Chapter 750: The Great Counterattack Begins (Thirtieth Update!) End! )
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The battle for the defense of Daixian had reached the most critical juncture, and due to the urgency of time, Fujita ordered his troops to attack overnight without even building a military camp, except for his command tent, the rest including the field hospital and kitchen were still in the open air. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Japanese attack was crazy, but Major General Fujita did not order the troops to charge, but kept bombarding the Daixian defense line with mortars, and the intensity of the fire was terrifying. It's already decided to take a gamble, and Fujita doesn't plan to go over it.
The Japanese army's madness frightened the defenders of Dai County. Especially Zhang Dabing, as the supreme commander of the defense of Dai County, he was under a lot of pressure. If there was only him Zhang Dabing here, Zhang Dabing would not hesitate to fight the devil to the death. But now the commander and almost all the staff officers of the command are trapped in the city, and the consequences of an accident are unimaginable.
However, the Japanese army would not give him time to think about it, and in just half an hour, more than 500 shells and even poison gas bombs fell on the frontline positions.
However, Zhang Dabing, who was familiar with the Japanese army's offensive routines, had long expected this, so when he designed the fortifications, he not only took into account the normal and reasonable defense and attack of the Japanese army, but also took into account the crooked ways of the little devils, so several large air-raid shelters connected by communication ditches next to the trenches played a key role.
These air-raid shelters are all made of sleepers and reinforced concrete, and they are buried deep underground, not to mention those small-caliber mountain guns, even large-caliber guns may not be able to do anything to him. So in the first shelling of the Japanese army, the casualties of the guard regiment were minimal, except for a couple of observation posts that were knocked out, and then a few more fighters were killed and wounded.
However, after the shelling, it was a big charge of the Japanese army, and in terms of the crazy personality of the Japanese army, it was definitely a vow not to give up if they did not take Daixian. Looking at the billowing smoke and the constant explosions on the position outside the city, Zhang Dabing's heart continued to sink.
The news from the outside world is getting worse and worse, and in the past two days, the Japanese army has continued to increase its troops in the direction of Daixian, and except for the special combat team, several other units have suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Japanese army. Especially in the direction of Lingqiu, there were still more than 15,000 Japanese troops rushing to Daixian, and it was obvious that the Japanese army was determined to kill the commander this time.
Two hours ago, the defenders of Shuoxian had received news that about a regiment of infantry had crossed the Hunhe River and were now on their way to Dai County, and that the troops of about an infantry battalion in the vanguard were expected to arrive at eleven o'clock in the evening.
In addition, there is a reason why the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, in addition to being pinned down by the Japanese army, and more importantly, in order to avoid the Japanese aircraft, many reinforcements intelligently choose to march at night.
The reinforcements from the direction of Shuoxian moved quickly, and when Major General Fujita's 13th attack had just passed, the reinforcements from the direction of Shuoxian had already reached the outskirts of Daixian.
Major General Fujita immediately sent an infantry brigade to Wangjiashan to block the reinforcements from Shuo County, and at the same time ordered the troops outside Daixian not to stop the attack, and the whole army to attack in turn.
Ma Zheng didn't care about how the outside world fought, and in the encirclement of the Japanese army, he was not only not a little afraid, but full of excitement, which made all the cadres, including Chen Tiesheng, extremely surprised.
Of course, Ma Zheng's performance also gave others a lot of encouragement, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, the commander is a bamboo in his chest, and the little devils outside the city have nothing to be afraid of, which Ma Zheng did not expect.
Ma Zheng's current mood is excited and nervous, the battle in the eastern direction of Hebei has entered the countdown, and the main force of the second division has quietly bypassed Chicheng, and it is less than 30 kilometers away from Miyun.
And Kimura Hyotaro's department was also beaten by Xie Wensheng and the troops of the Jizhong Military Region, and they couldn't take care of the end, and tens of thousands of troops on both sides stumbled around Zhengding and Shimen for three days, and no one could help anyone.
Throughout the battlefield in North China, nearly 50,000 elites of the Japanese army in eastern Hebei surrounded Liu Fengchi's more than 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers in Qian'an, and the onslaught of nearly ten days caused huge casualties to Liu Fengchi's troops, and Qian'an is now in danger.
According to the telegram sent by Liu Fengchi yesterday, the losses of Qian'an's troops have exceeded 10,000, and although there are still nearly 20,000 people still fighting strength, the morale of the troops is very low, and the Japanese army is constantly bombarding with poison gas bombs, incendiary bombs, and aerial bombs, so the city fortifications of Qian'an, including the entire urban area, have been almost destroyed.
Therefore, Liu Fengchi judged that in two days at most, the Japanese army's large army could break through Qian'an City, and if tens of thousands of people fought in the city, they could still hold out for two or three days, and at most a week later, Liu Fengchi's 30,000 army would be completely wiped out.
Of course, Liu Fengchi's troops were not vegetarians, and the devils who fought for more than ten days did not get much benefit, and the casualties of the Japanese troops on the attacking side would not be much smaller than those of Liu Fengchi's troops. So Liu Fengchi can let Ma Zheng fight as much as he wants, don't worry about Jidong's affairs, anyway, there is no problem with his 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers exchanging 30,000 Japanese elites.
However, after receiving Liu Fengchi's telegram, Ma Zheng felt that the time had come, and immediately ordered the Fifth Division, the Armored Division, the Artillery Brigade and the Engineer Brigade directly under the Military Region, which had been resting on the front line of Kuancheng for nearly half a month, to immediately attack and rush to Qian'an as quickly as possible.
Although Liu Fengchi's subordinates were willing to act as bait, they couldn't let them really be cannon fodder. Now that the Japanese have taken the bait, it's time to close the net. As long as the troops form a huge encirclement on the periphery of Qian'an, they will definitely be able to cooperate with the troops in the city to take him by surprise.
The other side of the Jidong battlefield has now entered a white-hot stage, and the Japanese cavalry group has been blocked in Kuancheng for seven hours, and all the Japanese officers, including Major General Takeda Shigeji, are a little impetuous.
The corpses of men and horses were everywhere under the small dirt bag, and the blood flowed down the hillside and merged into a dark red wet band in the valley, and the smell of blood permeated the battlefield.
The seven-hour battle had inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese cavalry, and so far two cavalry wings had been disabled, and although they were still intact, at least more than 1,600 cavalrymen were killed or seriously wounded.
The loss of the troops is one thing, but more importantly, the blow to the morale of the troops is the most important, and the originally mighty cavalry group is now withering like a dead father.
However, the Sharp Knife Battalion, which was responsible for blocking the Japanese army, was not doing well, and there were less than 300 of the more than 700 elites left, and more than 460 people, including the commander of the Sharp Knife Battalion, died on this land.
There are no wounded in the troops, as long as those who can fight are fighting, and those who are not fighting are dead except for the dead, and now the highest cadre on the front line of the blocking position is the platoon commander of Li Ergou's machine gun company, and as for the machine gun company, there are only 32 people left counting Li Ergou.
Originally, according to the order of the 10th Brigade Headquarters, the troops could retreat after blocking the Japanese army for four hours, but the two sides entered a white-hot stage soon after the war began, and even if the Sharp Knife Battalion wanted to withdraw, it could not retreat.
The Japanese army is red-eyed, and they will not advance if they don't wipe out this small force, but now even if the Japanese army doesn't entangle Li Ergou of the sharp knife battalion, they won't retreat, because now the soldiers are exhausted, and what awaits them when they get out of the position will be complete death.
According to the plan, the Japanese cavalry unit had passed Kuancheng and entered the expected ambush site, but now there was no movement, and even Ma Desheng and others thought that the Japanese army had discovered that they had retreated. However, the news from the scouts said that the Japanese army was now being blocked by the Sharp Knife Battalion and did not advance an inch three kilometers east of Kuancheng.
After getting the news, Ma Desheng knew that the Sharp Knife Battalion could not be withdrawn, so he ordered Shi Dingfang's armored regiment to advance immediately and rushed to Kuancheng, and at the same time ordered the cavalry troops under his command to immediately converge from Xiangkuancheng, and the two troops flanked the Japanese cavalry units in front and rear. (To be continued.) )