In response to He Zhikun's worries, Wang Minggui waved his hand and said: "Old He, don't worry. In today's battle during the day, we suffered a lot of casualties, but the 28th Regiment probably won't be any better than us.
, may even be more serious than our casualties."
"Our weapons and equipment have never been as good as they are today. Whether it is heavy weapons or individual weapons, they are far superior to the Japanese army. Not only are the automatic rifles, rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and general-purpose machine guns uniformly used throughout the division, but also
There are tanks, heavy artillery, and rocket launchers to provide fire cover that we couldn't even imagine before."
"Our military strength has never been so sufficient. All three regiments are actually full strength. Our Ninth Division alone has more than 15,000 men in the whole division. And the combat troops are extremely sufficient. Without the old resistance in the past
At the time of the alliance, a regiment had only a frivolous organization of 180 men. Not counting the directly-affiliated troops, each of our three regiments had more than 3,000 men."
"Their Seventh Division has strong combat effectiveness, and my Ninth Division is not a vegetarian either. In today's hard battle, we suffered a lot of casualties. Weapons and equipment were actually inferior to ours, the 28th Regiment of the Japanese Army, and we suffered casualties during the battle.
It can only be more disastrous. The 28th Regiment has three subordinate infantry brigades and a strengthened infantry brigade. I estimate that if only two and a half are left, it will be a big deal."
"With one and a half regiments and five battalions, we have an advantage in infantry firepower. If we can't defeat two Japanese brigades, it would be a big joke. If word gets out, our Ninth Division will really
I don’t have the face to stay in the main position any longer.”
"And Lao He, the best defense is to attack. Judging from the current battle situation in Yushu, the 28th Regiment is the main force. The 70th Regiment is attached to the 25th Division, although it cannot be said that
It’s a waste of effort, but the momentum is far less powerful than that of the 28th Regiment.”
"As long as we deal with the 28th Regiment, the remaining 70th Regiment will be easy to deal with. Even if we drag them hard, we can drag them down. If we just defend passively, what's the point. Although the column
It requires us to switch from offense to defense, but it does not require us to defend to the death. Being able to do both offense and defense is the real requirement of the execution team. Lao He, just watch. As long as this 28th Regiment can be solved, the entire western Yushu region will
The situation of the war will become clear."
Although Wang Minggui said it very lightly, whether the 28th Regiment can be taken down depends on how the troops in front fight. The most important thing is whether it can cut off the 28th Regiment and the 70th Regiment.
The connection between them, that is to say, the position of the 27th Regiment responsible for this task is quite critical.
After hesitating for a while, Wang Minggui gave up the idea of personally taking command of the 27th Regiment. At this critical moment, Wang Minggui still chose to trust his subordinates. However, he was still somewhat uneasy and used field telephones, walkie-talkies and radios.
, but the three communication tools were always on. The 27th Regiment was ordered to report on the battle situation every hour.
After receiving the order, Wang Yuyang, the commander of the 27th Regiment, did not take immediate action. Instead, he temporarily reorganized the troops. The second battalion and the main company, which had suffered relatively heavy losses and had been transferred from a company, were reorganized into the third battalion.
.Improved the organizational structure of the third battalion, and personally took charge of it as the first attack echelon.
The remaining company, plus the non-combatants of the regiment, were organized into a simplified battalion, controlled by political commissar Huang Deshou, as the second echelon. The task of the first echelon was very simple, which was to concentrate firepower on the 28th Japanese Regiment.
Open a gap with the joint headquarters of the 70th Regiment, seize the line from the Dawula ditch to Lao He's house, and cut off the connection between the two Japanese regiments.
However, Wang Yuyang did not intend to take down Dawulapa ditch step by step, and then attack the front line of Lao He's house. Instead, he set his first target directly on Lao He's house, which was relatively behind the Japanese defense line. As for Dawulapa
Ditch, he planned to transfer the second echelon to seize it after taking the first line of Lao He's family.
The mission of the second echelon is to seize the front line of Dawulabagou after the first echelon develops deeply into the Japanese army, and then hold on to the spot, forming an angle with the first battalion on the front line of Xisumugangzi. The first is to suppress the Japanese Seventy Alliance.
The second echelon's eastward reinforcements ensured the safety of the flanks of the first echelon's deep attack on the Japanese positions.
At the same time, the first battalion of the 70th Regiment of the Japanese Army blocked the front line of Xisumugangzi, commanded by deputy commander Li Huaming. After the first echelon captured the front line of Dawulabagou, it immediately followed the gap opened by the first echelon, and in the second
Under the cover of the echelon, they tried their best to seize the front line of Xisumugangzi.
After returning to his regiment headquarters, Wang Yuyang laid out the tasks in a few words with the consistent neatness of the Anti-Japanese Alliance from top to bottom. After completing the reorganization of the troops in the shortest time, the whole regiment came to a ninety-year-old
He made a sudden U-turn and, under the cover of darkness, pounced towards the flank of the 28th Regiment.
In order to break through the 28th Regiment's frontline position at Lao He's house in the shortest time, Wang Yuyang tried his best to conceal his attack intention before launching the attack, and did not even use artillery cover, but took
The tactics of forced frontal breakthrough and flank penetration. Wang Yuyang's intention is very simple, which is to use tonight's night battle to determine the outcome in one battle.
In fact, the previous battle of the Ninth Division was not progressing smoothly, which had a lot to do with the unfavorable battle of the 27th Regiment. In the daytime battle, the 27th Regiment suffered less casualties than the 25th Regiment, which was the leading regiment of the entire division.
.However, after a day of hard fighting, the progress of the battle was the slowest among the three regiments of the Ninth Division.
It was precisely because of the numerous offensives of the 27th Regiment during the daytime battle that it was still unable to separate the connection between the 28th Regiment and the 70th Regiment. The two Japanese regiments formed an alliance.
One regiment greatly increased the difficulty of the Ninth Division's attack. As a result, the Ninth Division was completely frustrated during the daytime battle and failed to achieve the tactical goals originally planned.
The result of the daytime battle has always been considered by Wang Yuyang to be a shame for himself and the 27th Regiment. Whether this night battle can be fought well, for him and his 27th Regiment, is related to whether they can wash away the consequences of the daytime battle.
Shame. At the mobilization meeting before the night battle, Wang Yuyang, who was deeply affected by the war during the day, only said two words: "Avenge shame."
Regarding the possible night offensive of the Ninth Division, compared with the 70th Regiment, which is somewhat exhausted after a day of fierce fighting, and the 70th Regiment, which is somewhat lax in its preparedness for the possible nighttime attack by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The main target of the Ninth Division now is the Second Regiment of the Seventh Division.
Colonel Masatada Kaneoka, the captain of the 18th Regiment, was quite sober.
He knew very well that the location of the 28th Regiment was at the junction of the 7th Division of the Kwantung Army and the 28th Division. Once the defense line of the 28th Regiment collapsed, the two divisions that had been separated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance
The main force of the 18th Division will be surrounded in the eastern area of Fuyu east of the Second Songhua River and west of Huitanggou.
The terrain there is all flat plains. The 28th Division alone, which has been divided into two parts, will have a hard time resisting the multiple arms and ground-air combined attacks of the Anti-Alliance on this terrain. During the day
After a hard fight, the 28th Regiment paid a heavy price and finally contained the Anti-Alliance offensive.
But he knew clearly that the Anti-Alliance would never give up. Night fighting itself was the strength of the Anti-Alliance. Therefore, Colonel Masatada Kaneoka was fully prepared for the possible night attack by the Anti-Alliance. Not only on the positions of the two armies
Previously, minefields destroyed during the day's fighting had been rearranged overnight.
In addition, the divisions urgently dispatched a large number of illumination bombs, and even used poison trucks to spread large amounts of corrosive poison gas in many places along the Anti-Japanese offensive route. A large number of suffocating poison gas shells were stored on the front lines to prepare for night battles.
In order to try to maximize the damage to the offensive forces of the Anti-League, reduce the offensive capabilities of the Anti-League.
Although Kaneoka Masatada is also aware that the current Anti-Japanese War equipment includes a large number of captured Japanese military standard anti-gas equipment, as well as the latest gas masks made in Europe and the United States. But for him, under the increasing pressure, these
Something is always better than nothing.
In the daytime battle, the casualties suffered by the 28th Regiment, the main force in the Yushu western battlefield, were actually far higher than Wang Yuyang estimated. Its three infantry brigades, as well as the engineering and infantry regiments at the division and regiment headquarters, were heavily connected
The infantry brigade was temporarily formed by transferring some of its troops, and the casualty rate almost exceeded 40%.
The two infantry brigades serving as the main defensive force on the front line suffered more than 50% casualties, and these were real combat soldiers. This is the extremely resilient Japanese army. If it were replaced by an ordinary army, this casualty number would not be mentioned.
The battle may have collapsed long ago. The 7th Division Regiment Headquarters knew that the direction of the 28th Regiment would definitely be tight, but it was unable to provide additional reinforcements to the 28th Regiment in a short period of time.
And under the circumstances that the Seventh Division, which is undergoing simultaneous attacks from three directions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and has already used its troops to the extreme, cannot allocate troops to support the 28th Regiment no matter what, Kaneoka Masatada can only do his best.
Use all means to deal with the situation at hand.
In his own words to the regiment's combat staff, since the 28th regiment had already gone bankrupt during the day's battle, there was no need to guard the remaining bit of wealth and cover it up. Since it was time
You have to take it out sooner or later, so if you wait until the situation deteriorates to the point where it is uncontrollable, it is better to take it out now. The pots have been smashed and the houses have been demolished, so why not keep it?
What's the use of a poor family?
Anyway, if the 28th Alliance cannot resist tonight, none of these people will be left by tomorrow morning. Rather than just waiting to be exhausted, it is better to put all our efforts into blocking them. If we win, the entire Alliance can still see each other.
By tomorrow morning's sun, everyone still has a chance to return to their hometown. If they lose, all personnel must be loyal to the emperor.
Today, not only all the troops of the 28th Regiment have been deployed to the front line, but no reserve team is left. Even the cremation team, grooms, cooks and some non-combatants in the Regiment, except for necessary communication personnel
In addition, all of them had already taken their guns and were on the front line. At this time, Masatada Kaneoka, who was obviously short of troops on the front line, had no scruples. As long as he was alone and had two legs, he was sent to the front line with guns.