No one in the Xuebing Army knows how many troops the Japanese army dispatched in the Battle of Fuding on New Year's Eve, and the reason why Liu Yuqing deployed such a vicious artillery formation depends on two factors. Fei Yi 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 sum up the specific number of Japanese killed in this battle - the artillery shells were dense and powerful, and it was unknown how many Japanese soldiers were near the bombing point or were bombarded repeatedly, and even their bones were left; and the Japanese army always had
The habit of covering up the truth. 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.
Division Liu Yuqing arrived at the battlefield the next morning. By this time, the front positions on the Guanmei front 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,
, except for those that were repeatedly crushed by three tanks and turned into pulp, there were still nearly two thousand that could 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"
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The victory was hard-won, and the 28th Xuexue 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. Among the officers, there were only two
The regiment commander, a battalion commander and three platoon commanders survived, while 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 that no one should mention it after returning.
On the Shangying battlefield, fighting began almost at the same time on the front lines of Leping, Dexing and Yushan. 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.
What about 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
After 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.
The three defense strongholds, because the terrain of Yushan is relatively flat, which is conducive to large army operations, are 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 has gradually formed
With the former Hufeng Primary School in the east of Hufeng Town as the command hub, it faces the solid defense line of Yushan County. This defense line has a total of eleven trenches, and there are more than thirty bunkers scattered among the trenches. The defensive capability can be described as strong.
To the extent that the 114th Division only dared to launch a tentative attack at the beginning, it had never launched a large-scale offensive like tonight.
Of the eleven trenches, in the past few days of bombing and shelling, 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 trench is being defended by the 15th Brigade.
The trenches. 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 about 160 meters apart, and connected by two communication trenches. 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 of which is equipped with a combat anti-cannon and two Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns, as well as 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 its power.
The attack of the 114th Division was very traditional at first. Artillery fire was prepared, then three tanks opened the way, and a group of soldiers followed. Du Linzi did not have any psychological pressure on this. You fire the artillery, I enter the anti-gun hole, you bring the tanks, and I
Use anti-tank artillery. Once the three tanks are destroyed, the following Japanese brigade will become a living target.
Miura Saburo personally commanded the battle from a town four kilometers outside the west gate of Yushan. The 65th Regiment under his command took the lead in launching the attack. The battle lasted for an hour, and two brigades were filled in and only two bunkers were destroyed. Miura Saburo became angry and ordered
The commander of the 120th Field Artillery Regiment, Otsuka Shobo, came over to give him instructions and asked him to fire the poison gas bombs.
After the Gakuin Army bombed Nagoya and released the plague, the Japanese had no weapons to counterbalance the empty fortress and were worried about the Gakuin Army's retaliation, so they became cautious about the use of poison gas bombs. Otsuka Noboru was notified of this,
Feeling uneasy, he asked tentatively: "Sir, the military department once issued a document——"
Miura Saburo naturally knew about this document. He waved his hand to interrupt Otsuka Noboru and said: "This time, that 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.
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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 this time. This 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.
, almost the entire 207th regiment was destroyed.
The Japanese army launched attacks from three directions, with certain emphasis. Because the Japanese army had 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. This was also the first time he would rush to Hufeng.
Reasons on the front line. When a report came from the front line that the Japanese army had used poison gas bombs. While he was furious, he became more and more convinced that Yushan was the main direction of the Japanese army's attack.