Chapter 31 Wan Gu sounded

The Suzuki detachment did not go directly to Wanjialing to clear the siege, but adopted a tactic similar to "cut Wei and save Zhao", and attacked eastward along Wuyong Road (Wuning to Yongxiu) and its north side, facing the back of the Chinese First Corps. create a threat.Hearing the news, Xue Yue hurriedly mobilized some troops from Wanjialing, and went south to Wuyong Road to stop the Japanese army from advancing eastward. Tang Enbo once said frankly that the biggest problem of the Chinese army is the lack of mobility and attack power.Due to backward equipment and training, even if there are no mistakes in strategy and tactics, a Chinese division with strong combat effectiveness like the 51st Division can only barely draw with a Japanese regiment.Not to mention those with poor combat effectiveness, two or three regiments combined cannot defeat a Japanese regiment.

The troops transferred to the south were all weak brigades like the New 15th Division. Although they were not the main force in the Wanjialing Battle, and they did not wear much in the battle, it was not their ability to block the Suzuki Detachment and ensure the retreat of the First Corps. as far as possible.On the other hand, the remnants of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army were supplemented and strengthened, and the defensive area was reduced. On October 16, Xue Yue ordered the withdrawal of the siege, and all troops retreated to the defense line west of De'an.At this time, the Seventy-Fourth Army and other departments felt that they could not support it anymore, and began to retreat at dusk that day after receiving the order.I thought that the 106th Division of the Japanese Army would take advantage of the situation to launch a pursuit, but I didn't expect the opponent to be even more pitiful. Standing in Wanjialing, those two calves were soft as paper, so there was no need for any pursuit!

The 106th Division of the Japanese Army also retreated at the same time that night, running in opposite directions, thus forming a spectacle in the history of Chinese and foreign wars.After the 74th Army retreated that night, seeing that the Japanese army had not followed them, they sent a group of soldiers back to reconnaissance the next morning.When the soldiers returned to Wanjialing, they saw that the 106th Division of the Japanese Army had disappeared. They could only see weapons and corpses abandoned by the Japanese army everywhere, which showed their panic and embarrassment when they retreated.

At that time, the temperature had not yet dropped completely, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were already stinking. The battlefield smelled bad. Most of the Japanese weapons and guns collected were covered with dead maggots.For this reason, the headquarters of the First Corps made a special rule: Anyone who can pick up guns on the battlefield, regardless of whether they are soldiers or civilians, will be rewarded with ten yuan.But despite this, everyone is still reluctant to pick it up, because if you want to pick up a gun, you have to dig around in the pile of maggots for a long time, which is really disgusting.

On the way to retreat to Jiujiang, the 106th Division of the Japanese Army was blocked by a regiment that Xue Yue had pre-ambushed.The frightened Japanese army had no intention of resisting at all, and fled away without their heavy supplies and horses.Dongyang horses are known for their tall stature. Unlike the local horses in China, Chinese soldiers have never seen them before, so they went all over the mountains and fields to catch horses.After the war, more than 300 Japanese war horses were captured. "With a cry of ten thousand cubs, the corpses of Qianyue lie down. The bones of the battle are drenched in rain, and the blood of the plain flowers is splashed red." Although this battle failed to wipe out the 106th Division of the Japanese Army in its entirety, it still made more than half of it. The troops were all wiped out, and the four main wings to which it belonged and their subordinate troops were completely wiped out.In the areas swept by the Seventy-Fourth Army, the Cantonese Army and other ministries, if you use the tone of the storytelling, it is indeed "not leaving a piece of armor".

The First Corps only seized more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, more than 3,000 rifles, 16 mountain guns, 28 mortars, and countless documents and various military supplies.Even some ordinary people took their ideas from it. An old beggar on Serge Street once picked up the corpses of Japanese soldiers, got a handful of gold teeth, and made a small fortune. The Wanjialing victory also captured more than 100 Japanese soldiers, which was one of the largest number of captured Japanese soldiers in previous battles.A captured Japanese officer admitted: "This is an unprecedented bloody battle in the south of the Yangtze River. The Matsuura Division (that is, the 106th Division) was surrounded and wiped out, which is one of the major failures in the war of aggression against China."

Okamura has always been concerned about the disastrous defeat of the 106th Division in Wanjialing. He attributed the defeat to the division's low combat effectiveness.The 106th Division and the 6th Division, known as the most elite Japanese army, both came from South Kyushu, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.Okamura immediately wrote a letter to the country, asking people to tell the governors of Kumamoto and other four prefectures: "The Sixth Division has become the most powerful division in Japan, and the 106th Division has become the weakest division in Japan. !" Even without this harsh letter from Okamura, the situation of the Battle of Wanjialing had already spread in Japan.Everyone knows that the 106th Division fought badly, and the 101st Division, which is a special division, has been implicated. It seems that the 101st Division stood on the stage and shouted: "Who dares to be worse than me?" The 106th Division jumped out in time: "I dare!"

There is nothing worse, only the worst 106th Division has become stinky, and the common people in Japan seem to be able to express contempt and disdain for this division.The 106th Division, which had been beaten into an empty shell, needed a large number of new recruits. When those recruits heard that they were going to be assigned to the 106th Division, they all regarded it as a great shame, and all cried bitterly.