Chapter 542 Seven Days and Seven Nights 6
Suddenly attacked, the Japanese sneak attack troops were not mentally prepared for anything, and it was a completely one-sided massacre. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe violent rain of bullets did not have any dead ends, and the dense grenades formed a continuous explosion point. The Japanese hurriedly set up their machine guns and before they could fire, the machine gunner was killed, and the Japanese commander was quickly named. The 500 Japanese soldiers had no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, and soon became cold corpses.
In the Eastern Front Headquarters, the phone to the headquarters suddenly rang, and Zhao Liang hurriedly answered the phone. "Yes, understand, please rest assured Commander Su, the Japanese army will not want to cross my position." Zhao Liang put down the phone and said excitedly: "A Japanese army infiltrated from Area 52 into the left flank defense line. Commander Su had a clear understanding of everything and sent the 3rd Airborne Brigade to set up an ambush in the No. 49 area, and is currently annihilating the Japanese army that is sneaking up. ā
"The direction of the Japanese army's main attack was the left flank, and the 4th Brigade was immediately notified and ordered to fully support the left flank defense line with the artillery regiment." "The 4th Brigade reports that the Japanese have launched a group attack!" "Give me the 4th Brigade Command!" ", the main direction of the Japanese attack is the left flank, and the supporting artillery fire will be inclined to the left flank, and your department will immediately put it into reserve." In less than half an hour, the battle for the left flank line entered a white heat.
At about 11 o'clock, the atmosphere in the Japanese headquarters was solemn. "General, the 291st Brigade, launched 4 high-intensity attacks without shaking the Japanese defense line, I'm afraid our attack operation failed!" At this time, an operational staff officer put down the phone and reported: "Report, the 291st Brigade Headquarters reports that the sneak attack failed, and the enemy has already taken precautions. The special commando was ambushed by enemy troops, and about 100 people withdrew. "It was I who underestimated the opponent and ordered the border garrison brigades to go on the offensive and increase the area of attack."
The elaborate scam suddenly came to naught. Yuichi Wasai had to give the order for a strong attack, and the ensuing battle was no longer a secret, it was completely a contest between the brave and the dead. The brutal battle continued to enter a desperate struggle on the left flank, and the Japanese broke through their positions at a certain point, and were counterattacked. After Meng Fei led his troops to complete the task of eliminating the sneak attack on the Japanese army, he received an order from Su Yu to temporarily use it as a counterattack force on the left flank.
From 1 a.m. to 4 a.m., Meng Fei led his troops to launch 12 counterattack operations, and cooperated with the 4th Brigade to resolve the crisis of the Japanese army's breakthrough position. Half of the house had collapsed, and the other half had a brazier on the ground. Meng Fei was sitting next to the brazier, and the hygienist was changing his dressing. "Brigadier Commander, I don't allow you to take the lead." A company commander stood by and shouted. "What is a brigade commander, at a critical moment, the brigade commander is an ordinary soldier. It doesn't matter if I'm injured, you can check and report the battle damage immediately! ā
Meng Fei was cut on the head by a single piece, when a shell exploded more than ten meters away, and a soldier pounced on him, blocking the shrapnel for him and died. The company commander turned around and was about to leave, when a deputy regiment commander walked in. Due to the continuous operation of the 3rd Airborne Brigade, the losses of officers were also very serious, and of the three regiment commanders under Meng Fei, two were killed and one was wounded. "Brigadier Commander, you're wounded!" "It's not a big deal, it's just that I was bruised by shrapnel, let's talk about the situation of the troops!"
"Brigade commander, we dispatched 6 companies with more than half of the casualties, plus the troops left behind in the city, our brigade has only more than 1,000 troops, we can't fight like this, our brigade must leave seeds." "Nonsense, for the sake of the overall interests, even if our brigade is lost, we will not hesitate. You organize the remaining forces, and I will rush wherever I am needed! "Yes! But I'm not going to let you do it yourself! After the deputy commander left, the gunfire outside suddenly became sparse.
The company commander who went out earlier came back again, "Brigade commander, the Japanese army has stopped attacking." I heard that our artillery regiment was almost gone, and the deputy commander of the 4th Brigade was killed. Meng Fei was silent for a while and said, "It's good at dawn, and the most difficult moment will pass." As Meng Fei said, as soon as the sky dawned, 10 bombers and all fighters were dispatched to start bombing the Japanese army on the Eastern Front. Although the Japanese army suffered from air raids on the Eastern Front, they did not flinch. However, as a result of the air raids, the efficiency of the Japanese offensive was sharply reduced.
After dawn, Gangmura Ninji ordered an offensive on all fronts, with the aim of creating conditions for the main offensive on the Eastern Front. The Japanese 201st and 211st Divisions launched a fierce offensive again. The commander of the southern front, Kenko Nagai, was unwilling to fail and wanted to raise his strength. Just at the sound of heavy shelling on the southern front, 4 bombers and 8 fighters suddenly appeared in the sky over Liujiadian. Perhaps Kenko Nagai was vengeful, or perhaps he despised the small number of bombers of the Eighth Route Army, so he concentrated all his artillery fire and tried to break through the defense line quickly.
Obviously, Kenko Nagai was a little impatient, or rather, he made Toshichi dizzy, and greatly underestimated the horror of the air strike. The four bombers that pounced on the south did not carry a single bomb, but all carried high-explosive incendiary bombs. The fighters first pounced on the Japanese air defense units, using dive tactics to strafe. When a fighter plane was strafing at a low altitude, it was hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun, and immediately plummeted with billowing smoke. The morale of the Japanese was greatly boosted, and then another fighter plane was damaged and withdrew from the battle.
The Japanese air defense units were greatly confident and became more and more courageous the more they fought. The performance of the air defense forces greatly stimulated the Japanese artillery, and the shelling suddenly became more intense. The fighters completely attracted the Japanese air defense forces, and 4 bombers took the opportunity to dive and bomb, and when the first incendiary bomb exploded at the Japanese artillery position, it immediately had a terrible effect. Even if the incendiary bomb did not hit the target, the high-temperature flames and air waves produced spread rapidly, and the disadvantages of the intensive deployment of Japanese artillery positions quickly manifested themselves.
As one incendiary bomb after another exploded on the Japanese artillery position, the Japanese artillery quickly muted fire, and the Japanese air defense unit was not spared. In less than half an hour, the Japanese artillery positions were in a sea of fire. Without strong artillery support, the Japanese offensive was put to rest. Kenko Nagai looked at the raging flames of the artillery position, stunned. It can be said that he saw the power of incendiary bombs on the battlefield for the first time, and he also understood why the US bomber group had achieved brilliant results in bombing the homeland.
In the direction of Wanggang Town, the Japanese 2nd Tank Division only advanced in an attempt to lure the tank units of the Eighth Route Army into the range of its heavy artillery, in an attempt to use heavy artillery to attack the tanks of the Eighth Route Army. But the tanks of the Eighth Route Army were not fooled, they just confronted each other on the front and did not attack. The Japanese did not dare to put their heavy artillery units into close-range combat, because the Japanese tanks could not stop the onslaught of the tanks of the Eighth Route Army at all. The remnants of the 237th Brigade of the Japanese Army, located in Wanggang Town, were not put into battle at all, and they were frightened by tanks.
At the headquarters in the city, the atmosphere was still tense. "Commander Su, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., for 3 hours, the Japanese launched attacks of varying degrees from 7 directions. After bomber air strikes on the left, center, and right of the Eastern Front, the offensive quickly exhausted. On the front line of Caojia's shack in the southeast, the Japanese artillery positions were devastated, and the ground offensive quickly collapsed. On the Xinfatun line in the southwest, the tanks of the two sides are still facing each other. On the Western Front, a Japanese mixed brigade and the remnants of the Japanese army who had withdrawn from the city, launched two attacks. ā
"The offensive was tedious due to the lack of strong artillery support. On the northern front were Japanese cavalry brigades, which posed little threat. "Chief of Staff Peng Xuelan reports on the battle situation." Chief of Staff, the most dangerous moment has passed, when will the transport fleet arrive? Su Yu was most concerned about supporting the troops, and he was worried that Okamura Ning would make a desperate bet and continue to increase troops to Harbin. Peng Xuelan glanced at her watch and said, "According to the time, the fleet should have arrived." As soon as he finished speaking, there was a roar in the sky.
"Order the 5th Brigade and the 13th Brigade to arrive and quickly replace the 4th Brigade and the 2nd Brigade on the Eastern Front. The 2nd and 4th Brigades were temporarily served as reserves. "Commander Su, the two brigades of the Cao family's shack suffered more casualties, why don't you replace them?" "According to reports of air strikes, the Japanese artillery positions were dealt a devastating blow due to the concentrated arrangement of the Japanese artillery positions. Without artillery support, the Japanese could not attack. Call Zhou Qingshan, the commander of the 1st Brigade, and ask him to dispatch a regiment to support the Cao family's shack. ā
Su Yu continued: "At present, our opponent is the Japanese army on the Eastern Front, and the 2nd Brigade and the 4th Brigade fought intensively overnight, and the price paid can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army's Division A is indeed strong. Meng Fei reported that they had a very careful ambush plan, but the Japanese attacking force still escaped more than 100 people. The Japanese commander on the Eastern Front was able to see the weak points of our defense in a very short time and quickly formulated an attack plan, which shows the shrewdness and steadiness of the Japanese commander. ā
The camera turns to the headquarters of the Japanese army on the Eastern Front, a high point, and Yuichi Wasina looks in the direction of the city in the face of the cold wind. He was looking at the swarm of planes in the sky. After a long time, Hayinai Yuichi put down the binoculars and said: "Commander Gangcun is right, the Majiagou airfield has a limited capacity, and the enemy can only transport two brigades at a time. As the enemy's forces increased, so did the logistical pressure. I estimate that tomorrow the enemy army will have fewer troops and more military supplies. ā
"Order the troops, send a small number of troops during the day, and attack in a pressuring manner. Ramp up your attacks tonight! Wasai Yu's resolute demeanor seemed to be about to fight to the end.