Chapter 302 Snow Red and Blood White 3

In the early morning of January 28, 1938, the Kwantung Army received the First Front Army under the command of the Zhouli Army. The main force of the 2nd Division, the 8th Division and the 12th Division under its jurisdiction crossed the Daling River defense line and began to attack Chaoyang.

At the same time, four divisions, including the 10th Division, the 22nd Division, the 35th Division and the 36th Division under the jurisdiction of the Second Front Army, also crossed the Daling River. In addition to the 36th Division, which joined the battle sequence to attack Chaoyang, the three main divisions of the Second Front Army attacked in the direction of Jianping.

In the early morning of January 28, 1938, it should be a bad man who pleaded guilty. After preparing for the sparse artillery fire, a large number of soldiers began to attack the morning sun all over the mountains. The average depth of half a meter of snow made the Japanese army extremely difficult, but it also made most of the barbed wire and mines useless. The frozen Daling River was full of the attack routes of the Japanese army, and the pale flares were floating in the air.

The sound of gunfire and tearing shattered the darkness before dawn! The 19 Japanese infantry brigades began to besiege Chaoyang Fortress from all directions. On the covered snow, the Japanese soldiers were constantly attacking, replacing the yellow side of their coats with white. The Japanese soldiers were not obvious in the reflection of the snow, and many Japanese soldiers wore snow shoes on their feet, which were round. The flat snowshoes are made of rattan, which can not only prevent the Japanese soldiers from sinking into the thick snow, but also prevent slipping. It can be said that the Japanese army is fully prepared.

Due to the sudden attack, the artillery of Chaoyang Fortress even had no time to intercept the main force of the Japanese infantry attacking across the Daling River. When the Japanese army entered the defense range of the fortress machine gun, it had already entered the shooting dead corner of large-caliber artillery.

Under the shot of the reflected firepower of the fortress, it is said that the officers and soldiers were still killed in the snow, because most of the heavy machine gun firepower of Chaoyang Fortress is covered with a ruler. Under the crossfire of the bullet screen, the clumsy assault of the officers and soldiers has undoubtedly become the best target, and the bullets are roaring. The sound of breaking the air made the officers and soldiers lying on the snow frightened.

It turns out that many Japanese officers and soldiers know that the defense of Chaoyang Fortress is very complete. Unless it is flattened with artillery, the infantry alone will not occupy it at all. Many Japanese soldiers who have attacked Chaoyang Fortress will make a lot of noise at night when they mention the name Chaoyang.

This is out of despair, but the commander of the front army, Huozhou Libing, still added many veterans who had participated in the Chaoyang battle back to the front line. Most of these veterans were used for the first round of attack. Huozhou Libing also put all his hopes on the first round of surprise attack. If you can If it is enough to achieve the sudden surname of attack, then it is not impossible to smash a gap in the strong turtle shell of Chaoyang Fortress?

As long as the breakthrough is opened, everything seems to be completed! With his own strength, he must be able to capture Chaoyang Fortress, but Chaoyang Fortress is not without weakness, but the freezing of the Daling River makes this weakness more vulnerable.

The headquarters of the front army is located within 15 kilometers of the former enemy. Normally, there should also be military-level units under the front army of the Japanese army. However, due to the special surname of this battle and the major adjustment of the sequence of the troops of the Kwantung Army, it is directly under the division under the jurisdiction of the front army, and it is said that the military-level establishment of the army. There are no special specific establishment regulations. At least two or three divisions and special forces can also be organized into one army, and the Eleventh Army of more than eleven divisions is also a rare precedent. Therefore, Kenji Ueda, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, decided to directly control the division with the front army to avoid interference between multi-level command agencies.

The headquarters of Huozhou Libing is located in an abandoned settlement 30 kilometers away from the whole line. Because all the soldiers and civilians rushed to Chaoyang to avoid the snowstorm, the settlement was not destroyed by themselves, and no one would have thought that I would attack Chaoyang in such a snowy weather. .

So Huozhou's soldiers picked up a cheap, hundreds of intact houses, and even a small amount of grain, which was simply an indescribable happiness for the Japanese army troops who had struggled in the wind and snow for five days. Although they had sufficient preparations, they were under the command of the three divisions of the First Front Army under the command of the Zhouli Army. There was still a total of more than 2,300 non-combat reductions, of which more than 400 people were frozen to death and died of various diseases caused by typhoid fever. In addition, more than 1,900 people completely lost their combat effectiveness due to the cold, and 70% of the officers and soldiers in the front army had different degrees of frostbite.

Suozhou soldiers sat by the stove, drinking hot soup and sake, listening to the sound of gunfire 30 kilometers away, and seemed to fall into a state of self-intoxication. They fantasized that their own troops were brave and broke through the defense of Chaoyang Fortress. At the imperial meeting of the Tokyo base camp, His Majesty the Emperor personally awarded him a medal. Ren Ueda Qianji's commander of the Kwantung Army... The commander giggled again with a wine glass. The staff officers next to the army knew that he must not disturb the commander at this time, otherwise it would be easy to be remembered by the commander. The last end of being missed by the commander was to let you command a squadron to launch the enemy. Charge..

On the periphery of Chaoyang Fortress, the troops of the second attack wave of the Japanese army, which continued to be reinforced, were blocked by the artillery fire of the Chaoyang garrison. In particular, the Japanese army on the front of the Daling River was blown up by dense artillery fire. The frozen Daling River ice surface was blown up into huge ice holes one by one, and the aftershocks of the Japanese army was shells. The shock fell into the ice hole, and there was no shadow in the blink of an eye.

The rising column of water drenched the officers and soldiers, and the wet coats were like ice armor. The stiff and slow rows of the officers and soldiers fell to the ground, and the blood flowing almost condensed in an instant.

However, a large number of Japanese troops still passed the blockade of artillery fire. The officers and soldiers howled forward like crazy, especially the Japanese army who came up from the back of the fortress, and launched a white-handedged battle with the officers and soldiers on the outer positions of the defenders. The sound of tearing, cursing and screaming were endless.

Dai Peng's special phone has been hung up by Fengxue and has not been restored. He can only contact Zhang Xuewu, who is under the command of Chengde, through the radio. After receiving the news that the main force of the Japanese army is attacking Chaoyang, Zhang Xuewu stood in front of the map and frowned and thought hard. The Japanese army on the Xuzhou side has not made a big move, while the Kwantung Army has a low temperature of the wind and snow. Under the circumstances, do you want to attack Chaoyang Fortress? What the hell is this? It can be said that the sudden action of the Japanese army disrupted almost all of Zhang Xuewu's operations. His troops were scattered to various places for disaster relief. The assembly of the troops took time. What worries Zhang Xuewu most was that the Japanese army's attack on Chaoyang was just the beginning of a series of large-scale military operations?

There is only one garrison in Chaoyang, and the Chaoyang garrison must be quickly reinforced. At this moment, Zhang Xuewu's troops that can quickly gather are only in the Zhanyang Department of the 4th Division of the Youth Army, which carried out disaster relief near Chengde. In addition, Zhang Xuewu, who prepared the 8th Division, did not dare not move, so he immediately ordered the 4th Division of the Youth Army. The Zhanyang Department and the Preparatory Eighth Division reinforced Chaoyang from Chengde through Pingquan and Lingyuan, and attacked from the flank to cover the Chaoyang garrison.

In Zhang Xuewu's memory, Napoleon, who swept Europe in history, gathered the largest coalition in Europe's history, with a total force of more than 600,000 troops. Napoleon's plan was to launch a large-scale in-depth attack on Russia. Napoleon did not put the winter at all. Keep this fact in mind that when Napoleon's army captured Moscow, Napoleon's confidence doubled, and the invading French troops ransacked the city of Moscow, and then a problem that Napoleon had not considered before gradually emerged. Winter in Russia is unusually cold. When Napoleon's army left the devastated Moscow with a large amount of trophy, the temperature in winter in Russia had dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. In the end, Napoleon was defeated in the cold weather of Russia. The hungry and cold soldiers fell one by one by one due to frostbite and hunger. Finally, only 150,000 soldiers staggered back to France. Napoleon's attack on Russia opened the prelude to the collapse of his huge empire, and also heralded the rise of Russia as a major European power, and minus 40 degrees is a common thing for Russia.

And then Adolf. Hitler's classmates obviously did not learn valuable lessons from history, otherwise he would not have performed Napoleon's attack on Moscow again, and their experience in Russia was the same. A campaign code-named Typhoon (Barbarosa) swept across the Soviet Union. The German [***] team was full of confidence. They were sure that they could definitely defeat Stalin's army quickly, and several of them even carried formal dresses with them in preparation for the review after the victory in Moscow Red Square. However, they did not carry enough clothes to withstand Russia's severe winter. With the arrival of the severe winter, Hitler's mechanized forces lost their power and suffered defeats in Moscow and Stalingrad, becoming a turning point in World War II.

It is said that I have suffered a big loss in the winter battle in Chengde, and I actually ventured to launch an offensive in the winter? Zhang Xuewu found that he really couldn't understand his behavior with normal thinking? The Xuzhou Campaign for several months of its deployment turned into a cover? The real goal turned out to be Xiang Zhuang's sword dance intention in Pei Gong? Do I have cerebral palsy? Let's talk about the cold winter? Is your tenth war zone soft persimmon? Don't you pinch Li Zongren?

Zhang Xuewu didn't know that this huge battle plan was formulated by Lieutenant General Tojo Hideki, the Chief of Staff of the Kwan Army. If Zhang Xuewu knew that it was made by Hideki Tojo, he would not be surprised, because the top soldiers of Tojo, who could only control two machine guns, thought that the most not lacked was imagination and bragging. It's unrestrained.

(to be continued)