The third part of the bloody war of resistance, Chapter 9 of the rushing flow, Section 5 of the assault

Nishio Suzuo Itagaki Seishiro didn't answer, and instinctively told them that it was not advisable to act rashly now. The fierce and cunning general of China had not yet moved. He was like a ghost, floating over the Jiangbei. As long as you reveal your flaws, he would pounce from the air and bite it hard.

"Don't move for the time being, order Jizhu and Yuanshou, pay attention to strengthening cross-strait ties, and be sure to ensure that the floating bridge is unobstructed. If necessary, you can give up the south bank of the Yangtze River. Anqing City must be guarded." Xiou Shouzuo shook his head and insisted on it.

In the next two days, the Chinese team's attack on the Anqing area became more and more fierce. The 19th Army was worthy of the main force of the Civil Engineering Division and broke through the two Japanese defense lines in succession. The commander of the 9th Division was forced to draw a reserve team to counterattack, which prevented the 19th Army's attack.

The 11th Army and the 30th Army, which were attacking from the flanks, were stubbornly blocked by the 15th Division. The 30th Army fought fiercely with the 14th Japanese Mixed Brigade in Jiuhua Mountain.

On the battlefield on the north bank of the Yangtze River, Li Pinxian commanded two armies to launch a fierce attack on Anqing from the west and north directions. The 21st army conquered Youmuling and Shiling, and occupied the Fourth Army in Huaining. The 38th Army was vanguard and launched an attack southward to conquer Chaling Town. The Japanese army contracted to the mountains outside Anqing.

The Japanese army in Hefei remained unmoved, which made Zhuang Jihua a little helpless. Yang Sen sent a telegram a day to ask when the attack would start. Zhuang Jihua and Xu Zuyi and Cai Tingkai discussed and decided to change the combat plan and attack Hefei with the 24th Army. However, the attack was improved as a restraint. The 15th Army attacked Shucheng. The 17th Army, which was assigned to the 15th Army, immediately went south and was under the command of the 4th Army Sun Weiru, and joined the battlefield of Anqing.

With the order issued, Yang Sen, Wang Lingji, who had been ready to fight, immediately dispatched and rushed to Hefei. He Zhuguo led the 15th Army to attack Shucheng.

In recent years, Yang Sen was furious in the Ninth War Zone. His logistics supplies were never met. He even owed a year for military pay. The Forty-Seventh Army had left the system, and the Twenty Army had been solo for several years, but the war zone had not been supplemented. Now that the army had been replenished, he returned to Zhuang Jihua's command in Jiangbei War Zone. As soon as he came over, Zhuang Jihua supplemented his military expenditure, supplemented weapons and ammunition, and added a heavy artillery brigade to him. His original heavy artillery brigade had long been transferred by Chen Cheng. If he hadn't firmly opposed it, the rocket launcher would have been transferred.

Zhuang Jihua's move made the 24th Army feel inward. As soon as the troops arrived in Huoqiu, they immediately reconnaissed cavalry and made clear the deployment of the Japanese army near Hefei. As soon as the offensive order arrived, Yang Sen immediately deployed the three divisions of the 20th Army according to the pre-determined plan and attacked parallel along both sides of the Hehuo Highway.

Logically, it shouldn't have been put into the main force from the beginning, but Yang Sen had no choice. The 24th Army under its jurisdiction, the 20th Army and the 22nd Army. However, the 22nd Army was reorganized by the 30th Army, and its combat effectiveness has not been proved. To be on the safe side, Yang Sen did not use this force at the beginning of the war.

In order to reorganize the 30th Army, Zhuang Jihua specifically asked Chiang Kai-shek for the 30th Army. The 30th Army originally had 54,000 people, 4,000 more than the 20th Army. When Wang Lingji left Sichuan, he finally collected 40,000 people, and his equipment was quite poor. He suffered a lot of losses in the battle of Wuhan, with only 20,000 troops left. He sent people back to Sichuan to recruit soldiers. Deng Xihou had just become the chairman of Sichuan Province and needed to unite the forces of various factions in Sichuan, so he collected his family and equipped him with 40,000 people, and provided him with a full set of Chongqing-made equipment.

After Wang Lingji arrived in Hunan, he did not rest in Hunan. The equipment treatment of the Sichuan Army was far better than that of the other armies, which had long aroused the envy of other generals. In addition, Chen Cheng was also very frightening to take advantage of the miscellaneous brands, and some miscellaneous troops were willing to surrender. So he arranged several more troops. The entire army was under the jurisdiction of one army, two ** divisions, and two ** brigades. The numbers were chaotic and the number of people and equipment was uneven. After arriving at the Jiangbei War Zone, Zhuang Jihua asked him to reorganize and reorganize according to the three-three system, and the war zone with insufficient weapons and equipment were supplemented. So Wang Lingji spent a lot of effort to rectify and train the troops during this period. In just three months, the troops' equipment and combat effectiveness reached a level. But this was not verified after all.

The three divisions attacked side by side on the front line, quickly crossed the Qing River, conquered Jin'an, and fought fiercely with the 15th Japanese division defending the periphery in Shuangmiao and Sanshipu.

At the same time as the 24th Army, He Zhuguo's troops stationed in Lu'an were He Zhuguo's troops; He Zhuguo was born in the Northeast Army Cavalry Army and participated in the Xi'an Incident. He had been fighting in the First War Zone since the War of Resistance began. However, due to his Northeast Army's background, he was very unpopular in the First War Zone. After Zhuang Jihua came out of the Jiangbei War Zone, he was always worried that he would be eaten by Zhuang Jihua. However, he did not expect that Zhuang Jihua did not make any trouble for him or took care of him, but just transferred him from Henan to Lu'an.

The 15th Army actually has only one Second Cavalry Army, with two divisions under its jurisdiction, the Second Cavalry Division, Wang Zhaokun, the 14th Division, and the Commander of the Division Liao Yunze, the total force of the entire army is 16,000, of which the Second Cavalry Division is under its jurisdiction, two cavalry brigades, each with two regiments, and a total force of 7,000; the 14th Division is also a Class B Division, with three regiments under its jurisdiction, with two regiments in each brigade and a total force of 9,000.

The combat effectiveness of the 15th Army was limited, but most of this unit was cavalry, and the Hefei area was full of hills, and the cavalry moved rapidly. From Hefei to Anqing, it had to pass through Feixi, Shucheng, and Tongcheng. This area was the brigade of the 3rd Division of the 15th Division and the puppet army peacefully rescued Wang Zhanlin's troops.

After six years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese army suffered defeats, especially the recent defeat in northern Hubei. The Japanese army no longer dared to bet on it. One brigade is equivalent to a Chinese division, and there is no such nonsense. On this line of contact, four brigades were deployed on four key points to spread the troops equally.

He Zhuguo's equipment and troops were not as strong as Yang Sen, and his combat methods were also different. He Zhuguo was responsible for the frontal attack with the temporary 14th Division, while the Second Cavalry Division was scattered. Two cavalry brigades attacked everywhere on the long Japanese front line in regiments.

They either circumvented the enemy's back, raided the Japanese strongholds, or attacked the Japanese transport convoy. This kind of combat gave the Japanese army a great headache. In order to avoid losses, the Japanese army quickly contracted and retreated into Shucheng. He Zhuguo did not attack Shucheng. He used the temporary 14th Division to monitor the enemy in Shucheng and let the cavalry brigade let go on the front line. However, He Zhuguo also held a cavalry brigade tightly in his hand to serve as the final reserve.

The 24th Army and the 15th Army launched an offensive in Hefei, and Nishio Suzusaki breathed a little relieved, but Itagaki's words made his heart rise again.

"Only the Twenty-Fourth Army?" Itagaki was completely unaware of the shock that his words had caused to Nishio Suo: "The Twenty-Fourth Army appeared in Huoqiu's book to organize and fight, Huoqiu is the south and north, is the Twenty-Fourth Army going to capture Huainan or was it originally planned to attack Hefei?"

This is nothing at first, but after thinking about it, it makes people feel creepy. The Chinese general's combat methods have always concentrated their forces. If they are interested in Huainan, the 24th Army will probably cut off the troops from Huainan and Hefei, while those who seize Huainan may be concentrated east of Fuyang and west of Shou County.

Nishio Shouzuo's eyes moved up again. It was Bengbu, an important town on the Jinpu Line. There were 7,000 troops stationed here. However, one thousand of these 7,000 troops were in Mengcheng and two thousand in Huaiyuan. There were only four thousand people in Bengbu City in the city, and there were about one thousand people in the railway garrison. This railway garrison was distributed along the railway line. However, there was also a brigade of troops in Mingguang, which was guarding the Sulu War Zone, and there was a brigade of garrison in Dingyuan.

It must be noted that the troops and equipment of the garrison brigade and the field brigade are very different. The garrison brigade has only 900 people and the field brigade has 1,100 people. The garrison brigade is half less than that of the field brigade. What is more important is the quality of the troops. Most experienced combat soldiers are transferred to the field brigade, and most of the garrison brigades are recruits, and there are officers. The garrison officers and the officers of the field brigades are incomparable in command capabilities.

The war has spread from the south of the Yangtze River to the north of the Yangtze River. The number of Zhong** teams appearing on the battlefield is increasing, and the main attack direction seems to be very clear, that is Anqing, but Nishio Suzusa and Itagaki are not sure that this is the last trump card of Zhong** team.

The troops that appeared in Jiangbei were only one of the 24th Army, which was from the southwest. What about the other troops? What about the elite soldiers who fought the Battle of Northern Hubei in the former Fifth War Zone? Where are they lurking? Henan? Or are they like the Battle of Northern Hubei, secretly heading south to join the Battle of Northern Jiangbei?

But it is impossible to just mobilize troops north like this. First of all, the Chinese army in Jiangnan invested more than 500,000 troops to launch an attack. Jiangnan's already tense troops could no longer be transferred north. If you can't transfer troops from Jiangnan, then you can only transfer troops from Shandong, but...

If the Chinese general did not launch an attack on Bengbu? Then he, Nishio Shouzao, would probably create the biggest joke in the history of war

"Appoint the Dingyuan garrison to immediately hand over the Dingyuan defense to the local area for peaceful rescue, and the Imperial Army immediately went to Bengbu to gather." After hesitation for a long time, Xiwei Shouzao issued an order: "Tele to the commander of the Shicun Brigade in Bengbu to pay close attention to the changes in the enemy situation in Mengcheng and Wuhe. If the Chinese army attacks, the Mengcheng garrison can retreat back to Huaiyuan. If the unsuccessful force is required, the entire army can retreat to Bengbu."

Nishio Shouzao's order was soon implemented, but the Mengcheng troops could no longer be taken back because the 22nd Army had already begun to take action.

The Japanese army in Hefei did not go south to reinforce Anqing, which made Zhuang Jihua a little depressed. Cai Tingkai and Xu Zuyi also suggested that the attack on Huainan and Bengbu immediately be launched. Even if the attack on these two points was launched, the main attack direction of our army, Xuzhou, was not exposed. Moreover, due to the attack on these two places, Xiou Shouzao would likely transfer the Xuzhou defenders to south to reinforce, which actually covered the main attack direction of our army.

Zhuang Jihua accepted the suggestion of the two and ordered the 22nd Army and the Fuyang Army (temporary organization, Qing 4th Army, New 30th Division, Fiftyth Division, total strength of 100,000, commander-in-chief of the Qing 3rd Army) to attack immediately.

But in fact, Sun Zhen's 22nd Army began to move two days before he issued the order, so he ordered it and immediately launched a surprise attack. The enemy unexpectedly conquered Shuangjianji and cut off the retreat of the Japanese army in Mengcheng.

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