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Chapter 581: Deploy defense in Shanxi!

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    Regarding Hu Zongnan, in the eyes of many people, Hu is a general who always loses. During the Liberation War, he had hundreds of thousands of troops but was beaten to disgrace by President Peng. What talents can such a person have?

    There are even many people who believe that Chiang Kai-shek's command level is only enough to serve as an infantry battalion commander, and Hu Zongnan is only qualified to be an infantry regiment commander.

    "If we look at the War of Liberation alone, Hu Zongnan's performance was indeed very bad, but who among the national army generals did not perform badly in the War of Liberation?

    Is Xue Yue famous enough?  During the War of Liberation, not only did they suffer consecutive defeats, they also killed two of Chiang Kai-shek's elite reorganizers within half a year, and finally resigned sadly.

    Du Yuming¡¯s performance was not as good as that of Xue Yue. In the Battle of Huaihai, he held 800,000 troops and only lasted for more than two months before being defeated and captured.  Others such as Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang, Bai Chongxi and others performed no better than Xue Yue and Du Yuming.

    Therefore, when evaluating Hu Zongnan¡¯s command level, one cannot only look at the War of Liberation, because almost all the national army generals performed very poorly in the War of Liberation.

    So which war best reflects Hu Zongnan¡¯s command level? The answer is the Battle of Songhu.

    Like many national army generals who became famous during the Anti-Japanese War, Hu Zongnan also won a reputation for himself with his outstanding performance in the Battle of Songhu.  Before the Battle of Songhu broke out, Hu Zongnan served as commander of the First Army, under the jurisdiction of Li Tiejun's First Division and Li Wen's 78th Division.

    After the Battle of Songhu broke out, Hu Zongnan first led his troops to fight the Japanese invaders in Yanghang.  Facing the well-equipped Japanese invaders, the First Army, under the command of Hu Zongnan, fought extremely tenaciously, and almost every position went through repeated battles.

    While blocking the frontal attack, Hu Zongnan also used companies and platoons as units to launch night attacks and side attacks against the Japanese army under the cover of darkness. Many positions were lost during the day and recovered at night.

    Liu Jinchi, then the lieutenant colonel section chief of the Operations Section of the Staff Office of the Songhu Garrison Command in Shanghai, said when recalling Yang Xing¡¯s bloody battle: ¡°After Hu Zongnan came to the defense, his morale was strong and he fought tenaciously. He fought for every inch of territory against the enemy.  We fought hard for a week, but the Japanese army could not get past Yang Xing."

    During the battle, there was an endless stream of generals asking for reinforcements, but Hu Zongnan did not say a word.  In fact, Yang Xing fought very hard and the First Army suffered heavy losses, but he just did not take the initiative to ask for reinforcements.  Later, when Gu Zhutong sent someone to change the defense, Hu Zongnan said that if he didn't change the defense, I would take a gun and go to the firing line tomorrow to fill the gap.

    Because of his outstanding performance in the bloody battle of Yangxing, Hu Zongnan was promoted to the commander of the 17th Army Corps, which was under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 8th and 78th divisions. After that, the 17th Army Corps was ordered to stick to the Yunzaobang, Chenhang and Dachang lines.  Hu Zongnan commanded the troops to fight the Japanese invaders here for 21 days and nights.

    When the enemy was strong and we were weak, the 17th soldier fought with the enemy in Yunzaobang for 21 days and nights, and the position was as secure as a rock.  The troops were in the flames of war every day, and rest and meals could only be carried out between battles. The battles were so frequent and intense that they had never been seen before.

    Since the national army lacks air force and heavy weapons, except for night attacks, it mainly focuses on defense to avoid consuming strength.

    During this period, Hu Zongnan, as the commander of the regiment, has been commanding patrols on the battlefield and has never left. The officers and soldiers were all excited when they saw him.

    It can be seen that Hu Zongnan¡¯s performance in the Battle of Songhu was remarkable, and he was not inferior to those famous national army generals.  After Hu Zongnan passed away, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to pay homage to him and gave him an eight-character evaluation: "Able to fight tough battles, regardless of reputation or reputation."

    Moreover, during the two Eastern Expeditions during the Northern Expedition, Hu Zongnan also took the lead, especially during the crusade against Sun Chuanfang. He defeated an elite division of Sun Army with a single regiment, captured 8,000 enemies, and even captured the commander alive.  coming.

    During the Battle of the Central Plains, Hu Zongnan started to act stupidly and pestered Sun Liangcheng's troops like a shadow to fight hard, making Sun Liangcheng dumbfounded and unwilling to fight with him again.  As soon as he heard that it was Hu Zongnan's 1st Division, Sun's troops retreated and took a detour.

    Because of this, Chiang Kai-shek had high hopes for the transfer of Hu Zongnan's troops to the north.

    And Hu Zongnan did not disappoint Chiang Kai-shek. When the troops of the Sun Corps were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army on the Huangchuan and Shawo front lines, Hu Zongnan quietly pulled his troops to the mountains east of Luoshan, built fortifications and deployed artillery arrays, preparing to fight with the Japanese.  The Japanese army made a deal.

    Hu Zongnan knew very well that after the Japanese army captured Huangchuan, they would inevitably move towards Xinyang. Only by capturing Xinyang would they have the opportunity to launch a large-scale roundabout attack on Wuhan.

    As a thoughtful officer, Hu Zongnan also made special research on Japan as an opponent. He found that in addition to having strong individual soldiers and well-equipped weapons and equipment, the Japs were also quite methodical in their tactics, especially their preference for using large detours.  Combat.

    Hu Zongnan discovered that the Japanese army had begunIn early 1895, when the Qing army and the Japanese army were "entangled" at sea, the Japanese army sent 25,000 people to use the roundabout tactic to raid Shandong Longxu Island under the cover of Japanese warships.  After success, they quickly outflanked Weihaiwei, leading to the defeat of the Qing army.

    The Japanese army occupied Weihaiwei and used the Qing army's coastal defense artillery to bombard the harbor.  The Beiyang Navy was unprepared and was wiped out in one fell swoop. The Japanese army also took advantage of the situation and occupied the Shandong Peninsula.

    In the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army also used large detour tactics. Within three months after the battle broke out, the two sides fought extremely fiercely.  Just as the Battle of Songhu entered a fierce stage, the Japanese army suddenly landed at Jinshan Guard in Hangzhou and used roundabout tactics to reverse the situation of the battle.

    At that time, the Chinese army stationed at Jinshan Guard in Hangzhou had less than one battalion. The 10th Army formed by the Japanese army was escorted to Jinshan Guard by ships. It quickly occupied the beach and quickly outflanked the southern defense line of the Chinese defenders after successfully logging in.

    How could the Chinese army, which had been exhausted for a long time, withstand such a pincer attack, so the defense line began to collapse, the troops began to rout, and soon Shanghai fell, and then the door to Nanjing was opened wide.

    This time it was the same. Seeing that the troops along the Yangtze River were having difficulty advancing, the little devils repeated their old tricks and implemented roundabout operations.

    But Xinyang is a strategic point that the Japanese army must capture. Otherwise, as long as Xinyang is still in the hands of the Chinese army, the Japanese army will not be able to carry out roundabout operations, otherwise it will be easily beaten to the back by the Chinese army.

    In fact, as Hu Zongnan expected, after capturing Huangchuan, the Japs sent troops to continue marching westward. Their main force had even captured Luoshan, and they only waited for the main force of the 13th Division to come up before attacking Xinyang.

    It was precisely because of this that Hu Zongnan immediately seized the mountainous area west of Luoshan and built fortifications there after arriving at the northwest battlefield.

    In Hu Zongnan¡¯s view, the city of Xinyang does not have any dangerous areas for them to defend, so if they want to defend Xinyang, it is best to defend Xinyang instead of fighting in Xinyang. The best way is to block the little devils outside Xinyang.

    Hu Zongnan is also a bit of a thief. Compared with other generals of the national army, he makes a huge noise when he appears, lest others don't know who is coming!

    But Hu Zongnan was different. He issued a secret order when the troops were heading north, and all troops moved in a low-key manner. He even directly ordered people to pretend to be Sichuan troops when the troops passed through Wuhan.

    Hu Zongnan has always believed in a saying, a dog that bites does not bark. It is better for the army to be more mysterious on the battlefield. Once someone finds out the trump card, death is not far away.

    To put it bluntly, Hu Zongnan planned to give the little devil a sap this time, and he wanted to plot against the little devil.

    At this time, the Japanese 10th Division did not know that it was running headlong into the Longmen Formation deployed by the 17th Corps.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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