Section 423 Ishihara's troops defeat Inhoi Castle
"Yaga, is Kusaka Jingchun a country wild samurai? Didn't he know that he was now in a desperate situation with the 21 Brigade? He will also listen to the words of a young general, how can he be a major general? "Lieutenant General Suzuki Sho 6 is already in a state of rage, the Fifth Division originally planned to block the menacing Seventh Army at Jecheon and Nyeoel on the eastern front of Samhan, if the other side can be allowed to go deep rashly, it would be better to knock out one of the opponent's tanks, anyway, the eighteen standing divisions in the country in the back, except for the Guards Division and the First Division, basically have to come to Sanhan. But this grass deer pure hand, directly reported to the regimental headquarters of the division, God knows that the current military bosses are set up expressions, obviously can stubbornly defend the existing defense line, but come up with a trick of sneaking attack on Hengcheng County, this advance is not retreat, without air superiority and anti-armor forces, the imperial army can rely on fortifications to carry the Chinese aircraft and tanks is good, now the fifth division is easy to enter Hengcheng County, it is not a simple problem to hold it, and it is a lone army to go deep if it is held, Before more Imperial troops landed, the Fifth Division ended up in total annihilation. If the 21st Brigade is ordered to abandon Hengcheng County, then he must not be scolded by the people in the country as a waste snack that fears the enemy like a tiger.
"Your Excellency the division commander, maybe the situation is not so bad, I think they are planning to hit the Chinese army by surprise, you see, the current three divisions of the Eighth Army are already facing off against the Fourth Division and the Nineteenth Division in the Pyeongtaek area, and there is only one mountain division stationed in Suwon between Seoul and Pyeongtaek, if the 21st Brigade is directly inserted..."
"Pop" a teacup directly C on this big bald head, the tea water poured into the face, the bald staff officer almost choked to death, with tea foam on his head, like a tea egg stupid on the spot.
"Straight in? Plug in* Your mother, you street boy, you look at the terrain, from Seoul to Pyeongtaek is less than 200 kilometers, all plains, the other party now has two armored divisions in Seoul, Pyeongtaek is two infantry divisions and a fast division, all the work on wheels, do you think that the little short legs of the grass deer guy can run over the wheels of a car? "It seems that the division commander trained the revolutionary party troops in Guangdong and learned a lot of dialects.
"Maybe Ishihara's plan is to cut off the rear route of the 97th Division in Gangneung to the east, and then flank the opponent's division with my 9th Brigade?" The chief of staff had already guessed Ishihara's plan, which was to take advantage of the fact that the Seventh Army was not firmly on foothold and the troops were pulling away, cutting off one of the opponent's fingers first.
"This morning, a destroyer of the Sixth Fleet was sunk by Chinese fighter jets and attack aircraft off the coast of Sanyang." Lieutenant General Suzuki Shoroku said helplessly that when the other staff officers were still confused, the chief of staff had already reacted.
"The enemy's air force has already been stationed in Gangneung?"
"Yes, judging from the range, the opponent's aviation has already been stationed in Gangneung, and the size will not be less than one wing." Lieutenant General Suzuki Shoroku knows very well that the range of the fighters must not allow their bases to be too far away from the patrol area, otherwise in the event of an exchange of fire, the time spent in the air will be greatly shortened.
"Well, the 21st Brigade is in danger, hurry up and contact them, tell him to pay attention to air defense, and order them to immediately withdraw from the Eastern Front no matter what, and move closer to Ningcheng." The chief of staff understood the situation of the 21 brigade and, of course, tried to save them. It seems that Ishihara-kun is going to suffer a big loss this time, after all, the Japanese army does not have air supremacy, and once this large-scale interspersed detour falls into the sight of the enemy's air force, the consequences are incredible.
But what is even more incredible now is the fragmented communication station in front of Ishihara, where a Wehrmacht field 25W radio station is being placed in front of him in a parted state. An IDF prisoner of war was carried in front of him, his face blackened with a gaping hole in his stomach and his intestines broken into a pile of hollow noodles. Apparently unable to live, but a scornful smile emerged from the face of the prisoner of war. Just now, Ishihara was going to use it to see if he could receive some information about the other side's deployment through the Wehrmacht's telegraph machine, but he had just evaded the Chinese army's reconnaissance plane, and before he could reach the queue of the communications detachment, he heard a dull explosion in the woods on the side of the road.
"What's going on?" Ishihara grabbed a soldier and asked, "How did this radio station blow up?" What's going on with him? ”
"That's right, Ishihara-kun." The country soldier was about to cry, stammering and couldn't say why, Captain Shinji Ono, a communications staff officer, couldn't see it, and explained for him, "This prisoner of war is the one of the Shina reconnaissance team captured by Hengcheng County, and it has just discovered that the enemy's air force plane is scouting nearby, this is the second time this afternoon, Major General Kusaka thinks that we may be exposed, in order to test the enemy's movements, we asked this prisoner of war to turn on his wireless telegraph, anyway, he didn't send a telegram, he couldn't send a telegram, But I didn't expect this guy to pounce on the telegraph as soon as he turned it on, clutching the telegraph tightly, and I don't know why it exploded, and..."
"Devil...."The Wehrmacht prisoner on the stretcher spat two mouthfuls of dirty blood in his mouth, muttered a sentence and tilted his head before his eyes were open and silent. Ishihara understood, there must be a self-destruct device in the telegraph, this prisoner of war was stunned and captured by a grenade * bomb, he had no chance to commit suicide, and letting him touch the telegraph gave him a chance to destroy the device and kill himself, so he would hold the telegraph that was about to explode, Ishihara took off his military hat and saluted the prisoner of war who looked like a student, no matter what, a warrior who dared to use suicide to resist is a worthy warrior, even if he is an enemy.
"Is it true that the telegram is not coming out?" Ishihara was relieved when he saw the transmitter in Captain Ono's hand, it was just a self-detonation, and it was good that the target was not exposed. The reconnaissance plane in the sky didn't care about him, anyway, everyone was wearing white sheets, and who could see it from the sky when they were lying in the snow. There are electronic components and broken iron sheets all over the ground, and it seems that there is no possibility of repairing this radio station at all, "Bury these with him, this soldier is a real warrior, although he can't be buried during the march, but he must also be buried in the earth and set up a mark." ”
"Yes, Shaozo. He certainly didn't send a message. "Shinji Ono and his men packed all the pieces of the telegraph on a stretcher and carried them out together to bury them." It's a pity that the telegraph is obviously much lighter than our Siemens, I just don't know how the performance is? ”
Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that in addition to the grenade used for self-detonation, there was also an emergency distress signal transmitter, which would emit 32 characters in a second when the lead of the self-detonation was pulled, reporting his radio number, although there was no positioning function, but this was not difficult for the signal soldiers. From the time difference between receiving this information from several telegraph stations, you can deduce the direction of the source of the signal, counting from the time when Hoengseong-gun was captured, and planning the route to the current time, you can roughly know the opponent's range of action, and then use the direction line to mark, and the intersection of the road should be the location of the opponent. Ishihara didn't know that his location had been revealed, and the fledgling Japanese army general was still dreaming of a sneak attack on Gangneung.
"The reconnaissance plane found the traces of the 21st Wing, they are already in the mountains 45 kilometers southwest of Inje, and it is estimated that they will reach the periphery of Inje tomorrow. Please instruct. "Theoretically, the aviation team and the Wehrmacht are not a family, they are subordinate units of standard enterprises, although they are all soldiers, but they are the private army of Boss Wu. Fortunately, the air force has always been sent out to fight in the name of the national armed forces, so the pilots of the air force themselves regard them as the air force of the Wehrmacht, so it makes perfect sense for them to provide reconnaissance support and air support to the Seventh Army.
"It's too late to mobilize any troops now, just now Lao Wu sent a telegram that a regiment of the 99th Division had just arrived in Chuncheon, and they would definitely not be able to catch up." Having said that, Du Zicheng was not in a hurry, and Major General Zhu Yunjie, who was temporarily assigned to him, looked at it.
"Mr. Du, are you going to use the 211 regiment?"
"Who but them can defend the Linho in twelve hours?" Du Zicheng said in his heart, that is, with this army, otherwise he could really only give up Jiangling, and even the built airport would have to be cheap for the Japanese army.
The 21st Brigade had been stumbling in the mountains of Samhan for more than ten days, but the reconquest of Hoengseong County five days earlier had left them in high spirits. The commander of the Caolu Jingchun Brigade is also very satisfied with this operation, maybe he can enter the Linhoi without a single soldier, and then turn east to cut off the back road of the Jiangling defenders, even if they can't completely annihilate the enemy's ace 97th Division, they can also force them to give up their equipment and go into the mountains.
Ishihara Shaoza is really a staff officer with brains, and of course he is a good Soma Bole, and he can adopt his bold plan with a unique vision. Ishihara's bluff to let the baggage troops garrison in Hengcheng County and then change the main force to the east with white cloth really worked, and he had already deceived the enemy's reconnaissance planes several times. The only fly in the ointment was that in Hoengseong-gun, there was only one squad of Chinese troops and a large battalion of Samhan stick soldiers, and there were too few heads in hand.
"Ishihara-kun, what are you worried about?" Looking at Ishihara Wan'er, who was frowning, Major General Kusaka Jingjun was a little puzzled, isn't the plan going smoothly now? Besides, even if the Chinese react, it will be too late to transfer troops, the mountain roads are not smooth, and their mechanized advantages cannot be brought into play at all, but the iron foot of their own Fifth Division can show its might.
"Your Excellency Caolu, I always feel that there is still a missing link in this sneak attack, maybe it was the suicide of that Chinese soldier that made me see a different style of Chinese soldiers, I hope this is just an example." Ishihara also felt that even if it was exposed now, the planes could only harass their march in the mountains, and the tank armor was not used, and now there was still a distance of thirty miles from Linho, how could the Chinese army have a chance to occupy Linhoi first?
"Your Excellency, when the time comes to Linhoi, I plan to lift the radio silence, maybe the division can have news that we don't know." Ishihara decided to see if there were any changes before the fight, and caution was one of his strengths. Major General Kusaka didn't answer him, but looked at the sky behind him in a daze, because he was already stunned by the scene in the sky.
"Whoosh" one by one, the rockets dragging the long tail flame fell into the dense marching ranks, and the flames, dust, rags, broken guns, and flesh all flew up on the ground at great speed, and in an instant, the marching troops of the 21st Brigade became a hell. Ishihara's head was about to turn 180 degrees, but the camera in front of him made him feel like he had been immobilized, and he couldn't make any other movements, watching the procession on the road completely drowned out by the thick fireworks.