Chapter 176 Fireline Rescue (2)
"We must rescue the surviving crew members of the US transport plane, including the remains!" Song Yuhang gave the death order to Chang Tianhang, the commander of the First Mechanization Division. Chang Tianfang naturally did not dare to slack off at all. He hurriedly drew elite soldiers and formed an armored commando, and passed through Longling City to head for the south of the city.
The Japanese army, which was closer to the emergency landing location of the transport plane, first discovered the US crew members who were preparing to retreat. While implementing firepower blocking, the Japanese army immediately reported to the front commander General Kawabian Zhengsan, and captured the US crew members alive for political propaganda. A plan to disagree and hit the morale of the Chinese and American armies suddenly formed in Kawabian Zhengsan's mind.
Chinese defenders are using artillery to launch artillery bombardment on Imperial Army positions near the U.S. transport planes’ emergency landing area, and Chinese defenders seem to be dispatching rescue troops to attempt to rescue U.S. crew members.
The US transport plane was forced to land in the 168th Infantry Regiment of the 49th Division of the Japanese Army, which was preparing to change defenses with the 51st Brigade, and then Masazo Kawabian directly connected the command post of the 49th Division. First, in an extremely stern tone, he expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the attack of the 49th Division last night, and instructed the division commander Saburo Takehara to be sure to capture the members of the US crew alive.
"Hi! Please rest assured! I must do my best!" Takehara Saburo put down his phone with a pale face. Saburo Takehara had a lot of complaints about the strategy and tactical deployment of Commander Masamo Kawabian. Since the Battle of Longling, the 49th Division has been playing the role of main attack. After three consecutive days of fierce fighting, the division reduced by nearly 40%. Especially last night's bloody battle caused the 49th Division to suffer the first heavy blow since its establishment.
The fierce battle was until early this morning. Saburo Takehara knew that the organization of his opponent, the First Mechanized Army, was different from the ordinary Chinese army. He had fought the first trench before, and the Chinese army, which he regarded as a regiment, was actually just a battalion? Saburo Takehara was not mentally prepared for the giant of the First Mechanized Army. He had always suspected that his opponent had the strength of an army. But why did he maintain such a large-scale defense depth!
Since its establishment, Song Yuhang has placed the confidentiality of the troops first. The First Mechanized Army has far exceeded the general national army's political review requirements for personnel, land and political review, and implemented two sets of organizational standards. It is said that it is organized according to the US military's mechanized heavy-dressing division, and internally it implements the existing main combat 5/5 organization.
Before the Longling Battle, the First Mechanized Army had never participated in any battle as a whole. The Japanese army knew that the main combat power of the First Mechanized Army was the First Mechanized Division. Although the division was known as an American heavy-armed division, its tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery were far less than the standard equipment of an American heavy-armed division. It is estimated that the insufficient personnel should be filled with infantry. The other two divisions of the First Mechanized Army were the so-called adjustment of the division scale of the Chinese Central Government Army. In addition to its heavy artillery brigade having strong combat power, the so-called mountain infantry brigade can be ignored.
The Japanese army never dreamed that the headquarters of the Chongqing First Mechanized Army, which was besieged by them in Longling, would have 60,000 people?
This "command" intelligence made Hebian Zhengsan almost vomit blood. He even began to doubt whether the empire's intelligence department was operating normally? He couldn't even understand the real structure of the main opponent?
"Can't there be no distinction between 30,000 and 60,000 people? This is equivalent to the troops of the two Chongqing armies!" The angry roar of Zheng San on the river made all the staff retreat.
In fact, the Japanese army was wrongly accusing the extremely efficient Japanese intelligence agency in Kunming City, under the jurisdiction of Song Yuhang, under the anti-espionage network as tight as an iron barrel. The Japanese army still used various means to obtain Song Yuhang's detailed description of the materials supplied by the Ministry of Military Affairs. Through this detail, the Japanese army accurately calculated the full strength of the First Mechanized Army.
However, the First Mechanized Army was truly organized. Only Chairman Jiang, who was in charge of Chongqing, knew clearly. The materials needed were always given priority and sufficient supply. Even Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force, only knew vaguely that the scale of the First Mechanized Army was larger than that of ordinary local military-level units.
In addition, Japanese military intelligence agencies usually use elite intelligence personnel to form separate intelligence teams, and spend a lot of money to lure local unsolicited elements to serve them. These local ordinary people lack basic training will not attract the attention of the Military Control Commission and the Central Commission for the Kunming anti-espionage area.
However, it is precisely because of the common sense errors of these lack of training intelligence personnel, which often mislead the Japanese intelligence departments. For example, this time, if they are experienced and experienced professional intelligence personnel, they will determine the actual number of people in the First Mechanized Army from the scale of vehicles and troops dispatched by the First Mechanized Army or the number of material supplies.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of these so-called spies who lack basic common sense, there is no difference between one hundred cars and two hundred cars. Especially during the march, there is a gendarmerie alert. The personnel dare not stay nearby for a long time. Moreover, the First Mechanized Army is mostly marching at night. Therefore, the Japanese intelligence agencies can only learn from these so-called "spy personnel" that "many, many cars, a long dragon, a loud noise, a loud tank, and a group of people!" and other concepts of vague intelligence.
These concepts are vaguely informed. Under the habit of the Japanese army's low evaluation of the Chinese army, the Japanese army's intelligence agencies eventually made serious mistakes in the assessment of the combat power of the First Mechanized Army. War is extremely fair. Any mistake requires a lot of life and blood to make up for the land. This is true for the Chinese army and the Japanese army.
The Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, whose title was robbed, Major General Qingqiu Yeli directly thought that the front commander of the front army, Masazo Kawabai made a complaint. In order to calm the indignation of the crowd, Masazo Kawabai had to order the unit to stand on the spot. If the 168th Infantry Regiment failed to attack, it would be replaced by the 51st Independent Mixed Brigade.
Capturing the crew of the US transport aircraft alive is not an easy task for the Japanese 168th Infantry Regiment. The gentle hill that the US transport aircraft forced to land was a very open area with great vision. For both Chinese and Japanese armies trying to move to the wreckage of the aircraft, they were directly exposed to the firepower of the other party.
In recent days, a large number of snipers from the front-line troops of the Chinese defenders have given the Japanese army accurate and deadly accurate strikes, especially for the basic Japanese combat forces such as Japanese grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers. While killing Japanese personnel, it seriously damaged the morale of the Japanese army. As soon as the Japanese officers and soldiers left the trenches, they were often locked by several snipers who had been waiting for a long time.
A large number of snipers were used flexibly by the grassroots troops! The Japanese grassroots officers were scared to death. For the fatal and annoying Chinese defender snipers, the Japanese frontier troops once used field artillery to counterattack. However, they were soon fired by the heavy artillery group of Chinese defenders in Longling City. The Japanese army, which was not worth the effort, quickly gave up fighting against the Chinese snipers and honestly started to win the turtle.
In order to fully implement the orders of Commander Masako Kawabian, Saburo Takehara personally arrived at the command of the 168th Infantry Corps and issued an order to the corps leader Toshigao Ishigao to capture the members of the US transport aircraft alive. Finally, Saburo Takehara lowered his voice and gently patted Toshigao Ishigao on the shoulder and said, "At a critical moment, use artillery fire to destroy the enemy. The Chinese army must not be allowed to rescue the Americans."
Toshigaki Ishihara nodded gently. Toshigaki Ishihara, a little dwarf from Sapporo with a small flat head and a squid face, is a cruel and ruthless butcher. He has been suppressed and beaten by the Chinese army these days, which has made him very unhappy. Capturing the merit of the US pilot will undoubtedly be a highlight of the Longling Battle.
In order to reduce the casualties of the troops exposed to open areas, Ishihara Toshigao organized fifty Type 89 heavy grenade launchers, followed behind the two brigades of Chengxie Line Column to advance to the ground to implement smoke barrage cover.
The Fifth Regiment of the Third Infantry Division in the South of the City is closest to the U.S. transport plane crash landing location. Seeing the Japanese army using smoke barrage, the regiment commander Wang Huairen put down his telescope and said to the first battalion commander Hou Bing: "Battlefield Commander Hou, the rescue team of the First Mechanized Division may not be too late. Lead your camp immediately. Hurry up to the crash site before the Japanese army to establish defensive support. At all costs, defend to the rescue team of the First Mechanized Division and arrive and cover them to retreat. I will apply for artillery fire to support you."
"Yes! Resolutely implement the order!" Hou Bing saluted a military salute and turned around and left quickly.
Soon a camp, Chinese soldiers quickly arrived at the first trench in front. Hou Bing wore an M1-type steel helmet and held a Thomson submachine gun with 50 rounds of drums. He walked to the trenches and pulled his collar and shouted: "Brothers! The big American nose fell from the sky. They are our allies. They risk their lives every day to drop food and drink ammunition for us. We Chinese people are most concerned about being rewarded with the grace of people. Now they are in danger. Do you think we can not save them?"
"No!" The Chinese soldiers' faces were filled with an inexplicable joy. In their eyes, they were always Americans, who were always high and on the ground of giving, and it was finally its turn to show their faces. Even my life was saved by me. The Chinese soldiers were very proud!
"Come on! The Japanese who beat him up!" Hou Bing raised his arms and shouted, and the Chinese soldiers rushed out of the trenches like a tide. Although the Chinese soldiers were far away from the forced landing location, the Chinese soldiers launched a charge without any scruples of Japanese intercepting fire. The closer Japanese army used smoke barrage to cover it slowly, but the Japanese army landed behind the Chinese army.
Seeing this, Toshigao Ishihara hurriedly ordered the firepower of the wing to concentrate on blocking and shooting. Chinese soldiers continued to move forward in the rain of bullets, without any intention of slowing down. Chinese soldiers who were later and far away were the first to pick up the US transport plane near the emergency landing location.
Seeing this, Totoko Ishihara was shocked and hurriedly urged his subordinates to speed up their advance!
Chapter completed!