The rumbling sound of artillery sounded, and hundreds of artillery shells were whizzed past by fireballs, hitting the Japanese position not far away. After a day of silence, the defenders' artillery troops finally began to show off their power.
"Boom." As the first explosion reached An Tengliji's ears, the old Japanese changed his face in shock. Could it be that the Chinese are about to launch a counterattack? It's impossible. The imperial army now has 70,000 troops amassed along Taierzhuang. Ah, he thought for a while and did not dare to be careless. He immediately issued an order to let the Japanese troops at the East Gate and North Gate strengthen their vigilance to prevent the defenders from counterattacking. At the same time, he asked the artillery to find the location of the enemy's artillery positions and implement fire suppression. Then, he decided to personally lead the reserves. Troops support the northwest gate,
The battle on the front line of Taierzhuang started in full swing. In a village three kilometers southeast of Taierzhuang, the officers and soldiers of the First Academy Brigade led by Guo Muyi personally were waiting and ready for battle.
The 1st Xuexue Brigade marched here in a hurry at 2:30 in the morning. The tank troops followed closely behind and ambush three kilometers behind the 1st Xuexue Brigade. An Tengliji did a very good job in guarding the area and sent a large number of patrol teams behind it. Ge Zengfu personally organized the manpower to carry out the killing and killed four Japanese patrol teams before the large troops.
In the direction of Taierzhuang, the battle at Ximen has never stopped. Flares and explosions rising from time to time pointed the direction for the raiding troops. Guo Muyi was worried that the Japanese would notice if they got too close, so he set up two kilometers away from Taierzhuang. He stopped and said, "Now, just wait for Li Pinxian to send the attack signal." Although Guo Muyi was the first to propose the raid plan, he still felt a little nervous at this moment.
The signal flare launched by Li Pinxian was not only an attack signal for the 31st Army's night attack, but also a signal for the Xuebing Army to launch a surprise attack. When the signal flare rose, Guo Muyi immediately issued an attack order.
"Yes, brothers, let's go." Liu Shurong shouted in a low voice and turned on the flashlight in his hand. This was the action signal he had agreed with his subordinates. The light of the flashlight suddenly broke the darkness of the ambush, learning from the three regiments of the First Brigade. The officers and soldiers immediately stood up and, under the orders of their respective commanders, rushed towards the northwest gate of Taierzhuang.
At the same time, Guo Muyi also issued attack orders to the tank troops behind him through the walkie-talkie.
"He NND, finally started fighting. Start the machine and move forward at full speed." Wu Kezui shouted loudly into the walkie-talkie in the command car, shook his head, and shook off his sleep and fatigue.
During the Second Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, He Zhengjiang, the commander of the 3rd Xuedi Division, became famous precisely because he commanded the tank troops in the first battle. He was promoted from the commander of the mechanized infantry brigade tank regiment to the commander of the 3rd Xuedi Division. During the Battle of Nanjing, Only the Third Xue Division of Xue Yi Army fought in the Pukou Tank Battle. Qian Guangming, then the commander of the tank brigade of the third division, also became famous in the first battle. Now he was transferred to the Army Headquarters and served as the commander of the tank division. His predecessors were famous for commanding the tank troops. The brilliant achievements he created inspired Wu Kekui all the time, making him highly excited. He always wanted to break into the enemy's formation in one go and complete the victory in one battle and two in one battle.
Seventy-six Jiguang tanks of various types buzzed, and the smell of diesel fuel filled the air. Wu Kezui took a deep breath, opened the end cover, and got out of the tank directly to conduct command.
Once the headlights of the tanks were turned on, the darkness was dispersed, and a not-so-wide road appeared in front of the drivers. The tank group roared towards Taierzhuang like a group of monsters.
The rumble of artillery sounded, and the scream of the motor several kilometers away was covered up. According to the pre-war arrangement, Liu Shurong left a battalion of elite soldiers on tanks to provide direct protection for the tank troops. The others were divided into two columns and headed towards Taierzhuang, the most shining place now, quickly ran in,
The Battle of Taierzhuang in this time and space is different from the time and space where Ouyang Yun was. In that time and space, because the Japanese base camp had a "non-expansion" intention, the Japanese army attacking Taierzhuang was completely "willing to obey foreign military orders", whether it was a recapture detachment , the Setani detachment, Ban Benshun and Setani Kei secretly attacked Taierzhuang without receiving instructions from the base camp and the front army. As a result, they were surrounded and killed by Li Zongren, who took advantage of the situation. Only then did they annihilate more than ten thousand Japanese. With the great victory of Taierzhuang, however, Even though it was called a great victory, the Chinese army lost more than 30,000 people. It was equivalent to replacing three soldiers with one enemy. In fact, it suffered a big loss.
In this time and space, although the Japanese base camp also held the principle of "non-expansion", the four Japanese troops that attacked Taierzhuang were under the command of the North China Front Army and were coordinated. At that time and space, there were only more than 40,000 Japanese troops participating in the Taierzhuang battle. , in this time and space, the number of Japanese troops reached more than 70,000. This battle is no longer comparable to that time and space.
The night attack organized by Li Pinxian, because of the participation of artillery, regardless of whether it was a real attack or a fake attack, the momentum created was really amazing, and it suddenly broke the equilibrium situation currently maintained on the Taierzhuang battlefield.
The first one to be affected was the Itang division that bore the brunt. Anteng Liji's attention was completely attracted by the frontal battlefield, and the attention and protection of the flanks and rear wings were naturally insufficient. The Setani detachment had been maintaining an offensive posture towards the west gate before. At this time, I was also alarmed by the sudden change in the northwest gate. I didn't know what was going on there. Out of caution, I shrunk the defense line and switched from offensive to defensive. At the same time, I started to contact An Tengliji. I wanted to know the exact situation there. The Isoya Division has been looking for fighters to the west of Taierzhuang. With the combat power of the Isoya Division, it is completely possible to forcefully cross the canal. However, Isoya Rensuke has not implemented this operation for a long time because he is counting on the 5th Division and Se The Gu detachment was able to force Li Zongren to invest more troops in Taierzhuang, so that after forcibly crossing the canal, they could directly attack Tongshan and complete the feat of encircling the enemy in Taierzhuang. Isotani Rensuke was awakened by his subordinates and learned the latest battle report of Taierzhuang. , he frowned and muttered: "What do the Chinese want to do? Cut off the connection between the 5th Division and the Segu Detachment and concentrate their efforts on attacking the first one. Li Zongren is not that stupid, right? The 5th Division and the Segu Detachment are both The defense lines are completely connected, and the Chinese people cut straight in, which is no different from dying. No, there is something weird in it."
"Your Excellency, Commander, what should we do now?" Chief of Staff Umemura Kazuro asked humbly,
"Stand still, General An Teng still has 20,000 men. Hmm, even if Li Zongren really dares to take such a dangerous move, it will be impossible to defeat An Teng's division in a short time. Our troops will act according to the original strategy."
"Hai."
The Isoya Division ran along the Grand Canal for a day, during which they made several tentative attacks. The soldiers were all exhausted. Except for the wheel defense troops, everyone else fell asleep early. They were suddenly struck by the sound of huge gunfire. Awakening, out of instinct, they hurriedly dressed and prepared their weapons, and got ready for battle. The Japanese of the Isoya Division were so nervous because they were too close to the battlefield, and the close combat prevented them from making correct judgments. They can only prepare for battle first so that they can enter the battlefield at any time. However, what they are waiting for in the end is not a battle order, but to continue to rest.
Isotani Rensuke made a mistake here. If he decisively commanded the troops to enter the Taierzhuang battlefield at this time, then Guo Muyi's raid would definitely fall short.
A week later, when the news of Taierzhuang's victory reached the Guangzhou Xuebing Army Headquarters and Ouyang Yun and others conducted a review on the sand table, the first reaction of everyone involved in the review was to call it a fluke.
Ouyang Yun pointed at the small blue flag representing the Isotani Division and said: "The Japanese army suffered a loss. Changqiao, where the Isotani Division is located, is only five kilometers away from Taierzhuang. If we march in a hurry, we can reach the battlefield in one hour."
, strange, Isotani Rensuke stayed here peacefully until four-thirty, this hour and a half was a great gift from Isotani Rensuke to Guo Muyi, if the Isotani division had supported it from the beginning
Taierzhuang, what would that be like?"
At half past four, it was the time when the battlefield situation in Taierzhuang was at its most chaotic. At four o'clock, the commander of the Mountain Division, Huang Haifu, made a decision and decisively commanded the Eagle Cliff Brigade, acting as a reserve force, to cross the river from the direction of Hanjiasi.
Attack, half an hour later, the Eagle Cliff Brigade successfully crossed the river, and then launched a fierce attack on the Japanese troops outside the East Gate. The Japanese troops in this unit were already having a very difficult time coping with the counterattack of the 31st Army of the East Gate.
The Ya Brigade was caught off guard, and the defense line was immediately broken through. This was the key to the Taierzhuang battle. After the Japanese army was defeated, the Japanese troops at the north gate were immediately surrounded. Li Pinxian and Huang Haifu made a wise decision at this time.
, the Japanese who surrounded the North Gate did not launch a strong attack to encircle and annihilate them. Instead, they quickly supported the assault troops and concentrated their superior forces to completely overwhelm the main force of the 5th Division at the Northwest Gate...
"If Rensuke Isotani supports Taierzhuang from the beginning, then the Setani detachment can completely ignore the 2nd Academy Brigade at the west gate and instead attack the 31st Army's intersecting troops in front of the northwest gate with all its strength. In that case, the 31st Army will be defeated first.
Then, Guo Muyi's troops will become a lone army and can only choose to withdraw from the battle.
However, I guess An Tengliji will not let him go easily. In this battle, we will suffer heavy losses, and the Xuebing Army's journey on the Xuzhou battlefield will end early." Li Tieshu said immediately, and then he talked to everyone.
He took one look and sighed: "Guo Muyi is not only extremely courageous, but also extremely lucky."
Guo Muyi was indeed lucky. The first thing the raiding force captured was a mountain artillery brigade and two heavy artillery squadrons of the 5th Division. When Ge Zengfu told Guo Muyi that his men accidentally discovered the Japanese artillery positions, the latter
He didn't believe it at first, so he asked repeatedly: "Is it true, what direction, how many Japanese soldiers are defending, and what type of artillery are they."
There was a reason why Guo Muyi was so excited. Compared to the Japanese Chilo and Douzhan, the laser tank was invincible. If the Japanese army did not have heavy artillery, the defenders could use the tank troops as the lead and attack them.
The Japanese army launched a counterattack. No matter how high the quality of its individual soldiers and how strong their morale was, in the face of the laser tank, a powerful weapon for attacking enemies, the Japanese army had only one fate. They had to quickly evacuate the Taierzhuang battlefield.
The overwhelming victory of the sneak attack on Linyi was, on the one hand, related to the fact that Ben Shun took the initiative to die, and on the other hand, because the detachment did not have the weapons to suppress the laser tank, it was passively beaten from beginning to end.
When Guo Muyi formulated the raid tactics, he required the tank troops to break into the enemy group as quickly as possible. One of his concerns was that he was worried about the Japanese heavy artillery. Once he broke into the enemy group and engulfed the Japanese infantry, the Japanese artillery would not be able to throw rat weapons. Dare to bombard wantonly. In this way, the survival probability of the tank troops will be greatly improved, so that they can exert their due power, and the raid troops can also perform miraculous effects.
Ge Zengfu understood why he was so excited. An Tengliji left only a squadron of troops to protect the artillery position. The raiding force could completely wipe out this part of the Japanese army, and then seize the artillery to deal with the Japanese army. He said: "The Japanese artillery position is on the left Two kilometers away, a squadron of Japs was defending, and it seemed they had heavy artillery."
"Great, God helps me." Guo Muyi said excitedly, and then immediately called Zuo An'an over and said to him: "An'an An, assemble the three regiments quickly. Commander Ge and the others have discovered the Japanese artillery position. , there is only one squadron of Japanese defenders, you must capture it as quickly as possible, then directly aim at the Japanese soldiers, blast him like a son of a bitch, go quickly, go quickly, our shelling will stop in five minutes. "
The defenders on the west side of the Canal carried out the artillery bombardment with only one purpose: to cover up the roar of the advancing tanks with the rumbling sound of the artillery. In order to avoid accidentally bombing the assault troops, the duration of the artillery bombardment was agreed to be twenty minutes. It was already a quarter past four. In five minutes, the bombardment will stop and it will be time for the assault force to launch an attack.
On the battlefield two kilometers away, there were shouts of killing and the sound of gunfire. From time to time, a cloud of fireworks lifted up one or two bodies. Human beings who consider themselves the masters of the earth are as worthless as ants in the face of war. Sato Yoshi The husband stood behind a 150mm caliber howitzer, looking at the miserable scene on the battlefield not far away, squinting his eyes, with an extremely ferocious expression on his face.
Sato longs for war. He feels that only war can reflect the meaning of a man as the leader of the world. Sato also longs for killing. Every time he conquers a place, he will ignore military discipline and allow his subordinates to kill and plunder. Sato's mantra is: the Chinese are an inferior race. Their IQs do not allow them to understand the true meaning of life. Sato is strict in his military affairs. Take the current situation as an example. More than 300 soldiers under his command are protecting the artillery positions. They do not dare to slack off at all just because they are in the rear. Sato does not Knowing that his head has been trapped by the crosshairs of a Wei Qing series sniper rifle,
Zuo Anping personally led the third regiment to carry out this operation. Taking advantage of the huge noise on the battlefield not far away, he led the third regiment to approach Sato's squadron without anyone noticing. Then when the sound of artillery on the main battlefield stopped, he immediately launched an attack. ,
"Kill." Zuo Ping'an was only more than fifty meters away from Sato. He shouted loudly, and Sato immediately turned his head. Then, just as he opened his lips, he was hit by a sniper who was preparing to attack, and his head was hit. Suddenly it burst like a ripe watermelon after autumn,
A flare rose into the sky, "Hit." "Click." "Boom."... Under the leadership of Zuo Ping'an, the officers and soldiers of the Third Regiment of the 1st Xue Brigade jumped up and fought bravely towards the nearest enemy. The devil is so close,
The sound of gunfire suddenly rang out, and a large section of the Japanese troops who were waiting for them immediately fell down. Only then did the Japanese officers react, shouting "enemy attack" and commanding the troops to launch a counterattack.
The Japanese army's response was too late. Sato Yoshio's strict military management methods made his subordinates go to hell faster. The standing Japanese soldiers were unable to hide under the illumination of the flares, and each one was like a living target. ,
The Japanese artillerymen were all preparing for the bombardment at this time. The sudden attack made many artillerymen pull the fuse in panic. Several gunshots were heard, and the Japanese artillery was in chaos.
"Kill them, try not to use grenades."
"Understood, our sword hasn't drank blood for a long time."
The mission of the third regiment was to seize the enemy's artillery, but the enemy's artillery shells were placed all over the position. Zuo Ping An was worried that misuse of grenades would cause the artillery shells to explode, so he quickly adjusted his combat methods.
The Japanese did not dare to throw grenades randomly, so soldiers from both sides rushed together and started a bloody hand-to-hand battle.
The Xuebing Army had an absolute advantage in terms of strength, and due to calculated calculations and unintentional calculations. In addition, Sato Yoshio was killed at the beginning. The Japanese army was leaderless and at a loss of command. The battle presented a one-sided situation from the beginning.
Except for the officers who are equipped with pistols, the Japanese artillerymen are all empty-handed. This is the tragedy of the artillery. From a long distance, they are the kings of infantry combat, but once they are brought closer, they become the targets of slaughter. In just fifteen minutes , Sato's squadron was completely wiped out. The Japanese artillerymen saw that the situation was not right and fled towards the northwest gate.
"Brigade, are you chasing me?" Xu Yizhen, the commander of the third regiment, arranged for a battalion of soldiers to clean the battlefield, treat the wounded, and replenish the wounded and wounded Japanese soldiers. He asked Zuo for instructions.
"Don't chase the poor enemy. This place is too close to the main force of the Japanese. You quickly arrange defenses. Where are the mortars of your regiment? Ask them to adjust their movement quickly. This time, I want the little Japanese to have a taste of being bombarded by my own cannon. The taste of."
Almost at the same time that the Third Regiment launched an attack on the Japanese artillery position, Guo Muyi gave an order, and Wu Kezui's tank troops, carrying a battalion of elite soldiers, took the lead and rushed towards the Japanese position at the northwest gate. The infantry troops immediately followed. side follow up,
Guo Muyi's order to Wu Kecui was: "Charge in, bombard with artillery, sweep with machine guns, and clear a way out."
In the first trench dug by the Japanese army in front of the northwest gate, Zhenhai, who had been sticking close to the trench pool, suddenly took his pocket watch out of his arms and shouted: "Brothers, charge with me." Then he took the lead and jumped out of the trench. , rushed towards the Japanese position, and the brigade took the lead in the fight. The Chinese soldiers who participated in the night attack were all full of blood and shouted out of the trenches.
"Puff, puff..." In the direction of the west gate, a mortar company assigned by Li Pinxian began to fire grenades frequently. The battlefield that had been silent for less than a few seconds because the defenders stopped shelling once again heard deafening shouts of killing.