Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 1531 Ending (2)

In the blink of an eye, 8 months have passed!

In these eight months, China's domestic war situation has undergone a fundamental reversal. Due to the Battle of Hengyang, the Japanese army not only failed to realize their desire to open up the mainland's communication line, but even failed to secure Tanzhou, which they had captured.

Led by the commander surnamed Xue, the 9th War Zone, with the remaining power of victory in the Hengyang Defense Battle, assembled 5 group armies and 4 infantry corps with a total of about 260,000 troops, and counterattacked Tanzhou in early December. It had lost most of its combat power. Although the Japanese 11th Army was supplemented by two divisions from Japan's North China Front, its combat strength was less than 150,000. Coupled with the complete loss of air superiority, it had no choice but to abandon Tanzhou and retreat.

Most of Hunan Province returns to Chinese control!

In February 1945, although it was freezing cold in northern China, under the careful planning of the Second Theater Command, the Fourth and Fifth Group Armies located on the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line, with a total of about 100,000 people, joined the 80th Group Army. With the cooperation of five infantry regiments, they marched from southern Shanxi to central Shanxi, broke through three lines of defense of the Japanese North China Front, recovered 18 county towns, and directed their troops towards the original city.

The 683rd Brigade and the Jinnan Guard Brigade, the main infantry brigade of the 80th Group Army located in Hebei Province, once again showed their sharp fangs. They gathered more than 50,000 troops and launched an offensive from southern Hebei. They even defeated Handan and Xingtai, the two most core areas in southern Hebei. City.

The 4th Division of the Japanese North China Front Army stationed in southern Hebei was almost defeated in one blow. In just three days, southern Hebei was completely destroyed. The entire southern Hebei was completely controlled by the Chinese and completely separated from the Taihang Mountains. In one piece.

However, Lieutenant General Okuma Konosuke, who had just been promoted to the commander of the 4th Division, miraculously did not receive any harsh criticism despite this defeat.

Although this man is a smart man, he works closely with many senior officials of the Front Army Headquarters, and he has the support of the North China Front Army Headquarters. The most important reason may be that the Japanese North China Front Army also believes that this is not a war. sin!

As early as December 1944, with the return of the Sixth Army, the Eightyth Army, which occupied huge bases in Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces, no longer concealed its strength and showed off its muscles from time to time.

It was not until then that the Japanese North China Front discovered in horror what kind of behemoth the 'Tuba', which they had always looked down upon, had developed into a behemoth in the past few years.

It was a military group with hundreds of thousands of troops, and they were an army with 150-caliber heavy artillery, highly capable direct-aimed artillery, and a large number of equipped mortars of various calibers. This was by no means what they imagined. The only army in the country is a country bumpkin army armed with rifles and machine guns.

After years of wretched development, the Taihang Military Factory finally ushered in its most glorious moment in this era.

Although it was impossible to announce its production capacity at this time due to confidentiality, declassified files 15 years later clearly recorded that before entering 1945, the Taihang Military Factory already had 4,800 employees.

In terms of production capacity, the monthly output is 1.8 million rounds of bullets of various types; 10,000 firearms of various types; 600 60-caliber mortars and 30,000 shells; 200 120-caliber mortars and 10,000 shells; 30 75-caliber mountain guns and 6,000 shells ;More than 50,000 explosives such as mines, grenades, and explosive packets.

Powerful military manufacturing has given the Eightyth Army the greatest confidence. Now that they have chosen to flex their muscles before the Japanese giant ship is about to sink, I am afraid that it will not be seen more by the Japanese who are fighting between the two groups, but by other groups. People watch.

After all, even the American five-star general, the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East, couldn't help but open his eyes wide after seeing the strength shown by Chinese allies from another part of China in the newspaper.

"Niang Xipi!" Someone yelled in his small living room.

"Baga!" Shimomura Sadaya, the newly appointed commander of Japan's North China Front, had cold sweat on his forehead.

Not counting the more than 200,000 people on the Taihang Mountain side of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Eighty Group Army alone, which was spread around the city where the Imperial Army was stationed, could swamp it with its huge force.

Abandoning southern Shanxi and eastern Shanxi and shrinking its troops to stick to the original city is the strategic deployment made by the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters in response to China's actions in Shanxi Province. The 13th Division and 4 mixed brigades in the city fought to the death with 50,000 Japanese troops.

However, in Ji Province, facing the brutal attack launched by the 80th Group Army and the Jinan Guard Brigade, the Japanese North China Front could only watch helplessly as the 4th Division retreated rapidly.

Although the Japanese troops stationed in eastern Hebei and northern Hebei continued to receive requests for help from friendly forces in southern Hebei, they did not dare to step out of the city gates.

There was no need for reconnaissance. Even a fool knew that the main force of the Eightyth Army might be waiting for them on the side of the road, and then they would eat them all in one bite without spitting out their bones.

It has long been an old story that an infantry brigade can fight against a Chinese infantry division. After the First World War at Zishan, there was a clear comparison between the strength of the Japanese North China Front and the enemy and ours.

Leaving aside the top ace infantry regiments like the Si Xing Regiment, let’s talk about the main infantry brigade in the Eighty Group Army. They must at least use a division level of equivalent strength to fight against it. If they fight against its three main infantry divisions, That is a battle at the field army level.

Even if it is an inferior local armed force, because the opponent is equipped with a sufficient number of light machine guns and rifles starting from at least 38 rifles, at least one infantry squadron must be mobilized.

To put it bluntly, in the countless contact battles in the past few years, the Japanese army did not dare to step out of the city gate unless they dispatched an infantry brigade plus a security barracks to provide support.

The approaching Japanese army did not dare to support them, and the entire Japanese army divisions hundreds of miles away were still lining up to set off. The 4th Division was completely defeated. It ran 300 miles in three days and completely lost southern Hebei Province. .

It was not appropriate for the Chinese side to chase down the remaining bandits and kill them all. The regular army quickly entered the city, calmed the citizens, and liquidated those who surrendered to the enemy in the city. It was no longer like before, even if they conquered the county, they would just transport all the Japanese military supplies. Leave, this is obviously going to be permanent.

What that person is thinking is no longer important. What is important is that the Eightyth Army has shown its muscles to the entire Chinese people. After dormant for several years, they can single-handedly push back the North China Plain and rescue the people in the enemy-occupied areas. In water and fire.

Because of the recovery of southern Hebei, the U.S. Ambassador to China sent a congratulatory message to the senior officials of the 80th Group Army to congratulate them on their outstanding contributions to the war to eliminate fascism.

This is a real congratulation, but also a warning to some people's thoughts.

As the Allied forces landed in Normandy, the Bear Nation entered the border of the Germanic Empire from the east. The Germanic Empire was already declining and was not far from defeat. Now the main opponent of the Allied forces was Japan. In order to end the war as soon as possible and reduce losses, senior American officials It doesn't matter if someone is angry or crazy, the enemy of the enemy is an ally. Over the years, the Eightyth Army has also received a lot of arms support from the Americans.

That person was naturally a smart man. He knew that if the Eightyth Army dared to show off its muscles at this juncture, it would naturally capture the minds of the top leaders of the United States. Those blue eyes would not consider the future of the Chinese people, but only themselves.

The 80th Army's deliberately exposed biceps made the Mao Xiong people, who had been strongly supporting China to reduce the pressure on their north, quietly change their minds.

The Japanese Army base camp was greatly shaken, but at this time they could no longer care about the Chinese theater. The Allied forces had fully occupied Guam, and in February 1945, they were about to launch the battle for Iwo Jima, with their troops directed at the area closest to the Japanese mainland. Okinawa.

The Japanese may not know that the upcoming extremely **** Battle of Iwo Jima finally made the top leaders of the United States determined to use Fat Man bombs to resolve Japan's will to resist.

The tragic Japan will become the first nation on the planet to enjoy the fat bomb!

However, in this garrison brigade battle, the independent regiment, which is its top trump card, has remained on hold.

The independent regiment, which was adapted from the Si Xing Regiment, did not rush to replenish its establishment in the past few months when it returned to Dakouzidong Town for rest. Instead, it trained new recruits in battalions and companies, with no intention of fighting externally.

Perhaps only the senior leaders of the Jinan Guard Brigade know that the independent regiment can transform into a powerful army with more than 9,000 personnel at any time.

Because the recruits who are being trained were 5,000 selected from tens of thousands of young people who voluntarily signed up to join the army in base areas such as Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces in mid-1943. They have been training for more than a year. Among them, Most of them have even participated in small battles. It is not so much training as training, in order to quickly integrate with the independent group in the past few months. Tang Dao's injuries improved greatly a month after returning to Dakouzidong Town, and he was able to move freely. However, he may have suffered a head injury, but he was still recovering from his injuries.

Tang Dao even resigned from the military position of the leader of the independent regiment and was replaced by Leng Feng. Even the director of the Jinan Administrative Office was still held by the prince who had resigned and was transferred back to the mountain city. He stayed in Dakouzidong Town every day, doing nothing. When he was not having a drink with his old comrades, he would be running around the mountains and rivers in Tangshan River with his hammer and Guaiguai on his back, and he rarely participated in military affairs.

This is actually what some people want to see. Now that the 80th Army has become more mature, if Tang Dao appears on the battlefield with the independent regiment again, it may be like the last straw that breaks the camel's back, leading to a certain People have some stress reactions, which is not what Tang Dao wants to see.

Tang Dao also completely relaxed himself in these few months. He knew very well that it was only half a year before the end of the war, and the independent regiment happened to use this time to train veterans and recruits and adapt to various new equipment.

The infantry equipment is basically the same as the old three, an assault rifle imitating the 56 submachine gun, the squad machine gun uses a 'lawn mower', the company and platoon level heavy machine gun uses a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, the anti-armor weapons are mainly anti-tank rifles, and the squad forced machine gun is used. Cannon fire is still 60%;

But the artillery has been updated, completely abandoning the black and bulky 150-caliber mortar, and replacing it with a 120-mm mortar imitating the Type 64.

The range of this mortar is almost as high as that of a 75mm mountain gun, with an effective range of more than 5,000 meters, which generally meets actual combat needs; the shells are very suitable for killing personnel. For enemy troops standing without protection, the killing radius of 120mm shells is as high as 35 meters; the fastest artillery The rate of fire is 15 rounds per minute, which can effectively form fire coverage, carry out tactical bombardment, and also cover group targets.

At the same time, the gun has a certain ability to attack difficult problems, because the shell charge is more than 1 kilogram, which can effectively destroy the enemy's field defenses.

In addition, the weight of this complete gun is reduced to 174 kilograms. After being disassembled into three parts, each part weighs less than 60 kilograms on average, which greatly reduces the artillery load.

Calculated based on the fact that the artillery battalion has basically been transformed into mules and horses, an artillery squad of 15 people can completely carry 90 artillery shells independently. A heavy forced company of 12 artillery squads can completely complete two rounds of firepower coverage against the enemy without any logistics. , this efficiency is at least twice that of the previous 150 mortars.

The mountain artillery battery was also completely eliminated and replaced by two 'Storm' rocket launcher batteries, each equipped with nine nine-round rocket launchers.

The nine rocket launchers have proven how ferocious their firepower is in actual combat during the Hengyang Defense Battle. If two rocket launcher companies and 18 rocket launchers concentrated fire, almost no infantry would survive without the protection of perfect fortifications.

Everyone could only see the Si Xing Tuan, a ferocious beast that the Japanese feared, retracting into its lair to lick its wounds after the battle, but little did they know that this ferocious beast that had returned from recovery would become even more terrifying.

For many years to come, that man regretted letting the Four Lines Regiment return to North China. As a result, the Taihang Independent Detachment that appeared on the battlefield a year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War was invincible. Even the famous 74th Division changed their expressions upon hearing this!

Of course, the most unlucky one was not that one. During the Battle of the Icefields, when the two battalions of the 8th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division were completely wiped out, it was the Major General of the 1st Cavalry Division who had served as Patton’s chief of staff who knew their opponent. That's it.

It was an infantry division formed based on the 3rd Regiment of the Taihang Independent Detachment and the 3rd Battalion of the original Sihang Regiment. When it first arrived at Yunshan, it directly broke the wrist of the 1st Cavalry Division, the leader of the five ace divisions of the US Army.

When Li Jijin, the top commander of the battle, heard about his opponent's name on the battlefield, he said: "He is the ace, and I am the king of kings, the ace that can defeat the sun!"

In this battle, the two sides fought one division against another. China's top light infantry division took advantage of the mountainous terrain to fight against the American heavy armored division. It annihilated 2,300 enemies at the cost of 1,500 casualties, directly silencing the American five-star general. .

The Chinese not only appeared on the ice sheet, but as soon as they arrived, they were the ace troops.

In the past, the Japanese kept getting injured in front of the Chinese ace unit, and he thought it was the Japanese. But now he found that it was not the Japanese who were doing it, but that the ace unit was too strong.

But in response to Weiguo's call to go to the ice field, is it not just this ace troop? The Chinese army, which has carved a niche for itself after 20 years of war, may not be ranked among the best in the world in terms of equipment, but in terms of combat experience, it can really be ranked among the top three. The so-called aces cannot be counted with both hands and feet.

Midsummer in August!

On a summer night, the stars were shining brightly in the sky. Tang Dao looked up at the sky with a smile on his face!

"Abba, why are you laughing?" Tang Shanhe gently shook his father's finger.

"Shanhe, because I saw your uncles, aunts and uncles who died on the battlefield smiling at me." Tang Dao leaned down and picked up Tang Shanhe, pointing to the twinkling stars in the sky.

"You have to promise me that no matter how old you are, no matter how far you go in the future, you will never forget those uncles and aunts who died in this war!"

"Tang Shanhe, in the name of the ancestors of the Tang family, promises to my parents that when I grow up, get married and have sons, I will bring them here to report to them." Tang Shanhe formally raised his hands in his father's arms. ensure.

"Okay!" Tang Dao kissed his son's little face hard.

"By the way, Dad, yesterday I heard from Aunt Erya that Aunt Laura was coming here. The younger brothers and sisters in the kindergarten haven't eaten the chocolates that Aunt Laura often sends me. Can you ask Aunt Laura to bring more? "Is that so?" Tang Shanhe was a little embarrassed to make his request when he saw his father was rarely so happy.

Tang Dao's face froze slightly, and the corner of his eye glanced at Tantai Mingyue, who was sitting and resting with a big belly.

In the corner of his eye, he saw his wife looking like a smile but not a smile.

"Laura came here specifically to see the old man and grandma off! I heard that you were pregnant again, and grandma said that she must come to take care of you, otherwise she would feel bad. You know, without Laura's help , Shanhe’s grandparents can’t leave Sichuan Province,” Tang Da Tuanzuo, who was stabbed in the back by his precious son, quickly explained.

Who told his 'seriously injured number' to be injured for more than half a year? Since he chose to lie dormant, he was idle. With the joint efforts of the couple, wouldn't this cause another small problem? She's due to give birth in a month.

This time it must be a girl. Someone from Tang has even decided on a name, Tang Jibei.

"I didn't say anything, why are you so excited? Just continue to stay here and watch the stars and the moon!" Tantai Mingyue rolled her eyes at her husband who felt guilty for no apparent reason, stretched out her hand and stood up with the power of Tang Dao.

He smiled and looked at Tang Shanhe, who was still thinking about the delicious chocolate: "Shanhe, grandma is tired and has gone home. Your grandparents will be here in a few days. They must have brought you a lot of food."

"Yeah!" Tangshan River water flowed involuntarily from the corner of his mouth.

It wasn't until far away that I remembered that my father hadn't caught up with me, so I quickly turned around and shouted: "Abba, come and help my mother and sister!"

"Hey, it's coming, it's coming! Wife, be careful, be careful!" Tang Daona shouted as he ran as fast as he could, carefully holding his wife's arm.

Hammer and Guaiguai, who were following behind, quickly waggled their tails!

I don’t know if the boss means this, but it’s very similar. Let’s help him wag his tail to show off!

The whole drama ends!

PS: I finally finished the book. I wrote it for a long time today and was a little reluctant to let it go, but I finally typed the three words ‘the end of the play’.

There are many parts of this book that Feng Yue thinks are wonderfully written, but at the same time there are also many regrets. Perhaps the story, like life, is not as perfect. I would like to thank all the book friends for their support over the past three and a half years. Without your genuine subscription and As a reward, Fengyue cannot complete this nearly 6 million-word story. Fengyue strives to become better in the next book and correct some of the shortcomings that everyone has criticized.

In short, it’s time to say goodbye to this book. In the next 10 days, Fengyue will update a few extra chapters and write some short stories about the characters in the book.

The new book is expected to be written after the National Day, and it will basically be about military warfare. It will contain some famous military scenes such as the Anti-Japanese War and the Icefield War. As for how to write it, I will let Fengyue explain it. This can be regarded as another kind of Fengyue's view of the military. A breakthrough, ideally it will be launched on the Qidian Chinese website in mid-to-late November. I hope book friends will like it and support it!