Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Small people can do big things (2)

Alone The 26th Army of Xiao Zhichu defending the Mufu mountain area is a strategic reserve army under the direct command of the Military Commission.It was originally a branch of the old Northwest Army. In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, the Great Wall once achieved "Xinglong Victory" and wiped out a brigade of the Japanese Kwantung Army in World War I, which is quite praised by the world. The problem is that no matter how powerful you are, you have to use it properly.One of the two divisions that attacked the Makufu Mountains was the Kumamoto Sixth Division, which was also a super-class unit in the Japanese army. With super-class against first-class, and two fighting one, the ending can be imagined.

Army commander Xiao Zhichu noticed that the main force of the Japanese army was encircling him, so he hurriedly called Xue Yue to report.Xue Yue was furious, "Why panic? Don't you fight back? If you lose ground, I'll kill you." Xiao Zhichu had no choice but to put down the phone and organize troops to defend. Speaking of Xiao Zhichu, not many young people today know that this sign has to be carried by his young master.Mr. Xiao, so is Xiao Yi.The four masters of modern martial arts novels, Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, and then him. I don't know if it's because the Xiao family itself has a mysterious atmosphere. God gave Dad Xiao a trick at a critical moment, otherwise, the 26th Army might not be able to last for a long time.

On September 21, a solar eclipse suddenly broke out in the Mufu mountain area.The Japanese are also very superstitious. Some people have never seen such a natural phenomenon in their entire lives, and their hands trembled in panic. This is the legendary Tengu eating the sun, when it was not good to eat, and now eating it, could it be that our actions violated the precepts, and Amaterasu God sent a bad omen? When a solar eclipse occurs, you can't see anything, and you can't fight.The solar eclipse ended, and the officers and soldiers of the two divisions became restless and did not dare to fight.

A day is wasted. On September 22, Anan intercepted the telegram again, and Xue Yue was urging an army to rush to the vicinity of Changsha—fast, fast, fast! ` This unit is the Seventy-fourth Army! Since the Battle of Shanggao, the Japanese have regarded the 74th Army as China's chief trump card - the "Tiger Force".The purpose of Anan's trip is not to occupy Changsha, but to eliminate the main force of the ninth war zone. Now that the opponent's ace has thrown himself into the trap, wouldn't it be just right! Anan immediately called the two divisions, asking them not to hesitate, to attack as soon as possible, so as to remove obstacles for the battle against the "Tiger Army".

After two days and two nights of fierce fighting, Xiao Zhichu's twenty-sixth army finally couldn't take it anymore and had to break out of the siege. Xue Yue's eyes were red, and he sent another army, and then he was defeated, and another army was sent, and then he was defeated. Xue Yue Corps fought fiercely with the Japanese army In less than ten days, the three main forces were defeated, and both the "permanent defense" and "flank tactics" were ineffective. However, Xue Yue wishfully believed that the time had come to annihilate the Japanese army north of Changsha, allowing the Seventy-fourth Army to Show your talents.

Xue Yue commanded the battle, unlike Luo Zhuoying who relied heavily on his staff.Starting from the chief of staff, the work that can be done for him is limited to copying telegrams and answering the phone, and the entire battle is under his single-handed control from beginning to end. There are pros and cons to this style of command.The advantage is that the response is quick, and when it is broken, it will be broken, and there is no sloppy and hesitant situation.The disadvantage is that good opinions are often not adopted in time to make up for their shortcomings. At that time, the 74th Army had arrived in Liuyang.Some people suggested that since the first three armies had collapsed, pocket formations like the Battle of Shanggao could no longer be carried out, and the Seventy-fourth Army alone would not be able to fight alone. It would be better to let it stop at Liuyang until the rest of the reinforcements arrived. Gather up all your strength and then punch out, you will be able to turn defeat into victory.

Xue Yue didn't listen, and Anan deciphered his telegram to the north of Changsha. who else can do On September 26, Anan received a battle report that the 3rd Nagoya Division, which entered the east of Changsha, was repelled by the Chinese army. The Nagoya Division is a standing division that participated in the Battle of Songhu, and it is not comparable to ordinary new divisions. How can it be said that if it is repelled, it will be repelled.Anan immediately realized that this must be the 74th Army that drove Sonobe from power. It's really hard to find a place to go through iron shoes, and it doesn't take much effort to get it.So here you are, finally found.

Anan swept away Xiao Zuo's frustration and became very excited. He quickly called his staff together and announced the news in public. From Okamura to Sonobe, they all suffered from the 74th Army, and when Anan took office, he had also heard the name of this army for a long time.These three people used various methods, including ground reconnaissance, aerial reconnaissance, and telegram deciphering, to determine the exact location of the 74th Army, but they couldn't find it. Before the Seventy-Fourth Army became a strategic army, it was already a mobile force in the Ninth Theater. Its garrison was not fixed, and it basically went wherever it was needed.After being upgraded to a strategic army, its whereabouts were even more erratic, and it was once included in the third war zone, so it was normal not to find it, but it was abnormal to find it.

Now that the Seventy-Fourth Army finally showed up, all the staff officers danced and danced.Everyone agreed that if the Seventy-Fourth Army could be wiped out, the trip would be worthwhile. Since everyone said so, Anan decided to concentrate all his forces against the 74th Army.While allowing the Nagoya Division to entangle the opponent, it also ordered the Kumamoto Division and the special forces directly under the army to move south quickly. All other tasks were put aside, and the most important thing was to eliminate the 74th Army. On September 27, Wang Yaowu and the main force of the Japanese army launched a confrontation face to face.

This was a really tough battle. The 74th Army had to travel long distances without even having time to breathe and build fortifications, so it had to fight with the opposing two standing divisions. Of course it was very passive. Within a day, half of the troops were wiped out.After the line of defense was breached, even Wang Yaowu was attacked by the Japanese cavalry regiment, and finally escaped by hiding in the woods by the roadside. Due to the commander's mistake, a strategic army with super combat effectiveness was defeated in this way, and the defeat was so miserable, it is very painful.

On September 28, the Japanese army invaded and occupied Changsha, and the so-called decisive battle north of Changsha completely came to naught. By this time, if there is no new turning point, Xue Yue will almost lose everything. Half of the turning point came from Chen Cheng.From September 27th, his Sixth War Zone began to storm Yichang. The Thirteenth Division called for help, but Anan couldn't sit still. The other half is that the purpose of the 11th Army's attack on Changsha was not to occupy it, so the road from Xinqianghe to Changsha was not repaired, and there were no military depots along the way that could be used for supplies. It has been three weeks since the Japanese army was assembled in northern Hunan. Not only did they carry less and less food and ammunition, but they were also exhausted. If they went deeper, the outcome might be unpredictable. On October 1, Anan issued a retreat order, and the Japanese army began to retreat, and the retreat was very fast. In this case, as long as the pursuit is successful, Xue Yue still seems to have a chance. But who do you want to chase after? The original mighty dragon is broken and injured. Even if he knows that there will be a lot of bargains waiting to be picked up, no one has the strength to get up again. At this moment, Xue Yue must have regretted all his intestines.If he had listened to the advice of his staff and hid the 74th Army behind his back, and exerted his strength at this time, the victory would have been within easy reach. Who else can do it? A man stood up, his name was Yang Sen. Chuanzhong fierce man Yang Sen, a native of Guang'an, Sichuan, was the commander-in-chief of the 27th Group Army at the time. Yang Sen is a fierce man, which can be explained by a series of extremely fierce statistics. The leader of the Sichuan warlords, most of them have wives and concubines, but no one can compare with Yang Sen.This brother is strictly demanding himself according to the standards of ancient emperors. The number of concubines is astonishingly large, and it is said that there are more than a hundred. The more wives, the more children, some of whom he doesn't even know.It is said that one year when he returned to Chongqing, a large group of children went to the pier to meet him. When Yang was interested, he picked the more well-behaved one and hugged him in his arms. The accompanying chief of staff was anxious and embarrassed. It turned out that the child was the only son of the chief of staff.People from Sichuan were made a laughingstock by this, and some people even made up a joke about "Yang Sen married his own daughter". After Yang Sen came to Taiwan in his later years, he continued to go on like this. He was ninety years old and married a seventeen-year-old concubine. World records - one is the age gap between the husband and wife, and the other is the birth of a child in old age. Yang Sen is also fierce. There was a report in the news of the Republic of China that in order to prevent soldiers from escaping, the Sichuan army had to make soldiers take off their pants at night. This was actually Yang Sen's army. What Yang Sen did was not entirely because he was afraid of the soldiers fleeing, but more because he was short of money and could not afford new military uniforms, and he was afraid that the soldiers would wear out their clothes while sleeping. But clothes have to be worn during the day, and tearing is inevitable, so Yang Sen thought of another trick. One day, he issued a notice, calling on everyone to change their customs, bid farewell to the old long gowns, and change to short gowns. As soon as the announcement came out, the gates of the city were immediately closed. As long as they saw someone wearing a long gown, the patrol team would take out the big scissors, click and cut your long gown into short clothes. To mend the tattered uniforms of his troops. Apart from his love of marrying his concubine, Yang Mengren is an example for Sichuan soldiers in other aspects. He does not smoke opium or gamble, and he is very strict in running the army. The "general with two guns" who holds a real gun and a bong in one hand is very different. One of his company commanders made a mistake and was dismissed on the spot. The other party refused to accept it, and when he left, he stepped on the floor and made a loud noise. The little company commander turned out to be so angry that against you, Yang Sen immediately stopped the company commander and asked loudly, "Are you unhappy?" The company commander poked his neck: "Report, I have always walked like this, this is a kind of soldier's spirit!" Yang Sen was very surprised: "You still have energy? Yes, then continue to be your company commander." Among the generals of the Sichuan Army, Yang Sen was known for being brave and good at fighting, so he was able to compete with Liu Xiang for hegemony in Sichuan. "Central Army No-name".The fierce Yang Sen enjoys the reputation of being good at fighting in Sichuan In the Battle of Songhu, Yang Mengren performed very well, and his Sichuan army once stood firm for four days and nights.In the trenches as deep as two meters, at the beginning, you have to tiptoe and step on the footwells to see the front, and when you hit the back, the corpses are stacked higher than the trenches, and then the officers and soldiers use this as a cover to continue fighting . By the time they withdrew from the Songhu battlefield, more than half of Yang Sen's 20th Army had suffered casualties. Some people even asserted that this army would soon be wiped out. Yong. This can't but be said to be a kind of skill. After all, Yang Sen's Sichuan army is not an ordinary Sichuan army, but a student army. Little King Kong who can drill porcelain Many officers and soldiers in the local army came from the army, from the Northwest Army to the Sichuan Army. Yang Sen's Twentieth Army was also like this at the beginning, but Yang Sen had a brain and was here too.He himself graduated from the Sichuan Army Crash School and knows the role of knowledge, so he is very keen on running various military schools in order to train officers for his troops. There will be resistance to everything, and this resistance mainly comes from vested interests.These students were obviously a threat to the officers who were born in the army, so there were many people who opposed Yang Sen's running of schools, but Yang Sen turned a deaf ear to them, and there were quite a few schools that should be run. After the trainees graduate, they will be assigned to the army in batches.Those "military officers" were very scared in private, so they went to Yang Sen to complain every day, saying that the student officers were not good at this and that, and that they could neither fight nor lead soldiers. Seeing that Yang Sen was still indifferent, these people became angry, so they simply vented their anger on the student officials and found excuses to beat and scold them. When Yang Sen heard this, he retaliated, "Whoever slaps a student officer, I will slap him face to face; whoever kicks a student officer, I will kick him." Thanks to Yang Sen's support, there are more and more students in the 20th Army. From junior to intermediate to senior officers, almost all of them are military school students. In the end, those "junior officers" have to rush to the military school to enroll. , so as not to be eliminated. In the past few decades, Yang Senguang has trained no less than 50,000 officers through the regular military academy, but the number of his twentieth army has never reached 50,000, which means that there are more reserve officers than soldiers. This is why Yang Sen's troops can rebuild quickly even after being crippled.Because the officers are all ready-made, and the positions are not enough, just recruit some new soldiers, and the team can be reorganized immediately. As for why the 20th Army will not disperse, it is easier to understand.Yang Sen is to his student officers what Chiang Kai-shek is to Whampoa officers. The two parties are not only superior-subordinate relationships, but also equivalent to principals and students.These officers had only one Yang Sen in their minds, and believed that following Yang Sen would lead to a bright future, so the officers and soldiers of the 20th Army, old and new, were always willing to follow Yang Sen to serve on the battlefield.Others can neither intervene nor manipulate his troops. Because of the battle of Songhu, Yang Sen was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the 27th Army, but most of the troops in his army were directly commanded by Xue Yue, and the only one he could control was the 20th Army. At the beginning of the second Changsha Battle, the Ninth War Zone was full of large officers and soldiers such as the 74th and 26th Army. Everyone stood in a row, and Yang Sen was almost the shortest. Where could Xue Yue see it? get him. Well, the big guys are down, it's the little guy's turn. Yang Sen immediately commanded the twentieth army to hold the retreating Japanese army and boldly carried out flank and tail attacks. Although the 20th Army is dominated by student officers, under Yang Sen's personal demonstration, there are still many fierce men. The first fierce is the army commander Yang Hanyu.He was not a student officer, and his education was not high. He was nicknamed a "bumpkin", but this "bumpkin" had a super memory and could casually report any data of the entire army verbatim. When a war started, the "bumpkin" would say something to the officer if he felt that it was important: "If you fight well, I will promote you. If you fight poorly, I will kill you." The second fiercest is the teacher Xia Jiong.He has a nickname called "Xia Saber", which comes from the fact that he always carries a saber during war.In fact, it is not considered a saber, but a big sword like Guan Yunchang, which requires a few guards to carry it. On the battlefield, "Xia Saber" brandished his broadsword from behind, and anyone who dared to run away would be stabbed if he saw it. "Xia Saber" is very famous.The company platoon leaders sometimes used him to hold the line, seeing that no one dared to rush into the Japanese army, they would shout, "Xia Saber is here!" After everyone heard this, they immediately rushed out regardless of their lives, as if the cold big blade was already on their necks. The Sichuan Army Shines in the Second Changsha Battle Anan thought that he had almost cut down the main force of the ninth war zone, and never dreamed that so many strong men would suddenly appear in the oblique stab. After Yang Sen's frenzied pursuit, the order of the Japanese army's retreat became chaotic. One of the covering regiments was almost completely defeated, and the leftover horses and vehicles were thrown everywhere. Yang Sen chased after Xinqiang River before stopping.Because there were many dead horses in the East, the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army sat down and had a full meal on the spot. They couldn't finish eating like this, and then distributed them to the local people. No one expected that the people of Sichuan are so good. No matter how big or small a person is, no matter how high or low a horse is, no matter how small a king kong is, they can drill porcelain as well. Xue Yue wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.With such an episode, the second Changsha battle could finally be regarded as a "great victory". However, he also knew very well that if Yang Sen hadn't pulled a hand at the critical moment, his end might not have been worse than that of the Zhongtiaoshan battle. After that, Wei Lihuang was much better. Xue Yue praised Yang Sen face to face, and gave him the task of guarding the Xinqiang River. This task was originally assigned to the Fourth Army, but Yang Sen would not have dared to think about it in the past.Although he was happy in his heart, he still pretended to be modest, while Xue Yue couldn't help but say, "I believe that the 20th Army has the same defensive capabilities as the Fourth Army." Yang Sen walked out the door, so happy that he almost turned into a bird and flew away, and the benefits he was about to get were not yet over. At the subsequent Nanyue Military Conference, Xue Yue was severely criticized by Chiang Kai-shek due to his command errors. Only the officers and soldiers of the 20th Army were awarded by all, and Yang Sen himself was specially awarded the title of Army General.