Crossing the spy war, my code name is God of Wealth

Chapter 494: Southern Guangxi in danger, bloodshed at Kunlun Pass

The time came to late December of the 28th year of the Republic of China.

Shanghai Stock Exchange, Meihua Building, Material Transportation Center.

This was the first day that Chen Yang received so many calls urging the delivery of supplies since he took over the material distribution center.

The reason was that the battle in southern Guangxi was not going well. Kunlun Pass changed hands several times, and both the National Army and the Japanese Army suffered heavy casualties. The Japanese Army even asked the Naval Aviation Brigade staying near Longmen Port to airdrop officers to continue fighting.

Back to mid-November, after the Japanese army landed in Qinzhou, the Fifth Division launched an attack on southern Guangxi with lightning speed.

Since the Kuomintang only had He Xuan's 46th Army left to guard Nanning, there was a large gap between the two sides in terms of military strength, troop quality, and weapons and equipment.

At the end of November, the Fifth Division captured Nanning, but the fighting did not stop there.

The commander of the 5th Division, Imamura Hitoshi, led his soldiers north along the Yongbin Highway.

They rode non-stop, marching day and night, with their target settling on Kunlun Pass, 50 kilometers away from Nanning City.

At the same time, the Fifth Army of the National Army, led by Commander Du, was also marching day and night towards Kunlun Pass.

At the same time, the 200th Regiment of the 600th Division was sent as the vanguard to quickly reinforce Nanning.

But before they arrived, Nanning had already fallen.

The 600th Regiment encountered the Japanese army at Ertang outside Nanning City, and the two sides fought for two days and two nights.

By the time the commander of the 200th Division, Dai Anlan, arrived, the scene was already horrific. The battlefield was littered with corpses of both the enemy and our side. The commander of the 600th Regiment, Shao Yizhi, died for his country, and almost the entire regiment was killed.

On December 12, the Japanese army took the lead and occupied Kunlun Pass. They deployed heavy troops along the way and built permanent fortifications on both sides of Kunlun Mountain in preparation for defending Kunlun Pass.

Kunlun Pass has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

Guarding Kunlun Pass was the newly formed 22th Division of the nd Army, which was a division newly recruited from Sendai and Hiroshima areas on the mainland.

Their attitude towards the National Army is still the same as when China had just come into contact with the Japanese Army.

They believed that the reinforcements from the National Army would not put any pressure on them.

Japanese generals once summarized a formula for converting troop strength, which stated that a Japanese regiment could resist an enemy division.

The newly formed 38th Division was a well-equipped Class A corps and was not at all panicked when facing the enemy.

However, what they didn't know was that the Fifth Army was the only mechanized force in the National Government.

Commander Du was particularly favored by his superiors, and almost all the tanks, armored vehicles, motorcycles and heavy artillery that the Soviet Union provided to the National Army were given to them.

So, on December 12, when Commander Du gathered all the field and heavy artillery of the troops to bombard Kunlun Pass and its surrounding positions, the Japanese troops at Kunlun Pass were completely dumbfounded.

This was the first time that the Nationalist army had gained an overwhelming advantage in artillery fire after fighting the Japanese army so many times.

However, mountain warfare does not mean that everything can be won by mechanization.

Ultimately, it is up to the troops to demonstrate strong combat capabilities.

Under the cover of powerful artillery fire and heavy firepower, the Fifth Army captured the main position of Kunlun Pass on the first day.

The Japanese army panicked after suffering a fierce attack.

The Japanese soldiers reacted and launched a fierce charge on the Fifth Army's position.

With the support of aircraft and artillery from the Naval Aviation Brigade, the position was quickly recaptured.

In the next few days, the two sides entered into a tug-of-war, and the positions were constantly changing as they were lost and regained.

Because the Japanese army had deployed many visible and hidden fire points on the high ground on both sides of Kunlun Pass in advance, the attacking troops suffered heavy casualties.

So, Commander Du adjusted his strategy again.

He concentrated his superior forces and focused his artillery fire on the light and dark fire points on both sides of Kunlun Pass.

Fighting and clearing at the same time, as the encirclement gradually narrowed, the Rong 1st Division quickly cut off the supply lines inside and outside Kunlun Pass.

The Japanese troops stationed inside the pass could only rely on the terrain and remaining supplies to hold on, and kept sending telegrams for help to the headquarters.

After receiving the request for help, the Fifth Division quickly organized troops to provide reinforcements.

At this time, the 22nd Division led by Qiu Qingquan had already circled to the rear of the enemy and joined forces with the Rong st Division to stage a closed-door attack.

Originally, Qiu Qingquan received the order not to let go of any reinforcements.

But Qiu Qingquan, nicknamed Crazy Qiu, did not obey military orders at all and made the decision on his own to let in reinforcements.

This move of executing first and reporting later caught General Du off guard, but for the overall strategy of Kunlun Pass, General Du had no choice but to withdraw troops and work with Qiu Qingquan to eliminate this unit.

After three days of fighting, Qiu Qingquan and the 385th Regiment of the Rong st Division completely wiped out this group of reinforcements near the main battlefield of Kunlun Pass.

However, just as this force was destroyed, Masao Nakamura arrived with a stronger reinforcement.

The strength of the troops this time was far greater than before, and Qiu Qingquan tried his best to prevent the enemy from breaking through the defense line.

Kunlun Pass was in constant danger, so Nakamura Masao had to find another way and gather his troops to take a detour via a small route.

However, Kunlun Pass is steep and the terrain is complex. Their team walked in the mountains and forests for a day and a night but could not find a way out.

In order to reach Kunlun Pass as quickly as possible, Masao Nakamura came up with a stupid idea: using artillery fire to open a path and make a horizontal breakthrough.

Sure enough, although this method was stupid, it was indeed effective and allowed him to carve out a path in the mountains and forests.

Just as they broke through the blockade and reached Kunlun Pass, a regiment of the Rong 1st Division was also ordered to arrive.

The regiment commander Zheng Tingji discovered that after entering the pass, Nakamura Masao had the leisure to gather the guarding officers for a lecture, and immediately ordered the artillery to fire a round of salvos.

A large number of people were killed on the spot, and even Major General Masao Nakamura was hit in the abdomen by shrapnel.

His men hurriedly carried him into the room, and right after that a shell happened to fall from the roof, finishing him off completely.

On December 12, Zheng Dongguo, commander of the Rong 24st Division, ordered Zheng Tingji to lead his troops to capture the last high ground in Kunlun Pass, Jieshou Highland.

After that, the gate of Kunlun Pass was opened wide, and the soldiers of the Fifth Army rushed into the pass and officially recaptured Kunlun Pass.

The Battle of Kunlun Pass lasted nine days and resulted in more than 20,000 casualties on both sides.

Among them, the National Army suffered more than 14,000 casualties, the Japanese Army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, the Fifth Division Brigade Commander Major General Masao Nakamura was killed, and the casualties of middle and lower-level officers reached 90%, leaving almost no command officers available.

When the battle report was sent back to the Chinese Expeditionary Force Headquarters, Commander Nishio was furious and immediately ordered the Japanese troops in Nanning to recapture Kunlun Pass at all costs.

Chen Yang received an order that various supplies and poison gas bombs delivered from the Jinling 155 Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department would be transported to Nanning as quickly as possible to cooperate with the troops in the counterattack.

While Chen Yang ordered the warehouse to fully cooperate in preparing materials for loading, he quickly passed the information to Song Jiayu and asked her to upload it to the headquarters.

I hope the troops stationed in the Fourth War Zone can blow up the supply vehicles on the way...