Chapter 359: Bloodstained Xiangbei (3) New Year's Day
Anan Yuji originally planned to let the Sixth Division from Kumamoto in southern Kyushu deal with Sun Yumin's Twelfth Army, but it didn't come to pass, and Toshima Botaro accidentally ran into his old opponent Sun Yumin before the Sixth Division found the Twelfth Army.
Anami Yuji simply used the agitation method to stimulate Toshima Fangtaro to let him fight with the 12th Army first, consuming the strength of the 12th Army, and when the 81st Division, the 139th Division and the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army were inseparable, Kanda Masasang led his 6th Division to the battlefield.
Seeing that Toshima Fangtaro was embarrassed and entangled by the 81st Division and the 139th Division, Kanda called with bad intentions.
"豊島さん、私は神田正種で、助けてくれないの?" (Senior Toshima, I'm Kanda Masao, do you need me to help you?) )
Toshima Fangtaro on the other side of the phone was so embarrassed that his face was flushed, and he replied coldly: "ご親切にどうも.!" 私は孙玉民との中遮怨み、私は自分で解します!" (Thanks for the kindness, no more!) I will solve the grievances between me and Sun Yumin by myself! )
After Kanda Masanga put down the phone, he scolded with a smile: "Business 気なslaveだ!よし、私たちが手伝ってくれない above、自分で仕事をさせてくれ.! 参謀長が最新の軍事地図を持って来て,我々は一度研究してみる。 (Megalomaniacal guy!) Well, since you don't need our help, let's go about it yourself! Chief of Staff, bring the latest military map, let's study it. )
When his eyes fell on the area of Lijiagang and Fengzhiqiao, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked: "ここに駐屯しているのは、孫玉民部隊のどの師団ですか.? (Which division of Sun Yumin's army is stationed here?) )
"Your Excellency the Commander of the Division, the Twelfth Army of the Chinese Army, the New Thirty-fourth Division of the Twelfth Army of the Chinese Army." (Your Excellency, Division Commander, if our intelligence is correct, is the new 34th Division of the 12th Army of the Chinese Army.) The chief of staff replied.
"The new thirty-fourth division? これは孫玉民の直系の部隊ではないか.? 彼がこの部隊で新しくなった家だと聞きましたか。? (New 34th Division?) Isn't this Sun Yumin's descendant troops? I heard that he made a new home with this army, right? )
"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Private, Intelligence, Min, Sun Yumin, Family, Troops, New 34th Division, Predecessor, Huoshan Independent Detachment, Former Unit, Huoshan Independent Detachment." (Yes, Your Excellency, Division Commander, according to the information obtained by our intelligence department, the current commander of the 12th Army of the Chinese Army, Sun Yumin, started the new 34th Division, and the predecessor of this unit was the Huoshan Independent Detachment.) The chief of staff replied.
"Yo West...... さっそく、全过程に李家港と枫一を攻撃するよう指示しました!必ずこの新thirtyfour人を一掃します!" (Yo West..... Immediately ordered the whole division to attack the area of Lijiagang and Fengzhi Bridge! We must completely annihilate this new 34th Division! Kanda Masang laughed and said, it turned out that Toshima Fangtaro was not the most descendant unit of Sun Yumin of the Twelfth Army after fighting for a long time, and if he could defeat the 34th Division, the first merit of defeating the "God of War" of the Chinese army was definitely planted by him Kanda.
On September 27, Kanda Shozen's 6th Division, Junhiko Arima's 23rd Wing and Hiraokari's 45th Wing, were attached to the 2nd Wing of the Independent Mountain Artillery, which was directly subordinate to Morido Ryuzo, and suddenly launched a fierce attack on the position of Li Tiedan's new 34th Division.
During the Anti-Japanese War, it was almost impossible for a single army of the National Army to fight against a division of the Japanese army, but it was not impossible for the Twelfth Army and Sun Yumin.
Not to mention the strength of the 12th Army and one army, just 20 divisions alone can fight against any Japanese division.
The new 34th Division is the foundation of Sun Yumin's life, not to mention its strong combat effectiveness, and its weapons and equipment are also greatly superior to those of the Japanese army.
However, Kanda Masasan did not know anything about this, and he concentrated most of the strength of the Sixth Division, which ranked at the forefront of the Japanese army in combat effectiveness, to storm Li Tiedan's new 34th Division.
At the beginning, when Li Tie had the courage to report the Japanese army's attack on the new 34th Division, he was stunned for a moment: How could the devil attack him? How dare the devil attack himself?
Even Li Tie couldn't believe it, but the devil still attacked the new 34th Division. Kanda Masa concentrated the 23rd Wing of the 6th Division Junhiko Arima and the 45th Wing of Ritsu Hiraoka, and the 2nd Wing of the Independent Mountain Artillery under Ryuzo Morido, which was directly under the division, and launched a tidal attack.
Huang Wei, the commander of the Second Regiment, was also caught off guard by the sudden attack, and like Li Tiedan, he was also stunned, how could the devils attack the territory of the new 34th Division, could it be that the 81st Division and the 139th Division were defeated? But as the shells fell to the position, Huang Wei quickly reacted. Fortunately, the position had long been prepared to prevent artillery bombardment, and it was not the 105mm and 125mm howitzers and other heavy artillery that the devils were used to bombarding, but only 75mm caliber mountain guns, which were far less powerful than the former, and the damage caused to the second regiment was greatly limited.
The 3rd and 6th Divisions of the Japanese Army had converged, and when the news of the coordinated attack on his three divisions reached Sun Yumin's ears, he couldn't sit still.
This battle was completely different from previous battles, and Sun Yumin had never faced the two permanent divisions of the Japanese army on his own.
In the sequence of the Japanese army, permanent divisions and special divisions are completely different, and the difference is not only the difference between permanent and ad hoc. Take the 6th Division as an example, although it has now become a division of three infantry wings, its combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to that of the 101st, 106th, or even 34th Divisions. Just imagine, what kind of idea is it to be a divisional and regimental-level unit with a field artillery wing and a mountain artillery wing to assist.
Although they did not directly fight with us on the battlefield in Nanjing, they were the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, and it is said that they set up dozens of machine guns to shoot at the defenseless civilians and soldiers who had laid down their arms." Chief of Staff Deng Dongping gritted his teeth when he said these words, he was a good-tempered person, and it was rare for him to be so angry.
"Yes, in fact, relatively speaking, they are more hateful than Toshima Botaro of the Third Division." Sun Yumin responded, thinking about how to solve the current predicament.
The 74th Army will need at least two days to reach the battlefield, although there is still a reorganized 20th division in its own hands that has not been dispatched, and Dong Wenbin's military mechanized brigade has not been dispatched, these are the two trump cards in Sun Yumin's hands, especially the mechanized brigade, which is Sun Yumin's "heart and liver baby", although the artillery regiment composed of the American M1 mountain artillery and M3 howitzer is slightly weaker, but a batch of Japanese field artillery captured by Shanggao Dajie has also been supplemented into the artillery regiment, which greatly enhances the fire support and strike capability of the artillery regiment; The armored battalion was finally upgraded to an armored regiment, and although the US military instructors taught a group of armored soldiers, Sun Yumin still promised a lot of money to let them take these armored soldiers with little combat experience to the battlefield; When Deng Dongping formed the mechanized brigade, he deliberately added an infantry regiment, which could be used as both armored infantry and guard infantry of the protective artillery regiment, which could avoid the embarrassment of needing to transfer troops from the guard regiment to protect the artillery in wartime.
Although he has two trump cards, Sun Yumin does not dare to fight, the reason is very simple, there are planes in the sky, which are fatal to tanks and artillery, where does he dare to expose these treasures to the enemy's planes.
The 81st Division and the 139th Division fought very the front line, and the new 34th Division was also attacked, and they had superior firepower but did not dare to use it.
Dong Wenbin made several phone calls in a row, asking for orders to attack to help Zhanshutang, Wang Heng and Shi Zhonghua, but all he got was Sun Yumin's scolding, but not long after this guy was scolded, he called again to ask for war, Sun Yumin simply didn't answer his call, and let Deng Dongping and him go to "grind".
Zhanshutang, Wang Heng, and Shi Zhonghua are all hard-nosed, even if the battle is so fierce, they just didn't complain to the military department and ask for help.
They don't ask for help, it doesn't mean that Sun Yumin is indifferent, he sees it very clearly, the two divisions and the enemy have attack and defense against each other, especially the sudden counterattack ordered by themselves before, and the devil was taken by surprise, and the combat effectiveness shown by the two divisions is too different from the national army that the devil encountered before, and the damage caused to the devil's troops is also unbearable, which invisibly affects the judgment of the devil's middle and low-level commanders, and also causes a lot of pressure on the devil's soldiers, whether it is charging or defending, They never dared to do their best, this is the instinct of human nature, and despite being poisoned by bushido and militaristic ideas, how many people are not afraid of death? The devil soldiers that people see are all the side where they are not afraid of death and move forward bravely, and what they see is only the pig rush tactics of the devil troops, but in fact, among the many grassroots soldiers of the Japanese army, the people who are afraid of war and timid people account for the majority, but they are covered up by their strong firepower advantage and equipment advantage that is a large part ahead of the Chinese army, and now their advantage no longer exists in front of Sun Yumin's 12th Army, and these human weaknesses are completely exposed. Therefore, although the fighting was in full swing, in fact, the defense lines of the 139th and 81st Divisions would not be too dangerous. Not to mention the new thirty-four, on the surface the second regiment is very difficult, but they are just enduring the bombardment, once the devil infantry launches a charge, then they will find that they are very wrong, what awaits them will be the butcher's knife of death.
"Junza, should we let Huzi dispatch and deal a fatal blow to the troops of the Devil's Sixth Division that attacked the Second Regiment?" Deng Dongping asked cautiously, he knew Sun Yumin's temperament, so when he was thinking, he didn't dare to speak out, and he was bold and very soft when he asked this sentence.
"No, I expected that Anan Wei was thinking that we would come out to fight him, and they would have air support during the day, wouldn't it be stupid for us to be hard?" Sun Yumin's brows were still tightly locked, although he had already made plans to follow the example of the Shanggao Battle and surprise the Japanese army at night, but the situation in front of him was really not optimistic. With the strength of one army, he alone resisted the two permanent divisions of the Japanese army, let alone him, even if he was replaced by any of the main forces of the national army, even if it was Hu Zongnan's first army, which was known as the "first army in the world", or the 74th army, which was known as the "iron army", they would all be sad.
"Deputy Commander Zhan, I'm afraid they won't be able to withstand it, otherwise let Dong Wenbin's artillery regiment support a round of artillery fire, so as to boost the morale of the front-line soldiers?"
"No, we can't expose our firepower too soon." Sun Yumin rejected Deng Dongping's proposal, he explained: "To fight snakes, we must fight seven inches, and our mechanized brigade should not show its strength, and when it is time to attack, show its firepower and let them drink a pot." ”
After saying these words, Sun Yumin slapped the table with a slap, startling the entire temporary command center.
Although the Japanese army did not break through their own positions, their own assault did not force the devils to retreat, and there were many casualties on both sides, especially their own 81st Division, which not only had to bear the enemy's offensive in front of them, but also was responsible for protecting the flank of the 139th Division, which could not be sloppy for half a point, because most of the main forces of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army were held back by the 139th Division, compared to the 139th Division. The defensive task of the 81st Division was much easier.
"Deputy Army Commander, Deputy Division Commander Wang and Deputy Division Commander Shi seem to be very tight over there, should we rush to their aid?" The chief of staff of the 81st Division asked Zhanshutang, he was a person who had been following Zhanshutang for a long time, and when the 81st Division was first assigned to Sun Yumin, he also said some worried words, but after a period of time in the new 12th Army, he no longer had these concerns, and now, he will even consider the problem from the perspective of Zhanshutang being the deputy commander of the 12th Army.
"It's time to give them some help." Since the start of the war, the telescope in Zhanshutang's hand has been lifted I don't know how many times, and after hearing the words of the chief of staff, he nodded lightly.
"Then how many troops do we send over to their positions to help defend them?"
"No, I'm not going to send a single soldier to help defend it."
Zhanshutang's words surprised the chief of staff, he looked over suspiciously, and asked each other, but heard Zhanshutang's words again.
"We sent two battalions to assault the Japanese army from the left to confuse the devils, so that they thought that we had the idea of cutting them into several sections, so that they would not dare to attack the 139th Division with all their strength."
"However, Deputy Army Commander, this is just an expedient measure, with the strength of our 81st Division, it is probably very difficult to complete the cutting of the Japanese army! Since we can't fulfill this idea, then why bother to charge and help defend on the position, wouldn't the losses be much less? The chief of staff analyzed, he didn't want to see his unit doing this useless work.
"Going to the position to assist in defense is just a refueling tactic, even if we have enough troops, we can't fill this bottomless pit!" Zhan Shutang explained, and finally said: "I know Yumin, he will definitely not sit back and watch the bloody battles of the 139th Division and the 81st Division, if my guess is correct, he should have already made arrangements, don't look at the devil is very arrogant now, but when the commander makes a move, I'm afraid it will be too late for them to cry!" ”