At the beginning, Chen Hanzhang consciously changed the southward attack termination line on Pinghan Road to Baoding instead of going directly south to Xinle according to the original plan, or pushed the front line to the Dingxian line to level the front line with the Hejian line. Therefore, in the direction of Baoding,
A salient was reserved for the Japanese army because they wanted to use their own armored clusters to attract more Japanese troops with this salient.
I have always kept in mind Yang Zhen’s saying on the battlefield that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt the enemy ten times. No matter how many cities we capture, it is not as good as encircling and annihilating one Japanese division. We are fighting on local territory. Once we attack a city, the people in the city may become hostages in disguise.
.When a shell is fired, the dead and injured are all our flesh and blood compatriots.
If there are fighters that can annihilate the enemy in the wild, Chen Hanzhang should try his best not to attack the city. He doesn't like his tank troops, which adopt a front-line push and chase duck tactics. He prefers to cut off the enemy's rear and attack the enemy.
Central attack tactics. Find fighter planes to avoid the city and annihilate the enemy in a field battle.
Therefore, although he had no intention of recapturing Baoding City now, he wanted to cause the greatest panic to the Japanese army in Baoding City in the shortest possible time. In order to rescue Baoding, the Japanese army should mobilize at least a considerable part of the troops from Gaoyang and Hejian.
Troops were sent to reinforce Baoding to open up gaps in Japanese operations and create conditions for their own roundabout assault.
Although the troops in his hands are somewhat damaged, their muscles, bones and vitality are still there. Moreover, the battlefields around Peiping have opened up the connection between Pingxi and the Pinghan Line. Some troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region have successively begun to regain the Pinghan Line.
The cities along the line will be completely connected to the deep areas of Pingxi, which is equivalent to just around the corner.
How to play this game now, the initiative is in his own hands. Therefore, although Chen Hanzhang did not plan to attack the city directly, in order to bring maximum pressure to Lieutenant General Sakai Yasu, he forced the Japanese army to divide their troops into a heavy troop cluster on the south bank of the Hutuo River. He attacked Baoding
The counterattack was made with all one's strength.
When launching an all-out offensive against Baoding City, Chen Hanzhang, in addition to retaining a tank company and a regiment in reserve, put all the rest of his troops into it. In the shortest possible time, he created a kind of fierce tiger for the Japanese army.
The posture of going down the mountain. Because only when the meat is really painful, will I call out for my mother loudly.
In fact, Chen Hanzhang was taking a gamble by deploying this way. He was betting that the Japanese army would not dare to give up Baoding, an important town that controlled the mountainous areas of western Hebei and eastern Shanxi. If the Japanese army really ignored Baoding and launched a fierce frontal attack in Hejian, then his overall plan
The plan will be completely disrupted.
The most critical thing is that the Baoding battlefield, the protruding part of the Japanese army, will become a bone stuck in his throat. By then, the entire Jizhong battlefield will be in a situation where troops are dispersed and unable to concentrate. Unless follow-up troops join, at least he will
This division in Baoding North is easily unable to move.
Chen Hanzhang's move made Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai and Major General Anri Ano sober up from the result of the first tank brigade being destroyed by the air offensive in less than an hour.
After catching his breath, his troops attacking from the front, under the cover of intensive artillery fire, broke through the already incomplete Japanese defenses on the Caohe front line.
Without the threat of Japanese tanks, the anti-alliance tank troops even drove their tanks directly in front of the Japanese positions that had been damaged by air strikes and heavy artillery bombardments. Like target practice, they defeated the remaining Japanese firepower points one by one. Although
The Japanese army launched several human bomb offensives in an attempt to destroy the anti-alliance tanks rushing in front of them.
However, under a set of skilled infantry-tank coordination tactics that the Anti-Japanese Alliance had long practiced, those Japanese soldiers who were covered with grenades or pushing gasoline barrels and wanted to die with the tanks had no time to get close to the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The tanks were turned into meat sieves.
Although the Japanese army in the north of Baoding is equipped with two anti-tank gun squadrons, the Type 1 anti-tank gun they are equipped with can only deal with the Anti-League M-4 tanks at a very close distance, and may be able to penetrate the side. But at this distance,
Will the anti-Union infantry give them a chance to fire?
Anti-Japanese self-propelled anti-aircraft guns even joined in the fire attack. Using their armor protection, they drove close to the Japanese positions and leveled the anti-aircraft guns to sweep across the Japanese positions. Double 23 mm high
Within this distance, the power of the gun is even greater than that of ordinary direct-aimed artillery.
Chen Hanzhang's firepower caused the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Caohe River to panic. Apart from passive resistance and being beaten, they basically had no power to fight back. But this is not the worst. The worst thing is the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Caohe River.
The Japanese army's posture was still an offensive one. Facing the anti-alliance firepower attack on the north bank of the Cao River, even the most basic field fortifications were lacking.
They wanted to cross the other side of the Cao River and defeat the Anti-Alliance forces on the other side of the Cao River. In order to use the assault force of the first tank brigade, they could reversely outflank the line from Gaoyang to Hejian and Cangzhou.
Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai gave a heavy blow to the Anti-Japanese Alliance troops on the flank.
After the First Tank Brigade arrived in Baoding and Chen Hanzhang withdrew to the north bank of the Cao River, the deployment on the south bank of the Cao River has always been offensive. According to Sakai Yasu's point of view, the Imperial Army can only attack and attack, and there is no such thing as retreating and defending.
Said: The enemy troops have been dispersed and deployed. If we don’t attack now, how long will it take?
It was just that the sharp counterattack in his mind was directly destroyed by the anti-alliance air attack fleet before it was put into the battlefield. But after all, his formation had not had time to adjust. Although his configuration on the south bank of the Cao River was bombed by 70
Eight fell, but the overall situation was still offensive. Chen Hanzhang's offensive caught the Japanese army, which had not yet adjusted, by surprise.
Under this situation, with the cooperation of artillery and tanks, Chen Hanzhang's troops who broke through from the front tore his battlefield on the south bank of the Cao River into pieces in less than an hour. They were divided.
The Japanese army, broken into countless pieces, could only resist passively.
On the right wing of the northern battlefield of Baoding, Chen Hanzhang made a beautiful left hook and drove straight into the city of Baoding with a tank as the guide. The momentum and speed of his assault were even higher than those from the front. The two regiments invested in the anti-alliance front,
While they were encircling and annihilating the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Cao River, Chen Hanzhang's left hook had already hit the walls of Baoding City, and his shells had already landed on the top of Baoding City.
Chen Hanzhang's left hook hit the walls of Baoding City. At this moment, they were losing consecutive battles, and the last counterattack even pawned off their pants. The entire defenders in Baoding City were the only ones who had gathered back from the northern battlefield of Baoding, the 17th Division.
The regiment has less than one brigade of troops, as well as miscellaneous troops such as the first tank brigade, the first squadron of the motorized infantry wing, and the military police, with a total strength of less than 1,000 people.
With such a small force, it is quite difficult to even control Baoding City, let alone assume the defense of the entire Baoding City. Even Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai has given up all the peripheral strongholds. But with such a small force, it is still unable to bear the entire Baoding City. This
The defense of the strategic town on the Central Hebei Plain.
As for other pseudo-security forces, plainclothes teams, and the so-called various pseudo-guards, Kiyogo teams and other pseudo-armies. He, Sakai Koichi, doesn't trust them, not just in general, but quite a bit.
Distrustful. Because he knew that many of these people, especially the armed forces such as the police, were secretly colluding with the Eighth Route Army.
Furthermore, he still had a good idea of the true combat effectiveness of these people. It was okay for them to bully the militiamen of the North China Communist Army, to serve as sentries, and to collect food. Not to mention the so-called county armed forces of the old Eighth Route Army.
If I wait for Tubalu to show his true intentions, I'm afraid he won't be his opponent.
What's more, the Anti-Japanese Alliance is armed to the teeth with airplanes, artillery and tanks? Once these people go to the battlefield, there is basically no possibility of not rebelling. How dare Lieutenant General Sakai Yasu use these people for city defense?
The main force? It’s too late to watch these people not rebel.
Although he also knew that among these people there were quite a few dedicated traitors. They had the blood debts of some of their compatriots on their hands, and they would never dare to surrender to the Communist army. However, the combat effectiveness of these people was too poor, and their opponents were too weak.
Strong, these people may not even be qualified to stand out. What's more, there are not many of these people among the Chinese who serve the empire or Nanjing.
With the enemy's troops already pressing down on the territory, the only thing that Lieutenant General Sakai Yasushi, who had been so arrogant but now extinguished, is to desperately ask for reinforcements from General Okamura Neiji, who is already trapped in Beiping City. As for the reception,
For Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai, who sent telegrams asking for help one after another, Neji Okamura was also in the midst of a difficult choice.
With the opening of the Zhengtai Railway and the completion of the Shide Railway, although Baoding's strategic position is no longer as good as Shimen, giving up Baoding means completely giving up the mountainous areas in western Hebei and eastern Shanxi, and even the plains in central Hebei. Baoding is temporarily lost.
He doesn't care if it is lost, but if the Jizhong Plain is lost, it will be a real drain on the North China Front.
The Jizhong Plain now not only assumes the role of providing strategic supplies such as grain and oil to the empire, but also bears the burden of supplying almost the entire North China Front Army. Once the Jizhong Plain is lost, the entire North China Front Army will be hungry even if it defends the Pingjin area.
abdomen.
The Kwantung Army lost most of Manchuria, and now it can only hold a corner of southern Manchuria. The food output in the controlled area can only meet its own needs. Even the task of providing some food supplies to the mainland can no longer be completed. It is expected that the Kwantung Army will provide
For some material support, it is better to rely on yourself.
The local food itself is already stretched thin to meet local needs. A large amount of imported food is still needed on a daily basis. At present, farmers are being recruited on a large scale, most agricultural production relies on women, and output is even further declining. It is expected that now we need to rely on
It is unrealistic that only the food provided by Southeast Asia can fill the gap locally.
The Jizhong Plain is the main grain producing area in North China, and now it is responsible for most of the food needs of the North China Front Army. If the Jizhong Plain is lost, the life of the entire North China Front Army will be difficult. For the empire's overall strategy of supporting war with war
Said it would be a fatal blow.
With Neji Okamura's level, he could naturally see Chen Hanzhang's true intention of leaving a salient for the Japanese army in the Baoding area. But now for Neji Okamura, he knew that this was a trap, but he could only
He can bite the bullet and dig in. There is no other way. The current situation of the entire Japanese army absolutely cannot allow him to give up Jizhong.
As the reinforcements of the base camp were gradually in place, although he still felt that the strength was still somewhat insufficient, Okamura Neiji decided to take another risk and mobilized troops to make full use of this protrusion. On the frontal battlefield, the attack may not be successful.
Below, a breakthrough was made from the flank.
Didn't the enemy create an ambush circle on the battlefield in Baoding that allowed them to move forward and retreat freely? Then they desperately mobilized troops inside. I see that your ambush circle is thin on the front but strong on the flanks. When the entire line is under attack, how can you still
How many troops can be used on the Baoding battlefield? Even if I can't defeat you, I will still support you to death.