Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1007

The 108th Division ran very resolutely!

It's not that there's really not enough military rations, but that the 683rd Brigade of the 80th Group Army has made some changes.

This conclusion was discovered at noon on the sixth day after the 16th Division violently attacked the 20-kilometer-long defense line deployed by the Chinese army in the mountains.

After a certain unit of the 16th Division managed to capture a high ground in the area's defense line after suffering heavy casualties, after checking the armbands of the dead on the position, they were surprised to find that their opponents had changed.

The 16th Division, which has been fighting in Jin Province for a long time, can be considered an old rival with the Eightyth Army. It has long understood the habits of the regular army and militia under the Eightyth Army. The regular army has armbands with the words "Eighth Route Army and its division," The brigade still has military years, but the militiamen don't have this kind of thing.

A few days ago, by inspecting the armbands on the remains that the Chinese army had no time to carry away, the 16th Division determined that the enemy in front of them was the 683rd Brigade, the main force of the 921st Division. However, only a few days later, it was replaced by someone from the 511th Division, another main division of the 80th Army. department.

The 511th Division is another main division of the Eightyth Army. It has been fighting with the Fifth Division in northwestern Shanxi for a long time. However, the Eightyth Army is going to resist the imperial army this time, so it is not unusual for them to appear here.

But this news reached the ears of Nakano Kosan, the current top commander of the 108th Division, and the major general brigade commander immediately broke out in white-haired sweat.

The 683rd Brigade was not on the enemy's line of defense, so where were they?

After seven days of fighting, the Japanese army has found out that the Eightyth Army's available troops now far exceed those before. There are at least 50,000 to 60,000 people. With the addition of the Jinsui Army and the Central Army, they have completely left two men. Thousands of people came to serve as reserves.

It is difficult for an infantry brigade with no more than 10,000 people to pose a threat to the 108th Division. But what about the two infantry regiments and an unknown number of militiamen, as well as the four-line regiment that has never appeared?

Given the current state of the 108th Division's lack of sleep, the consequences will be.

It's scary to think about it!

So, the most bizarre scene in the Battle of Southeast Shanxi occurred.

After receiving Xiangyue Qingshi's approval, the 20,000-strong army of the 108th Division, which had only withdrawn a dozen kilometers, actually began to run wildly with short legs.

In just one afternoon, 20,000 Japanese troops marched 30 kilometers.

It was in the mountains, not in the plains, and it also carried all kinds of baggage and wounded people. The retreat of the 108th Division definitely created a rare field march record in the history of the Sino-Japanese War.

At this speed, not to mention the Japanese soldiers themselves were dumbfounded, even a certain regiment was stunned.

His scouts hiding in the mountains almost missed catching up with the Japanese army. Although the mountain roads in the mountains were more rugged than the main roads where the Japanese army was, they were single soldiers and they were all trained mountain scouts. They almost missed it. Er lost the whereabouts of the main force of the 108th Division.

That should also be the most peaceful night the 108th Division slept. They were so **** good at running away that the two most elite reconnaissance squad officers and soldiers sent by Tang Tuanzuo almost died from exhaustion. leg.

This time their main task is to track the movements of the Japanese troops and observe the geographical environment of the area. They will only continue to harass the Japanese troops when conditions are suitable.

So, the 108th Division's frantic retreat unexpectedly created a pretty good period of time for them to recuperate.

The next day, the 108th Division got up at 5:30 a.m. to bury pots for cooking, and officially set off at 6:10 a.m. It was not until 4 p.m. that the entire army ran another 50 kilometers.

The march lasted for 14 hours in total. In a state of low morale, they marched 80 kilometers with a large amount of baggage and fully armed. With their marching speed alone, they could kill a group of standing divisions in an instant.

Had it not been for retreat, the cliff would have been recorded in the history of the Japanese Army.

But this run really avoided a big defeat.

According to the declassified Chinese battle reports after the war, the boss of the Chinese 80th Group Army designed a battle plan with the joint advice of the two deputy directors of the Southeastern Shanxi War Zone Staff Department.

The most important part of the battle plan is the secret deployment of 28,000 people from the Central Army's 3rd Army into southeastern Shanxi. The original defense area will be replaced by 18,000 people from the Shanxi-Sui Army Guard Division under the Shanxi old man who has been unwilling to dispatch. This change of defense was top secret, and it was known that there would be no more than five people. In addition, the Japanese army pressed heavily on the border, and the Chinese army mobilized frequently along the defense line around Linfen. Besides, the Japanese army dispatched this time was sufficient. More importantly, the Second Theater Command had important personnel. The department's hasty withdrawal gave the Japanese troops a psychological guidance. In this battle, the Chinese themselves showed signs of giving up.

As a result, the Japanese latent spies missed this top-secret information.

This led to the fact that neither the North China Front Army Headquarters nor the East Route Army Headquarters in Lucheng even realized that the Chinese army in southeastern Shanxi had as many as 130,000 troops, nearly twice as many as the Japanese army.

Perhaps, these 28,000 more people still cannot stop the siege of three Japanese divisions plus a mixed brigade.

However, if the 28,000 troops were used at a critical moment, it would most likely be fatal to the Japanese army that was caught off guard.

Of course, the boss of the 80th Group Army has always regarded the 28,000 people secretly transferred as his last trump card. Even if the 16th Division gathered nearly 20,000 infantrymen, more than 60 artillery pieces, and nearly a hundred aircraft sorties, During the attack, an infantry corps remained stationary as its final reserve.

In the most dangerous position, all the units under the Eightyth Group Army have been fighting desperately.

That is the boss who is guarding against the 20,000-strong army of the 108th Division that breaks into his hinterland. If they turn around, the 3rd Army will become the last shield of the tens of thousands of troops.

But the battle situation was changing so rapidly. The 20,000-strong army of the dignified 108th Division was harassed to exhaustion by a small reconnaissance company of Tang Dao. After a hard fight with two infantry regiments, they chose to withdraw.

Even two days ago, he keenly felt that the weakest Japanese army this time was the 108th Division. The boss of the 80th Group Army quickly put in his last reserve team, replaced his first infantry brigade, and ordered the 1st Infantry Brigade to An infantry division under the 3rd Army marched towards Wuxiang at night.

The troops that quietly surrounded the 108th Division were not a brigade and a regiment plus some militiamen as Nakano Xiaosan thought. The strength of the regular army alone was as high as 25,000. If the four-line regiment that had never shown up was added, it would be more than 30,000. of military strength.

If the 108th Division did not run so fast and the 1st Division and Brigade, which had decided not to conceal their whereabouts, caught up with them, the fate of the 108th Division, whose morale had been extremely low, was really hard to say.

After all, in the past time and space, the famous Battle of Changle Village was when the 117th Infantry Regiment under the 108th Division was overtaken and surrounded by a division of the 921st Division during its evacuation! After a day of fierce fighting, if it were not for the Japanese reinforcements in Liao County, the final outcome of the 117th Infantry Regiment might not be only 2,200 casualties, but the entire army would be annihilated.

But in this time and space, history has taken a small turn. The 108th Division has been chilled by the 683rd Brigade and the Fourth Army Regiment because of the last battle at Shentou Ridge. When they heard that the 683rd Brigade was missing, the Fourth Army Regiment is still hiding. If he couldn't get out, he immediately stretched his short legs to the limit of human potential, and escaped 80 kilometers in a day and a half.

This is a typical case of persecutory paranoia, but Te Liang actually hit the wrong person, causing him to escape.

Hearing that the 108th Division had crossed the Zhuozhang River, Brigadier Cheng scolded Tianliang for a long time during the march, but he had no choice but to order a halt to the march.

He knew that the Zhuozhang River was the only road that could block the Japanese army. Once the Japanese army crossed the river, there would be no other suitable position to block the Japanese army's desperate charge.

After all, those were 20,000 fully armed Japanese troops, not 20,000 pigs. If we really wanted to surround them, they would have needed at least 60,000 soldiers, not the more than 30,000 now.

In fact, the plan, including the boss of the 80th Group Army, was to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, and encircle the weakest 108th Division, forcing the Japanese army to deploy troops to assist other fronts. This way, reserves could be used to set up defenses along the way, thus alleviating the second wave. pressure on the defense line.

On the fifth day of the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, various departments on the northern and southern fronts had already asked for help from the headquarters.

The boss of the 80th Group Army knew that this time, they were not afraid of fighting. For the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, Commander Yan issued a death order to the participating armies of various factions: any commander who dared to retreat would be shot. ; If the division commander says to retreat, kill the division commander; if the brigade commander says to retreat, kill the brigade commander!

One kill, one kill, one behead, three death orders came down, even if they may not come true in the end, no one dared to touch this brow.

The Second War Zone has been fighting the Japanese army for half a year, and has been retreating from the still flowery Yuancheng to the majestic but barren Taihang Mountains and Zhongtiao Mountains. The two largest mountain ranges in Jin Province have become Shaanxi Province. The last barrier also became the last fig leaf for hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in the second theater.

Really, even the shame is torn off by the Japanese. The **** eggs are exposed to the old man of Shanxi, which are exposed to the people of the people across the country, and may be done. What's more, this old man is very clever at finding scapegoats, and it's not like he has never done anything like using the head of a lieutenant general and commander as a backstop.

It was indeed a very hard battle.

Not to mention the 104th Division of the Sichuan Army that was fighting fiercely with the Second Mixed Brigade and the 17th Division of the Northwest Army that had not yet recovered, nor the main force of the 80th Group Army that was fighting with the 16th Division. Let's just talk about the second-line division with the 109th Division. The three divisions of the Jinsui Army and the Central Army fought in the regiment.

Nearly 40,000 people formed a huge defense line with a total of 56 highlands of 18 kilometers, and the 109th Division invested 4 infantry regiments, a tank regiment, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment and some engineers and baggage troops. A total of 22,000 people fought. The strength comparison between the two sides is almost 2 to 1. Not to mention the advantage of the terrain, the two infantry divisions of the Jinsui Army are equipped with 36 Jin-made 75 mountain guns and 60 82 mortars, as well as more than 160 heavy machine guns. The central The infantry division of the army is not bad either, with 12 75-meter mountain guns, 28 mortars, and 70 heavy machine guns.

Calculating this, the number of 75 mountain guns alone is as high as 48, which is no weaker than the Japanese army.

But the 109th Division learned the lesson of the last time when the rescue in the city was blocked. Regardless of the difficulty of the road, it also brought a tank group. If the road was not wide enough, engineers blasted the road to pave the way, and forced 10 89 tanks to reach the front line.

Together with 30 Type 94 light tanks, the Japanese army deployed a steel army on the attack line that made the Chinese army desperate.

Mountain artillery and mortars fired explosive shells, which mainly killed infantry and did little damage to Japanese tanks. In mountainous operations, both the Jinsui Army and the Central Army abandoned the heavy 37mm combat artillery.

As a result, they could only watch helplessly as the Japanese army used Type 89 tanks as movable forts and used short-barreled tank guns to clear heavy firepower points on the defense line by roll call.

Without the fire suppression of heavy machine guns, the Japanese army used infantry to carry out repeated charges and used artillery fire to cover the artillery fire. In addition, the air superiority was completely lost. The Japanese bomber formations in the sky could even unscrupulously dive bomb the discovered artillery positions, causing many artillery positions to be destroyed. It was destroyed before it could use up all the shells.

Nearly half of the 48 75mm mountain guns were destroyed on the third day of the battle, which did not show the strength of the artillery group at all.

In the first three days, the three infantry divisions suffered more than 4,000 battle losses. Until the fifth day, the 109th Division was still attacking like crazy, with battle losses approaching 10,000.

Twenty-five percent of the battle damage would have collapsed long ago in normal times, but under the threat of death orders, no infantry division dared to retreat even half a step, and they were still gritting their teeth and holding on.

It is inevitable to ask for help.

But as the Chinese commander-in-chief of the Southeast Shanxi Theater, the boss of the 80th Group Army was powerless. His 80th Group Army had to use all its main forces to withstand the attack of the 16th Division. The 28,000-strong Third Army It is already the last reserve team in the entire southeastern Shanxi.

If it is put into battle at this time, it means that the decisive battle in southeastern Shanxi will begin in advance, which is not in line with the previous battle plan set by the theater staff.

This time the Japanese aggressors launched a large-scale attack. From the way they divided their troops into ten routes, their thinking was obvious. It would be best if they could annihilate the Chinese army on a large scale. If not, they would destroy the people and property in the Taihang Mountains. , weapons and other methods to destroy the combat potential of Taihang Mountain.

In other words, what the Japanese army wants this time is not necessarily the present, but definitely the future.

Shan Shan Yuan is an extremely difficult opponent.

But the Japanese army also had their shortcomings. Due to the special nature of mountainous operations, their logistical support, which was not very strong, was even more stretched.

Therefore, all the Japanese troops participating in the war mainly carried their own troops this time, and a large number of baggage troops followed the main force of infantry, but this was not endless.

Through calculations, if the Japanese army can maintain sufficient supply of supplies for this battle in southeastern Shanxi, the longest duration is half a month and the shortest is ten days.

In other words, if a decisive battle is to be fought, it would be best to wait eight days after the battle begins.

But it has only been 5 days, and the last force on hand is about to be put into the battlefield, and the Japanese army may also react with camera.

For example, if the 108th Division has arrived in Yushe, Wuxiang and other places, if the 20,000 Japanese troops turn their guns and march in any direction, what troops will the entire southeastern Shanxi use to resist them?

"If you are really unable to defeat the enemy, the headquarters authorizes you to wait for the camera to evacuate, but it is limited to 20 kilometers behind the defensive line. Lay up defenses and blockades at every level. Do your best to hold off the enemy invaders and contribute your own strength to the final decisive battle in southeastern Shanxi. Even if it's the last drop of blood!” After thinking about it again and again, the then commander-in-chief of Southeast Shanxi issued such a military order to the three infantry divisions.

Although it was not a battle order to the death, in the eyes of the three lieutenant generals and division commanders whose faces were full of bitterness, it was actually no different from a battle order to the death.

Just give them some room for flexibility and maneuver. The depth of 20 kilometers is their limit.

At any rate, it gave them a breathing space. They did not need to fight for every inch of territory, and they only needed to delay it for another three to four days.

But compared to them, real fire was fired from the other two directions.

The 80th Group Army will not give up an inch of ground. If a high ground is lost, it will immediately gather all the artillery it can muster to blast the high ground, and immediately organize death squads to charge and take back the high ground.

It is completely normal for a highland to change hands seven or eight times.

In such a brutal battle, even Nakajima Kongore, the arrogant commander of the 16th Division Lieutenant General, could only vent his anger on the battlefield by personally killing an army major and an infantry captain.

On the surface, Nakajima Kongo appears to have a handsome face and the style of a Confucian general, but as long as you know that the 16th Division under his command massacred Chinese soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Jinling to gain the top spot among the seven divisions of Jinling City, you can know that he is How cruel and cruel.

But even with such a cruel person and such a cruel division, they furiously attacked the defense line for several days and still could not make an inch of progress. You can know how fierce the fighting between the two sides was.

The Eightyth Army reported the number of its own battle casualties after the war as 9,400, but in fact, in order to avoid exposing its true strength to others, this was a simplified and shrunken number.

However, the 7,000 casualties of the 16th Division after the war were real. In one battle, the elite of a main division was deployed, and there were hundreds of fighter planes to assist. The strength of two infantry regiments disappeared. This cliff It was a complete failure.

Of course, I am afraid of comparison in everything.

Just like someone who only scored 30 points in an exam, it feels very embarrassing, but if there are still people who only scored a few points, would the shameful feeling be much better? You taste it, you taste it carefully!

In any case, Nakajima Kongo is the kind of person who is disgraced, but at least he can still "return to the imperial court with his teachings".

But some people are destined to be unable to see the beautiful cherry blossoms.

For example, we were still waiting for the 108th Division to rendezvous, but we were waiting for news that the 108th Division had strode away in a day and a half and successfully "jumped out of the Chinese army's encirclement".

Fighting fiercely for six days and nights, they had already exhausted all their potential in the "Battle of Starfall".

　　guns and blood are more terrifying than poison.

'The "Battle of Starfall" has successfully completed its mission. The Chinese people will never forget the great achievements of the brothers of the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army. Tang Dao pays the highest salute to the two officers and the soldiers of the two divisions! '

Tang Dao sent a message to the two serious-looking lieutenant generals on that starry night.

The 'War of Starfall' is over and the 'War of Sunset' has begun!

ˆ PS: January of the New Year ended so unexpectedly. This also means that starting from the beginning of February, Fengyue will have to work again. This is really a sad thing. Because of the mask incident last semester, the teaching tasks may be heavier this semester, but Fengyue still guarantees that the new science fiction book "I Can Bury All Things" and this book are guaranteed to be updated. No big deal, just stay up late! I hope book friends will see Fengyue's hard work and start subscribing and monthly tickets. Thank you Fengyue!

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