Since 10 o'clock in the morning of December 12, 1938, after the Daya Bay defensive battle was fully opened, the 12th Group Army of the National Army and the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army struggled to block the remnants of the 18th Division and the 104th Division of the Japanese Army.
By the early morning of December 15, 1938, it had been three days and nights of fighting.
The 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army was also reduced from the original strength of more than 7,500 to more than 5,500, with more than 2,000 casualties; The 62nd Army of the 12th Group Army of the National Army, the 151st Division and the 152nd Division under its jurisdiction, also directly reduced more than 6,000 people, leaving less than 10,000 combatable soldiers; The 18th Division of the Japanese Army, with the death of Lieutenant General Na Na Chengichi of the division, was temporarily appointed as the commander of the 18th Division by the chief of staff of the division, Sanjo Baiguan, under the jurisdiction of the 55th Wing, 56th Wing, 114th Wing of the Japanese Army, as well as other combat units such as the artillery wing, the engineer wing, and the logistics wing.
More than 5,000 soldiers were killed in the naval battle, and the total strength of the unit was directly reduced from more than 21,000 to more than 13,000 in three consecutive days of fierce fighting.
The 104th Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Toshio Miyake, has a number of combat units under the jurisdiction of the Hyuga Brigade, the Kikuchi Brigade, and the Heavy Artillery Wing.
The division was at the rear end of the naval battle, with a small number of casualties, only more than 1,000 people, and with three consecutive days of fierce fighting, the division still had more than 12,000 soldiers left to fight.
When Ouyang learned from the intelligence fed back from the battlefields that there were still 25,000 Japanese soldiers, he was also cold.
"There are really too many little devils" Ouyang kept sketching on the paper, and then speculated about the upper limit of Daya Bay's ability to hold on to time.
"Hey" Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao sighed and said: "Brigade commander, according to the analysis of the current battle situation, we have been holding on to Daya Bay for at most 3 days, and this is still under the premise that other combat units of the Japanese 21st Army have no other actions. ” "Yes" Hearing this, Ouyang nodded, the intensity of the battle was far beyond everyone's imagination, only 3 days of fierce fighting, in addition to the naval battle of Daya Bay, China and Japan lost 16,000 people in Daya Bay.
After countless corpses fell, endless blood was shed, completely dyeing the sea area red, and the sand, reefs, and trees on the shore were also stained with blood, and there was a shocking blood-red color everywhere.
This defensive battle that broke out in Daya Bay, Guangdong, is destined to be recorded in history Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao admonished: "Brigade commander, the Japanese army is determined to do so, and with the wanton and indiscriminate bombing of dozens of planes, it is difficult to defeat it.
If this battle continues, our brigade and the 62nd Army, even if they all confess here, they will not be able to complete the interception of the Japanese army."
In a word, the number of Japanese troops was simply too many "If you can't beat it, you have to fight" Ouyang said in a deep voice: "If we hold on here for one more day, Guangzhou will be safe for one more day, and more materials will be able to be transported to the Wuhan battlefield before and after to support the battle of Wuhan." ” Sticking to one more day is a day.
Ouyang was obviously holding on to death In the defensive battle of Daya Bay, although our Chinese defenders suffered heavy casualties, they at least occupied extremely favorable terrain.
Once the withdrawal from Daya Bay is made, then the next battle will not have such a good terrain advantage, and it will undoubtedly be even more difficult to fight.
In short, to consume as much of the Japanese army's vital strength as possible in Daya Bay as much as possible is to achieve the strategic goal.
Suddenly, at this moment, Ye Cunxin, the deputy commander of the communications company, came.
"Brigade commander, chief of staff, Squadron Leader He Chenguang of the Wolf Tooth Brigade, I just sent an urgent message, 100,000 urgent" Ye Cunxin said solemnly.
Ouyang immediately took the telegram and checked it with Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao.
The content of the telegram reads: "The 5th Division under the command of the 21st Army of the Japanese Army, known as the 'Steel Army', has secretly arrived in Meizhou, Guangdong at 5 o'clock this morning, and launched a strong attack on the 187th Division of the 12th Group Army of the Nationalist Army and the 361st Independent Brigade. ” "Only two hours after the battle began, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army successively captured the four county fortresses of Pingyuan, Jiaoling, Dapu and Fengshun under the jurisdiction of Meizhou City."
After reading the content of the message, Wang Yaqiao and Ouyang were both shocked Kudu lamented the strength of the Japanese 5th Division The 5th Division of the Japanese Army once set a record of sweeping 70 Chinese divisions with the strength of half a division During the entire World War II, the number of army divisions and regiments formed by the Japanese army was as high as 169, among which in terms of combat effectiveness and combat achievements, two divisions were the most powerful, one was the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, and the other was the 5th Division of the Japanese Army that came to fight in Guangdong.
Among them, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, after participating in the battle for the defense of Nanjing, was transferred to the combat sequence of the Northeast Kwantung Army and fought to the death with the Soviet Army Zhukov.
Therefore, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army has become the strongest division among all the divisions of the Japanese Army.
Now the 5th Division of the Japanese Army is heading for Meizhou, Guangdong, and the defenders of the 12th Group Army have only one division and one brigade, which is the opponent of the Japanese "Steel Army".
Meizhou is difficult to protect "Chief of Staff, once Meizhou falls, with the advance speed of the mechanized troops of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, it will be able to reach Heyuan City in less than half a day, and with the strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, I am afraid that General Zhang Ruiguo's 63rd Army will not be able to withstand it for a few days."
Ouyang said in a deep voice.
Wang Yaqiao nodded and said: "I'm afraid that's not only that, once the Japanese army breaks through Meizhou, it can completely divide a part of its forces and go straight to Huizhou."
Huizhou At present, the Chinese defenders stationed in Huizhou only have the strength of a brigade under the command of the 62nd Army, plus the 885th Regiment of Zhou Weiguo's department.
The main military forces of the 151st and 152nd Divisions under the command of the 62nd Army, as well as the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, were all concentrated in the Daya Bay area to resist the Japanese 18th Division and 104th Division.
Ouyang said coldly: "Once Huiyang falls, then my 512th Brigade and the 62nd Army will be completely surrounded by the Japanese army, and it will only be an overnight annihilation."
Meizhou, Heyuan, and Huizhou, the three prefecture-level cities, have become a triangle of life and death, and if any of them falls, the triangle formation will also collapse completely.
"Meizhou, we must not lose it, otherwise our unit and the 62nd Army will completely lose the strategic significance of holding on to Daya Bay."
Ouyang burst out and shouted.
Meizhou.
Division headquarters of the 12th Division of the 187th Army.
Division commander Liu Xiaohan was overwhelmed by the extremely bad form in front of him.
The huge Meizhou, in less than two hours of fierce fighting with the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, lost the four county towns of Pingyuan, Jiaoling, Dapu, and Fengshun, as well as almost all the peripheral positions.
Meizhou is at stake "Zhang Guangqi on the dog day, misleading the party and the country" Liu Xiaohan, the commander of the division, roared at the adjutant: "Where are the others going to die, as the commander of a regiment, stationed in such an important place as Pingyuan County, he didn't fire a shot when the little devil had not yet arrived, and the whole regiment withdrew, making a mess of the good situation, and Lao Tzu wanted to shoot him."
Pingyuan County is the bridgehead in Meizhou's defensive formation and the most important strategic point in the entire peripheral position.
With this place, it was enough to resist the Japanese division for more than two days.
However, before the battle began, Zhang Guangqi's regiment stationed in Pingyuan County abandoned the city and fled without firing a single shot, causing the three county towns of Jiaoling, Dapu, and Fengshun to lose the support of strategic locations.
In less than 2 hours, all the outlying positions in Meizhou fell The 187th Division, more than half of the dead and wounded "Division, head Zhang Guangqi, no, Zhang Guangqi, this bastard, led his troops to bypass Meizhou directly and fled in the direction of Huizhou" The adjutant's expression at the moment is really ugly than crying.
"Zhang Guangqi on the dog's day, Lao Tzu swears to kill this fang" Division Commander Liu Xiaohan said angrily.
After shouting, the division commander Liu Xiaohan was silent, but after just one minute, he burst out laughing.
The laughter was full of endless sadness and gloom Division Commander Liu Xiaohan said bitterly: "With half a division, plus the strength of a local security brigade, and the loss of peripheral positions, how can we resist the tiger and wolf division of the Japanese 5th Division?"
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"Don't say insist on it for a few days, it's a fluke to stick to it for a day" For a while, the surrounding officers and soldiers all felt a desolate atmosphere.
Meizhou is not guaranteed "Lao Tzu still has a lot of glory and wealth that has not been enjoyed, Lao Tzu can't die in this bird place" At present, some opportunistic and good at camping, as well as people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, all want to escape.
The adjutant stubbornly said: "Division, now our 187th Division, where should we go?"
"Hahaha" Division Commander Liu Xiaohan laughed again, then turned into sadness, and said in a deep voice: "The country is dying, and we soldiers can only fight to the death."
With the loss of all the peripheral positions in Meizhou, the battle situation of the entire Guangdong Campaign became sharply sour The excellent situation of the Daya Bay defensive battle has also been wiped out Ouyang and others are also faced with the question of whether to withdraw or not.
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