Under the realistic situation that the Eighth Division actually does not even have 40% of its combat effectiveness, even if it is known that the opponent has taken advantage of the opportunity to capture Dong'an Provincial Capital and Mishan County, even self-protection is now a problem, and Tsukada's attack is really difficult. They dare not send troops south to fight their opponents.
Even though Dong'an Street is the capital of Dong'an Province, which was established by the puppet Manchukuo last year, the current situation of the Eighth Division means that Tsukada Attack, who does not know how many troops the opponent has, can only withdraw the troops that still have combat effectiveness and shrink back to the division headquarters. In order to find ways to protect themselves instead of sending troops to regain the two strategic locations of Dong'an and Mishan.
After learning that Mishan was lost and that a large number of the opponent's troops were advancing all the way north along the road from Mishan to Hulin, Tsukada Attack immediately prepared its original deployment for use in the Boli battlefield. It was also the only one in the Eighth Division. The Fifth Regiment, which still had half of its combat strength, was quickly transferred back and prepared to be deployed on the front line of Dongling. It was focused on self-protection. As for the other two regiments, he did not dare to think about it at all.
Because his troops, who now have trouble even walking without drugs, may not even be able to lift their guns once the source of drugs is cut off. Moreover, after the attack on Mudanjiang Airport, because there is no air transportation, the source of heroin has been After being cut off, the few drugs in stock can barely maintain the minimum usage standards of the Eighth Division.
Even when the air transport is interrupted and there is really not much inventory, we can only try our best to ensure that the fifth wing, which was originally used for the main combat direction, is used. The rest can only allow other drug-addicted soldiers to stand up, and this standard There is simply no way for the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Division to fight long distances.
By the time Sun San arrived at the Yanggang front line, the Fifth Regiment was still on its way back to the division headquarters, while the 17th Regiment and the Search Regiment had mobilized all officers and soldiers who could still move, and were relying on the original Kwantung Army at the Hongling front line. The fortifications built in the fortification area started a fierce battle with the two regiments of Du Kaishan who went north immediately after capturing Mishan County. Before the effective forces of the 8th Division were transferred back to the 5th Regiment, in fact, the 8th Division The regiment, including the division headquarters, was already empty.
Facing the attack of an armored brigade commanded by Sun San, the Eighth Division was the hardest hit by drug addiction. Eighty percent of the officers and soldiers, from the captain of the regiment, Colonel Omoto Shiro, to the ordinary soldiers, were infected. The drug-addicted 31st Regiment currently has less than one-fifth of its combat-effective soldiers.
And these one-fifth of the troops with combat effectiveness were all concentrated on the Qihu Linhe front line by the commander of the regiment, Omoto Shiro, to protect their flanks and guard against Yang Zhen's troops in Baoqing. As for the Yanggang front line, they could pick up Except for a few artillery and half a guard squadron, there were almost no combat-effective troops.
Sun San boldly launched a surprise attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army did not know that its opponent already had a relatively powerful and concentrated armored force. He used the few Japanese-style equipment in the equipment to take the lead and successfully confused the Japanese flanking troops, forcing them to escape from the Japanese position. After passing, they reached Yang Gang in the shortest time and stabbed the Eighth Division with a sharp knife in the back, perfectly achieving the purpose of a tactical surprise attack.
But Jean still didn't know that the Eighth Division had collectively become addicted to drugs since the beginning of winter last year. At this time, Sun San, who had no fighting ability, did not expect that the hammer he struck with all his strength was unexpected. It hit the cotton cover. The battle in Yang Gang was almost no challenge to Sun San and his armored soldiers. For Sun San, he didn't even use the power of blowing dust.
Originally, Sun San was a little cautious because he was facing an entire Japanese regiment with reinforced artillery. However, he did not expect that not long after the battle started, the Japanese artillery responded quickly and fired when the battle just started. The hitting point was relatively accurate, but it became extremely scattered.
Within ten minutes, the intensity of the ferocious artillery fire plummeted to the point where it took a long time for the opponent to fire back one shell after firing one, and the point of impact could be as far as hundreds of meters away, even though there was a trace of doubt in my heart that it was the Japanese army. It was a trick, but Sun San almost made up his mind to block it in the shortest possible time and attacked with all his strength at any cost.
But what he didn't expect was that as soon as the battle formation on his side was spread out and before the fighting started, the Japanese troops on the opposite side heard screams of crying for their fathers and mothers, which made people tremble when they heard them. , only to find out when they rushed forward that all the Japanese troops in the position were rolling around. Except for the guard squadron of the 31st Regiment Wing Headquarters, which barely maintained resistance for less than half an hour, there was almost no suspense in the rest of the battle.
The time spent fighting was not as long as the time spent gathering those convulsing Japanese soldiers together and disarming them. Compared with the time spent on drug addiction, the subordinates who had no resistance at all turned into a pile of mud for a long time. Thirty-one The captain of the team, Omotoshiro, was much tougher.
After taking enough heroin, Colonel Omoto Shiro led all the dozens of people in the wing headquarters who could still stand up, covered themselves with grenades, formed human bombs and rushed towards the tank. In Omoto Shiro's view, they had already If you don't have the strength to break out, even if you can't break out, you should at least destroy some of the opponent's tanks.
It's just that Colonel Shiro Omoto, who was quite willing to be destroyed rather than destroyed, was taken the lead and launched a meat-munition offensive against the Japanese army. He had already prepared the 37mm cannon and vehicle-mounted machine gun on several 7TP tanks, together with his Dozens of his subordinates were shot to pieces.
The battle in Yang Gang ended without any suspense in only one hour. Sun San was not happy with the fight and could not find the radio station he wanted. He carefully cleaned the battlefield but only found two five-watt radios used by the Japanese brigade. No Type 94 tactical radio or high-power radio was found.
After interrogating the prisoners of war, it was learned that the 15-watt radio and code book equipped by the 35th Regiment had been used by Omoto Shiro who was worried that the radio would fall into the hands of the enemy as early as when his tank had just rushed into Yanggang. The colonel was blown up with a cluster grenade, and even the communications soldier was killed by Omoto Shiro himself with a pistol.
Sun San, who didn't find the radio station and didn't have a good fight, simply left part of his troops behind to encircle and annihilate the first unit of the 31st Regiment at Qihulin River, while he concentrated most of his troops and continued southward. Intersperse and go straight to the front line of Laohulizi, where the headquarters of the Japanese Eighth Division is located.
At the same time, the brigade's 13 French-made R35 medium tanks with relatively thick armor were equipped with 20 TKS tanks equipped with 79 machine guns, plus two infantry battalions to force the crossing of the Pianfian River to cut off the return of the 5th Regiment. Sun San's plan for this detachment was very simple, that is, not to block the middle or cut off the rear, but only to block the Fifth Regiment's return route with machine guns and artillery.
The Battle of Nomonhan proved that although the Japanese army lacked anti-tank weapons, the tactics of meat bombs at the expense of human life were still very powerful. The Japanese soldiers' bombs bundled with grenades and explosive bags were still very powerful against the light tanks in their hands. Big ones, Sun San didn't want the few tanks in his hands to be destroyed by Japanese bombers or be hit by his own artillery shells in the night battle.
As for himself, he took the fast-moving 7TP tanks and Japanese tanks, turned on the lights, and marched along the highway at a rapid speed to force a breakthrough to the Laohulizi line. Although the road conditions in this area were all dirt roads and the road conditions were not good, the road conditions in this area were not good. It is enough for full-tracked tanks.
The vehicles assigned to the armored brigade were also made of solid leather, suitable for Soviet-made vehicles with poor road conditions. The poor road conditions did not affect the armored brigade's advance speed. After all, the tracks and wheels moved faster than the two legs of the Fifth Regiment. Much faster, while the 5th Regiment was still rapidly retreating towards Laohulizi at a rapid march, the main force of the armored brigade commanded by Sun San had already come from behind and rushed into the headquarters of the 8th Division of Laohulizi.
Sun San drove his Japanese-made Type 97 tank and took the lead into Tiger Lazi. Everyone who could still pick up a gun was sent to the front line of Hongling. The reinforcements were still on their way back, and there were almost no available troops. , the headquarters of the 8th Division, which was unable to defend itself, was thrown into chaos under the impact of tanks and motorized infantry.
As an important garrison area and attack point for the Kwantung Army's war against the Soviet Union, the Tiger Lazi line has a large number of permanent fortifications, but they are only a defensive support point and garrison point. They are more of a communication trench and civil engineering fortifications. The scale and fortification strength are much inferior to those of Banjiehe Fortress and Hulin Fortress on both sides, and most of its permanent fortifications are simply not strong enough to defend against the Qiwu Mountain Artillery fired from a horizontal position.
And even though there are permanent fortifications built in advance, what's the use of defense without soldiers, and the tanks used by Sun San to lead the battle are all medium tanks equipped with 37mm artillery, plus 75mm self-propelled artillery. For support, as soon as the Japanese firepower point showed up, the 37-gun and 75-gun artillery that fired at close range would directly respond with artillery fire. As for the civil fortifications, the tanks would simply drive up and crush them back and forth.
Although Tsukada organized a suicide squad and tried to destroy the approaching tanks with human bombs, under the strict protection of the vehicle-mounted attack infantry's light and heavy machine guns and a large number of submachine guns, the human bomb offensive paid a heavy price and the results were pitiful. , only one seven-TP tank was damaged and one TKS ultra-light tank was destroyed.
Although this result of the Eighth Division had made Sun San very sad, the temporary defense built by only one squadron was broken through in less than an hour. Seeing that the entire Japanese defense line of Tiger Lazi was breached, Sun San could not care less. By then it was completely dark, and we immediately ordered our troops to move in depth.
Sun San almost went crazy, and Tsukada was no fool. When he saw a large number of his opponent's tanks coming from behind, he knew that the 31st Regiment was probably finished, and the 5th Regiment didn't know when it would arrive. The 17th Regiment was still taking advantage of the desperate resistance of the guard squadron and quickly retreated to the front line of Hongling.
After all, he was an old fox. He knew that the target of the car was obvious. Once caught by his opponent, Tsukada would probably throw himself into a trap. He simply abandoned the car without informing anyone else. He only took two personal guards with him. He escaped from the division headquarters along a secret tunnel and ran towards Hongling. Behind him were the abandoned division headquarters and all documents, weapons and ammunition.