Except for Second Lieutenant Sora Fukai, who died on the spot, only two Japanese fighter planes out of the four Japanese planes flying arrogantly at low altitudes were able to return to an altitude of 1,500 meters intact in the end.
A Japanese plane that was spitting out white smoke struggled to fly to an altitude of 800 meters and then fled away into the distance.
The white smoke trailing from the tail of the plane was nearly a mile long, like the flag of a defeated army trailing behind it. Even the soldiers of the Fifth Division who were still on the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain 15 kilometers away from Ruicheng seemed to have seen it.
This should be the first battle damage suffered by Japan's North China Army Aviation Corps in the half month between the launch of the "New Year's Day Offensive" by the Japanese army and the 14th.
The two Japanese planes on guard duty at high altitude reacted even though they were frightened. They flew high in the sky, flapped their wings and dropped a total of 6 bombs.
Unfortunately, due to the high altitude, none of the six bombs hit the target, and the nearest one was 200 meters away from the machine gun fire group hidden in the woods.
This forced surface-to-air ambush battle ended perfectly with the 46th Independent Brigade shooting down one aircraft and injuring another.
In fact, the Japanese plane that fled in panic could not struggle for too long. It finally crashed in the suburbs about 20 miles away from YC City.
The pilot chose to parachute before the plane crashed. If we push the timeline forward half a day, even if the Japanese pilot fell half to death, there was a 90% chance that he would be found and rescued by Japanese infantry.
But the tragedy is that now the 4th Division's Westward Detachment is facing a powerful enemy and is trying its best to defend this logistics base of nearly 200,000 troops. Who cares about the life and death of this unlucky child?
What's even more terrible is that the Japanese pilot who broke a leg took out the small pistol he carried and threatened the villagers who came to watch the excitement, and asked these Chinese villagers, whom he despised from the bottom of his heart, to carry him to YC City.
Originally, the village had been ransacked by passing Japanese troops and several people were killed. Now when a Japanese who was alone was so arrogant and arrogant, wasn't that a sign of evil?
The two villagers approached the Japanese pilot in a humble manner and looked for an opportunity to hold down the smug Japanese pilot. A group of people rushed up and smashed him with hoes and poles, directly smashing the inhuman shape.
Everyone knows what a bastard the Japanese are. If the Japanese know about this, no matter whether you take action or not, whether you want to resist or whether you want to kneel down and beg for life, you will all die.
This is equivalent to the whole village being tied to a boat. No matter the landlord or the bully, everyone has to work together now.
The tragic Japanese pilot was stripped naked, all his clothes and parachute were burned to ashes, and the Southern Type 14 pistol he carried was buried in the mountains at a depth of three to four meters. Let alone military dogs, they could dig three feet into the ground to find it.
Less than.
But the body was chopped into more than a dozen pieces and thrown into a pig pen at a landlord's house. The four lean pigs that had been reserved by the Japanese army's transport troops in Yuncheng miraculously started to gain weight before the Lunar New Year, having eaten the pork.
All the Japanese officers said yes.
When the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain was over, the Japanese army used nearly a thousand men and more than a dozen military dogs to search within dozens of miles. Not even a thread belonging to him was found. The Japanese pilots disappeared without a trace like foam in the sea.
trace.
It’s not that the Japanese army had doubts about the local people, but anyone who knew the inside story knew that everyone would die together if they told the truth. No matter how tortured the Japanese army was, no one confessed. In the end, the Japanese pilot could only be treated as a missing person.
It was not until decades later that the 70-year-old son of the Japanese pilot came to the place of disappearance in person to spend a lot of money to find out about his father's whereabouts. A stooped 80-year-old Chinese man brought the group of thirty-something Japanese to a village.
Several human bones were salvaged from a septic tank that had not been used for years.
After a DNA test, the Japanese man, who was also over 80 years old, knelt down beside the septic tank and cried bitterly.
But the old Chinese man who did not receive any so-called bonus smiled brightly. He had been waiting for this day for eighty years.
A Japanese old man of his own age grieves that his father has been in feces for decades. Does he know the inner pain of a Chinese child who lost his parents at the age of seven and was forced to bring a baby sister to survive in war-torn times?
Woolen cloth?
As an adult, when he was dividing the landowner's house, he only wanted the woodshed and the pigsty, and transformed a corner of the pigsty into a septic tank. During his lifetime, he would use these to suppress the Japanese's dirty deeds.
I hope that in my lifetime, I can show all this to the descendants of the Japanese with their own eyes.
His wish came true. The old man, who had been miserable and lonely all his life, died a month later, but there was a smile on his cold lips.
Chinese people are very stingy towards their friends, but they are also very stingy towards their enemies!
Decades of rushing time, no, even hundreds of years of time are not enough to erase that traumatic memory.
"Lao Wang, good job!" Brigadier Kong Da looked up at the departing Japanese fighter planes and praised himself for being so young.
But what excites him more than the results in ground-to-air combat is the battlefield from the ground.
Perhaps it was the victory of the Four Troops Regiment ten miles away from the Japanese reinforcements, or perhaps the Japanese aircraft fleet escaping in panic was the straw that broke the camel's back, and the Japanese troops in Ruicheng escaped.
The remaining hundreds of Japanese troops abandoned the city and fled before the 46th Independent Brigade could restart the ground offensive.
With less than 300 casualties, the Independent 46th Brigade captured Ruicheng, an extremely important supply base for the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops on the Zhongtiao Mountain front line.
Because of the haste of the Japanese retreat, they did not even bother to destroy the supplies in the city. More than 500,000 kilograms of various types of grain, bullets, artillery shells and other ammunition were piled up in the open air.
After entering the city, the 46th Independent Brigade failed to take care of these exciting captures. Their mission of breaking out of the encirclement this time was not only to defeat the Japanese advance base.
Food and some guns and ammunition were distributed to the people who were still in Ruicheng, so that they could go to the countryside to join their relatives. At the same time, they also accepted the surrender of about two to three hundred young people, and ordered each person to bring 3 kilograms of rice and 3 kilograms of white flour, and then use
The captured gasoline was used as fuel to burn the food and ammunition depots of the Japanese army that could not be taken away.
An hour later, the 46th Independent Brigade set off toward Yuncheng, dozens of kilometers away.
And all this, the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops on the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain could only watch helplessly, but they could do nothing.
Because, just this morning, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops guarding the defense line were ready to move, especially the Chinese Fourth Army Group closest to Ruicheng. They even used artillery fire to bombard the Japanese field positions. It looked like you dare to leave, I
Neither Nakamura Masao nor Itagaki Shiro dared to take the situation lightly if they dared to counterattack across the board, let alone the troops in the central Nakajoyama theater who were already stretched thin.
Therefore, during the day on the 14th, the entire Zhongtiao Mountain War Zone presented an extremely strange battle situation: the front lines with 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers on both sides were stationary, but the Ruicheng and Yuncheng communication lines located behind the Japanese army were fighting in full swing.
The 4th Division suffered its biggest loss since entering China. Two infantry brigades were ambushed by the Four Lines Regiment on their way to rescue Ruicheng. Although there was no specific number of casualties, Major General Daxiong Yunsuke, who had received the farewell message from his subordinate Yusui, knew that
, my two infantry brigades are finished.
Although the infantry brigade stationed in Ruicheng took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's entanglement with the Army Air Force fleet to escape smoothly, they did not dare to return to Yuncheng along the main road after losing a lot of heavy weapons. Instead, they chose to move closer to Nakamura Masao's headquarters.
This choice is correct. If those few hundred people still dare to run towards Yuncheng, no matter if they encounter the 46th Independent Brigade or the First Division of the Fourth Army Regiment, their lives will be doomed.
That also means that the West Tuo Detachment, which originally had nearly 10,000 troops, only has three infantry brigades that can still be used for combat at this time.
After Shiro Itagaki learned that thousands of Chinese people who had conquered Ruicheng were moving along the highway towards Yuncheng, he immediately issued a military order to Okuma Konosuke: "Yuncheng is our most important supply base, and it is related to the outcome of this battle.
The key must not be lost. We at the frontline headquarters of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater have ordered you to use any means to intercept the enemy."
The general idea is that Daxiong Konosuke must defend Yuncheng and gives him the highest authority. Not only can he command all the Japanese troops in Yuncheng, but he can also use any shady means when necessary, such as using poison gas and using Chinese civilians as human shields.
Although I didn't say it that clearly, that's what I meant.
"Itagaki Shiro is extremely despicable! Extremely shameless!" Konosuke Ohma fiercely threw the message sent by Itagaki Shiro into a ball on the ground and cursed loudly.
According to Itagaki Shiro, if the troops are insufficient, he, the current supreme commander of Yuncheng, can organize all the baggage trains of various master regiments in Yuncheng, and basically can gather 2,000 people. If he is more crazy, he can organize those field battles
The doctors and nurses in the hospital are all armed, and there are more than 1,500 of them. The number of troops available for front-line combat in Yuncheng can also reach the size of an infantry brigade.
Anyway, for Yuncheng now, what is lacking is not guns and ammunition, but people!
But Okuma Konosuke is a smart man. No matter whether it is the baggage train or the field hospital, there are many nobles who come to gild. If he pushes these people to the front line and kills them, he will probably offend all the divisions.
Deep down to the core, there are countless families in the country who hate him and the 4th Division.
You know, Itagaki Shiro's name for generating electricity was not him as the commander, but the frontline headquarters.
Fortunately, Okuma Konosuke was also someone behind. An hour after he quietly sent a message asking for guidance to his division commander, he received a message from the North China Front Army Headquarters, ordering him to hold on to Yuncheng and immediately
Organize field hospital medical care for each division and evacuation of wounded soldiers.
Although the same order was given to defend Yuncheng, the order to organize the evacuation of medical and wounded soldiers was completely different from Itagaki Shiro's order that no one should be evacuated to avoid destabilizing the morale of the army.
One is the supreme commander of the frontline headquarters, and the other is the supreme commander of the rear. Who do you listen to? This was not difficult for Major General Okuma Konosuke, and he chose the latter without hesitation.
The two trains carrying military supplies bound for Yuncheng became the last life-saving straw for the Japanese troops in Yuncheng.
On the afternoon of the 14th, the original precious food, ammunition and other supplies were discarded like grass along the railway line by the Japanese army. Wounded soldiers and medical staff crowded the carriages, and even the carriages were full of people.
A Japanese army aviation lieutenant who flew over the sky and witnessed it all was described in his diary: The train was crowded with evacuees, and the front of the train, which was spewing thick black smoke, was like an exhausted train.
Old cow, pulling the heavy car forward slowly!
The imperial eagle flew over their heads, but this time, their deafening cheers and proudly raised arms could no longer be heard. Instead, they could only hear fear and numbness!
This should be the scene that saddens the Japanese army the most since the Japanese North China Front entered the war in North China, regardless of whether they win or lose.
Although they still had the upper hand, they were forced to make a general retreat.
According to records in the battle report of the 4th Division, two trains transported more than 6,800 people who needed to be evacuated.
However, according to the data reported by each division, the total number of medical staff and seriously injured soldiers in Yuncheng is less than 5,000. What about the extra 2,000 people?
They were all soldiers of the West Tuo Detachment. After the military order to evacuate the wounded soldiers was issued, many wounded soldiers covered with bandages appeared in various departments of the West Tuo Detachment. Even if the two captains of the Colonel Corps were personally stationed at the train station, there were still endless wounded soldiers.
The torn bandages were dripping with blood and it was too horrible to look at. There were gunshot wounds and fractures. Even the captain with a fierce look in his eyes couldn't clearly define whether this was a new injury or an old one. In fact, even if he knew, there were very few wounded soldiers like this.
Picked out at the scene.
A war is imminent, and commanders like them will not always stay in the rear. Once they go to the front line, their lives will not only be in the hands of the Chinese, but they will also have to guard against the muzzles of their own people.
Finally, half an hour before the two Chinese troops arrived in Yuncheng, the Japanese army successfully evacuated all non-combatants.
However, Okuma Yukiyuki's assistant only managed to gather 4 infantry brigades with all the troops he could use. When the Japanese major general climbed to the top of the city and picked up his telescope to look at the Chinese army busy building field trenches 800 meters away, he couldn't help but take a breath.
Cool air.
Just in one direction, the number of Chinese troops is over 2,000. If you include the artillery and other troops hidden further away, the number of troops attacking Yuncheng this time is at least 10,000. There are only 10,000 troops there, as reported by Shiro Itagaki in the intelligence.
Thousands of people.
"Baga! Shameless!" Big Bear Konosuke's face looked ugly, as if he had eaten several hot things, and he kept cursing.
Of course he knew that it might be okay to rely on his few thousand men to block the Chinese attack, but in the end how many of them would survive until the end of the war?
More than 3,000 Osaka boys have been unable to return home. After this battle, the number may increase to 2,000 or even 3,000. This is the main reason why he turned a blind eye to the surge in wounded soldiers in the detachment.
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However, to the surprise of Okuma Konosuke, the Chinese army, which was busy building field trenches outside the city, did not take advantage of the victory to attack the city. Instead, they kept digging. The clanging sound of digging continued until late at night, making the people on the city wall
The Japanese infantrymen were upset and angry.
"What on earth do the Chinese want to do?" Daxiong Konosuke, who was sitting in the headquarters, was also troubled. He really couldn't figure it out.
Although the Chinese are now powerful, they conquered Ruicheng in one fell swoop during the day, burned many of the empire's supplies, and ambushed the imperial army to achieve extremely valuable results. However, these are actually superficial glories. For Chen's nearly two hundred thousand soldiers, Zhongtiao Mountain
For the imperial army, even the damage to the fur is not considered.
The main force of the empire's army, which is dozens of miles away, may return at any time and swallow it up effortlessly.
What this Chinese army, which is far away from the main force, should do most is to use its troops with great speed, rely on the time period when the main force of the imperial army has no time to think about anything else, continuously attack all valuable tactical targets, and then escape far away, just like in ancient battles.
Cavalry, maintain mobility and sufficient attack power.
And if we plan to stop and attack the enemy like now and let the main force of the imperial army know their goal clearly, that is simply a way to die.
Okuma Konosuke believes that with Shiro Itagaki's ability, he has secretly mobilized his troops. In less than two days, a unit of at least brigade level will arrive near Yuncheng and attack Yuncheng's defenders from front to back, let alone China.
An infantry division is an infantry corps, and it is estimated that the entire army will be destroyed.
But the Japanese Army Major General never underestimates his opponent, especially a commander who dares to break through the defense line and go deep alone in such a situation. Whatever he can think of, the opponent must also be able to think of, but the opponent still does it.
This was what he couldn't figure out.
Then, the Japanese Army Major General, who was so distressed that he could not sleep, did not expect the answer, but waited for an unexpected guest.
a Chinese!
A tall and handsome Chinese man!
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PS: Fengyue had a busy day yesterday and really didn’t have time to type. I asked for leave in the group and couldn’t issue an explanation. I’d like to explain it here. ()
