Chapter 460: Battle of Jinan (3)
Yang Xianyi soon found the artillery wing of the Japanese army, and he immediately asked his deputy to hit the flag and drop bombs. At present, there are still big technical problems in installing radios on airplanes, and there is no way to rely on flag language to command.
As a result, aerial bombs weighing more than 30 kilograms were unceremoniously dropped on the positions of the Japanese artillery wings, with a terrifying momentum, but the hit rate was also amazingly low. Strictly speaking, due to the fact that there was no technology of dive bombing and low-altitude bombing at this time, only three bombs successfully hit the target, but it was enough, because these three bombs, which originally did not know where to blow up, actually hit the ammunition stacking point on the Japanese artillery position, which directly caused the explosion!
The heavy artillery positions of the Japanese army were still a little far from the ammunition storage point, so they were not affected, and the casualties were not serious, but there were no shells, and these cannons were not even as good as scrap metal. What is even more serious is that the commander of the artillery wing was the first group of the entire wing to be killed in this explosion. His headquarters was less than forty meters from the point where the ammunition was stacked, and as a result, naturally, he could not die again. Lost ammunition, lost the commander, there was no way, the artillery immediately turned into infantry, and under the command of a junior officer, the guy was organized to rush forward to support the rest of the Japanese army.
However, the air force of the Youth Army did not know that they had three off-topic bombs to make meritorious contributions, they only knew that there had been a big explosion just now, but the Japanese artillery was still standing there intact, so the bombing became a training session, and everyone drove the planes back and forth, and once again aimed at the artillery on the ground to drop bombs, this time it was better, at least a dozen artillery pieces were destroyed. After the Japanese prisoners of war were caught, they learned that these cannons should have been expected to become trophies of the Youth Army, and Bai Chongxi saw the interrogation report and angrily reprimanded Yang Xianyi for the losers of the air force.
Bai Chongxi's tantrum was after the war, and now someone is much more angry than him, and at the division headquarters of the 30th Division, all the staff officers stopped what they were doing and watched the division seat roar into the telephone in the air......
"Mom, Lao Tzu brought you out of Yunnan to make you embarrassed, don't be a soldier if you're afraid of death, don't be a soldier when you are a soldier, don't be a shame for us Yunnan people. How is the youth army treating you, good food, good drink, good clothes, you still fight like this, you are not ashamed, Lao Tzu is still ashamed...... Lao Tzu, no matter what reasons you have, what difficulties you have? The tank brigade has now rushed in, if you grind any longer, Lao Tzu promises, the soldiers retreat Lao Tzu shoots the squad leader, the squad leader retreats Lao Tzu shoots the platoon commander, and the platoon commander retreats Lao Tzu shoots the company commander...... If the battalion commander retreats, you bastard won't have to see me, and you will cut it off on your own. What about the courage of the Protectorate? Where is it? …… Lao Tzu now orders you to organize the troops immediately, and in thirty minutes, you have to plant Lao Tzu's tiger flag on the Japanese army's position, otherwise you don't have to do this regiment commander, I will replace another person, do you hear? ”
Fan Shisheng spoke Yunnan dialect into the telephone, and he was there to reprimand the regiment commanders under his command. It's really embarrassing, and the impact battle of tens of thousands of people actually made several suicide squads of the Japanese army easily driven down. It's okay to say that the casualties are large, count them, the losses are not even one, mother's, when did the 30th Division become so mischievous.
There is another layer of relationship, that is, when the Southwest Incident occurred, Fan Shisheng and the others from the Yunnan military system all followed Gu Pinzhen to defect, so it was not okay to have no backer in the youth army system. Gu Pinzhen is a special case, he has a good relationship with Wang Zhenyu's brother Lu Diping and military advisor Yang Du, and he can't take refuge in anyone, but out of self-preservation, he didn't stand on his own. So Fan Shisheng finally had to choose to take refuge in Xiong Kewu's line, because of Huang Xing's relationship, Xiong Kewu finally succeeded in registering Wang Zhenyu's uncle Wang Longzhong. But this is not safe, now in China, fools know that the youth army will inevitably dominate the world, and the people waiting for the top are lined up for a long time. If you don't fight well this time, then you may well say goodbye to power. So as a non-descendant Fan Shisheng is very conscious, he doesn't think Wang Zhenyu can have much old affection for him, what he knows is that if he can't take this position anymore, then this division commander will be considered the end, so he gave a ruthless death order, and if he didn't succeed, he would become a benevolent.
Strictly speaking, the 30th Division, which was reorganized from the Yunnan Army, still replenished a large number of cadets, so the combat effectiveness itself was not bad, and it was indeed that the Japanese army was a little too fierce. But now that the division commander has given a death order, the regiment commander is naturally unceremoniously going to carry it out. The overseers were immediately pulled out, and on the machine gun racks, the death squads of 500 men per regiment rushed out unceremoniously.
And it happened that at this time, because of the air raid, the Japanese artillery was dumb, and as a result, the officers and men of the 30th Division successfully entered the Japanese trenches at a small cost, and the two sides first shot at each other at close range, and then it turned into a white-knuckle battle, hand-to-hand combat, and they were happy to kill. Due to the officer's death order, the Japanese army's self-detonation attack method could no longer deter the officers and men of the 30th Division, and they calmly shot these crazy Japanese soldiers, and even after the Japanese army accidentally succeeded, the follow-up attacking troops turned a blind eye and continued to rush forward. At this time, the officers and men of the 30th Division were all red-eyed, and these Yunnan soldiers, who were not much taller than the Japanese army, burst out with a fighting spirit that was more fierce and ruthless than the Japanese army. While Matsuura Kanwei commanded his troops to continue the siege of the tank brigade and delay their breakthrough through the defensive line, he also drew valuable troops to reinforce them. The 800 reinforcements that had been gathered with great difficulty immediately rushed straight to the front-line positions, and they wanted to drive the youth army out of the positions. At this time, it is already in a state of stalemate, and whoever can't support it will lose.
Lady Luck favored the Chinese army, and at this moment, the artillery directly under the two divisions was finally in place, and a burst of fire covered it, directly interrupting the Japanese army's backup, and the Japanese soldiers were harvested by the metal storm, and many Japanese soldiers lost control of themselves in the violent explosion, and the corpses rose into the air and fell to the ground again. Then a large number of infantry poured into the position, helping the death squad to eliminate the remnants of the Japanese army, and nineteen minutes later, the Tiger flag was successfully planted on the top of the Japanese position.
Matsuura Kanwei has no moves, he has deeply realized that this battle is likely to be lost, he is not afraid of death, but the Ninth Division cannot be lost in his own hands. He immediately gave the order to retreat, and except for a part of the Japanese army who was ordered to the rear of the palace, Matsuura organized more than 10,000 Japanese troops who could still concentrate and fled in the direction of Linzi. At this time, the tank brigade had already opened up the direction of the entire Japanese army, and collided with Matsuura, and after a scuffle, Matsuura fled with 6,000 men.
After only more than four hours of fighting, by 3 p.m. on December 11, the main force of the Japanese Ninth Division was routed, and the Ninth Division, which had lost most of its equipment, finally fled back to Linzi with less than 10,000 men left.
In the battle of Zichuan, the Japanese army lost 9,236 people, including three wing commanders, and 734 team leaders were captured, of which 221 were mentally disordered and executed by order of Fan Shisheng, it is said that it was to avoid Lang spending food. It was also because of this behavior that Fan Shisheng was not promoted after the war, but this guy shouted all over the world that he didn't care, and he would kill a few more devils if he could, looking like a hero.
Heavy snow fell again that night, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who had not had time to dispose of them were covered in snow everywhere, and it was not until three days later that 5,000 people were mobilized to dispose of these corpses that could cause the plague.
Compared to the Japanese army, the casualties of the Youth Army were very low, 985 soldiers were killed, the highest rank of officers killed was the company commander, 1,123 people were wounded, 7 tanks were damaged, and 62 armored assault vehicles were damaged.
The victory in the battle of Zichuan greatly encouraged the confidence of the officers and soldiers on the front line, in the words of Fan Shisheng: "The iron guys in Xiao Gu's hands are still quite useful, and this battle is easy to fight." ”
But that's all there is to it, Bai Chongxi lost the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, according to the original plan, he will crush the two main divisions of the Japanese army with the cooperation of new weapons. But obviously the result of the battle failed to achieve this goal, and the result of the bloody battle was only the defeat of the Japanese Ninth Division, and the total annihilation was not achieved because of the relationship between yin and yang, which made Bai Chongxi a little annoyed.
But why not continue to expand the gains? Because tanks and armored assault vehicles can't drive. In fact, these cars are the same as the drivers who go to the battlefield for the first time, and this battlefield is full of trenches, not to mention, and they have to be attacked from time to time, so the performance during training is naturally all nullified. Especially in the final encounter with the breakthrough troops of the 9th Division, the 9th Division was simply crazy, and thousands of people came to play with grenades, not to mention the Chinese army, and even the Japanese generals themselves were shocked. As a result, in addition to the losses, 80 percent of the remaining tanks and armored vehicles needed urgent repairs before they could be used again, and Bai Chongxi's original plan to drive all the Japanese troops into Jinan through a decisive battle immediately fell through.
Bai Chongxi was so angry that he scolded Gu Zhutong for being a waste, and Gu Zhutong was not a fuel-efficient lamp, anyway, he and Bai Chongxi were not in the same system, and he was Wang Zhenyu's protégé, so he was naturally Zhenzhen's protégé, and the last sentence was technical, Chief of Staff Bai didn't understand, and Bai Chongxi was so angry that he almost didn't order him to be arrested on the spot.
Just when Bai Chongxi was about to run out of anger, a staff officer ran in panting and said: "Report to Chief of Staff Bai, after the remnants of the 2nd Division and the 9th Division, the main force of the Japanese army, retreated in the direction of Jinan. ”
Bai Chongxi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately threw Gu Zhutong's disrespect out of the clouds: "Is it true?" When did it happen? ”