509. Offense instead of Defense
Go and find a glorious place of death, so that your conscience can only be at peace.
Tan Yizhong and Qin Guogang, not long after they entered the 59th Army, deeply felt that this army was different from the ordinary Northwest Army, from top to bottom, tens of thousands of people, there was a strong blood burning for the army commander.
In the early morning of 14 March, Tan Qin and his two men, together with the second battalion and three companies, arrived at Yiheguanzhuang in Baishabu, and crossed the river as soon as they arrived at four o'clock.
Yishui is more than 100 meters wide, and the deep water reaches the waist, Qin Guogang and they threw themselves into the river, and the biting river water in winter got into the pants, like ten thousand needles piercing the skin of the pants.
The 112 Regiment of the 223rd Brigade was the vanguard regiment, and the whole regiment did not leave any reserves, and more than 2,000 people waded across the river in black crows.
Qin Guogang led three platoons, and as soon as he landed on the shore, he immediately deployed his troops, established a position on the beachhead, and covered the large army behind him.
If you don't get paralyzed, you can't do it, they don't know that the 59th Army will attack from 180 miles away in one day, and they don't know that they will start launching a night attack after only resting and adjusting for one day.
And the original troops on the opposite side were the 3rd Army Corps, which had already been beaten to the point of parrying, and even the defense was overstretched, and they were not able to attack at all.
But in this world, things that are impossible have become possible, there are many such things, and many of the devils in Tingzitou Village by the river don't even know what is going on when they die.
The entire regiment of the 59th Regiment of the 38th Division of the 223rd Army went ashore, and the troops immediately spread out to the two flanks, forming a fan-shaped straggler formation, crossing the field of Tingzitou Village, and half-surrounding the entire village.
The regimental headquarters fired a red signal flare, which rose into the dark and pale blue night sky, and bloomed a gorgeous blood-like flower.
Suddenly, the whole regiment of soldiers jumped up, and thousands of grenades flew into the village, forming a huge continuous sound, and many devils who were still asleep did not wake up, so they went to see the king of Yama.
Then, in the earth-shaking shouts of killing, thousands of people burst into the village, bayonets, broadswords and other cold weapons, assassinating and slashing devils, many devils were still wearing crotch cloths, naked and running in all directions.
In the face of such an embarrassed enemy, it is naturally not to be missed, Qin Guogang slipped a big knife and caught up with a "crotch cloth", and the head was a knife.
As the blade swept by, the devil's head was split in half, what red and white, flowed all over the ground, and the devil who was not yet dead lay on the ground, convulsed, and died on someone else's land, never able to find his hometown, never reincarnated.
Seeing that the platoon commander was so heroic, the soldiers of the third platoon also followed forward bravely, killing ghosts and ghosts, killing gods when encountering gods, invincible, and rushed straight into the center of the village.
Suddenly, in the main position of the devils in the center of the village, a series of tongues of fire appeared, licking down several Chinese soldiers who rushed to the front in an instant, and Qin Guogang shouted in distress and fell down.
A closer look shows that the main position of the devils in front of it is very elegantly constructed, this position is on a small high ground in the center of the village, and deep trenches have been dug around it, and there are barricades, barbed wire, triangular thistles, etc. outside the trenches.
There is also a circular bunker group behind the trench, and the tongue of fire that has just emerged is the machine gun bullet from the machine gun in the bunker. What's even more exaggerated is that behind the bunker group, there are actually five pillboxes.
This devil is sick, they are an attacking army, how can they have the heart to build such a large fortification here, close to a semi-permanent fortification.
Such a fortification will take at least a few days to be completed, and it is obviously not built by a devil who has just arrived, Qin Guogang's estimate is right.
This fortification was originally part of the defense fortifications, but after the arrival of the 3rd Army Corps, the original fortifications were reinforced, connected, and integrated.
It is a pity that the troops are insufficient, and the positions in the north of Yishui have been occupied by the Japanese army one after another, and now they are used by the Japanese army.
The Japanese army, which was in an offensive position, naturally did not need these permanent fortifications at the beginning, but only used them as temporary ammunition depots and warehouses, which were relatively easy to defend.
Later, after the captain of the Ono Brigade under the Katano Wing of the Fifth Division knew that there were such good fortifications, he moved the headquarters forward, and the brigade headquarters moved into this bunker group.
Qin Guogang didn't know, and thought that they had just encountered an ordinary Japanese position, but they didn't expect that this was the headquarters of a Japanese brigade.
They just broke into the village in one fell swoop, and what they killed were the troops directly under the Japanese brigade, some baggage soldiers and logistics miscellaneous soldiers, etc., naturally they had no combat effectiveness at all.
And now, in the fortress group, there is a small squad of the brigade guard unit, as well as a brigade reserve, and a squadron below, and there are about 300 people in the entire fortress, and there are more than 200 combat troops when they go out of the brigade headquarters.
These more than 200 people, if they were in the field, would not be able to withstand an impact of the 223rd Regiment, but they were cowering in the fortress, and it was indeed a hard bone to gnaw.
This 223 regiment is now like a mad dog, facing a turtle with a shrunken head and no way to speak, the periphery of Tingzitou Village has been cleared, and only the main position in the center of the village is left, still resisting.
The 223rd Regiment Du grew up to be a fire, Lao Tzu had thousands of people, and he couldn't take it down in a small village, which was too unusual, so he mobilized the third battalion as a vigilance team to build a position on the north side of the village, and pay close attention to the Japanese reinforcements that might come.
The first battalion built a beachhead, and in case the first two battalions could not resist a large number of reinforcements from the devils, they would cover the retreat of the large army on the beachhead, of course, this hand could not say the reason.
In the order, it was only said that there were indeed follow-up troops to consolidate the beachhead in order to meet the landing of the follow-up troops, and the 224th Regiment, another regiment of the 122nd Brigade of the 38th Division, was now also crossing the river upstream in another place, and I heard that the 113th Brigade was also coming over.
As soon as the 223rd Regiment as the vanguard started the battle, all the other troops moved, and after the 224th Regiment landed, it immediately deployed its forces to the west of the river, protected the flank of the 223rd Regiment, and continued to extend its forces and advance in depth to the east.
The troops of the 133rd Brigade spread out to the north bank of the river, protecting the northern flank of the 223rd Regiment, and at the same time marched towards Luojiaguanzhuang and Xiejiazhuang to enter the hinterland of the Sakagaki Division.
And the 223rd Regiment, the vanguard regiment that landed first, is now stagnant in Tingzitou Village, and the upper part is also on fire, so the brigade commander and division commander don't look at your reasons, what people want is the speed and rhythm of the overall advance, and the attack speed of the entire division cannot be delayed because of one regiment.
Therefore, when Regiment Commander Du was scolded all over the place, he naturally took his anger out on the second battalion that was attacking at the bottom, and the second battalion commander cried and was reprimanded by the regiment commander.
Because the fortress group of the Japanese Ono Brigade does not occupy a particularly large area, it does not need too many troops to besiege, and in the face of such a pillbox fortress, the attackers should be spread out as much as possible, and the more people there are, the denser and denser they will be, and the more miserable they will die.
The Japanese army's circular fortress group is close to each other, and the firepower is very dense, and no matter how many people there are, they will only become the ghosts of the people's guns, but it is better to disperse the troops, concentrate the firepower to suppress a little, cover the demolition troops, and blow up a hole.