Chapter 21: The Siege of the Japanese Army
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"Ryuzo Takenaka, I order you to immediately and fully support the army under Changzhou City in the operation, now that the Shina Armored Division poses a serious threat to the Imperial Japanese Army, I order you to destroy it at all costs."
"Hey!"
Although Takenaka did not dare to disobey the order of General Matsui Ishone, he knew that the Japanese army now had no airfield in Shanghai, and the combat radius of all the fighters could not reach anywhere, and the straight-line distance from the Taiwan airfield was more than 1,000 kilometers. The combat radius is 1,000 kilometers, and it would be nice to have 600 kilometers.
Just sending bombers to support, without fighter escort, Takenaka Ryuzo didn't know what the result would be, but the commander had personally ordered, explaining that the front line was already very critical, and Takenaka Ryuzo was not allowed to think too much, so he ordered the Kisarazu Air Force 160 bombers to take off and bomb the Shina armored division with all their might, but the fighters could not follow the escort, because the combat radius of the Japanese fighters could not reach 1,000 kilometers at all, so they could only risk letting the bombers form a dense formation and use their own weapons to defend the Shina Air Force. What the result will be, only Anameasu Okami knows.
At this time, the Japanese army was very scattered, a division here, a brigade there, because of the attack on Nanjing, the Japanese army's 200,000 troops were basically in a state of march, and the chariot wing ran the fastest in order to grab the merit, and of course died the fastest.
Matsui Ishine had no way to concentrate the 200,000 scattered Japanese troops in a short period of time, so he could only give an order to let all the Japanese troops defend on the spot, and make every effort to build field fortifications, block and delay time as much as possible, and buy time for Matsui Ishine to gather troops. The 200,000 troops of the Japanese army are basically between Changzhou and Danyang, nearly 50 kilometers away, as long as the Japanese army in front can block the first counterattack of the **, Matsui Shigen believes that he can assemble the Japanese army in half a day, and build a complete field fortification in two days, the question is will Zhang Jun give the Japanese army such time and opportunity? Of course, the answer is no, if you don't die, you will suffer from it.
The Sixth Division behind the Japanese tank is the standing division of the Japanese army, with strong combat power, they originally wanted to take Zhenjiang in one go, and then be the first to attack Nanjing, the capital of China, that knew that they had met the first armored counterattack force, first annihilated the tank wing in front of them, and the sixth division that wanted to go to the rescue could only watch the destruction of the tank wing because of the blockade of artillery and aircraft, which was an absolute shame for the sixth division, When did the people of China have the strength to annihilate a chariot wing of the Imperial Japanese Army at one time, and the annihilation battle of ** did not make the devils of the Sixth Division retreat, but aroused their fanatical belligerence.
The 6th Division, also known as the Kumamoto Division, was one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II, codenamed "Ming". Together with the Second Division (Sendai), they are known as the two strongest and most effective units in the Japanese Army: they participated in the Nanjing Massacre during the Japanese War of Aggression against China. It gives people a strong impression of "black skin, bright red blood". Like Choshu (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), it was the driving force behind the Meiji Restoration, and the 6th Division also inherited the tradition of enthusiasm, courage, and decisiveness.
Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba was promoted to the commander of the Sixth Division not long ago, but he was definitely a die-hard militarist, and at the same time a fanatical believer in the spirit of bushido, when Rommel's armored division rushed in, the Sixth Division did not even dig out the trenches, only dug some small pits, which had no effect at all, in this case, if Inaba Shiro chose to retreat, that is, the Japanese devils said to turn in, then Rommel's armored division would crush these escaped bugs into powder on the plain.
Inaba Shiro is also a veteran of the army for many years, and he will not know that it is difficult to deal with enemy armored vehicles on the plains, and in the absence of anti-tank trenches, he can only use human bombs, and he will die with the tanks of China.
Inaba Shiro ordered the 13th and 23rd Wings to defend on the spot, dig trenches, and the 45th and 47th Wings assaulted, and went up to mix with the chariots of the Shina, then the Japanese army could take the opportunity to blow up the chariots of the Shina people, of course, the sacrifices would be very heavy, so the two wings of the Japanese army of more than 10,000 people began, the 10,000-person charge in the history of modern warfare, this was the first and last time to use such a large-scale foot charge in modern warfare.
Rommel, who was originally advancing rapidly, found the intention of the Japanese army from the telescope, and countless black and oppressive crowds rushed towards their tanks, which was simply spectacular, more spectacular than the African bison herds when they were escaping the pursuit of lions, even Rommel had never faced such a large-scale infantry charge, and hurriedly ordered his tanks and armored vehicles to stop, and at the same time let the fighters cruising in the air come down to help, the main task of the fighters was to destroy the enemy's tanks and artillery, the Japanese tanks were gone, but there were a lot of artilleryNow the Air Force is mainly doing this job, and Rommel does not want to have one of his tanks destroyed by Japanese artillery.
When the Japanese army entered the distance of two thousand meters, Rommel's artillery was also erected, dozens of cannons and hundreds of mortars bombarded at the same time, you must know that Rommel's armored division had 50 mm mortars - 84 guns, 81 mm mortars - 54 guns, 75 mm guns - 20 guns, 105 mm light howitzers - 36 guns, 150 mm heavy howitzers - 12 guns. The deafening sound of artillery shook the ground and shook the mountains, and a net of death was formed in front of Rommel, countless Japanese troops were torn to pieces in the huge explosion, and Rommel's armored vehicles also moved forward to the side of the tanks, each armored car had 4 machine guns, and more than 100 tanks and 96 armored vehicles formed a steel defense line.
And Rommel's artillery is also working hard to stuff the shells into the barrel, and then shoot at the Japanese army, the smoke from the explosion covers the sky, only to hear the screams of the Japanese soldiers and the shouts of "onboard ......", such a fierce shelling, to the Japanese troops who charged on foot brought heavy casualties, I don't know how many people fell in the shelling, when the 10,000 Japanese troops rushed through two thousand meters to reach a distance of one meter, Rommel's mortars began to wield, although this thing is not as powerful as the artillery, But it is still possible to kill a small Japan with a radius of two or three meters with one shot, and the lack of power can be compensated for with the firing speed, which is several times faster than the firing speed of the cannon.
The explosion was even more violent, and the entire charging Japanese army, as if they had eaten an aphrodisiac, did not die, and rushed towards Rommel without stopping, they had forgotten about death, like a demon from hell, Rommel's palms were also sweating, and he couldn't help but ask himself, what kind of army is this! Under such heavy artillery fire, they still insist on charging, looking at death as home, they are all crazy, there is no mercy in the war, think about the beastly behavior of the Sixth Division in Nanjing, what else is there to sympathize with.
When the Japanese army charged to the Rommel tank 500 meters away, the death had reached 60 percent, at this time Rommel's machine gun rang out, in the face of such a steel defense line, and there was no artillery support, there was only one end, that is, to go to hell, 30 minutes later, Rommel's tank was completely calm down, the smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, countless craters and corpses on the ground, the crater was also full of Japanese devil blood, like hell as disgusting.
Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro saw such a scene in the telescope, and spit out a mouthful of blood with "wow", his two full formation of more than 10,000 people, one charge was buried, and Inaba Shiro couldn't figure it out, after this battle, only the fate of seppuku awaited Inaba Shiro.
The two strongest remaining wings of Inaba Shiro finally dug out two simple trenches within thirty minutes, not even half a meter, people can only crouch in the trenches, but it is better than nothing, the artillery of the sixth division was eliminated by the Chinese Air Force as soon as it was deployed, Inaba Shiro has already sent several telegrams to Commander Matsui Ishine asking for tactical guidance, and the replies are all asking them to hold out for six hours, so that the troops behind can assemble and build field fortifications, it seems that General Matsui Ishine intends to survive with a broken arm, The destruction of the 6th Division was exchanged for time for the entire Japanese army to assemble and establish a defense.
The helpless Inaba Shiro could only fight hard, and after a short period of nausea, Rommel ordered the tank troops to continue the assault and run over directly from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, the simple trenches built by the Japanese Sixth Division, under the group charge of the tank divisions, were not even slag, and the remaining Sixth Division did not last for two hours, and was divided by Rommel, and then surrounded by the 51st and 57th Divisions.
Rommel's task was to attack, attack, and attack again, and the destruction of the remnants of the enemy was left to the troops who followed. 36, 87, 88, and the 80,000 German mechanics of the teaching corps, annihilating the remaining thousands of devils, there is absolutely no problem. As for the city of Changzhou, it has been surrounded by the second-line central army.
When the Japanese bombers entered the sky over Shanghai, an urgent telegram was sent out in an inconspicuous house. This is the advantage of fighting in our own territory, as soon as the Japanese bombers arrive on our soil, there is nothing to hide.
Hamant's flying regiment now has seventy-six BF109 fighters, and thirty-eight JU87 dive bombers, and more than 100 Soviet planes and ** Hawk 3, whose main task is to bomb the Japanese troops on the Siden Line and prevent the Japanese troops from returning to the Japanese defending on the Siden Line.
When Hamant received information from the Air Force Command of the Ministry of Defense, he also requested that all remaining fighters go to intercept it, while the JU87 bombers of the 74th Army continued to carry out ground support missions alone.
The Chinese side used all the fighters to intercept more than 100 bombers of the Japanese Kisarazu Air Force, because the planes of the 74th Army were not under the control of the Air Force Command of the Ministry of National Defense, so Hamant took the lead in taking off, while the fighters of the central side were still preparing at the airport, and the same situation was true on the Japanese side, and Japan's naval aviation was not under the control of the army, and Matsui Ishine did not have the authority to manage the navy, but it was still possible to request tactical guidance from the naval aviation. So the carrier-based aircraft on the Japanese aircraft carriers were also out of touch with the Kisarazu bombers.