Chapter 50: Taiwan Strategy (6)

Shi Guangshuihuang, who commanded the garrison division, found that the momentum was not good, so he switched from ambush to garrison, but before the remnants of the garrison division under his command could complete the construction of the position, the pursuing force under Zhang Lingpu's personal command had already arrived. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "Fight directly, order the armored troops to attack, and the infantry will follow closely behind me and press on me, and I will tear open the other party's turtle shell at once." Zhang Lingpu's face was full of arrogance at this time, and he believed in his heart that the remnants of the Japanese army on the other side were already in his pocket.

The Japanese garrison division shrank its strength and tried to confront the forward troops of the New Fifth Army before reinforcements arrived, but when he learned that the reinforcements were coming, he forgot that his opponent still had helicopter gunships, a battlefield killing weapon that could adapt to almost any terrain. Just as the remnants of the garrison division began to shrink its strength, the helicopter group that had returned to the landing site to replenish ammunition came again, and amid the shouts and cheers of the soldiers of the forward units of the New Fifth Army, the helicopter group that had rushed to the combat area made a brazen attack.

More than 30 helicopter gunships were divided into two echelons, one group directly crossed the Japanese positions to copy the rear road, while the other group of helicopters directly poured barrage on the Japanese positions. More than a dozen rapid-fire machine guns, as if they didn't need money, fired tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition into the Japanese positions in just two minutes. Accompanied by the rapid sound of gunfire and the waterfall of bullet casings falling from helicopters, the position that the Japanese garrison had just assembled was once again broken by the barrage falling from the sky.

At the same time as the helicopter group started fighting, the two forward regiments 612 and 613 under the personal command of Zhang Lingpu, under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, also rushed to the Japanese position like tigers descending from the mountain, and the remnants of Chiang's Japanese army were divided at the first time. The barrage of blows from the air had already made the Japanese officers and men of the garrison division feel fear from the bottom of their hearts about the battle they were about to face, and just before this fear was completely eliminated, the other side shuttled back and forth in their positions as if they were in a no-man's land, relying on their own strong firepower, and once again hit the already weak morale of the remnants of the garrison division.

At the same time, it also made them understand that the Chinese army they were about to face was not as cowardly as the superiors advertised, but an elite force that was stronger than them in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment. However, the remnants of the garrison division of thousands of people were quickly divided into three parts, and in addition to the division and encirclement of the follow-up troops, the ambush battle originally planned by Shi Guangshui Huang almost had no suspense and evolved into a war of annihilation of the garrison division on the side of the national army. The whole battle came and ended quickly, and the last telegram for help sent by Shi Guangshui was sent in time.

However, as the commander of the garrison division, Shi Guang Shuihuang did not insist until the arrival of reinforcements, so he reported to the so-called Amaterasu in advance, and did not even send a farewell telegram before he died. At the cost of less than 1,000 casualties, the New Fifth Army completely annihilated 10,000 members of Taiwan's 1st Garrison Division and won its first victory since the landing of the troops, leaving no more Japanese troops in formation within a radius of several tens of kilometers from the entire landing site.

With the end of the battle, the forward troops of the New Fifth Army hurriedly took away some of the weapons and ammunition that could still be used, and then returned to the Xiangshan beachhead, as for the corpses of the Japanese troops all over the ground and this messy and bloody battlefield, they were left to the Japanese reinforcements. Compared with the garrison division that had just been encircled and annihilated by the New Fifth Army, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Xiangshan Division was obviously much stronger, so Zhuo Fei ordered the forward troops of the New Fifth Army to withdraw to the landing ground.

Luring the enemy to fight, this is the main tactic that Zhuo Fei intends to deal with the Japanese Xiangshan Division, this tactic looks a little negative, but the New Fifth Army in the landing field can get the artillery support of the temporary fleet at any time. Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and the roar of planes from far and near suddenly sounded over the landing site, which had fallen into death-like tranquility, and immediately after, more than a dozen faint black dots appeared in the sky in the direction of Taipei. More than a dozen Japanese fighters who had arrived belatedly had just arrived over the battlefield, and the tragic situation on the ground was clearly displayed in front of them.

On the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder dispersed, the corpses of Japanese soldiers were scattered on the battlefield in a messy manner, and the dense scalp of people couldn't help but feel numb. Of course, this is not the most important thing, because the death of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers is too tragic, so the entire battlefield is almost filled with a strong smell of blood. Even if these Japanese fighter pilots were hundreds of meters above the ground, they seemed to be able to smell a strong smell of blood. "Sakata-kun, this....is it that the 1st Garrison Division has all been shattered...."Seeing the tragic scene in front of him, on a two-seater reconnaissance plane, the young Japanese pilot forcibly endured the gastric juice that had already rushed to his throat, and asked his companion with an unbelievable expression.

"Yaga, Ono, you bastard, don't you have long eyes? Such a low-level question, you still have to ask me. I really didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the people of China would be so strong, and in just a few hours, the more than 10,000 imperial troops of the First Garrison Division were all shattered. Immediately report the situation here to the Governor's Palace, and ask for the next combat order...."Sakata, who was piloting the reconnaissance plane, ordered helplessly while slowing down the reconnaissance plane, and slowly fell behind the other fighters.

I don't know if it was the luck of this reconnaissance plane or some other reason, but Ichiro Sakata, who was piloting the reconnaissance plane, slowed down for less than a minute, when he suddenly found that the other fighters flying in front of him were scattered like a herd of horses that had blown up a herd of horses. There was no time for Ichiro Sakata to react, and the group of carrier-based planes flying at high speed from the direction of the coast pounced on him with murderous vigour, relying on the high speed of the reconnaissance plane, Ichiro Sakata was lucky enough to avoid the rockets fired by the carrier-based planes. It's just that after he tried his best to lift the nose of the plane and escaped, he found that the more than ten fighters that took off from Taipei seemed to be the only one left.

The Governor's Office of the Japanese Army in Taipei received rescue reports from the First Garrison Division in succession, and Governor Hasegawa Qing's eyes were full of anxiety, and the whole person seemed to have aged several years all of a sudden, and hurriedly walked into the quiet war room with messy steps. Before he had time to catch his breath, Hasegawa Kiyoshi aimed his sharp eyes at the chief of staff, Takashi Fujita. Fujita Takushi, who was stared at by Hasegawa Kiyoshi, had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Your Excellency the Governor, our first garrison division deployed in Xiangshan did not hold out for even four hours before the army of the Chinese landed on the coast of Xiangshan. In my judgment, the 1st Garrison Division may have been completely broken by now....and it is very likely that the troops of the Chinese have already established a landing ground in Xiangshan. ”

"Your Excellency Shirakawa, what about our Air Force? What does the Air Force do to eat, why not take off early and rush to the battlefield? In the face of the sudden huge losses, Governor Hasegawa Kiyoshi, who was unable to adapt for a while, directly vented his anger on Lieutenant General Baichuan, the commander of the Japanese Flying Division in Taiwan. In the face of the anger of the governor Hasegawa Kiyoshi, even Hyamokawa Kojiro, who was the commander of the division, could not bear the disaster and guilt brought to him by the annihilation of the entire division and regiment, and quickly opened his mouth to defend himself.

"Your Excellency the Governor, please calm your anger, I have ordered the bomber group to rush to the landing beachhead in Xiangshan at once to avenge the warriors of the First Garrison Division of Jade Shatter." Momogawa Kojiro's assurance did not make Hasegawa Kiyoshi's anger dissipate, but under Fujita Takushi's continuous hints, Hasegawa Kiyoshi had to secretly suppress his anger and reprimanded Momogawa Kojiro a few words without pain, at this critical juncture, Hasegawa Kiyoshi didn't want to have a rift inside himself.

After a short period of contemplation, Hasegawa Kiyoshi waved his hand and said with a solemn face: "Ladies and gentlemen, the defeat of the First Garrison Division means that there are no more Imperial Formed Units around the Shina landing force. Therefore, we must immediately mobilize troops to block this landing Chinese army on the beach of Xiangshan and prevent it from penetrating inland. Otherwise, Taiwan will be really dangerous...."In the face of life and death, Hasegawa Kiyoshi's subordinates did not dare to shirk any more, and they all opened their mouths to promise that they would obey Hasegawa Kiyoshi's command and exert all their strength.

"Orders: First, all coastal garrisons should immediately be brought into a state of first-class combat readiness to prevent the landing of the Chinese army from other defensive lines. The entire coastal defense line is divided according to the current defense area, and all responsibility lies with each division and brigade, and if there is a problem in the defense line of that division and regiment, the division commander shoots him on the spot. Second, with the exception of the Xiangshan Division, which is returning to Xiangshan, other units close to Xiangshan should also quickly assemble in the Xiangshan area, and strive to block all the passages through which the landing force of China is trying to pass through Xiangshan to the south and east, and must block it in the Xiangshan area, and must not advance a single step into the interior of Taiwan. ”

"Third, immediately dispatch reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the specific strength and equipment of the landing force in China. At the same time, all fighters were dispatched to carry out continuous bombardment of the beachhead of the China landing, slowing down the landing speed as much as possible, and gaining enough time for the troop mobilization of our troops. I hope that you will immediately and unconditionally implement these three orders. Otherwise, not only me, but everyone standing here will become a battle merit in the hands of the Chinese army. Hasegawa Kiyoshi gradually regained his proper appearance as a governor, and issued orders in succession with a majestic face.

Originally, he just wanted to keep the Chinese army under the command of Zhuo Fei out of the coastline, but the battle situation in front of him made Hasegawa Kiyoshi have to make a desperate bet, planning to use all the forces in his hands to fight Zhuo Fei to the death. In Hasegawa Kiyoshi's view, the Chinese army attacking Taiwan is a distant division, and the empire's troops and expatriates in Taiwan have combined to exceed one million, even if it is a war of attrition with the other side, Hasegawa Kiyoshi is confident that he will win the final victory.