Chapter 351: Victory (2)
Kinoshita's words were quite tactful, he didn't say that if the 34th Division was completely annihilated by the Chinese army, I am afraid that his position as the commander would not be stable.
"事は本当に悪くなったのか?" (Did it really get this bad?) Kazuichiro Enbe still didn't quite believe this fact, and asked with a fluke mentality.
"私たちが想像していたよりも悪いのかもしれない." (It may be worse than we thought.) Isamu Kinoshita ruthlessly shattered the remaining illusions of Enbe and Ichiro.
"もしあなたが言っていたならば、私たちはすぐに大嘉茂この马鹿を救う必要があります。 (If that's what you say, we must go to the rescue of this idiot immediately.) Enbe and Ichiro knew that if he didn't make arrangements at this time, if the 34th Division was really eaten by the Chinese army, he would definitely be held accountable.
"はい、commander 閣下では、至急ご支援をお願いします。 もし遅くなったら、大鹤茂は耐えられないでしょう。 "Yes, Your Excellency Commander, please hurry up and organize a rescue, if it is too late, I am afraid that Oga Shigeru will not be able to hold on.) As the chief of staff, Kinoshita only hated that he had no backer and background, otherwise how could he let a wreck like Enbe and Ichiro be the commander, the warriors of the Imperial Army, and the elites of the Eleventh Army were really unlucky enough to have such a commander.
"Kinoshita Jun は, Sakurai Province 33rd 師団に向かってすぐに救を命じ、そのほかには、20旅団はすべての代価を払って、高安至の高い道を由しています." (Kinoshita-kun, ordered the 3rd and 33rd Divisions of Sakurai Province to go to the rescue immediately, and also telegraphed Chida Naozo, asking his 20th Brigade to open up the route from Takayasu to Takachi at all costs.) Sonobe Kazuichiro's rescue order seemed to be nothing wrong, but he didn't know that Sakurai Province's own 33rd Division had just jumped out of the encirclement of the 19th Army of the National Army and the 74th Army, and the losses suffered were not small. As for Chi Tian Naozo's mixed twentieth brigade, they couldn't take care of it themselves, they were also surrounded by Sun Yumin's twelfth army, if they could open up the line from Gao'an to Gao, then they didn't need this order from the garden department at all.
Hearing this order from the garden department, which was equivalent to useless, Kinoshita shook his head helplessly, he wanted to scold this unreliable commander angrily, but the strict hierarchy made him force this anger in his heart.
"Commander's Cabinet under では、あなたの部署署は、重囲を収容する三四師団を大きく助けてくれるでしょう。 しかし、部下はまだ足りないと考えています。 9江の106師団と皇軍のoccupy the area のgarrison teamを提案して、また、上に向かって増援しました。 また、元藤军の三の航空団には要邀され、包囲された三四師団の强な空支援には要邀しなければならない。 最後に、私は司令官閣下に南昌に行き、私が今回の救援活動を指揮するように命じた。 よろしくお愿いします。 (Your Excellency, your deployment will certainly be of great help to the 34th Division that is under siege, but your subordinates believe that this may not be enough, and suggest that you mobilize the 106th Division in Jiujiang and the garrison troops in the area occupied by the Imperial Army, and also go to the Shanggao direction for reinforcements.) In addition, you will need to request General Endo's 3rd Flying Regiment to provide strong air support to the besieged 34th Division. Finally, I request His Excellency the Commander to send me to Nanchang and authorize me to direct this rescue operation. Please, Your Excellency. )
Isamu Kinoshita's words were so sincere that Sonobe and Ichiro couldn't find a reason to refuse, so they had to nod in agreement.
Early the next morning, Kinoshita and his chief of operations staff officer Nakasa Yamaguchi and Captain Ogone flew to Nanchang to organize rescue. The 33rd Division's Sakurai Provincial Third Division and other rear units were also urgently dispatched under the telegraphic order of the 11th Army Headquarters to meet the 34th Division's breakthrough. The 106th Division of Nakai Ryotaro, who was far away in Jiujiang, also received an order to go to the rescue, but Zhang Xiaohu of the 20th Division was like a maggot attached to the bone, making the 106th Division almost immobile.
After sending the telegram requesting tactical guidance, Oga Shigeru also began to calm down, he was not a fool, he knew the situation in front of him very well, although he was only being attacked in front and back now, but once he ordered to retreat to the left and right, then he would definitely be attacked from all sides, and the scene at that time would be more passive. Now the only good news for him is that Chida Naozo's 20th Mixed Brigade has exchanged fire with the Chinese army, which can be regarded as blocking the Chinese army on the right side for himself, and from the return call from the radio, he also knows that Sakurai's division is attacking this side at any cost, and now as long as it breaks through the Chinese army blocking in front, then there is still hope for a reversal in this already lost battle.
As a veteran soldier who has been in the army for more than ten or twenty years, Oga Shigeru still has two brushes, and he can't make an anti-tank cone in an emergency, but the anti-tank ditch can be dug.
The execution of the devil soldiers is still good, in just one or two hours, even dug out several criss-crossing anti-tank ditches, which made Oga Mao quite satisfied, not far behind these anti-tank ditches, and arranged a series of fragmented defensive positions, which is to prevent the soldiers of the Chinese army from filling these ditches and specially arranged, these soldiers on the positions are actually abandoned by Oga Mao, he will not dream that relying on these anti-tank ditches and fragmented defensive positions, he can stop the pace of the Chinese army's pursuit, can not attack, can't hold it, the only thing he wants now is to be able to support until dawn. Because Chief of Staff Isamu Kinoshita clearly told him that he had mobilized many surrounding troops to come to the rescue of the 34th Division, and also told him why the Chinese army would launch a fierce attack at night, the reason was that the air force had done too much damage to them, and for the Chinese army, the air force of the Great Japanese Empire was an inexplicable existence.
Dong Wenbin's armored vehicles and the mixed forces of the 7th Regiment finally stopped the pace of attack, and only a few anti-tank ditches that were not too deep but wide enough to stop them. The three tanks in front of them fell into the ditch one by one, knocking the American instructors and Chinese soldiers inside the tanks into bruised noses and swollen faces, and although the soldiers of the 7th Regiment who followed the tanks did not fall into the ditch, they were killed and wounded by the random guns on the devil's position.
When he received this information, Dong Wenbin immediately reported it to Sun Yumin.
The battle began at night, and has been fought until now, although major results have been achieved, but it still has not achieved the result that Sun Yumin wants, and now he heard that the pursuit was blocked, which made him even more anxious, less than two or three hours before dawn, if he could not completely annihilate Dahe Mao and his troops, and wait until the devil plane came, then even if he ate the 34th division of the devil, he would pay a heavy price.
I had previously received a telegram from Luo Zhuoying that the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army had signs of a starry night sortie; Zhang Xiaohu also sent a telegram, and the 106th Division also took advantage of the night to march in the direction of Nanchang regardless of losses, and repeatedly avoided several blocking positions of the 20th Division that were intended to harass, and did not love war at all.
This was still informed by telegram, and Sun Yumin knew very well that there would be more reinforcements that he didn't know about. He has already killed the 101st Division of the Devil's Ding Division in the Ruichang area, and now the 34th Regiment, the high-ranking officials of the Devil are definitely unwilling to let him eat it, so they will mobilize the troops that can be mobilized around them so aggressively, just to rescue this bereaved dog who was besieged by the regiment.
Now he has to come up with a way, even if he can't completely wipe out the remnants of the devil, he has to find a way to get back the three tanks that fell into the pit, this is his treasure, and there is no room for the slightest mistake.
"Dongping, immediately send a report to Dai Cunxiang, ask him to quickly plot the coordinates of the devil's blocking position, and let Dong Wenbin shell." Sun Yumin gave instructions, he pondered for a moment, and then said: "Tell Dai Cunxiang that there is no need to attack any further, just bring back all the tanks." ”
"Commander, didn't you say that this is the only chance to completely annihilate the 34th Division? Why did you suddenly decide to give up again? Deng Dongping was puzzled.
"Ohga Shigeru is smart, he is trying his best to delay time, even if we can fill in these anti-tank ditches, he has other ways to delay, if it drags on until dawn, not to mention the reinforcements that the devils are flocking everywhere, the planes in the sky will become our nightmare." Sun Yumin explained. There were some things he didn't say, he didn't want his tank to be exposed to the devil's plane in the first battle, for this natural enemy, just relying on an anti-aircraft machine gun on the body, the shock effect on the plane was too small and too small, he didn't have the ability to squander this hard-won equipment at will.
"However, as long as you attack a little further, you will reach the blocking position of the Iron Gall, and even if the emperor himself comes, he will not be able to save Oga Shige, can you bear to see the previous efforts wasted?" Deng Dongping's eyes were red, he couldn't understand Sun Yumin's order to withdraw troops at this moment.
"Dongping, I know what you said, although the Great Wagmo Department was beaten to the ground, but they did not lose their combat effectiveness, if you want to annihilate them, it is not something that can be solved in an hour or two, and then the devil reinforcements are also coming, and the planes in the sky are also coming, even if we can forcibly annihilate them, how much will it cost?" Sun Yumin's rhetorical question made Deng Dongping speechless, but he still didn't give up, and after being silent for a while, he asked: "The devil won't have reinforcements coming so quickly, the 33rd Division of Sakurai Province 3 can't break through the position of the 74th Army at all, and the 106th Division in Jiujiang is entangled by the tiger, and it is impossible for them to have reinforcements at all except for the planes." Deng Dongping said very firmly.
"Really? And what about Naozo Chida's Twentieth Mixed Brigade? As soon as Sun Yumin's words came out, Deng Dongping immediately fell silent, which others don't know, as the chief of staff, he is indeed very clear, when drawing up the battle plan, there is no idea of putting the 20th brigade in the pot, not because this newly established brigade has little meat, but because there are really no extra troops to eat this batch of devils on the South Road. Therefore, when the 34th Division was surrounded, it allowed the 20th Brigade to retreat the same way, although the formation created on the surface was desperate to stop them, but in fact the troops mobilized were pitiful.
And after Chida Naozo was frightened by the tank troops, he naturally would not be willing to take his troops to risk his life to save the arrogant and invincible Oga Shige.
Sun Yumin knew that although the Chitian Brigade would not move in a short period of time, once the death order of the 11th Army was issued, they would be the most powerful support for the enemy's 34th Division, and if they no longer went deep into the encirclement, but were behind Li Tiedan's 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment, and attacked together with the 34th Division, then Li Tiedang might not be able to stop it, which was also one of the reasons why Sun Yumin was determined to withdraw his troops.
"Dongping, give orders to all departments, after rescuing the tanks, according to the previous battle plan, exit the battle in turn." There was a lot of helplessness in Sun Yumin's tone, not only Deng Dongping could feel the reluctance in his tone, but the staff officers in the entire command headquarters who worked all night felt the distress of the military seat.
What happened later was not much different from what Sun Yumin expected. After receiving the order of Isamu Kinoshita, the 33rd Division of Sakurai Province immediately sent the commander of the infantry brigade, Shoji Araki, to command the 215th Infantry Wing with a mountain artillery brigade as the right column; with the 214th Infantry Wing as the left column; He personally led the main force of the division as the central column, and that night he dispatched from Niuxing, Fengxin and other strongholds, and then attacked Wuqiaohe and Cunqian Street again, and then rushed to Tangpu and Guanqiao respectively. The 58th Division of the 74th Army, which was guarding here, was taken by surprise, and the division commander Liao Lingqi was awakened by the sound of artillery in his sleep, and the deputy division commander Zhang Lingfu personally led the troops to defend it, but the devils came without warning, and with the successive losses of the positions of Kengkou Leng, Jiezipo, and Nanluocha, the 58th Division had to give way to the blocking position.
In fact, the 58th Division fought very tenaciously in this battle, but the devil was too unexpected, since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, there has never been a Japanese army to launch an attack in the dark night, the Songhu battlefield is like this, the Nanjing battlefield is also the same, and even in the Battle of Taierzhuang, the 5th Division of Banhuan and the 10th Division of Isogu have not launched an attack at night. And this time, the Sakurai division will attack at any cost, which just shows how painful Sun Yumin beat the garden.
Sakurai's 33rd Division was moving forward with all its might, and Chida Naozo's 20th Independent Mixed Brigade was also under the strict orders of Isamu Kinoshita, and sent the 104th Independent Infantry Brigade westward to Longtuanxu, established a containment position, and made arrangements to attack the back of the Chinese army's blocking position, so that it could cover the retreat of the 34th Division at any time.
In addition, Saburo Endo's Third Flying Regiment dispatched more than 30 planes and flew over the Kamigao battlefield at dawn, but apart from the battlefields that were still smoking gunpowder and a few broken plaster flags, they only saw the remnants of the 34th Division in disarray, and the Chinese troops who led to the tragic state of the 34th Division could not even see half a shadow.