Chapter 1206 The changing situation
Ren'anchang is located on the right bank of the middle reaches of the Irrawaddy River and is the main oil production center in Myanmar.
The Japanese army planned to seize Ren'anqiang Oilfield and annihilate the main force of the British army on the Western Front, and sent more than 10,000 troops including the main force of the 33rd Division: Araki, Harada, Sakuma, and division-level direct troops.
On April 13, 1942, the British army began to destroy the Ren'anqiang oil field. Alexander asked the Chinese army to replace the British army's defense on the Western Front to cover the British army's large-scale retreat. At noon on the 15th, Alexander requested reinforcements from the Chinese army: "The oil field blasting cannot be completed until noon on the 16th, and the assistance of the Chinese army is needed."
The Expeditionary Force ordered Sun Liren, the commander of the New 38th Division, to move to Chocolate Bodeng to support the 1st Division of the British and Burmese; the 112th regiment moved to Natmok to support the 17th Division of the British and Burmese to cover the right wing of the 5th Army.
The other tribes are moving towards Ren'anqiang.
Hu Lian only took one night to arrive in Mandalay.
He particularly thanked Zhou Xiaoshan for training in the Sichuan Army in Yongzhou, and driving cars and trains are compulsory courses.
The small train in Yongzhou will become the training ground for the Sichuan Army in the early five days of each month.
Railway signals, locomotive driving, switch switches, and water filling media. Although the train is small, it is complete, and it is no different from a train driving a normal track.
The British built railways in Myanmar. In addition to leaving some of Myanmar, the Chinese guarded the railways, and the operators and mechanics ran away.
When the New 22nd Division arrived in Lashio, Hu Lian also ordered his chief of staff to drive the train and railway system built by the British in Myanmar.
Countless cars followed the train to Mandalay, and the commander of the Sixth Army, Zhang Zhen, led the army to help load and unload.
The night after leaving Lashio, Hu Lian followed the vanguard and caught up with Sun Liren's baggage unit.
Sun Liren's advance 113th Regiment arrived in Ren'anqiang earlier than in history.
Liu Fangwu, the commander of the 113th Regiment, was originally named Liu Jishu, from Guiyang, Hunan. He graduated from the Infantry Department of the First Corps of the Sixth Phase of the Whampoa Military Academy.
He served as the platoon leader of the Special Company of the General Command of the National Revolutionary Army, the company commander of the Third Special Company of the National Guard Army, the company commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Fifth Army and the Ministry of Finance. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the major captain of the Sergeant Team of the Tax Police Corps of the Cadre School, the battalion commander of the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Tax Police Corps, the colonel commander of the newly formed 38th Division, and the major general commander of the Central Military Academy Cadre Training Corps.
Participate in the Battle of Songhu and Wuhan.
He is highly valued by Sun Liren and is also a veteran on the battlefield who has both cultural knowledge and battlefield experience.
In the history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the more the war the Military Commission did not pay attention to, the more power the subordinates were completely delegated to command, and the elite troops participated, the better the war was fought.
The Battle of Ren'anqiang created a miracle, with Liu Fangwu's 113th Regiment having less than a thousand people.
The opponent on the opposite side was the two complete infantry regiments of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army.
One of the brigades was detoured, and when he arrived, he had blocked the First Division of the British and Burmese Army and the 7th Armored Brigade on the way for Ren'anqiang to retreat to the northwest.
Hundreds of people blocked more than 7,000 Japanese troops.
Using favorable terrain, more than 7,000 British troops who were armed with tanks and artillery in the village could not rush through.
In order to confuse the Japanese army, Liu Fangwu used less than a thousand troops to repel two regiments of 10,000 Japanese troops.
It was necessary to place all the light and heavy machine guns to the front line to charge.
Not only did the Japanese defense line be destroyed at once, but the Japanese, who were accustomed to judging the number of Chinese troops based on the number of guns on mobile phones, thought that a division had arrived.
Chinese soldiers were very arrogant and looked down upon death.
In addition, Sun Liren is good at training troops, the 113th Regiment is well-trained, and the Tax Police Corps leaves more automatic firepower.
He once beat the Japanese to throw away their armor and even withdrew from Ren'anqiong, which had just been occupied.
Not only did the surviving First Division of the British and Burmese Army and the 7th Armored Brigade, they also rescued some journalists blocked on the road, bureaucrats, technicians, British and Burmese Army families and missionaries who were stationed in oil fields.
Du Yuming and others did not realize that the battle to annihilate less than 1,000 Japanese troops had such a great international impact, so they remembered the name in the credit book.
A Sun Jixian who did not exist was replaced by Liu Fangwu, who had made great contributions.
The seniors of Huangpu are so good at taking care of their juniors.
Liu Fangwu, who killed more than 10,000 yuan, killed more than 200 enemies, saved the face of the Party and the country, received no other awards except being promoted to major general on the spot in Myanmar.
On the contrary, because Sun Liren recommended him to study in the seventh period of the Mainland University, he kept working in idle positions during the War of Liberation.
Once, he took the college member to train as a colonel student.
Until the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, the poor Liu Fangwu sold the honor certificate issued to him by the 38th Division for the Battle of Ren'anqiang, and pretended to be the commander of the British Army who rescued Ren'anqiang. After the truth was revealed, two years before Liu Fangwu died, the Taiwanese authorities issued him a 50-year-old honor: the first-class medal for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
As for Sun Liren in history, he was not even the Huangpu clan. He was not as experienced as a veteran of the Northern Expedition. He was already a lieutenant general in the Central Army. He disobeyed the will of the commission to preserve his strength and sent troops. Ren'anqiang made a small contribution. What other bicycle do he need?
In this world of TV series, before Liu Fangwu arrived in Ren'anqiang.
Li Qingxia had already taken the Sichuan Army to fly and fought a battle in Ren'anqiang.
The painted fire phoenix adopts the tactic of playing to the strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
The red p40 fighter jet shot down three Japanese aircraft over Ren'anqiang, and even after succeeding in one blow, it quickly left the battlefield.
Under the command of Chennard, the Flying Tigers also fought a battle with the Japanese planes over Mandalay, and they also adopted the same tactics.
But in this way, the Japanese planes were forced to dive and shoot the British positions of Ren'anqiang and reinforce the Japanese troops on the ground.
The devils are cautious.
The 33rd Division and the 18th Division were fully supporting Ren'anqiang. The commander of the 15th Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Iida Xiangji, was afraid that the battle of Tonggu would repeat again. He crossed the 33rd Division's division headquarters and quickly ordered two attacking regiments to stabilize the attack position and be strictly guarded against being attacked during the attack, and punched him in the waist.
Liu Fangwu led Xingye to Ren'anqiang's 113th Regiment, and the situation he faced was even more difficult than he thought.
The Japanese seemed to be shrinking the scale of the attack and waiting for reinforcements.
They also deployed defensive positions behind the attacking positions.
When the British learned that the three divisions of the Expeditionary Force came to reinforce, they were besieged in a village northwest of Ren'anqiang Oilfield and were also avoiding war.
Seeing that the Japanese army was not in a hurry to attack, the seven thousand people could not resist the blockade of hundreds of Japanese troops.
Both sides were just consuming it.
Although Liu Fangwu received the order from Sun Liren, he should not alarm the Japanese before most of the Hu Lian New 22nd Division and the newly formed 38th Division arrived, and try to occupy favorable terrain to ensure the arrival of subsequent troops.
But he didn't want to just waste it.
While letting the subordinates further understand the enemy situation and find loopholes in the Japanese.
While sending investigation troops to find out the number and scale of the Japanese reinforcements along the road and railway along the river Ren'anqiang to Yangon.
He also carefully told his brothers not to be noticed by the Japanese.
But bad news is still coming, and the Japanese engineers seem to have repaired the bridge destroyed by the British.
The Japanese chariot gangs were coming, and the wild running gangs were also coming.
Chapter completed!