Chapter 196: Counterattack on all fronts

Chen Hanzhang believes that at present, in fact, the Texas battlefield and the Texas West battlefield have become one, and stability should still be the priority. Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said the Internet, look at the most ridiculous Yan Qing girl Er said? Eight?? One Chinese? Net? w?ww?. 81zw.com first ate the two 100th and 118th divisions at the moment, and held a 22nd division in his hand, and looked at a follow-up division of the Japanese army.

As for how to go next, it depends on the situation after the two of them are eaten first. As for the 22nd Division in the direction of Dezhou, it was still sandwiched first, taking advantage of the situation that the two armies had been completely mixed together in the frontal battlefield of Dezhou, and stubbornly entangled the 22nd Division so that it could not divide its troops, and weakened it layer by layer by using the superiority of artillery, so that it could not divide its troops and take care of other things.

The tactical counterattack against the 120th Division on the Leling front line was originally scheduled to be put aside for the time being. It is better to concentrate the troops and firepower that can be concentrated in the eastern cluster, and it is better to deal with the battle in northwest Shandong. As long as the battle in the northwestern Shandong battlefield is resolved, there will also be major changes in the shape of the entire Hebei and Lu borders.

After receiving Chen Hanzhang's callback, Yang Zhen smiled, Chen Hanzhang's thinking basically coincided with his own. Regarding Chen Hanzhang's reply, Yang Zhen only gave the word "agree". For the originally planned counterattack on the 120th Division, Yang Zhen agreed to stop for the time being, and first concentrate his forces and energy on the two flanks of Texas.

However, Yang Zhenjian said that in the frontal battlefield of northern Lubei, it was still necessary to take continuous local counterattacks, so as to contain the various units of the Japanese army in the northern Lubei battlefield and have no time to take care of other things. As for the other words, Yang Zhen didn't say a word. As for how to fight, with Chen Hanzhang's on the Eastern Front, Yang Zhen knew that he didn't have to worry too much.

Under the condition that most of the main force of the 72nd Division was annihilated, and the remnants of the troops could be completely solved at any time. The entire battlefield on the Eastern Front has now become a live chess piece. How to fight, let Chen Hanzhang judge and make decisions for himself. You can devote your main energies to fighting on the entire Western Front.

As Yang Zhen issued several orders in a row, the anti-coalition forces that had already moved south immediately attacked along both sides of the Pinghan Line. With the start of the offensive on the Pinghan Line, the battlefield of the Pinghan Line, which had been relatively stable compared with the Eastern Front, immediately fell into turmoil. On both sides of the entire Pinghan Line, from Pingxiang to Huangzeguan, fell into a full-scale fierce battle.

In addition to attacking the 117th Division west of Pinghan Road with the strength of one regiment and the main force inserted behind it, the main force launched a full-line attack on the 50th Division on the spot. They stubbornly entangled the main force of the 50th Division, and cooperated with a division inserted from Ren County to divide and encircle the 50th Division.

And with the strength of a reinforced regiment, in conjunction with a mechanized infantry battalion. Along the gap left by the two divisions of the Japanese army, they advanced interspersed with the line of Linhao Pass. In order to cut off the rear route of the 117th Division, cooperate with the troops pressed down on the frontal battlefield, and encircle the 117th Division. Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said the Internet, and the most suspicious Yan Qing girl said

They received an order to build fortifications on the first line of Linhao Pass after seizing the first line of Linhao Pass, and even if the sky fell, they would keep an eye on the Japanese reinforcements before receiving orders from their superiors. And once it occupies the front line of Linwei Pass, the entire 117th Division will be completely dumpled.

At the same time, after receiving Yang Zhen's order, he was bitten by a detachment of the 117th Division during the retreat process. Behind him, he kept trying to come up and bite it, but he didn't exchange fire with the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region at all. It's just that he kept following behind him and took a sharp bite, and turned around several times to fight with him, but he shrank back, and he was very annoyed by the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region.

Immediately, with the cooperation of two brigades and three independent regiments, and with the strength of one independent regiment as bait, he took great pains to lure a detachment consisting of two infantry brigades, plus a squadron of mountain artillery, two mortar squadrons, and a detachment composed of one engineer squadron under the command of two infantry brigades, plus a squadron of mountain artillery, two mortar squadrons, and a section of engineers, into the encirclement and encircled Songjiazhuang between the Shahe River and the Xiaoma River.

The commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, who was actually bitten a few times by the Japanese army in front of him, almost had no 80-year-old lady and was a child, and he was almost not pecked by the eagle all day long, this time it was a real fire.

Not only mobilized all the artillery, but also took out the capital to take care of the house. He also directly told the cadres of each unit at and above the regimental level that if the Japanese army were to be released in this war, the military and political commanders of that unit would all be dismissed from their posts on the spot, and the unit would be abolished on the spot and incorporated into other units.

With his words, aren't the troops below going crazy? Besides, fighting this kind of war of annihilation is much more comfortable than the previous war of resistance. Although it was lured to besiege, there were some mistakes, resulting in some undue casualties. However, in this battle, the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region took the Dongniuyu line behind the Ikeda detachment, which was mainly behind the Ikeda detachment, and gradually compressed this Japanese detachment and trapped it on the Songjiazhuang line.

After taking control of all the commanding heights around Songjiazhuang, the commander and political commissar of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region came to the front line to direct the battle. With the strength of three regiments, from the east, west and north, under the cover of the artillery directly under them, they launched a general attack on the Japanese Ikeda detachment trapped on the front line of Songjiazhuang.

After repeated battles, they successively captured the commanding heights of Dushu, Beipo, Xiaoweiyu and other peripheral commanding heights, killing and wounding more than half of the main force of the Japanese Ikeda detachment, and suppressed it in Songjiazhuang Village. The victory in the battle made the two military and political chiefs of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region ruthlessly let out a bad breath in their hearts.

When Yang Zhen came up, he put on a posture of swallowing the two divisions of the Japanese army along the two flanks of the Pinghan Line in one gulp. The various divisions deployed on the second line pressed on the entire line, adopted the tactics of frontal breakthrough and forcible penetration on the flanks, and all the two divisions of the Japanese army were mixed up.

However, behind the entire Pinghan Road battlefield, a division of the Anti-Japanese Federation and a column of the Jin-Cha-Ji were secretly deployed along the junction of the Hebei-Jin Dynasty. A brigade from Jin-Cha-Ji reinforced a regiment in central Hebei, and had already secretly entered Shanxi, quietly seizing all key points around Huangyu Pass and Maguan Pass, and making preparations for battle.

In this battle, Yang Zhen tried his best to find a way to use the old troops with the new troops. Especially in some not very critical battles, he took a lot of measures in order to improve the new troops as much as possible. This includes not only the forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but also the troops in various strategic areas in North China under their own command. In order to make unified deployment and use, use the old to bring in the new, and speed up the growth of the new troops.

Therefore, when he transferred a brigade from Jinchaji to secretly stationed in Maguan and Huangyu Pass, he also strengthened a new regiment of the Jizhong Army. In addition to increasing the strength of this brigade that can be mobilized and used when needed, it is also aimed at using the old to lead the new and speed up the formation of the combat strength of the new troops.

At the same time as the Pinghan Road began, Chen Hanzhang also concentrated two more divisions on the battlefield to the east, and with the cooperation of the armored cluster, launched a full-line counterattack against the 100 divisions that had been attracted to Enxian to the old city. The focus was on the right flank of the 100th Division, cutting off the connection between the division and the Japanese army on the front line in Texas.

The tank unit in Chen Hanzhang's hands and the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Independent Combat Vehicle, which was assigned to the 100th Division, took the lead. At this time, the 4th Independent Tank Brigade, which was divided and used, was in the midst of the onslaught of the 72nd Division. The 76-millimeter cannon, which was formed into a trapezoidal shape by the Anti-Japanese Union and deployed in depth, adopted the tactics of long-range and near-range firepower coordination with the recoilless guns and bazookas of the front-line troops, and had already lost nearly half of its strength.

In particular, the 76-mm cannon equipped by the Anti-United Nations can easily penetrate the Soviet-style 350 armor-piercing projectile at a distance of 800 meters, and the 4th Brigade of Independent Combat Vehicles is equipped with the latest Type 3 tank of the Japanese army with 50 mm thick front armor. As for the Japanese army's comparison with the old Type 1 tank, if it were not for the slightly inferior observation and sighting system, it could have been completely destroyed at a distance of 1,000 meters.

At the beginning, when Chen Hanzhang had completed the encirclement of the 72nd Division, he received a telegram from Yang Zhen and specially sent the troops in front of the 100th Division to strengthen the establishment of this kind of support and anti-tank artillery, and added an additional batch of armor-piercing shells to be used by the artillery battalions of the troops participating in the battle.

This kind of anti-tank artillery is the first time since the large-scale equipment of the anti-tank that in addition to fire support, another important anti-tank work has been shown to be extremely good in the previous blocking battles. Taking advantage of its long range, high accuracy, and powerful armor-piercing shells, it destroyed more than 40 tanks of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Independent Tank after several days of fierce fighting.

In actual combat, this cannon was extremely good, and it completely destroyed the Japanese tanks when they hit it. In particular, when the anti-coalition forces used this artillery for anti-tank warfare, they adopted the tactics of cross-firing, and the lethality of the Japanese tanks was great.

In order to suppress this powerful artillery position of the Anti-Japanese Union, the 100th Division mobilized a large number of ground artillery to suppress fire during the attack. And before the 100th division attacked, Uchiyama Eitaro equipped it with a large number of artillery, which also gave it the strength to confront the anti-union artillery group.

In order to open the gap for the tank to cover the infantry, create the most advantageous fighter plane, especially to eliminate the anti-tank guns of the anti-coalition forces in the face. In the direction of the attack of the 100th Division, the Japanese artillery, which had invested almost all its artillery, and the artillery of the Anti-Japanese Union fought a very wonderful high-level artillery battle.

In the fierce battles between the two sides every day, the average number of shells fired by more than 75 mm caliber was about 3,000. On the positions of the anti-United Nations blocking troops, the maximum number of bombs dropped in a day reached 10,000. This figure does not include infantry guns fired by the Japanese, as well as mortar shells.

However, although the Japanese army has made a bloody investment, the artillery of the Anti-United Nations is also unambiguous. It is only that there are more artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 100 mm in the Anti-United Nations, but the four ** and seven Type 92 cannons reinforced by the 100 divisions have always suppressed the anti-United Nations artillery in the range at a maximum range of 18,000 meters. During the fierce fighting for several days, it posed a great threat to the artillery of the Anti-United Nations.

Fortunately, although the howitzer cannot compete with the Japanese cannon's group, the anti-United Nations rocket artillery group is not as accurate as these two Japanese cannons. However, both the range and the density of firepower were far superior to the two cannons of the Japanese army, effectively suppressing the Japanese long-range artillery group. did not let the Japanese cannon's artillery group cause too much loss to the blocking forces of the Anti-United Nations.

In addition, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro distributed the 4th Brigade of Combat Vehicles to various infantry brigades. This independent tank brigade of the 4th brigade, although equipped with the latest tanks of the Japanese army. However, in the entire previous blocking operation, it did not pose much threat to the forces of the Anti-United Nations.

Previously, on the battlefield of Zaonan, the focus of the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Federation had always been on the 72nd Division, and they did not care about the tank troops of the Japanese army. At present, the 72nd Division is dying, and the first thing that has been freed up is the Fourth Brigade of Independent Combat Vehicles.

This time, in order to seize the arrival of the follow-up troops of the Japanese army and complete the counter-outflanking of the 100th division, Chen Hanzhang can be said to have made a lot of efforts. Almost all the troops that could be mobilized, especially the armored units, were transferred to intersperse and outflank the two flanks of the 100th Division. Trying to use the assault power of the tank cluster to complete the encirclement of the 100th division as much as possible.