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Author: Yi Pin Wen team a constant single step, no authorization to ban the transfer!
After the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident" in 1937, the Sichuan Army formed two group armies in a relatively short period of time, of which the Twenty-second Group Army, with Deng Xihou as the commander-in-chief, was ordered to go north along the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway to participate in the War of Resistance in North China.
[General Deng Xihou of the Nationalist Army]
At that time, China was poor and weak, and there were not many vehicles that could allow the officers and men of a group army to quickly reach the anti-Japanese front line. Without means of transport, Deng Xihou said, we just walk, but also to go to the battlefield, accompanied by his voice, the Twenty-second Army marched on foot on two legs, to the front line of resistance.
The Twenty-second Army bid farewell to its hometown father and elder in early September and embarked on a journey, and along the way, it was magnificent and majestic, and the people along the way knew that they were under the leadership of Deng Xihou to go to the Shanxi front to resist Japan and kill the enemy, and were warmly welcomed. This greatly encouraged Deng Xihou and the officers and men of the entire Twenty-second Army. When this mighty army, day and night, crossed the Qinling Mountains to reach Baoji, ready to transfer to the train to Xi'an for standby. At this time, it received an order from the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government that the Battle of Xinkou against the Japanese in the Second Theater was in a state of stalemate, and the Twenty-second Army must rush to Niangziguan to participate in the battle against Japan.
In addition to ordering the troops to speed up the march, deng Xihou, as the commander-in-chief of the group army, it was all the more necessary for him to know in advance which area the group army he was in was responsible for, so that he could start drawing up the battle plan in advance and inform the various units of their combat tasks as soon as possible.
When Deng Xihou rushed to the headquarters of the commander of the Second Theater and met with Yan Xishan, commander of the commander of the Commander's Headquarters of the Second Theater, he learned that in the face of the attack of the Superior Firepower of the Japanese Army, the Nationalist army, although it had stubborn resistance, could not block the Japanese offensive, and Niangziguan had been occupied by the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army did not stop the pace of the attack because of the victory in the Battle of Xinkou, and Yan Xishan told Deng Xihou that the Japanese army was currently stepping up the attack on Pingding, Yangquan and Shouyang, and your troops immediately turned to Jindong to support the Nationalist troops there to resist the Japanese.
Deng Xihou then led the Twenty-second Army to march in the direction of Pingding, Yangquan and Shouyang. However, since the Twenty-second Army came out of Sichuan in early September to participate in the War of Resistance, especially when he led his army to the Shanxi front, such an extremely embarrassing and helpless thing happened, and as the supreme commander of the group army, he did not have a military combat map of Shanxi Province in his hand. As the supreme commander of the army group, there is no battle map, which is undoubtedly fatal to him and the entire army group.
Because there is no map, how to make the positions where this huge team is stationed can effectively block the Japanese attack, how to maintain contact between the various units, especially the distance between the troops, this is what must be faced in the course of the battle. If you rely entirely on blind people to touch blind horses, can you win the battle?
The absence of a military map shows on the one hand that the Twenty-second Army led by him was in a hurry, and more importantly, the main reason was the backwardness of China's various technologies at that time and the lack of surveying and mapping talents, which was simply unimaginable. While Deng Xihou was anxious about this, the news that the Twenty-second Army had no military map happened to be known to Zhou Enlai. In addition to his busy official duties, Zhou Enlai personally sent Deng Xihou the military map of the Japanese army captured by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan, which greatly touched him and felt that the Communist Party really achieved the anti-Japanese resistance without distinguishing between you and me.
With the military map, it undoubtedly brought great convenience to the various units under the command of Deng Xihou, and when the Twenty-second Army really entered the Shouyang and Yangquan areas and cooperated with friendly forces to block the Japanese army and enter the position, the time had reached the beginning of November. Deng Xihou quickly set up the headquarters of the group army, and at the same time, immediately gave the subordinate troops a defensive area, actively built a position, and waited for the Japanese army to attack.
[Officers and men of the Nationalist Army at the Battle of Xinkou]
It should also be explained here that due to the limited conditions when the Twenty-second Army came out of Sichuan, the entire group army, in addition to its relatively full personnel, was very rudimentary in weaponry, and each soldier had only one Sichuan-made or Hanyang-made rifle and two grenades, and each division had no mountain artillery or field artillery that was responsible for frontal blockade in addition to having several mortars. Because Deng Xihou wanted to come, he led the Twenty-second Army of the Sichuan Army to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance, and the Military Committee of the Nationalist Government, including the headquarters of the commander of the specific theater, would give the necessary support in weapons and equipment in consideration of fighting the vicious Japanese army. However, when Deng Xihou proposed material supplies, especially the supply of weapons and ammunition, when he was passing through Xi'an, he was ignored and prevaricated, and when it came to which theater you went to fight, the theater commander's department would naturally give it a solution.
When Deng Xihou saw Yan Xishan asking the same question, Yan Xishan was busy diverting the topic and talking about him left and right, which made Deng Xihou very disappointed and angry. However, since we have already gone to the battlefield, we should not think about it anymore and wait until the end of the war.
Although the Twenty-second Army had built up its position, the Sichuan Army could not imagine that the mode of japanese attack completely subverted their cognition and imagination. The first to come into their sight were the Japanese planes, which flew one after another to the positions of the Twenty-second Army and bombed indiscriminately and dive-strafed. After these planes passed, there was then fierce artillery fire covering the positions held by the Twenty-second Army, which made the officers and men of the Sichuan Army, who had never seen such a way of fighting, let alone seen such fierce firepower, instantly die on the position.
When the Japanese aircraft bombed and heavy artillery shelled, the Japanese soldiers, who were closely behind the tanks, attacked the positions held by the Twenty-second Army. This cruel tactical action made many officers and men of the Sichuan Army unconsciously hit by tank fire and machine guns. There is also the fact that the Japanese army's own individual combat capabilities are obviously superior to the officers and men of the Sichuan Army. Because many soldiers in the Sichuan Army signed up to join the army, they only underwent a short period of training, did not understand the basic military common sense, and only relied on their own enthusiasm to fight the Japanese army on the position.
In order to block the crazy charge of the Japanese army, the officers and men of the Twenty-second Army could only fight with the Japanese army without fear with inferior weapons, although they blocked the fierce offensive of the Japanese army, it was undeniable that the casualties were very alarming, and if they continued to insist on fighting hard with the Japanese army in the front, most of the officers and men of the Twenty-second Army would die on the position.
After Receiving the urgent telephone call from the front line and the order from the communication soldiers, Deng Xihou knew that continuing to fight hard was by no means the best way. To this end, in the name of the headquarters of the Twenty-second Army, he briefed the Headquarters of the Commander of the Second Theater of Operations on the actual situation of the Twenty-second Army.
[Officers and men of the Nationalist army running into positions at the Battle of Xinkou]
Yan Xishan, who had fully experienced the ferocious offensive of the Japanese army, considered that if it continued to fight hard, it would put the Twenty-second Army in danger of being annihilated, not only could not hinder the Japanese army's attack, but also had a negative impact on the taiyuan defense war.
Although the Twenty-second Army led by Deng Xihou fought against the Japanese army in Shouyang, Yangquan and other places, the results were not ideal, and they did not inflict great casualties on the Japanese army, and objectively they could not effectively stop the crazy offensive plan of the Japanese army. However, this is the first time that the Twenty-second Group Army of the Sichuan Army has gone to the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, fighting against the Japanese army units that already have mechanization, and the huge generation gap in the quality of weapons and equipment and personnel has not made the generals of the Sichuan Army yield in the slightest, they have to rely on their rudimentary weapons, they have to endure hunger and hunger, fight hard, sacrifice their lives without hesitation, and also play the dignity of Chinese soldiers. The fearless spirit of putting one's own life and death aside is also the soul of the Chinese nation.
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