Chapter 92: Battle of Mukden 13
In order to cover the transfer of strategic materials and population in the rear, in order to win time, Jiang Li did not care about the cost, and it was wasted if he could not be defeated, and since the Japanese side had made up its mind to take the northeast, it was bound to pay a considerable price.
Under the condition of not affecting the operations of other positions as much as possible, Jiang Li's artillery on the battlefields was transferred to the limit, and even if the main force of the Kwantung Army transferred all the remaining artillery to the Sujiatun area, it would only be about one-third of the 7th Brigade.
Just when Shigeru learned that Shichiro Ishida had successfully destroyed at least one artillery battalion of the Shina Army and killed the same number of Shina Army, while relieving his mind a little, the roar of cannonballs in the distant sky made all the senior Japanese officers and staff officers, including Shichiro Honshiro and Shichiro Ishida, look defeated, and the Shichiro Army still had the spare strength to organize such an offensive after losing a considerable number!
What made Honjo even more desperate was the reappearance of the aircraft group in the air, and this time the number of planes used by the Shina Army at one time was thirty! After assembling aircraft components purchased from the Czech Republic, there were now 85 aircraft at Dongta Airport. Such a large number of aircraft can already determine the victory or defeat of a war to a certain extent.
Xiao Weiguo, Jiang Wenhao, almost all the soldiers and officers looked at the terrifying scene, within a radius of more than ten miles, almost turned into a sea of fire, dense shells hit it, bursting out of flames, shells, aerial bombs rained down, no one can survive in this cruel environment. In front of such a strong steel storm,
The Kwantung Army's counterattack was so lacking in strength.
Shichiro Ishida, who was even at the headquarters, received a call from the soldiers below, begging not to let his artillery counterattack, so that he would be retaliated more violently by the Mukden defenders.
The entire Sujiatun battlefield has turned into a purgatory-like battlefield. Everywhere was filled with a mixture of mud and sand, fire, and gunsmoke, and within a few meters of the entire battlefield,
Visibility is suddenly reduced. Honjo Shiger's body trembled, such a fierce attack was the first time in the Mukden defenders,
If he hadn't guessed that this was the general attack of the Mukden defenders, then Honjo Fan would not be worthy of being the commander of the Kwantung Official. In the face of a large gap in the front that has been blown up, where else can Ben Fanzhuang draw a force with sufficient strength to plug this gap of several kilometers?
Unless the main force of the 39th Mixed Brigade arrives at this time, there may still be a glimmer of life, but even if the railway is not blown up, the 39th Mixed Brigade is estimated to be able to catch up and clean up the mess. In fact, the launch of the Wicker Lake Incident was very hasty, and someone in the base camp had already proposed that once a large force of the Chinese army resisted, Japan's investment in Mukden would be in vain, and if he did not support Ishihara's actions, the Kwantung Army would not have suffered such a devastating blow. The problem is that what is already happening is assumed to be non-existent, and the Mukden defenders will not have any pause because of the predicament that Honjo is facing.
At the moment, the vanguard of the Korean reinforcement of the Kwantung Army is still in Fengcheng, which is hundreds of miles away, thinking that the commander of the China Army who fought fiercely even sent a detachment back to Anshan, could it be that the other side had already expected this step and planned to completely annihilate the Kwantung Army's big outflanking? Thinking of this, Honjo Fan's hands and feet were cold, and he suddenly woke up to Gongzhuling, the two independent garrison brigades that had lost contact with Tieling were undoubtedly also ambushed by the Chinese army, and the reinforcements of the Japanese army on the Korean side were also expected by the other party, and in the case of Zhang Xueliang and Nanjing's insistence on non-resistance, they could still do it to such a point, such an enemy general was too terrible, and almost all the retreats of the Kwantung Army were killed.
In fact, of course, Jiang Li didn't have such a last resort, but the situation on the battlefield is constantly changing, and every small change may lead to a change in the entire battle memory. For example, the Japanese occupation of Andong and Fengcheng directly led to the throwing of rats in Zhishan, and Wang Tiehan's blowing up of the railway from Fengcheng to Benxi caused the Korean Japanese army to be unable to rush to the Fengtian battlefield in time. And Jiang Li sent troops to defeat Anshan,
It was also out of the need to cut off the logistics of the main forces of the Kwantung Army, and the accurate thing was that the Kwantung Army was insufficient in strength and the rear was empty.
Liaoyang alone is not enough to support
A big war. But the results were somewhat unexpected,
The Japanese army's arms stocks in Liaoyang were not abundant, including Honjo Fan, they were too optimistic to estimate the situation in the entire Mukden, the main force of the Kwantung Army set off in a hurry, only brought the troops ammunition supply, and the war preparation was seriously insufficient.
Once a miscalculation of the war or the enemy is made, it means defeat and death, and the same means for the main force of the Kwantung Army at this time.
All the soldiers of the 7th Brigade and the 2nd Provincial Defense Brigade were intoxicated by such an unprecedented artillery bombardment and bombardment of the entire Northeast or the Republic of China. Modern warfare has an irresistible magic force for hot-blooded soldiers. This is the art of war, under the blow of modern air-ground integration,
The living space of the traditional infantry is being infinitely reduced.
If another group of armored troops broke through at this time, perhaps the Japanese army would not have time to organize a second line of defense before it would be broken again, and the entire front would be filled with scattered Japanese troops, which was Guderian's blitzkrieg. It is also the reason why the German army was able to sweep the entire Western European continent with lightning speed. Jiang Li shook his head with a wry smile, leaving this tempting but unrealistic idea behind, once the Japanese stood up and defended in an organized manner, the 7th Brigade would inevitably suffer heavy losses if it attacked again, spending more time, and even the attack was frustrated, and the enemy seized the opportunity to counterattack.
Just like in history, under the erroneous thinking of some people, they thought that they had learned some large corps from the Soviet Union, and they thought that they were sorry for mechanized warfare, and returned to China to command the troops that were originally guerrillas to confront the Japanese army, but they did not know that all tactics had their own specific material basis. That great man advanced and retreated when the enemy advanced, and it was in line with the national conditions at that time that the enemy retreated and I advanced. However, the progress of history is always tortuous, and it is only after hitting the head and breaking the blood flow that we can realize the importance of the correct policy.
"Your Majesty the Emperor is above, I don't want to come to this damn battlefield again!" A Japanese soldier wept fragily. Even if they hid in the anti-artillery hole, the violent tremors wave after wave, the dirt falling on their heads, and the filth vomited out of the soldiers' mouths also made the environment in the anti-artillery cavity extremely bad, and the anti-artillery holes were not dug well, and they collapsed directly in the bombing. Many soldiers could not bear this kind of front, rushed out of the anti-artillery hole and shouted like crazy, and soon their fragile bodies were torn to pieces in the firelight.