Chapter 736: The Battle of Dangtu
Wuhu is a city along the Yangtze River, which both provides a barrier and adds danger to the city. After the Battle of Songhu, there was almost no one in the naval fleet of the Guofu Army, and all the capital ships were sunk at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and they did not cause any substantial trouble for the Japanese army to enter the Yangtze River. After that, the Japanese ships cruised the Yangtze River as if they were in and out of their own rivers.
This time, the Japanese army decided to retake Wuhu, and it was inevitable that the Chinese fleet of the Japanese Navy would send a number of ships to provide some necessary support for the "army horse manure" that they did not deal with very well. The Japanese Navy's Chinese fleet is not large, and it is mainly composed of small ships, and the gunboats running on the Yangtze River are basically a few tens to hundreds of tons. However, the presence of these gunboats was enough to threaten and attack the cities along the coast.
The New Fourth Army also made a judgment in view of the situation in which the Japanese inland river gunboats might threaten Wuhu, and after Qi Yuan provided a batch of mines, the New Fourth Army decided to carry out a blockade operation on the Yangtze River, cut off the Yangtze River with mines, iron cables, and other weapons, stop the navigation of civilian and military ships, and prevent the gunboats of the Japanese river fleet from going up the river to Wuhu and attack Wuhu.
The Japanese inland river fleet had long mastered the New Fourth Army's mine-laying on the water, but when it came to breaking all these mines, they really did not have the ability to do so, so they could only drift in the waters far away from Wuhu.
When Qi Yuan learned about this situation, he couldn't help but think: "Maybe it would be a good choice for the New Fourth Army to build some ultra-light submarines that can be used underwater in the Yangtze River." "In the plane where his father Qi Yiming was borne, the North Koreans had sunk the South Koreans' Cheonan ship with ultra-light submarines, and as long as they were used properly, these seemingly untechnical things can sometimes become extremely terrifying things.
At the same time, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army had already moved from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to southern Anhui, and its division commander Machijiri Liangji ordered his troops to hurry up and rush ahead of another friendly unit, the 13th Division, to arrive in Dangtu County, north of Wuhu, and Wuhu was already in sight.
After all, according to intelligence, the Wuhu New Fourth Army has some very dangerous weapons, and Machijiri doesn't want to have factors that he can't control in the battle he fights, so he still decided to wait for the friendly 13th Division.
It's just that Machijiri didn't expect that his enemy had actually come to Dangtu County early to prepare, just waiting for him and his 6th Division to step into this trap.
After some disguise, the youth school class and a few specially selected small collectives with extremely combat effectiveness in the New Fourth Army were sent to Dangtu County. In fact, after Wuhu was taken, Dangtu was almost in a state of undefense, although Tie Xun was not in a hurry to take Dangtu, but had already established contact with the local area, and the New Fourth Army also had its own forces and organizations here.
Liu Yuqing has even mentioned to Tie Xun in the command of the New Fourth Army: "It is necessary for the New Fourth Army to establish a new branch of troops, and this team will be full of soldiers like the king of soldiers, who have the best war skills, are bold and resolute, and are smart enough to complete tasks in difficult environments." They will carry out some difficult tasks such as sabotaging the enemy's communications, intercepting the enemy's important intelligence, destroying the enemy's logistics system, and killing the enemy's important figures, but once these missions are successful, they will be of great significance to the tactical development of our entire army. This also determines that this force needs to be more combative. We call this kind of unit special forces, and they are not expensive but expensive. ”
In fact, similar concepts have long appeared in military circles, and even in the history of the army led by CPC, such as the forced crossing of the Dadu River and other classic examples of the Red Army, basically have the shadow of special operations, but although there are such ideas and actual combat examples in the CPC troops, but there are not too many such troops specially built for this demand. Of course, the main constraint is the lack of military resources and equipment, the training of special forces is much more difficult than that of ordinary armies, and the CPC army cannot even train a regular army, let alone more complex and high-input special forces.
However, now the situation is different, with the funding of Qi Yuan, the original poor New Fourth Army has been able to carry out some plans that were unimaginable before, Tie Xun thinks that this special forces training and formation plan is very meaningful, but he naturally can't completely hand over the matter to Liu Yuqing, the real person in charge is still Comrade CPC, who he trusts, and the person sent by Liu Yuqing can only be used as a consultant after all.
Let's say that the Qingxue class and other fraternal troops that had been sent to Dangtu were ambushed in Dangtu, waiting for the Japanese army to enter the city before preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army. Their numbers were small, only about 100 people, and it was obviously unrealistic to fight against the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was 100 times their size. However, Qi Yuan's plan was not to use one as a hundred, but for the Wheel King to use the frozen space to take away the 10,000 soldiers of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army who were commanded by the tower control. He didn't teleport behind the sneak attack on the 6th Division, but the Wheel King who fell from the sky could directly scatter the troops of the 5th Division of the New Fourth Army and directly confront the Japanese army in Dangtu.
The task of the more than 100 soldiers of the New Fourth Army who arrived first was to mess up the Japanese army before the Fifth Division was sent by the Wheel King, and let the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army take advantage of the chaos to launch an attack on the Japanese army when the Japanese army was in chaos.
Yuan Zishan and his companions did not wear military uniforms, but ordinary people's clothes, but they all held the standard weapons of the New Fourth Army, and even for this battle, many of them were also equipped with melee firearms such as shotguns and submachine guns.
"We have already loaded explosives in advance in several places where the Japanese army has settled, including the house where the town Shijiri is staying, and when the time comes, we will press this thing in our hands, and they will all be blown up to the sky, and then we will attack several Japanese military facilities according to the plan, so that the Japanese army will feel that they are ambushed, and we will not be needed in the final battle." Yuan Zishan briefly talked about their task again.
The Japanese army can live so obediently in the place they arranged in advance, naturally there are "traitors" who show the way to the imperial army, but not all the leading party can be trusted, when Tu's leading party is obviously disguised by CPC's spies, and the officials who were in charge of affairs should have been killed and taken away, and the Japanese army did not expect that anyone would dare to harm themselves under their noses. In addition, the explosives used by the soldiers of the New Fourth Army were all plastic explosives that could not be seen at this time, and everyone stuck to the building like pinching plasticine, and then covered it with camouflage. Their detonation method is also relatively new, using a radio-initiated mode, and it does not need to be close to the explosion site, which not only avoids detection, but also increases safety.
When the soldiers of the New Fourth Army scattered all over Dangtu detonated their explosives, the Japanese 6th Division was suddenly struck with a blow in its sleep. The loud explosion also became an order for the hidden soldiers of the New Fourth Army to begin to clear out the scattered Japanese troops, and the Japanese army, which had not reacted in the first place, was immediately attacked by a small group of well-armed soldiers of the New Fourth Army.
Most of the weapons of the Japanese army do not have the ability to fight in close combat, such as the 38 big cover, which is neither convenient nor easy to use when used within 100 meters, but instead splashes bullets with submachine guns and blasts the soldiers of the New Fourth Army with shotguns, like unstoppable rhinoceros, knocking the Japanese soldiers to the ground one by one.
Finally, at this time, everyone had been waiting for a long time Wheel King rushed down from the sky, this time the Wheel King did not attack the ground as before, but constantly opened the frozen space, and put a company-sized soldier of the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army in various places in Dangtu, and also put down some tanks and armored vehicles, in such street battles and chaotic battles, the Japanese army that lacked anti-armor firepower, in the face of these armored vehicles that provided direct fire and protection for the New Fourth Army troops, could only cry out in vain.
The commander of the Sixth Division, Machijiri Liangji, had already been killed in the bomb attack just now, and along with him were a number of officers of the Sixth Division. They have gone from being a group of abusers to being abused. Even though many Japanese soldiers wanted to resist, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, who were superior in numbers and weapons, attacked the Sixth Division with waves of tides, and they could not hold their heads up.
In such an environment, the Japanese army could not show it, although they also had a bloody and courageous spirit, but their opponent, the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, was also a fearless professional soldier under the control of Qi Yuan's mind, they were not afraid of the blood and barbarism of the Japanese army, even if the enemy was fierce, they could face each other freely. Shooting, dodging, and harvesting their lives, they are all skillful, even like a machine, without the slightest mercy. On the contrary, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, who had previously carried out special tasks, thought that the Sixth Division was the main participant in the Nanjing Massacre, and they all had blood-red eyes, roared angrily, pulled the trigger of the machine gun in their hands, and sent this group of demons dressed in crowds to where they should go, hell.
When the battle of Tu lasted all night, it was not until dawn the next day that the extermination of the Japanese army was largely over. The main reason for this long period of time is also that Tie Xun issued a nirvana order to the Sixth Division, as long as any Japanese with the nameplate of the Sixth Division is hung, even if it is a copywriter, or a groom, not a single one is left, and they will all be killed. The resistance of the Sixth Division was indeed relatively strong, but even so, the New Fourth Army still completed the total annihilation of the Sixth Division, and also achieved the glorious result of completely annihilating a whole Japanese division for the first time since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.