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Chapter 754: The Mainland Transportation Line is Opened

The top leaders of the Chinese government also knew that what Director Lin said made sense, so they threw the telegram on the table with a sullen look on their faces, stood up and stood by the window to look at the scenery outside. After a long time, the top leaders of the Chinese government calmed down and whispered to Director Lin: "Let the Gui clique jump around first, there will be plenty of opportunities to deal with them later."

Just like that, as Yishan, an important town in the western part of Guangxi Province, was occupied by the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army, the troops of the Fourth War Zone of the Chinese government completely collapsed on the entire Guiliu front. The offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army were like a force to be reckoned with. Under the strafing and bombing of the Chinese and American joint air force planes, they were able to advance an average of 30 kilometers a day in less than 20 days, and advanced a total distance of 700 kilometers, from the Guiliu area all the way to Dushan in Guizhou Province.

In many cases, the troops of the Fourth War Zone of the Chinese government had not yet had time to set up defensive positions before the offensive forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army had already arrived in front of them, making the situation of the Chinese army extremely chaotic.

Even Commander Zhang, the commander of the Fourth War Zone of the Chinese government, personally led an engineering regiment, an artillery regiment and five tanks to organize a defense in Huaiyuan to resist the rapid advance of the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces. A Chinese army general actually personally commanded a regimental-level unit to fight against the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces. It can be seen how embarrassing the battle situation was.

In comparison, the combat performance of the 35th Army of the Guangdong Army, which was fighting on the flank, was slightly better. The 64th Army of the 35th Army of the Guangdong Army also concentrated more than 4,000 officers and soldiers who were still able to fight. With the cooperation of some Guangxi militia, they launched a fierce counterattack in Guiping and Mengxu areas against the 23rd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army that attacked from the south, and inflicted heavy damage to the 23rd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army. At the same time, they also killed a battalion commander of the 23rd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army.

In the Laibin direction, the 62nd Army of the 35th Army of the Guangdong Army successfully blocked more than 3,000 Japanese cavalry attacking from the south. After killing and wounding more than 800 Japanese attacking troops, they successfully drove the Japanese troops back to Nanning. You know, if the Japanese troops in the south of Guangxi Province were deployed to the battlefield of the Guiliu Campaign, the situation of the Guiliu Campaign would become even more out of control.

As the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army occupied Guilin and Liuzhou, the offensive forces of the Japanese 23rd Army also attacked southwest along the Liuyong Highway on November 24 and occupied Nanning in Guangxi Province.

On November 28, the 21st Division of the Japanese Southern Army also sent troops from Vietnam to the north into China's Guangxi Province, and attacked towards Suilu in Guangxi Province.

At this point, the mainland transportation line from China's northeast to Hanoi, Vietnam, was finally opened up by the Japanese China Expeditionary Force. The defeated Chinese government's army retreated into the northern Guizhou Province under the pursuit of the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces.

The attacking forces of the 11th Japanese Army pursued the defeated troops of the Fourth War Zone of the Chinese government all the way along the Guizhou-Guangxi Highway, and advanced to Dushan in Guizhou Province on December 2, 1944, approaching Sichuan Province, which greatly shocked the Chinese government in the mountain city.

Faced with the pursuit of the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces, the Chinese Government Military Commission urgently dispatched the Chinese Government's 29th Army to counterattack the Japanese 11th Army's offensive pursuit forces. The Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces were successfully blocked by the Chinese Government's 29th Army and were forced to withdraw to Hechi in Guangxi Province.

On December 10, the 21st and 22nd Divisions of the Japanese Army successfully met in Suilu, Guangxi Province. At this point, the Japanese Army's mainland transportation lines in China were completely opened up, and the Japanese Army and the Chinese government army gradually formed a confrontation again, and the Guiliu Campaign ended.

From mid-April to December 1944, in just eight months, the Chinese government's army lost more than 500,000 troops in the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, and also lost most of Henan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and part of Guizhou.

The four cities of Luoyang, Changsha, Fuzhou and Guilin and 146 small and medium-sized cities including Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Baoqing, Liuzhou and Wenzhou were lost, as well as the air force bases and 36 airports in seven places including Hengyang, Lingling, Baoqing, Guilin, Liuzhou, Danzhu and Nanning, and more than 200,000 square kilometers of territory were lost.

The failure of the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi allowed the Japanese Army's Chinese Expeditionary Force to advance deep into Guizhou Province, and the offensive forces of the Japanese 11th Army even attacked the Shenhe Bridge in Dushan. This made the Chinese government even want to implement a scorched earth policy in Guizhou Province and prepare to burn down the city of Guiyang. Fortunately, this plan was not implemented because it was stopped by many people.

After the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, the area of ​​Chinese land occupied by the Japanese Expeditionary Force in China reached its historical peak, reaching 3.56 million square kilometers.

As for the fact that the armies of the various war zones of the Chinese government were defeated by the Japanese China Expeditionary Force in the Battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, this was caused by many factors. First of all, in order to complete the "Operation No. 1" plan, the Japanese China Expeditionary Force also concentrated a large number of troops. In addition, the weapons of the Japanese army itself were much stronger than those of the Chinese army. Many troops of the Chinese government were originally understaffed, and with backward weapons and equipment, failure was difficult to avoid.

Secondly, on the world's anti-Axis battlefield, after the Allied forces continued to win victories, a large number of officers from the highest level of the Chinese government to the Chinese government and the army felt that Japan was bound to lose. Therefore, everyone became complacent and did not care about the details of the intensive mobilization of the Japanese Army's China Expeditionary Force.

As a result, when the Japanese Expeditionary Force in China was busy formulating the "Operation No. 1" plan, the top leaders of the Chinese government were recuperating in Hengshan. During this period, only the Fourth Nanyue Military Conference was held. Moreover, no targeted deployment was made at the meeting for the possible offensive plan of the Japanese Expeditionary Force in China.

Most of the generals in the Chinese government's army also believed that the Japanese army was now at the end of its strength, and that surrender was only a matter of time. Therefore, the military discipline of the Chinese government's troops in various war zones was very lax, not to mention serious deployment of defenses.

This resulted in the First War Zone of the Chinese government's river defenses on the Yellow River being ineffective, allowing the Japanese Army's China Expeditionary Army's North China Front troops to easily pass through the natural barrier of the Yellow River. Commander Tang, deputy commander of the First War Zone of the Chinese government, was only concerned with spending money and enjoying himself every day before the war, and had no intention of reorganizing the training and deployment of the First War Zone troops of the Chinese government.