However, compared with the Anti-Union with an overall firepower advantage, the 115th Division obviously suffered a great loss in terms of firepower. Especially in terms of artillery firepower, the 115th Division was at an absolute disadvantage. Although at the beginning of the attack, the 115th Division was equipped with a tank wing.

However, this tank wing, in the face of the anti-tank forces in the face of the anti-coalition forces with all kinds of light direct-aim firepower, and the depth of the 76-millimeter cannon, which has excellent long-range anti-tank performance, combined with the anti-tank firepower network of far and near, hit the head and bleed, and did not play the role of Lieutenant General Sugiura Hideyoshi, who was expected to play a role.

This Soviet-style 76-millimeter cannon copied by the Anti-United Nations was no longer powerful enough in the face of the new German tanks on the Soviet-German battlefield. But in the face of the Japanese army's Type 97 and Type 1 tanks, it was not difficult at all. The tanks thrown in by the Japanese army were easily destroyed within a distance of 800 meters, like thin-skinned cans.

This is a tank wing that splits up a tank wing and uses a squadron as a formation to match infantry attack tactics. On the first day, half of the tanks were destroyed, including the results of the bazooka and recoilless guns. The rest barely held out for another day, and had to withdraw from the battlefield due to the loss of almost all of the equipment except for a few Type 1 self-propelled guns.

A reinforced tank wing, which lost its combat effectiveness in a short period of time, had to withdraw from the battlefield. The 115th Division, which was already suffering losses in heavy firepower, was even more difficult to support alone. As a result, under the condition of equal strength, although the 115th Division has been continuously replenished in scale, in terms of casualty figures, it is twice as large as the anti-Japanese division in the face.

By the time the battle reached Du Kaishan, the two armies were actually in a situation where you have me and I have you. After more than 20 days of hard fighting, the 120th Division still retained one-third of its actual combat strength. However, in such a fierce battle, the 115th Division could not fight at all.

It was different from the 120th Division, which was originally intended to be used for the defense of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, which was expanded on the basis of the 12th Division's remaining divisions. The 115th Division was hastily expanded on the basis of the independent mixed brigade that was originally planned to be transferred to the Chinese battlefield to take over the division that was about to be transferred to the Pacific Theater.

Whether it is combat effectiveness or equipment, it is far from being comparable with the 120th Division. Although in small arms, the big ※※※※, m.¤.co≈m are all the same color. Because the production of new weapons cannot meet the needs, they are equipped with weapons from stockpiles. The only difference is that when the production of new rifles is not enough to make up for the losses, it is equipped with a stock of 30-year-old rifles.

The other is that in order to maintain the Japanese-Italian alliance, the army imported 60,000 pieces from Italy and switched to the bolt of the Italian six-five caliber Carcano rifle, and the quality of production and manufacturing was very inferior. The army did not want to give the navy an Italian-made Type 38 rifle that was thrown back by the navy.

However, in terms of heavy weapons, even if the 120th Division did not have time to complete its artillery, it was only temporarily attached to an independent mortar wing. However, in addition to the artillery directly under the North China Front, such as a howitzer brigade reinforced by the North China Front Army and a mountain artillery brigade each, the artillery directly under the North China Front also surpassed the 115th Division, which had only one mountain artillery brigade and an independent mortar brigade reinforced by the North China Front.

Although Lieutenant General Hideyoshi Sugiura, on the first day of entering the battlefield, he found that his opponent not only surpassed him in infantry firepower, but also far surpassed him in the range and power of artillery. Constant requests were made to the Twelfth Army and even the North China Front Army to increase the number of artillery equipped with a part.

At least the eight Type 41 mountain guns and two Type 38 field guns of his mountain artillery brigade will be replaced with Type 94 mountain guns and Type 95 field guns that can match the opponent in terms of range. In order to change the situation of the opponent smashing tons of artillery fire on his head, he stared dryly and could not fight back.

But neither his current boss Eitaro Uchiyama nor his boss's boss, General Okamura Ninji, could do anything about his request. There is no way that the North China Front Army is so directly subordinate to the artillery, and it has been fully allocated to all divisions and regiments participating in the front-line battle. The North China Front and the 12th Army, which are now empty, where can they go to find artillery and artillery?

Forty percent of the artillery reinforced by the base camp was lost under the air raid of the Anti-United Nations on the way to the war zone. The remaining sixty percent will be divided equally between the two battlefields. Under the circumstance that it is necessary to ensure the Jinpu Road and the northwestern battlefield of Shandong, it can be assigned to the 115th and 120th divisions of the battlefield east of Texas, which are in a coordinated role, and there is basically nothing to strengthen.

Under the condition that the 115th Division had strengthened a tank wing before the war, the artillery fire could only be tilted towards the 120th Division, which supported the rightmost flank of the entire Texas battlefield. By the time the 115th Division arrived, the North China Front and the 12th Army really couldn't transfer enough artillery.

Having lost Beiping and Tianjin, as well as a large number of losses on the battlefield, the North China Front's already small stock of weapons had basically been exhausted. In the North China Front Army, there is really not much of the remaining stock of equipment in the Jinan Army warehouse. It was the mountain artillery brigade that was dominated by the 41-type mountain artillery that was squeezed out by the 12th Army by trying to scrape together.

Although your 115th Division basically has no long-range artillery fire, isn't there still an artillery tank squadron that can be equipped with your tank wing? The nine one-gun combat vehicles are all the latest ones modified with the ninety-one howitzers, and the firing range is still barely acceptable. Regardless of whether it is within the 115th Division or not, since it has been strengthened to the 115th Division, it is better to deal with it first.

The firepower is inferior to that of the face-to-face, and the forces are roughly equal. After more than 20 days of hard fighting, the 115th Division was exhausted in the face of an extremely difficult opponent. The two brigades and eight infantry battalions that participated in the battle also suffered extremely heavy losses. And the heavy equipment was almost completely destroyed.

By the time Uchiyama Eitaro gave the order to retreat, each of the eight infantry brigades, together with some of the soldiers that were replenished in the later period, as well as the baggage and engineer soldiers who were successively converted into infantry, had an average of only three or four hundred people left. It's just that with the consistent tenacity of the Japanese army, it is still barely struggling to support.

These days of hard fighting, together with the fact that the position is relatively critical, except for a tank wing attached before the war. In addition, its own strength is not comparable to that of the 120th Division, and it has been taken care of by the 12th Army. Although there were no large quantities of reinforcements, with the occasional replenishment of half a brigade today and two squadrons tomorrow, they barely held out to the current 115th Division, and there were only more than 4,000 people left in the total strength of the whole army.

The only remaining troops of the 115th Division, where the resistance is not an elite division that has been recuperating for a long time, rushed over like Mount Tai? The remnants of the 115th Division, which was busy shrinking its forces according to the previous order and losing its command of their respective actions, were rushed to pieces in an instant.

And one of its reinforced divisions, which had always been in fierce battles with them, suffered more than half of the casualties due to continuous battles, and lost the ability to attack in an all-out way. However, entangled the remnants of the 115th Division, and cooperated with Tao Jingfei's newly reinforced division, it still had the ability to attack one aspect alone.

This unit cooperated with a division that Tao Jingfei put into the Ningjin battlefield to intercept the 115th Division on the spot and make a frontal assault on the range. Tao Jingfei's newly invested division adopted the tactics of frontal division and flank outflanking, and quickly divided and encircled the remaining forces of the 115th Division.

Under the condition that the main force of the 120th Division is ready to slip away. Tao Jingfei's first wave of heavy attacks were targeted at the 85th Brigade on the right flank of the Ningjin Battlefield, as well as the 259th Wing of the 120th Division that was secretly trying to shrink its forces and preparing to retreat.

The 86th Infantry Brigade, located on the left flank of the entire Ningjin battlefield, was not in the direction of Tao Jingfei's main attack. was only entangled by the old opponent in person, and he couldn't advance or retreat. However, the 85th Brigade on the right flank of the entire Ningjin Battlefield in the direction of Taojing's non-main attack, and the 259th Wing on its right flank on the front line of Huangjia Town, to which the 120th Division belongs, are unlucky.

In particular, Huangjia Town was ordered to cover the retreat of the entire 120th Division. After the 260th and 261st Wings on the right flank had already completed their withdrawal, the 259th Wing, which had only begun to secretly break away one after another, had just completed its assembly. Tao Jingfei's first wave of heavy blow firepower all fell on his head.

When attacking Huangjia Town, Tao Jingfei, who had the detailed retreat intelligence support of the entire 120th Division, had a very accurate grasp of the fighters. When the troops reached the front of Huangjia, he did not immediately attack. Instead, the blocking troops in front of the original Huangjia Town continued to launch large-scale tactical counterattacks.

This 259th Wing has created a false impression that the Anti-United League does not know its retreat in person. It was only when the commander of the 259th Wing, Ben Fanjiu Dazuo, began to assemble the troops that could be withdrawn ten kilometers deep in the southeast of Huangjia Town, and then he ordered the troops to start moving.

He was deployed on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies in Huangjia Town, the 4122nd Rocket Artillery Company at a depth of nine kilometers. In the direction where the 259th Wing could assemble according to Yanagawa Shinichi's retreat plan, it fired a salvo without a test firing without a test firing centered on the ammunition and material hoarding and within 300 meters of the northwest direction.

When Tao Jingfei secretly transferred to the direction of Gaozhuang, which is directly north of Huangjia Town, a whole four companies of sixteen 122 rocket artillery groups suddenly opened fire. The dazzling tail flames of the dense rockets launched crossed the early morning sky on the border of Jilu. It indicates that the entire battlefield east of Texas, which has been tug-of-war for nearly a month, has finally entered the stage of a general decisive battle.

Hitting such fixed targets, the disadvantage of the slightly inferior accuracy of the 122 rocket artillery in combat is no longer a fatal weakness. More than 600 rockets fell in just a few minutes, covering the entire small natural village of Dingligan, as well as most of the 259th Wing that entered the village one after another.

With the first start of the four one-two-two rocket artillery companies, this salvo was fired. In the entire battlefield east of Dezhou, from Huangjia Town in the east to the Leijiaying line at the junction of Ningjin and Dongguang in the west, dense artillery sounds sounded at the same time. On the battlefield east of Wuqiao to the front line of Leling, the Anti-Japanese Union, which had been held for more than 20 days, turned into a full-scale counteroffensive.

Under the cover of artillery fire, a regiment of the Anti-Japanese Union in front of Huangjia Town took the lead in pulling the prelude to the counteroffensive. Tao Jingfei threw an infantry regiment into Huangjia Town, and with the cooperation of the original blocking force, the whole regiment attacked. To the west of Huangjia Town, the remnants of the three squadrons left behind by the 259th Wing were defeated and forcibly tore a big hole in the original front of the 259th Wing.

Immediately after the breakthrough was opened, the regiment followed the battle plan and disregarded the forces that could not be evacuated abandoned by the 259th Wing. Immediately, the troops were divided into two routes, with two battalions on the first road as the backbone, and a formed battalion of the original combat unit was strengthened, which penetrated directly into the area between Leling County and Huangjia Town, cut off the route for the remnants of the 259th Wing to catch up with the main force of the 120th Division, and carried out a comprehensive encirclement of the 259th Wing.