Du Kaishan, who has rushed to the front line of Hejian to command, has an obvious intention for the entire deployment. Since the encirclement has not been completed in the first time, he will use his tank advantage to take advantage of his favorite wolf before the Japanese reinforcements arrive.
Using group tactics, the Sixty-fourth Division was skinned layer by layer until the flesh and blood of the Sixty-fourth Division was exhausted by its own tank offensive.
Du Kaishan still believes that the armored cluster in his hands is his greatest advantage. Tanks and infantry are absolutely invincible against the Japanese army that lacks anti-tank weapons. Although there is no preset blocking position, the mobility advantage of tanks is his greatest advantage.
The capital. No matter how fast the Japanese army ran on two legs, they could not outrun the tracks of the tank.
What's more, there are attack aircraft groups in the sky, and the long-range artillery fire in your hands can also cooperate with your interception. As long as the 64th Division is blocked on the bank of the Hutuo River, the loss will be less than if they are circled together.
Du Kaishan believes that although the combat effectiveness and equipment of the Japanese North China Front Army are not as good as those of the Kwantung Army, their tenacious will to fight is still there.
This wolf pack tactic, which uses tank clusters as sharp knives, will actually reduce casualties and reduce the resistance to the final solution. Therefore, Du Kaishan will use all the armored clusters in his hands, organized as battalions and companies, to take turns to attack in multiple directions, biting on all sides.
.Although the progress is a bit slower, the tactical application can be considered quite successful.
Although the main force of the 64th Division on the front battlefield in Hejian desperately retreated, the first round of encirclement failed to achieve its goal. At the same time, due to the unusually fierce resistance of the division, Du Kaishan was unable to complete the task at the first time.
Divide it. However, when the division was retreating, it was attacked by the surrounding resistance alliances in turn. The wolf-like armored infantry groups were constantly biting, and the losses were increasing.
The main force of the Sixty-Fourth Division, which desperately retreated southward, lost all its wounded and heavy equipment and struggled to retreat to the intersection of the Hutuo River and the Hulu River. Facing behind them, they were already covered by long-range artillery fire from the Anti-Japanese Alliance, as well as attack aircraft.
The blocked Hutuo River found that it could no longer retreat southward.
Although the Hutuo River is still as calm as before, this river does not have a large amount of water in winter. For the Japanese army at the moment, it is like a death line, tightly blocking the division's final retreat. Uchiyama
The two lines of defense prescribed by Eitaro for the 64th Division became their life and death line.
The ice on the frozen river was completely blown away by the long-range artillery fire and aviation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, leaving the remaining soldiers of the Sixty-fourth Division with no way to retreat. Every time the Sixty-fourth Division tried to build a bridge, they even ignored the
The fording operations in cold weather were intercepted by the Anti-Alliance aviation and long-range firepower, and the entire river was littered with densely packed Japanese corpses.
As early as the Japanese troops began to retreat on the front battlefield in Hejian, Yang Zhen mobilized a group of bombers and used high-explosive bombs to blast all the ice on the Hutuo River, Ziya River, and Hulu River. He also dispatched planes.
Continuously patrol the Hutuo River below Anping.
As soon as it was discovered that the Japanese army was trying to erect a pontoon bridge on the Hutuo River, it was immediately destroyed. At the same time, the re-frozen ice was bombed again. While the troops pursued the retreating Japanese army, long-range artillery fire also joined in, turning the entire Hutuo River into a blockade.
A natural barrier for the Japanese army to retreat.
With the pontoon bridge unable to be erected, the Japanese army's idea of using the frozen river to retreat was no longer possible. In the upper reaches of the Hejian battlefield, the anti-alliance forces that had completed the Gaoyang battlefield operations had completed the river-crossing operation west of Anping and were heading towards
Xian County is advancing rapidly. As long as the unit seizes Xian County, it will indicate the completion of the complete encirclement of the main force of the Japanese army on the Hejian battlefield.
Facing the critical situation of the war, the 1st Division of the 22nd Division in Cangzhou desperately tried to move closer to the Hejian battlefield in an attempt to rescue its friendly forces. However, the 1st Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which was the first to attack, was like a barrier, clinging to death.
The battlefield stuck between Cangzhou and Hejian cut off the connection between the 22nd Division of Cangzhou and the Hejian battlefield.
Moreover, on the left wing of the Cangzhou battlefield, the first force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance has been deployed and is outflanking the 22nd Division. It has never been able to establish contact with the remnants of the 32nd Division in Cangzhou County, and the Anti-Union forces have been infiltrated behind it.
A cavalry brigade was torn to pieces.
The entire supply line is actually in a state of semi-paralysis. Since arriving at the Cangzhou battlefield, although it is close to the Japanese-controlled area of Dezhou, supplies have still been intermittent. The 22nd Division, which has not even been able to get a grain of food for several days, is now
We are already in a state of insecurity.
If the Sixty-fourth Division had not persisted and the Twenty-second Division withdrew, not only would the remnants of the Thirty-second Division in Cangzhou County have been completely alone, but the Sixty-fourth Division itself would have had no support.
Therefore, we have not yet made up our minds to withdraw the 22nd Division because we are worried that the 64th Division will lose support.
But now they have been fighting hard for several days, and their own losses are so heavy that without the support of follow-up troops, the 22nd Division will be put in the pot if it does not withdraw. After the anti-alliance outflanking troops appeared on the left wing of the Cangzhou battlefield,
This time, Eitaro Uchiyama knew that it would be difficult to make this decision, but he had to make it.
The order is that there is no food, grass, ammunition in Cangzhou City at this moment, and there is no way to communicate with the reinforcements outside. During the many breakouts, the 32nd Division, which suffered heavy losses, chose its own direction to break out. The 22nd Division was ordered to immediately break away from the surrounding areas.
The Anti-League contact was withdrawn to Texas at full speed.
As for the Sixty-Fourth Division that was still struggling on the north bank of the Hutuo River, Uchiyama Eitaro could no longer take care of it at this time. He couldn't bring in more people for one division. But far away in Lugongbao, there were already
As for the Independent Sixty-sixth Brigade, which had lost contact, Uchiyama Eitaro gave up even more simply. He directly erased the brigade's designation from the deployment map of the troops participating in the war.
It's not that Eitaro Uchiyama refuses to save him, it's because he currently has neither the troops nor the ability to rescue the Sixty-sixth Brigade, which is trapped alone in the depths of the Anti-Japanese War in the entire Jizhong battlefield. Instead of taking risks, he will needlessly lose too many troops.
We might as well abandon the brigade that has been out of contact for several days.
In fact, Eitaro Uchiyama's choice to abandon the Sixty-sixth Brigade was a wise choice. Several newly formed troops took turns on the Lugongbao battlefield. With the first unit of the Anti-Japanese Alliance pressing down behind him, they continued to practice with the remaining enemies of the unit.
.Although the battle was delayed a bit, the few remaining members of the 66th Brigade could not persist for too long.
On the New Year's Day of 2004, the final settlement of the Lugongbao battlefield was completed. The gunshots on the entire Lugongbao battlefield came to a complete end with the arrival of the New Year. After losing contact, the 66th Brigade was no longer even known.
Whether the regiment is still resisting, Uchiyama Eitaro indeed has no need to rescue.
At the same time that Eitaro Uchiyama made up his mind, as the battle of Lu Gongbao came to an end, the boss had ordered the two brigades of participating troops. Two regiments drawn from the reserve team with Yang Zhen immediately traveled south at night and starry to reinforce Chen Hanzhang's place.
Department. But before the arrival of reinforcements, Chen Hanzhang could only temporarily stay on the front line of Zhengding for repairs.
Chen Hanzhang's troops were no longer able to continue moving south, so they turned to replenishment and defense on the Zhengding front line in preparation for a possible Japanese counterattack. However, the first anti-alliance unit that had already entered Zhengding also scared Uchiyama Eitaro, who was sitting in the empty Shimen City.
, withdrew his headquarters from Shimen to Hengshui in one fell swoop overnight, and then stayed there.
At present, southern Hebei is already a sea of red, and it is no longer safe for Eitaro Uchiyama to evacuate wherever he goes. He doesn't want to sleep, and a few grenades fly in from outside the door. So he simply avoids the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan border areas in the south.
I evacuated directly to Hengshui, which is very close to Shandong, and I felt safe.
Uchiyama Eitaro worked hard to evacuate safely. However, this guy still flirted with Chen Hanzhang before leaving. When Chen Hanzhang was in the first section of Zhengding, he discovered that the Shimen was abnormal and immediately went south to seize the Shimen. The Shimen had become a
Empty city.
However, Eitaro Uchiyama, who knew that something was wrong, might not want to do too much to prevent the enemy from clinging to him for revenge. Or he wanted to cover up his retreat and did not want to expose his actions through massacre, so
There was no attack on the Shimen Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Basically, the prisoners in the Shimen prisoner-of-war camp were safe until they arrived at the Anti-Alliance rescue force.
Uchiyama Eitaro has withdrawn, but almost all of his troops are still in Jizhong. They have either been annihilated or are in a semi-surrounded state. Uchiyama has lost contact with the Baoding battlefield and knows that the situation there is probably quite bad.
Eitaro is quite a bachelor.
He directly ordered the first part of the reinforcements that had entered southern Hebei to immediately turn to the direction of Jincheng. At the same time, he used one force to support the retreat of the troops on the front battlefield in Hejian. However, the number of reinforcements in this department was insufficient, and under the constant attacks of the Anti-Alliance Air Force,
Progress is unusually slow.
The anti-alliance forces that crossed the Hutuo River have already seized Xian County, but they have not yet reached Jincheng. In other words, Du Kaishan has completed the actual encirclement of the Sixty-Fourth Division, and the reinforcements of a division have already completed Baoding.
During the battle on the battlefield, the aviation forces, which had all moved south, were unable to reach the combat area despite their all-out attack.
As the Baoding battlefield came to an end, the Anti-Allied aviation forces in the Jizhong battlefield focused their operations on the southern front. A large number of reconnaissance aircraft were deployed on the entire south bank of the Hutuo River. With the cooperation of the original Jizhong troops who stayed behind, they
All routes that Japanese reinforcements may pass through are subject to strict surveillance.
No matter which route the Japanese troops appear on, they will immediately notify the aircraft on duty in the sky to attack. In order to adopt this tactic, given that the Il-2 attack aircraft has short legs and a short combat range, the aviation force specially mobilized some British Brens.
Heim light bomber, and all modified gunships.
This newly-reinforced division was targeted by the Anti-League attack aircraft as soon as it entered southern Hebei Province. Although they adopted the approach of moving in from multiple routes and gathering at designated locations, they were still targeted by the Anti-League attack aircraft in turn.
The tactics of combining high-explosive bombs with napalm bombs resulted in extremely slow progress and heavy casualties.
In particular, the modified gunships caused extremely heavy losses to the Japanese marching columns. The Japanese troops that were advancing from multiple routes had a considerable number of troops before they reached Hebei County, and they were bombed and lost their combat effectiveness.
.According to this situation, Uchiyama Eitaro didn't even know whether he would save people or be rescued when the division arrived on the battlefield.
Uchiyama Eitaro, who was already very dissatisfied with the two reinforcement divisions being intercepted midway, looked at the telegram from the base camp forwarded by the front army. He couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. This tactic of adding fuel to the base camp is a military use that even fools know.
The biggest taboo is that you either need to reinforce enough troops at once, or you don't need to reinforce them at all.
The current Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro really doesn't know what the base camp and the dispatched troops are thinking. If you say that the Chinese battlefield is not important, the base camp is piecing together troops for reinforcements. But if you want to say it is important, the speed and intensity of the reinforcements