Age of Rebirth

Chapter 630 Blockade of Supply Lines

Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps used large-caliber artillery intensively in the repeated battles with the Japanese army outside Shijiazhuang, smashing the crazy attack of a Japanese armored brigade in one fell swoop, and wiped out the entire Japanese army. This blow completely wiped out the Japanese army. The Shijiazhuang front-line commander was completely hurt and stopped in a hurry. More than 1 Japanese soldiers could never return to their island country and died in a foreign country.

Tang Qiuli was very happy with the achievements of the Shijiazhuang outer battle. He issued an order to commend all the soldiers of the Sulu Mobile Corps. His own victory is the enemy's pain. Where is Ningji Okamura, the commander of the dispatched army? Ningji Okamura was extremely annoyed. And prepare the weapon.

He is mobilizing his troops to encircle Huangya Cave. The troops scattered all over the Taihang Mountains will take a certain amount of time to gather back. Besides, the troops have to deal with the constant harassment of flies-like independent division troops, which makes him more vigilant What's more, in the Taihang Mountains, a new army was discovered, the designation is the Eighth Route Army of the Nationalist Government, which belongs to the armed forces under the leadership of Mao Zedong.

This unit made Ningji Okamura even more troublesome. Their combat method is completely different from the style of the independent division, and it is also very different from the Central Army. The colors of the uniforms are also different, and the weapons they are equipped with are messy. The army is the greatest threat to the imperial army from all walks of life. The entanglement makes the troops restless and exhausted day and night. The combat awareness of its soldiers is not inferior to the troops of the independent division. Neji Okamura is sensitively aware that this army will In addition to Tang Qiuli's independent division, it became another strong enemy of the imperial army in North China. [

Okamura Ningji was reluctant to get the valuable strategic goal, and decided to completely kill Tang Qiuli's supply base regardless of the dangerous situation in Shijiazhuang and Pingjin. He sent an order to the Pingjin garrison to form another division to reinforce On the Shijiazhuang battlefield, after a few days of fierce fighting, the empire's troops were exhausted and were not enough to launch a fierce offensive. They had to increase their troops. Otherwise, it was still a question of whether they could persist until they returned to the army.

At the same time, give an order to the troops attacking the direction of Niangziguan, be sure to seize Niangziguan as soon as possible, cut off the independent division's troops on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, and withdraw to Shanxi. Since Tang Qiuli dared to take the risk of placing a large number of troops on the Jizhong Plain , created an opportunity for himself, and the plan to seize Niangziguan was to force the independent division troops on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang to withdraw. In this way, the crisis in Shijiazhuang and Pingjin could be solved easily. For the first time, the ancient Chinese strategy was used on the Chinese battlefield. Is there any suspicion of cheating?

Neiji Okamura still has a sharp sword in his hand. The newly formed North China Expeditionary Air Force, with more than 300 aircraft, is an unrivaled force in the sky of North China. He gave the air force an order to bomb, Constantly bombing the independent division positions outside Shijiazhuang, what cannot be obtained on the ground must be obtained from the air.

Not only that, he emphasized in his order to the Air Force that Tang Qiuli's supply base in the Taihang Mountains was already surrounded by the imperial army, and it was impossible to provide the necessary logistical support. The 10,000+ troops of the independent division outside Shijiazhuang, Where does the large amount of medicine and supplies consumed every day come from?try to find!If you find it, completely cut off the logistics supply line of the independent division, at any cost!

It must be admitted that Ningji Okamura is a very intelligent senior general of the Japanese army. He realized that there must be a smooth supply line to complete the supplies and medicines consumed by the large corps. The key to victory in the battle.

Japanese aircraft began to take off frequently. From April 38th, the positions of the Sulu Mobile Corps were raided by Japanese aircraft. [-] Japanese aircraft took off from Beiping and Tianjin Airports to bomb the front positions of the Independent Division. Immediately, The air defense brigade attached to the corps and the air defense regiments of the brigades launched a fierce counterattack. For a whole day, the fighting on the ground basically stopped. In the blue sky, except for the howling of Japanese aircraft, there were puffs of smoke blasted by anti-aircraft guns.

In the evening of the battle, the Japanese army dropped more than a dozen planes and hurriedly withdrew their troops. The Sulu Mobile Corps suffered a slight loss. The experienced air defense force changed its deployment according to the direction of the Japanese planes. The next day, more Japanese troops The planes rushed from the sky like locusts. This time, the Japanese planes did not take advantage. What awaited them were cannons exploding in the sky, anti-aircraft machine guns like fire whips, and the "Sky Eye" artillery sighting radar. More than [-] Japanese aircraft turned into fireworks in the sky, and more of them dragged black smoke, wailing and fleeing into the distance.

The huge loss shocked the commander of the Japanese Air Force, and hurriedly ordered all the planes to leave the theater and return to the airport. Okamura Ningji's attempt to blow up the Sulu Mobile Corps' positions by aviation went bankrupt. After experience, the Japanese planes no longer dared to bomb wildly with large fleets. At most, they used a few planes to make a sneak attack, dropped a bomb, and turned around and ran away. Even so, more than half of them were left behind by the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Sulu Mobile Corps. .

Afterwards, the attention of the Japanese Air Force in North China shifted to the transportation line of the Independent Division of the Communist Party of China. The transportation and supply line established by Zhou Yushan from Dingbian to Shijiazhuang, the capital of Taiyuan, was immediately targeted by the Japanese Air Force. The Japanese pilots were very happy Doing such a job, long transportation lines, no anti-aircraft fire that exploded all over the sky, chasing cars driving on the road, smashing him into a ball of fire, watching Chinese soldiers screaming in the flames, there is nothing safer and more exciting than this Mission gone.

Zhou Yushan’s transportation command center, the entire daytime transportation was restricted. In the most day, 39 cars were destroyed, 500-[-] tons of medicines and supplies were lost, and more than [-] people were injured or injured. It is the front-line troops of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and they can no longer fight any kind of grand battle. The firepower density has been reduced by half, but the Japanese attack has increased in intensity.

Especially the artillery, the artillery was supplied in a limited amount, and the Japanese artillery, who was suppressed and could not lift their heads, became proud again, and dared to provide artillery support to the attacking Japanese infantry. The situation encountered by the peripheral troops in Shijiazhuang was quickly reported to Tang Dynasty. Where is Qiuli, what he was worried about still happened.

It was a matter of time before the Huangyadong base was discovered by the Japanese army. Three brigades had already been deployed, and the division chief of staff, Chang Feng, personally commanded it. With the dangerous terrain and the permanent and perfect reinforced concrete fortifications, the Japanese army did not need to In the past two years, I couldn't move at all, so I didn't worry about it.

Only the transportation and supply line worried him. He didn't expect Neiji Okamura to think of it soon. He is really a cunning guy. The Japanese army attacking Niangziguan was beaten by the Eighth Route Army and Sun Zhenbang's troops. He lost his temper and was uncertain. When, on a calm road, a series of landmines would suddenly explode, and the forward progress would be no more than ten kilometers a day. When camping, one would not know when one would be hit by bullets or grenades shot in the dark.

According to the marching speed of the Japanese army, there is no one who will not be able to climb Guanshan in ten days or eight days. There is no need to worry about this direction. There is a plan. Tang Qiuli has never been able to make up his mind. The attack of the Japanese army's aircraft on the supply line required great risks. The Japanese army had more than 300 aircraft of various types in North China, and Le Yiqin only had less than forty aircraft. Ben'er made a bet, and if he lost all, it would affect his future plans.

Now, what Tang Qiuli holds in his hand is the letter of invitation from Le Yiqin, Liu Cuigang and all the pilots. Ever since the Japanese aircraft began to join the Shijiazhuang battlefield, Le Yiqin and the others have been guarding the radar room every day, looking at the display screen, The bright spots representing the Japanese aircraft appeared one by one, and then they ran to the fighter planes, dressed neatly, and waited for the commander to issue an order to attack.

Every day, the plane is filled with fuel, filled up, and parked on the take-off line to wait for orders. The mechanics maintain the plane almost spotless, and the pilots are even more geared up, holding back their energy. God will teach the little devil a lesson, and so on. For three days, there was no movement at all. The commander seemed to have forgotten that there was a group of winged people who were anxious to go to the battlefield.

Le Yiqin and the others couldn't bear it anymore. Several squadron leaders got together to discuss and felt that they should take the initiative to invite the battle. The division commander loved us too much and was reluctant to let us go to the battlefield. Waiting like this is not an option. Everyone brainstormed and wrote an impassioned letter. Tang Qiuli's hands were filled with the letter of invitation to fight, full of emotion and emotion, but it also posed a problem for him.

The air team's request for battle was in hand for two days, but the situation on the transportation and supply line from Dingbian to Shijiazhuang became more and more severe. The Japanese aircraft, which had not been hit by any attack, wantonly attacked Zhou Yushan's transportation convoy in the section from Taiyuan to Shijiazhuang. The anti-aircraft firepower assigned to the transport headquarters could not cover the hundreds of kilometers of transport lines at all.

A single Japanese aircraft dared to fight against the transport convoy. What was more serious was that two Japanese aircraft even crossed the Yellow River and entered the air defense fire control range of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone. A signal is enough to arouse Tang Qiuli's vigilance that Dingbian will become a key target of the Japanese North China Air Force. Once the city falls into a suspended air defense, all normal order in Dingbian will be disrupted. [

The various military enterprises that support the troops' operations will be greatly affected. As the strategic rear of all front-line combat troops of the independent division, the location of the fixed border is undoubtedly extremely important. This accidental incident prompted Tang Qiuli to make up his mind to use only Some air power attracted the sight and attention of the Japanese North China Air Force to the airspace around Pingjin.

Before Tang Qiuli issued combat orders to the air force, in order to ensure the safety of Jinan Airport, he transferred an air defense brigade to strengthen the ground air defense firepower around Jinan. Team.

(To be continued)