Chapter 130: The unwilling Nakasa
When the smoke of gunpowder cleared, the yellow figures on the position were reduced by more than half, and as soon as the fierce artillery bombardment ended, the soldiers of our army, who had long been ready to attack, let out a shout like a mountain and a sea, and thousands of soldiers swarmed into the position of the devils. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Under the devastating offensive of our army, the weak resistance of the remaining devils is as immeasurable as a grasshopper shaking a tree.
Some of the cowardly devils were also shaken in their hearts, seeing that there was no hope of perseverance and destruction was just around the corner, even the ghost soldiers who were brainwashed by militarism actually fled.
This made the captain of the Guard Brigade very angry, and he was ready to fight the enemy to the end and be loyal to the emperor, and he was ready to never surrender even if he fought to the last man.
However, the escape of his subordinates disrupted his plan, and Shao Zuo, who was furious and furious, shot a few of the first to escape on the spot, and then used the war knife in his hand to chop a second lieutenant of a transport squadron alive, and barely stopped the rout of the soldiers.
It was also at this time that the captain of the devil brigade discovered that the few deserters he killed were all from the transport brigade. The captain of the devil brigade was so angry in his heart, what kind of soldiers did His Excellency the general send to him, can't he give me a little reinforcement for the combat troops, at such a critical time, these soldiers actually had civil strife themselves.
The captain of the devil brigade was angry, and the soldiers of the surviving transport squadron were also unbalanced, they were usually responsible for running and running transportation, and they were a little uncomfortable when they were transferred to the front line to fight for the first time. It's just that they still encountered such a fierce artillery attack from the Chinese army, they usually don't even play with guns, and it is normal to be a little flustered in the face of such a situation.
Your Excellency the Captain killed several of his friends so indiscriminately, and of course the devil soldiers of the transport squadron were not happy.
But even if they are unhappy in their hearts, they can't help it, in the face of such a brutal captain, as long as they endure this dumb loss, and now that the people have rushed up, they don't have time to care about whose fault it is.
The remaining hundreds of devils, under the leadership of their captain, launched a decisive counterattack against tens of thousands of people in our army, of course, this kind of suicidal attack, there will be no miracles, and soon the captain of the devil team and the warriors of the imperial army who went one step ahead of him converged.
The powerful artillery unit of the 145th Brigade not only blinded the captain of the Devil Guard Brigade, but even Major General Mitake Yoshida and Major General Miao Nakazawa were also suppressed by the movement here.
"Could it be that the main force of the China Alliance Army in Chadong has also come to Chanan!"
This thought came to the minds of both of them at the same time, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why the Shina Army that appeared behind them had such a powerful artillery unit.
Thinking of this, Nakazawa Sannan couldn't calm down, if the Allied Army of Chadong came here, it would mean that the attack of the Fourth Infantry Brigade had failed, and the two Fourth Brigades of Cavalry and Infantry combined had tens of thousands of people who couldn't defeat the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, so they would still be a fart on their side.
Major General Nakazawa Sano, who has overcome so many hardships and hardships, actually came up with the idea of retiring at this moment, because after converging with the Allied Army of Chadong, then the number of the Allied Army is at least 80,000 or 90,000 Although the soldiers of the Imperial Army can fight well, but if he is allowed to fight with a brigade of less than 4,000 people and 80,000 or 90,000 Chinese people, Nakazawa Sano thinks that he has not been arrogant to that point.
After occupying the position of the Devil's Rear Guard Brigade, Li Han's attack did not stop, and the artillery battalion began to engage in a vigorous artillery battle with the Devil's Field Artillery Brigade.
And the remnants of the 5th Brigade, which had lost the cover of the fire of the field artillery brigade, were immediately attacked by the Allied fighters.
At the same time, in the rear of the Fifth Brigade, Li Han led four regiments with different strengths to kill the Devil's Brigade Headquarters directly, intending to cut the already scattered Japanese army into two more sections.
Nakazawa Sannan had already had the idea of retreating, and now that he saw that the battlefield had developed like this, and the back road could not be saved now, he knew that if he didn't run, he wouldn't be in a hurry.
In fact, it was already a little late to run at this time, if the 145th Brigade had just arrived, Nakazawa Sannan would be willing to abandon the rearguard brigade and lead the remaining 3,000 people to break through in one direction. Whether it is Li Han's 145th Brigade, or the 5th Route Army of the Alliance Brigade and the Chahar Self-Defense Army, if you want to block the lifeless charge of more than 3,000 devils, the difficulty is really not ordinary.
However, now that the Fifth Brigade has not only been completely annihilated by our army, but the two units of our army have also completed the encirclement of the Fifth Brigade, and it is time to fight a war of annihilation.
Of course, there are more than 3,000 people in Nakazawa Sannan, who will also not be willing to sit still, breaking through is a must, and staying here will definitely be unable to escape defeat in the end. He also knew that it would be impossible to withdraw all these thousands of people, and the tens of thousands of troops surrounding them were not jealous. Nakazawa Sano is a general, so naturally he will not be an indecisive person, and he quickly drew up a breakthrough plan in his heart.
First of all, this time it is to break through, and the field artillery brigade will definitely not be able to take care of it. Not only can the field artillery brigade not take care of it, but the mountain artillery squadrons and infantry artillery of the two wings under the Fifth Brigade will definitely not be able to ask for it.
Of course, if it weren't for the fact that Nakazawa Sano would blow them up now, and if he wanted to successfully break through from the heavy encirclement of the Shina people, it would be impossible without the help of these cannons. At this time, fierce gunfire was already heard from all sides of the 5th Brigade, and General Nakazawa also understood that it was time to make up his final decision.
In order to open the gap in our army's encirclement, Nakazawa Sano directly ordered the artillery of the field artillery brigade and the wing to use up all the shells, if it weren't for the fact that the wind direction was a little wrong now, he also wanted the artillery to use up the hundreds of special ammunition they carried.
With the order of Nakazawa Sano, twelve 75-caliber field guns, eight 75-caliber mountain guns, and sixteen 92-caliber infantry guns began to shell with all their might, and the entire battlefield fell into a rumbling cannon.
Nakazawa Sano is also very cunning, when the rear guard brigade was attacked just now, he already knew that this later Shina army had a large number of artillery. Although he has enough confidence in his artillery, if it is in peacetime, he will definitely let his artillerymen teach the people how to artillery.
But now that he was breaking through, of course he was going to choose a weaker opponent, so he was aiming at the Allies. These days, Mitsuo Nakazawa has fought dozens of fierce battles with the Allied forces.
I don't know much about the equipment of the Allied Army, although they have a lot of guns, and even many rifle machine guns have better performance than the rifles and machine guns equipped by the Empire.
However, this could not change the fact that they lacked artillery, and the enemy without artillery was naturally suitable for them to break through, and dozens of cannons began to bombard the positions of the Allied troops. Since Major General Nakazawa has decided to use up all the shells, the devil's artillery will of course have to act according to the plan.
Dozens of cannons were fired here, and there were more than 2,000 people in the two wings combined, attacking forward at the same time, and Nakazawa Sannan followed closely behind with hundreds of people directly under the brigade headquarters.
Of course, His Excellency the Major General did not forget the artillery who was still firing in the rear, but he did not want to bring the artillery to break through together, except for taking away six infantry guns for emergency use, Nakazawa Sano did not plan to bring one more cannon and one artillery.
The reason why we are still worried about the artillery units in the rear is entirely because the artillery brigade of the brigade headquarters and several other artillery units together are almost 1,000 people, and for the current Fifth Brigade and Regiment, this is a force that cannot be ignored. The order given to them by Nakazawa Mio was to blow up all the cannons as soon as they found the Shina people. Then block the Chinese army in the rear on the spot, buy precious time for the main force of the 5th Brigade to break through. The Allied troops were able to attack the devil's position because the devil's artillery was pinned down by Li Han's artillery.
But now that the devils have decided to break through, the position is naturally gone, so they let Li Han's artillery shell their position, and instead aim all their guns at the direction of the Allied attack.
Thirty cannons poured artillery fire on the soldiers of the Allied Army, and Deng Wen and Zhang Lisheng were blinded at once, and after so many days of fighting, it was the first time that they were hit by such fierce artillery fire.
Groups of warriors fell under the fire of the devils, and the corpses were piled up on top of each other on the small hillside where the devils' positions were located, and if it was daytime, this scene would be enough to scare an ordinary person stupidly and frighten him crazy.
The Allied soldiers who rushed out fled back to their positions in embarrassment under the devastating artillery fire of the devils, and Nakazawa Sano also took this opportunity to break the blockade of the Allied forces with more than 2,000 devils and broke out of the siege of our army.
However, although the large army of the devils ran away, their artillery was completely left behind. Originally, when the Japanese army retreated, the artillery must be in the forefront, otherwise with the speed of the artillery, it would definitely not be able to escape the enemy's pursuit.
But there are special circumstances in everything, just like now, if you don't use the powerful firepower of the artillery to open the gap, the entire Fifth Brigade will not be able to escape, and the artillery brigade will also be unable to escape the fate of extinction at that time.
And if the artillery does not have artillery, their combat effectiveness is not even comparable to that of the baggage soldiers, as the brigade commander, Nakazawa Sano must consider the entire Fifth Brigade, so he decided to sacrifice artillery to complete the entire Fifth Brigade.
It can be said that Mitsuo Nakazawa is the most general, the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade, and it is completely understandable that he made such a choice, but the problem is that the commander of the artillery brigade, Yokota Nakasa, does not think so.
In normal times, none of the wing commanders in the brigade headquarters nodded and greeted him with a smile when they saw him, and they often dragged themselves to their wing to drink, and even His Excellency the general was very polite to him. This made Yokota Nakasa's self-esteem in the 5th Brigade always feel good.
Yokota is a cheerful person, although he knows that everyone is good to him, just to get his own artillery support on the battlefield, but he still regards these Nakasa and Osaku as good friends and brothers.
In these battles of the Japanese and Chinese armies, the artillery was the first to go up in every battle, and inflicted the greatest losses on the enemy.
It can be said that the Fifth Brigade was able to fight from Longguan to Zhangjiakou in just a few days, and the credit of the artillery is definitely the first.