The third part of the bloody war of resistance, Chapter 9 of the rushing flow, Section 5 of the assault

After Zhuang Jihua's order, the Zhongzhang team, which had been sharpening his sword, was dispatched immediately. The 200,000 troops were like tigers out of the cage and rushed straight to Huainan, Mengcheng.

Li Wentian was a veteran of the Northwest Army and the deputy commander of Zhang Zizhong. He took the lead with the newly arrived New Thirty and Fifty Divisions, and the Qing 3rd Army and the Qing 4th Army followed, and attacked Huainan along the passage north of the Ying River and south of the Fei River, towards Fengtai and Shou County.

Sun Zhen was completely different. After the Battle of Hubei and Northern Hubei, the 22nd Army had high confidence. After accepting the task of attacking Bengbu, the morale became even stronger. The veterans in the army still remembered that five years ago, during the first Jinpu Road battle, they retreated from Bengbu all the way, and now they can recapture Bengbu with their own hands.

The successive victory in the battles made the generals of the 22nd Army feel some contempt for the Japanese army. Sun Zhen did not wait for Zhuang Jihua's order. From the day he accepted the order, he took the initiative and secretly penetrated the 122nd and 123rd Divisions of the 41st Army to the side of Mengcheng. The 122nd Division was hidden north of the Wohe River and the 123rd Division was hidden south of the Wohe River, ready to attack at any time.

The Japanese army was empty and could not form a dense line of defense, especially around Mengcheng. There were 2,000 Japanese troops in Mengcheng. This was because Mengcheng was the front line and its strength was twice that of other garrisons. It was said that the troops were quite strong, but compared with the vast areas around Mengcheng, this little force was like a little water falling into the Wohe River, so he had to use the puppet army. After the Battle of Northern Hubei, the dispatching army headquarters urgently informed that peaceful rescue was very unreliable when facing the regular Chinese army. So the Japanese commander in Mengcheng, Jinjing simply drove most of the puppet troops out of the city and let them defend in various villages and towns.

After the Battle of Northern Hubei and the Restoration of Henan, the Anhui puppet army was panicked. The puppet army stationed in Mengcheng was the second division of Xingyajun. Although the number was not small, its troops were only 2,000. The division commander Zheng Shuliang was secretly instigated by the Military Control Commission. With the assistance of the puppet army, the 122nd and 132nd divisions secretly detoured to the side of Mengcheng and hid on both sides of the Wohe River.

When the order was made, the 123rd Division quickly conquered Shuangjian Town, which had only more than a hundred Japanese troops, and cut off the road for the Mengcheng defenders to retreat to Bengbu. The 122nd Division in Hebei occupied Wang Ji without bloodshed, and then the 123rd Division went upstream and rushed from Hebei to Mengcheng.

When the 122nd and 123rd Divisions began to operate behind enemy lines, the 124th Division, which was responsible for the frontal attack, took only one day to remove all the Japanese strongholds outside the city and knocked directly under the city.

Sun Zhen did not take the two thousand Japanese troops in Mengcheng seriously at all, and asked Zeng Suyuan, the commander of the 41st Army, to command the attack of Mengcheng. He recklessly invaded the 45th Army and the 122nd Division to bypass Mengcheng and attack Huaiyuan.

The 122nd Division was north of the Wohe River and was invincible. It almost had no blood to occupy Shuangqiao, Bao Ji, bypassed Sifang Lake, and arrived in the north of Huaiyuan City in the evening. It was across the Wohe River to look at Huaiyuan.

The 45th Army smashed the Japanese army that resisted along the way with a devastating momentum, captured Heliu Town, and then divided the troops into two groups. The 125th Division went down the south bank of the Wo River and hit the city of Huaiyuan. The 126th and 127th Divisions were led by the commander Chen Dingxun to cross the Ci River and force the Huai River in Huangtongyao. Surprisingly, they captured Macheng, and went up the east bank of the Huai River. The next day, the people occupied the Palace of King Yu and cut off the connection between Huaiyuan and Bengbu.

In the midsummer, the sun was scorching like fire. On both sides of the Huai River, the sound of cannons roared, the breeze blew, the military flags were flying, and the army galloped. In the sky, fighter planes roared and bombs fell.

The war has been walking with heavy steps for six years. Six years ago, the Japanese team rushed back step by step. In the sky, Japanese planes with red spots on their wings were bombarded wildly. The team could only withstand rounds of bombing and attacks by the Japanese army with tenacious will.

Six years have passed, and the current situation has been completely adjusted. In the sky, Chinese fighter jets soared, diving bombing again and again; on the ground, thousands of cannons fired together, and the Chinese team was full of energy, expelling Japanese pirates and returning them to our mountains and rivers. Japanese soldiers hid silently in the trenches and on the city walls, enduring the Chinese team's round of attacks.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the 123rd Division rushed into Mengcheng after two attacks. The company commander of the assault company Cao Yang led his troops to pursue the Japanese army. He ran towards two young men. The young men seemed not to pay attention to the flying bullets at all. They held a small national flag in their hands and ran over with a smile.

“****….”

"What are you going home?" Cao Yang knew it was a young student at a glance. He couldn't help but feel anxious. The battle is fierce now and he has no energy to take care of them.

"We'll lead the way for **"

"I know the Japanese headquarters are there, let's lead the way."

"Let's go" Cao Yang didn't care. He led a company of people, under the guidance of the young people, walked along a small alley, bypassed the Japanese barricade, and quietly rushed to the Japanese headquarters.

"Boom Boom" exploded two consecutive explosions, breaking a big hole in the courtyard wall of the Japanese headquarters. Cao Yang rushed into the Japanese headquarters first. Gunshots in the headquarters were loud and explosions were repeated.

"** is back" "Our army is back" The ancient Mengcheng was in full swing. No one called or organized. The people of Mengcheng who had been bullied for five years opened the door, braved the rain of bullets and took to the streets to lead the way for Chinese soldiers, smashed their own courtyard walls with their own hands, let Chinese soldiers pass through, go around the back of the Japanese army to launch an attack, or rushed to the front line in the rain of bullets and transported the wounded down.

In the afternoon, the puppet army turned against each other and fired fire in the Japanese position. The Japanese army was in chaos. The outside world took advantage of the situation to tear open the Japanese defense line and rushed into the Japanese headquarters to open up the contact with the assault company that was fighting hard in the headquarters. By sunset, the gunshots of Mengcheng stopped, and the blue sky and white sun flag rose in the Japanese headquarters building.

Zeng Suyuan left a company to clean the battlefield, and the remaining troops were rectified overnight and drove towards Huaiyuan.

The battle of Mengcheng fell, and the two thousand Japanese troops were destroyed, which surprised Nishio Suo and even more surprised Zhuang Jihua. The combat effectiveness of the Chinese team increased so quickly

"Brother Yan Mou, when did this Japanese devils make tofu?" Zhuang Jihua was still a little unbelievable with Zeng Suyuan's telegram. You must know that in the battle of northern Hubei not long ago, even if he wanted to annihilate a large group of Japanese troops in the field, the troops would have to invest at least 5,000 people, and it would take at least two days to pay about 2,000 casualties. But now the Japanese army in Mengcheng has established fortifications, and the Chinese team was in a tough situation, and actually ate two thousand Japanese troops in one day. This is amazing.

"Let Sun Zhen check and ask the prisoners, how did this battle be fought?" Xu Zuyi was also surprised. The decline in the Japanese combat effectiveness was predicted, but the decline did not fall so much, so fast.

Unexpectedly, Sun Zhen called back quickly and read the book very easily.

Com was very angry, "The prisoners were not captured, and the people in the city helped the war. The injured Japanese were beaten to death by the people."

"Forget it, I will summarize it slowly in the future and telegram Sun Zhen, pay attention to the Bengbu army to help Huaiyuan. I have nothing else to conquer Huaiyuan tomorrow." Zhuang Jihua did not pursue the matter. After the counterattack in Yucheng, the troops of the Fifth War Zone developed a habit of not leaving prisoners of war. When Li Zongren was in charge of the Fifth War Zone, he tried to change this habit. Zhuang Jihua's old troops were slanderous, and only the newly arrived troops kept prisoners.

The Battle of Hubei and North Hubei destroyed more than 100,000 Japanese troops, but in the end only the 86th and 94th Army of the Upper Yangtze River Command captured more than 70 prisoners, and the rest of the troops were not captured.

"The Eight-Grade General Cunning" Zhuang Jihua from Fuyang was happy, and Nishiosu in Nanjing was uncomfortable. After receiving the news that the defenders of Mengcheng were shattered, Nishiosu was anxious and angry.

As soon as the 22nd Group Army appeared, it was in a hurry. The dispatching army headquarters almost immediately concluded that this was the main attack direction of the Chinese general. Nishio Suzuo and Itagaki Seishiro also concluded that this was the main attack direction of the Chinese general.

"I ordered Matsui Ishigen to immediately send the 19th Division and 46th Division south to reinforce Bengbu."

These two divisions are newly arrived in Shandong. The 19th Division was transferred back from the Soviet battlefield. The division commander Lieutenant General Osaki Yoshiharu; the 46th Division was transferred from the country and had been stationed in Hokkaido before. The division commander was the High School General Xuandao.

After the Chinese team launched an attack on Anqing, Xiou Shou Zao ordered the Shandong garrison to prepare for the southward move, and clearly required that Matsui Ishienen must assemble no less than two divisions and be prepared to go south at any time.

"The Chinese General must have never imagined that we did not transfer troops from Jiangnan but from Shandong." Itagaki Seishiro also breathed a light sigh, secretly glading the wisdom of Nishio Shou's original one.

"Reported that the Chinese army destroyed the railway bridge on the Chi River and the Tsupi line was cut off." Before the two of them were happy, the staff officer sent a report that surprised them.

“Eight squares”

"Report, Mingguang Garrison reported that the 92nd Army of the Chinese Sulu War Zone appeared in Guta, showing signs of attacking Linhuai Pass, and the 46th Army appeared in Jianxi west of Mingguang, showing signs of attacking Mingguang."

"What?" Nishio Shouzuo hurried to the front of the map. Jun Yuu marked the two points of the newly discovered Chinese army on the map. Seishiro Itagaki was relaxed and said, "This is a destiny. The Sulu War Zone has 400,000 troops, and the theater commander Guan Linzheng is brave and good at fighting. Since the Chinese general launched such an offensive, he would never turn a blind eye to this force.

"Commander, Bengbu is in danger." Itagaki Seishiro sighed and said that there were only 4,000 people in Bengbu City. Even if the one thousand reinforcements were added in Dingyuan, there were only 5,000 troops. The Chinese general mobilized more than 100,000 people. With the combat effectiveness shown by the 22nd Army in Mengcheng, it would never use so many troops. Obviously, the Chinese general considered the possibility of reinforcements from the north and south lines. The 122nd Division north of the Wohe River would definitely block the reinforcements from the north and the north lines. The Chinese army attacking Akira must have come to cut off the reinforcements from the south lines.

"Order, the 18th Division and the ** mixed together into the 11th Brigade, set out immediately to reinforce Bengbu." Nishio Shouzuo ordered the reserve team gathered near Nanjing to be dispatched without any hesitation.

"Commander,..." As soon as Seishiro Itagaki spoke, he was interrupted by the staff who rushed in.

"Reported, General Okamura, the commander of the North China Expeditionary Army, called to the general who refused to go south to reinforce Bengbu, and suggested that the 19th Division and the 46th Division reinforce the country to reinforce Xuzhou, and the 46th Division reinforce the country to reinforce Jining..."

"What nonsense is he talking about?" Nishio's depression was ignited, and he cursed and snatched the telegram from the staff officer.

"…..., Beizhi believes that the main target of the Chinese General's attack is likely to be Xuzhou, not just Bengbu. First of all, the Chinese General has gathered more than four armies in the Yongcheng area of ​​Shangqiu. There is only one explanation for such a heavy army group, attacking Xuzhou. In addition, the elite troops of the 47th Army and the newly formed 12th Army of the Chinese Sulu War Zone are unknown. Beizhi believes that these two armies are likely to be in the canal area east of Xuzhou...."

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