But despite the fact that Captain Koichi Hashimoto of the 260th Regiment, despite the intensive firepower coming from the front, he organized the remaining several hundred remaining subordinates, plus the division guard troops given by Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi and all the officers of the division headquarters.
, adopting the pig surprise tactic to attack in multiple turns.
But the river embankment in front of them, which had not been maintained for many years and had become incomplete, had become an impenetrable iron wall in front of the 260th Regiment and the 120th Division. And at this moment, the resistance
The long-range artillery fire deployed by the coalition in depth also joined the fire attack on his dying struggle, making his counterattack even worse.
The artillery fire from both sides made the remnants of the 260th Regiment that launched the assault look like a small boat that had been beaten to pieces by the wind and waves in the stormy sea, but did not want to sink and was still trying to fight for its life. It was almost helpless.
Any way to counterbalance.
In the current situation, not to mention that Hashimoto Koichi only has the defeated soldiers of the 260th Regiment in his hands at the moment, plus the guard troops of the division headquarters. Even if his entire 260th Regiment is here, I am afraid that
I can't bear the blow of bleeding from both sides at the same time.
Having lost all their heavy weapons and facing the superior firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the 260th Regiment had almost no power to fight back. Their final desperate struggle failed. For nearly an hour, they repeatedly attacked, but not only failed to open a
Passage. The 260th Regiment, together with the reinforced division guard troops, exhausted the last bit of blood under repeated assaults.
However, in the face of the intensive firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the artillery fire from in front and behind them, the Japanese army's desperate offensive tactics became an outright death tactic. The Japanese army that launched a counterattack was hit by artillery shells from both sides, as well as the enemy from the front.
The army's infantry was knocked down in pieces by firepower.
The three light machine guns serving as cover fire were so suppressed that they couldn't even lift their heads. Within half an hour, they were all destroyed. After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, from the embankment on the north bank of the Majia River to his location.
A distance of more than 700 meters was covered with the mutilated corpses of Japanese soldiers. The screams of the wounded could be clearly heard from Yanagawa Shinichi's headquarters a few hundred meters away.
After suffering heavy casualties but being unable to open up the situation, Hashimoto Koichi, who was red-eyed, gathered the last remaining troops and personally led the team to launch the last charge. However, he was hit by a 120mm mortar.
The shell exploded into a pile of parts that could never be restored.
The last hope of breaking out was in vain, and the shouts of killing getting closer and closer behind him, as well as the large-caliber artillery shells that kept falling on the last remnant of the 260th Regiment, told Yanagawa Shinichi that it was impossible to break out.
The last moment for him and the 120th Division has arrived.
At this time, Yanagawa Shinichi calmed down. He calmly ordered the officers around him to burn all the military flags immediately. Each military flag was given by the emperor and must not fall into the hands of the enemy. As for burning the military flags
There is no time to hold the ceremony anymore, so it would be better to burn it on fire to save time.
As for the radio station and the communication troops, I don't know where they have been rushed to at this time. On the contrary, it saves the trouble of sending farewell messages and destroying the radio station. And whether the radio station and the communication troops who hold the password can fall into the enemy's hands
In his hands, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi no longer thinks about it.
The passwords of the 115th Division were all captured, which resulted in the complete failure of their breakout operation. I think the Twelfth Army and the base camp, which are so full of lice at the moment, don't care if they lose another 120th Division.
There is no big difference between losing one password and losing two.
After giving the order to burn the military flag, Yanagawa Shinichi gave the remaining hundreds of Japanese officers and soldiers around him the last order to disperse and break out. He believed that at this time, there was no point in persisting. With such a little remaining in his hand,
With the strength of the troops, there is no hope of continuing the attack, and if you stay here, you can only wait for death.
Before the enemy troops encircle your position, being able to rush out alone can be regarded as saving some vitality for the empire. The 120th Division is not like the 115th Division, which is prepared to be used for garrison and maintenance in the occupied areas.
A security division. The 120th Division is a serious field division formed to be used as a mobile force.
Even if all the officers are not trained by the army officers, they are carefully selected from the recruits and trained with painstaking efforts. Among the officers in the entire division, there is not a single officer who has been mobilized twice. Two of the three regiment captains graduated from the mainland.
This is quite rare for the Japanese Army, which has now activated a large number of reserve colonels. All the soldiers in the division are young and middle-aged, and there is no old, weak, sick or disabled person.
Officers and soldiers of this quality have been used to the extreme at present, and the domestic mobilization force has also been used to the extreme. Currently, the newly formed divisions and the supplementary troops of the active divisions are filled with a large number of veterans who have been mobilized many times.
It is quite rare for the Japanese army to have old, weak, sick and disabled people between the ages of 30 and 40 to 17 or 18 years old. These people are precious forces at the moment, and the death of one more person is equivalent to weakening the vitality of the empire.
Therefore, when the situation reached the last moment, Shinichi Yanagawa issued an order to disperse and break out, but did not issue an order for the entire army to fight to the death. He tried to use the last opportunity to let these young officers and soldiers, especially the officers, stand out as much as possible
Go some. In order to maintain the vitality of the Imperial Army in his mind.
The officers around him were division headquarters officers who were transferred back by Hashimoto Koichi at the critical moment when he was preparing to launch his final charge. And these officers in his division headquarters were all graduates of the Army Sergeant School.
Just throwing it all on the already futile charge, Yanagawa Shinichi thought it was too wasteful.
These elites who have been painstakingly cultivated by the Imperial Army Military Academy should use their talents in more important positions. Even if the Empire completely fails in this war, as long as these young people exist, they will one day
It will grow stronger again. Isn’t that what Germany did after World War I?
So at the last moment, Shinichi Yanagawa was willing to risk the possibility of a complete collapse of morale. He transferred back these officers and even some non-commissioned officers from the 260th Regiment from Koichi Hashimoto. Then he issued the order to burn the military flag.
Then, the order was given to disperse and retreat.
After issuing these two orders, even the adjutants and orderlies around him were driven away. At this moment, Yanagawa Shinichi became truly alone. He walked alone under a big tree on the north bank of the Majia River and put on the nine-year-old nine-year-old hat he was wearing.
After pulling out the fourth-style general's sword and wiping it briefly, it was smashed into two pieces on the rocks beside him.
He also took out the military ranks and medals he had on him when he was ambushed by the enemy. In order to avoid exposing his identity as the division commander and becoming the first choice for attack, he took off the military ranks and medals and solemnly put them on again.
He took out his own gun, put it into his mouth and pulled the trigger.
He did not choose seppuku, which was more dignified as a samurai, because even after he dismissed his adjutants, no one was there to help him. That is, at the most painful moment, adding that knife would end his pain early. He could
Unexpectedly, the enemy troops had already rushed up, but one of his own people was not dead yet. His painful struggle after committing seppuku was seen by the enemy troops, which was beneath his dignity as a lieutenant general of the Imperial Army.
The suicide of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi actually heralded the complete disintegration of the 120th Division as an organic unit of the Japanese army. Although there are only a handful of the 261st Regiment on the north bank of the old road of the Shimeji River.
The few remnants are still struggling desperately. But the ambush battle on the entire Yan family front line can be said to be basically over.
After the front-line battle at Yanjiujiu was almost over, Tao Jingfei, in addition to leaving a regiment to clean up the last remaining more than 300 remaining enemies on the north bank of the Sinusi River, ordered the main force of the division to immediately be on the spot and head west to the 115th Division to clear out the remaining enemies.
Insert from behind and cooperate with the troops attacking from the front to complete the final solution to the 115th Division.
The remaining regiment, after completing the clearing of the remnants of the 261st Regiment, crossed the Majia River on the Yanjiaji line, entered Wudi territory, and turned to defense to ensure the security of the entire battlefield east of Dezhou.
The only target it can defend right now is the 48th Division on the Jiaodong Peninsula.
Not only will the regiment move to defense in Wudi County, but on the Qikou battlefield behind the entire battlefield east of Dezhou, the anti-alliance regiment that has basically ended the final clearing of the remnants of the 9th Division, and the main force of the Bohai Navy Region will also
They went south one after another and crossed the Majia River, making every effort to ensure the smooth progress of the final battle on the entire Hebei-Shandong border battlefield.
The attack on the battlefield east of Dezhou is proceeding quite smoothly, basically in accordance with Chen Hanzhang's plan. The highway from Wudi to Linyi on the south bank of the Majia River is advancing at high speed, and there is no entanglement with the Japanese and puppet troops along the way.
The Du Kaishan Armored Group has also arrived at Su'an in Linyi. It can be said that it is within easy reach of the Jinpu Railway.
But on the front of Dezhou and the Jinpu Road battlefield, something went wrong at this key point. After the 100th Division was completely annihilated and received orders from Eitaro Uchiyama to alternately cover the retreat, the original battlefield west of Dezhou became
The lone Sixty-fifth Division immediately quickly retreated back to the Jinpu Road.
However, after this division shrunk along the Jinpu Railway and merged with the 22nd Division on the front battlefield in Dezhou, it made an extremely surprising move. The two divisions only left two divisions west of Jinpu Road.
A regiment of the 12th Division, plus the 71st Infantry Brigade of the 65th Division, are preparing for defense in order to prevent Chen Hanzhang's troops from cutting off the connection between the two divisions separated by the Jinpu Line.
The 72nd Infantry Brigade of the 65th Division and the First Division of the 22nd Division were mobilized to suddenly conduct a large-scale sweep in the entire Dezhou and the control area along Jinpu Road south of Dezhou. This sweep
The goal is very clear, either to target the Chinese army as an opponent, or to capture all Chinese in the entire controlled area.
The entire surrounding area of Dezhou itself is the Shandong North area, the most densely populated area. Along the Jinpu Railway, it is itself a settlement area with a large number of people. The Japanese army did not need to go very far to the two wings for this mopping up operation. Along the Jinpu Railway for ten
Within the remaining kilometers, they basically captured the number of people they wanted.
In addition, the target of the Japanese army's operation is not to arrest laborers or local anti-Japanese elements. As long as Chinese people can walk, they are within their scope. It does not require too much energy and effort to carry out the operation.
Screening or differentiation. In addition to the tens of thousands of Chinese people living in Dezhou City, in just over a day, these two Japanese divisions controlled more than 100,000 Chinese people.
After capturing more than 100,000 Chinese civilians, the Japanese army rushed all the Chinese civilians they captured to the Japanese frontline positions. Thousands of Chinese civilians were arranged around each infantry brigade position. In one moment, two people
At the front of the military position, there were cries and gunshots everywhere.