Chapter 372: Prologue - The Special 3rd Brigade with an Uncertain Future (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Tickets, and Miscellaneous !! )
In addition, Chen Feng did not trust the combat effectiveness of the 114th Division at all, and dared to pay attention to it because the 114th Division was a soft persimmon. Although the 114th Division is not very famous in history, some historical facts have still been recorded, and these Chen Feng are all knowledgeable.
It was precisely because of this 114th Division's incompetence that it was transferred back to China by the Japanese army base camp after the last day, and then directly dismembered in less than a month. Now Chen Feng does not need the Japanese army base camp to abolish this garbage division with weak combat effectiveness, he wants to personally completely erase this Japanese division from the Japanese army's combat sequence.
With Chen Feng's order, the 52nd Group Army acted quickly, and when the 3rd Special Task Force Brigade was blocking the Japanese army in the Xuanhua area, the instructors under the 52nd Group Army, the 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Artillery Brigade transferred to the 52nd Group Army by the Eighth Theater Command Headquarters set out from Zhangjiakou overnight to the Xuanhua front line for rapid reinforcements.
At the same time, the 52nd Group Army's Special Task Force 5th Division, under the command of division commander Chen Bing, made a long-distance attack on the eastern gate of Beiping to chase the deer, while Xu Hu took the remaining Special Task Force 6th Division and other troops to stay in Zhangjiakou as the reserve of the whole army.
After a day and a night of fighting, the 114th Division was really reorganized by the 3rd Special Task Brigade, as a commander with extremely rich combat experience, Major General Akiyama had long found that the Chinese army fighting with them was quite strange, and it was certain that this army was not an elite soldier in a hundred battles, the soldiers were stiff, and many common sense problems were not very clear, quite like a recruit unit.
But there are contradictions in this speculation. That is, the shooting level of the soldiers of this and that army is very high, from this point of view, it is not at all like a recruit unit, the shooting level of a soldier does not mean anything, there are indeed some people in this world who are born marksmen. But it doesn't make sense that a large group of soldiers are marksmen, you can only say that this is a well-trained unit, so the 3rd Brigade of the Special Task Force is extremely strange in the eyes of Major General Akiyama.
From noon onward, his troops played a game of cat and mouse with this Chinese army, chasing one after the other, the other blocking and attacking, and although they advanced more than 20 kilometers in just half a day, the troops suffered more than 1,000 casualties. However, they found only some stumps and severed arms that had not had time to be cleaned up on the positions of the Chinese army. Not even a single intact corpse was seen.
The clever Major General Akiyama soon realized that he had been deceived, but when he transmitted his findings and speculations back to the division headquarters, he was severely reprimanded by His Excellency the Division Commander, and ordered his 127th Infantry Brigade to hold back the Shina army at all costs.
In fact, Lieutenant General Shigeru Suematsu is not a fool either. After reading Major General Akiyama's telegram, he knew that he had been fooled. That hateful woman is luring the Imperial Army into pursuit. Then take advantage of the favorable terrain and powerful firepower to kill and injure the Imperial Army. Originally, according to his idea, the Akiyama brigade was immediately withdrawn, but it was stopped by the deputy division commander, Lieutenant General Numata Shigetoku.
According to Numata Shigetoku's opinion, Akiyama's headquarters could not retreat. On the contrary, it is necessary to speed up the speed and intensity of the attack, and in any case, we must not let this army escape back to Xuanhua, even if it cannot be dragged all of it, but also a part of it, otherwise those who are wrong on the flanks will be busy in vain.
If it were the opinion of ordinary people, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeru would not care at all, in the strict system of the Japanese army, even if there is only half a level difference, the difference in status between the two sides is extremely different, and the superiors have the right to order the subordinates to do anything. But he couldn't ignore the opinion of the deputy division commander in front of him, he was already a person who was about to retire, so he still knew about some arrangements for the 114th division.
This lieutenant general and deputy division commander who had just been transferred to the 114th Division was actually here to receive the 114th Division, which means that it would not be long before this young general, who was only 51 years old, would become the division commander of the 114th Division, so his opinion Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigera had to take it into consideration.
Thinking about Numata Shigetoku's opinion, there is also merit, besides, why should an old man who is about to take a back seat offend a rising star in the military world who is about to take power for this little thing, there is no need! Therefore, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeqia decided to listen to Numata Shigetoku's advice and ordered Akiyama's headquarters to continue the pursuit, buy time for the troops on the flank, and strive to destroy the main force of the Shina army.
After an afternoon of blocking, the 3rd Task Force Brigade achieved great results, and according to the news from the front, the first regiment also caused casualties to at least half of the Japanese army. However, he only suffered more than 200 casualties, and most of them were only injured, and few were actually killed in the battle.
Originally, according to Liu Li's idea, the large army would continue to retreat until Xuanhua City, and then use the strong and complete city fortifications of Xuanhua City to consume the strength of the Japanese army. But an order from the headquarters of the group army forced Liu Li to change tactics.
"Hold on to the spot? Make no mistake, right? Chen Youliang asked in surprise.
"Lao Chen, don't look at me like this, the order of the group army headquarters is like this, don't believe it!" Saying that, Liu Li handed the telegram in her hand to Chen Youliang.
After quickly reading the telegram, Chen Youliang said in surprise: "It turns out that the reinforcements are about to arrive in Xuanhua, I said!" ”
"According to the order of the group army headquarters, our 3rd Brigade not only cannot retreat, but also has to contain the Japanese army in front of it, and wait for the follow-up troops to press up and annihilate this Japanese army in one fell swoop." Liu Li said.
"Brigade seat, the idea of the group army headquarters is very good, the Japanese army pursuing our army behind is only one brigade, with a total strength of only more than 6,000 people, even if our 3rd Brigade fights with it, it will not suffer, we retreat just to reduce the casualties of the troops, not to be afraid of that group of little devils. Now that reinforcements are coming, we can't let these bastards slip out of our mouths. Chen Youliang said.
"What Lao Chen said makes sense, besides, the little devil has killed and injured so many people this afternoon, and his morale will inevitably be low, even if he fights hard, there will not be many casualties."
"What the brigade said makes sense, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, after this half a day of wear, I am afraid that the Japanese army's sharpness is not as good as before, it is a good time for our army to counterattack, then the brigade seat will give an order!" Chen Youliang responded.
"Well, Staff Officer Li, pass on my order: the 1st Regiment will immediately deploy along the 3rd line of defense, the 2nd Regiment will establish a solid defensive line 5 kilometers behind the 1st Regiment, and the artillery battalion will immediately rush to the 1st Regiment position, establish an artillery position behind the 1st Regiment, and provide artillery support for the 1st Regiment. The brigade headquarters set up a former enemy command behind the second regiment! Liu Li ordered decisively.
Seeing Liu Li's decisive order, Chen Youliang admired it in his heart. Originally, he was quite resistant to the war zone transferring him to a woman, and a young woman as a deputy. But after coming, he was shocked by the decisive momentum of this woman's killing, and later learned through communication that this woman was the deputy commander of the first batch of independent battalions sent by the commander, and she was also photographed in southern Hebei, where the Japanese rule was the most stable.
Chen Youliang is not calm now, he knows the way of the independent battalions that were sent out, a total of 15, only eight of them really stayed outside for a year without being wiped out by the Japanese puppet army, and those eight independent battalions are model idols in the theater, in just one year, these units have been expanded and upgraded, and now the eight newly formed infantry divisions in the theater are formed with those independent battalions as the backbone.
In addition, the battalion commanders of the independent battalions have also been reused in the war zone, the former Laiyuan Independent Battalion commander Li Fuhai has now become the commander of the 1st Special Task Division, the former Yixian Independent Battalion Commander Xu Dazhuang has become the current commander of the 2nd Special Task Division, the former Fuping Independent Battalion Commander has become the commander of the 3rd Special Task Division, and the former Nangong Independent Battalion Commander has become the commander of the 4th Special Task Division, in addition to Liu Zhiqiang, Lai Pingfu, Liu Guodong, Hu Haitao and others have also become officers at the division commander level. Li Wensheng and Li Yifeng and others are the most dazzling group of generals, and their rise can be said to be a legend.
Chen Youliang didn't expect that his female boss was also one of these people, and she was also the chief of staff of the Fuping Independent Battalion. In addition, Chen Youliang also knew that this woman was just a bandit leader two years ago, but she didn't expect to become a brigade commander in the regular army in just two years, although the military rank is still only at the level of colonel, but no one knows that Liu Li's promotion to general is only a matter of time, and this time is not too far away.
This is the first time that the 3rd Brigade of the Special Task Force has been fighting, although the battle has just begun, but the 3rd Brigade of the Special Task Force has already caused 15,600 casualties to the Japanese army, and this record can already be explained in the past.
The special task force of the Eighth Theater is not an infantry brigade of the Nationalist Government, and a special task force has at least 8,000 people, and the infantry brigades of the Nationalist Government of more than 3,000 people are not comparable with it at all. Even so, the brigade commander-level officers of the Nationalist Government are generally major generals, and only a small number of them are colonels, so sooner or later the number one leader of the Eighth Theater Special Task Force Brigade will be promoted to general, otherwise many people will have opinions.
But Chen Youliang would never have thought that there was now an infantry wing of the Japanese army on the left and right flanks of their special task force 3rd brigade, and it was not far from their position, because the top brass of the 114th Division and the 52nd Group Army wanted to eat all the troops on the opponent's front line, so they would give the enemy a dismount at the beginning of the war, so a larger scale of the battle had just begun. (To be continued......)