Chapter 009: Defeat the 56th Division
Li Zhipeng, the commander of the 36th Division, learned in the city that his troops had really annihilated the 113th Wing of the 56th Division of the Devils, although he was prepared in his heart, but the victory came, he still couldn't believe it, when Wang Hanzhang said this plan, he was very disagreeable, thinking that the opportunistic fully accounted for 99 percent, so in the end although he was persuaded, but he did not agree, and now he did not expect that he really surrounded and annihilated a wing of the devils.
Later, his subordinates told him that the wing flag of the 113th Wing of the devil had been captured, and the front wing flag was personally awarded by the Japanese emperor, and the flag of another brigade was also captured, and several adjutant knives were also captured, and weapons and ammunition were even more abundant. Li Zhipeng keenly felt that he had been promoted and had an opportunity to become famous.
Before dawn, he sent the good news to the headquarters of the expeditionary force and the military and political department of Chongqing, and this matter must be in the limelight so that it will not be occupied by others. But that's for later.
And at 3 o'clock in the morning of the 30th, the 200 divisions across Lashio and the 56th Division were first analyzed after confirming that a wing of the devils was attacking Lashio, and finally at 3 o'clock, the 56th Division was attacked.
As early as when the 56th Division had not yet arrived, Wang Hanzhang proposed to take me to use stratagems to eliminate devils as much as possible, and the training of the army was inferior to devils in all aspects, if it was a frontal battle, the casualties would be absolutely very large, even if a unit like the 200th Division would kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 self-losses, and the gains outweighed the losses. If you use stratagem, you can destroy the enemy to the maximum and minimize your own losses. And even if the plan is not successful, then it can be fought head-on.
Before the war, in order to gain time and better deployment, Wang Hanzhang came up with a series of methods that could consume devils and slow down the marching speed of devils.
Finally, the deployment was quite smooth, if it weren't for the pro-Japanese Burmese, if they were used to build fortifications, secrets would be leaked, and the speed would be faster, and now only the squadron can be used.
It was the same in this period, relying on the logistics base of Lashio, and the most likely successful strategy here was to lure the devils to a location, bury explosives underground, and when they came in, they would be detonated and let the devils make dirt planes.
For this reason, Wang Hanzhang and Dai Anlan inspected the local terrain overnight, and the trenches of the 200th Division had been selected, of course, when choosing the defensive line, they also tried to accommodate the devils, and tried not to let the devils have too many choices, because it is impossible for 200 to bury all the underground as long as there is, even if there are so many explosives.
The explosives are all connected with double wires, but they are afraid that there will be some reason and cannot be detonated, and at the same time, the explosives and shells are put together, because the explosives are not enough, and the other is that all the people who detonate them use death squads, and they basically have no return, but there are not many people, only more than 20. They actually hid in the dug hole, and it was dark in it, but they didn't have all the watches they got from the city of Lashio, and they could only use the watch to judge the time in the hole, and as for when they acted, it was based on the sound of the cannons, and if the cannon hit the devil's position, they would feel the earth tremble, and they didn't say that the earth trembled, and they detonated the bomb. , but to wait for a while to fight, so that you can ensure that it is really fighting, and not that the devil's ammunition suddenly detonates.
In addition, the time is unified after 3 o'clock, no matter how powerful the cannon thinks in front, they are not allowed to move, because Wang Hanzhang also needs to paralyze the devil with the sound of the cannon, so that the devil will not run out to prepare for the battle because of the cannon sound, in that case, even if the battle is detonated, the effect is not good.
At half past two, after Dai Anlan determined the situation of Lashio, he left 2,000 people on the defense line under the command of Gaojiren, and he took the remaining nearly 5,000 combat troops to copy the devils from the west, Wang Hanzhang's strategy is actually very simple, that is, 15 minutes after the start of the war, the death squad detonated the explosives, then the devils in the explosives area must have suffered heavy casualties, at this time the 200 division took advantage of the situation to attack, of course, it is impossible to encircle and annihilate the 56th division, 200 is to do the maximum killing of the devils, in addition, It is to drive the devil into the mountains to the east.
In the mountains to the east, there are not only tall trees, but also a large number of bushes and wild grasses, and it is now the end of April, and it is May, and the weather in Myanmar is very hot.
He also did this in Tonggu Dai Anlan before, saying that he agreed very much with the burning of the Japanese army, and this plan is also very feasible, but he is still full of questions about buying a huge group of explosives to calculate the devils, because no matter how good the plan is, it will never catch up with the changes, but if you can't use bombs to consume a large number of devils, then the strength of the devils is almost twice that of the 200th Division, and the 200th Division has burned high incense if it is not driven away by the devils, how can the 56th Division feel like the mountains, Therefore, Dai Anlan can only gamble.
As for the explosives and other materials that will deplete Lashio, Dai Anlan directly ignored it after comparing it, as long as the 56th Division can be eliminated, then the situation in Myanmar will be reversed, but the regular way of playing, the 200th Division is the elite, and the 56th Division is not muddy, not to mention that there are more people than the 20th Division, and the weapons and equipment are much better than the 200th Division, and there is no comparison in terms of heavy weapons, and the devil's air force insists on being just a nightmare for the squadron, especially the Zero fighter, which can't even beat the lively American planes, On the frontal battlefield, Shang defeated the 56th Division, which was a fool's dream.
After the first few repeated temptations, the devil finally became indifferent to the artillery, at 3 o'clock the cannon sounded for 15 minutes, although it was very sparse, but the death squad hiding in the ground had been waiting for the flowers for a long time, they hid in at 4 o'clock in the morning on the 29th for a whole day, and now they are finally free, they immediately detonated the explosives, and for a time in the devil's arsenal, barracks, artillery positions underground, countless gunfire came out, countless shrapnel mixed with the soil rose into the air, scattered in all directions, looking for their own target.
Countless devils slept in the barracks, and their lives were taken away in their sleep, and the devils' barracks, artillery positions, and arsenals were basically set up in the position that Dai Anlan said, of course, it was not that he was very godly, but judging from common sense, the devil's trenches took common sense, so the devils suffered heavy losses in the first time.
Subsequently, nearly 5,000 officers and soldiers of the 200th Division slaughtered the Japanese barracks, and the artillery fire extended in depth to cover the infantry charge, and the artillery waited for the order to shoot all the shells.
The 200th Division under the leadership of Dai Anlan scrambled to kill the devil's position, under the artillery bombardment, they really could not organize effective resistance, and soon the 200th Division rushed into the devil's middle, at this time a large number of submachine guns played a role, and the devil was still there to pull the bolt, and was beaten into a hornet's nest by a shuttle bullet.
Wang Hanzhang, as Dai Anlan's adjutant, is to protect Dai Anlan, Dai Anlan rushed to the front, he felt that it was dangerous, and he had to keep up, in fact, Wang Hanzhang felt that Dai Anlan should not charge, if he had any accidents, no one would command, but Lao Dai didn't listen to persuasion! However, the division commanders are all rushing to the front, what else can others say, it is a desperate rush.
Wang Hanzhang held a submachine gun, and saw that the devil was a shuttle, it felt too cool, as for why he was not shot in the rain of bullets, then he couldn't think about it at that time, he just knew that he was desperately rushing, and he would kill when he saw the devil, maybe everyone was like this, until the end, Wang Hanzhang shot a total of more than a dozen devils.
And on the devil's side, Masao Watanabe was awakened by a huge explosion in his sleep, he and the lucky one didn't choose the barracks on the explosives, otherwise they would have to do it directly, Watanabe Masao's medical situation, looking at the barracks and positions that were still in order before, have become full of chaos, and from time to time there are bomb explosions, and a chill oozes from his back, although he doesn't know when his life happened, but he knows that his troops have suffered heavy losses.
Soon he was protected by his subordinates, arrived at the area they thought was safe, and after analysis, they felt that they could only temporarily avoid the 200th Division, although they knew more than the attacking 299th Division, but after a series of explosions, most of the soldiers were already dizzy, and many of them saw with their own eyes those Japanese who were not killed in battle were dizzy and beaten into a sieve by the attacking 200th Division, and they did not know how to resist and evade.
Therefore, they simply could not organize a limited attack, and if they stayed a little longer, the losses would be greater, and some people questioned that there would be 200 divisions to ambush them to the east, and they were quickly rejected, and the 200 divisions after the battle of Tonggu, now have only about 7 or 8 thousand troops, and the attacking 200 divisions have nearly 5,000 soldiers, and the fortifications built before in the northwest must send a large number of soldiers to defend, and it will not work without 2 or 3 thousand people, and the scout report also confirms this.
Masao Watanabe immediately ordered to leave a part of the blocking force to cover the retreat of the large force, and by daybreak they would have planes to assist in the battle, and at the same time the troops would soon be able to gather and regroup.
The 56th Division was beaten like this, and Masao Watanabe knew that he had only one way to die, although he still had a chance to survive if he moved, but he didn't want to, when he brought the wrong out of the predicament and even defeated the 200th Division, he would end his life as a samurai.
Under the orders of Masao Watanabe, the 56th Division retreated lightly, leaving behind a large number of baggage and wounded, as well as blocking troops, and fled into the mountains.