Chapter 619: Cavalry Six Regiment Attack
Four kilometers north of Beishan, there is a sheepfold village here, and the people of the whole village raise sheep, and every household has a sheepfold, so there will be the name of sheepfold village.
At this time, here in the sheepfold village, the regimental headquarters of the 6th Cavalry Regiment was set up here, and after Sun Weiguo issued the order to attack, the units of the 6th Cavalry Regiment began to take action.
The first to carry out the operation was the second artillery battalion directly under the new 2nd Brigade under the 6th Cavalry Regiment, the battalion commander Zheng Jingjing, and the deputy battalion commander Li Jiaxin, who commanded 12 94-type 75MM mountain guns to begin shelling Beishan, and after the shelling, the armored battalion of the 6th Cavalry Regiment began to attack.
Thirty-eight tanks quickly moved forward, three tank companies of the armored battalion marched in two columns, two Type 97 tanks and four Type 92 armored vehicles at the battalion headquarters carried two Type 89 tanks of the first company, ten Type 95 tanks formed a left column, twelve T-26 tanks of the second company and twelve Vickers tanks of the third company formed a right column to advance, and six 37MM anti-tank guns were dragged by straddle motorcycles to follow.
The cavalry battalion served as the armored battalion to protect the sides of the armored battalion, while the infantry battalion and the mounted artillery battalion marched last.
According to Sun Weiguo's request, the armored battalion escaped from the range of the Japanese army and quickly advanced towards the rear of the Japanese army.
Because the two infantry squadrons of the 18th Brigade were transferred away, when the armored battalion appeared in front of the Japanese position, only one squad of the Japanese army was stationed on the position, and the Xizhuang Village garrisoned by this squad was completely out of the range of the Japanese artillery fire in Beishan.
The T-26 tank appeared in front of the position, and the thirteen devil soldiers were completely stunned, and they watched in amazement as the tanks drove towards them quickly.
When the tanks were only a hundred meters away from them, the devil soldiers began to shoot with machine guns, while the riflemen began to jump out of the trenches with explosives packets.
"Da Da Da!" The tank machine guns began to fire, and all four devil soldiers who jumped out of the trench were beaten into a sieve.
The Japanese light machine gun clanged on the tank, and the commander of the second armored company immediately ordered the tank to fire.
A TANK STOPPED, AND THE 45MM TANK GUN BEGAN TO AIM AT THE JAPANESE LIGHT MACHINE GUN FIRING IN FRONT, AND WITH A "BOOM", A SHELL WAS FIRED.
The shells blew up the crooked light machine gun, the Japanese became quiet, and the armored battalion units began to jump over the Japanese trenches.
After the tank jumped over the Japanese trench, the five surviving devil soldiers quietly appeared behind the tank with explosives bags and grenades.
"Bang bang." Before the five devil soldiers could get close to the tank, they were beaten into a sieve by machine-gun bullets.
In order to ensure the safety of the tank, Zhang Zhuojia, deputy commander of the Jibu battalion, led the armored convoy directly under the battalion headquarters to follow behind the tank, five Type 91 armored vehicles, five Type 92 armored vehicles, but there were dozens of light and heavy machine guns.
In front of them were a large number of tanks, followed by armored vehicles and infantry built by trucks, followed by mules, horses and pack-drawn artillery, and the troops of the 6th Cavalry Regiment marched rapidly.
After breaking through the Japanese position in Xizhuang Village, the Japanese army assembled a squad to intercept it immediately, and because it was in the dark of night, they heard gunfire, and the Japanese sent a squad to intercept it.
However, when the Japanese squad arrived, they realized that the enemy they needed to intercept was not infantry, but tanks and armored vehicles.
"Retreat, retreat." The captain of the Japanese second lieutenant squad immediately shouted loudly.
The second lieutenant squad leader gave the order to evacuate, but how could the ghost soldiers who appeared in the tank's line of sight have a chance to evacuate.
The tank machine guns began to fire, and the more than fifty devil soldiers did not put up any resistance, and they were beaten into a sieve by machine gun bullets.
Forward, forward, forward, breakthrough, breakthrough, breakthrough.
The tanks roared incessantly, the tracks ran over the soil, and the panzers marched at full speed.
Xizhuang Village was broken through, Erlangyu Village was broken through, Wanjiazhuang Village was broken through, at 5:10 a.m., fifteen minutes after the 6th Cavalry Regiment started the operation, the troops of the 6th Cavalry Regiment broke through the position of the 18th Brigade of the Japanese Army from the flank, at this time the troops of the 6th Cavalry Regiment had entered the flank of Zhitou Town, directly threatening the safety of the 18th Brigade.
Zhitou Town, the headquarters of the 18th Brigade of the Japanese Army.
Captain Shaozuo looked around with a gloomy face, and all the personnel in the team headquarters lowered their heads, and no one dared to look at Captain Shaozuo at all.
"Bagaya Road, what the hell is going on, are the two infantry squads of the third squadron stationed on the left all dead?"
Seeing that all the personnel were bowing their heads, Captain Shaozo roared angrily.
There was a fierce gunfire on the left, and Captain Shaozo began to contact his subordinate troops immediately, but the phone was not connected for a long time, which made Captain Shaozo extremely angry.
What made him even more angry was that the Japanese troops stationed in Beishan could no longer get in touch.
At present, there are only the third and fourth squadrons of the 18th Squadron, a squad of the fourth squadron, a machine gun squad and two mortar squadrons are stationed in Zhitou Town, the other two squadrons and a machine gun squad and an artillery squadron are stationed on the right side of Zhitou Town, the squadron headquarters of the third squadron is set up in Beishan, and at the same time, two squadrons of the third squadron defend Xizhuang Village and other areas on the left side of Zhitou Town.
The captain of the 18th Brigade was talking angrily, but how did he know that what he said was correct, and the two Japanese squads stationed in Xizhuang Village and other places were indeed dead.
More than 100 devil soldiers were stationed in several villages, and they were all equipped with light weapons, and in the face of the surprise attack of the 6th Cavalry Regiment, where would they be opponents.
The special combat team that entered Xiyang County in advance to cooperate with the 6th Cavalry Regiment had already cut off the Japanese army's telephone lines.
There was radio contact at and above the level of the Japanese brigade, but the communication between the Japanese brigade headquarters and its subordinate squadrons still had to rely on telephones.
The special combat team was stationed near the telephone line under the leadership of Zhang Junjia and Liu Nuo, and all the communication troops sent by the Japanese army were killed by the special combat team.
The Japanese troops outside Zhitou Town could not contact the Brigade Headquarters, they did not know what instructions the Brigade Headquarters had, but the 18th Brigade Headquarters in Zhitou Town did not know what was happening outside at all.
"Captain, we have sent five batches of communication troops to inspect and repair the line, two groups of communication soldiers to convey orders, and more than a dozen communication soldiers have been dispatched, but now there is still no news, these communication soldiers must have been killed by the Chinese troops, captain, the Chinese troops have cut off the connection between us."
A Japanese captain thought about it, and he immediately came to the Japanese captain, and he reported softly.
Hearing the words of the Japanese captain, Captain Shaozo nodded, but he was once again in a dilemma, and he didn't know how to deploy the next battle.