Chapter 324: A Great Victory
The two first-class main forces that taught the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade as instructors, this time the Baotou defense battle was almost reduced to spectators, and it was impossible to say that they did not have a temper when they saw other units show their skills. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Especially Chen Zhengxiang, the commander of the 1st Brigade, was originally born in the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade, but only left the heroic unit of the 1st Brigade after being promoted. However, to his surprise, after walking around outside, he returned to the starting point of the first brigade.
However, this time he returned to the 1st Brigade, but everything was different, the original old brigade commander of the 1st Brigade, and at the same time left a deep imprint on the 1st Brigade, Li Yunlong was transferred to the armored brigade, while he Chen Zhengxiang was transferred from the 4th Brigade back to the 1st Brigade to continue to serve as the brigade commander.
Although there is no distinction between the commanders of the 4th Brigade and the 1st Brigade in terms of rank, everyone understands that the 1st Brigade and the 4th Brigade are completely different.
Under the leadership of veteran brigade commander Li Yunlong, the 1st Brigade is not only like thunder among the instructors, but also a well-known trump card unit in the Eighth Route Army.
After Chen Zhengxiang returned to the First Brigade, he also held his breath and wanted to do a big job, hoping to maintain the position of the First Brigade as the first-class main force among the instructors.
What Chen Zhengxiang didn't expect was that when the task was assigned, the 1st Brigade only got the chicken task of cutting off the enemy's rear route. Fortunately, Ding Wei's 2nd Brigade, which was deeply respected by Zhang Cheng, accepted the same task as the 1st Brigade, otherwise Chen Zhengxiang would have thought that the division commander did not trust him.
Seeing that the devil was only two miles away from the blocking position, Chen Zhengxiang was in no mood to think about anything else, and at this moment he led a brigade of tens of thousands of people to hide in the position, waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army.
However, what is surprising is that 30 minutes have passed, but the Japanese army has not yet appeared, which makes Chen Zhengxiang and Ding Wei extremely puzzled.
By this time, Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura had already called the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenyoshi Ueda, asking for tactical guidance. However, to their great disappointment, they were told that the nearest Japanese army to Baotou was the 108th Division of Datong, which was 400 kilometers away from Datong to Baotou, and that it would take at least a week for the 108th Division to come to the rescue.
What made Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura even more desperate was that the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenkichi Ueda, was very angry about the defeat of this expedition and had the intention of pursuing it to the end.
If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army was still surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, and the imminent slash would have shaken the morale of the army, General Ueda Kenkichi would probably have asked Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura to commit suicide on the spot.
However, General Ueda Kenkichi still contacted General Terauchi Shouichi of the North China Front Army and asked the North China Front Army to send the 108th Division to rescue the 12th Division.
In the end, Senior General Kenkichi Ueda ordered Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura to defend on the spot and hold on for at least a week, waiting for the 108th Division to come to the rescue.
Lieutenant General Uemura Seitaro knew that this was the last chance given to him by Senior General Ueda Kenkichi, and if he could hold out for more than seven days and cooperate with the 108th Division to eliminate the instructor, maybe he would be able to save a life, otherwise everything would never be mentioned again, and what awaited him would be eternal death.
Abandoning all illusions, Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura knew that he had little hope of surviving this time, which made him become open-minded instead, and in the face of the bewildered Japanese officers and soldiers, he said firmly: "Gentlemen, the nearest reinforcement to us is four hundred kilometers away from us, and if we want to survive, we must hold out for a week."
Can we hold out for a week? To be honest, there is not much hope, but we are all warriors of the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire, even if we will die this time, we have to fight with the Chinese people, even if we drag the Chinese people to die together, we will not hesitate to let the Chinese people know that our Imperial Army is by no means easy to mess with! ”
It has to be said that Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura's speech was very successful, and he succeeded in summoning the courage of all the officers and men of the Japanese army, and in the posture of mourning, all the Japanese troops united and desperately dug their positions, intending to build a strong defensive line before the instructor's pursuing troops arrived, so as to block the instructor's attack for a week.
It's just that this action of the Japanese army was futile, and it was just a little delayed in the time of their death.
Ding Wei and Chen Zhengxiang, who were waiting for the rabbit in the blocking position, soon received a report from the scouts that the Japanese army had given up their plan to break through the encirclement and was building a position two miles ahead, trying to hold on to the spot.
If the enemy doesn't come, I'll do it, what should I do? Simple, I'll be the enemy.
Without too much hesitation, Ding Wei and Chen Zhengxiangzi discussed and then ordered the troops to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and it happened that Li Yunlong's armored brigade also arrived at this time, just besieging the Japanese army together.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The 1st and 2nd Brigades had been spectators in the previous battles, and the ammunition was very abundant, and the attack was first launched by the artillery battalions of the two brigades, which, together with the tank guns of the armored brigades, were indiscriminately bombarded against the fortifications that had not yet been built by the Japanese.
All the heavy weapons of the Japanese army had long been discarded in the process of escaping, and at this moment they were completely helpless in the face of the artillery bombardment of the instructor, and they just hid in the rudimentary position and shivered.
However, these fortifications could not effectively defend against the artillery bombardment of the instructors, and under the blow of countless artillery fire, Japanese soldiers were constantly blown up and killed, and the number of casualties skyrocketed.
What made the Japanese army feel even more devastated was that the tanks of the armored unit of the Eighth Route Army were rumbling over, and the Japanese army's simple fortifications could not stop the advance of the tanks at all, and many positions were directly crushed by the tanks like bulldozers, burying the Japanese soldiers alive in the positions.
Some heroic Japanese soldiers gathered grenades into bundles in an attempt to blow up the tanks of the Eighth Route Army, but were killed by the machine gunners in the tanks.
Despite the fact that the Japanese army's heart was higher than the sky, the reality was extremely cold, and the Japanese army had just decided to hold on to the spot for a week, but in less than an hour, the Japanese army was already on the verge of collapse.
Major General Brigade Commander Sakai Hoji, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, was bombarded into the sky by a shell from the Eighth Route Army, and after falling down, he became a pile of minced meat.
Lieutenant General Brigade Commander Shigeyasu Suzuki, who was independently mixed into the 11th Brigade, was seriously wounded early, abandoned by the fleeing Japanese army, and finally became a prisoner of the Eighth Route Army.
Li Shouxin, the traitor commander of the puppet Mongolian army, was shot in the head by the blocker of the Eighth Route Army, ending his shameful and pathetic life.
The commander of the 12th Division, Lieutenant General Division Uemura Seitaro, wanted to maintain his last dignity as a Japanese lieutenant general and was ready to commit suicide by seppuku, but unfortunately the Eighth Route Army did not give him this opportunity, and he was beaten into a hornet's nest by a shuttle of soldiers who rushed over before seppuku.
At this point, the Baotou Garrison Battle lasted only one day and one night, and the 60,000-day puppet army that came to attack was wiped out by the instructor, ending in a complete victory for the instructor.