The squadron was stepping up its deployment to prepare for the Japanese attack, and at this moment, the commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Isamu Yokoyama, seemed unusually relaxed, enjoying the performance of Tokyo's new kaisha while sipping sake.
Since the third Battle of Changsha, the ambitious Yokoyama Yong was made a disgraced face, this time in order to echo the Indian campaign launched by the Burmese side, Yokoyama Yong can be said to be cautious in the use of troops, how to make his own division to achieve merit, so that Hengshan Yong really thought hard for a long time.
Finally, in order to control the geographical points of Xiangxi, maintain a high-pressure posture against the squadron, and contain the squadron to move south to Burma, Yokoyama Yong decided to launch an attack and occupy Changde on May 2, 1943.
The 3rd, 13th, 39th, 68th, and 1st divisions of the Japanese army, as well as the attached heavy artillery, combat vehicles, aircraft, special forces, poison gas units, and engineer detachments, have been established in conjunction with the 11th, 12th, 13th, 20th, and newly formed 5th Divisions, and will covertly advance into the area where the attack was launched before April 25.
The reason why Yokoyama Yong is full of confidence is because he has two trump cards in his hands, one is that the intelligence agency has deciphered the code that the squadron is using, and the other is that Yokoyama Yong has recruited a person who is familiar with the complex water network and terrain conditions in the Binhu area, and this person is the Xiangxi bandit who is known as Peng and the donkey.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Peng called the donkey to take advantage of the chaos in the world to earn a name for himself, so he sent someone to the Hunan Provincial Government, saying that he would accept the reorganization to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, and asked to give the title of army commander, and according to the establishment of an army to issue weapons and food, the then chairman of Hunan Province, Zhang Zhizhong, inquired about this person, it can be said that the evil is full of evil, the people are very angry, and the team of several hundred people under his command, if it is incorporated the consequences are unimaginable.
So Zhang Zhizhong ordered Peng to call the donkey to move and disband the team, but Peng called the donkey and couldn't follow Zhang Zhizhong's arrangement.
In 1941, he defected to the Wang puppet government, which was the result of a thousand people's hearts, and the Wang puppet government at this moment would raise his hands to welcome even a dog, and immediately appointed Peng Zhaodonkey as the commander of the major general of the Sanxiang Special Command Column for the peaceful rescue.
Isamu Yokoyama discovered a rare talent called a donkey when he was reviewing the list of special officers, and he would make the Japanese army take advantage of the geographical advantage.
In fact, Isamu Yokoyama's judgment was correct, and in a frenzy, Peng asked the donkey to be driven by the Japanese, and not only personally arrived at the headquarters of the Japanese 11th Army to cooperate in formulating the battle plan.
He also assigned hundreds of his subordinates to various Japanese attack units as guides.
Peng's actions of calling the donkeys cost the squadron extremely dearly.
At the beginning of the campaign, Yokoyama wanted to give the Chinese troops an illusion and create a false posture of pounce on western Hubei, mobilize the squadrons gathered under the city of Changde, and then the main force returned to the horse to besiege Xiangxi and rush to Changde, and broke them one by one by taking advantage of the gap between the squadrons returning to help.
May 2, 1943.
The 11th Army of the Japanese Army was subordinate to 5 divisions and regiments in combat vehicles, aircraft, heavy artillery, special warfare units, poison gas units, and engineer detachments.
The 11th, 12th, 13th, 20th, and new 5th Divisions have been built.
The Battle of Changde was launched according to the prepared plan.
The Japanese army launched the Battle of Changde half a year earlier than in history.
The Japanese attack caught the squadron that had not yet completed its deployment by surprise.
The Japanese army attacked on a large scale, making the five divisions of the Chinese defenders in the mountainous area with the passive defense of Warm Water Street as the center miserable.
May 5th.
On the 3rd day of the campaign.
Before the Japanese army in order to confuse the squadron.
The principle of resilient offense has always been used.
Far away in Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek tried to force out the Japanese army.
So he ordered Sun Lianzhong, the commander of the Sixth Theater, to launch a counterattack against the enemy in front of him.
Disun Lianzhong, who had just taken over as the commander of the Sixth Theater, knew that he could not disobey his orders.
Only the troops can be adjusted in front.
The 66th Division of the 66th Army and the 184th Army, which were originally deployed on the second line, were transferred.
As a result, the transfer of Chinese troops has not yet ended.
The headquarters of the 3rd, 13th, and 39th divisions of the Japanese army swooped down on the ground with the cooperation of aircraft and heavy artillery.
After a morning of fierce fighting.
The Japanese broke through the defensive line of the 185th Division of Fang Jing's 66th Army and the 98th Division of Wang Jiaben's 79th Army.
The 184th Division of the 66th Army, which was transferred to the front line, met the 13th Division of the Japanese Army and the 7th Tank Wing of the attached territory.
The 66th Army and the 184th Division immediately began a field battle with the Japanese army.
Chinese soldiers braved Japanese artillery fire and chariot assault.
Stubborn resistance in the mountains, forests and wilderness.
However, there is a huge disparity in firepower and strength between the two sides.
On the one hand, division commander He Jinming sent a report to the army and the theater requesting support.
On the one hand, the troops were organized to resist the Japanese army by relying on favorable terrain nodes.
Last.
He Jinming sent out the last call.
Incinerate all documents.
Blow up the telegraph.
Shouting for the country's loyalty.
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Led the guards and division headquarters to counterattack the Japanese army.
At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, He Jinming, commander of the 184th Division, sniped the Japanese 13th Division on West Street for more than six hours at the cost of the death of all 8,000 officers and soldiers.
Sun Lianzhong, who received He Jinming's last telegram, was so angry that he scolded He Jinming for being vague, how could the dignified major general and division commander easily sacrifice himself to martyrdom When Sun Lianzhong unfolded the telegram, he was immediately stunned in place He Jinming's telegram was only two sentences, and the 8,000 elite soldiers were all lost, so what was the use of leaving this body empty What made Sun Lianzhong sad was that his counterattack plan could be described as a failure, if the 184th Division and other troops could move smoothly in place, the Japanese army's attack would be in vain.
It's just that coincidental.
He drew troops on the front foot, and the Japanese army attacked on all fronts on the back foot The fall of the front-line position.
It directly affected the defensive posture of the second-line position, which made the defense of the Chinese defenders on the verge of collapse, and due to the transfer of troops, the three divisions of Wang Zhibin's 73rd Army Headquarters stationed in Shimen were isolated in front of the Japanese army, and Sun Lianzhong had no choice but to call the 7 Yaowu Division, which had been close to Changde, to return to Shimen.
Naturally, the Japanese army would not let go of such a good opportunity, and on May 7, Isamu Yokoyama personally led the 1st Division, the 7th Tank Wing, and the Sasaki Detachment to attack Shimendo.
The 15th, 77th and 5th Divisions of Wang Zhibin's 73rd Army are surrounded by the stone gate, and the Fengshui River is behind it.
On May 8, the Japanese launched a fierce attack on Shimen under the cover of artillery and chariots, and both sides showed their strengths in the battle, and the fierce battle from early morning to about 18 o'clock was fiercely fought on both sides, and both sides suffered heavy casualties On May 9, through yesterday's attack, Yokoyama discovered that the defenders of Shimendi were resisting fiercely.
However, the garrison fortifications of Shimen were very dilapidated and looked like nothing in the face of heavy artillery fire.
So Isamu Yokoyama adjusted the attack plan in time, and he asked the artillery and air force to do their best to deliver a fierce attack, and strive to make the enemy collapse in the artillery fire At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army headquarters carried out a devastating two-hour bombardment of the Chinese defenders' positions at Shimen, and then the Japanese offensive troops advanced with the barrage.
In the cooperation of the chariot, the troops are divided into multiple roads to carry out fast and violent interspersing.
The rapid penetration of the Japanese army had a great effect, and a Japanese tank squad even penetrated near the military headquarters of the 73rd Army, but fortunately, the army guard battalion and a regiment that rushed over in time on the position eliminated the Japanese tank squad by means of demolition, but the huge casualties of the troops greatly shook the determination of the army commander Wang Zhibin to hold on and wait for help.
In the evening, the Japanese troops interspersed with the 73rd Army cut off the only way to retreat, and all the combat divisions under the 73rd Army were exhausted with casualties, and the army commander Wang Zhibin could be said to be extremely anxious, and in the case of being unable to communicate with the headquarters of the theater commander, Wang Zhibin decided to leave the provisional 5th Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness.
Each unit organized its own breakthrough to Xicheng, where the Japanese army was weakly deployed.
Two days later, on May 11, Wang Zhibin stood dejectedly at the Yanbo intersection southwest of Cili, watching his soldiers walk here in threes, threes, twos, and twos.
The defeated Chinese soldiers were weak.
Many of them were even wearing bandages, supporting each other as they struggled to get to the containment officer.
The officers of the containment team kept reporting their units: "3 from the 15th Division, 9 from the 77th Division, 1 from the 15th Division, and 4 from the Military Headquarters" Among them, there are very few officers and soldiers of the temporary 5th Division, let alone its division commander Peng Shiliang, and an ominous premonition has deeply enveloped Wang Zhibin since the time of separation, and Wang Zhibin really knows Peng Shiliang too well.
Peng Shiliang, No.
Autumn Lake. 37 years old, from Liuyang, Hunan.
After graduating from Hubei Mingde University, he applied for the Whampoa Military Academy, the fourth political department, and served as a platoon commander, company commander, and battalion commander in the 10th Division after graduation.
During the Northern Expedition, he was promoted to deputy regiment commander and studied in the 11th phase of the Army University, and after graduation, he served as chief of staff, regiment commander, division chief of staff, and deputy division commander, and in 194, he took over as the deputy commander of the temporary 5th Division of the 73rd Army, and was promoted to division commander at the beginning of the year.
It was getting dark, but Wang Zhibin was still reluctant to leave for a long time.
He was full of melancholy and guilt, no matter who was in that position, he was more than lucky, and Peng Shiliang was that personality In just a few days, Fang Jing's 66th Army, Wang Benjia's 79th Army, and Wang Zhibin's 73rd Army, which belonged to the Sixth Theater, had been beaten into remnants and lost their combat effectiveness, and the extreme reversal of the battle situation made Chongqing anxious, and in the face of the Japanese army's onslaught, Sun Lianzhong, Xue Yue and others had already judged that the Japanese army's purpose was to directly target the western Hubei region.
As a result, the various units deployed in the vicinity of Changde moved to the outer line one after another, in an attempt to give the Japanese army an arc-shaped encirclement from the flank Isamu Yokoyama, who had conquered Shimon, did not rush to order the 13th Division to attack and advance, and it was with the 3rd Division, the 38th Division, that stopped for supplies.
The 68th and 1st Divisions were secretly resupplied with the 7th Tank Wing and heavy artillery units.
The Peace Army quietly replaced the original positions of the Japanese army and made a posture of attacking western Hubei.
The 68th Division and the objectives of the 1st Division, which secretly turned to the inner line, pointed directly to the ultimate core goal of the campaign.
Changde At this moment, in Changde, only the 74th Division of the 5th Army, Yu Cheng Wanyi, was responsible for the defensive task On May 15, when the 68th Division and the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, as well as the attached chariots and heavy artillery units, arrived at the periphery of Changde.
The commanders of the Military Commission, the Sixth Theater, and the Ninth Theater were surprised to find that the Japanese were actually seeking Changde "Surrounded by many Chinese troops on the outer line, the courage of the lone army to attack Changde Hengshan Yong is too great," Xue Yue immediately laughed heartily after speaking, and the situation of the Chinese and Japanese armies at this moment reminded him of the Tianlu battle method planned in the Third Battle of Changsha.
From the aspect, the situation of the two armies at this moment is extremely beneficial to oneself, and if you don't take advantage of the situation to give the enemy a hard blow to the Japanese attack, you will be really sorry for these little devils who have been sent to the door.
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