The 108th Division ran very resolutely!

It’s not that there is really not enough military rations, but that the 683rd Brigade of the 80th Army actually changed something.

This conclusion was discovered at noon one afternoon after the 16th Division attacked the Chinese army on the 20-kilometer-long defense line in the mountains.

After a unit under the 16th Division finally took down a high ground in the defense line in the area after huge casualties, after inspecting the armbands of the dead on the position, they were surprised to find that their opponent had actually changed.

The 16th Division, which had been fighting in Jin Province for a long time, is considered an old rival to the 80th Army. It has long understood the habits of regular troops and militias under the 80th Army. The regular troops have armbands, which say the Eighth Route Army and its division, and the brigade has a year of joining the army, but the militias do not have this thing.

A few days ago, after checking the Chinese army, the 16th Division determined that the enemy in front of them was the 683rd Brigade, the main force of the 921st Division. After a few days, it was replaced by a unit of the 511th Division, another main force of the 80th Army.

The 511th Division is another main division of the Eighty Army. It has been fighting with the Fifth Division in northwest Shanxi for a long time, but the Eighty Group is going to resist the imperial army this time, so it is not surprising that they appear here.

But the news reached the ears of Xiaosan Nakano, the current highest commander of the 108th Division, but the major general's brigade commander immediately burst into white sweat.

The 683rd Brigade is not on the line of defense against the enemy, so where have they been?

After these seven days of combat, the Japanese army discovered that the 80th Army's current troop power has long exceeded the previous one, with at least 50,000 or 60,000 people. In addition to the Jinsui Army and the Central Army, they completely set aside 20,000 people as reserve teams.

It is difficult for an infantry brigade with a maximum of 100,000 people to threaten the 108th Division, but what if the two infantry regiments, the unknown number of militias, and the four-line regiment that has not appeared?

With the current scarcity of the 108th Division, the consequences...

Thinking about it carefully is terrifying!

So, the most bizarre scene in the Battle of Southeast Jin appeared.

After obtaining Xiangyue Qingshi's approval, the 20,000 troops of the 108th Division, which had originally retreated for only more than ten kilometers, began to run wildly with short legs.

In just one afternoon, 20,000 Japanese troops marched 30 kilometers.

It was in the mountains, not in plains, and it also brought various baggage and wounded people. The 108th Division's retreat definitely created a rare record of field marching in the history of the Sino-Japanese War.

Not to mention the speed of the Japanese army, even a certain regiment was shocked.

The scouts he hid in the mountains almost failed to catch up with the Japanese army. Although the mountain roads in the mountains were rugged than the Japanese roads, they were individual soldiers, and they were all trained mountain scouts, and they almost lost the whereabouts of the main force of the 108th Division.

That should be the safest night for the 108th Division to sleep. They were so fucking able to run away. The two most elite reconnaissance squads sent by the Tang regiment almost got tired and broke their legs.

Their main task this time was to track the movements of the Japanese army and observe the geographical environment of the area, and continue to harass the Japanese army only under the appropriate conditions.

Therefore, the 108th Division retreated frantically and unexpectedly created a pretty good renovation period for itself.

The next day, the 108th Division got up at 5:30 in the morning and buryed the pot and set off officially at 6:00. Until 4:00 in the afternoon, the entire army ran out another 50 kilometers.

The total marching lasted 14 hours. With a low morale, he marched 80 kilometers with a large amount of baggage and fully armed. He relied on the speed of the march alone to kill a group of permanent divisions in seconds.

If it weren't for retreat, the cliff would record the history of the Japanese Army.

But this run really avoided a big defeat.

According to the Chinese war report declassified after the war, the boss of the 80th Army of China designed a battle plan under the joint suggestion of two deputy directors of the Staff Department of the Southeast Jin Dynasty.

The most important part of the combat plan is to secretly transfer 28,000 people from the 3rd Army of the Central Army into southeastern Shanxi, and the original defense zone was replaced by 18,000 people from the Shanxi-Suizhou Guard Division, which had been unwilling to be dispatched. This time the defense was the highest secret, and it was known that there would not be more than five people. In addition, the Japanese army was heavily invaded, and the Chinese army was frequently mobilized on the defense line around Linfen. Besides, the Japanese army dispatched enough troops this time. More importantly, important departments of the Second War Zone Command hurriedly evacuated, giving the Japanese army a psychological guide. The Chinese themselves showed signs of giving up in this battle.

So, the Japanese lurking spies actually missed the top secret information.

This led to the fact that neither the North China Front Army Command nor the Eastern Route Army Command located in Lucheng, they realized that the Chinese army in the entire southeast of Shanxi had a force of 130,000, which was nearly twice the size of the Japanese army.

Perhaps, the 28,000 more people still cannot stop the siege of the three Japanese divisions and a mixed brigade.

However, if the 28,000 troops are used at critical moments, it is very likely to be fatal to the Japanese army caught off guard.

Of course, the 28,000 people transferred in secret were always regarded by the boss of the Eighty Group Army. Even if the 16th Division gathered nearly 20,000 infantry and more than 60 artillery pieces, and nearly 100 aircraft attacked wildly, an infantry army still remained unmoved as its last reserve.

On the most dangerous position, all the units under the 80th Army have always fought hard to take over.

That was the 20,000 army of the 108th Division, which was guarding against entering his hinterland. If they turned, the 3rd Army would become the last shield of tens of thousands of troops.

But the battle situation changed so rapidly. The 20,000-strong army of the 108th Division was exhausted by a small reconnaissance company of Tang Dao. After fighting with two infantry regiments, they chose to evacuate.

Even two days ago, I felt that the weakest Japanese army's combat power was the 108th Division. The boss of the 80th Army quickly joined his last reserve team, replaced his first infantry brigade, and ordered an infantry division under the 3rd Army to march toward Wuxiang at night.

The troops that quietly surrounded the 108th Division were not the brigade and militia that Nakano Misan thought. The forces of the regular army alone were as high as 25,000. If the four-way regiment that had not appeared before was exposed, it would have exceeded 30,000 troops.

If the 108th Division did not run so fast that the 1st Division and brigade, who had already decided not to conceal their whereabouts, would have been hard to say for the fate of the 108th Division, whose morale was extremely low.

After all, in the past time and space, the famous Battle of Changle Village was not the 117th Infantry Regiment under the 108th Division and was surrounded by a division of the 921st Division on the way to evacuate! If it weren't for the Japanese reinforcements in Liao County, the final outcome of the 117th Infantry Regiment might not have only lost 2,200 people, but the entire army was wiped out.

But in this time and space, history has turned a small turn. The 108th Division was already heartbroken by the 683rd Brigade and the Four-Ship Regiment because of the last battle of Shentouling. When he heard that the 683rd Brigade was missing, the Four-Ship Regiment still could not hide. He immediately stepped on his short legs and exploded the limit of human potential. He escaped 80 kilometers in a day and a half.

This is a typical paranoia for being killed, but the special one actually called it wrong, causing him to escape.

I heard that the 108th Division had crossed the Zhuozhang River. During the march, Brigade Commander Cheng scolded him for a long time, but he had no choice but to order the marching to stop.

He knew that the Zhuozhang River was the only way to block the Japanese army. Once the Japanese army crossed that river, there was no other suitable position to block the Japanese army's charge.

After all, it was 20,000 fully armed Japanese troops, not 20,000 pigs. If you really want to surround them, you will have at least 60,000 people, not the more than 30,000 now.

In fact, including the boss of the Eighty Group Army, they planned to surround Wei and rescue Zhao, and surround the weakest 108th Division, forcing the Japanese army to draw troops to assist on other fronts, so that the reserve team could be used to deploy defenses along the way, thereby reducing the pressure on the second line of defense.

When the southeastern Jin battle ended on the fifth day, the divisions on the north and south lines had already asked for help from the command center.

The head of the 80th Army knew that this time, it was not because they were afraid of war and avoided war. For the sake of the war in southeastern Jin, Chief Yan issued a decisive order to the army participating in the war: if the commander dares to retreat, he will shoot the commander; if the commander says he will retreat, he will kill the commander; if the commander says he will retreat, he will kill the commander; if the commander says he will retreat, he will kill the commander!

One death, one kill, one kill, one kill, and three kill orders came down. Even if they may not necessarily become real in the end, no one dared to touch this brow.

The Second War Zone fought with the Japanese army for the past six months and was retreating, from the still blooming Yuancheng to the towering but barren Taihang Mountains and Zhongtiao Mountains. The two largest mountains in Shanxi Province became the last barrier in Shaanxi Province and the last fig leaf for hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in the Second War Zone.

Even this fig leaf was torn off by the Japanese, and the butt was revealed to the people of the whole country, and he might be able to do anything. What's more, this old man was very clever in finding a scapegoat, and he had done something to take the lieutenant general's head out to cull.

That was indeed the battle was too hard.

Not to mention the 104th Division of the Sichuan Army that fought fiercely with the Second Mixed Brigade and the 17th Division of the Northwest Army that had not yet recovered, nor the main force of the 80th Army that fought hard with the 16th Division, but to mention the three divisions of the Jinsui Army and the Central Army that fought with the 109th Division, the second-line division.

Nearly 40,000 people fought on a huge defense line of 56 highlands over 18 kilometers, and 22,000 people from the 109th Division, a chariot brigade, an artillery brigade, a cavalry brigade and some engineers, and a total of 22,000 people from the baggage brigade.

The comparison of troops between the two sides is almost 2 to 1. Not to mention the benefits of terrain, the two infantry divisions of the Jinsui Army were equipped with 36 Jin-made 75 mountain cannons and 60 82 mortars, and the heavier machine guns were as high as 160. The infantry division of the Central Army was not bad, with 12 75 mountain cannons, 28 mortars, and 70 heavy machine guns.

By this calculation, the 75 mountain cannons alone have as high as 48, which is not weaker than the Japanese army at all.

But the 109th Division learned from the last time that it encountered obstacles in the rescue in the city. Regardless of the difficulties and dangers, it also brought the chariot brigade. If the road was not wide enough, it paved the way with engineer blasting and forced 10 89 tanks to arrive on the front line.

With 30 Type 94 light tanks, the Japanese army laid a large army of steel on the attack line that despaired the Chinese army.

Mountain cannons and mortars fired flowering bullets, mainly killing infantry, and the damage to Japanese tanks was too small. In mountain combat, the Shanxi-Sui Army and the Central Army both abandoned the heavy 37mm war defense artillery.

So, I could only watch the Japanese army use Type 89 tanks as mobile turrets and use short-barrel tank guns to clear the heavy fire points located on the defense line.

Losing the firepower suppression of heavy machine guns, the Japanese army repeatedly charged with infantry and used artillery to collect fire to cover artillery fire. In addition, the air supremacy was completely lost. The Japanese bomber formation in the sky could even dive bomb the discovered artillery positions unscrupulously, resulting in many artillery positions being destroyed before they could be destroyed by burning out a base of shells.

Nearly half of the 48 75 mountain cannons were destroyed on the third day of the battle, and did not show the strength that the cannon group should have.

The first three days, the combat losses of the three infantry divisions exceeded 4,000. Until the fifth day, the 109th Division was still mad at the attack, with the combat losses reaching nearly 10,000.

Twenty-five percent of the battle losses would have collapsed in normal times, but under the deterrence of the Death Order, no infantry division dared to take a step back and was still gritting its teeth and holding on.

But asking for help is an inevitable thing.

However, as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese side of the Southeast Jin Dynasty, the boss of the 80th Army was powerless. His 80th Army had sent all his main forces to barely resist the attack of the 16th Division. The 3rd Army, which had 28,000 troops, was already the last reserve team in Southeast Jin Dynasty.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If you put it into battle at this time, it means that the decisive battle in southeastern Shanxi will start early, which is not in line with the combat plan set by the combat center of the theater.

This time, the Japanese invaders launched a large-scale attack, and their minds were clearly revealed from their marching and combat methods. It would be best if they could annihilate the Chinese army on a large scale. If they could not, they would destroy the combat potential of the Taihang Mountains by destroying people, money, and materials in the Taihang Mountains.

In other words, what the Japanese army wants this time is not necessarily the present, but definitely the future.

Shanshanyuan is an extremely difficult opponent.

But the Japanese army also had their shortcomings. Because of the special mountain combat, they were not very strong in logistics support.

Therefore, all the Japanese troops involved in the war mainly carried themselves, and a large number of baggage troops followed the main force of the infantry, but this is not endless.

Through calculation, if the Japanese army's war in southeastern Shanxi can maintain sufficient material replenishment, the longest duration is half a month and the shortest is ten days.

In other words, if you want to fight decisively, it is better to start the battle eight days later.

But now it's only 5 days later, and the last force on hand is going to be put into the battlefield, and the Japanese army may have a camera reaction.

For example, if the 108th Division that has arrived in Yushe, Wuxiang and other places, if the 20,000 Japanese troops turn their guns and advance in either direction, what troops will be used in the entire southeast of Shanxi to resist them?

"If you really can't compete with the enemy, the command center authorizes you to wait for the camera to evacuate, but with the limit of twenty kilometers behind the defense line, you can set up defenses and block them layer by layer, do your best to hold the enemy invaders, and contribute your own strength to the final decisive battle in Southeastern Shanxi, even the last drop of blood!" After thinking about it for a while, the then commander-in-chief of the Southeastern Shanxi issued such a military order to the three infantry divisions.

Although it is not a military order to fight to the death, in the eyes of the three lieutenant generals who are already bitter on their faces, it is actually no different from the military order to fight to the death to fight to the death.

However, it gives them some flexible and maneuverable space, and a depth of 20 kilometers is their limit.

After all, they were given a chance to breathe. They didn’t need to fight for anything in the first place, they just had to delay for another three to four days.

But compared to them, the other two directions have fired.

The 80th Army did not give up any land. If a high ground was lost, it would immediately gather the artillery that could gather and aim at the high ground and bombard it immediately, and immediately organize suicide squads to charge and take back the high ground.

It is a normal phenomenon that a high ground changes its ownership seven or eight times repeatedly.

In such a fierce battle, even if he is as arrogant as the commander of the 16th Division, the lieutenant general, Nakajima Imaki, he could only use his own hands to kill a Army Major Captain and an Infantry Captain to vent his anger on the battlefield.

On the surface, Imago Nakajima has a graceful face and looks like a Confucian general, but as long as he knows that the 16th Division under his command slaughtered Chinese military and civilians in the Battle of Jinling to enter the title of the Seventh Masters of Jinling City, he can know how fierce and cruel he was.

But even such a cruel person and such a brutal division, who has been attacking and defending for several days, can still not make any progress. You can know how tragic the battle between the two sides is.

After the war, the Eighty Army reported 9,400 people to its own side. However, in fact, in order to avoid revealing its true force, the number was reduced.

However, the number of casualties of up to 7,000 people after the 16th Division was real. In one battle, all the elite troops of one main division were produced, and hundreds of fighter jets helped, the forces of the two infantry regiments disappeared, and this cliff was a complete failure.
To be continued...