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Chapter 975: Peak Showdown (End)

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    December 7th is definitely a day worthy of being remembered by Li Guoyao¡¯s troops. On this day, Li Guoyao¡¯s troops conquered Dingtao and came to Heze City!

    On this day, the Japanese commander in Heze, Colonel Yamazaki, chose to abandon the city and flee when reinforcements failed to arrive for a long time!

    After the troops gathered in Dingtao City, Colonel Yamazaki did not hesitate too much and led his troops directly to break out of the siege at the north gate of Heze, heading north towards Liaocheng.

    Li Guoyao did not send anyone to pursue him. His troops entered the city directly and occupied this important town in southwestern Shandong.

    After the Chinese army captured Heze, the Japanese troops on the Juye front also temporarily stopped their attack on Leishan and retreated 20 kilometers.

    Those guys at the Japanese 12th Army Headquarters are not stupid. They were busy attacking before to rescue Heze. Now that Heze is lost, there is no hope.

    More importantly, after Li Guoyao's troops capture Heze, they can concentrate their forces to deal with the troops coming from the direction of Jining. They might just fly into the flames, so it is better not to go deep alone before they are fully prepared.

    With the retreat of the Japanese army, this month-and-a-half-long battle has come to an end!

    In this battle, Li Guoyao mobilized more than 6,000 troops, including 60% of the special forces and more than half of the guards. In less than fifty days, he suppressed almost 70% of the traitor and puppet troops in the Heze area, and at the same time regained a  In 6 counties in the city, more than 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops were annihilated.

    What¡¯s more important is that in this battle, Li Guoyao and others also wiped out a special force team of the Little Japanese and captured the opponent¡¯s commander.

    The losses on the nationalist side were not small, with more than 2,600 people killed and more than 1,600 wounded, for a total of more than 4,000 casualties.

    In terms of casualties, the gap between the two sides is not very big, but in terms of combat impact, they are not at the same level.

    In this battle, Li Guoyao's troops were famous in southwest Shandong. Now the traitors and puppet troops in this area tremble when they hear the name of the national army Li Guoyao. Even the traitors and puppet troops in Shangqiu, Lankao, Dongming and other places outside southwest Shandong  They were also trembling with fear, and some even secretly reconciled; regarding the relationship with the troops, they were willing to serve the national army.

    Moreover, the people in southwestern Shandong had been oppressed by the Japs for a long time, and they were filled with anger. As Li Guoyao's troops regained Heze, this anger was transformed into gratitude to the national army.

    Therefore, not long after the army captured Heze, a large number of young and middle-aged people defected to the army!

    In addition, during this battle, Li Guoyao's troops also seized a large amount of weapons and equipment as well as supplies such as grain, cotton-padded clothes, and oil. All the resources needed for the development of the army were in place.

    Therefore, after conquering Heze, Li Guoyao immediately held a temporary military meeting in Heze City and decided to establish the Southwest Shandong Base Area.

    After research, it was decided that the level of the Southwest Shandong Base Area was the same as that of the Xiong'er Mountain Base Area, which was the full division level. Wen Debiao was appointed as the commander of the base area, Gao Hu was appointed as the deputy commander, and Xu Wenlong was appointed as the chief of staff.

    The southwestern Shandong base has four infantry brigades, each with 1,500 people, as well as artillery, cavalry, engineers, guards and fire support.

    Appoint Zhou Jinlong as the captain of the first brigade, Wu Tian as the captain of the second brigade, Li Bing as the captain of the third brigade, Zhao Wenshan as the captain of the fourth brigade, and the other military and political cadres of the directly affiliated units are all from the general headquarters of the Southwest Shandong Base Area  appointment.

    After the establishment of the Southwest Shandong base area, Li Guoyao immediately ordered Wen Debiao to immediately recruit troops throughout Southwest Shandong and actively prepare for war.

    According to Li Guoyao's prediction, the Japs' counterattack should come soon. After all, southwest Shandong is different from Xiong'er Mountain.

    No matter how noisy the national army in Xiong'er Mountain was, they still failed to capture important cities, and they also controlled a large number of county towns.

    But it's different here in southwest Shandong. Now the troops not only control Heze City, but also captured Peixian, Fengxian, Shanxian, Chengwu, Caoxian, Juye and other places. There are more than two million people under their direct control.  , this is absolutely intolerable to the Japanese devils, so we must prepare for a rainy day.

    Li Guoyao also thought that once the Japs got serious and concentrated their forces to counterattack southwest Shandong, Wen Debiao's troops would not be able to defend Heze with the strength of his troops, so he must make plans to retreat before that.

    Of course, we cannot withdraw casually. Now that the troops have conquered Heze, they must gain enough benefits before leaving. Otherwise, it is uneconomical to enter Baoshan and return empty-handed.

    Starting from December 8, a large number of troops took to the streets or went deep into villages and towns to promote the anti-Japanese theory of the national army and recruit aspiring young people to join the army.

    It is still the same rule as before. As long as you are willing to fight the Japanese, the army will not only provide you with a settlement allowance, but will also??All men and women were collected.

    Although limited by the army¡¯s money and food, the settlement allowance was not as large as what Li Guoyao had given him in Jining before, but it still attracted a large number of young and middle-aged people to join the army.

    While recruiting soldiers, Wen Debiao and others were also looking for a suitable location. After all, Heze City was the site of the Fourth War and was not suitable for staying for a long time.

    ¡°But these things are beyond Li Guoyao¡¯s control. After being out for so long, it¡¯s time to go back.

    On the morning of the 12th, Li Guoyao left Heze under the escort of monks and guards, escorting dozens of Japanese special forces members back to Xiong'er Mountain.

    It was already the evening of December 14th when Li Guoyao returned to Xiong'er Mountain, and at this time, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs had just completed a major event.

    That morning, Chiang Kai-shek had just made a summary of the battle in southern Guangxi!

    This summary meeting was hosted by Chiang Kai-shek himself and took place in Liuzhou. It started ten days ago and summoned more than 100 generals from the southern Guangxi region to participate.

    At the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek listened to the generals¡¯ reports on combat operations, and after reading the contents of the Japanese ¡°Infantry Instructions¡± captured from Kunlun Pass, he repeatedly reminded the generals to learn from the spirit of Japanese soldiers.

    In the report, Xia Wei's troops on the south bank of the Yongjiang River reported that since the enemy's main force was concentrated on the north bank of the Yongjiang River, the situation on the south bank was not serious. In addition, in early December, they also captured Xiaodong north of Qinzhou. In this Binyang battle,  , He Xuan's 175th Division of the 46th Army supported the operations on the north bank of the Yongjiang River. They fought more proactively and proactively, so they were relatively relaxed during the report.

    But the atmosphere in the entire venue was tense, especially for the generals fighting on the north bank of the Yongjiang River. Due to the roundabout encirclement by the enemy, they suffered heavy losses in troops and equipment, and the battle was defeated. They could only review.

    During this period, Chen Cheng once accused Bai Chongxi of not deploying enough troops in Binyang and the Gula and Gantang areas to the south, so that he failed to break the roundabout encirclement of the enemy's 18th Division and the 1st Guards Brigade, leaving Kunlun  The garrison in front of the pass was in danger.

    However, Bai Chongxi did not admit that he sent Li Yannian to command two divisions from Qinzhou to Nanning and Nanning to Kunlun Pass, from Binyang to Gantang, and Chen Ji's two divisions of the 66th Army from Batang to the east to Naxiang (west of Gantang).  , sent a division of He Xuan's 46th Army from the west of Hengxian County to the Gantang area to break the enemy's encirclement. What mistake was there in the deployment?

    It should also be noted that the above counter-encirclement operation plan has been approved by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek of the Military Commission.

    But Bai Chongxi admitted that he was weak in supervising the troops and implementing them.

    At the end of the meeting on the afternoon of the 14th, Chiang Kai-shek announced a list of senior military cadres below the headquarters and group army levels who were responsible for the southern Guangxi operation and should be rewarded. Among them, Bai Chongxi, director of the Guilin camp, was demoted because he failed to lead the troops; Political Minister Chen Cheng  The commander-in-chief of the 37th Group Army, Ye Zhao, was detained and handed over to the Military Justice Bureau for trial; the commander-in-chief of the 38th Group Army, Xu Tingyao, was dismissed from his post and investigated; the commander of the 36th Army, Yao Chun, was dismissed from his post and investigated; the chief of staff of the 36th Army, Guo Su, was dismissed from his post and investigated;  Chen Ji, commander of the 66th Army, was dismissed from his post for investigation; Fu Zhongfang, commander of the 99th Army, was dismissed for investigation; Li Jingyi, commander of the 49th Division, was dismissed for investigation; Song Shitai, commander of the 160th Division, was dismissed for investigation.

    Only three people were credited with merit, namely Deng Longguang, Commander-in-Chief of the 35th Group Army, He Xuanji, Commander of the 46th Army, and Wang Lingyun, Commander of the 76th Division.

    The battle in southern Guangxi was the most punished time for senior military commanders since the July 7th Incident.

    On the evening of that day, the relevant content of the battle summary was circulated to all theaters through the Military Commission, and the commanders of each theater were asked to circulate it to the entire army.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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