Chapter 22 Yingtan Raiders

Knowing one's own situation and that of the enemy. Invincible; Knowing oneself without knowing the other, one wins and one loses; I don't know who I am, I don't know myself, I will die in every battle - "Sun Tzu? Plotting to attack.

The role of intelligence is very important in warfare. Perhaps because he was a special soldier before he traveled, he often had to perform the work of collecting intelligence, and when he traveled to this time and space, when he was building the army, the mobile phone work of intelligence was put in the first place by Ouyang Yun. The establishment of the fox pupil and the heavy use of the wooden sword butterfly are all because of Ouyang Yun's emphasis on intelligence work.

This air raid operation can be described as success and defeat intelligence. In the final analysis, the great victories in the air raids at Quzhou and Xiaoshan airfields were due to the improvement of intelligence work. The reason why the 3rd Air Division suffered heavy losses, and even the division commander Kong Xiangjun was sacrificed, also stemmed from the lack of intelligence.

If the role of the Fox Pupil Agent is only to sabotage and the transmission of intelligence when he is passively defending, when he is actively attacking, the role of the Fox Pupil Agent is greater.

After the 8th Mixed Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army captured Guangrao and Yingtan in July this year, the brigade commander Major General Yoshige Mizuhara personally led the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd Independent Infantry Brigades and the Independent Artillery Corps to garrison Yingtan, and asked Chief of Staff Ida Mori Lin Zhongsa to lead the 34th and 35th Independent Infantry Brigades and the Independent Engineer Corps to garrison Guangrao, and then began to force Minfu to renovate the railway from Yingtan to Quzhou to prepare for the Japanese army's possible next military action.

As the halfway point between Yingtan and Gwangrao, the location of Yokoban is still quite important, so Suwon Yoshishige sent two squadrons belonging to the 31st Independent Infantry Brigade to be stationed at Yokoto. As the southeast gateway to Yokomine, the Japanese commander of Yokomine stationed one of the squadrons here in order to prevent the infiltration of the Cadet Army. The strength of a squadron is not small in other places, but it is not enough for the mechanized troops of the Cadet Army. The student army made a plan and then moved, except that the speed slowed down very slowly when crossing the mountainous area, and once it left the mountainous area, its speed suddenly soared.

Fifteen kilometers southeast of the lead mountain, the Japanese built fortifications that stuck directly on the only road leading to Fujian. A squad of devils was stationed here to be on guard, and when the reconnaissance unit of the Xuebing Army appeared in front of them on three-wheeled motorcycles and two-wheeled motorcycles, the two devils standing in front of the sentry box looked stupidly, and they didn't know that this was the enemy army.

The 8th Mixed Independent Brigade has no experience in fighting with the Cadet Army, they have only fought two battles in North China before, and in their cognition, the Chinese army can be described in one word: poor! How poor is it? Some troops don't even have uniform uniforms, and some soldiers hold weapons that are even more old-fashioned in Hanyang.

"Is it our army?"

"The clothes are a little weird!"

"It's a standing team, right?"

The first reaction of the two devil sentries was not to fire a warning gun, and they called to report, and then they didn't have this chance. Regarding this assault operation, Li Hansoul gave Deng Longguang only one instruction: Hurry! Pounce on it as fast as you can, without giving the Japanese a chance to react.

Before this operation, Fox Pupil's people had already sent over the distribution map of the Japanese army's forces in Yingtan and other places. With this set of drawings, Deng Longguang spared no effort in implementing it. The order he gave to the reconnaissance troops was to advance at full speed and strive to sweep away all the Japanese strongholds outside the city of Lead Mountain in one go.

Yingtan and Guangrao were stationed in Fujian not long after the student army was stationed, and the population moved south. At that time, Xue Yue wanted to see the jokes of the Xuebing Army, and he didn't care about the escape of the population, which caused a sharp decrease in the population of this area, and also caused a large area of barren fields. The barrenness of the fields facilitated the march of the mechanized units of the cadet corps, especially the tank units, which, after passing through the mountains, were no longer restricted by the roads, and at this moment they were all moving forward with full strength.

The battle broke out instantly, and when the two Japanese sentries finally felt bad when they saw the murderous expressions on the faces of the soldiers opposite, the machine guns on the first three-wheeled motorcycle went off. The bullets swept over like a torrential rain, and the two devils were instantly beaten into a hornet's nest, and they were sent flying without a snort.

The sound of gunfire alarmed the "large troops" of the Japanese army who were doing morning exercises on the barracks playground more than 100 meters away, and in the fierce assembly whistle, more than 30 devils quickly rushed out. Under the command of the battalion commander Ma Yiming, three three-wheeled motorcycles lined up, and three machine guns fired at the same time, and the Japanese were immediately put down seven or eight, and the rest quickly withdrew to the barracks.

The Japanese barracks were not located on the side of the road, but on the edge of a small grove about two hundred meters from the main road. A round of strafing pressed the devils into the unit, and the reconnaissance battalion did not stop at all, and continued to advance along the road, while at the same time, the vanguard of the 6th Division, the tank battalion of the 16th Brigade, drove over.

As soon as the reconnaissance battalion passed, the Japanese wanted to rush out to defend, and when they saw these dozens of tanks, all the devils immediately turned around and ran, and retreated into it again.

At 7:40 in the morning, the 6th Division launched an attack on Lead Mountain. The Japanese, under the command of squadron leader Ishii Joichiro, tried to counterattack in the early stage, but then they were pressed into the northwest corner of Lead Mountain, and they were never able to poke their heads out again.

Deng Longguang left a battalion of troops to continue to attack the stubborn enemy army, and then divided into two routes, all the way to Yiyang, all the way to Hengfeng.

At around eight o'clock, Mizuhara Yoshishige received a call from Yokomine's commander, Captain Inoue, in which Inoue said that the Shina Army had appeared in the southeast of Leadhill and that he was now leading his troops to support. Whether it was Inoue or Ishii, neither of them realized at first that this attack by the Cadet Army was a large-scale battle, and it was only regarded as an attack and disturbance operation. Inoue's reaction was so fast that he didn't even know the size of the enemy army. After receiving Ishii's report and passing it to Suwon, he immediately took the men and horses of his squadron and a puppet army of about a regiment to drive out of Hengfeng to rescue Leadshan, and then met the reconnaissance battalion of the Sixth Division on the way.

This time, the reconnaissance battalion did not choose to fight hard, but quickly turned the head of the car and ran away.

Faced with this situation, Inoue was first surprised, and then very proud. He was surprised that this branch army was actually riding motorcycles, and he was proud that the people of China were scared away by themselves without firing a shot. This made him more optimistic about the enemy's situation, and immediately ordered his troops to speed up. Half an hour later, the troops led by Inoue collided head-on with the tank battalion of the 6th Division.

The Sixth Division had a total of one regiment of tank troops, and because he knew the enemy's troop allocation, Wang Lan, the commander of the tank battalion who was in charge of the vanguard troops, was very worried that there would be no battle to fight on this trip.

Compared with the Japanese army's bean battles and Quirrell, the appearance and volume of the Jiguang tank are very scary, especially the tank gun with an extra-long barrel and a super-large caliber makes people feel chills when they see it.

"What's going on? How can there be tanks?! Captain Inoue exclaimed, knowing in his heart that Ishii had been fooled.

The battle was unsuspenseful, each of the twenty-eight tanks of the tank battalion fired only one shot at each tank, and the enemy troops broke up after a burst of machine gun bursts. The puppet army threw down their guns and ran away, and the Japanese first wanted to resist stubbornly, and after nearly 100 people were bombarded to the ground, they immediately joined the ranks of the puppet army to escape.

Inoue was still awake, knowing that he would only die faster if he ran away to deal with this kind of tank, which was much faster than his own tank, and he hissed and shouted: "Hold on, you can't run!" His shouting voice was also loud, but the morale of the troops was completely lost, so he shouted twice and was carried by the troops towards the lead mountain city.

"Catch up! Hit me hard! No one of the little devils is allowed to stay alive! After Wang Lan issued this order, he dragged the machine gunner down, and then went up to handle it himself.

After more than half an hour of chase, none of the devils in a squadron could run away.

The battle of the Sixth Division to capture Lead Mountain and Hengfeng went very smoothly, but it encountered a little trouble in Yiyang. The independent engineer team of the 8th Mixed Independent Brigade was repairing the railway in Yiyang at this time, and when the leader of the engineer team, Zhensheng Yuyu Shaozuo, received an order from Suwon to evacuate, they hastily planted hundreds of mines they carried, which caused more than a dozen casualties to the vanguard troops of the 17th Brigade of Xuexue who attacked Yiyang. After two three-wheeled motorcycles were blown up in succession, the brigade commander Tude lit a fire and let the tank battalion run over the tank battalion repeatedly in the suspicious area.

Compared with Lead Mountain and Hengfeng, Yiyang's defense was weaker, and as soon as the Japanese army's engineering troops retreated, Yiyang was left with the strength of the puppet army security regiment. And in the face of the steel chariots and cannons of the Xuebing Army, this puppet army didn't even have the courage to look at it, so it left Yiyang and scattered directly.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the enemy of Lead Mountain was completely annihilated, and so far, Lead Mountain, Hengfeng, and Yiyang were all mastered by the Xuebing Army. At about eleven o'clock, the 17th Brigade launched a fierce attack on Guixi. At the same time, when the 17th Brigade bit the Japanese army in Guixi, the 18th Brigade bypassed Guixi and Yingtan, and went directly to Jinxi by taking Turtle Ridge, Xiaoling, Lishan, and Shuangling.

Learning from the 18th Brigade to do this is actually a helpless move.

When Ouyang Yungang heard that Xue Yue had abandoned Yingtan, he was very shocked and angry - Yingtan, which is known as "connecting Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the east, controlling Ou Fujian in the south, choking the throat of Poshui, and blocking the gateway of Xinzhou", is really too advantageous in its geographical location. After he led the three brigades of the 8th Mixed Independent Brigade to capture Yingtan, he immediately sent the 32nd Brigade to be stationed in Jinxi and the 33rd Brigade to be stationed in Dongxiang, which immediately firmly choked the two main roads from Fujian and Jiangxi to Yingtan.

To attack Yingtan, the Xuebing Army could have chosen to send troops from Guangluang, but considering that Jinxi firmly choked the southwest gateway of Yingtan, now it can only choose to break through from the middle of Yingtan and Guangrao.