The third bloody war of resistance Chapter 10 The raging waves Section 3 Battle in Tianjin (14)
No, no. This is not a steel collision, but a massacre. More than 600 tanks of the Fifth Army's slaughter of more than 1,400 tanks of the four Japanese tank divisions.
The Fifth Army was the first mechanized army in China, but its composition was not a complete mechanized army, with only one tank division. The initial organization of this tank division was imitated by the German tank division. In the Wuhan Defense Battle, the Fifth Army was rebuilt after the defeat in Xinyang, and the organization was changed. The three-two system was implemented in the imitation of the 6th Army. The Tank Division had two tank brigades under its jurisdiction, each tank brigade had two tank regiments, each tank battalion had two tank battalions, and each battalion had three tank companies. Each company had a platoon organization, and each company had a knife and tank; among the two tank battalions, one was T34 Battalion and one Sherman Battalion, each tank brigade also had an air defense company, self-propelled artillery company, armored reconnaissance company, motorized infantry battalion, more than 600 tanks in the division and more than 70 armored vehicles.
The Japanese tank division was organized in the form of Wanquan, imitating the German army, with more than 400 tanks, but the Japanese army was seriously lacking in heavy tanks. The best tank was the No. 3 tank introduced to Germany. The Japanese changed it to a name, the Knife-type tank. This tank has long been proved that it is not the opponent of T34 and Sherman. In the battle of Liaocheng, the entire First Tank Division was destroyed, and Qiu Qingquan's losses were extremely small, which proves this.
Okamura Yasuji avoided the First Mechanized Army and chose the Fifth Army, hoping to destroy the Fifth Army with a numerical advantage, but he did not expect that this was still a massacre.
After finding out the direction and scale of the Japanese counterattack, Fan Hanjie boldly fought with the Fifth Army head-on, and the Tank Division and the Sixth Army launched an attack on the flanks to attack and attack.
〖Chinese〗** team equipped the rocket launcher to the company has become a nightmare for Japanese tanks. The main direction of the Japanese attack is the 2oo Division position on the east bank. The Gaoji people set up a trap on the bank of the canal, concentrating the depth configuration of all rocket launchers and war defense artillery of a brigade. The soldiers hid in the deep-digging hidden holes, forming close-range strike firepower, and anti-aircraft artillery arranged along the river to form long-range strike firepower.
After the Gaoji people were arranged, they ordered the frontier troops to retreat, making the illusion of retreating across the canal and leading the Japanese army into a trap. Then, ambushing up everywhere. After just one hour, more than 200 tanks caught fire and exploded, and the remaining more than 100 tanks turned around and fled in a hurry.
On the west bank of the canal, the 96th Division commanded by Yu Shao adopted different methods, always sticking to the position, bazooka and war defense artillery to form mobile strike firepower, and blocking it with the support of artillery. Japanese tanks repeatedly attacked, leaving hundreds of piles of scrap iron in front of the position. When the Gaoji people turned to counterattack in Hedong, the Japanese troops in Hexi hurriedly retreated.
The counterattack of Gaoji people not only affected the Hedong operation but also affected Fan Hanjie's roundabout operations. Fan Hanjie did not expect that the Japanese army would fail so quickly. Before the detours of the Tank Division and the Sixth Army were in place, the Japanese army was defeated. He could only order the troops to pursue the entire line.
Hu Xianqun was so angry that he almost tore off the telegram on the spot. Before the war, he advised Fan Hanjie that he would not need to detour and lead the tank division directly into the Japanese tank group. T34 could crush the Japanese Doudou (the Chinese general despised the Japanese tank) to pieces, but Fan Hanjie did not agree to order him to detour from the Antoutun line. But now, he had just passed the Antoutun Japanese Japanese devils.
"Order Yan Mingbo to speed up, the Japanese are about to run away!" Hu Xianqun shouted in the phone. The long steel column suddenly increased and advanced high. Hu Xianqun was anxious, but unexpectedly, before the microphone was put down, Yan Mingbo's report from the vanguard regiment arrived, and the Japanese tank van forward was present.
Hu Xianqun was a little puzzled. What was the mystery of the Japanese playing? The front was already collapsed and the flanks were still blocking. Before he could think deeply, he quickly ordered the turn from the marching formation to the combat gangster. As soon as the tanks of the Chinese and Japanese armies were contacted, the huge Upo on the tanks of the Chinese tanks were reflected. The Japanese tank soldiers saw sadly that their shells were easily bounced off on the Chinese tanks, and the muzzle of the Chinese tank 76--is like the big mouth of the King of Hell, one by one.
The majestic imperial tanks in the past have now become someone else's toys. The huge gap has made the Japanese tank soldiers crazy. They shot desperately, but later they simply crashed into the Chinese tanks. Unfortunately, they appeared in pain. Even so, the Chinese tanks are still indestructible.
After more than an hour of fierce fighting, Hu Xianqun was completely confident. Qiu Qingquan said nothing wrong. The Japanese tanks were really vulnerable. He was relieved to boldly divide the troops into regiments. He personally led a regiment of His tanks to rush through the Japanese tank group from the flanks, and then turned around and rushed backwards to form a front-and-back attack on the Japanese army.
In a disastrous defeat, the battlefield was full of burning tanks, and the explosion fragments were everywhere, the bodies were burned and crushed into meat mud. The huge gap caused the Japanese army to collapse. In two hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese army left behind nearly 300 tanks, and the rest fled north in a hurry.
The largest tank battle in the Battle of Pingjin ended with the complete victory of the "Zhong" team. Hu Xianqun, who was addicted to killing, refused to stop. He boldly ordered the troops to pursue them in groups. Gan Lichu led the Sixth Army to catch up. After looking at the battlefield situation, he ordered the three divisions of the Sixth Army to divide into three routes to head north.
Fan Hanjie's victory made Qiu Qingquan extremely upset and extremely angry. It was not because Fan Hanjie won, but because Japanese people had no vision and actually chose Fan Hanjie instead of him, making his desire to fight with Japanese tanks again fail.
But compared with Wang Yaowu's depression, Qiu Qingquan's anger is not worth mentioning at all. Wang Yaowu was assigned to the Fifth Army, and Fan Hanjie left him as a reserve team, which made Wang Yaowu feel uncomfortable. Since the decisive battle between Pingjin, he has taken Gu'an and surrounded Tianjin. The Japanese army fled north one after another, but the 74th Army has not fired a single shot from top to bottom. When he learned that it was another reserve team, Wang Yaowu couldn't help but curse at the military headquarters.
But no matter how much he scolded, he could only accept the status quo. Wang Yaowu led the 74th Army to follow the last step into Xianghe. At this time, the streets in Xianghe County were filled with crazy surprises. The citizens took out the last little white flour and the last little eggs hidden in their homes and sent them to the marching soldiers.
"Fuck!" Wang Yaowu's whip hit the door of the jeep. There was no excitement on his face at all. On the contrary, the guards in the back seat were very excited. The 74th Army is American-style equipment, and even the uniforms are different from domestic troops. The helmets are American-style steel helmets, the uniforms are American-style uniforms, and the officers are Western-style uniforms with small lapels, and all the feet are American-style leather boots.
The people of Xianghe have never seen such a fashionable team. With excitement and curiosity, the anti-aircraft machine guns on Wang Yaowu's car attracted them. If they hadn't seen the generals on Wang Yaowu's military uniform, some young students would have climbed onto his jeep. On the tanks of the tanks, several male and female students waving the national flag were sitting. They shook the flags desperately and cheered the people on both sides of the street.
Wang Yaowu muttered and cursed, a motorcycle drove from the front, stopped beside Wang Yaowu's car, jumped out of the car, ran to Wang Yaowu's car, and gave him an American military salute. Wang Yaowu also casually replied to the American military salute.
"Commander Fan's emergency telegram."
Wang Yaowu took it over, and the Fifth Army in front was progressing rapidly. Zhengsan Hebian was forced to draw troops to fight back. The two sides launched a fierce battle in Xintun north of Xianghe. The scale of the Japanese counterattack was estimated to be three divisions. Fan Hanjie ordered Wang Yaowu to immediately lead his troops through Tubaozi and Shuangbattalions to detour to the Japanese flanks. At the same time, he reminded him to pay attention to contacting the Fifty-Second Army attacking the eastern front.
Finally it was our turn. Wang Yaowu was extremely excited and issued several orders in succession, ordering his troops to quickly cross the Xiang River and detour northeastward.
The war began now and entered the "movement" stage. As the riverside retreated three times across Xianghe, Gu Shoufu accelerated his retreat to the north. Gu Shoufu gave up Zhuozhou, Fangshan, Daxing, and Tang Enbo's western group attacked the city of Beiping.
Tang Enbo stopped at the city of Beiping, while Gu Shoufu passed through Beiping and continued to retreat. The battle between Mentougou was still fierce. The Japanese army attacked desperately at all costs and dragged down the 52nd Army. Wang Guobin was anxious. The command from the theater command gave him was to capture Changping as soon as possible, and then jointly attacked the Japanese army in Yanqing with the Forty-Nine Army advancing east from Huailai to capture Yanqing. Then the two armies met and jointly advanced eastward to advance to the main force of the Sa Group Army.
In Mentougou, when fighting here, Wang Guobin felt powerless. There were many ancient monuments in the Mentougou area. There were seventeen monuments under the command of the theater command. Heavy artillery was not allowed to be used. Mortars had to be aimed before firing. Several times the Japanese army retreated and fled into the temple, and the troops stopped attacking. After a few times, the Japanese myself also discovered this and simply rested in it in a big manner, which made Wang Guobin vomit blood.
"It seems that the only way to lead the Japanese to the north to clean up." Wang Guobin sent a few calls to Zhuang Jihua and asked for heavy weapons, but they were rejected by Zhuang Jihua. Zhuang Jihua told him not to get entangled with the Japanese army here, and the main force rushed north to conquer Changping.
Wang Guobin led his troops to fight and retreat, and wanted to lead the Japanese army to an area far away from Peiping, but the Japanese army was not chasing him quickly. After more than ten miles of pursuit, he stopped. Wang Guobin sent someone to fight back, and the Japanese army simply pushed him back, which made him so angry that he jumped.
Soon, Wang Guobin knew why the Japanese army retreated. Zhuang Jihua called to criticize him severely: "You have stayed in Mentougou for too long. Gu Shoufu has fled to Tongzhou and is continuing to retreat north. You have missed the opportunity to fight. Now your troops do not need to attack Yanqing anymore, but concentrate their main forces to the east and attack the Miyun area of Huairou, striving to encircle and annihilate the main forces of the Japanese army north of Peiping."
Tani Shouo's actions alarmed Zhuang Jihua and Bai Chongxi. The two agreed that Okamura Yasuji would run. Zhuang Jihua ordered Tang Enbo to launch a tentative attack on Beiping, but was defeated by the Japanese army. Combined with Rigaosuke's previous information, Okamura Yasuji's overall strategy was exposed to Zhuang Jihua and Bai Chongxi.
Chapter completed!