Chapter 1272: The Wind Sweeps the Remnants of the Clouds (Continued)
After receiving Sun Manxi's report, Gao Yuan, commander of the 1st Column, immediately ordered Zhao Dahe to command the two armored regiments of the armored brigade to leave the road, and guide the convoy of the 4th and 5th regiments of the 2nd Brigade to outflank the Japanese puppet army in the southern area of the river, and strive to completely annihilate the Japanese puppet army. The rocket artillery regiment on the vehicle was ordered to quickly move forward to support the second regiment in the operation.
For such a large-scale Japanese puppet army, there must be tanks and armored vehicles, and the plateau is for the rocket artillery regiment to deal with the tanks and armored vehicles of the devils.
This is an encounter, and for the Eighth Route Army, it is a big fat sheep encountered on the way to attack, and it is determined to win. The Japanese puppet army is different, although Sato Dazuo relies on a chariot brigade in his own hands, and wants to fight a counterattack, severely damage or even destroy the Eighth Route Army convoy that rushed to Fengtian, but the puppet Manchurian soldiers who have been captured by the Eighth Route Army do not think so, they have been beaten by the vehicle-mounted machine gun fire on the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army, and when the vehicle-mounted firepower of the Eighth Route Army joins the battle, the soldiers of the puppet Manchurian Army finally realize what a real firepower strike is.
The puppet Manchurian army was trained by the Japanese army, and the troops were in the hands of Japanese instructors at all levels, and the commanders of the mixed brigades, regiments, and battalions were all puppets who had no right to order the troops to retreat. If you want to retreat, you have to kill those devil instructors who hold a command knife in one hand and a box of kings in the other. It's a pity that the soldiers of the puppet Manchu Army have not yet had the consciousness of uprising and anyway, and they dare not shoot the uprising or the head of the Japanese instructor, so they can only be bulleted.
But. The combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchu army is extremely strong, and the level of archery skills is also very high. The firepower of the Eighth Route Army was so strong that many soldiers were killed by the vehicle-mounted machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army, and those soldiers who were lucky enough not to die were still shooting non-stop. It's just that their bullets don't pose much threat to the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army and the cars with protective decks.
The most crucial thing in this kind of encounter is to use the enemy's firepower to destroy the Japanese puppet army's will to resist in one fell swoop. Otherwise, after a long time, even if the puppet Manchu army is eliminated, the Japanese army behind may take the opportunity to build fortifications and stabilize the defensive line, especially if it may blow up the highway bridges and railway bridges on the tributaries of the Shahe River, in that case. It is necessary to delay the end of the battle, and if a Japanese aircraft group appears, the casualties of the troops will be large.
Liu Yimin's request was to rush into Fengtian City as quickly as possible and completely occupy Fengtian. Take advantage of the chaos of the Kwantung Army. Continue to expand the results.
The plateau was brought out by Liu Yimin from the Xiangjiang River, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 18th Regiment, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Central Guard Division, the commander of the 11th Division of the Red Seventh Army, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the 1st Brigade, and the cadres of the unit were adjusted several times. The plateau has never moved, and his post level has been continuously improved, from the commander of the first battalion to the commander of the most elite first column of our army today, which is Liu Yimin's absolute descendant, and he has a deep understanding of Liu Yimin's military thinking. No, Gao Yuan ordered Shi Lei, the commander of the rocket artillery regiment: "Give Lao Tzu ten thousand cannons." Completely cripple the Japanese puppet army! Fight the Devil's Tank Force and kill it! ”
Liu Yimin's ministry has two rocket regiments. One was incorporated into the Stone Mine Rocket Artillery Regiment in the artillery column, and the other was incorporated into the sequence of the coastal defense detachment, which was originally used to defend the secret military port of Shijiu, and the rocket artillery was put on board the ship during the sneak attack on Shanghai, and was used as the combat firepower of the fleet, and it is still organized on the fleet under the command of Zhu Rui.
After Shi Lei commanded the convoy of the rocket artillery regiment to catch up, he quickly established a position, and with the whistle of each squad leader, the observers reported the coordinate parameters one by one, and the loaders quickly filled the charcoal kiln, and in just ten minutes, the rocket artillery roared!
Whether it is the Kwantung Army or the puppet Manchu Army, they have never seen such a powerful rocket artillery strike scene! During the Sino-Soviet Far Eastern War, the Red Army in the Far East was not equipped with Katyusha rocket artillery, and the little devils were not blessed. Well, now the Eighth Route Army has made up for this lesson for the Japanese puppet army.
Rocket artillery is a surface strike firepower, a rocket artillery regiment 81 "Bayi" 107 mm 12-tube rocket launchers, a salvo, the coverage area is calculated in square kilometers, as the first wave of artillery strikes of the puppet Manchu army, buried in the rocket explosion not to mention, those lucky to live the last trace of luck in the heart of the luck was completely dispelled, can no longer support it, and is not afraid of the Japanese instructor's command knife and small pistol, completely herded sheep, began to turn around, in the direction of Fengtian to break out.
This effect was exactly what the Eighth Route Army was looking forward to, only to see the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army roaring and chasing them, the sound of machine guns on the vehicles, and the soldiers on the cars following the armored cars holding iron horns and shouting: "Surrender the guns and don't kill, the Eighth Route Army will give preferential treatment to prisoners!" "Brothers of the puppet Manchu army, the Chinese do not fight the Chinese, surrender, turn the gun and fight the devil with us!" "General Liu Yimin, the invincible god of war of China's anti-Japanese resistance, has arrived in the Northeast, the Kwantung Army is about to end, the brothers of the puppet Manchu Army will join the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army welcomes you!"
Run, can't outrun the wheels of armored cars and cars; Fighting, you can't beat the Eighth Route Army driving armored vehicles. The soldiers of the puppet Manchu army who heard Liu Yimin's shout of going to the northeast finally took the lead and threw down the guns in their hands. Soon, just like the plague contagion, more and more people surrendered, and even those Japanese instructors and puppet Manchurian officers began to flee in the rout.
The remnants of the Mukden Regional Garrison Command of the puppet Manchu Army, which were mixed into the 4th and 5th Brigades, completely collapsed!
Of course, the two puppet Manchu armies were mixed into brigades, and the strength was huge, and it was not possible for the Eighth Route Army to be wiped out by fighting for this time. Although more and more people surrendered, more and more of them fled for their lives with their guns in tow, strands and locks, running from place to place on the plains, just like when a herd of deer is attacked by lions and tigers.
It is a pity that to the south, it is the muzzle of the Black Hole of the Eighth Route Army, and to the east and west, it is the Eighth Route Army's outflanked tanks and automobile fleets, and the on-board machine guns are spitting tongues of fire. Those soldiers of the puppet Manchurian Defense Army, who refused to surrender and blindly fled for their lives, could only flee in the direction of Mukden in the north. To the north, there is a tributary of the Shahe River, and on the other side of the river is the first, third, and fourth brigades of the first independent garrison of the Japanese army, which are also aimed at the soldiers of the puppet Manchurian army!
This puppet Manchurian army is different from the puppet army in the Guan, many of the puppet army in the Guanai are formed after the surrender of the local armed forces and miscellaneous regular armies, and some are composed of hooligans and habitual bandits, if the puppet army dares to flee the battlefield, the Japanese army will shoot without hesitation. The original basis of this puppet Manchurian army was the surrendered troops of the Northeast Army, and after the Japanese army vigorously rectified it, dismissed the lazy people, increased the number of military academy graduates, and conscripted young people into the army, it had already become a new army loyal to the Japanese army, and it was a dog raised by the Japanese themselves. For them, the Japanese army was reluctant to slaughter them easily, and suddenly opened fire to cover their retreat.
Groups of defeated puppet Manchu troops crossed the unthawed tributaries of the Shahe River and fled behind the Japanese riverbank positions to reorganize their troops.
At this time, Sato Nakasa had already received a telegram from the commander of the 52nd Division, Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi, who ordered him to take unified command of the Japanese army and the Manchurian Defense Forces in the area south of the Great River, resolutely destroy the convoy of the Eighth Route Army attacking Mukden, and then quickly return to the division to fight in the reinforcement of Mukden City.
The reason why Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi gave such an order was because the Japanese puppet army concentrated on the front line of Dahean was huge, two puppet Manchurian mixed brigades, three infantry brigades of the independent first garrison, one tank brigade, plus the Sato Wing, the Japanese army alone had 6 or 7,000 people, which was much stronger than the troops in Fengtian City!
Sato Nakasa saw through the binoculars that the two mixed brigades of the puppet Manchu Army had been defeated, and scolded Baga, and after scolding, he ordered the chariot brigade to attack, destroy the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army that had crossed the highway bridge, and use tank guns to deal with the armored vehicles and cars of the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, Sato Nakasa ordered a squadron of anti-aircraft artillery attached to the wing to quickly seize the position and attack the tanks of the Eighth Route Army on both flanks, and ordered the infantry to prepare Molotov cocktails and explosives packs to resolutely block the attack of the tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army.
The soldiers of the 52nd Division were all new recruits, but they were formed according to the establishment of the garrison division, and the garrison divisions at this time were all undertaking field tasks. In particular, the Kwantung Army, because the 23rd Division suffered a heavy loss of Soviet tanks during the Battle of Normenhan, and the Japanese army's anti-aircraft artillery and Molotov cocktails made great contributions at that time, so all divisions and regiments of the Japanese army established anti-tank units, which received miraculous results in the Japanese-Soviet Far Eastern War. The thing is so strange, the independent 1st garrison, which is mostly veterans, is not equipped with tanks and anti-tank guns, but the 52nd Garrison Division, which is composed of new soldiers, is equipped with it.
When the Devil Tank Brigade was dispatched, the rocket artillery regiment of the Eighth Route Army was adjusting the shelling parameters and preparing to cover the Japanese troops on the north bank of the tributary of the Shahe River.
Seeing the turbulent smoke and dust of the Japanese tanks from the telescope, Gao Yuan knew that the little devil's tank was coming to die, and his eyebrows trembled with joy, and he immediately ordered the rocket artillery regiment to quickly destroy the positions on the north bank of the Japanese River, and then turned to attack the Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles to cover the main force to cross the river in pursuit.
This is said slowly, but in fact it is very fast to execute on the battlefield. When the order for the plateau was issued, the guns on the position of the rocket artillery regiment had been loaded, and with the order of Shi Lei, the rocket artillery roared again, and the swarm of rockets dragged long wings of light to the Japanese position on the north bank of the river.
There was a kind of Japanese soldier in the three brigades of the 1st Independent Garrison, who suffered so heavy casualties under the rocket attack, that they even held their positions and did not flee. However, the wing commanded by Sato Osa is not good, it is all new recruit eggs, including which tankmen. After the Eighth Route Army's rocket artillery regiment extended the shelling, the main assembly area of the Sato Wing and the tank brigade that launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army became targets. These guys, from the moment the armored vehicles and tanks of the tank brigade were torn to pieces by the rockets of the Eighth Route Army, they didn't even listen to Sato Daisa's orders and began to run away.
The convoy of the Eighth Route Army crossed the highway bridge and launched a great pursuit!