Chapter 182: Bloody Battle in Huaiyang (3)

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From the 1,000-8 guns to the current 10,000 horses, it is far from the ultimate goal for Yang Tianfeng, and his ambition is certainly not known. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As for the deputy commander-in-chief of the guerrillas in the Henan-Anhui border region, it is better to have this name, and it does not and cannot substantially change the current leading position of Yang Tianfeng and the Third Column in the Henan-Anhui border.

However, Ma Bingzhong and Ma Ren did not know that the interception of the Japanese army in Zhecheng was completed by the Zhou regiment, the four detachments and a cavalry regiment, and the main force of the three columns and the two cavalry regiments had already moved west to outflank them, and they wanted to cut off the retreat of this Japanese army.

The Japanese troops attacking at the pagoda suffered successive defeats, and even briefly occupied the first line of trenches in the sudden attack without artillery preparation, but were soon bombed by a rain of grenades and suffered heavy casualties, and were counterattacked by the officers and men of the third column with shotguns, machine guns, rifles, and bayonets.

The attacking devils saw that under the bombardment of thousands of shells, the Chinese soldiers who could not be killed and could not be killed were still firing dense bullets, shouting and fighting from time to time in the smoke of the fire.

After a day's attack, the casualties of the devils have reached more than 300, but the position of the pagoda is immovable, and many of the corpses of the devils who were killed have not been able to take them away, and they fall miserably in front of the position.

At dusk, the devils had to admit that their attack had met a tough opponent, and it was difficult to shake the opponent's stubborn defense with only six 41-type mountain guns, 12 92 infantry guns, and more than a dozen mortars.

By this time, the Japanese commander also had questions, was the opponent the 1st Cavalry Division? The sight he imagined of the cavalry charging violently, only to suffer heavy casualties in the face of the ferocious artillery fire and dense bullets of the locust army, did not happen at all. And as a cavalryman, can he have such a tough defensive ability? Is the equipping and use of all kinds of weapons so complete and skillful?

If it wasn't the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division that was defending the position, then the devil commander suddenly had a sense of foreboding. After a fierce battle for a long time, people were sleepy and horses were tired, and ammunition consumption was very large, and the enemy still had hidden strength, waiting for a counterattack?

Thinking like this, the devil commander hesitated. Is it to retreat immediately and return to Huaiyang? Or defend on the spot, or give full play to the advantage of firepower and inflict heavy damage on the enemy of the counterattack; Or wait for Huaiyang to bring more ammunition before attacking?

Speaking of which, the devil is quite confident in his defense, and if a squadron has a solid position to rely on, not a single regiment of the National X Army may be able to break through. If it's a dangerous defense, it's even harder.

Therefore, although the devil commander realized that he might be counterattacked by the enemy, he did not believe that the enemy had such a big appetite and dared to attack this brigade.

Night was falling, after receiving the telegram from Huaiyang City, the commander of the devil led his troops to retreat slightly, assembled in the grange, and waited for a cavalry squadron and a machine gun squadron stationed in Shangqiu, which would arrive in Huaiyang tomorrow, to come for reinforcements, as well as ammunition and supplies from Huaiyang.

Time finally sided with Yang Tianfeng, although he made certain precautions according to history, but it is still not very certain that the Japanese army in Huaiyang still moved south after the surrounding situation changed.

Obviously, the Japanese army in Huaiyang did not expect that Yang Tianfeng had already contacted the overwhelming superiority of forces and worked out a complete plan against Huaiyang.

After receiving the information that the Japanese army in Huaiyang was moving south, Yang Tianfeng immediately adjusted the deployment, leaving only the Zhou regiment, four detachments and one cavalry regiment to intercept the Japanese army in Zhecheng.

At night, Ma Biao, who received the telegram, led the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division, as well as the mountain artillery battalion and air defense troops that had been transferred to Xiangcheng, to cross the Yellow River, and after annihilating a small squad of the Japanese army in the **** building, he completed the deployment of troops on the flank of the Japanese army in the south, and moved the division headquarters from Xiangcheng Xiguan to the area of Xinzhanji, which was only 15 kilometers away from Huaiyang City.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the two cavalry regiments arrived at the target place, immediately secretly surrounded Wangdian, and cut off the external communication of Wangdian's stronghold; At about 9 o'clock in the evening, Guo's detachment arrived at Wangdian, and after a little rectification, it began to attack.

At this point, our army completed the three-sided encirclement of the Japanese army southward in Huaiyang, leaving only the Japanese army with a backwater.

At about 12 o'clock in the morning, under the cover of the bombardment of flying thunder artillery, infantry artillery, and mortars, Guo's detachment attacked the stronghold of Wangdian, annihilated more than 200 Japanese puppet troops, and completely closed the retreat of the southbound Japanese army back to Huaiyang.

At one o'clock in the morning, a brigade of Chiang's detachment from Dancheng arrived at Wangdian with a large number of heavy supplies. Yang Tianfeng sent Guo Songlin to lead a brigade and part of the artillery of the guard regiment (also known as the Guo detachment), with a cavalry regiment as the lead, to the south under the starry night, approaching the grange.

Overnight, the world was turned upside down. The Japanese army moving south would never have dreamed that tens of thousands of Chinese troops would have moved so quickly and so coordinatedly that they had formed an encirclement from three sides.

This is the power of Yang Tianfeng, advance preparation, predictive measures, and complete plans, once the action is taken, it will not drag the mud and delay the time.

At the same time, the telegram was also received by the 14th Cavalry Brigade stationed in Zhoukou, and they also began to move towards the river, blocking the side of the Japanese army heading south on the back of the river.

At about 2 o'clock in the morning, Ma Bingzhong led the cavalry brigade to attack from the pagoda and Kongzhuang, and raided the enemy on the periphery of the grange, which can also be said to have fired the first shot to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

Subsequently, the infantry stationed in the pagoda and Kongzhuang, as well as the third cavalry brigade and some artillery led by Ma Biao, also rushed to the vicinity of the grange one after another to join the battle group.

The Japanese commander held the telescope for a long time. Under the light of the fire that exploded in the distance, the figures of the cavalry were galloping and jumping, and the number of people was extremely large, and they were pouring in from all directions.

This is the enemy's counteroffensive? The devil commander did not know that the catastrophe was coming, and he believed that although the mobility of the cavalry was large, it was still very difficult to break through the infantry defense with the support of improvised positions. Under the fire of artillery, machine guns, and rifles, horses are an obvious and big target.

What caught the attention of the Japanese commanders was the offensive from the south, where the enemy's infantry advanced tenaciously and steadily, constantly using 60 mortars, throwing cluster grenades and grenade launchers as fire cover, and light machine guns were plentiful. He had to send a squadron of reinforcements and provide artillery support to ensure that the perimeter was not broken through by the enemy.

"Huaiyang called, asking us to stay on for help."

"Huaiyang is calling, the Shangqiu cavalry squadron and the machine gun squadron will arrive in the county seat at dawn."

Nozawa chose to obey orders, and while maintaining the outer defensive line, he began to lay out the village fortifications to fight the enemy.

On the one hand, it was the intelligence and orders of Huaiyang, and on the other hand, Nozawa also thought that it was foolish to retreat when a large force of cavalry had already gathered around. The consequences of the infantry, which had no position to rely on, encountered the fierce onslaught of cavalry in the open area of the plain.

But the situation seemed more difficult than Nozawa had imagined, and Ma Biao ordered the cavalry of the 3rd Brigade to dismount and fight, and bombarded the enemy with mortars and the Jin mountain artillery of the artillery battalion, putting more pressure on the enemy from the east. Ma Bingzhong's 2nd Brigade also received an order to organize infantry and attack the enemy from the west.

Another squadron sent reinforcements, and Nozawa, seriously concerned about the number of enemies, sent another telegram to Huaiyang, requesting a quick reinforcement.

At about three o'clock in the morning, Guo Songlin led his troops to arrive, and after a little rectification, he began to attack from the north. After the two test firings, the 82 mortars and 120 heavy mortars directly shelled the Grange and the enemy's artillery positions.

What kind of officers there are, what kind of soldiers there are. Yang Tianfeng likes to carry out decapitation attacks, which inevitably infects his officers.

The distance was too close, and the enemy's Type 41 mountain artillery no longer had the advantage of firing range, and the heavy and 82 mortars of the Third Column, and the Jin mountain artillery supported by the Third Group Army all entered the bombardment range. The devil also unceremoniously mobilized all the artillery, and the two sides launched a confrontation.

But at this time, the Japanese devils, who had always relied on the superiority of firepower, sadly found that the enemy had a large number of artillery and had a great advantage. Soon, the heavy and eighty-two mortars, as well as the Jin mountain artillery, suppressed the artillery fire of the devils, and constantly destroyed their artillery, killing and wounding its artillery.

More than a dozen black shells suddenly flew up in the air, crossed the arc of death in the night, and landed on the devil's position, the violent explosion was like a string of thunder, and the yellow and black gunpowder smoke rolled up frantically flooded the devil's position.

At a distance of three or four hundred meters, under the cover of night, with the help of mounds and bomb craters, Guo's detachment suddenly unleashed flying thunder cannons behind the attacking team, and this round of fierce bombardment caused heavy casualties to the devils on the position, and most of the surviving "locust army" lost their hearing, their eyes were dumbfounded, and their hands and feet were weak, and they basically lost their combat effectiveness!

Accompanied by the roar of light and heavy machine guns and the rumbling explosion of artillery fire, the officers and men of Guo's detachment roared and rushed into the enemy's broken position with shotguns, rifles with bayonets, and Czech-made tongues of fire.

The outer positions in the north were lost, and Nozawa hurriedly sent counterattack troops to prevent the rest of the defensive line from being affected and collapsing.

To say that the most thorough learning of Yang Tianfeng's ruthless deceit is Guo Songlin and Song Qingpu, both of whom are from the special combat team, but Guo Songlin is more willing to command the troops, and Song Qingpu is tired of special operations.

After the Guo detachment occupied the enemy's outlying positions, it actually stopped and did not continue to go deeper. Of course, this is contrary to the tactical principle of rushing and striking, but Guo Songlin has other ideas and arrangements.

A squadron of devils moves forward with various tactical moves, ready to launch a counterattack at a suitable distance. In the night, under the light of the explosion, it looks like a group of small monsters are flickering high and low, flickering and flickering.

Grenade launchers, machine guns, and rifles suddenly opened fire, forcing the devils to slow down their advance and fire back, and in a small area, the density of personnel gradually increased. (To be continued.) )