Can the "five main forces" of the national army beat the Japanese first-class division during the War of Liberation?

The record of a group army of the Eighth Route Army, with more than 30,000 people, far exceeds the record of the national army of 3 million, and the casualties are one-eighth of that of the national army (400,000 to more than 3 million)!

Strange phenomenon in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression: There are only dozens of Japanese prisoners in the front battlefield of the Kuomintang, but there are 300 in Yan 'an!

During the period of 1944, the U.S government observed a strange phenomenon in China war zone. As the front battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang army has few Japanese prisoners, only a few dozen in Chongqing. But there are more than 300 Japanese prisoners of war in Yan 'an, northern Shaanxi.

This phenomenon is very contradictory to the Kuomintang's boasting that "the positive anti-Japanese battlefield contributes more."

In fact, the Eighth Route Army captured more than 300 Japanese troops. According to the memory of the U.S. military observer mission in Yan 'an, by July of 1944, the number of Japanese soldiers captured by the China army had reached 2,470, with only 322 remaining, and most of the remaining prisoners of war were released.

In contrast, a large number of Japanese prisoners of war in Chongqing were handed over by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and few Japanese troops were captured by the Kuomintang troops themselves.

1In July, 944, after the US military observer mission arrived in Yan 'an, it met the local Japanese prisoners. Numbers are one after another, so they can't be forged.

Therefore, it is clear at a glance who is active and who is passive in the war of resistance.

On April 26th, 1945, the joint captain of the first 165438 division 165438 of the Japanese army in Xuefeng Mountain front sent a report on the situation to Lieutenant General Ling Tanaka, the head of the division, saying that the joint main force had been hit hard by the China army in the garden area and its progress was blocked. Moreover, Gao Shilong said: "The change of the enemy is terrible. Although the 5 1 Division of the Central Army at war with our department is not entirely American, compared with the former Central Army, it is extremely rich in heavy weapons, light weapons and ammunition, and has also received considerable training in the use of weapons, especially in concentrated firepower and surprise attacks. . . "Yun Yun.

(Commander of the Fourth Army of Wang)

In fact, Colonel Takashi didn't tell the whole truth. 109 United was completely in trouble under the strafe of countless Thomson submachine guns and the heavy bombing of the Sino-American joint air force in the air, and it was in urgent need of division to send troops to rescue it. The opponent of this devil's United front is Zhou Zhidao's 5 1 division, which belongs to the fourth army of Wang and the seventy-fourth army of Shizhong City. Because the Sino-Indian Highway has just been opened to traffic, the 5 1 Division only changed half of the US military machinery before the Xiangxi Battle, and it has already fought a Japanese field United front.

Especially by the beginning of 1945, among the 26 divisions under the jurisdiction of the Japanese "China Dispatching Army", 8 divisions belonged to the so-called "first-class divisions". After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the "Chinese Dispatching Army" upgraded the remaining 3 divisions and 13 divisions, and selected special divisions and police divisions. The remarkable sign of the first division is that after completing the adjustment of three units, it still retains the organizational system of artillery wing (mountain artillery or wild artillery), and its heavy firepower exceeds that of other divisions.

(Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the New Sixth Army)

1 16 division is one of the eight "Grade A divisions". Originally stationed in Anqing, Anhui Province, it was under the East China 13 Army of the Japanese invaders. 1942 was adjusted and upgraded, 1943 was transferred to the Japanese invaders during the Changde Battle 1 1 troops. Since then, it has become the third main force of the Army (the 3rd Division and the13rd Division are definitely in the forefront), and it is also the main force of siege operations in Changde and Hengyang, with three field wings under its jurisdiction: 109, 120 and 133 * *. The battle of Hengyang was fierce, and 1 16 division suffered heavy casualties. After the war, it was supplemented and restored to about 20,000 troops, but 70-80% were recruits.

In the battle of Xiangxi in the spring of 1945,16 division was transferred to the newly formed 20th Army of Yiliang in Banxi, and as the main force of Japanese invaders trying to capture Zhijiang in Xiangxi, the three wings were strengthened to more than 4,000 people each. I met a ghost when I went out. Not only was the wing of 109 beaten out of the water by Zhou Zhidao's 5 1 division, but the wing of another son, Yu Zhongxiong's 120, was also blocked by Li Yan's 57th division. If Wang He and the Chief of Staff had the operational guiding ideology of "luring the enemy deep and surrounded on all sides", Er Yuyi would have failed completely.

(18 Army Commander Hu Lian)

On the other side of the battlefield, the 74th Army, the main force of the 58th Division of Cai Renjie, also completely defeated the Chrysanthemum United of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army in Wadangwu area. In other words, the three divisions of the 74th Army, 5 1, 57, and 58, fought against a United front of the Japanese army, never losing ground. Among them, Zhou Zhidao and Li Yan are both infantry wings of the Japanese first-class division. Therefore, as the first of the "five main forces", the 74th Army had the strength to defeat a first-class Japanese division in the first half of 1945. There is no doubt that a main division with American equipment is enough to defeat a complete infantry regiment of the Japanese army.

The battle of Xiangxi was fought on May 9th. In view of the fact that Japanese troops from all walks of life were already in a state of fatigue, all the new Sixth Army of Liao Yaoxiang, the general reserve team, arrived by air. Wang finally gave the order of general assault, and the 20 th Army of the Japanese aggressors soon fell apart and began to flee in succession. Among them, the hapless Si Long United team fled desperately from Mashan area to the mountain gate, and the result was that it ran into the Yang Botao 1 1 Division and 18 Army coming from the periphery. In just two hours, the Ministry controlled all the commanding heights of the mountain gate, commanded and violently shot the fleeing Japanese army, so in the Xiangxi campaign, three of the "five main forces" were on the battlefield.

(Du, commander of the 5th Army)

Under the annihilation of Yang Botao 1 1 Division (1/Division owns all the beautiful machinery), only more than 200 remnants of Si Long United who fled to the city gate remained. Even if the whole army was basically wiped out, fortunately, the joint commander and the military flag were saved, and then they fled all the way to the east. A complete infantry regiment with more than 4,000 rogue soldiers was mostly annihilated by 1 1 division except for the casualties of1division. Therefore, the glory of "Mutubu"1kloc-0/division during the Anti-Japanese War is no exaggeration.

The main force of Hu Lian 18 Army has already gone all the way to the battlefield here. If the Japanese retreat is firmly blocked, the so-called A-level division of 1 16 will be completely annihilated. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry to report back to Chongqing and hinted to Wang that the enemy could not retreat. 18 army finally let go of a hole and let the Japanese aggressors escape. However, it has been proved that the 74th Army and 18 Army have the ability to defeat a Japanese first-class division at the same time, and the battle of Xiangxi has not achieved all the results, which is a matter of high-level command.

Take Yang Botao 1 1 as an example. After accepting and replacing American-made equipment, the division was equipped with 9 150 rifles and pistols, 2,370 submachine guns, 105 a battalion with 8 howitzers, 4 battalions of American mountain artillery with 48 guns, 32mm flat-fire guns with 24 guns and 22mm 65,438 guns. It can be seen that not only the rapid-fire firepower of infantry light weapons has been greatly strengthened, but also the infantry support firepower and artillery firepower have increased geometrically, completely crushing one or two Japanese squadrons with good quality and quantity.

The 5th Army also changed its outfit in Kunming, and the equipment level of its main 20th division was even better than that of 1 1 division. In other words, the 5th Army, 18 Army and 74th Army all had the invincible strength of the first division of the Anti-Japanese Army at the beginning of 1945, before they were completely changed. However, we should know that at the beginning when 1946 was named as the "five main forces", the men in the reorganization divisions of these three armies (the whole 5 th division, the whole 1 1 division, and the whole 74 th division) were slightly less than those during the anti-Japanese war (all of them were old and weak), but all of them were replaced with American-made equipment, and their combat effectiveness was further enhanced.

The New Sixth Army did not actually participate in the Xiangxi Battle, but the New First Army and the New Sixth Army were equipped according to the standards of the American Light Infantry Division, and the overall level was even higher than that of the Fifth Army, the 18 Army and the 74th Army. They have already proved their combat effectiveness in the counterattack campaign in northern Myanmar, and only the new 22nd Division and the new 38th Division completely abused the Japanese18th Division. Although this division is a permanent division that was laid off during the Taisho period, its combat effectiveness is not weak. During the Nanjing War, an entire army of Sichuan Army was defeated. When it arrived in Myanmar, it was also called the so-called "tiger of the jungle".

If the18th Division did not transfer to the Confederate Army, but stayed in the battlefield in China, it would definitely be selected as the "first-class division", that is to say, only two new divisions almost eliminated the18th Division, so there were three elite infantry divisions on the eve of the Japanese surrender in 1945. The problem is that Okamura Ningji doesn't want to continue to invest troops in Xiangxi, and Chongqing doesn't want elite troops to fight to the end, so in the stage of anti-Japanese counterattack, these five armies have no particularly great results.

(Forces nouvelles commander Sun Liren)

The battle of Xiangxi ended with the victory of the Fourth Army on June 7th. 1945. The casualties admitted by the Japanese army were 27,000 (according to Chinese statistics, 35,000), while the casualties of China's army were only 20,000. It was the only time in all 22 large-scale battles in the eight-year anti-Japanese war that the casualties of China's army were lower than those of the Japanese army, which was a complete victory. During the battle, the strong firepower of six mechanics of the US Army belonging to the Fourth Army frightened the Japanese, which also proved that China soldiers could defeat the once arrogant Japanese robbers if they were well equipped, had sufficient ammunition and had air superiority.

In June after the Battle of Xiangxi, Japanese Chief of Staff Mei Jinfei flew to Dalian to hold a top-secret military meeting with Okamura, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatching Army, and Yamada, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army. Decided to shrink the Japanese army in Shanhaiguan to the coastal areas. For example, the 20th Army will retreat to Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, and the 1 1 Army going deep into Guilin will retreat to Wuhan. In order to preserve its strength, the Chongqing government did not mobilize the elite troops including the "five main forces" to fully pursue it, but followed the Japanese ass to "recover lost ground" little by little.

Therefore, the "five main forces" who changed their planes did not achieve the expected results. Soon Japan surrendered, and the rear area became the main force of surrender in major cities, and eventually it was completely destroyed in the battlefield of the war of liberation.

When answering this question, I suddenly remembered the story of Guan Yu's war against Qin Qiong.

Folk stories:

Here's the thing:

Speaking of Han Fuju, chairman of Shandong Province in the Republic of China, this man is really poor. Shandong people made up many jokes for him, and the civil war stars became mentally retarded, including this one:

One day, President Han was bored, so he called a famous iron mouth and said, "Give me the book quickly!" "

The storyteller dare not neglect, "Chairman Han, which paragraph do you want to listen to today?"

"That ~ ~ ~ call me Qin Qiong!"

"This ~ ~ these two guys are 400 years apart!"

"I just want to hear it. Will you say it or not?"

"Go ahead ... talk!" ....

"Speaking of the master's appearance, red face and long beard, dragon crescent moon blade, red rabbit on his leg ... who will he go to? Here, Qin Qiong greeted him with his yellow horse and Tintin Mao Mao ... thunderbolt, a fierce battle ... ".

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is indeed an indelible painful memory of the people of the whole country. The anti-Japanese forces led by the Kuomintang and the Producer Party have made immortal contributions to the fight against the Japanese aggressors. Therefore, today we will not discuss whether the "five main forces" of the national army can beat the Japanese first-class division during the War of Liberation. We should remember the martyrs, work hard and strive for self-improvement!

I think I was beaten. At that time, the new army led by Zheng Dongguo, the expeditionary force (that is, when the new 38th Division in Sun Liren and the 22nd Division in Liao Yaoxiang had not been reorganized separately), had several head-on battles with the Japanese 1st18th Division in northern Myanmar. In the Hu Kang River Basin and the Battle of Myitkyina, the division commander Lieutenant General Tanaka almost wiped out 18, disobeyed the evacuation order and committed suicide.

I don't think I can beat the Japanese First Division at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War. The Japanese First Division can attack and defend, and its fighting will and skills are not comparable to those of the five main forces.

We can take two classic battles in which the five main forces participated as examples: the battle of southern Guangxi and the battle of Mizola. Both sides of the Japanese army are in an absolutely weak position in terms of personnel and weapons. We are the first-class main force in the war, and we have done our best. In the battle of Guinan, the national army fled in defeat, and the battle of Mizola was ten times that of the Japanese army. 5000 Japanese troops persisted for more than two months, but there was still a 1000 breakthrough.

I don't think I can beat it. In fact, comparing the combat effectiveness of the two armies, if we don't consider the incomparable factors such as training and morale, it is enough to drag the cannon out for comparison, except for the * * * army.

Thirty-nine years later, when the Japanese army reorganized the resident division into a first-class division, the basic artillery establishment was: 75 mountain artillery/KOOC-0/2, 70 infantry artillery/KOOC-0/8, 37 anti-tank artillery/KOOC-0/2, 75 field combat 24,/KOOC-0/20 pomegranate/KOOC-0/2 or/.

Take the 74th National Army as an example. Over the past 46 years, the whole division has been equipped with 24 75mm mountain guns, 34 37mm main guns, 29 82 mortars and 22 American Bayi mortars. After that, because the loss only decreased, it did not increase.

Obviously there are more anti-tank guns, but there is still a certain gap with the Japanese.

Yes, history has answered! 74th Division (Army) Wanjialing Campaign and Changde Campaign! The new 5 th Army won the Kunlun Pass! The new 1 and the 6 th Army moved to Myanmar! 1 1 division Xiangxi battle!

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