Chapter 43: The Doom of the Fifty-Fifth Team
Although the 55th Regiment was already injured and dying, Cheng Jiaji did not dare to take it lightly. In this battle, Cheng Jiaji not only prepared four infantry regiments and seven or eight thousand men as frontal attack troops, but also prepared a powerful artillery force compared to his opponents, but also mobilized more than 3,000 local troops to ensure logistics.
In the eyes of others, this kind of situation was too much of a problem. However, Cheng Jiaji still felt that it was insufficient. He also brought the two first-class elite soldiers of the Division Guard Battalion and the special agent battalion that was in rest and recuperated to serve as reserve teams.
The reason why Cheng Jiaji was so nervous about the few thousand remaining soldiers on his lips was not only the common sense of preventing the Japanese army from jumping over the wall, but also because he had a sense of intuition that the Japanese corps, which could use 600% of the troops and 70% of the troops, plus the division special agent camp, to fight for a sea of corpses and blood, and both sides were injured, should not be underestimated.
In order to ensure that the elite Japanese army was wiped out, Cheng Jiaji was already mobilizing his troops to the best of his ability. If Hepu had not had a fast column to take charge, Cheng Jiaji really wanted to transfer all the only tanks before he could feel at ease.
Perhaps Cheng Jiaji was really worried, and the battle was smooth as soon as it started. After a brief and fierce artillery preparation, several regiments rushed to the Japanese position. Faced with the overwhelming offensive of the Chinese army, although the Japanese army fought at key points, they were all defeated by the Chinese army in the famous direction with absolute superior force. For a moment, it seemed that the Japanese army was already a paper tiger that could be pushed down with one push.
When the current line of good news was frequent, everyone in the command center was excited, but only Cheng Jiaji's face was getting more and more serious.
"I ordered all units not to advance again, and to change the attacks in different directions to advance step by step. Also, let each regiment send me a search force. I want to determine the specific location of the main force of the Japanese army." Cheng Jiaji had already smelled the danger. This Japanese army was so easy to fight, and the losses of the 200 regiments were difficult to explain.
Cheng Jiaji's reaction was extremely fast, but he was still a beat slower. The sudden burst of gunfire and sudden shouts of killing in the northwest direction revealed the answer to why the Chinese army had developed smoothly just now. Although Cheng Jiaji guessed correctly, he would never feel a little happy about it.
"Secret Service Battalion, go to the northwest! The guard battalion and go to the south." Cheng Jiaji, who had been fooled once, was worried. He estimated that the 360th Regiment in the northwest was still somewhat combat-effective. As long as the number of people was greatly reduced, the weapons became the helpers of the special agent battalion with all automatic firearms. 1^6^k^Xiao^ Say^Net should be able to block the Japanese army until the moment reinforcements arrived. Since the Japanese can play tricks once, it is hard to guarantee that they will not play for the second time. The temporary regiment in the south has the latest troops, the worst weapons, and there may be the most dangerous area.
This time Cheng Jiaji did not let Harada lead his nose anymore. Harada Nakasa was now leading the main force of the remnants of the 55th Regiment to rush towards the temporary group that was advancing northward.
In fact, this is not because Cheng Jiaji is so smart and military talent. It is because Harada is very pitiful to play land cards. No matter how colorful and heart-wrenching war is, it is still a ultimate competitive activity for humans to speak by strength. When facing a powerful opponent, he does not have the corresponding strength. No matter how high his strategic ability is, as long as the opponent's level is not too low, the chance of success in the end is undoubtedly very slim.
The 55th Regiment led by Harada Nakasa broke through the siege, with only 500 troops and was besieged for many days, and his morale was almost exhausted. I knew earlier that he had been abandoned by the military headquarters, and complained that he was no longer a problem. In addition, after the supply of the 55th Regiment was cut off, airdrops alone could not fully guarantee the combat needs. If the ammunition of these hundreds of Japanese troops was based on the standards of the Japanese army, it would be extremely scarce. On average, each rifle only had eight bullets, and the more bullets of light and heavy machine guns were only thirty to fifty. As for the shells, they were exhausted yesterday.
Poor morale, insufficient ammunition, and resentment are all great enemies of an army. Logically speaking, if you only have the same involvement in this army, you should have no combat effectiveness.
But this team is the most powerful soldier of the 18th Division, which was once "majestic" and the old foundation of the 55th Regiment, and the capital is limited. Under the leadership of Sahara Harada Nakasa, these veterans who knew how bad the breakout was, all the murderous aura in their eyes were full of murderous aura!
The Japanese army broke through quickly collided with one of the battalions of the temporary regiments that were being advanced in several directions.
The combat power of these two troops with similar numbers is simply incomparable. But the Japanese army suffered losses, and the ammunition was insufficient. The battalion commander of the battalion in the first regiment was a veteran who had fought with Lieutenant General Huang for seven or eight years. When he saw the density of the Japanese firepower, it was not of the same level as those in the battle between Yizhu and other Japanese. He understood that the Japanese had few bullets. He had rich combat experience, regardless of the thirty-one, and kept urging his team of recruits to set off guns and cannons desperately. For a moment, the officers and soldiers of this battalion fired a loud rifle and light machine gun, and even the only two 60 cannons in the battalion were shot one after another without hesitation. Regardless of the accuracy, at least in terms of firepower intensity, the Chinese army covered the Harada army.
"Assault!" Even though he was reluctant in his heart, Harada Nakasa had to frown, grit his teeth, and issued an order to charge the entire army. He was not unaware that even at night, he would have to break through the dense firepower net woven by the Chinese army with hundreds of footworks, machine guns, and other dense firepower nets. If he had been on weekdays, he believed that with the advantage of the hundreds of selected shots under his command, he could steadily and easily defeat the opponent's Chinese army with obviously uneven quality of soldiers. But the problem was that he did not have that time. As long as he delayed for a short while, the Chinese army rushing from all directions would pounce on like a hungry wolf pack, chewing the last little bones and blood of the 55th Regiment, and even the belt bones would not be left.
Seeing that the Japanese army launched a charge desperately, they knew that the Japanese army would collapse when they approached the side of the party. The battalion commander named Zhou of the first regiment was also anxious. He shouted on the position. "Let's fire! Open fire! Fight all the bullets."
The temporary guns were almost the same as the first regiment (most of them were made in Hanyang. Only a small number of formal rifles.) But as a member of the Central Army system, they had relatively sufficient bullets, with an average of thirty rounds per rifle. Although this quantity was far lower than the normal amount of ammunition carried by individual infantry soldiers of the Japanese army, each rifle was 150 rounds. It was three or four times more than the current Fifty-fifth Regiment. Moreover, this battalion was equipped with more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns and two mortars, and the ammunition of these weapons was much more than similar weapons of the Japanese army.
The Chinese army was completely open and the barrage was much tighter than before. In the shuttled rain of bullets, the Japanese soldiers who charged often had the chance to fire two or three bullets, and the target was exposed because they were exposed. The dense bullets shot from the opposite side were shot into sieve. That scene was quite imaginative with the white print Nians. But at this moment, the soldiers of the Fifty-fifth Regiment had their best shooting level in their lives. The hit rate of the bullets fired from the Japanese gun chamber was frighteningly high. In the absence of visibility, it could also reach the probability of three or four guns hitting a Chinese soldier.
The two armies, one relies on sufficient firepower and on the defensive, intending to delay the war. The other relies on its individual combat capabilities that are much higher than the opponent, and wants to fight quickly and quickly. In this way, these two troops with almost equal forces actually competed for one-on-one death and injury tolerance.
Damn, why didn't the First Battalion and Third Battalion die? Battalion Commander Zhou knew very well that his troops' psychological endurance was much worse than the Japanese army on the other side. If he continued to fight like this, he would definitely not be able to fight against the Japanese. He knew that in order to cover the main force's breakthrough, Harada not only invested a feint attack force composed of 200 people in the attack of the 360th Regiment, but also sent several small teams to search for the responsible side of the 1st Regiment. Once the established Chinese army was discovered, these small teams immediately carried out suicide attacks and dragged the other side. The other two battalions of the 1st Regiment were now being entangled by the Japanese troops, and there was a way to get through.
As Battalion Commander Zhou expected, in this kind of shooting that killed each other, the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion gradually could not hold on. Although the officers tried their best and even shot several relentless recruits on the spot, they still failed to stabilize their morale. Deserts began to appear, first, single recruits dropped their guns and ran away, then two or three. By the time even some veterans escaped from the battlefield, the collapse of the Second Battalion was inevitable.
"Brothers, withdraw!" After the war has been fought, Battalion Commander Zhou realized that he had done his best. If he continues, the second battalion will only be destroyed. He can fight with the Japanese, but he must leave a way out for his brothers under his command!
Battalion Commander Zhou had just gathered his old subordinates and was about to retreat, so Cheng Jiaji arrived with the guard battalion.
"Let's go back and break eastward!" Haradanaka Sa's reinforcements, whom he judged from the revival of the Chinese army in front, finally arrived, and hurriedly ordered the Japanese army, which had less than 400 people, to turn around and go eastward, trying to break out of it.
Harada miscalculated this move, and the Chinese army in other directions did not give Harada any opportunity to take advantage of it. In addition, at this time, the main force of the remnants of the 55th Regiment had no power to defeat a battalion of the Chinese army in a short period of time. Harada's troops fought east and west in the tighter and tighter circle, and the fewer people rushed and the fewer ammunition was exhausted. Finally, at 9:30 pm, the last 200 people of the 55th Regiment were surrounded by several regiments of the Chinese army in an open space where the Japanese army had dug some simple fortifications earlier.
"Pull up the cannons!" Cheng Jiaji did not persuade people to surrender, nor was he prepared to capture the prisoners. In his opinion, this was the greatest "respect" he could give to his tenacious enemy. Thinking of this, Cheng Jiaji couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, when did he still have a "knight" complex.
The Chinese army besieged the Japanese army and the remnants of the besieged Japanese army understood that everything that was about to happen was no longer considered a battle, but just a unilateral massacre.
Under the order of the exhausted Harada Nakasa, the Japanese flag guards burned the corps flag.
Looking at the fires emerging from the opposite position, Cheng Jiaji felt emotion again. The nature of this war is naturally unquestionable. It was an aggressive war launched by Japan. After all, it was just a war with a strongly aggressive resource-scarce nation, aiming to occupy more survival resources that belong to others. In this war, the Japanese showed madness and beastliness, which showed from the other side that they had the "capital" to be robbers. But we have been guarding the title of a country of heaven for thousands of years, and there is still much ambition to expand territory during the Han and Tang dynasties in their blood. If the Chinese people lose their martial spirit and the spirit of "violating" with the people of the world, they will be content with small wealth. If they defeat the Japanese today, who will come tomorrow?
The artillery of the division quickly used shells to plow the open space. Then the mortar company commanders of each regiment also fired a volley. As a whole, the 55th Regiment, which was once "prominent", completely withdrew from the stage of war amid the rumbling cannons and disappeared in the long river of history.
Cheng Jiaji was not long enough, so he left only a few troops to cooperate with the local militia to continue searching for the scattered soldiers of the 55th Regiment, and then commanded the troops involved in the battle and advanced rapidly to the southeast without stopping.
When Cheng Jiaji surrounded and annihilated the remnants of the 55th Regiment, Lieutenant General Huang personally led all the New 72nd Division, most of the New 120th Division and the army's direct troops to Xinwei to carry out multiple detours to encircle the Japanese Ono Detachment. Qian Shen's troops, who had been fighting with Ono Detachment for several days, were also ordered to use a comprehensive counterattack to entangle the Japanese one and a half regiments.
The task of the four more regiments led by Lieutenant General Huang to Cheng Jiaji was one of them. It was really a matter of the task of destroying the 55th Regiment and lifting the New Eighteenth Army. Moreover, he rushed towards Hepu and met with Liu Yicheng's troops, and forced the Qinzhou Bay first-time Cheng Jiaji to sing the highlight tonight.
The Japanese army gathered in various ports of Qinzhou Bay, and the materials and weapons alone were piled up like mountains, and weapons alone were enough to arm a brigade." This piece of information about how Qinzhou Bay was "rich" brought back by intelligence personnel. Cheng Jiaji fought continuously with the spirit of running and cutting his feet, and rushed towards the Qinzhou Bay, where "extremely beautiful" and "gold" everywhere in his mind.
Chapter completed!