In this battle, the commander of the Fifth Division adopted the signature tactics of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Enemy troops within a range of 400 meters were handed over to their squadrons' automatic rifles and light machine guns. Those outside the 400-meter infantry fire range were handed over to their squadrons.
The company's general-purpose machine gun and the battalion's 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun and the 60mm mortar are responsible for peaceful shooting. The fire suppression of the follow-up troops behind is left to the battalion's mortars and division's
Mountain field artillery is in charge.
The Fifth Division has now completed its equipment change, and the entire division is equipped with the same automatic firearms. The infantry is equipped with all Type 81 automatic rifles with 20-round magazines, and the Type 81 squad light machine gun equipped with drum magazines, imitating later generations of PK
The general-purpose machine gun is the Type 81 general-purpose machine gun. Its infantry firepower intensity has far exceeded that of all armies of this era.
The current main resistance division, which has eliminated all manual rifles, has a squad's firepower density that is almost equal to that of an infantry company in the past. Even though the infantry is the most well-equipped in this era, there is only one general-purpose machine gun in the organization, and the rest
The Germans, who still used manual rifles, were far from their opponents in terms of firepower density. These automatic weapons formed a dense fire net in front of the Fifth Division's position, constantly devouring all enemy troops who dared to invade.
These weapons were originally prepared by Yang Zhen to deal with those little devils who were worse than beasts, but he did not expect that the first ones to try them would be the so-called allies of the Anti-League. At least on the surface, the Anti-League and the Mongolian People's Republic were barely
An ally. We just haven't had direct contact with him before.
Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance has always used airports in Mongolia as transit bases, the ones who came forward were all Soviets. Those airports were also Soviet aviation bases. Whether it was pilots trained in Mongolia before or liaison personnel stationed later,
They had never had any contact with these Mongolians. Of course, the Soviets were also strict with anti-Union personnel and had contact with the Mongols.
But after all, at least now we are not enemies. Although Yang Zhen doesn't want to admit it, unless he wants to risk a complete fallout with the Soviet Union, he can only break his teeth and swallow his blood. Acquiescing to these separatists in his eyes,
Treat him as his ally. Yang Zhen had never thought that these sophisticated weapons designed by himself would be the first to be used on his so-called ally.
Facing the anti-Japanese resistance with all automatic firearms, the Mongolian offensive of the Mongolian army, which was taller than themselves with bayonets mounted, and lined up in neat skirmish lines, was like waves of sea langs rising on the solid ground.
It was smashed into pieces on the embankment. Its offensive consisting of manpower and the equally disjointed infantry and artillery coordination tactics posed little threat to the defensive forces in the face of the dense fire net.
The Deggarev light machine gun and the Maxim 1910 water-cooled heavy machine gun it was equipped with were no match for the 81-type general-purpose machine gun and the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun that fired flatly. It didn’t take long before the battle started.
It was suppressed to death and could not play any role at all.
The light and heavy mortars and field artillery that covered the attack were greatly disadvantaged during the artillery battle due to poor shooting accuracy, slow reaction speed, and the fact that the gun positions were never moved during the battle. One of the field artillery pieces that covered the attack
More than half of the battalion's twelve Soviet-made 76mm field guns were destroyed by the Fifth Division's artillery in one go.
The spirit of these elite Mongolian troops is extremely commendable. Their rows of skirmishers were like waves. The first wave of charges was defeated, and the second wave did not stop at all.
They rushed up immediately. The second wave of charges was defeated, and the subsequent troops immediately followed.
Of more than a dozen skirmisher lines, only one continued to attack without being defeated. The infantry unit's charge was defeated, and the cavalry immediately followed up with sabers waving and continued to charge. But the tactics they adopted, in addition to showing how brave these people were,
He is not afraid of death and makes the scene very intense and tragic, but it has no use.
The firepower was completely at a disadvantage, and the tactics were too rigid. The offensive of these Mongolian troops was destined to be in vain and the price paid was heavy. The dozens of skirmisher lines they deployed were arranged in rows on a relatively narrow front.
They were mopped down by the dense bullets and raindrops of mortar shells fired by the 5th Division, recoilless rifles, and anti-personnel explosive grenades fired by rocket launchers.
In particular, the six battalion 12.7mm horizontal-firing anti-aircraft machine guns and the twelve Type 81 general-purpose machine guns deployed on the front caused huge casualties. After the first day of fighting on the entire battlefield, the entire
The corpses of Mongolian soldiers and their horses were scattered everywhere on the battlefield.
During the first day of offensive operations, an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment transferred from the Mongolian army, two complete regiments were completely defeated in one day. In the end, even the troops of the fifth division felt that
It's like I'm not fighting but killing.
However, after paying such a heavy price, the Mongolian army, which deployed its best troops in the attack on the first day, only advanced less than three kilometers into the depth of the Fifth Division. Moreover, it captured several front-line positions and several prominent points in the deep positions.
In the evening, the 13th Regiment of the 5th Division only organized two company-sized counterattacks and recovered everything.
In other words, during this day-long battle, after paying the price of nearly a hundred tanks and armored vehicles and the defeat of two regiments, these Mongolian troops were left empty-handed and gained nothing. In the evening, after the fifth division's counterattack
As a result, they didn't even hold on to the positions they had occupied, and were simply driven back to the starting point.
After nightfall, the Mongolian army, which had suffered a heavy blow during the day and lost most of its tanks, armored vehicles and two entire regiments, reacted. It changed its tactics of fighting hard during the day and tried to adopt the tactics of sneak attacks at night, and in one fell swoop
Defeat the anti-Japanese resistance coalition who resisted face to face. Of course, if the night offensive conducted by the Mongolian army was also called a night attack in Wang Guangyu's eyes.
Wang Guangyu, who was personally commanding at the front line at that time, saw for the first time in his life that the army was attacking at night. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, although in order to cover the attack, artillery support was not even used. The troops involved in the attack also took advantage of the darkness of the night.
Using cover, they secretly advanced to the front position of the Fifth Division, less than 600 meters away.
But when the attack was officially launched, it was the same as a frontal attack during the day, as if it was afraid that others would not know that it was attacking. With flares and a neat line of skirmishers, they stood up five hundred meters away from the 5th Division's position.
He came to shout "Ula" and came for a sneak attack. If this can also be called a sneak attack, then this was the first time that King Guangyu had seen such a sneak attack.
How could such an earth-shattering night attack be better in the face of such a well-equipped unit? After a night melee, under the intensive machine gun fire of the Fifth Division mixed with fierce artillery fire, even the soldiers of the Fifth Division's position were
They were beaten back without even touching the edge. After the failed sneak attack, the Mongolian army, unwilling to admit defeat, launched several more futile night offensives.
After a night of fierce fighting, instead of breaking through the Fifth Division's defense line, he himself lost all his troops. When the offensive completely stopped at dawn, he made a calculation and threw in a full regiment of troops. He added another regiment, but the result was nothing.
It is still a pitiful zero.
In fact, let alone what they did that was earth-shattering, there was nothing. Wang Guangyu, who had been on guard against their attacks for a long time, had also made preparations for their night attack operations. The Fifth Division not only used the cover of night in the evening, but also in the shortest possible time.
Within a short period of time, the minefields destroyed by Mongolian artillery fire during the day were redeployed in front of his own position. Wang Guangyu also equipped the Fifth Division with a large number of illumination bombs.
The night offensive he launched, as soon as Ula just shouted out, the troops here who reacted quickly fired flares. Before the Mongolian troops who were attacking at night could enter the effective range of the rifle machine guns, the on-duty artillery fire had already started. This night attack
, Wang Guangyu was defeated with almost no effort.
Faced with the results of the first day and the performance of the Mongolian army, Wang Guangyu immediately decided to concentrate the 13th and 15th regiments of the 5th Division on the next day to launch a full-scale counterattack from the front. The 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 14th Regiment of the 5th Division launched a full-scale counterattack from both wings.
Initiate an encirclement. At the same time, the only brigade stationed in Hailar was ordered to use two regiments to break through the line of Hailar River to the north and cut off the retreat route of these Mongolian troops. In order to defeat these uninvited Mongolian troops in the shortest possible time.
The army was completely annihilated.
Perhaps the continuous fierce battles on the previous day had exhausted the courage of these Mongolian troops. Perhaps their elite troops had been depleted in the battles on the previous day, and the remaining troops were all troops with poor combat effectiveness. Perhaps it was
The remaining Mongol troops were frightened by the brutal fighting on the previous day.
When Wang Guangyu organized his troops to launch a full-scale counterattack under the cover of fierce and accurate artillery fire, the arrogant Mongolian army, which had not even built the simplest field fortifications and had been deployed offensively, only maintained a resistance of one
Within an hour, the whole thing collapsed.
Wang Guangyu commanded the counterattack troops, sweeping away these so-called powerful Mongolian People's Army like falling leaves in the autumn wind. The remaining nearly 10,000 Mongolian troops were like chasing ducks. Except for those who were killed and captured, they all surrounded the Hailar River and Te
A narrow triangle between mud rivers.
After two days of fierce fighting, the fifth division, together with the previous cavalry brigade's casualties in fighting the Mongolian army alone, paid a price of more than 500 people, killing and capturing more than 9,000 people of the so-called Mongolian People's Army. And in the prisoners
Among the more than 2,000 prisoners of war, there were not only a large number of captain-level officers, but also a Mongolian army major general, five colonels and more than 30 Soviet advisers were captured during the encirclement battle.
Among the captured officers of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition, one of them was the so-called deputy political commissar of the Eastern Front Group of the Mongolian People's Army. Oh, this captured Mongolian army major general was the same one who went to Qiqihar two days ago and pretended to be powerful.
With the Soviets as their backers, Yang Zhen did not dare to actually take action against them. The Mongolian major general who tried to make Yang Zhen acquiesce to the fact that he occupied Hung Yen North Province.
As for the Soviet colonel who had a big quarrel with Yang Zhen in Qiqihar and made some remarks to make Yang Zhen look good, unfortunately, as the so-called general adviser of the Soviet army stationed in the eastern cluster of the Mongolian People's Army, he was not able to escape this time.
Lost. He and the Mongolian major general became inseparable brothers and were also made prisoners.