One hundred and fifty-four chapters fierce battle Tangyuan (1)
Ueda Kenkichi, who was red-eyed at the loss, sent several telegrams almost a day, and under almost life-threatening urging, he had just been promoted from the head of the North China Secret Service to the commander of the Fifth Army of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and he had not yet had time to return to Dong'an.
Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, who was sitting on the brand-new chair at the military headquarters, had no choice but to follow Ueda Kenkichi's orders and rush to Jiamusi as quickly as possible to supervise the battle in person. [.Com text]
After receiving a telegram from Kenji Doihara that he had arrived in Jiamusi, Ueda Kenji, who was eager to save some face, ignored the scheduled mobilization of troops and had not yet completed the assembly.
Realizing that the First Battalion of the Artillery Regiment was still on its way, Kenji Doihara was ordered to concentrate the main force of the Fourth Division that had arrived at the scheduled battlefield. Under the air cover of a large number of mobilized aircraft, he launched an attack on the front line of Kunce Mountain.
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Kenji Doihara, who was urged by Ueda Kenji as if he was on fire, had no choice but to transfer the pressure from Ueda Kenji to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, commander of the Fourth Division, who was on the front line at the moment.
Incidents of crushing people to death often occurred among the Japanese army.
After Kenji Doihara unreasonably transferred the pressure from Ueda Kenji to himself, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, commander of the Fourth Division, although he was reluctant, could only curse Kenji Doihara secretly for not being loyal enough.
After adding insult to injury, bite the bullet and launch an attack in advance.
Although Lieutenant General Sasaki was killed in the battle and the troops involved in the encirclement and suppression suffered heavy losses, especially after learning that the secret warehouse at Kunce Mountain was lost, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru was very clear about it, even though he was reluctant to admit it. The Kwantung Army commander of Ueda Kenkichi
The position has been reached.
The first active-duty army lieutenant general of the Japanese army since the establishment of the new army was killed in action. Especially for the loss of Qunce Mountain, the largest secret warehouse in northern Manchuria, someone must be responsible. As the current commander of the Kwantung Army, Ueda can retire honorably in one year.
Qianji is undoubtedly the best candidate for this person in charge.
What does the secret warehouse in Qunce Mountain do? As the first person responsible for daily protection and the first beneficiary during the war, Sawada Shigeru didn't know how much equipment was stored there. But he knew one thing very well.
This warehouse is extremely important to the Kwantung Army. Losing this warehouse would be fatal to the war preparations of the Kwantung Army, which was committed to preparing for the war against the Soviet Union.
It is impossible for the Emperor and the Army Ministry not to hold the largest secret warehouse in Northern Manchuria accountable for the loss. General Ueda Kenkichi, who originally had one year to retire, is likely to retire early because of these two incidents.
However, although he knew that General Ueda Kenyoshi's days as commander of the Kwantung Army were numbered, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, like his immediate boss Lieutenant General Doihara Kenji, could be said to have become angry with him.
The general's orders did not dare to be followed or disobeyed in the slightest.
As the only Osaka-born general among active and retired generals in the Army, Ueda Kenkichi not only possesses the style of a soldier, but also has the same extremely cunning businessman style as his subordinates. He has extremely wide connections in the entire Army. Otherwise, he would
Without being left with a broken body, he could still be promoted repeatedly in the Japanese army, which pays special attention to military appearance, and was promoted to Army General, a rank that all Japanese generals dream of.
This lame general who studied business in his early years not only rose to extremely important positions such as deputy chief of staff and commander of the Kwantung Army, but also won the favor of His Majesty the Emperor and some elders and important ministers because he was on the right side of the February 26 incident.
Although he will retire early due to this incident and lose the qualification to be promoted to marshal, no one dares to underestimate his connections in the army.
If you really offend him, your future future will definitely be greatly affected. Even if this lame old guy is not in active service, no one will dare to look down on him. Therefore, even though Sawada Shigeru, who knows exactly what kind of virtues his subordinates have, is full of
Reluctantly, but still bravely launched the attack.
Fortunately, in order to save some face before the dismissal order was issued, Ueda Kenkichi specially mobilized nearly half of the Japanese aviation forces in northern Manchuria to provide air support for the Fourth Division. In view of the strong support from the aviation forces, he launched the attack first.
The ones who have arrived at the front line of Miaolingzi Mountain are the 61st Regiment, which has just been transformed from corpse collectors into a garrison regiment.
Compared with the 8th Regiment, which has been completely commercialized, the performance of the 61st Regiment, whose soldiers are from Wakayama in western Osaka, is much better. From the beginning, it adopts the standard textbook attack method of the Japanese army, concentrating all artillery fire, and attacking the aircraft.
Under cover, they launched a fierce attack on several forward positions in Qunce Mountain.
Wang Guangyu, who commanded the front-line defense, followed Yang Zhen's prior deployment and under the command of Li Yanping and Guo Bingxun, did not fight blindly with the 37th Regiment. Instead, he followed the road leading to the secret warehouse.
In the mountainous areas on both sides of the small railway line, we used fortifications that had been built in advance to fight against the enemy step by step.
During the battle, Wang Guangyu strictly carried out Yang Zhen's order to move the Japanese troops closer before fighting. He waited for the Japanese troops to cover up the firepower and reached a straight line distance of nearly 100 meters before firing. Not only did he use close-range intensive firepower to make up for the training,
The shortcomings also allowed the Japanese aircraft in the sky to use traps because the two armies were extremely close to each other, greatly reducing their effectiveness in ground support.
The Japanese troops of the Fourth Division cannot compare with other Japanese divisions in terms of fighting will, but they also need a lot of training. Their soldiers are skilled in tactical movements and have extremely tacit cooperation. Especially the infantry's long-range shooting accuracy is the best among Yang Zhen's troops.
It is far incomparable now. It was exactly this that Yang Zhen saw at the beginning, and in order to reduce casualties, he issued an order that all weapons should not be fired at a distance of less than 100 meters.
In addition to strictly implementing Yang Zhen's instructions of concentrating a large number of light and heavy machine guns and grenades on the forward positions to kill a large number of Japanese troops at close range, Wang Guangyu also made certain improvements to Yang Zhen's tactics based on his own situation.
He concentrated all the speed machines in a regiment into the hands of an infantry company, plus an independent company that was over-allocated with a large number of grenades, forming a professional firefighting team that specialized in using the dense rain of grenades and the rapid rate of fire of the speed machines.
The characteristics of flexible movements were used to attack Japanese attacking troops who broke through the interception of machine gun fire and approached the forward positions. Using this method of tactics, although Wang Guangyu gave up many less important positions according to the planned plan, it also caused inconvenience to the Japanese troops.
Small casualties.
Under the blocking of a battalion commanded by Wang Guangyu, who adopted Yang Zhen's pre-planned response methods specifically for the Japanese attack style, after a whole day's attack, the 61st Regiment had to go through almost every hilltop.
The team's attack operation has made considerable progress, and has even reached a place less than twenty miles away from the secret warehouse in Qunce Mountain. However, an entire squadron was injured or killed.
Three hours after the 61st Regiment launched its attack, the previous attack was more like an armed march than a battle. It did not encounter any resistance during the march and has now reached the first line of the Fasi River.
The 37th Regiment also launched an attack on the defensive position of a battalion of the 3rd Regiment, which was directly commanded by Guo Bingxun.
Compared with the 61st Regiment that fought hard from hilltop to hilltop, the 37th Regiment and the 4th Cavalry Regiment launched their attack from the Taiping River line and concentrated most of the artillery of the 4th Division.
The action was more like an armed march. It was not until they crossed the Fasi River that they encountered strong resistance.
The two regiments that took the lead in attacking progressed smoothly in the first phase of the combat operation, which made Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru extremely satisfied. Although the casualties of the 61st Regiment were slightly higher, after all, the casualties of a squadron were very important to a regiment.
From a perspective, it is still acceptable. Especially in terms of relative progress, this exchange is more tolerable than Sawada Shigeru.
It was just beyond Sawada Shigeru's expectation that although the progress of the two Japanese armies on the first day was pretty good. Except for the great progress, which had already reached the 61st Regiment less than 20 miles away from Qunce Mountain, the 61st Regiment
The 37th Regiment has even reached the north bank of the Fasi River, which is within easy reach of Qunce Mountain.
But the battle that followed was extremely difficult. The opponent's firepower, resistance, and even cunningness were beyond Sawada Shigeru's expectations.
The person in charge of entertaining the 37th Regiment was Guo Bingxun. After all, Guo Bingxun was a top student who returned from studying at the French Military Academy and fought in positional warfare for four years in World War I. If we look at his field combat ability alone, he might be a little worse.
However, relying on the favorable position, the blockade was carried out in a relaxed and relaxed manner, and the rhythm was controlled extremely well.
The 37th Regiment, which was so high-spirited and had almost an unobstructed journey, thought that its opponent had been frightened by the illustrious reputation of the 4th Division and had fled three feet away. As soon as it crossed the Fasi River, it was met head-on.
Heavy artillery bombardment. The entire infantry squadron at the head was collectively transformed in the dense rain of bullets.
The 37th Regiment, which had just crossed the Hoji River, was attacked head-on. After encountering the first wave of attacks, it immediately adjusted its tactics under the command of its commander Hayashi Taro. It launched a frontal attack with one force.
The main force adopted the Japanese army's usual outflanking tactics, trying to open a gap on the defender's flank.
I just didn't expect that the opponent's flank protection was almost watertight. Although there were not many troops on the entire flank, the firepower was absolutely strong. A large number of heavy machine guns firing at close range were raining bullets, and the mortar barrage formed an interception firepower network.
An almost perfect combination, giving Lin Fangtaro a slap in the face without any hesitation.
Fired at a close range of 100 meters, the defenders' heavy machine guns almost didn't need to deliberately aim, knocking down the attacking Japanese troops in large numbers. Although the grenadier caused some casualties to the defenders' heavy machine guns, the grenadier did not
The cannon operators themselves were also heavily beaten to death and wounded by some soldiers with accurate marksmanship specially arranged by the defenders to take care of them.
Apart from forcing the defenders to abandon some unimportant strongholds, the 37th Regiment's attack on the flanks had no effect. In fact, under several attacks, more than one squadron fell to the opponent.
Under this somewhat strange tactic.
If it were any other Japanese division that had to pay such heavy casualties, it would have unleashed its ferocity. But for the Fourth Division, especially the Eighth Regiment and the Thirty-seventh Regiment, which were completely composed of Osaka troops.
But it was completely different. Seeing their comrades covered in blood, many of them beaten into briquettes, had a great impact on the morale of these Osaka soldiers.
Similar to the Eighth Regiment, the Thirty-Seventh Regiment, which was also composed entirely of Osaka soldiers, suffered such a serious blow, and its subsequent attack intensity plummeted. Instead of the previous aggressiveness, almost every step was extremely cautious.
When encountering a fire blockage, they either retreated or retreated several times faster than the attack speed. As soon as there was any disturbance on the hilltop opposite, all artillery fire was organized to bombard them indiscriminately.
However, the morale of the 37th Regiment dropped so quickly that he had just been promoted from the post of chief of staff of the 12th Army to the commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 4th Division, and even the two commanders of his own
Major General Asaburo Kobayashi was kicked off the battlefield after he had time to get familiar with him, but there was no surprise at all.
The only thing that surprised him on the battlefield was that the opponent was just an armed bandit force, and they actually had heavy artillery that even the regular army of Kannai China did not have. Asaburo Kobayashi, who had been in the army for many years, could clearly tell the difference just from the sound of the artillery.
The caliber of these heavy guns is at least 150 mm.
He was also certain that the heavy howitzers that were pouring firepower on the 37th Regiment that launched the attack should be the Imperial Army's standard Taisho 4th-year-old 150mm howitzers. He even estimated that the heavy howitzers that hit the 37th Regiment before were
The shells on the head of the 37th Regiment were at least fired by a heavy artillery brigade.
Although the explosion points of the artillery shells are extremely messy, the sound of the artillery is coming and going, and several shellings obviously did not form a salvo, it can be seen that the opponent is not skilled in the use of these heavy artillery. However, the shells fired by these heavy artillery are solid.
The shot fell on the head of the 37th Regiment. It was obvious that the opponent had already defined the shooting boundary.
Listening to the roar of the heavy artillery of the defenders on the opposite side, it has been less than a month since the Kwantung Army was transferred back from the main battlefield in the pass. Kobayashi Qian, who only knew a little bit about the secret warehouse in Qunce Mountain and even Yang Zhen's subordinates,
Major General Saburo frowned deeply: "What happened to the Kwantung Army in the past year? Not only did they wipe out a bandit armed force and lose soldiers, but they also allowed their opponents to possess heavy howitzers?"
Seeing the 37th Regiment's attack being unfavorable and being defeated again, Major General Kobayashi Asasaburo did not blame the 37th Regiment which became timid after several failed attacks. It can be said that the performance of the 37th Regiment was poor.
Colonel Yoshitaro Hayashi looked embarrassed.
As for the virtues of the 8th and 37th regiments, the so-called main forces of the 4th Division, Major General Kobayashi Asaburo already knew very well when he was the squadron leader of the 70th Regiment. It is not necessary now.
What a fuss.
After learning that Lieutenant General Sasaki Yuichi was killed and the troops of the 8th, 11th, and 12th divisions involved in the encirclement and suppression campaign suffered heavy losses, the commander of the Kwantung Army made such an urgent decision to dispatch the fourth division into the mountains for a clearing campaign.
Major General Asaburo Kobayashi disagreed. In his view, since the elite brigades of the Eighth Division and the Eleventh Division had suffered heavy losses, deploying soft-legged crabs like the Fourth Division would not only not solve the problem, but
On the contrary, it is easier to make mistakes.
If they were transferred, they should not be transferred. They have already lost their courage and have been completely transformed into a merchant group. There is nothing in the world that they dare not sell. The 8th and 37th Regiments should at least be regarded as non-Osaka locals.
He was born in the 61st and 70th Regiments.
Asaburo Kobayashi never understood what General Ueda Kenkichi and Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru were thinking. Last year, the southbound detachment of the Fourth Division, composed of troops from the 8th Regiment and the 37th Regiment, participated in the Battle of Xuzhou.
His performance has almost become a joke among the Central China Expeditionary Forces.
This southbound detachment, composed of two so-called main force units of the Fourth Division, put the imperial army's bravery above the plunder of civilians. For the Chinese regular army, they could hide if they could, but if they couldn't, just stay away.
Just engage in passive combat.
Even in broad daylight, the southbound detachment with several large groups of troops actually turned a blind eye to the Chinese troops breaking out next to them. Later, they even claimed that they had not received combat orders. How could such a unit be used for the main attack?
They actually killed four infantry brigades of the 8th and 11th Divisions in one go, and almost crippled the 24th Regiment of the 12th Division. These were cunning and fierce bandits.
Although it can't be said to be hitting a rock with an egg, it is really a bit too much.
In fact, the reason why Major General Asaburo Kobayashi, the division commander, put the 37th Infantry Regiment on the flanks is not entirely understandable, but he knows a little bit about it. The Fourth Division originally had the strongest combat effectiveness among the four infantry regiments under its jurisdiction.
The 70th Regiment had just been transferred to Harbin five days ago to prepare for the formation of the 25th Division. The remaining 61st Regiment, which had a somewhat tough style, was assigned to the front.
As for the flanks, they can only be handed over to the 37th Regiment, which is slightly stronger than the 8th Regiment with a mere scientific name. Compared with a brigade that was defeated in Dunhua, now it can only be used by the division commander to protect the supply line.
The Eighth Regiment and the Thirty-seventh Regiment, at least on the surface, seem to have a little bit of bravery. Although they are only
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