Chapter seventy-eight of a classic night ambush (1)
Fortunately, Guo Bingxun did not worry Yang Zhen for too long. [.Com text] Qu Qianqian had just arranged the explosives, and not long after Qiu Jintang had finished dividing the shooting range, Guo Bingxun took less than when he set off.
Fully two-thirds of the troops were able to escape the sudden and almost crazy pursuit of the Japanese and puppet troops behind them and withdrew.
Seeing Guo Bingxun with a bandage on his arm, Yang Zhen rushed over to greet him after receiving the report. He quickly stepped forward and said eagerly: "Why are you injured, Lao Guo? Is the injury serious? Zhang Ting, come over quickly and call the staff."
Check it out."
Seeing Yang Zhen shouting anxiously that when Li Yanping was evacuating with the wounded in advance, Zhang Ting, who refused to accompany the evacuation and insisted on staying, came over to check him. Guo Bingxun waved his hand and said: "Commander, no need for now."
, my arm was just scratched by the shell, there is nothing serious about this injury."
After saying that, Guo Bingxun turned his head and looked at the troops behind him who were much shorter than when they set off. He said with a strong bitterness in his tone: "There is nothing wrong with my injury, but the strength of this entire company is now full."
There was less than one platoon left, the radio operator died, and the radio station was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire during the retreat."
Looking at Guo Bingxun with a bitter look on his face, Yang Zhen knew that he was somewhat blaming himself for causing so many casualties in the army. The company he handed over to him was the most combat-effective company in the army, from the company commander to the squad leader and even the backbone of the battle.
Old bones protruding from a concentration camp.
After a blockade, not only the heavy machine guns but also the mortars they carried were lost. The troops suffered so many casualties and lost so many old brothers at once. Not to mention Guo Bingxun, the commander of this blockade, he himself
Isn't it heartbreaking? Especially the telegraph operator who died was once the most proud student in the telecommunications class held by Guo Bingxun at the secret camp of Laoheidingzi Mountain.
He felt distressed, but Yang Zhen knew that Guo Bingxun had tried his best. Although he had strengthened a lot of heavy firepower, an infantry company of only more than a hundred people blocked the puppet army, which was fully armed and assisted by artillery.
It is already very difficult to still have one platoon of troops left after several hours.
Yang Zhen comforted and patted Guo Bingxun on the shoulder and said: "Lao Guo, don't feel too bad. Although the losses are a bit larger, we have also won the necessary time. As long as we persist in fighting, sacrifices are inevitable.
Now it’s them who take the first step, and maybe we will have that day in the not too distant future.”
Hearing this, Guo Bingxun sighed and smiled bitterly: "Old Yang, I understand everything you said. I am not a person who does not want to see death. Don't forget that I am also a soldier. I used to fight in the Battle of Xuzhou, and we participated in the battle.
The Sichuan Army's equipment is the poorest, and compared to other armies, its training is also the worst. Every time we eliminate a Japanese enemy, we have to pay a price ten times, or even dozens of times."
"It's just that I have to bear at least half of the responsibility for paying so much today. If after receiving your telegram, I accurately judge that the Japanese will change their tactics because their overall combat intentions are disrupted, I will seize the time to fight with you.
If the Japanese and puppet troops break away, many brothers will not lose their lives to the Japanese artillery fire in vain. Unfortunately, my combat experience is still too little."
"Lao Yang, this Japanese tactic is very strange. I have dealt with them a lot in the pass, but this is the first time I have seen them adopt this tactic. Every time they encounter our obstruction, they try their best to
It is possible to use firepower to kill us. But I feel that the real intention of the infantry's attack is more to use its firepower bit by bit, and to squeeze us bit by bit with its absolute advantage in strength."
"I tried to use mobile ambushes several times to kill the vanguard soldiers who were always following us, but unfortunately I gave up because they were too alert. Even when the Japs were chasing us, they deployed two mountain cannons as on-duty artillery fire.
.Once there is any trouble, use firepower to cover it. The real casualties are not many during the battle. Most of them are casualties under the Japanese artillery fire."
"And the mountain cannon used by the little devils this time is not the Type 41 mountain cannon they commonly used in the Guan Civil War, but another Type 95 mountain cannon that is equipped with the artillery wing directly under the packhorse division regiment. The range of this mountain cannon is longer than the original
Compared with the old-fashioned 41-type mountain gun, it is much farther and has much better accuracy. Especially the accuracy of direct-aiming shooting is extremely high."
"While blocking the attack, although I used mortars to suppress the Japanese grenadiers, I was unable to suppress these artillery pieces. All the heavy machine guns I brought were destroyed by these mountain cannons."
"However, although the Japanese have been suppressing our heavy weapons with artillery fire, the casualties of the troops have not been large. The real heavy casualties began after I received your telegram. Just after I received your message asking us to immediately
Less than half an hour after we received the telegram to break away from contact with the Japs, the Japs went crazy and launched large-scale and continuous attacks on us."
"They even changed their previous tactics of only using the puppet Manchukuo army and police to attack, while the Japanese troops held down the formation from behind. After several attacks by the puppet Manchukuo army were repelled by us, the Japanese army actually went into battle themselves and adopted a multi-channel attack tactic.
They launched attacks on us in turns from mountain roads, ridges and even mountainsides."
"The ferocity of its offensive is almost completely different from the previous attacks. Although we relied on the terrain to barely escape the pursuit of the Japanese and puppet troops, but according to the tactics of the Japanese and puppet troops that insist on attacking us, I don't think it will take much time.
They will catch up."
As if to verify Guo Bingxun's words, not long after his words fell, the sound of cannons that had just fallen silent sounded again. Along with the sound of cannons, a flare also rose into the sky, illuminating the earth.
As the sound of artillery sounded, Huang Dali hurried over and saw Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun. He quickly reported: "Commander, Chief of Staff, the Japanese army is coming up. The sound of artillery was when the Japanese and puppet troops were marching."
, constantly bombarding the birch trees on both sides of the road with artillery fire."
Hearing Huang Dali's report, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. He seemed to have made the right move by strictly ordering the ambush troops not to enter the birch forest. The Japanese were indeed worried about being ambushed, so they adopted the method of alerting the enemy. If he had not
With this in mind, the troops were ambushed in the birch forest at the foot of the mountain. According to the density of the gunfire, the ambush troops would probably lose their combat effectiveness in a short time. You must know that in the woods, it is not just the shells that can kill people.
The blown-down trees and flying branches will also cause heavy casualties to the troops hidden in the woods.
While heaving a sigh of relief, Yang Zhen said to Huang Dali: "Go and pass on my order. Before the explosives on the mountain road explode, even if the Japanese soldiers step on their heads, as long as they are not discovered, no one will be allowed to do it."
shot."
When Huang Dali heard Yang Zhen's order, he quickly responded, turned around and hurried towards the ambush position to convey the order.
After issuing the order, Yang Zhen terminated his conversation with Guo Bingxun, raised his telescope, and carefully observed the Japanese and puppet troops chasing in his direction through the light of the Japanese flares.
Although this group of Japanese and puppet troops never stopped advancing, they were not moving very fast, and they never left the range of their artillery fire cover. Although the impact of the Japanese artillery shells sounded scattered and had no specific target, if you listen carefully, you can still
It can be heard that the impact point of the Japanese artillery shells is pushing forward little by little in the direction where they are. And they never leave the place where the dense birch forest grows at the foot of the mountain.
While Yang Zhen was observing the enemy's situation, a cadre with a background in the Anti-League who had been beside him frowned and said when he saw the flares launched by the Japanese and the Japanese and puppet troops pursuing them all over the mountains and plains under the cover of the flares: "Commander
, Chief of Staff, we have had many years of dealings with the Japanese and puppet troops during the Anti-Japanese War."
"Although these little devils have surrounded and pursued us many times, they rarely spend the night in the mountains and forests for fear of being attacked at night, let alone enter the woods. Even when they have a great advantage in strength, they pursue during the day and rest at night.
.Because they know that at night in the mountains and forests, although they have more troops, they do not have an advantage. They are very afraid of being ambushed."
"So when our Anti-League forces are active, no matter how tightly surrounded the enemy is, we can rest and recuperate at night to break out of the encirclement."
"What happened to them this time? Are they crazy? Not only did they violate their usual practice, they went deep into the mountainous forest area at night, biting so hard, and fired so many flares at once? I have been in the Anti-Japanese Alliance for so many years, and this is the first time that the little devils have behaved like this.
Once seen. Are they really not afraid that we will use the terrain to ambush them? You know, before the political commissar took away some of the troops to cover the wounded and new recruits to retreat first, our troops were not much less than the Japanese puppet army in front of us? "
When Yang Zhen heard what this cadre said, he did not put down the telescope in his hand. He just smiled lightly and said: "The Japanese and puppet troops in front of me are violating the usual practices. I am afraid that their superiors are forcing them too hard."
"We attacked Weihe County and shot most of the traitors in Weihe County. We also blew up two Japanese military columns, causing a large number of casualties to the Japanese army. Along the way, we also destroyed several small Japanese group tribes.
Do you think the Kwantung Army Headquarters of the little devils can feel better? I guess the little devils now regard us as a serious enemy, right? In this way, their crazy behavior that violates the conventions this time will be much easier to explain."
Although Yang Zhen had long expected that the Kwantung Army would hate him deeply and regard him as a serious problem, the actual situation was much more serious than he had imagined.
The Kwantung Army regarded Yang Zhen's troops as a serious nuisance. It was an understatement. They simply regarded them as a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh. Lieutenant General Yasui Fujiharu not only failed to clear Yang Zhen and his party, but also lost traces of Yang Zhen's troops.
I didn’t know that the cat had grown fat and strong in that deep mountain forest. Just when Yasui Toji was concentrating on dealing with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he stabbed him hard in the back.
Not only did he secretly rescue the Anti-Alliance Western Expeditionary Force that had become a target of the Kwantung Army, but he also conveniently wiped out the main force of the Anti-Alliance Forest Police and Railway Police in the Weihe area.
Even the Japanese who served as the powerful deputy director of the Binjiang Provincial Police Department was beaten to death.
What's even more egregious is that Weihe County, which was regarded by the Kwantung Army as a model county for public security and had already been cleared of banditry, was not only captured by this group of daring bandits. Together with Weihe County, it fell into the hands of this group of anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements who committed heinous crimes.
There was also a Kwantung Army supporting an arms train that was fighting the Korean army in Zhang Gufeng and the Soviet army. A large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies on the train, especially the heavy artillery shells that the Korean army urgently needed, all fell into these damn anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces.
in the hands of molecules.
What made the Kwantung Army even more intolerable was that a military column of the Fourth Division that had just been transferred to Manchuria for garrison was actually blown up in broad daylight. Two brigades of soldiers from the Fourth Division loaded with weapons and equipment were sent away in the car.
Up to the west.
By the time the rescue force arrived, less than one out of ten Japanese soldiers on the bus had survived. The complete bombing of Weihe Station also disrupted the Binsui Railway, one of the main transportation arteries of the Kwantung Army. This caused the Kwantung Army to attack the Soviet Union.
Not only has the garrison support capability in the Manchurian border areas been greatly reduced, it has also seriously threatened the relationship between the Kwantung Army and the North Korean Army.
Weihe County was lost. At most, the Kwantung Army did not look good. At most, it was just to blow its cover that it had eliminated the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements in the northern Manchuria area. However, two military columns were attacked in succession, and a large number of weapons and ammunition fell into the hands of the anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese forces.
In the hands of elements, a large number of imperial soldiers suffered serious casualties without firing a single shot, and the interruption of the Binsui Railway was extremely intolerable to the Kwantung Army.
Especially the 4th Division who received a heavy blow not long after taking office and lost two full brigades of troops without even seeing the enemy's shadow, which far exceeded the total losses of the 4th Division in the Chinese Pass.
The commander of the regiment, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, relied on the support of the prince who had served as the commander of the Fourth Division for many years, and threatened that if the Kwantung Army did not give a satisfactory explanation to the Fourth Division, he would directly report to the Emperor and request
Yudan's words made Ueda Kenkichi's face pale.
In anger, Ueda Kenkichi immediately dismissed Yasui Fujiharu from the post of commander-in-chief of the suppression campaign the day after the loss of Weihe County, that is, the day after the Fourth Division's army column was attacked. If it were not for the division commander's
His position as the commander of the Kwantung Army was not something he could resign at the drop of a hat. The rather anxious Ueda Kenkichi would be happy to boast about that bully. Yasui Fujiharu, who had threatened that the Binjiang area was no longer in danger of bandits, withdrew to the end and eliminated this big boss.
The blame was thrown on the commander of the Second Division, who also served as the commander of the Qing suppression campaign in Northern Manchuria.
What makes Ueda Kenkichi even more embarrassed is that until Weihe County, which had been voluntarily abandoned by Yang Zhen, was recaptured again by the puppet Manchukuo military police that night, the Kwantung Army's intelligence department, which is said to have great supernatural powers, did not even know what this audacious bandit was.
It came out from there. I have always thought that it was the work of a small group of Soviet troops who were still confronting the North Korean army even though the war had ceased. Because the Kwantung Army intelligence department did not believe those anti-alliance forces that had been theoretically defeated.
There is so much ability.
It was not until the interrogation of the Puppet Manchukuo military and police prisoners who were released by Yang Zhen, and it was learned that many of these people spoke with Kannai accents, that I was reminded by the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke, that the Kwantung Army provided epidemic prevention and water supply.
The troops fled and killed Major General Ye Fu Changde and most of the troops in the Wudaolingzi Iron Mine in one fell swoop.
After learning the news, Ueda Kenkichi flew into a rage. After removing Toji Yasui from his position as commander-in-chief, he almost directly shot the newly appointed chief of staff of the newly established Kwantung Army Special Intelligence Department, Colonel Kubo Shunjiro.
If it weren't for the fact that this guy had just taken office in early August and the Kwantung Army's special intelligence department had just been established, I'm afraid Ueda Kenkichi, who was angered by the continuous mistakes, would have directly ordered this guy who regarded Yang Zhen's unit as a Soviet squad.
The head of intelligence committed seppuku and apologized.
After Ueda Kenkichi dismissed Yasui Toji as the commander of the Northern Manchu Bandit Suppression, which was not welcomed by Yasui Toji himself and was regarded as a thankless drudgery by him, he finally lowered his self-esteem under the strong pressure of the Tokyo military headquarters.
Consider the noble head.
Having no choice but to bow his head, Ueda Kenkichi, on the advice of Major General Kanji Ishihara, then deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, reported to the Tokyo Military Headquarters and requested that the so-called father of the Manchurian Revolution, who had been transferred to the China Expeditionary Force and had brought to the Anti-Japanese War
Lieutenant General Sasaki Toichi, who suffered heavy losses, was appointed as the commander of the independent Fifth Guard Corps, which was specifically responsible for the defense mission in Northern Manchuria.
However, although the Tokyo Military Headquarters agreed to Ueda Kenkichi's suggestion, Lieutenant General Sasaki Toichi, who was far away in China, could not take office immediately. In the end, Ueda Kenkichi still had no choice but to go out on the advice of Major General Kanji Ishihara.
As for the new appointment of the guy who single-handedly planned the September 18th Incident, Ueda Kenkichi agreed that until Sasaki arrived, a close confidant of the garrison chief of staff, Major General Kanji Ishihara, would be the temporary acting commander.
The Chief of Staff, who was suppressed by the tyrannical Toji Ani during his tenure, was ecstatic after receiving the order from this agent. In order to express himself eagerly, under the pressure of time, he accepted it without even thinking about it.
The combat staff officer Kojiro Hara Ermao, who claims to be his most trusted confidant when serving as the chief of staff of the Independent Fifth Guards Corps, is the so-called encirclement of the Three Gorges and the only way to survive.
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