Glorious Mission 1937

When China and Japan were entangled in Central China, wars were raging in North China. Following the Eighth Route Army’s great victory in southern Hebei, World War II finally drove a division and a brigade of the Japanese army out of the Luliang Mountains at the cost of more than 3000 heavy casualties. The land of western Shanxi was regained.

At the same time, Li Wensheng's troops who went south to Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass also made great progress. The army defeated the fourth division of the Japanese army in front of them with lightning speed and captured Daixian, Yuanping and Wutai counties. Bingfeng pointed directly at Xinkou.

Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio did not expect the Fourth Division to be so vulnerable, so he hurriedly mobilized the First Mixed Brigade and a part of the 108th Division to go north for reinforcements. It is only temporary. According to the news from the Japanese army on the northern front, there are as many as 10,000+ Chinese troops fighting southward this time, and they are all Chinese troops in all directions. In addition to infantry, they also found a large number of artillery and armored units. Most of the Eighth Regiment of the Fourth Division was wiped out without holding on for a day. Without the strength of three to five divisions, it might be difficult to hold Xinkou.

Relatively speaking, the situation in the two battlefields in eastern Henan and northern Henan is not very good for China. The Japanese army is stronger than the first theater in terms of military strength and firepower, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides is not at the same level. Following Lankao After the fall, the Japanese army successfully captured Minquan, Ningling, Shangqiu and other places.

Although it was in danger, the troops in the first war zone finally resisted, ensuring that Kaifeng was not lost.The officers and soldiers in the first war zone all know that this battle cannot be lost, once Lan Feng loses the front line.Then the Japanese mechanized army will sweep across the Great Plains of Eastern Henan within a few days, and then capture Zhengzhou and other places.Therefore, despite the menacing Japanese army, the two armies in the first theater and the newly formed 120 to [-] recruits exploded with [-]% combat effectiveness to deal with it. [

Fortunately, the 7 troops of the Eighth Theater finally arrived at the battlefield in early October. Originally, according to the combat deployment of the First Theater, the 10 troops going south from the Eighth Theater had to be placed on the second line of defense and deployed along the Yellow River. But he was rejected by Li Yifeng. He believed that the Japanese army in eastern Henan was only 7 or 8 people, which was not much different from his army, and even a hard resistance would not be a big problem.Not to mention that there are still more than [-] elite soldiers and [-] to [-] recruits in the first theater.It is absolutely possible to fight an offensive and defensive battle face to face with it. Even if it cannot be wiped out, it can still keep the Great Plains in Eastern Henan.

Wei Lihuang did not expect that Li Yifeng would be so confident that he would dare to head-to-head with the three elite divisions of the Japanese army with only three divisions and one brigade.Although a little worried.But he also knows that he only has the right to suggest.There is no final command power, because this army does not belong to his first theater, but belongs to the eighth theater.

As soon as these three divisions in the eighth war zone appeared on the battlefield in eastern Henan, the Japanese army was caught off guard.The 110th Division of the Japanese Vanguard, which was going smoothly, was suddenly attacked by the Armored Division of the Eighth Theater and the Army Aviation Brigade. The group charge of 300 tanks and the air attack of more than [-] aircraft were only the Japanese Kwantung Army. No other army has ever seen such a formation, it's too scary.

The 110th Division was suddenly attacked, which was not much better than the Polish army that was attacked by the German Blitz. The front composed of more than 2 people only lasted for a short day before completely retreating, making Sun Lianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Second Army on the front line The horror is inexplicable, and the eighth war zone of the secret path really lives up to its reputation.

With the addition of the new force of the eighth war zone, the previous achievements of the No. 12 army of the Japanese army were constantly being eroded, and they had to stop attacking and began to shrink their forces to block the attack of the squadron.

On October 10, when the Japanese army attacked Wuhan, the Eighth War Zone dispatched two airborne brigades overnight, and with the cooperation of Li Zong and others, they captured Baoding, the capital city of Hebei Province by surprise.However, in order to ensure the safety of Li Zong and others in the enemy-occupied area, Chen Feng deliberately ordered people to release Major General Qiu Shan, the supreme commander of Baoding.

While capturing Baoding, 52 fully equipped mechanized infantry quickly moved south from Yuxian County, breaking through Laiyuan, Yixian, Mancheng and other counties, with the intention of joining forces with the [-]nd Army to attack the Pingjin area.

After receiving the telegram from Major General Qiushan, General Binshan Yuan turned pale with shock, and immediately ordered the nearby 32th Division and other troops to go to Baoding for rescue, and at the same time ordered the [-]nd Division and other troops in northern Henan to immediately stop fighting with the Chinese army Entanglement, slowly withdraw from the battle, the troops in Eastern Henan should also be prepared to retreat.

On October 10, the 6th Division of the Eighth Route Army suddenly besieged Zaozhuang and captured Zaozhuang before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. Armament of a division.

After capturing Zaozhuang, the Eighth Route Army did not stop. Instead, it gathered a large army and came to Xuzhou, the most important logistics base of the Japanese army in eastern Henan and the headquarters. This made the Japanese army extremely panic. But it's going to be a big trouble.In desperation, the Japanese army had no choice but to withdraw from the eastern part of Henan, abandoning all the previously captured territories.

The Japanese army returned to aid, and the 115th Division in Shandong immediately moved to the mountainous area.After Baoding's Eighth War Zone headquarters also transported all the strategic materials that could be transported away, they quietly withdrew to Yu County, and soon the fighting in Shanxi and other places quickly calmed down. By October 10, the entire Chinese battlefield Quiet.

Counting the battles in the past two months, the Japanese army really had the urge to vomit blood. They dispatched more than 60 troops and only captured the two cities of Nanchang and Wuhan, but their own casualties exceeded 12.Although the Japanese base camp is expected to cause at least 25 casualties to the Chinese National Government and the first, second, and eighth theaters in this battle, no one knows the actual number of Chinese casualties.

Coupled with the fact that the Chinese have a large amount of penicillin drug support, presumably not too many officers and soldiers will actually die in the final battle. It can be said that although the Great Japanese Empire has won this time tactically, it is a huge strategic victory. defeat.

While the Japanese army was depressed, Lao Jiang and Yan Laoxi were equally unhappy. Lao Jiang did have a reason to be sad. Wuhan was lost, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, especially the air force. After leaving Wuhan Station, the only thing that made Lao Jiang feel gratified. Through this battle, he saw one thing clearly, that is, the little guy in Saibei is not a person who ignores the overall situation.

This time he was able to transfer so many fighter planes and troops to Wuhan to participate in the war, which made Lao Jiang very happy, not to mention that tens of thousands of troops went south to defend Henan. If it weren't for that little guy who sent troops to fight south, Henan might have fallen into the hands of the enemy at this time .However, there are also some things that make Lao Jiang very headache. This time, the fighter planes sent to Wuhan by the eighth war zone suffered extremely serious losses. A total of 319 fighter planes were shot down. Not to mention the pensions of the dead and injured pilots, the compensation for these 319 fighter planes alone It is an astronomical sum.

Moreover, according to the agreement between the two parties before the war, the national government of the eighth war zone must pay double for all fighter planes lost in Wuhan this time. Calculated at US$638, 10 fighter jets would cost US$638 million, including the compensation for the 6380 pilots who died in battle and the pensions for the 192 wounded. Without US$101 million, it would be impossible to explain.

However, Lao Jiang didn't plan to pay the bills this time. Chen Feng's undisclosed combat power shocked him. There was such a troop that could be at his command, no matter how much money he paid.

Yan Laoxi was depressed because although his troops drove the Japanese army out of Jinxi this time, they failed to continue to advance eastward, let alone seized the opportunity to take Taiyuan back again, and more importantly, his son-in-law did not agree with him. He was very dissatisfied with his request to help capture Taiyuan. After the Japanese army withdrew from northern Henan and eastern Henan, the [-]-strong army in the Eighth Theater quickly stopped attacking.

Chen Feng was also very dissatisfied with this battle. Although he had gained a total of 18 points in the past two months, he had lost nearly 400 fighter planes and 126 pilots. This was the heaviest loss since the establishment of the Northern Air Force.Now the eighth war zone lacks pilots with combat experience. According to Liu Nijia's report, among the pilots lost this time, 76 were Chinese, and the remaining 6 were all Soviet pilots, including [-]. The ace pilot, such a loss made Chen Feng feel extremely distressed. [

It's not that Chen Feng doesn't want to take back the Shanxi plateau in one go, but he knows that the Japanese army has already produced the famous Zero fighter jet, and it has already begun to use it on a large scale on the battlefield. Soon the Japanese army will gain absolute air supremacy, and when the time comes to face the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese army, the losses will be even greater. That's why Chen Feng wanted to end the battle as soon as possible.

On the second day after Liu Nijia and others returned to Guisui, Chen Feng called all the senior commanders of the Northern Air Force and the officers of the Army Aviation Unit for a secret meeting. After the meeting, the Northern Air Force and various Army Aviation Brigades were transferred a large number of Chinese pilots. The number was as high as 2000, which was more than half of the pilots of the Northern Air Force and Army Aviation.

Where these pilots went, except for Liu Nijia and a few other officers above the brigade level, only Chen Feng knew. These more than 2000 pilots were all transferred to the depths of the Kubuqi Desert by Chen Feng. The newly built huge airport has more than 300 new fighters, including 5 J-6 and J-100 each, 47 Hercules transport aircraft and B30 strategic bomber fighters, and 40 Wuzhi-[-] fighters.

This is an aviation training base secretly built by Chen Feng. This base is located deep in the desert. More than 2000 pilots were sent here to participate in intensive training in order to adapt to the new fighter jets. (To be continued..)

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