Volume 1: Battle of Songhu Chapter 64 Ambush

Just after Xu 19 put on a new magazine and fired two short shots, the originally closed gate suddenly opened again, and a Japanese soldier carried a machine gun to the threshold, and at the same time, six or seven Japanese soldiers also appeared on the courtyard walls on both sides of the gate, raising their guns and firing at the same time in the direction where Xu 19 was.

Dare to love little Japan has been secretly calculating Xu 19's ammunition balance, planning to take advantage of Xu 19's replacement of magazines to have a firepower attack, but unfortunately, they ran into a real veteran.

Xu Shijiu ignored the bullets that swept past his ears, and when he pulled the trigger, it was a long point shot, and the scorching bullets were splashed like water in an instant, and the Japanese machine gunners who had just reached the threshold were beaten into a sieve in an instant, and the six or seven Japanese soldiers who were standing up straight from the courtyard wall and raising their guns to shoot were also shot, screaming and falling back into the courtyard.

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Wudoujing, the ambush position of the 306th regiment.

Qiu Weida smoked cigarettes one after another, the expression on his face looked a little anxious, Xu Shijiu's nineteenth brigade in the south had already launched an attack on the Japanese army in Gujiazhai, but there was no movement in the direction of Zhouzhai and Shenjiaqiao in the north, Qiu Weida couldn't help but wonder, could it be that Xu Shijiu's intelligence was wrong, or his own judgment was wrong?

Speaking of which, Qiu Weida is only in his early thirties, and he is sharp, and it is inevitable that he will have the frizziness of young people.

Liu Zhenwu, deputy of the 306th Regiment and commander of the 1st Battalion, even had a cold sweat in his palms, Liu Zhenwu can be regarded as a veteran of a hundred battles, he has fought the Beiyang Army, the Northwest Army, and the Red Army, but it is the first time to fight with Little Japan, and they all say that Little Japan is very ferocious and capable of fighting, so nervousness is inevitable.

"It's coming, little Japan is coming!" 3. Battalion Commander Hu Hao suddenly rushed back from the front.

Qiu Weida's expression suddenly lifted up when he heard this, and he immediately threw the cigarette butt at his feet and stepped on it, and then took out the Browning pistol from the holster, clickered the bolt and then turned his head and shouted: "Prepare to fight!" ”

Liu Zhenwu, the commander of the 1st battalion, wiped the cold sweat on his trouser leg and grasped the detonator.

The 51st Division had an engineer company belonging to the division, and when Wang Yaowu was about to set out for the battle, he split the engineer company into platoons and followed the regiments, and the explosives and detonation devices carried by the engineers came in handy.

After a while, there were bright headlights in front of him, and even the roar of the car engine could be heard very clearly under the silent night sky, Qiu Weida counted roughly, just as Xu Shijiu said, there were more than a dozen side three-wheeled motorcycles and six or seven trucks or armored vehicles, and there were many devil infantry, not to mention a brigade!

Pressing the trigger of the pistol with his fingers, Qiu Weida's heart couldn't help but pound.

Liu Zhenwu, the commander of the 1st battalion, felt that the eggs under his crotch were trembling, and the back of his right hand holding the detonator had even raised green tendons, but after all, the 306th Regiment was an old army that had experienced a hundred battles.

The Japanese army was ignorant and swaggered into the ambush circle of the 306th Regiment, saying that the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army were powerful, but in fact they were not so powerful at the beginning, but they were fought little by little in the Sino-Japanese all-out war.

The Japanese army finally completely entered the ambush position, Qiu Weida raised his pistol to shoot at the sky, and Liu Zhenwu, the commander of the 1st battalion, also fiercely pulled down the detonator, and in the next moment, more than a dozen bombardments buried on the road suddenly exploded, and in the dazzling red light, two trucks and an armored car in the convoy had been overturned at the same time.

The highway bridge over Wudoujing was also blown up.

At the same time, the officers and men of the 306th Regiment who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road also opened heavy fire, and dozens of light and heavy machine guns and thousands of rifles were suddenly intertwined into a dense crossfire.

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The 11th Division of the Japanese Army has built an advance base at the Lion Forest Battery.

By the early morning of 30 August, not only had an advance base been built at the Lion Forest Battery, but the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing, which was directly under the division, had also set up an artillery position near the Lion Forest.

At the meeting, the commander of the 11th Division, Munetake Yamamuro, conveyed the order of the commander of the Dispatch Army, Matsui Ishone, and heard that Matsui Ishone was going to transfer the 5th Tank Brigade and the 10th Independent Heavy Artillery Wing directly under the Dispatch Army to the 11th Division, and several wing commanders were excited.

When it comes to the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, they are usually classified as first-class divisions, but in fact, these 17 permanent divisions are also divided into three different levels.

In the early days of the Japanese Army, there were no trucks, and the artillery had to be pulled or carried by animal power, and it was divided into two categories: the horse division and the pack horse division according to the different types of animal power.

The packhorse division is only equipped with mountain artillery with light weight and small caliber, and marches through pack horses, which has lower requirements for roads, and is more similar in nature to mountain divisions, but it is not a professional mountain division.

In the early thirties of the twentieth century, the Japanese Army also began to follow the trend of shijie to try mechanization, and successively organized the Guards Division and the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Kwantung Army into mechanized heavy divisions.

Therefore, even the 17 permanent divisions are divided into mechanized heavy divisions, horse pulling divisions, and pack horse divisions, and the 11th division of Yamamuro Sotake is a pack horse division, and the 11th Wing of the mountain artillery belongs to only 36 75mm caliber mountain guns, and the firepower configuration is the weakest among the 17 permanent divisions.

Even though the firepower was weak, the mountain artillery wing of the 11th Division did not set up an artillery position until tonight.

The naval aviation's previous support for the 11th Division was also relatively limited, so the 11th Division has fought relatively hard since it landed, and the reason why the 44th Infantry Wing of Zhiying II was able to cripple Peng Shan's 11th Division was not by virtue of firepower superiority, but by the superb tactical command ability of this old devil.

However, with the tank brigade and the independent heavy artillery wing, the Japanese army's firepower advantage is quite obvious, and Matsui Ishine has adjusted the operational focus, and in the next combat operations, naval aviation is bound to provide more fire support to the 11th Division, so the Japanese army's firepower advantage will be even greater.

Starting tomorrow, the Luodian battlefield will be completely under the control of the Japanese army.

He Zhiying Er confidently said to Yamamuro Zongwu: "Division commander, the Zhina Army opposite Luodian has not much combat power left, early tomorrow morning, our 44th Infantry Wing will launch a full-line onslaught on the front line of Shixianggongmiao, I believe that before dark tomorrow, the division commander can stand at the head of Jiading City and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the sunset." ”

Anda Twenty-Three couldn't help but question: "Hezhisan, will you be too optimistic?" ”

Wing Commander of the 22nd Infantry Wing, Yongjin Zuobi, also said: "Since the start of the Songhu War, the tenacity of the Chinese Army has exceeded the imagination of the empire, and we must admit that the combat effectiveness of the Central Army of China, especially the will to fight, is by no means comparable to the Northeast Army of China. ”

He Zhiying said: "The two of you are too worried, before dark yesterday, I only invested a team to launch a tentative attack, and as a result, I easily captured Luodian, what does this mean?" This shows that the opposite branch of the army is already exhausted, and there is not much left, and tomorrow when we fight again, our department can break through the defense line of Shi Xianggongmiao without much effort. ”

Then, he boasted about the fishing tactics he had concocted.

Anda Twenty-three, Yongjin Zuobi, Asami Yoshio and other infantry wing captains were a little disappreciative in their hearts, but if the Luodian battle situation was really as he said with Zhiying Er, then the first merit of the Battle of Songhu would only fall on this guy's head, and the few wing captains were a little uncomfortable when they thought of this.

When Yamamuro Sowu heard this, his spirits were greatly lifted.

If the Chinese army in front of Luodian had been completely crippled as Zhiying had said, the battle situation would undoubtedly be under the control of the 11th Division, because intelligence from Nanking showed that Chinese reinforcements from all over the country who had been transferred to Shanghai would not arrive at Luodian until at least tomorrow when it was dark.

There was a whole day, enough time for the Hezhi United to capture Jiading.

However, Yamamuro Sotake's good mood only lasted less than half a minute, and Katamura Shihachi, chief of staff of the 11th Division, hurriedly walked into the conference room and said to Kazuchi Yingji: "Kazuchi-san, your adjutant just called, saying that the Yamauchi brigade was ambushed by the Shina army on the way to help Gu's house, and the situation is critical, you should hurry back to Zhou's house." ”

"Nani?!" He Zhiying's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears.

Yamamuro Sowu also frowned for a moment, and looked at the eyes of Zhiying Er with some displeasure, this guy just said that the Chinese army opposite Luodian did not have many troops, but as soon as the words fell, an infantry brigade of the 44th Infantry Wing was ambushed by the Chinese army, what is this called?

Several of the co-captains began to sneer.

"And Zhisan, it seems that you didn't catch a fish, but you were caught by a fish instead?"

"As I said earlier, the people of China are very cunning, and they should not be underestimated, and they should not be underestimated."

"Division commander, it seems that you won't be able to enjoy the sunset at the head of Jiading City tomorrow."

In the face of the cynicism of his colleagues in the army, one of the faces of Zhiying Er was almost a monkey's ass, and he couldn't stay in the division headquarters, so he said goodbye to Yamamuro Sotake: "Division commander, I'll go back to Zhou's house first." ”

Yamamuro Sowu didn't take this matter to heart, in his mind, even if the Yamauchi brigade was ambushed by the national army, there would be no problem, after all, there was still a gap between the Chinese and Japanese armies in terms of equipment, and the terrain near Luodian was open, even if the war was unfavorable, it was not difficult for the Japanese army to break through.

At that moment, Yamamuro Zongwu waved his hand and said, "Go quickly." ”

"Hello!" He Zhiying Er lowered his head and closed his feet, turned around and left.