Chapter 90: The Art of Retreat
Okamoto Baoyuki Osa's original intention was to fight Zhang Erxiao's independent brigade, but how did he know that the 195th Division would be killed halfway? Okamoto Osa is so bitter in his heart! He had now finally come to appreciate what it was like to be his colleague and brother of his family, Okamoto of the 23rd Wing. It's not that our army is incompetent, it's that the enemy is too strong!
More than 10,000 horses of the 195th Division rushed up and blocked the road of the 13th Wing! There was no shouting, and there was no arrangement of positions to dig trenches, and with a wave of his pistol, the commander of the Qin division directly issued the battle order.
Although a unit like the 195th Division does not meet the standard of the German Armament Division, there are many of them! Moreover, the soldiers in the 195th Division are basically all formally trained, and it is not an exaggeration to call them an elite soldier. Coupled with the leadership of a general like Qin Yizhi, who is not lacking in strategy and courage, the elite soldiers are all famous! The one who is worse is nothing but a weapon. With a main division of the Central Army against a wing of the Japanese army, no matter how bad the weapons are, they are not far behind!
The cannon is not less than the other party, and the gun is several times more than the other party, such a battle, if Qin Yizhi will not fight again, he will be called a famous general in Huangpu in vain, and he has been studying in Huangpu for a few years, and he has returned it to the teacher. Principal Jiang will expel him from school!
The 13th Wing of the Devil was stopped halfway by the 195th Division, and the 6th Field Artillery Wing became a motherless child, no one cared about it! Zhang Erxiao commanded his troops, battalion by battalion took turns to attack, Teng Cun Qian Dazuo gritted his teeth and fought hard here! Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro over there, after hearing that the attack of the 13th Wing was blocked, immediately led the remaining troops of the division and quickly killed them here. If the 13th Wing and the Field Artillery Wing were lost, Lieutenant General Inaba would still commit suicide by caesarean section on the spot, which would be more face-saving.
Of the interspersed detachments of the 500th Division, there are still three behind, the direct subordinate team of the division headquarters led by Gao Quan is a little slower, and the two interspersed detachments of the 500th Brigade are not slow at all. As soon as the two regiment commanders, Huang Sanpao and Jin Feilong, heard that the artillery wing of the devil was surrounded here, they immediately led their troops to rush here. If you don't come up with benefits and get a piece of the pie, it's obviously not the temperament of these two!
Fujimura Osa hoped that the reinforcements would not come, and the right hoped that the reinforcements would not come, and he looked forward to it, but as a result, the two regimental adults Huang Sanpao and Jin Feilong were looking forward to it! Dazuo saw that this battle couldn't be fought! Send a telegram to Lieutenant General Inaba: Because the enemy is too strong, the wing really can't resist it, please ask the division commander to decide! He kicked the ball to Shiro Inaba!
Lieutenant General Inaba deserves to be a famous general of the Japanese army, and a telegram relieved Fujimura Daisa's dilemma: the field artillery wing can blow up the artillery and move closer to the division headquarters!
There is no way, the cannon is lost, it can be said that it is due to the bad road and inconvenient transportation, if Tengmura Ken is folded here, Inaba Shiro really can't afford this responsibility! In addition, Lieutenant General Inaba also had an idea, he wanted to concentrate the remaining men and horses of the division, defeat the 195th Division in one fell swoop, and retreat north in the image of a victorious division. As long as you can win a battle on the way back, even if the division loses a lot, it's easy to explain when you go back!
It's a pity that Chief Xue obviously didn't plan to give the division commander this opportunity to save face, maybe the two sides didn't communicate enough, right?
The 195th Division was organized, and it was a unit of the 52nd Army and a subordinate unit of the 15th Group Army. Neither Commander Zhang Yaoming nor Commander-in-Chief Guan Linzheng had the slightest intention of handing over the 195th Division to the opponent and letting Lieutenant General Inaba save face.
So, just when Lieutenant General Inaba led his Sixth Division and successfully joined the 13th Wing, more than 100,000 men and horses of the 15th Group Army of the Chinese Army had quickly surrounded Inaba Shiro and his Sixth Division!
Seeing this battle, it is changing towards a trend of getting bigger and bigger. At the beginning of the war, the Nara detachment and the Uemura detachment, which jointly launched the attack with Lieutenant General Inaba, had already retreated northward! The commander of the Inaba Division, in addition to scolding the two detachment leaders of Nara and Uemura for not being righteous, he had to immediately organize his troops to cross the Miluo River and retreat north!
Fortunately, Shinichi was still in the hands of the Japanese army, otherwise, Lieutenant General Inaba would have really organized his troops to swim across the river.
Since the 195th Division's initial idea was to defeat the 13th Wing, it did not intend to completely annihilate this group of devils. Therefore, Qin Yizhi put down the position of a decisive battle between the two armies, and did not divide his troops to surround this devil. In this way, the 195th Division was prevented from suffering excessive losses, after all, they had already suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Changsha. It is precisely because of this that the main force of the division led by Lieutenant General Inaba will meet with Okamoto Hoyuki Osaku so easily.
Now the 6th Division of the Devils wants to run, but the 195th Division still can't stop it, so it can only follow and pursue it behind. However, it seems that it is easier to achieve greater results with fewer sacrifices. For General Qin Yizhi, he has already got what he wants. The 195th Division did defeat the 13th Wing head-on on the frontal battlefield and beat the powerful 13th Wing to the ground! No one can deny this. With this battle, it is enough to make Qin Yi famous at home and abroad! Its name for being able to fight, after this battle, is really famous in the whole army.
The devil wants to withdraw, Teng Muraqian wants to bomb the cannon, can it succeed? The answer, of course, is no! The 500 Division has already surrounded the two brigades of the 500 Brigade and the Independent Brigade, if the gang of devils in front of them are allowed to blow up the artillery again and leave calmly, where will the face of these two brigade commanders and the four regiment commanders go?
There were scouts in front of him who were watching the devil's every move, and Fujimura Osa had just ordered his subordinates to plant bombs on the cannons, and the scouts reported it to the two brigade commanders. Zhang Erxiao and Qian Sixi didn't need to discuss at all, they directly changed the attack unit from the battalion level to the regimental level, and the two regiments were divided into about two regiments, and quickly pressed towards the Sixth Field Artillery Wing.
How can this Fujimura Osa be capable? Originally, according to the tradition of the Japanese army, he should have died with his artillery. However, didn't His Excellency Osa's receive an order from the division commander, and Lieutenant General Inaba had already asked him to evacuate immediately and join up with the division headquarters, but there was an additional request, that is, to blow up the artillery. Even if he didn't blow up the artillery, he just took the troops out, and he could be regarded as completing half of the order, right?
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, no one wants to die! It's the same with devils, as long as he can live, Teng Cun Qian doesn't want to die.
Seeing that there is no hope of victory, if you stay for a moment longer, I am afraid that it will be troublesome to leave. After putting explosives into the two guns, seeing that the Chinese army was getting closer and closer, Tengmura Ken Daisa gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and left! The remaining nearly a thousand artillery men who led the 6th Field Artillery Wing retreated! This Excellency Dazuo walked cleanly, and even forgot to detonate the explosives that had been placed, probably for fear of angering these Chinese, right?
Teng Mura Qian did not detonate the explosives, and he really did the right thing. After Qian Sixi and Zhang Erxiao led the troops to rush into the devil artillery position, they took a look at the rules and regulations of these black and shiny cannons, and the boxes of shells were placed neatly.