Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 557 The infamous Edition Heng Division!
Early morning on November 11th!
Zhou Weiguo drove the troops out of the east gate in a neat four-way column with his troops.

More than 30 trucks full of supplies fell behind the team.

When the people met in the early morning, they talked a lot, because this was the most organized army they had seen these days.And the guy in every soldier's hand is the most advanced German equipment.

There are more soldiers coming and going in Nanjing City, and the common people have begun to be clear about these various weapons.

At this time, even a discerning person saw the number of the unit and said in surprise: "The 87th Division belongs to the 87th Division's unit."

"The 87th Division is a direct-line unit. What do I say, the equipment is so good? All German-style equipment?"

"Wait, what's behind that? Is that the gendarmerie?"

"It's an independent regiment of the Third Gendarmerie Brigade."

"My dear, isn't the independent group the team of the legendary Dragon Boat Festival? How did they get together with the 87th Division?"

"Tsk tsk, this is called a strong alliance!"

"Yes, yes, you see that there are quite a lot of people here, at least more than 1000 people."

"Look, there are cannons in the back, eight of them? Grandma's must be fighting a big battle!"

"Yes, the little devil who killed Te Niang!"

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The common people talked a lot, but at this moment, no one dared to strike up a conversation.

Because obviously, this is a well-equipped and well-trained army and those stragglers are completely different concepts.

They all have murderous looks in their eyes, which makes the enemy terrified when they see it, so let alone these ordinary people.

But they looked at such a troop with peace of mind.Because there is such a force, can the little devil really hit Nanjing?

At this time, all the common people watched them and prayed for them in their hearts, hoping that they could kill more devils and return triumphantly as soon as possible.

Of course, this is because the common people don't know the tragedy of the battlefield ahead.Just last night, the battle near the Jiangyin Fortress was basically over, and only some areas in Shanxi had not been captured by the devils.

The Fifth Division of the Japanese Army also launched a crazy attack on the Changzhou area, and many defense lines around Changzhou have fallen.

In this regard, the injured Master Huo of the 112th Division and He Zhizhong of the 103rd Division had a headache.

Needless to say, He Zhizhong could only carry out orders, but when he saw the menacing Japanese army, he was even a little timid.However, there was an order from the Dragon Boat Festival before, and it was impossible to retreat.What's more, there is still Master Huo of the 112th Division sitting in the town.

Master Huo looked at the military map and felt that something was wrong. The fifth division of the Japanese army was very fierce.It took less than a day to occupy Fangshan, Xiayang Town, Beimo Town and several other important lines of defense.

Master Huo predicted that in the afternoon of the 30th, the Japanese forward troops would arrive at the Womachuan position [-] miles outside Changzhou.The Battle of Changzhou may start at any time.

He Zhizhong and Master Huo said: "Now we are short of troops, and there are only two regiments in the Womachuan position, and there is no artillery as support. It will not last long at all."

Master Huo said nothing, how could he not know that the Womachuan position was short of troops, and there was no artillery support?

But at this time, he simply couldn't draw more troops.

In the battle of Jiangyin Fortress, the 112th Division suffered heavy losses, and the 103rd Division also suffered casualties.Afterwards, the forces of the two divisions lost their effectiveness because of the Dongshan Fort and the Eshan Fort. The original garrison took over the Huangshan Fort, and the Xishan Fort continued to deal with the Japanese army.The 112th Division of Master Huo and the 103rd Division of He Zhizhong jumped out of the encirclement in time and deployed with the original garrison troops on the front line of Changzhou.

But I didn't want the Japanese army to transfer the elite Fifth Division.

This Fifth Division is not only powerful but also very brutal.

After encountering tenacious resistance from the defenders when attacking Lingqiu in Shanxi, the Fifth Division had nowhere to vent its grievances and extended its claws to the unarmed civilians.

After occupying Lingqiu City in Shanxi Province, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division closed the city gates tightly and carried out a large-scale search and arrest of the whole city. They collectively shot and killed 600 residents in Dayun Temple, Nai Nai Temple and other places.The Japanese army also gathered women together and committed mass violence, and the rebels were killed on the spot.

After that, the Japanese army arrested people every day and killed more than 400 residents.The Japanese army carried out massacres in various parts of Lingqiu County, killing more than 100 villagers, old and young, in Donghean Village, more than 30 villagers in Xiaozhai Village, and more than 20 villagers in Guangou Village and Tangzhiwa Village.

Immediately afterwards, the Fifth Division created the tragic Meihua Town tragedy in Hebei.

The Fifth Division turned to attack all parts of Hebei on October 10, killing, burning, prostitution and looting wherever they went, doing all kinds of evil.

When the two brigades of the division attacked Meihua Town in Gaocheng, they suffered another setback. About 5000 Japanese troops surrounded Meihua Town at dawn on the 12th, causing the tragic Meihua Town tragedy.

While killing people in various places in the town, the Japanese army arrested young and middle-aged people and shot them with machine guns, filling the puddles with corpses.At the same time, the Japanese army also forcibly dragged more than 100 young women they had captured to the Fenfang compound in the town, where they were brutalized collectively, and then cut off their organs and opened their abdomens, killing them one by one.

On the 13th and 14th, the Japanese army pushed 62 people including farmer Zhang Li into a blank pit and buried them alive. They tied more than 200 young and middle-aged people to the open space outside the east gate, stabbed them to death with bayonets in batches, or poured gasoline on them, and burned them alive. Cut off the head and throw it into a puddle.

They tied more than 200 women and children to the wall of the Nanmen Village and questioned the whereabouts of the Chinese army.Seeing that the people were silent, the Japanese army pulled out four little girls, cut them in half, and shot all the women and children to death.

The atrocities of the Japanese army continued until the evacuation at noon on the 15th.In this village and town with 550 households and 2500 people, 1547 people were killed and 46 households were exterminated. It was recorded as the Meihua Town tragedy comparable to the Nanjing tragedy.

Therefore, the heinous crimes committed by the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army are simply too numerous to describe. No Chinese soldier would tolerate such a force wreaking havoc on Chinese territory.

And precisely because of this, Master Huo didn't want the tragedy to happen again in Changzhou.

He is evacuating people in Changzhou, including Baijia Town, which is adjacent to Changzhou.

Baijia Town is not as big as Changzhou, and its permanent population is only 4000.But Mr. Huo felt that if the little devil suffered a disadvantage in Changzhou, he would definitely not let it go there.So he ordered a battalion of soldiers to reinforce there and evacuate the people in the city.

It's just that Mr. Huo didn't know that Ban Hengzheng Shiro of the Fifth Division also happened to notice this town.

He ordered the 21st Infantry Regiment to quietly bypass Womachuan and capture Baijia Town.

Although Baijia Town has little strategic significance, it can threaten Changzhou's supply line.Once Baijia Town falls, the 21st Regiment of the Japanese Army can not only divide its forces to attack the flanks of the Changzhou defenders, but also cut off the retreat of the Changzhou defenders at any time.

And once the retreat is cut off, the Changzhou defenders will be in chaos.

Without supplies and unable to retreat, Changzhou is a dead city. Even an iron-clad army will be demoralized by it!
But the battle at Womachuan has not yet started. Master Huo never expected that the Japanese army would build plank roads to cross Chencang secretly, and Baijia Town is in danger! .
(End of this chapter)