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Text Chapter 426 The greatest shame in the history of the Anti-Japanese War

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    The Japanese bomber formation suffered another major defeat near Wuhan.  They originally intended to bomb Zhuzhou, but found it was a trap and hurriedly retreated. They also planned to use their numerical advantage near Wuhan to teach the always arrogant Chinese Air Force a profound lesson.  Unexpectedly, another group of "Hellcats" staying in Chongqing also took advantage of the rainy day and made a surprise attack under the cover of thick clouds.  The two-phase attack once again cast a thick shadow on the hearts of the Japanese aviation forces.  However, in this battle, when the Chinese and Japanese fighter planes encountered each other, the Japanese air force performed particularly poorly because of multiple injuries. Most of them did not dare to fight. Many airmen even stopped when they discovered that Chongqing's fighter jets were arriving.  He turned around and fled, so although he was defeated, he avoided the fate of possible annihilation of the entire army.  The results of the Chinese Air Force were not many. Fighters and bombers only shot down about thirty aircraft.  But this is enough.  Because of this failure, the Japanese Air Force rejected Terauchi Juichi¡¯s strict order and refused to attack again.  This allowed Qin Wei to mobilize enough fighter jets to protect Guangxi's airspace, once again forming air superiority over the Japanese army.  But while Shouichi in the temple was waiting in panic for revenge from the air, Qin Wei made no movement.  Not only that, Du Yuming's 5th Army, which had been fighting north of the Red River, also began to actively break away from the Japanese army and slowly retreated. Soon, most of it retreated back to Guangxi.  "Terauchi Touichi was puzzled by the performance of the ** team, but he did not dare to take it lightly.  However, after waiting for no movement for several days, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent the Taiwan Brigade and the Guards Mixed Brigade, which had been hidden in the snow, to the battlefield in Guangzhou with the intention of defeating the 35th Group Army in one fell swoop and even wiping out most of it.  Under the city of Guangzhou.  However, the 35th Group Army chose to retreat at this time, and like Du Yuming, slowly retreated to Guangxi.  And because of the threat from the Chinese Air Force.  Terauchi Juichi did not dare to give the order to let go of the pursuit, and could only watch helplessly as the opponent calmly retreated to his original position.  At this point, the battle between Guangdong and Guangxi has come to an end.  For this battle, China has prepared a total of two armies.  The trap was prepared, and the plan was to annihilate the enemy's 18th and 12th divisions in one fell swoop, and at the same time take advantage of the situation to capture Guangzhou and then regain Guangdong.  Re-open international transportation lines to the outside world.  Unexpectedly, due to a night reconnaissance operation by a reconnaissance aircraft in the Beibu Gulf, the prepared condoms were not put on the Japanese heads. On the contrary.  Because of the excessive vigilance and unauthorized actions of the commander of the enemy's 18th Division, Hyakutake Haruyoshi, the originally occupied area north of the Red River in Vietnam was violently attacked by the Japanese army.  Du Yuming's 5th Army, which was responsible for defending North Vietnam, faced an enemy force nearly three times its own in this battle alone, although there was a Red River to defend it.  But the losses were still severe.  In the end, they had to withdraw to Guangxi under the order of the General Headquarters of the Guangdong-Guangxi Campaign, and North Vietnam fell.  Apart from the fighting in North Vietnam, the 35th Group Army that attacked Guangzhou had to withdraw under the leadership of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Deng Longguang because the enemy was well prepared.  Most of the cities and towns originally occupied were also abandoned.  It seems that China is the loser.  However, although the Guangdong-Guangxi War is related to China's two external lines of communication, it has a decisive significance for the future war situation.  But more Chinese people are paying attention to the "Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain" that took place in the north!  The Kuomintang Hu Zongnan launched an attack on Shanxi, but was hit head-on by the Shanxi Japanese Army Shinozuka Yoshio Division, suffering heavy losses. Hu Zongnan was furious and was about to reorganize his army to fight again, but unexpectedly, the Japanese North China Front Army was short of troops as expected and could not send reinforcements.  A force equivalent to two divisions was mobilized into Shanxi.  This means that if Hu Zongnan wants to continue fighting in Shanxi, he will almost have to use his more than 200,000 troops to fight against nearly 100,000 Japanese troops.  Not to mention Hu Zongnan, not even fierce men like Xue Yue and Bai Chongxi dared to fight this kind of battle with their eyes glaring above their heads.  You know, in the battle of Xuzhou, more than 600,000 Japanese troops faced more than 200,000 Japanese troops, which was three times the number of the enemy. However, they were still beaten to the point of running away. If they had not reacted in time and ran very fast, the 600,000 Japanese troops would have been defeated.  Dajun may have been made dumplings by others.  Now Hu Zongnan only has more than twice the enemy's troops, so how can he dare to go and provoke them?  Therefore, as soon as he received the news, Hu Zongnan immediately changed his offensive formation to defensive and made a posture of running away.  But Jun Tada, who personally led his troops to Shanxi, ignored Hu Zongnan at all.  As soon as the troops of one division and three brigades entered Shanxi, they went straight to Zhongtiao Mountain.  Everyone knows that Zhongtiao Mountain is a strategically important place.  It starts from Yongji in southern Shanxi in the west, faces Shaanxi, ends in Jiyuan and Meng County in northern Henan in the east, is connected to the Taihang Mountains, is bordered by the Yuncheng Basin, known as the granary of Shanxi, in the north, and is bordered by the rolling Yellow River in the south.  The territory is crisscrossed with ravines, undulating mountains, overlapping passes, and rich in mineral deposits.  By occupying Zhongtiao Mountain, it can be at the horns of each other with Taihang, Luliang and Taiyue Mountains.  After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the strategic position of Zhongtiao Mountain became increasingly important as the major passes in Shanxi were lost one after another.  For China, accounting for??, we can use this as a base to control northern Henan and southern Shanxi, and shield Luoyang and Tongguan.  Advancing can disrupt the enemy's rear and contain Japanese troops; retreating can rely on danger to defend, actively defend, and cooperate with the entire anti-Japanese battlefield.  As far as the Japanese side is concerned, if they gain it, they will occupy an important "bridgehead" for the invasion from the south to the north. They can cross the river and go south, visit the Longhai Sea, and invade the Central Plains; they can also go north to connect with their main occupied areas in Shanxi to relieve their trusted confidants.  Improve the security situation in the occupied areas of North China.  Therefore, the Zhongtiao Mountain area was regarded as an "important place related to national security" during the Anti-Japanese War.  However, although Zhongtiao Mountain is located in Shanxi Province, it was not a defense area of ??the Shanxi-Sui Army during the Anti-Japanese War, nor was it under the jurisdiction of Yan Xishan's Second War Zone.  The Central Army of the Kuomintang is stationed here, and in terms of war zone division, it belongs to the First War Zone with Wei Lihuang as commander-in-chief.  In the spring of 1938, in order to reduce frontal losses, the Chinese Communist Army in Shanxi dispersed hundreds of thousands of troops in the southern Shanxi area, established fortifications, and carried out guerrilla operations.  After the Japanese invaded Shanxi, "in order to secure North China, suppress Luoyang, and spy on Xi'an, they had besieged Zhongtiao Mountain 13 times since 1938, but they failed."  Based on this, Wei Lihuang quickly grew his military strength to 260,000, and even made Zhongtiao Mountain so impregnable that it was known as the "Maginot Line of Defense in the East"!  But the problem is that when Tada Shun called, Wei Lihuang was in Mount Emei - this famous general in the military sequence was called the "China Tiger General" by the Japanese because he refused to agree with him some time ago.  Lao Jiang went to cause friction with the Communist Party, and with his growing strength, he was deeply feared by Lao Jiang. He found an excuse to trick him into going to Chongqing to report on his work, and then he was placed under house arrest on Mount Emei.  In other words, when Jun Tada came over, the situation on Mount Nakajo was leaderless.  In addition, because of the need to blockade Zhongtiao Mountain, the Japanese army had three divisions stationed outside Zhongtiao Mountain for a long time.  As a result, once Shun Tada arrived, the strength of the Japanese army quickly increased by nearly double, with the strength of nearly five divisions.  And everyone thought that Tada Shun was going for Hu Zongnan, and Zhongtiao Mountain was completely unprepared.  Therefore, when the Japanese army launched an attack, the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain were caught off guard. Within three days, they broke through the core defensive position of Zhongtiao Mountain and surrounded its two main armies.  Then, Tada Shun quickly launched a fierce attack.  With the Yellow River at its back, the Chinese Army had no way to retreat. Except for a few breakouts, most of them collapsed In this battle, more than 30,000 people of the Chinese Army were captured, more than 40,000 were killed, and more than 100,000 troops were lost;  The Japanese killed less than a thousand people and injured more than 2,000.  Not to mention, in order to return to Yoshio Shinozuka in time, Tada Shun ordered the killing of prisoners after the battle. More than 30,000 Japanese prisoners were massacred in Nakajo Mountain After that, Tada Shun left two  The brigade continued to sweep through the Zhongtiao Mountains, and then led the rest of the troops to attack the Taiyuan area.  When Hu Zongnan heard about it, he quickly changed his defense to retreat.  After learning that Hu Zongnan had withdrawn, Fu Zuoyi's troops, who were besieging Datong, had to retreat to Sui Sui.  ¡­ ¡°What a shame, what a shame! This is truly the greatest shame in the history of the Anti-Japanese War¡ª¡ª¡± Zhongtiao Mountain was defeated miserably, and the entire war lasted less than five days!  When the news spread, the whole country was shocked.  The mood of the people who were originally full of confidence in the prospect of war due to a series of victories fell to the bottom in an instant, even lower than before.  Faced with such a situation, Chiang Kai-shek was furious: "What are you doing standing here? What are you doing -? Do you still have the nerve to stand here?" Facing He Yingqin, Zhang Zhizhong, Chen Cheng and others standing in front of him, he looked at  They lowered their heads and looked like they were being trained obediently. Chiang Kai-shek was even more angry and wanted to eat people: "You are all senior generals of the Communist Party of China, and you are all my buttocks. Now Tada Shun bullies me that there is no one in China, and treats me as dozens of people."  If there is nothing left for the tens of thousands of troops, what should we do? " "Commissioner, the student believes that we should immediately send people to Nakajo Mountain to regroup the scattered troops before Tada Shun and Shinozuka Yoshio are unable to look back.  Then, take back the lost ground." Chen Cheng sighed secretly and took a step forward.  "Where are there any troops in Zhongtiao Mountain now?" He Yingqin couldn't help snorting.  When Tada Shun attacked Nakatiao Mountain, all departments in Nakatiao Mountain fought independently and were unable to formulate a combat plan in time. As the Minister of Defense, he could only command remotely.  But even if he tried his best, he still couldn't stop the army's defeat.  He is even more pessimistic about the present and future of Zhongtiao Mountain.  But Chen Cheng actually said he wanted to take it back?  Isn't this a slap in the face?  "I don't know whether it was luck or misfortune. Before Tada Jun launched the attack, we transferred Sun Weiru's Fourth Army away from Zhongtiao Mountain The Fourth Army is known as the 'Iron Pillar of Nakatiao Mountain' and has extraordinary combat effectiveness. Tada Jun is now  They are anxious to clean up the mess in Shanxi, leaving only two brigades there. If Sun Weiru is transferred back at this time, there is still a good chance of regaining control of Zhongtiao Mountain," Chen Cheng replied.    "If we really want to counterattack, it's best to pull the troops together." Zhang Zhizhong frowned, "Otherwise, Sun Weiru alone may not be able to cope with Tada Shun's counterattack. The Japanese are now concentrated in Shanxi  "Seven divisions have been formed!" "Give Zhu De an order to let the army cooperate with the army We must not let Jun Tada be so arrogant!"
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