Chapter 389: The First Battle (Page 1/1)

The Fifth Army's transportation was to come and go in batches, with only one purpose, to pull the troops to Guinan as quickly as possible.

It is impossible for more than 50,000 people of the whole army to be in place at once with three infantry divisions, one tank regiment, two field supplementary regiments, and one automobile regiment, and it is even more impossible to assemble them all at once after they are in place.

Time, what the Fifth Army needs most now is time.

The headquarters of the Fifth Army received the latest report on the battle situation on the train: the troops of the Fifth Division attacking Nanning had already appeared outside the city of Nanning, and since then, there have been no new reports of the battle situation in the Nanning direction.

No news, that's the worst news!

Aware of the urgency of the situation, the Military Council urged the Fifth Army and other units to speed up their marches.

The assembly of the whole army of the Fifth Army took time, and there was an emergency near Nanning, so Commander Du decided to take the initiative to attack in order to take care of both.

The 200th Division was the first to set off, and the 200th Division was at the forefront of the 600th Regiment.

He ordered: After the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division gets off the car and assembles, the whole regiment takes the initiative to search in the direction of Nanning, attack and advance, find out the situation, reinforce Nanning, and buy time for the whole army to assemble.

That is, when Zhang Wei's teaching brigade was still sleeping on the train, the vanguard of the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division had already gotten off the train.

In the early morning of November 24, when the main force of the Fifth Army had not yet assembled and arrived, the 600th Regiment, as the vanguard, advanced to Nanning at dawn.

The 598th, 599th, and 600th main combat regiments under the 200th Division are very good in terms of equipment, and the whole regiment has three infantry battalions, a special service platoon, a baggage company, and a communications platoon, and an 82 mortar company.

Three infantry battalions were fully equipped with light and heavy machine guns, the squad had Czech light machine guns, and the battalion had a heavy machine gun company.

There were more than 2,000 people in the regiment, all of whom had steel helmets, and the infantry had sufficient ammunition, except for the lack of direct-fire guns, the equipment could be said to be excellent.

Shao Yizhi, the colonel of the 600th regiment, looked at the unknown front with a solemn face, the vanguard troops, the task was tight, the burden was heavy, after getting off the train station, the whole regiment marched dozens of miles on foot.

did not encounter the Japanese army, and similarly, did not encounter friendly troops, Shao Yizhi gradually had a bad idea in his heart, the important town of Nanning, may have fallen.

In fact, Shao Yizhi's idea was not wrong, just a few hours before they got off the bus, the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army had already captured Nanning.

This brigade, together with the various units attached to it, formed a combat unit of nearly 10,000 people, swept the periphery of Nanning, and entered it with great force.

It was also flanked by the 42nd Brigade of the 5th Division, the 5th Engineer Wing, the 5th Cavalry Wing and the 5th Field Artillery Wing.

"Tuanzao, don't worry, the troops have been sent out and are searching in the direction of Nanning." Wen Mo, the lieutenant colonel and deputy commander of the 600th regiment, persuaded that seeing that the regiment commander was worried, he couldn't help but worry, so he could only comfort the regiment commander.

Tempting the advance with a regiment of troops, who is not afraid?

"Well, let the troops move forward carefully."

Before the sky was clear, more than 2,000 soldiers of the 600th Regiment wearing steel helmets advanced in the vast light fog of southern Guinan.

Santang is an important place on the periphery of Nanning, Nanning is very interesting around, surrounded by nine gathering places with villages, important places, the names of these nine points are exactly from a row to nine, respectively called a pond, two ponds, until nine ponds.

The 600 regiments occupied Ertang and the nearby important places, and continued to advance in the direction of Nanning, and when the forward search force advanced towards Nanning, there was finally an abnormal movement.

The national army was searching and advancing, and the 21st Brigade that had just taken Nanning also had the same idea, and the top soldiers of the 600th Regiment were lucky to find the Japanese search soldiers in advance.

After that, there was a sporadic exchange of fire between the two armies, and the other side was completely discovered.

After reporting layer by layer, the situation in front of Shao Yizhi, the head of the 600th Regiment, was obvious, and most of Nanning had been lost.

Shao Yizhi immediately made a decision and ordered the whole regiment to retreat, abandon Santang, and retreat to Ertang.

In Ertang, the soldiers of the 600th Regiment urgently built fortifications, and Shao Yizhi organized troops to deploy and put on a defensive posture.

After a skirmish between the 21st Brigade and the 600th Regiment of the Japanese Army, they also took action and sent troops to attack and advance, preparing to defeat the 600th Regiment.

The main force of the attack was an infantry brigade of the 21st Brigade.

The 600 regiments guarding the Ertang position and the attacking Japanese troops began a fierce engagement, which was also the first battle of the Fifth Army.

At first, the Japanese still bombarded with artillery fire, destroying the positions of the 600 regiments, and after the artillery bombardment, the infantry adopted a tried-and-true combination of frontal assault and flank detour.

As soon as they fought, the Japanese felt the pressure.

The battalions of the 600th Regiment fought back desperately, and with better equipment, the Japanese suffered a lot of losses in the first round of attacks.

On the position, bullets flew everywhere, and the front of the position was messy with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

The firepower, equipment, and combat quality of the 600 regiments were stronger than those of the Gui Army and the local armed forces that had fought with the Japanese army before.

Shao Yizhi observed the movements of the front-line battalions in the temporary command post.

"Report to the regimental seat, the Japanese troops in front of the position of the first battalion rushed up!" Shao Yizhi's regimental headquarters communication soldier said.

Of the three infantry battalions of the 600th Regiment, the position of the 1st Battalion was the most heavily attacked.

"Order the mortar company, reinforce the position of a company!"

The regimental mortar company, which was placed near the command post of the 600th regiment, quickly opened fire and bombarded the Japanese troops in front of the positions of the 1st battalion.

"Boom!" Six mortars fired a rapid fire, and the attacking Japanese had to suspend the attack, and the infantry of the 600th Regiment increased their firepower, attacking the Japanese infantry with rifle machine guns and grenades.

The first round of Japanese attacks was already light, and after the fierce return fire of the 600th Regiment, the Japanese squadron was forced to withdraw.

The Japanese squadron, which was detouring from the flank, was blocked by fire from other units of the 600th Regiment, whose position was not a simple first-line defensive position, but also guarded against the flank.

The regiment commander Shao Yizhi used mortars and infantry to counterattack and withstood the Japanese squadron that flanked and detoured.

As soon as the Japanese troops attacking from the front left, the flank detour lost its meaning, and the Japanese troops on the flank left a dozen corpses and withdrew.

The gunfire stopped, and the first skirmish between the 600 Regiment and the Japanese ended with no more than half an hour of fighting.

The casualties on both sides were not large, the 600 regiments held their positions, and the Japanese suffered some casualties due to the light enemy, but they also figured out the situation.

Through the firepower and fighting quality of the troops in the battle, the Japanese army realized that the opponent was more effective in combat and was not the local armed force that had been fought before.

The regrouped Japanese army was ready to launch a new attack on the 600th Regiment that was holding the Ertang position again.

The 600th Regiment garrisoning the Ertang position also continued to make combat preparations, and Shao Yizhi judged that Nanning had been lost through this battle, so he ordered the troops to step up combat readiness, and reported the battle situation to the military headquarters of the Fifth Army by radio.

The battle between the 600th Regiment and the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army was only a minor episode, and the Japanese adjusted their attack posture and prepared for a new offensive.

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