Chapter 732: Sasaki's End (Twelfth Update!) )
[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 732: The End of Sasaki (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! )
Although he had already prepared for the jade shatter, there was still a little luck in the back of his heart, and he thought that with the support of aircraft artillery, he might be able to break through the encirclement. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But the wishes are good, but the truth is cruel. Although his infantry fought bravely, they were completely passively beaten, and his troops lost all the initiative at the beginning of the battle, not to mention the loss of troops, and in the end he could only command his troops to retreat, and then they were trapped on this unknown hill.
Since the opposing Chinese army deceived the headquarters into airdropping weapons and equipment, it suddenly became rich, and the shelling would last for ten minutes every half hour, and the strength of the 3rd and 4th brigades of the independent mixed brigade was reduced from 10,000 to 6,000, and the vast majority of them were killed by dense shells. So by now, Major General Sasaki had completely given up the idea of escaping and breaking through, because he knew that it was all in vain.
"Order, in fifteen minutes all bayonets, and then fight hand-to-hand with the Chinese army, and never retreat until the last man does not fight, go!" Sasaki ordered coldly.
Sasaki Toichi once served as the commander of the military police of the Japanese army in China, and his position and rank were very high, so he was also very bold in doing things.
After doing this, Sasaki sent another telegram to the headquarters of the North China Front, detailing his understanding and analysis of the battle. And after the telegram was sent, he did not wait for the reply from the North China Front Headquarters, and casually pulled out the combat knife he carried with him.
After a flash of the sword, the two operators all collapsed in a pool of blood, and then Major General Sasaki and Ichi destroyed the two complete radio stations, and then walked towards the front-line trenches with the guards.
From the telescope, Xie Wensheng saw that the troops had once again been repelled by the Japanese army, but this time the Japanese light and heavy machine guns were completely muted after less than two minutes, and the Japanese gunfire became obviously sparse.
Xie Wensheng knew that the Japanese army was really running out of ammunition and food this time, but Xie Wensheng was not in a hurry to order the soldiers to continue the attack, but ordered the soldiers to concentrate all the light machine guns and submachine guns of each battalion at the front of the charging force, and then the whole division launched a charge together.
Xie Wensheng's judgment was completely correct, the gunfire on the Japanese position only rang out for less than a minute and then there was no more sound, but one by one the Japanese soldiers stood up from the trenches with bayonets, and launched a counter-charge towards the instructor, a large number of devil soldiers rushed down the hillside with a scream, the momentum was very terrifying, but they were already at the end of the crossbow, and many Japanese soldiers fell down by themselves as soon as they rushed halfway.
People who have been hungry for two or three days can still launch a counter-charge, which Xie Wensheng still admires very much, but seeing that most of the Japanese soldiers are running and swinging, Xie Wensheng is still polite to them, and hundreds of light and heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army fire at the same time......
Just as the instructor launched the final attack on Sasaki's Ichibu, Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro also led his troops to Wu'an, which was less than fifty kilometers away from Mt. Ci.
Due to the urgency of the war, he only brought two infantry wings and one cavalry wing this time, as well as a search team directly under the division. Just when Kimura Hyotaro's headquarters was about to bypass the 181st Division's defense of Mu'an County and go straight to Magnetic Mountain, they received a farewell telegram from Major General Sasaki. After reading this farewell telegram, which was only a few hundred words, Kimura Hyotaro was completely stunned by Sasaki's description and analysis while grieving.
According to Sasaki's description, the Chinese army that besieged the 3rd and 4th Brigades was more than 40,000 men, and most of the troops were only equipped with imperial equipment, from the most basic Type 38 rifles to Type 92 infantry guns and 75mm caliber mountain artillery field guns, and there were also many snipers equipped with high-quality Mauser sniper rifles.
A very important reason for the fiasco of the 3rd and 4th Independent Mixed Brigades was that almost all the technical units were sniped by the Tubalu, including engineers, artillerymen, machine gunners, and ammunition men.
And watching his companions being shot in the head one after another in front of him, he didn't know when he would follow in the footsteps of his comrades, which was a fatal blow to the morale of the troops.
Snipers on the battlefield are extremely difficult, and the general methods of dealing with such snipers will not work, in addition to the traditional tactics of the most common sniper confrontation, there is also the fact that only with large-scale artillery and regional bombing can eliminate such snipers.
However, these two conditions cannot be met by Sasaki to the first department for the time being, on the one hand, the Japanese army does not have sniper rifles and trained snipers at the moment. At the same time, at the beginning of the sudden attack, Sasaki lost contact with the artillery position, and there is no need to think that those artillery must be more than lucky. Even if it was not completely destroyed, the artillery unit would not be of much help in the current chaotic situation.
Kimura Hyotaro now finally knows that the situation is out of his control, and the original 50,000 troops sweeping southern Hebei is not a piece of cake in his opinion, but now it seems that he has far underestimated the strength of the Shina army.
Needless to say, the troops of the Eighth Route Army equipped with sniper rifles must be the Ma Zheng Division in the Suicha area, at least they have a close relationship with the hateful Eighth Route Army. Although there are not a few units that can be equipped with sniper rifles on the Chinese battlefield, whether it is the Central Army of the Nationalist Government or the Jin Sui Army of Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater of Operations, they can be equipped, but as far as those troops under the command of the Kuomintang are concerned, there are really no troops that can force the Imperial Japanese Army to this point.
What's more important is that this battle is clean and neat, and it is a thunderous blow as soon as he makes a move, which is clearly Ma Zheng's forte, and it is Ma Zheng's usual method.
Saying that he doesn't regret it is self-deception, Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro's current expression is a green face and blue intestines, and the expression of self-blame and anger almost swallows his heart.
Sasaki's destruction is a foregone conclusion, and even if the more than 10,000 people in his hands can rush to the battlefield now, I'm afraid it won't help. At the same time that he received a farewell telegram from Major General Sasaki to Major General Sasaki, news also came from his troops in Shahe and Yong'an, saying that Gao Shuxun, the commander of the new Eighth Army, was commanding two infantry divisions to march towards Yong'an, and that a regiment of cavalry troops had reached Chen Jiayu, more than ten miles away from Yong'an County.
Kimura Hyotaro knew that without the support of the Eighth Route Army, Gao Shuxun would be a dead man now, how could he dare to shout with the Japanese Imperial Army, the reason why Gao Shuxun dared to send troops to Yong'an was completely due to the instructions of the Eighth Route Army, and even in the southern Hebei battlefield, Gao Shuxun and the Eighth Route Army gave the Imperial Army a set.
But no matter what, southern Hebei can't stay now, especially the position he is in now is very dangerous, if he is entangled by the Chinese army, the result will be unimaginable.
First of all, from a large scale, the main force of his 32nd Division is surrounded by the Shina army, in the south there is the army fighting against Sasaki to Ichi, in the west is the 181st Division with the 69th Army, and in the east and north is the new Eighth Army and the new 3rd Division of the 69th Army by Gao Shuxun, if he does not leave the battlefield as soon as possible, then as long as the Shina army is determined to clean him up, then the fate of the 32nd Division is not much better than that of Sasaki to the first division.
After all, the posture of the Chinese army makes people have to think about it, and this is clearly aimed at his 32nd Division. If the goal of the Shina people was only Sasaki to Ichibu, there would be no need for so many troops, and the Shina army around Mt. Cishan alone would be enough.
Kimura Hyotaro was also an expert in warfare, and after analyzing the situation they were in, he immediately ordered the troops to withdraw in the direction of Yong'an. (To be continued.) )