Chapter 216: The Battle of Qikou is drawn from the bottom of the cauldron
It's just that what Lieutenant General Yuan Shou has been looking forward to, and it is also the aviation support promised by the North China Front, and it is not known when it will arrive. The first letter of the new domain name novel network (), the largest free romance Chinese website, hurry up. Bayi Chinese said w said w said w 8.8 net 1 zw.com but around the battlefield where he was, there had been silence for a whole night of artillery fire. But it was the first to resound again in a dense manner on the front and flanks of its attack.
The shells that came from the depth of the Anti-Japanese Union in front of him smashed the main force of the 9th Division on the front line of Tiger Wolf Village, as well as the head of the 6th Navy on the left flank. On the line from Tiger Wolf Village to Sun Zhengzhuang, the Japanese troops were drowned in a pouring rain composed of steel.
With the sound of artillery, a question that had previously puzzled the Japanese army, including Okamura Ninji and Uchiyama Eitaro, plus the commander of the 47th Army, Yoshio Kamitsuki, and the commander of the Lieutenant General Division who had recently joined the war. With the dense cannon fire for a while, it finally came to light.
The anti-United Nations tank cluster, which had made the entire North China Front army work hard and could not be found, has finally appeared. It's just a place to show up, but it's definitely not a good thing for Lieutenant General Hara Mamoru and Sekihara No. 6 who are fighting on the front line, as well as their subordinates.
When Lieutenant General Hara Shou was terrified, he finally waited for the dawn to come. However, as the morning sun rose, accompanied by the sound of anti-union artillery again, a large number of anti-United tank clusters appeared on the entire Qikou frontal battlefield, from Sunzhengzhuang in the north to Sanhuzhuang in the south, and under the cover of infantry, they attacked the two flanks and frontal Japanese troops in front of the entire Qikou battlefield.
Facing the front and behind the flanks, it was as if a cluster of tanks suddenly emerged from underground, as well as a large number of infantry. As well as the overwhelming shells that fell overhead, Lieutenant General Hara Shou was stunned, and immediately ordered all units to immediately turn to the defense on all fronts.
He also ordered the Navy Special 6th Combat Team in Sun Zhengzhuang, which belonged to his command, and the troops remaining on the beachhead, to immediately move closer to Tiger Wolf Village and the main force of the Ninth Division. At the same time, he telegraphed to Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6, hoping that his 44th Division would also move closer to the direction of Tiger Wolf Village at the same time. In order to hold the two divisions together and form a complete defensive system.
However, Lieutenant General Sekihara did not give any reply to his opinions. ww small w small. w.com Looking at the billowing smoke and sky-high flames in the direction of Sanhuzhuang in the telescope, as well as the anti-coalition planes constantly circling above the heads of the 44th Division, Lieutenant General Yuan Shou sighed slightly, and never continued to order contact with the 44th Division.
This actual ground operation had just begun, and it lost contact with the 44th Division of its friendly neighbors, which undoubtedly cast a dark shadow over the operation. The first letter of the new domain name novel network (), the largest free romance Chinese website, hurry up. What made Lieutenant General Hara Shou even more troublesome was that he had not only lost contact with the 44th Division, but also had radio contact with his superior, Lieutenant General Yoshio Kamitsuki, including the North China Front Command, all of them at the same time.
Seeing that the radio communication corps was constantly desperately calling the commander of the army, but never received any response, several high-power radio stations in the division headquarters were as silent as death. However, with a hint of foreboding in his heart, the former lieutenant general immediately contacted the beachhead defenders, asking them to hold the beachhead at any cost, and reserve the last passage for the whole army to retreat if needed.
It's just that the beachhead is also silent about his call. The only thing that could give him an answer was billowing smoke and skyrocketing fires rising from the beachhead. After a moment's hesitation, after determining the loss of radio contact. Lieutenant General Hara sent one of his best staff officers to immediately return to the beachhead and convey the order to Okushin Daisa, who was holding the beachhead.
Although at the moment, the beachhead is not expected to be very optimistic. But in the heart of Lieutenant General Yuan Shou, there is still a certain hope of luck. After all, it has only been bombarded over there, and it has not yet been attacked from the ground. The losses may be heavy, but there may be hope for the situation to recover.
Lieutenant General Yuan Shou's reaction can't help but be quite fast, but Du Kaishan, who has been thinking about it for a long time, if he can let him achieve his goal, wouldn't he have calculated in vain for so long? finally attracted the Japanese army who boarded the 6th, where would he let go of this rare opportunity for himself?
Moreover, the two armored divisions in his hands plus an independent tank regiment concentrated more than half of the tanks in the entire Hebei battlefield. w中w中w.中8文1z一w中.网c一o八m文If you can't play a full house and swallow these Japanese soldiers on the Qikou front line in one go, he Du Kaishan will not have a face to see when he goes back. So Du Kaishan came up with all his strength and played all the hole cards in his hand.
After throwing himself into a counterattack on the whole front, Du Kaishan reinforced the strength of a regiment with a tank battalion of the 1st armored division and went straight to Sun Zhengzhuang. The main force of the 1st Armored Division and the two infantry regiments directly targeted the combination of the 9th and 44th Divisions of the Japanese Army, and first attacked Sun Zhengzhuang's 6th Naval Squadron.
At the same time, the 2nd Armored Division and an independent tank regiment, reinforced 1 infantry division and 1 reinforced infantry regiment were used to attack from the rear of the Japanese flank, Taiping Town in the north, and Xinzhuang in the south. Du Kaishan's determination is very clear, that is, he wants to give him all the Japanese troops participating in the battle from Sun Zhengzhuang to Sanhuzhuang.
Du Kaishan was ready to first solve the weakest link of all the forces of the entire Deng6 Japanese Army, Sun Zhengzhuang's first-line Japanese Navy Special 6th Combat Team. Its overall intention is very clear, that is, to deal with the weakest Japanese army first, break off one arm of the Japanese army in front of Qikou, and use its left flank as the entire breakthrough point.
At the same time as Du Kaishan's attack, the anti-Japanese coalition's air attack aircraft group stationed in the North China battlefield, as well as some bomber groups, were almost dispatched. High-explosive bombs and napalm were used to carry out large-scale air strikes on the line from Qikou in the east to Sunzhengzhuang to Sanhuzhuang in the west.
The air support that Lieutenant General Hara Shou was expecting was delayed, and the bombs of the anti-United Nations aviation units were the first to fall overwhelmingly. In particular, the troops who were left behind by the former lieutenant general to guard the Qikou line and ascend to the 6th beachhead were the brunt of the ground attack by the anti-Japanese coalition attack on the attack aircraft group and bomber group.
The air force dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Union gave face to the Japanese troops who stayed behind at Qikou and the beachhead on the first line of the Zhangju River. Compared with the Il-2 attack aircraft invested by the Tiger Wolf Village front-line anti-alliance, as well as the SBD dive bomber group, plus all the gunboat aircraft, the aircraft group dominated by light ground attack aircraft.
In order to give enough face to the Japanese troops who remained on the beachhead on the Qikou line, a full 54 B-25 bombers were dispatched, with B-25 bombers as the core, plus some British-made Wellington medium bomber groups. Ignoring the sparse anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground of the Japanese army, at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the Japanese positions in the entire Qikou beachhead area were directly carpeted from north to south.
First, tons of high-explosive bombs were used to baptize the entire Japanese beachhead on the first line from Qikou to Zhangju River. Before the remnants of the Japanese army could catch their breath, more than a dozen B24 heavy bombers arrived one after another, using 30 tons of napalm to ignite a sky-high fire on the line from Qikou to Zhangjuhe.
On this unobstructed beachhead, he was left behind by the former lieutenant general to hold the beachhead. In order to reserve a retreat route for the Japanese troops when the battle situation is unfavorable. Under the carpet group bombing carried out by the bomber group dispatched by the Anti-United Nations, there were heavy casualties.
The lethality of high-explosive bombs and napalm turned the entire line of Qikou and Zhangjuhe into a human purgatory that constantly devoured the Japanese army. The fire caused by dozens of tons of napalm and the black smoke rising from the ignition of a large amount of war materials can be clearly seen from more than a dozen kilometers away.
The supplies and heavy equipment that were finally sent ashore were covered with camouflage nets, and some camouflage was done as much as possible to try to protect these materials that were extremely critical to the follow-up operation, and there would be no accidents before the transfer was completed. But what I encountered was carpet bombing, and those camouflage nets did not play any role at all.
Piled up on the line of Qikou and Zhangju River, these trucks were either destroyed along with the Deng6 ships, or were blown up and sunk on the bottom of the sea, and the transportation capacity was strictly lacking, and there was no time to wave the materials and heavy equipment that the Japanese expected them to wield. Almost all of the embers were lost in the bombardment and fire. This included almost all the reserve ammunition that the Japanese troops had brought ashore, as well as seven full days of combat rations.
In fact, the cost-effectiveness ratio of carpet bombing of field targets is actually very low. However, for the Japanese army, which had rushed to transport a large number of war materials and piled up on the Qikou beachhead after the Anti-Japanese Union stopped shelling, and there was still time to evacuate because of the limitation of transportation capacity, the effect of this bombing was diametrically opposite.
Although the bombing may seem like a waste, the results achieved are quite rich. In addition to the heavy casualties of the Japanese troops who held on to the beachhead, almost all the Japanese supplies hoarded on the beachhead were destroyed. Undoubtedly, Du Kaishan's next battle has played a crucial role in drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle.
Du Kaishan's hand can be said to have hit the waist of the Japanese army's 6th division. Without ammunition and food, even if Du Kaishan could not solve these two Japanese divisions in a short period of time, at least they could lose the ability to continue fighting.
At least two divisions of the Japanese army on the 6th, after running out of ammunition in their hands. Unless the Japanese 6th Army is resupplying, their guns will all be cut off. This was definitely not good news for the Japanese army, which had suffered considerable damage to its heavy weapons during the transportation process, and the amount of ammunition carried by the team was even more insufficient.
Similar to the fact that there was no longer a source of reserve ammunition, the two divisions of the Japanese army that participated in the war were in the theater east of Jinpu Road, where they had already completed the clearing of the strong wall and wanted to conquer on the spot, but had nowhere to go to the theater. Either find a way to break through the resistance of the Anti-United Nations before the little field food you carry with you is exhausted. Either the whole army will fight bloodily with the enemy army to the end, regardless of hunger.
Although the entire coast of Bohai Bay has begun to turn green, wild vegetables are gradually beginning to emerge. But for Japanese people who don't have a tradition of eating wild vegetables, it's impossible to get them to eat those grasses. At least those that can be eaten and those that can't be eaten, they can't tell the difference at all.
The bombardment of the Qikou and Zhangjuhe beachheads by Du Kaishan really had a decisive impact on the battle situation, not how many Japanese troops were eliminated in the bombing, but the destruction of the Japanese army's long-range artillery interception, which was originally considered not to have much reserve combat materials. It greatly weakened the Japanese army's ability to sustain combat, which was really fatal to the Japanese army.
The Ninth Division, which was left by the former lieutenant general to hold the beachhead to ensure the final retreat of the two divisions, and the commander of the 35th Wing, Okushin Vo, could only look at the messy beachhead without tears.
After the loss of the wing commander, part of the strength of the 94th Wing of the 44th Division, which was assigned to his command, and the only four remaining squadrons of his 35th Wing, are now very small. Not to mention going to meet the main force of the division in front, even if you want to stick to the beachhead, you don't have this strength.