Chapter 58: The Unlucky Gu Shoufu (4)
That night, Wang Jian sent a company of elite troops to prepare for a night attack on the devils, but the devils were very well defended, with dozens of open and secret posts, and they really couldn't find fighters, so they had to retreat in the end.
Early the next morning, news came from the observation posts in the forward positions that the devils had begun to eat breakfast at six o'clock, and the field heavy artillery wing also conducted test firing at the front and flank positions.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the devil's attack officially began. Today's attack was noticeably much more fierce than yesterday's, and the battle began to heat up. The attack on the frontal position was still carried out by the 13th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, and the commander was still Nagaoka Motohoyuki Osa. Attacking the flank position was the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Imperial Allied Army, commanded by Major General Ritsu Okubo. Yesterday, the 13th Infantry Wing of Nagaokamoto Hoyuyuki Osa's infantry lost 1,200 soldiers, which is one-third of the strength of his troops, and now Okamoto Hoyuyuki Osa's forces are only more than 2,600 men.
As the commander of the elite infantry wing of the Sixth Division, Nagaoka Honhoyuki Osa has his own pride and honor, and yesterday's specious victory of Miyamoto Ichiro Shaozo made Nagaoka Ichiro Oza very dissatisfied, so after the artillery bombardment of the field heavy artillery wing, Nagaoka Honhono Osa asked Miyamoto Ichiro Shozo to lead a brigade of infantry to attack the opposite Shina position.
Miyamoto Ichiro knew that the division commander, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, the brigade commander, Major General Sakai Tokutaro, and the wing commander Okamoto Hoyuki Osa, were all watching behind him.
Due to the limited number of troops at his disposal, Miyamoto Ichiro divided his four infantry squadrons into two attack batches, while the heavy machine gun squadron and artillery squad provided forward fire support. Miyamoto Ichiro did not let the soldiers rush forward in a swarm like yesterday, but let the infantry and heavy machine gun squadrons of a squadron of the first offensive batch quickly approach the position and rely on the terrain to counterattack the defenders of China, and then the three infantry squadrons of the second offensive batch quickly approached and moved to the front of the Shina position, so that the casualties would be much smaller.
Miyamoto's tactic was very successful, and the two squadrons that attacked in the first group suffered heavy casualties, but because they attracted firepower, the attacking troops in the second group suffered basically no casualties.
Looking at the position of China, which was already less than 100 meters away, Miyamoto Ichiro Shaozo said ruthlessly: "The whole army is assaulting"
As soon as the whole army was ordered to assault, the devils rushed to Wang Jian's frontal position desperately, in a vain attempt to drive the 99th Regiment out of the position in one go.
Although Miyamoto Ichiro's new tactics caused a lot of pressure on Wang Jian, Wang Jian knew very well that the devil was very lacking in the weakness of automatic weapons, so before today's battle, he gathered all the light and heavy machine guns and transported them to the position, he was ready to change the guns today, and all the automatic fire when the devils shelled all the automatic fire was left on the position, and a deep hole was dug under each machine gun, and when the devils shelled, the guns were immediately hidden in the hole to prevent destruction.
As soon as the devil's charge began, it was stubbornly blocked by the 99th Regiment, and the distance of 100 meters became an insurmountable chasm for the devils, and more than 400 light and heavy machine guns formed an impassable line of death fire on this position of less than 500 meters. For every meter of advancement, the devils have to pay extremely heavy casualties.
Eighty meters... Seventy meters... Sixty meters... Fifty meters... Forty meters, less than forty meters from the position in China, Miyamoto Ichiro found that his troops could no longer move forward, but were defeated by the heavy fire of the defenders of China.
Of course, Nagacho Okamoto Hoyuki Osa also saw this situation, he didn't expect Miyamoto Ichiro to give him such a big surprise in the first attack, through yesterday's battle, Nagacho Okamoto Hoyuki Osaku found that the combat effectiveness of the opposite Shina troops was not inferior to the elite army of the empire, and he was ready to fight to the death with the Shina defenders today.
He couldn't let Miyamoto Ichiro Shaosa's hard-won advantage be pulled back by the Shina troops like this, and he was going to occupy the position of the Shina defenders in the first attack, so Nagacho Okamoto Hoyuki Osa immediately personally led the remaining two dissatisfied brigades in his hands to rush to the position to assist Miyamoto Ichiro in attacking.
Wang Jian also found that today's gang of devils and evil sects are tight, and the devils were still very orderly at the beginning, why did the devils mess up soon after they fought. Knowing that they had a large amount of automatic firepower in their hands, they would not be able to defeat the war monsters spraying steel bullets with courage and will, how could they still rush upwards with all their might, did they think that they could break through the frontal position with the fighting will of "Long live His Majesty the Emperor", "Long live the Great Japanese Empire", and Bushido, who were not afraid of death?
This attack and defense lasted for an hour and a half, and finally the devil could not bear the huge casualties and retreated, and this time the devil's attack was not without gains, when the battle was at its fiercest, the devil had rushed to a place less than ten meters away from the position, causing huge pressure on the defenders. ,
After the long Okamoto Hoyuki Osa retreated, he gathered his troops, and was heartbroken to find that his 13th Infantry Wing had basically been exhausted, and now those who could afford to hold guns, including the lightly wounded, were less than 800 people, and a large number of wounded soldiers and the corpses of the Yamato warriors who had broken jade had not been withdrawn, and this time he was really defeated.
In fact, Wang Jian was not comfortable, the devil retreated, and Wang Jian immediately withdrew the soldiers to the air-raid shelter behind the position to rest. As soon as the number of people was counted, Wang Jian was stunned, and only six of the four battalion commanders, four political commissars, and eight deputy battalion commanders who went up came back, and the remaining six were killed and four were seriously wounded, and nine company-level officers were killed, and the soldiers also suffered more than 1,100 casualties, a typical killing of 10,000 enemies and 8,000 self-injury. However, the combat attrition of the 99th Regiment is not quite the same as the combat attrition of the 13th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, first of all, due to the different offensive and defensive positions of the two sides, as the defensive side, the 99th Regiment is fully capable of sending all the wounded off the position, and the devil failed to attack, and he could not take care of the seriously wounded when retreating. Secondly, the purpose of the battle is different, the Japanese army wants to open up the main road to Jining as soon as possible, and then attack the hinterland of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so the devil's attack is completely a desperate fight, and the 99th Regiment is to kill and injure a large number of the enemy's living forces, so the 99th Regiment attaches great importance to its own casualties.
The battle on the flanks is also fierce, but it is far less tragic than the frontal position, first of all, the importance of the battlefield between the two sides is different, even if the devil occupies the flank position, it can only threaten the flank of the 99th regiment, but it cannot completely occupy the frontal position of the 99th regiment, and it also fails to achieve the strategic goal, so both sides are very concerned about their own casualties in the battle. Second, the troops participating in the battle on both sides are different, and it is the most combat-effective troops on both sides that attack and defend the frontal positions. However, it was the troops of medium combat effectiveness on both sides who attacked and defended the flank positions, so the battle was fierce but not tragic.
After the first round of attacks of the devils was repulsed, they did not attack again, but from time to time they carried out a burst of artillery shelling on the frontal and flank positions.
Although Gu Shoufu is full of arrogance, he is not stupid, after watching the attack of the 13th Infantry Wing, Gu Shoufu somewhat understood Han Yunhua's strategic intentions, and secretly calculated to himself, Gu Shoufu was surprised to find that since the dispatch of troops on April 12, he has lost more than 7,000 troops in just three days, although the elite losses of his sixth division are not large, but they are close to more than 3,000 people, including the most elite infantry 13th Wing.
Gu Shoufu found that there were only more than 8,400 troops with combat effectiveness in his hands, and there were nearly 2,500 wounded left, which means that his absolute losses reached more than 5,000 people.
After careful analysis, Gu Shoufu found that there were no important strategic objectives along the highway from Guisui to Jining, and there were no strategic points worth guarding. Although the Chinese troops blocking the other three roads also resisted fiercely, they did not hold back like these Chinese troops on the opposite side, and it seemed that the Chinese troops on the opposite side wanted to rely on a strong position to consume their elite troops.
Gu Shoufu, who saw through this, of course would not let Han Yunhua get his way, he wanted to hold back the main force of the Chinese army here, let the other armies break through quickly, and form an encirclement of the Chinese troops in front of him, and then encircle and annihilate them in this place.
In order to report his judgment and plan to the headquarters of the Mongolian Corps, Tanigawa Masanoshi Daisa, who ordered the commander of the 47th Infantry Wing, and Major General Okubo Ritsu, the commander of the 11th Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army, to launch harassing attacks on the Shina troops in front of him from time to time. There is only one purpose, that is, not to let the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side escape.
Wang Jian and Wan Guoquan immediately reported the abnormal behavior of the Japanese army to the temporary headquarters, and asked Han Yunhua and his two regiments for their next move.
After reading the telegram sent by Wang Jian, Han Yunhua judged that Gu Shoufu already knew his plan and saw his strategic intentions based on the important information that the Japanese troops on Tianzhen, Datong, and Zhangjiakou were desperate to break through the resistance of Shen Yuquan and others.
Han Yunhua looked at the current stalemate of the battle, smiled and said to himself: "Gu Shoufu, since you don't want to fight hard with me, then I will let you have to find me desperately, hehe, let's see." ”
In the afternoon of the same day, the Feilong Special Operations Squadron and the Cheetah Special Operations Squadron, which were lurking in Datong City and Zhuozishan County, received a telegram from Han Yunhua at the same time, ordering them to move at nine o'clock that night. At the same time, the Eagle Special Operations Squadron lurking in Jining City also received a combat order from Han Yunhua, ordering their squadron to occupy the Tiger Mountain Heights in Jining City before half past ten tonight and firmly defend it, and at the same time asked the Eagle Special Operations Squadron to divide several combat teams to make trouble in Jining City.
At the same time, Han Yunhua ordered the 99th Regiment and the New 3rd Regiment to withdraw from their positions tonight, retreat to the second line of defense to continue to block the enemy, and handed over the second and third battalions of the fire support regiment to them for command. The New Fourth Regiment and the New Sixth Regiment together with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment, the Eighth Cavalry Regiment, the Ninth Cavalry Regiment, the First Artillery Regiment, and the Second Artillery Regiment immediately rushed to the periphery of Jining City to assemble, and launched a full-scale attack on Jining City at 10 o'clock that night.
The guard regiment and the new fifth regiment and the 10th cavalry regiment on the front line of Fengzhen received an order to prevent the Japanese troops on the Datong side from reinforcing Jining, and if the Japanese troops on the Datong side were desperate to reinforce Jining, the three regiments only needed to rely on the favorable terrain to block the enemy, and at 5 o'clock in the morning on April 16, they would magnify the passage of the devils in the same way, and cut off the retreat of the devils along the way.
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