Chapter 256: China-Vietnam Lifeline (1)

Bai Chongxi's judgment was right, Xue Ru did have actions, and they didn't think of them. The Sino-Japanese War lasted three years, and everyone knew the combat effectiveness and combat methods of the other side, especially the victory won from the Chinese battlefield, so that the Japanese army was always in a state of underestimating the enemy. Although Japan strictly implemented the battle plan and was able to use its brains to think of tactics in every battle, it was full of contempt for the Chinese army from the bottom of its heart.

Like Xue Ru's Snow Fox Corps, the Japanese army inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army every time, but the Japanese army did not learn a lesson, no matter which battle the Japanese army was defeated by the snow fox with superior forces, but whether it was a senior general or a middle-level general, they were unwilling to admit this reality.

For the sake of the support of the domestic people for the war, and in order to gain the support of public opinion in the government for the military, it is natural to cover up the defeat on the battlefield in China. In order not to affect the morale of the battlefield, some losses in the war were also concealed from the losses of some high-ranking Japanese generals.

There is often a big discrepancy between the reports on the results of the war announced by the Chinese side and those reported by the Japanese, and even if the Nationalist army exaggerates them, Japan intends to reduce its losses. All this gave the Japanese military the illusion that China's victory was based on boasting.

Ordinary Japanese people do not know that their military generals and high-ranking officials are deceiving their superiors and subordinates to reduce their losses in order to get the Japanese government and people to support the war. Division after division was thrown into the Chinese battlefield, where did they go? Moreover, Japan's actions can also belittle China to a certain extent, so that the Chinese who do not know the truth will lose the will to resist the war.

There is an important reason why everyone believes in Japanese propaganda, and that is that Japan has indeed swept most of China. Every battle against China ended in failure, and several famous battles ended in the loss of national territory, which made Japan justified what it said.

Both in Japan and internationally, even the Chinese believe that the Nationalist Army is a defeat and has suffered huge losses, which has made the argument of the failure of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression relatively popular.

This phenomenon also had a negative effect on the Japanese side, that is, as long as they did not participate in the battle themselves, they did not believe in the great losses of the Japanese at all. For example, in Anqing, in Yejiaji, it lost as much as one division every time, but Japan shamelessly refused to admit it, but reorganized the army.

Ando Jili had been commanding the Southern Army, fighting in the Liangguang and Fujian-Zhejiang regions, the Battle of the Snow Fox took place in Jiangbei, which was the operation of the Central China Front, and the 21st Army was not too clear.

It's just not clear, coupled with the arrogance and underestimation of the Japanese army, it didn't make Ando Jili realize that he was facing the Snow Fox army in Longzhou. With a corps of two or three thousand people, one wing of the Japanese army is not taken into account, sometimes dare to use three or five thousand people to fight against a brigade of the Japanese army, now the Snow Fox Army in Longzhou is more than 20,000 people, Ando Jili actually just sent a brigade to attack, in the eyes of the Snow Fox people, the Japanese army is here to send death.

Li Xingshu didn't know the bottom in his heart, and even Bai Chongxi said that he was not too sure, but in the Snow Fox Army, the Japanese army of a brigade had no chance of victory at all. They had planes and artillery but could not solve the problem, so in the evening, the 1st Division of the Snow Fox entered Chongshan under the help of darkness, and the 170th Division withdrew with considerable casualties.

Li Xingshu thinks that the snow fox's persistence time is also limited, after all, the number of people in the first division is not necessarily more than that of the 170th division, and then look at their equipment is also light weapons, and heavy weapons are inferior to the 170th division, so I don't know how long the snow fox can hold out.

Dai Zong, who entered Chongshan City, did not even repair his defensive position, but a large number of troops passed through the city, and rushed up to the Japanese army overnight, rushing towards Baxiu Village, which was only three kilometers away from Longzhou City, which was the station of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army.

When Dai Zong sneaked into the Japanese position, Sakamoto Shun didn't know anything about it. On either side of him, two brigades of the Snow Fox 2nd Division were moving towards his flanks, on the left was the 103rd Brigade, commanded by Zhang Hu, and on the right was the 104th Brigade Ding Fenglun.

The two brigades surrounded the Japanese from the left and right sides, and to the south, the two brigades of the 1st Division were also divided into two groups, the 101st Brigade on the east side and the 102nd Brigade on the west side.

This is a typical attack formation of Snow Fox, with three regiments in each brigade, the first regiment of the 101st Brigade is the sharp knife, and the fourth regiment of the 102nd brigade is the sharp knife, like two sharp arrows in the dark shooting towards the Japanese defense of Baxiu Village.

Sakamoto Shun only built a temporary position here, they were the attacking side, and with the cooperation of aircraft and artillery fighting vehicles, the Japanese army did not need to defend, so it was not a strong position. In order to avoid the planes, each of Snow Fox's military operations is strictly calculated in time.

When to act, when to start, the time to launch the attack was extremely accurate, so it was not long in the night, and the two brigades under the command of Dai Zong were already close to Baxiu Village.

This is the east bank of the Longzhou River, the Japanese army of tens of thousands of troops, with Baxiu Village as the center has also become a large area, because there are a large number of Chinese troops around, Sakamoto Shun is also afraid of being attacked at night, so there are many vigilant soldiers in the periphery, secret sentry, swimming sentry, serving as a vigilance task.

It's a pity that although the Japanese army is very responsible, Sakamoto Shun still forgot one thing, the 170th Division fought so hard from Chongshan, and there was a snow fox with an army behind them, how could there be no movement. The Chinese troops did not help each other, and the wait-and-see style also misled the Japanese side. Snow Fox is not another unit, it will not watch and ignore, but it will not send reinforcements to hold the position.

Taking the initiative to attack, attacking instead of defending is Xue Ru's operational principle, Snow Fox has always grasped the initiative on the battlefield, it is impossible to defend passively, sometimes not ready, rather give up the position than hold on, and then prepare for another time, and then launch an attack.

This time the 170th Division suffered huge losses, and Snow Fox did not help for more than three days, and finally let the 170th Division hold on for a day, in order to let the two brigades avoid the Japanese planes at night and surround the Japanese from both sides.

Although Xue Ru really wanted to leave all the 21st Brigade behind, the trapped beast was still fighting and struggling, and the Japanese army would also work hard, which would form a desperate state, which was not what Snow Fox wanted to see. For this reason, according to Xue Ru's order, the two divisions attacked from three sides and adopted the combat method of encircling three and missing one.

In the dark night, the Japanese army also rested, and the attack during the day suffered a lot of casualties, and failed to capture Chongshan, which made the Japanese army also very tired, Sakamoto Shun believed that Chongshan would definitely hold on to tomorrow, and he would capture Chongshan and attack Longzhou in one day.

This time, he will concentrate all his heavy artillery and chariots to force a breakthrough, attack Chongshan, destroy the Chinese army, and then seize Longzhou, blocking China's access to supplies from Vietnam. According to the order of the 21st Army, once Longzhou was occupied, it immediately attacked westward and attacked Kunming from the Sino-Vietnamese border, so as to cut off the railway from Vietnam to Kunming and completely block China.

When gunfire rang out on the periphery of the Japanese position, neither the wing commander nor the brigade commander was too alarmed, and it was nothing remarkable to be attacked by the Chinese army, which was 12,300 people, and there was a brigade of chariots, which could not be stopped by the Chinese army. After receiving the report, Shun Sakamoto ordered two Japanese wings to block the attacking troops from three sides, and the tanks of the tank brigade were divided into three groups, and eight tanks in each direction made a counter-attack on the attacking troops and routed them.

The battle began before midnight, and less than two hours had passed since Sakamoto was dumbfounded, because the attacking troops were large in number, strong in combat, and they were not attacking randomly, they actually had anti-tank guns.

In fact, the Japanese army did not know that it was not an anti-tank gun, but a 60 mortar, in order to deal with the Japanese tank, in both directions with the attacking troops, there was a mortar battalion, this kind of mortar with a total weight of only a few dozen kilograms, the mortar with a small caliber is a weapon against infantry, not an anti-tank gun, his armor-piercing ability is almost none, and the accuracy is not very high.

But the use of tactics is reflected here, the sharp knife troops attacked forward, and there were no other troops behind, it was this mortar battalion, more than 30 mortars, temporarily constructing positions, and using them intensively, when the Japanese tanks rumbled forward, they were the first to be hit by this mortar.

Mortars are not very powerful, but again, the Japanese Type 95 tank is not a solid thing like the Type 93 light tank, and it will not be better if it is hit by a shell. Snow Fox does not use precision strikes, more than 30 mortars are used intensively, and they hit probability.

The onslaught of the Japanese tanks was carried out against the attacking troops, and Sakamoto Shun made a fatal mistake, the battlefield was not suitable for dispatch at night time, and if it was parked there, it would be much better when used as a fixed battery, but it was a pity that the greedy Sakamoto Shun wanted to destroy the attacking troops.

When he learned the number of attacking troops, he was surprised, because the attacking troops far outnumbered his strength, and they were strong in combat.

The Japanese army is a tank brigade, twenty-four tanks, if not used separately, the impact is still very large, but Major General Sakamoto Shun is very stupid to separate the tanks, there are only eight tanks on each side, and the time of night is not clear at all, and the snow fox has always lurked to the front before attacking, although the Japanese army has a sentry, but after the signal is issued, the snow fox attacks and advances at the fastest speed.

When the chariot appeared, thirty mortars fired together, concentrating on one chariot, even if it was * no damage to the chariot, but the soldiers who protected the chariot with a burst of dense shells could not survive, the mortar was a curved trajectory, and the firing range was only six or seven hundred meters, but unfortunately it was dark night, and the Japanese infantry artillery and field heavy artillery could not counterattack back at the first time, so that there was no infantry around the Japanese chariot.

The chariots that lost the protection of the infantry became lambs to the slaughter, and the soldiers of the demolition squad rushed up in the dark night, *, the cluster* made the Japanese chariots become scrap metal in an instant, and when the Japanese judged the mortar position, the Snow Fox artillery battalion had already moved to the location.

This is the benefit of mortars, and like machine guns, a shot is a change of place, and the Japanese tank brigade suffers the same fate on three sides.

Losing the impact of the chariot, Sakamoto Shun realized that he was careless and underestimated the enemy to have such a result, and ordered to immediately shrink his forces and prepare to hold on, but unfortunately Snow Fox opened the way with a machine gun and broke through the Japanese defense circle with powerful firepower and entered the Japanese army.

The strength of one regiment was not much, about 2,000 people, but there were two regiments in the back, which were inserted into the Japanese positions in a triangle, and the offensive and defensive battles turned into melee, and the 21st Brigade finally had a sense of powerlessness.

The Snow Fox was more than twice as strong as the Japanese army, and with the cooperation of the short guns of the 44th formation, * and the powerful fire of the light machine guns, the Japanese defense line was broken through, and thus it was divided and surrounded.

It was only at this time that Sakamoto Shun remembered to retreat, but unfortunately it was too late, he wanted to concentrate his forces and hold on until dawn, when there were planes to help the battle, and the Snow Fox army still had no choice.

But the Snow Fox army, which knew its own weaknesses, would let the Japanese army get their wish, the concentrated use of weapons, light machine guns and * concentrated firepower, the Japanese army could not bear it at all, and gradually the attack turned into encirclement and annihilation.

Within a radius of several tens of kilometers, the other side killed together, the Japanese army was 12,300 people, and the Snow Fox put in two divisions with a total of more than 24,000 people, which was twice the strength of the Japanese army.

The overwhelming superiority in numbers, the weapons were not comparable to the Japanese army, they lost the three most important forces, the first time the tank brigade was paralyzed, and the two sides were mixed together, so that the Japanese artillery was ineffective, and at the same time it was dark night, and the planes could not take off.

Whether it was the first division commanded by Dai Zong or the second division commanded by Lai Changwen, the tactics of the snow fox were brought into full play, like rolling soup and pouring snow, and the Japanese army had no room to fight back at all, and the battlefield battle turned into a one-sided massacre.

The Fifth Division fought against Snow Fox for the first time, they had never seen this kind of fighting, and the commander and squadron leader did not know how to deal with this situation.

In a private house in Baxiu Village, which was the headquarters of the 21st Brigade, Sakamoto Shun was a little dizzy, and the news that kept coming back made it difficult for him to come up with an idea in a short time, or his lieutenant reminded him to retreat quickly! Otherwise, they could all be wiped out.

At this time, Sakamoto Shun realized that it was no longer a question of the imperial army attacking Chongshan, but a question of how to save his life, so he had to command the army to concentrate together, and lead the Japanese army to retreat to Fusui with the brigade headquarters as the center. It is a pity that in terms of the speed of running, the Japanese army is not the opponent of the snow fox who practices long-distance running every day, and Liu Yuanshan and Li Wenxiu, who received the report, ordered the two divisions to encircle and destroy the Japanese army.