The crisis turned into an opportunity, and it was a pity to let it go. Fei Liu Yuqing and Pang Deya briefly discussed a few words, and both felt that this was an opportunity to expand the results of the war. Liu Yuqing called Jiang Guangnai and asked for instructions to take advantage of the situation to capture Cangnan. Jiang Guangnai pondered for a while and replied:
"Several guerrilla columns in southwestern Zhejiang have been standing still, and it's time for them to attack. The strength of the South China Front in attacking Fuding has been reduced, and now we have air control. Before the combined fleet can recover, we
Hit him hard!"
There are eight guerrilla columns in southwestern Zhejiang, with a strength of about 16,000 people. Although the weapons and equipment are not very good, they have been playing cat and mouse games with the South China Front on the front line, and they have quite a lot of experience in harassment warfare. On duty with the Japanese army
Demoralized by the defeat, and with the regular army restraining them from the front, the guerrilla column beat up the lost dogs. If they performed well, they might actually become a key force in determining the situation in southwestern Zhejiang.
Liu Yuqing: "Okay. Let's leave an infantry regiment and an artillery regiment to defend Guanmei, and the other troops will pursue them. Mr. Jiang, is there no problem along the coast of southern Fujian? Although the air force of the United Fleet was severely damaged, they have many gunboats.
Prevent a sneak attack by the Marines."
"There is no need to worry about this. The combined fleet without fighter planes is like a tiger without teeth. Now Yamamoto Isoroku should be worried about Commander Iron and his sneak attacks! There is one thing you should pay attention to. You must get someone above the captain of the 6th Division.
Officer list, Cangnan’s business is not over yet!”
"yes!"
The 2nd Special Artillery Brigade once again showed off its power, and the Japanese 6th Brigade was almost wiped out. Okuichiro called to report to Matsui Iwane. Only then did the old Japanese understand what the continuous explosions were. He held the phone and kept quiet.
After listening to Okuichiro's report on the battle situation on the front line, the old Japanese suppressed his thoughts and thought for a while, then ordered: "The student army is strong, retreat temporarily! Let's retreat first, and you can follow."
Matsui Iwane had never expected that the New Year's Strategy would be fought like this. And he also had a premonition that after this battle, his position as commander of the South China Front Army might not be guaranteed. He put down the phone and gave the order for the entire army to retreat.
, while the staff members were packing up their belongings, the old Japanese man walked out of the headquarters and stood in the yard, looking northwest. A few minutes later, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood.
From the moment he became the commander of the Chinese Front Army to the commander of the South China Front Army, Matsui Iwane worked hard and worked hard, but in the end he was defeated again and again at the hands of the Xuebing Army. The old Japanese are also people with self-respect and know that they are not in good health.
, always thinking of winning a good fight and returning to China in glory. But things went against his wishes. The old Japanese had endured it in Zhejiang for so long, gathering momentum and wanting to draw a perfect end to his military career. The result was——
About a brigade of Japs from the troops directly under the South China Front Army Headquarters were packing up and preparing to retreat. On the Guanmei front line, the artillery fire from the Xuebing Army finally stopped. The Second Special Artillery Brigade sealed the victory with just one salvo, while Wang Hai and the others
The bombardment lasted for about half an hour. With the forward scouts providing accurate data, the artillery shells fired by the artillerymen of the Xuebing Army flew specifically towards the places where the Japs were concentrated, as if they had eyes. In this kind of fixed-point bombardment, which was similar to a surgical operation.
Next, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. In the end, only about 3,000 people from two infantry brigades, a tank regiment, and a cavalry regiment survived the artillery fire. Inoue Masakichi and Maruyama Masao later figured out why the enemy's artillery shells landed.
It was so accurate, but it no longer had the ability to go to the mountains to clear out those blatant scouts from the Tenth Division.
When the order to retreat was given, the 6th Tank Regiment relied on its wheels and ran very fast. In the end, more than 30 tanks and more than a dozen armored vehicles successfully escaped. The 6th Infantry Brigade was always under the artillery fire of the cadet army.
, was the one with the heaviest casualties. In the end, only more than 600 people, including brigade commander Maruyama Masao, fled to Fengchi Township in despair. As for the 6th Division, because of the focus of Wang Hai's Kongyi Division,
, and because Tani Hisao used such vicious and outrageous methods, he became the key target of the cadets. In order to protect Tani Hisao, Inoue Masakichi successively left the few remaining troops to snipe the pursuers, and finally ran away.
More than 1,500 people were taken off.
The Japanese army was completely defeated. The 10th Xuexue Division invested two regiments of infantry and two regiments of self-propelled artillery. The Second Fujian Guard Division invested all its artillery regiments except Ma Chun. The Second Special Artillery Brigade supported a battalion of "Thunderbolt Fire". The Ningbo Security Brigade had
More than a thousand people fought with the army, and Wang Hai's Air Division launched 25 fighter planes to join the battle. A massive pursuit battle began.
The first to achieve success was naturally Wang Hai's Air Division. Wang Hai put his fighter planes into the battle in batches of five, specifically chasing the Japanese tank troops and cavalry troops. Twenty-five fighter planes attacked the ground one after another.
The Japanese army suffered more than a thousand casualties. Inoue Masakichi was killed and Okuichiro was injured. Now, the Japanese high-ranking officials no longer dared to ride in armored vehicles or ride horses.
The Japanese Eleventh Air Corps had been severely damaged, and the total number of remaining fighters was less than two brigades. Now that the southern troops of the South China Front were being mercilessly ravaged by the 1st Air Division, Matsui Iwane was worried that the Cadet Army Air Force would continue without rest.
He stopped carrying out air strikes and sent a telegram to Yokoyama Munemori, asking him to take off fighter planes to fight no matter what. Yokoyama Munemori had no choice but to release all fourteen remaining fighter jets of various types and let them go to Aangnan to cover Matsui Iwane.
retreat.
The 1st Air Division returned to the airport to replenish ammunition. Wang Hai provided the Japanese army's position to Liu Yuqing. Liu Yuqing commanded Wang Hai and Liang Hui to bombard the Japanese army, and used five minutes of rapid fire to give Okuichiro's 9th Division a head-on attack.
Kuichiro's 9th Division was originally the strongest unit on the southern front of the South China Front. After this round of rapid fire, at least more than a thousand people were killed and the unit was suddenly dispersed. Okuichiro's armored vehicle was blown up because the armored vehicle he was riding in was bombed.
He turned over, with his right leg injured and unable to move. He was evacuated on a stretcher by several Japanese soldiers. He realized that if things went on like this, the entire southern front army was in danger of being destroyed, so he ordered the two brigades under the jurisdiction of the 19th Infantry Regiment.
Staying to stop the enemy. By doing this, Okuichiro could be regarded as bearing the humiliation and bearing the burden for the sake of the overall situation, but he underestimated the attack firepower of the pursuing troops of the Xuebing Army.
The captain of the 19th Regiment, Hidden Colonel Hitomi, was personally the commander of the sniper attack on the Japanese army. He had just set up a formation in Xiaojiang Town, three kilometers east of Cangnan. Six rocket launchers from the 1st Battalion of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Special Artillery Brigade were
They lined up in a row, and under the command of the battalion commander Zuo Liang fired a volley, and their hastily established defense line was immediately wiped out. Seeing Xiu San, he was also decisive, realizing that if he held on to the stronghold, he would only become a training artilleryman of the cadet army.
Target, resolutely ordered a charge, hoping to close the distance with the Xuebing Army and create a melee, so that the Xuebing Army's artillery advantage could not be used.
Under the current circumstances, it was undoubtedly the most appropriate thing for Hitomi Hidezo to do. However, he underestimated the close combat capabilities of the Xuebing Army. The continuous fire performance of the Wei Qing assault rifle determines that this kind of confrontation is what the Xuebing Army is least afraid of.
Attack, so the Hitomi Hidezo Division, which Okuichiro had placed high hopes on, only persisted for less than ten minutes before being defeated by the Xuebing Army. At this time, in front of the Japanese army, the guerrillas of the Xuebing Army in the southwestern Zhejiang Province began to join the battlefield.