Chapter 233: Flooded Nara Detachment

On the road leading to Shangpiao, there are low hills, which is close to the Luoxiao Mountains, and then you will enter the Luoxiao Mountains, and the terrain is dangerous. The 13th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army has eight brigades, including five infantry brigades, an artillery brigade, a cavalry search brigade, and an engineer brigade, with a full strength of more than 9,000 people, and a heavy machine gun brigade at this time, with a strength of more than 10,000 troops, which is similar to a garrison corps of the Japanese army.

Brigade commander Nara Kawa Yu graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and was a rare resourceful general in the Japanese army, who was well versed in Chinese culture. Because of the brutal killing of Chinese in northeast China in the war against Russia, the Qing government held Japan accountable, and in order to gain control of northeast China and eliminate Russian influence on China, Japan apologized to the Qing government, put the blame on Nara Kawayu, and removed him from office.

As a matter of fact, Japan admired Nara Kawao's achievements very much, but they only showed him to the Qing government, and explicitly dismissed him from his post and actually entered the army staff to study and plot to seize the whole of China with Ishihara and others, because he knew China very well and went to China many times to investigate.

Although he made a lot of achievements in these operations, he looked down on the young officers who came later, and because he was old, his promotion was not smooth. At the same time, because of his good relationship with the navy, he was squeezed out by the army department and has been working as a civilian.

It was not until the Japanese army greatly expanded its troops and prepared to attack south that he was recalled to his position in the army again. But he only became the commander of a major general's brigade, which made Nara Kawa very dissatisfied. This time, I finally led the troops in battle, and I plan to show it well. He proposed to use a flank detour to take advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese army to defend the front from the south and attack directly upward, and directly attack Zhuzhou through Luo Xiaoshan, thus opening the gate of Changsha and catching Xue Yue off guard.

Because the terrain there is dangerous, which is not conducive to the attack of large forces at the division and regimental level, the Chinese army will inevitably defend the front, and there are not many troops on the flanks, so it should be successful. Once there is a problem in the defense of Changsha, the entire defense line will be loosened, and if Xue Yue transfers troops back to the front, he can break through, so as to achieve the operational goal of occupying Changsha.

Okamura Ninji, who was also very talented and had a good level of combat, praised this and ordered the 17th Mixed Brigade to defend Nanchang and attack the direction of Fuzhou to the south, and the 13th Mixed Brigade to attack lightly to the southwest, and attack directly from the Gao'an area to Hayago, where the 6th Division attacked, so it was not easy for the Chinese army to detect, and there was also a Japanese attack on the flank, covering the sneak attack of the Nara detachment.

At the beginning of the battle, it went well, Nara Kawao took advantage of the opportunity that the Chinese army and the Japanese army were facing the big cities, the strategic points were contested, and the towns had no troops, avoiding the main highways and going to remote places to quickly advance and capture several county towns one after another, occupy Haupao, and then move forward to prepare to occupy Shangpiao, from where it could attack Zhuzhou through Luoxiao Mountain, and attack Changsha from the side.

Nara Kawa Xiong is very proud, as long as he crosses Luo Xiao Mountain, Xue Yue knows that it will be too late, because he wants to block the attack of a brigade, a small number of troops will not work at all, so Nara Kawa Xiong's baggage is very small, most of it is weapons and ammunition, and food is solved on the spot. In order to block the news, he adopted a policy of mass slaughter, and the villages and towns along the way were brutally burned and looted, and the Nara detachment passed through a ruin.

The frightened people all ran into the mountains, this kind of ferocious means did work, and there was no sign of a large number of Chinese troops moving after Wanzai County, so he was very proud.

Okamura Ninji also paid attention to this strange army, and he sent the 13th Mixed Brigade, which was also pinned on hope. Xue Yue was very difficult to fight, he did not stick to Nanchang, let the Japanese army enter a very unfavorable terrain, and many troops in the Ninth Theater were Hunan soldiers, Guangxi soldiers and Yunnan soldiers, they were stronger than the troops and combat effectiveness of the Fifth Theater, the most important thing is that these areas are relatively rich, and they are connected to the southern region, and the army's equipment is better than that of the northwest and southwest armies, so the Japanese army's attack is not smooth.

Most of the Japanese planes on the airfield were light bombardments, that is, reconnaissance planes, which constantly provided information to Nara Kawayu, proving that there were no large troops in front of him, and there were no large troops chasing him behind, which reassured Nara Kawayu.

It's just that yesterday I received a report that there was a small number of troops on his flank, probably only one brigade of five or six thousand troops, and Nara Kawao didn't care about this, if there were no more than two divisions of troops, he didn't care at all. As long as the command of the troops moved forward to capture Shangpiao, they would approach Luoxiao Mountain, and as long as the Chinese army was adjusted in the past, it would be too late.

So starting from Manzai County and drifting upwards as fast as possible, he didn't know that the sky plane found the troops under the command of Dai Zong and Lai Changwen, the second detachment of the Snow Fox Corps, who did not chase the Nara detachment from behind, but overtook the Japanese army from his flank to the west.

This kind of high-altitude reconnaissance could not determine the number of the unit, so Nara Kawao did not know that this was the Snow Fox unit they feared the most. Dai Zong secretly sneaked into Fuzhou according to the order, and Xue Ru made such a big move in Nanning and was encircling Nanning to solve the 73rd Army, so the Nara detachment did not know that the Japanese army's nemesis, Snow Fox, was already waiting for him in front.

A hill not far from the upper drift, there are no tall trees in the continuous mountain section, there is no dense forest, many tea trees are dotted on the hillside, a piece of green, the scenery is very beautiful. The river is not too wide and flows through the mountain stream, the river is not wide, but the riverbed is very wide, the fine broken river pebbles on both sides, the water in the middle is only two or three meters deep, because the drop is very large, so the water flow is still very urgent, a wooden bridge has been broken, it is artificially demolished at a glance, the road is not wide, and it is quite smooth.

Holding a telescope and looking at the river, Nara Kawao got up from the car, he was intoxicated by the scenery left and right, it was really a nice place, this place was soon the Great Japanese Imperial Army, and he should come here when he retired in the future.

At this time, it is the golden autumn season, the weather is also very good, the autumn tea is finished, and there is no one in the tea garden, maybe it has already escaped, right? After all, the news can still be known up close. The Chinese people are timid, they dare not resist, most of these counties are some local security forces, low combat effectiveness, inferior weapons and equipment, it is okay to deal with a bandit, and it is impossible to fight the Japanese army.

Looking at the troops constantly gathering by the river, Nara Kawao looked up at the sky, the time is not early, the river should be crossed as soon as possible, heavy machine gun vehicles and infantry guns have not been able to cross such a river, but the bridge was demolished, proving that the Chinese army knew about it, so it could not be delayed. It is also difficult to be attacked while crossing the river. There is no danger to defend here, and it is even more unfavorable at night, and it is safer to cross the river beach and enter other places, and the people of China have always sneaked up at night.

He said to the chief of staff at his side, Hyotaro Nakasa, "Order the sappers to speed up the repair of the bridge, and the other troops will cross the river in large groups." ”

"Hi" Hyotaro Saki nodded in agreement and conveyed the order to the troops. The five infantry brigades of the Japanese army avoided the sappers who were repairing the bridge in front, selected the river section upstream and downstream, and sent people to explore the road and prepare to wade across the river, after all, the water here is not deep.

Nara Kawao could never have imagined that such a location that was not suitable for an ambush at all, and the second detachment of the Snow Fox was here. At this time, the four brigades were on the four corners, and they were more than a mile away from the devil. The ambush was so far away that the rifle machine gun couldn't reach it, it was simply impossible, so Naragawa was defenseless. Besides, with five or six thousand people ambushing more than 10,000 Japanese troops, it was daylight time, and Major General Naragawa Yu could not have imagined it. Moreover, it is not a unilateral rout operation, it is surrounded on all sides, and this is a posture that intends to be completely annihilated.

At this time, Zhang Hu's 35th Squadron of the Seventh Brigade was within a kilometer of the distance, and Deputy Captain Wang Ming said anxiously: "Why hasn't the captain had any news, I can't get it anymore." ”

Squadron Leader Lei Fang said: "What's the hurry, Lao Tzu is also in a hurry, tell the brothers to find a way." ”

Wang Ming said: "Think of any way, the brothers have used their pants, and if you get it down, you will be naked." ”

Lei Fang can't help it, I didn't expect the devil to be so cautious, the time dragged on for so long, and I was worried that the water level was too high and the devil would not cross the river, so the sack was not enough, the dam was too low, and it seemed that the benefits were coming out.

This is a small hill, not too high on both sides and the drop downstream can be more than five meters deep, but there are hills on both sides to block it, and a lot of water can be stored in the gate below. The 35th Squadron, having received the order, came on horseback as fast as it could. It was in order to gain these two days that the troops were exposed, and the whereabouts of the snow fox were discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes. It's not bad, firstly, there are too few snow foxes, and secondly, the Japanese army does not know that it is the second detachment of snow foxes, so Nara Kawao still planned to move forward.

When they knew that the devil had arrived at the Xinming River as scheduled, Dai Zong and Lai Changwen breathed a sigh of relief, this was the place they found along the way, and the ambush site was set here, and the snow fox tactics could not be planned in advance, nor could they be predicted. This kind of tactic has nothing to do with conventional warfare at all, and it is not calculated in advance. Knowing where to go from the map and drawing up a battle plan is sometimes completely improvised.

According to the terrain discovered by the top soldiers, Dai Zong thought of this ambush site, and studied this ambush combat method with Lai Changwen, and Nara Kawa Xiong could not know it in advance.

When Dai Zong decided to use this as an ambush location, Lai Changwen didn't understand it for a while: "I said Lao Dai, isn't it okay here?" We are close to the ambush, the devil can find out, if it is too far away and we don't have heavy weapons, how can we get close to the devil? ”

Dai Zong said: "Look at the terrain here, I remember the story that Miss told us, do you remember the biography of Yue Fei that Miss told that time?" ”

Lai Changwen shook his head: "Then I remember, but what does it have to do with here?" ”

Dai Zong smiled proudly and said, "Do you still remember that section of Qinglong Mountain, where 800 broke 100,000? ”

Lai Changwen raised the binoculars and looked around for a while and said, "Okay, you have brains, no wonder Miss Jianxue Fox asked you to be the captain again, so what are you waiting for?" Hurry up, let's risk two days, isn't that all for this? ”

Dai Zong knew that Lai Changwen understood and said: "I will lead the fifth and sixth in the south and north, and you will lead the seventh and eighth in the east and the west to prepare, leaving the observation soldiers to send a signal, and we will break 10,000 by 5,000." ”

After speaking, the two of them hurriedly began to prepare. In fact, when the Japanese army overtook them from behind, they were looking for a place to ambush and clean up the devils along the way, and finally found a good place, of course, thousands of people began to act.

Now waiting for the time, the leader of the reconnaissance team who dug the cellar and hid below observed the devils in the distance with a telescope from the cracks in the soil, and built a pontoon bridge on the riverside beach in a chaotic manner, preparing to get the cannon over. Within a kilometer of the upper and lower kilometers, the Japanese troops divided into several brigades and began to cross the river.

Several gunshots rang out from the opposite side, proving that there was a small force blocking the attack, and Nara Kawa did not dare to cross the river with too few troops, and there was a possibility that he would be attacked by someone half-crossing. Fortunately, the river was not deep, and he let five infantry brigades cross the river at the same time, and the embankments on both sides were not high, so they could pass in one fell swoop, and a small number of troops could not stop it.

Lei Fang finally saw three black spots of smoke erupting from the sky, which were black smoke from fireworks, an order to attack, and said to Wang Ming, who was in a hurry, "Explode." ”

A soldier had already grasped the wooden handle in his hand and pressed down, and with a deep explosion, the dam several meters high suddenly exploded, and the water on it was held for two days, and the rushing river roared to stir up two or three meters of water waves, roaring and rushing downstream. The sky was clear, the earth was dry, and the sudden flood was like a flash flood that poured down thousands of miles downstream.

This is the tactic that Dai Zong came up with based on Xue Ru's novel Yue Feichuan. Xue Ru didn't know if there was one in history, whether it was created by Teacher Liu Lanfang himself, but when he said that it was given to senior officers, it only inspired them to fight in military operations, paying attention to using terrain and geographical advantages to use the power of nature to fight flexibly. There are two examples said, one is Qinglong Mountain's 800 and 100,000, and the other is the Three Kingdoms Guan Yunchang flooded the Seventh Army. When he saw this terrain, Dai Zong thought of this tactic, and built up this shallow small canyon upstream with sandbags, created a small reservoir on it, and filled it with hundreds of thousands of tons of water in two days and two nights to make a small lake out.

Now that the Japanese army had just begun to cross the river, it was when one-third of the river was on the bank of the river and one-third was in the water, that the observer issued an order, and the 35th Squadron upstream blasted the dam, and seeing that the flood could not be stopped, he said that it could not be stopped, if it were not for the fact that there were too few sandbags and the water overflowed, there might not be river water downstream, but an open riverbed.

Originally, the river was very wide and deep, but the water was blocked so that it was not wide or deep, this kind of artificially created flood, although the backup force was not large, but the first water was not small, and the rushing river rushed down violently.

When Nara Kawao and Chief of Staff Hyotaro Aki, who were standing on the embankment, looked at the wall of water rushing in the distance, they didn't react for a while. When they realized that it was water, they were torn apart, because they themselves were in the middle of the water.