Just like the eldest brother of the 44th Division, the 4th Division, after the 70th Regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness was mobilized to form the 25th Division, the remaining three regiments and two were from
Osaka. After the First World War in the Philippines, no one dared to send them to the front line to fight. No matter how tight the fight was in that direction, they were still basking in the sun in Thailand in Southeast Asia.
With the living example of the Fourth Division there, Sekihara Roku still dares to put two regiments composed entirely of Osaka soldiers together and use them as a group? Isn't that just causing trouble for yourself?
The 44th Division is the only non-Osaka regiment of the 94th Regiment, and reorganizing them into the second echelon is also a helpless choice for Sekigahara Roku.
Lieutenant General Sekihara Six had many ideas, but the reality was still very basic. He originally thought that by personally supervising, the Osaka soldiers would improve to some extent. However, he did not expect that the battle situation was unfavorable, and he, as the division commander, should have some
The majesty was simply ignored.
In other words, when the situation worsened, he, the division commander, did not take these Osaka soldiers seriously. As a result, he originally thought that his overall deployment was more comprehensive, but it turned out to be more practical on the Qikou battlefield.
Now it has become a tragedy.
Just when Lieutenant General Sekigahara Six gave up his original attempt, after half a day of fierce fighting behind him, the Anti-Japanese Alliance that came out from its flanks had trapped the last remnants of the 93rd Regiment from Sanhuzhuang to Shilihe.
As well as several isolated strongholds on the front line of Xiaoxinzhuang, there are of course a number of scattered soldiers scattered around.
Considering that the brother troops in the Bohai Navy Region can take advantage of this rare opportunity to fully train themselves, Du Kaishan generously left the final attack mission and the mopping up operations against the Japanese stragglers to the Bohai Navy Region assigned to him.
troops. He only left part of the artillery and a tank company to cooperate with them in the battle.
As for Lieutenant General Sekigahara Six, who had consumed all the strength around him in the unnecessary counterattack, he was unfortunately in the process of fleeing and searching for and gathering his scattered subordinates. He was killed by two vehicles.
An anti-alliance half-track armored vehicle and a tactical team composed of a tank were discovered.
After discovering these sneaky people who were looking for ditches and escaping eastward, a company commander who led the team was not polite and directly fired a barrage of vehicle-mounted machine guns and tank cannons. The sixth Lieutenant General Sekigahara was killed.
Together with the only people around him, they were all beaten into a wolf's nest.
It was just when a tank company commander who was leading the Anti-Japanese Alliance team who was a little curious got out of the car and wanted to see who the Japanese soldiers who were running away and carrying a radio on their backs were. He saw the Sekigahara Sixth Collar Badge.
He had the rank of Lieutenant General. When I looked at the collar badges of other corpses around me, they were either Colonel or Lieutenant Colonel. All of them were wearing officer-style sabers. I wanted to slap myself in the mouth.
What kind of scattered Japanese army is this? This is obviously the headquarters of the 44th Division. If you can catch this lieutenant general, at least you can get a medal belt when you go back. This is great, the lieutenant general is alive.
It becomes a dead body, which is somewhat less valuable.
In other words, he killed Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6, but compared with the one captured alive, his value dropped by more than one level. But if he wanted to kill this man who had become an ant's nest with a 12mm bullet in his head,
It is basically impossible to save the man who was half blown away.
In desperation, the company commander could only regretfully tear off Lieutenant General Sekihara Six, along with the military ranks and sabers on the corpses of all the Japanese soldiers around him, and go back to report. Although no one was caught alive, since this victory was achieved, he could not
It's a waste, isn't it? Although the dead ones don't have much value, they are still somewhat good.
The company commander was a little annoyed, but his annoyance was even more fatal to the already low morale of the 44th Division and the next battle. The death of Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6 meant that in
Du Kaishan's position was disrupted in the first round of attacks. It can even be said that the main force of the entire 44th Division, which was divided, lost its own on the first day of the full-scale ground battle on the Qikou front line.
The division commander lost overall command.
This result was quite fatal for the 44th Division, which had become Du Kaishan's next main attack target. After assigning the task of wiping out the remnants of the 93rd Regiment to the Bohai Navy District, Du Kaishan except one unit
The troops penetrated deeply into the main force of the 9th Division in order to encircle it in the shortest possible time. At the same time, he concentrated the main force in his hands and transferred to the solution of the 44th Division first.
The reason why Du Kaishan did not first deal with the entire Qikou front line, the Ninth Division with the strongest combat effectiveness, is simple. For him, there are only so many enemy troops on the Qikou front line. And at least in a short period of time, the enemy troops in Qikou will not
There is a substantial increase. Unless the Japanese navy breaks through the minefield it has set up in the Laotieshan Waterway, not a single ship will be lost.
They will risk a landing operation, otherwise the Japanese troops on the Qikou front line will not receive reinforcements at least for a short time. However, judging from the previous battles in the Bohai Bay, I am afraid that the Japanese navy will not be able to part with it no matter what.
, and then took out some of the ships to accompany the Japanese army on their adventure.
I didn’t know that at this time, the retreating fleet of the Japanese Navy was struggling in the Laotieshan Waterway. The Japanese Navy formation, eager to retreat, originally thought that the Bohai Bay had become a hell, but at least the Laotieshan Waterway was safe. So it was just
The Japanese naval base in Lushun was called, and submarines and tugboats were sent to support it, but no minesweepers were called to respond.
In addition, the Japanese naval ships, after leaving the combat radius of the anti-alliance attack aircraft group, were delayed for a period of time in order to wait for the evacuating army ships in front. It was already dark after arriving at the Laotieshan Waterway, and they did not open the ship for fear of attracting the attention of the US submarine.
Searchlights reduce the visual observation distance linearly.
As a result, as soon as they sailed into the Laotieshan Waterway, they were struck by mines one after another. The only aircraft battleship Ise in the Bohai Bay that escaped the disaster was the first to win the bid. This time this guy was not so
As luck would have it, it was blown up and sank directly in the Laotieshan Waterway.
There is a serious lack of experience in mine-laying at sea, and a lack of resistance in night-time aerial mine-laying technology. When laying mines, they just set the depth of these mines and push them down from the aircraft in a general area. As a result, the three-layer mine net deployed was seven
There are no rules at all. It is said to be a minefield, but it is actually a messy minefield.
The tugboats and submarines that came out of Lushun Port to respond did not win the bid, but the Japanese naval fleet that sailed out from the Bohai Sea actually plunged in. The only remaining aircraft battleship Ise was sunk.
It is said that the Japanese Army's national treasure Akitsu Maru was not saved in the end, and was bombed and sunk in the Laotieshan Waterway just behind the Ise.
After the Ise battleship struck a mine, it was impossible to quickly determine the situation in the vast darkness. Other naval ships and transport ships did not know what had happened. They thought they had been attacked by an American submarine. They immediately dispersed and spread out.
All sonar was used to search for submarines, depth charges were continuously fired, and maneuvers were carried out in accordance with the requirements of anti-submarine tactics.
As a result, the Japanese navy and army ships that made misjudgments hit mines one after another. After the chaos in the middle of the night, not only did they not find a submarine, they themselves suffered heavy losses from the mines. The entire Laotieshan Waterway once again became a
The Grave of the Japanese Navy. The entire Laotieshan waterway is full of bombed and sunk Japanese navy and army ships.
When the battleship Ise's communication equipment was completely destroyed and it was no longer able to shoulder the responsibility of the flagship, Lieutenant General Chiaki Matsuda, who had been transferred to a destroyer, discovered something was wrong and immediately ordered all ships to stop maneuvering on the spot. He also called the nearby Lushun Naval Base and quickly
When he sent minesweepers to clear the channel, there were only two or three kittens left in his fleet.
The heavy losses suffered by the Japanese navy in this battle with the army were almost unprecedented. Not to mention the second landing operation in a short period of time to send reinforcements to the Japanese troops on the Qikou front line. I am afraid that during the rest of the war, the Japanese
Even if the navy is killed, it will not even take a step into the Bohai Sea.
Compared with the vast Pacific Ocean, the Bohai Sea was small and not worth mentioning. However, it destroyed three Japanese battleships, one heavy cruiser and one light cruiser, one old-fashioned armored cruiser, and nearly half of the destroyers and coastal defense forces deployed by the navy in the mainland.
ships, plus a large number of transport ships, submarine destroyers, as well as all the Type II landing ships that have just entered service, and more than half of the Type I landing ships.
As for the Army, due to the limit on the number of ships invested, the losses were not as great as those of the Navy. However, the Army also lost two-thirds of its SS landing ships. One of the two amphibious landing ships, a national treasure, was killed and one was seriously injured. Such a huge result, Du
The cost of opening the mountain was only a few thousand mines, a dozen aircraft and thousands of artillery shells, which can be said to be quite disproportionate.
In fact, when the Anti-Japanese Alliance laid mines in the Laotieshan Waterway, the Japanese army security forces stationed in the Laotieshan Waterway were not unaware of the large number of heavy bombers they dispatched. At least there was the sound of buzzing engines on the sea, and the Japanese Army observation posts on the ground
You can still hear it.
As for the air defense radar that the Japanese Army had just put into use, although it played a limited role in good times and bad times, it still made some discoveries. However, the Japanese Army observation posts around the Laotieshan Waterway were completely unaware of the unusual movements coming from the sea.
He ignored it and did not make any notification to the navy.
The Japanese Navy's base in Lushun lacked radar, and after the main ships were transferred back to the mainland, there were not enough guard ships to fully shoulder the responsibility of guarding the Laotieshan Waterway. The occurrence of a tragedy is by no means a single factor. It is multiple factors.
The combined total cost the Japanese Navy a heavy price.
If the Japanese Army's observation post around the Laotieshan Waterway could promptly report and inform the Navy after discovering anomalies in the sea surface. Although the landing operation may be delayed more or less for a certain period of time due to mine clearance, there are rich mine clearance capabilities.
With experience and the Japanese navy's large number of minesweepers, the losses would never have been so heavy.
As for Du Kaishan, it is still unclear what the outcome of Lao Tieshan's painstaking design will be. But with the victory in the Battle of Bohai Bay, at least within a short period of time, the Japanese navy, which suffered heavy losses, will make a comeback.
The possibility is almost gone.
He was reassured and determined to concentrate his forces to fight first. The two wings of the Ninth Division, which had the most powerful combat effectiveness in Qikou's front line, and the relatively weaker Forty-fourth Division and the Marine Corps. As for the Forty-fourth Division, in addition to the Navy and the Army,
The first choice outside the team was because Du Kaishan had already keenly noticed the difference between the two Japanese divisions from the performance of the two Japanese divisions after they landed in Qikou.
Although the Ninth Division was rebuilt after being defeated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it was not as severely hit as the Forty-fourth Division. However, adhering to the tradition of its predecessor, the fighting style is still extremely fierce. And from the front line of Hulangzhuang
As soon as they fought, he also discovered that in addition to their style and quality, the Ninth Division was also better equipped than the Forty-fourth Division.