16, the fifth theater ordered all troops to break through the mountainous area at the junction of Henan and Anhui. China's army retreated while fighting, and the formation was not chaotic, and it retreated to the west and south step by step. The Japanese army blocked one place, and the China army rushed one place. They were invincible. The army gathered in southern Henan and northern Hubei, and each road rushed out of the encirclement. In order to avoid a war of attrition with the superior enemy, Li Zongren ordered his troops to defend the various forces when the enemy approached Xuzhou step by step. After a little resistance, the camera retreated to the mountains and lakes to carry out guerrilla warfare of "breaking the whole into parts" and entangled with the enemy for more than a month. Li Zongren and more than 700 officers and men of the Chief Executive's Department passed through the encirclement of the enemy, passed Su Xian and Mengcheng, and moved to Huangchuan overnight. Liu Ruming, who stayed in Xuzhou City, ambushed the Japanese Ninth Division in Xiaoxian County, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. Seeing that most of China's troops had left, the Japanese army tried to panic in Liu Ruming, Xuzhou. Liu Ruming pretended to do his duty, but all the troops retreated. According to Chiang Kai-shek's orders, he abandoned Xuzhou City, cleverly jumped out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops and moved safely. The enemy not only failed to defeat Liu Ruming, but also failed to catch a captain. The Japanese Central China Dispatching Army 13 Division came all the way, and it was found that Li Zongren was singing an empty plan, which greatly defeated the North China Army, which was bent on winning. The Japanese army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and gained an empty city. Pang Bingxun Third Army Corps
Pang Department was exhausted, and Pang Bingxun sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek saying that "the total number of combat soldiers is now less than 1,000". Plus Xu Zuyi's message to Li Zongren said that "Pang Jun's military strength has been greatly lost ... and his fighting capacity has been lost". Even considering Pang's ability to preserve and exaggerate the number of casualties, according to Pang's total number of combat soldiers, it can be roughly seen that Pang's casualties are above 8,000.
Zhang Zizhong 59th Army
Liu and Yu Linzhang said in their memoirs that during the fierce fighting in the first three days (March 14, 15, 16), the army suffered more Japanese casualties, but its own casualties were no less than six or seven thousand. Gu confirmed this statement. By the morning of 17, the army had counted the casualties. "Since the 38th Division entered the battle of Linyi, there have been nearly 4,000 casualties, and the180th Division has also suffered more than 2,000 casualties." Military records of Shandong Province accepted this statement, saying that "to 17, (the 59th Army) suffered more than 7,000 casualties". Guo Rugui's book "The Battle of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China" also accepted this statement, saying that "by the morning of 17, 59 troops suffered more than 6,000 casualties". 2 1 At the end of the first phase of the Linyi Campaign, Yu Linzhang said that "the enemy suffered about 6,000 casualties ... our army suffered 8,000 casualties", and Gu called the 59th Army "nearly 9,000 casualties". The detailed operational report of the 59 th Army confirmed this data. On 24th, when the 59th Army, which reinforced Linyi again, assembled in the northwest of the city, there were only 13000 soldiers in the whole army, while there were 2 10 soldiers in the whole army before the First World War in Linyi, a decrease of 8000.
Through the casualties of subordinate troops, we can also see the heavy casualties of the 59 th Army. Li Zhiyuan, the former brigade commander of the 38th Division 1 13 Brigade, said in his memory that only in the Liujiahu Battle from 15 to 18, "the 228th regiment had more than 2,000 people and lost more than half; The 224th Regiment also suffered nearly half casualties. The dead of the 59th Army include the 2nd Battalion of the 678th Regiment of the 26th Brigade (head Cui Zhenlun, another battalion of the regiment was killed in the attack on Zhu Chen Town), 1 13 Brigade, 6th Company of the 26th Regiment,165438th Brigade, 27th Regiment 10 Company. Wang Pi-lian, who was then the chief staff officer of the Operations Department of the 59th Army Staff Office, recalled: "After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, only our company commander suffered casualties 100, and two-fifths of the soldiers suffered casualties. "
Considering the heavy casualties of the 59th Army, Xu Zuyi suggested that the troops quit the fighting and move to Tancheng for repair, which was rejected by Zhang Zizhong.
After the Second Battle of Linyi, Yu Linzhang said that the 38th Division "laid off more than 10,000 people", so Zhang Zizhong decided to merge the division into a brigade, with about 1000 people under the direct command of the army. According to Yang Yuchun, chief of staff of the 39th Brigade of 180 Division, the brigade "only has more than 200 people left, and the remaining 3,000 people were killed or injured." As the chief of staff of the brigade, the data of combat casualties provided by Yang should be credible.
Regarding the casualties of the 59th Army in the two Linyi battles, Zhang Zizhong himself revealed in his telegram to Li Zongren that "there were more than 10,000 casualties". This data is very flexible, and many words simply quote 10000 people. However, according to relevant data, the casualties of the 59th Army far exceeded 1 000.
On March 25th and 26th, Zhang Bu's 38th Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties in the battle to rescue Sanguan Temple and Taoyuan in Pang Bingxun. Zhang Zizhong also called Li Zongren at 4 o'clock on the 29th, claiming that there were more than 2,000 casualties since the 27th and 28th. Together, there are four or five thousand people. According to the article recalled by Liu and Yu Linzhang, "In Linyi's two battles, there were more than 800 officers and men at all levels and more than 10,000 soldiers." If we refer to the casualty ratio listed in the telegram sent by Zhang Zizhong to Li Zongren on June 9 14: 209 officers and 3,273 soldiers, then at the end of the second Linyi campaign, there were more than 800 officers and soldiers in Zhang Bu, and the casualties should be around13,000.
In this way, the number of casualties of the 59th Army in the two Linyi battles was about 65,438+3,000-65,438+4,000. Together with the 2000 casualties blocked by the Huaihe River, the casualties of the 59th Army in the entire Taierzhuang campaign were about 65438+5000.
Sun Zhen's 22nd Army
Zhang Xuanwu said in his memory: "The garrison troops of the 4 122 division commander Wang suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and the 45 127 division commander Chen Li suffered 4,500 casualties in the border river and Longshan area north of tengxian. More than 2,000 people were killed in this battle. " 4/KOLOC-0/Army/KOLOC-0/24th Division 74/KOLOC-0/2nd Battalion Commander Xiong Shunyi also said that from March 9 to/KOLOC-0/8th, the Sichuan Army defended tengxian with "more than 10,000 casualties", including 45 troops "from/KOLOC-0/27th Division Commander Chen Li,/KOLOC-" The head of the 750 regiment is Steve Shih Chen-the author's note) There are four or five thousand officers and men in the battalion, company and platoon leader who have suffered casualties. "
Can confirm the above data and Li Zongren's telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, said the 22nd army in the battle of tengxian "more than ten thousand casualties".
However, Sun Zhen, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Army Generation, said in the detailed report of the Battle of tengxian, "This is a battle ... I killed more than 3,000 officers and men and injured more than 4,000 officers and men; Forty-one troops accounted for three-quarters of the total casualties. " At that time, Hu, the chief of staff of the Ministry, also said in his memory that more than 8,000 people were killed or injured in the battle of tengxian (more than 5,000 people were killed and more than 3,000 injured).
However, after reading the full text of Sun Zhen's battle report, the starting and ending date of the battle was1March 9, 2007, and it mainly described the battle in tengxian from June 14 to June 17. Hu's article is similar. The data of Sun and Hu obviously did not include the casualties of the Second Army before March 9, but the 45th Army of this unit had already entered tengxian as early as 1938 and 65438+ 10, and had several battles with the Japanese army. For example, in the battle of Guo Shan and Xialiangdian in mid-February, the 750th and 745th regiments of 125 Division suffered about 1000 casualties.
Therefore, the total casualties of the 22 nd Army in the early stage of the Xuzhou Battle were around 1 10,000 people, which was relatively close to reality.
The First Corps of the 20th Army of Tang and Feng
In the three-day battle in March 16, 17 and 18, only two divisions of the 85th Army were killed, namely, "three battalion commanders were killed, two were wounded, one was wounded, more than twenty platoon leaders and more than two thousand soldiers were injured." During the same period, the casualties of the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Customs Department who stopped the Japanese army in Shagou were unknown, but Li Zongren once said in a secret telegram to Chiang Kai-shek on 19: "I (the 6th Brigade) suffered heavy casualties".
In the Northeast Battle of Taierzhuang, the 85th Army and the 52nd Army attacked Sakamoto detachment and suffered heavy losses. "Casualties of 52nd Army and 85th Army 1.3 million"; The 20th Legion broke through the positions of Xiaowangzhuang and Liu Zhuang, where Sakamoto detachment was based, and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. The 4th Division of the 85th Army suffered about 1000 casualties in two days.
Tang called Li Zongren and said, "The enemy of Taierzhuang (Taierzhuang) was attacked by our army (), Wang (Zhonglian) and Zhou (Qi) for one night, and there were more than ten hand-to-hand battles, killing more than 3,000 people. The captured enemy is under investigation. Our army suffered heavy casualties. " Although the contents of the Tang telegram did not indicate the specific number of casualties, it was inferred from the fighting capacity of the Chinese and Japanese armies at that time and the sentence "Our army suffered heavy casualties" that even if the number of casualties in Tang was less than that of the enemy, there should not be a big gap.
In the reminiscence articles of some generals in Tangbu, there are some casualty data during the whole Xuzhou battle, but there is no mention of the casualties in the stage. When the Chief of Staff of the War Department Feng led 1 10 Division to reach Tanghe, Henan Province after the battle of Xuzhou, there was only one brigade left. "This battle (referring to the entire Xuzhou battle) killed and injured more than 5,000 people." Since we left for Lunan in mid-March, after more than a month of continuous fighting, both divisions of the 52nd Army suffered heavy casualties, especially the 2nd Division in Zheng Dongguo. "The number of officers and men with fighting capacity is less than half of the original number." Two divisions fought the most fiercely near Beidayao in Yixian County during the Taierzhuang campaign, and once fought hand-to-hand with the enemy. Many positions of the 2nd Division were recovered and lost several times, resulting in heavy casualties. Zheng Dongguo, the teacher, was even hit by enemy shells when he attacked the eastern part of Yixian County on the morning of March 30th. Because the shrapnel was blocked by the silver dollar in his pocket, Zheng Caixing avoided casualties.
Taken together, the total casualties of the 20th Army of Tang Dynasty and its temporary subordinate ministries are around 10,000, which should not be exaggerated.
Sun Lianzhong 2 nd Army
Li Zongren immediately called Feng, chief of staff of the Military Command, and ordered that "there are only about 2,000 combatants left in the 27th Division, and more than 400 fighters in the 31st Division/KLOC-0". In addition, the defenders of Taierzhuang suffered "more than 200 casualties" on the 6th. When the Japanese army retreated from Taierzhuang, Zhang, the commander of the 30th Division, claimed that "there were only 4,000 people left in the whole army". That is to say, after the Battle of Taierzhuang, there were only about 7,000 to 8,000 remaining combatants in the 27th Division, 30th Division and 3rd1division under the jurisdiction of the 2nd Army, and the independent 44th Brigade was only about 10000 at most. The loss of this group army should be more than 6.5438+0.4 million.
Casualties of other troops
In the Red-Huai War, 3 1 Army of Yu Xuezhong and 5 1 Army of China suffered nearly 6,000 casualties, while 56 Army of Gu and 3 Army of Sun (1938 was reduced to 22nd Division in March, belonging to Sun's 12 Army) participated in the Jining Campaign. "It took about half a month from attack to retreat.
To sum up, China suffered more than 65,000 casualties in the battle of Xuzhou. Red Huai blocking war
1October 24th to 30th, 1938+65438, in the battle of Chihe, which lasted for 7 days and nights, 3 1 army wiped out nearly 2000 enemy troops, including 300 to 400 Chihe. Three collections and Majiagang wiped out two or three hundred people; About 1000 people died in the bright light.
3 1 Army retreated from Chihe River, and cooperated with the 48th Army to attack the enemy in Liu Fu, Kaocheng and Bengbu in early February. "After fierce fighting, more than 1000 enemies were killed."
During the blockade of Huaihe River, the 5 1 Army led by Yu Xuezhong fought to the death with the Japanese 13 Division trying to cross the river, killing thousands of enemies (say 3,000, say 9,000).
The Japanese army suffered about 6000- 1000 casualties.
Battle of tengxian
Sun Zhen said in the detailed report of the battle, "There are more than 320 enemy officers and men, more than 500 soldiers/kloc-0, and more than 5,700 soldiers." ] With the weapons and equipment of the Sichuan Army, it is impossible to achieve such results, and there were thousands of enemies who attacked tengxian at that time. If Sun Zhen's data is true, it is undoubtedly adowa of the Japanese army. Sun's enemy annihilation data is obviously exaggerated.
122 division commander Wang Zhiyuan said in the detailed report of the battle that his troops "killed about 1,000 enemies"; 124 division 370 brigade commander Lu Kang said that his troops "killed about 7,800 enemies"; 372 division brigade commander Zeng Suyuan said that his troops "killed about 6,700 enemies", which adds up to Zhang Xuanwu's statement.
Together with the number of body count of the 45 th Army before March 9, the Japanese army suffered more than 2,500 casualties in the whole battle of tengxian.
Two battles in Linyi
Zhang Zizhong called Li Zongren for the first time and said that "the enemy (Japanese army) suffered more than 4,000 casualties" in Linyi battlefield. And some writings, such as Han Xinfu's "Taierzhuang of Fighters", admit that "more than 3,000 people were wiped out in the battle of Linyi".
The second time, China's army wiped out more than 2,000 people, with prisoners 1 person.
In the battle of Linyi, the number of Japanese casualties should be more than 5500. In addition, when Pang Bingxun and Shen Honglie Marines destroyed the enemy before, the number of Japanese casualties should be no less than 6,000.
Battle of Taierzhuang
The Communist Party of China (CPC)'s Xinhua Daily reported on April 7th and 8th (1938) that more than 10,000 people were wiped out. The Japanese data is 1 1984 casualties. Mr. Kong and other historians agree with Xinhua Daily's data that the Chinese side "defeated the enemy by more than 10,000 people" in Taierzhuang World War I, while in the whole southern Shandong area, "the Japanese army killed more than 65,438 people+06,000 people".
Other local battles
Including 20 armies in Lincheng, Guanqiao and Zaosong and 3 armies in Wenshang, Jining and Yanzhou, the Japanese army lost about 2,000 people.
To sum up, there were more than 26,000 Japanese casualties in the battle of Xuzhou.