Chen Hanzhang believes that at present, under the situation that the Texas Battlefield and the Texas West Battlefield have actually become one, stability should be the priority. First, eat the two hundred and one hundred and eighteenth divisions, holding a twenty in hand.
The second division looked at a Japanese division that was following up.
As for the next step, it depends on the situation after the two have finished eating. As for the 22nd Division in the Texas direction, it is better to sandwich it first and take advantage of the situation that the two armies on the front battlefield in Texas have been completely mixed together.
The 22nd Division was tightly entangled so that it could not divide its forces, and the superiority of artillery was used to weaken it layer by layer, so that it could not divide its troops to look after others.
As for the planned tactical counterattack against the 120th Division on the Leling front line, it is better to put it aside for the time being. Concentrate all the troops and firepower that can be concentrated in the East Cluster to deal with the battle in northwest Shandong. As long as the battle in the northwest Shandong battlefield
If it is resolved, the situation on the entire Hebei-Shandong border will also undergo major changes.
Yang Zhen smiled when he received Chen Hanzhang's call back. Chen Hanzhang's ideas basically coincided with his own. Regarding Chen Hanzhang's call back, Yang Zhen only gave an approval. As for the planned counterattack against the 120th Division
, Yang Zhen agreed to stop temporarily and concentrate his troops and energy on the two flanks of the battlefield in Dezhou.
However, Yang Zhen suggested that continuous local counterattacks should be carried out in the frontal battlefield in Northern Shandong, so as to contain the Japanese troops in the northern Shandong battlefield. As for other words, Yang Zhen did not say a word. As for how to fight, Chen Hanzhang was there.
On the eastern front, Yang Zhen knew that he no longer had to worry too much.
With most of the main force of the 72nd Division wiped out and the remaining troops ready to be completely eliminated at any time, the entire Eastern Front battlefield has now become a moving chess game. Let Chen Hanzhang make his own judgment and decision on how to fight. He can
The main focus is on the entire Western Front campaign.
As Yang Zhen issued several orders in succession, the anti-alliance forces that had moved south immediately launched a full-line attack along both sides of the Ping-Han Line. As the Ping-Han Line offensive began, the Ping-Han Line, which had always been relatively stable compared to the Eastern Front,
The battlefield immediately fell into turmoil. The entire Pinghan Line on both sides, from Pingxiang to Huangzeguan, fell into a full-scale fierce battle.
The 18th Division deployed north of Shahe not only used a regiment of troops to cooperate with the main force coming up from behind to attack the 117th Division west of Pinghan Road, but the main force launched a full-line attack on the 50th Division on the spot.
They clung to the main force of the 50th Division and cooperated with a division inserted from Ren County to divide and surround the 50th Division.
And with the strength of a strengthened regiment, with the cooperation of a mechanized infantry battalion, they moved forward along the gap left by the two Japanese divisions toward the Linming Pass line to cut off the retreat of the 117th Division and cooperate with
The troops pressed down on the frontal battlefield encircled the 117th Division.
The order they received was to build fortifications on the spot after seizing the Linming Pass line. Even if the sky fell, they had to keep an eye on the Japanese reinforcements before receiving orders from their superiors. Once they were seized by them,
On the Linming Pass front line, the entire 117th Division will be completely covered.
At the same time, after receiving Yang Zhen's order, he was bitten by a detachment of the 117th Division during the retreat. The people behind him kept trying to come up and bite him, but they couldn't get along with the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region at all.
The troops exchanged fire head-on. The troops of the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Military Region were very annoyed as they kept following behind them and taking a sharp bite. They turned around several times to fight with them but retreated again. This made the troops of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region very annoyed.
He immediately concentrated two brigades and three independent regiments, and used the strength of an independent regiment as bait. After a lot of effort, he managed to kill the 88 infantrymen of the 117th Division who were biting behind him.
The brigade commander, Major General Jiro Ikeda, commanded two infantry brigades, plus a squadron of mountain artillery, two mortar squadrons and a detachment composed of the engineering department to lure them into the encirclement and encircle them between the Shahe River and the Xiaoma River.
Songjiazhuang.
The Japanese soldier actually started playing guerrilla warfare in front of him. He was bitten so many times that he almost became a child like an 80-year-old woman. She had been hunting hawks all day long, but she almost didn't get pecked by the hawk.
The commander of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region really caught fire this time.
Not only did they mobilize all the artillery and use their capital to guard the house, but they also directly told the cadres at the regiment level and above of each unit participating in the battle that if that unit allowed the Japanese to escape in this battle, all the military and political officers of that unit would be dismissed on the spot and the unit would be disbanded.
Organize and integrate into other troops.
With his words, aren't the troops below going crazy? Besides, fighting this kind of annihilation battle is much more comfortable than the previous blockade battle. Although there were some mistakes when luring them to besiege, resulting in
There were some undue casualties. However, in this battle, the troops of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region, under multiple sieges, captured the key point behind the Ikeda detachment, the East Niuyu line, gradually compressed the Japanese detachment, and trapped it in Songjiazhuang.
One line.
After controlling all the commanding heights around Songjiazhuang, the commander and political commissar of the Jiluyu Military Region went to the front line to direct the battle. With the strength of three regiments, from the east, west and north directions, under the cover of the direct artillery, they attacked the troops trapped on the front line of Songjiazhuang.
The Japanese Ikeda detachment launched a general offensive.
After repeated battles, they successively captured Dushu, Beipo, Xiaoweiyu and other peripheral commanding heights, killed more than half of the main force of the Japanese Ikeda detachment, and suppressed them tightly in Songjiazhuang Village. The victory in the first battle greatly impressed the two military and political leaders of the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Region.
The leader let out a fierce breath of anger in his heart.
When Yang Zhen came up, he made a posture of swallowing up the two Japanese divisions on both sides of the Ping-Han Line. The divisions deployed on the second line pressed on the entire line, adopting the tactics of frontal breakthrough and forced flank insertion, and fought with the Japanese army.
The two divisions were all mixed together.
But behind the entire Pinghan Road battlefield, a division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and a column from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei secretly spread out along the junction of Hebei-Chahar-Hebei. A brigade from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei reinforced a regiment from central Hebei and had secretly entered
Shanxi quietly seized various key points around Huangyuguan and Maguan, and prepared for battle.
During this battle, Yang Zhen tried his best to find ways to match the old troops with the new troops. Especially in some battles that were not very critical, he took many methods to improve the new troops as quickly as possible.
This includes not only the anti-alliance troops, but also the troops in various strategic areas in North China under his command, so that they can be deployed and used uniformly, the old can lead the new, and the growth of new troops can be accelerated.
So when he deployed a Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei brigade to secretly station at Maguan and Huangyuguan, he also strengthened a new regiment of the Central Hebei army. In addition to increasing the number of troops that this brigade can mobilize and use when needed,
In order to lead the new with the old and speed up the formation of the combat effectiveness of the new troops.
At the same time as Pinghan Road was being fought, Chen Hanzhang also concentrated two more divisions on the battlefield to the east. With the cooperation of the armored cluster, he launched a full-line counterattack against the 100 divisions that had been attracted by it from En County to the Old City.
The focus is on the right wing of the 100th Division, cutting off the connection between the division and the front-line Japanese troops in Texas.
The tank unit in Chen Hanzhang's hands and the Japanese Fourth Independent Tank Brigade assigned to the 100th Division took the lead. At this time, the divided Fourth Independent Tank Brigade was used to rescue the 72nd Division.
During the fierce attack, the 76mm cannon, which was formed into a trapezoid by the resistance and deployed in depth, and the recoilless rifles and rocket launchers of the front-line troops adopted the tactics of coordinated firepower from far and near, and nearly half of the strength was lost.
Especially the 76mm cannons equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance use Soviet-type 350 armor-piercing projectiles, which can easily penetrate at a distance of 800 meters. The Fourth Independent Tank Brigade is equipped with the latest Japanese Type III tanks, fifty
mm-thick front armor. As for the Japanese tanks compared to the old Type 1 tanks, if the sighting system were not slightly inferior, they could be destroyed at a distance of one thousand meters.
When Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement of the 72nd Division and received a telegram from Yang Zhen, he specially strengthened the establishment of dual-purpose support and anti-tank artillery for the troops in front of the 100th Division, and deployed an additional one.
A batch of armor-piercing projectiles were distributed to artillery battalions of participating troops for use.
This is the first time that this kind of artillery has truly demonstrated its important anti-tank role in addition to fire support since it was equipped on a large scale. It performed extremely well in previous blocking battles. Taking advantage of its long range
, with the advantages of high accuracy and powerful armor-piercing projectiles, it destroyed more than 40 tanks of the Japanese Fourth Independent Tank Brigade after several days of fierce fighting.
In actual combat, this cannon performed extremely well, completely destroying Japanese tanks with one hit. Especially when the Anti-Alliance Forces used this artillery for anti-tank operations, they adopted cross-firing tactics to destroy Japanese tanks.
The lethality of Judas.
In order to suppress the powerful artillery position of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the 100th Division mobilized a large number of ground artillery to suppress firepower when it attacked. Before the 100th Division attacked, Eitaro Uchiyama equipped it with a large number of artillery
, also allowing it to have the strength to confront the anti-alliance artillery group.
In order to open a gap for the tanks to cover the infantry as soon as possible and create the most advantageous fighter opportunities, especially to eliminate the anti-tank guns of the anti-alliance forces in front of them. In the attack direction of the 100th Division, almost all the Japanese artillery and anti-alliance artillery were invested.
, fought a very exciting high-level artillery battle.
The average number of artillery shells with a caliber of 75 mm or above fired by both sides in the daily fierce battles was about three thousand. On the positions of the anti-alliance blocking forces, tens of thousands of shells were dropped in a day at most. This number does not include those fired by the Japanese army.
Infantry artillery, and mortar shells.
However, although the Japanese army spent a lot of money, the artillery of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was also unambiguous. It was just that the Anti-Japanese Alliance had more artillery with a caliber of over 100 mm, but the 100th Division's reinforced four ** and seven Type 92 cannons,
With a maximum range of 18,000 meters, it always suppressed the Anti-Union artillery. In several days of fierce fighting, it posed a great threat to the Anti-Union artillery.
Fortunately, although howitzers cannot compete with the Japanese cannon group, the Anti-Alliance rocket launcher group is not as accurate as these two Japanese cannons. However, both the range and firepower density are far superior to these two Japanese cannons, effectively suppressing them.
The Japanese long-range artillery group prevented the Japanese cannon group from causing too much damage to the resistance forces.
In addition, Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama distributed the Fourth Tank Brigade to various infantry brigades. Although this independent Fourth Tank Brigade was equipped with the latest tanks of the Japanese army, it had not been used during the entire blockade operation.
It did not pose much of a threat to the anti-Union troops.
Previously on the Zaonan battlefield, the focus of the Anti-Alliance armored forces had been on the 72nd Division, ignoring the Japanese tank troops. Now that the 72nd Division was dying, the Anti-Alliance tank troops had been freed up.
The first thing to be solved is the Fourth Independent Tank Brigade.
This time, in order to complete the counter-outflank of the 100th Division before the follow-up Japanese forces arrived, Chen Hanzhang made great efforts. He mobilized almost all the troops that could be mobilized, especially the armored units, to attack the 100th Division.
The two wings carried out insertion and outflanking, trying to use the assault power of the tank group to complete the encirclement of the 100th Division as quickly as possible.