Chapter 258: Defeat is like a tide
At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Yu Jishi's 74th Army was the first to rush to the Fengxin area. It was Xue Yue's idea to let Yu Jishi's 74th Army be the vanguard, and it turned out that his suggestion saved a lot of trouble. When the Ninth War Zone evacuated Gao'an, Yu Ji sent someone to inform Chu Tiange's guerrilla troops about the incident, which made Xu Zhi prepared and directly sniped the 33rd Division at Lion Gate. Now, the major named Guo Huizhang is still with Xu Zhi. Ouyang Yun accepted his affection, so he naturally took care of Liu Zheliang and the others to be polite to the 74th Army. As a result, the officers of the Cadet Army, who were still thinking of humiliating the Central Army, saw that it was the 74th Army that completely annihilated the 17th Division of the Japanese Army in Madang.
When the Xuebing Army and the Ninth War Zone began to change guards, the fierce battle on the side of Yongxiu County had already begun. Yokoyama Yong had the experience of fighting at the Lion Gate and learning from the Eighteenth Division, only parrying and not fighting back, and since then he thought that it was easier for the Jews to be vulnerable. However, less than an hour after the two sides started fighting, the 10th Division gave an account to the two brigades, and even the artillery was also taken. In terms of the will to fight, the Jews were indeed inferior to the Japanese army, but Yokoyama did not know how to do it, and the reason why he achieved an overwhelming advantage at the Lion Gate and was able to launch a steady stream of attacks was that due to the influence of the terrain, the chariot troops of the 18th Division failed to play a role. Even Menquelli only kept filling up the troops for defense, which gave the Japanese the opportunity to give full play to their jade crushing tactics. Yongxiu is surrounded by water on both sides, and because of the severe cold, both the Ganjiang River and the Xiushui River have frozen into a flat river. Such a terrain was too conducive to the exertion of the chariot troops, so after only an hour of fighting, Arthur adopted the strategy of retreating first and then counterattacking twice, first letting the infantry lure the enemy deeper, and then sending the chariot troops to launch a counter-charge. In this way, not only was it always possible to recapture the positions lost by the infantry before, but also induced the Japanese to use artillery first. After two hours of fierce fighting, Qian Guangming's Xuejiu Division entered the right flank of the Japanese army from Lixinxiang, while at the same time, Chu Tiange's mixed guerrilla division of the first and second divisions went straight to Jiangshang Township through the mountain road in Baofeng Township, which was less than 10 kilometers away from Jiangshang Township at this time.
When the Ninth Division appeared on the battlefield, Yokoyama Yong knew that the battle had not begun. Not to mention that the troops directly under the headquarters of the 11th Army led by Sotake Yamamuro had been sniped by the 3rd Guerrilla Division in the direction of Panyang County, that is, they were able to appear in time to join the flanking attack in the southeast of Yongxiu County, and in the absence of powerful anti-tank weapons, the result was nothing more than a delay for a while.
Yoshio Shinozuka and Motojiro Taniguchi agreed to Isamu Yokoyama's suggestion to go to Yongshu and attack Nanchang again, which had already revealed their determination to rescue Okamura Ninji, which was not very strong. Therefore, once they found that the heavy troops of the Xuebing Army appeared on the Yongxiu battlefield (the Japanese collectively refer to the relatively high degree of armoring of the Xuejiu Division), they thought that they had achieved the role of helping Okamura Ningji attract the firepower of the main force of the Xuebing Army, so after discussing with Yokoyama Yong, they sent a report on the battlefield situation to Okamura Ningji and began to retreat along the original road.
Ouyang Yun gave up encircling and annihilating the remnants of Okamura Ningci and surrendered the fruits of victory to the Ninth War Zone, so it was naturally impossible to let go of the 10th Division and the 108th Division that had already been sent to the door. Under his order, the 9th and 17th Divisions immediately went into a counteroffensive, and at the same time, the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division, under the command of Bai Tassel, took the beach stream and covered the past directly in the direction of due north.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the 10th Division and the 108th Division, while leaving four brigades to snipe and pursue the Cadet Army, retreated in panic to the areas of Tong'an and Duanyangzui. Tong'an and Duanyangzui are located in the middle of Jiangshang Township and Yongxiu County, at this time, Hengshan Yong proposed that he could not retreat according to the original road, and suggested going directly to the north, and then crossing Xiushui to Zhajin Town. Yoshio Shinozuka and Motojiro Taniguchi were hesitating, and a telegram from Nishio Shouzo arrived, also asking them to carry them directly and not go to the river to the countryside. It turned out that the reconnaissance planes of Tokugawa Haomin's 1st Air Regiment had already detected the movements of Chu Tiange's headquarters and came to the conclusion that their destination was Jiangshang Township. The 10th and 108th Divisions could only drive towards Zhajin Town, but they underestimated the speed of the advance of the Cadet Corps chariot unit. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Jianfeng's "Mandrill" tank regiment, the vanguard of the Ninth Division, carried two companies of infantry to break through the blockade of the Japanese sniper unit and miraculously appeared on the stone hill three kilometers away from Zhajin Town. Then, the artillery regiments of the 9th and 17th Divisions, under the command of Yang Jianfeng, carried out a precise artillery bombardment of the Xiushui River in the Zhajin Town section. At the right time, it happened that the 108th Wing of the 52nd Division was crossing the river, well, the devils of the two brigades drowned in a row, and in the end only more than 100 people escaped.
Now that the enemy artillery fire in the rear has been able to cover here, and there are enemy troops around who can provide shooting Zhuyuan, the rest of the 108th Division and all the devils of the 10th Division who have not yet crossed the river dare not continue to cross the river. Yoshio Shinozuka was also decisive, he left a brigade of soldiers to snipe the pursuit of Yang Jianfeng's regiment, and fled west with the rest of the troops.
Yoshio Shinozuka is planning to break his wrist as a strong man, and then choose the opportunity to cross the river in other sections of the river. Yang Jianfeng knew the calculation of the little devil at a glance, he relied on the "mandrill" tank "thick skin and long legs", and did not entangle with the devils of that brigade at all, and went directly around the mountains in the south, and persistently followed behind the butt of the Japanese army.
Seeing this, Yokoyama reminded Yoshio Shinozuka and said: "Shinozuka-kun, we must deal with this tank force, otherwise, when the main force of the Shina people comes up, we won't have a chance to run." ”
For Yang Jianfeng's kraft candy tactics, Yoshio Shinozuka naturally hates it. He turned his head to look north, and saw that Taniguchi Motojiro led the 108th Division to cross the river and accompany the troops on the south bank to the west together, gritted his teeth and made a decision, and ordered the commander of the chariot wing, Ono Motomato Osa, to destroy the chariot troops who were chasing after him at all costs, even if he fought hard for the whole army.
The 10th Division and the 108th Division are such a chariot unit, and Yoshio Shinozuka attaches great importance to this unit and has never been willing to use it. And now in order to solve Yang Jianfeng's kraft candy, he is really out of the way.
Ono received the order, without the slightest hesitation, and immediately led all the chariots of this wing to surround Yang Jianfeng's regiment.
In this regard, Yang Jianfeng is not afraid of anti-joy: "Ha, the dog is finally willing to take out the troops at the bottom of the box?" Okay, brothers, let them taste the power of our 'mandrills' today! ”