The Chinese army is stepping up its deployment to prepare for the Japanese invasion, while Yokoyama, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese army, seemed extremely relaxed. While tasting sake, he was enjoying the new singing girl performance in Tokyo.

Since the third Battle of Changsha, the ambitious Hengshan Yong has been ruined. This time, in order to echo the Indian Battle initiated by Myanmar, Hengshan Yong can be said to be cautious in using troops. How can his partial army achieve success? Hengshan Yong has really thought about it for a long time.

Finally, in order to control the geographical stamina of western Hunan, maintain a high-pressure attitude towards the Chinese army, and restrain the Chinese army from going south to Myanmar, Hengshan Yong decided to launch an attack on May 2, 1943 to occupy Changde.

The 3rd, 13th, 39th, 68th divisions of the Japanese army, as well as the heavy artillery, tanks, aircraft, special forces (gas units), and engineers, who participated in the attack, have already entered the attack launch area before April 25.

The reason why Hengshan Yong is full of confidence is that he has two aces in his hand! One is that the intelligence agency has deciphered the code that the Chinese army is using, and the other is that Hengshan Yongwang has a talented person. This person is familiar with the complex water network conditions in the Binhu area. This person is a habitual bandit in Xiangxi called Peng, who is called Duzi.

The bandits in western Hunan are famous all over the country. The bandits gathered in the mountains and occupied the mountains as kings. They usually bully the village and looted them all. In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Peng Zhiduzi wanted to make a name for himself while the world was in chaos. So he sent someone to write to the Hunan Provincial Government, saying that he would accept the adaptation to participate in the anti-Japanese war, and asked to give the title of military commander, and to issue weapons and food according to the organization of a military. When Zhang Zhizhong, the chairman of Hunan Province, found out that this person was full of evil and was extremely angry. Moreover, the teams of several hundred people under him were unimaginable if they were recruited.

So Zhang Zhizhong ordered Peng to disband the team, but Peng Zhuo Duzi could not obey Zhang Zhizhong's arrangements. In 1941, he joined the Wang Puppet Government, which was full of people's hearts and was criticized by thousands of people. At this moment, even if a dog came, he would raise his hands to welcome him. He immediately appointed Peng Zhuo Duzi as the commander of the Major General of the Sanxiang Special Condemnation Column of the Peaceful National Salvation Army.

When Yokoyama was reviewing the list of special condemnants, he discovered Peng Zhiluzi, a rare talent, who would make the Japanese army occupy all the advantages of the territory.

In fact, Yokoyama's judgment was correct. He was so crazy that Peng Kelu was willing to be driven by the Japanese. Not only did he personally arrive at the 11th Army headquarters of the Japanese army to cooperate with the formulation of a combat plan. He also divided hundreds of subordinates into various attack troops of the Japanese army as guides.

Peng Jieluzi's actions cost the Chinese army an extremely heavy price for this.

In the early stages of the battle, Hengshan Yong wanted to give the Chinese troops an illusion, causing a false situation to pounce on western Hubei, mobilizing the Chinese troops gathered at Changde City, and then the main force returned to the horse and besieged Xiangxi with one shot, and defeated them one by one while the Chinese troops returned to aid respectively.

On May 2, 1943, the 5 divisions of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army were located in combat vehicles, aircraft, heavy artillery, special corps (poison gas unit), and engineering detachments. They had already reached the 11th, 12, 13, 20th, and the newly formed 5th Division of the Ping Jianguo Army. The Battle of Changde was launched according to the pre-prepared plan.

The Battle of Changde, where the Japanese army launched, was half a year earlier than in history. The Japanese army and local offensive caught the Chinese army off guard at the unfinished deployment. The Japanese army and local outbreaks made the passive defense of the passive defense of Nuanshui Street as the center of the mountainous areas of the five Chinese defenders miserable.

On May 5, on the third day of the battle, the Japanese army had been using the principle of flexible attack in order to confuse the Chinese army. In order to force the Japanese army to truly attempt, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Sun Lianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Sixth War Zone, to launch a counterattack against the enemy in front of him.

Sun Lianzhong, who had just taken over as commander of the Sixth War Zone, knew that he could not disobey. He could only adjust his troops in front of him and transferred the 184th Division of the 66th Army and the 184th Division of the Jingdi 66th Army and the local area were deployed on the second line. As a result, the Chinese troops were mobilized. The troops of the 3rd, 13th and 39th Divisions of the Japanese army rushed up in diameter with aircraft and heavy artillery cooperation.

After a morning of fierce fighting, the Japanese army broke through the defense line of the 185th Division of Fang Jing's 66th Army and the 98th Division of the 79th Army and Wang Jiaben's 79th Army and the 184th Division of the 66th Army and the 184th Division of the 66th Army and the 7th Combat Chariots were sent to the front line to meet the 13th Division of the Japanese Army and the 7th Combat Chariots. The 184th Division of the 66th Army immediately launched a field battle with the Japanese army. Chinese soldiers braved the Japanese artillery fire and chariots to assault and resisted stubbornly in the mountains and forests. Unfortunately, the firepower of the two sides was very different. On the one hand, the division commander He Jinming sent a message to the army and the theater for support. On the other hand, he organized troops to fight against the Japanese army based on favorable terrain nodules.

In the end, He Jinming sent out the last electricity, burned all documents, exploded the telegraph machine, shouting that he was loyal to the country and led the guards and division personnel to counterattack the Japanese army.

At 14:00 p.m., at the cost of killing all 8,000 Japanese 13th Division commander He Jinming, the commander of the 184th Division, sniped the 13th Division on West Street for more than 6 hours.

Sun Lianzhong, who received the last telegram from He Jinming, was so angry that he scolded He Jinming for being humble. How could a dignified major general and commander sacrifice his life to his country easily? When Sun Lianzhong unleashed the telegram, he was stunned and immediately stood there!

He Jinming's telegram is only two sentences, and all eight thousand elite soldiers are lost. What's the use of leaving this body alone?

What made Sun Lianzhong feel sad was that his counterattack plan was successful. If the 184th Division and other troops could move smoothly, the Japanese army would have to be in vain. But it was just such a coincidence. He drew the troops on the front foot, and the Japanese army attacked the entire line with the back foot.

The loss of the first-line position directly affected the defensive situation of the second-line position, which made the defense of the Chinese defenders on the verge of collapse. Due to the draw of troops, three divisions of the 73rd Army of Wang Zhibin, who was stationed in Shimen, were isolated in front of the Japanese army. Sun Lianzhong had no choice but to call the 7 Yao armed forces that had already approached Changde to return to the Shimen to help.

Naturally, the Japanese army would not miss such a good opportunity. On May 7, Yokoyama personally led the 1st Division, the 7th War Tank Regiment, and the Sasaki Detachment to attack Shimen.

The 15th, 77th and the 5th Division under Wang Zhibin's 73rd Army are surrounded by the three troops of the 15th, 77th and the temporary 5th Division. Behind it is the Fengshui River.

On May 8, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Shimen under the cover of artillery and chariots. During the battle, both sides showed their strengths. From the early morning to around 18 o'clock, both sides were suffering heavy casualties!

On May 9, through yesterday's attack, Hengshan Yong discovered that although the defenders of Shimen were resisting fiercely, the defense and fortifications of Shimen were very dilapidated and were useless in the face of fierce artillery fire.

So Yokoyama Yokoyama adjusted the offensive plan in time. He asked the artillery fire and the air force to do their best to launch a fierce attack, striving to make the enemy collapse in the artillery fire!

At around 7 a.m., the Japanese army carried out a devastating bombardment of the Chinese defenders in Shimen for two hours, and then the Japanese army attacked without the troops advancing with the barrage. With the cooperation of the chariots, they divided the troops into multiple routes and interweaved quickly and violently.

The rapid interspersion of the Japanese army had a great effect. A Japanese chariot team even interspersed near the 73rd Army headquarters. Fortunately, a regiment that rushed over in time on the military guard battalion and a regiment that rushed over in time in the position destroyed the Japanese chariot team. However, the huge casualties of the troops greatly shook the determination of commander Wang Zhibin to defend and wait for assistance. In the evening, the Japanese sergeant forces cut off the only retreat route of the 73rd Army. The combat divisions under the 73rd Army were all treated with casualties. Commander Wang Zhibin was extremely anxious. When he had no contact with the commander of the war zone, Wang Zhibin decided to leave the 5th Division with the strongest combat effectiveness. Each unit organized a weak Xicheng breakout to the Japanese army.

Two days later, on May 11, Wang Zhibin stood dejectedly at the intersection of Yanbo Road southwest of Cili, watching his soldiers walking here in groups of three or three.

The defeated Chinese soldiers were weak. Many of them were even wearing bandages and supported each other with difficulty in hosting officers.

The officers of the containment team kept reporting their units: "3 people in the 15th Division, 9 people in the 77th Division, 1 people in the 15th Division, and 4 people in the military!"

Among them, there were very few officers and soldiers of the 5th Division, and their commander Peng Shiliang was not seen. An ominous premonition deeply enveloped Wang Zhibin when he parted. Wang Zhibin really knew Peng Shiliang too much.

Peng Shiliang, 37 years old, from Liuyang, Hunan Province. After graduating from Mingde University in Hubei, he joined the Whampoa Military Academy and was in the fourth political department. After graduation, he served as platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander in the 10th Division. During the Northern Expedition, he was promoted to deputy regiment commander, and then to further study at the 11th session of Army University. After graduation, he served as chief of staff, commander, chief of staff, and deputy division commander. In 194, he took over as deputy commander of the 5th Division of the 73rd Army and promoted to division commander at the beginning of the year.

The sky gradually became dark, but Wang Zhibin was still reluctant to leave for a long time. He was full of melancholy and guilt. No matter who was in that position, it would be a good fortune, and Peng Shiliang had that personality!

In just a few days, the 66th Army of Fang Jing, Wang Benjia, and Wang Zhibin, who belonged to the Sixth War Zone, had been defeated by the remnants and lost their combat effectiveness. The extreme reversal of the battle situation made Chongqing anxious. Faced with the fierce attack of the Japanese army, Xue Yue and others had already determined that the purpose of the Japanese army was to directly target the western Hubei region.

So the various units of the Kuomintang troops deployed near Changde moved to the outside line, attempting to give the Japanese army an arc-shaped encirclement from the flanks!

Hengshan Yong, who had conquered the Shimen, was not in a hurry to order the 13th Division to attack and advance, and he stopped with the 3rd Division and the 38th Division to provide supplies.

After secretly resupplying the 7th chariot wing and heavy artillery units, the 68th and the 1st Division made an attack on western Hubei with the Peace Army quietly replaced the original positions of the Japanese army.

The 68th Division and the 68th Division, which secretly turned to the inside, directly point to the ultimate core goal of this battle. Changde!

At this moment, Yu Chengwan, the 5th Division of the 74th Army, was only responsible for the defensive task in Changde!

On May 15, when the Japanese 68th Division, the 1st Division, and the heavy artillery troops arrived at the periphery of Changde. The military committee, the Sixth War Zone, and the Ninth War Zone were surprised to find that the Japanese were seeking Changde?

"After many Chinese troops surrounded by the outside line, they attacked Changde alone? Hengshan Yong's courage is so great!" Xue Yue laughed happily after saying that. At this moment, the situation of the Chinese and Japanese armies reminded him of the Tianlu tactics planned in the third Changsha Battle.

The two divisions that surrounded the Japanese army alone could still cause severe damage to the Japanese army even if they could not be completely wiped out. In terms of the national army, the situation of the two armies at this moment was extremely beneficial to our side. If they did not take the situation and attack the Japanese invading enemy, they would be really sorry for the Japanese Japanese who came to their door.

Decision makers who are blinded by the bright prospects and favorable situations have just ignored Yokoyama, who has always acted cautiously but has no lack of adventurous spirit. Things are the same as monsters!

I'll ask for monthly tickets on behalf of the cavalry. Seeing that someone can still insist on typing when he goes out to work in the mountains and valleys, I will support you more this month.
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