Chapter 83: Breaking the Game (1)

On the morning of 17 November, more than 8,000 people from the Ninth Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, with the assistance of more than 8,000 puppet troops, with more than 30 ironclad chariots, two wings of field artillery, and 8 aircraft, launched an all-out attack on Datong City.

In order to take Datong City as soon as possible, Major General Kunisaki Noboru chose to launch a full-scale attack, that is, part of the main attack feint, more than 16,000 infantry launched an attack on Datong City at the same time, any direction is the main attack, and all troops are the main force.

"Boom Boom"

"Boom Boom"

At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese shelled continuously for more than 20 minutes, and at the same time, Japanese fighters continued to dive and drop bombs on the Chinese troops guarding the outer positions.

The defenders did not show weakness, the air defense regiment and the artillery regiment counterattacked with all their might, and the battle entered a white-hot battle at the beginning, and the two sides engaged in a rare artillery battle, and the Japanese were shot down two fighters in less than three minutes after the battle, and the remaining six were urgently raised to the flight altitude, sweeping away the arrogance just now.

There is only one line of defense on the outskirts of Datong City, which is composed of trenches and permanent pillbox fire points, and is a mountain fortification attached to the fortress construction order, which is mainly built on a hill with an altitude of only more than 200 meters in the south of Datong City.

This hill is a very important commanding height outside Datong City, as long as this hill is controlled, the Japanese army will be suppressed if they want to attack Datong from the south gate and the west gate, so Li Wensheng put a regiment of troops here.

Originally, according to Chen Feng's idea, it was to directly abandon these peripheral positions and directly stick to the city fortifications. However, Li Wensheng believed that the position formed by these trenches and firepower points was very strong, and such a defensive line did not require much investment at all, and one regiment was enough to block half of the Japanese army's strength under Datong City, and it was a pity to give up.

Looking at the Japanese puppet army rushing over like a tide, the soldiers defending the city couldn't help but feel excited, such a dense crowd, with their shooting level, it was not a live target.

With the order of the front-line commander, all the light and heavy weapons on the defender's position opened fire at the same time, and the Japanese puppet troops fell to the ground one after another like a cut straw. At this time, the 75 anti-aircraft machine guns equipped in the defenders were very powerful, which greatly shocked these Japanese puppet troops who had not seen the power of anti-aircraft machine guns.

When the Japanese army launched an attack like the defenders of Datong, the Japanese troops stationed in Zhangbei, Xinghe, Shangdu and other counties took squadrons as units to sweep towns and villages outside the county seat. In each village, these Japanese devils first killed all the old people left behind, and then burned the village with a fire as punishment for the uncooperation of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Little Lama Mountain. Military Headquarters of the Sixty-first Army.

"Throne, Minister Hua is here." In the humble tent, Chen Feng was studying the battle plan, and Chen Tiebao came in and said.

"Oh, please come in!"

Soon, Hua Dajia walked in with a few telegrams, gave Chen Feng a military salute and said: "Military seat, Datong is in an emergency, an hour ago the Japanese army launched a full-scale attack on Datong, and the Japanese army not only dispatched tanks and armored vehicles, but also aircraft, and a large number of artillery!" ”

"The result?" Chen Feng asked with a smile, he trusted the defense capability of the fortress produced by the system, and he believed that there was no way to take the city defense fortifications of Datong City with the 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery of the Japanese army.

"What else, the first round of attacks has been repulsed, Japanese corpses are scattered all over the field, 5 fighters have been shot down, and our army has suffered very few losses."

"Expected!" Chen Feng said with a smile.

"In addition, this morning, the Japanese troops stationed in Zhangbei, Xinghe, Fengzhen, Jining, Shangdu, and Tianzhen launched a sweep with squadrons and squadrons as units to the villages and towns within the jurisdiction of our army. Flower Foot continued to report.

"What, didn't I order all the villages to be moved, how could anyone stay in the village? What do those county officials, township officials, and village officials do to eat? Chen Feng said angrily.

"Junzuo, that's the case, they received your order and resolutely carried it out, but you also know that the old people are in line with the idea of guarding their homes and the ground, and they are all old, they can't stand the toss at all, and many old people are unwilling to transfer, so every village will leave some old people who can't walk to guard the village, but I didn't expect those Japanese beasts to even let go of the old people." Flower Foot explained.

"That's the lesson! Have you figured out the specific situation of the Japanese garrison? Chen Feng asked after pondering for a while.

"It has been figured out that the 1st Brigade of the 11th Wing of the 26th Brigade of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Zhangbei, and there is also an infantry battalion of the puppet army, with a total strength of more than 1,450 people. Garrisoned in Xinghe were the Independent Baggage Wing of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army and the Second Brigade of the 11th Wing, with a total strength of more than 4,400 troops. Garrisoned in Fengzhen were the wing headquarters of the 11th Wing of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army and the Third Brigade, with a total strength of more than 1,600 people. The first brigade of the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Shangdu, with a total strength of about 1,100 people. Garrisoned in Jining were more than 1,000 people from the 4th Cavalry Brigade and the 2nd Cavalry Division of the puppet army. Garrisoned in Tianzhen was an infantry brigade of more than 1,000 people from the Yamashita Brigade of the Japanese Army, and there was no puppet army. Flower Foot replied.

"Very good, that is to say, the Japanese army is only more than 10,000 troops scattered in the outer counties of Datong, and the rest of the troops are outside Datong City, it seems that the little devil is determined to eat us, hehehe!" Chen Feng said with a sneer.

"Commander, what should we do then, do we just let the little devils slaughter our compatriots and burn our villages?" Hua Dajia asked in a deep voice.

"Where has the cavalry group been, and when is it expected to reach Cullen?" Chen Feng asked intently.

"There are Japanese planes patrolling during the day, so our troops can only move at night, and if it goes well, it will take three days to reach Kulen, and if it doesn't, it will take seven or eight days."

"Then order the troops to wait, when the cavalry troops arrive in Kulen, when will we start, and Lao Tzu will let the little devil kill with one blow, don't dare to say anything else, none of these ten thousand little devils have run." Chen Feng said coldly.

At sunset, the sun is like blood outside Datong City.

After a whole day of fighting, the Japanese puppet army finally saw the strength of Chen Feng's department, although the Ninth Brigade fought very bravely, and organized 8 attacks in one day, but without exception, they were easily repelled by the Chinese army, even if it was commanded by Major General Noboru Kunisaki himself.

In the conference room of the joint headquarters of the Japanese army in Shilipu Town, the atmosphere was swept away from yesterday's relaxation, and looking at Major General Kunizaki Noboru who looked like a big dumpling tied to his head, all the officers were very uncomfortable.

"Kunisaki-kun, how are the casualties of the troops?" Today's battle, Seishiro Itagaki has been observing, from a tactical point of view, Noboru Kunisaki's command is already perfect, even if he is replaced, it may not be much better than Noboru Kunisaki, but even so, he was defeated, and he was completely defeated.

"It's very heavy, the Imperial Army killed 1,611 people and wounded 2,219 people, and the 2nd Infantry Division of the Imperial Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties!" Noboru Kunisaki said with a trembling voice.

"Hiss" Everyone couldn't help but gasp, they all knew that today's battle was very tragic, and they didn't expect the casualties to be so heavy. The Ninth Brigade suffered more than 3,800 casualties, which is already more than half of the casualties, while the Second Infantry Division of the Imperial Allied Army has only more than 8,000 people in total, and it lost more than 6,000 people in the first battle, which is already considered disabled.

On the first day of the war, nearly 10,000 people were lost, how to fight this battle, the most important thing is that the casualties were so heavy that even the outer positions of the Zhina army were not taken, and even a section of the city wall was not collapsed.

"Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi of the Lingshi Aviation Regiment has just telegraphed that in order to support our army's operations in today's First World War, the Provisional Aviation Regiment was shot down by the Shina Air Defense Force, and 17 fighters were injured. In addition, we lost 33 tanks, which is almost a third of the tank troops we have now, and at the same time the artillery losses were not small, 6 mountain guns were destroyed, and more than 120 soldiers were lost. Seishiro Itagaki added.

All the Japanese officers gasped again, grandma's, when did the Chinese army become so strong, fighting planes and tanks so well, many of them watched today's battle, and indeed saw that the imperial army suffered a lot of losses, from time to time there were planes in the sky and volleys, and from time to time there were tanks on the ground that were destroyed, but I didn't expect the tank troops and aviation units to be so badly damaged.

"Don't be discouraged, all of you, although the enemy's combat strength exceeds our estimates, but because of this, we can also conclude that the city must be the main force of the 61st Army, and the prey that falls into the trap will not be able to escape no matter how ferocious it is." Seishiro Itagaki said in a deep voice.

At this time, Major General Noboru Kunisaki suddenly stood up and said to Major General Seiichiro Yuhara: "Yuhara-kun, please forgive me, I offended yesterday, you are right, this Shina army is indeed different from other Shina armies!" ”

"Kunisaki-kun, our warriors of the Great Japanese Empire will not be intimidated by difficulties, although this army is powerful, we are not helpless against them." Major General Seiichiro Yuhara said in a deep voice.

"Oh, what do you have in mind?" Seishiro Itagaki asked.

"Since we can't take down this branch of the army with the cooperation of land and air, we can only attack from the underground. I have fought against this Chinese army, their actual combat effectiveness is not as strong as we imagined, many of them are newly recruited recruits, the reason why they caused such heavy casualties to the imperial army is entirely because their weapons and equipment are stronger than the imperial army, especially in automatic firepower is far beyond the configuration of the imperial army's field troops. In today's battle, all the kings have seen that whether it is the small hill in the southwest or the army on the city wall, they have a machine gun almost every ten meters, and the intensity of fire is far beyond our imagination, coupled with the strong fortifications of the city, so they can cause such heavy casualties in a short period of time. Therefore, the lowly government believes that if it is attacked as it is today, it will only increase the casualties. Rather than this, it is better to find a different way. Major General Seiichiro Yuhara said loudly.