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Chapter 1,117: Breakthrough (Chapter 7)

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    Outside Shanxian City, the Japanese Joint Command Headquarters.

    The troops on the southern front are mainly composed of the remnants of the 17th Division, and there are also two infantry brigades of the 21st Division. Of course, the commander is the 17th Division.

    However, the commander of the 17th Division, Lieutenant General Hirabayashi Morito, has been transferred back to the country. It is said that he was kicked to a local juvenile military school to be the principal, and the chief of staff of the 17th Division died in the battle some time ago.  , so the person responsible for commanding operations on the southern front was Colonel Mitsui Kenichiro, a commander of the former 17th Division.

    At this time, Colonel Mitsui was in a very good mood. As the highest-ranking surviving officer of the 17th Division besides the division commander, Colonel Mitsui was under tremendous pressure these days.

    The Battle of Southwest Shandong can be said to be a shame for the 17th Division. After that battle, the 17th Division lost more than 10,000 men. Basically all three main regiments were annihilated, leaving only some miscellaneous troops and  The troops who were left behind in Fengxian and Peixian counties at that time survived.

    Originally, they thought that the base camp and the China Expeditionary Force Headquarters would supplement them. Regardless of whether Hirabayashi Morito would serve as the division commander, the designation of their unit would be retained!

    However, what happened next surprised everyone. The base camp intended to rebuild the 17th Division, but the specific policy completely changed when it came to the Chinese battlefield.

    The General Headquarters of the China Expeditionary Force ordered the North China Front to provide the 17th Division with additional troops. However, Lieutenant General Tada Shun blocked the move back on the grounds of insufficient troops.

    The reason is also very simple. The 17th Division itself does not belong to the North China Front's combat sequence. To replenish their troops, the 17th Division will return to Central China after the battle is over, and it will be a loss-making deal.

    As a result, the China Dispatch Army Headquarters asked the 11th Army to send troops to supplement, but the 11th Army was not happy. The reason is that although the 17th Division is under the command of the 11th Army, it is currently fighting in North China. Why send people there?  , do you want to help the North China Front?

    Isn＊t this a joke? What they sent to North China was an infantry division with all its personnel, but now it＊s been beaten to a cripple!

    "If we send troops there again, wouldn't that be a hole in the head?"

    And because the punishment for the 17th Division from the base camp has not yet come out, they cannot return to Central China yet. For a time, the 17th Division became a plague god that grandma does not love and uncle does not love.

    During this period, if the 12th Army Headquarters had not occasionally given them some supplies, the 17th Division might have become the first field division in the history of the Imperial Japanese Army to starve to death.

    Fortunately, the hard days have finally passed. In this battle, they were used as the main force on the southern front. Although there were only about 7,000 people, they were responsible for capturing Peixian, Fengxian, Shanxian, Chengwu, Caoxian and other places.

    More importantly, their record from the start of the battle to now is very good. Not only did they defeat the 112th Division of the 57th Army, they also defeated tens of thousands of Chinese troops who came for reinforcements.

    At present, the troops have reached outside Shanxian County. As long as they can capture this/that county, they can then capture Dingtao and successfully join forces with the troops on the northern front.

    By then, regardless of whether they can completely annihilate the tens of thousands of troops in Shanxian County, they have completed their mission and avenged their shame!

    Although it was already night, Colonel Mitsui still did not order the troops to rest. Instead, he ordered the logistics department to prepare sumptuous meals for the soldiers overnight. They wanted to attack the city overnight.

    Although there is no aviation support for siege at night, it is not without any advantages. At least there are not many soldiers with night blindness in the Imperial Japanese Army, but it is different over there.

    According to statistics, a large number of soldiers in the Chinese army suffer from night blindness due to lack of vitamin A, which affects night combat.

    And the marksmanship of the soldiers is generally not as good as that of the Imperial Japanese Army. Coupled with the influence of night blindness, the Imperial Japanese Army does not suffer at night.

    Desperate to wash away his shame, Colonel Mitsui decided to attack the city overnight and capture Shan County as soon as possible.

    While the Japanese army was busy attacking the county seat of Shanxian County, Li Guoyao had already moved out. The two troops, totaling more than 30,000 people, went north from Mangdang Mountain and headed straight for Shanxian County.

    In this army, cavalry accounts for one-fifth, about 6,000 people, and the remaining 20,000-odd people are all infantry and artillery!

    In addition, there are more than a hundred cars in the army, all of which were seized by the army in Xuzhou City!

    But these more than 100 vehicles are not used to transport soldiers, but to transport combat supplies.

    An army of 30,000 people must be eaten by horses, which is by no means a small number. If it is transported by ordinary vehicles, I don＊t know how many carriages are needed.

    ?But no matter what, the troops finally set off, and their target was the thousands of Japanese troops outside Shanxian City.

    For Li Guoyao, Heze only needs to maintain the situation in the three major battlefields of southern Shandong and southwestern Shandong. He does not expect Commander Chang and the others to achieve much results, as long as they are not completely wiped out.

    But the battle in Shanxian County and the east bank of Weishan Lake must achieve results as soon as possible, especially in Shanxian County. The number of Japanese troops in this direction is not large, with only six to seven thousand remaining soldiers, so it is not difficult to eliminate them.

    Therefore, Li Guoyao chose Shan County as the first breakthrough in this battle!

    It＊s just that Li Guoyao didn＊t expect that it was not Shan County that made the breakthrough first, but the Jiujiu Army in Yixian County!

    Just when Li Guoyao was commanding the troops from southwest Shandong to move north to Shanxian County, Colonel Yamashita Ryushichiro, the chief of staff of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army, led a patchwork of more than 7,000 troops. After nearly four hours of rapid march, they finally crossed the ancient  Shao Zhen appeared within the scope of Lushan.

    And in Lushan, Xu Hu has been waiting for them here for a day and a night with the main force of the Ninth Army!

    He came out after calling for thousands of times, still half-hiding his face with his pipa in his arms!

    The Japs finally arrived. After receiving the telegram from the reconnaissance force, Xu Hu immediately ordered Ma Desheng to step up the offensive, forcing the Japanese troops in Zaozhuang City to continue urging the reinforcements of the 21st Division to speed up their march.

    You must know that the faster the reinforcements of the 21st Division march, the faster the soldiers' physical strength will be consumed, and the more tired the soldiers will be. Eventually, all of this will be transformed into a real negative impact on combat effectiveness.

    It is completely conceivable that the Japanese reinforcements, urged by Kimura Hyotar身, rushed day and night. When the exhausted Japanese and puppet troops met the national troops waiting for work, especially when they encountered an ambush, what would be the consequences?  of.

    ????????????? In fact, without their pressure, Kimura Hy身taro in the city couldn＊t bear it anymore.

    Now Zaozhuang City has been besieged for most of the day, although Ma Desheng's troops have been repelled several times in a row.  However, Kimura Hy身taro still felt tremendous pressure. This pressure came from attacks from the national army outside the city and from internal uneasiness.

    Due to the unexpected outcome of the battle, the 32nd Division was defeated. Not only was Zaozhuang City in danger, Shanting and Yixian County had already been captured, and Xuecheng was abandoned by the Japanese army. This left the city  The Japanese and puppet troops came under tremendous pressure.

    Especially when they knew that it was Li Guoyao's troops who attacked Zaozhuang, the pressure was even greater.

    You must know that Li Guoyao's troops have captured many important cities in recent years. Whether it is Xuzhou or an ordinary county town, as long as it is favored by this army, there is no one that cannot be defeated.

    And once a city is captured, the defenders rarely end well. For example, in Xuzhou City, which was captured some time ago, all the defenders in the city were wiped out.

    Of course, the biggest influence here is the puppet army!

    During this period, the puppet troops suffered considerable losses. After all, in the eyes of the Japanese army, they were just cannon fodder used to block gun holes and protect landmines. In less than a week after the war began, no less than 3,000 puppet troops were killed on the Zaozhuang front line alone, and even more were injured.  This has a great impact on the puppet army.

    In addition, the Japanese have never believed in these puppet troops. Therefore, Kimura Hy身taro has heard reports many times in the past few days that the Imperial Association Army, which cooperates with the imperial army, is in danger of defecting on the battlefield. This makes Kimura Hy身taro very upset.  I was annoyed but also extremely worried.

    At this juncture, as long as an Imperial Army rebels, the impact will be extremely terrifying.  If this/that army takes the opportunity to attack the city, or simply cooperates inside and outside, the consequences will be even more terrifying.

    Therefore, the only thing Kimura Hy身taro can do at this time is to constantly urge the reinforcements to speed up the march. As long as the reinforcements arrive, the situation in the city can be stabilized, otherwise these Imperial Alliance troops will have problems sooner or later.

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