Chapter 158: The Battle of Wuhan: Hukou Offensive and Defensive Battle (9)

At the end of the water battle on the river, the battle on the shore and land has just entered the ** part. In this battle, Han Yunhua confused the enemy, so he did not use the hidden reserves and the troops stationed in the Hukou fortress, so Han Yunhua's division was more numerous than the third brigade, but it did not have a strong advantage.

In addition, the third brigade occupied a favorable terrain and condescendingly blocked the attack of Han Yunhua's department, and Han Yunhua's department was in a disadvantageous position to attack from the back, so for a while, the remnants of the remaining less than 600 people of the third brigade miraculously withstood the fierce attack of Han Yunhua's department.

Han Yunhua was very dissatisfied with the attack on land, more than 2,000 people sneaked up on more than 1,000 people, and the battle was not over for nearly an hour, seeing that the Japanese marines were about to come up, if the remnants of the third brigade could not be taken before the enemy's marines came up, it would be difficult for Han Yunhua's troops to completely annihilate this Japanese army.

Han Yunhua knows better than anyone what the Marine Corps does, and the current Marine Corps is still a branch of the Navy, but in later generations, the Marine Corps is an independent branch. Every soldier in the Marine Corps is an elite who has been selected by thousands of people and has undergone rigorous training before he can become a qualified Marine. The Marine Corps can be said to be a special combat unit for amphibious operations, and its high quality of soldiers, excellent weapons and equipment, and excellent treatment of its members are unique among all branches of the armed forces, and even the Air Force, which is known as the "eagle in the sky," cannot be compared with it.

A 1,000-strong Marine Corps can compete with twice or even three times the size of an ordinary army, and the odds of victory are quite high. Therefore, Han Yunhua was a little worried about the battle on the ground, after all, the troops responsible for the ground offensive were the most ordinary troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, although the two battalions of the 88th Regiment were equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower, but compared with the submachine guns all equipped by the Japanese marines, the weapons of the 88th Regiment were much inferior.

It was Wan Guoquan who commanded the ground operation, and when the Japanese troop carriers sailed downstream, he knew that the reinforcements of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese army would arrive soon, and there was not much time left for them. However, the 3rd Brigade used the defensive line built up of rocks and the corpses of its fallen comrades, as well as a dozen points of fire, to press the infantry of the attacking two battalions on the hillside, and both charges organized by the troops were knocked down, causing certain losses.

However, Wan Guoquan was not worried about the devils on the other side escaping, and until now he has not used heavy artillery, including mountain artillery and field artillery. From the beginning of the battle to the present, Wan Guoquan ordered the troops to use only mortars, and heavy artillery allowed him to concentrate, and he wanted to surprise the Japanese marines.

Unlike Han Yunhua, who was in charge of the temporary headquarters, Wan Guoquan was full of confidence in this battle, or in his commander and the troops under him. Wan Guoquan does not think that the current Chinese army on the battlefield can compete with the real elite army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. After all, Han Yunhua traveled from later generations, and when he measured the strength of the combat effectiveness of his troops, he would naturally think of the Chinese Army in later generations. Everyone knows that the strength of the Chinese Army's combat effectiveness in later generations is a fact that is obvious to the world, and compared with such troops, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are barely passable in the eyes of Han Yunhua.

But Wan Guoquan is different, he watched Han Yunhua turn a tattered puppet army, captives and peasants into the mighty lions he is now. He can feel every progress of the troops, and Wan Guoquan, who has grown up in the army since he was a child, understands better how effective this army is.

Wan Guoquan judged that the devils on the hillside were now at the end of their crossbows, and they only needed a little more force to crush the remnants of the Japanese army. But Wan Guoquan didn't want to get rid of the remnants of the Japanese army at once, and he wanted to use the bait of the Third Brigade to catch the big fish of the Japanese marines. If Han Yunhua knew about Wan Guoquan's idea, Han Yunhua would definitely take over the command of the troops immediately, after all, he knew what kind of unit the Marine Corps was.

Similar to Wan Guoquan's expectations, although the third brigade withstood the repeated attacks of Han Yunhua's subordinates, its own casualties were also extremely heavy, the original remaining more than 600 people are now less than 300 people, and the most important thing is that the third brigade is almost exhausted, and after holding on for more than ten minutes, the third brigade will run out of ammunition and food. ,

However, just when Kobayashi Jiro Nakasa was desperate, a red signal flare suddenly rose not far to the east. Kobayashi Jiro was overjoyed, and shouted to the devils around him: "Our reinforcements are coming, hold on, and when General Okawa Ieyasu's reinforcements arrive, we will teach the hateful Shina people a lesson that they will never forget." ”

Hearing Jiro Kobayashi's shout, the gunfire on the hillside became fierce again. However, the Japanese army is just grasshoppers after the autumn, and no matter how arrogant they are, they can't jump for a few days. Wan Guoquan left a company of infantry and a battalion of artillery to continue the attack on the Japanese on the hillside, and the rest of the troops allowed him to pull to the edge of a lake one kilometer east of the hillside, and build a simple defensive line.

The place where Wan Guoquan and others were located was originally a rice field, but because the river water rose, it overflowed the polder, turning this open paddy field into a lake. The depth of this lake is only a dozen centimeters, but the area is extremely large, and it is afraid that it is thousands of acres in size from a distance. And if you want to rescue the third brigade, you must pass through the place where Wan Guoquan and the others are. At present, Wan Guoquan has only more than 1,400 people in his hands, and the devil marines of the third brigade of the rescue team have nearly 900 people, although it seems that the Japanese army is inferior in numbers, but the Japanese marines are not ordinary troops, and the marines of more than 900 people can almost completely defeat against 2,000 ordinary soldiers.

However, Wan Guoquan did not move, and ordered the personnel of the station to prepare for battle and wait for the arrival of the Japanese army special combat team. Ten minutes later, a black shadow that could not see what costume they were wearing in the night appeared on the other side of the lake, and the enemy of the brigade began to wade into the water. Although the Marines are good at amphibious operations, they have never fought in a lake that is only a dozen centimeters deep. What made the Japanese marines even more troublesome was that as soon as they entered the lake, half of their bodies fell into the water, and the heavy machine guns suddenly lost their stability.

At this time, Wan Guoquan ordered the artillery hidden in the distance to fire quickly, without test firing, and each cannon fired ten rapid fires. For a time, there were explosions everywhere in Hudang, and the defenders under the command of Wan Guoquan opened fire on the enemy with light and heavy machine guns, and the fire was extremely fierce, and the Japanese troops were shot one after another and fell into Hudang. In a short period of time, the Marines organized two assaults, but they did not return, and they were beaten down by Wan Guoquan.

At this time, the commander of the Marine Corps, Jiahe Bo Dazuo, found that there were only more than 500 soldiers left, and 400 people were thrown in after two attacks and one temptation, which was incredible. Due to the suddenness of the infantry supporting the shore this time, most of the heavy weapons were not brought on the warships, and there was no way to talk about counterattack.

At this time, the newspaper soldier anxiously sent a telegram to the Marine Corps commander Jiahe Yizuo, and said loudly: "The headquarters is urgent."

After reading the telegram, Jiahe looked at the Wanguo Quan Department in the distance in shock, and then sighed and said, "Retreat"

Seeing that the Japanese reinforcements retreated without grace, Wan Guoquan knew that it must be Wei Peng's success. At that moment, Wan Guoquan had nothing to say, and ordered the troops to launch a final attack on the remnants of the Third Brigade on the hillside, but the result was already doomed, and the Third Brigade was completely annihilated.

After receiving the telegram from Wan Guoquan and Wei Peng, Han Yunhua was very happy and ordered Wei Peng and the others to familiarize themselves with the operation methods of small ships such as patrol boats and torpedo boats. These small ships were then used to transport all the weapons and ammunition stored on the Japanese warships ashore and distribute them to the various units. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the Wuhan Garrison Command, asking them to quickly send the navy to take over the more than 20 large ships, including the flagship heavy cruiser "Nagoya" of the Third Fleet.

Of course, the value of these more than 20 large warships is too high, and Han Yunhua certainly can't hand them over to the Nationalist Government in vain. According to the agreement reached between the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Nationalist Government before the war, all the weapons and ammunition consumed by Han Yunhua's troops during the Battle of Wuhan were reimbursed by the Nationalist Government, and the results of the battle and the trophies captured belonged to Han Yunhua's troops. But Han Yunhua knows that the foundation of ** is in the north, and these warships are not as useful as a few heavy machine guns for **. Moreover, the mouth of the Yangtze River is now occupied by the Japanese army, and the ocean is under the control of the Japanese army, and although the Third Fleet can be arbitrary on the Yangtze River, once it reaches the sea, it will not be able to. Moreover, what Han Yunhua annihilated this time was not all of the Third Fleet, but only the part of the ships that the Third Fleet could enter the Yangtze River, and even the flagship was only a temporary flagship, while the real flagship of the Third Fleet and more than a dozen large warships were still moored in the port of Shanghai. However, the group of officers killed by Wei Peng and others were the real commanders of the Third Fleet, and they were also the mainstays of the Third Fleet, the real elite.

Out of consideration for the future of the country and the nation, Han Yunhua decided to hand over all these Japanese warships to the Nationalist Government to supplement the strength of the navy. However, as a price, the Nationalist Government wanted to add the number of an integrated division and the required weapons and equipment to **, and at the same time to deliver a set of bullet production lines to Yan'an.

Although the Nationalist Government has very strict control over the number of troops in the first class, compared with more than 20 large warships and more than a dozen small gunboats and torpedo boats, the number and equipment of a division are simply insignificant. You must know that the value of these warships alone exceeds hundreds of millions of oceans, not to mention that now that the Japanese army is blockading China's coastal ports, even if you have 100 million oceans, you can't buy so many warships.