Chapter five hundred and seventy-eight tanks split into battle
The geographical location of the Wujiazi Fortress Group limits the deployment and movement of the troops. Dyzco----especially on the east side, it is close to the Soviet border. Without the ability to cross the border, it is very difficult to directly penetrate the front line of Wujiazi. Therefore, Wang Xiaoming
Then they made a move to seize the commanding heights along the Laosongling line and cut off the communication between the Japanese troops in Hunchun and Wangqing. This was to attract the main force of the 57th Division to move westward and open a channel for subsequent combat operations.
Wang Xiaoming's plan was implemented smoothly in the early stages. After seizing the Luozigou line in Wangqing territory, the 57th Division was indeed attracted by the fighting to the west. It mobilized all its troops to reinforce it in an attempt to recapture the Wangqing and Hunchun lines.
The commanding heights. The second column troops seizing the front line of Laosongling and the one and a half regiments of the 57th Division heading west started repeated battles on the front line of Laosongling. The latest novel ""
Although their vitality was severely damaged in the previous battle, on the surface there were four regiments of troops. In fact, the total strength was only more than two regiments of the second column of Western Front troops. Although they failed to defeat the Japanese Western Aid Forces, they were tightly entangled
A multiple regiment of the 57th Division was sent to the west to assist, which opened a good start for the next step of the operation.
After the Fifty-seventh Division was attracted by the main force of the Second Column, the first section of the Second Column commanded by Chen Hanzhang, which quickly moved south along the Sino-Soviet border, moved southward in covert manner. It bypassed the Japanese fortifications on the unnamed high ground on the Chunhua front line and penetrated directly.
Hunchun Street. And successively captured Hunchun Street and various surrounding key points. They forcibly crossed the Tumen River at the Ying'an line and entered North Korea. The latest novel ""
After the second vertical line was deployed across the board, Li Mingrui personally commanded the main force of the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region. He used secret infiltration and continuous blasting tactics to successfully capture the Japanese fortification group on the unnamed high ground in front of Chunhua. Later, with the cooperation of a battalion of the armored brigade,
In this way, Wujiashan and Shuiliuifeng were captured. Most of the workers in the Hunchun fortress group were successfully rescued.
After Li Mingrui completed the rescue mission, Chen Hanzhang, who originally planned to withdraw immediately, was besieged by the main force of the 19th Division of the Japanese Army in North Korea. In order to cover Li Mingrui, who was organizing the labor retreat, Chen Hanzhang commanded two regiments that were not full.
A fierce battle began with the Japanese 19th Division in North Korea.
Although he had the full support of the aviation force, in the face of the superior Japanese army, Chen Hanzhang, who had insufficient troops at hand, could only adopt passive defensive tactics of gradually shrinking and using the Tumen River as the final blocking position to resist the all-out attack of the 19th Division one by one.
Li Mingrui, who organized the labor evacuation, bought time.
However, Li Mingrui's organized retreat did not go smoothly. Although the Japanese Ninth Border Guard Corps stationed at the Wujiazi Fortress Group was caught off guard by the new type of special operations, they lost most of the labor camps. Moreover, they were not equipped with technical skills.
In the face of tactics, he fell completely passive.
However, although its strength of 1,500 people is not enough to eat up the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region with almost the same strength, it still has the ability to cause trouble for Li Mingrui's retreat. The Ninth Border Guard took advantage of the geographical advantage it occupies.
In order to facilitate Li Mingrui's retreat, as well as the permanently prepared fortifications that had been built, layers of blocking lines were set up on Li Mingrui's retreat.
Since Li Mingrui's men were not good at regular offensive and defensive battles, Chen Hanzhang had no choice but to mobilize two battalions of troops to cooperate with him in the battle. In this way, he himself was not strong enough to fight against the 19th Division.
The strength of the army has been greatly weakened.
If it were not for the full support of the aviation force and Chen Hanzhang's disregard for the so-called seed troops, all the Korean independent divisions, which were far from full and had only more than a thousand troops, would have been mobilized. A considerable number of Koreans were even recruited on the spot in the Hunchun area.
, directly supplemented to the Korean Independent Division. I am afraid that there are only four Chen Hanzhang left who are dissatisfied with the camp, and they will not be able to stop it for long.
Faced with the fierce attack of the 19th Division and the serious shortage of troops on hand, Chen Hanzhang made a decision in desperation. The Korean Independent Division was responsible for the main blocking operations. The artillery and armored troops assigned to him, together with the infantry in his hands, formed four groups.
A combat team.
Against the Japanese army, tanks were used as the core, artillery fire was used as cover, and infantry was dispatched with the cooperation of aviation. Taking advantage of the battlefield situation where the Japanese army relied heavily on roads and railway lines, it adopted a mobile response to the 19th Division and continuously launched
Tactical counterattack tactics.
In the face of the swarming Japanese troops, they only clung to the commanding heights. At the same time, with the cooperation of artillery fire and the high mobility of the tanks, and under the cover of artillery fire and infantry, they continuously rushed into the Japanese offensive queue and used the tanks' high mobility.
The armor advantage and the equipped artillery and machine guns defeated the Japanese attack.
During the Zhanggufeng conflict the year before last, the Japanese army, which had been short of anti-tank weapons, had no way to defeat the Soviet tanks. There are still not many ways. In the Battle of Nomenhan, facing the weakly armored Soviet T-20
Six tanks, the 37 rapid-fire cannons and the 20mm combat anti-cannon shells equipped by the Japanese army, which were already showing signs of decline, were still unable to penetrate the armor of the opponent's tanks when faced with new opponents.
The shells fired by the Japanese army were like scratching an itch on the French tanks. Unless they were at a very close distance, they could not penetrate the main armor of these French tanks. Instead, they were hit by the opponent's accurate Sanqi tank cannon, and
The attached 75mm self-propelled artillery was knocked off one by one.
The 19th Division, whose attack formation was in disarray, had no choice but to resort to the old tactics of the 23rd Division in Nomenhan. The soldiers were packed full of grenades or explosives, and human bomb tactics were used to try.
They perished together with the opponent's tanks. It was a pity that Chen Hanzhang had already prepared for this move.
Although Chen Hanzhang did not know much about armor tactics, after the first day of battle, he used his keen tactical sense to detect the Japanese anti-tank firepower and was unable to do anything about his own tanks. On the contrary, those who were holding Molotov cocktails or covered in
The infantrymen, who were strapped with grenades and shouting "Long Live the Emperor," posed the greatest threat to the tanks.
After the fierce battle on the first day, Chen Hanzhang immediately adjusted his tactics. In addition to insisting on the original tactics of tanks covering infantry and infantry protecting tanks, he also temporarily strengthened the light tanks by installing flamethrowers, anti-aircraft machine guns and other weapons.
The melee firepower of the tanks protected the tanks from the threat of Japanese infantry.
Chen Hanzhang used an armored group composed of tanks and infantry, and took advantage of the mountainous geographical location in North Korea and the roads built by the Japanese army. He took advantage of the frontal terrain to block the attack layer by layer. The tanks and accompanying infantry used improvised positions to bypass the flanks and break through the Japanese flanks.
The so-called ax deployment that penetrated the Japanese attack formation to defeat their attack posed a considerable threat to the Japanese attack troops.
The 19th Division's frontal attacks against Chen Hanzhang were almost defeated every time, but were defeated by tanks and infantry that suddenly rushed out. At the same time, with ferocious artillery fire and cover from aircraft in the sky, almost every time they were defeated.
The attacking Japanese troops suffered heavy losses.
Regarding the tactics adopted by Chen Hanzhang, Yang Zhen gave him a very vivid name after the war, which was called "tank splitting into battle". This battle was written into the armored force tactics textbook. And Chen Hanzhang was directly recruited after this battle.
Appointed commander of the armored force of the military region, which has been expanded to three tank brigades, two mechanized brigades, a tank combined training base and a teaching regiment.
Faced with the opponent's stubborn resistance and cunning tactics, he was transferred to the commander of the Fifth Army of the Kwantung Army. Due to the disastrous defeat in the autumn battle, he was kicked out by the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Yoshijiro Umezu, to Qiqihar to supervise the rescue of the 51st Division.
Division Operation. He almost failed in the rescue operation and became the first commander of the Japanese army to be captured or killed on the battlefield in the history of the Japanese army.
At the last moment before Qiqihar was lost, Umezu Yoshijiro sent a plane to pick him up from Qiqihar. The former division commander Lieutenant General Hata Juichi, who is currently in Xinjing waiting for the Tokyo base camp investigation team to investigate, served as the commander of the 19th Division last month.
Lieutenant General Yoshio was at a loss.
For Lieutenant General Yoshio last month, the feeling of being in sight of victory every day but not being able to get it is not only unpleasant, but also very frustrating. However, he has never been able to deal with the opponent's large number of tanks and accurate and ferocious artillery fire.
The helpless Yoshio Uetsuki couldn't do anything about his opponent's tactics.
In desperation, under the urging of the North Korean Army Commander General Nakamura Kotaro, as well as the North Korean Army Chief of Staff Major General Kato Kabutei, who personally arrived at the 19th Division's Ronan headquarters to supervise the battle, and Senior Staff Officer Nobuaki Ohno, they could only
Bite the bullet and adopt the human sea tactic, which he has always looked down upon, and which in his opinion could only be adopted by the backward Chinese army. He tried to take advantage of the absolute advantage in military strength and crush his opponent even if he pressed hard.
At the same time, last month Liangfu changed the previous front-line push tactics, concentrated all the artillery fire of the 19th Division, and adopted a key strike tactic. At the same time, taking advantage of the geographical situation of Songzhen Peak being close to Qingjin Bay, he mobilized through the Korean Army Headquarters
provided some naval gunfire support.
In order to support Yoshio's operations last month, at the request of the Korean Military Headquarters, a destroyer fleet of the Japanese Navy stationed in North Korea, as well as the Japanese Navy's Myoko and Nachi ships were temporarily transferred to serve as fire cover for training in Qingjin Bay.
.As well as the fire support of the newly refitted Mogami class Kumano and Soya, a total of four heavy cruisers.
Concentrate the forces of the two brigades to attack the opponent's right wing Songzhenfeng line with all their strength. They tried to take advantage of the short effective distance from the seaside and the naval artillery support to break through the opponent's right wing in one fell swoop, forcing Chen Hanzhang to retreat across the board. The firepower of the Japanese naval guns was extremely
It's fierce and the accuracy is quite low.
But the biggest shortcoming is that in the absence of correction, the accuracy of artillery fire is not high. The army's own artillery correction officer himself was killed and injured by a reconnaissance company and a sniper platoon of the reconnaissance brigade directly assigned to Chen Hanzhang.
It was so tragic that I couldn't even take care of myself. There was time for the navy to calibrate the bombardment.
As for the seaplanes aboard these navy warships, one took off and another was shot down. In the end, of the four seaplanes carried by the four heavy cruisers, after only half a day of fierce fighting, there was no one left. That is,
It is said that the Japanese army lost all the eyes used to correct the impact of their artillery shells.
Without correction, although the Songzhen Peak line was within the range of the 200mm artillery on the Japanese heavy cruiser, it was already at the limit of its range. Therefore, although the Japanese naval gun was very powerful, it put great pressure on Chen Hanzhang.
It wasn't very big. What really put pressure on him was the overwhelmingly superior strength of the Japanese ground troops.
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