Chapter 325: Annihilation (1) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! )
According to the reconnaissance of the special operations forces, the main forces of the 12th Division were not concentrated at this time, but were scattered. The division headquarters and the 48th Wing under its jurisdiction were stationed in Tongliao, and the traitor of King De was also in Tongliao. The 24th Wing, the 1st Mountain Artillery Wing, and the 1st Tank Wing were stationed with the 1st Infantry Division of the puppet Mongolian Army at this time in Kailu County and the front line of the Alu Horqin Banner. The 14th Infantry Wing, the 46th Infantry Wing, the Field Artillery Wing, the Mountain Artillery Wing, and the 3rd Cavalry Division of the Puppet Mongolian Army were stationed in the Left Banner of Bahrain, and their vanguard had reached Sozhboga.
Chen Feng found these places one by one from the map, and then looked at them carefully. This analysis Chen Feng admired Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura a little, this guy is really a strange guy, he actually put the troops in a line, do you think that this can withstand his army? It's an idiot!
In fact, Chen Feng mistakenly blamed Kiyotaro Uemura, the terrain of the eastern grassland of Gaine is like this, the sparsely populated towns here are not as large as those in North China, and this is not only not as large as North China, but also refers to the fact that the scale of towns here is not as large as that of cities in North China. However, there are not many places in the Tongliao area where troops can really be garrisoned, and only the line of Aluqi and Kailu County is okay, and other places do not have the conditions for garrisoning troops at all.
But no matter what the reason is, Chen Feng is really happy, and it is easiest to clean up like this. Chen Feng ordered Li Yifeng's headquarters to immediately move south to Zalut Banner, and then the 222nd Division, the Mongolian National Salvation Army, and the Armored Brigade immediately moved south to the Bahrain Left Banner, creating the false impression that the army was going to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in the Bahrain Left Banner. At the same time, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Special Task Brigades and the Mountain Artillery Brigade, with the assistance of the special combat team, bypassed the Horqin Sandy Land and directly attacked Shuangliao, which was empty of troops. And then hold on there.
With Chen Feng's order, the 150,000 troops on the eastern front quickly moved. After a day and a night of rapid marching, the army finally arrived at the Fuhe River in the Bahrain Left Banner in the early morning of June 6, and then the army divided into three routes, one way to the Bahrain Left Banner, and the other two cavalry divisions rushed to Sori Boga to encircle and annihilate the forward troops of the Japanese 12th Division. With the cooperation of the armored brigade, the main purpose of the main purpose was to encircle and annihilate the tank wing of the 12th Division.
The supreme commander of the Japanese army in the Left Banner of Bahrain was Major General Suzuki, the commander of the 24th Brigade, and such a large-scale movement of the Chinese army would certainly not be concealed from them. Rear Admiral Suzuki was not the least worried. On the contrary, he was unusually excited.
Like the vast majority of Kwantung officers and soldiers, Major General Suzuki looked down on the Chinese army in his heart, and this self-confidence came from the Kwantung Army's past achievements. As the main force in the battle sequence of the Kwantung Army, the officers and men of the 12th Division had become accustomed to the cowardice and ignorance of the Chinese army. At the beginning, they only used less than 20,000 troops to completely drive hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army out of the four eastern provinces. Colonize an area about three times the size of Japan. At present, there are more than 100,000 Chinese prisoners in various mines and forest farms in Northeast China.
Although Major General Suzuki also has a little understanding of the past records of Chen Feng's department. This Chinese army inflicted huge losses on the Imperial Japanese Army in previous wars, and many imperial generals died at the hands of this army. However, neither Major General Suzuki nor Senior General Ueda had directly fought with Chen Feng's subordinates, so the understanding of Chen Feng's subordinates was superficial from top to bottom of the Kwantung Army. So they still look down on Chen Feng's department in their hearts.
Especially when attacking the Left Banner of Bahrain and the Keshiketeng Banner, they met with little decent resistance, and the defenders had withdrawn before they arrived, which made Major General Suzuki look down on Chen Feng's troops even more.
When he learned that the Chinese army rushing towards Bahrain was less than 40,000 men, Major General Suzuki ordered two infantry wings and two artillery wings to fortify the 13 Ao Bao outside the city, on the grounds that the artillery was not conducive to the use of artillery inside the city.
Li Yifeng, who received the news, was completely speechless about this wonderful major general of the Japanese army, and really thought that the two artillery wings would be able to reach the sky, which was too naïve. Li Yifeng asked Chen Feng for instructions, hoping that Chen Feng could transfer a part of the air force to come to coordinate the operation, and at the same time, a large army rushed to the 13th Aobao.
At 10:10 a.m. on 6 June, the atmosphere in the 13th Aobao was very tense, the two armies were less than three kilometers apart, and the battle was about to break out.
After Li Yifeng looked at the terrain of the Thirteen Ao Bao, he restrained his contempt for Major General Suzuki, although the behavior of the Japanese commander on the opposite side was a little stupid, but the means of arranging troops were really not low. Moreover, the terrain of the Thirteen Ao Bao is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with more than a dozen undulating hills connected together, and only one road less than 50 meters wide in the middle can be passed. Due to the obstruction of the Fu River, it takes a long distance to detour.
At this time, the Japanese army had already repaired defensive positions on the hills on both sides of the road, Li Yifeng took a look, there was an infantry squadron under the hillside on both sides, and there was also an infantry squadron on the mountainside, and there were also Japanese troops stationed on the top of the hill. Moreover, there are eight machine gun positions placed in the open by the Japanese army, and I don't know how many are hidden.
In addition, the scouts had already found the Japanese artillery position, and at the foot of a gentle slope two kilometers away, 36 mountain guns and 36 field guns were aimed at their side, and at least two infantry squadrons were nearby to protect them. But the cavalry division of the puppet Mongol army was not found.
No wonder this Major General Suzuki gave up the county town of Bahrain and came here to stop them, the terrain here is indeed much more difficult to attack than the city of Bahrain. However, Major General Suzuki obviously forgot that Chen Feng would at least take care of the people in Bahrain City, and it was impossible to bomb them with fighter planes, and there was no such concern when he arrived in the field, and when the two sides confronted each other, a mixed aviation group composed of 12 fighters and 72 bombers was already on its way.
They had artillery, and Li Yifeng's department also had artillery, and seeing that the troops were already in position, Li Yifeng gave the order to attack.
Of course, the first to fire was the artillery, although Li Yifeng's artillery was not as large as the Japanese army, but there was not much difference. The artillery unit of the 222nd Division had a regiment armed with 24 75mm mountain guns and 12 heavy howitzers. Although the Japanese artillery positions had been out of the effective range of mountain artillery, they did not have the effective range of heavy howitzers.
After learning about the Japanese artillery position, Li Yifeng knew that the Japanese army obviously did not know that they had heavy howitzers, otherwise the artillery position would not have been arranged so close. So Li Yifeng ordered the heavy howitzer battalion of the artillery regiment to fire at the Japanese artillery positions first, disrupting the deployment of the Japanese army.
222nd Division artillery position. Artillery Regiment Command.
"Report to the regiment commander, the division commander ordered our regimental howitzer battalion to immediately fire at the Japanese artillery positions!"
"Yes, send a report to the division, and say that we promise to complete the task!"
"Let the artillery observer report the location of the Japanese artillery positions and prepare for shelling!"
"112.8 degrees east longitude, 42.3 degrees north latitude"
"Orders: 112.8, 42.3, 5 degrees in elevation, 5 rapid fire!"
"Yes, Zhuyuan is being revised!"
"Revisions complete!"
"Fire!"
"Boom Boom"
One grenade after another dragged its long tail into the distance, piercing the sky!
The artillery positions of the Japanese army were also in the midst of intense arrangement, and all the cannons were the most accurate on the battlefield, and all the gunners stood behind the cannons with cold expressions, waiting for orders from the command.
At this time, suddenly a flame came into the air, and before the Japanese soldiers could react, a fierce explosion sounded on the position, one cannon after another was destroyed, and the flesh and blood of the soldiers were blown up.
At the same time, the artillery command of the 222nd Division again received a telegram from an artillery observer.
"Correct 3 degrees to the west, 5 rapid fires, fire!"
"Correct 5 degrees to the south, 3 rapid fires, fire!"
Seeing that the artillery of the Chinese army was not firing at the forward position, Major General Suzuki was shocked, when the artillery position sounded a violent explosion, Major General Suzuki's shock turned into horror, the people of the branch actually had heavy artillery, ordinary mortars could not hit so far at all, even mountain artillery and field artillery did not have such accuracy, only heavy artillery could point where to hit at this distance.
"Baga, order the artillery to immediately transfer positions, the people of China have heavy artillery!"
"Hay!"
Fifteen minutes later, the artillery observer sent another telegram that the Japanese artillery had retreated, and this round of shelling destroyed a total of 16 Japanese artillery, and caused about half of the shells to be killed, and the soldiers suffered four or five hundred casualties.
The Japanese artillery had already retreated, and Li Yifeng knew that he had no trouble, but the real war had just begun.
"Order the artillery regiment to immediately open fire on the Japanese positions, the first infantry regiment and one battalion to prepare for the attack, the second battalion to move to the left flank of the Japanese army, and the third battalion and one company to launch a feint attack on the right flank of the Japanese army!"
"Boom, boom!"
"Da Da Da!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The battle entered a white-hot heat as soon as it began, Li Yifeng was not a person who liked to drag mud and water, since what he wanted was to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army, then he would not let the Japanese army have any respite. At the very beginning, half a regiment was thrown in, and here there was no temptation, only an attack.
Major General Suzuki was also stunned by Chen Feng's strong attack, although his soldiers occupied the advantage of the terrain and had artillery support, but they were still overwhelmed by the Chinese army.
"Yaga, what kind of weapon is the person holding in his hand, is it a light machine gun?" Major General Suzuki asked Musashi Daisa, chief of staff of the 24th Infantry Brigade.
"I've never seen a weapon like that, it should be a new weapon of the Zhina people!"
"Baga, immediately transfer all the light machine gunners in the reserve to the front-line positions, quickly!" Major General Suzuki said angrily.
"Hay!"
This is the first time that the AK assault rifle of the 8th Theater of Operations has been used on a large scale on the battlefield, although it has also participated in battles before, but it has been applied on a small scale, and it has never been used by the whole regiment, but this time it is used here. (To be continued......)