The Ishimura brigade was unable to fight for a long time. Masaharu Honma received the report and was quite impatient. It was true that the position occupied by Xiang Yuliang and the others was too important. It was a thorn in the flesh for the Japanese army. Therefore, after careful consideration, Just in case, Honma Masaharu decided to make a fuss out of a fuss and personally ordered three brigades from the surrounding troops to be dispatched for reinforcements. In the order, he specifically pointed out that the reinforcements must be standing troops.
Standing force, this is a title just invented by the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. It refers specifically to those troops whose proportion of Japanese local soldiers is more than 70/8. Such troops only account for about 15% of the current Japanese army in Southeast Asia. , this shows the core role and political status of this type of troops. Even Honma felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill, but the facts gave him a loud second light.
The contest between Zhang Hao's company and the Shichunkan brigade headquarters seemed to Shicunkan to be evenly matched, but the actual situation was one-sided. Kim Jonghwa's brigade was ordered to hold on to Xiaolin Highlands some time ago, and one brigade was left with only one regiment alive. Those who came down were all elites who had been tested by blood and fire and could truly be called experienced in many battles. Compared with them, the military police of Ishimura headquarters also had actual combat experience, but their previous enemies were known as "old soldiers" The combat difficulty index of the US military is not at the same level at all. Therefore, the military police of Ishimura Headquarters were still able to perform bravely and high-spirited at first. However, the two sides only met once. Under the attack of Zhang Hao Company regardless of casualties, the Japanese could only resist After less than ten minutes, they were immediately defeated.
In this kind of tit-for-tat battle, combat skills are secondary. The more important thing is the death-defying spirit of the soldiers on both sides. Are the Japanese afraid of death? They are definitely not afraid of death, but because they are used to the Americans "fighting" whenever there are casualties. Therefore, when they found that the army on the opposite side was charging more and more fiercely with casualties, they felt as if they had hit a rock head-on. Many people raised a question mark in their minds and slowed down their hands for a moment. Shoot, and then it's a complete failure.
Zhang Hao Company's fighting method is as simple and crude as before, with machine guns opening the way, and soldiers with better marksmanship behind are responsible for finishing the blows. The difference is that as long as someone falls in the front, someone from behind will immediately fill in, without any delay. Yes, looking at the Japanese military police, they thought that as long as they could withstand the first round of fierce attack by the Chinese army, they could contain the opponent's offensive. The result was that because they did not realize that this was a life-and-death battle, they faced the people in front of them. When it became increasingly rare, the Japanese behind them started to grease their feet subconsciously.
The Chinese team continued its previous momentum and charged with an unstoppable force. However, the military police on the side began to retreat subconsciously. Seeing this scene, Ishimura Kan realized that he would definitely not be able to escape the fate of being beheaded if this continued. He immediately killed the last few civilians around him. The officers were sent out and asked them to intimidate the two Japanese Japanese who were just running for their lives nearby to turn around and fight again.
Shi Cunkan was pretty good, and he didn't even think of escaping at this time. However, when their troops were still superior, the effect of his heroic behavior was counterproductive. When he realized something was wrong, he found that the Chinese army had already When he was so close in front of him, and there were only less than ten military policemen in front of him who were still fighting in a corner, it was already too late for him to run away.
At this time, the Nanyang Japanese were completely frightened by the brutal fighting methods of Zhang Hao Company and their brother units. They allowed Shi Cunkan and a few officers to stand alone in front of Zhang Hao Company, unaware that this had anything to do with them. The lack of a basic sense of identification with an army was Koizumi's biggest failure in recruiting Southeast Asian natives to join the Japanese army in Southeast Asia.
During the melee, Xiang Yuliang was shot in the left shoulder, but this did not affect his excitement at all. After the last few military policemen fled into the crowd of Japanese soldiers, the Type 14 assault rifle in his hand shot a dying man The struggling Japanese military policeman was nailed to the ground, then he raised his gun and strode up to Shi Cunkan, with a sneer on his face and said: "Yours, if you don't want to die, put down your weapons, ours, give preferential treatment to the prisoners."
Shi Cunkan held the pistol in his right hand, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Xiang Yuliang's chest. As long as he dared to pull the trigger, Xiang Yuliang would be seriously injured at least. The sarcastic expression on Xiang Yuliang's face seemed to encourage him to do so, but Facing the muzzles of more than a dozen black guns all around, his eyes flickered, but in the end he failed to pull the trigger.
Shi Cunkan was captured, and the loudspeaker in his hand was used by Xiang Yuliang to inform everyone in the Shicun Brigade. In fact, at this time, the Shicun Brigade had long been in chaos, so Shicun Being captured gave those Nanyang Japs who had long since lost their fighting spirit an excuse to surrender.
A large force of more than 5,000 Japanese troops launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against Kim Jonghwa's brigade, which consisted of about a thousand people. As a result, the offensive was crushed by Kim Jonghwa's brigade in just over an hour. The news reached Masaharu Honma, who considered supporting three The brigade had not yet arrived on the battlefield, and the Chinese army's combat strength was obviously far beyond estimate. In order to avoid another failed attack that would affect the morale of the entire army, he gritted his teeth and changed his order, letting the three brigade besiege instead of attacking, and prepare to wait. After daybreak, the aviation force was dispatched in an attempt to completely wipe out this tenacious China Army.
The news was reported to Koizumi Minichiro by Masaharu Honma. Koizumi Minichiro first scolded Ishimurakan for being a waste. Then he learned the hard way and had to admit the reality that although the Japanese army in Southeast Asia far exceeded the Chinese army in terms of military strength, it was mixed with too much. Due to the many Nanyang indigenous people and the National Independence Army, the difference in combat effectiveness is not much. From this, he concluded that the Battle of Ganbang will be a time-consuming war of attrition, and the Chinese army will definitely seize this opportunity. Try to break through.
"What is certain is that the Chinese will definitely focus on using troops between Xiaolin Highlands and Ganbang. Since we cannot change the problem of low combat effectiveness of the National Independence Army in the short term, let the war help us survive and eliminate the fittest. National Independence The base of military resources is huge. Even if one qualified soldier can be grown out of one hundred people, we will eventually be able to integrate more than 100,000 available troops. We call the remaining ministries and order them to continue to increase troops to Singapore starting tomorrow. Eight Ge, the Chinese want to compete with us for consumption, so we will compete with them to see who has more capital."
After the Japanese occupied Indonesia, the Philippines, and Western Asia, they developed national independence armies in various places with a total of three to four million people. These people were the tools for the Japanese to control Southeast Asia in peacetime. During wartime, they became ready-made tools for the Japanese. Regarding the source of soldiers, if Koizumi Toshiichiro really implements this plan, regardless of other things, one thing is certain, after the Malan Battle is over, there will definitely be a labor starvation problem for men, especially strong men, in Southeast Asia.