Shunroku Hata's judgment on Matsui Iwane and Hisao Tani was incisive and accurate, but he did not expect that his premature judgment on the Battle of Fuding would increase the psychological burden on Fujie Keisuke and Miura Saburo, so they hung up the phone. Afterwards, Fujie and Miura discussed the current situation of the war and believed that if Tamayama could not make a breakthrough, then this New Year's strategy would become a joke. They felt more and more that they had a heavy responsibility on their shoulders, and the psychological implication of only allowing victory but not defeat was reflected in the two. Taking root in their hearts, they developed the determination to make a desperate move. They merged the headquarters together, deployed their troops with Fujie as the main one and Miura as the auxiliary, and quickly reached the following troop adjustment.
The offensive direction is divided into two parts. One part still has the 127th Brigade of the 114th Division as the main force. The frontline commander is personally served by the brigade commander Major General Akimitsu Saburo. On the basis of the 65th Infantry Regiment, The 102nd Infantry Regiment and the 16th Infantry Division's 20th Infantry Regiment were added to remain in charge of the Hufeng Front. The other group set out from Liudu Township in Yushan County, detoured to Huacun Township and then attacked Wucun Town in Guangfeng County. The official is Major General Naoji Sakai, commander of the 19th Brigade of the 16th Division, which has jurisdiction over the Quzhou Security Brigade, the 9th Tank Regiment of the 16th Division, the 9th Infantry Regiment and the infantry of the 114th Division. The 115th Regiment, and in order to support the Hufeng Front and the Wucun Front at the same time, the 22nd Heavy Artillery Regiment of the 16th Division and the heavy artillery brigade directly under the army will be deployed ten kilometers away from Wucun Town and ten kilometers away from Yushan. One kilometer away, and five kilometers away from Hufeng, in Xujia Village and Longtouba area, the escort force was led by Major General Obaofu, commander of the 128th Brigade of the 114th Division, personally led by the 150th Infantry Regiment.
This major adjustment of troops by the Japanese army brought a rare calm to the front line of Hufeng. During the period when the Japanese army adjusted its troops, General Ye Zhao transferred the 17th Xue Brigade to the front line of Hufeng and made preparations for counterattack. The Shangrao Self-Defense Corps was dispatched to Guangfeng County to prevent the Japanese army from launching an attack from the southern front.
At about 2:10 in the morning, the battle started again. The Japanese army's offensive steps were still the same. First, they prepared conventional artillery fire, and then the infantry launched an attack. After the infantry was repulsed, the gas bombs came again. Learning from the past, this time Ye Zhaohao Without hesitation, he gave the order to retreat.
So far in the fierce fighting, at least 2,000 Xue Er Army soldiers have died at the hands of the Japanese Field Artillery 120th Regiment. Therefore, everyone in the Xue Er Army hates this Japanese artillery unit and will eat them alive. He had everything on his mind. Otsuka Noboru must have felt this. He tried his best to fight for a while and then changed positions. So far, he has changed four positions with more than 2,000 soldiers under his command, protected by a large group of infantry. position, and while he was counting the number of poison gas bombs fired and considering where to move next, under the embankment on the north bank of the Xinjiang River about five or six hundred meters away from them, two trainees, Zhang Xiaohua and Xue Defeng, slowly After the two people looked at each other, the latter turned on the switch of the walkie-talkie on his body, adjusted the channel, put the microphone to his mouth and shouted softly: "Dashan, Dashan, I am Xiaoxi, please reply if you receive it" .”
"Dashan received it, Xiaoxi please tell me."
"Sign, Tanxi, eight hundred meters to the north, completed."
"receive."
The frozen Xinjiang River is where the scouts from both sides compete. This is another battlefield. The battle often ends in one encounter, and the result is either your death or my death. The Shangying battlefield does not have the Wolf Fang special feature. support from the battle brigade, but judging from the current situation, the scouts from the Second Army have gained an absolute upper hand in this contest.
Near Zhang Xiaohua and Xue Defeng lay the corpses of three Japs. Two of the three Japs had their necks wiped directly from behind, and the other one suffocated to death because his head was pressed into the snow on the bank of the Xinjiang River. Xue Defeng Just after reporting the position of the 120th Field Artillery Regiment to Cai Dayong, commander of the Fourth Independent Heavy Artillery Regiment, a group of Japs walked over in the darkness dozens of meters away. The leader of the Japs waved his flashlight to look around and spoke in Japanese. He said: "Where are Kameda and the others? Why can't you see them?" Just after he finished speaking, a Japanese soldier next to him grabbed him by the corner of his clothes. The Japanese soldier pointed to the front left and exclaimed: "What is that?" The Japanese soldiers followed. He looked in the direction of his finger, and if he was more alert, he immediately shouted: "No, China's artillery attack." Then he fell to the ground,
The Japs fell to the ground one after another, holding their heads and looking up. Under their gaze, two fireballs flew from a distance. With the sound of shells piercing the air, they exploded in the middle of the position of the 120th Field Artillery Regiment in the blink of an eye. Come, two fireballs rise, a 75mm field gun is overturned by the blast of air, several Japanese artillerymen next to it fly into the air, the wailing sound stops suddenly before landing,
The sudden shelling frightened the group of Japanese soldiers. They were discussing something when the Japanese soldier holding a flashlight suddenly shouted: "Chinese people." Then he swept the flashlight towards the river embankment where Zhang Xiaohua and Xue Defeng were hiding.
There was a brief silence after the explosion. Therefore, Cai Dayong's voice coming out of Xue Defeng's microphone seemed particularly abrupt. Cai Dayong was asking about the results of the test launch, but they were exposed.
"Xiaoxi, report the results of the test firing."
Since you are exposed, let's fight. Xue Defeng shouted to Zhang Xiaohua: "Cover me." Then he looked towards the place where the explosion came from. The explosion ignited several fires. It can be distinguished by the faint light of the fire. The test shot hit the target. He drew back his head, pressed the send button amidst the gunfire of the Wei Qing assault rifle and shouted loudly: "Dashan, hit the target, over." Then, he said goodbye to the microphone to his waist, and walked away from the target. He took out a grenade from his waist, twisted the cap and pulled the fuse, counted three seconds and threw it out.
"Boom." The grenade exploded. Amidst the explosion, the sky in the southwest suddenly flashed with red light. The next moment, a dozen fireballs rose into the sky, and then a dozen more... In just five minutes, hundreds of fireballs shot up. Flying over here at lightning speed, with the sound of "duh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh...", the Japanese artillery position 500 meters away suddenly flashed with flames, and then a series of explosions sounded. Zhang Xiaohua and Xue Defeng felt the trembling of the embankment under their feet, with relieved smiles on their faces. The mission was completed. They had nothing to regret. Next, let's kill the Japanese happily.
The counterattack of the artillery of the Xuebing Army was swift and accurate, far exceeding Noboru Otsuka's expectations. He did not know that this was because there were enemy scouts lurking nearby to provide the artillery units with shooting targets.
The visual inspection level of Bingjun's artillery has reached an unimaginable level, and indescribable emotions arise in his heart. Although he is unwilling to accept it, he feels that this is the inevitable result.