In the Battle of Wuhan, the Victory of Wanjialing was a very eye-catching battle, if the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Taierzhuang, was the first retreat of the Japanese army, then the Victory of Wanjialing was the first rout of the Japanese army. The victory in the battlefield battle had a lot to do with Xue Yue's meticulous arrangement.
The Japanese 106th Division, as we introduced in the previous article, is composed of a group of retired soldiers, but there is almost no combat effectiveness. It was precisely for this reason that the 106th Division was targeted by Xue Yue and wanted to annihilate it in one fell swoop.
Facing the 106th Division, this soft persimmon, Xue Yue did not just want to pinch it twice, but wanted to annihilate it completely.
On the one hand, it was for the sake of war, on the other hand, Xue Yuexiang breathed a sigh of relief, Lan Feng lost, which was a great shame in his life, and 18 divisions actually let one of The divisions of Kenji Toihara run away. At this time, Xue Yue wanted the lives of all the members of the 106th Division.
After the Japanese 106th Division arrived at Mahui ridge, the chief of staff, Miyazaki, on Monday, put it on standby to monitor De'an, and transferred a brigade of his troops and one-third of the infantry to the 9th Division. This directly exacerbated the 106th Division, which was already not strong.
Xue Yue, on the other hand, took advantage of the 106th Division's immobility to let the various units rest and replenish their guns and ammunition. During this period, Xue Yue received 120,000 rounds of artillery shells, 1.5 million rounds of light and heavy machine gun ammunition, 5 million rounds of rifle bullets, and 1.1 million grenades from the Quartermaster Department.
On this defensive line, all the heavy firepower was concentrated, among which the new machine guns from the Czech Republic, with a range of up to 4,000 meters, could directly hit mahuiling, and the design range of artillery also covered the entire mahuiling.
At this time, Xue Yue only had one idea, once the war started, he would do everything he could and smash all these things to the 106th Division.
At this time, Honma Masaharu's 27th Division had begun to land, and his main task was to help the 106th Division, but his march was not smooth, and it was blocked just after landing, and the rear supply line was also cut off by Tombaugh.
In order to deal with the 27th Division, resulting in the Chinese garrison, a gap of about 5 kilometers long appeared, which was difficult to see from the ground, but was discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft and reported directly to Okamura Ningji. He immediately ordered the 106th Division to take advantage of this opportunity to immediately break through the Chinese positions from the front and move towards the De'an Line.
Sadly, everything on the battlefield is weird.
Xue Yue wanted to encircle and annihilate the 106th Division, but he went out. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Yu Jishi's 74th Army to come down from the front line and make corrections, but Xue Yue directly refused. When an enemy situation appeared in Guangdong, the Central Military Commission ordered the 64th Army of the Guangdong Army to be transferred back to Guangdong, and although Xue Yue reluctantly agreed, he still detained the 187th Division.
Soon, the battle plan for the siege of Wanjialing was announced: the 74th Army, the 4th Army, the 187th Division, the 139th Division, encircled the east of the Japanese 106th Division, the 60th Division, the newly organized 13th Division, the newly organized 15th Division, the Reserve 6th Division, the 91st Division, the 142nd Division, and besieged the west.
When the Japanese 106th Division marched, the Chinese army gradually narrowed the encirclement, and when the encirclement was completed, the Japanese army also entered Wanjialing.
On October 2, 1938, Xue Yue issued an order to attack.
The middle course of the battle is too complicated, let's talk about the results directly, although Okamura Ningji also sent a large number of troops to support, but they were all blocked out by the Chinese army, the 106th Division, despite desperate resistance, but within the encirclement, there was nothing to do.
In the end, in the Battle of Wanjialing, the 106th Division was shot and killed more than 3,000 people and wounded more than 4,000.