However, although this third brigade was separated from the 155th Regiment on the right and Encha on the left, the anti-union counterattack force in front of it focused on separating it from the 155th Regiment on the right.
, and contacted the 152nd Regiment behind him, but he himself was not too seriously hit.
Although it is currently divided into lone troops by the enemy's penetration from both wings, the situation encountered by the two brigades to the west is much better on the surface. At least a considerable number of troops are still intact and have not been completely destroyed.
Despite the chaos, it still maintained part of its combat effectiveness. It also preserved one 92 infantry gun and one rapid-fire gun, and two heavy machine guns were left in the heavy machine gun squadron.
In view of the fact that this brigade is the only brigade in the entire 134th Regiment that has not fallen into complete chaos. The captain of the 134th Regiment, Suzuki Seiichi, ordered the four squadrons of the brigade not to assemble. They immediately assigned their respective areas to the west.
Launched a counter-charge in an attempt to rescue the first brigade on the Encha front line that was already in trouble.
It's not that Suzuki Seiichi didn't want the brigade to assemble, but although the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not target the brigade as a key target in the first round of counterattacks, they kept blocking the brigade with artillery fire. Every time they tried to assemble,
All their efforts were shattered by the artillery fire of the Anti-Union Alliance.
After many efforts to assemble their capabilities, all in vain. Suzuki Seiichi did not care whether it was right or not, or whether it violated what he had learned in the military academy, and ordered the brigade to scatter and attack westward. It was not Suzuki's fault.
What ambitions does Master Sei have at this time?
The reason why he had such a tough attitude and asked the third brigade to join the first brigade was because he knew that in this Zaonan Plain area, if the three infantry brigade to which he belonged were scattered and passively beaten, they would only be beaten by the enemy.
Eat them mouth to mouth. Only back to back and close together can we survive the most difficult period.
In addition, Seiichi Suzuki believed that the enemy's key attack directions were the 155th Regiment on the right wing of the Third Battalion and the Encha Front Line on the left. However, between the Third Battalion and the First Battalion, the enemy's interception forces were not as strong.
Not much. If the third brigade attacks with all its strength, there is still a high chance of success.
It's just that for Suzuki Seiichi and his men, the ideal is full, but the reality is cruel. He never thought that the anti-alliance forces on the left wing of the Third Battalion, which divided the Third Battalion and the First Battalion, did not have many troops.
, there are only two infantry companies, but the firepower equipped and the supporting firepower available are far more than one infantry regiment.
Under the situation of insufficient frontal troops, when the front-line commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance chose to attack the Japanese troops on both wings first, they had already made corresponding preparations for the possible follow-up reaction of the third brigade.
On the eastern battlefield, a feast of firepower was prepared for him.
On his left wing, he was specifically designed to intercept the anti-alliance forces approaching the First Battalion. Although there were only two infantry companies plus a temporarily formed machine gun company, not only were the two infantry companies equipped with 12mm anti-aircraft machine guns, the attached
The machine gun company is not an ordinary machine gun company.
This company is a divisional air defense battalion drawn from the Eastern Front battlefield. It is equipped with an anti-aircraft machine gun company with four quadruple 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns. This anti-aircraft machine gun company does not undertake air defense tasks on the battlefield east of Encha.
The task is to fire all machine guns horizontally to support infantry operations.
Behind the unit, there is a mobile artillery group consisting of a 76mm cannon battery, an 82nd mortar battery and two 120mm heavy mortars, specifically to provide firepower for it.
Support. At the same time, it continued to intercept with firepower, disrupting its attempt to gather several squadrons back together.
After receiving the order from the wing commander, even though the battalion commander believed that they were scattered on the spot and had poor communication with themselves, and only two and a half of the four squadrons they belonged to were relatively intact, with the organization of a squadron or even a squad,
The deployment of the 1st Brigade to the west was quite inappropriate. However, under strict military orders, the captain of the Brigade could only act bravely.
The Third Battalion, which had no choice but to attack westward, had just emerged. The first squadron to launch the attack was also the squadron that had been following the group headquarters. The skirmisher line that had just been opened by the first wave of attacking troops was thrown in.
As soon as they entered a distance of 400 meters from the defenders' position, they encountered extremely fierce firepower interception.
Two quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns deployed flat on the front and two flanks formed a dense crossfire, like sixteen iron brooms, sweeping across the entire Japanese attack line and the entire battlefield within a thousand meters in depth.
.Coupled with the automatic firepower on the front, it forms a dense fire network.
Although the Japanese army of this squadron used typical Japanese offensive tactics to quickly attack the front, and also used a force on both wings to try to find the weaknesses of the defenders. However, the four anti-alliance units had a range of more than 2,000 meters, and they were on a flat battlefield.
, there were almost no blind spots, and the horizontal-firing anti-aircraft machine guns that formed a crossfire with the frontal fire caused heavy casualties to the Japanese troops.
This infantry squadron, which strictly followed the typical offensive tactics of the Japanese army, was attacked by four anti-aircraft machine guns equivalent to sixteen large-caliber machine guns and six-zero mortars that swept across the entire battlefield. Even the machine guns and grenades were
The tube can't even be set up. Not to mention entering the fire suppression distance of 200 meters, even if it wants to break through the distance of 300 meters, it can't be done.
In the past, the Japanese army used various tactics in attacks, which were often effective in form, but instead they became a conscious attempt to die. After the first round of offensive, the squadron, which was the leader, dropped two-thirds of its troops.
.The other mobile artillery groups behind them that provided fire support from the Anti-Japanese Alliance concentrated all their firepower. Under the guidance of the forward artillery observers, they used artillery shells to form a line of fire that repeatedly pulled back and forth between the Japanese front-line and second-line troops.
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The remaining troops of the leading squadron could not withdraw, and the two squadrons that arrived behind them also rushed forward under the interception of the fire net composed of artillery shells. Moreover, the anti-union artillery fire repeatedly pulled back and forth above their heads, leaving these two inexhaustible.
On the unobstructed Zaonan Plain, the squadron could only be exposed to artillery fire. As soon as it approached the battlefield, it was covered by a fire net of artillery shells.
Although the captain knew that the commander's order was a bit too rigid, he still had the courage to launch the attack. He tried his best, but still could not change the situation of the battle. The two squadrons that arrived later even
As soon as he reached the edge of the battlefield, he was hit by artillery shells and suffered heavy casualties.
After half a day of fierce fighting, the Third Battalion of the 134th Regiment, which was ordered to rescue the First Battalion, not only failed to move closer to the First Battalion, which was only five kilometers away in a straight line, but its own strength also lost embers in the hard battle.
Having exhausted its last bit of vitality and completely losing its ability to attack, the infantry brigade was really unable to move closer in any direction.
Faced with the situation of forcing the attack for nearly five hours but failing to make any progress. As well as the huge casualties suffered during the attack, there was really nothing we could do. We knew that if we continued like this, we would lose everyone in our brigade.
The captain who is here.
In the end, we gave up any attempt to get closer to the First Battalion. After trying our best to gather the remaining defeated soldiers, we forced a breakout toward the southeast. As for the commander's order, let's put it aside for now. This guy is somewhat stubborn.
The Japanese captain, no matter how determined he was to fulfill the orders of the commander, was no longer able to do anything.
Their retreat was equivalent to completely destroying the last remaining hope of the Japanese army on the line from Encha to Zhangxiutun. They organized forced breakouts many times but ended in failure, and lost the last bit of strength in the process of breaking through.
of these two infantry brigades.
Facing the oncoming anti-alliance forces, the remaining Japanese troops resisted desperately. However, their last act of resistance was just a desperate struggle. Like a weed thrown into the whirlpool, it quickly disappeared into the water.
It did not cause any disturbance. By the evening of the same day, the first brigade of the 134th Regiment in Encha, which was the key target of the Anti-Japanese Alliance attack, became the first Japanese army of the 134th Regiment to be completely wiped out.
While the 134th Regiment was struggling, the 155th Regiment, which was attacking between Zaonan and Jingxian, was also struggling in pain. Compared to the 134th Regiment, the 155th Regiment
There were more artillery shells falling in this direction. The most critical thing was that they faced not only the counterattack of the infantry, but also the attack of the only anti-Union tank group on the Zaonan battlefield.
Although the number of tanks Chen Hanzhang invested in the Zaonan battlefield was not large, it also made the 155th Regiment feel pain and helplessness. It can be said that the captain of the 155th Regiment, Takaichi Nishioka, is suffering from more pain than
Much more than his colleague Suzuki Seiichi.
Facing the enemy attack aircraft group above his head, the continuous dropping of napalm bombs and high-explosive aerial bombs, as well as the intensive artillery fire from the enemy's depth. Although the commander of the 155th Regiment, Nishioka Takaichi, commanded the troops continuously,
According to the plan issued by the division and regiment headquarters before the war, they tried to shrink and move closer. They wanted to bring together the two infantry brigades and the two attached squadrons of the 152nd Regiment.
However, under the intense artillery fire interception of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the repeated attacks of tank groups, his troops were still in a mess. He exhausted all his strength and failed to gather the two infantry brigades he belonged to.
Said. The casualties suffered during the retraction process actually worsened the already worsening situation of the 155th Regiment.
As the most important direction for the entire Zaonan battlefield to counterattack, the location of the 155th Regiment was given special care by Chen Hanzhang in terms of firepower allocation. Sixty percent of the rocket launchers Chen Hanzhang transferred to the Zaonan battlefield were deployed in
In this direction, the firepower of the 122 rocket launcher group deployed at a depth of five kilometers is enough to cover the entire battlefield within ten kilometers of the front.
The front of the 155th Regiment is equivalent to three 122 rocket launcher battalions, four 107 rocket launcher companies, plus five 150 howitzer companies, four 105 howitzer companies, plus two 122 rocket launchers.
The howitzer battalion, as well as a firepower cluster composed of a large number of 76mm cannons and 120mm mortars, gave the 155th Regiment a solid lesson in what real firepower strikes are.
The fire net composed of the Anti-Union Artillery Group repeatedly moved back and forth on various positions of the 155th Regiment. The Anti-Union Artillery Group deployed around the 155th Regiment had a very clear target. The first round of rocket fire extended
After that, before the various units of the 155th Regiment could wake up from the first round of artillery fire, the second round of strike firepower consisting of barrel artillery fell again.
After finally surviving two rounds of artillery fire, the anti-alliance attack aircraft group roared in again. Napalm bombs were fired one after another from the bomber group composed of anti-alliance B-25 bombers and Blenheim bombers.
It fell vertically and completely ignited a fire in the entire deployment area of the 155th Regiment and all locations where Japanese troops existed.