Chapter 35: The Great Return (12)
When Cheng Jiaji thought that Wen Songyuan and the two hundred regiments he brought out were at the end of his strength, Wen Lao Er gave his own boss a small surprise.
Under the impact of several of the most elite fully automatic firearms of the 200th Regiment, a squadron of the Japanese army that stood in front of the 200th Regiment could not hold on anymore. A small team of Japanese army was killed under the fierce firepower of the 200th Regiment, causing the squadron's defense to collapse.
As a result, the three companies at the forefront of the attack formation of the 200th regiment were embedded in the Japanese position 200 meters. For a moment, with the firepower of the two regiments that were about to arrive to enter the battle, the offensive of the 200th regiment was revived and became much sharper.
Under Wen Songyuan's personal dispatch, the 200th Regiment launched fierce firefighting with the Japanese troops on both sides. Under Wen Songyuan's personal command, the other troops continued to forcefully interject the depth of the Japanese positions.
"Block all the two squadrons as reserves to the front. Be sure to drive the Chinese army out."
Colonel Yoshihara knew that he had done this to fulfill his opponent's wish, but he had no other way. He could not transfer the troops that were deployed on other positions to the line of fire, so that the opponent would have even more opportunities.
Colonel Yoshihara had two things to understand at this moment. The first one was why the attack power of the Chinese army that was attacking his position was so strong. Moreover, the firepower of the three vanguard companies had been fighting for so long but they had not weakened at all. Could it be that these hundreds of Chinese soldiers were all iron men?
Colonel Yoshihara's second puzzle was what the old antiques in the military headquarters thought, and they repeatedly rejected the suggestion of equipping the army with submachine guns, which directly led to the "Imperial" army encountering opponents with more automatic firearms in close combat, often at a disadvantage in infantry fire density. If this was not the case, this Chinese army, which was desperate to make a breakthrough in the central government, would not have made any breakthroughs.
Colonel Yoshihara's second confusion was the internal conflicts of the Japanese army, so I won't say it for now. Yoshihara's first confusion answer was actually very simple. Of course, Wen Songyuan and his subordinates were not immortal in copper and iron bones, but they just played a trick of replacing them one after another. If you look closely at the triangular cone array of 200 regiments in close proximity, you will find that this formation is constantly moving, that is, the people in front have exhausted all the people behind quickly, so that the cone head can be kept sharp.
But in the end, the war always depends on strength to decide everything. After Colonel Yoshihara gritted his teeth and sent reinforcements from the two squadrons to arrive at the front line, the offensive of the 200th Regiment was immediately bounced back like sea water hitting the reef. Not only did it not attack forward half a step, but it was beaten to retreat seventy or eighty meters by the Japanese new forces.
"Retract the formation and defend the death on the spot." Wen Songyuan was not a person who could only act recklessly. Seeing that his troops did not advance but retreated for the first time since the war started, he immediately realized that the potential of the 200th Regiment had reached its limit. If he blindly attacked with courage, the string that was now tight would be broken. With Wen Songyuan's timely adjustment, the troops of the 200th Regiment immediately formed a three-sided defensive formation, and supported it with all their strength under the three sides of Japan, thinking that the troops behind him left the nail embedded in the Japanese position.
Of course, the Japanese army would not want to have a sharp knife in their weakness. Seeing that the two subsequent regiments of the Chinese army were about to move closer to the 200th regiment, Colonel Yoshihara put all the guards of the command center into battle, and the Colonel himself rushed to the front line to supervise the battle. For a moment, the positions of the 200th regiment were under great pressure, and the soldiers of the 200th regiment fell one after another. What's more serious is that the two Japanese squadrons on the front had forced themselves to the front line.
In order to stabilize the crumbling position, Wen Songyuan led three companies with more than half of their combat power to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army attacking from the front.
"Men should kill people, and they will be merciless. The immortal karma of thousands of years is all in killing people." At the most critical moment of the battle, hundreds of Chinese good men sang this war song that started from Taierzhuang and flew across the banks of the Xiaoba River. They jumped from the position and swept it with their automatic weapons. When the Japanese army rushed in front of them, they pulled out the sword on their backs and the Japanese army that forced them to the front of the position to launch a life-and-death close-fitting feat.
‘Do you think about drawing another squadron from the troops responsible for the defense line behind you?’ The battle was so fierce that Colonel Yoshihara began to be undecided. After all, if the 200th regiment could not be driven out and the Chinese troops of the two subsequent regiments rushed up again, the strength of the 106th regiment would not be able to ensure the existing defense line at all.
The Chinese army solved this trouble for Colonel Yoshihara. The two regiments of Chinese troops arrived on the battlefield when Colonel Yoshihara hesitated and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army from the wings of the 200th regiment.
Under the impact of the new army of the Chinese army, two regiments who joined the battlefield and also attacked forward in a triangular cone formation, the Japanese army, which was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength on both wings of the position of the 200th regiment, could not resist and had no time to retreat, and was immediately swallowed up by the crowds of people rushing up to the Chinese army.
At this time, the front lines of the three regiments of the Independent 100 Division, which had nearly 5,000 combat power, had been connected in one go and pushed towards the Japanese position.
"The entire line is shrinking, abandoning the front half of the position, and all the troops of the corps are concentrated and fixed the second half of the position." Colonel Yoshihara shouted loudly on the phone call to each brigade command center. At this time, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the situation in the Japanese army is not very good, and this bad situation is still expanding.
From the beginning of the war to the present, Colonel Yoshihara did not make any obvious mistakes in combat command, and his performance was remarkable. The reason for this situation on the battlefield where troops of the 100th Independent Division were attacking one-sidedly.
In fact, the main responsibility for this should be that the Lieutenant General of Ogisu, who was blocked by a reinforced camp led by Ma Siyuan, was blocked by the Cliff of the Falling Horse. From the very beginning, when the Lieutenant General of Ogisu formulated this plan to encircle and block, he forgot the famous saying in Sun Tzu's Art of War: "Don't stop returning to the army."
What's more, the Independent 100 Division, whose retreat was cut off, is not just a returnee. It is not an independent 100 Division of a weak brigade. The battle broke out in this situation is undoubtedly amazing, and it is not something that a corps can stop.
The biggest threat to the Japanese army is the cavalry that is far stronger than the Japanese army. As long as the Japanese army is in chaos, the Japanese infantry who have left the position under the impact of the large group of cavalry, without a strict formation and a well-arranged firepower network can be imagined. This forces Colonel Yoshihara to keep his hands and feet in command, which directly caused the Japanese army to be in a passive situation as a whole.
Colonel Yoshihara's helpless move to abandon the front half of the formation city was to keep the two armies apart to fix the second half of the position, but in the end he failed.
There is a hidden sharp knife in the 199th Regiment of the Independent 100 Brigade on the left side of the front line, which is the Guard Battalion of the Independent 100 Division. The equipment and soldiers of the battalion are the highest in the same level as the Independent 100 Division, and the attack power of the unit is even stronger than that of the 200 Regiment. The battalion commander of this battalion, Ma Sanbao, always seems a little dull in front of Cheng Jiaji, if he really fights, half of Qian Shen's student will be very skilled
.In the previous attack, the guard battalion deliberately concealed some of its strength, so that the Japanese army did not realize that the combat power of this unit was outstanding. When the Japanese army contracted its position, under the leadership of Ma Sanbao, the guard battalion took advantage of the Japanese army's unpreparedness to attack the center of the Japanese position and clashed with all his might. Relying on its powerful infantry firepower and excellent tactical qualities, it hit the bullet at the gate of Colonel Yoshihara's command post fifteen minutes later.
At that time, Ma Sanbao did not realize that the small victory of his battle breakthrough would lay a solid foundation for the victory of the Independent 100 Division in this war. He just created opportunities to advance into the depths of the Japanese position according to Qian Shen's military motto of "the brave man on the narrow road wins".
Seeing that the command center was besieged and returned to the rescue, Wen Songyuan would spare this god-given opportunity to bite the Japanese tail and advance rapidly. After nearly two tug-of-war, the Chinese and Japanese armies finally entered a state of melee.
"Win!"
Seeing that the two armies were already tightly mixed together, Cheng Jiaji, who had been nervously paying attention to every slight change on the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, vomiting a turbid air.
"Teacher! Do you want to urge Deputy Liu?" Xing Yusheng, who had been accompanying Cheng Jiaji, reminded his commander. Except for a company that was on the custody of the seal, his troops were all assigned to Wen Songyuan to command the Japanese army on the plains at the foot of the mountain. Although he did not command in front of the battle, this thrilling battle made him feel cold and sweaty in his palms.
"No need, Liu Qitian has been playing cavalry for half a lifetime, and he will not miss this opportunity." Cheng Jiaji said that he was very sure, but in fact he was also worried, 'Liu Tianlong, Brother Qi Tian, Brother Liu, Lao Lao, don't "stop" me at this time!'
Liu Tianlong's cavalry had been lurking in the earthen encirclement for a long time, just waiting for the fighter plane in front of him. With a loud military horn, more than a thousand sabers were raised, and then the small zha medicine package placed under the wall of the earthen encirclement was detonated at the same time. In an instant, four or five hundred meters of earthen walls were blown up. Liu Tianlong raised his horse's head and shouted, "Brothers, kill!" He led thousands of cavalry to sweep across the right wing of the Japanese army who was fighting with Wen Songyuan on the plain.
Chapter completed!