Chapter five hundred and eighteen the unfortunate twenty-five divisions
Ma Fengqi's tactical intention was successful. [.Com/Text.! The Forty Regiment, which was completely unprepared, fell into chaos in the face of the sudden artillery attack. In response to the sudden large-scale artillery bombardment by the defenders in the city, Suzuki Teiichi and Shoji Tatsumi
There was no defense at all. Although strict vigilance and precautions were taken, these precautions were taken to prevent the opponent from attacking at night.
As for artillery strikes, there was no precaution at all. During the entire daytime battle, most of the time, the opponent only responded with medium-sized mortars and 92 infantry guns. Occasionally, only when the battle situation was most dangerous, did they use
Several rounds of 75mm mountain artillery shells were fired, which made the Japanese army think that the defenders had weak firepower, there were not many artillery pieces at all, and there was a severe shortage of artillery shells.
Although Suzuki Teichi and Shoji Tatsumi were well prepared to prevent night attacks after resting at night, they were prepared to prevent their opponents from taking advantage of the cover of night to launch a large-scale counterattack or sneak attack. As for the opponent's fire attack, there was no
Thought about it.
The weak firepower battle during the day gave the Japanese army an illusion. Although the opponent had a lot of light and heavy machine guns, the heavy weapons such as artillery only had mortars and a very small number of mountain guns, mortars, and infantry guns.
.And these artillery shells are not many, and their role in the battle is almost negligible. They might as well have been brought by the two field guns of the defenders that had been destroyed by themselves during the battle of the Kong family shack.
A lot of trouble.
After the shells fell on his head, he realized that his opponent lacked fire cover. The previous firepower was weak, but he was just trying to play tricks on himself. Suzuki Teiichi, who was pinned to the ground by the guards, saw the dense shells falling on his head.
To the extent, it can be clearly deduced that the opponent's artillery bombardment of one's own is at least three or more artillery battalions.
In addition to being unprepared for the fact that the opponent had a large number of artillery, what was even worse was that Colonel Shoji Tatsumi relied on his experience gained from fighting in the pass for many years. In order to prevent the defenders from attacking at night, he gathered the troops in a very dense area.
At that time, the Chinese ** team, which was at a comprehensive firepower disadvantage, often launched night attacks at night in an attempt to regain the positions lost during the day.
In the face of opponents lacking heavy weapons, the Japanese army would often gather their troops as densely as possible while camping in order to prevent possible night attacks by their opponents when they were resting at night. In this battle in Manchuria, Colonel Shoji Tatsumi still
The experience of fighting in the pass was completely copied, and the campsite was gathered together very densely.
The advantage of this arrangement is that if the opponent encounters a night attack, the entire alliance can respond in the shortest time, without giving the opponent a chance to succeed in a sneak attack. The disadvantage is that if a shell is dropped, it will cause
The number of casualties would probably be far greater than dispersed camping.
After continuous traveling and fighting, the 40th Regiment was extremely tired. Except for the front-line security troops, the rest of the Japanese troops slept very hard. Most of them went to see their gods in a daze while sleeping.
Zhao Dashen. Because the Japanese camp was too dense, every artillery shell that fell into the Japanese camp would overturn one or even several tents.
There is another unfortunate thing for the Japanese army. In order to break through the opponent's defense line as quickly as possible, the 25th Division brought a large number of special smoke shells to the tents when it went north.
The 105 field artillery shells were a direct hit. The special smoke shells that exploded after being hit by the artillery shells caused greater losses to the Japanese army.
The Japanese soldiers who failed to find their own gas masks in the panic lifted a rock and hit their feet this time. Thousands of special smoke shells and gas canisters were fired, and the Japanese soldiers themselves were smoked down. Even these bombers were knocked down.
The poisonous gas shells also affected the nearby artillery position.
The poisonous gas spreading everywhere made the Japanese artillery in a hurry. The momentum of the counterattack artillery fire has been unable to increase. On the contrary, it was because the artillery positions that had been hidden during the counterattack were exposed. When the opponent's prepared artillery fire swept over, they suffered heavy losses. Three artillery squadrons,
Under the fierce artillery fire, it lost its combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
Although the enemy situation report of the Kwantung Army had already stated that the opponent had a full set of gas masks. The effect of special smoke was not too great, but in order to reduce casualties, Suzuki Teiichi still carried a large number of special smoke shells.
These suffocating chemical shells were used when the Forty Regiment attacked the Kong family shack. However, because Gou Zaiquan's troops carried complete gas masks, they did not have the effect Suzuki Teiichi expected.
But in addition to yelling at the cunning Chinese people in his heart, facing the troops that suffered heavy losses under the fierce firepower of the opponent, the artillery regiment was suppressed and unable to carry out artillery counterattack. The chemical artillery shells were also
The opponent was hit, and the entire camp was now full of poisonous gas. No matter how arrogant Lieutenant General Suzuki Teiichi was, he could only order a retreat. But under the firepower of the opponent, retreat was really not a thing.
Easy things.
However, although he knew that retreating under intensive artillery fire would cause great losses, Suzuki Teiichi understood that if he did not retreat and waited for the defenders to launch a counterattack, his losses would be even greater. The defenders responded with such fierce artillery fire.
An attack should never be aimless, just to scare yourself.
It's one thing to be angry with Lieutenant General Kiichiro Kuchi. But Suzuki Teiichi thinks that he is not so generous when he bets the fate of the entire 25th Division. Although retreating now will have to bear some losses, it will still be proportional.
It would be much better to follow the same path as the 11th Division.
Suzuki Teiichi lay on the ground to avoid the seemingly endless artillery fire, while ordering the staff around him to the 40th Regiment and the 14th Regiment to withdraw immediately. It took a lot of effort to understand his order amidst the sound of the cannons.
The staff officers were a little hesitant, but under the sharp gaze of the division commander, they did not dare to hesitate and sent out messengers under artillery fire to notify each squadron to retreat.
The telephone lines were cut when the first artillery shells fell. As for wireless communications, the Japanese army has not been so generous as to equip every squadron with a radio station. And how many of the radios in each brigade are still functioning?
God knows. For the sake of safety, the staff still adopted the oldest method and sent messengers to notify the retreat order.
Suzuki Zhenyi, who didn't know that Ma Fengqi across from him was really trying to scare him, ignored him and even threw the wounded all over the ground. He rolled and crawled and retreated to the front line of Lanling before stopping. After daybreak, the inventory was completed.
The two people who lost their lives, Suzuki Teiichi and Shoji Tatsumi, just wanted to cry without tears.
The Fourteenth Regiment, which was not the main target of the artillery fire, was better off and only lost more than one squadron. But the Forty Regiment was miserable. In this surprise artillery attack, it lost nearly a brigade of troops.
He said that several squadrons had escaped during the retreat, and nearly a thousand troops had gone to unknown places. Basically, not a single weapon above the light machine gun was brought out, and all were lost.
The worst thing was the artillery regiment. In addition to suffering heavy losses in the bombardment, almost all the artillery was abandoned outside the Twin Cities because the horses pulling it were killed by artillery fire or poisoned by the detonated chemical shells.
In other words, the 25th Division now has nothing but rifles and nothing but bare hands.
What made it even harder for the two of them to accept was that after reaching the front line of Lanling, they discovered that their opponent had not carried out any large-scale tactical counterattack at all, except for local tactical counterattacks with small units. In other words, they really
He was bluffing to scare them.
Out of anger, after discovering that he had been tricked and facing heavy casualties among his subordinates, Suzuki Teiichi, who had aged dozens of years in a short period of time, did not dare to return even if he was beaten to death. Honestly.
They were waiting at the front line of Lanling for the arrival of the Ninth Division.
Without the advantage in firepower, the Japanese army is also a toothless tiger. Especially when the opponent shows a strong will to fight and a tactical quality that is almost as good as that of the Japanese army, Suzuki Teiichi does not want to fight head-on.
A tough battle. Just kidding, under the absolute firepower advantage, facing a small number of defenders, nearly a brigade was lost. If there is no fire support to attack a county, the loss may not be borne by the 25th Division.
Yes.
However, reaching the front line of Lanling does not mean the end of the 25th Division's misfortune. Just after the 25th Division retreated to Lanling, it had not yet taken a breath. After it became bright, Lanling was on the map.
Just a small market town in the plain area was once again engulfed in overwhelming explosions. But this time the warm hospitality enjoyed by the 25th Division came from the sky.
When they originally thought that the planes in the sky were Japanese soldiers sent by the aviation force to support them, they happily laid out the ground-to-air identification marks, but found that they had made another mistake. The planes in the sky were not their own aerial warriors, but the ones who were flying in the air yesterday.
The enemy aircraft on both sides of the Lalin River drove the main force of the 70th Regiment directly back home.
It wasn't until the bombs fell all over the place that the Japanese troops discovered that the planes in the sky were enemy planes. They didn't blame the Japanese troops for their poor eyesight, because the first few medium-sized bombers were none other than the Type 97 heavy-duty bombers of the Japanese Army Air Forces.
bomber.
To be honest, the air attack on the 25th Division was even more unjust. Because the planes in the sky were originally going to cause trouble for the 9th Division according to the plan. It was only when they arrived at the Lanling line that they discovered that there were large Japanese troops on the ground.
, mistook the 25th Division on the ground for the vanguard of the 9th Division.
Twelve medium bombers, more than fifty converted Polish-made fighter jets, and the P-39 Flying Snake fighter jets with bombs attached as temporary dive bombers dropped bombs that destroyed the 25th Division, which was unable to defend itself.
Especially the lethality of 100 kilograms of napalm bombs, which can be described as a nightmare for the resting Japanese army.
When these planes dropped the bombs they carried, the matter did not end. More than fifty fighter jets swooped down one after another, using their airborne machine guns to straf all targets on the ground. These large-caliber airborne machine guns fired at unprotected targets.
The lethality of ground troops was not much less than that of aviation high-explosive bombs. The casualties caused by these airborne machine guns to the Japanese army were even more than those of high-explosive bombs.
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