Chapter 60: The Battle of Western Hubei (1)
.Although the division commanders from the Chongqing Military Commission to the front line had already realized that the Japanese army's general attack on western Hubei was about to begin and made a series of emergency military deployments, no one expected that this day would come so quickly.
On February 13th, the ninth day of the first lunar month, the 40th Division of the Japanese army divided into two left and right columns across the Yangtze River north, and pointed directly at Jianli, an important town in the border between Hunan and Hubei. The intention of entering the hinterland of western Hubei was obvious. Subsequently, the 13th Division of the Japanese army, who had just been transferred back from India, also joined the attack on Jianli. Later, several other divisions of the Japanese army also danced their bodies like dragons.
In just a few days, the aggressive Japanese army formed a favorable situation of attacking Yichang from the east, south and north at the same time because of their small force, because of their lack of troops, they could only shrink towards the triangle between Jingmen, Jingzhou and Yichang.
During this period, the Japanese troops located in Nanchang, Zhijiang and other strategic areas and occupied Yueyang also launched restraining attacks.
At this point, since entering the confrontation stage, the Japanese army has invested the most troops on the Chinese battlefield, and it is also the closest battle in large-scale battles. In the Battle of Western Hubei, the two armies have put on the stance!
Although the Western Hubei Battle was the same as the Western Hubei Battle in the history of the time and space where Cheng Jiaji came from, at the same time, as the Japanese attack target changed, its significance also took a qualitative leap. In other words, this situation still lies in Cheng Jiaji. The battle of Nanchang, which was vigorous and ended with China's great victory, was destined to be unrecognizable in the process of China's war of resistance!
After overcoming many adverse factors, he set out from Dali through Xikang, passed through Sichuan and entered various units of the 48th Army in Hubei. From March 9th, he arrived at the command center of the Sixth War Zone, Enshi.
Military information is like fire! Cheng Jiaji has barely gathered about one and a half division troops on this side, and the war zone over there is a strict order for the Forty-eighth Group Army to rush to Yichang to help Yichang. The order even specifically stated how many troops can be dispatched and how many troops can be dispatched. This shows that the Japanese army has been continuously attacking Yichang City with nearly half a month with nearly three divisions. It has reached a dangerous point!
Afterwards, Cheng Jiaji himself admitted that the days from Enshi were the most confused and helpless period in his short and glorious military career. At that time, the fatigued soldiers who had less than 20,000, were incomplete and had just traveled thousands of miles a long distance. Even if he could really arrive in Yichang in time, how much combat power would be left? What will the result of the battle? Cheng Jiaji had no idea. Of course, Cheng Jiaji has never been a phishing general who obeyed the peaks. But the problem is that if the portal of Yichang, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, would shake the eastern Sichuan, the entire southwest, and the entire rear. He had to save him, and he dared not save him, and there was no reason not to save him! After all, the situation in China's War of Resistance Against Japan was today. Isn't it just that he knew that he would be defeated before the gunshots were fired, and he would have been killed and killed, and he would have been killed!
After understanding these, it is not difficult to understand that when Cheng Jiaji received a telegram from Yichang, where he had lost his place and quickly returned to Enshi!, he felt mixed feelings in his heart.
On March 13, the Sixth War Zone ordered the Chief Office.
"Minister, what's going on in front? Why don't our troops immediately reinforce the front line?" Minister Chen replied in response to Cheng Jiaji's repeated questions, "Haoran, I have ordered the 10th Army Group to cooperate with the main force of the Jiang Defense Army to defend the enemy near Xiling Gorge and rely on favorable terrain to set up a small town stone tablet on the Qing River." Minister Chen said while using his middle finger to hit the location of Shipai Town on the military map.
The word "Stone Pill" shocked Cheng Jiaji to his body. Stone Pill! The place where the stone Pill defense battle in Stalingrad, which was praised by Western scholars as the beginning of the East! The stone Pill that directly determined the fate of the accompanying capital Chongqing!
Even though he was excited, Cheng Jiaji felt like a mirror in his heart. Since Minister Chen summoned him from the place close to the stone tablet, it was probably not his turn to intervene this time. As a soldier and a general, it is inevitable that he missed a war that was famous in history. It is inevitable that he would lose his mind. However, Cheng Jiaji was still clear about the importance of the matter. With the overall average combat power of the Forty-Eighth Army, it is obviously inappropriate to use it in the main direction of the battle.
Sure enough, General Chen really took it as another claim to Cheng Jiaji and his troops.
"Haoran, the terrain near Xiling Gorge limits the scale of troops that both sides can invest. So, I decided! And I have reported to the Military Commission for approval. Once your entire army arrives, we will attack the 68th Division of the Japanese army entrenched on Zhijiang (falling on March 8th). Songzi and Jianli lines and the 29th Division of the Wang Puppet Peace Army." General Chen pointed to the diagonal line that intentionally or unintentionally on the map that connected the above three places into one, just splitting most of the 68th Division of the Japanese army stationed in Yueyang and the Japanese army in Yichang.
"Minister, after completing this task, you and the Military Commission plan to order our troops to attack Yichang in the north and conquer Chiluli (the commander of the 13th Division, who was authorized to unify the command of the battle assault corps. It was his troops who captured Yichang. It was his troops.) that went south and hit the old guy Sakuma was a man (the commander of the 68th Division). " Cheng Jiaji, who heard the sing and knew the elegance, asked happily.
"Haoran, if you have autonomy, what choice will you make between going south and north?" Minister Chen kicked the ball back calmly.
"Minister, I'm sorry, I don't have much intention to go south and go north. If I could go east to meet Yokoyama Yong (Commander of the 11th Japanese Army), it would be almost the same!"
"Eastly advancing? You mean attacking Wuchang to attract the Japanese troops from western Hubei to rescue Hubei!" While applauding Cheng Jiaji's imaginative thinking, Minister Chen was not in a relaxed mood.
You should know that the Japanese have always regarded the central Hubei region as its core area of several provinces in central China. Even at this time when it was relatively empty, the Japanese army left a multi-department of troops in the three towns of Wuhan alone, and more than 10,000 puppet troops were highlighted, not to mention that there were large scattered Japanese and puppet troops stationed in the surrounding counties. These were secondary. I was afraid that if the Japanese army invaded western Hubei returned in large numbers, the Forty-Eighth Army that penetrated deep into central Hubei did not have time to retreat, the losses would be great!
After thinking about it twice, Minister Chen gave a serious reminder: "Haoran...www.piaotian.com.cn. I can give you the power to run the camera, but you must avoid fucking recklessly.
This sentence seems ambiguous, but actually contains great trust, which moved Cheng Jiaji and aroused the passion in Cheng Jiaji's heart. He replied with a sonorous word: "Please rest assured, Commander-in-Chief, Haoran will seize the power when the trial is taken and live up to his trust!"
On the evening of the 15th, the west gate of Songzi County, where the Japanese menstruation flag and the Wang Puppet Government Practice National Flag (named because the four words "Peaceful Founding of the People's Republic of China" were hung.
At this time, Yuan Liu was leaning beautifully against the back wall of the city gate building, with half a pound of pork head meat, and a small mouthful of old white knitting. He was so happy that he was as good as a god! It’s a pity that Yuan Liu didn’t have such good days often. He had to wait for the platoon leader and the squad leader to go to the city to stroll around the door, and the veterans all dispersed and slept until they were done.
Speaking of this, most of us have understood the identity of Yuan Liudi. Yes! He is a traitor who is not ashamed of, a new recruit from the 29th Division of the Wang Puppet Peace Army, and an alternative among the new recruits. As for the pork head meat, Lao Baigan naturally snatched it from the people who entered the city during the day.
He is said to be an alien, compared to those of his companions who were arrested at the same time. After all, Yuan Liu, who was also a child of a clean farmer, made the fastest progress, so fast that the veterans praised him as a natural source of material for making money.
Yuan Liu's ability to reach this point today is also related to his deep-rooted admiration for guns. When he was young, Yuan Liu saw that he was different from his outfits, but the soldiers with big guns in his hands moved from their homes and neighbors to move here, and no one dared to rebel. Over time, guns became the best thing Yuan Liu wanted, and he firmly believed that as long as he had it, he would have everything.
That being said, Yuan Liu still cared more about his life, so he did not dare to carry guns and eat food after the years. Moreover, after he was arrested, his fear and resentment were no different from others, and he even escaped once. It was not until his squad leader Huang Mazi talked to him that all this changed.
The conversation between the two is like this
Huang Mazi: "Little brother, why can't you think too much? Isn't it just for the Japanese to carry the job! Apart from a bad reputation, there is nothing wrong with it. We can still make a profit on weekdays!"
Yuan Liu: "It's okay usually, but if you want to defeat the war, you will die!"
Zhu Mazi: "Why are you so honest? If the Japanese win, we can certainly benefit from it. If the Japanese lose, we can still do anything to you anyway. As long as the gun is in hand, no one will do anything to us. In the least, you can still take the pole to occupy the mountain and become king, and it is better than being a commoner who can bully anyone!"
So, under the influence of his childhood dream and the beautiful money he planned for him by Zhu Mazi, Yuan Liu became what he is today. But what Yuan Liu never expected at this moment was that in just a few hours, his life trajectory would turn another big turn!
The gunshots first rang from the east, and then quickly spread throughout the city.
So before Yuan Liu could figure out the situation, the tide of defeated soldiers wrapped him out of the west gate. The black crowd rushed west along the road. Only after the scolding of several yelling veterans beside him, Yuan Liu knew part of the whole story. A group of Japanese in Japanese uniforms tricked him into opening the east gate and rushed in, fighting the team he was in a mess and defeated. The chiefs also died, missing and missing. In short, they all crossed!
Originally, Yuan Liu wanted to ask more details, but he couldn't continue. The reason was very simple, they were blocked. No! They were surrounded!
"Boom, boom..." The oncoming artillery shells hit one by one and hit the fleeing puppet army, and groups of puppet army officers and soldiers were blown up into the air.
"Shuo, shuo, shuo..." Immediately afterwards, the bullets fired from the heavy bolt also pulled down the puppet troops in pieces.
The scene was so hot and the firepower was so fierce that Yuan Liu had never heard of. Even the veterans who had worked in the local security regiment before surrendering to the enemy had never experienced it. Soon the puppet troops who were attacked from all sides were compressed into a large depression.
"Ceasefire! Ceasefire! Ceasefire for me!" With a duck's voice, the puppet army had already shot back gunfire in a sparse manner and completely disappeared. Later, the sound of gunfire from the encirclement also stopped!
"Listen to the people over there, I am Zhou Haichao, deputy chief of staff of the 29th Division. We are willing to turn the guns around anyway. Please give your army a chance!" The duck shouted loudly at the opposite side.
"I am Han Dongsheng, the commander of the New 219th Division. If you really think about it, you have the opportunity to have land before. It's too late to have this dream! I warn you to either put down your weapons and leave the verdict! Why? According to your master, you will be all thrust to death!" A loud voice responded to Zhou Haichao's request.
The puppet army officers hesitated. Their tone was too hard. Is it considered? I won’t say it anyway. At least you have to ensure our brother’s personal safety! Just a decision is to be followed. How to make a judgment? No one knows!
The other party was obviously not a patient person. Soon, the depression became a bloody hell again.
"We are willing to put down our weapons and leave them to the verdict!" Only two rounds of artillery continued. From the day we defected to the Japanese, the puppet army officers in the chondropathy surrendered.
Later, 1,344 puppet peace officers and soldiers were disarmed and taken out of the depression and brought to a sanitary yard.
Facing the rows of black guns around them, they were once proud of recognizing thieves as their fathers, and were frightened and scared. In the midst of fear, many people cried bitterly. No matter how they expressed their regretful feelings, the performances of the puppet soldiers were sufficient. However, the expressions on the faces of the Chinese soldiers who were erecting bayonets at their faces, and the murderous intent in their eyes did not loosen or weaken. Since the Dali mutiny, the grassroots officers and soldiers of the division, which were taken over by Han Dongsheng, were almost all from Henan. In their hometowns where the enemy and us were entrenched, they had seen too many regrets before joining the army, but turned around and followed the Japanese butts, and killed their compatriots, who were crueler than the Japanese.
"Masters, they are still Chinese after all, so is it not appropriate for you to do this?" Xu Jingren, who was named by the old commander Han Dongsheng, was already the deputy director of the 219th Division, who was now the deputy chief of the lieutenant colonel of the New 219th Division.
"Article! Those who study medicine are soft-hearted. Don't worry about anything now! If you blame him on the top, I will take care of him! You can't help but teach this traitor. If that's the case, this traitor will not be full of people!" Han Dongsheng's last words made Xu Jingren's thoughts that wanted to convince him.
Xu Jingren, who was no longer so sure, looked at the division ministers beside him who were nodding frequently by Han Dongsheng's words, and sighed again, and gave up!
Xu Jingren gave up, but Han Dongsheng, who was determined to train his beloved general, did not let him go.
"Wen, are you the deputy director, please announce it!" The military orders were like mountains, and Xu Jingren had to obey his orders no matter how unwilling he was.
"To warn the people of the country and to despise the little traitors who betray the nation, I especially punish the following punishments to the officers and soldiers of the 29th Division of the Pseudo Peace Army who committed treason to show the intention of punishing the big ones." As soon as Xu Jingren thought of this, the captured pseudo army officers and soldiers immediately became riot.
Fortunately, there was only one regiment of troops transferred by Han Dongsheng, and the riots were quickly calmed down. Of course, during this process, the soldiers of the New 219th Division were inevitably shot at the thighs of those overly excited puppet troops.
"First, all those who have major or above in the 29th Pseudo-Twenty-Ninth Pseudo-Second Division will be executed on the spot! Second, the lieutenant-level officers in the puppet army of this unit draw lots at the ratio of five draws one, and those who win the dead draw will be executed on the spot! Third, the squad leader and veterans in the puppet army of this unit will be dealt with by ten draws. Fourth, all those who fail to draw the two items and all the new puppet army will be cut off their right index fingers and give them travel expenses to go home!" It's true that Han Dongsheng was quite accurate. These items were either taken to life or the treatment of the disabled person's body after reading them. Xu Jingren, who had just spoken out of heaven, had already had a murderous aura, and was like a demonic god.
With Xu Jingren's hand suddenly waved, the soldiers who were already impatient immediately rushed forward to fulfill their mission as tigers entering the flock of sheep!
In an instant, the smell of the sky was smoldering on the glutinous field. The puppet army generals and schoolmen who knew that they were about to die were incontinence and were in a very embarrassing way!
That day, the glutinous yard turned 147 corpses and more than a thousand fingers into a veritable slaughterhouse.
It was also from that day that a huge shock wave with energy spread to all directions with Songzi as the center. Wherever it went, both the puppet army officers and soldiers and the puppet personnel were frightened. In the next six months, there were no less than two thousand puppet troops in Hubei anyway!
One month after the Songzi killing prisoners, Han Dongsheng was punished by the war zone, and he was once a serious mistake! Han Dongsheng, who was unintentionally offended, carefully framed the disciplinary documents issued by the war zone. Whenever he gathered with his comrades to drink, he would never forget to show off.
Yuan Liuze, who lost his index finger, returned to his hometown from then on, and spent his whole life working hard, and never dared to take a wrong step again.
Chapter completed!