Chapter Ninety-Four: Encirclement and Annihilation of the Eighth Division
Dashan Yan really felt that his fragile heart couldn't stand it! It was as if it was about to pop out of the chest. The entire headquarters of the Japanese army suddenly panicked, those who were looking for medicine looked for medicine, those who were looking for a military doctor also called for a military doctor, and a few people held the body of Da Shanyan and shouted to give him a little strength.
After working for most of the day, he finally let Dashanyan stand up again. After Dashan Yan got up, he didn't bother to rest, and immediately came to the battle map, and asked the staff officers to mark the situation of the volunteers and the Japanese army according to the information they had now.
When Yang Dagui crossed the Yalu River for the second time, in order to continue to maintain the blockade posture of the volunteers, Dashanyan had already stretched the front very long, and the troops were basically concentrated in the two areas of Liaoxi and Changbai Mountain, and the North Korean army had three divisions and some Korean soldiers.
"Our total strength in Korea is more than 45,000 people, with the 8th Division under the command of Lin Yan's Toshinan Division, the 10th Division under the command of the Matsubara Division, and the Korean Front under the commander of the Korean side, Kazuo Kushima. After discovering the troops of the volunteer Tang Yulin, our army surrounded him in three ways, and after three days of pursuit, they were trapped in a narrow strip north of the Qingchuan River. But when I stood this morning, the situation suddenly changed. ”
The hand of the Japanese staff officer tapped in the north of Korea: "At 7:40 this morning, just when our army launched a strong attack on Feng Delin, a large number of their troops suddenly appeared in the north, and the Korean Front of Commander Kazuo Jiudao was attacked by the 3rd Division of the Volunteer Army and suffered heavy losses!" The 10th Division, the commander of the division that went straight to Matsubara, was also entangled in the 9th Division of the Volunteers, and Feng Delin's troops launched a counterattack, and so far, their 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 8th divisions. More than 40,000 men of the 10th Division and the 5 main divisions have severed the connection between the 8th Division and the 10th Division, and a situation of encirclement has been formed. The commander of the 10th Division, Naogami Matsubara, launched a series of attacks, unable to break through the enemy's defensive lines, and the Korean Front of Commander Kushima was unable to fight again. ”
Dashanyan drank some water after taking the medicine, and his face finally looked better, but the Japanese military doctor next to him still didn't dare to leave his side, for fear that something would happen to Dashanyan again.
Dashanyan has now seen the tactics of the volunteers very clearly, Yang Xiaolin crossed the Yalu River two hours ago, and Cai Yi appeared three hours ago. And Feng Delin was not pursued by the Japanese along the way, he was dragging the Japanese army in the direction of the Qingchuan River! Maybe they started planning this battle when Yang Fighting Ghost disappeared from their eyes!
I've been looking for where the Volunteers are!
It turned out that he had been wrong all along, Da Shanyan felt that he had far underestimated Yang Xiaolin's courage and determination, and also underestimated this guy's madness! He has always believed that no matter who is in Yang Xiaolin's position, when facing the current desperate situation of the volunteers, he should find a place where the opponent cannot find it and hide, and preserve his strength for the future.
Not only Oyama Iwa, but also other Japanese commanders or those people in the Japanese military headquarters thought this way. They didn't expect that Yang Xiaolin would have the courage to cross the Yalu River again and enter North Korea, and he would dare to suddenly open up his posture and fight a war of annihilation with the Japanese Eighth Division as the target!
He's being chased! He's being rounded up! He is surrounded by his own army of hundreds of thousands, and he still dares to fight a war of annihilation?!
But you can't believe it. The facts were in front of their eyes, Yang Dagui did go back, and the volunteers did surround the Japanese Eighth Division. According to Yang Xiaolin's marching speed, he should be able to reach the Qingchuan River tomorrow morning, and Dashanyan believed that at that time the Volunteers' attack on the Eighth Division would begin immediately.
Dashan Rock suddenly discovers a very terrible truth. The war has been completely out of his own control, the absolute superiority of the Japanese army has been lost, and this time he has no other choice but to let the army pursue Yang Dagui! His front will cease to exist.
He had a delusion. His current situation is like a fly that has landed in a glass, and he can't fly over it when he has a table of food in front of him. Obviously, the Japanese had an absolute advantage in military strength. But when the volunteers surrounded the Eighth Division, he couldn't find a way to rescue Lin Yan Junnan! At this time, Dashan Yan could only hope that the Eighth Division could bring him a miracle, once the Volunteers killed them, then the entire southern part of Korea would be like a flat ground for Yang Xiaolin!
On the morning of 24 March, when Commander Yang arrived at the battlefield with 15,000 soldiers of the 1st and 4th Divisions, Cai Ye and Feng Delin had already surrounded all 13,000 Japanese troops of the 8th Division of the Japanese Army on Yunshan.
Li Debiao and Lu Laoliu fought in the south to block the battle of Zhishang Songyuan, preventing the 10th Division from approaching the battlefield. The fierceness of the battle could be heard from the artillery fire, but a few kilometers away here was unusually quiet this morning, there was still a little bit of snow on the mountains and rivers that had not melted, the birds that woke up in hibernation were crying peacefully, and the heart of Commander Yang was even more excited about the tranquility before the battle.
Of course, Yang Xiaolin also knew what this battle meant for both sides, what the Japanese were afraid of was what he wanted, the military force of the Korean side had been defeated by two consecutive assaults, and those people could hardly pose a threat to the volunteers.
As long as you kill the 8th Division yourself, you can reverse the current unfavorable situation, and a single division that goes straight to Songwon will not be able to support the entire southern front of Korea! At that time, Dashan Yan had to mobilize an army to chase after him, and they could no longer play the game of pushing themselves into a dead end and then spreading their nets.
Commander Yang looked at the fortifications built by the Japanese army on the hill with a telescope, and Cai Ye stood next to him and said: "Since we surrounded this Japanese army yesterday, Lin Yan Junnan fled to the mountain. The Seventh Division was unable to stop them, and this caused great difficulties for our attack. There were many natural caves in this mountain, and the Japanese army relied on those caves to build defenses, and we tried to fight twice, but it was very difficult to fight. ”
Yang Xiaolin also saw that the Japanese army did not set up a large defensive position, but one small position after another to block the attack. It seems that Lin Yan Junnan is not a straw bag, he wants to use this way to force the volunteers to kill those small positions in order to achieve the purpose of delaying time. You must know that Dashanyan's army is behind, although Yang Xiaolin's footsteps are fast along the way, the time left for him is only two days at most
"Have you ever tried to drive them into a cave and burn them to death?"
"All the flamethrowers carried by the army are out of fuel."
Yang Xiaolin was stunned for a moment, this was the loss of a weapon for the volunteers to attack, and this also showed the extreme lack of supplies for the volunteers. Coupled with a very strong march, the attack power of the entire army will definitely be discounted.
On the Japanese side, the 8th Division was obviously ready, and daring to go up the mountain showed that Lin Yan Toshio had no intention of breaking away from the battle. On the one hand, Matsubara is attacking the defense line of the volunteers, and there is an army of Oyama Rock coming behind him, and this battle is really not easy to fight.
Cai Ye whispered beside him: "Commander, now that Dashanyan has caught up, we must kill the Eighth Division, and one of us and them is destined to be buried in this cloud mountain." ”
Yang Xiaolin nodded: "I know." Tell the troops, regardless of casualties, take turns to attack! The troops who rushed forward were not allowed to retreat unless they died in battle! Rush me with a bayonet without bullets! The bayonet is broken, take the stone and give it to me! Lao Tzu is to fill it with human life, and he will also bury the Eighth Division in the clouds! Fifteen minutes later the shelling, and then the total began! ”
"Yes!"
Commander Yang's artillery bombardment is now back to the old time, and the overwhelming artillery fire when attacking Rongben's division is gone, and the current artillery fire cannot pose a threat to the enemy on the hill at all, and the effect it plays is only a psychological deterrent.
After a few hundred shells were sparse, the soldiers of the Volunteers charged the defense of the 8th Division from the bottom of the hill. There was no transition process at all in the battle, and the volunteers received an order not to retreat without taking down the enemy's position, while the Japanese army ordered to die on the position, which doomed this battle to be very bloody and fierce at the beginning.
The main problem for the Japanese was the imperfection of the position. The attack on them by the volunteers was so sudden that they were only given one night, and although there were caves to rely on, there was no way to build a qualified position, and they did not even have time to pull up the artillery fire of their own divisions.
The problem faced by the Volunteers was that there was a real lack of ammunition, the machine guns could not be fired continuously, there were only one or two grenades, and there was no way to completely suppress the Japanese in terms of firepower. Commander Yang's policy of killing Japanese prisoners of war obviously added a lot of trouble to them, and the surrender of those small Japanese was gone, and one by one they would rather die than surrender, and sacrificed their lives to fight.
This has nothing to do with bushido anymore, just like the situation that Mr. Nanfang Sun faced before, there is no surrender, what else can you do if you don't work hard?
Both sides were determined to the death, and when the volunteers rushed up, the Japanese often resorted to hand-to-hand combat tactics. On the volunteer side, because there are too few bullets, the soldiers also like to use this more direct way. So not long after the attack began, the battle entered the climax of hand-to-hand combat.
The shouting and killing sound on the cloud mountain, which was still silent just now, instantly resounded in the sky, and the volunteers rushed up in waves. And the Eighth Division is also going all out, and the civilian personnel, men, and logistics soldiers all come up and work hard.
Now there are no wounded soldiers on the battlefield at all, only the living and the dead.
Yang Xiaolin kept receiving news from the front line in the headquarters, and the attack position of the volunteers on the combat sand table in front of him was constantly improving. Commander Yang didn't ask about the casualty figures at all, there were more than 10,000 people in the Eighth Division, and in Yang Xiaolin's heart, even if he lost 20,000 people, it was worth it. (To be continued......)