Glorious Mission 1937

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The North China Front Army Command did not have a detailed plan for how to deal with Chen Feng's attack. On the one hand, it was because Chen Feng's attack was relatively sudden, which caught the Japanese army by surprise; The telegram strictly forbids them from having large-scale conflicts with Chen Feng's troops, in case the war on the Chinese battlefield affects the Japanese army's southward plan.

When Lieutenant General Kimura Heitaro, head of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in southern Hebei, reported the front-line battle report to the North China Front Army Command, Tada Jun ordered the nearby Japanese mixed 6th Brigade to go south to reinforce Handan urgently. On the other hand, the 32nd Division was ordered to prevent Chen Feng's troops from going south.

Tada Hayao also recognized the analysis of Lieutenant General Naozaburo Kobe, so he ordered the No. 12 Army of the North China Front Army to pay special attention to the actions of the Tuba Road to avoid being attacked by the Tuba Road.At the same time, the analysis of Lieutenant General Naozaburo Kobe was sent to the No. 12 Army Command of the Japanese Army, allowing them to formulate their own combat plans according to the actual situation, and do everything possible to severely damage the Tuba Road.

Although Naozaburo Kobe's analysis made sense in many aspects, he didn't know that the reason why Chen Feng only sent one infantry division to the south was not because of the assistance of the second theater and the first theater, but mainly because of his concern for his subordinates. The trust of the troops, he believed that this force alone would be enough to sweep south of Hebei.

This was not due to Chen Feng's arrogance, but based on his understanding of the troops under his command and the establishment of the various Japanese troops.A reorganized division in the eighth war zone has more than 5 people, plus armored divisions, artillery brigades, and fighter brigades that cooperate in combat.The total strength is nearly [-] people.

As far as Chen Feng knew, the Japanese army stationed in southern Hebei only had one field division and one mixed brigade, plus some gendarmerie, there were no more than 2 people.Although there are still more than 2 puppet troops, in Chen Feng's view, those three puppet divisions are not as powerful as the three reinforced battalions under his command, so they only count half of the Japanese divisions, that is to say, they are stationed The Japanese army in southern Hebei had only two field divisions.

Chen Feng knew about the divisional organization of the Japanese army. The divisional organization of the Japanese army was the smallest strategic organization for the Japanese army's foreign operations, and it was also the largest tactical organization.When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the Japanese army had seventeen permanent divisions as the standing army of the Japanese army.The so-called permanent divisions are four-unit divisions.That is to say, the division has two brigades, the brigade has two infantry regiments, the infantry regiment has three infantry brigades, and the brigade has four infantry squadrons, one machine gun squadron (eight heavy machine guns), and one artillery brigade. Squad (two 70mm infantry guns).

日军的一个师团会有4个步兵联队、一个炮兵联队、一个辎重联队、一个工兵联队、一个骑兵联队以及其他部队。总兵力28000余人。装备有一万六千余支长短枪、280挺轻重机枪、36门中等口径的火炮、40门迫击炮。这样的师团是日军最最精锐的野战师团。其战斗力也极为强悍。[

At the beginning of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, most of the Japanese divisions that attacked China were like this, such as the Third Division that attacked Shanghai, the Fifth Division that attacked North China, the Sixth Division that attacked Central China, and the Tenth Division. !It can be said.At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army defeated the National Government's 17 divisions and 25 million troops with only 200 permanent divisions and less than 190 troops.

However, with the expansion of the scale of the war, the Japanese army felt that its strength was stretched, so it re-established the 18th and [-]th new permanent divisions, and formed a group of special divisions.The so-called ad hoc divisions refer to units composed of reserve personnel of the permanent divisions, and their numbers are the numbers of the permanent divisions and regiments plus one hundred.

Since then, due to combat consumption, and the Japanese army felt that the four-unit division was inconvenient to move, they came up with two formations: the three-unit division and the independent mixed brigade.The three-unit division is organized as an infantry regiment under the division, three infantry regiments under the infantry regiment, and three infantry brigades and an infantry artillery squadron (four infantry artillery) under the regiment.The artillery squadron of the infantry brigade, the artillery wing consisted of 24 mountain or field artillery pieces, the cavalry wing was changed to a search wing, and other logistics units such as supplies and engineers were also greatly reduced, with a staff of 12800.The independent mixed brigade has jurisdiction over five infantry brigades, an artillery team, a communications team, an engineering team, and a delivery team, etc., with a total number of about 5000 people.The infantry brigade has jurisdiction over three infantry squadrons and a machine gun squadron (four heavy machine guns), and the artillery team has jurisdiction over a mountain artillery squadron and two field artillery squadrons.Both of these units are mainly used for defensive purposes, and also have small-scale field combat capabilities.

After more than three years of war, the Japanese army consumed a huge amount both in terms of material and personnel. Therefore, most of the Japanese army divisions on the Chinese battlefield are small divisions of this kind of three units.It is precisely because of this understanding that Chen Feng will use an infantry division, an armored division and two artillery brigades to attack southern Hebei. Regardless of the number of divisions of the Japanese army attacking southern Hebei, the number of divisions is less than that of the Japanese army, but the soldiers and firepower are not inferior at all. , In addition, the aviation of the North China Front Army has not recovered since it was defeated by the Northern Air Force last time.

Most importantly, Chen Feng believed that it was impossible for the Japanese to manufacture fighter jets with more advanced performance than the J-5 and J-6 fighters in a short period of time.As a military officer of later generations, Chen Feng is well aware of the importance of air supremacy. Without air supremacy, the ground troops are a living target. In addition, the firepower and soldiers of the ground troops are far less than Chen Feng's, so Chen Feng judges that the Japanese army is not Xu Fufu at all. Other opponents.

Chen Feng's judgment was correct at all. Since Xu Fufufu's troops launched the attack on November 11, Xu Fufufu divided his 5-odd troops into three. An armored regiment.This army attacked southward along Shimen, passing through Yuanshi County, Zanhuang County, and Gaoyi County along the way, and then went straight to Handan, Xingtai.

The second route was commanded by Hu Tiesheng, with an infantry brigade and an armored regiment under his jurisdiction. This army went out of Shimen and went straight to Zhao County, Ningjin, and then went straight to Zhinan Palace.

The third route is commanded by Liu Li, which has an infantry brigade, an artillery brigade and an armored regiment under its jurisdiction. Refers to Hengshui and Wuqiang.

Because Chen Feng's troops were attacking very fast and launched attacks in three directions at the same time: due east, due south and southeast, the Japanese army was caught off guard.Lieutenant General Kimura Heitaro, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in southern Hebei, always thought that Chen Feng's troops would go out of Shimen all the way to the south, so their focus of defense was also in the south, so they were caught off guard by Chen Feng's troops.

In just one day, Chen Feng's troops captured Yuanshi County, Zhao County, and Zanhuang County where the Japanese army was stationed, and the soldiers pointed directly at Gaoyi County, the northern gateway of Xingtai.The Japanese infantry brigade stationed in Yuanshi County lasted less than three hours and suffered more than half of the casualties, and had to withdraw from the battle. As for the Japanese infantry squadron stationed in Zhao County, they fled without firing a single shot. The defenders were quite strong. An infantry brigade plus a puppet infantry brigade blocked an infantry brigade and an artillery brigade under Xu Fufu's command outside Zanhuang County for 9 hours. The combat effectiveness was really good.

However, due to the delay in the arrival of reinforcements, the Japanese commander, Major Iijima, was extremely depressed, and had to retreat after holding on for 9 hours.

At 11 o'clock in the morning on November 6, the First Route Army under the command of Xu Fufufu was approaching the city of Gaoyi, but before Xu Fufufu's troops arrived, more than 30 main forces of the No.8000 Second Division of the Japanese Army and more than [-] puppet troops had already After entering Gaoyi, the two sides confronted each other in Gaoyi County, and the war was imminent.

In Hengshui, Liu Li also encountered a strong enemy. The Japanese mixed sixth brigade had already entered Hengshui before Liu Li's troops arrived in Hengshui. The two sides fought fiercely around the positions outside Hengshui. stage, start a comprehensive upgrade. (to be continued...)