Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 446: Zhangjiakou Offensive and Defensive Battle (6)——

Chapter 446: Zhangjiakou Offensive and Defensive Battle (6)

The destruction of the only dozens of tanks left in the tank division directly announced that there was only one empty tank division left in the third tank division that had not been formed by the Japanese army, and Okamura Ninji was also stunned by the scene in front of him, originally he was also wary of that huge soft land, if it weren't for the fact that he had to pass through that land, Okamura Ninji's cautious x-ng grid would never let the troops get into danger.

Seeing that the chariot troops were completely finished, Okamura Ninji's heart was dripping blood, and with the obstruction of this swamp, the Japanese army would not want to attack normally for at least a week, which made Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji very dissatisfied. Okamura Ninji still knows the reason that he is like a tiger in one drum, and then he is exhausted, so according to his established plan, he does not give the squadron a breather, and he has indeed done it in the previous ten days of attack, and his uninterrupted attack has indeed exerted a strong combat effectiveness.

However, now that the changes in the objective environment have caused the Gangcun plan to be completely aborted, the team will certainly be effectively replenished with this one-week time. When the time comes, it will definitely pay a huge price if you want to bī the squadron to this point, but even if Okamura Ninji knows this result, it will not change the current situation in the slightest.

As Okamura Ninji had predicted, the huge swamp did not gradually return to its previous state until a week later, and it was originally planned that the 1st Brigade would continue to fill the swamp with water according to Xu Shiyou's approach, so as to continue to delay the Japanese attack. But Shangguan Qing was very depressed and told him that that method could only be used once, because there was no river in the south of Zhangjiakou, and the nearest river was the Daqing River that flowed from the city center, but the project of diverting water from the Daqing River was very huge, even if the more than 1,500 good soldiers of the Engineer Regiment spent a week digging a small canal less than one meter wide, the reason why they were able to turn a piece of soft land in Nuoda into a swamp in a very short period of time that day. On the one hand, the 1st Brigade directly blew up the dam that had been blocking the reservoir for more than a week, and the amount of water that had been stored for more than a week was directly washed out, and the water was abundant. On the other hand, it is caused by the topography, the terrain of the whole Zhangjiakou is high in the north and low in the south, the back is high mountain, and the south is plain, and the reservoir can be repaired to the mountain when it is built, so who will be so fierce.

Now that the Japanese army has been prepared, it is impossible to achieve results. Therefore, the Japanese army will continue to attack in the next two days, and because the fortifications are seriously damaged, even if they have been reinforced several times in the past few days, it is very difficult to hold this position, so Shangguan Qing hopes that the division headquarters will be ready to fight street battles.

On March 13, the offensive and defensive battle of Zhangjiakou, which had been stagnant for a week, kicked off again. Although Okamura Ninji was eaten up by the only dozens of chariots left due to negligence, the vitality of the entire North China Front was not lost. Okamura Ningji is not stupidly waiting these days, he knows very well that the ** squadron will not give up Zhangjiakou easily, so if he wants to take Zhangjiakou, he has to take some extraordinary measures.

After more than half a month of offensive and defensive operations, Okamura Ningji discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, the distribution of the strength of the squadron in the three places that were attacked in Zhangjiakou was different, and the defenders in the south and west were not only numerous, but also extremely advanced in weapons and equipment, but the will to fight was not too tenacious, and once it was attacked irreversibly, it would take the initiative to retreat. The defenders in the east were on the contrary, although the positions in the east were very wide, the defenders only had a little more than 10,000, and their weapons and equipment were much worse than those in the other two directions. In addition, the defenders in the east do not seem to have a separate artillery unit, and in the past few days, a total of several mortars have been fired, and the caliber is only about 60mm-80mm, which is not a little worse than the large-caliber infantry guns and 75mm mountain guns used in the other two directions.

The discovery of this situation made Okamura Ninji very happy, and the imbalance in the team's strength allowed Okamura Ninji to find a way to break through the last line of defense.

At the very beginning of the Japanese attack, Xu Shiyou and others realized that something was wrong, although the Japanese attack in the two positions of the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade of the 6th Field Division was also very strong, and the two sides even engaged in artillery battles, but compared with the intensity of the attack some time ago, this is simply not worth mentioning. The Japanese army not only concentrated all its aviation units in the eastern position, but even transferred the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, the 5th Mountain Artillery Wing, the 26th Field Artillery Wing, and the 10th Wing to the eastern position, and a large number of snipers appeared on the Japanese position.

As soon as the battle began, the 7th Field Division was hit by the Japanese army's destruction of X-NG, and in just an hour, the position of the 7th Field Division was broken twice by the Japanese army.

But even so, the Seventh Field Division was beaten back one after another, and it was only a matter of time before the position fell. At this time, He Guangyu finally saw the power of the Japanese army's three-dimensional attack, although the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Field Division was not bad, but the Japanese army really couldn't stand such a fight.

Although the Seventh Field Division gradually gained a firm foothold under He Guangyu's pressure, the loss of the troops made He Guangyu, a veteran who was accustomed to life and death, also feel a little worried, but the Seventh Division lost more than 3,000 people in just over an hour, of which more than 800 were directly killed, including Li Hongfei, commander of the Third Brigade of the Seventh Field Division, Zhang Yongquan, deputy commander of the Third Brigade, and more than a dozen staff officers, and only the brigade political commissar was left among all the middle and senior officers of the entire Third Brigade.

Okamura Ninji saw a panic on the position of the Seventh Field Division, and something seemed to have happened to the easternmost section of the position, and even the command system had happened h-nlu-n. Gangcun seized the opportunity and ordered the 10th Infantry Wing of the 10th Division, which had long been ready to attack, to immediately charge.

The infantry wing of the 10th Division is the main force of the 10th Division, and the vast majority of the infantry wing are veterans with more than three years of military experience, and its combat effectiveness has been tested in many major battles. The attack of the 10th Infantry Wing was very fierce, and the location of Okamura's attack was the defense area of the 3rd Brigade whose command system was attacked by Japanese aerial bombs, so the Japanese army soon broke through the positions of the 7th Division and 3rd Brigade, forcing the 7th Field Division to retreat on all fronts.

After the Japanese occupied the position east of Zhangjiakou, they began to move to the flank, and the positions of the first brigade and the second brigade of the 6th Field Division were mortally threatened, and Xu Shiyou had no choice but to order the two brigades to withdraw to Zhangjiakou immediately.

After taking all the peripheral positions in Zhangjiakou City, the arrogance of the Japanese army suddenly became extremely arrogant, and the commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, even shouted that it was only a matter of time before the Eighth Route Army was eliminated, and the Imperial Army would completely occupy Zhangjiakou within two days, and completely expel Han Yunhua's department, which was the first in combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, from the Hebei region.

But the progress of the next battle made all the senior generals of the Japanese army, including Tada Jun, dumbfounded, the Zhangjiakou city wall, which had been destroyed by the Japanese army, had been secretly strengthened by the squadron, and the city wall was full of light and dark bunkers built with steel h-n concrete.

However, an infantry wing did not even break through the city fortifications of the squadron with the cooperation of a large number of artillery, and the sensitive Okamura Ninji also found that the number of squadrons seemed to have increased a lot, and the unit with strong combat effectiveness and fought with the imperial army for more than a month did not seem to participate in the final offensive and defensive operations.

Okamura Ninji guessed very accurately, the Sixth Field Division and the Field ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］