Beautiful war of annihilation

In the face of the 10,000-odd Japanese 24th Division, which was raging and carrying a large amount of heavy equipment, Commander Chen Geng did not adopt the combat plan of holding the landing ground and confronting the Japanese army head-to-head. Instead, under the condition that the action team provided accurate information, they took advantage of the superiority in troops and naval artillery to prepare for a beautiful ambush and annihilation battle of the 24th Division of the Japanese Army on the road that the Japanese army must pass.

In order to gain absolute superiority in the entire ambush battle, except for the 601st Regiment, which suffered more than half of the casualties, under Chen Geng's order, stayed on the beachhead to guard the landing materials. The remaining 28,000 people of the entire 16th Army, under the personal command of Chen Geng, were all thrown into this ambush battle that decided the fate of the landing force.

At the same time, in order to allow the three destroyers in the rear to also participate in the ambush battle, reduce the pressure on the infantry, and play the role of the last straw that overwhelmed the Japanese army. A total of 36 large-caliber naval guns were all demarcated in accordance with the order to demarcate their own firing areas, and their own firing elements were marked in advance. Once the battle began, the 24th Division of the Japanese Army inflicted the greatest casualties with the heaviest firepower in the shortest time......

"Woo woo woo ...", the shrill whistling of naval artillery shells heralded the beginning of the entire ambush battle. Thirty-six rounds of naval artillery shells, in the eyes of the Japanese army, were as if they had eyes, and they were shot into the neat marching columns of the Japanese army with great accuracy. Suddenly, with puffs of smoke rising into the air, thirty-six huge gaps immediately appeared in the dense marching columns of the Japanese army...

"Commander. I really didn't expect it. The power of the naval artillery is so huge, just one round of artillery bombardment can kill at least one brigade of the little devils..."A combat staff officer, seeing the dozens of hollows that suddenly appeared in the middle of the Japanese army's marching column, immediately showed a shocked look on his face, and said dumbfounded...

Seeing such a huge power of naval artillery, Commander Chen Geng's heart was also very happy. An ambush battle, the more useful the artillery. The more kills you have, the fewer casualties your infantry will have on the battlefield. As the supreme commander of the entire army, how could Chen Geng be unhappy...

However, if you let Chen Geng know. The barrel of a naval gun is almost a shell, and the service time will be a little less. And the funds required to produce a naval gun barrel are enough to equip an infantry regiment of ordinary infantry. As for the large-caliber shells fired by the naval guns, what kind of expression will they show after each shell is worth dozens of 105-caliber howitzers....

However, at this moment, Chen Geng, including most of the army generals in China, has not yet realized this problem.

With the explosion of the second round of naval artillery shells on the road, the Japanese marching columns on the road, which had just been neatly organized, had dispersed under the orders of experienced officers. But. Even so, the lethality of the ship's artillery shells in a radius of several tens of meters still caused at least 500 casualties to the Japanese troops scattered on both sides of the road....

Although the gunners on the warship did not know their own results, they still followed the original order, bare-chested, and continued to shoot naval artillery shells into their predetermined firing area at their fastest firing speed....

Round after round, a full 360 shells. In the shortest possible time, it fell into the ambush circle carefully prepared by Chen Geng for the 24th division of the Japanese army.

As far as the eye can see, there is hardly a single section of intact road surface up to 100 meters long on the five-kilometer-long road. Huge craters with a depth of more than two meters, one after the other, sit on the road for several kilometers. And within a radius of several tens of meters with the crater as the center. The little devils who were closer were all blown into a pile of minced meat without exception. A little farther away. Luckily, although it was shattered, after all, a complete corpse was left behind, and ...... field division of the Japanese army, a three-wing field division of the Japanese army, under such a fierce blow from naval artillery, did not see the shadow of its own enemy, and paid a full third of the casualties.

After the shelling ended, the Japanese troops scattered on both sides of the road came over as soon as possible. Of course, Lieutenant General Yanagawa, the commander of the 24th Division of the Japanese Army, who was heavily protected by the guard troops, also got up from the ground with an embarrassed face.

Looking at the tragic and bloody scene in front of him, and then learning from the chief of staff that one of his elite field divisions had suffered one-third casualties in less than half an hour. Lieutenant General Yanagawa's heart ached like a drop of blood. Especially after listening to the report of the chief of staff, the whole person, like an angry lion, roared loudly at his subordinates....

"Yaga, the cunning Shina man, actually used naval artillery... Order the troops, assemble immediately, and prepare for battle. The cavalry brigade, quickly dispersed, and carried out a close search of the two-kilometer area on both sides of the middle road to prevent the enemy from ambushing us, quickly..."

"Hayi, Your Excellency the Division Commander..."

Although the reaction speed of Lieutenant General Yanagawa, the commander of the Japanese division, was very fast, Chen Geng, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, was not slow. When the whole shelling was coming to an end, the 30,000 troops deployed on both sides of the road, under Chen Geng's order, quickly rushed to the road, constantly compressing the living space of the Japanese army....

Before the troops had yet to assemble, less than ten minutes after a cavalry brigade had been dispersed, a dense burst of machine-gun fire came from the hilly area on the right side of the road.

Suddenly, the nervous heart of Lieutenant General Yanagawa, the commander of the Japanese division, immediately jumped. Frowning, he also looked in the direction of the gunshots, waiting for the report of the cavalry brigade.

Soon, a messy sound of horses' hooves reached everyone's ears. At the same time, the embarrassed figure of the cavalry captain and dozens of remnants behind him also appeared in front of everyone.

"Division commander, the people of China, we are surrounded by the people of China..."Seeing Lieutenant General Yanagawa, the captain quickly turned over and dismounted, and reported with a look of horror.

"Nani, let's be specific, how many Chinese troops are around. Also, what about your cavalry brigade, why is there less than one squad left? Lieutenant General Yanagawa asked with a solemn face.

"There are a lot of people in the Zhina, who can't be seen at a glance, are rapidly pressing on us....Division commander, I don't know how many of them, but I can be sure that the density of firepower possessed by the Zhina people is definitely several times that of ours....The cavalry brigade led by the lowly position has just prepared to launch a tentative attack on a regiment of the enemy, capturing a few prisoners. However, before we could get close to the enemy's distance of fifty meters, a cavalry brigade lost more than half of it, and in the end, under the strafing and pursuit of the enemy's light and heavy machine guns, we were the only ones who could successfully retreat...."At this point, the face of the cavalry captain immediately showed a gloomy look. Keep your head down and wait for the punishment of the division commander in front of you.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that Lieutenant General Yanagawa did not do anything about the mistake of the cavalry captain, but waved his hand and said helplessly: "According to the intelligence, the light infantry firepower of the people of China is indeed not comparable to us. If nothing else, the density of the enemy's fire of one regiment can at least be equal to two infantry wings of our army. So, it's not your fault in this matter. It's just that what I didn't expect was that in just a dozen hours, the cunning Shina people actually annihilated the First Garrison Division, and landed so many troops..."

"Division commander, then we'll go next..."The division chief of staff asked.

"Order the troops, build a ring of fortifications on the spot, and prepare to hold on. At the same time, we will report our latest situation to the Governor's Office, hoping that the Governor's Office will provide sufficient air support and infantry support for our department in the shortest possible time, and immediately send a telegram......., The remaining 8,000 people of the 24th Division, under the strict order of Lieutenant General Yanagawa, were just about to assemble at the division headquarters, and the two sharp knife regiments under the 16th Army had already rushed to the battlefield in time....

Nearly 100 mortars, divided into two artillery positions, as if they didn't need money, in five minutes, thousands of shells hit two points on the road. Suddenly, the dense marching column that the Japanese had just assembled was once again cut into three sections by the waist.

At the same time as the mortar roared, the two sharp knife regiments, like tigers descending from the mountain, rushed to the road, and at the first time, divided the remnants of the Japanese army...

The ten-minute naval artillery strike had already made these Japanese soldiers feel a trace of fear from the bottom of their hearts about the battle they were about to face. And just when this fear had not been completely eliminated, the two elite Chinese armies, as if they had entered a no-man's land, relied on their own strong firepower to intersperse back and forth in their own troops, once again striking a blow to the already weak morale of the remnants of the Japanese army.

At the same time, it also made them understand that the Chinese army they were about to face was not as cowardly as the superiors advertised, but an elite force that was stronger than them in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment.

The remnants of less than 8,000 men were quickly divided into three pieces, and with the division and encirclement of 20,000 troops, there was hardly any suspense about the outcome of the entire annihilation battle.

The 16th Army of the East China Field Army, with the support of three destroyers and naval guns, only paid less than 2,000 casualties, and completely annihilated more than 12,000 people of the 24th Division of the Japanese Army.

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