Chapter 145: Escalation of the Fighting
On the highway from Zhangjiakou to Duolun, a long convoy rumbled through the yellow dust in the sky, in order to avoid heavy self-propelled guns from running over the sandy road, Yang Feng also specially ordered them to walk on the side of the road, fortunately it was winter at this time, the soil was hard enough, and these heavy chariots ran no slower than those old trucks.
This scene stunned Wang Changhai, the commander of the cavalry of the 29th Army next to him, he had seen the chariot at this time, and the 29th Army had captured several vehicles at Xifengkou, and it could be said that he could run much faster than walking.
"Master Sun, your boss is really capable, and he can even get this kind of good thing." He said to Sun Liren sitting next to him with envy, this guy doesn't ride a horse anymore, he sits in an open-top small jeep and studies how to cooperate with Sun Liren.
Sun Liren looked at the goods behind him with hatred, and Yang Feng was hugging Margaret inside, which was quite a bit of the posture of Gao Wei, the queen of the Northern Qi Dynasty, who went out with a little pity and beauty.
It is true that this expedition is purely for Yang Feng to come out to abuse the Japanese to distract himself, Sun Dianying's 30,000 army is not easy for a wing of Japanese troops, and he can directly ravage it with artillery.
However, this is not the case, just when he rushed to Duolun, on the battlefield north of Yinshan, Sun Dianying was having a headache, he was now on the south bank of the Xilin River, and the Japanese and Mongolian coalition forces were only slightly defended in the Kuitun River, and soon retreated north under the air and ground strikes, bent on destroying this enemy, and Sun Dianying, who no one dared to compete in the grassland from then on, ignored the reminder of the American chief of staff, followed all the way to pursuit.
The Japanese-Mongolian coalition army retreated to the north bank of the Xilin River, and then stopped retreating, using the fortifications arranged by their remaining troops to hold on to the river, Sun Dianying rushed twice in a row, but failed to break through the opponent's defense line.
"Commander Sun. We must retreat, and you should know that if the Japanese army leaves the warbar, we may be cut off at any time. His chief of staff, Colonel O'Connor, reminded him.
Sun Dianying was also hesitating, he naturally knew that there was a wing of the Japanese army stationed in the Dao Economic Shed, but he also knew it. Since the Japanese army disguised themselves as Mongols, it meant that they were not ready to tear their faces.
"Rush again, if you can't rush through, then let's retreat!" After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said.
As soon as he finished saying this, a cavalryman from behind ran over, jumped off his horse and said breathlessly: "Commander, a large number of puppet troops have come out of the scripture shed!" ”
"Puppet army? Who's the centaurs? Sun Dianying frowned and hurriedly asked.
"The banner is the Xing'an Army!"
"The Xing'an Army? How did they get here? Sun Dianying immediately realized that something was wrong, the Xing'an Army was a puppet army in Western Inner Mongolia. Resident in Zhengjiatun, they appear in the scripture shed, which shows that this is a trap, a trap against themselves.
"Damn, a bunch of puppet soldiers want to kill Lao Tzu, these guys look down on themselves too much! No, the Japanese are not so stupid! ”
"Dress up, they can change their clothes as Mongols. You can also change your clothes to Chinese. O'Connor said in stiff Chinese.
"Retreat!" Sun Dianying immediately made a choice.
If that's the case, it's a big problem.
Sunbe, who was on the offensive, quickly turned around and retreated south. But at this time, it was already a little late, and the puppet army from the west of Jingpeng, or the mixed army of the Japanese puppet army, had already begun to attack his several cantonment points, and Sun Dianying immediately fell into the situation of being flanked by the front and rear.
It was indeed a trap, a trap against him. The Japanese have long been unable to bear him, and in the past year or so, at least thousands of immigrants from the Japanese pioneer regiment have died at the hands of his robbery team, and these old bandits are also ruthless, and the means of dealing with Japanese civilians are no worse than the Kwantung Army's dealing with the Chinese, and they have almost done what they should do.
The Japanese have long wanted to solve this scourge once and for all. But Sun Dianying is an extremely important link in the entire defense line of the Chinese army, attacking him alone will bring a chain reaction, the 29th Army cannot sit back and watch its barrier is lost, it is bound to join the war, the Japanese Kwantung Army can not be afraid of Sun Dianying, but the 29th Army is indeed a little afraid, the loss of Xifengkou is too great, nearly a brigade and the 29th Army have fought hard, and now many Kwantung Army soldiers are afraid when they think of their Thomson knife assault.
Even if the Kwantung Army has the confidence to solve the 29th Army and Sun Dianying at the same time, but there is still the Jin Sui Army behind the 29th Army, Yan Laoxi will also not watch his barrier lost, and there are still the Zhongyang Army and the Northeast Army on the Great Wall line, everyone knows what the Great Wall Line will face without the flank threat of Chahar, the result of the last Great Wall Battle has given the Chinese army enough confidence, and they have no fear of the Japanese army.
Attacking Sun Dianying means another full-scale war, unless they can get a large increase in domestic troops, otherwise the Kwantung Army alone is definitely hopeless, and they can also see the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army in the past year or so.
But the skinheads continued to empty North China, allowing them to see opportunities, and the huge profits from silver smuggling also gave them courage, and King De's defection also gave them a way to solve Sun Dianying, changing the Mongols' vests.
First of all, the king of De resisted Sun Dianying's reclamation as an excuse to attack the reclamation point, confined the two sides of the war between King De and Sun Dianying, first transferred Sun Dianying from Duolun, and then the Xing'an army cut off Sun Dianying's back road in the name of helping his own clan as the same Mongol, and blocked Sun Dianying in the north of Yinshan in the front and back, and the real highlight was in the south.
The entire Eighth Division changed into the clothes of Li Shouxin's puppet army, and the 14th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had changed into the vest of the Xing'an Army, also began to attack Duolun at the same time.
The whole plan is very perfect, North China is now empty, whether it is the Luanhe defense line or the Great Wall defense line, they are a little stretched, in this case, He Yingqin must not want to go to war, as long as he shows in this way that he is just dealing with Sun Dianying, then he has an excuse to watch, and he can not participate in the war with his suppression of the 29th Army, but Sun Dianying and Feng Zhanhai are easy to do, one and a half divisions plus a cavalry brigade, more than 30,000 chaotic puppet troops, and they can't clean up a bunch of bandits, so the Kwantung Army can collectively cut their stomachs.
And the most important point, for the Kwantung Army, another scourge Tang Juwu. Now it's in Changbai Mountain, and the cat is winter! Such a season will definitely not come out, and they can safely and boldly mobilize their troops.
However, the Japanese side still missed a person, they did not expect that Yang Feng was returning to China at this time, and he also ran to Duolun to play war games with great interest, just when the Japanese army launched an attack on Duolun from the two directions of Weichang and Fengning at the same time, Yang Feng arrived with his mechanized troops.
Feng Zhanhai is now in a hurry. He only has more than 10,000 people, but he needs to face the attack of a division of the Japanese army plus more than 10,000 puppet troops, if it were not for more than a year with the help of Yang Feng, a large number of reinforced concrete permanent fortifications were built, he could not stop the first wave of the Japanese army's attack, he is not a general who is very good at fighting, he has always been Zhang Zuoxiang's guard captain before the fall of the Northeast, and has never led troops to fight.
Therefore, it can be said that Yang Feng's arrival is overjoyed.
"Brother Feng. How about letting Fumin command instead of you? Yang Feng is also welcome, the Japanese have made him a little confused, and now he is really in no mood to be polite.
"Okay!" Feng Zhanhai looked at Sun Liren and said, he is very self-aware, Sun Liren is much stronger than him in any aspect, and everyone can see this clearly by training the security guards during this time.
Sun Liren was not polite. As soon as he arrived in Duolun, he found that the command here was chaotic, and it was impossible to play the role of those permanent fortifications. He had studied Duolun's defense system in depth, because this was originally made up by the American mercenaries under Yang Feng, and the security division had a full set of defense maps, and he had already studied it thoroughly.
After taking over the command from Feng Zhanhai, he immediately took a 152-mm heavy gun and bombarded the attacking Japanese army, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army being blown up. Quickly adjust the subordinates and gradually stabilize the defensive line.
At the same time, Sun Dianying in the north of Yinshan also quickly made a choice, abandoning all the reclamation points in the Dalibo area, and the whole army retreated west along the Kuitun River, and at the same time ordered the West Road to abandon the reclamation points in Chagan Naoer and stick to Duolong Dabang. The 14th Brigade of the Japanese cavalry, which intercepted him, took the lead in occupying Nuogong, cutting off the road for his southward retreat, and trapping the main force of Sun Dianying's company with more than 50,000 soldiers.
However, in the open grassland, it is not realistic to surround Sun Dianying with this alone, the goal of the Japanese army is very simple, to block his retreat as much as possible, and then capture Duolun on the southern front as quickly as possible, at that time Sun Dianying is really no way to advance and retreat, that is to say, the most important thing is to take Duolun as soon as possible.
But here the 8th Division ran into an iron plate.
The first launch of the 2C3 self-propelled guns relied on their ultra-long range, with the cooperation of aerial reconnaissance, to blow up the few 150 heavy howitzers in their hands into parts, and then easily began to clean up those field guns and mountain guns.
The maximum firing range of the Japanese field artillery and mountain artillery did not exceed ten kilometers, and the mobility was even more vastly different, and there was no power to fight back in front of the 2C3.
At the same time that the self-propelled artillery was abusing the Japanese artillery, Yang Feng pulled the double 37-mm anti-aircraft guns of the air defense battalion to the front line, and the 20 double 37-mm anti-aircraft guns were directly used as howitzers, and the shells equipped with time fuses were like raindrops and smashed into the attacking Japanese infantry.
"Who said that anti-aircraft artillery can only hit fei machines?" Yang Feng held the binoculars, looked at the Japanese army engulfed in the smoke in the distance, and said to Sun Liren on the side with a proud face.
"Save some shells! One more shelling, and the shells we brought were gone. Sun Liren said expressionlessly.
"It's okay, isn't it just 37 shells! I have a stockpile of hundreds of thousands of shells, and in a few days I am going to replace them with new ones, and now it is time to clear the warehouse, and the transport planes will arrive in a moment. Yang Feng said indifferently.
And the commander of the 8th Division opposite him, Kotaro Nakamura, almost vomited a mouthful of blood, and he was holding a telescope with an approving face, waiting for the imperial army in front to break through the line of defense in China! And then in the blink of an eye the imperial army was gone, what kind of shelling is this? How many cannons is this? Who has ever seen an artillery bombardment that drops thousands of shells in one minute, although the accuracy is relatively poor, but it cannot withstand the high density.
In particular, the vast majority of these shells exploded in the air, and the scattered shrapnel weaved a dead iron net, and the smoke dissipated, and General Nakamura looked at the forward position, and he could still see the figure of a hundred and ten imperial soldiers standing sporadically, and it was really good that he did not vomit blood.
The originally lively battlefield fell silent, and the Japanese troops who were attacking were really frightened by this high-density shelling, which was more terrifying than 152 mm heavy artillery, and in a minute, the top of their heads was as terrifying as magma erupted from a volcano.
Don't talk about them. Even the defenders on Feng Zhanhai's side were stunned, and in the blink of an eye, the dense Japanese soldiers in front of them turned into dense corpses, who of the old bandits had ever seen this kind of fighting?
For the next whole day, the attacking Japanese army failed to recover its morale, although Yang Feng did not play with anti-aircraft artillery again to play with ammunition flat pushing, but the Japanese army was always worried. I'm afraid that a nightmare-like scene will befall me.
Duolun is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only two roads come from the paddock and Fengning respectively, the paddock is a big road, and the Fengning one is a small road, because of the restrictions of boundary division, Sun Dianying can not arrange a defense line in the mountainous area, but he also has an advantage, that is, the river network all over the periphery of Duolun, and even large and small lakes. To form a natural barrier, he only needs to plug the gaps in the water network.
This also caused the Japanese army's attack surface to be too narrow, and once it was shelled, the losses were huge, although this also made the defenders' defense line too long, but the problem was that Yang Feng's artillery was purely mechanized, and no matter where there was danger, it could be supported as quickly as possible.
The Japanese attacked for a day under artillery fire and found nothing but nearly a thousand corpses.
Just when the two sides of the Duolun war. Sun Dianying also began to attack south.
"Brothers, I'm worried that I won't have a chance to fight these bastards. Now they have sent it to the door themselves, as long as we win this battle, we will have the final say in the north of Yinshan, and when the time comes, we will have land, women and women, and we will also taste the taste of being the king of Mongolia! Sun Dianying said to his men.
A group of old bandits were naturally excited. They have tasted the sweetness of reclamation for more than a year, and they used to mix with Sun Dianying just to eat a full meal, but now they are not only full of food, but they even have pocket money on hand, who doesn't like such a good day. Now that someone wants to touch their old roots, they naturally have to work hard.
Sun Dianying played a roller tactic, the 50,000 army marched step by step, like a heavy giant elephant, moving forward little by little, he was not short of food, and he carried enough food when he retreated from the reclamation point, he would not be hungry even if he moved for a month for this hundred and ten kilometers, and there was no shortage of ammunition, Yang Feng's transport plane was not easy to say, and the bullets were not easy, plus after learning that Yang Feng arrived, Duolun was not in much danger, so he was not in a hurry.
They are not in a hurry, and the Japanese army is not in a hurry, their task is to drag Sun Dianying, as long as they don't let him rush back before capturing Duolun, and wait until Duolun is taken to completely block all retreats, and then it is not too late to slowly clean up.
At the time of the Chabei War, Beiping also turned the sky upside down, what Sun Dianying was like, those capitalists may not care, but Yang Feng went to the battlefield It was different, in case he had some accidents, I don't know how many people in Lu Dao went bankrupt, and the capitalists who were originally most afraid of war are now unusual, and all of them flocked to He Yingqin, asking him to quickly find a way to solve the war in Duolun.
"Chairman He, Duolun is like this, the national government can't come up with some measures, King De is a rebellion, and he also colluded with the people of the puppet Manchu State, this is also open treason, shouldn't he send troops to suppress it?" Liu Haining blew his beard and glared at He Yingqin.
He Yingqin didn't dare to offend him, this old guy is now the leader of the industrial and commercial circles in Pingjin, and the hundreds of thousands of troops in North China are all supported by the taxes paid by these capitalists.
"Liu Gong, this matter involves the Mongols, and it must be reported to Chairman Jiang for decision, and I am only responsible for the defense of Pingjin and Tianjin, and I have no right to deal with ethnic affairs." He Yingqin hurriedly pushed the matter to the bald guy, anyway, you can't go to Jiangxi to find him.
Not only did these capitalists ask to send troops to help Sun Dianying, but even the 29th Army also asked to send troops, in fact, the Feng Ministry of Public Security in Guyuan was ready to kill Fengning at any time to cut off the back road of the Japanese army on the southern front.
"If I knew that Lu Dao was like this, I shouldn't have agreed to Yang Feng to send troops!" He rubbed his head and said to Huang Yin.
"The 29th Army must not move, if the 29th Army participates in the war, the Japanese will definitely make moves on the Luanhe defense line, and now the troops in North China are empty, and the result of the real fight is unpredictable." Huang Yan also had a headache.
The Japanese consul general in Beiping came to him eight times a day to protest against the fact that the Beiping media had made up something out of nothing and deliberately fabricated that the Kwantung Army was disguised as a Mongol to participate in the attack on Sun Dianying.
However, this also reassured him that the Japanese did not want to have another battle of the Great Wall.
He Yingqin just had a headache, he was sitting in Nanchang and commanding the bald guys from all walks of life to pursue, so he could only scold his mother, scolding King De for being wolf-hearted and dog-hearted, and he was still blue-eyed for him, and he blatantly defected to the Japanese.
also scolded Sun Dianying for causing trouble, what are you doing on other people's land? is also clearing the wasteland and grazing, and even recruiting other people's subordinates, and no one can stand it.
also scolded Yang Feng for being full of food, but he had a good life, so he had to go to the battlefield to join in the fun.
Scolding and scolding, as the supreme leader of the country, he still has to show something, just when the battle in Duolun was in full swing, the national government issued a stern order, requiring King De and Sun Dianying to immediately cease the war and return to their original positions, and at the same time asked the puppet Manchurian side to strictly restrain the subordinate army and stop the invasion of Chahar.
Of course, this is an order that is destined not to be ignored, the battle of Duolun is becoming more and more intense, Yang Feng's mechanized army will be limited by supplies after all, and it is impossible to push the ammunition flat and continue to play, the real battle still has to be solved by the real swords and guns of the soldiers on both sides, and he can only play the role of a firefighter.
However, because the Japanese army lacked heavy firepower, and Feng Zhanhai had strong fortifications to rely on, under the command of Sun Liren, he still firmly held the Duolun defensive line.
Sun Dianying is still steadily advancing, this is the best response in the case of being flanked by the front and rear, 50,000 people are in a group, and the Japanese-Mongolian puppet alliance army will not be able to gnaw no matter what.
Song Zheyuan weighed it again and again, and felt that it was still important for Yang Feng, and on the third day of the Japanese attack on Duolun, Feng's Ministry of Public Security finally crossed the border of Rehe. (To be continued......)
PS: Cold!