Chapter 208: One Drag and Two Deceive
But his own casualties were not small, and the battle damage was close to half, and the two teachers and students fought into a division, and the most distressing thing for him was that the rest of the assault battalion was less than two hundred, but fortunately, the original team of the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team did not suffer much loss, and only a dozen people were sacrificed
The only thing that made him happy was that the Ninth Division had left a large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies, and even the field artillery wing had left more than 20 field artillery pieces and enough shells to fight several tough battles.
But can they really hold Nanchang for ten days and half a month? On the north and south sides of them are two special divisions of the Japanese army, the so-called special divisions and regiments refer to the troops composed of reservists of permanent divisions and regiments, whose numbers are permanent divisions and regiments and the number of the wings is preceded by 100, and their establishment is roughly the same as that of permanent divisions and regiments, except that the cavalry wing becomes a cavalry brigade, and the artillery wing of the horse-pulling division is 36 field guns and 12 mountain guns. The number of special packhorse divisions is 28,200 and the number of horseback divisions is 24,400. The so-called classification of pulling horses and pack horses is mainly because the horse pulling division is equipped with field artillery and heavy howitzers, which need to be towed by horses (the pulling force of horses is much greater than that of pack horses, and they can be towed by multiple horses), while the pack horse division is equipped with mountain artillery and light infantry guns, which only need to be carried by horses. Generally speaking, a division with a horse-drawn system is a heavy corps, which is more suitable for frontal combat with large-scale frontal firepower, while a packhorse division is a light infantry unit that belongs to mountain operations, and the infantry strength is larger than that of a horse-drawn division.
The two divisions belong to the field division, the 101st is the horse pulling division, the 104th is the pack horse division, plus the 150 heavy artillery wing that attacked the north city of Nanchang at the beginning, and the cavalry wing that the ninth division disappeared, the pressure faced by Jiang Haoran's division can be said to be so big that it is invisible. Of course, it is inevitable that a part of the troops will be assigned to garrison Fengxin and Gao'an, especially Gao'an, the Japanese army will definitely have to lay down heavy troops to prepare for the rescue of the first class, in fact, the strength of the encirclement of Nanchang may not reach a division, Jiang Haoran is not afraid of how many of their troops, the most headache for him is their planes and heavy artillery, wiped out the Ninth Division, they also lost this protective umbrella, tomorrow's round of bombing must be indispensable.
Jiang Haoran actually wanted to transfer one or two divisions from the base to relieve the siege, but at the beginning of the war, the Japanese planes bombed the important bridges along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, causing the train to be useless, and the distance of hundreds of kilometers was really beyond the reach of the whip, but after thinking about it again and again, he still ordered Xu Biao to bring a heavy artillery brigade to support, and it should not be difficult for the car to rush to the front line overnight, after all, to defeat Gao'an, just with these regiments and Xue Yue's division, without artillery support, even if it is forcibly broken, the casualties will definitely be small. If she continued to attack and rescue, I was afraid that it would not pose much of a threat to the Japanese army, so Jiang Haoran also telegraphed Zhuang Yingying and several regiment commanders to not allow Xu Biao to take any action before she arrived. On the one hand, it avoids unnecessary sacrifices, and on the other hand, it concentrates superior forces and tears apart the Japanese defense line with a handful.
According to the calculation of the number of kilometers and the time it took for the artillery brigade to load and build artillery positions, Jiang Haoran estimated that Xu Biao should be able to launch an attack on Gao'an in the afternoon at the latest, but how long would it take to break through Gao'an, and even whether he could break through Gao'an? But there is no way to estimate it.
But either way, nothing will change because you are worried or afraid. Therefore, Jiang Haoran used an extremely optimistic eye to analyze with his subordinates that the probability of their successful escape was as high as seven or eighty percent. Of course, how much water is in this, and even the occurrence of uncertain factors, Jiang Haoran put it in his heart, he doesn't want the troops to be shrouded in the shadow of death, although these battles can be seen that their combat effectiveness is not weak, and their morale is even rising all the way, but they have won battles all the way, and they are almost impossible to complete victories, even if it is a routed army, the morale will be high, and it is impossible to see whether they have a tenacious will to fight, that is, in Jiang Haoran's heart, They weren't treated as elites. Once they suffered two defeats, coupled with the threat of death, Jiang Haoran didn't know if they could still maintain this combat effectiveness. Therefore, Jiang Haoran is not willing to challenge their psychological bottom line until it is absolutely necessary.
The remnants of the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team and the assault battalion were sent out by Jiang Haoran to the North City Gate before night, accompanied by an artillery battalion and an infantry regiment, and more than 20 transport vehicles left by devils, all of which were loaded with the corpses of devils who had changed into ** clothes.
The special combat team and the assault battalion searched all the way to the west, and once they hit the devil's defense line, they launched a fierce attack on them, and the firecrackers collected from Nanchang were also used, plus the bombardment of the artillery battalion, the true and false tossed overnight, and the momentum of the whole division to break through must come out, the devils will definitely not take the initiative to attack at night, and will focus on defense, the infantry regiment will then use the devil's corpse to set up an attack formation in the back, and then burn a smoke array at dawn, to ensure that the devil's plane cannot see the ground clearly from the sky, and then withdraw to Nanchang with the artillery battalion, After the special combat team and the assault battalion held out until dawn, they fired dozens of smoke bombs on the defensive line, so that the devils on the opposite side did not dare to move lightly, and then drove a gradual retreat according to the actual situation, first let the devils' first round of air raids be thrown here, relieving part of the pressure on Nanchang City. The most important thing is that Jiang Haoran wants to test whether the chairman of the committee is really what he thinks.
At the same time, Nanchang City also began to arrange smoke arrays, at least so that the devils could not determine the target from the air to bomb, such a large Nanchang City, I don't believe that the devils will have so many bombs all plowed, and all the dangerous positions on the city wall are placed on the corpses of the devils to lure the enemy's artillery fire. Dozens of mountain artillery and field artillery are not placed together on a large scale at all, just this pitiful artillery fire, and the artillery battle with the devils, the whole thing is tired and crooked, but it is just right to charge against the devil infantry. Jiang Haoran believed that before the devils were sure whether they were inside the city or outside the city, the Japanese troops in the west and south directions should not launch artillery attacks lightly, after all, the little devils were not so generous as to let them shoot blindly. In this way, when the first round of air raids by the devils is over, it will take at least a few hours to return to the base to reload the bombs. Now he has no other way, the only tactic is to delay and deceive, how long can it be delayed, how long can it be deceived, how many shells can be counted by the devil, as long as it is past tomorrow daytime, whether they can break through or not, it depends on whether Xu Biao and they can defeat Gao'an.
Even if Xu Biao can't take Gao'an in one fell swoop, it may not be difficult to deal with them for a day or two, but he is afraid that the chairman will be bent on killing himself, and he will even give up the opportunity to twist the tide of the war, let the Japanese army reinforce Fengxin, and then divide his troops to support Gao'an, and also launch an attack from the north of Nanchang, then he will really have no way to live.