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July 6, 2018, eleven o'clock in the morning.

When the Southwest Air Force once again took off from Peiping Daxing Airport and Taiyuan North Airport, the encirclement and annihilation war began. Aircraft taking off from the direction of Daxing Airport were still responsible for supporting the Kuomintang's blocking positions in Xushui and Xin'an directions, while Taiyuan North Africa Airport was responsible for supporting

Annihilation battle outside Baoding City.

The annihilation battle outside Baoding City was proceeding very quickly. When a huge bomber group composed of hundreds of aircraft of various types flew over the Japanese army, the Japanese army had lost all anti-aircraft firepower. Any fighter jet could straf any place at low altitude.

, the Japanese painfully discovered that they could only hide in the trenches and wail, enjoying the dive and strafing of Chinese fighter planes and the bombing of heavy aerial bombs.

Different from previous ground bombings, in this bombing, the planes flying from the southwest to the north airport put huge pressure on the Japanese army. It can be said that it was the cluster bombing composed of more than a hundred advanced aircraft that put pressure on the Japanese army.

The Fifth Division, which was surrounded in a small circle, was defeated.[

After the encirclement and annihilation battle began, with the air force's bombing as the vanguard, the two main divisions in the southwest took the third regiment of the third division of the main division and the first regiment of the fourth division of the main division, each equipped with 1,500 submachine guns, as the offensive vanguard.

With heavy firepower, more than 20,000 people from the two divisions launched a final fierce attack on the Japanese army with more than 10,000 people left.

When attacking the Japanese trenches, the submachine gun once again showed its great power as a "trench broom". The short gun body and intensive firepower were simply a nightmare for the Japanese trench defenders. As long as a few Southwest troops broke through, the entire position would be destroyed.

Just lost it.

Although this kind of submachine gun is temporarily issued on a large scale, each squad of the main division originally had one or two pieces of equipment. Moreover, the lack of large-scale equipment does not mean that there is no usual training. As is the practice in the southwest, the main force is testing equipment.

While collecting these weapons, they must also do a good job of receiving new equipment at any time. While saving, they must also complete training tasks. During the year, the army will always conduct several submachine gun shooting trainings. And for these professional soldiers

It is said that the recoil of a submachine gun is much smaller than that of a single-shot rifle, and it is also very easy to operate. Even if it is fired urgently on the battlefield, it only takes half a shot to get the feeling.

This time the encirclement and annihilation battle was extremely smooth. After the Japanese army was surrounded, the "medicine" was exhausted under the high-intensity fighting. Facing the encirclement of the two southwest main divisions, they had no ability to break through.

And it was in this battle that the group offensive capabilities of the southwest modern army were finally demonstrated.

Earlier, when a regiment or a division was placed on the defensive battlefield, the Japanese army only felt that the defense lines defended by the Southwest Army could not break through. The feeling of being difficult to resist was not as strong as it is now.

When the encirclement and annihilation battle began, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the Japanese Fifth Division, finally understood how terrifying the Southwest Army was.

For example, a large group of Japanese troops who had also set up a position resisted stubbornly, but were quickly captured by an equal number of troops from the Southwest Army. Such tacit cooperation made the Japanese troops, who had always been proud of their well-trained troops, have to lower their heads.

They have a complete range of arms. Except for the absence of tank troops and cluster artillery, their infantry configuration almost suppressed the Japanese army to death.

When encountering resistance from the cannon-throwing group, the opponent, in addition to pulling up the infantry cannon, would often fly over with a rocket and directly eliminate the stubborn cannon-throwing group.

When encountering the Japanese heavy machine guns, in addition to rocket suppression, the opponent's Ripper heavy machine gun is easy to move and can follow the troops very well to provide fire suppression during the march. When comparing the "fire" speed, the one who is often suppressed must be

Japanese heavy machine gun.

Speaking of marksmanship, the Japanese army also found that the Southwest Army's marksmanship was more accurate than its own, especially their widespread grassroots sharpshooters, which could be seen in almost every company and platoon. The result was that at any attack point, as long as there was a

Several Japanese soldiers with good marksmanship will immediately be taken care of by the opponent's sharpshooters, and then they will be directly shot in the head.

Of course, these only reflect the details of an army's combat effectiveness. In Yanagawa Heisuke's view, the real fear of the Southwest Army lies in its cluster advantage. The combat effectiveness of two divisions is much stronger than that of two divisions fighting alone. When attacking,

The tactics are used very appropriately, and even a battalion-level commander can formulate several plans during the attack.

This proves that the southwest's modern officer education is already ahead of the empire.

This proves that they not only have an army that has undergone twenty years of professional military training, but they also have a large number of outstanding officers.

He didn't even think that two Chinese people he once disdained, two junior officers from the Military Academy, Cai E and Jiang Baili from the 16th and 17th periods of the Army Academy, would cause such a big impact on the empire.

Hazard. One is the Chief of General Staff of the Southwest Army, and the other is at the helm of China's highest military academy, which has trained a large number of modern military talents.

After the Japanese Fifth Division was quickly broken through the position, it took less than half a day to be divided into small groups. During the fierce attack, the Southwest Army quickly broke up the Japanese army and then organized to attack these lost threats.

Attack of small units.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on the 6th, the Southwest Army was already cleaning the battlefield.

Throughout the battlefield, groups of Japanese soldiers could be seen being escorted towards the prisoner of war assembly area. There were burning corpses everywhere. Some Japanese soldiers' corpses were still pressed on heavy machine guns after death, while others were hit by artillery fire.

The stumps lying around in the trenches declared that they had fought, and some wanted to fight back before they died, or pretended to be wounded and hid under the corpses, thinking of dying with the Chinese, but what they received was just a penetrating shot.

The child of the corpse.[

For the Japanese troops who did not voluntarily hand over their guns and surrender, the Southwest Army adopted a massacre without mercy. As for the wounded, the Southwest Army refused to provide medical treatment and walked into the prisoner of war camp. It was fine if they survived. Otherwise, they had better go to see Amaterasu early.

For the better, instead of spending huge medical expenses to treat these Japanese invaders, it is better to build a few more submachine guns.

Although the Southwest Army did not kill the captured Japanese soldiers on a large scale, the few thousand remaining Japanese soldiers will not become bargaining chips on the negotiation table in the future. They will use their splendid youth to forgive their sins in China.

In the rejuvenated China, there are too many large-scale transportation projects or mines waiting for them.

After the Third Division and the Fourth Division completed the encirclement and annihilation battle and captured the Japanese army, they handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to the only **B Division on the battlefield. In this siege and annihilation battle, this B Division also immediately

To their credit, the remote position they defended actually repelled a sudden attack by a large Japanese army.

The 3rd and 4th Divisions quickly marched towards Xushui and Xin'an, intending to make new achievements. However, Shirakawa Yoshinori, who received the news of the destruction of the 5th Division, was preparing to plead guilty to the military headquarters and urgently ordered the two divisions to retreat.

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What is regrettable is that before retreating, the troops of the four Japanese divisions already lacked the ability to pursue. When the two main divisions from the southwest rushed to the battlefield, the Japanese army had already broken away from contact with the Chinese troops and fled in large strides.

Went more than twenty miles.

The entire battlefield was full of equipment abandoned by the Japanese army. They didn't even have time to take away a wounded person. All the wounded were shot in the field hospital by the Japanese themselves.

On this day, the Baoding Siege and Annihilation War came to a complete end, and the Chinese people achieved the greatest victory since the Anti-Japanese War. Not counting the defense forces in Peiping, more than eight divisions, 100,000 troops, and a total of 100,000 troops were mobilized before and after the entire annihilation war, and a total of aerial aircraft took off to support

More than 800 sorties.

Due to the rapid action of the Southwest Army, the Fifth Division was defeated in a shorter period of time than the Japanese army expected. In the end, the Chinese combined army of eight divisions achieved a great victory over more than three Japanese divisions.

The Japanese Fifth Division, starting with the division commander Yanagawa Heisuke, had more than 10,000 casualties and casualties, except for the division commander who pulled his belly open with a saber and committed suicide, and the number of captured Japanese soldiers reached several thousand. The two Japanese divisions responsible for the rescue

regiment, the losses were also relatively heavy. In addition to the air raids by the Southwest Air Force, the two divisions also dropped too many corpses in front of the positions of the four Kuomintang divisions. The two divisions combined

The total casualties reached more than 6,000 people. (About 1,000 people died or were injured in the air strikes, and the four divisions killed nearly 4,5,000 people in total.) This was in Japan with air support provided by the Southwest Air Force, and the Japanese army

But under the premise of lack of artillery, if the situation is reversed, or the battle is delayed for another day or two, then the attack of the four divisions will end in a disastrous defeat.

Of course, the Chinese Communist Party also paid a heavy price. Except for the two divisions of the Southwest Division, which suffered relatively small losses, each of the Kuomintang divisions that participated in the battle suffered thousands of losses, especially Zhang Zizhong’s 38th Division.

The 21st Division, which concurrently served as division commander with Fang Shuhong, suffered particularly heavy casualties. Zhang Zi

Zhong himself was injured in the leg, Fang Shuhong was also injured by artillery fragments, and Huo Shouyi, commander of the 21st Division, was killed by Japanese artillery. Compared with the much more elite Xin'an blockade force, the 38th Division counted the number of people after the war

, only more than 2,000 people were left, almost everyone was injured, and the battle losses were as high as two-thirds.

After the war, Zhang Zizhong himself told reporters truthfully: If the Southwest Army had not achieved a rapid victory over the Japanese Fifth Division, the 38th Division's only choice would have been to retreat.

On July 7, 2011, Zhang Shusheng, the chief executive of the Southwest United Government, delivered a speech on the Anti-Japanese War in Kunming. He spoke highly of the great victory achieved through the cooperation between the two militaries.

"... This is a great victory. The destruction of the Japanese Fifth Division proves an ironclad fact that China is no longer the late Qing Dynasty, and the Chinese have the ability to fight back any aggression... We will fight to the end until

Take back all our fallen lands...and their sacrifices will set in motion the rejuvenation process of the entire nation..."

The Nanjing National Government, Chiang Kai-shek, also delivered a passionate anti-war speech at his official residence in Nanjing, claiming that this was a huge victory since the anti-Japanese war. The myth of the Japanese army's invincibility was finally shattered and would be completely broken from now on. China will definitely win the final victory of the anti-war.

victory.

In the ensuing news discussion, many people also reflected on why the Kuomintang's army was not as good at fighting as the southwestern army. Although they were also able to fight bravely, the shocking casualty figures made people feel sad.

Although the results of the discussion are diverse, the reputation of the Southwest Army for its good fighting skills has been known to the Chinese people. Photos of them can be found on the front page of every newspaper: Southwest Army officers and soldiers wearing field camouflage uniforms,

They are full of energy, and their faces are full of fighting spirit. In the photos, they are either taking a nap in the trenches, engaged in battle, or escorting captured Japanese soldiers...

During this great discussion, an incident occurred that made the Nanjing National Government extremely passive.

Southwest Daily published a signed article in which famous patriots Ms. Soong Ching Ling, Mr. Lu Xun, Cai Yuanpei and others jointly called on the Southwest Government and the Nanjing National Government to launch unification talks.

"...In this war of national defense, we have seen that a non-unified Chinese law exerts its greatest energy. However, a unified 'government' can protect the homeland and the country and the land and the people. We call for the Southwest United Autonomy"

The government and the Nanjing National Government face up to the major issues of national unification and ethnic unity and launch sincere negotiations on the unification issue..."

After the incident of this signed article, all Chinese people began to realize the truth that only a unified and powerful China can fight back against foreign aggression, defend the country and bring peace to the people, and bring hope to the nation.

From north to south, voices calling for reunification have continued.
Chapter completed!