Chapter 630: The Disaster of the Songhu War of Resistance (1)

Jiang Guangmo and Zhang Zhizhong obviously wanted to encircle and annihilate the 11th Division of Houdong Atsuichiro, even fools can see it now. Such a result made Tashiro unfortunate to be right.

The reason why Bai Chuan did not think that the 11th Division would be in danger at the beginning was because he believed that Jiang Guangjiao and Zhang Zhizhong were seriously understaffed, and that the five divisions of the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army were forced to disperse on the Zhabei, Zhenru, Jiading, and Taicang lines, and that in the face of the ninth, eleventh, and fourteenth divisions, the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army were on the defensive everywhere, and it was impossible for them to have sufficient forces to concentrate on a certain division.

For the 187 Division and the Separate Brigade, Shirakawa was not unaware of their existence. It's just that, he thinks, one is a newly established army full of new recruits. Shirakawa Yoshinori knew that China did not have a reserve now; The other, although well-equipped, is a tax police officer with little actual combat experience.

It's okay to use such troops as a façade, or to deal with bandits, but to go to the battlefield and fight a regular war, then it's complete nonsense. A single charge of the Japanese army will crush them, and it will not play any role at all.

What surprised him was that it was precisely these two units that he did not take seriously that played a decisive role in the encirclement of the 11th Division.

According to the report of the 11th Division, this independent brigade, which was part of the Fifth Army and was reorganized from the tax police, not only had about a battalion of 75mm field guns, but also a large number of mortars, and the artillery fire was extremely fierce. Moreover, there are an extremely large number of automatic weapons, and the forward units even use submachine guns in their entirety. To Shirakawa's particular surprise, Houdong reported that the vanguard of this independent brigade had used hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles to concentrate on its position, followed by heavy infantry and cavalry, and the peripheral troops of the 11th Division were completely unstoppable. The Chinese army was able to complete the encirclement of the 11th Division in a short period of time, and this independent brigade played the most crucial role.

To Shirakawa's surprise, a tax police force had hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, how much did it cost! Moreover, they are even used together without hesitation! You must know that only a few divisions of the Japanese Army are equipped with a small number of armored vehicles, and only the first division has tanks.

There is also the 187th Division, although the weapons and equipment are not as good as the independent brigade formed by the tax police, but the number of mountain artillery, mortars, light and heavy machine guns is not less than that of the independent brigade, and the rifle is a one-color 38 type, and the soldiers' marksmanship is accurate, not weaker than the Japanese army.

What surprised Bai Chuan the most was that, according to Houdong's report, the officers and men of the 187th Division were all tall northerners, and their fighting style was very fierce. They are not only good at night combat, but also like hand-to-hand combat with hand-to-hand assault, and their stabbing skills are excellent, which is not inferior to the Japanese army after years of training.

This is still a newly recruited recruit, this is completely a group of well-trained and experienced veterans.

Is this a hidden killer feature of the Chinese?

As soon as Shirakawa's idea came up, Shirakawa couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Even in yesterday's most difficult time, the Chinese did not take out "this sharp weapon" and endured it until now, and its purpose is self-evident.

This is a big conspiracy of the Chinese, that is, they want to paralyze the Japanese army, see the opportunity to pounce out, and annihilate the Shanghai Dispatch Army in one fell swoop. No, it should be said that it was a complete victory against Japan in one fell swoop.

Shirakawa could not imagine how the two remaining divisions of the Chinese army would resist the ferocious attack of the Chinese army after the 11th Division had been encircled and annihilated.

However, Shirakawa Yoshinori has no time to be upset now. The military situation is urgent, and he must make a decision as soon as possible to save the 11th Division.

In order to prevent this terrible situation, he had to quickly take the 11th Division out before the Chinese encirclement was firmly established, and the three divisions would come closer together and wait for further reinforcements from the country. …,

Shirakawa did not dare to delay any longer, crossed Ryokarataka, and directly issued orders to the three divisions.

ordered Atsuichiro Houto to quickly lead the 11th Division to quickly break through the encirclement of the Chinese army in the area of Tangjiazhai and Wangjiazhai, and go south to join the 14th Division; ordered Matsuki Zhenliang to quickly command the 14th Division to launch a fierce attack on the area of Tangjiazhai and Wangjiazhai, and cooperate with the 11th Division to break the encirclement of the Zhina; ordered the 6th Brigade, which was preparing to board the ship and land at Liujiagang, to board the ship as soon as possible, change the landing location, land again at the mouth of the Liuhe River, contain the independent brigade of the 5th Army, and plan the 11th Division to move south; ordered Ueda to command the rest of the 9th Division and the remnants of the 24th Brigade and the 3,000 marines assigned to him, to hold the line from Jiading to Zhenru and ensure the safety of the 11th and 14th Divisions retreating from Songhu; Order Nomura, to do his best, arm all the male expatriates in Hongkou and prepare to hold Hongkou. At the same time, Nomura was asked to urge the aircraft carrier fleet, which was sailing from the open sea to Shanghai, to speed up and provide air support for the breakthrough force as soon as possible.

Ryokari was very aware at this time that he had made a big mistake, and it was precisely because of his attitude that the 11th Division was in crisis. If the 11th Division is annihilated, or even if it is heavily damaged, he will bear an unshirkable responsibility, and his retirement from active service is an immediate matter. Therefore, the ashamed Ryokari Takashi immediately rushed to the 14th Division to direct the response action nearby.

Although the distribution area of the 11 th Division is not large, basically concentrated in a narrow area that is 4 kilometers wide from north to south and 10 kilometers long from east to west, under the sudden and fierce blows of the Independent Brigade and the 187 Division, because the situation is unclear, the 11 th Division has to defend passively everywhere, and the troop structure is very chaotic, and in order to organize a breakthrough, it is necessary to adjust the positions of each unit, and this will take time.

The battle began between the 14th Division and the 88th Division, which had little frontal pressure.

Under the command of Li Yannian, the 88th Division, which was responsible for blocking and reinforcing the project, had not only set up fire support points in Zhujiazhai, Tangjiazhai, Wangjiazhai, and Changtang Village, but also built dozens of trenches of different lengths along the line from Zhujiazhai to Changtang Village.

The European War paid special attention to the construction of the trench system, and this style was also brought to the 87th and 88th divisions developed by the German advisory group. Both divisions were equipped with German imported sapper shovels and were quick to dig trenches in areas like Shanghai, where the soft soil was thicker.

Moreover, the trench fortification system built by the 87th and 88th divisions is not as simple as only one trench, they are all equipped with scattered foxholes in front of their trenches, and there are also arc-shaped fortifications with squads and platoons as units on some slightly higher terrain, and in the rear of the trenches, the fire support point firing range is wide, which is a very complete defense system.

After receiving Shirakawa's order, Matsuki Mahiro immediately adjusted his deployment and ordered the 27th Brigade to take over the defense of the 61st Division of the 19th Route Army, and mobilize the 28th Brigade to assemble in the area south of Tangjiazhai and Wangjiazhai as the main force to meet the breakthrough of the 11th Division.

At 5:30, as soon as the sky was bright, Matsuki Matsuki couldn't wait to give the order to attack.

The Japanese army first launched a tentative attack on Tang's house and Wang's house with the strength of one squadron each.

The Japanese attack was first discovered by the outpost positions set up by the 88th Division in the foxhole in front of the first trench, and the battle began.

For the Japanese army, which was obviously a tentative attack, Li Yannian naturally did not make a big move, and only met it with mortars and light weapons of various regiments. Even so, in front of the 88th Division's well-configured trench fortifications, a Japanese squadron would not get any advantage, and the Japanese attack lasted only 20 minutes, leaving dozens of corpses behind and retreating in disarray.

After basically determining the position of the 88th Division's defensive positions in Tangjiazhai and Wangjiazhai, the Japanese army began to concentrate artillery fire and bombarded the positions of the 88th Division in Tangjiazhai and Wangjiazhai. …,

However, today was different from the past, Zhang Zhizhong, who was supported by a large amount of artillery from Song Zhewu, would no longer allow the Japanese artillery to go unchecked, and immediately ordered a heavy artillery regiment that had moved forward to support the defensive operations of the 88th Division to open fire and suppress the Japanese artillery.

The 105mm howitzers of the Fifth Army were not only powerful, but also far greater in range than the Japanese 75mm field guns, and after ten minutes of shelling, the Japanese artillery was suppressed and could no longer provide strong fire support to the front-line troops.

Matsuki Masaaki, who was amazed that the Chinese army had a large number of large-caliber artillery pieces in just a few days, had no choice but to order the troops to attack the German positions of the 88th Division without artillery support.

Li Yannian, who finally had the opportunity to command the 88th Division justifiably, had already held back his strength, commanding all units of the 88th Division to calmly respond to the Japanese attack by relying on fortifications, and fought in a very orderly manner, and the Japanese army's frantic attack could not make any progress.

What made Matsuki Zhenliang angry was that the 11th Division, which was only less than ten kilometers away, was calm at this time, and did not take advantage of the situation to organize troops to break through.

In fact, Atsuichiro Houto was anxiously adjusting his troops at this time, just because after several hours of night fighting, his troops had been tightly glued to the 87th Division, the 187th Division, and the units of the Independent Brigade, and it was very difficult to adjust the troops to organize a breakthrough.

Fortunately, the Chinese troops surrounding him also seemed to be adjusting before the war, and did not attack the 11th Division. Therefore, despite the fierce fighting here, in the rear of Li Yannian's defensive line, it was very calm.

This made Matsuki feel very irritated. The worst thing was that after six o'clock, the planes of the Fourth Route Army Air Force Corps came over the battlefield again.

This time it was not just one or two squadrons that flew in, Gao Zhihang dispatched all 38 J-2 and 36 J-2 at one time.

Because there were no Japanese planes and the line of sight on the ground was not good, the Jian-2 did not attack the ground for the time being, but only circled in the air to cover. But the strong two, which has strong protection capabilities and good low-altitude performance, doesn't care about these, and flies lower if the line of sight is not good. They often swept two or three hundred meters over the heads of the Japanese troops, bombing and strafing.

Although the sky was not yet fully lit and the line of sight was not clear, it was impossible to provide strong support to the front-line positions where fierce battles were being fought, but there was no problem in attacking the enemy's rear assembly areas and artillery positions-

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