Section 416 A battle begins

The headquarters of the 2nd Division in Hamhung, Nakajima Masaotake and Chief of Staff Miura were studying the situation, and the current 2nd Division was well deployed from the perspective of the garrison army. Controlling the major towns along the railway line, the guys of the Samhan Restoration Army had to return to the north bank of the Yalu River except to wander around the deep mountains and old forests of Hamgyong Mountain and Motianling. However, if the Wehrmacht in China invades on a large scale, this long snake formation will be a dead formation, and the opponent will be able to quickly break through this thin defense line with air superiority and the speed of the armored assault, and at that time, the second division, which lacks mobility, can only watch the 16th Wing and the 30th Wing be eaten by the enemy, and the 29th Wing is stationed on the line from Huishan to Xinpo, and the troops are already thin and unusable. The only mobile force in the hands of the division was the 4th Wing of Hamxing and Wulao. The 2nd Cavalry Wing has been dispatched, but this is only half a wing of just over 700 cavalry (2 squadrons have been left in the country to train recruits and serve as flag guards. If you encounter the enemy's armored forces, you may not be able to resist for long.

However, the chief of staff and Nakajima were most puzzled by the fact that if the China Defense Forces were to go to war, it seemed that it would be smoother to march from the Dandong direction, and that the western plains were the most suitable terrain for the use of armored forces, so could the China Army be satisfied with the results of recapturing the Kanto Prefecture? "Report, the garrison army headquarters urgently telegraphed." A staff officer on duty knocked on the door from the outside and came in, "This is an order, Lieutenant General Daiwa Jiro ordered the 4th Wing of our division to quickly move out and support the 19th Division in the direction of the stadium through Heecheon." At the same time, the 2nd Engineer Wing and the 2nd Field Artillery Wing were invited to accompany the support. ”

"Could it be that Yoshiharu Ozaki has a big basket there? That is, there is a problem in the direction of Dandong. "Lieutenant General Nakajima and Chief of Staff Miura hurriedly planned the route from the map, and at the same time, the operational staff officers had already begun to organize the 4th Wing and the Engineer and Field Artillery Wings to gather their troops and prepare for the march in accordance with the order.

"If Dandong is upward, the 19th Division is heavily guarding the line of Dingzhou, Guicheng, and Yanchuan, and it will be difficult for the enemy to break through this area even if it is an armored force, and the 4th Wing can rush to the stadium, and if it advances, it can threaten the enemy's flank, and if it retreats, it can go south to Anzhou, covering the retreat of the 19th Division." Miura has quickly analyzed the purpose of Lieutenant General Dating, but in this way, the defense of the Eastern Front will be opened, and who knows if the Shina army will invade from the direction of Manpu and Jiangjie? However, Miura has no choice, after all, he is now temporarily dispatched to the sequence of the Sanhan garrison, and he still has to obey the command of the garrison.

"Division commander, division commander, here has just received an urgent telegram from the 29th Wing of Xinpu, both directions in the northeast and north of Xinpu are surrounded by unknown troops, the opponent's artillery is fierce, and it is attacking our 29th Wing headquarters, requesting tactical guidance from the division."

"Sinpo? How did the Chinese army cross Fengshan, could it be that they all put on their wings and flew over? "Nakajima is very angry, the 4th Wing has been dispatched for a morning, and it is impossible to rush back at all, and there is only one baggage 2nd Wing and the 2nd Mountain Artillery Wing left in his hand, and the 4th Division of the Sanhan Yasukuni Army is not angry, which is no worse than the 4th Division in Osaka." Immediately contact the 2nd Cavalry Wing and Matsui Shaozo and tell him that he must make every effort to relieve the encirclement of Xinpu, open the passage between Qingjin and Xinpu, and rescue the 16th Wing. ”

"Hayi. I immediately kept contacting Matsui-kun. "The communications staff officer is very discerning and goes out. Chief of Staff Miura was also very confused about the current situation, but the command of the division commander was still very reasonable, but "Your Excellency the division commander, where is the 30th Wing?" ”

"Miura-kun, I'm afraid the 30th Wing has been defeated. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Chinese army to open up the line of communication and surround the Xinpo garrisoned by the 29th Wing, Fengshan has been lost, and now the mission of the 29th Wing is to ensure the retreat of the 16th Wing in Qingjin, otherwise our 2nd Division will lose half of its strength. ”

I didn't expect the division commander to be so pessimistic, but Miura also felt that the situation in this war was changing too quickly, and the second division, which was fully loaded in the morning, became precarious, and could not even protect its four wings. Chief of Staff Miura and a group of staff officers began to mobilize troops, arrange supplies, send military police to control transportation, mobilize the soldiers in the countryside of the reclamation regiment to hurry up and integrate into the supplementary corps, and even privately arranged for Miura to take his wife and son who came to visit relatives to take the train to Seoul, and then transfer to Busan to return to China.

At this time, Matsui Shaozo did not have these troubles, he took the two squadrons of the brave Second Cavalry Wing behind him, more than 700 cavalry, thousands of cavalry rolled up to Pinggang, and went straight to Xinpu. The majestic Matsui Shaosa and the two cavalry squadrons led the way in the forward position of the cavalry queue, leaving Morikawa Daisa with the staff officers to press the formation behind. At this moment, Matsui Shaozo has already imagined that he can cut off countless enemy heads with a snowy saber, maybe it will look very majestic when hung on the horse's neck, and the enemy may be frightened, the only thing that bothers him is that the current soldiers are all short-haired or bald, and they are not as convenient as the big braids of the previous Qing people, and they have to find another rope to tie their heads.

"Da-da-da-da." Seven or eight silver-white fighters suddenly appeared from behind the small hill on the south side of the official road, and before the cavalry queue could react and start evacuating, the other party had already begun to lower the nose of the plane and dive, six 12.7 mm aviation machine guns were like iron plowshares across the queue, bringing up six blood-colored lightning, and the dense marching army column immediately vacated a line of alleys, but the cavalry who escaped the catastrophe was not lucky to go anywhere, and the planes behind continued to strafe from both sides, and the men and horses were shattered. Matsui Shigen fell to the ground, rolling, until he hit a small tree, but the big hole in his waist spilled all the way to his little water, and finally the body was directly separated by this collision, the lower half of his body was left on the side of the road, and the part above his chest cavity fell into the stinky ditch on the side of the road, and before he could figure out why the enemy plane came from the south behind him, it was flooded by the stinky water, and there was really no way to verify whether this guy was choked or killed.

"Uncle Suozi, I'm out of bullets, let's go back." A young pilot with a Dongchang accent said on the throat microphone, as if saying that he didn't have a few copper plates in his pocket, and that he was going home from the set.

"I said, Erbald, how many times have I told you, you have to call me Captain Zhao on the team, and if you don't want to climb the ranks, call me a nickname." The pilot, Zhao Suoqiang, was a little old, and he criticized the rookie while pulling up the plane.

"But, why do you still call me by my nickname? You have all the orders you have to do it, and you criticize us. The pilot, who was nicknamed Erbald, muttered, but he forgot to turn it off

"Hahaha." The team burst into laughter during the internal call. There was a cough in Zhao Suoqiang's intercom, probably angry with his eldest nephew, who was now enjoying a rare peaceful time during the war now that the task had been completed. Behind them are the two squadrons of the 2nd Cavalry Wing, which are in a mess, and when Morikawa Osa gathered up the cavalry, he almost didn't cry, two squadron leaders, two squadrons attached to the commander of the Nakajima Division, Matsui * Shaosa, have now become part of the flesh and blood of this place, the wing and the chief of staff are training cavalry in the homeland, and now the entire company has no adjutant except for him, eight lieutenants have died, and there are less than three hundred soldiers left, looking at these wooden cavalry who have not blinked their eyes, Knowing that sending them to Sinpo was sending them to death, Morikawa immediately decided to lead the remnants back to Hamhung. The radio was damaged, and they had to find a telephone in a small town called Muchuan and report their losses to the division, but they were scolded by the commander of the division Nakajima, and then asked him to return to Hamxing with the remnants, because the division had become an empty shelf, and even the baggage troops were sent to watch the Yasukuni army, and the entire second division could mobilize less than a small team.

Zhao Suoqiang They didn't actually come to the second cavalry wing, they set out from Dandong, covering the bomber wing to attack the Japanese Pyongyang airfield on the way back, and received an order to let them have these F4 war eagles with sufficient fuel to go to the Xinpu battlefield on the eastern front to support, and then alternate to land at the Fengshan airfield that had just been leveled, but I didn't expect to meet a large group of Japanese cavalry on the road, anyway, there is a fighter wing behind the troops, and the two squads of the vanguard team simply hugged the grass and beat the rabbits, and they slipped away after a vote, Anyway, even if it is to support the Sinpo battlefield, those Wehrmacht forces have nothing to say, and they can return to the base early, so why not.

At this moment, Pyongyang is already in chaos, and in the Chitose Hotel in Pyongyang, facing the city of Pyongyang, where smoke is rising everywhere and fires are lit everywhere, Lieutenant General Yoshiharu Ozaki, the commander of the 19th Division of the Garrison Army, is already full of sadness. The airport outside the city, the railway station, the barracks, and the storehouse in the city were all attacked by the other side's air raids, and the other side obviously came prepared, and the damage to the target was very good, and there was no way to catch fire, the railway station was the first target to be bombed, and the special platform and warehouse of the Japanese garrison army were razed to the ground, while the Pyongyang passenger station, which was less than 100 meters apart, was almost unscathed, and those hateful Samhan sticks actually dared to show a disdainful and schadenfreude smile to the garrison troops who were fighting the fire and saving people, no wonder the soldiers could not suppress their anger, Teach the Samhan people how to make a good stick with light and heavy machine gun grenades* shells, and only dead sticks are good sticks. The airfield was even more on fire, the air defense posts were pulled out in advance, the alarm line and the ammunition depot door were locked, and they could not be opened at all. The Japanese planes could not take off. Even if you fly, you don't have ammunition, it's just a food delivery. However, there was no ammunition on the air defense position, so we had to watch the Chinese Air Force renovate this airfield with tons of bombs, and the Kisarazu Air Force, which had just been stationed for only a month, was considered to have fallen into blood mold, not only did the more than 300 planes salvage and less than 10 of them could be put together, but all the ammunition and fuel were destroyed, and a few fireworks (detonation) were still set off from time to time in the direction of the airport.