Colonel Motoshimagi believed that the village of Dingligan that he chose as the assembly point was located nearly nine kilometers deep on the front. The 259th Regiment was at the front and had a considerable number of troops that could not be withdrawn, and could be held back in a short period of time.
The enemy forces. As long as you give yourself two hours, you can gather the withdrawn troops.
In fact, according to military common sense, this man’s decision should not be said to be wrong. On the whole, it is still correct. After all, in the unfamiliar battlefield of North China, it is not a wise move to disperse and break out. With the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, as long as it can
When we gather together, there may not be any chance at all.
But Colonel Motoshigehisa, who was eager to retreat, didn't know that his opponent in front of him had been strengthened. Just three kilometers deep in front of him, the newly reinforced enemy troops were looking at him eagerly. And four people ago
The newly transferred 122 rocket launcher battery, which had never appeared on the Leling battlefield, had already surrounded the entire Huangjia Town to the possible assembly point he had planned, all marked with firepower.
A regiment of troops, with the cooperation of its own front-line troops, secretly arrived at a place three kilometers deep in Huangjia Town and waited. Holding their watches, they were waiting for the troops he had withdrawn to assemble in order to give his 259th Regiment the most lethal blow.
A blow to reduce the pressure that may be endured on another battlefield more than ten kilometers away at this moment.
There is no way to go from Huangjia Town to Leling County, so we have to settle on the natural village of Ligan, which is also close to the highway from Huangjia Town to Leling County. The main combat direction is the 259th Regiment to the north and east of Huangjia Town.
, no matter which direction you retreat to the east, this small natural village is the only way you must pass.
And judging from previous intelligence, this should be an important supply center for the Japanese army. At the beginning, Colonel Motoshimagi selected Dingli Gan as a storage point for ammunition and supplies, thinking that he was doing it very covertly. But if such a long time passes,
In person, the Anti-Alliance Alliance couldn't figure out what exactly this place was. The Anti-Alliance Force, which always focused on tactical reconnaissance, had really wasted all of Yang Zhen's hard work.
However, due to strategic reasons, this Japanese army's ammunition and material hoarding point has not been attacked. After all, on the battlefield east of Texas, the two divisions must be entangled in this direction. That is to say, they cannot be attacked all at once.
Even if they die, they cannot be driven away and allowed to join other battlefields.
In other words, in the battlefield east of Texas, the Anti-Japanese Alliance kept these two enemy forces on the surface in order to free up their hands to focus the entire strategic direction on the battlefield west of Texas. It was not a face-to-face Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Knowing that this is a tactical supply point on the battlefield in the west of Leling and the east of Ningjin. If such an obvious target is not selected as the main fire blockade area, what direction should we choose?
Just when Colonel Ben Fanjiu had been careful and calculated to reluctantly withdraw, most of the troops arrived at the 259th Regiment's material storage point west of Dingligan Village, and were busy replenishing ammunition and dry food while waiting for the final retreat.
There were still more than 200 people.
A dense rain of rockets covered this small village, which had no Chinese people because it was selected as a material storage point by the Japanese army, with a solid fire. After the violent explosions subsided, Colonel Motoshigehisa
Of the thousand numbered men who had taken so much effort to evacuate, less than one-third were left.
The 122 rocket launchers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance cannot perform precise shooting like barrel artillery. However, when launching this kind of weapon, the spread area is somewhat large, and the work of fire coverage and blockade is carried out with a pinch in hand.
.More than 400 122 rockets dropped in a short period of time, completely covering this small natural village.
After some of the ammunition stockpiled by the 259th Regiment in the village was detonated by the rockets fired at it, the lethality was virtually enhanced. The detonated bullets and artillery shells caused damage that was not much smaller than that of the rockets.
The explosive ammunition, coupled with the dense artillery shells fired in a very short period of time, directly caused heavy casualties to the Japanese troops in the village.
Although the accuracy of the 122 rocket launchers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance is worse than that of barrel artillery, the directional tube launching mechanism made of seamless steel tubes is better than the Soviet Katyusha and other rail directional launchers. This design
The accuracy of some of the more sophisticated rockets is still much better, not to mention setting a target as big as Ligan Village?
More than 400 rockets fell in just a few minutes, and the smoke from the explosion fell. In addition to being still a few hundred meters away from the village, more than 200 remnants of the two brigades that had finally evacuated before they had time to enter the village escaped.
Apart from the catastrophe, most of the remnant troops of the 259th Regiment in Dingli Gan Village had less than a hundred survivors.
This regiment, which Shinichi Yanagawa had left behind to cover the breakout, was bombed by artillery shells before it could even fire a single shot. From a patchwork of scraps and pieces, there was barely a brigade of troops, and it plummeted to
There is only one squadron left.
You must know that the 259th Regiment was in front because the combat range was at the junction of the two divisions. Although it was not like the 115th Division, it did not receive much from Eitaro Uchiyama from time to time, but it was a good thing.
There are some reinforcements. But the division commander, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi, still attaches great importance to it.
Engineers, baggage troops and other non-combatants are constantly being added in this direction. But the direction of combat is important, which also means that responsibility and pressure are equally important. The direction where the 259th Regiment is located has always been where the Anti-Japanese Alliance implements tactical counterattacks.
Key direction. This made Colonel Motoshigehisa speechless for a long time. Why was this counterattack directed at him?
After more than twenty days of hard fighting, although the 259th Regiment was the only one among the three regiments of the 120th Division that received some supplementary troops, it was also the only one among the three regiments of the 120th Division.
The one with the greatest casualties among the team. These thousand men, plus the more than 300 people who stayed on the front line to continue to persevere, are already the entire remaining possessions of the 259th Regiment after continuous replenishment.
If it weren't for Yanagawa Shinichi during this period, half of the engineer regiment, two baggage squadrons plus two search regiments, and the 12th Army were given to the 120th Division, and 400 of the 1,000 additional troops would have been added.
If all the people were given to the 259th Regiment, they would probably have exhausted all their resources on their own.
However, facts have proved that the Japanese army is not omnipotent in the sky and on the earth, nor is it majestic on any battlefield. Without the advantage of firepower and terrain, on this bare plain,
It's also a toothless tiger.
Even though it occupied an important advantage in the direction of the battle, thousands of soldiers were successively added. But also because of the importance of the direction of the battle, the 259th Regiment became the focus of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. In the end, the thousands of soldiers were withdrawn.
There are only so many people left.
As a result, these thousands of remnant troops were defeated. At the last moment before they were about to run away, Tao Jingfei fired a rocket shell, and 70% of them were wiped out. Only the last batch of evacuees had not yet arrived at Dingli Gan.
There were more than 200 people, plus more than 100 people who luckily escaped.
Before the intensive explosion of hundreds of artillery shells that exploded almost at the same time was over, the lucky two hundred men who rushed into the village to rescue them were pulled out of a collapsed house and narrowly escaped death. But what happened next?
Facing the miserable scene in front of him, Colonel Motoshimagi, who was about to cry without tears, woke up from the nightmare-like gunfire.
Two battalions of an anti-alliance regiment that came from the direction of Huangjia Town had already rushed in front of them. They surrounded Colonel Ben Fanjiu and his remaining subordinates directly among the ruins of Dingli Gan.
He was almost reduced to a mere commander, but Colonel Motoshigehisa still had some courage.
But the problem is that most of the time, courage alone cannot save the end, nor can it change the fate of failure. These more than 300 defeated soldiers faced the oncoming anti-alliance tiger and wolf divisions. Although they also relied on the strength of the villagers
The ruins of the wall were barely resisting, but everyone knew that this was just a death struggle.
The two infantry battalions that Tao Jingfei invested in Dingli Gan were not just infantry. In addition to most of the support and direct firepower of the regiment, they also strengthened a divisional four-unit anti-aircraft machine gun company and a divisional anti-aircraft machine gun company.
The division's 76mm cannon battery, plus six flamethrowers from the division's chemical defense battalion. In terms of firepower comparison, the two sides are not on the same level.
The most critical thing is that the more than 200 people who were finally withdrawn and the only ones who were relatively intact had not had time to replenish their ammunition. The original ammunition carried with them, in accordance with Ben Fanjiu's previous retreat order, except for the necessary small amount of bullets,
Most of them are left to the unlucky ones who are still hanging on.
The Japanese troops who originally planned to withdraw to the front line of Dingli Gan for supplies did not bring a single heavy machine gun. Although they carried two light machine guns, they only had more than a hundred rounds of ammunition combined. Although there were more than a hundred rifles,
However, each rifle only has ten rounds of ammunition on average. The two grenade tubes together only have six rounds of grenades.
Although Ligan Village is the ammunition storage point of the 259th Regiment, the ammunition currently stored here has long since disappeared. In other words, Ben Fanjiu still has some troops in his hands, but there is very little ammunition.
.And this was the most fatal for Colonel Motoshigehisa who refused the Anti-Japanese Alliance’s persuasion to surrender.
Even if the 259th Regiment can fight without ammunition, it is at best a vicious dog without teeth. Facing the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it consists of anti-aircraft machine guns that shoot horizontally, plus 76mm cannons that shoot close to horizontally, plus flamethrowers.
As well as various direct fire tactics and multi-channel attack tactics, there is no way to resist.
Motoshimagi and his empty-handed subordinates wanted to use the spirit of the Imperial Army's Bushido to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. But facing an opponent with all automatic firepower, his idea was obviously not a good choice. It can almost be said that,
It's like dying.
Before the Japanese soldiers, who had three empty bullet boxes on their bodies, raised their Type 30 rifles with bayonets in their hands, they came into contact with the opponents who were rushing towards them at a distance that allowed them to engage in hand-to-hand combat. The dense bullets that came from the front knocked these Japanese soldiers needlessly.
The imperial warriors were directly beaten into an ant's nest.
The anti-alliance troops who rushed into Dingli Gang Village, in accordance with the order of their superiors to fight quickly, did not have too much entanglement with these Japanese troops. For these Japanese troops who were hiding in the ruins and still trying to resist, they opened the way with flamethrowers.
Next, we used skilled tactical teams to coordinate multiple attacks.
When encountering resistance, the Japanese troops would either use a hail of grenades to drive them out of the ruins they were relying on, and then use the automatic firepower in their hands to eliminate them. Or they would use the automatic rifles in their hands to cooperate with each other to beat the Japanese troops into a nest of ants. Or even simply mobilize them.
The Sixty-Old Artillery came to a targeted clearing, cleanly wiping out all the Japanese troops who dared to resist.
The final ground battle on the Ningli Gan battlefield only lasted for an hour before it came to an end. The so-called tenacious resistance of the more than 300 defeated soldiers of the 259th Regiment did not even stir up a wave. One hour
At the end of the ground battle, in addition to more than 20 people who were captured, all the remaining 300 people were killed.