Chapter 65: Frontal Counterattack
At dawn on May 28, little Japan's army had been assembled and ready to launch a general offensive at any time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
On the Japanese position, more than 2,000 infantry of the 64th Company were ready to go. They all focused on Yama Takemitsu Daisa.
At the forefront of the Wuguang War soldiers in Shanxian County, they picked up their binoculars and looked at the Mongolian army position on the 742 heights. I saw that the Mongol army was also ready to go, waiting for the Japanese attack in the position.
However, the strength of the Outer Mongolian army was only one-third that of small Japan, and it did not have air supremacy. Judging from the telescope, the position of the Mongolian People's Army is not very strong, and it does not look like an opponent of the Kwantung Army.
"Your Excellency, the 12th Flying Regiment is ready, please attack!" Kurai, the staff officer behind Takemitsu in Yamagu, urged the commander.
Seeing that the position of the Mongolian People's Army was not strong and the troops were insufficient, Yamayama Wuguang was full of confidence in this battle. With a "sonorous sound", he pulled out his command knife.
When the little devil in the back saw the command knife, everyone had already entered a state of high alert. It's like a track and field athlete before the start, waiting for the start whistle.
"Kill Karma!" Yamaguchi Takemitsu gave the order to attack in Japanese. When the devils of the 64th Company heard the order, they were like fierce horses that had just loosened their reins, and galloped towards the free grassland.
In the sky, the sound of airplane engines sounded. This was the 12th Flying Regiment of the Devils, which provided air support to Yama Prefecture's troops and increased Yama Prefecture's confidence in victory.
He stood on a hillside at the back of the group and inspected the battle with a telescope.
At the beginning, the devils of the 64th Infantry Wing were all vying for the lead, and everyone wanted to be at the forefront of the team. This is the embodiment of the so-called Japanese spirit of bushido, these little devils in order to help the empire expand, do not worry about their own life or death at all.
For them, it was glorious to die on the battlefield and to be loyal to the emperor. Looking at the impenetrable position of the Mongolian People's Army, and the pitiful number of the Outer Mongolian army, they all felt that they could make meritorious achievements.
But these disadvantages of the Mongol army were only superficial. Behind the weak position and insufficient troops, there is a huge killing opportunity.
Soon, Japanese planes flew rapidly towards the 724 heights, preparing to bomb the positions of the Mongolian troops indiscriminately. At this moment, an unidentified group of aircraft appeared in front of it.
This group consisted of 60 fighters of the same type, in a two-plane offensive formation.
To the surprise of the Japanese pilots, they had never seen that aircraft at all. Actually, it was the newly assembled Il-16 fighter of the Soviet Air Force. As early as a few hours earlier, Manturov had sent fighter jets to the air force stationed in the Far East to reinforce them, arriving at the time he had scheduled.
The Japanese Air Force could only fight the air with the sudden Soviet aircraft group, and had no time to support the ground forces. As a result, the Japanese troops on the ground lost their air force support and could only rush forward.
Losing air support is actually not a big deal, and the next thing is a headache for the devil. When the soldiers of the 64th Wing rushed halfway, they were suddenly met with intensive artillery fire from Soviet troops.
These shells were sent from the Soviet positions on the west bank of the Haraha River, which were 10 kilometers away from the battlefield, and had been set up only the day before, and the devils had not even discovered the existence of the positions.
Before rushing to the Mongolian position, dozens of soldiers of the Shan County Wing were killed by shells, and Soviet fighters would fly low from time to time, using machine guns to carpet strafe the devil's infantry ranks, resulting in more casualties on the Japanese side.
Even if they rushed to the front of the position, they had to face the strafing fire of Mongolian machine guns and AVS-36 automatic rifles. Constrained by the opponent's terrain advantage and burst weapon advantage, it cannot be attacked for a long time.
Fatally, on the flat ground on the side of the heights, dozens of Soviet armored vehicles suddenly appeared. Behind the armored car, there were more than a thousand Soviet reinforcements.
They immediately launched a counteroffensive, and under the offensive of the mechanized armored forces, the devils, who were not equipped with anti-tank human flesh explosives, were powerless to parry under the strafing of the machine guns of the armored vehicles, and were quickly beaten back.
At this time, the fierce battle in the sky was in full swing, and the Soviet Air Force, suppressed by the number and quality of the aircraft, shot down half of the number of Japanese planes, so that the devils had to retreat. But the well-trained and experienced Japanese pilots also led to the loss of more than a dozen fighters in the Soviet Air Force.
After the retreat of the Japanese aircraft, the Soviet Air Force gained air supremacy on the battlefield, and the remaining Soviet planes brought strong air support to the counterattacking Soviet troops and participated in the counteroffensive.
Under the fierce attack of aircraft and armored vehicles, the devils of the Shan County Wing were defeated more and more and were forced to retreat. But this wing was, after all, dominated by infantry, while the Soviet counteroffensive units dispatched aircraft and armored vehicles.
As a result, when retreating, none of the Japanese troops who were pulling behind survived. The original Japanese wing, which had 2,000 troops, ended up with only half of it. But soon after, the Japanese launched an artillery bombardment, covering the retreat of the Japanese soldiers and hindering the Soviet counterattack.
In this way, on the eastern bank of the Haraha River, Manturov won the first victory of his life, and the devils seized the 724 heights, and the intention to establish a position was completely crushed.
But on the west bank, the troops of the eastern eight hundred Tibetan met little resistance. Their cavalry wing and armored vehicle squadron soon occupied the division headquarters of the 6th Division of the Mongolian People's Army, giving a surprise surprise attack to the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army.
Manturov, who had little military experience, in order to avoid the seizure of the 724 heights, sent a large number of troops across the Haraha River, came to the east bank, and held the positions on the east bank. In this way, although the original position was held and the Japanese army's intention to seize the high ground was destroyed, the defense of the west bank became "empty".
What will Manturov do next?
In fact, he had already laid a big trap for the Eastern Eight Hundred Tibetan Divisions who secretly attacked the headquarters of the Mongolian army.
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