Chapter 917: The Three Divisions Rendezvous
At 11 o'clock in the evening of September 25, 1938, the troops of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army began to join the battle of attacking Wutai Mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After the troops of the 109th Division came to the foot of Wutai Mountain, the commander of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army, Shigeqia Suematsu, the commander of the 21st Division, Washizu Matsudaira, and the commander of the 109th Division, Yuki Anan, began to hold an operational meeting.
The three division commanders decided to launch a fierce attack on Wutai Mountain at one o'clock in the morning of 26 September, and suddenly the 31st Brigade and 118th Brigade of the 109th Division, the 127th Brigade and the 128th Brigade of the 110th Division, and the 82nd and 83rd Wings of the 21st Division would attack Wutai Mountain respectively.
The Japanese army dispatched six wings at one time, and one mountain artillery wing, two field artillery wings, and three engineer wings directly under the three divisions and regiments would also participate in the operation.
The Japanese dispatched more than 20,000 troops, and they intended to gain a certain advantage in the battle at Wutai Mountain before the troops of the 1st Division and the 114th Division arrived.
Three Japanese divisions began to assemble at the foot of Mount Wutai, where they sharpened their swords and prepared to launch a fierce assault on the Chinese troops stationed on Mount Wutai.
At this time, here in Tianshengqiao Town, Fuping County, the battle has begun to come to an end.
After a hard battle, the first assault group led by Yin Jinshan has mastered most of the positions in Tianshengqiao Town, and the remnants of less than 1,000 people in the fourth brigade of the Japanese independent mixed brigade are planning to break out, and Kaoru Kawamura, the commander of the major general of the fourth brigade of the independent mixed brigade, was hit by a shell from a 105mm cannon and was directly killed.
After more than 12 hours of fighting, the 1st Assault Group also paid a lot of casualties, the 1st Armored Battalion lost more than double digits of tanks, and only 20 Type 89 tanks are still capable of fighting, and with the continuous artillery fire, the supply of shells began to have problems.
Yin Jinshan ordered the armored convoy directly under the Fourth Regiment of Honor, the mechanized reconnaissance battalion, and the first cavalry battalion to deploy on the periphery of Tianshengqiao Town, preparing to ambush the Japanese breakthrough troops.
For the remnants of the Japanese army, Yin Jinshan did not want to continue to strike, because the Japanese defense was very tenacious, and if the troops continued to attack, it was inevitable that there would still be casualties.
At 11:35 p.m., more than 900 remnants of the Japanese army began to break through to the outside of Tianshengqiao Town.
In the process of breaking through the encirclement, the Japanese troops encountered armored convoys, mechanized reconnaissance battalions, and the first cavalry battalion attack, and after the Japanese army paid more than 500 casualties, the team of less than 400 people broke out safely.
However, this little devil was not very lucky, after they successfully escaped the attack of the first assault group, they encountered the second armored battalion of the vanguard of the second assault group from Dai County to Fuping County on the road, and these more than 300 devil soldiers faced thirty-five Vickers tanks, and the consequences can be imagined.
At 11:55, with the troops of Ye Zimin's second armored battalion completely annihilating the rest of the Japanese army's independent mixed Fourth Brigade, so far, the Japanese army's independent mixed Fourth Brigade was completely annihilated.
At half past twelve o'clock in the morning of September 26, the troops of the 1st Assault Group and the 2nd Assault Group met in Tianshengqiao Town, which represented the assembly of all the mobile units of the Honorary 2nd Division.
At 12:40 a.m., the headquarters of the 2nd Honorary Division officially issued an order, and the 1st Assault Group and the 2nd Assault Group were officially combined into a mobile combat group.
The mobile combat group has five artillery battalions, two armored battalions, one mechanized reconnaissance battalion, one mechanized special service battalion, a supplementary battalion directly under the division headquarters, and a combat engineer battalion.
After the establishment of the mobile combat group, Yin Jinshan immediately got in touch with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Command.
At 12:50 a.m., the mobile combat group and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters jointly drew up an operational plan, and the two units would launch an attack on the Japanese army's independent mixed third brigade at 3 a.m.
At one o'clock in the morning of 26 September, shortly after the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army's independent mixed Fourth Brigade, the troops of the 110th, 109th, and 21st Divisions of the Japanese Army began to attack Wutai Mountain.
This time, the Japanese army dispatched six infantry wings, three artillery wings, and three engineer wings, with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops.
The Japanese army focused on the 1st Regiment of Honor, where the Japanese invested the 109th Division, the 31st Brigade, the 69th Wing, and the 118th Brigade Tahara Wing, and the Japanese army invested more than 5,000 troops in two wings, in a vain attempt to open a gap from here, so as to attack the top of the mountain.
As the Japanese troops began to take action, Wutai Mountain began to fall into a sea of fire for a while.
More than 100 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery of the Japanese army continued to shell Wutai Mountain, and the Japanese shelling lasted for 40 minutes.
After the end of the shelling, the Japanese infantry began to charge, as the troops of the 6th Regiment of Honor shot the flares into the air, the darkness went deep like day, and the black pressure on a piece of devil soldiers began to appear at the bottom of the mountain, and there was no end in sight at a glance for the devil soldiers.
Guns rang out, a fierce battle began, and Chinese and Japanese soldiers fought to the death.
The position of the first company of the first battalion of the first regiment of honor, which is currently under attack by an infantry brigade of the Japanese army, and the first company, which has only twenty or thirty people, obviously has great difficulty in holding the position at this time, but no one in the officers and men of the first company flinched.
They were desperately resisting with weapons, and they tried to inflict as much casualties as possible on the Japanese before they died.
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, and by twenty minutes of the battle, there were only three men left in the first company.
Luo Dazhuang, the acting company commander, was lying in the trench gasping for breath, one of his right legs had been blown off by a shell, because of excessive blood loss, Luo Dazhuang was dizzy, and he couldn't give any orders.
The two young warriors glanced at each other, and a calm smile appeared on their faces.
When dozens of devil soldiers rushed into the trench with bayonets, the two fighters did not hesitate, and they pulled the last grenade on their bodies.
The explosion sounded, and two soldiers were killed on the spot, while eight devil soldiers became burial objects.
Luo Dazhuang touched his hands around, he didn't touch any weapons, he could only pick up a stone with difficulty and throw it at the devil soldiers.
The stone fell on the devil soldier, and the devil soldier reacted immediately, and he rushed towards Luo Dazhuang with a bayonet.
But when he saw Luo Dazhuang's physical condition clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned, and for a while, this devil soldier actually forgot to stab the bayonet into Luo Dazhuang's body.