Chapter 42: Ten Miles of Defeat

The first is that the artillery of the artillery wing did not go off. Sato Osa was busy shifting positions for his wing. The shelling incident of the artillery wing made His Excellency Dazuo have a great sense of distress, and before the wing has found a safe position, it is not to expect the artillery of the wing to provide fire support to the front line!

Secondly, the oil depot of the division headquarters was blown up! The impact of this incident is too great! The Ishimoto detachment was strengthened by the military headquarters to the 3rd Division. Captain Ishimoto's subordinates are leading two chariot wings! This thing is very powerful on the battlefield, and the 30th and 68th armies of China, which have now been fighting, are a little overwhelmed. As long as you work harder, a breakthrough on the front is just around the corner! But at this critical moment, the oil depot was blown up! If you run out of fuel, it's a stationary battery!

These two powerful forces suffered a huge blow, and the attacking troops of the 3rd Division had already dropped several steps in terms of firepower. Especially the artillery wing, they actually stopped **! I don't know when that Sato Osa will be able to choose his position! When Lieutenant General Yamawaki Masataka heard the report, he sat in the headquarters and sulked.

It would be better to say if something happened to only these two troops, after all, the Third Division itself still had a few strong field wings, and with those few elite infantry wings, it was enough to resist the Chinese army in front of them. After a long time, it will not be difficult to even defeat them! It's strange that there are rumors in the division now that there are spies of the Chinese army who have infiltrated the division!

Now it has caused panic among the entire division. As long as people you don't know meet, you first wonder if the other party is a traitor of the Chinese! The Third Division is nearly 30,000 people, plus the Ishimoto Detachment and the Ogawa Detachment, all of which are more than 40,000 people, who can recognize them? I heard that even the troops on the firing line are a little unstable.

General Yamawaki is now also facing a problem common to the division commanders who had fought with Gao Quan before. Lieutenant General Yawaki hasn't come up with a good countermeasure, and the situation on the battlefield has changed dramatically again!

Liu Ruming and Sun Lianzhong, the two main generals, have fought for half their lives and can clearly see any subtle changes on the battlefield. With so many things happening in the devil's barracks, how could these two not see it? Whatever the reason, in short, the devil's cannon is not so fierce now! The devil's tank tank tank seems to be a little lacking in stamina! Something must have happened inside the devil, or a big deal!

Sun Lianzhong called Liu Ruming to inform him of the discovery and asked General Liu what he could do.

"No matter what happens to the devil, it's a good thing anyway! Imitation Brother Lu, Ziliang is about to launch a general attack on the devil here, is the 30th Army of Brother Lu ready to go together? ”

Sun Lianzhong is so angry in his heart, you are Liu Ziliang! How to say, I am also the commander of the group army, and you are the deputy commander! Whether I can fight or not, I should have the final say! What are you? Will my army? Want to say a few unpleasant words to Liu Ruming, right? It's a little hard to pull down. Say you don't cooperate, right? He really can't do it! Forget it, let you be unkind, don't let me be unjust!

Commander-in-Chief Sun was so blocked by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Liu's words that he couldn't speak for a long time, and finally took a deep breath, which can be regarded as adjusting his emotions. "What did Ziliang say. Fighting devils, my grandson Fanglu has never said anything! Your side is ready to start, I will give an order to Chifeng City now, and the Thirty Army will start to attack! Twenty minutes later, you and I will start at the same time! Oh, by the way, there is also Gao Zhizhi's 500 army, I'll send him a telegram later, so that his 500 army will also act together! ”

Speaking of halfway, Sun Lianzhong remembered that there was still a 500 army under his command, and everyone was fighting, so if he didn't pull the 500 army in, how could he do it?

"Ziliang obeys Commander-in-Chief Sun's orders!"

As soon as twenty minutes passed, the three-way army of the Chinese army launched a counterattack at the same time! The deafening sound of guns and cannons resounded through the sky, and the loud military horn was accompanied by the shouting and killing sound like a tsunami, and our three-way army, divided into three directions, left, middle and right, launched a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese Third Division!

The three armies, although the 30th Army and the 68th Army did not have too much heavy artillery, but there was an artillery regiment in the 500th Army, plus the light and heavy mortars equipped by each unit, these heavy firearms were all taken out and fired together, and the power was naturally not small! The artillery wing of the Japanese army was just dumb at this time, and for the first time, our artillery fire occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield!

The Second Army also had an absolute advantage in numbers, and the soldiers and the Japanese army had been fighting fiercely for a day and night, and they had already fought out of the fire, and this general attack was launched, and tens of thousands of soldiers rushed forward with great momentum, and the devils of the Third Division quickly couldn't parry!

The first to retreat was the chariot unit of the Ishimoto detachment. Tanks and armored vehicles rely on their strong mobility ability, with tracks and wheels underneath to run fast, and when they see that the momentum is not right, they turn around and run in the direction of attack. The rest of the devil infantry, even if they wanted to run, they didn't run as fast as the chariot, and seeing that the Chinese army in front of them was rushing towards them, the devils had to resist with guns.

It is said that tanks are for covering infantry, and now they have become infantry covering tanks! The devil infantry was fighting while cursing loudly at the unrighteous armored soldiers. It's just that the vocabulary of the devils is really limited, and the repeated scolding is only the sentence "Eight Grid Tooth Road".

In just half an hour, General Yamawaki had already received no less than ten telegrams asking for help. All three directions were called for help at the same time, and they were all chosen at this time, when his artillery wing had not yet been born! Chinese, what a big cunning! In addition to this evaluation, Yamawaki Masataka really doesn't know how to evaluate his opponents.

Keep fighting? Defeat the Second Army and capture Miyang? It seems to have become an impossible task. The mighty 3rd Division even sent a telegram asking for help! The morale of the division has been drained, and now it can no longer fight.

"Shi Ben-kun? Please send your chariot wing as cover, and I'm going to take my troops down for a while. ”

"What? Your tank unit has already been withdrawn first due to lack of fuel? Shi Ben-kun, Shi Ben-kun! Eight grid tooth road! Listening to the busy tone coming from the phone, "Bang dang! The division commander was so angry that he dropped the phone. Ishinomoto, this bastard, dared to withdraw his chariot detachment without asking for instructions! You withdraw, who will my infantry wing find to cover?

"Order the troops, retreat to the east!" Lieutenant General Yawaki finally couldn't stand the series of reports of defeat and gave the order for the entire army to retreat. What a shame! The third division will be forced to withdraw from the battlefield by the opponent! Yamawaki Masataka was very unwilling, but he also had to accept this fact, and in this battle, he and his division suffered defeat!

On the way to be forced to lead his troops to retreat, Yamawaki Masataka, commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, sent a telegram to the commander of the 11th Army, Kazuichiro Sonobe, to explain the battle situation. The offensive suffered a setback, and as a leading general on the front line, he had to report truthfully, despite all the reluctance in his heart.