At 10 o'clock in the morning on the 21st, the 1st, 4th and 9th Guards Divisions joined forces in Fushan Town. Then the officers and soldiers of the three Guards Divisions moved south at a rapid march speed. An hour and a half later, the Guards at the front rushed forward.
The Fourth Division launched a fierce attack on the Shatupo defense line held by the Japanese army.
Shatupo is located five kilometers north of Chengmai County. The three-way arterial road that connects the Huanhai Highway and the road to Chengmai County, connecting Qiongshan, Lingao and Chengmai County, forms a unique place here in Shatupo.
The "y" shape.
Compared with Chengmai County, which is undefendable, the geographical location of Shatupo is more important. The 15th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, responsible for the defense line of Chengmai Bay, deployed two brigades and two pseudo legions here.
, on the contrary, there is only one squadron left in Chengmai County.
Although the officers and soldiers of the 4th Guards Division for landing operations were not equipped with many heavy ground weapons, they had the help of a tank company that landed from Yinglang Port, and also had vital air power support. Due to the complete loss of the Japanese army,
Air superiority, whether it is the Air Force's bombers, attack aircraft and flying gunboats, or the Army's armed helicopters, has become a nightmare that the surviving Japanese troops will never forget.
On the Shatupo battlefield, the artillery unit that the Japanese army was so proud of collapsed under the first wave of attacks from the air force.
Thirty B2 dive bombers from two squadrons made a shrill scream and fell from the sky. In an instant, the Japanese position was plunged into thick flames and smoke. At the same time, four B1 bombers flew over in a battle formation from low altitude.
The squadron, like fish laying eggs in water, dropped hundreds of aerial bombs on the Japanese positions. Flowers exploded on the front and deep positions of the Japanese army. The strong light and rising flames were constantly shooting out, just like a volcanic eruption.
, giving people a terrifying feeling of doomsday.
A squadron of flying gunboats, after confirming that the Japanese army had no anti-aircraft power, immediately joined in the destruction of the Japanese defense line, led by 105mm howitzers, ranging from 7.62mm aviation machine guns to 37mm cannons. They violently spit out tongues of fire, and also
A huge number of aerial bombs fell from the sky and completely swallowed up the Japanese positions.
Thirty attack planes almost passed by the Japanese position. The airborne rocket launchers on the nose of the aircraft joined in this doomsday chorus. The bright red rockets turned the sky red when they left the rocket nest. Countless aerial bombs, artillery shells and
The rockets fell like a waterfall of fire from the gods.
The violent explosion sounded like countless "rumbling" steel behemoths roaring in demonstration, or like a tropical storm sweeping over the island. Various types of artillery shells, bullets and aerial bombs formed a tight firepower network.
On the Japanese army's position, fires dozens of meters high were constantly rising into the sky, creating large swathes of magnificent and gorgeous flame flowers.
Under the continuous attacks of the Anjia Army Air Force, the Japanese troops were on their backs, and flames were everywhere. Accompanied by the fierce fire and violent shock waves, the hot steel concealed more than a dozen anti-tank guns and two platoons assembled at the rear of the Japanese defense line.
More than a dozen Type 95 tanks were riddled with holes. Every Japanese soldier was torn into pieces. Trucks loaded with ammunition were blown up, and light and heavy machine guns, mortars and grenades were burned into scrap metal.
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After a quarter of an hour of bombing, the Japanese army's positions were completely shrouded in gunpowder smoke. The entire three-kilometer-long defense line seemed to have been burned by skyfire. There was pitch black everywhere, and melted steel and messy and broken equipment could be seen everywhere. Burnt.
Burnt human bodies abound.
In this short period of time, the Japanese army lost most of its attacking force.
Just when the Japanese army was in despair, helicopters from the Army Aviation Group joined the battle group. The loud charge bugle sounded at the right time, and the Guards officers and soldiers of the two regiments, led by more than a dozen Leopard II tanks, launched towards the Japanese defense line.
Charged.
The powerful air-to-ground firepower of the Anjia Army once again caused devastating damage to the Japanese army. For the army of this era, once it loses its air defense firepower, armed helicopters equipped with "Rainbow" I-type missiles and 107mm rockets can hover in the air to attack.
, is an almost unsolvable existence.
Any bunkers and trenches are completely undefended to the killers in the air. In just half an hour, the entire Japanese defense line was broken through by the highly morale Anjia Army Guards officers and soldiers, and the remaining Japanese troops had to abandon the front.
They retreated in embarrassment to Chengmai County.
Beating up drowned dogs was the specialty of the Anjia Army. Thousands of guards officers and soldiers shouted in unison and followed closely behind the Japanese and puppet troops to beat them. Almost all the puppet troops who had no fighting spirit chose to surrender, and a small number of the Japanese soldiers who were in despair also
They chose to kneel down and disarm, but four to five hundred Japanese troops still fled into Chengmai County. Then, driven away by Anjia officers and soldiers, they crossed the Nandu River Bridge in the south of the city. They didn't even have time to blow up the bridge, so they hurriedly fled eastward.
, joined with the defenders of Chang'an Town.
At 2:15 p.m., the 9th Division, which followed closely behind the 4th Guards Division and rushed into Chengmai County, passed directly through the city and arrived at the south bank of the Nandu River. The vanguard troops, which had bitten the defeated Japanese army, fought with the Japanese first troops in Chang'an Town.
Two regiments of the 70th Division encountered each other. After a fierce battle, each side took a step back. The Japanese army deployed along the stream from Xincun Village to Nandun Village, while the 9th Guards Division was stationed at Changchun in the southeast of Chengmai County.
A temporary defense line was built from Zaipo to Donglian Village and Xipaiyang, waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops.
The 1st Guards Division, which finally entered Chengmai County, quickly advanced northeastward without any stop in the city, sweeping across the Japanese troops in Meiting, Huangzhu, Bailian and other villages and towns.
The Fourth Guards Division, which had previously been responsible for the main attack mission, rested for two hours in Chengmai County. At 5 p.m., it handed over the defense of the city to the two regiments sent to support by the First Division of the First Airborne Army. Along the Guards
The advance route of the 1st Division was from the Ring Road to the old town.
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At 3:30 in the afternoon, the front line of the old town.
The Japanese army, reinforced by the 52nd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, repeatedly failed in frontal attacks. Major General Akio Doi, who was in charge of the task, saw that the Anjia army's defense line on the opposite side was indestructible, and understood that continuing like this would be a waste of already scarce troops.
After discussing with the newly arrived Major General Takayama Tsukuru and the seriously war-weary captain of the Haikou Guard Corps, Colonel Mizu Muraoka, Akio Doi decided to switch from offense to defense on the frontal battlefield and secretly sent a partial division consisting of Miru, Ru'e, and Long.
Yoshimura went south, crossed the Dongshui River at Longfeng Village in the south of the old town, and joined the Japanese troops stationed in Bailian Town to guard the main road around the sea and block the landing troops of the Anjia Army who might come from Chengmai and Lingao.
Use this as a base to attack the old town from the rear.
The total number of Japanese and puppet troops totaled more than 15,000. They were led by Major General Gao Wuzhuang, commander of the 52nd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army. They began to cross southward at about 4:30, but they only walked two or three kilometers before they encountered an encounter.
The Anjia Army Air Force's Third Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division, which was retreating from Sanjiang Town, was harassed by cold guns, mines, and booby traps. The marching speed of the Japanese army was immediately affected.
After losing more than a hundred lives in a row, the frightened Japanese army had to slow down its advance. Sentinels were carefully dispatched to conduct a dragnet search for all suspicious targets on the way forward.
"Boom boom——"
Explosions, large and small, continued to sound from the Japanese army's advance, black smoke shot straight into the sky, and the miserable screams of injured or dying Japanese soldiers came one after another.
Major General Takaya, who was riding on horseback, suddenly felt bad. He never expected to encounter such a situation. In an area that the Japanese army always considered to be tightly controlled, they actually allowed their opponents to move around under their noses. Not only were they attacked in the early morning
Deception and teasing have now become destabilizing factors that seriously affect the morale and morale of the troops.
What troubled Takaya Sosaku was not only the frequent attacks on his troops. The distance to the Ring Road was getting further and further away. The road ahead began to become more and more difficult to navigate. After passing Ru'e Village, there were not even basic country roads ahead.
There were no more, and the only ridges of fields available for passage were not enough to meet the needs of the army. Most of the Japanese and puppet soldiers had to trudge through knee-deep paddy fields.
In Hainan Island in April, the fields exude a rich earthy fragrance. The rice is as green as strings of crystal beads. On the originally narrow field ridges, there are still jackfruit and banana trees blocking the road.
Every step forward for the puppet army is very difficult.
The heavy leather boots were stuck deeply in the mud, and it would be very difficult to lift the feet again. It was only one kilometer from Ru'e Village, and most of the Japanese and puppet soldiers were already panting and exhausted.
You must know that most of the Japanese troops led by Takaya Shosaku have experienced more than ten hours of forced marches from early morning to now. All their energy has been squeezed out. Now they are going through such inhumane conditions.
The torture has brought a person's physical strength to the limit, and the sweat on his forehead fell like raindrops. If it were not for the support of the spirit of Bushido, his military morale would have been unstable.
The performance of the puppet soldiers was even worse. Although the supervisory team had successively shot more than 40 Japanese soldiers who were lingering on the ground, most of the puppet soldiers still showed their procrastination and walked in the trampled rice fields.
After taking a step and taking a breath, the energy of the entire army was completely gone.
Considering the possibility of encountering the Anjia Army at any time, as well as the terrible situation shown by the puppet army today, once a head-on battle occurs, the consequences will be disastrous. At this point, Takaya Shosaku finally gritted his teeth and made a decision, in the battle between Ru'e and Longji Village.
We took a short rest in the hills, had a simple meal, and rested for two hours before heading south. In order not to be criticized by his superiors, Takaya Shosaku did not send anyone to tell Akio Doi about the situation at his headquarters.
In the evening, the Japanese troops, who had gradually regained their composure, were on the road again. Outside Longji Village, they encountered the Third Regiment of the Anjia Army's 1st Airborne Division, which had built a defensive line.
The reason why the Third Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division did not take advantage of the weakness of the Japanese army to launch an attack was that it did not understand that the Japanese army on the opposite side was a tired division that had been fooled by them and was running back and forth. You must know that the officers and soldiers of the Third Regiment themselves were also very tired. Compared with
Opponents, since they airborne in the early morning of the 20th, they have been conducting long-term raids for more than thirty hours. If they had not implemented a rotation system in each operation and always kept half of the troops resting, I am afraid they would not have much energy to carry out sneak attacks now.
For the sake of safety, in addition to sending a small group of troops to harass, the third regiment's main force drove to Longji Village, a place that the Japanese army must pass through on the way forward. On the one hand, it mobilized fellow villagers to evacuate, and on the other hand, it built defensive positions according to local conditions, and waited for work to meet the Japanese.
At the edge of a dense forest 100 meters north of Longji Village, Gaowu Zhuangzuo observed from the telescope that the heavy firepower of the Anjiajun position was obviously insufficient, and immediately issued an order to have two artillery squadrons push the Type 92 that was covered with mud.
The infantry artillery moved forward to the front line and opened fire at the Anjiajun position! A Japanese artillery squadron included a 27-man ammunition squad, two equipped with two infantry cannons, and a full-strength artillery squad of 31 people.
At 7:30 in the evening, eight Japanese infantry guns opened fire almost at the same time. In just ten minutes, the intensive shells blasted the houses in front of Longji Village until the walls fell down and the houses collapsed, and flames shot into the sky.
Afterwards, a squadron of Japanese troops "escorted" about a regiment of puppet troops, and rushed bravely into the paddy fields. Along the relatively hard and dry field ridges, they hunched their waists, held their rifles and launched an attack. Behind them, ten people
The remaining heavy machine guns sounded the rhythm of death, and countless bullets were sprayed on the first trench outside the village, suppressing the Anjia officers and soldiers who were peering inside so that they could not raise their heads.
"Kill to—"
A roar like a pig's howl sounded, the Japanese mortars, grenade launchers fired in unison, and light and heavy machine guns accelerated their fire. The Japanese and puppet troops suddenly accelerated the pace of the charge. The rifles in their hands aimed forward and fired.
Led by the Japanese army, even the puppet troops ignored the mud all over their bodies and formed yellow waves, rolling towards the front of the village head position.
When the Japanese troops rushed three hundred meters in front of the position, the Anjiajun's front remained indifferent.
The Japanese army cheered up and thought that the Anjia Army on the opposite side was nothing more than this. Little did they know that the outer walls of two six- or seven-meter-high two-story old houses at the corners of Longji Village had been dug inside by Anjia soldiers.
Through the air, a temporary bunker made of hard wood such as Huali, Po Lei, Mu Sheng, and Zijing was hidden underground with broken bricks and tiles. The wood produced by Hainan trees has one characteristic, that is, it is hard, thick, and corrosion-resistant.
A bunker made of wood randomly collected from fellow villagers' homes was bombarded by Japanese infantry artillery, but not even a hair was hurt!
Two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters...
"Porphyrin —"
The four heavy machine guns deployed on the outer wall of the old house suddenly pushed open the bunker in front. The black muzzles of the guns stretched out and screamed at the howling and charging Japanese and puppet troops. Pieces of fire flowed past like a strong wind.
battlefield!
A large number of the puppet troops rushing in front suddenly fell down, and the remaining troops were in chaos. However, the Japanese soldiers who followed closely behind were not afraid at all. They aimed at the puppet troops who turned to flee and started shooting, forcing the remaining puppet troops to turn around and attack again.
They charged forward. After rushing more than ten meters, the puppet soldiers were killed and injured. Seeing that if they continued to charge, they would die or not. Most of the puppet soldiers chose to cover their chests and fell forward, pretending to be successful.
The bombs appeared, and soon only the Japanese soldiers were left in front of the Longji Village position.
When the Japanese soldiers saw all the puppet troops falling to the ground, they did not even blink, and continued to roar and launch a death charge. When the remaining Japanese troops approached a hundred meters in front of the position, countless heads suddenly appeared in the trenches, and the crisp firing sound of Type II automatic rifles was heard.
One by one, more than a dozen general-purpose machine guns opened fire collectively, instantly forming an airtight death blockade!
One hundred and eighty Japanese troops, including the squadron leader, executive officer, three sergeants, four health workers, orderlies, buglers, and eight correspondents, were all "broken into pieces". The Japanese army's first attack failed!
Gaowu Zhuangzuo, who had been calmly observing the battle situation, shook his head, looked up and saw that it was getting late, and ordered the troops to set up camp. In addition to forcing the puppet troops to build barracks, they also built bunkers and fortifications in front, and dug two to three trenches to prevent the Anjia army from sneak attacks at night.
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Takaya Shosaku didn't know that at this time, Bailian Town had been captured by the 1st Guards Division heading north. More Anjia Army main forces were moving closer to the old town line, and the reins around the necks of the Japanese troops were slowly tightening.
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