Chapter 269: The Battle of Nanchang (21) (2nd Update)
"Ishii Daisa, how many tanks do you have left in your chariot group to use?" Masaki Ito asked.
"There are just over 20 tanks left, and if you want to carry out this breakout operation, the distance will be too far and there will not be enough fuel." Hiroyoshi Ishii shook his head.
It is conceivable that at the beginning of the war, his chariot group had more than a hundred chariots, and except for some that broke through before, the rest were here.
It means that the chariot group has lost as many as a hundred chariots inside and outside Nanchang City, which is a huge loss for the imperial army.
You must know that the entire 11th Army is basically lost in these tanks.
"Then put it together and use it for a part of the tanks, and the rest of the tanks for the covering troops to use as a fixed point of fire." Masaki Ito said.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, my subordinates recommend not to use Type 89 chariots, which are too fuel-guzzling and slow.
We just need the cover of the Type 94 tank. Entake Dazuo suggested.
"Impossible, the eight-nine chariot is the most noble, and it can't be given up!" Hiroyoshi Ishii got up and retorted.
"Ishii-kun, do you still want to break through? The Type 89 chariot is a burden, and it will waste our little fuel. "Yuanwu Dazuo also showed no weakness.
"No way, I won't agree!"
"Ishii-kun, do you want to see the entire chariot group wiped out?" Ito Masaki asked, and after he replied, "If you don't want to, then follow Enwu Daisa's method." I will send a telegram to Commander Okamura and ask him to send troops to respond.
Whether it will succeed depends on this operation. ”
Hiroyoshi Ishii naturally didn't want to see the entire chariot group annihilated, even if only a part of it escaped.
In the end, he chose to obey.
In the breakout plan, Ito Masaki must report to Okamura Ninji, but the latter objected to him abandoning the breakout of the army.
Because he has already sent the 16th Division to the south with all his might, he will definitely be able to rush to the city of Nanchang and let Ito Masaki hold his position.
That's nearly 10,000 imperial troops, and Okamura Ninji is naturally unwilling to give up.
But Masaki Ito is not willing to wait!
In the past few days, from the leaflets distributed by the Chinese army, he learned that the Chinese army on the Nanxun Road had increased by 8 divisions, the 106th Division itself had been surrounded by 7 Chinese divisions, and the 6th Division was even more pinned down by several armies of the Chinese army, and it was impossible to move south at all.
The arrival of the 16th Division can bring the 106th Division out of the encirclement at most, but it cannot bring out the 101st Division that is blocked by the two rivers of Ganjiang and Fuhe.
If you continue to wait, you will run out of ammunition and food.
Thinking that Ito Masaki might go off the rails, Okamura Ninji was also anxious, and issued a death order to the 16th Division, telling it to break through the Chinese army's interception within two days and join the 106th Division.
The powerful offensive launched by the 16th Division also made Luo Zhuoying realize that the Japanese army was really reinforcing the 101st Division at all costs, so he asked the Nanchang side to end the battle as soon as possible and eliminate the 101st Division.
It can be said that the current battle situation depends on whether the Nanchang side can eliminate the 101st Division before the 16th Division breaks through the blockade line.
At this time, not only Shanggao, Changsha, and Chongqing are paying attention to this battle, but also in Jiujiang and Shanghai.
In order to ensure that the 101st Division would not be completely annihilated, the Central China Dispatch Army of the Japanese Army ordered the main force of the 116th Division to also go to reinforce the Nanchang battlefield.
Obviously, the Japanese army had the intention of expanding the scale of the war.
At this time, Luo Zhuoying issued a combat order to the 8 divisions in Nanchang (rushed to reinforcements) to continue to increase the attack on the Japanese army and annihilate the remnants of the enemy in the encirclement as soon as possible.
"Fire me artillery, don't care about shells, you must tear this position apart for me."
On the outlying positions of the 102nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, Leng Jie personally came to the front line to direct the attack.
Although the Japanese army has reached the point of exhaustion, the resistance is still stubborn, and the more than 2,000 remnants of the Japanese army under the command of the 102nd Brigade are stunned to hold their positions under the attack of Leng Jie's troops and Li Tianxia's troops.
At this time, both forces were competing, with the regiment led by Leng Jie in the north and the brigade led by Zhang Lingfu in the south.
They are all fighting over who will attack the Japanese headquarters first.
Leng Jie actually didn't know which army was in the south, only that it was the 74th Army.
Men have a competitive mentality, especially soldiers, who are unwilling to be left behind.
Seeing that the 74th Army's side was attacking fiercely, Leng Jie's side was naturally unwilling.
Under the bombardment of more than a dozen guns of various types, the remaining two tanks rushed into the Japanese position with thousands of infantry.
The Japanese army did not surrender, but tried all kinds of counterattacks, and the battle was white-hot for a while, and even a white-knuckle battle broke out.
The battle lasted until ten o'clock in the evening, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and Leng Jie also rushed into the brigade headquarters of the Japanese 102nd Brigade with the soldiers of the special combat team.
However, the brigade commander of the 102nd Brigade, Yoshishige Saeda, had committed suicide by caesarean section, and none of the brigade headquarters were alive, and they all went to see their emperors.
For this result, Leng Jie was not surprised, it is like this under normal circumstances.
Leng Jie picked up the general's knife and planned to collect it himself, now he didn't need to give these weapons to those bosses.
Unless it's the capture of Okamura Ninji's knife, it's pretty much the same.
"What are you doing? This place has been taken by us! ”
"Get out of here, this is obviously captured by our 74th Army!"
"Can you get a face? What happened to the 74th Army? First come, first served, don't you know the rules? ”
Just when Leng Jie was looking at the things in the headquarters, there was a sound of quarrel coming from the south direction, as if there was a conflict with the 74th Army?
I didn't expect the 74th Army to be fast, and just a few minutes after I rushed here, the 74th Army also rushed in.