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In the spring of 1938, Li Hanling, then commander of the 64th Army, was ordered to lead his troops to the Longhai Front to participate in the war against Japan. In mid-May, Li Hanling learned that the elite Tufeiyuan Division of the Japanese Army, with more than 10,000 people, carrying more than 70 heavy artillery pieces, attacked Guide and Lan Feng, attempting to cut off the Longhai Line in one fell swoop and block the passage of the Chinese army from Xuzhou south.
[Admiral Li Han Soul]
The Longhai Railway, which runs from Lanzhou in Gansu in the west to Lianyungang in Jiangsu in the east, was an extremely important transportation artery in China at that time, and it was also the lifeline that maintained the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in North and East China. The Japanese Tufeiyuan Division tried in vain to rely on its rapid maneuvering ability to cut off this major artery, paralyzing the traffic in the area south of the Huai River in China, and then speeding up the pace of the attack to central and northwestern China. The reason why the Toihara Division regiment had such an arrogant plan. It was precisely by virtue of its absolute confidence in its own combat effectiveness that the Toihara Division completely ignored the common sense of the soldiers, made a single-handed advance, ventured forward, and very boldly plunged straight into Guide, LanFeng, in a vain attempt to make a breakthrough in the center, directly attacked Wuhan, and relied on the strength of one division to directly threaten central China, thus reducing the pressure on other divisions and regiments of the Japanese army to better fight with the Chinese army.
It was in the face of this grim situation that Li Hanling led the 64th Army to Guide, lanfeng front-line positions, actively deployed defenses, and prepared to fight to the death with the elite divisions of the Japanese army that were rampantly attacking. In order to better play the role of Li Han soul, in addition to his continued appointment as the commander of the 64th Army, the Military Committee of the Nationalist Government at that time also appointed Li Han Soul as the commander-in-chief of the 1st Road of the 1st Corps, and was fully responsible for the regional operation against Japan.
Li Han soul knew very well that since the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge" incident, the cruel facts of the battle told him that he and the Japanese army must not fight on the battlefield with just a passion. Because our army has a huge gap with the Japanese army in terms of weapons and individual combat capabilities. In particular, the enemy in front of him, the Hihara Division, is the elite of the Japanese army, and it is even more impossible to ignore him, and underestimating him or despising him will lead to unpredictable consequences.
Not fighting unprepared battles can be said to be Li Han's consistent style, in order to resist with more certainty, he can even annihilate this arrogant Japanese army and boost the morale of the troops, Li Han Soul expressed to The peak whether he can concentrate an absolutely large number of superior forces and form an overwhelming advantage to attack the invading Japanese army.
[Officers and men holding their positions at the Battle of Lanfeng]
Shangfeng agreed to Li Hanling's request, and in addition to the several divisions originally subordinate to the 64th Army, he added several main divisions to him, so that the 64th Army reached 8 divisions in a relatively short period of time, with a total of more than 100,000 troops, resulting in an absolute advantage of nearly 10 to 1 in the comparison of strength with the Japanese Doihara Division.
Of course, only in terms of the number of troops stronger than the Japanese army, it is only a simple aspect, although this is the minimum requirement for having the confidence to fight with the Japanese army. But the enemy in front of him was the elite first division of the Japanese army, not the B division of the Japanese army. However, Li Han Soul felt that as long as he went to the battlefield, whether he was a class A division or a B division, he had enough confidence to defeat him.
Of course, in fighting against this elite Japanese army, we must not fight a hard and hard death battle, and we must adopt a flexible and mobile way of playing in order to eliminate him. How to make the arrogant Japanese army advance completely in accordance with the route designed by Li Han Soul, and gradually lead them into the ambush circle and enter the dead road, this is the most fundamental and the best effective method of warfare.
When formulating the battle plan, Li Hanling demanded that the troops who undertook to induce the Japanese army to deliberately show flaws in the battle, and the specific method of operation was to use most of the heavy artillery of the whole army and assign them to the troops who were acting as frontal blockades, with the purpose of bombarding the Japanese army with fierce artillery fire, creating the illusion that the main force of the 64th Army was going to fight the Japanese army to the death here.
After the battle began, Kenji Doihara, commander of the Doihara Division, felt from the artillery fire from the Chinese army position on the opposite side that the army on the opposite side of the position was definitely the main force of the 64th Army of the Chinese army. Kenji Toihara thought that this was a favorable opportunity to annihilate the main force of our army, and he was convinced that the strength of his own main division would be enough to crush any Chinese army that stood in his way. The Factiyuan Division dared to say this, it was definitely not his arrogance and boasting, otherwise he would never have blindly ventured forward and gone deep into the heavily defended areas alone, just because of his strength and the premise of repeated victories in the confrontations with the Chinese army, he said so.
At this time, although Li Hanling was in the command headquarters, he had always paid attention to the battle situation on the front line, requiring the troops responsible for containing the Japanese army to shoot at all costs against the Japanese army, and never cherish the shells, the purpose of which was to make the Japanese army create an illusion, slowly resist the attack of the Japanese army, and retreat in an orderly manner, so as to lead the Japanese army step by step to a narrow strip of less than 3 miles in depth in Zhanggushan, called Luo Wangzhong, and then close the door and fight the dogs.
[Machine gunner shooting at the Japanese]
The Japanese army saw that the Chinese army was gradually defeated and retreated under his powerful blows, the pace of attack was faster, and the advance was more powerful, when they unconsciously entered Luo Wangzhong, facing the mountains on both sides, only a narrow road in the middle, which felt calculated by the Chinese army and ambushed. It was too late to turn around and withdraw from Luo Wangzhong, because the officers and men of the 64th Army who were waiting for their arrival had already been ambushed on the two mountain beams.
It is undeniable that the elite division of the Japanese army, which was heavily encircled, did not panic, let alone the disorderly state of their own escape. Their combat effectiveness, battlefield discipline, and calm sense of seeking battle are indeed very amazing. Especially in the current situation of heavy encirclement, under the strong desire to survive, this Japanese army fantasizes about desperately breaking through. After the Japanese base camp learned of the news that the Doihara Division was surrounded, in order to rescue this first-class division, it frequently mobilized aircraft to continuously bomb the positions defended by our army, in a vain attempt to make the Chinese army fearful and take the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield, so as to achieve the goal of rescuing the Doihara Division.
Of course, Li Hanling was aware of the Japanese army's conspiracy, and he strictly ordered all units to attack without the slightest pause, and to do everything possible to attack forward, so that the Japanese planes could not distinguish between the enemy and ourselves and did not dare to bomb indiscriminately. After receiving orders from Commander Li, the attacking units increased the frequency of attacks and made full use of the advantages of artillery to carry out fierce bombardments against the Japanese army. After a bloody battle that lasted for 3 days and nights, the 64th Army, under the leadership of Li Hanling, completely defeated the Japanese army's self-proclaimed "undefeated division" of the Doihara Division, conquered the Luo Wang zhao occupied by the Japanese army, and captured the command knife of kenji Doihara, the commander of the Doihara Division. This battle set the record of the first time that the Chinese army captured the saber of a senior officer at the division and regimental level of the Japanese army.
In the winter of 1938, Li Hanling, who was fighting the Japanese army in the anti-Japanese battlefield, received a new appointment to serve as the chairman of the Nationalist government's Guangdong Province and the commander-in-chief of the 35th Group Army. In this new important post, Li Han soul knew very well that at this time when the country was in a difficult situation, the country was in an absolutely difficult period, in order to ensure the effective supply of various materials in the front, in the wartime provincial capital Shaoguan he took the lead in honest government, because the food supply was particularly tight, Li Han soul changed the three meals a day to two meals, and only ate thin porridge and extremely simple dishes for two meals a day. Teaching by example is better than words, and under his influence and drive, colleagues in the provincial government have silently and consciously responded to the call of Li Hanling, sent the saved rations to the front line in time, and supported the soldiers of the bloody war of resistance in the front.
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