Chapter 164: The Battle of Wuhan and the Occupation of Pengze (3)
The "14 October-14 Great Air Battle" not only caused the Central China Front Army to lose face, but also dealt a great blow to the arrogance of the Central China Army. After receiving the detailed battle report on the "14 October" air battle, Major General Shigeichi Harata was surprised for a long time, and then drove to Pengze County, the front line of the Sino-Japanese army confrontation, to inspect it.
But now it seems that there is nothing big happening on Peng Ze's side, at least the [***] team is not ready to attack Peng Ze so far, at least Major General Shigeichi Hamada thinks so. Along the way, the convoy of Major General Shigeichi Habata was very safe, and even the guerrillas of China, who had always been elusive, did not come out to make trouble, and arrived at Pengze County very smoothly.
After inspecting the defense of the east gate of Pengze County, Major General Shigeichi Habata felt that even if the Shina Army was outside the city now, there was no need to worry too much, because from the inspection results just now, it seemed that Kuda Mii Nakasa had been completely prepared, and with the brigade he brought, there was now nearly a wing of defenders in the small Pengze City. Moreover, due to the limitation of geographical conditions, even if the army of China comes with more than 100,000 or 200,000, there are only a few thousand people who can really make a move, and there is no problem at all with the more than 2,600 people in Pengze City to hold Pengze County.
When Major General Hakata Shigeichi's motorcade crossed East Street and entered West Street, a large troop truck walking in the front suddenly broke down, and the streets of Pengze County were all hard stone roads built in the former Qing Dynasty, although the quality was good and wear-resistant, but it was very narrow, and the whole road could only run two large carriages side by side, and two motor cars could not be exercised at all. Now a large truck suddenly broke down and the entire convoy stopped, but luckily it was night, and if it was daytime, there would have been a traffic jam.
Major General Shigeichi Harata was in a good mood today, and although he was deeply affected by the destruction of the Third Brigade, the Central China Front Command had decided to replenish the Hatada detachment with two infantry brigades and one automobile brigade. In this way, the Botian detachment has six brigades of infantry, one brigade of cavalry, one brigade of automobile troops, plus the artillery brigade, engineer brigade, light and heavy infantry brigade directly under the detachment, and the detachment is almost equal to a division. According to the regulations on the establishment of the army, the division commander of a division must be an officer with the rank of lieutenant general, and only a few are held by major generals, while the military chief officer at the brigade and regiment level is held by a major general.
Of course, this is not the only rule, there are exceptions, as if the commander of the 10th Division is a major general. Although Major General Shigeichi Harata is still a detachment commander, he has long longed for the commander of the lieutenant general's division, and as long as the number of troops increases, the establishment and number will soon come down, and the division commander is almost a matter of course.
As long as the weaving of the troops becomes a division, then the transition from major general to lieutenant general in the rank of the commander of the regiment is also very fast, and he has now heard that the commander of the 10th Division, Major General Yoshio Shinozuka, has been confirmed by the base camp to be awarded the rank of lieutenant general this year. How could Major General Shigeichi Harata not be happy about such a good thing?
However, what Major General Shigeichi Harata didn't expect was that less than five miles away from his location was lurking a large number of squadrons, and this army was the headquarters of Han Yunhua, who made him fearful.
Seeing that the convoy suddenly stopped, the captain of the first brigade, Nagata Mi Izhongsa, hurriedly got out of the car and asked, "Yaga, what's going on?" ”
The driver of the troop carrier hurriedly replied: "Report ...... Report...... Sir, the truck's tires are pressed with a triangular peg, so ...... So the car ......"
Kuda Mi Ichusa interrupted the truck driver's words and asked angrily: "How can there be triangular nails, all the garbage on the road has been cleaned by us, how can there be triangular nails that specifically destroy car tires?" ”
At this time, Major General Shigeichi Harata and more than a dozen junior Sakusa, Nakasa, and Osa, also walked out of the car to inquire about the situation. Before Major General Shigeichi Habata could speak, a guard quickly pushed Major General Shigeichi Habata to the ground and blocked Major General Shigeichi Harata with his body. Before the others could react, they saw one after another energetic officers fall to the ground silently, and the first to bear the brunt was Kuda Mi Izhongsa.
Major General Shigeichi Harata had a flash of inspiration in his mind and shouted: "There are snipers, everyone be careful, quickly hide under the car." ”
The infantry of the Yue Army also opened fire in all directions at the first time, and because Wei Peng and the others were still some distance away, the guards of Major General Shigeichi Hawada and others did not know where Wei Peng and the others were hiding, so they fired indiscriminately. However, the sentinels on several commanding heights not far from Wei Peng and the others discovered Wei Peng and the others lurking in the houses. However, under the quick guns of the Iron Leopard, almost all the sentinels of the army were killed just as they were about to shoot for warning.
Wei Peng saw that Major General Hakata Shigeichi's convoy was already prepared, and no matter how much it was consumed, it would not achieve any big results, and it would only increase his casualties in vain. The first subject of the sniper syllabus training is how to save yourself, because only by preserving yourself can you better destroy the enemy, so Wei Peng made a gesture to the others - "retreat".
However, how could the apprentice taught by Han Yunhua himself be able to use just two brushes, and the direction of Wei Peng and the others' retreat was the West City Gate of Pengze County. At the same time as the gunshots rang out in the city, Han Yunhua, who was lurking outside the city, also commanded the troops to attack.
Although Kuda Miyi Zhongzuo was killed, the army he arranged at the west gate still played an unexpected role, and when the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region attacked less than a hundred meters from the city wall, the devils on the city wall had already seen Han Yunhua's department from the light of the searchlight. Suddenly, the devils on the city wall opened fire on Han Yunhua's headquarters, and a large number of soldiers who rushed to the front immediately fell in a pool of blood, and the offensive of Han Yunhua's headquarters was paused.
However, Han Yunhua had already prepared for this, and as soon as the devils opened fire, the artillery battalion outside the city also began to exert their might, and dozens of shells accurately hit the not high city wall of Pengze County, and dozens of devils defending the city were thrown off the city wall by the air wave formed by the violent explosion. The artillery attack did not end there, but continued to fire at the Pengze city wall, and the rapid fire for three minutes in a row collapsed a small section of the not strong city wall of Pengze County, although it was only a small section of five meters wide, but it was enough for Han Yunhua's troops to enter the city.
Taking advantage of the period of artillery attack, Han Yunhua's infantry quickly approached Pengze County, and as soon as the artillery stopped, the soldiers rushed towards the gap in the collapsed city wall. The devil who was beaten found that the infantry had rushed into the city, and immediately showed his fierce face, and the heavy machine gun that was obliquely blown up by the artillery fire quickly fired at Han Yunhua's department, but because the distance was too close, Han Yunhua's soldiers passed with a few grenades, and the heavy machine gun of the army was dumb, just as the supreme commander of the west gate of the army, Kuruhimitaro, was about to order all the defenders to launch a counter-charge against Han Yunhua's department, Wei Peng and others suddenly rushed out from behind Kuruhimitaro and caught the devils guarding the city by surprise.
Although there were only five people in Wei Peng and the others, there were less than 200 people left in Kurumeitaro's original two infantry squadrons of 450 people, and Wei Peng and the others were all equipped with 100 submachine guns captured from the Yue army. To be honest, this kind of submachine gun is very poor in all aspects, and it is not an automatic weapon of the same level as the German-made MP-38. However, the number of German [***] weapons is already limited, and most of them are concentrated in the few German weapons divisions of the Kuomintang, and only a small part of [***] is there.
Although Han Yunhua's department had a lot of German-made munitions, most of them were rifles and submachine guns, but the number was less than 200. In order to strengthen the firepower and combat capability of Li Dingguo's department, Han Yunhua equipped all the MP-38s that were originally small to the Feilong Special Operations Squadron, and at the same time added more than 50 recruits to the Feilong Special Operations Squadron, bringing the total number of Feilong Special Operations Squadrons to 212 people, so that several other special operations squadrons had no choice but to use these made-made submachine guns that they were not very eye-catching.
However, this treatment is only limited to Han Yunhua's department, and now many squadrons do not know the automatic firepower of submachine guns, and many people will even recognize submachine guns as machine guns. The army rarely used submachine guns on the battlefield in China, and most of the submachine guns were equipped with special agents and newly trained special combat teams, and the batch of submachine guns captured by Han Yunhua's department was from the special combat team brought by Liu Shengjun.
The combat effectiveness of the submachine gun that broke out in close combat was amazing, and Wei Peng and others appeared very suddenly, so the army defending the city realized that it was the Chinese army that mixed into the city after a period of confusion, so they divided a complete squad to block Wei Peng and others.
However, taking advantage of the chaos of the Yue army, Han Yunhua and others also rushed into the city, and started a tragic hand-to-hand battle with the Yue army defending the city. The stabbing skills of the army are still very superb, and it is difficult for the ordinary Chinese [***] team to take advantage of the bayonet. However, the soldiers of Han Yunhua's department must be trained in stabbing techniques on the first day of military training, so Han Yunhua's stabbing skills are still very strong, not inferior to the elite of the army.
But fighting bayonets is a strength job to kill 10,000 enemies and injure 8,000 yourself, no matter how superb your stabbing skills are, but the casualties on both sides will not be too large, so many [***] teams with poor weapons and equipment like to fight bayonets with the army. It's not that these [***] teams are outstanding in hand-to-hand combat, but in hand-to-hand combat, the [***] team can also fight devils to the death, and if you are lucky, you can also achieve certain results. But if you fight with the devil to equip yourself, then the vast majority of the [***] team is definitely defeated.
(To be continued)