Ding Wei also played a new trick, selecting a company within the 28th Regiment to serve as the vanguard, uniformly changing the enemy's military uniforms, and preparing to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to seize the enemy's position.
"Captain Li, our 28th Regiment launches an attack from the front and right wing. Your garrison regiment launches an attack on the enemy's left-wing position to distract the enemy's firepower for our main force attacking from the right wing!" Ding Wei was the commander of this attack.
Members give orders directly.
"Yes, our garrison will guarantee the completion of the mission!" As the leader of the garrison, Li Daben also gave a fatal order to be able to operate with the main force this time.
Ding Wei's attack was like a retreat, first with artillery, then with an infantry charge.
However, unlike Zhou Weihan's side, Yang Han, the acting commander of the 280th Regiment, personally went to the front line to supervise the battle.
After seeing the bunkers on the position being demolished one by one, the original regiment commander and chief of staff took the lead in shouting again.
Yang Han was not ambiguous at all. He raised his machine gun and shouted loudly: "If the Eighth Route Army takes this opportunity to rush over, we will have no chance of survival. Shoot me!"
Yang Han pulled the trigger and took the lead in shooting at several officers of the 280th Regiment who had just shouted.
Seeing that the enemy army was not in any confusion, our army launched a strong attack and the two sides began to exchange fire.
"Commander, shouting has no effect. It seems that the commander of the enemy army on the opposite side has some skills!" Xiang Ying, the political commissar of the 28th regiment, said.
"It's a tough one, but I don't put all my treasure on it. Correspondent, order the infantry artillery to fire on me, aim at the enemy's right wing position and give me a bloody blast!" Ding Wei said fiercely.
"The independent detachment is really rich. It has combat defense artillery and Type 92 infantry artillery. If our 28th Regiment has such heavy firepower to attack difficult difficulties, the turrets of the little Japanese are nothing!"
Ding Wei was also good at using strange tricks. Instead of following common sense, he deployed the main force of the 28th Regiment in the frontal attack. Instead, he deployed it on the right wing and delayed the attack for fifteen minutes.
In Ding Wei's view, the defensive position has a focus. The right wing should have slightly fewer enemy troops, plus it is next to the temple.
Once the main force of the independent detachment launching the attack from the direction of Miaozhuang is progressing smoothly, the 280th Regiment's right-wing position near Miaozhuang will inevitably divide its troops to support. Delaying the attack for fifteen minutes will give the 280th Regiment the opportunity to support the supplementary regiment located in Miaozhuang. In this way, the 28th Regiment
The attack on the right wing will go more smoothly.
Sure enough, the frontal and left-wing attacks stalled, and the enemy's right-wing force was broken through by the main force of the 28th Regiment.
On the enemy's 280th Regiment position.
"Tuanzuo, Tuanzuo, the Eighth Route Army's offensive is too fierce, Zebulao, brothers really can't hold it anymore!"
After hearing this, Yang Han's eyes were filled with stars and he could hardly stand. Looking at this guy who was temporarily promoted from the regiment staff to the battalion commander, he cursed in his heart: "As the highest officer on the battlefield, if you don't live and die with the battlefield, how can you still do it?"
Do you have the nerve to come see me?"
"I'll fucking kill you, a deserter who lost his position!" Yang Han said, raising his pistol without giving him any chance to explain.
"Li Ronghu, your third battalion has defended the position for me. If you dare to lose the position, he will suffer the consequences!"
"Yes, regimental commander, our troops swear to live and die with our position. Brothers, fight!" Li Ronghu originally wanted to advocate retreat, but at this time he could only bite the bullet and withstand the Eighth Route Army's offensive.
Yang Han looked around. Not long ago, a unit had just been dispatched to Miaozhuang, which was in emergency. There was only one regiment guard company left in the reserve.
"Guard Company, follow me, take back the Zebulao position and drive the Eighth Route Army back!" Yang Han said loudly.
However, the situation of the Ninety-seventh Army was over and the entire front was in critical condition. It would be useless to let Yang Han control the situation by himself.
...
After breaking through the front-line position in Miaozhuang, Zhou Weihan immediately ordered the Wuqin 3rd Regiment to flank the 94th Division to the east, and the Wang Yigong 4th Regiment to flank the newly formed 24th Division to the west. The 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment continued from the center.
breakthrough.
"Regiment, retreat, the temple is probably lost, the Eighth Route Army reinforcements are coming from the west!" the guard company commander pointed at the Wuqin Third Regiment coming from the west.
After hearing this, Yang Han glanced at the soldiers who were strangled with the 28th Regiment and said: "Withdraw!"
However, after the order was issued, only the guard company that came to support withdrew most of its troops. After losing fire support, the soldiers on the original position were divided and strangled to death by the 28th Regiment.
"Damn, my head is flooded. In order to protect the so-called territory, the lives of the lower-level soldiers are treated like child's play!" At this time, Yang Han couldn't help but cursed.
The person who scolded was Zhu Huaibing, commander of the 97th Army. In order to preserve the occupied territory, he proposed: if the land survives, people will survive; if the land loses, people will lose.
As soon as these words came out, Chairman Chiang from the rear greatly praised this, and Zhu Huaibing also arranged it in this way.
The Ninety-Seventh Army consisted of 12,000 people. Except for the 281st Regiment that initially defended the military headquarters, the rest of the troops were arranged in a circular position and passed six towns along the way.
Zhu Huaibing demanded that all aspects be covered, leaving no loopholes for the Eighth Route Army.
However, in the view of a battle-hardened general like Yang Han, when reinforcements have not yet arrived, he should take the initiative to shrink his troops and wait for reinforcements, rather than losing a single place.
Such an arrangement may seem to be comprehensive, but in fact, the distribution of forces is full of loopholes. Even if there are bunkers on the position, the Eighth Route Army only needs to concentrate its forces, make certain sacrifices, and break through the defense line at one point. There is no need to hold on to the defense lines in other directions.
It's less than six o'clock in the morning.
Not more than an hour after the attack was launched, the 386th Brigade of the right column on the northern front, the independent detachment of the central column, and the three armies broke through the enemy's defense line one after another, and all the 97th Army on the northern front were defeated.
97th Army Military Headquarters.
"Military seat, the Eighth Route Army's offensive is fierce. Miaozhuang's supplementary regiment, Cui Lu's 280th regiment, Chanfang, and Zhangjiazhuang's newly formed 10th and 11th regiments of the 24th Division have all been defeated!"
"How is it possible? With so many bunkers built on the position, how could the Eighth Route Army break through our defensive position so easily!" Zhu Huaibing said angrily, unable to believe that his "carefully arranged" defense line was easily broken through by the Eighth Route Army.
"Military seat, the 281st Regiment is estimated to have been completely wiped out, and the military headquarters is empty of guards. It is better to retreat south first, and then contain the defeated troops. Maybe there is still the strength to fight again with the Eighth Route Army," a combat staff officer from the military headquarters advised.
"I'm not going anywhere. Let the 279th Regiment of the 94th Division of Zhongjiabi move closer to the military headquarters!" Zhu Huaibing's mind became hot and he made another stupid move.
The 279th Regiment, which was relying on fortifications in Zhongjiabi and was in a stalemate with the Eighth Route Army's left column Jizhong 22nd Regiment and 25th Regiment, suddenly received an order to move closer to the military headquarters.
The headquarters of the 279th Regiment retreated first, and then the soldiers scrambled to retreat without any resistance.
The Jizhong 22nd Regiment and the 25th Regiment took advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate most of them.
Former enemy headquarters.
"Okay, the progress is going extremely smoothly!" Political Commissar Deng, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, said with great joy as he looked at the telegrams sent from various ministries.
"Order all ministries to not be afraid of difficulties and hardships, speed up the pace, capture Zhu Huaibing alive, and don't let him escape! He is a key bargaining chip in future negotiations between the two parties!"
Zhu Huaibing's thoughts did not occur to political commissar Deng. At this time, he actually insisted on staying in the East and West Garden where the military headquarters was located, refusing to take a step back.