He had not considered this issue before. Yang Jicai had always believed that after the 28th Regiment was defeated by Wang Deyao, the remaining troops were more likely to retreat across the Siramulun River. But after the troops led by Su Yingqi appeared on the battlefield, it seemed that
The force that Su Yingqi showed up was quite a bit less than what he reported during the retreat. It could even be said that it was about a third less.
Even if he wants to leave some of his troops behind, it is not very convenient to protect the artillery. But if he does not encounter Japanese obstruction along the way, he will not be short of so many troops all of a sudden. Even if it is easy all the way from Bayannuoer,
They started a forced march, but they wouldn't be able to get rid of so many people at once.
Although his unit is a newly trained unit, Yang Jicai is still aware of the actual training level. Continuous marching and combat will cause considerable fatigue in the unit. It is an indisputable fact that there are a lot of new recruits in the unit who have never been on the battlefield. However,
The troops have completed full training. It is absolutely impossible to lose one-third of the troops at once.
According to the training level of the Anti-League recruits and the relatively sufficient physical fitness of the soldiers after passing the recruit training, this situation of too many soft-footed shrimps will not occur. If the training level of the Anti-League and the physical fitness of the soldiers are at this level
, how can we talk about expelling the Japanese pirates and recovering the country?
It was precisely when he saw that Su Yingqi's troops on the battlefield were too few that Yang Jicai thought that judging from the marching situation of the 28th Regiment last night, after the main force was defeated, it was very likely that a considerable number of residual soldiers remained in the camp.
East of Gastinore. Even due to the melee at night, they were unable to discern their direction and were scattered across the entire Aruhorqin Banner battlefield.
At night with extremely low visibility and in the chaos of a chaotic battle, it is definitely not just their own troops who lose contact with the two sides participating in the war. Even the well-trained Japanese troops will also suffer from this. In fact,
It is not a low-level mistake. Especially when the 28th Regiment is still organized as a squadron and the marching distance is too wide.
We must know that although our troops are not as good as the old troops in terms of weapons and equipment, the communication equipment is completely equipped according to the main force's establishment. The standard of walkie-talkies is the same as that of the main force, which is up to the company level. Our troops have such complete communication equipment.
There is a situation where three companies cannot be contacted, not to mention that the communication equipment is far inferior to that of the Japanese army who are well-equipped in the Anti-Japanese War?
Dispersed marches in unfamiliar terrain at night, especially when large-scale lighting cannot be used on the battlefield, the chaos caused by such marches cannot be avoided by any army. Even if there is a map to use, but under the darkness of night
Who knows where to find the coordinates marked on the map.
If there were one or even several Japanese squadrons that turned around and ran in the wrong direction. They even crossed the entire Aruhorqin Banner from Zagastanol and suddenly appeared on the Balaqirud battlefield in the south.
It's definitely not impossible. Su Yingqi probably encountered a similar situation on his way to Bayannuoer.
If he encountered the remnants of the 28th Regiment on the way back, that would not be the worst. But if he were to attack from Bayan Noor towards Bala Chirud, there would really be a remnant of the 28th Regiment.
If the team is broken up or the remnants of the 28th Regiment run away, it means that there will definitely be the remnants of the 28th Regiment running away around here.
After making this judgment, Yang Jicai immediately felt an invisible and huge pressure. But when Yang Jicai thought of this, it was already too late. All his troops had already been mixed with the enemy. It was okay.
He said that all the troops that he can mobilize have been put in. The troops that cannot be mobilized have also been put in.
Right now, the fighting is in full swing not just southeast of Balaqirud. Not to mention withdrawing, even temporarily breaking away from the consolidation is impossible. Even at Aohan Camp in the west, the sound of gunfire is also intense right now.
After a while, it can be said that the entire front line from Balaqirude to Aohan Yingzi has been launched.
After the battle on the Bala Qirud side, the enemy forces in front of Aohan camp seemed to have a clear understanding of each other. Regardless of the defenders' continuous tactical counterattacks, they concentrated their forces and retreated to the northeast. The political commissar of the first regiment and the deputy commander of the second regiment commanded the operation there.
The two regimental commanders, in desperation, risked all of their less than one battalion to fight back.
They tried their best to entangle the enemy troops tightly, trying to prevent the enemy in front of them from leaving the battlefield. Because they were ordered to entangle the enemy troops at all costs before reinforcements arrived. Even if they could not delay it until
Reinforcements arrived, but under no circumstances could they allow the enemy troops in front of them to cross the Zhangjiayingzi line and move closer to the front of Bala Qirude.
And not only all the troops from the direction of Aohan Camp were invested, in order to stabilize the battlefield on the western front and ensure that the enemy troops here could be successfully eliminated without any worries. After receiving the report from the direction of Aohan Camp, Yang Jicai sent Zhangjiaying to
The few troops on the front line were all deployed in the direction of Aohan Camp, except for leaving one platoon as a guard.
At this moment, except for the company around him, Yang Jicai no longer had any troops in his hands, and he could not mobilize even a squad. After hesitating for a long time, Yang Jicai looked at the remaining Japanese positions that were still shrouded in poisonous gas.
The last company dispatched a strengthened platoon and rushed to Su Yingqi to put it under his command, responsible for the defense facing the northeast.
At the same time, the limited artillery shells of the 100 grenades and 107 rocket launchers, which have very few artillery shells left, are concentrated into two companies each. Combine these four artillery companies with the two field artillery groups that currently have the most abundant artillery shells.
The company was transferred to the southeast of Bala Chirud. As a fire reserve team, once new Japanese troops did appear, fire interception methods would be adopted.
The remaining field artillery force, a mountain artillery company with only 70 rounds of artillery shells, and a group of original infantry artillery and mortars formed a new artillery group, and the remaining two platoons formed a frontal defense of Bala Chirud.
The main strength of the army. Under the situation of insufficient troops and insufficient firepower, Yang Jicai could only use his limited artillery resources to make up for it as much as possible.
In fact, Yang Jicai's worry was not unnecessary. After the fierce battle last night, the 28th Regiment, in addition to part of its troops withdrawing to Shaogen, there were also several Japanese squadrons scattered east of Baichengzi after their contact with the main force was broken by Wang Deyao.
On the battlefield. Moreover, one of the Semi-Japanese Army squadrons ran to a place less than ten kilometers southeast of the Bala Chirud battlefield in a daze.
It's just that the Japanese squadron leader who led the team was a little too stubborn. After identifying the direction at dawn, he found that he was running in the wrong direction, and the deviation was so ridiculous that not even a shadow of his own team could be seen around him. After that, he took the remaining people with him.
, turned around and returned to Zagastanol, preparing to continue marching westward according to the route originally planned by the regiment.
As a result, this one and a half squadron, plus the other squadrons on the battlefield that he gathered after arriving at Zagastanor, were defeated, and he was forced to gather four to five hundred Japanese troops. However, he did not expect that at the Haihar River
On the edge, they encountered an ambush unit that was attacking. Under the impact of tanks and cavalry, they were swallowed up in less than an hour, not even the bones and dregs were left.
The original decision of this stubborn Japanese squadron leader was undoubtedly a very lucky thing for Yang Jicai, who was already deployed in full force at this moment. If this guy had not turned around and walked a few kilometers forward, I am afraid that this
The result of the battle was completely different. This result was undoubtedly extremely lucky for Yang Jicai.
Although the strength of this one and a half squadron of Japanese troops is not large, on the battlefield, such a small number of troops can often be the straw that breaks the camel's back. But things on the battlefield are often so sinister at times.
By some chance, this man who had just missed the God of Luck would never know until his death that he had a chance to change at least one partial battle situation.
In fact, even if Yang Jicai had already thought of his omission, would he have stopped counterattacking when the enemy troops had begun to retreat? I am afraid that given his character, he would rather take this risk than sit back and watch what is happening in front of him.
The Japanese troops evacuated smoothly.
This is his character. He will never change his decision just because of any changes on the battlefield. Not to mention that the situation was already in front of him. Even if there is no opportunity for him to passively respond, it is definitely not his style. Let him just do it.
It was beyond his power to let the Japanese troops escape in front of him because of possible dangers.
However, although Yang Jicai didn't know that he was almost on the verge of failure, the arrival of the reinforcement troops promised by Yi Jianping finally made a big stone hanging in his heart fall to the ground. Although there were almost no infantrymen who arrived for reinforcements, they arrived
The mobile firepower reduced his risk to a considerable extent.
Those 57mm recoilless cannons are just that, but the twin 14mm high-level and flat dual-purpose machine guns are a very powerful weapon. With this thing, Yang Jicai believes that even if new Japanese troops appear on the battlefield, as long as there is no artillery
, one of his platoons was strong enough to fight against a Japanese squadron.
Just as Yang Jicai was observing the battle situation and thinking about the final reply from his superiors, what method could he take to wipe out all the Japanese troops in front of him as quickly as possible without breaking his bones?
At that time, the column still hadn't given him a reply, so he had to be prepared for both.
As the people around him moved over, the field phone set up together suddenly rang. When he took off his gas mask and picked up the phone, he was stunned. This call was actually made by Commander Wang Guangyu himself. Picking it up
On the phone, Yang Jicai faced Wang Guangyu's inquiry about the changes in the situation and replied directly: "Commander, I have launched a full-scale counterattack in front of Bala Qirud. Our troops are now concentrating our forces and are engaged in a fierce battle with a part of the retreating Japanese army.
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Wang Guangyu on the other side of the phone heard that Yang Jicai had already launched a counterattack without any orders. Although he didn't get angry on the phone, he was somewhat upset in his heart because of Yang Jicai's unauthorized actions.
Seems a little dissatisfied.
He doesn't have to pursue what he usually does, but this time Wang Guangyu was really angry. It's because he didn't know the importance of the Balaqirude line to the entire Linxi battlefield. The comparison of forces was not favorable, and the artillery shells were consumed too much.
, unable to support long-term fire support, this guy couldn't even wait for an hour.
Doesn't he know how much impact it will have on the entire Linxi battlefield if he agrees to his request? His superiors must carefully consider his request. As one move can affect the whole body, he really
Don’t you understand? With insufficient troops, do we really not consider the consequences of taking risks?