Three hundred and fiftieth chapters on the eve of collapse
In fact, the Japanese officers and soldiers, who have always been known for their strict discipline and tenacious will. [.Com text] When faced with the sudden fierce and strong firepower, their performance was no better than that of the Chinese soldiers whom they had always looked down upon. The team is ready to go there.
This is not the Xiaomi plus rifle used by the Eighteenth Group Army in Guannai when carrying out sneak attacks, or at best the absolutely inferior equipment of grenades, but actual hundreds of rounds of artillery shells.
The Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard by the sudden blow were blown up and driven out of the house by the shells. They finally waited until the sound of the gunfire stopped. But they soon discovered that the outside of the house had not been reduced to rubble by the shells. As good as those houses were, they were even more dangerous. The dense machine gun bullets fired around the village knocked down the Japanese troops who were driven out, regardless of the officers and soldiers. Those who tried to resist relied on the ruins of the ruins and their skilled military technology. The Japanese officers and soldiers soon discovered that the ruins left by the houses destroyed by the enemy's artillery shells, which they relied on for hiding, had become a nightmare for them.
The huge power of the flat-firing 12mm anti-aircraft machine gun and the 20mm small-caliber anti-aircraft gun made it impossible for the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding among the ruins blown up by the shells to escape. The 12.7mm bullets and 20mm anti-aircraft artillery shells Passing through the earth wall easily, the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding on the other side were easily torn into two pieces.
The Japanese soldiers who had been driven out of the house by the previous shells were driven back by these sweeping machine guns. But before they could take a breath among the ruins, these two extremely powerful weapons immediately made them feel that it was still safe outside. Some, at least with their own military literacy, can judge where these life-threatening guys are coming from, or whether they have a chance to hide.
However, the intensive crossfire outside made them soon realize that going out at this time was tantamount to committing suicide. Less than half an hour after the battle started, the Japanese troops at the headquarters of the Sixth Division were unable to advance or retreat, and could not even find a safer corner. The officers and soldiers were just polished bit by bit. The few Japanese officers and soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the artillery fire and machine gun fire were pinned to the ground, not even daring to raise their heads.
The tragic experience of the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division Regiment Headquarters happened when the sound of artillery sounded, because a room that was temporarily used as a war room was accurately hit in the first round of artillery fire. On the spot, they all became crazy and were firing inside. The combat meeting, which discussed how to get out of the current predicament, included the Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army, Major General Tasaka Senichi, and included almost all the officers of the Sixth Division, including the commander or above, who did not know.
After verifying through the seized documents that the seemingly high-level Japanese military organization that was destroyed was the Sixth Division Headquarters. After Yi Liangpin reported the matter to the column headquarters as soon as possible, he simply After cleaning the battlefield, without stopping too much, he led the troops and continued southward.
For the remnants of the Sixth Division who were still resisting at the front, the death of all senior officers, including the two commanders, was undoubtedly a heavy blow. And Yi Liangpin, who stabbed the remnants of the Sixth Division in the back, The attack was the most fatal blow to it.
Although the remaining units of the 6th Division, especially the remaining units of the 45th Regiment used as the backbone, fought fiercely under the spontaneous command of their respective commanders, the overall resistance no longer existed.
The only surviving commander-level commander of the Engineer Regiment, Colonel Masuda Masakichi, was obviously incompetent. Instead of being able to reorganize the Japanese army in a state of chaos, his random command exacerbated the chaos.
The remaining troops of the Sixth Division, which could only fight independently on the basis of large groups, created an excellent opportunity for the brigade to launch a frontal assault. By two o'clock in the morning, the entire defense depth of the Sixth Division in the south of Yilan was
It has been completely disrupted and divided into groups and even squadrons.
The battle lasted until four o'clock in the morning, when the 1st Brigade, which attacked from south to north, and the 5th Brigade and 2nd Regiment, which attacked from north to east, and the 5th Brigade and 1st Regiment, which attacked from east to west, met at Majiagou and along the river respectively. At this point,
The remaining 3,000 people of the Sixth Division in the entire southern Yilan region have been divided into six large and small encirclement circles that are not connected to each other.
These six encirclement circles were composed of no more than a thousand men in the larger ones and several hundred men in the smaller ones. Under the superior firepower blockade of the opponent, although these divided Japanese troops tried to get closer to each other several times, they failed after paying a heavy price.
, had to terminate this effort that was not worth the gain.
To the east of Shuguang, the first brigade and one regiment will be assigned to the two heavy artillery regiments left in the southern theater of Yilan among the three heavy artillery regiments of the Sixth Division, and the last eleven remaining 15 guns of an independent heavy artillery brigade.
Zero howitzers and 105 cannons were all captured.
The artillery unit of the Sixth Division was also disabled. The Artillery Regiment directly under the Sixth Division once had twenty-four 120mm howitzers and twenty-four 38 modified field guns.
.Except for the twelve artillery pieces of a 120 howitzer brigade attached to the Eastward Detachment, there were only three pitiful 120mm howitzers left in the south of Yilan at this time, which had already run out of shells.
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The other artillery pieces were either blown up in previous artillery battles, or were blown up by their own artillery after seeing their opponents encircle them. Of course, these artillery pieces were either because the artillery bombardment was slower, or because the opponent's movements were excessive.
Too late to react, opponents from the north and the south captured several doors.
The 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Regiment destroyed almost all the artillery of the 6th Division. The other 2nd Regiment and the 5th Brigade and the 1st Regiment also combined three tanks between Xiaoheyan and Zhangjia Youfang.
After a day of fierce fighting during the day, nine of the fifteen remaining Type 1 and Type 97 tanks were destroyed and six were captured.
The later-famous Lieutenant General of the 1st Japanese Tank Division, who commanded the twenty-one remaining Japanese tanks who resisted desperately and refused to give up their tanks, was still the fifth Japanese tank regiment at this time.
Colonel Hoshino Toshimoto, captain of the Colonel Regiment, was roasted alive in his Type 97 tank which was hit by four rockets, along with the rest of the crew.
At this point, plus a heavy artillery regiment missing in Boli and a tank regiment lost, the Kwantung Army has four tank regiments, three heavy artillery regiments and an independent heavy artillery brigade assigned to the Sixth Division.
Total loss.
This loss is almost unforgettable for the Japanese army, which has weak production capacity and slow replenishment. Four tank regiments, more than 200 tanks. Three heavy artillery regiments, forty-eight 150mm howitzers, sixteen
All 05 cannons and eight 150 cannons were lost. These heavy artillery units accounted for almost one-third of all the heavy artillery units of the Kwantung Army.
These four tank regiments account for more than half of all the tank regiments of the Kwantung Army. You must know that even though the current Kwantung Army is in a priority position in the equipment organization list of the Japanese base camp, it is in terms of production capacity.
Insufficient, especially when qualified armored steel is given priority to the navy, the entire Kwantung Army, in addition to the tanks assigned to search regiments of each division, has only seven independent tank regiments.
However, within less than two days of the full launch of this battle, four tank regiments, more than 200 tanks, and 200 well-trained tank crews were lost. Especially among them.
The First Tank Division, which had just been formed by three tank regiments, was now empty once it opened. This result was unacceptable to both the Tokyo base camp and the Kwantung Army.
After this battle, I received a heavy beating in Nomenhan and understood what modern mechanized large-scale combat is, and finally changed my overly conservative tactical concept of using tanks. I began to organize into tank troops instead of fighting with tanks.
As in the past, the Japanese military leaders who assigned tanks to various divisions only saw the problem of poor survivability of tank units in the face of the opponent's huge number of anti-tank weapons without the cooperation of infantry. However, they assigned them to the battle of Nomonhan
All the lessons learned were lost.
Its tactical thinking went from one extreme to the other. The first tank division that had just been formed was disbanded after this battle. The tank troops that had been assembled were redistributed to various field battles.
The development speed of divisions and tanks also gradually slowed down.
In addition to vigorously developing various anti-tank guns, they only tinkered with the Type 97 tank and did not develop any new tanks for several years. It was not until the end of the war that they were beaten to death by the armored tactics of Yang Zhen's large corps.
It picked up what had been thrown away before, reorganized armored divisions, and began to study new types of tanks to replace the increasingly outdated Type 97 tanks.
It's just that the decision of the Japanese army base camp was somewhat unexpected by Yang Zhen. He never thought that he not only changed the course of history, but also changed the conservative concept that the Japanese army had barely reversed, allowing the Japanese army to go back to the
On the old road.
Of course, whether the Kwantung Army and even the Japanese base camp can accept this result is another matter for another day. For the current Sixth Division, life is just like a year. Especially in the second half of the night, after finally getting some supplementary artillery shells, there was a period of interruption.
Under the attack of the opponent's artillery that suddenly became active again, the seemingly fierce resistance of the Sixth Division looked so weak. Although every officer and soldier still alive would not admit it, in fact, the Sixth Division at this time
The division is on the eve of collapse.
The opponents simply did not attack them head-on. When they encountered stubborn resistance, they mobilized a 107 rocket launcher and fired volleys one after another. The artillery coverage was enough to eliminate the resistance of a Japanese squadron. At this time, Wang Guangyu did not hesitate to use artillery shells.
Under the blow, the remaining troops of the Sixth Division had never looked forward to dawn as much as they did now.
After being divided and encircled, the remnants of the Sixth Division were beaten back by shells after several forcible breakthroughs. Under Wang Guangyu's full blow, they were rapidly disintegrating at a rate of five to six hundred casualties per hour.
Over there, after Yi Liangpin attacked the headquarters of the Sixth Division, Shigenori Namada, who lost all contact with the Sixth Division, was even more troubled.
For Juichi Namada, he is very clear about the consequences of the annihilation of the entire Sixth Division. This is not just a matter of the annihilation of an old standing division of the empire, but also a matter of completely shaking the frontline battle situation.
.And to go a step further, it involves the issue of the black hat on his own head.
If the entire army of the Sixth Division is really destroyed, Shigeichi Namada will only want to add another star to his collar badge, and his goal of becoming a general will never be realized. He will not repeat the mistakes of the former commander of the Kwantung Army.
General Kan Ueda Kenkichi's mistakes were punished to the end, and the result of being demoted from general to major general was already an act of mercy by the emperor.
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