Chapter 0350 Yushan falls, Wu Fu line is in jeopardy!
The sound of artillery heard during the Dragon Boat Festival came from the direction of Kuncheng Lake. The Japanese 43rd Regiment was attacking Mocheng Town, and the location of the defeat was at Wangjiazhuang.
A battalion of troops was stationed in Wangjiazhuang, but under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the entire battalion was killed. A part of the Japanese army broke through from here, including about two squadrons, which was the Qianzhou squadron that was wiped out in the Dragon Boat Festival.
They were responsible for arriving at Sanchakou to stop the 44th Division, 98th Division, and 13th Division that were about to retreat, and to put pressure on the Chinese defenders.
The strategic purpose is to occupy the Sanchakou traffic artery and panic the Chinese defenders.
Because once the retreat is cut off, it means that the forces of these three divisions will be isolated and helpless. At that time, the Chinese defenders will be panic-stricken and will fail without attacking.
But I didn't want to return to defense in time during the Dragon Boat Festival and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
But even so, the battle in the direction of Mocheng Town is still not optimistic. The defenders of Mocheng Town not only have to face fierce attacks from the two brigades of the 43rd Regiment, but also have to mobilize their forces to deal with a Japanese squadron that landed from Wangjiazhuang.
There was probably a large group of Japanese troops who landed from Wangjiazhuang. After they captured Wangjiazhuang, 400 of them went to Sanchakou to set up defenses, while another Japanese squadron of more than 130 people made a roundabout attack on the flanks of Mocheng Town. The defenders of Mocheng Town were attacked from both sides.
The Japanese army attacked Mozhen Town with an absolute strength advantage. However, the defenders of Mozhen Town only had one regiment.
The commander of the garrison led a desperate counterattack with only two battalions of troops, and started a street fight with the Japanese army in Mocheng Town.
The soldiers were brave and fearless. In the fierce exchanges of fire, some people continued to lose their lives to the Japanese gunfire.
In just two hours of fierce fighting, more than half of the two battalions had suffered casualties, and only one battalion was left.
The main streets in Mocheng Town were all occupied by the Japanese army. The guard group could only seize a few commanding heights and continue to contain the Japanese.
Every one of the soldiers knew that they might not be able to leave today. They were surrounded by Japanese soldiers and there was no way out. If they wanted to leave, how could they leave?
What's more, they can't leave, because once Mocheng Town is lost, the 98th Division will be attacked from both sides.
The commander of the 98th Division also issued a death order to hold Mocheng Town and wait for support.
But this is a beautiful lie, because if there were enough troops, Mocheng Town would not have only one regiment.
What's more, the 98th Division and the 13th Division were engaged in fierce exchanges of fire with the Japanese 33rd Regiment and another unidentified Japanese regiment of the 11th Division.
The Japanese 33rd Regiment was a fully-formed regiment. After the Battle of Songhu, it rested and replenished its troops, and only then entered front-line combat for the second time.
The 33rd Regiment has three infantry brigades, each with more than 1,100 people. In addition to an artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, and a newly added tank regiment, you can take out any main division. He dares to challenge.
What's more, the 13th Division was already at the end of its strength. If it hadn't been defended by a large number of fortifications, the 13th Division might not have been able to hold on at this time.
The battle of the 98th Division is not optimistic either.
Although the unidentified Japanese regiment did not have the support of a tank brigade, it mobilized a large number of 37-caliber flat-fire artillery and 75-mm caliber mountain artillery to destroy the bunkers and machine gun bunkers on the 98th Division's position.
During the three days of fighting, more than two-thirds of the bunkers and bunkers were destroyed by the Japanese. The 98th Division had fewer and fewer defensive positions and could only struggle to hold on.
At the same time, Changshu also encountered a fierce attack by the Sasaki Brigade of the 11th Division.
Under yesterday's day of aircraft bombing, Changshu City had long been turned into ruins. The 44th Division also suffered heavy losses as a result.
Originally, the 44th Division had more than 5,000 men, but after yesterday's battle, the number of casualties in the entire division reached 3,000.
The remaining two thousand officers and soldiers retreated into Changshu City and started fighting in the streets with the Japanese army. If the 11th Brigade had not been urgently transferred to reinforce Changshu, I am afraid that Changshu would have fallen into the hands of the Japanese invaders by this time.
But even so, the East City, South City, and North City gates of Changshu were all occupied by the Japanese army. Only the West City Gate was the only escape route still in the hands of the 44th Division and the 11th Brigade.
In Xiejiaqiao and Fushan Town, the Japanese 13th Division and the Mountain Artillery Regiment concentrated 36 75mm mountain artillery pieces to blast the western part of Xiejiaqiao Town into a sea of flames. Although the 176th Division and the 166th Brigade of the 56th Division suffered heavy casualties, they could only use machine guns and force
They fired back with artillery fire. But the most difficult thing to deal with was the Japanese tanks.
Although mortars can pose a threat to Japanese tanks, they require very experienced gunners to operate them, otherwise it will just be a waste of shells.
And coupled with the constant movement of the Japanese tanks, even the best gunners may not have the ability to hit them with one shot.
Therefore, after a whole day of fierce fighting, the Xiejiaqiao defenders were exhausted both physically and mentally.
And they couldn't understand why the Japanese army attacked like crazy. Did the Japanese army's three-month plan to destroy China go bankrupt, but they still haven't learned their lesson?
Indeed, the little devils did not learn their lesson, and they never gave up their ambitions for a moment.
In their eyes, China is just a piece of fat. China has five thousand years of cultural heritage and is Japan's eternal pain.
Because the ancestor of Japan is Xu Fu, and Xu Fu was just a liar in the Qin Dynasty.
He deceived Qin Shihuang into looking for the elixir of life. But in the end, he went to overseas islands to develop his own career and became the emperor of the country.
And judging from Japanese, Xu Fu's writing skills are not very high. He forgets the words when he picks up the pen, and then draws a circle at random.
But what should I do if there are too many words I don’t know?
Xu Fu thought of a way to replace different words with different circles.
Therefore, in current Japanese, only part of it is hanzi, while the other part is replaced by various circles.
But this is not what the Japanese **** want to see. What they want to see is orthodoxy. Xu Fu was the king who unified the seven kingdoms, and finally came to Japan after encountering the persecution of Ying Zheng.
Therefore, Japan has never given up on its persistence in China since ancient times.
Finally, Japan waited for this opportunity. After the British's powerful ships and cannons knocked on the door, the little Japanese developed rapidly.
I remember that a British general once wrote in his diary: When I first arrived in Japan, I felt as if I was in the Lilliputian country in the fairy tale world. The giant among them was only 1.5 meters tall, which was only equivalent to a
The height of a 12-year-old boy.
So it can be seen from this what the state of the Japanese army was like at that time.
But at that time, Japan made a bold genetic improvement plan. This plan was to encourage Japanese women to give birth to children to foreigners.
This sounds incredible, but this is exactly what the Japanese did at that time.
Their citizens are generally short in stature. If they don't have better genes, their stature will always remain around 1.5 meters.
But little do they know that their height is entirely due to malnutrition.
After they dedicated a large number of beautiful women to foreigners, they discovered that their short stature was not due to genetic problems but because of poor food. So they gave so many women to foreigners in vain.
However, it cannot be said that there are no benefits at all. At least they have obtained a lot of information and technology and have developed rapidly.
Therefore, Japan's rapid development has always been inseparable from the vast number of Japanese female workers.
When technology became available and the quality of its citizens improved, Japan's military ambitions began to expand.
First of all, we have to attack China. For example, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces' invasion of Japan, etc., all involved Japan.
And the Japanese are extremely enthusiastic about this kind of participation. The reason is because of Xu Fu. From ancient times to the present, Japan has not wanted to tamper with this period of history.
But today, they encountered a tough nut at the Wu-Fu line. In addition to the bitter battles the Japanese troops faced on the front lines in Yushan, Changshu, and Suzhou, in Fushan Town, the 58th Regiment was unable to continue to advance after seizing a corner of the 76th Division's front-line positions.
The commander of the 58th Regiment, Mr. Kuramori, had put all the reserves into the battle, but the fierce fighting continued that night and all attacks failed. The Fukuyama position remained as stable as an old dog.
But at this moment, the 76th Division and almost all front-line troops received orders to retreat.
Because at about eight o'clock that night, the Yushan position was attacked by the Japanese army. The 32nd Division only resisted for less than thirty minutes before retreating. If the division commander Liu Ying had not escaped quickly, I am afraid that even he would have fallen into the Japanese army.
of prisoners.
More than half of the entire division was killed, and less than one-third of the soldiers who could escape with Liu Ying were at all.
Even Namada Chuichi did not expect that the 32nd Division would be so weak. After he launched the attack, after only thirty minutes of fighting, the 32nd Division began to show signs of defeat, and then fled in panic.
The weapons and equipment left by the 174th Division on the battlefield were almost intact and returned to the little Japanese.
When Duanwu heard the news, his lungs were about to explode. He felt that he should have killed Liu Ying at that time.
But Liu Ying did not want Liu Ying to complain first, and the report to Commander Liao was: "Because the special commissioner abused his power and ordered them to bury a large number of Japanese corpses, the soldiers were exhausted and the sentries were trapped, which led to the defeat of Yushan!...