But for the Ninth Division, even this kind of anti-tank weapon that is not very easy to use has been consumed because it is a disposable weapon. When the enemy attacked again, all the weapons on hand were exhausted.
After depleting the ammunition, we could only fight with the enemy with bayonets. But under the intensive light weapons firepower of the enemy infantry, it was hard to say whether we would give ourselves this opportunity.
In addition to being helpless against the Allied tank cluster, the issue of ammunition has become Lieutenant General Hara Shou's biggest headache right now. Although the Japanese base camp has prepared up to four battle-worthy ammunition for the two divisions that landed in this battle. This amount
For two divisions, it is not insufficient.
But the problem is that most of the ammunition was either destroyed by Du Kaishan on the landing ship with artillery fire, or was blown into the Bohai Bay along with the transport ship by mines. Some of the ammunition that was barely sent ashore, or because it had not had time to be released,
The Ninth Division, which resolutely carried out the order, had already set off.
Or because most of the trucks and mules and horses were either destroyed on the beach or sunk in the sea along with the transport ships, resulting in an extreme shortage of transportation means. They could not be quickly delivered to the hands of the Ninth Division.
It can only be temporarily accumulated at the temporary storage point on the beach.
The Japanese army, which had poor mobile supply capabilities, lost a large number of trucks and mules. Unable to recruit mules and horses on the spot, the Japanese army could only rely on manpower to transport ammunition supplies. This resulted in a very slow supply rate.
, the ammunition shipped ashore could not be released.
When the Ninth Division set out, in addition to the infantrymen who were fully equipped with 120 rounds of ammunition each, the light and heavy machine guns only relied on the help of the infantry to carry more than half of the ammunition. The artillery ammunition was even more pitiful. And only
With such a small amount of ammunition, it is impossible to support the 9th Division in fighting for a long time.
Originally, according to Yoshio's plan last month, the 93rd Regiment, the 93rd Regiment, the 9th Division and the 44th Division were the last to go ashore. The engineering Regiment participating in the landing operation each had two squadrons, and the baggage troops each had one squadron.
.The other main task, in addition to reinforcing the main force in combat, is to transport supplies and ammunition to the main force of the two divisions in front.
As a result, the 93rd Regiment, which was responsible for the second echelon operations and supplying ammunition to the frontline troops, was intercepted by Du Kaishan. The large amount of ammunition and supplies he carried not only did not deliver a single bullet to the two divisions;
On the first day, I met a division commander.
After intercepting and killing the 93rd Regiment, when the participating troops were cleaning the battlefield around the battlefield, they seized more than 5,000 rounds of 94-type mountain artillery shells and 41-type mountain artillery shells. Mortars and grenades
The total number of barrels and infantry artillery shells is 3,000 rounds.
The quantity of various light weapons and ammunition is even larger. Especially the light and heavy machine gun ammunition, hundreds of thousands of rounds have been cleared. In addition to the huge amount of ammunition, there are also a large number of cans, biscuits and other field foods. The Bohai Navy Region troops smashed the nine
Most of the Japanese artillery shells on the head of the Thirteenth Regiment were obtained from local materials and directly transformed the trophies into their own ammunition.
The 93rd Regiment was dispersed by Du Kaishan's tanks midway. The ammunition and supplies that Lieutenant General Yuan Shou had been waiting for turned into a pile of nothing. In addition to the ammunition that was intercepted by Du Kaishan on the way, the remaining ammunition and supplies were all in vain.
The ammunition dropped was temporarily stored at the beachhead, and was turned into a fireworks display by Du Kaishan's bomber group.
The direct consequence of this series of losses was the Ninth Division of Hulangzhuang. After running out of ammunition, at least for a short period of time, there was no longer any hope of receiving supplies from the rear. China has relied on sophisticated weapons to rampage for many years.
The Japanese army, which has always been full of firepower, finally experienced the feeling of weapons being discontinued due to lack of follow-up ammunition replenishment after exhausting the limited ammunition they could carry.
Although when they first arrived at the front line of Hulangzhuang, Colonel Yoshiharu Kakudo, the chief of staff of the 9th Division, strictly controlled the use of ammunition in accordance with the orders of Lieutenant General Hara Mamoru. But even if the use was strictly controlled, the total number of ammunition carried was still still
Limited. For infantry to march and fight, one person carrying one hundred and twenty rounds of ammunition is already the limit.
After dozens of hours of fierce fighting, no matter how much ammunition was carried with the team and used sparingly, it would be almost exhausted under such a high-intensity combat situation. What's more, when the Ninth Division set out,
They didn't carry much ammunition at all. Even the baggage regiment hadn't had time to land yet.
Lieutenant General Hara, who was trapped internally and externally but could do nothing, could only keep sending reports to Yoshio Kamizuki, hoping that even if there were no reinforcements, some ammunition would be airdropped to him in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, he would have to wait until the in-person anti-alliance adjustments were completed.
When the troops were deployed and launched another attack, the remainder of the 9th Division could only rely on their bayonets to engage in hand-to-hand combat with enemy tanks.
After receiving a telegram from Lieutenant General Yuan Shou, I learned that the battle situation on the Qikou front line was completely ruined. The 44th Division and the Marine Corps had been completely wiped out. Only the 9th Division was left in the entire Qikou front line and was trapped in the front line of Hulangzhuang.
This Lieutenant General Yoshio seemed to be crazy last month. Regardless of the danger of being intercepted by a group of anti-Japanese fighter jets, he and Major General Mitsuo Kubuho, the military staff officer, took a small plane and rushed to Jinan. They asked Commander Eitaro Uchiyama of the Twelfth Army to
Immediately mobilize troops to reinforce the Qikou battlefield.
For Lieutenant General Yoshio last month, it was too late to ask for the base camp and dispatch troops at this time, because the water source could not quench his thirst. It would be more satisfying to find Eitaro Uchiyama, an old classmate of the 21st class of the Army Noncommissioned Officer School.
.The entire strength of his army is on the battlefield on the Hebei-Shandong border.
Last month, Lieutenant General Yoshio believed that Eitaro Uchiyama's Twelfth Army was not without means to mobilize reinforcements. At least his Forty-eighth Division in Jiaodong still had considerable troops, and he also had a field supplementary team on the Jiaodong Peninsula. If with these troops
Reinforcing the 120th Division on the Leling front line can completely form a strength advantage on the Leling front line and break through the enemy's defense line.
Faced with the accusation that his old classmate would rather idle a considerable part of his troops in the rear than send more troops to the front. He held a large number of troops but refused to save the Qikou battlefield, Uchiyama Eitaro could only smile and shake his head.
.This is not a question of whether to save it or not, but that his 12th Army really has no way to save it.
The 120th Division on the front line of Leling was constantly in a tug of war with the enemy in front of them. When the Qikou landing battle started, all their forces were put into the front line. But they were unable to break through the enemy in front of them. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery,
Under the defense, he was also attacked by a medium-sized tactical counterattack by the enemy, and he was almost paralyzed.
If it hadn't been for the division commander, who at the critical moment had pulled up all the non-combat personnel, plus baggage and engineering teams, in a desperate effort to block the enemy's counterattack. The 120th Division might have lost the entire front.
Being overwhelmed. It is already very difficult for the current 120th Division to barely maintain its front line.
It is expected that this two-brigade division will not have enough heavy weapons. It has third-rate combat effectiveness and third-rate equipment. After fighting for such a long time, it has also suffered heavy losses. It is impossible to break through the enemy's army in a short period of time and have been fighting fiercely for nearly a month.
The defense system could not be broken through, and the lone army marched hundreds of kilometers to rescue the 9th Division.
Not only is it quite unrealistic, but even if it breaks through the enemy's blockade, facing the enemy's two tank divisions, there can only be one, that is, selling one and taking another. And except for this one, which is closest to Qikou
Apart from the 120th Division, the Twelfth Army really could no longer mobilize any troops to reinforce the 9th Division on the Qikou battlefield.
The 9th Division on the Qikou battlefield is struggling, but the 100th Division on the battlefield west of Dezhou is also struggling. The 65th Division, as the main force in attacking the periphery from both inside and outside, and other troops on the battlefield west of Dezhou,
A full brigade of troops is filled in almost every day.
According to this casualty rate, in a few days, the Sixty-fifth Division has already suffered more than half of its casualties, and it can almost be said that it has lost the ability to attack. In less than a few days, all the participating troops in the entire battlefield west of Texas will be filled. The entire Texas
The situation on the battlefield in the west is not much better than that on the Qikou front line.
On the adjacent frontal battlefield of Dezhou and the entire battlefield north of the Majia River, casualties were also extremely heavy. The left and right wings of the 22nd Division had been broken through by the enemy. The entire frontal battlefield of Dezhou and the battlefield west of Dezhou suffered extremely heavy casualties.
All connections between them have been severed so far.
The various troops involved in the siege on the Jiaodong Peninsula, especially the main 48th Division, can no longer mobilize any troops. If they mobilize more troops, the blockade area that has been built with great effort and painstaking efforts will become
Nothing can be caught and it slips through the net.
He didn't know it until last month, but Eitaro Uchiyama still knew it. Once the blockade in Jiaodong failed and a large number of North China Communist troops in Jiaodong were able to escape, what would that mean for the entire Shandong? Unless his Twelfth Army did not want supply lines, otherwise
This hole must not be opened.
Now that the Forty-eighth Division has transferred one unit, the already insufficient blockade is already struggling to cope with the continuous attacks by the Shandong Communist Army. The transfer of the first unit has made the blockade in name only, and once the Communist army is allowed to attack Jinpu Road in large numbers,
Along the line, not only will the Ninth Division be unable to be saved, the entire Shandong battlefield will also be completely destroyed.
Now that he has reached a point where he has no time to take care of himself, and the Twelfth Army still needs a large number of reinforcements, where can he find reinforcements for the Ninth Division? He summoned Liangfu last month, isn't he in a hurry? If the battle of Qikou was completely defeated, he would not be in a hurry last month.
Liangfu could not keep his position as commander of the army. If the two major battlefields of Texas and East were defeated, he, as the commander of the Twelfth Army, would also have to lose his hat.
But the crazy Lieutenant General Yoshio Utsuki did not listen to his explanation and directly told Eitaro Uchiyama that reinforcements must be obtained within twenty-four hours. Within five hours, a batch of ammunition must be air-dropped to the 9th Division. Otherwise,
, he would report directly to the base camp that the Twelfth Army and the North China Front Army were refusing to save him.
Facing the extremely crazy Yoshio Kamigetsu, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro had a headache. Where could he go to find reinforcements for this old classmate who had fallen into madness? Not to mention there were none, and even if there were, how could they be sent to the Qikou battlefield? Is it possible?
Does he think that the enemy troops are all made of clay, or does he think that his own troops are all with wings and can be reached within a few hundred kilometers?
As for the issue of air-dropped ammunition, he has plenty of ammunition, but where can he find this transport plane? At present, the North China Front Army has very few combat aircraft left. At present, the entire war situation in the Hebei-Shandong Border Region is entirely supported by naval aircraft. Even from other sources
Aircraft can be deployed in the theater, but airdrops cannot be carried out even in fifteen hours, not to mention five hours.
It's just the plight of Qikou that Eitaro Uchiyama can't ignore at all. After all, once the enemies of Qikou are freed up and the two tank divisions move south, it will definitely have a catastrophic impact on his troops participating in the battlefield on the Hebei-Shandong border.
.The battlefield east of Dezhou, which is already exhausted, may completely collapse. The longer the Ninth Division delays in Qikou, the more beneficial it will be for the entire Twelfth Army on the battlefield on the Hebei-Shandong border.