It turned out that although only the 94th Division among the three divisions of the 15th Army was dispatched to deal with the 6th Division, the other two main divisions were not idle either. During this period, they were unaware of the rugged mountain roads passing through the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area.
Unconsciously, they moved all the way north and met up with the main force of the 115th Division. After joining forces, the total strength suddenly increased to more than 100,000 people. Then they penetrated directly behind the Japanese 16th Division and quickly launched. By the time Nakajima I discovered it,
By that time, the 16th Division had been surrounded on three sides by more than four times its superior force. What was even more disadvantageous than the 6th Division being surrounded in Ding County was that they were surrounded on a large plain without cover or protection.
There was not even time to build fortifications, and the result can be imagined...
In order not to give the enemy a chance to build fortifications and wait for reinforcements, the North China General Front Committee, which was formed less than two days ago, almost immediately issued an order to launch a general offensive to the three divisions participating in the war. A regiment commander of the 115th Division asked the division commander, "Our regiment
Is it a main attack or a feint attack?", **'s order immediately resounded throughout the army, "With so many troops, do we need to divide them into main attacks and feint attacks? Fight them all to death!"
Although the heavy artillery brigade and even all the field artillery were transferred to Shijiazhuang by Hu Weidong to go north along the Ping-Han Line to cooperate with the 94th Division due to the difficulty of entering the mountains, the firepower provided by more than two hundred mountain guns and more mortars has exceeded that of the Japanese army.
The 16th Division was more than twice as large, and its number was over a hundred, so that the seemingly black fleet was a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese army...
"Why do the Chinese have so many planes? Where is our air force? Watch out for bombs and get down quickly! Ah! Military doctor. Free e-book download online. Where is the military doctor?" The Japanese, who had encountered such a large-scale air attack for the first time, fell into confusion.
In an unprecedented panic, when the artillery of the Fifteenth Army and the Eighth Route Army launched an almost continuous and violent bombardment from thousands of artillery pieces of various types, the Japanese army, which was unprepared for this, saw its morale plummet, and they thought it was going to be a bloody battle.
In a battle, the commanders and fighters of the 15th Army and the Eighth Route Army completely defeated more than 20,000 elite Japanese troops without encountering much resistance. The veterans who happily grabbed the prisoners of war seemed to have returned to the domestic battlefield of the past...
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"I didn't expect the little Japs to be so careless... That's right. Almost all the 75mm artillery shells we captured in Fengtai were used up in this battle. We also added so many mortar shells, plus
The ammunition and aviation gasoline consumed by the air strike are so high that it cannot wipe out a Japanese division. That would be strange..." Hu Weidong was surprised at first, and then thought with relief.
In less than a day, the 15th Army and the main force of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army worked together to annihilate an almost full standing division of the Japanese army. A total of more than 24,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and captured.
Generals died in the rebel army, and only some patients survived because they did not accompany the army on the expedition. Among them, the number of captured Japanese soldiers reached an unprecedented number of more than 15,000. This was for the Japanese Army Ministry, which had always advocated the spirit of Bushido.
.It is undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face. The total casualties of the ** team in this battle were only more than 8,000 people. The small number also exceeded everyone's expectations, including Hu Weidong. The result of this battle was eloquently stated.
It proved that as long as the Chinese Army gained air superiority and had stronger troops and firepower than the Japanese, it was fully capable of engaging in large-scale combat with the Japanese. For the first time, Hu Weidong felt that his prediction at the Lanzhou Conference was too cautious. "It's true.
I didn’t expect that our army is so strong now..."
After discovering that he was too cautious in anticipating the war situation, Hu Weidong decided to have the arsenal start developing the 122mm cannon howitzer as the main suppressive artillery in advance. The template was the w86-type 122mm towed howitzer. It used concave extended-range projectiles with a range of more than 20 kilometers, and had the ability to
360-degree surround shooting capability, this plan started soon after and quickly achieved success. However, mass production would have to wait until the second half of 1938, and its large-scale equipment troops would have to wait until 1939...
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Of course, these are all things for later, and Hisao Tani, who was besieged in Ding County, was already frightened. After learning the news of the destruction of the 16th Division, he was even more panicked. He was worried that he would follow in the footsteps of Nakajima Konsogo.
He actually led his few elite troops out of the city overnight to break out of the encirclement, while the artillery, baggage troops and other technical units, as well as non-combatants and the sick and wounded, were all left in the city and became cannon fodder. Because they did not expect that the Japanese would leave their comrades behind.
A small force broke through, and the siege force of the 94th Division accidentally suffered a loss. It was really rushed out by Hisao Tani and more than a thousand people. However, the 94th Division had aircraft reconnaissance, vehicles below, and tanks and armored vehicles to clear the way.
,How far can Hisao Tani escape?
As a result, this group of Japs was caught up in the afternoon of the next day. Under the impact of the armored troops, the Japs, which numbered less than a thousand, were unable to resist and were quickly wiped out. It is worth mentioning that almost everyone had
The butcher Hisao Tani, who thought he would fight to the end, saw that there was no way out, so he knelt down and begged for surrender. Seeing this incredible scene, several low-level Japanese officers and soldiers who had been desperately protecting him could not accept this fact, and committed seppuku on the spot in shame and anger.
committed suicide...
"Here, what should we do?" A soldier hesitated a little. Although the order above was to take no prisoners, he was a Japanese lieutenant general after all. It was so majestic to capture a Japanese lieutenant general alive!
"Have you forgotten the folks who were killed in Dingxian?" Du Yang, commander of the 1st Tank Regiment of the 15th Army Armored Brigade, said angrily. During the siege of Dingxian, the peripheral troops successively discovered some villages whose residents had been slaughtered.
, according to incomplete statistics, the number of people killed exceeded 5,000. Only then did everyone realize that what the commander said before the war was true. The Japanese 6th Division was indeed an out-and-out beast force. Now the culprit is right in front of us.
How can we forgive?
"Kill him! Kill him!", each of the assassins spontaneously let out an angry roar, while the earth-colored Hisao Tani's face was covered with sweat, and he kept shouting, "I surrender! I demand
Treatment of prisoners of war in compliance with the Geneva Convention!”