Chapter 189: Battle of Anqing (3)

The general night sneak attack operation starts at midnight, when people are more sleepy and the spirit is the most relaxed. But the Snow Fox's attack was not, they all started to attack as soon as it was night, because the Snow Fox fought except for a small group of troops, in fact, it was not a sneak attack.

The biggest reason for night operations is that they can avoid planes, in fact, visually, the two sides are the same, the devils can't see the target clearly, and the snow fox is the same, but the Japanese army lost the plane they relied on.

Although artillery is known as the god of war, it has certain limitations, and modern warfare is no longer a situation in which both sides line up in a good position, you attack and defend, and the initiative of war is changing.

The biggest reason why the Nationalist army failed and could not defeat the Japanese was that it never grasped the initiative on the battlefield and always defended passively, and even its offensive tactics had no characteristics.

The opponent was too weak, so that the Japanese army lost the motivation to study new tactics, so they used this tactic, which was not much stronger than the Middle Ages, to attack hard.

The entire Chinese battlefield shows a strange phenomenon that makes people feel funny. The two sides are engaged in a battle for cities, but China is an agricultural country with a decentralized economy, and it is not possible to surrender if large and medium-sized cities are occupied. With a land area of tens of millions of square kilometers, Japan's millions of troops want to conquer China, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

But Japan believes so, but the Chinese also believe that they can't beat Japan. In fact, no matter which aspect it is compared, it is not that Japan can destroy China, and Xue Ru, who came from later generations, knows this very well.

It's not that she knows the outcome of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression so she has confidence, that is, the 300 million people of the United States in later generations, the world's first military strength, cannot occupy China, let alone completely destroy China, they can only collapse economically, politically restrict and balance China.

In later generations, Japan was the world's second largest economy, and they used the international industry to suppress China, and made some small moves in some parts, and then they wanted to send troops to China, and he did not dare to give Japan three dares, and he did not even dare to fall into the hands of China, because China was sure enough to send troops to occupy Japan.

A country with a population of 1.4 billion cannot but be said to be a deterrent force, and this is an advantage that many countries in the world do not have.

Since the beginning of the crossing, Xue Ru has been thinking about a lot of problems, that is, she has confidence in this area, so she wants to rely on no one and pull a group of troops alone, just to fight devils to take revenge. This cannot but be said that Xue Ru is very confident, because she believes that Japan cannot destroy China. What an indignant young man thinks, of course, does not consider any political factors, just to get out of the evil breath in his heart.

But after a long time, setbacks and failures made Xue Ru understand that this is not the future generation, with China's current mentality, there is really a possibility of being ruled by Japan, after all, the national independence movement has just begun, and the world is full of colonies. In addition, the fear of Japan and the intimidation of foreigners for hundreds of years have made the Chinese people afraid of foreigners.

If you want to save the country, you don't rely on the force of heroes, there are so many martial arts sects and so many chivalrous people in China, but they can't stop any aggression, and they can't stop any change of dynasty, what can really defend the country is the army or the government.

All kinds of reasons have changed Xue Ru's thinking, from the overall situation to personal selfishness, for the sake of the country and the nation, or for his own interests, Xue Ru must change his behavior. This Anqing Battle is different from the past, and it is also the reason why the brigade commanders, regiment commanders, and division commanders under his command do not understand, why should the battle be fought like this?

In fact, it is very simple, Xue Ru needs political fame, how can future generations not understand the celebrity effect. It doesn't matter if it's a good name or a bad reputation, it's all in the limelight.

What's more, Xue Ru is not a bad reputation, this battle can be said to be fought for herself, of course she doesn't want to borrow someone else's hand. deliberately delayed time, put the Snow Fox Corps to a dangerous point, and let the two divisions close to the side.

At this time, if the counteroffensive is won, it will have a shocking effect, and it will also be announced to the Japanese army that a wing is not an opponent, a brigade is not an opponent, and similarly, one or two divisions are not opponents.

When the time came, the Snow Fox Corps launched a general attack on the 27th Division.

The initial victory made Honma Masaharu careless, and did not withdraw his troops to the city, in fact, in everyone's opinion, the Japanese army should retreat to Anqing City, so that the concentration of troops and the support of the city wall, Snow Fox could not attack at all.

But Xue Ru hoped that the devil would retreat to the city, so that she could completely annihilate the 27th Division. However, the Japanese army was deployed on three sides outside the city, and once there was danger, they might run away, and it would be difficult to achieve the goal of total annihilation.

This requires that the attack must be fast, leaving the three infantry wings to annihilate, and the five or six thousand people in the city are all logistical and heavy auxiliary troops, even if they run away, it is not a pity.

The Japanese army originally wanted to use mortars and grenadiers to counterattack this kind of earthen weapon, but Hasegawa Kinakasa didn't expect that this time it would no longer be the kind of crossbow arrows that were not very powerful and accurate, but *.

With the sound of explosions, the Japanese position was in a sea of fire, and all mortars, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns were useless. The clay pots shattered, gasoline splattered everywhere, and many Japanese soldiers had gasoline on their bodies.

This is not those heavy oil and tung oil, it is gasoline, which will catch fire, and the whole position will be in chaos. The Japanese soldiers dodged the fire and tried to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but they could not defend at all. At this time, the 1st Brigade sounded the trumpet of the charge and launched an attack on the 1st Wing of the Japanese Army.

At this time, Hasegawaji's position was still defensive, and his one-wing of more than 3,400 men had lost several hundred men last night, and before he had time to replenish it, there were less than 3,000 men, and the first brigade that could attack was six thousand men in four regiments.

For the first time, Snow Fox has launched a war of annihilation with twice the strength of the Japanese army. With a one-to-one force, once the snow fox is bullied closely, the Japanese army is not an opponent, not to mention more than double the strength. Dai Zong's order was to leave no one behind, kill them all, and the 44 formation surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army from the periphery.

The 2nd Brigade originally had the 45th Brigade in the majority, and Dai Zong became the commander of the 1st Brigade, of course, he did not want to lose to Lan Xun Zhou. He betrayed Miss at the beginning and took refuge in Wu Yuzhao, although this time he returned, Miss forgave them and said a lot of good things for them, and he didn't blame them, but of course the people of Snow Fox still held a grudge in their hearts.

Lan Xun Zhou also understood in their hearts, so the First Brigade and the Second Brigade were fighting in secret, and they all wanted to see who would be the first to end the battle and attack Anqing.

Attacking from the west was the 36th Division, and Deputy Division Commander Zhang Dongxiong commanded one regiment of the 106th Brigade and two regiments of the 108th Brigade.

They are German armor divisions, and their equipment is better than that of ordinary national army troops, and they don't want to lose to the Snow Fox troops, so they will have no face in the Snow Fox Corps in the future, so the attacks of the three troops at the beginning of the general attack are very sharp.

The Japanese army was about 10,000 people in three wings outside the city, and Xue Ru invested more than three brigades, a total of 11 regiments, with a total strength of 20,000, and it was an overwhelming superior force, and the tactics, equipment and combat effectiveness surpassed the Japanese army.

There was indeed a wing of field heavy artillery in the city, but it was attacked on three sides, which side did he support? Besides, the Snow Fox lurked until close before launching an attack, breaking through the Japanese defensive position, and the two sides were killed together, which also made the Japanese artillery useless.

Masaharu Honma, who was in the city, was stupid, Harada Yoshikazu was extremely angry, he was really a stupid pig-like division commander, and he couldn't care about him at this time: "Division commander, quickly order the wing to withdraw to the city and hold out until dawn, and ask the plane to help in the battle." ”

Honma Masaharu reacted at this time, he regretted not listening to the chief of staff, if the troops were withdrawn into the city, with the strength of a division, how could they fail so quickly? The three wings were held in three directions, and the forces were seriously scattered.

Coming back to his senses, he reported to the headquarters and asked the Yangtze River Fleet to enter Anqing to reinforce the 27th Division, and at the same time asked King Tokumiya for help. Three more wings were ordered to immediately withdraw to the city of Anqing.

But everything was late, and the three captains, whether it was the first wing captain Tanigawa Kei or the second wing Okazaki Kiyozaburo and the third wing Miyazaki Takao, the three of them were a little desperate, because they also wanted to withdraw, but where could they withdraw?

Snow Fox obviously wanted to annihilate them completely, the attacking troops relied on the large number of people, quickly closed the siege, and killed in, the Japanese had to resist, there was no chance to retreat at all, and if they wanted to retreat, they would flee. The first to be unstoppable was the second wing captain Kiyozaburo Okazaki Nakasa, who ordered his troops to concentrate and break through in the direction of Anqing.

This is a breakthrough and killing, or scattering and fleeing for your life. At this time, the glory of the Imperial Japanese Army, the spirit of bushido, was exactly the same when it failed, and there was no tactic to come up with except screaming and desperately.

The battle that started not very long at night, Honma Masaharu thought that the next snow fox must be attacking Anqing City, after all, his three wings had been lost, and there were only more than 5,000 people in Anqing City, and they were all auxiliary troops. However, the battle lasted all night, and when the sky was slightly bright, the remaining 1,800 men of the three remaining wings of the Japanese army withdrew to the city of Anqing, and strangely there was no pursuit behind.

Masaharu Honma and Yoshikazu Harada looked at the sky and finally understood that the snow fox did not dare to fight during the day, and they retreated. This made Honma Masaharu breathe a sigh of relief, and withdrew the remaining troops into the city to count, the troops totaled more than 10,000 people, and there was not even a single wing that withdrew into the city, and he lost more than 7,000 people in one night, plus the troops in the city, there were still half of the people left in the 27th Division, this time he didn't dare to say that he was stationed outside the city and ready to attack, while reporting to the headquarters, while arranging defense, he knew that Xue Ru could not let him go like this, and he would definitely attack again, I'm afraid it was tonight, right? Snow foxes have always rested during the day and fought at night, when it is safe during the day.

But whether it was King Dongkumiya Tsukihiko or Okamura Ningji, they didn't know that Xue Ru's three troops were left in the periphery of Anqing at this time, and there was not even a battalion left in the periphery of Anqing at this time, and all the troops did not even clean the battlefield at the end of the battle, leaving a company of troops in each direction to inform the people around Anqing to clean up the battlefield, and the other troops continued to march back to Tao Chong.

The target of the raid was the attacking 16th Brigade of the 19th Division of the Japanese Army. Major General Naoji Sakai was also anxious, and received an order at night that the 27th Division was defeated and trapped in Anqing, and ordered him to speed up the attack and rescue the 27th Division.

At dawn, the 19th Brigade attacked Taochong with the 20th Wing as the vanguard, and the 9th Wing followed behind to protect the flank of the attacking wing. Major General Naoji Sakai was not too worried, because the Japanese troops around him were attacking, and the Chinese army had no time to take care of anything else, and the goal of the 16th Division was the Snow Fox Corps.

Sakai Naoji despises Honma Masaharu a little, but a division can't hold on even for one night, it's really a complete stupidity. It's just relying on nepotism to be the head of the master, a stupid pig.

According to the order of the division commander to change the combat route, the original plan was to attack Yuexi after capturing Taochong, which was the headquarters of Xue Ru's headquarters, but in order to rescue the 27th Division, after capturing Taochong, attack Huaining, reinforce the 27th Division, and relieve the encirclement of Anqing.

What absolutely surprised Major General Sakai Naoji was that at this time in Taochong was not only the security forces, but the 108th Brigade of the 36th Division, where Brigade Commander Yang Guangjue set up his headquarters, and at the same time Division Commander Chen Ruihe also came here, their task was to block the Japanese 19th Brigade and complete the tactical encirclement.

As soon as the battle under the city of Anqing ended, the two brigades of Snow Fox turned around and headed north, without even resting time, and the battlefield was not cleaned, and they had already rushed to Tao Chong with the fastest rapid march. One left and one right moved to both sides of the 19th Brigade, and after the 216th Regiment of Hujiayi withdrew from Tongcheng, it retreated to Yuexi, and then it also turned around and returned, and inserted diagonally from Tangwan to the back of the 19th Brigade, and the 212th Regiment also rushed to the back of the 19th Brigade as fast as possible, and this broken force was commanded by Li Zhipeng, the commander of the 106th Brigade, which was to close the door for the Japanese army to escape back to Fei.

Xue Ru's tactics are like this, using the 27th Division as bait to catch the 16th Division, there is no way, in order to avoid the plane, the snow fox can only fight at night, and the distance must be the distance that people can run over, and the march of more than two days will not work at all, and the devil will be able to react.

In this way, as soon as the 19th Brigade entered Taochong, this distance was just right to catch up, so after defeating the 27th Division, Honma Masaharu thought that Snow Fox would attack Anqing, but who knew that the Snow Fox troops had abandoned Anqing and had rushed to Taochong as fast as possible, waiting for Sakai Naoji's 19th Brigade here.

With such a rapid troop movement, the devil didn't know that Sakai Naoji crashed headlong into Tao Chong, a town that was not too famous, and looked at the blocking position on the hillside in front of him with a telescope, Major General Sakai Naoji said: "Order artillery bombardment, the 20th Wing will launch an attack and capture Tao Chong's defeated army." ”