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Chapter 664: The Sorrow of Zhongtiao Mountain (37) The Poor Central Army

No matter how you look at it, on the surface, the Japanese won the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

After all, 200,000 national troops were driven away by them, and this achievement could be widely publicized when they returned to Japan.

There is another saying that the main force of the 3rd Guerrilla Division had already arrived on the morning of the 12th.

Just when both China and Japan announced that the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain was over.

A heavy artillery brigade stationed at Kenanpo has secretly come out.

At that time, they were less than 30 kilometers away from the Guishepo position.

Upon hearing that the war was over, they secretly withdrew.

According to the final statistics of the Japanese army, it was fortunate that the battle of Tiaoshan ended early.

Otherwise, by noon that day, 60,000 Sichuan troops and 24,000 troops of the 207th Division would have gathered there.

The three divisions of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had more than 50,000 people, and the main force of the Third Guerrilla Division was 30,000 (actually 40,000).

Add a Marine Brigade and a heavy artillery brigade, and there will be more than 20,000 people.

I don't know, I was taken aback.

Including two heavy artillery brigades, the total number of troops that Song Wenwan can mobilize can reach 200,000.

These 200,000 national troops are not comparable to the 200,000 national troops in Zhongtiao Mountain.

They were all those who dared to fight the Japanese army head-on. Coupled with the invincible Song Wenwan, the outcome would probably be that the Japanese army would be completely wiped out.

The Japanese military headquarters summarized after the war that it was the troops of the temporary capital who suffered a terrible defeat in Zhongtiao Mountain.

Song Wenwan was only thinking about saving more national soldiers and forgot about her own strength.

Song Wenwan: The Japanese guessed it right. I was distracted by my fixed thinking and was only thinking about how to save people.

At Guishepo, his core troops were less than 60,000.

As long as the two guerrilla divisions he transferred back were the three divisions that Hayata Chixian had sent deep into Zhongtiao Mountain, he would be able to keep them.

The Japanese military headquarters gave the final conclusion of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain that they won.

However, Hayata Chixian rashly attacked the National Army in Zhongtiao Mountain without prior notification.

This also led to the complete annihilation of the Yoshitani Division, and in the end the merits and demerits offset each other.

In this battle, Ono Erpi showed a great sense of the overall situation and his tactical arrangements were almost unstoppable.

Although one Ji Gu division was lost, anyone who encountered Song Wenwan would suffer the least loss of one division.

In other words, if it weren't for Song Wenwan's sudden arrival in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Hayata Military Group would have lost at most one regiment.

Ono Jipi and Hayata Chiken were transferred back to the Japanese island headquarters for questioning.

A month later, Lieutenant General Hayata and Major General Ono Nipi left the Japanese island.

They were transferred to Wanwan to join the three divisions of the former First Army that had arrived earlier.

There they trained in tropical jungle warfare in preparation for moving south to Southeast Asia.

The vacancies they left in Shanxi were filled by three newly formed divisions transferred from Japan.

The reason given by the Japanese headquarters was that all 200,000 national troops had fled.

I'm going to give you, Yoshio Shinozuka, three new divisions. Do you dare to have any objection?

Of course, Yoshio Shinozuka had no objection and accepted the fact with gritted teeth.

The Japanese were safe for the time being, but something unexpected happened to the Nationalist army in the temporary capital.

This is because the telegram Song Wenwan sent to the Minister of Defense was so embarrassing.

You said you could have just reported the victory to the temporary capital, but you specifically mentioned the Minister of Defense.

The Minister of Defense, who was recuperating in the hospital and had not yet been discharged, was so angry that he vomited blood.

Such a huge loss was caused because of the defense minister's blind command.

He then hid in the hospital, fearing that others would remember him and drag him out to "whip his corpse".

However, as soon as Song Wenwan's telegram came out, the "past affairs" of the Minister of Defense were exposed.

They also said that they were attacked by two divisions and lost a brigade, but their position has not been lost so far.

But what about the national army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain?

They were also facing two divisions of Japanese troops, but were defeated by a single Japanese attack.

In just three days, more than twelve brigades were wiped out, and all the positions were lost to the Japanese army.

Not all of it was lost; the positions of the former 80th Army were not lost.

But what was even more embarrassing was that it was not the 80th Army that held the position.

Instead, it was a supplementary brigade of the guerrilla division that was pulled up later.

What is a supplementary brigade? Those who understand will understand.

In addition to the newly trained recruits, there are also soldiers who have recovered from their injuries.

It was this type of force that wiped out two Japanese regiments within twenty minutes.

Just tell me, in comparison, are the 200,000 Central Army troops in Zhongtiao Mountain useless and shameful?

Let’s not talk about you, the Minister of Defense, being away from your post, but how do you usually arrange and command…

Okay, you guys are overthinking it. How could I, Song Wenwan, be the kind of person who would make indirect accusations?

The national army in Zhongtiao Mountain suffered repeated defeats and did not even have the courage to turn back.

But what about Song Wenwan? He even led his men to catch up and wiped out a fully staffed Type A division.

There is really no harm without comparison!

The Minister of Military and Political Affairs who saw this telegram at that time even thought about it in his heart.

It would be great if Song Wenwan was appointed as the garrison commander of Zhongtiao Mountain.

I guess the results of the battles between China and Japan will be announced one by one today.

But even though we sigh, we still need to give a brief reprimand if necessary.

The reason was that Song Wenwan intervened in the Zhongtiao Mountain war without authorization.

Finally, he was awarded a Baoding Medal and fined one month's salary to show that the attendant room was clear about rewards and punishments.

After all, the current Minister of Defense is still the second-in-command among the direct lineage, and we cannot lose face for him.

The Defense Minister had just calmed down the situation when the two commanders of the 80th and 98th Armies reported Song Wenwan again.

Their reasons are also very convincing.

Song Wenwan condoned Division Commander Xie Jinfang and intercepted the defeated soldiers of their Central Army.

It is said that when Song Wenwan was gathering troops at Guishepo and preparing to encircle and suppress the Jigu Division, he discovered that Xie Jinfang's troops were insufficient.

They kindly "lent" their soldiers to Division Commander Xie Jinfang.

After the battle, Xie Jinfang refused to return the soldiers and asked the two of them to ask Song Wenwan for them.

In fact, these two third-class commanders of the Central Army had finally escaped to the rear and were able to stabilize the troops.

They were lucky, as many soldiers who were scattered by the Japanese were taken in by the two of them.

Among them were also many soldiers from other units whose numbers had been lost, which naturally benefited the two army commanders.

At first, they were both quite happy, after all, the number of troops had been replenished to 10,000.

Don't worry too much, someone is looking for trouble with them every day.

After all, their two armies were the last to abandon their positions on the entire southern front of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The 80th Army did not abandon its position on its own; they held out until the reinforcement brigade arrived to take over and then they retreated.

Who knew that on the next day, the trouble found itself on both of them.

A coded telegram from Song Wenwan to the Ministry of National Defense brought their two armies to the forefront of the anti-Japanese military and civilians across the country.

Not only was the position they were defending precarious, but their own troops also suffered heavy casualties.

This is nothing. The entire Nationalist army on the southern line of Zhongtiao Mountain is in this terrible state.

But you wiped out two regiments of the Japanese devils within twenty minutes.

Doesn't this mean that we two army commanders have become a laughing stock in the eyes of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians across the country?

Especially the part where they fought with the Japanese with bayonets in the morning, it was so exciting.

No wonder the nearby Shanxi-Suiyuan Army generals looked at us like that.