I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 625: Song Wenwan fights wherever she goes, and the old devil Tada retires

They heard that Song Wenwan first went to Chahar, and then the battle to annihilate the Japanese 77th Division took place.

In this battle, one division and another brigade of the Japanese were annihilated, and one of the two puppet Mongolian cavalry divisions was destroyed and the other surrendered.

This battle so terrified the Japanese and puppet troops in Suiyuan and Chahar that they only dared to defend the city and never dared to mention any large-scale mopping-up operations again.

Even the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Japan has issued the order.

The two elite divisions moved towards Chahar only to prevent the guerrilla divisions from invading the Northeast.

There was no mention of any intention to avenge the 77th Division.

There were also undercurrents in the various cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army.

In particular, many princes and Jitai privately expressed their closeness to the guerrilla division because of the legend of "Changshengtian".

Just seven days later, the Hebei war zone also received frequent good news.

The guerrilla division took advantage of the enemy's 65th Division and sent troops into the mountains to sweep the Eighth Route Army's base.

They suddenly sent troops to Huya Mountain and first wiped out most of the Japanese Sato Brigade.

Then he used a small force to take advantage of the opportunity to surround Huya County, destroyed Sato's brigade headquarters in one battle, and took advantage of the situation to recover Huya County.

At the same time, the main force of their guerrilla division lured the Japanese into the Funiu Valley.

Also overnight, the Kurokawa Brigade was completely wiped out in the valley.

Then the entire guerrilla division marched eastward, preparing to encircle and annihilate the newly-established division coming from the Japanese island.

Fortunately, Commander Tada issued an order for the newly established division to go to Tianjin to pick up new recruits.

This resulted in Lu Changfeng's attack coming to nothing, and he only managed to wipe out a regiment of the Japanese left behind.

Lu Changfeng, who had taken advantage, did not stop. He took the arsenal of the newly established division and withdrew to his own base.

He did leave, but Commander Tada was frightened.

If he had not sent the newly established division to Tianjin to receive new recruits, I am afraid that this division would have disappeared.

Fortunately, Song Wenwan ran back to Longshui. If he had gone to the Jiaozuo base, there might have been another fierce battle there.

Just when he was in the attendant room of the temporary capital, he was still thinking about it.

This time, the large-scale mopping-up operation, led by the North China Front Army Headquarters, ended inexplicably with a whimper.

All the southern Japanese troops who were helping with the mopping-up operations in Shanxi withdrew from Shanxi.

After replenishing their troops in Tianjin, they returned to the southern battlefield again.

The reason is simple. They felt that the anti-Japanese forces in North China were too difficult to deal with.

In just ten days, two elite divisions, one in the south and one in the north, disappeared like that. It is really frightening.

Take the Eighth Route Army troops in Shanxi for example, they are not easy to deal with either.

You want to challenge the Eighth Route Army to a decisive battle, but they will ignore you and just go into the mountains, leaving you with no place to use your strength.

If you relax a little, they will suddenly appear and you will definitely be caught off guard.

Once, one of their regiments was only 20 kilometers ahead of the main division behind it.

They were besieged by three main forces of the Eighth Route Army that suddenly appeared.

I heard that it was some kind of rapid reaction brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and their fighting style was extremely fierce.

Just as the main force of the division was still wondering whether these Eighth Route Army troops were planning to encircle the enemy and attack its reinforcements.

The infantry regiment that was surrounded was wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.

Immediately afterwards, troops from three brigades of the Eighth Route Army surrounded the main force of the Japanese division.

The Japanese division commander was so scared that he screamed, and then he figured it out.

The Eighth Route Army has a big appetite this time, and I am afraid I am the one being surrounded.

The "reinforcements" that the Eighth Route Army is fighting now should be the Japanese troops that can be mobilized from the whole of Shanxi.

The division commander immediately made a prompt decision and left behind a battalion to act as bait, pretending to be the main force.

He led the main force of the division and moved closer to the other two divisions.

When they sent out aircraft for reconnaissance, they found out that it was not just these three fast brigades that had surrounded the area.

The Eighth Route Army dispatched ten main regiments, and the Shanxi guerrilla division also dispatched two divisions of troops.

(Only one division of less than 40,000 troops was dispatched. Based on the number of troops, the Japanese thought that the National Army dispatched two divisions.)

This time Yoshio Shinozuka could no longer sit still, and immediately transferred back two divisions from the Zhongtiao Mountain line to provide reinforcements.

The Eighth Route Army headquarters saw that if the fighting continued, it would become a strategic decisive battle.

Moreover, the Japanese troops with five divisions of more than 100,000 were indeed not easy to deal with, so they withdrew.

The Japanese southern division saw that the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was too difficult to deal with.

However, the Zhengtai Road that they were planning to restore was already repaired to pieces by the "enthusiastic" people.

They now had a reason to return to the southern battlefield, and Yoshio Shinozuka was too embarrassed to keep them, so he had to let them withdraw from the Shanxi battlefield.

By May, Shota Road was finally opened to traffic, and Yoshio Shinozuka's crisis was finally over.

Because of the reports from the three divisions, the Japanese headquarters made an assessment.

The current battlefield in Shanxi is, if not at the level of hell, then at the level of the devil.

Unless they could transfer ten elite divisions at once, they would be able to turn the tide of the war in Shanxi in one fell swoop.

But where can the Japanese headquarters find ten elite divisions now?

Are you going to defend against the Russians in the north? Are you going to push forward the Nationalist Army’s defense line in the south?

From the time the war began in 1938 to the present, many of Japan's elite veterans have been killed.

It is not so easy to mobilize ten elite divisions.

Now that the path to the Shota was open, they also knew how difficult it was for Yoshio Shinozuka, so they took the opportunity to let him go.

In this way, after replenishing their recruits, the three divisions also returned to southern China.

For them, it would be more profitable to bully the national army troops over there.

The days that followed suddenly became quiet.

Both sides began to lick their wounds on the newly fought turf.

Now both sides are engaged in small-scale battles. Either the Japanese army is conducting a small-scale mopping-up operation, or the county brigade is going to capture a blockhouse or establish a stronghold.

Nowadays, Japanese troops are generally not stationed in smaller artillery towers and strongholds.

They also discovered the pattern of the Eighth Route Army. If the strongholds were filled with puppet troops, they would be too lazy to attack.

If there are Japanese troops stationed in the small artillery tower, we will take it down no matter what they say.

Once an incident happened where a blockhouse was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army late at night.

They first shot out the searchlight, and then the troops began to move upwards.

This scared the puppet soldiers in the artillery tower, and their platoon leader stood on the top of the three-story artillery tower.

The puppet army platoon leader was also trying to save the situation. He shouted at the Eighth Route Army outside at the top of his lungs.

"Commendants of the Eighth Route Army, there are no... no Japs in our artillery tower.

If I fool the Eighth Route Army commander, I will die a miserable death and be struck by lightning.

We are puppet soldiers just to make a living, please raise your hand and let us go."

Strangely enough, after he shouted these words, the Eighth Route Army actually retreated.

After Yoshio Shinozuka learned about this, he simply stopped deploying Japanese troops in the small stronghold.

Rather than letting the Eighth Route Army attack in such a piecemeal manner and kill all the warriors of the empire.

It would be better to concentrate all the troops and use them so that they can play a better role.

At the beginning of May, a lot of news came from Peiping.

Commander Tada of the North China Front Army was dismissed and transferred back to Japan.

Although he was later promoted to general by the military and served as military counselor.

It was only incorporated into the reserve force at the end of the year, which was considered as paying the price for the defeat of the Japanese army in North China.