I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 628: The Sorrow of Zhongtiao Mountain (1) Something happened on the Zhongtiao Mountain defen

It is said that a good man does not join the army, and good iron cannot be used to make nails, but why do we have to join the army?

My comrade, do you think the Japanese will let us live in such a prosperous way?

If no one joins the army and the Japanese invaders come here, what shall we do?

Do you still want to continue to flee famine? Where else can you go?

Further west is the desolate Gobi Desert and the desert. Do you think you can still have food to eat there?

Don’t you want to have a safe and stable living environment?

Don’t you want to drive all the Japanese devils who kill my compatriots and occupy my land out of China?

Don’t you want to overthrow all the landlords and rich people who have oppressed you?

Don’t you want to go back to the hometown where you were born and raised?

Go join the army, follow the Eighth Route Army, pick up guns, and drive away the Japs and the landlords.

Go join the army, follow the Communist Party, and use the Type 38 rifles in your hands to fight back to your hometown in Henan.

Go and rescue your brothers who are suffering the same pain, and go and defend the safe and stable life you have just gained.

Then those poor guys on and off the stage shouted deafening slogans.

Long live Red Northern Shaanxi! Long live the leader! Long live the Communist Party of China!

At the end of 1941, in Red Northern Shaanxi, with the support of various materials from Song Wenwan, the army was directly expanded by 100,000.

Looking at the 100,000 new recruits being brought to the Hengshan base for training, the leaders didn't know what to say.

In the past six months, we have received more than one million disaster victims, but we have already expanded our army by 100,000.

Song Wenwan said that it would probably be after the autumn harvest next year.

Nearly ten million disaster victims will pour into Shanxi and Shaanxi.

By that time, the number of troops of the various Red Army units in northern Shaanxi must have exceeded three million, right?

In other words, by the end of 1942, the Red Army's military strength in northern Shaanxi was sufficient to completely crush the military power of the temporary capital.

This is so horrible!

However, Song Wenwan also had an explanation for how Red Northern Shaanxi was able to recruit 100,000 new soldiers at one time.

Those who were able to arrive in northern Shaanxi first were those who had young and strong people in their families, so they dared to flee.

Most of the people in the family, young and old, will leave their familiar hometown only when they have no other choice.

This is also the reason why they can recruit 100,000 new soldiers from one million disaster victims.

The Japanese invaders and the special agents in the temporary capital were completely unaware of all the changes in Red Northern Shaanxi.

Commander Okamura even made a judgment on this at the end of 1941.

"In the winter of 1941, Red Northern Shaanxi had already received a total of one million disaster victims from Henan.

Considering the financial resources of the Eighth Route Army, this has reached their limit.

According to our judgment, by May next year, the financial resources of Red Northern Shaanxi will be exhausted.

By then, the Eighth Route Army units that have no food to eat will surely vanish into thin air in our army’s sweep.”

Now let’s go back to May 1941.

Because of the arrival of disaster victims, Song Wenwan was busy distributing supplies between Tongguan and northern Shaanxi.

The Eighth Route Army's anti-mopping-up campaign in Shanxi has also ended successfully.

They are also summing up their experiences and lessons and digesting the fruits of victory.

Ever since the three elite divisions from the south withdrew from North China.

His Shanxi First Army also stopped its movements and retreated to its own stronghold.

The Shanxi Suiyuan Army, the Guerrilla Division and the Japanese have been in a tense standoff for more than two months. Now they can tighten their defenses and take a break.

Since the situation along the Zhongtiao Mountain front was calm, the Minister of Defense handed over the temporary command of the troops to the senior generals of the Central Army.

He himself returned to the Ministry of National Defense in the temporary capital to preside over a military meeting.

Starting from the day after the Defense Minister left, the commander of the Central Army hosted banquets for the senior officers of the Central Army for three consecutive days.

As for the local military commanders, they were always finding fault with them.

On the third night of his dinner party, something happened on the Zhongtiao Mountain front.

The First Army's deputy commander, Tomohisa Hayata, was under the planning of Colonel Chief of Staff Ono.

He personally led four fully-strength divisions and launched a surprise attack on the Nationalist troops on the Zhongtiao Mountain front.

After the sabotage campaign launched by the Eighth Route Army was completely over, they remained silent.

In order to prevent the central army troops from entering Zhongtiao Mountain, they took precautions.

They even transferred two of the original six divisions back to Taiyuan.

Help Commander Yoshio Shinozuka and restore traffic on Shota Road.

Then he seemingly pulled back his defense line, putting on a defensive appearance.

In fact, those who were transferred back to Taiyuan by Hayata Chixian were all Shinozuka Yoshio's confidants.

The four division commanders he left behind were all division commanders with whom he was on good terms.

In the four months following the campaign, they took advantage of the southern divisions' advance into Shanxi.

The additional troops sent from the mainland were incorporated into the four divisions in Zhongtiao Mountain.

Hayata directly transformed the four Type B divisions into a Type A division of 30,000 people.

He also used his personal connections to transfer a number of armored vehicles and artillery units.

As a result, the Japanese army on the Zhongtiao Mountain front apparently had two fewer divisions.

However, their strength is stronger than before, and their numbers are increasing instead of decreasing.

After learning that the military commander of Zhongtiao Mountain had returned to the secondary capital.

And that replacement has always been their defeated opponent.

Moreover, this person has been busy arranging banquets to entertain guests for two consecutive days.

Ono Erpi took the opportunity to come up with the battle plan he had been planning for a long time.

The plan was so sophisticated and vicious that even Hayata Tomokazu and the other four division commanders were amazed.

In Ono's plan, the national army is now divided into two defense lines in the north and south.

Most of the troops in the south obey the Central Army, while there are only four divisions in the north.

They are the three divisions of Deng Beihou's Sichuan Army, and the unit in the middle is Major General Xie's 207th Division.

This was also the arrangement made by General Wei before, because Major General Xie was a member of the Central Army after all.

With him coordinating in the middle, there would be no gap between the Central Army and the Sichuan Army.

Ono Erpi knew that Major General Xie and the Sichuan Army were not easy to defeat.

So his plan was to take advantage of the discord between the central army and the local forces.

Use a field division to directly penetrate from the south side of the 207th Division and attack the Central Army on the southern line of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Then send out a brigade to launch a feint attack on the northern line.

Only the Sichuan Army and the 207th Division on the northern front hesitated for an entire night.

Under the siege of four field divisions, it took only one night to defeat the 200,000 national troops on the southern front.

Ono's plan was very practical and he took advantage of all available conditions.

Given the Central Army's lax military discipline, it is likely that they will be defeated in one fell swoop.

In the past, with the dedication and responsibility of General Wei, the Sichuan Army and the 207th Division, backed by the guerrilla division, were very capable in fighting.

Therefore, Deputy Commander Tomohisa Hayata had no way to deal with the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line.

Now things have changed and Tomohisa Hayata has the advantage, so he became bolder.

Hayata Chih-ken: "Gentlemen, Ono-kun, I also have an idea, please help me with some advice."

Tomohisa Hayata was very polite in what he said because he knew that Ono was extremely talented.

But he had suffered too much torture at the hands of Yoshio Shinozuka, and was somewhat fragile.

So when he usually talks to Ono, he will more or less take his feelings into consideration.

This also made Chief of Staff Ono Jipi grateful to Hayata Chixian and very loyal to him.