Volume 1: Battle of Songhu Chapter 38 Heavy losses

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The responsibility of the staff department is to draw up the battle jihua or retreat jihua, in the first battle sequence, the regiment and above have set up a staff department, but the staff of the first unit at all levels are basically furnishings, in a sense, the establishment of this staff is just to put sand under the nose of the commander of the army under his command.

For example, whether the army commander trusts or distrusts his division commanders, he will install his absolute henchmen to serve as the chief of staff of his division commanders, and those division commanders will definitely do everything possible to isolate this chief of staff, and at the same time, arrange for his henchmen to serve as chiefs of staff in each of the main regiments under his command.

We all know that the factional struggle of ** is very strong, and the General Staff is the fiercest battlefield among them.

Yang Shaoren is also the chief of staff of the 58th Division placed by Shangfeng, and he is also directly sent by the Military Commission, but Feng Shengfa still trusts Yang Shaoren, firstly, Yang Shaoren himself is a highly talented student who graduated from Lu Dazheng's regular class and has the ability, and secondly, Feng Shengfa himself hates the faction, so he wants to establish another atmosphere in the 58th Division.

Yang Shaoren also did not live up to Feng Shengfa's trust, and his duties were fulfilled very well.

Considering that the 14th Division of the RI Army had crossed the Yellow River from Zhenxian to occupy Heze, Shanxian might be attacked by the 14th Division of the RI Army at any time, and it was obviously not appropriate for the 58th Division to retreat in the direction of Shanxian.

Because the main force of the 58th Division is in urgent need of a short rest after the fierce battle in Fengxian.

And the combat mission assigned to the 58th Division by General Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the L Corps, is also to protect the flanks of Dangshan and cover the retreat of the main force of the Fifth Theater, so Yang Shaoren decided to retreat to the vicinity of Dangshan and move closer to the army.

The retreat route drawn up by the General Staff is still correct, because Heze is lost, if the 58th Division retreats to the west, it is very likely to collide head-on with the 14th Division of the RI Army, and it is still very dangerous to shake a permanent division of the RI Army with the strength of the 58th Division and the first division

Feng Shengfa hadn't slept for a few days in a row, and he didn't sleep all night last night, and his heart was exhausted to the extreme, coupled with the failure of the battle of Fengxian, his heart was also extremely resentful, so he didn't say anything more about the retreat route drawn up by the General Staff, and directly asked the communication office to send it to the 17174 Brigade.

Seeing the veteran who rushed forward with a cluster grenade falling in a pool of blood again, Han Keqiang couldn't help but stretch out his fist and punch the broken wall in front of him hatefully, even the fist broke the skin and bled like a note that he was unconscious, this was already the sixth daredevils who fell under the machine gun of the Xiaoriben tank.

After more than two hours of fierce attack, the remnants of the RI army in Fengxian County have been compressed to a street and alley in Zuihou, but after the defense line of Xiaoriben has been extremely compressed, the strength is relatively concentrated, especially Xiaoriben also has a chariot squadron, and six 95-type light tanks will block both ends of the street and alley, which has become an insurmountable obstacle.

After killing the ** daredevil, Xiao Riben's tank machine gun immediately stopped continuing to fire, only the RI army infantry hiding behind the tank and lying on the roofs of the houses on both sides were still using the 38 cover to carry out sporadic SHE, and the machine gun fire on this side was splashed like water, and the RI army tank had no intention of fighting back.

However, the machine gun of the first can not help the tanks of the RI army, the armor of the 95 type light tank of the small RI is actually very thin, and the side wall is only a small UMM Makqin heavy machine gun is enough to penetrate within 200 meters, but its front armor has mm, and the Makqin heavy machine gun can not penetrate it, and now due to the restrictions of the terrain of the streets and alleys, it can only hit the front of the RI army tank.

Not too far away, Han Keqiang can even see the radio antenna of the regimental headquarters of the small ri's division, there is no doubt that the old devil Nakajima is in front, but ** just can't cross this Zuihou obstacle, Han Keqiang was in a hurry, took off the military hat on his head and slammed it on the ground, turned his head and yelled: "Grenades, tie grenades to me"

After that, Han Keqiang took the grenade from the hands of several veterans, and untied the leggings from a corpse of the RI army next to him and tied them into a bundle randomly.

"Camp, Gu Niu has taken a step first" Gu Niu Zuihou turned around and smiled miserably at Han Keqiang, and then rushed forward without looking back with a grenade, Xiao Riben's large searchlight soon shone from the opposite side, and Gu Niu's figure was immediately exposed, and Xiao Riben's tank machine gun opened fire again after a moment of silence.

Gu Niu is constantly doing tactical evasion, trying to make his breakthrough as irregular as possible, but the tank machine gunners of Xiao Riben are also veterans of a hundred battles, three small tanks and three front machine guns, one chase, one blocking, and one ziyoushe attack, just a few short points, the Gu Niu was knocked down

Han Keqiang's eyes cracked, and just as Yu ordered to launch a charge desperately, a communications soldier suddenly came up from behind, panting and reported: "Battalion commander Han, the regimental seat command." ”

Han Keqiang thought that Li Song had sent someone to urge, and immediately shouted: "Go back and tell Tuanzuo, give me a quarter of an hour, at most another quarter of an hour, and I will definitely carry the head of Nakajima Jinchao, an old devil, to see him." ”

The communication soldier didn't listen to what Han Keqiang was saying at all, and then said: "The regiment orders your troops to retreat immediately." ”

"Got it, retreat immediately, I'll retreat." Han Keqiang waved his hand impatiently, and after a while, he suddenly came back to his senses, and immediately grabbed the placket of the communication soldier's shirt and roared angrily, "What did you say, what did you just say?" ”

The communication soldier was small, and the whole person was picked up by the tall Han Keqiang, who seemed to be eating people raw, but the communication soldier was unmoved, and said: "The regiment orders your department to retreat immediately." ”

The communication soldier was very loud this time, and several platoon commanders nearby and a company commander who was still alive all threw stunned glances to this side, Han Keqiang carried the communication soldier for a few seconds, and finally let go, and then turned his head and yelled at several company platoon commanders with a crying voice: "Withdraw, all ...... Lao Tzu withdraw"

With infinite resentment and unwillingness, Han Keqiang finally withdrew with the remaining more than 200 officers and soldiers of Zuihou.

When he was about to leave the street, Han Keqiang glanced back again, and it happened that Xiao Riben's big searchlight also shone over, and under the bright light as day, he saw that the entire street and alley were full of ** corpses, and in the streets and alleys of less than fifty meters, at least hundreds of heroic officers and soldiers were sacrificed, but now, the blood of these officers and soldiers was shed in vain.

When the 19th Brigade rushed to Fengxian, it was just in time for the retreat.

Zhu Qi and Fang Riying didn't say much nonsense, and directly let the 19th Brigade stay behind, Xu 19 didn't shirk it, there is a way to raise thousands of soldiers and use soldiers for a while, the equipment, supplies, and training of the 19th Brigade are better than other units, and even the food standard is a cut higher, so naturally they have to bear more responsibility.

The 153rd Brigade also left a regiment as a covering mission, and this regiment was Qiu Weida's 30U Regiment.

Qiu Weida and Xu Shijiu are also old acquaintances, at the beginning in Luodian, there was a pleasant cooperation between the two, and later participated in the defense of Nanjing, the tactical thinking of the two is almost the same, the difference is that Feng Shengfa adopted Xu Shijiu's tactics, while Wang Yaowu did not adopt Qiu Weida's suggestion.

This time they joined hands again, and there was naturally no problem with the cooperation between the two.

The main force of the 16th Division of the RI Army has returned from Dangshan, and it is of course impossible to block the onslaught of the 16th Division with the 30U Regiment and the 19th Brigade alone, the only thing to be thankful for is that Xiaoriben still doesn't like night battles very much, and at night Xiaoriben's aviation and artillery cannot participate in the battle, which greatly reduces the pressure on the covering troops.

After the order was issued, the 19th Brigade quickly established a defensive position in Wanggou in the southwest of Feng County, and then the 30U Regiment was also deployed on the right side of the 19th Brigade, and before the two troops could build fortifications, the 153rd Brigade 305th Regiment, the 17th Brigade 344th Regiment and the 174th Brigade were all withdrawn, and then the RI Army rushed over.

The little rion invested about a battalion of infantry, and four tanks as a lead.

However, Xiao Ri Ben met the opponent this time, Hu Jie carried the mortar and only used two shells to drop the two tanks that Xiao Ri Ben rushed to the front, and then the four Makqin heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun platoon of the 19th Brigade plus the four Type 92 heavy machine guns that had just been captured opened fire fiercely at the same time, and the RI Ben soldiers who followed the tank fell a large piece in an instant.

Xiao Ri Ben saw that the situation was not right, so he shrank back, and probably did not dare to attack before the artillery arrived.

When the 17th Brigade and the 174th Brigade passed through the position of the 19th Brigade, Xu 19 couldn't believe his eyes, there were more than 7,000 people in the two brigades and three regiments, and there were less than 4,000 people left in this day.

Among the remaining more than 4,000 people, most of them are still wounded, Li Song's 348 regiment is the worst, from the regiment commander to the gang plus a battalion, the regiment commander Li Song was injured, two of the three battalion commanders died, nine infantry companies plus Jingwei Company, and a heavy machine gun company actually died 16 company commanders, and the squad and platoon commanders below were almost all temporarily promoted.

Of course, the sacrifice of the 348th Regiment was by no means costless, more than 1,000 soldiers of the 38th Infantry Wing belonging to the 38th Infantry Wing who remained in Fengxian were almost all killed, plus the 3rd Brigade that was completely annihilated by the 19th Brigade in Xin'anji and the two squadrons of the L Infantry Brigade that was annihilated in Shanxian County, the 38th Infantry Wing was basically disabled.

In addition, there were more than 2,000 non-combatants, including the communications corps, health corps, and mechanic corps of the 16th Division, who also suffered almost all casualties in Feng County.

Judging from the casualty figures alone, Xiao Ri Ben actually did not take any advantage, but because he failed to clear the remnants of the Ri Army in Feng County, and failed to kill Nakajima Imago, this small battle launched around Feng County was actually lost, because in addition to the 58th Division, the 8th Army, the Army, and the First Army, which were responsible for blocking the enemy's reinforcements, all suffered relatively large losses

What's more serious is that due to the defeat in the battle of Fengxian, the 74th Army was forced to move closer to Dangshan, and the tactical intention of holding Fengxian and Shanxian to protect the flanks of Dangshan was also declared frustrated, and after the 74th Army retreated to Dangshan, the 16th Division of the RI Army quickly turned around and moved south, and the battlefield situation in eastern Henan became grim.

This also laid the groundwork for Gui Yongqing's backlash later.