Chapter 285: Breaking Through the Blockade 2
readx;? After listening to Wang Haitao's question, Wei Changxing thought for a while and said: "Military seat, can we send troops to feint and attack Nanling County at the same time as attacking the stronghold of Shipu Town? As long as our momentum is strong enough, presumably the Japanese army in Nanling County will not dare to reinforce the stronghold of Shipu Town." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Wang Haitao said with a smile: "You are half right, this time I not only want to make the Japanese troops in Nanling County dare not go out of the city to support, but also transfer the Japanese troops in Shipu Town out of the stronghold." ”
Speaking of this, Wang Haitao glanced at everyone, and continued to point to the map and said: "Look at this, Jiangjia Village is located in the middle of Nanling County and Shipu Town, and in Jiangjia Village, the road is divided into two, the left side leads directly to Nanling County, and the right side goes to Xuancheng through Shipu Town. We sent a force from Jiangjia Village to Nanling County, and then launched a feint attack on Nanling County.
As long as our momentum is sufficient, the Japanese troops in Nanling City are insufficient, and they will inevitably ask for reinforcements. Wuhu City is too far away from Nanling County, and the water is far away to quench their thirst, so they can only ask for help from the stronghold of Shipu Town. Once the Japanese army in Shipu Town reinforces Nanling County, it must pass through Jiangjia Village, and when the time comes, we will set up an ambush here in Jiangjia Village, and at the same time as the ambush battle starts, the infantry will cooperate with the tank to attack the stronghold of Shipu Town, and then it will be easy to capture the stronghold of Shipu Town, which has been empty. ”
After Wang Haitao finished speaking, the people sitting there nodded while discussing. Wang Haitao said to Wei Changhai of the logistics department: "Director Wei, your logistics department must make every effort to support the operational logistics part of these troops. Wei Changhai replied: "Rest assured, there will be no problems in the logistics support." ”
Wang Haitao said to Li Yuanhong and Wu Jian: "Whether the Japanese army's land blockade can be successfully broken through depends on the two of you, and the armored regiment should not use heavy tanks when cooperating with the independent regiment, because the current terrain and roads are not suitable for heavy tanks to fight, as for how to arrange the task is up to the two of you." Draw up a battle plan and report it to me as soon as possible. ”
Speaking of this, Wang Haitao said to everyone: "The specific combat mission will be issued after the combat plan comes out, and the comrades of the reconnaissance regiment below, as well as Director Wei, Deputy Brigade Commander Li, and Chief of Staff of the Military Armed Forces will stay, and everyone else will go back and prepare." Immediately, except for those who remained, the rest of the people talked to each other and left the headquarters.
After the others left, Wang Haitao said: "The blockade on the highway can be solved, but the blockade of the Qingyi River must also be broken, otherwise the land route for bulk goods to enter and leave Jing County is not only slow, but also expensive and unsafe." So how to break the Japanese blockade on the Qingyi River? I would like to entrust this task to your reconnaissance group.
Although your reconnaissance regiment is full of elite soldiers, this time is different from the past, and we have never been trained to seize ships. Therefore, the brothers who did not know the nature of water should not participate in this operation. In addition, we have to deal with the Japanese patrol boats in this section of Wuhu County first. These ships are wooden boats, and the strength and firepower are poor, so we will first find a similar wooden boat for training and familiarization, and then destroy these four patrol wooden boats first.
However, after eliminating these four patrol boats, the Japanese army will come up with several more in the next day, and this time we will not only destroy the patrol boats on the river, but also take the riverside checkpoints in Xihe Town and Yitai Town together. Such a hill, you first go find a boat to imitate a Japanese patrol boat, conduct training, and it must be completed in three days, and then I will think about a specific plan of action. ”
The next day, Li Yuanhong came up with all the action plans. 1. The task of attacking the stronghold of Shuangxi Town was completed by the 1st Battalion and 3rd Company of the Independent Regiment stationed in Yangliu Town, and Yangliu Town was temporarily garrisoned by the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company stationed in Sexi Town, and the armored regiment will send 2 armored trucks to support the 3rd Company.
2. The task of attacking the stronghold of Caijiaqiao Town was carried out by the 1st and 2nd companies of the 2nd Battalion, the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the Guards Regiment and the light tank detachment of the Panzer Regiment. In addition to standard weapons, this company of the guard regiment was also equipped with two 82 recoilless guns and four 40 rocket launchers. The light tank detachment of the armored regiment consisted of two light tanks and four armored trucks.
3. The task of attacking the stronghold in Shipu Town was jointly completed by the 3rd and 3rd Battalions of the 2nd Battalion of the Independent Regiment, the 3rd Battalion, the Heavy Firepower Battalion, the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the Guard Regiment, and the Light Tank Detachment of the Armored Regiment. Among them, the troops that launched a feint attack on Nanling County were the third company of the second battalion and most of the heavy firepower battalion of the independent regiment, the third battalion and the first company of the independent regiment and the first heavy firepower battalion set up an ambush in Jiangjia Village, and the rest of the troops launched an attack on the stronghold of Shipu Town. The light tank detachment consisted of four light tanks, two light armoured vehicles, two heavy armoured vehicles, and six armoured trucks.
The raid on the checkpoints on the remaining mountain roads was carried out by some veterans of the 4th and 5th Battalions with some recruits in platoons. After Wang Haitao read the battle plan for this injury, although he felt that it was a bit of a fuss to deal with a Shipu Town stronghold, so many troops were dispatched, but he still agreed to this plan, but while nodding in agreement, Wang Haitao said jokingly to Li Yuanhong: "Yuanhong, don't accidentally knock down Nanling County for me!"
On the second day after Wang Haitao agreed to the battle plan, the entire military camp in Jingxian County was mobilized, and the soldiers were all sorting out their bags, checking their weapons and equipment, and then they left the city one after another, and after joining up with the tank detachment of the armored regiment waiting outside the city gate, they headed for the north and south. Wang Haitao stood on the city wall on the city gate, watched the troops go away with Li Yuanhong and Wu Jianzhou, and the pride in his heart arose.
In the afternoon, a telegram was sent from Sungai Town, saying that the task of attacking the stronghold of Sungai Town had been completed, eliminating 12 Japanese soldiers and 11 puppet soldiers, capturing 28 puppet soldiers, seizing a batch of weapons, ammunition and military supplies, releasing all the requisitioned civilians, and completely blowing up the fortress of the stronghold. During the battle, two fighters were seriously wounded, four soldiers were slightly wounded, and the wounded soldiers were transported to the county seat of Jingxian County with armored trucks.
In the evening, good news also came from the direction of Caijiaqiao, and the telegram of Wei Yongchun, the commander of the second battalion, reported that the command had completed the attack on the stronghold in Caijiaqiao Town. A Japanese squad and a squadron of the puppet army in the stronghold have also been annihilated, among which 39 puppet soldiers have been captured, and more than 100 people of a security regiment in Caijiaqiao Town have been dispersed, and Caijiaqiao Town has now been occupied.
Of the three attacks, only two had news, but there was no news from Shipu Town, which should be the most certain, which made Wang Haitao, Li Yuanhong, and Wu Jianzhou a little uneasy. At eleven o'clock in the night, there was still no news, Li Yuanhong couldn't sit still, and said to Wang Haitao: "Junza, I have to go and see what the hell this kid Tang Weichu is doing, with so many troops to fight a stronghold in Shipu Town, it's been a whole day, and there is no news." How did he become a battalion commander!"
Wang Haitao thought for a while and said: "It's okay! You can go for a while, remember that if there is any change, the troops must be withdrawn first, and there must not be too many casualties." Lao Wu, you send two armored vehicles to Lao Li, and let the guard regiment send a company to accompany you, in case something happens, you can also use it as reinforcements. ”
Li Yuanhong agreed, and hurriedly set off with the troops. After dawn, Li Yuanhong personally sent a telegram from Shipu Town, which read: "Report to the military seat, Tang Weichu commanded the troops to capture Nanling County, how to deal with this telegram asking the military seat?" Wang Haitao looked at the telegram and said to Wu Jianzhou with a smile: "Old Wu, this Tang Weichu is really unambiguous, and he has knocked down Nanling County for me." It seems that I'm going to go to Nanling County in person, and you should take charge of Lao Wu here in Jing County. ”
After speaking, Wang Haitao went out of the command headquarters, called the Tangshan leopard and the soldiers of a platoon guard regiment, rode a war horse and galloped towards Nanling County. When Wang Haitao and others rushed into Nanling County and arrived at the temporary command post under the guidance of the soldiers, Li Yuanhong was busy arranging the defense of Nanling County, mainly facing the defense in the direction of Wuhu City.
After Li Yuanhong saw Wang Haitao come in, he hurriedly told Wang Haitao about the deployment of Nanling County. After Wang Haitao recognized, he was about to ask Li Yuanhong how he took Nanling County and what the casualties of the soldiers were, when a voice came from the door: "Report!" Wang Haitao and Li Yuanhong looked at it, and it turned out that Tang Weichu, the commander of the third battalion, was standing at the door.
As soon as Wang Haitao saw Tang Weichu, he said: "Ah, our hero is here, come in, and talk about how to conquer Nanling County." Tang Weichu heard that Wang Haitao's tone was a little wrong, and he entered the door and stood there nervously and said: "Military seat, the situation is like this, at the beginning, we planned according to the battle plan, and the second battalion, the third company and most of the heavy fire battalion launched a feint attack on Nanling County.
More than a dozen mortars from the third company and the heavy fire battalion fired at the wall of Nanling City, and as soon as dozens of light and heavy machine guns opened fire, the Japanese troops on the city wall immediately began to counterattack. On the city wall, the Japanese army's four 75 mountain guns and 6 92 infantry guns, plus mortars, all opened fire on our positions. After ten minutes of confrontation, the heavy fire battalion suffered a small loss, four mortars were destroyed, and more than a dozen fighters were killed.
Tang Weiren, the battalion commander of the heavy firepower battalion, was angry for a while, and transferred three Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns. If you want to say that that thing is really powerful, just a single strafing shot will beat the Japanese troops on the city wall, and even the Japanese artillery has been overturned, at this time the heavy fire battalion tends to use heavy mortars to strike at the Japanese artillery positions on the city head. Within twenty minutes, the Japanese artillery at the head of the city was completely muted.
At this moment, gunfire was heard in the direction of Jiangjia Village and Shipu Town. Seeing that my goal had been achieved, I withdrew with my feint troops. But before the troops could withdraw to Jiangjia Village, the ambush battle in Jiangjia Village ended, and 50 Japanese troops and 80 puppet soldiers were annihilated. At the same time, the battle for the stronghold of Shipu Town also ended, not only the defending enemy was completely annihilated, but also the puppet army squadron leader was captured.
After the troops were all assembled in Jiangjia Village, the captured puppet squadron leader said that he could open the city gate of Nanling County, because the officer on duty at the east gate of Nanling County tonight was his cousin. After discussing it, everyone thought that this was a good opportunity to take Nanling City, so the company of the guard regiment disguised itself as a puppet army, and the leader of the puppet army squadron took it to the east gate of Nanling City after dark. ”