Five hundred kilograms of explosives is actually not that much. But if it is concentrated at one point and detonated, the power is enough to level a large building. [.Com text] Along with several loud noises, Idiot Wang
The tunnel in the camp once swallowed up an entire company of the Second Regiment, forcing Ma Fengqi to be almost helpless and the wall was blown into the sky.
In order to ensure the success of the one-time blast, Ma Fengqi took out all the explosives on hand. Although five hundred kilograms of explosives were distributed equally to each battalion, he did not allow his three battalion commanders to also distribute them equally. According to his
Three battalions were required. Each battalion chose a main tunnel and placed 300 kilograms of explosives. The other two tunnels were used as auxiliary tunnels and only placed 100 kilograms of explosives.
The power of three hundred kilograms of explosives is obviously not small. The blasting of just one tunnel destroyed most of the wall outside Wang Shazitun. Not only was the wall almost completely blown away by the continuous blasting, but also
Even the Japanese troops who had resisted tenaciously on the wall suffered more than half casualties. Less than three or four out of ten were able to withdraw.
The rise of the wall indicates that Colonel Sugino's resistance is about to come to an end. Although the remaining Japanese troops experienced a brief shock, the resistance was still fierce and they did not lose their resistance due to the violent explosion. However, there are only less than a hundred of them left.
People's resistance is nothing more than a desperate struggle. No matter how tenacious they resist, they are already helpless at this time.
Seeing the success of the blasting, Ma Fengqi didn't bother to celebrate. He immediately commanded the three companies that had already entered along the tunnel less than a hundred meters away from the starting position. Most of them had switched to automatic firearms and greatly increased the number of grenades.
They rushed into the village through the gap opened by the explosion. The 90mm mortar company directly under the Second Regiment also moved into the village at Ma Fengqi's request to provide fire support for the attacking troops at the nearest location.
At this time, most of the houses in the Northeast were still adobe houses. Unlike the surrounding granite walls, these adobe houses made of soil mixed with straw were simple in structure, low in cost, and had good thermal insulation properties.
However, its anti-strike ability is far inferior to that of brick and tile houses. None of them can withstand the bombardment of a 90mm mortar shell.
Mortars, coupled with a large number of submachine guns, speed machines, and rain of grenades, soon silenced the resistance of the remaining Japanese troops in the villages. The real street fighting only lasted less than an hour, and the resistance of the Japanese troops in the villages was completely collapsed.
And Colonel Sugino, who after sending a farewell message to Major General Katayama, personally led the team in the last desperate fight, was shot by more than a dozen submachine gun bullets when he and his last dozen subordinates made a final counterattack.
The rain turned into briquettes.
Almost at the same time that the gunfire on the front line of Wang Shazitun fell completely, with the cooperation of Tao Jingfei, the brigade and regiment that launched a counterattack from the front line of Fuguitun against the enemy in front of them, under the command of the regiment commander He Zhishan, also fought with Ma Fengqi
He ended his war within a matter of seconds.
Du Kaishan's estimate was correct. After repeated fierce battles with the First Regiment, the Japanese troops on the front line of Fuguitun caused a full battalion and a half of casualties to the First Regiment, but they also suffered a huge cost of casualties. After several days of fierce fighting,
, by the time Du Kaishan chose the time to counterattack, there were indeed only two squadrons left with combat effectiveness.
After learning that the enemy group had very little remaining combat power, Yang Zhen decisively picked up the remaining troops of the independent regiment from Du Kaishan, formed them into companies, and transferred them to
The strength of two battalions of Ho Zhishan.
In addition to replenishing enough blood as quickly as possible to the regiment, which at this time still had half a battalion of troops, a rocket launcher battery was allocated to the regiment from the rocket artillery regiment that had already rushed to join the battle.
The front line of Fuguitun is a plain area. Compared with mountainous areas, this terrain is more suitable for weapons such as rocket launchers with wide fire coverage to participate in the battle. In order to facilitate the insertion, when the regiment forcibly inserted into the front line of Fuguitun, it only carried 90 members of the regiment.
mm mortar battery.
The 120mm heavy mortar battery and infantry artillery battery were left at the brigade headquarters and were not carried. This is why the regiment has been engaged in blocking battles in the past few days. After Major General Katayama Saburo's attention shifted to Chai Shirong,
The main reason why they fought so hard despite facing only four squadrons of Japanese troops.
After several days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army, accustomed to the fact that their opponents only had ninety-millimeter mortars, thought that they would be fine if they withdrew their troops from the effective range of these mortars. They were unprepared for this shelling. This was temporarily strengthened for a group of soldiers.
The regiment's rocket artillery company fired just one salvo and destroyed half of the enemy's troops in front of the regiment. It also killed Major Hojo Tsukasa, captain of the 1st Battalion of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese Army.
Although the Japanese resistance on the front line of Fuguitun, which had lost its command, was still fierce, its intensity did not decrease due to its heavy casualties and the death of its commander. But as the saying goes, a tiger cannot stand up to a pack of wolves. In the face of superior troops, the firepower is not inferior to that of its opponents.
In front of them, their strength did not last as long as that of their comrades on the front line of Wang Fool's Tun.
If He Zhishan had not been too cautious and did not want to pay unnecessary costs, he had fought very cautiously and step-by-step. The Japanese troops on the front line of Fuguitun could only rely on organized field fortifications to resist, and they could not even hold on to their comrades on the front line of Wangshazitun.
Such a long time.
As early as after receiving telegrams for help from Fugui Tun and Wang Shazitun at almost the same time, and at the same time receiving reports that both of their wings had been broken through by the other side, and that the opponent had formed an encirclement situation against themselves. Whether it was facing Tao Jingfei's fierce counterattack
, Major General Katayama Shozaburo and Lieutenant Colonel Hattori Takushiro, who were already beaten up, almost panicked immediately.
After analyzing the obviously unfavorable battle situation in front of him as quickly as possible, Major General Katayama Shozaburo keenly discovered that his best choice now was to retreat immediately. But for Major General Katayama Shozaburo, it was this analysis that made him
He is in a dilemma.
There is still no news about our division commander. Retreating means completely abandoning the division commander who may still have a chance of survival. And the responsibility of throwing away a lieutenant general division commander is absolutely borne by a major general brigade commander.
You can't afford it. If you don't retreat, the current situation is already very unfavorable to you. If you don't leave, you may not be able to protect yourself.
If all the eight infantry brigades of the Second Division participating in the campaign were wiped out in the north of the Songhua River, he would not be able to bear this responsibility anyway. Major General Katayama Saburo, who always considered himself decisive in killing, hesitated for a long time.
, rejected Hattori Takushiro's suggestion to retreat immediately, and no longer cared about the issue of face.
Major General Saburo Katayama directly reported the current battle situation to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and after truthfully reporting the disappearance of the division commander Ani Toji, he requested that at least one regiment be provided for the second division within 24 hours.
reinforcements. Otherwise, the Second Division will be in danger of being completely destroyed.
After receiving a telegram from Saburo Katayama asking for help, he had not yet been attacked from the Jiamusi Field Airport. Nearly a hundred aircraft mobilized by the Kwantung Army for this operation were stored at the Jiamusi Airport. Regardless of his face, he dispatched troops from China on the Kwantung Civil War Field.
A large amount of aviation fuel was snatched by force and the bombs were completely lost. After recovering from the blow, Umezu Yoshijiro was beaten so hard that he slumped in his office chair for a long time and could not recover for a long time.
The current chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Iimura Jo, the deputy chief of staff, Major General Saburo Endo, the senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, Colonel Masao Terada, and the one who had been on the bench for a long time since being transferred to the Kwantung Army until
Hattori Takushiro was sent to supervise the war, and Lieutenant Colonel Geno Nakayama, the Chief of Operations Staff who finally took office, couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the contents of this urgent telegram.
The Second Division is a kind of force, and several people know it very well. Now this division, which is known as the most powerful fighting force in the Japanese army, has been beaten like this. The main force of the division participating in the suppression was almost wiped out. A total of four
Of the regiments and eight brigades, there is now only one brigade left that is about to be encircled, and the whereabouts of the division commander is still unknown.
Is this unit that fought so miserably still the Second Division of the Imperial Army, which has always been invincible and invincible? Why is it even inferior to the 25th Division, a little brother that was established less than half a year later?
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Several people here were muttering about the outcome of the Second Division. Over there, they had sworn to ensure that the opponent's commander had lost the ability to command, and the only opponents could be the Kwantung Army's intelligence chief, Takeryo Isomura, and Colonel Isomura, who were fighting on their own.
Colonel Okubo Shunjiro of the Special Intelligence Department looked unusually pale.
I know that the main reason why the Second Division was defeated and ended up in such a miserable situation is that there was a big problem with my intelligence. Obviously, the opponent successfully used false moves to confuse me. Judging from the current battle situation
, this time the so-called commander vomited blood and fell into a coma, it was obviously a trap that his opponent had set for him a long time ago.
Not only did he stupidly jump in, but he also jumped in with the Second Division. This time the Second Division ended up like this. Regardless of whether the remnants could be rescued or not, the Kwantung Army needed to give the Tokyo Base Camp an explanation.
.And I, the two culprits, and Lieutenant Commander Hattori Takushiro are the best candidates for this explanation.
Sure enough, just when the two of them were wondering whether General Umezu Yoshijiro would push them out, Umezu Yoshijiro's cold voice came over there: "The huge losses you two have caused to the empire due to your negligence this time, even if
You can't make up for it even if you go to court martial a hundred times."
"In view of the fact that you have made some contributions to the empire and the holy war, I will give you a chance to apologize in the samurai tradition. You two commit hara-kiri to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. But as punishment, I will not allow it.
Anyone can make mistakes for you."
Looking at the two sharp sabers handed over by the adjutant of General Umezu Yoshijiro, the two people did not make any excuses. They picked up the sabers that were about to end their lives in front of them and silently followed the adjutant of the general to the next room. There was already a room for them.
Everything is ready.
Umezu Yoshijiro's coldness made other Japanese generals feel frightened. The mistakes of these two men brought huge losses to the empire and the Kwantung Army, and they made them commit seppuku. This was not an unexpected thing in the hearts of these Japanese generals who pursued bushido.
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To these Japanese generals who pursue Bushido, committing suicide to apologize is more honorable than going to a military court. Moreover, judging from the serious mistakes made by the two men this time and the losses they have caused to the Kwantung Army so far, the above
Military courts may not necessarily evade heavy penalties.
But when committing seppuku, without help, the person who commits seppuku will die in extremely painful ways. Usually, the person who commits seppuku will be conscious and pained to death before the blood dries up. Although they all regard themselves as samurai, they pursue bushido as their motto.
The highest belief, but for these Japanese generals, it only means that they can ignore death. It does not mean that they are willing to bear the huge pain of death.
If they were really allowed to feel the pain of being beaten to death without any mistake, it seems that these people would simply choose to commit suicide with a pistol. At least that way the death would be clean and tidy and would not cause too much pain.
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In the view of these generals, especially Lieutenant General Iimura Jo, the chief of staff who had been involved in this matter, killing people was nothing more than a nod. The miserable defeat of the Second Division this time was certainly related to the misjudgment of superiors due to confusion in intelligence.
But as the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Yoshijiro also had an unshirkable responsibility. At least he had too much trust in Hattori Takushiro, who was always telling the truth, to the point of almost obeying his words, which was also an important reason for the failure of this campaign.
Since Isomura Takeryo and Okubo Shunjiro have decided to bear all their responsibilities, why do you, General Yoshijiro Umezu, have to kill them all like this? Wouldn't giving them a quick solution better reflect your magnanimity as a commander?
?It’s just that Lieutenant General Iimura Rang said these words in his heart and would never dare to say them openly.
After Isomura Takeryo and Okubo Shunjiro were led out by Umezu Yoshijiro's adjutant, they turned around and looked at the faces of everyone present, including almost all the senior figures of the Kwantung Army, with some disapproval and even some expressions of sadness. Knowing that this
Umezu Yoshijiro, who was helping the guys think about what they were thinking, said: "Everyone, the Second Division suffered such a disastrous defeat this time. It is really the heaviest blow to our Kwantung Army since its formation."
"What kind of responsibility should I bear? I will apologize to His Majesty the Emperor and the Tokyo Base Camp afterwards. As for what kind of punishment His Majesty the Emperor will give me, I don't bother you. The most important thing right now is how to rescue the trapped people in the first place.
The remnants of the Second Division, and the search for Lieutenant General Yasui Fujiharu. Now please express your opinions."
After Umezu Yoshijiro finished speaking, no one stood up to answer him for a long time. Faced with the difficult battle situation in front of him, whether it was Chief of Staff Iimura Jo or others, they were almost helpless. It was obvious that they needed to solve it now.
The only solution in this endgame is to increase the number of troops. And the number of troops to be increased is not a small amount.
But now that the tension on the Manchu-Soviet border has not been completely alleviated, and the Soviet Far East Military Region still has hundreds of thousands of troops deployed on the so-called Manchu-Soviet border, everyone knows that it is almost impossible to increase troops on a large scale.
Things. Unless the Kwantung Army dares to risk weakening the Manchu-Soviet border defenses, it will be difficult to dedicate a large number of troops to rescue the Second Division.
Unless there are two options, one is to urgently mobilize troops from the Kwantung China Dispatch Army. The other is to use the 14th Division that has just arrived in Manchuria as the Kwantung Army Mobile Division to participate in the war. However, these two options are not suitable for the Kwantung Army.
That said, it's not a good choice.
Requesting reinforcements from the Japanese troops in Kwantung not only requires passing through the Tokyo base camp, but also means that the Kwantung Army, which has always supported the Japanese troops in Kwantung, will lose all face. And the 14th Division is currently the only mobile division of the Kwantung Army. Once it appears again
The problem is, the Kwantung Army will have no more available troops.
Since the only other option was not a good one, everyone present, who could not think of any other way, remained silent in response to General Umezu Yoshijiro's question. No one dared to answer Umezu Yoshijiro's question.
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