Chapter 1194: Underestimating the Enemy to a Great Defeat
The troops of the Honorary Third Division are elite troops commanded by Sun Weiguo, and the commander of the Major General Qin Xianliang is an old subordinate brought out by Sun Weiguo.
Sent out to reconnoiter was the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Regiment of Honor, more than 100 fighters carrying nine Czech light machine guns, three 60mm mortars, and nine grenadiers.
After seeing the barbed wire, the soldiers were a little embarrassed, and in the current battle with the Japanese army, the Japanese army rarely used barbed wire.
Sun Weiguo has taught to deal with barbed wire, and it can be cut with special pliers, but now this time is not decades later, almost every household can find pliers, Sun Weiguo's troops, only the engineer unit will have these equipment, and the infantry will rarely have such equipment.
The Japanese army stumped the soldiers with barbed wire, but one soldier was clever, he immediately took off his military uniform, used his military uniform to cover the barbed wire and shook it back and forth, trying to shake it down, but when the military uniform was covered with barbed wire, the sound of "clanging" began to sound.
As these voices sounded, the Japanese troops reacted quickly, and flares began to shoot through grenadiers.
Flares began to rise into the air, the surroundings began to brighten as day, and the warriors quickly began to hide, but they were still a step slow.
"Bang bang bang."
The Japanese riflemen began to shoot, and bullets quickly came at the exposed soldiers.
There is nothing to say about the little devil's marksmanship, within 500 meters, most of the little devils can shoot one shot, and the barbed wire fence is only 400 meters away from the various bunkers and bunkers of the devil soldiers, so at such a distance, the little devils can naturally shoot easily.
A scattered sound of Type 38 rifle fire sounded, and more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground, all of them were hit by Type 38 rifles, and seven soldiers died on the spot.
"Stand back and blow it up with mortars." The commander of the third company of the first battalion of the fourth regiment of honor saw that he had not even encountered the devil soldiers on his side, so he paid more than ten casualties, and he gave an order in anger.
Three 60mm mortars began to fire, and one shell after another fired at the barbed wire fence set up by the devil soldiers.
As the shells began to explode, the Japanese barbed wire began to be blown open, and the fighters began to move quickly towards the front along the gap that had been blown up.
The troops of the Honorary 3rd Division have always won battles, and when they fight the Japanese army, they rarely encounter opponents.
Now that he didn't even see the face of the devil soldiers, he paid more than ten casualties, not only the company commander was angry, but even the soldiers were extremely angry.
They wanted to attack quickly and avenge their fallen comrades.
But as soon as the fighters got through the barbed wire, they began to enter the minefield.
"Boom, boom." The explosions began to sound continuously, and more than 30 fighters who rushed into the minefield were killed on the spot, and the fighters behind immediately began to stop advancing.
"Boom, boom." Nine grenadiers, three mortars began to fire, and one shell after another began to hit the minefield, causing many mines to explode.
But the little devil has six infantry guns, and compared to grenadiers and 60mm mortars, the little devil's infantry guns are more powerful.
With a "boom", the Japanese infantry artillery began to fire, and a 60mm mortar was destroyed on the spot, along with four fighters, all of them were killed.
When the company commander saw this scene, his face became gloomy, and he didn't even know the position of the devil soldiers at this moment, but his own troops had paid more than 50 casualties, which was almost half of the number of his entire company.
"Little devil, Lao Tzu fought with you." The company commander picked up his submachine gun, and he wanted to run forward.
"Company commander, you can't be impulsive, if you are impulsive at this time, what can the brothers of the whole company do." The deputy company commander on the side hurriedly pulled the company commander.
After Zheng Guanzilin, the deputy commander of the Honorary Third Division, who commanded the operation at the front, saw this scene, he immediately stopped the attack of the third company.
The troops of the third company began to retreat, and the commander of the third company was extremely lost, and he couldn't understand how his troops could pay such heavy casualties.
Compared with the situation here of the troops of the Honorable Third Division, the situation encountered by the troops of the 63rd Army of the Twelfth Army, which was ordered to attack from Yangshan to cut off the rear route of the British and German Japanese troops, was even worse.
Liang Shiji, commander of the 154th Division of the 63rd Army, saw that the Japanese army easily gave up Yingde, Wengyuan, Xinfeng and other places, and he felt that the Japanese army would not be stationed in Qingyuan, so he commanded the whole division to quickly march to Qingyuan.
The Japanese 18th Division's Lieutenant General Jiuna Chengichi really didn't expect that the troops of the 154th Division would rush to Qingyuan so quickly, and the 23rd Brigade stationed in Qingyuan had not even had time to set up barbed wire, and the troops of the 154th Division were killed, but the commander of the 23rd Brigade Major General Major General Hara Shousande immediately ordered the troops to start entering the combat state.
The 23rd Brigade of the 55th Brigade quickly began to enter the main position, and when the 154th Division approached the forward position, the 55th Wing stationed in the forward position of the first brigade immediately began to launch a firepower attack, the first brigade strengthened the 21st Army Military Department directly under the machine gun third brigade, the 55th Wing of the second brigade, the third brigade of the two machine gun brigades, the Japanese Qingyuan forward position on the pillbox, bunker, light and heavy machine gun fire points, fully deployed 60 Type 92 heavy machine guns, And that's not counting the thirty-six crooked-handled light machine guns owned by the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army.
When the 154th Division, with two regiments of nearly 5,000 people, began to rush towards the huge defensive line of the 23rd Brigade of the Japanese Army in Qingyuan, the officers and men of the 154th Division were not empty cities abandoned by the Japanese army, but nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns were fired.
Suddenly, the light and heavy machine guns began to launch fierce fire interception, because the two regiments of the 154th Division rushed too fast, they did not carry out reconnaissance at all, so these officers and soldiers did not get close to the minefield, and the little devils began to shoot fiercely.
Strings of bullets were shot out as if they didn't want money, pillboxes, bunkers, machine-gun fire points, infantry guns, grenadier strike points were fired at the same time.
Light and heavy machine guns formed a network of crossfire, and a large number of officers and soldiers began to fall to the ground, and after just one minute of firing, the casualties of the 154th Division exceeded 500.
"Boom, boom." The mountain artillery wing directly under the 18th Division of the Japanese Army began to shoot, and twelve 105mm field guns began to fire at the fighters.
The explosions rang out, and one of the fighters began to fall to the ground, screaming in pain.
"Shizuo, it's over, it's over, the little devils didn't give up Qingyuan, they concentrated the main force in Qingyuan, and our two regiments were almost wiped out."
On the periphery of Qingyuan, in the temporary division headquarters of the 154th Division, the chief of staff came to the division commander Liang Shiji with a sad face, and he immediately reported.
Although the two regiments quickly gave the order to retreat, the troops still paid more than 2,000 casualties, of which more than 1,000 were killed on the spot.
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