Chapter 251 The Nightmare of the Eighty-ninth Wing
Wang Guangyu, who was responsible for the middle blockade mission, did not set up the first blockade position on the bank of the Songhua River, which has always been considered a natural barrier. Instead, he set up the first blockade line about two kilometers north of the outer embankment of the Songhua River, between Jiamusi and Henan.
Behind a naturally formed soil edge on both sides of the highway. [.Com text]
The location of this soil edge is very special. Due to the obstruction of the outer embankment on the north bank, the Japanese troops on the south bank of the river cannot be seen at all. Similarly, even if the Japanese troops have crossed the river, they cannot be seen unless they climb over the outer embankment of the Songhua River.
However, although the actions of the Japanese troops inside the embankment cannot be seen here, most of the actions of the Japanese troops on the south bank can be clearly observed. Moreover, there is an open space of two thousand meters between it and the outer embankment on the north bank. If the Japanese troops who have crossed the Songhua River have
If you want to continue to expand northward, its extremely wide range will cover the highway tightly.
When Wang Guangyu arrived on the other side of Jiamusi, he took a fancy to this place at first sight. Not only is the location excellent, but the most important thing is that the edge of the earth, which is about ten meters high, is also covered with dense bushes and willows. Behind it
It is a large birch forest and an endless green gauze tent that is almost as high as a person. It can provide a natural concealment for the blocking troops. At that time, Wang Guangyu decided to use the natural terrain here to set a trap for the Japanese.
I don’t know whether Wada Takashi and Colonel were lucky or unlucky. After the Jingan Division crossed the river, they suddenly and unexpectedly decided to serve as the outpost of the Jingan Army First Division, despite the firm opposition of Misaki Johei, the commander of the First Division of the Jingan Army.
The First Regiment of the Army took over from its own unit and served as the outpost for the entire Japanese battle.
According to his idea, the Jingan Army performed well in the battle against the Jiangnan area of China along with the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force, defeating the Sichuan Army troops among the Chinese government forces, which were always known for their tenacity. Now it is no problem to deal with these bandit armed forces. What's more,
Having these Manchus fighting on the front line for the imperial army can greatly reduce the casualties of the imperial army.
But he never thought that the Sichuan Army that was defeated by the Jing'an Army at that time was said to be organized as a division, but its actual strength was less than a battalion. Its Sichuan-made single-person rifles only had a few light and heavy machine guns, and even the Sichuan Army's usual
The weaponry and equipment of a small mortar cannot be compared with the full set of Japanese weapons, infantry, artillery and cavalry of the Jing'an Army.
Moreover, the Jingan Army at that time was formed by the so-called rural youths in Japan, and they were all authentic Japanese from top to bottom. Now, except for the officers above the mid-level who are Japanese, the lower-level officers and soldiers are all so-called
The Manchus, at least in terms of loyalty, are simply incomparable.
The Japanese soldiers in the previous Jing'an Army, which had relied on the Japanese army to achieve great power in the Battle of Nanjing, had been organized as early as last year after the Wuhan Battle. Due to the rapid expansion of the army, the Japanese army's base camp, which was temporarily lacking in qualified soldiers, had already been organized.
He joined the regular Japanese army and was sent to fight inside the pass. Although the current Jing'an Army still bears the same name, it is no longer comparable to the previous one.
Looking at the arrogant faces of Wada Takashi and Misaki Johei, Misaki Johei, who was only a reserve lieutenant colonel in the Japanese army before he became the commander of the First Division of the Jing'an Army, knew that he, a Manchurian major general, could not do anything to this Japanese active duty colonel. Although they were both Japanese
People, but there are still differences between Japanese people.
After several warnings were ineffective and Wada Takashi insisted on his decision, Misaki Johei, who knew that his subordinates had been transferred from Fujin to Jiamusi to join the war, were showing signs of instability, helplessly said to Wada Takashi and Osaka: "Wada-kun, now
The Jingan Army is no longer the Jingan Army formed by the imperial youths from the countryside the year before last."
"Except for a few mid-level and senior officers, the lower-level officers and soldiers have already been replaced by Manchurians. They are no longer the same as the previous Jing'an Army. How much loyalty there is has not yet been tested. You are so
If you rashly push them to the front line, something will happen."
Regarding Misaki Johei's sincere advice, Watanaru and Takashi did not listen at all. Regarding Misaki Johei's last warnings, Watanaru and Colonel said arrogantly: "It would be better if they rebelled, and I will join them."
Clean it up. The bullshit Manchurians are not just inferior Chinese people."
"Their Manchukuo was established with the protection of the bayonets of the Imperial Japanese Army. Now the imperial army has dispatched elite divisions to suppress bandits in Manchukuo. If they dare to serve the imperial army without repaying the favor,
, he should have died long ago. The empire is not a garbage dump and will accept all troops."
Misaki Johei's arrogance and look down on the puppet Manchukuo army made Misaki Johei very angry. But neither the annoyed Misaki Johei nor the arrogant Wada Takahiro thought that the one who was forced to change the marching order with him would be someone other than
In addition to the regiment commander and the two battalion commanders, the rest of the company and platoon officers, including a battalion commander of the Jingan Army, were all Manchurian. As early as when they were first transferred to Jiangnan to serve as defense, there were already three battalion commanders.
Li Qing, the only so-called Manchurian, and translator Yang Dongliang took the lead in making secret contacts with Jiangbei.
If it hadn't been for the fact that after being bombarded at the airport, General Umezu Yoshijiro strengthened the supervision of the puppet Manchukuo army for fear that someone within the Manchurian government would collude with Jiangbei, and collected all the ferries on the south bank of the Yangtze River and put them under the unified control of the Japanese army, perhaps it would not have arrived yet.
On the battlefield, the so-called elite of the puppet Manchukuo army, whose military morale had already drifted, had already revolted.
Wa Tianlong and Colonel General Li Qing's regiment moved forward to replace their own troops. Although it was somewhat clear that they would let the Jingan Army act as scavengers for them, they had the same intention as Li Qing and Yang Dongliang, who had already made up their minds to defect to Jiangbei.
As for the Japanese officers in the army and several unreliable company and platoon leaders, Li Qing had already arranged for his confidants to take special care of them.
When the vanguard battalion led by Li Qing arrived less than 100 meters in front of Wang Guangyu's position, Wang Guangyu, who had already received the notice from the headquarters, did not order to fire, but immediately ordered the troops to move to both sides to make way for the gap.
After crossing the edge of the earth, Li Qing, who had no way out, raised the pistol in his hand and fired three shots into the sky as an order to take action. After receiving his order, he had already secretly arranged for the regiment commander and the people around the Japanese officers to join him.
Taking action, he killed several Japanese officers and several die-hard traitors with three strikes.
After finishing all this, Li Qing turned around and said to most of the troops who were still confused: "Brothers, the little devil has asked us to beat our own compatriots as scapegoats. This has been more than once. How many things have we done for them before?"
It is an immoral thing. Now we can no longer sacrifice our lives for them and massacre our own compatriots."
"Now that I'm done with it, if you want to leave with me, just leave. If you don't leave, when the war is over, the Anti-Japanese Federation will give you travel expenses to go home. Those who stay to join the Anti-Japanese Alliance will be forgiven."
Looking at the dark muzzles of the anti-union gun that surged up from around them and pointing at them, even those who had different opinions did not dare to have any opinions. They all followed the order and unbolted the weapons in their hands, and then walked towards the rear.
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Not knowing the details at all, seeing Li Qing leading the vanguard without firing a shot across the edge of the earth where an ambush was most likely to be, Wa Tianlong and Colonel proudly touched their neatly trimmed snot beards and looked at them.
He looked at Misaki Johei next to him, waved his hand, and immediately followed with his follow-up troops.
Just when a brigade as the vanguard had just reached a distance of less than 200 meters from Tuling, Tuling, who had been silent just now, suddenly experienced a sudden change, and suddenly there was a dense rain of bullets, mixed with a large number of mortar shells.
The light and heavy machine gun bullets and infantry artillery shells knocked down the unprepared Japanese troops like water.
Before the Japanese and puppet troops of the 89th Regiment and the remaining regiment of the 1st Division of the Jingan Army, who were beaten dizzy, could react, artillery shells were also heard from the direction of the south bank of the Songhua River behind them at almost the same time.
The sound of explosions. Watanagi's first thought when he encountered the front and back attacks was that he had been attacked by a large number of anti-Japanese armed forces.
The distance of two hundred meters is almost the best range for the opponent's numerous light and heavy machine guns. With the cooperation of the only remaining infantry regiment of the Jing'an Army, the leading Japanese brigade was bombarded by machine gun bullets and mortars.
, it didn’t take long before two entire infantry squadrons were wiped out on the spot.
The Jingan Army was even more unsatisfactory. One regiment was dispersed on the spot by a burst of mortar shells. Perhaps out of resentment towards these guys for being willing to act as Japanese lackeys, the opponent's mortar fire was mainly concentrated on their heads.
That flaming earth edge almost became a nightmare for all the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 89th Regiment. The crazy Wa Tianlong and the Japanese army organized several strong attacks, but were beaten down by the opponent's firepower.
The edge of the opponent's position was not touched. Only once, at great cost, was he able to advance to a distance of less than fifty meters.
Just when the Japanese soldiers, who had already seen the face of the opponent's machine gunner, fixed their bayonets and prepared to completely defeat the opponent at once, they were hit back by a weapon from the opponent fifty meters away that exploded and shot out countless steel balls.
When retreating, the Japanese army, which had no choice but to choose a route, fell into a small but dense minefield. When a Japanese squadron that launched the attack retreated, only three people were left.
Several attacks failed to achieve any results, but he lost an entire infantry group and a half in a daze. Even though the always confident Colonel Watana Takane was like a mad dog, almost every squadron leader who was still alive was hit by him.
Even though he was furious, Watada Takaga, who had suffered enough, did not dare to attack rashly. This was how he sent the reply to General Umezu Yoshijiro.
When Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiro arrived at the front-line Japanese army position, he took a breath of cold air at the sight in front of him. From the soil edge to the attack starting position of the 89th Regiment, it was only a few hundred meters away.
There were layers upon layers of corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers. The blood flowing from the corpses formed a very eye-catching red river, flowing slowly.
The painful groans of dozens of wounded soldiers who remained on the front line and could not be withdrawn made the morale of the follow-up troops extremely low. Under the intensive machine gun fire from the opponent, no one could rescue these wounded soldiers. They could only watch helplessly.
They move towards their final death as the blood drips little by little.
Genbo, who had successively participated in the North China Campaign and the Guangzhou Attack Battle as captain of the infantry regiment, deputy chief of staff of the North China Front Army, and chief of staff of the 21st Army, saw the miserable appearance of the imperial army in front of him for the first time. He became furious and showed no courtesy at all.
He slapped them wildly, turning the faces of Wa Tianlong and Colonel into pig heads.
In the Japanese army, corporal punishment, especially slapping, is generally a method of punishment used by middle- and senior-level officers against junior officers, or by veterans against new recruits. A dignified division commander slapped a senior captain in front of everyone.
, not the first time, but also extremely rare.
Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiro, who waited until his hands were red until he stopped, did not relieve his anger. He angrily cursed Wada Takashi and Colonel again, and then asked General Umezu Yoshijiro to report the situation here to Jiangnan.
gave a detailed report and asked Jiangnan to provide fire support and a large amount of aviation cover.
Regarding the request of Hiroshi Nemoto, his old colleague in the North China Front, Umezu Yoshijiro responded very simply. He directly transported the direct artillery regiment of the 24th Division, which had been staying in the south of the Yangtze River, across the river as quickly as possible. At the same time, he ordered
The 61st team that bombed all targets of strategic value in Luobei immediately moved their targets.
In order to achieve a breakthrough as soon as possible, the Japanese army mobilized a large number of bombers to carry out carpet bombing, using a large number of explosive bombs and incendiary bombs to repeatedly bomb this several kilometers long soil ridge.
Fourteen 75mm mountain cannons blasted from the outer embankment on the north bank of the Songhua River to the earth edge, trying to use artillery fire to sweep away all the mines placed by the opponent.
When the troops were mobilized this time, a heavy bomber fleet, a dozen light Type 98 bombers, and a mountain artillery regiment were mobilized. In the words of Lieutenant General Iimura Rang, there would not be even an ant left on the north bank of the river this time to provide fire cover.
After the completion, Takashi Watana, who was beaten with a bruised nose and face, was forced by Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi to personally lead the 89th Regiment to launch the charge as a sign of guilt.
In fact, the Japanese army had no need to mobilize troops at all. Wang Guangyu, who tore off a piece of flesh under the eyes of Umezu Meijiro, had already given up. When Nemotobo arrived at the 89th Regiment position, Wang Guangyu had already
Under the cover of the green gauze tent, he led his troops to withdraw to the second preset blocking position, which was the Mangan hill three kilometers behind this earth edge.
Wang Guangyu is not stupid. In front of him, there is a reorganized division of the Japanese army. And here, he only has one reinforced battalion, plus at most a dozen heavy machine gun companies specially drawn from other troops in order to strengthen the firepower.
and two regiments of mortar companies.
However, in order to confuse the Japanese army, Wang Guangyu used an infantry regiment on the first night to build enough fortifications for 10,000 people on this soil ridge before the Japanese army arrived.
Therefore, with the extraordinarily equipped light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and a 150mm howitzer battery that used almost all the traction horses in his brigade, Yang Zhen strengthened his multiple rocket launcher battery and caused a lot of damage to the Japanese army.
The impression that Yang Zhen’s main force is here.
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