Yang Zhen felt sorry for the casualties of those key members who were transferred to the battlefield by Wang Guangyu and were preparing to form new troops in the future. However, Wang Guangyu's life on the battlefield was enjoyable. The two companies that were temporarily transferred and formed were indeed
He was not disappointed, at least his performance was much better than that of the new recruits with no actual combat experience who were added to the army after the battle at Qunce Mountain. [.Com text] The backbone is the backbone, leaving aside military literacy, it is just rich.
Actual combat experience is not comparable to that of new recruits.
After the full-scale counterattack was fully launched, Wang Guangyu was very happy that he took the huge risk of the commander's anger and mobilized a group of troops from the third regiment to participate in the battle. If it weren't for these two companies, how could he have been so fast?
Break through the Japanese defenses?
In fact, during the two days of fierce fighting, Wang Guangyu, who had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Forty Regiment, was actually well prepared. He had already deployed the Japanese troops during the two days of fierce fighting, and the main configuration of firepower was
He figured it out. He didn't have to worry about the Japanese artillery, there would naturally be artillery directly under the military region to deal with it.
But when facing the Japanese infantry firepower and troop deployment, that is what he must master as a front-line commander. After two days of fierce fighting with the 40th Regiment, Wang Guangyu understood his opponent better than when he had just arrived, and he had not even had time to rest.
, Liu Changshun, who rushed into the battle because of the defection incident, has much more details.
Since the 1st Brigade suffered too many casualties in previous battles, it only served as a support and assist in Yang Zhen's counterattack plan and did not strengthen the artillery. The 1st Brigade's own artillery had encountered Japanese air attacks several times in previous battles.
, the losses were not small, and basically they no longer had much combat effectiveness.
In addition to the multiple rocket launcher battery, which he had used cautiously and only a few times before, there were only four 75mm mountain guns from the mountain artillery battalion of the brigade as supporting firepower. Therefore, his current strength was very thin, and fire support was
Even in a very weak situation, Wang Guangyu fought bravely, but he was still quite steady.
Guo Bingxun was not wrong. Wang Guangyu changed his assists to the main attack without authorization, and he was indeed competitive. But this does not mean that he was reckless or hasty. After all, in his actual actions, Wang Guangyu
What he did was still quite steady.
Not only did he already know the terrain of General Shi's front line well, he also went to the front line several times to check the attack route before launching the attack, personally selected the attack route, and adjusted the deployment of troops according to the layout of the enemy in front of him. Also after the attack was launched,
Personally organize fire support at the front line.
This is also the biggest reason why Wang Guangyu was able to achieve a major breakthrough even though he had no advantage in military strength or firepower.
The route selected by Wang Guangyu to launch the attack was exactly the junction of the two squadrons of the 40th Regiment that suffered the greatest losses during the daytime battle. At this time, the two squadrons were still at the forefront and had not withdrawn to rest. Wang Guangyu's attack point was very accurate.
The two Japanese squadrons, which suffered heavy losses in the daytime battle, were weak in defense in this area due to insufficient strength.
His tactics are also very clear, which is to use the troops of the second regiment to act as a feint attack under the cover of most of the artillery fire that the first brigade can currently concentrate. After attracting most of the attention of the Japanese troops on the front line, the first regiment will be temporarily integrated
After that, the only fully-equipped company at the moment plus one company of the three attached regiments formed a commando team. Under the cover of two 120mm mortars, plus the regiment-affiliated infantry cannon, and two 90mm mortars each
Under this, a fierce attack was launched from the weak junction of the Japanese army.
While Liu Changshun's Second Brigade launched an all-out attack on General Shi's front-line Japanese troops, Wang Guangyu tried his best to concentrate all the troops he could. Even the lightly wounded were mobilized by him. He also launched a simultaneous attack on General Shi's front-line Japanese troops.
Fight back.
The 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment took the lead in launching a feint attack at almost any cost. The 1st Regiment, which launched the attack five minutes later than the 2nd Regiment in the feint, fired infantry artillery at close range to suppress the Japanese light and heavy machine gun positions. The 120mm force forced
Artillery artillery and 90mm mortars formed a mobile artillery group, accompanying the attacking troops to cover the Japanese infantry artillery and rapid-fire artillery. Under the cover of fire, it only took ten minutes to tear from the junction of the two Japanese squadrons.
The Japanese defense line was opened.
After tearing apart the Japanese defense line, except for one company left behind by the regiment plus the subsequent regiment participating in the battle, the other two companies, composed of lightly wounded soldiers, engineers and regimental service personnel, were commanded by Li Mingfeng, political commissar of the regiment.
Two embankments were built on both sides of the passage to block the Japanese counterattack and ensure the smooth flow of the attack passage.
The rest of the company, composed of personnel drawn from the third regiment, was temporarily assigned to the first regiment. Two reinforced platoons were temporarily formed with a large number of automatic firearms, almost one submachine gun per man. They were personally commanded by the commander of the first regiment, He Zhishan, and did not stop at the breakthrough point.
, under the cover of the mobile artillery group, rushed deep into the Japanese army.
The tactics Wang Guangyu assigned to the regiment were very simple. After breaking through the defense of the 40th Regiment, attack deep into it. Fully deploy the three fierce tactics of daily training, and strive to tear apart the defense of the 40th Regiment.
Of course, it would be better if the headquarters of the 40th Regiment could be destroyed easily.
After breaking through the Japanese defense line in one fell swoop, He Zhishan followed Wang Guangyu's order and personally directed the assault troops without stopping at the breach, and directly penetrated deep into the Japanese army.
Behind him, the mobile artillery group under the personal command of Wang Guangyu spared no effort to provide fire cover for him. When encountering Japanese resistance there, the artillery shells fell there. During the previous training at Xingshan Fortress, Wang Guangyu went underground.
The results of his painstaking infantry and artillery coordination training paid off handsomely at this time.
After tearing apart the Japanese defense line and starting the interspersed operation, the support artillery fire commanded by Wang Guangyu almost exploded following the footsteps of the attacking troops. It can be said that it hit that. Its speed of reaction and high accuracy of shooting were incomparable with the forward infantry.
The perfection of coordination can be said to be extremely outstanding.
In order to ensure the success of his plan, Wang Guangyu not only took out all the sixty flares allocated to him by Yang Zhen. He did not even dare to use the Japanese-style flare guns commonly used by the troops. Instead, he used only three of the first brigade's flares.
A Soviet-made signal gun was handed over to He Zhishan. As long as the predetermined red and green signals were fired there, the shells of the artillery group commanded by Wang Guangyu would fall there.
Wang Guangyu acted quickly, and the reaction fluid of the Japanese army in front of him was not slow. After discovering that he had fallen into the opponent's trick of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, Wang Guangyu faced the 40th Regiment behind the two squadrons of the Japanese army. It was originally a reserve team and had just been transferred up to prepare.
After daybreak, the Third Battalion of the 40th Regiment, which took over from the First Battalion that had been crippled in the two-day battle and continued to attack General Shixian, immediately launched a counterattack in an attempt to regain the breakthrough.
As soon as they arrived at the battlefield, Wang Guangyu took advantage of him and tore a hole in his chest. The third battalion of the 40th Regiment left the task of blocking Wang Guangyu's feint attack to the second regiment before they had time to withdraw.
Go down to the remnants of the first brigade and use your full strength to deal with the group that first opened the breakthrough.
The Third Brigade, eager to re-seal the breach, immediately concentrated all its forces from two infantry squadrons, the artillery squadron, and a heavy machine gun squadron, and charged desperately towards the breach. After trying to re-seal the breach,
Free your hands to clean up the small fish that got into your stomach.
Faced with almost wave after wave of counterattacks by the Japanese troops on both sides, in order to cover He Zhishan who was advancing deeply towards the Japanese army, Li Mingfeng, the political commissar of the regiment, commanded the two companies that were pieced together, and the regiment left by He Zhishan
At present, the last relatively complete company is resisting desperately with the cooperation of the company.
And the enemy he faced was Major Matsuno Shohei, captain of the Third Battalion of the 40th Regiment of the Japanese Army. In order to counterattack the opponents who broke into his position, he spent a lot of money. As soon as he came up, he concentrated his two infantry squadrons.
Under the full firepower cover of two infantry guns from the brigade's artillery squad and a heavy machine gun squadron, waves of attacks were launched.
In the face of the Japanese army's all-out counterattack, Li Mingfeng's blocking battle was extremely painful. Except for the regiment left by He Zhishan, which is currently the only relatively complete infantry company, the main body is the engineer company directly under the regiment headquarters.
, plus a few lightly wounded soldiers who were still able to move, and even non-combatants such as grooms, cooks, and clerks, these two companies immediately showed a huge gap with the Japanese army as soon as they exchanged fire.
Although these two improvised companies, composed mostly of non-combatants, have no enthusiasm for fighting, their tactical literacy and daily training are incomparable to regular field companies. There is a gap between them and the Japanese army.
It's even more obvious.
One can imagine how difficult it was to command two companies like this to fight against the elite Japanese troops. In just one encounter, one of the companies suffered more than half of its casualties and lost its combat effectiveness. If the old company left behind by He Zhishan had not been able to cope with the situation, he would have endured extreme hardships.
Under great pressure, two squads were dispatched to rush over quickly to provide support. I'm afraid it would have collapsed long ago.
In order to protect his commander's retreat, Li Mingfeng not only carried the speed machine with the nose of the aircraft wide open in his left hand, but also carried two Soviet-made F1 grenades in his right hand. He led his guards to the front line in the battle. He even opened the scoring.
He personally shot two squad leaders who were afraid of fighting, marking the first time that Yang Zhen's troops enforced battlefield discipline.
Li Mingfeng's painstaking support here not only ensured He Zhishan's retreat, but also attracted most of the Japanese troops in front of General Shi's front line to him, which brought great convenience to He Zhishan's follow-up operations. It also made it easier for those on the other side to
The three companies of the second regiment that launched the feint attack finally found an opportunity to break through after a hard fight and successfully broke through the enemy's blockade.
Wang Guangyu was not unaware of Li Mingfeng's hard work. After the Second Regiment made a breakthrough, in order to support Li Mingfeng, Wang Guangyu immediately transferred over the regiment's mortars and infantry artillery that had been strengthened in the artillery there.
Even one of the two regiment-affiliated anti-aircraft machine gun companies was transferred to Li Mingfeng's command. No expense was spared and mortar shells were used to form a dense fire net on both sides of the passage to give Li Mingfeng the greatest support possible.
Although the firepower was greatly strengthened, the situation on Li Mingfeng's side became increasingly tight as the Japanese army spared no expense and almost committed a suicide attack in the second half. Not only did the improvised blocking force suffer heavy casualties, but Li Mingfeng himself was
He was wounded in three places during several hand-to-hand combats with Japanese troops who broke into the position.
After receiving a report that Li Mingfeng's blocking force had suffered heavy casualties, and if a company of reinforcements could not be added within half an hour, the entire blocking force was in danger of collapsing due to heavy casualties. Li Mingfeng, who knew he could easily avoid complaining, said this.
, the situation has definitely reached an extremely serious point.
But now it can be said that the situation is exhausted. Even the last reserve team has been put in. Wang Guangyu, who actually has no troops to send, has to arm all the people in the brigade who can afford guns, plus the brigade security company.
The remaining two squads were temporarily organized into a company and were sent to Li Mingfeng.
When the reinforcements sent by Wang Guangyu arrived, they saw that Wang Guangyu had even sent out non-combatants from the brigade. Knowing that the situation was almost exhausted and that there were no available troops at hand, the brigade commander Li Mingfeng gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth.
Until the end of the battle, there was no further request for reinforcements from Wang Guangyu.
Wang Guangyu didn't know that what he was facing now was not actually part of the 40th Regiment. He now used the only incomplete and disrupted seven companies on hand to temporarily form two
Companies, a total of nine companies competing against each other are actually the main force of the Forty Regiment.
The Japanese troops in front of Liu Changshun were only the field detachment and the engineering regiment of the 24th Division that had been replaced by the 40th Regiment, the search regiment plus the two squadrons of the 40th Regiment, and part of the baggage regiment. At this moment,
In fact, the main force of the Forty Regiment was concentrated on Wang Guangyu's side at this time.
Although Wang Guangyu had already figured out the general deployment of the Japanese front-line troops before the counterattack, he had not yet mastered the adjustment of the strength of the 40th Regiment at midnight. Especially the one who had just been transferred had never participated in the war before.
The Third Battalion, which had been serving as cover on the flanks, suddenly appeared on the front line at the last moment. He did not expect it at all.
The third battalion of the 40th Regiment suddenly appeared in front of General Shi Yixi, which directly caused Wang Guangyu's current bitter battle. After the 24th Division's headquarters was defeated by Liu Changshun, they lost unified command and are actually fighting independently.
Although the Japanese troops were in a state of mutual support, their mutual support was greatly reduced.
However, precisely because of the loss of unified command, the Japanese troops fighting separately were unable to know the fighting situation in other places. The enemy forces that both Wang Guangyu and Liu Changshun had to face never decreased.
Just like now, neither Komatsuzaki Rikio, who was fighting fiercely with Wang Guangyu, nor Nochi Kahei, who was struggling to hold on under Liu Changshun's attack like a mad tiger, didn't know that their escape route had been cut off by Ma Chunsheng. The 24th Division
All the materials stored by the regiment in Xinhua Street, the strategic location of the Jiahe Railway, have been lost. And Ma Chunsheng, who has completed his mission, is rushing towards their backs.
The unified command of the Japanese army was broken, but it caused a certain passivity in the implementation of his own combat plan. The original plan to mobilize the Japanese army by cutting off the Japanese army's retreat and providing logistical supplies was blocked in an attempt to give the counterattack forces the greatest opportunity. I am afraid it was also Yang Zhen.
This was something I didn't think of when formulating this battle plan.
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