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Chapter 1019: New Year¡¯s Drama (7)

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    That¡¯s right, Iida Sadagu¡¯s solution is to withdraw troops from the southwestern Shandong front line!

    Although they also wanted to make a desperate move and concentrate the forces of the two divisions to attack the national army in southwest Shandong from the north and the south, and completely eliminate them.

    But as Li Guoyao's troops made trouble in Western Shandong, Iida realized that his thinking was still too simple. Judging from the current situation, if he insists on attacking southwestern Shandong, when you conquer Heze, it may be Jinan.  When the city was lost.

    After thinking about it again and again, Iida Sadagu decided to transfer the 10th Division back first. This time he must destroy the national army in Luxi first!

    By the way, including those hateful Tubal Road, no one of these enemies can be spared!

    It is said that after Lieutenant General Sasaki received the telegram from Jinan City, he felt bad because his troops had reached outside Juye City after two days and two nights of fighting and were preparing to attack the city.

    At this rate, it will take at most three days to reach Heze City. If we withdraw our troops at this time, we will miss the mark.

    But he also knew that Iida Sada had his own difficulties. Geographically speaking, Luxinan and Luxi were equally important, and Luxi was even more important than Luxinan.

    "In addition, it is a foregone conclusion that southwestern Shandong will be captured by the national army, and there is still a chance for western Shandong to save it. No matter who is standing in Iida Sadagu's position, he will do so.

    However, Sasaki was still very unhappy, but he had no choice but to order the frontline troops to suspend the attack, then the front team changed to the back team, and returned towards Jining.

    When Sasaki returned to Jining from a headquarters, he suddenly received a report from the intelligence department, saying that a large number of Chinese troops had assembled on the Shanting front line, with the target directed at Jining.

    When Sasaki arrived, the others immediately secretly exclaimed that they were lucky. If they had not returned early to help, the Chinese army would probably have been attacking Jining by now. At that time, they would have been in a hurry again.

    At the same time, the Chinese army on the northern front was not idle. The Eighth Route Army launched a full-scale attack on Jinan City, but perhaps it had no experience in siege operations, or the Eighth Route Army had no intention of taking Jinan City, so the battle  It's not very intense.

    On the contrary, the battle between Li Guoyao's troops and the Chichai Regiment was a bit heated. Under Li Guoyao's order, the east and west armies launched a pincer attack on the Chichai Regiment.

    After two days of bloody battle, Li Guoyao's troops finally intercepted the Chichai Regiment in Tangyi Town, Liaocheng, and the two sides launched a decisive battle in this little-known town.

    Due to being attacked from the east and west, and because this time it was an emergency return to Liaocheng, the Chichai regiment was seriously short of ammunition and supplies. After Lu Zhanwu and Li Guoyao joined forces in Tangyi Town, Colonel Chichai knew that he was in big trouble.  Immediately ordered the troops to stay in this Chinese town and await reinforcements.

    Jinan was besieged, Tangyi was besieged, and Yishui was besieged. The situation in Shandong seemed to be out of control all of a sudden!

    The headquarters of the 12th Army ordered the troops on the southern front to stop the attack, while it withdrew troops and returned reinforcements.

    As the Tenth Division moved north, the battle on the northern front also changed. First, Li Guoyao's troops withdrew from Tangyi Town, then the Eighth Route Army withdrew from Jinan, and then the Sulu Theater Headquarters also withdrew.

    After the Japanese army re-captured Liaocheng and other places, they did not rush to find Li Guoyao's troops for revenge, and the entire battle situation suddenly calmed down.

    The war in Shandong is a bit anticlimactic, but no one from the various forces dares to act rashly, and the atmosphere is a bit weird!

    For the Japanese army, it is already an ideal state to recapture the main towns. It is really difficult to completely wipe out Li Guoyao's troops in Western Shandong. The reason is that during so many days of fighting, this force has already been in Western Shandong.  Stand firm.

    For Li Guoyao and others, the return of more than 20,000 main forces of the 10th Division to Shandong Province suddenly changed the previous situation where the enemy was weak and we were strong, so they could only temporarily turn from light to dark and develop slowly.

    What's more, it's already early May 1940. It won't be long before news comes from the European battlefield. By then, the Japanese military leaders will adjust their strategies. It's definitely not a good thing to dance too happily at this time.

    Li Guoyao knew very well that in 1939, the Japanese military leaders had the intention to withdraw troops from China. The reason was that they could no longer fight. Firstly, it was domestic economic problems, and secondly, there was no hope.

    But in the first half of 1940, the German army had been unstoppable. It basically won every fight in the European battlefield and achieved brilliant victories in the European battlefield. Especially the surrender of the powerful France in June made the German army the most handsome boy on the battlefield.

    And at this time, in the glorious victoryThe crisis has made Japan unprecedentedly enthusiastic about forming an alliance. For this reason, there is a saying in Japan that "don't miss the bus."  In the eyes of the Japanese, before the outcome of this war is determined, the colonies of Britain, France, the United States, the Netherlands and other countries in Southeast Asia are terra incognita. There seems to be a dawn in the originally hopeless war.

    Since then, the Japanese army has not mentioned the withdrawal of troops, but has madly carried out the third national mobilization order in the country. The strength of the Japanese invaders has also rapidly expanded from more than one million to 2.5 million.

    And all this started in June, and there is only more than a month left. Therefore, Li Guoyao felt that it would be better not to irritate the little Japanese for the time being when the Japanese army did not continue to attack southwest Shandong.

    Of course, the so-called lack of excitement does not mean being a grandson, that is impossible.

    "Anyway, the army has now established a firm foothold in Luxi, and the people also recognize them, so it can develop in secret.

    While the situation on the battlefield in Shandong was calming down, the battle on the Yichang front line entered a fierce stage, and then the news came that General Zhang Xingzhen had sacrificed his life for the country!

    The news shocked the whole country. At this time, Zhang Xingzhen was already the commander-in-chief of the 33rd Army of the Nationalist Government, and he was also the commander with the highest level of sacrifice in China so far.

    According to news from the front line, on April 28, Sonobe and Ichiro moved the command post of the 11th Army to Yingshan, and then issued an offensive order to his troops, and set the time for the general offensive to be May 1  .

    After receiving the order from the 11th Army, the 3rd Division commanded by Masataka Yamawaki launched an attack in two directions from the area north of Xinyang on the East Road on May 1, with the cooperation of the air force and tank units.  After fierce fighting in the Youhe area, they crossed the defense lines of Liu Ruming's 68th Army and Xiaolindian and Chifengcheng 20th Army on both sides of the railway. The main force of the division was east of Tongbai Mountain and occupied Minggang, Shiziqiao, and Xiaolindian that day.  And continued to advance westward, occupying Biyang in southern Henan on the 5th.

    Ishimoto Sadao's troops under the command of the 3rd Division attacked northwest of Xinyang. After a fierce battle, they broke through the defenses of the 30th Army in Nanwan, Youhe, Wudian, Xiaolindian and other places, and captured Tong on May 5.  Bai County City, then continued to attack Xinji, occupied Pingshi on May 7, and established contact with the main force of the 3rd Division in Tanghe in the north and the 39th Division in the direction of Zaoyang.

    The 13th Division commanded by Tanaka Shizuichi and the attached Matsui troops, with the cooperation of more than 20 tanks and more than 40 Air Force aircraft, and the 3rd Division 200 kilometers away, detoured towards Tanghe and Xinye in Henan  .

    On the 2nd, the division marched north from Zhongxiang and broke through the positions of the 59th Army, 77th Army of the 33rd Group Army, the 67th Army of the 29th Group Army, and the 41st Army of the 22nd Group Army. On the 3rd, it captured Changshoudian. The people stationed in this area were  Zhang Xuzhen's 33rd Army.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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