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Chapter 980: A bad start to the year

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    Time flies, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye!

    During these three months, Li Guoyao's department has been doing one thing, which is recruiting troops and actively preparing for war.

    After more than three months of hard work, the soldiers in all major base areas have all reached the full strength required by Li Guoyao, and some base areas have even reached over-staffing.

    At the same time, each base area used its own characteristics to conduct high-intensity training for newly recruited soldiers. After three months, most of the soldiers were in good shape.

    During this period, the national army launched a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese army in the northern region, especially in Suiyuan and Shandong areas.

    The Japanese army in the Suiyuan area was dissatisfied with the capture of Baotou. After many considerations, the enemy's headquarters in Mongolia in Zhangjiakou proposed to concentrate the main force of the army on January 15, 1940 to attack the Hetao area in order to destroy the 8th War Zone's anti-Japanese forces in this area.  According to the local plan, the combat plan was approved by its base camp on January 24.

    On the same day, the North China Front issued an order to the Mongolian Army to use the 26th Division and the Cavalry Group to attack the Hetao area. After the battle, organize forces to destroy the defense facilities of the 8th Theater in the area, and then return to the original station.

    According to the Japanese army's plan, Lieutenant General Kuroda Shigenori's 26th Division stationed in Datong moved northwest from Baotou through Nankouzi, Kundulunzhao, Maojiayingzi, Tailiang, Wulan Hutong, Dashetai Town, and Shuiquan to attack  Head towards Wanhe Chang north of Wuyuan, then turn left and make a circuitous route to the south, annihilate the defenders and attack Wuyuan.

    At the same time, Lieutenant General Kojima Jizo's cavalry group and its attached independent mixed-use 2nd Brigade stationed in Baotou formed part of the 2nd Brigade, heading west from Baotou and attacking Xishanzui along the towns of Machi Town, Sumutu and Gongmiaozi on both sides of the Yellow River.  , then turn right and pass through Wulateqian Banner, Sanshengquan, Yanzi and Bridge, annihilate the defenders along the way and capture Wuyuan.

    On January 28, these two groups of Japanese troops, under the command of Okabe, moved west of Baotou. Except for the cavalry troops, all infantry troops rode hundreds of trucks collected from the North China Communications Co., Ltd., and even the "April 41" mountain artillery  Also installed on the car.

    When the 26th Division on the North Road arrived at Shuiquan in the northeast of Wuyuan on the 31st, the defenders immediately resisted. When they arrived at Wanhechang on February 1st, they also encountered resistance from the defenders.  The cavalry group commanded by Ji Zang on the southern route also failed to attack smoothly. On both sides of the Yellow River at Xishanzui, it was vigorously resisted by the defenders of about 5,000 people.

    The 26th Division, which approached Wuyuan City from the north, immediately branched off and detoured to the west of Wuyuan City.

    After a day of fighting with them, the defenders evacuated Wuyuan City on February 3. The cavalry group on the South Road also arrived in Wuyuan on the same day.

    The two Japanese troops who captured Wuyuan on the 3rd quickly pursued westward on the 4th. The cavalry group followed the north bank of the Yellow River and arrived at the outskirts of Linhe on the afternoon of the 4th. After a battle, they occupied Linhe City at 17:30 that night; the 26th Division then  From Wuyuan to the west via Yongli, Bayantla, Xinhua, and Langshan, they captured the Hangjin Hou Banner on the night of the 5th after fighting.

    The Japanese army thought they had captured the Hetao Plain and judged that the defenders had fled. However, at this time, the main forces such as the 35th Army, the 6th Cavalry Army, and the 81st Army commanded by Fu Zuoyi were still in the Hetao area and were preparing to assemble to fight back.

    Soon after Linhe was captured, the main force of the Mongolian troops began to withdraw, leaving only a small number of troops stationed in Wuyuan along with the secret service and puppet troops.

    After learning about the situation of the Japanese troops stationed in Wuyuan, the 35th Army of the 8th Theater immediately launched an attack to encircle and attack Wuyuan. In less than a day, all the new and old cities in Wuyuan were recovered.  All the troops and secret service agencies were destroyed or captured, and the Japanese commander-in-chief, Lieutenant Commander Kuwahara Araichiro, and others were killed.

    After learning of this situation, the Mongolian Army Command rushed to Wuyuan with a cavalry group and the 26th Division. The cavalry group went to the Wujia River area in the north of Wuyuan. When they forcibly crossed, they encountered a strong counterattack from the defenders. However, these groups  The Japanese army still broke through the defenders' blockade and broke into Wuyuan.

    After the Japanese army entered the city, the defenders launched guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army near Wuyuan and dug up the embankment of the Wujia River, resulting in a large flooding area in the Wuyuan area. Because many roads were submerged and the direction was difficult to identify, the Japanese army  Most operations are guided by aircraft.

    Due to this situation, the Mongolian Army subsequently withdrew the troops of the 26th Division and the Cavalry Group.

    After the war, Naosaburo Okabe failed to follow the North China Front's order to return the troops to their original garrison after the Battle of Gohara. As a result, the troops led by Araichiro Kuwahara and the puppet troops who stayed in Gohara were completely annihilated and were punished.  pursue.

    In the Lunan area, the Sulu Theater concentrated four divisions to attack the Jiaodong area. At the beginning of the battle, Yu Xuezhong's troops successfully captured Juxian, Rizhao, Wulian, Yinan, Yishui, Zhucheng, etc.  land, annihilating more than 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops, and even killed a brigade commander and seven regiment commanders of the puppet troops.

    Subsequently, the main force of the national army moved towards Jiaozhou andQingdao's front-line attack was met with stubborn resistance from the main force of the Japanese army.

    At the same time, under the dispatch of the 12th Army Headquarters, the powerful forces of four infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments and two artillery regiments advanced from Jinan, Tai'an and other places toward the Jiaodong area, and on February 2  Arriving in Jiaozhou on the same day, he went into battle.

    But the Japanese army never expected that at the same time that their main force was fighting with the National Army in Jiaozhou, the 57th Army, the main force of Yu Xuezhong's command, suddenly appeared in the Tai'an area with the cooperation of Shen Honglie's Marine Corps.

    Because the Chinese army appeared too suddenly and made preparations in the city in advance, they captured Tai'an City in less than three hours.

    Tai¡¯an is located in the southeast of Jinan. The two places are only more than 160 miles away. If you have a car, it will take up to two hours to get there.  It would not take even a day if the troops marched in a hurry, so Tai'an was captured, which greatly shocked the Japanese and puppet troops in Jinan City.

    After being shocked, Ogao Guizang immediately mobilized reinforcements from Liaocheng, Dezhou and other places on the northern front, and at the same time ordered some of the troops on the Jiaozhou front line to return to Tai'an to aid.

    This war started in mid-January and lasted until mid-March, lasting more than two months.

    Although the Japanese army secured Jinan and Jiaozhou in the end, and recaptured Tai'an City in the later stages of the battle, their troops suffered heavy losses. Four infantry regiments were directly disabled, and as many as six of the puppet infantry brigades were lost.  , the entire 12th Army was left with only an empty frame after successive heavy losses.

    In addition, the National Army in central Anhui, southern Jiangsu and other places also responded one after another, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were not to be far behind. Throughout the winter, the sound of guns and artillery in northern China never stopped, and there was even a place on New Year's Eve.  fight.

    Then there is the 5th theater, which actively attacked for about 40 days from December 12 to January 20, causing great damage to the enemy's 11th Army, especially the 13th Division; in the 3rd theater, Tang Shizun's 23rd Group Army and other units were  In the Qingyang, Tongling and Guichi areas on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Japanese ships passing by the Yangtze River were shelled and mined, causing the Yangtze River waterway in Tongling and Datong areas to be blocked for a time.

    In fact, the national army's winter counterattack plan is mainly to launch local attacks from the outside to consume the enemy; destroy the enemy's railway and water transportation, cut off the Zhengtai Railway, Tongpu Railway and the Yangtze River waterway; attack Kaifeng, southern Shanxi, Xinyang and Wuhan  , Nanchang to Jiujiang, the northern section of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, along the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, and Nanning. The enemy attacked Shantou, Guisui and other places.

    Facing this winter offensive of the Chinese army, the Japanese army did not have a good response strategy. They could only passively strengthen the defense of key points and enhance the troops, equipment and fortifications at these points.  Occasionally take the initiative to contain others.

    But the little Japanese finally came to their senses in the later stages of the battle. Under Tada Shun's order, each division formed a mobile corps and prepared to go to places where the battle situation was unfavorable.

    In early March, the North China Front took the initiative to attack in an attempt to reverse the unfavorable situation.

    In the southern Shanxi area, the Japanese army, led by the 37th Division, first attacked Zhongtiao Mountain for containment.

    As for the 11th Army in Wuhan, Okamura Neiji not only strengthened defenses, controlled a certain number of mobile troops in each division, and prepared a number of transport aircraft to prepare for airdrops to the surrounded isolated garrison strongholds, but also used 12  At the beginning of the month, the 101st and 106th Divisions, which had evacuated Nanchang and Anyi, gathered in Jiujiang, and were waiting for ships to return home, temporarily stayed there as mobile units to deal with the Kuomintang army's winter offensive.

    The 13th Army of Susumu Fujita in Shanghai instructs the 116th Division of Shinohara Seiichiro to strengthen the defenses on both sides of the Anqing area to ensure smooth waterways. He also instructs the 22nd Division of Tuqiao to cross the Qiantang River from Hangzhou and take the initiative to attack.  Xiaoshan to contain the troops in the 3rd theater.

    But no matter what, in the first three months of 1940, the Japanese invaders had a hard time. It can be said that the year was unlucky, and they were on their knees at the beginning!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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