Chapter 43: The Doomsday of the Fifty-Five Team
The blocking of more than 4,000 troops from Qian Shen's two regiments slowed down the progress of the Japanese 124th Regiment sent from Qinzhou. This was because Qian Shen was unwilling to force himself and took the stage to fight. Otherwise, the 199th Regiment alone could block the 124th Regiment for a few hours and make progress. When the 124th Regiment was blocked, the 124th Regiment was just blocked, and they just kept rushing forward regardless of the situation, allowing Qian Shen to use a large depth and multi-elevation elastic defense to be resolved. Later, perhaps the commander of the Japanese army saw some signs, fearing that he would be trapped in the Chinese army's plan to lure the enemy, so he became cautious in the combat movement. Finally, at 3 a.m., the regiment suddenly stopped attacking. Qian Shen didn't know the truth, so he had to lead his troops to monitor the opponent on the spot.
At this point, the series of wars that took place on the front line from Lingshan to Qinzhou from the evening of the 11th to the early morning of the 12th have come to an end for the time being.
Cheng Jiaji and his New One Hundred Division did all this in the past half day. If it is explained in the fashionable language of a certain time and space era, it would be a "satellite" and a big "satellite".
First of all, he responded to the "satellite" created by Cheng Jiaji, which was deeply distressed by the Japanese 18th Division Command. The fact that a corps under his command was almost eaten up by the New 100th Division in one night made Lieutenant General Sadao Niujima, the commander of the 18th Division, was ashamed of. Because he wanted to ensure the smooth traffic in the rear and consolidate the occupied area, the 18th Division had a dispersed force. In addition to sending the last complete regiment controlled by the division headquarters, the 124th Division, in the direction of Lingshan, also reported to the 21st Army Command the latest military information that the Ashigaki Regiment was surrounded and in danger.
After hearing the news, Lieutenant General Ando Rikichi, commander of the 21st Army of the Japanese Army, said that since Qinzhou was the logistics supply base for the main force of the 21st Army advancing towards Nanning, and the control of Qinzhou Bay near Qinzhou was related to the rear route of the Japanese army's tens of thousands of troops, he attached great importance to the New 100 Division attacking from Lingshan. Lieutenant General Ando Rikichi judged that one of the elite Chinese army's main force, the main force of the New 18th Army, should be about to reach Lingshan. The combat mission of the Chinese army's army is undoubtedly to attack Qinzhou with relatively empty forces. According to this idea, the new 100th Division's continuous combat operations near Qinzhou had only one goal in Lieutenant General Ando's eyes, which would weaken Qinzhou's defensive forces and clear obstacles for the decisive action of the main force of the New 18th Army to attack Qinzhou later.
Because the retreat of our army was about to be seriously threatened, Lieutenant General Ando Riki immediately ordered that he had captured Nanjian and was on the Nanqin Highway to stop the attack, so as not to go too deep. www.piaotian.com. He could not return to the rescue when there was any change in the rear. Lieutenant General Ando also sent a strengthening force to the 18th Division from the military reserve to assist him in rescuing the remnants of the 55th Regiment. Although he gave reinforcements, Lieutenant General Ando still emphasized Lieutenant General Niujima in the telegram. The Chinese army currently surrounds the 55th Regiment without fighting, and there is a very likely hidden "conspiracy".
At the same time, the 21st Army Command sent a telegram to the Tokyo Base Camp to request the combat guidance site.
The series of land-based measures made by Lieutenant General Ando on the 12th were highly targeted. Logically, there was almost no place to attack. After the war, Cheng Jiaji himself admitted that the combat purpose of Lieutenant General Ando's guess that the Chinese army's out of Lingshan and forced Qinzhou was the complete attack plan he originally planned.
However, objectively speaking, Lieutenant General Ando's misjudgment of the situation on the battlefield directly led to the Chinese army guarding the Nanqin Highway, which was given a breather, and indirectly delayed the time when Nanning fell into the hands of the Japanese army. In fact, the root cause of this "tragedy" was that Lieutenant General was not a Chinese. He could not understand what the Chinese had played political balance for thousands of years. Without this prerequisite, as a professional officer, he could not think of why the Guilin camp only had more than 10,000 troops out of Lingshan.
Compared with the Japanese agile response, although the Chinese military headquarters had Cheng Jiaji's first-hand information on the news, the movements were half a beat slower than the Japanese, and fortunately only half a beat slower.
At 5 a.m. on the 12th, the Guilin Camp ordered the 3rd Column, who was formerly stationed in Nanning, and the 1st Regiment of the New 18th Army, immediately went east along the Yongjiang River and temporarily returned to the Lingshan Forward Command Post. At the same time, the New 18th Deputy Commander Cheng Jiaji was appointed as the commander of the five subordinates of Yulin and the director of the Lingshan Forward Command Post. The telegram also stipulated that the newly established Lingshan Forward Command Post is an army-level unit, a temporary agency, and directly under the command of the Guilin Forward Command Post.
Among the benefits offered by Cheng Jiaji in the camp, the most fatter one is the five-member security commander of Yulin. To put it bluntly, it is the position of a local security team leader and does not look majestic at all. However, with the title of this security commander, Cheng Jiaji has jurisdiction over the security teams and the training brigades of the five county security groups under Yulin. In other words, Cheng Jiaji can integrate and reorganize these local armed forces at any time in the name of war needs. Plus, it is allocated to
Cheng Jiaji's temporary first regiment with more than 6,000 people advanced into the Third Column and the New Eighteenth Army's headquarters. Cheng Jiaji is nominally a general with more than 30,000 armed forces. This is not counting, because it is the period of anti-Japanese and national salvation, and Yulin is already a war zone, and the commander of the Yulin Security Bureau automatically serves as the commissioner of the Administrative Office. This means that Cheng Jiaji is now a standard warlord who needs an army and a territory.
On the surface, Shangfeng was deployed to the troops and the territory, so Cheng Jiaji took a big advantage this time. So many people in Guilin and Chongqing complained about this, thinking that Cheng Jiaji had fled too fast. No wonder, the country has now fallen by nearly half, and the big guy is just when there are too many monks and too little porridge. Cheng Jiaji, a little guy with no qualifications and no strong background, can be the local emperor of one place, so he will not let him be jealous.
But in essence? That taste is not worthy of being told to outsiders?
This director is really good at doing business. He gave a lot of people, but basically he was a force with no combat effectiveness. The territory was also a destined to be abandoned. If these counties were lost in the future, I would have to take the blame for the loss of land. Cheng Jiaji was no longer the leader of the Yantou Qing Detachment who personally fought with the Japanese when he fought with the Japanese in the bloody battle of Dawangzhuang. He was naturally clear about the mystery. Perhaps the thought of the camp director was not as unbearable as Cheng Jiaji thought. But one thing was clear. That is, the camp did not think that it had the ability to confiscate the Japanese back roads. The task on Lingshan was to restrain the Japanese army, but it was just to restrain it.
Even if it is better, Cheng Jiaji will not give these camps to his national defense resources in vain. He is now thinking about how to maximize the role of every card in his hand.
On the 12th, after dawn, Cheng Jiaji and his troops urgently opened up. This sub-battlefield of the Battle of Southern Guizhou, with Lingshan County as the center, became lively again.
The Japanese pilots were diligent and should be "praised". But "regrettably", more than a dozen Japanese planes bombed the positions of the Japanese and Chinese troops surrounding the narrow areas of the south bank of the Qinjiang River in the early morning without any obvious effect. Instead, there was a low-altitude flight plane. After making the winding trenches dug out by thousands of officers and soldiers of the New 100 Division dizzy, they were shot down by the hidden heavy machine guns of the Chinese army.
Seeing this, other Japanese planes hit the nose and threw bombs down from high altitude. Soon these "air warriors" were invited away by Harada Nakasa because the 55th Regiment could not withstand the test of such Chinese troops that were very close to them, sharing their own air force bombs together.
The 124th Regiment, which stopped at three or four o'clock in the morning, launched an attack on Qian Shen's troops again. Perhaps because he didn't sleep well, the Japanese attacking movements seemed a little lazy. Qian Shen, who had a delicate and ruthless command style, nailed the Japanese to the spot after taking advantage of all the favorable conditions that could be used.
The most bizarre part on the entire battlefield is the New 100th Division of the three regiments surrounding the 55th Regiment. Most of the time they only focus on civil engineering operations and never launch large-scale attacks. The only hostile act against the Japanese army was that they would occasionally attack the positions of the remaining units of the 55th Regiment from time to time to time and fire cold guns and cannons. The remaining troops of the 55th Regiment were really unable to do so. Not to mention counterattacks, even whether they could maintain their positions depends on the mood of the Chinese army. They did not dare to take the lead and stayed honestly.
As one of the parties involved, Harada Nakasa was confused in the face of this abnormal situation. Looking back on the bloody large-scale hand-to-hand combat last night and the assaults of the fast column, Harada Nakasaki admitted in his heart that if the New One Hundred Division had put all their strength into it, his remaining soldiers would not be able to withstand anyway. Why would the Chinese army stop moving? After thinking about it, Harada came to the conclusion that Harada was similar to that of Lieutenant General Ando. Cheng Jiaji reused his old trick of harassing Wu Cheng and De'an, and was playing the trick of surrounding and fighting aid again. Harada was a professional soldier with a strong sense of mission, and he reported his concerns to Lieutenant General Niujima.
Lieutenant General Niujima, influenced by Lieutenant General Ando's ideas, deeply agreed with Harada's suggestions. In order not to overstimulate Cheng Jiaji, to rescue the remnants of the 55th team, and to avoid repeating the mistakes of the 55th team, and to be able to use the tricks to deal with the Chinese army that has seriously threatened Qinzhou, Niujima is waiting, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements. Since Niujima has this idea, it is not difficult to understand why the combat actions of the 1,2,4th team are far less active than those a few hours ago.
The Japanese side's cautious attitude had to fall into Cheng Jiaji's hub. At this moment, Cheng Jiaji had decided to use the 55th Regiment as a bargaining weight to restrain the Japanese army. The current situation is that not only the Japanese are waiting for reinforcements, but Cheng Jiaji also needs time to integrate the resources he can call.
With the tacit understanding between the two sides, the war in Lingshan area was dragged down with such a stop-and-go situation. As a result, the Japanese 124th Regiment fought absent-mindedly for a day and only advanced less than one kilometer. With the attack power of the Japanese army, this is also a small wonder in the history of the Sino-Japanese War.
Of course, in ten hours, both sides still did a lot of things. The Japanese army used planes to drop ammunition and dry food to the surrounded 55th Regiment (it was surrounded by the river, but there was no shortage of water.). Lieutenant General Niudao was looking forward to the stars and the moon, and the reinforcement regiment he was looking forward to also arrived.
On the New 100th Division, two troops from Nanning were approaching the county town of Hengxian. It is expected that their vanguard troops will be disembarked at Lily at 9 pm. Several retraining brigades transferred by Cheng Jiaji in the name of the Five Guard Commander of the Yulin Five, and the security teams were also on the way.
From these situations, it seems that both sides of the daytime battle had been very happy.
It seems that there are people who are not doing well. This person's identity is not very high. He is Lieutenant General Ando Rikishi, the commander of the 21st Army of the Japanese Army.
What is a bit unbelievable is that what affects Lieutenant General Ando Rikita's mood was actually the reinforcements of a whole division that he asked the base camp. Any general always hopes that the more troops he has, the better, but the situation of this division is a bit special.
When Lieutenant General Ando learned that he was going to be assigned to him to command the division as the Fourth Division, he immediately suggested to the base camp that only one mixed brigade would be enough, and the "elite" of the Osaka Division would not bother with the "elite" of the Osaka Division. But the base camp answered him that the "Emperor" army suffered a lot in the Soviet-Japanese conflict, and many troops were destroyed. At the moment, only the Fourth Division, the elite troops directly under the base camp, could be mobilized.
After putting down the phone, Lieutenant General Ando Rikito entered a petrochemical state. As a senior general in the army, he knew very well what the Fourth Division was. I won’t talk about those bad things. Just talk about this time, the Second Division and the Fourth Division were both in Hailar, Northeast China, and they also received different performances and experiences after receiving the mobilization order to participate in the Soviet war. This is enough to show the "elite" of the Fourth Division. After receiving the order, the Second Division was in charge.
After marching for four days, he rushed from Hailar to Nomenkan and entered the battle on the same day he arrived at the battlefield, but he was beaten up. The Fourth Division took the Second Division for four days for eight days for various reasons. The Su-Ri conflict ended on the day the advance team of the Fourth Division arrived at the front line. On the way back, the Second Division was in a difficult situation. The Fourth Division, which was passively avoiding the war, became a majestic "unsadministered division"
The worst thing is that this unit is too "loved" by the Chinese army. Since July 7th, wherever the number of the Fourth Division appears, the probability of the Japanese army defeating the war will be twice or three times higher on weekdays. The recent time in Wucheng is proof.
Lieutenant General Ando Rikita already regrets why he asked the base camp for combat guidance.
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