Chapter 146: Battle Zibo

At dusk, Gao Fei, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade, received an order to attack and personally led 1 regiment from Nanjiazhuang in the southeast of Zibo to Zibo Station. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe first brigade was expanded to 6 regiments before the war, with a total strength of 6,500 people, and the main 5 regiments are currently in ambush in Shouguang. Wang Jiefang left only one regiment outside Zibo City, the purpose of which was to test the combat capability of the main force under his command. At present, the 5th Division, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades are elite troops. What kind of battle the elite troops can do against the weak forces of the Japanese army, Ge Yunfei must let the actual combat test.

It had been three days since the Japanese army occupied Zibo Station, and in three days the Japanese soldiers entered the city and looted and looted the miasma. The officers and men of the 1st Regiment were filled with indignation at the atrocities of the Japanese army, and the order to attack was issued, from the regiment commander Gao Fei to the ordinary soldiers, all of them were like chicken blood, and their desire for war was high. At about 8 p.m., the troops approached Zibo Station, which was located in the south of the city, less than 100 meters from the South City Gate. The troops quietly approached the Zibo station, and the regiment commander Gao Fei assigned combat missions.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the deployment of the Japanese army, the Japanese army has about 3 squadrons and more than 600 troops in Zibo. The Japanese army was mainly entrenched at the South City Gate and the station, and the brigade commander ordered our regiment to eat this Japanese army cleanly and thoroughly. There are intelligence agency agents in the city to support, a battalion commander! "Here!" The commander of the first battalion, Sun Dingbang, stepped forward and replied. "Your troops entered the city at the west gate, launched an attack at 10 o'clock, captured the south city gate, and prevented the Japanese army from retreating into the city and resisting stubbornly." "Subordinates obey!"

"2 battalions, 3 battalions, and 4 battalions, surround Zibo Station from three sides, southeast and west!" Under the cover of night, the troops moved quickly and began to move. The stationmaster's office of Zibo Station is now the headquarters of Kameda Nakasa. At this time, Kameda Nakasa was a little confused. Based on the speed of Kobayashi's march, it was time to occupy Shucun Station in the morning, but there was no news of Kobayashi Ichiro so far, and Kameda seemed to have a premonition of some kind of danger. The subordinates were relieved when they saw that Kameda was a little nervous.

"Kameda Nakasa, according to the information we have, there is no Chinese army in Zhou Village, Kobayashi Ichiro is a money fan, I'm afraid he is accumulating money, and he forgot to send someone back to report the news." When Kameda heard this, he felt that what his subordinates said made sense. Since setting foot on the land of Shandong, China, the imperial army seems to be in a no-man's land, and now the Chinese army is fleeing without any military resistance. I have long heard that Zhou Village is rich, and Kobayashi Ichiro may be patronizing and making a fortune. After only three days of occupation of Zibo, Kameda obtained a large amount of food and daily necessities, not to mention Zhoucun.

The Japanese army's westward advance was not only to control the railway line and the mines along the way, but more importantly, to raise war materials for the Japanese army to attack Qingdao. At about 9 p.m., the 1st Battalion entered the West City Gate. Battalion commander Sun Dingbang shook hands with a man in civilian clothes who claimed to be the head of the city's intelligence station. Sun Dingbang looked at the empty street and asked, "South City Gate, how many troops does the Japanese army have?" "About a squadron." "The 1st and 2nd platoons went up the walls on both sides, and the two wings attacked, and the 3rd and 4nd platoons attacked with me head-on, and acted immediately."

The Japanese army had a limited number of troops, and its main task was to control the railway line, so the city was unfortified. More than 30 people from the intelligence station in the city cooperated, and the troops were familiar with the road and quickly completed the military deployment to the south gate. "Report to the battalion commander, the heavy machine gun position is deployed!" Sun Dingbang took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and the hour and minute hands pointed to 9:30. "The main force launched a feint attack at 9:55, and 5 minutes later our troops launched an attack and entered combat preparation!" The wait was long, and looking at the sentries of the Japanese troops swimming at the city gate, everyone was anxious.

The sound of heavy machine guns was finally heard from the south side, followed by a dense burst of gunfire from three directions. At this time, the Japanese troops stationed at the city gate moved very quickly to deploy defenses on the city walls. A squadron of Japanese troops had just climbed the city wall when suddenly a dense rain of bullets came from both flanks and rear. When the regimental commander Goofy ordered the troops to attack, Kameda Daisa was leisurely drinking sake. Gunshots rang out, and Kameda climbed the station's 2-story high point and looked south. This look startled Kameda.

"There are so many Chinese troops there, and there are more than a dozen heavy machine guns." Kameda specifically mentioned the heavy machine gun because he participated in the Russo-Japanese War and the Lushun Offensive Operation, when the heavy machine guns of the Russian army made the Japanese soldiers fearful. Although the Japanese soldiers relied on a group charge to defeat the Russian army, Kameda still remembers the scene of the sea of corpses. After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army felt the backwardness of weapons and equipment, and upgraded the individual weapon in 05 and finalized the Type 38 rifle.

This rifle, named after Meiji 38, is the Japanese 38 big cover that swept World War II. After 05, the Japanese field divisions began to replace Type 38 rifles one after another. After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army realized the importance of machine guns, and in 05 purchased the franchise for the production of Haskech machine guns, which were successfully copied in the same year, named Type 38 heavy machine guns, and began to equip troops in large quantities. The Type 38 heavy machine gun has not changed much from the prototype machine gun except that the bullet has become 6 or 5 mm.

"Kameda Nakasa, judging from the enemy's heavy machine guns, this is the unit of Ge Yunfei, the overseer of Shandong, according to the information we have, Ge Yunfei's 5th Division is equipped with 3 heavy machine guns per battalion, and it can be concluded that there is at least one regiment of enemy troops in front of us!" As soon as the subordinates finished speaking, a dense gunfire suddenly sounded in the direction of the city gate, "Kameda Nakasa, the enemy army has entered the city!" "Order Ono to guard the gates. Immediately send a report to Weifang that our department has encountered the encirclement of the Chinese army and asks for urgent reinforcements! ”

The Japanese army was surrounded on all sides and had to hold on to the station. If Kameda shows weakness and immediately leads his troops to break through to the east at the first opportunity, he can run out. However, due to the superiority of the Japanese army and the unclear situation, Kameda believed that it was safe to wait for reinforcements, asking for help on the one hand, and waiting until dawn on the other hand. But where did Kameda think that they would encounter an opponent who was equal in terms of weapons and equipment, and the quality of soldiers. Half an hour after the battle broke out at the city gate, a white-knuckle battle broke out on the eastern wall.

In the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army fought thousands of hand-to-hand battles against the Russian army. Although the Japanese soldiers' stabbing skills were higher than those of the Russian soldiers, in the face of tall and burly Russian soldiers, the Japanese did not have the upper hand in white-knuckle combat. Frankly speaking, the stabbing skills of the Japanese troops have not yet reached the point of perfection in World War II. On the other hand, Ge Yunfei's elite troops, all the training was aimed at the Japanese army, and the assassination training requirements were strict in peacetime, so the soldiers' fighting skills were equal to the Japanese soldiers.

Since the Chinese soldiers were taller than the Japanese soldiers, they had the upper hand in strength, and soon more than a dozen Japanese soldiers fell in pools of blood. The frontal feint did not allow Kameda to divide his forces to support the castle gate, and the battle lasted until midnight, when the Japanese troops at the castle gate were forced to abandon and retreat to the station. In the waiting room, Kameda was surprised by Ono's report, and a squadron of Japanese troops lost half of their men and horses in less than two hours of fighting, while the other side had only one battalion of troops. Kameda regretted it a little, but it was impossible to choose to break through at this time.

Two red signal flares were raised at the south city gate, the city gate changed hands, and the regiment commander Gao Fei immediately ordered a general attack. The south gate was only 100 meters away from the station, and Sun Dingbang ordered three heavy machine guns to line up on the city wall, condescendingly suppressing the Japanese firepower, and the dense rain of bullets quickly crushed the Japanese army's outlying positions. At 1 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army was divided and surrounded into three parts. About 150 Japanese soldiers took refuge in a station warehouse and resisted. The soldiers of the 1st regiment, under the cover of machine guns, approached the warehouse and constantly threw grenades into it.

Shouting in Japanese to persuade him to surrender, the soldiers climbed onto the roof, lifted the tiles and threw grenades into it. The three-dimensional attack was difficult for the Japanese to parry, and finally the Japanese launched a decisive attack, but fell in a pool of blood under the dense rain of heavy machine guns. At 3 o'clock in the morning, the waiting room of the station, the core position of the Japanese army, was surrounded by water. At this time, the scene in the hall of the carriage was miserable, lying full of wounded Japanese soldiers, and there were less than 100 Japanese soldiers who could fight.

Kameda Ichiro looked at his loyal subordinates and said, "Warriors, the last moment has come, smash the radio station and burn the military flag." For the sake of the Emperor and for the honor of the Imperial Army of Japan, we will fight until we are a soldier. Then there was a horrific scene, in which the wounded Japanese soldiers stabbed each other with bayonets in their hands. The wounded Japanese soldiers who were seriously wounded were killed separately. Kameda ordered a decisive assault??????。 At 4 o'clock in the morning, the battle ended, and the more than 600 Japanese soldiers captured only 100 wounded soldiers, and all the others were killed.

In this battle, the 1st Regiment lost 125 killed and 320 wounded, which was a great price. On the platform, the head of the regiment, Gao Fei, stood silently beside Kameda's corpse. At this time, Kameda knelt on one leg and held the tip of the saber in both hands on the ground. His eyes were wide open, and he was hit by more than a dozen bullets in his chest, as if he was not willing to fail. An officer held a camera and pressed the shutter continuously to take pictures, and Gao Fei gave a military salute with a solemn expression. "Collect and bury Kameda Osa's body, as a soldier, he is worthy of admiration!"

After Kameda's body was carried away, Goofy said with a solemn expression in front of the officers: "What the Overseer said is true, everyone has seen what kind of opponent we are in front of us, and how difficult it is to defeat such an opponent. In the face of such an opponent, we must show the courage to fight to the death in order to destroy them. Immediately report to the headquarters that the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade recaptured the Zibo Station and completely annihilated 3 integrated squadrons of the Japanese army and a logistics detachment totaling more than 600 people. ”

After the battle, Gao Fei ordered to clean up the battlefield and rest quickly, and marched to Weifang in the afternoon. The people of the city rejoiced when they heard that the invading Japanese army had been destroyed. They spontaneously organized themselves and formed the Zibo City Guard. The Zibo intelligence station used the captured Japanese weapons and issued them to the city guards. It is only when they are ravaged that the populace can awaken. There was almost no mobilization in this regard, and thousands of people in Zibo participated in the city protection team that day.