Although the Japanese troops coming out of Jining City, plus the Japanese troops on the front line of Hongshazui, had the strength of five infantry brigades, Chen Hanzhang was able to mobilize the troops to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops, with only four infantry battalions and three cavalry brigade battalions. In addition, two companies of tank regiments were missing, but Chen Hanzhang never considered the issue of initiative on the battlefield.
For Chen Hanzhang, as long as the current 69th Division leaves Jining City, it will be a pile of corpses in his eyes. For him, the only consideration is to choose a cemetery for the Japanese troops, and he has not considered fighting with these Japanese troops at all. When fighting, will there be any other results?
Chen Hanzhang thought of eating up all the 69th Division in one go, and asked him to accompany him as the commander and political commissar of the Saibei Military Division, which was adapted from the Daqingshan Guerrilla Detachment and the local armed forces of the Jinsui Military Region who had penetrated the Great Wall in advance. I was stunned, almost thinking I heard wrong.
Those are nearly five infantry brigades of Japanese troops, not five brigades of puppet troops. You actually have to swallow them all in one breath when the forces are roughly equal. Isn’t your tone a bit too loud? Even if your equipment is better than The Japanese army had a large number of tanks to cooperate with the battle, but this was probably too exaggerated.
However, Chen Hanzhang did not have much time to explain to his fraternal troops. Everything should be said by the results of the battle. After thinking for a long time, Chen Hanzhang decided that if the 69th Division retreated south, the battlefield would be between Huangqihai and Pingsui Railway. It starts from an unnamed small river that flows into the Huangqi Sea in the east, reaches the Pingsui Railway in the west, and reaches Mizokouzi in the south, within a radius of more than ten square kilometers.
This is within the terrain of Jining County with mountains on both sides and a plain in the middle. It is the most suitable place for tank operations. Moreover, it is located between Fengzhen County and Jining County. The large reed swamps on the west bank of the Huangqi Sea can also be effectively used against The troops took cover.
Although Chen Hanzhang is very agile, it takes time to adjust the deployment, especially the troops he led to detour to Fengzhen. Although most of the troops did not enter Fengzhen County, they were placed to contain Jining. to Fengzhen Highway, and the line from Mizokouzi to Changditrough on both sides of Pingsui Railway.
Just as his deployment was adjusted in place, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadao's 69th Division of Jining County lined up in four neat columns, with a guard squadron on each wing, and quickly withdrew with the cavalry as the lead. Later, contrary to almost everyone's expectations, the retreat route chosen by Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae did not take the mountainous terrain on both sides, but followed the Pingsui Railway straight down.
As for why in the situation of huge disparity in maneuverability, the plain area was chosen to be most conducive to the advantage of the anti-alliance tank cluster, it was because Inoue Sadao was betting on his opponent who had the same strength but did not have an advantage, thinking that he would go to the mountains. Avoiding the opponent's tank cluster, he placed the troops that might be used to encircle him in the hilly areas on both sides.
Lieutenant General Sadae Inoue had a gambling mentality and led his troops to retreat south as quickly as possible. He wanted to bypass the Fengzhen line and withdraw to Datong from the Zhenchuankou line before the enemy could react. As for Gang, He had no intention of carrying out the order given by General Muranei to retake Fengzhen.
Even if his deception method can attract the enemy, if he is delayed in Feng Town for too long and waits for the enemy to react, all his previous efforts will be in vain. The enemies are all mechanized troops and their ability to move is quite fast. Yes, if you delay even a little bit, you will be blocked outside the Great Wall.
When Lieutenant General Inoue Sadao led his retreating army and successfully passed through Pingdiquan and a series of key points of the mosque, he slowly let go of his original choice. As long as he crossed the Huhe Wusu River and entered the mountainous area,
It means that you are out of danger.
However, Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae did not know that as soon as the troops he led arrived at the front line of the mosque, behind him, Yi Liangpin had personally commanded the troops to seize Pingdiquan and blocked his route back to Jining. His leading troops
An infantry battalion followed leisurely five kilometers behind the 69th Division.
When the vanguard of the 69th Division reached the west bank of Huangqihai, Chen Hanzhang's troops deployed in the mountainous area west of the Pingsui Railway had quietly entered the Naobao Valley and Danaring Valley lines west of Pingsui Road, and with a force
The troops, in cooperation with the Saibei Division Independent Regiment, seized the Mizokouzi line and blocked the Japanese army's way into the mountains.
The tanks of all participating troops have been organized and the artillery has been mobilized. At Guisui Airport, an A20 attack aircraft squadron and an attack aircraft squadron modified from MS 406 fighter jets have taken off one after another and are heading towards
Fly over from the battlefield south of Jining.
But facing the 69th Division that was rushing all the way, Chen Hanzhang was very patient. Even though the Japanese vanguard had crossed the west bank of the Yellow Flag Sea, he was still very calm and did not issue an attack order. He still had to stretch the Japanese army for a while and wait until
After most of the Japanese troops entered the narrow area between the west coast of Huangqihai and the Pingsui Railway, another attack would achieve greater results.
When the leading cavalry squadron of the Sixty-ninth Division arrived at Mizokouzi, and the large troops had already reached the top of the mountain on the west bank of the Yellow Flag Sea, the North Fangfang, and the South Camp line, and the follow-up troops had passed the mosque, Chen Hanzhang, who felt that the time had come, gave
The various troops already deployed issued a general attack order.
The first to start the offensive operation were two squadrons of attack aircraft that had been circling in the sky west of the Pingsui Railway for a long time. The leading squadron of twenty-four A-20 attack aircraft took advantage of its strong skin and thick flesh to fly at low altitude.
Passing over the Japanese marching group, it accurately dumped all the sixteen tons of napalm bombs hanging in the belly magazine on the heads of the Japanese troops.
This was the first time they encountered a new type of incendiary bomb air attack like napalm. The Sixty-ninth Division, which obviously had no experience in dealing with this kind of napalm, still adopted the method of avoiding conventional high-explosive bombs after the anti-alliance aviation troops flew overhead.
tactics to try to reduce the damage caused by air strikes to oneself.
However, they did not expect that the napalm bombs dropped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance would burn into a large area. People within a hundred meters of the dropped bombs would have nowhere to hide. The Japanese troops near the direct explosion point would lay down as usual.
Tactics basically have no effect, even finding covert objects has no effect.
As long as the Japanese troops affected by the fire caused by the explosion were either burned alive or directly cremated on the spot, the casualties caused by these 16 tons of napalm bombs to the retreating 69th Division were quite huge.
The napalm bombs that exerted their maximum power on the plain terrain caused even greater casualties to the 69th Division than a 100-ton conventional bomb.
Even the Japanese troops hiding in the house were burned to ashes along with the people and the house. This bombing directly sent one-third of the troops of the 69th Division back to the embrace of Amaterasu. The entire Japanese army marched
The army columns were filled with charred corpses of Japanese soldiers, and the few artillery pieces they had were blown up to the sky during the air raids.
After the twenty-four A-20 attack planes had dropped all the bombs, before the raging fire caused by napalm bombs on the ground was extinguished, these attack planes turned around in the air and then turned back, using the aircraft The five 12mm machine guns on board, two in an echelon, swooped down from three directions.
These planes flew along the Japanese marching column in batches, firing wildly with machine guns. Only when all the bullets and bombs carried on the planes were cleared, they were satisfied and flew away easily. After the attack planes completed their bombing, they served as The eight P-40 fighter jets that were covering the area also swooped down without encountering any threats, and fired another wild sweep with their onboard machine guns.
And just when the A-20 attack planes and cover aircraft were wreaking havoc in the sky over the Sixty-ninth Division, scattering the bombs and machine gun bullets they carried on the head of the Sixty-ninth Division without hesitation, in the midst of the resistance alliance A squadron of French-made MS 406 attack aircraft, nicknamed Grouse because of their small size, were covering Yi Liangpin's mechanized tank cluster and were already chasing after them.
Before the 69th Division could wake up from the stormy air strikes, Yi Liangpin had already commanded his tank groups to rush over at high speed from the east and north directions. At the same time, the armored cavalry commanded by Chen Hanzhang The cluster, also led by cavalry and tanks, crossed the Pingsui Railway under the cover of artillery fire, and rushed towards the location of the Japanese troops from the west and south directions.
Facing the anti-Union tanks and armored cavalry groups that were surrounded from all sides, the Sixty-ninth Division, which had only a few artillery pieces and had been destroyed in air raids, was unable to resist. It finally gathered some of its troops and tried to Block the anti-alliance forces that are encircling them from all sides.
However, they were attacked by attack planes swooping down from the sky, with a barrage of air-to-ground rockets and machine guns, which disrupted some of the assembled troops. Finally, after these planes had used up their rockets and machine gun bullets, they retreated. Long-range artillery fire came over again.
The 69th Division, which suffered heavy casualties during the bombing, was attacked by air and ground fire. Before it could build fortifications, the entire march was torn apart by the anti-alliance tank and cavalry offensive that rushed over at high speed under the cover of artillery fire. It was all in pieces, and within just an hour of the war starting, the entire army fell into chaos.
In the plain area, the mechanized group battle between infantry and tanks and cavalry without the cover of fortifications is a tragedy for any army. Although the Japanese army is not afraid of death, it still does not change its ferocity and sends out a large number of desperate troops to fight to the death. Grenades were tied up and down, trying to open a gap in the anti-alliance tank offensive and cover the division's main breakout.
However, the death squads dispatched were of no use at all under the intensive firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance armored tank group infantry. The troops dispatched were beaten into pieces without the machine guns on the half-track armored vehicles approaching the flanks of the tanks. The infantrymen who were pulled by the tanks were beaten into a hornet's nest, and the automatic rifles in their hands were beaten into sieves at a distance of 200 meters.
In order to contain the impact of the Anti-Japanese Alliance tanks, the Japanese army's desperate charge not only failed to contain the Anti-Japanese Alliance offensive, but actually involved a considerable number of combat soldiers themselves. Although Inoue Sadae made use of gasoline and wine bottles before departure, A large number of incendiary bombs were used, but the losses caused by these meat bomb offensives to the anti-Union tanks can only be described as negligible.
Less than four hours after the battle started, Chen Hanzhang had neatly completed the division of the 69th Division. The entire 69th Division was divided into six large and small pieces. Some of the troops on the right wing were even Yi Liangpin's mechanized group of tanks collided and crushed them, and in a panic, they drove off Huang Qihai.
After completing the division of the 69th Division, Chen Hanzhang immediately launched a general attack without any hesitation. In order to reduce casualties and speed up the battle, although he knew that it would not be easy to transport fuel and bombs from the rear to Guisui, Chen Hanzhang still Chen Hanzhang's only thought at this moment was to order the aviation troops stationed in Guisui to take off again to conduct air strikes against the Japanese troops that had been divided. A quick battle and a quick victory to deal with the Japanese troops in front of them as quickly as possible.