Chapter 363: Battle of North China (10)
Although the major general of Xi Shiyuan was surrounded by a light enemy, but the major general of Xi Shiyuan was an out-and-out tactician, although the terrain of the river valley area was not conducive to the defense of the army, but the major general of Xi Shiyuan ordered the troops to shrink into points of different sizes, and hundreds of people were a meeting point, temporarily condensing a plate of loose sand into a fighting force.
Although the troops gathered in groups were easily attacked by the destruction of the artillery units, the troops of the 77th Division of Reading were deployed along the river valley, and the stage for the 77th Division to display was not large, so Master Chen ordered everyone in the annihilation unit to use automatic firepower. In order to gather the army, Major General Xi Shiyuan commanded the troops to withdraw to the valley mouth to the south, so the direct result was that the ambush of the central [***] team in the valley area two kilometers long to the north was useless.
Fortunately, Jiang Feng changed the battle mode in time, and the large army and the troops defending the valley mouth in the north immediately rushed into the valley, arranged defensive positions in the valley, and bit by bit encroached on the living space of the Xishiyuan. At the same time, he ordered the artillery unit to bombard Zhuyuan in the middle of the project, and take the river valley in the south as the key attack area.
But even so, not many soldiers were killed or wounded in the full four hours, and even half of the expected results were not achieved. In addition, there was also a fierce gunfire from the south of the ambush zone, and both Major General Xi Shiyuan and Jiang Feng knew that it was the reinforcements of the Yue Army that had arrived.
Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Major General Xi Shiyuan's heart was relieved of most of it, although they still did not escape now, but Major General Xi Shiyuan believed that he could definitely wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and at the same time, Major General Xi Shiyuan had some other plans. It was already a quarter past two in the morning, and as long as it was dawn, the air force of the Great Empire could arrive, and then the tide of battle would take a new turn, and the prey and hunter would change their identities again.
Not only did Major General Xi Shiyuan see this, but Master Chen, who was sitting in Zhangbei, also saw this. But speed is not enough, none of them thought that Major General Xishiyuan would be so difficult. In the full four hours, a total of less than 4,000 Yue troops were annihilated, and this has to count more than 1,100 people of the cavalry wing, which means that there are still more than 6,000 Yue troops that Major General Xi Shiyuan can mobilize now. According to the current attack strength, it is not ordinarily difficult to take the Xishiyuan before dawn, and the land and air reinforcements of the Yue Army will arrive after dawn, and then the 77th Division will be passive.
Just speaking of the army of the Yue Army, Master Chen is not afraid now, and it is not once or twice that he has fought with the elite field division of the Yue Army, and he is very clear about the combat methods of the field division of the Yue Army, and there is no need to be afraid at all with the strength in his hands. If you don't fight well, everyone will have a draw, and if you fight well, even if you fight a total annihilation of an infantry division of the army, it is not a miracle.
But if it is said that the army and the air force of the army are cooperating, then the scene will be a big game. With planes bombing and tanks and combat vehicles opening the way, Master Chen knew that as far as the entire Eighth Route Army was concerned, only the reorganized 300th Division could fight the army head-to-head, and the other troops would definitely not be able to hold out for three days.
At this point, it was useless to say anything, Master Chen looked at Guo Weidong, the commander of the First Guard Division next to him, and then said: "Old Guo, now that the war is urgent, I think I can use that thing?" What do you think? ”
Guo Weidong said with a solemn face: "The commander-in-chief has to think about it, once the East uses that thing, it will inevitably wipe out the headquarters of the Western Poetry Garden, and a little devil must not be allowed to escape." Once the matter is leaked, the consequences are unimaginable. I think it's better to ask the commander for advice first and see what he thinks? ”
"You can't ask the commander for instructions, this thing is originally a scourge, I can bear it myself if we use it, if we ask the commander for instructions, the surname will change, once the matter is exposed, the commander will have to follow us to get clean, so it's decided, immediately notify Jiang Feng and Zhang Yunfei to implement the second set of plans." Master Chen said categorically.
After receiving the telegram from the division commander, Jiang Feng's face turned and he said loudly: "Implement the second set of plans!" ”
As the order was issued one by one, the fighters on the front line also immediately stopped attacking, alternately covering their comrades and changing into a set of strange white clothes.
Seeing that the firepower of the Chinese [***] suddenly weakened, Major General Xi Shiyuan thought that the Chinese [***] team was beginning to prepare to retreat, because the radio station was damaged by Chinese snipers soon after the battle, so Major General Xi Shiyuan is not aware of the progress of the reinforcements now. Thinking that reinforcements were coming soon, the fierce Major General Xi Shiyuan immediately ordered the troops to intensify the attack, and there was no need to drag the main force of the Chinese army.
Through the binoculars, Jiang Feng and Zhang Xianyun were both stunned by the sudden arrival of Major General Xi Shiyuan, Zhang Xianyun said with some annoyance: "It's really ignorant and fearless, this group of little devils are thinking about annihilating our army all the time, and it is really difficult for us to get out if we don't implement the second set of plans." ”
Just as Major General Xi Shiyuan ordered the troops to continue the attack, a sharp whistling sound crossed the night sky and rushed towards the dense area where the Japanese army gathered.
The experienced Major General Xi Shiyuan immediately shouted: "Baga, lie down, work on the shelling!! ”
With the sound of shell explosions ringing in his ears, Major General Xi Shiyuan muttered in his heart, what the hell is the Chinese army doing, how to attack their 75mm caliber mountain artillery and field artillery have become mortars, can mortars be compared with mountain artillery, it is difficult to find out whether the [***] team has no ammunition or how. With his rich experience in actual combat, he could immediately hear that the [***] team only used mortars in this shelling, while the relatively powerful 75mm mountain guns and field guns were not used.
But soon, Major General Xi Shiyuan's face changed from blue to blue, then to green, and finally to white, and finally evolved into a terrifying roar: "Baga, it's a gas bomb, it's a gas bomb, the Chinese army used prohibited chemical weapons............"
Yes, the second plan of the 77th Division was to attack with gas bombs. During this time, as the battles with the Yue army became more and more frequent, Master Chen also had a clearer understanding of the Yue army. The Inner Mongolia Military Region has always been smooth sailing, and there are only a few divisions and brigades that have been annihilated, but Master Chen found that the armies annihilated by the Inner Mongolia Military Region are basically the second-line garrison divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and their combat effectiveness is simply far from that of first-class field divisions.
Although the Inner Mongolia Military Region had also annihilated such veteran brigades as the Second Division of the Chinese Army, the actual casualties were not much less than those of the Second Division. Therefore, for such a first-class strong brigade as the Yamashita Division, Master Chen was afraid in his heart, and it was definitely a terrible thing for such a division to go crazy. Therefore, when ambushing the Yamashita Division this time, Master Chen prepared two sets of plans to destroy the enemy, the first of which was to concentrate all the automatic firepower of the entire division and regiment to attack and annihilate the encircled troops of the Yue Army with firepower superiority. But if the first plan doesn't work, then implement the second plan, and the second plan is to use captured chemical weapons, that is, poison gas bombs that the army calls "special smoke" or "special artillery shells".
However, like the army, the consequences of using poison gas bombs are very serious, so Master Chen and others also have a lot of concerns, first of all, this kind of thing is unsightly, and even when the army uses it, it must be inhumanely extinguished, so once the poison gas bomb is used, it is necessary. After the simultaneous use of gas bombs, there will be no more people in this area for a long time, otherwise it will be easy to cause a plague.
Moreover, the Eighth Route Army, as a mighty army symbolizing benevolence and righteousness, does have a lot of concerns about using poison gas bombs, and he is not like the Yue Army, which can ignore the life and death of the common people. Therefore, at the beginning of the arrangement of the Dashuiquan ambush, Master Chen ordered the soldiers to collectively relocate 20 families in Dashuiquan Village to the territory of Xinghe County to avoid being traumatized by the war.
After twenty minutes of continuous shelling, the southern half of the river valley was directly turned into a mysterious area shrouded in smoke, and after the poison gas was finished, Jiang Feng was afraid that there would be no dead devil soldiers hiding in the smoke and waiting for a return fire, so he ordered the mountain artillery field artillery unit to shell for another twenty minutes.
After a full forty minutes, the whole valley fell silent, and there seemed to be no sound except for the faint moaning. Jiang Feng saw that the time was almost up, if the speed on their side was too slow, the pressure on the troops blocking the enemy's reinforcements in the south would be much greater.
The trumpet of "tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock............" finally sounded, and the more than 5,000 encircling and annihilating troops immediately rushed down with a sound of murder after hearing the trumpet.
In fact, there were not many surviving Yue troops, but they were all stunned by the poison gas bombs of the [***] team, this time they were chasing the rout army of Han Yunhua's department, so they only brought part of the ammunition, and even gave up food supplies in order to hurry. As for the gas mask and biochemical suits, he didn't bring any of them, and when he was hit by poison gas, the proud will to fight collapsed. A large number of soldiers rushed towards Taniguchi without orders, and the result, of course, was that all the [***] squadrons, which had been waiting for them, remained in front of their positions.
In fact, now a brigade and a regiment are going down to clean up the battlefield, and the surviving soldiers are still holding their guns in their hands and waiting for them to fall. Originally, Jiang Feng received an order to kill them all, but when he saw the more than two thousand captives in front of him, Jiang Feng hesitated.
It is the duty of a soldier to resist the invaders, but as a [***] member, Jiang Feng cannot force himself to give orders to kill prisoners. The order of the division headquarters was an order, but the head of the division headquarters would definitely not expect that more than 2,000 troops would surrender to the squadron, so Jiang Feng sent a telegram to Master Chen asking for instructions on what to do with the prisoners.
In fact, Master Chen himself did not expect that more than 2,000 Chinese troops would voluntarily surrender to the Chinese [***] team, although there were also Chinese troops who surrendered to the Chinese [***] team before, and now there are still thousands of Japanese troops in the Baotou Mine, where are they working day and night, making contributions to China's great anti-Japanese cause. However, since the beginning of the war, there has been absolutely no instance of more than 2,000 troops voluntarily surrendering to the Central [***] team, and Master Chen knows that their 77th Division is really going to be famous this time. In fact, what Master Chen didn't know was that the reason why the army would surrender on a large scale was completely the order of Major General Xi Shiyuan, and he knew that their army was finished today, and although there were many more than 3,000 casualties under the blow of poison gas bombs, it was still within the range that Major General Xi Shiyuan could bear, but the rout of morale made Xi Shiyuan completely desperate. Looking at the soldiers who followed him to death one by one, Major General Xi Shiyuan decided to order all the soldiers to surrender to the [***] team after he committed suicide, and those who were unwilling to surrender could break through on their own.
Major General Xi Shiyuan is a real soldier, although he was defeated, but he absolutely did not allow himself to be a prisoner of the [***] team, with a gunshot, this army general who had just been transferred from the puppet Manchurian to North China completely fell, ending his short and shameful life.
Since so many little devils took the initiative to surrender, of course Master Chen did not dare to casually give an order to slaughter the prisoners. He is different from Han Yunhua, Han Yunhua does not leave prisoners, that is a tradition that has been cultivated since the beginning of the war, and he is a senior cadre who has been following the bigwigs to fight the world since the founding of the army, and he is very afraid of the ban that the party has always emphasized that it is not allowed to kill and float, so the reply call from the division headquarters to Jiang Feng became: "Clean up the battlefield quickly, escort the prisoners and trophies to evacuate the battlefield............"
The battlefield was cleaned up quickly, and after half an hour, all the squadrons evacuated Dashuiquan Village, and the plan of the squadron to destroy the corpses was carried out extremely thoroughly, leaving only more than 7,000 vague corpses of the burned soldiers after the troops retreated.
Now that the protagonists are gone, there is no need for the other tricksters to continue fighting, so an hour later, the [***] team withdrew from the front line of Dashuiquan. And Yamashita Fengwen heard that the gunfire in the direction of Da Shui Spring had stopped, and he knew that there was less evil and less luck on the side of Xishiyuan, so he didn't care about chasing the [***] team, but ordered the troops to hurry to the main battlefield.
When the results of the Dashuiquan ambush were reported to the Daqingshan General Headquarters, Han Yunhua was resting, and when Qian Zhuangfei sent a telegram from the Eastern Hebei Theater to Han Yunhua's residence, he was stopped by Han Yunhua's head of the guard, saying that Han Yunhua had just fallen asleep, and if it wasn't something urgent, it would be better to come back tomorrow.
Qian Zhuangfei also knew that Han Yunhua hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, but the 77th Division of Reading Power had just captured more than 2,000 little devils and was still waiting for Han Yunhua to fall, otherwise how could Master Chen fight with more than 2,000 little devils, so he had to come to Han Yunhua hard.
"Commander Han, there is an urgent battle report that needs to be handled by the commander, and Division Commander Chen is still waiting for a reply? I also ask the head of the Han delegation to give a briefing. Qian Zhuangfei said politely.
Han Yunhua's guard head is none other than his sister Yun Qian, and Han Yunhua still has a lot of opinions about Han Yunqian's promotion to the head of a regiment in just two years. The greater the position, the greater the responsibility, not to mention the risks on the battlefield, let's just say that the surname of more than 3,000 soldiers will be handed over to Han Yunqian, a twenty-year-old girl, Han Yunhua thinks that this is an extremely irresponsible approach to the soldiers, and Han Yunhua does not want his only sister to kill on the battlefield like himself, as the saying goes, the crockpot will inevitably break the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle. Han Yunhua's feelings for Yun Qian are still very deep, in Yun Qian and Yuhan, Han Yunhua found a sense of belonging to his home and the times, he didn't want the war to change all this. For this reason, Han Yunhua also slapped the table with Shen Yuquan, who had promoted Han Yunqian to be the head of the Political Department, hoping that the Political Department would propose that the party committee of the military region revoke the promotion order for Han Yunhua.
It's a pity that Shen Yuquan smiled bitterly and took out a registration form and made a report to Han Yunhua about Han Yunqian's work for more than half a year. After listening to Shen Yuquan's report, Han Yunhua's eyes were also straight, Yun Qian, this little girl is too ruthless, she has done so many things in just half a year, and every one of them is moving.
Because he was afraid of attracting the attention of the army, Han Yunhua rarely contacted the military region after arriving in Shandong, so he didn't know how his sister was doing in the military region. In fact, in the week after Han Yunhua left, Han Yunqian was also sent to the local area, and was transferred from the commander of the guard battalion to the secretary of the Qingshuihe County Party Committee and the captain of the county security brigade.
This county defense brigade is actually the establishment of an infantry battalion, and the entire county brigade has more than 300 people and more than 200 guns, and the caliber of the guns is varied, anyway, as long as the guns that can be seen on the battlefield in China, the Qingshuihe County Brigade has only one light machine gun, not a single heavy machine gun, and there are two mortars, but there are only two shells, and no one will use them. Compared with the guard battalion led by Han Yunqian before, it is not a little worse, and Han Yunqian is both a girl and very young, so the difficulty of Han Yunqian's work in Qingshuihe can be imagined.
However, Han Yunqian was taught by Han Yunhua, although it is not better than the blue, and Han Yunqian's level has not even learned half of Han Yunhua's skills. But it was more than enough to deal with those local leopards in Qingshuihe, and Han Yunqian didn't care about local affairs at first, and concentrated on trying her best to grasp the troops. With her special forces background and the help of a special squad, she quickly subdued the entire county brigade, and then Han Yunqian took the county brigade to attack everywhere, whether it was the adjacent army stronghold, the nearby bandits, horse thieves, or the gangsters in the county, she was the target of her attack.
In less than two months, the puppet army in the northwest of Jin knew that Qingshuihe had a great female Yama king, and under the leadership of Han Yunqian, the Qingshuihe County Brigade developed extremely rapidly, and the same method taken by Han Yunhua, Han Yunqian incorporated all the captured gangster members and villains such as horse bandits into the army, and at the same time let the special operations team sent to him by Han Yunhua train these people, and after only half a year, the county brigade of Qingshuihe had a squadron of 400 people, and the equipment was also changed again and again. Last month, under the command of Han Yunqian, he fought a battle with the Kuroda Wing of the 39th Infantry Brigade of the former Infantry of the Chinese Army, and he finally routed the Kuroda Wing head-on with the troops that had just been pulled up for less than half a year, killing and wounding more than 1,300 people, including the commander of the wing, Kuroda Motoji Daisa, and seizing a lot of weapons and equipment.
A month ago, the Qingshuihe County Party Committee received an order from the Military Region to upgrade the Qingshuihe County Brigade to the Qingshuihe Security Regiment, and Han Yunqian was promoted to the head of the Qingshuihe County Security Regiment. Previously, Han Yunqian had also served as the head of the Xinghe County Security Regiment, so the leaders of the military region believed that Han Yunqian had the ability to serve as the head of this security regiment.
Some time ago, the military region reorganized its troops, and deliberately incorporated the Qingshuihe Security Regiment, which had outstanding combat effectiveness, into the field troops, and the leaders of the military region did not want her to appear on the battlefield of head-on confrontation with the Yue army in view of Han Yunqian's special surname, so as not to distract Han Yunhua, so Han Yunqian was transferred to the head of the military region's guard regiment, directly responsible for Han Yunhua's own safety.
(To be continued)