Chapter 363: Battle of North China (10)
Although the major general of the west poetry garden was surrounded by a light enemy, but the major general of the west poetry garden was an out-and-out tactician, although the terrain of the river valley was not conducive to the defense of the japanese army, but the major general of the west poetry garden 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 artillery units, the troops of the 77th Independent Division were deployed along the river valley, and there was not much stage for the Independent 77th Division to be displayed, so Master Chen ordered everyone in the annihilation unit to use automatic firepower. The Japanese army gathered and ordered the troops to withdraw to the valley to the south, so the direct result was that the Chinese troops in ambush in the valley area two kilometers long to the north were 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 Japanese 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 sound of gunfire from the south of the ambush zone, and both Major General Xi Shiyuan and Jiang Feng knew that it was the Japanese reinforcements who 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 o'clock in the morning, and as long as it was dawn, the air force of the Great Japanese Empire could arrive, and then the tide of the war 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, less than 4,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and this has to count more than 1,100 people in the cavalry wing, which means that there are still more than 6,000 Japanese 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 Japanese army's land and air reinforcements will arrive after dawn, and the independent 77th Division will be passive at that time.
As far as the Japanese army is concerned, Master Chen is not afraid now, and it is not once or twice that he has fought with the elite field divisions of the Japanese army, and he is clear about the combat methods of the Japanese field divisions, 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 completely annihilate an infantry division of the Japanese army, it is not a miracle.
But if it is said that the Japanese army and air force cooperate, then the scene is very big. 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 Japanese 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 annihilate the Japanese army in the West 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 take care of the things that happen to us, if we ask the commander for instructions, the nature will change, once the matter is exposed, the commander will have to follow us to get wet, 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 army had suddenly weakened, Major General Xi Shiyuan thought that the Chinese army was beginning to prepare to retreat, and because the radio station was damaged by Chinese snipers soon after the start of the war, Major General Xi Shiyuan did not know 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 streaked across 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, shelling work"
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 them, the 75mm caliber mountain artillery and field artillery have become mortars, can mortars be compared with mountain artillery, it is difficult to see whether the Chinese army has no ammunition or what. With his rich experience in actual combat, he could immediately hear that the Chinese army only used mortars in this shelling, while the relatively powerful 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery 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 scheme of the separate 77th Division was to attack with poison gas bombs. During this time, as the battles with the Japanese army became more and more frequent, Master Chen also had a clearer understanding of the Japanese army. The Inner Mongolia Military Region has always been smooth sailing, and there are not many Japanese divisions, brigades and regiments that have been annihilated, but Master Chen found that the Japanese troops annihilated by the Inner Mongolia Military Region are basically the second-line garrison divisions of the Japanese army, and their combat effectiveness is simply far from that of first-class field divisions.
Although the Inner Mongolia Military Region has also annihilated veteran brigades such as the Second Division of the Japanese Army, the actual casualties are 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 set was to concentrate all the automatic firepower of the entire division and regiment to attack and annihilate the surrounded Japanese troops 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 Japanese army branded as "special smoke" or "special artillery shells".
However, like the Japanese 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, poison gas bombs are unsightly, and even when the Japanese army uses them, they have to carry out inhumane extermination, so once they use poison gas bombs, 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, did have a lot of concerns about using poison gas bombs, and he was not like the Japanese army, which could not care about the life and death of the 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 Japanese troops, but they were all stunned by the poison gas bombs of the Chinese army, this time they were chasing the rout of Han Yunhua's army, so they only brought part of the ammunition, and even gave up food supplies in order to hurry. As for the gas masks and biochemical suits, they did not bring any of them, and when they were hit by poison gas, the proud will to fight of the Japanese army collapsed. A large number of soldiers rushed towards Taniguchi without orders, and the result, of course, was that all the Chinese troops who were on guard were left in front of their positions.
In fact, now a brigade and a regiment are going down to clean up the battlefield, and the surviving Japanese 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 Japanese invaders, but as a member of the Communist Party, Jiang Feng could not 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 Japanese troops would surrender to the Chinese army, 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 Japanese troops would voluntarily surrender to the Chinese army, although there were also Japanese troops who surrendered to the Chinese army before, and now there are still thousands of Japanese troops in the Baotou Mine who are 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 case of more than 2,000 Japanese troops voluntarily surrendering to the Chinese army, and Master Chen knew that their independent 77th Division was really going to become famous this time. In fact, what Master Chen didn't know was that the reason why the Japanese 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 Chinese army after he committed suicide, and those who were unwilling to surrender could break through on their own.
Major General Xi Shiyuan was a real soldier, although he was defeated, but he absolutely did not allow himself to be a prisoner of the Chinese army, with a gunshot, this Japanese 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, which is a tradition that has been cultivated since the beginning of the war, and he is a senior cadre of the Communist Party 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 floats, so the reply call from the division headquarters to Jiang Feng became: "Quickly clean up the battlefield and escort the prisoners and spoils of war to evacuate the battlefield............"
The battlefield was cleaned up quickly, and after half an hour, all the Chinese troops had evacuated Dashuiquan Village, and the plan of the Chinese army to destroy the corpses was carried out very thoroughly, leaving only more than 7,000 vague Japanese corpses that had been burned after the troops retreated. …,
Now that the protagonists are gone, there is no need for the other tricksters to continue fighting, so the Chinese army withdrew from the Dashuiquan line an hour later. And Yamashita Fengwen heard that the gunfire in the direction of Dashui 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 pursuing the Chinese army, 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 independent 77th Division 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 lives of more than 3,000 soldiers were 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 doesn't 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 Japanese 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 convinced the entire county brigade, and then Han Yunqian took the county brigade to attack everywhere, whether it was the adjacent Japanese stronghold, the nearby bandits, horse thieves, or the gangsters in the county were the targets of her attack. …,
In less than two months, the Japanese 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 troops, 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 Japanese Army on the front line, 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 wing commander 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 the troops, and deliberately incorporated the Qingshuihe Security Regiment with 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 Japanese army in view of the particularity of Han Yunqian's identity, 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 .......