One hundred and thirtieth eight chapters brilliant beginning (6)
In view of the urgent enemy situation, after initially formulating the combat plan, Yang Zhen suspended the training. After the troops rested for half a day, he and Guo Bingxun immediately led the troops to set off. [.Com text] Before departure, in order to ensure the stability of the troops during wartime,
Yang Zhen specifically told Guo Bingxun and Wang Guangyu that if necessary, those who were detrimental to the battle could be killed first and then punished.
In the early morning of the next day, when the Japanese troops departing from Jiamusi arrived at the front line of Wangjiang. In addition to ordering the rapid-fire artillery units that had not completed their training to return to the secret base in Qunce Mountain, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun led their troops separately to attack the planned targets they had chosen.
Rush past the battlefield.
Before dividing the troops, just in case, Yang Zhen sent a report to the commander-in-chief, Li Yanping, so that they could prepare for battle and respond to emergencies at any time.
After arriving at the scheduled battlefield, Yang Zhen immediately arranged for manpower to build an ambush position. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, Yang Zhen even checked the concealment of each company. Especially the artillery positions, Yang Zhen personally selected and arranged them
disguise.
In order to maximize the firepower and prevent the newly fired artillery from firing indiscriminately, Yang Zhen personally led Ma Qichang to demarcate the firing range one by one. After receiving the signal to launch the attack, these artillerymen fired everything
No need to do anything. Just shoot the cannonball according to the predetermined scale.
In addition to the fixed artillery, Ma Qichang also deployed some regiment and battalion mortars, taking advantage of his relative proficiency in using mortars to form two mobile artillery groups. He personally commanded them to block the retreat routes of the Japanese army and suppress negative forces.
The enemy resisted stubbornly. At the same time, special field telephone lines were set up at the artillery positions and main positions.
In order to prevent the new recruits from being too nervous and exposing their targets in advance, Yang Zhen repeatedly issued orders that regardless of cadres or soldiers, those who act without orders will be subject to military law. Although he does not want to talk about military law at all times, for recruits who are on the battlefield for the first time,
Yang Zhen knew that he had to act as a deterrent. Otherwise, a small mistake would ruin this carefully designed ambush.
Fortunately, the Japanese army on the South Road did not make Yang Zhen wait long. Less than half a day after Yang Zhen had just constructed the scheduled ambush position, the leading Japanese troops appeared in front of him. Seeing the Japanese marching column, Yang Zhen relaxed slightly.
Take a breath.
This may be because he is too arrogant and overconfident in his own combat effectiveness, believing that he will not encounter attacks by anti-Japanese armed forces near the railway line. Perhaps Sasaki was too hasty to rush, and in order to speed up the march, the Japanese army did not open this road.
marching distance.
The Japanese marching troops were very densely arranged. They formed four marching columns along the road that was built to mine trees for the Jiasui Railway and could accommodate two carriages in parallel. They were marching towards the north at a rapid march speed. Moreover, the distance between the leading troops was very small.
It's not very far apart. This gave Yang Zhen an opportunity to take advantage of.
When Yang Zhen led the main force to arrive between Yuntou Lizi and Tangwang River to choose an ambush position, after accidentally discovering a shortcut that could pass two carriages side by side, he selected the current ambush area at a glance.
Although it is very close to the Jiasui Railway, the mountains on both sides of the road are not high, and the trees on the mountains have been cut down sparsely due to the construction of the railway. It is simply incomparable to the virgin forest that blocks the sky and the sun in the Yuntou Lazi area. But it is.
This can make the Japanese army more alert.
In addition, there is a short road here that is enough for the Japanese army to pass quickly. According to the terrain and geographical location here, the Japanese army should be on guard and vigilant. In order to speed up the march, they will definitely not spread out the marching formation. The denser the Japanese army's marching columns are.
, the more conducive to the setting of the artillery scale, the more fully one's own firepower can be exerted.
However, when the Japanese and puppet troops began to enter the ambush circle one after another, Yang Zhen's heart quickly rose to his throat. Before the Japanese army completely entered the ambush circle, once the recruit became slightly nervous, he lightly hooked his fingers
, all your tactical intentions will be exposed. The fish you have already obtained may slip away, and if the entire favorable situation fails, you will become passive.
Since too many new recruits in the army affected the battle, Yang Zhen issued a simple battle plan to the army. He divided each company into fixed shooting areas. When the sound of artillery stopped, the weapon in his hand fired the bullets at the maximum shooting speed.
Just hit it with the grenade assigned to you.
The charge was launched by several companies with more veterans specially selected by Yang Zhen. When allocating new recruits, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, Yang Zhen, under Guo Bingxun's suggestion, retained in each battalion soldiers composed of prisoners of war and anyway.
Veterans of the puppet Manchukuo army account for 50% of the fist company.
Although in order to ensure the victory of the battle, Yang Zhen formulated tactics that were as detailed as squad platoons. But the most fundamental decision of this battle was whether the ambush troops would reveal their tactical intentions before all the Japanese troops entered the ambush circle. Therefore, before all the Japanese troops entered the encirclement circle,
Yang Zhen's heart was always thinking about it.
When he received a report from Liu Changshun, who was responsible for blocking the Japanese army's retreat, that all Japanese troops had entered the ambush circle, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the field phone, and gave the order to open fire to the artillery position.
Since the firing range and design rulers had been defined long ago, the fired shells did not even need to correct their trajectory and accurately landed in the Japanese marching column. Although these Japanese soldiers were veterans and their reaction speed was top-notch, the distance
It's really too close.
When they heard the sound of artillery shells piercing the sky and wanted to find cover, the artillery shells falling from the sky had already hit them hard. There were thirty-six mountain field guns in the entire artillery regiment, plus a large number of battalion-affiliated mortars.
The dense artillery fire blasted the unprepared Japanese marching brigade into pieces, sending blood and flesh flying everywhere.
In order to ensure that the Japanese army was defeated or even annihilated in the shortest possible time, Yang Zhen was not afraid of going to great lengths and brought the entire artillery regiment. In places with dense forests and inconvenient travel, the artillery was even disassembled and carried by manpower. Limited
All the traction horses were used to carry artillery shells.
In order to ensure the continuity of firepower, in addition to leaving some artillery shells in the Liangzi River area to facilitate subsequent combat supplies, Yang Zhen brought almost all the artillery shells he brought to Liangzi River. Even the infantry carried more or less of them.
One or two rounds of 75mm field artillery shells or 90mm mortar shells.
In order to ensure that the artillery arrived at the combat area at the same time, Yang Zhen also allocated an infantry battalion and a baggage battalion to cooperate with the artillery regiment in transporting artillery. Especially in areas with difficult mountain roads, Yang Zhen once personally carried the wheels of an artillery piece.
With these preparations in mind, the artillerymen started firing without any concern for the storage of artillery shells. There was only one idea in their minds at this time, which was to store as many artillery shells as possible within the prescribed fifteen minutes of fire support time.
Fight out.
Except for the two mortar groups controlled by Ma Qichang, they were slightly restrained in consideration of the need to block the Japanese retreat route. The rest of the wild mountain artillery groups, commanded by Qiu Jintang personally, were almost desperate. They ignored everything.
He just concentrated on firing the artillery shells one after another according to the predetermined scale. After this battle, the direct artillery regiment fired more than half of the artillery shells it carried.
Although the rate of fire is generally not fast due to the lack of experience of some artillery units, the victory lies in greater numbers. When the fifteen minutes of fire support time passed, only one-fifth of the Puppet Manchukuo regiment that cooperated with the Japanese army was bombed by dense artillery shells.
Not even a single one was left. And the Japanese troops who braved intensive artillery fire to launch a counterattack suffered heavy casualties.
When the Japanese army risked their lives to launch a counterattack, these puppet Manchukuo troops lay on the ground and did not dare to make the slightest move. When the artillery fire weakened slightly, they did not care about what their masters around them thought, so they turned around and fled towards the mountain pass.
These puppet Manchukuo troops were not stupid. The shells that just landed on their heads were at least fired by an artillery regiment.
They have had a lot of dealings with the Anti-Japanese League. When did the Anti-Japanese League have such powerful firepower? Why should they be blocked in the mountains and forests, unable to get out, and driven everywhere? According to this period, it fell on their heads.
The intensity of the artillery fire, could it be that the enemy from the north came over? I heard that during the battle of Zhanggufeng last year, the artillery fire of the enemy was also so intensive. If you don't run now, are you waiting to die here?
?
They thought it was the puppet Manchukuo army coming from the Soviet army. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, they turned around and ran towards the mountain pass, trying to escape from the hell on earth in front of them. Unfortunately, how could they achieve their wish? Before they could reach the mountain pass, there was a dense crowd.
The rain of mortar shells and the sudden intensive machine gun fire from both sides of the valley drove them back like ducks.
Compared with the puppet Manchukuo army who panicked and turned around and wanted to run away, although the Japanese army also paid more than half of the casualties in the shelling during this period, it was much stronger than the puppet Manchukuo army. Their subsequent heroic performance, as well as their performance
The extremely high tactical level even Yang Zhen was amazed by: "After all, this is a veteran division of the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness is really strong."
Although the mortar squadron they carried had not had time to mount their guns, they were sent to the west together with the artillery. Most of the light and heavy machine guns were blown up during the shelling. However, the remaining Japanese troops did not wait for the shelling to end, and braved the intensive
With heavy artillery fire, they launched an attack on a hilltop on the left side of the road, trying to seize a commanding height so that they could stand firm and wait for reinforcements.
In fact, Colonel Takao Murata, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese and puppet troops on the southern route who escaped the shelling, also had certain illusions when the first shell fell on his head. But unlike the puppet Manchukuo army, the first
Soon after he realized that the artillery shells that fell on his head were the standard equipment of the Kwantung Army, he thought he had encountered accidental damage from friendly forces.
Because he had never thought that a force that could only hide in the deep mountains and forests all day long to avoid the imperial army's suppression could have so many artillery. He had never received similar intelligence, saying that the anti-alliance force had so many artillery pieces.
of artillery and a seemingly endless supply of shells.
He knew very well that he had a large number of mortars and a small number of mountain artillery to target the targets he wanted to destroy. But the artillerymen bombarding him in front of him, regardless of the mortars, the number of mountain artillery alone was definitely not as high as the intelligence.
There are two guns mentioned. It is impossible for these to be the poorly equipped anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed forces. Looking at the Jiamusi area, the only one that can possess so many imperial standard artillery is the Fourth Division.
Although the opponent's rate of fire is not fast, Colonel Murata can still judge that the artillery shooting at him is at least the size of an artillery regiment. And a group that can fire such dense artillery shells, even a corps of the China government army
It has never been equipped.
Although he knew very well about the equipment of the Japanese troops on the third route, he thought that the person who was launching an artillery attack on him was not the target of his attack but the Fourth Division. Because he knew that although the Fourth Division did not participate in this attack
We went to suppress the enemy, but the Fourth Division was stationed in the Jiamusi area.
So when he was bombarded, Murata Takao immediately thought that the Fourth Division had been temporarily deployed by General Sasaki to No. 1 Middle School to cooperate in the suppression. Until the shells falling on his head became more and more dense, and nearly ten minutes had passed.
, before it calmed down, he realized that he had been ambushed.
Moreover, while he was still aware of the ambush in his midst, he immediately realized that the anti-Japanese armed forces ambushing him would definitely not be a small number, because a small force would not have so much artillery fire.
After all, it is a regular field division of the Japanese army. Murata Takao is quite tough, and his tactical level and reaction speed are also quite good. After scolding: "Baga, how come these anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements have so many artillery?"
Instead of retreating, he advanced, commanding his troops to brave the dense artillery shells from the surroundings and launch a counterattack by choosing the hilltop closest to him.
Because Colonel Murata Takao knew very well that if he didn't quickly seize a commanding heights, according to his current situation, he really didn't know that his troops would be able to survive such a dense attack on the bare road without any hiding places.
How much troops will be deployed?
The radio station was blown up, and it was no longer possible to request reinforcements or air support. The only thing he could do now was to seize a commanding height as soon as possible and wait for reinforcements before the anti-Manchu armed forces reacted.
When he saw from the telescope that the Japanese army was not afraid of death and did not wait for the artillery fire to stop, but braved the intensive artillery fire to launch a counterattack, Yang Zhen was secretly shocked and immediately ordered the infantry to concentrate fire on the two wings in the direction of the Japanese army's counterattack.
Fierce attack. Trying to use firepower to block the Japanese army's attempt to break through a certain point in the ambush circle or to seize the commanding heights.
Worried that the troops deployed on the hilltop that the Japanese army wanted to seize could not withstand the Japanese army's desperate attack, after temporarily handing over the command to Du Kaishan at his side, Yang Zhen ordered Ma Qichang to immediately command the mobile artillery.
After the group suppressed the Japanese counterattack with firepower, he personally led a company to rush to the top of the mountain for reinforcements.
Fortunately, when Yang Zhen was adjusting his organization, he incorporated two heavy machine guns into each company, and equipped each infantry squad with squad light machine guns. And the defenders on the hilltop where the Japanese attacked were also Yang
Zhen originally used the veteran company to prepare for the charge. The company commander of this company was also quite capable.
Seeing that the Japanese army ignored the intensive artillery fire and launched an attack on the hilltop where they were, the company commander was also surprised. After a brief period of consternation, he immediately commanded the troops to join the battle. He concentrated all the machine gun firepower and fought desperately.
intercept.
Although the Japanese army is not afraid of death, they are still flesh and blood. After losing their main fire support, after their teeth and claws were pulled out, the Japanese army still has the courage and perseverance to fight. But flesh and blood cannot compete with steel after all.
Competitive.
Although the precise rifle shooting of Japanese soldiers also caused a lot of casualties to the defending troops, under the intensive machine gun fire and the quickly transferred mortar shells, they lost their main fire support, but they were still unable to
Successfully, they were defeated in large numbers in front of the garrison position.
When Yang Zhen rushed to the defensive position, he was slightly relieved when he saw that the company commander did not panic because the Japanese army chose his side as the main attack direction, and that his command was quite effective. He knew that as long as the Japanese army did not break through,
I will definitely win this battle.
Seeing that although the Japanese army took turns to attack here at all costs, there was not much danger here, Yang Zhen transferred two platoons of troops from the company that brought him to supplement the blocking force, and sent the company's two heavy rifles
After leaving the machine gun behind, he led the rest of the troops back to his command position. Yang Zhen knew very well that the closer the battle came to an end, the less he could leave his command position.
Just when Yang Zhen returned to the command post, except for the mobile artillery group that was still cooperating with the company with intensive artillery fire to block the Japanese counterattack, the rest of the artillery sound had gradually subsided. The Japanese troops who launched the counterattack were surrounded by firepower
Under the intensive attacks, casualties were gradually reduced. After carefully observing the battlefield situation with a telescope, Yang Zhen, knowing that it was time to launch an attack, issued a general attack order.
Accompanied by bursts of charging horns, each company responsible for the charge jumped out of the trenches, and under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, they faced the two Japanese troops who had gathered into a group and tried to make a final resistance after the failed counterattack.
The remaining strength of this brigade, which was less than one squadron, launched a full-scale attack.
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