Chapter 334 The Road to Bleeding

The key to the rapid implementation of Umezu Mijiro's strategic intention lies in the implementation of a strong force, but it seems that there are no such troops in the First and Second Front that can undertake such important tasks. Is it possible to transfer the troops of the Okamura Ningci North China Front? Meizu Mijiro finally decided to transfer the Sixth Division from the Third Front Army attacking Zhangjiakou, but unexpectedly, it was strongly resisted by Fengwen Yamashita. Finally, Mijiro Umezu was from the 13th Division, the 16th Division, the 18th Division, the 101st Division, and the 14th Division of the North China Front under the headquarters of Ningci Okamura. The main forces of the division, the 116th Division, and the other four brigades were assigned to the 6th and 7th brigades of the field heavy artillery, the 11th and 12th regiments of the reading vehicles, and the 16th division, the 6th brigade of the field heavy artillery and the 12th regiment of the reading chariot were transferred. As a blocking force, the rest of the troops quickly retreated and contracted. Defense.

It is said that the rapid retreat and contraction of the defense of the Kwantung Army once again exceeded Zhang Xuewu's expectations. In Zhang Xuewu's opinion, he said that I was not the one who received it when he was good, and he also hit the south wall and did not look back. Even if he broke his head, he would admit that he would be killed. At worst, it was broken! This is my usual trick.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu has been completing the strategic deployment of the network without delay. He was afraid that the deployment would be too fast, which shocked the Japanese army. However, he did not expect that Meizu Mijiro, the trusted commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, predicted his encirclement and annihance plan without any intelligence support and interpretation, and the remnants of the Kwantung Army were immediately collected. Withdrawal, Zhang Xuewu was caught off guard again. He was caught off guard before, but now he said that he ran away completely? And it's a night's escape with discarded armor? Even retreating crazily along the road regardless of air strikes during the day?

Zhang Xuewu ordered all the Rehe Air Force to attack the retreating troops of the Japanese Army along the way. The First Armored Division, the Second Armored Division, the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Divisions of the Youth Army, and the Tiger Division, the Honorary First Division formed a front to crush the retreat of the Japanese army.

In the direction of Zhangjiakou, the 9th, 10th and 11th Divisions of the Youth Army, which were reinforced, counterattacked against the Third Front Army of the Kwantung Army under the command of Fengwen. The main force of the Third Armored Division cooperated with the Third Division of the Youth Army and the 12th Division stationed in Baotou, posing a threat to the army north of Taiyuan and armored the third. The division cooperated with the mechanized regiment of the Third Division of the Youth Army and the 12th Division to intercept the Third Front Army of the Japanese Eastern Army retreating from Zhangjiakou, because in the sequence of the Japanese army combat troops attacking Zhangjiakou, there was a Japanese army unit that had committed many crimes, the sixth division of the Japanese army, in order to hide the whereabouts and attack intention of its troops. In the direction of the picture, the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army slaughtered nearly 20,000 Chinese civilians along the way. The Japanese Army suffered heavy losses in Nanjing because of the strong resistance of the Chinese [***] team, so at this time, all its animal surnames were vented on innocent Chinese civilians. Maybe history really can't be completely changed?

The Japanese army failed to carry out a massacre in Nanjing, but slaughtered more than 50,000 innocent civilians in the battle to attack the tenth war zone, which was the most unbearable for Zhang Xuewu. Robbery and forced annihilaration are no longer atrocities for the Japanese army. On the vast snowfield, thousands of postures are frozen like plastic. Like ordinary corpses, they were piled up into a hill. What's more, they smashed an ice hole in the frozen lake and pushed the Chinese people in strings with wire directly. Finally, all kinds of faces were frozen under the ice on the lake! After inspecting in person, Zhang Xuewu decided to implement a comprehensive counterattack plan.

For this plan, Zhang Xuewu lowered his oil reserves and ammunition reserves to the lowest warning line. After the request for emergency assistance from the Soviet Union had not been answered, Zhang Xuewu resolutely decided to take the risk of a full-line counterattack. Although he faced insufficient ammunition supply, The army is extremely tired, but why not me? The main force, the first, second and third front armies have a certain consumption, and the Japanese army, as an attacking party, has been fighting in the ice and snow for more than a month, so the non-combat reduction of the troops of the Japanese army is also extremely serious.

Zhang Xuewu's counterattack was also greatly beyond the expectations of Meizu Meijiro and Okamura Ningji. Meizu Meijiro thought that Zhang Xuewu was also very eager to make up for the truce. After all, he played an extremely disgraceful role of watching the tiger fight in the Chinese civil affairs axe in this war, so the tenth war zone will make The corresponding method of preserving strength, but Meijiro Umezu found that he was wrong, and it was ridiculously wrong. He thought that he knew that the Chinese people had learned that Umezu Meijiro in the bones can only put Zhang Xuewu into the category of different categories.

BF-109F, BF-109K, BF-109G, Falcon Fighter, Battle Fortress, Zhang Xuewu dispatched almost all the air forces that could be dispatched in the tenth war zone, took off from nine standing airports and six field airports, and carried out air strikes on the troops retreated by the Japanese army.

Many years later, a first-class soldier of Murashita, who survived, wrote a memoir "Bleeding Road" that sold millions of copies! The book records the testimonies, testimonies and narrations of hundreds of survived in detail. First-class soldiers Kimuo Murashita recalled that they retreated quietly from the army, and the troops of the First and Second Fronts began to abandon the wounded and sick. Due to the lack of supplies, they could not even give the wounded a grenade for suicide, or a hand for several wounded. Lei, who failed to be killed, was blown up and cried bitterly all night before he died. His condition was extremely tragic, and more of the wounded soldiers were killed by cold water in the wild. Like the Chinese civilians they executed, it seemed that retribution came faster.

On the way to retreat, Murashita's first-class soldiers described in detail the overwhelming [***] planes constantly dropping bombs and shooting. Along the way, there were burning vehicles, fallen corpses and mule horses. No one cared about the wounded. Everyone bowed their heads in obscurity and was worried that they would look up. It will be found by the plane in the sky.

The retreat casualties announced by the Kwantung Army in the war report were more than 36,000, including all non-combat casualties. However, in fact, many historical scholars in later generations believe that the losses of the three fronts of the Kwantung Army exceeded 80,000 people.

The 16th Division, the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery and the 12th Wing, as the first and second front troops of the Kwantung Army retreated to Jinzhou, were preparing to attack and pursue in the ghost town of the 20jiazi Town, which had been slaughtered by the Japanese army before.

Nakajima Jinwu stayed as the head of the division because of the extremely poor performance of Nanjing World War I and Gu Shoufu, who made contributions to the crime. With Nakajima Jinwu, I was also in trouble with the unfortunate Chief of Staff of the 16th Division, Colonel Nakazawa. The hasty construction of field fortifications in the ice and snow can withstand at least eight or nine divisions [** *] Attack? Moreover, there are also two armored divisions in the middle [***] elite. According to the latest information, the Hu Ben Division and the Honor First Division also seem to be attacking in the direction of Jinzhou. On the third side, except for the 6th Division, all the troops did not retreat to the Shanhaiguan, but generally retreated with the main force of the North China Front of Gangcun Ningci. Jinzhou.

Nakajima Jinchamami looked at the enemy and our situation on the map that changes almost every hour. He knew that Shanhaiguan might not be able to defend it, otherwise Okamura Ningji and Yamashita Fengwen would not rush to retreat to the direction of Jinzhou. There was no solid city defense and artillery, and infantry without air support. Dealing with armored forces on plain terrain is suicide!

The Kwantung Army Flying Division dispatched seven reconnaissance aircraft in a row to forcibly carry out reconnaissance. Although all of them were shot down by the air force in the tenth war zone, the reconnaissance aircraft still sent the relevant reconnaissance information back to the front finger of the Kwantung Army in Jinzhou. Meijin Meijiro, who was located in Jinzhou, also quickly made adjustments based on this information. The seven warships of the Fifth Squadron of the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet in Ashijima also set sail straight to Qinhuangdao.

Mejiro Umezu knew that whether it was the sixth division behind the Third Front Hall, or the 16th Division behind the First and Second Front Halls, the Sixth Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery and the 12th Wing of Reading Fighting Vehicle, these troops were inevitably defeated or even surrounded and annihilated by the trailing attack. Two divisions, or even three divisions, as long as they can retreat the remnants of the three front forces to the front line of Jinzhou and stand on guard, then the whole Manchuria will be safe and sound, and Meijin Mijiro can have the chips and capital to prepare for the war. Meijin Meijiro ordered the Kwantung Army Flying Division to be enough to compete with the Chinese Air Force in the tenth theater. Before the fighters are equipped, they are not allowed to take the initiative to attack, and the experienced pilots are mainly preserved.

The losses of the Kwantung Army's infantry units can be recovered in a year to a year and a half, but Meizu Mijiro knows that the losses of the Army Air Force are irreparable. At the beginning of the war, most of the pilots of the Kwantung Army Flying Division were majors, captains and lieutenants, but now most of the rosters are few. Lieutenants and sergeants, the personnel supplemented by the aviation school are far from keeping up with the war losses. The difference in aircraft surnames has made the Kwantung Army Flight Division and the 27 flight squadrons stationed in North China a hard-hit area.

How to reduce losses and withdraw troops, this is what Umezu Mijiro is most concerned about at present, while Okamura Ningji is concerned about Nakajima Jinwu's 16th Division. The situation of the 6th Division is so bad that it can't be worse. A [***] armored force is not far from the 6th Division after retreating from the middle hall. Twenty kilometers, this is the last report before the "Jiangzi" reconnaissance aircraft was shot down. The Sixth Division is 30 kilometers away from the predetermined defense site, and a field encounter is probably inevitable.

Although the 16th Division after the stubbornness of the 20th Jiazi Town is assigned to the Heavy Artillery Brigade and the Chariot Regiment, how much role can the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery and the 12th Regiment of the Reading Vehicle play in the case of no air control?

(to be continued)