Chapter 309 Strong Sweep

However, the tense situation made Zhang Xuewu's enthusiasm for the automatic filler not maintain for a while, and Zhang Xuewu was not very interested in things that could not immediately form combat effectiveness.

The main reconnaissance means of the tenth war zone are concentrated on air reconnaissance, but the effect of air reconnaissance is not very good. For the large-scale aerial reconnaissance of the prepared Japanese army during the day, it often has no special effect, so the special operations headquarters began to drop special operations detachments into suspected areas. Approaching reconnaissance, approaching reconnaissance is a life-threatening task, but due to the urgency of the enemy, Zhang Xuewu had to acquiesce in Qin Buji to carry out this extremely dangerous forced reconnaissance.

On January 27, 1938, in the early morning, Tang Ziqiang of the first armored division, which was attacking in the direction of Chengde, more than 300 tanks formed a three-kilometer trapezoidal attack formation, followed by the first regiment of Wang Chuang, the new first division of the Youth Army, following the hound armored vehicle. The 38th Division of the Japanese Army, which attacked Chengde, carried out a fierce counterattack.

It can be said that the counterattack of Chengde's defenders came very suddenly. Two days ago, two days before the news about the [***] counterattack force, the head of the 38th division of the Japanese army, one of the two armored divisions in the 10th war zone was in the Dingyuan camp in Suiyuan and the other gathered near Chifeng.

According to my habitual thinking, and referring to the 23rd Mechanized Division of the Kwantung Army, Ichiro Hase did not think that the armored forces of China [***] would have such rapid mobility, and the previous intelligence said that the railways of Rehe and Suiyuan were all destroyed by blizzards, which was difficult to open to traffic, so Ichiro Hase Dare to set up a dragon gate array outside Chengde Fortress, with Ono Brigade and Sakamoto Brigade as the left and right wings, taking advantage of Chengde's defenders to reinforce Chaoyang and trapped in Lingyuan, he constantly pushed forward to Chengde City with civil fortifications and Z-shaped roundabout trenches outside Chengde Fortress.

When thousands of rockets fired by the third brigade of mobile rocket artillery in the first round covered the officers and soldiers of the Sakamoto Brigade on the left wing of the 38th Division, Ichiro Hase, who came to comfort me, had not figured out what was going on.

Of course, Ichiro Hase did not know that Chengde was actually the location of the former enemy general headquarters of Zhong***. Blizzard made the Zhong*** team lose information about the movements of the Japanese army, but it also affected the normal operation of the Japanese army's intelligence system, and both sides could not grasp the effective situation in time. The source of the report, when making the correct strategic and tactical deployment, carrying out such a large-scale battle is extremely rare in the history of world war. War is intelligence! The transparency of the battlefield and the statute of limitations and the accuracy of intelligence affect the victory or defeat of a battle, a battle, and even a war.

At this moment, it can be said that Zhang Xuewu is making a conservative attack plan in the most stable way with his eyes closed, and he himself is also a predetermined way. Both sides are fighting a chaotic battle. In the dense explosion of each other's ups and downs, the officers and soldiers of the Sakamoto Brigade of the 38th Division of the Japanese army suddenly found that their previous artillery tactics had all failed?

It is difficult for officers and soldiers who have not experienced the offensive and defensive war in Nanjing to imagine the panic and uneasiness of those reserve officers and soldiers who wiped their helmets, kettles and bayonets brightly. The 38th Division of the Kwantung Army is a division of B established locally. Before going to the battlefield, experienced military commanders, soldiers, Chief Cao repeatedly told his soldiers that when they heard the roar of the shells, they would immediately lie down in place. After the shell exploded, they quickly entered the latest crater to hide. After the enemy's artillery fire was sparse, they were hidden in the pit where the last batch of shells fell. The non-commissioned officers of the Japanese army faithfully performed their duties. Where it is.

However, this time, the tactics regarded by the Japanese army as a magic weapon failed. The effective killing radius of the lengthened 1937 hail 24 tubes of 105mm rockets is about 8 meters. The explosion of the dense rocket made the whole earth tremble, except for the dense array. Outside the shrill sound of roaring, huge explosions and pieces of fire devoured a large amount of life. War is an extremely cruel monster, and what he devours is human life and blood.

After just 20 minutes of three rounds of sangulation, on the curved position of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, which was 20 kilometers wide, the Ono Brigade and the Nagasaku Brigade each defended a core position of about five kilometers. At this moment, the front of the Ono Brigade was smashed by the sniped shot of the 3rd Mobile Artillery Brigade in the 10th War Zone. The Japanese army is always willing to slander how low the combat effectiveness of the [***] team is and how vulnerable it is, and the commander of the Japanese army seems to be particularly willing to use similar tactics in order to achieve the ultimate goal of attacking and shocking the whole line.

But today, the third brigade of mobile artillery in the tenth war zone taught me a very vivid lesson, that is, how to break the tortoise shell! However, it is said that the so-called fortifications I excavated in the cold weather can't be called fortifications at all. Most of the cannon holes are just a form. In many places, I said that I took out a hole in the thick snow to avoid the cold.

When Zhang Xuewu was fighting against the enemy in Chengde, he mobilized 200,000 young and strong laborers and explosives in a week before he took out three lines of defense on the permafrost as hard as granite. Obviously, the 38th Division commanded by Ichiro Hase did not have so much energy. After all, the tactical tasks of the 38th Division It is to contain the Chengde garrison and give the Chinese garrison a sense of oppression. The new 4th division of the youth army stationed in Chengde was trapped in Lingyuan. The Chengde Fortress was only a defensive battle by a garrison in the 10th theater. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for the [***] team to carry out a counterattack.

If Chengde's Chinese defenders give up the decisive battle with themselves, this is exactly what Ichiro Hase wanted. However, it is obvious that the Chinese defenders did not give up the intention of a strong defense line to attack, so Ichiro Hase quietly slowed down. After all, it was just a spretentious attack. For Ichiro Hase There is no need to work so hard at all.

However, when the roaring rockets turned the earth upside down, the remnants and broken arms of the Japanese soldiers who lacked effective bunkers flew high into the sky with the smoke column rising in the explosion, and finally fell down in a crackling way. In the wanton shrapnel, the officers and soldiers sent out in the smoke of gunpowder. There was a miserable howling, and the wounded were abandoned everywhere.

When Ichiro Hase found the scene in front of him from the artillery mirror, he knew that his 38th Division was finished. He didn't have to wait for the enemy to rush over, and the 38th Division under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army of the Empire collapsed like this? I'm afraid this is the most unacceptable fact of Ichiro Hase. For Ichiro Hase, who has taken the examination of Lu Dacai five times in a row, who finally got what he wanted, to survive in the position of the head of the lieutenant general's division, he really thanks to the great defeat of the Kwantung Army in Rehe in the winter of 1933.

History can be a point or a line. I'm afraid that Ichiro Hase, who was promoted to the fiasco of Chengde, didn't expect that history would have such amazing similarities?

It's also a cold winter, and it's also a big army gathering. The difference is that the empire is fully prepared from the strategic deployment to the integration of campaign materials this time? Where on earth did this damn middle [***] come from? Are the intelligence agencies all in vegetarian seats?

What stunned Ichiro Hase was that the attacking tank armored column in the middle [***] cleared a kilometer-wide breakthrough in a very short time on the frontal defensive position of more than five kilometers wide of the 76th Brigade of the left-wing infantry under the jurisdiction of the 38th Division, and the gunfire near the breakthrough was clearly rumbled. In the Japanese army position full of bullet pits and gunpowder smoke, the abandoned Japanese army wounded let out a desperate howling. A Japanese army officer whose right hand was blown up seemed to have no pain, looking for his broken right hand back and forth numbly?

After a jackal light tank was crushed out of the military officer, the Ono Brigade under the jurisdiction of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army was forced to shrink its strength. Major General Ono Jinxiong's brigade commander took out his determination to break his wrists and deployed the troops of the three infantry brigades in the main force at intervals. The main force of the brigade retreated to the nearby mountainous area, because the invading enemies were all mechanized troops with a large number of armored vehicles and tanks. It was obviously extremely irrational to race against tank armored vehicles.

The Sakamoto Brigade has been destroyed by the enemy's intensive artillery fire, so its own Ono Brigade will naturally become the target of the enemy's main attack. As the Chinese saying goes, Ono Jinxiong really respects himself?

The main force of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army? Neither Zhang Xuewu or Tang Zhiqiang, who is under the command, think it is a feasible tactic. The armored forces can easily defeat the main force of the Japanese army, but they are the remnants of the Japanese army who run all over the mountains and fields. In addition, there are many mountains and hills and complex terrain near Chengde. Once the tank armored troops fall into the terrain that is unfavorable to their own side, It is likely that there will be undue losses under the crazy counterattack of the Japanese army.

Moreover, the front line of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army is extremely long. It has to use at least five divisions to annihilate the troops to annihilate the troops. Rescue soldiers are like fighting fires, because the annihilation of a division in the Japanese military region has delayed the reinforcement of Zhanyang, the new fourth division of Lingyuan Youth Army. Once something goes wrong, it can be pursued. It's too late to regret.

For Tang Ziqiang, this is not the problem of killing chickens with a cow knife, but killing chickens with heavy cannons! For the Japanese army, which did not have many anti-aircraft guns, especially the remnants who were stunned by a stormy shelling, one of his armored divisions and the new first division of the youth army were swept away like this, which was really invincible.

(to be continued)