Chapter 851: Fierce Battle at Tiger Ridge (1)

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Hearing Lei Yunfeng's nonsense about running trains in front of the enemy, Division Commander He not only frowned and asked: "Commissioner Lei, the false transmission of Shangfeng's orders on the battlefield is to be subject to battlefield discipline, don't you understand?" ”

"Shizao, I didn't fake the order of Shangfeng, but according to the rapid changes in the battlefield situation, I, Lei Yunfeng, made a military order in front of the commander of the 17th Division, Zhao, and I am willing to gamble with the lives of the five members of the supervision team to persuade Shizuo to prepare for withdrawing from the Huling defense line in advance, and ask Shizuo to start ....... immediately."

"To put it lightly, my 81st Division has been surrounded by the Japanese Suzuki Division on three sides of the Huling defense line at this time, and it is not easy to break through the powerful offensive blockade line of the Japanese army and move closer to the closed door defense line held by the 17th Division. This is self-defeating. ”

"Division, when I came, I had asked Division Commander Zhao to send an elite regiment to secretly move to the area of Dongjiabao, which is less than a thousand meters away from the Huling defense line, to conceal, once the 81st Division withdrew from the Huling defense line, broke through the Japanese blockade line and moved closer to the closed gate, and immediately launched an attack on the Japanese army behind the flank of the Japanese Suzuki Division, so as to meet the breakthrough of the 81st Division."

"Commissioner Lei, are you saying that you have persuaded Commander Zhao of the 17th Division to send a regiment to meet my 81st Division to break through? Could it be that such a steady and wise commander as Division Commander Zhao would listen to your clamour? Why don't I believe it when I mobilize troops to respond without authorization? ”

Chief of Staff Zhang listened to what Lei Yunfeng said, and the more he listened, the more incredible he felt, not only shook his head and asked.

Lei Yunfeng looked at his watch and pleaded eagerly: "Division Commander He, Chief of Staff Zhang, the 81st Division held on to the Huling position for less than an hour and a half, and was broken through the frontline position by the enemy's powerful offensive. ”

"Lei Yunfeng, I can forgive you for not participating in front-line battles, and you don't have a serious attitude in speaking and doing things, so I don't want to hold you accountable for your alarmism and the great responsibility of disturbing the morale of the army, please find a safe place to cat, don't affect our army's battle against the Japanese army, if you still want to go your own way, then don't blame me for being unkind to you."

Master He said with a stern expression on his face and a serious tone staring at Lei Yunfeng.

"Division, please don't think that I am idle to risk breaking through the powerful blockade line of the Japanese army, and disturb the morale of the army when I come to you, I also take the sincere heart of the commander of the 17th Division Zhao to save the lives of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the 81st Division.

If you don't listen to my persuasion, then please be prepared for both? The first is to continue to adjust the troops to block the powerful attack of the Japanese army in the air and on the ground, but this will bring huge casualties to the troops.

The second is to order the troops, while blocking the enemy, to be ready to withdraw from their positions at any time, and strive to strike hard if they want to fight, and to withdraw smoothly and quickly if they want to withdraw. ”

Chief of Staff Zhang very much agreed with what Lei Yunfeng said, and approached Division Commander He and whispered a few words.

The more Division Commander He listened, the more he felt that the young supervisor in front of him felt more and more mysterious, and no one dared to imagine that Lei Yunfeng would actually take Fang Shichao and Su Xiaoyan, a man and a woman, to blend into the main force of the Japanese army's attack on the 81st Division.

I would never have imagined that in full view of the murderous Japanese soldiers, they would rob a Japanese tank, drive the tank to break through the defense line of the main position of the 81st Division, and destroy four Japanese tanks in a row in less than ten minutes after turning the muzzle.

If it is calculated, the 81st Division organized two death squads to sacrifice 452 brave fighters and destroy 22 tanks of the Japanese army, plus the four destroyed by Lei Yunfeng and captured 50 tanks of the Japanese army into the offensive battle, at this time there should be 23 left.

This greatly reduced the pressure on the 81st Division to block the attack of the Japanese ground armored mixed forces. If Shangfeng really investigates it, he will be sent to a military court.

Chief of Staff Zhang saw that the division seat was still hesitating, and not only whispered again: "Division, since the commander of the 17th Division Zhao agrees with the ridiculous proposal put forward by Lei Yunfeng, and also wrote a letter asking Lei Yunfeng to bring it to you, even if Shangfeng holds us responsible for withdrawing from the position without authorization, isn't there still the 17th Division Commander Zhao and Lei Yunfeng on top?" ”

Division Commander He also had this idea, but he was a famous general who firmly resisted Japan, and if the Supreme Commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater had not personally issued an order to retreat, even if all the tens of thousands of officers and men of the 81st Division died in the Huling defense line, he would not have given the order to withdraw from the position and flee in panic.

At this moment, 12 Japanese bombers flew into the air, dived to the ground and climbed upwards at the same time, but did not directly drop the terrifying bombs on the Huling defense line of the 81st Division.

But just like that, the officers and men of the 81st Division, who were holding their positions, saw the 12 Japanese bombers roaring incessantly overhead, and the fear in their hearts grew bigger and bigger.

The reason why the Japanese bomber commander did not give the bombing order was that the ground commander of the Japanese Suzuki Division had not provided accurate bombing targets to the air fighters through telegraph officers in time.

Because the Japanese Suzuki Division did not expect to launch a frantic attack on the 81st Division, it would break through the forward position of the 81st Division at Huling in just one hour.

Now that the vanguard of the Japanese army has advanced to the defense line of the main position of the 81st Division, which is very close to the front line of the 81st Division, once the ground bombing target cannot be clearly determined, I am afraid that the Japanese troops close to the defense line of the main position of the 81st Division will be severely damaged in the explosion of a large number of bombs dropped by Japanese bombers.

As soon as the attack was launched, the commander of the Suzuki Division proposed to General Sugiyama Moto, commander of the Japanese North China Front, that in order to break through the defense line deployed by the 81st Division at Huling as soon as possible and advance to the Xiyang River Valley in a timely manner, he requested the 36th Army Aviation Brigade stationed in Yuncheng to send a large number of fighters to cooperate in the operation.

Originally, the bombing coordinates provided by the 36th Army Aviation Brigade were the front line and the main positional defense line of the 81st Division, but the commander of the Suzuki Division did not expect that under the powerful offensive of the ground armored mixed forces, the forward position of the 81st Division would be broken through in less than half an hour.

Therefore, the 12 bombers rushing from Yuncheng flew over the Wangwushan defense line so quickly, and the commander of the Suzuki Division, fearing that the bombs dropped by the fighters would accidentally damage the Japanese armored mixed forces, ordered the ground to immediately get in touch with the commander of the air fighters.

The commander of the Japanese fighter planes in the air, who had not yet obtained a specific target for bombing, had no choice but to order the fighters to dive and climb incessantly on the Huling defensive line, with the aim of trying to lock on the bombing target from the air and carry out the bombing accurately.

However, the commander of the fighter plane found in the air that the Japanese ground armored mixed forces were entangled with the 81st Division, which was holding the Huling defensive line, and it was difficult to determine the specific bombing target, so he had to wait for the ground to provide coordinates before carrying out the bombing.

At the critical moment when the Japanese fighters were hovering in the air and were about to drop bombs on the 81st Division, the communications office of the 81st Division received an order from the Supreme Commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater.

The 81st Division was ordered to quickly withdraw from the Huling defensive line, break through the Japanese blockade line and move closer to the 17th Division, concentrate superior forces to block the Suzuki Division's advance to the Xiyang River, and hold the enemy in the closed gate defense line at all costs.

Division Commander He received the order of the supreme commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater, not only stared at Lei Yunfeng with surprised eyes and asked, "Commissioner Lei, how did you learn in advance that the supreme commander of the theater wants to order the operational deployment of my 81st Division to withdraw from the Huling defense line?" ”

Lei Yunfeng said slyly: "The heavenly opportunity must not be leaked, please organize the division to immediately organize the troops to withdraw from the Huling defense line, if the Japanese fighters lock on the bombing target, I am afraid it will be ......." ”