Chapter 84 Heavy damage to the Banheng Division
On March 20, 1942, the National Revolutionary Army found the enemy near Kokang, the two sides opened fire and fought fiercely, a wing of the devil was quickly defeated under the blow of the special brigade, the remnants of the devil began to flee in the direction of Lao Cai, the follow-up unit of the first heavy artillery division of the Sixth Army has arrived at the position near Lao Cai after an hour of preparation, the tank battalion launched the most fierce attack on the position of the devil in Lao Cai with the cooperation of the first infantry division of the sixth army and the special operations anti-riot regiment of the third division, and the 92 heavy machine guns of the devils on the street rang non-stop, The 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Division of the National Army opened fire on the heavy machine guns of the devil's position for a few minutes, boom, boom, boom, bursts of explosions sounded, the devil and the 92 heavy machine gun flew up, the machine gun became scrap metal, the devil's arm was gone, and the devil cried wolf on the battlefield to the ghost who blew up the shells, Fukuda Shaozo said to send a report to the military headquarters as soon as possible to see where the Banheng Division had been, quickly.
The devil's grenadier and mortar also continued to fire, and the national soldiers on both sides of the tank bombarded the devil in two waves, and fell a large area, due to the long distance, the tank could not reach the grenadier, mortar, and the tank also injured the mortar grenadier, the tank chain, the battery turned and blew up, the bazooka of the special combat team then fired at the devil's grenadier and mortar position, and the mortar and grenadier brigade that were attacked exploded, and thick smoke rose everywhere, and soon the position was not moving, Li Ming immediately asked people to repair the Japanese 97 light tanks damaged by mortar grenadiers on the battlefield, 6 were damaged and 3 were scrapped, and the Sixth Army continued to advance.
Sakagaki Division is a division during the Japanese war of aggression against China, one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II, and the same name as the Isoya Ryosuke Division, is the most elite mechanized unit of the Japanese army, known as the "Steel Army", the division commander was involved in the planning of the Northeast Incident Sakagaki, so the division is also called the "Itagaki Division".
The 21st Brigade of the Hiroshima Division is the main force of the 5th Division and is known as the "Flower of the Army."
In July 1894, the Sino-Japanese War (known to the Japanese side as the Sino-Japanese War) broke out. To this end, two infantry wings were transferred from the 5th Division to form the Oshima Mixed Brigade (Brigade Commander: Major General Yoshimasa Oshima), which was immediately reorganized and headed for the Korean Peninsula. On July 27, 1894, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul in Korea, there was an encounter with the Qing Dynasty's Huai army, which lasted a whole day, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated to Asan. This battle was highly valued by the Japanese because it was the first time that Japan's modern army faced a foreign army since its founding, and it used modern tactics, which is also worth recording in the history of world operations. After that, the Oshima Mixed Brigade captured Pyongyang and participated in the Battle of the Yalu River and the Battle of Niuzhuang. Ten years later, in the Russo-Japanese War, the 5th Division participated in the battles of Liaoyang, Shahe, and Mukden. After the Russo-Japanese War, he was ordered to stay in Manchuria until 1911. From 1919 to 1920 he sent troops to Siberia.
In 1937, immediately after the outbreak of the 77 Incident, the 5th Division was transferred to North China under the command of Seishiro Itagaki .
On July 27, 1937, he landed in Dagu from Japan to join the Chinese garrison army, assembled south of Changping, and then entered the Nankou operation on August 16 as a reserve of the North China Dispatch Army; In the eastern section of the Pingsui Road, the operation captured Zhangjiakou, Weixian and other places, in accordance with the order of the Japanese base camp, the 9th Brigade was withdrawn and sent to the main battlefield of the Pinghan Railway, and then transferred to Shanghai, where it landed at Jinshanwei. The division commander led the 21st Brigade to fight at Pingxingguan in late September, fought at Xinkou in early October, and captured Taiyuan on November 8; Along the way, more than 30 Chinese divisions were defeated, and the "prestige" of the Itagaki Division was created. In January 1938, it was transferred to the Second Army and used for Qingdao and Jiaoji Road; In March 1938, he participated in the battles of Linyi and Taierzhuang in the Battle of Xuzhou (he was severely injured by Zhang Zizhong in the Battle of Taierzhuang);
On July 4, 38, he was transferred to the North China Dispatch Army,
On September 19, it was transferred to the 21st Army and transferred to South China to capture the surrounding areas of Guangdong.
On November 29, he returned to Shandong to rest and recuperate, and on September 5, 39, he was transferred to the Kwantung Army.
On September 29, he was transferred to the base camp reserve and stood by in Dalian. On October 16, he again maneuvered to Hainan Island by boat and participated in the capture of Nanning.
At this time, the above historical battle situation of the Banheng Division, this unit has particularly strong combat effectiveness and the most advanced weapons, and tens of thousands of troops of the national army in history are not the opponents of the Banheng Division.
There were no mortars, the grenadier supported by the Japanese army was quickly defeated under the blow of the special combat regiment, at 11 o'clock the Sixth Army of the National Army took the position near Lao Cai, and at 12 o'clock in the afternoon there was an encounter with the vanguard of the Devil's Banheng Division, the light and heavy machine guns, heavy artillery, tanks, and mortar grenadiers on both sides opened fire, and the battle was fought until dark, the two sides truce, and several infantry regiments under the jurisdiction of the First Division of the Sixth Army were basically disabled by the Banheng Division,
The Banheng Division is a division regiment, the ninth brigade, the 21st brigade, the main force of the fifth division to form the ninth brigade, the 11th, 12th, 21st, and 22nd infantry wings; The 11th Infantry Wing (Hiroshima Prefecture), the 21st Infantry Wing (Hamada Prefecture), the 41st Infantry Wing (Fukuyama City), and the 42nd Infantry Wing (Yamaguchi Prefecture) form the backbone of the 9th Infantry Brigade and the 21st Infantry Brigade. The soldiers were all from the Hiroshima, Shimane, and Yamaguchi units in the western part of Honshu.
The devil's three wings near Lao Cai were all killed, and the six wings of the Fifth Division under the jurisdiction of the Banheng Division, which came to reinforce at four o'clock in the morning on the 21st, were blocked by the 200th Division, and the 11th Wing, 12th Wing, 21st Wing, and 22nd Wing of the Fifth Division, which were stunned by the artillery, began to launch a fierce attack on the position of the 200th Division, more than 500 mortars and grenadiers bombarded the positions of the 200th Division, and an independent battalion of the 200th Division quickly gave the Japanese a down, and the charging Devil 11th Wing also fell a large part under the machine guns of the National Army, There were casualties on both sides.
This side of the position Itagaki Seishiro also began to order the attack, the commander of the 21st Brigade, Nakamura Masao, also ordered the attack, a large number of devils lined up in a group with bayonets to advance towards the outer position of the Sixth Army Lao Cai, Li Ming knew that at this time the devil's death squad, could not let them approach, I put all the light and heavy machine guns on the set and beat the dogs fiercely, Li received the order that the position of the 200th Division was critical, and ordered to transfer the three infantry regiments of Kokang to support, the fierce battle continued, and the devils fell a large area under the strafing of light and heavy machine guns, Then the scene was the Japanese Ninth Brigade Devil's truck with a machine gun and opened fire at a very fast speed, give me a cannon bombardment, followed by the devil's armored vehicles, tank divisions, and the third wing of the Japanese death squad with ** strapped to their bodies, holding bayonets and screaming to attack the positions of the Sixth Army, Li Ming gathered all kinds of light and heavy machine guns from the arsenal of the military headquarters, various caliber artillery, heavy artillery, mortars, grenadiers, and heavy artillery The First Division was already ready, and had no choice but to attack the Japanese army's trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, and death squads, launched the most fierce attack in the past few days, 180 mm caliber, 150 mm caliber ** artillery also fired, the pressure on the position of the Sixth Army was too great, the two positions were lost, the devil advanced too fast, the Banheng division is really powerful, Li Ming has learned, the mechanical troops of the Fifth Army of the National Army are not good at this division.
The soldiers stationed in the third position, due to the increase in the follow-up artillery position, are also stable, in the strong fire under the support of the devil's death squad a wing did not rush to the position and fell, at 15 o'clock in the afternoon, the establishment of the 200 division still has more than 8,000 people, several infantry regiments of the Japanese army have suffered great losses, the 21st brigade is basically disabled by the national army, on March 22, the Japanese 21st brigade, the ninth brigade, the fifth division, have all suffered heavy losses, the ninth brigade lost 150 tanks, 300 trucks, 400 combat vehicles, the death squads of the two wings were all killed, more than 30,000 people of an infantry division were killed in battle, more than 20,000 were killed, 10,000 were wounded, the 21st Brigade and the 9th Brigade asked for repairs The soldiers were too tired, and the tanks and combat vehicles and trucks needed to be repaired, said Masao Nakamura to Commander Yokoshiro Edition.
The Fifth Division, which could fight, continued to fire at the Sixth Army on the 23rd, the battle between the two sides was quite fierce, and on the 24th, the Sixth Army paid a heavy price, an infantry division was lost, the special operations regiment lost more than 100 people, the First Artillery Division lost more than 500 people, all the shells were exhausted, and more than 150 light and heavy machine guns were scrapped, excluding the damaged ones to the Japanese army, division commanders, regiment commanders, battalion commanders, company commanders, and platoon commanders were killed in a large number of battles, and the commander of the 9th Brigade and Regiment on the Japanese side was seriously injured, and the 5th Division was left with less than 500 people, and the 21st Brigade and Regiment tanks, Loading and receiving vehicles, truck wing, suffered the greatest resistance since the Anti-Japanese War, the loss exceeded the Battle of Hankou, the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Xuzhou, a whole field artillery brigade was lost in a few days, 500 tanks were lost, 700 armored vehicles, 1700 trucks were destroyed, this battle down the Banheng Division was heavily damaged, more than 120,000 devils were killed in the battle, the blood on the ground was flowing, everywhere there were national troops, Japanese corpses, damaged trucks, tanks on fire, dead devils lying on the car, The soldiers of the national army who fell on the heavy machine gun, Li Ming shed tears in his heart when he saw so many people dead, peace is really not easy to come by, all of them paid tribute to the sacrificed soldiers, the soldiers of the Sixth Army, the soldiers of the 200th Division collectively began to take off their hats.
Li Ming ordered the soldiers to shoot at the sky, and then the soldiers of the Sixth Army said in unison that they would avenge the dead soldiers, take revenge, Li ordered not to give the devil a chance to breathe, and then with the support of the special operations regiment, the soldiers of the Sixth Army collectively launched a surprise attack on the Banheng Division, more than 500 people of the Fifth Division could not stop it at all, and the soldiers were quickly eliminated, and the division commander Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi was killed, and Nakamura Masao ordered the soldiers to block the attack, while discussing with Itagaki Seishiro, because the wing lost too much to fight again, the devil Itagaki Seishiro ordered a retreatγγγγγγγγγ
Due to the urgency of the Sixth Army, the little devils retreated urgently, and it was important to save their lives, so they lost a large number of logistics materials, heavy weapons tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery were discarded, and 150 trucks and dozens of tanks were taken away, and a large number of devil wounded soldiers were abandoned, and the devils would not be dragged down, and before the order was given to shoot these wounded, the national army came over.