Weibin, the 124th Division
Chief of Staff Zou Mutao and thousands of officers and soldiers of the 122nd Division used defeated weapons to resist the attacking Japanese army. In the end, most of them were killed and martyred for their country, which laid the foundation for the victory of Erzhuang in Taiyuan.
It can be said that during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan Army was undoubtedly one of the most admirable troops. Today, the 22nd Army, which has experienced the defense of Tengxian County, is only less than two-thirds of its original strength, and even more
What's more, the weapons of the Sichuan army were really terrible. At that time, the weapons and equipment of the armies were crude and inferior. Eighty-tenths of all rifles were made in Sichuan and two-tenths were made in Han Dynasty. Moreover, because they had been used for a long time, their quality was the worst, making most of them unusable.
.As for the light and heavy machine guns, they were very few in number. Each division had as many as a dozen collars and as few as a few. In terms of artillery, except for a few pursuit guns, each division did not have a single mountain or field gun. Although the autumn wind was bleak at that time.
, but each soldier only rented two sets of cloth unlined garments (shorts), a pair of leggings, a single quilt, a small single mat, two pairs of straw sandals, and a bamboo hat.
Under such equipment conditions, the Sichuan soldiers really used their bodies to block the invaders.
Ju County
Stationed in Ju County is the 123rd Division of the 41st Army of the 22nd Army. Lieutenant General Zeng Xiandong, Major General Chief of Staff, Wu Chang, has jurisdiction over the 367th and 369th brigades, a total of 4 infantry regiments. Logically speaking, four infantry regiments can defend one Ju County.
The county is also quite sufficient.
"Master!" Wu Chang ran to a lieutenant general who was on the front line despite the artillery fire, and said, "Master, there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese attacking Ju County, and the soldiers may not be able to withstand it.
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"If you can't stand it, you will be nailed to the ground!" Zeng Xiandong replied casually.
"Yes!" Wu Chang's heart was bleeding. Although his soldiers were not the best soldiers, in his opinion, they were the best and cutest soldiers. But the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. If the country was destroyed, where would the family be?
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However, under the iron heel of the Japanese army, the 123rd Division suffered heavy casualties. For the Japanese army, there were only tens of thousands of Sichuan troops and they really did not pose much of a threat.
In about one morning, Ju County was captured again. Most of the Japanese troops marched from Ju County to Linyi.
It turned out that soldiers from the 3rd, 9th, 11th, and 101st Divisions of the Japanese Army and the Chongteng Detachment set off from Shanghai, Nanjing and other places by ship on March 21, then landed in Rizhao and went directly to the hinterland of Shandong. As for the Japanese North China Front Army, the remaining
There are not many troops and they cannot move. They need to scare the place.
The Japanese 3rd Division, as the vanguard in this operation, is one of the divisions of the Japanese Army. The 3rd Division is also known as the Nagoya Division and was organized in Nagoya. The predecessor of the 3rd Division was Meiji 6 (
The Nagoya Town was established in January 1873. In the 21st year of Meiji (1888), the Japanese government reformed the national military system. At that time, there were six towns in the country, and the Nagoya Town was reorganized into the Third Division. This is the history of Japan's modern military establishment.
The Third Division is also one of the earliest new-style army formations among Japan's more than 200 divisions; the Third Division has participated in almost all major wars in modern Japan, including the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Russo-Japanese War, Siberia, and Shandong.
etc. It is the only Category A division that has been fighting on the Chinese battlefield from the beginning of the war to the surrender. Therefore, the 3rd Division has committed numerous crimes in China.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, all our troops have passed through Ju County and are still 87 kilometers away from Linyi."
"Yoshi, all set off, reach Linyi as quickly as possible, and rescue the warriors of the 3rd Mixed Brigade, 5th Brigade and 16th Division!" Susumu Fujita (Commander of the 3rd Division) waved his hand and said.
"Hi!"
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The final telegram from the 123rd Division of the 22nd Army also arrived on Deng Xihou's desk and was also forwarded to Li Zongren.
"Where did this Japanese army come from? Japan's North China side should have been unable to mobilize any troops unless it expands its troops from its own country again!" Li Zongren looked at the map and said in surprise.
"It should be the Central China Front Army, by water." Gu Zhutong thought for a while and said.
"Hey, we fell short!" Li Zongren said with a bitter smile, "I thought I could defeat the Japanese invaders' divisions. But now, I was almost tricked by the Japanese invaders."
"What should we do now?"
"Let's see how many Japanese reinforcements there are. Before the Japanese reinforcements arrive in Linyi, how many Japanese can be eaten depends on whether Zhang Zizhong, Pang Bingxun, Deng Xihou and Yu Xuezhong have good teeth."
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Linyi
"So, the Japs are here for reinforcements." Zhou Weiguo looked at the map and said, "It seems that these Japs are not easy to eat." He touched his head and thought silently.
"Yes, if the 22nd Army had not sent the 123rd Division to garrison in Ju County, the Japanese would have arrived in Linyi by this time." Pang Bingxun also nodded in agreement.
"However, he still has at least three hours to get to Linyi." Zhang Zizhong said, "Three hours, it depends on how much we can eat."
"You guys." Yu Xuezhong said with a smile, "Tell me if you have any ideas."
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Yan'an
The great man was smoking a cigarette, looking at the telegram that had just been sent back, and said with a smile, "Li Zongren is in vain this time."
"Yes, I didn't expect that the Japanese reinforcements came from the north." Peng Dehuai also lamented, "Speaking of which, the Japanese have a very open mind."
"Do we have any troops in the Shandong area?" the great man asked.
"It's true." General Peng said with a smile, "There are two independent regiments that are not fully organized."
"Talk about it."
"The commander of the First Independent Regiment, Comrade Liu Yu, is also a veteran of the Red Army, and the commander of the Second Independent Regiment, Qiu Ming, is also a veteran of the Red Army. However, the two units are still some distance from Linyi." General Peng replied, "However,
We still don’t know how many reinforcements the Japs have come. He, Chiang Kai-shek, eats meat, so we can still get some points.”
"Go, tell them to join the battle depending on the situation, and find out the weapons warehouse of the Japanese reinforcements this time." The great man waved his hand and said, "Our intelligence said that the Japanese reinforcements this time are at least 100,000.
They all set off from Shanghai and Nanjing. These 100,000 Japs are eating, drinking and eating, which is not a small sum. Let them find opportunities to take away the Japs' arsenal."