Chapter 5 5. The Japanese army retreated, and the situation turned sharply

When the bright moon on August 15 melted into the golden-red brilliance of the rising sun, Qin Yizhi's 195th Division had already rushed to the dense forests in the mountains near Fulinpu. According to the order of Guan Linzheng, Commander-in-Chief of the 15th Group Army, the 195th Division will quickly form a new line of defense in an area 40 kilometers to 70 kilometers away from Changsha with Fulinpu as the center.Delaying the Japanese attack to the south bought time for other troops to assemble and deploy around Changsha. Although marched overnight, the troops were still full of energy.The chief of staff who arrived in advance designated the positions for each regiment, and the troops immediately put into fortification construction.

The 195th Division's persistence on the front line of Xinqianghe has laid the initial glory for this first-time army. "Fight to become famous", everyone in the whole division chanted this slogan, and there are also individual honors in the collective honors.Honor and success, this is an important pillar of the soldier and the army. There is another reason. On September 23, when the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Xinqiang River, Guan Linzheng said to Tan Yizhi on the phone: "You are the 6th Division in front of you." The 6th Division, the Chinese army and the Chinese people all know this unit, and they all know the devilish name associated with it-Tani Hisao.

A few minutes later, the words "the Japanese army who carried out the Nanjing Massacre are in front of us" spread like wind to every position.The soldiers became agitated. Some put on the new military uniforms and new shoes that they were reluctant to wear in the small baggage, and the old ones were discarded. Some violated the battlefield discipline and went to other positions to find their fellow countrymen: "I'm going to die here today, see you in the next life." "Tell my mother that I fought to the death with the enemies of the Nanjing Massacre." Some company commanders asked the food platoon leader to spend all the money and eat well.

The Japanese soldiers are all enemies, and the 6th Division is even more bloody and irreconcilable. The Chinese nation is not a nation that easily forgets its enemies. In the battle of Xinqianghe, the 195th Division fought bravely.Some soldiers said before they died: "If you die, you should die. That's enough." The 6th Division is now headed by Inaba Shiro. After crossing the Xinqiang River, the soldiers went south in two ways. About a thousand people followed the 195th Division all the way to the Fulinpu area. On the morning of September 29, the Japanese army entered the ambush circle of the 195th Division. Tan Yizhi was excited and nervous, his hands trembling a little, and he didn't catch the telescope handed over by the guard.His order: "Go ahead."

According to the battle history: "The 6th Division marched south along the Xinshi, Liqiao Road, Xinshi, and Fulinpu branch roads from the Miluo River. More than a thousand people who arrived at Fulinpu were ambushed by the 195th Division of the National Army and suffered heavy losses. .” When the Japanese army dispatched artillery and planes to bombard the positions of the 195th Division, Tan Yizhi quickly withdrew his troops south to the vicinity of Uesugi City.Still building fortifications without stopping, setting up ambushes in concealment. On the morning of September 30, the Japanese army chased from Fulinpu to the vicinity of Uesugi.The strength increased to more than 1500 people.

Tan Yizhi gritted his teeth, calmly, and released the Japanese soldiers until they were about to reach the ambush position before giving the order: "Hit hard!" Fighting from morning to dusk, more than 700 enemies were wiped out.Tan Yizhi boarded a mountain, scanned it with a telescope for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "No! The enemy has to retreat." When Guan Linzheng received Tan Yizhi's telegram, he looked at the map for a while, was stunned for a while, and called back to Tan: "The enemy has not shown any signs of retreating, and we are still following the original plan. Your department will stop the enemy on the front line of Uesugi City until October 2."

Xianning, Ningji Okamura's 11th Army Command. The combat map was constantly marked and drawn in the hands of the staff officers who answered the phone and read the telegram.The huge red arrow in northern Hunan is divided into several small arrows. Several arrows have been pushed southward for more than 100 kilometers from the starting point, and one of them has drawn to Yong'an City, which is only 30 kilometers away from Changsha.Much of Shonhoku north of Changsha had been taken, but Neiji Okamura knew it was time to retreat. The Chinese army adopted the old method of resisting one by one, retreating while fighting, but retreated very carefully.What does it mean that some troops retreat straight away while others mass on the sides?The shrewd Neiji Okamura had a shrewd Xue Yue in his head, and he saw that his opponent was preparing a net for him calmly.

After Yingtian landed, the 15th Army withdrew in time. The "Hunan-Jiangxi Battle Plan" he had formulated was easily dispelled in the progress. If it was impossible to encircle and wipe out the main force of the Chinese army, then what's the point of continuing this battle? Susumu Fujita, head of the 3rd Division, Shiro Inaba, head of the 6th Division, and Shizuka Tanaka, head of the 13th Division, placed three telegrams on Okamura's desk requesting the invasion of Changsha. Wonderful, why didn't he see that the supply line behind him had been exposed to the opponent's advancing column?

At present, the ground supply on the front line has encountered difficulties. The air force has begun to drop food bombs to the wing that has gone far, and the front line will be longer if it goes south. Once the transportation is cut off, what will the frontline officers and soldiers do?When will these people become mature generals of the imperial army?Neiji Okamura worried and regretted for them. At 4 pm on September 30, Okamura Ningji ordered the troops who attacked Uesugi and Yongan to stop advancing.He began to deploy the retreat. Yuelu Mountain in Changsha, the frontline command post of the Commander's Department of the Ninth War Zone. October 1.

Xue Yue stood in front of the map, and on the table was the telegram that Guan Linzheng had just sent. When Guan Linzheng received another telegram from Tan Yizhi confirming that the Japanese army was about to retreat, he also received a report from the group army reconnaissance unit from Yingtian that this morning (October 1) the Japanese transport ship unloaded the artillery that had just been loaded last night back to the shore. , was towed back to the direction of Yueyang by car; in addition, wiretapping of the Japanese army's wired telephones revealed that a wing did not go south according to the original plan and was on standby.After Guan Linzheng made a judgment based on the comprehensive situation, he immediately ordered all the ministries to turn to counterattack, intercept if they can intercept, and chase after them if they can. The Japanese army can't just slip away like this.

Xue Yue walked around the room a few times, bowing his head in thought.Chief of Staff Wu Yizhi, Chief of Staff Zhao Zili and several staff officers followed Xue Yue, waiting for him to make up his mind. Xue Yue's brain is running at high speed, military and non-military. Before the war, Xue Yue divided the troops under the jurisdiction of the theater into three large groups. North Hunan: the 15th Army of Guan Linzheng, the 27th Army of Yang Sen, and the 20th Army of Shangzhen, known as the "A Group"; Nanchang in northern Jiangxi: the 1st Army of the Luhan Army of the Yunnan Army and the 74th Army, known as the "B Group"; Wuning, Xiushui and the Hunan-Hubei Border Area: the 30th Army of Wang Lingji of the Sichuan Army, Fan Songfu's Advance Army and the 8th Army of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Area; another 3 armies with a total of 7 divisions General Reserve.Before the start of the war, Xue Yue had repeatedly wandered among the hair-thin mountains, rivers, roads, and bridges on the map, looking for cemeteries for the captives. Today, under the city of Changsha, 200,000 troops are waiting. The plan of "decisive battle with the enemy in the suburbs of Changsha" has turned into little radio waves and flew to Chongqing.Chiang Kai-shek and the national public opinion are not anxiously looking forward to, the War of Resistance Against Japan has just entered a new period, no matter where, there will be a great victory? ! Seeing that a good show was gradually reaching its climax after half a month of hard preparation and foreshadowing, the cunning fox seemed to smell the smell of the sharp rust and stopped in its tracks. "Sir, please answer the phone, Minister Chen." "Brother Boling, I have good news for you." Chen Cheng was relaxed, with a smile in his voice, "Your official appointment has been announced, what? Commander of the Ninth War Zone! My brother will be the first to congratulate you, and the document will be released tomorrow." arrive." It was a matter of time before the word "generation" was removed, and Chiang Kai-shek had already explained it.But to be a general is not just to be an official, but to do a few really beautiful things.Whether you are beautiful or not is not for the subordinates, the people around you, or even the superiors to say, but for your colleagues to say. Xue Yue, who was not happy about changing from acting chief to chief, let out a long breath.Although it cannot be completely concluded that the Japanese army has begun a full-scale retreat based on the situation reported by the 15th Army Group, but it has to make two-handed plans.There is nothing cheap in the world, and it is easier said than done to fight a beautiful battle.He called Wu Yizhi and Zhao Zili to study together the combat plan for the Japanese army's retreat. On October 2, the special agent company of Yang Gancai's 134th Division directly under Yang Sen's 27th Army, led by company commander Wan Mingyu, marched hard in the deep mountains and dense forests at the northern foot of Mufu Mountain. The task of the 134th Division in this battle was to covertly penetrate the enemy's rear, use the steep terrain in Chongyang and Xianning to harass the Japanese army's transportation lines, and stab the Japanese army in the back whenever possible, and cooperate with the frontal defense of the enemy troops. At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a clear mountain stream appeared in front of me.Wan Mingyu sent an order to rest in place.More than a hundred soldiers who had climbed the mountain for a long time were so tired that they staggered to and fro, as if their bones had been taken away by this command, and they suddenly went limp on the ground.Most of them held their upper bodies with a gun in one hand, and grabbed their hats with the other to drive away the mosquitoes and flies that had been following them in the woods. After breathing heavily, they took out their dry food and ate with the stream water.A few soldiers pulled out their towels and walked a few steps downstream, letting the cool stream wash away their stinky sweat. At this time, a dull motor sound came from far and near in the sky.Wan Mingyu saw a low-flying plane passing over their heads and flying southward through the gaps in the branches.The flag of the sun is marked on the wing. This was a transport plane. Wan Mingyu knew that there was a temporary Japanese airfield near Xianning. Now that the Japanese army's battle line was stretched, sometimes the ground transportation couldn't keep up, so the plane had to drop food and ammunition by air. Wan Mingyu was opening a can of food with a bayonet.The tip of the bayonet pierces a cross on the lid of the can, and pries it open along the cross with the tip of the knife, and a rice dumpling is placed, and a delicious meal is ready.The messenger stood aside with a glass of freshly beaten stream water, and the second platoon leader Hu Yaozong sat on a rock very close to him with a smirk on his face. He was waiting for the company commander to open the can and share some for the tooth-beating sacrifice.Wan Mingyu was afraid of making trouble with this fellow from Pei County, Sichuan, so he guarded against him when he was tinning.That's when the plane flew over. The two looked up at the plane, and the platoon leader said, "Hurry up, hurry up, Mr. Ge will return you two cans." The company commander said: "If you want to eat canned food, there is one in the sky. Go and shoot down the plane. You won't be able to eat it in two lifetimes. First, you will swell your mother-in-law to death." The platoon leader said, "You let me masturbate?" The company commander said: "Hammer! Are you hitting?" The platoon leader casually grabbed a light machine gun propped on a branch of a tree, the butt of the gun rested on his stomach, grabbed the handle with one hand, roughly aimed it, and said, "Come down, you son of a bitch!" One hand on the trigger.The company commander continued to open his can when he was making trouble. "Tat-tat-tat..." The company commander was startled, the newly opened can rolled to his feet, and several Japanese fish were lying on the mountain in China. The platoon leader was hit by the recoil of the gun and sat on the ground, throwing the machine gun aside as if it was hot, his face pale with fright.He looked down at the trigger of the gun, and cursed: "Who was the one who got stabbed, why didn't he know how to get insurance?!" The machine gunner ran over from not far away, and this tall but good-tempered soldier argued aggrievedly: "The insurance is on, how can it be opened if you don't turn it?" The first thought that flashed through the mind of company commander Wan Mingyu was: "Oops! The target has been exposed." The special agent company's trip was to serve as an advance team for a reinforced regiment of the division to destroy a storage warehouse that the Japanese army opened not long ago.Although this warehouse is guarded by only one squadron, if the action is exposed, their regiment's strength is obviously going to die when they reach the enemy's rear.This surprise attack had been brewing for several days, and before the departure, the division commander Yang Gancai bought the wine himself.Wan Mingyu issued a military order that he would not return to Sichuan if he could not win the battle.The bastard Hu Yaozong was muttering behind him at that time: "If you don't go back to Sichuan, you want to ask a Xiang girl to be your concubine." Usually you are making troubles, but now you are fighting, and it is not an ordinary task. Wan Mingyu cursed very harshly, stood up, and looked around. The brigade is 15 kilometers behind. After this unexpected situation, is it advancing or retreating?Here is the enemy's rear, the situation is complicated, this lone army is dancing on the tip of the knife.As if forcing Wan Mingyu to make a decision immediately, the soldier carrying the radio came up with a very sensible expression, Wan Mingyu really wanted to kick him. Just when Wan Mingyu was in a dilemma and was out of breath, a miracle happened. People heard the sound of the huge motor of the transport plane suddenly paused a few times like a patient coughing, and then someone saw the plane turn its wings and fly to the left, turning and descending until the nose of the plane was firmly facing a mountain three or four kilometers away. A huge rock was pierced.After two jumps on that boulder, the nose and left wing changed shape, and the plane landed gently like paper, lying on the hillside, crushing a tree. Wan Mingyu was stunned for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Assemble!" Everyone woke up like a dream, and ran down the mountain one by one. One hour later, Liu, the deputy commander of the 134th division and the head of the strengthening regiment, received a code from the radio station carried by the advance team captain Wan. Another hour later, Deputy Division Commander Liu received a telegram from Commander Yang Qiancai: Operation Mountain Leopard was cancelled, and returned with the documents. One day later, on October 3, Neiji Okamura, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, issued the original written retreat order and a Chinese translation to the 6th and 33rd Divisions, Nara Detachment, and Uemura Detachment in northern Hunan in the early morning of October 2. Put it on Xue Yue's desk. Fifteen days later, at the Changsha Battle Celebration Conference, the achievements of each unit were announced. The personnel who made meritorious service for "shooting down the enemy plane and obtaining important enemy documents" were: Yang Gancai, commander of the 134th Division, and Liu Mou, deputy commander of the 134th Division. Each will receive a reward of 1,000 yuan and a third-level Baoding Medal. Original text of Neiji Okamura's October 2 order: The Chinese army retreated to the areas on both sides of the Miluo River and the Xiushui River to gather. In order to avoid a disadvantageous situation, our army should quickly move to the original position in order to restore its combat effectiveness. The transfer plan is as follows:  … The original text of Xue Yue's order on October 3: The troops on the front in northern Hunan are pursuing fiercely at the enemy in front of them in their current posture, and they are tasked with capturing them in the areas south of Chongyang and Yueyang. ... Each of the pursuit troops can send a part of the enemy's containment troops to monitor and sweep them, and the main force will go beyond the pursuit... The advance troops that have penetrated into the enemy's rear vigorously destroy the enemy's communication lines and cut off the enemy's escape route. From October 3, the Chinese army launched a fierce counterattack against the Japanese army in the three battlefields of northern Hunan, southern Hubei, and the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border area. The 25th Division and the 195th Division chased the 6th Division and the Nara Detachment from Fulinpu to the Miluo River, and then from the Miluo River to the Xinqiang River. On October 8, the Japanese army retreated across the Xinqiang River, and the 566th Brigade of the 195th Division also chased across the river and launched night attacks in the Xitang and Jianshan areas.Although there is a small gain, the enemy has no choice but to return to his lair, and the resistance is very tenacious.Tan Yi ordered the brigade to retreat to the south bank of the river, and the battle in northern Hunan ended. On the southern side of Hubei, the 79th Army pursued the first part of the Japanese 33rd Division from the Sanyan Bridge to Pingjiang, and then crossed the Nanjiang Bridge, until they drove the Japanese army back to their old nest in Tongcheng. In the border area of ​​Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, the troops under the command of Wang Lingji, the commander-in-chief of the 30th Army, attacked the Japanese army in Xiushui.The Japanese army withdrew to Sandu and resisted resolutely. The Chinese army suffered setbacks for three days in a row.On the fourth day, the night attack was successful, and the Japanese army was finally driven back to Wuning, the original starting point. Marked by the restoration of the pre-war positions of the two armies, the first Changsha battle ended.