Du Ziqi went crazy, ignoring the intensive Japanese firepower that was already within reach, and advanced the heavy mortar company directly under the Seventh Regiment to a distance of less than 200 meters from the Japanese forward position. When his mortar was fired, the barrel
It has almost formed a ninety-degree right angle.【.Com text】
For the 60mm mortar, which is light and mobile and is a pure infantry support firepower, it is normal to be so close to the enemy. But the 120mm mortar, which is relatively heavy and is a suppressive artillery, is deployed to the front-line position.
It shows that this unit is fighting crazy. They don't even care whether the shells fired at almost a right angle will fall on them.
Du Ziqi's heavy mortars that were not suitable for front-line deployment were all sent to the front. Lei Wanchun, commander of the 90mm mortar company directly under the Seventh Regiment, did not dare to delay. His six 90mm mortars also arrived.
In the front line position, he and Du Ziqi formed two mobile artillery groups.
After discussion, the two decided to change their previous habit of allocating tasks according to range, and instead adopted the tactic of division of labor and cooperation. Lei Wanchun's 90mm mortar suppressed the Japanese front-line positions, while Du Ziqi's 120mm mortar
The company focused its attacks on the Japanese front-line infantry artillery, rapid-fire artillery, and even its regiment's mountain artillery squadron.
In fact, the leading battalion of the Seventh Regiment was almost completely wiped out at this time, which made Du Kaishan's distressed eyes turn red. However, the Japanese Second Division's Sixteenth Regiment's Third Battalion, which was confronting the Third Brigade and the Seventh Regiment, was no better.
Go. Although the leading battalion of the Seventh Regiment was crippled, the Third Battalion also suffered heavy losses. After an hour of fierce fighting, the strength of one brigade was scattered and even two squadrons could not be put together.
Among them, in a hand-to-hand battle between the 1st Squadron of the 3rd Battalion and the 2nd Company of the 7th Regiment's vanguard battalion that broke into its position, despite relying on strong individual combat capabilities and almost suicidal counterattack tactics, it defeated the opponent who broke into its position.
Can and was driven out.
But after the battle, although the squadron repulsed the opponent, it was also hit by a large number of automatic firearms equipped by the opponent. Even the wounded were added together, and there were only less than twenty people left, not even a squad.
They couldn't get it together. The squadron leader and all the squad leaders were all killed in the battle, and no one survived. Major Shimichi Nishikawa, the captain of the Third Battalion who personally supervised the battle, was also seriously injured and lost the ability to command.
Faced with huge casualties, the commander of the regiment, Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki, was also miserable. The 16th regiment now only had one and a half infantry brigades on hand, with a total of only six infantry squadrons. It lost half of its troops in an hour.
The losses were not only combat soldiers, but also various types of equipment.
The total number of light and heavy machine guns is less than one-third of the previous number. Although the wing artillery squadron inflicted heavy losses on the opponent's artillery in the previous artillery battle, it also lost half of its own artillery. Four Type 41 mountain guns
There are only two left. The most important thing is that there are not many shells left.
According to this rate of losses, the fight will continue. Not long after, the opponent launches two more similar charges and the 16th Regiment will be wiped out. After much hesitation, Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki still picked up the phone and wanted to speak to the division commander.
Let me report on the situation of the 16th Regiment. I hope that the Division Commander can at least send some reinforcements to the 16th Regiment, or agree to allow the 16th Regiment to shrink its defense line. The opponent has many troops, but the 16th Regiment cannot afford it.
The casualties continue like this.
But when he picked up the phone, he was frustrated to find that the call would not go through no matter what. Before Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki, who was furious because of the call interruption, called in the communications troops, the gunfire that had just subsided less than ten minutes
The sound of cannons rang through the night sky again.
Knowing that his opponent was launching another attack, Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki could only put down the damn phone and didn't know what the problem was. He raised his binoculars and looked at the snow-white battlefield illuminated by the flares fired by both the enemy and ourselves. But the more he looked, the more he looked.
Feeling cold.
The huge casualties made Du Kaishan calm down. He changed his previous head-on tactics. Instead, he adopted a small-scale, multi-angle, multi-batches, and large-number attack under the cover of artillery to strengthen the machine gun battery.
Platoon-scale raids were mainly carried out. At the same time, a force was used to roam around the perimeter, like a vulture. Whenever a weakness in the Japanese defense was discovered, it would rush forward and take a bite.
Du Kaishan no longer focused on breaking through and capturing Japanese positions, but adopted tactics that combined large-scale penetration with short assaults. On the one hand, his main goal was to kill the effective forces of the Japanese army and constantly bleed the Japanese army. He weakened the Japanese army in various ways.
Flesh and blood that is not strong to begin with.
While trying every means to drive nails into the Japanese positions, the Japanese army found that once their opponents drove a nail, they had to deal with other attacks, so it was difficult to concentrate their forces and pull out the nail. And these were
The nails he laid one after another, with the continuous investment of troops, gradually eroded the position of the 16th Regiment from point to point.
This tactic of Du Kaishan not only greatly reduced the subsequent casualties, but also made Shigesaburo Miyazaki very anxious. Can the 16th Regiment, which has suffered serious blood loss, withstand such a candy-like style of play? In order to maintain the stability of the front-line position, Miyazaki
Shigensaburo Saki sent out all non-combatants such as the baggage squadron of the 16th Regiment. But even so, the frontline positions were still in emergency.
In that one-hour shocking and bloody battle, Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki, who had lost too much blood, could not even be described as being overwhelmed by Du Kaishan's new tactics. He was completely helpless. Under the situation where the phone was not connected,
, the helpless Miyazaki Shigesaburo could only use the telephone as much as possible for all communications requested by Yasui Toji, and do not use the radio easily to avoid exposing the location of the respective headquarters.
After receiving a telegram from Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki to add at least two squadrons of reinforcements to the 16th Regiment, or to request a retreat, Toji Yasui was unequivocal and called him back in the shortest possible time: "We are now under attack from the entire front of the opponent.
, the division now has no troops to send. The war situation is not yet completely clear, so the 16th Regiment must hold on until dawn before making any plans."
Looking at the contents of the telegram, Shigesaburo Miyazaki's face instantly turned pale. What Fujiji Yasui meant was very clear. There was no reinforcements left. As for retreat, at least not now. At least it would have to wait until dawn.
It depends.
This telegram from Yasui Toji made Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki's heart suddenly become extremely cold and abnormal. Let's first talk about whether the situation will change after dawn, that is, whether the 16th Regiment can barely scrape together enough troops to hold on until dawn.
Two more things to say.
Several hours of fierce fighting made Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki doubt for the first time the combat effectiveness of the Second Division, which he had always been confident in and thought was invincible. In his mind, even if the troops were at an absolute disadvantage,
But his sixteenth regiment was still able to defeat ten with one. But tonight's battle was fought with equal strength, and both sides suffered losses.
In the past, Miyazaki Shigesaburo naturally didn't care about this number of casualties. His 16th Regiment had thousands of people, and there were several brigades with casualties. At most, the pressure was a bit high, and the rest naturally didn't care. But now the 16th Regiment
In addition to the first battalion remaining in Mudanjiang, a squadron is currently on the front line in Fuguitun with troops transferred from other regiments. Two more squadrons have been transferred from Saburo Katayama Province.
For the 16th Regiment, which currently has only one and a half brigades and a total strength of no more than six squadrons, the number of casualties, which is nearly one brigades and accounts for more than half of the total strength, is overwhelming and unsustainable. Fighting, already fighting
Unable to go down and retreat, but unable to retreat, Shigesaburo Miyazaki wanted to fight but could not, wanted to leave but did not dare, and was in a dilemma.
Although he had been prepared for the opponent's combat effectiveness, Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki did not expect that the opponent's combat effectiveness was so strong, especially his fighting will, which he had never seen in other Chinese corps. A pair of
In a single attack, he was able to wipe out almost all of his own squadron.
Colonel Shigesaburo Miyazaki was restless here, but Du Kaishan, who was attacking over there, was also in trouble. It was about to dawn. Although a lot of blood was given to the 16th Regiment, after a fierce battle in the middle of the night, there was still no
It can deal with the enemy in front of them. After dawn, under the attack of Japanese ground and air fire, the casualties of this unit will probably be even greater.
What worried him even more was that the outflanking troops led by Tao Jingfei, who were supposed to arrive at the designated location at midnight yesterday, saw no news at all just before dawn. The Japanese flanks where gunfire should have sounded were instead
There was no news at all. What happened to Tao Jingfei? Several hours had passed and they still had not reached the designated attack position, which made Du Kaishan very worried.
Du Kaishan was not the only one who was worried. Guo Bingxun, who had been observing the battle situation in the Du Kaishan command post, was also frowning because the roundabout troops had not been launched. He tried to contact him several times, but never received a reply.
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While Guo Bingxun and Du Kaishan had been worrying about the outflanking troops who had lost contact, Tao Jingfei, who was leading the outflanking troops, was looking at the map and looking coldly at the commander of the leading company. The outflanking troops led by Tao Jingfei had not
The reason for rushing to the designated location is simply because they were lost.
In order to ensure that the roundabout operation would not be noticed by the Japanese scouts, before setting off for the roundabout, Tao Jingfei strictly ordered not to mention flares and torches, except for occasional flashlights. Because of the smear campaign, the result was that the commander of the leading company went to the wrong place.
road, missed the designated attack point, and brought the troops to a place nearly ten kilometers south of the original position.
The follow-up troops followed the troops in front, and not only did most of the troops move to the wrong position. There was also a mountain artillery battalion directly under the battalion and brigade, plus two heavy machine gun and heavy mortar companies from the Eighth Regiment, and they lost their way.
Been there.
Looking at the leading company commander who looked ashamed and didn't know where to put his hands, Tao Jingfei also calmed down. He knew that even if he evacuated this guy, he wouldn't be able to regain the lost hours. The only thing he could do now was
Just thinking about how to recover this loss.
Listening to the faint sound of gunfire coming from the north, and looking at the sky that was gradually beginning to lighten, Tao Jingfei gritted his teeth and said to the only regiment commander around him, the ninth regiment commander Chi Feng: "I can't catch up now if I go back. In this way,
You and I will each take a battalion and press forward in a straight line toward the Japanese positions to the west."
Chi Feng looked at the sky and said: "Political Commissar, should we wait until the Eighth Regiment arrives? We missed the attack point, and the enemy situation in front of us is unclear. Is it dangerous to attack rashly? We only have two battalions of troops on hand now.
, the mountain artillery battalion has also dispersed. We don’t have any absolute advantage in terms of troop strength or firepower.”
After Tao Jingfei looked at the pointer on his watch that was already pointing to five o'clock, he shook his head and said: "It's too late. I don't know where the Eighth Regiment has gone, and I don't know when it will arrive. We can't wait any longer. If we don't attack now,
Get involved with the Japanese army as soon as possible. When the Japanese air force is dispatched at dawn, we will have to pay a higher price. As for the Eighth Regiment, they will hear the sound of gunfire and come looking for us."
After that, Tao Jingfei pointed at the map and said: "You and I will each lead a battalion and move directly towards the Japanese positions on the western front. The brigade commander has already started fighting. Judging from the combat effectiveness of the second division, if we are delayed
Action, the Seventh Regiment will pay more."
Tao Jingfei made up his mind to press directly towards the Junde front line. A battalion of the Eighth Regiment led by Mu Changqiu, the commander of the Eighth Regiment, who had separated from him there, and other separated troops fought ahead of them. After discovering that he was separated from the political commissar
After the main force led by him dispersed, Mu Changqiu, not knowing where the main force had gone, did not hesitate to immediately command a battalion on hand to use it as an attack point and sweep westwards.
In fact, Mu Changqiu didn't know that his current location was less than five miles east of the main firing position of the Second Division Artillery Regiment. And the only person serving as guard for the artillery in front of them was the Second Division's baggage train.
A squadron of the regiment, which means that there is almost no regular Japanese defense between them and the artillery positions of the 2nd Division.
Mu Changqiu's move caught the Japanese army almost off guard. Facing the opponent that suddenly appeared in front of them, the heavy supply squadron faced it without fear. But except for a heavy machine gun that was blown up at the beginning of the battle, almost all of them were
This heavy supply squadron without any heavy weapons suffered heavy casualties as soon as the encounter began under the intense firepower of the opponent's two heavy machine gun companies.
After Mu Changqiu received the report that the vanguard company had discovered the Japanese artillery position, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Compared with a heavy supply squadron, the Japanese artillery regiment was like a ripe fruit in front of him. Mu Changqiu couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Changqiu immediately adjusted his deployment without hesitation. In addition to using a company of troops under the cover of a heavy machine gun company to engage in a fierce battle with the heavy supply squadron that was desperately resisting, the rest of the troops were devoted to attacking the Japanese artillery positions.
Fight for it.
In order to deal with the Japanese artillery as quickly as possible, Mu Changqiu invested all the troops at hand. Although the Japanese artillery resisted desperately, they blew up the artillery as quickly as possible to prevent these artillery from falling into the hands of their opponents.
Except for a small number of rifles, most of the Japanese artillerymen were armed with pistols. Although they resisted very tenaciously, they were quickly defeated in the face of opponents with a large number of automatic firearms. The resistance of these Japanese artillerymen was still within the shortest time.
were defeated. Except for a small number of Japanese artillerymen who escaped, most of them were killed.
Although some of the twenty-four mountain field guns it was equipped with were blown up by the struggling Japanese artillery, most of the field guns fell intact into the hands of Mu Changqiu. The Second Division, which had lost the cover of artillery fire, was still strong despite resistance.
, but like a tiger whose claws have been pulled out, it can only struggle in vain.
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