Chapter 49 The destruction of the Pingdao Detachment
In order to complete the tasks assigned by the headquarters, Li Mingfeng used a brigade of troops to tightly entangle a reinforced unit of the Eastward Detachment of the Sixth Division in the central mountainous area of Boli. Although they had an advantage in terms of strength, they were inferior to the Japanese army in terms of quality. Even though they took the lead and killed the tank regiment assigned to the eastward detachment, the ensuing battle was quite painful.
Although the Eastward Detachment of the Sixth Division is at a disadvantage in total strength, its fighting will is quite tenacious, especially the combat effectiveness of its backbone Thirteenth Regiment. Even in the Sixth Division, which has always been known for its bravery, it is still at the forefront. , and its commander, Colonel Fumhei Tsuboshima, is extremely cunning by nature and always uses both soft and hard tactics in battles.
After several days of head-to-head fierce fighting, the eastward detachment of the Sixth Division was certainly weakened. Together with its attached troops, it suffered nearly two-thirds casualties. However, the casualties of the Second Brigade were also not small. The Fourth Regiment of the main attack regiment suffered more than half of the casualties, and the Fifth Regiment suffered more than half of the casualties. One-third of the casualties were suffered, and even the sixth regiment with the smallest casualties could only be reduced to two battalions.
The injured Second Brigade saw that the Thirteenth Regiment was seriously injured, but it was still unable to solve the battle. In the end, it was the First Brigade heading east that helped them solve the problem.
After losing contact with the division headquarters, the cunning Tsuboshima Bunpei guessed that the main force of the division over there might have been in trouble. He knew that he was trying to find a way to get rid of the opponent in front of him and wait for the main enemy force in the south of Yilan to pounce from behind. , I am afraid that I will not be able to die well.
Colonel Tsuboshima Bunpei, who was determined to choose another direction to break out of the encirclement, instead of following the previous request of the division headquarters, found a way to forcibly get rid of the entanglement of the 2nd Brigade and withdraw the main reinforcements of the division westward.
Instead, he discarded all the lightly and seriously wounded and uncarryable baggage, killed all the war horses, and made up for the hunger of the soldiers who had been without food for two days, leaving four squadrons behind, and he personally gathered all the troops. The remaining troops desperately broke through to Ning'an on the southern line, trying to retreat south to Ning'an.
After the already severely weakened Second Brigade discovered the sudden movement of the Japanese troops in front of them, Li Mingfeng immediately transferred the only two infantry companies on hand, the reserve of a 120mm mortar company, the brigade guard company, and the engineer company, together with The lightly wounded soldiers who were able to pick up guns managed to form half a regiment, and all of them went into the blockade. The main force, regardless of the fatigue of continuous battles, quickly reorganized into a regiment, concentrated all artillery fire, and went into the attack.
Although the top commander of the 6th Division's eastward advance detachment, Tsuboda Fumihei, was already confused at this time. He had no intention of fighting and wanted to retreat south. He had been without food for two days and the ammunition he carried was almost exhausted. During the breakout, the rifles could only be issued twenty rounds of ammunition per person, and the average ammunition for light and heavy machine guns was less than a hundred rounds. Even the grenade cans, which were the main melee firepower of the Japanese army, had only 50 mm grenades left. Not much.
As for the artillery, they had already fired all the artillery shells. After blowing up the artillery, they were incorporated into the infantry combat sequence. However, the Thirteenth Regiment came out of the Sixth Division after all. The adversity of pursuing troops inspired his tenacious will and fierce style. Faced with the stubborn resistance of the blocking troops, he launched a group charge organized by a squadron.
The Japanese 13th Regiment concentrated all the remaining troops in a bloody battle for several days and acted as a blocker under the desperate attack. Although the blocker force with fewer enemies and more enemies inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese breakout troops, their own losses were also considerable. In just half a day Time will be the embers of casualties.
By the time the reinforcements from the first brigade arrived, of the entire blocking force, less than one company was still able to fight with guns. Among them, one-third were slightly injured and could not get out of the firing line, and were still fighting. Except for Except for the seriously injured, all the rest, starting from the chief of staff of the fourth regiment who was ordered to command the blocking force, died.
The blocking force delayed the 13th Regiment's southward breakout for eight hours at the cost of nearly annihilating the entire army. It was during these eight hours that Colonel Pingdao Wenping lost his last chance. A glimmer of hope for a breakout.
It was precisely the eight hours that the blocking troops paid for their lives, allowing the leading group of the first brigade to arrive in time, blocking its southward retreat route, and cutting off the 13th Regiment's last hope of southward retreat. , and the already exhausted main force of the second brigade had already eaten up the four squadrons left behind by Tsuboshima Bunpei, and rushed over from the side of the 13th Regiment.
This time Tsuboda Wenpei almost used all his strength to break through. Success was right in front of him, but he did not expect that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. He was stunned and beaten by the brigade that rushed forward. Not only was he unable to escape, but his remaining troops were cut into pieces by his opponent.
In fact, after the bitter battle in the south of Yilan, the three regiments of the first brigade suffered heavy losses and had not yet had time to replace them. The total strength of the regiment that had always been a sharp knife force actually only had one and a half battalions. , but at this time, the Thirteenth Regiment was already at the end of its tether, and the number of people left who could pick up a gun was comparable to that of a group of troops rushing over.
Since the beginning of the 13th Regiment's eastward march, it has never replenished a bullet or a grain of food. The last remaining ammunition was used up during the breakout process. It has been without food for two days and the 13th Regiment is extremely short of ammunition. The team was defeated at this point. It can be said that except for the bayonet, there is no capital to resist. The remaining soldiers exhausted their last trace of vitality in the breakout.
Knowing that he and the Thirteenth Regiment did not have much time left to survive in this world, Colonel Tsuboshima Fumhira had lost contact with the division headquarters, so he directly jumped over the hierarchy and sent a rich and sincere farewell letter to the commander of the army, Shigeichi Hatada. After powering down, he smashed the radio station, burned the codes, burned the bodies of the dead and the seriously injured, and gathered his last strength to deal with the opponent.
While Yang Zhen was waiting for the result of the surprise attack on the Japanese airport in Jiamusi, the Thirteenth Regiment, which had already run out of ammunition and food, had been basically exhausted, and was divided into sections, was still struggling to death, trying to rely on hand-to-hand combat to defeat the enemy. Find your own last chance of survival.
But Mu Changqiu, who had suffered from the desperate struggle of these beast armies before, did not confront him head-on. No matter how crazy the Japanese army was, he just entertained them with firepower, whether it was a counterattack in a desperate struggle or occupying the terrain and defending tenaciously. Just a burst of shells.
Without wasting much time and energy, in this battle between steel, human body and will, the Thirteenth Regiment, which had run out of ammunition and food, was defeated. Moreover, when the opponent consciously refused to leave any survivors, they lost. It was very thorough. From the commander of the regiment, Pingdao Wenping down, no one survived. After Yang Zhen returned to the front line, the gunfire in the central mountainous area of Boli had completely subsided.
Prior to this, the combat effectiveness of the Sixth Division's eastward marching force had been depleted. In Yang Zhen's view, the first and second brigades assembled in the central mountainous area of Boli could at least be freed up for now. The strength of a brigade, although both brigades have been severely damaged, but the backbone is still there. As long as the troops are replenished, the recovery speed will not be too slow.
The 11th Division has been dispatched, and the second phase of the combat plan can be launched. Du Kaishan, who was the first to complete the combat mission, has already returned to his position. However, the planned northern line troops have been delayed because the 13th Regiment has never been able to complete the total annihilation. Being unable to dispatch was one of the main reasons why Yang Zhen rushed back to the front line.
After receiving a telegram from Guo Bingxun who had rushed to Boli to report on the battle situation, Yang Zhen thought about it and decided to move the Second Brigade out of Boli County to replenish its troops and then take early action. There was not much left in the Thirteenth Regiment, leaving two It would be such a waste to entertain them in a whole hotel.
As for the remnants of the 13th Regiment on the front line of Qinglong Mountain, they were handed over to the First Brigade. The Second Brigade handed over all the troops with combat effectiveness to the First Brigade as supplementary troops, and rushed back to Boli County to receive the six supplementary troops that had arrived. Part of the regiment has been reorganized.
Just as the first brigade and the main artillery force of the column rushed to the central mountainous area of Boli to participate in the battle, knowing that they no longer had to worry about what the 13th Regiment was up to, they could concentrate on launching a general attack and separate the 13th Regiment from their own. After eating it in one bite, the old enemy I had been dealing with for several days.
Li Mingfeng gathered all the combat-effective troops in his hands to form a regiment, and was preparing to cooperate with the First Brigade to finally annihilate the remnants of the Eastward Detachment of the Sixth Division that had been divided and surrounded on a few small hills. The command from the headquarters sent by column commander Wang Guangyu forced him to stop what he was doing.
This order was given by Guo Bingxun personally, asking him to immediately hand over all the troops on hand to the first brigade. He took the cadres above the squad and the brigade artillery to immediately return to the liberated Boli County to receive the troops. The six troops on the Qinglong Mountain line The Third Brigade Regiment was handed over to Du Kaishan's command on the spot.
I spent so much money to prepare a table of food, and when I saw that the food was ready, it turned out well. When it was served, it was nothing of my own. This made Li Mingfeng and Xiao Yongzhi very angry, and they called several times. I asked Guo Bingxun for instructions, trying to win some more for myself, hoping to completely annihilate the enemy in front of me before handing over the troops.
It's just different from the previous peace and drizzle. This time Guo Bingxun's attitude was extremely tough and left the two men no room for bargaining. In his reply to their telegram, he repeatedly emphasized that after ordering him to hand over the troops immediately, he rushed to Boli County to receive the troops as soon as possible. Troops and new missions.
Seeing the tough tone of the chief of staff in the telegram, especially the last sentence, "If you can't arrive on time, military law will be engaged", Li Mingfeng and Xiao Yongzhi could only reluctantly hand over the troops to Mu Changqiu, who was coming over, while they themselves He rushed to Boli County with cadres above the squad level and brigade artillery to receive the new troops.