The 22nd Group Army was formed in September 1937 by the Deng Xihou Department of the Sichuan Army. , the first commander-in-chief of the group army was Deng Xihou, under his command of the 45th Army, which was also the commander, and the 41st Army, of which Sun Zhen was the commander, as well as Li Jiayu's department.
After the group army was reorganized, it traveled on foot from Sichuan to Baoji, Shaanxi, and then traveled to Henan, crossed the Yellow River into Shanxi, and was under the command and jurisdiction of the Second Theater of Operations, and participated in the defense of Niangzi Pass.
At the beginning of 1938, the 22nd Group Army was ordered to go to Shandong, transferred to the command and jurisdiction of the Fifth Theater, in the early days of the Battle of Xuzhou, in the famous Tengxian County Defense Battle, the 41st Army of the 122nd Division Commander Wang Mingzhang, Division Chief of Staff Zhao Weibin, Chief of Staff of the 124th Division Zou Mutao and thousands of officers and soldiers of the 122nd Division resisted the attacking Japanese army with defeated weapons, and finally most of them were killed and martyred, laying the foundation for the victory of Erwei Erzhuang.
It can be said that in the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Sichuan Army was undoubtedly one of the most admirable troops.
Now, the 22nd Group Army, which has experienced the defense of Tengxian County, is only dissatisfied with two-thirds of the original strength, not to mention that the weapons of the Sichuan army are really miserable.
At that time, the armament of the armies was poor.
Eight out of ten of all rifles are made in Sichuan, and two-tenths are made in Han, and most of them are unusable because they have been used for a long time and have the worst quality.
As for the light and heavy machine guns, the number is very small, and each division has more than 10 collars, and the few are quite strong.
In terms of artillery, each division did not have a single mountain or field artillery except for a few pursuit guns.
At that time, although the autumn wind was bleak, each soldier only had two sets of rented cloth clothes, a pair of leggings, a single quilt, a small single seat, two pairs of straw sandals, and a hat.
Under such equipment conditions, the soldiers of the Sichuan army really used their bodies to block the steps of the invaders.
Ju Garrisoned in Juxian is the 123rd Division of the 41st Army of the 22nd Army, with Lieutenant General Zeng Xiandong and Major General Wu Chang, Chief of Staff of Major General, under the jurisdiction of the 367th and 369th Brigades, a total of 4 infantry regiments.
It stands to reason that four infantry regiments are very sufficient to defend one Ju County.
"Division" Wu Chang withstood the artillery fire, ran to the side of a lieutenant general who was on the front line, and said, "Division, there are more than 100,000 devils attacking Ju County, and the soldiers are afraid that they will not be able to withstand it."
"If you can't stand it, you have to nail me to the position," Zeng Xiandong replied casually.
"Yes" Wu Chang's heart was bleeding, his soldiers, although they were not the best soldiers, but in his opinion, they were the best and loveliest soldiers.
But the country is ruined, and if the country is broken, where is that family?
But under the iron heel of the Japanese army, the 123rd Division suffered heavy casualties.
For the Japanese army, tens of thousands of Sichuan troops are just a few hundred thousand, and they really don't pose any threat.
In about a morning, Juxian was captured again.
Most of the Japanese troops marched from Juxian to Linyi.
It turned out that the soldiers of the 3rd, 9th, 11th, and 101st divisions of the Japanese army, as well as the Shigedo detachment, set off by steamer from Shanghai, Nanjing and other places on March 21, and then landed in Rizhao and went directly to the hinterland of Shandong.
And the Japanese North China Front, with the few troops left, could not move, and needed to deter the localities.
The 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, as the vanguard of this operation, was one of the divisions of the Japanese Army.
The 3rd Division, also known as the Nagoya Division, was organized in Nagoya.
The predecessor of the Third Division was the Nagoya Zhentai established in January 1873 in the sixth year of the Meiji era, and in 1888, the Japanese government reformed the national military system, when the six towns in the country were Taichung, Nagoya Zhentai was restructured into the Third Division, and the Third Division was also one of the earliest new armies established in more than 200 divisions in Japan in terms of the history of Japan's modern military construction; The 3rd Division participated in almost all major Japanese wars in modern times, including the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the dispatch of troops from Siberia, and the dispatch of troops from Shandong.
It was the only Division A that had been fighting on the battlefield in China from the beginning of the war to its surrender, so the 3rd Division committed many crimes in China.
"Your Excellency the division commander, our army has all passed through Ju County, and it is still 87 kilometers away from Linyi."
"Yo Xi, all set off, arrive at Linyi as fast as possible, and rescue the warriors of the 3rd Mixed Brigade, the 5th Brigade and the 16th Division," said the commander of the 3rd Division, Fujita Jin.
"Hi" And the last telegram of the 22nd Division of the 123rd Army also arrived on Deng Xihou's desk, and it was also forwarded to Li Zongren.
"Where did this come from, the Japanese side in North China should have been unable to draw troops, unless the army is expanded from its own country again," Li Zongren looked at the map and said in surprise.
"It should be the Central China Front, from the waterway."
Gu Zhutong thought about it on the side.
"Eh, it's a failure," Li Zongren said with a wry smile, "I thought I could eat the Japanese divisions."
But now, I was almost overshadowed by the devil. ” "What now" "Let's see how many reinforcements the devil has, before the devil's reinforcements arrive in Linyi, see how many devils can be eaten, it depends on whether his teeth Zhang Zizhong, Pang Bingxun, Deng Xihou and Yu Xuezhong are good."
Linyi "So, the devil is here for reinforcements."
Zhou Weiguo looked at the map and said, "It seems that this part of the devil is not easy to eat."
He touched his head, silently thinking.
"Yes, if it weren't for the 22nd Army sending the 123rd Division to garrison in Juxian, at this time, I'm afraid the devil would have arrived in Linyi."
Pang Bingxun also nodded in agreement.
"However, he still has at least three hours to get to Linyi."
Zhang Zizhong said, "3 hours, it depends on how much we can eat." ” "You guys."
Yu Xuezhong said with a smile on the side, "Let's talk about it, do you have any ideas?"
” Yan'an The great man smoked a cigarette, looked at the telegram that had just come back, and said with a smile, "Li Zongren is in vain this time." ” "yes, I didn't expect the devil to send reinforcements from the north."
Peng Dehuai also sighed, "Speaking of which, the devil's thinking is still very open. ” "In the Shandong region, what troops do we have?"
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the great man asked.
"Yes."
General Peng said with a smile, "There are 2 independent regiments that are not fully organized. ” "Tell me."
"The First Independent Regiment, the commander Comrade Liu Yu, is also an old Red Army, and the Second Independent Regiment, the head Qiu Ming, is also an old Red Army.
However, the two troops are still some distance from Linyi.
General Peng replied, "However, I don't know how many reinforcements the devil has come, and he eats meat, so how can we score a little." ” "Go, tell them, participate in the battle according to the situation, and find out the general arsenal of the devil in this reinforcement."
The great man waved his hand and said, "Our intelligence says that there are at least 100,000 troops reinforced by the devils this time, all of which are from Shanghai and Nanjing.
The eating, drinking, and Lazar of these 100,000 devils is not a small amount.
Let them find an opportunity to take the devil's arsenal. ” "Okay
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