No one in the Xuebing Army knows how many troops the Japanese army dispatched in the Battle of Fuding on New Year's Eve. The reason why Liu Yuqing deployed such a vicious artillery array depends on two factors. One is his opponent Hisao Tani. The second is the reconnaissance of the scouts on the mountains on both sides,
Hisao Tani is crazy and cruel, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.
The scouts rubbed their eyes again and again but could not estimate how many Japs there were, so they could only continue to send back this message: There are still alive, there are still many alive; keep the same angle and try again; later The Japs rushed up again, another round...
The shelling lasted for twenty-seven minutes, until both the 403rd and 406th regiments had fired all their shells, and until the Li Hai regiment could no longer block the entire battlefield.
In the end, Liu Yuqing was not able to summarize the specific number of Japanese killed in this battle. The artillery shells were dense and powerful. It was unknown how many Japanese soldiers were near the bombing point or were bombarded repeatedly, and even their bodies were no longer alive; and the Japanese army always had The habit of covering up the truth, and the only thing that can be used as a reference is that only less than 2,000 Japanese soldiers escaped in the end. In addition, Major General Imamura Katsuji disappeared from the Japanese military circles.
When Liu Yuqing's division arrived at the battlefield the next morning, the Chinese positions on the Guanmei front line had been cleaned up, and more than 400 Japanese corpses were carried out from the first trench alone. As for the Japanese who fell in front of the trench, , in addition to those that were repeatedly crushed by three tanks and turned into pulp, there are still nearly two thousand that can be clearly distinguished.
Three tanks, 409, actually escaped. When the artillery battle ended, and Feng Minghai, Yu Tailong and Miao Hongyun appeared in front of Ding Renhe and others carrying Zhang Yishui's body, all the trainees couldn't help but exclaimed "miracle". ",
The victory was hard-won, and the 28th Xue Brigade paid a heavy price for it. In the end, only 134 people were left in the two infantry regiments, including more than a dozen seriously injured people, and only two officers were left. The regiment commander, a battalion commander and three platoon commanders survived. Among them, Fan Neng, the commander of the 401st regiment, was seriously injured.
Dai Rao originally complained that his elite machine gun company was being bombarded by our own side, but after learning about the casualties of the 22nd Xue Brigade, he took Zhang Zhengxi and others to the first trench and paid their respects collectively. After remembering the military salute, he ordered no one to mention it after returning.
Fighting began at the Shangying Battlefield, Leping, Dexing and Yushan front lines almost at the same time. The Japanese 101st Division, 18th Division and 114th Division launched a surprise attack at the same time. Brigades, the 13th Xuexue Brigade and the 15th Xuexue Brigade fought tenaciously. The two sides fought fiercely for more than two hours, and both suffered huge casualties.
Shangying is different from Fuding. Fuding has a guerrilla base to buffer the Japanese offensive. Therefore, although the South China Front Army launched a fierce offensive, it was actually a tired force by the time it reached the Fuding front line.
In the Shangying area, since the offensive of the South China Front Army has never stopped, and Jingdezhen is also an important stronghold of the Japanese army, the guerrilla tactics of the Xuebing Army have not been launched. In order to resist the Japanese attack, ensure that the southeastern Fujian area can Maintaining the two springboards for counterattack, Ye Zhao led the Fourth Army to Shangying and changed the tug-of-war to holding on. Gradually, three defensive strongholds were formed: Leping, Dexing and Hufeng.
Among the three defense strongholds, because the terrain of Yushan is relatively flat, which is conducive to large army operations, it is naturally regarded as the focus of defense. The Xuebing Army has the Third Xue Army and the Second Xue Army stationed here. After a year and a half of construction, it gradually formed With the former Hufeng Primary School in the east of Hufeng Town as the command center and facing Yushan County, a solid defense line was formed. This line of defense has a total of eleven trenches and more than thirty bunkers interspersed between the trenches. The defensive capability can be said to be strong. , so much so that the 114th Division only dared to launch a tentative attack at the beginning, and had never launched a large-scale offensive like tonight.
Of the eleven trenches, during the bombing and shelling in the past few days, the first three have been completely turned into flat ground, and sixteen of the bunkers in front of the trenches have been destroyed. Now, the fourth one is following the example of the 15th Brigade in defense. trenches, and the most intense competition between the two sides now is the four bunkers in front of the third trench.
This defensive type of trenches equipped with bunkers was thought up by Li Hanhun. There are eleven trenches, each trench is about 160 meters apart, connected by two communication trenches, and each trench is matched with four bunkers. The trenches are connected by communication trenches and bunkers, with a distance of about thirty meters.
If it is a pure infantry battle, this defensive form is very powerful. There are four bunkers, each bunker is equipped with a combat anti-cannon and two Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns, and is also equipped with a number of light machine guns and other weapons. This results in If the Japanese army wants to capture the trenches, they must first destroy these four bunkers. But are the bunkers so easy to destroy? The Japanese army's previous achievements almost all relied on artillery and aviation. Now, when Saburo Miura began to dispatch pure infantry At that time, he soon tasted the power,
The attack of the 114th Division was very traditional at the beginning, with artillery fire preparations, and then three tanks opened the way, and a group of soldiers followed. Du Linzi did not have any psychological pressure on this. Use anti-tank artillery, and once the three tanks are destroyed, the next Japanese brigade will be a living target.
Miura Saburo personally commanded the battle from Wencheng Town, four kilometers outside the west gate of Yushan. The 65th Regiment under his command took the lead in attacking. The battle lasted for an hour. Two brigades were filled in and only two bunkers were destroyed. Miura Saburo became angry. The commander of the 120th Regiment of Field Artillery, Otsuka Shosho, was called over to give him instructions and asked him to fire gas bombs.
After the Gakuin Army bombed Nagoya and released the plague, the Japanese had no weapons to counterbalance the flying fortress and were worried about the Gakuin Army's retaliation, so they became cautious about the use of poison gas bombs. Otsuka Noboru received this notice. Feeling uneasy, he asked tentatively: "Sir, the military department has issued a document before."
Saburo Miura naturally knew about this document. He waved his hand to interrupt Otsuka Noboru and said: "This time, this time, we will definitely eliminate the Xuebing Army. Don't worry, go ahead and fight. If there is any problem, I will be responsible for it. "
After Miura Saburo said this, Otsuka Noboru naturally did not dare to object. A quarter of an hour later, Otsuka Noboru personally commanded an artillery brigade and fired at least 150 poison gas bombs at the Xuebing Army's position.
The 120th Field Artillery Regiment used mustard gas bombs again this time. This kind of gas bomb can infect through capillary blood pores. The protective effect of the gas mask was very poor. The 15th School Brigade was unprepared and suffered huge casualties. , the 207th regiment was almost completely destroyed,
The Japanese army launched attacks from three directions, and there must be some emphasis, because the Japanese army has never really launched an attack in the direction of Yushan. After Ye Zhao analyzed it, he believed that this time the Japanese army would definitely attack Yushan, which is why he would rush to Hufeng as soon as possible. The reason for the front line: when a report came from the front line that the Japanese army had used poison gas bombs, while he was filled with anger, he became more and more convinced that Yushan was the main direction of the Japanese army's attack.