Chapter 440: The Fall of the 33rd Division (Finale)

Immediately after that, the commander of the 215th Infantry Wing, Toshiosa Sato, hurriedly walked in and said: "Akiyama-kun, I just went around the town and found that except for some houses in the town, the other houses in the town have been demolished by the Shina people, and there is no drinking water in the town, and the Shina people are preparing to wipe us out."

"Sato-kun, please rest assured, we have lost contact with the division headquarters for so long, if those stupid staff officers of the division headquarters can't even deduce that we have been surrounded and attacked by the Shina troops, then they are not worthy of being the warriors of our Great Japanese Empire. I think that with the wisdom of His Excellency the division commander, it is likely that the reinforcements supporting us are already on the road, and as long as we hold on for about five hours, we can safely evacuate. Akiyama said confidently.

Although Sato Jun also knew that this was Akiyama Tadaichi cheering himself up, he had to say that he felt much better when Akiyama said this, and he didn't dare to say anything else, but if more than 17,000 people couldn't support it for even five hours, then they might as well die early.

The speed of the reorganized 300th Division's attack was much faster than Akiyama and others imagined, in order to preserve the strength of the Japanese army, so Akiyama Osa put the infantry groups of the four puppet armies at the forefront of the battlefield, with the obvious intention, that is, to let the puppet army act as cannon fodder and attract the vitality of the Chinese army, while the Japanese army was all cowering in the center of Huajialing Town.

The first wave of the reorganized 300th Division was the same tactic as the Japanese army, artillery fire and infantry assault. In addition to the field heavy artillery, the remaining three artillery regiments of the 300th Division were all in place, and the first wave of artillery bombardment lasted for 15 minutes.

But even so, a full fifteen minutes of shelling had completely broken the fighting spirit of the infantry groups of the four puppet armies. Coupled with the instigation of the intelligence officers lurking within these four infantry groups, they revolted on the battlefield for the 9th and 11th groups of the North China Public Security Army, and pointed their guns at the Japanese troops in the town, and the 213th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army suffered a lot of losses, and an infantry squadron and an artillery squad responsible for monitoring the puppet army were quickly annihilated by the rebel troops.

The rebel puppet army, under the command of Han Yunhua's spies, did not give the Japanese army time to reflect at all, and retreated with one blow. After eating more than 300 Japanese troops, he immediately withdrew from his position and surrendered to the reorganized 300th Division.

The battlefield uprising of the infantry groups of the two puppet armies directly shattered the relatively complete defensive circle of the Japanese army, and the two puppet army groups in charge of the east and south suddenly became prominent lone troops, and were severely damaged by the 2nd Brigade of the reorganized 300th Division, and the position arranged by Akiyama Osa on the outskirts of Huajialing Town was quickly disintegrated.

Although Akiyama knew that these Imperial Allied troops alone could not resist the attack of the Chinese army, but if those Imperial Allied troops were left in the town and let the Japanese army come out to fight with the elite of the Chinese army, he was not at ease, just now when the two imperial Allied army infantry groups rebelled on the battlefield, Akiyama and Sato were really taken aback, and secretly sighed a fluke, fortunately, those puppet armies were in front of the Japanese army at that time, not behind, if the Japanese army was fighting hard when the entire Chinese army was fighting hard, these imperial allied troops were behind the Japanese army, The consequences were unimaginable.

When the 3rd and 5th groups of the puppet army retreated to Huajialing Town, Akiyama immediately asked the troops to disarm the two puppet groups, and he was now really suspicious of these Chinese who were not Chinese. If it weren't for the fact that there were less than 2,000 puppet troops left, Akiyama really wouldn't have allowed these puppet troops to enter the town.

Yang Chengwu was very excited at this time when the temporary headquarters of the 300th Division was reorganized, and the news had just come that the two infantry brigades of the North China Public Security Army had eliminated an infantry squadron and artillery squad of the Japanese army, killing and wounding more than 300 little devils. At the same time, the second and third brigades have surrounded Huajialing Town, and the time is ripe. In addition, about 5,000 Japanese troops stationed in Wei County were coming to Huajialing with the cooperation of more than a dozen chariots, and even the 40th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Nangaoya and the three independent mixed brigades had sent a reinforcement of about 10,000 troops and were rushing to Huajialing on foot. …,

"Order, the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade immediately launch a general attack, and be sure to complete the annihilation of the besieged Japanese army before dark. In addition, he sent a telegram to Ma Jiayuan's 1st Brigade and Wan Guoquan's Chariot Brigade, ordering them to immediately fight in tantan and fight together, and immediately after the Japanese planes returned after dark, they wanted to kill the county seat of Weixian and completely annihilate the Japanese army's support soldiers. Send a report to the commander of the fifth division, and ask them to fight in the field of the fifth division Yanshan Road to block the reinforcements of the Japanese army in the direction of the southern high cliff, and if the casualties of the troops are too great, they can let go of the main road and let the devil's reinforcements come in. Yang Chengwu decisively ordered the general attack, and the battle reports on the front line continued to be sent, so far the plan to reorganize the 300th Division has been implemented very smoothly, and now the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army has taken the bait, and then it will be up to us to see if we can expand the results.

The temporary headquarters of the Second Brigade of the 300th Division was in a hurry, and the confidential personnel and combat staff officers were very busy coming in and out, when a "neighing" horse was heard outside, and an officer wearing a steel helmet and holding a shell gun turned over and dismounted and ran towards the headquarters of the Second Brigade.

The "Division Headquarters Emergency Order" The soldiers who originally planned to come over to stop them were also accustomed to seeing this kind of scene, and when they heard the people shouting like this, they immediately got out of the way and let the people in.

"The division headquarters urgently ordered: the 2nd and 3rd Brigades immediately launched a general attack, and the annihilation of the besieged Japanese army must be completed before dark......"

The same scene was also played out in the 1st Brigade, 3rd Brigade, Artillery Brigade, Tank Brigade and other units, and due to the shortcomings of the indiscriminate attacks of radio signal jammers, although the reorganized 300th Division banned the telegraph exchanges between the Japanese troops in the encirclement and the 33rd Division, it also completely paralyzed all the telegraph systems of the entire reorganized 300th Division, and the transmission of orders could only be transmitted by signal troops.

The 300th Division of the General Attack and Reorganization is also considered to have made full money, and it is still a continuous artillery bombardment of three artillery regiments, but after this shelling, it is not an infantry assault, but hundreds of "artillery units" pushing a strange cannon poured out from the troops participating in the assault, to say that this cannon is really weird, the most important feature is that the caliber of this kind of artillery is large, the minimum caliber of these weird cannons is 300mm, and the larger ones may even reach 500mm, and the appearance looks extremely rough.

With the order of a soldier who looked like a cadre, I saw dozens of smoke-emitting explosive packets flying quickly towards the Japanese position. Immediately after that, the entire town of Huajialing fell into a state of shaking and shaking, and the sound of violent explosions spread to more than ten miles away, and more than half of the houses in Huajialing Town collapsed in this round of shelling. As for the poor fortifications built by the Japanese army, they were not even as good as paper paste, and soon they were all in pieces.

After the first round of shelling, the 2nd and 3rd Brigades did not send infantry to assault, but let the artillery regiment continue to shell for more than 10 minutes, and then let the strange artillery carry out a second round of shelling, and the direct result of the continuous shelling for an hour was that the entire Huajialing Town was completely in ruins, and the remnants of the two Japanese infantry wings, an artillery brigade and two infantry groups of the puppet North China Security Army in the town were all buried.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of February 25, the second and third brigades of the reorganized 300th Division completed the encirclement and annihilation of the Akiyama Division, and the second and third brigades of the encirclement and annihilation battle only suffered less than 50 casualties, while the more than 17,000 people of the Japanese puppet army were spared from the more than 6,000 battlefield uprisings, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were all killed, not even a single wounded. In order to completely deter these two puppet army groups who had surrendered, the commanders of the second and third brigades decided to let these two puppet army groups go to Huajialing Town to clean up the battlefield after some discussion.

The results of cleaning up the battlefield were very satisfactory, and after returning, in addition to digging up a large number of weapons and ammunition, he also seized two wing flags and important documents, including the code book that Han Yunhua had always wanted. But they didn't catch a single prisoner, because the whole battlefield was as miserable as Shura hell, there was hardly a complete corpse, and even if there were, there was not a single living person, so when the two puppet infantry groups came back, they were extremely satisfied and glad with the decision to revolt on the battlefield a few hours ago, and if they continued to stubbornly fight to the end, they might be a pile of flesh and blood now. …,

And all the rebel officers and soldiers are also very curious about the powerful artillery used by the Second and Third Brigades, but because they have just revolted, and such a powerful artillery must be the military secret of the Eighth Route Army, even if they are curious, people will not tell them.

In fact, that kind of artillery is really nothing, at best, it is just a large iron oil drum and two iron wheels, and it has no technical content at all. This kind of artillery was made by Han Yunhua some time ago, and Han Yunhua named it "Cannon Without Conscience".

However, only Han Yunhua himself knew that this artillery was not his own original, but that he imitated the world-shaking iron army that was renamed the Chinese People's Liberation Army a few years later. This kind of artillery actually has its own scientific name, called "flying thunder cannon".

The "Flying Thunder Cannon" is a homemade weapon created by the People's Liberation Army. During the War of Liberation, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had very few artillery, and when its weapons and equipment were inferior, the officers and men created a formidable weapon -- an explosive pack launcher that used gasoline barrels as barrels. The main body of this weapon, also known as the explosive projectile, is an empty gasoline barrel, which is filled with propellant, and the explosive package bundled into a disc shape is put into it, and then the propellant is ignited, and a dozen kilograms of explosive package can be ejected to a distance of 150-200 meters.

The caliber of the conscienceless cannon is absolutely amazing, and the caliber of the oil drum is as big as it is. The powerful blast of the huge explosive pack will blow up all the bunkers and people and horses in its pass. Many of the enemies who were blown down often did not find any wounds on their bodies, but they were bleeding from seven holes and were shocked to death. After figuring out this situation, the Kuomintang army simply called this kind of thing a "cannon without conscience".

Han Yunhua has always coveted this kind of thing as a conscienceless cannon, although this guy has many shortcomings, especially the firing range is only two or three hundred meters, and the shooting accuracy is also very poor. However, this kind of artillery is low in cost and simple in manufacturing methods, as long as there is a good quality iron oil drum. In addition, the power of this kind of artillery is great, and the shells are relatively simpler and cheaper explosive packs, no matter how thick the bunker is, as long as it is hit by this extra-large explosive pack, then even if the bunker is not destroyed, the soldiers inside will be shocked to death, and this kind of artillery greatly makes up for the lack of artillery in the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

This is the first actual combat test of the unconscionable artillery, and although it has also been tested on the training ground before, the results are not ideal. However, the first time he participated in the war today, he showed great power without a conscience, which really surprised and delighted Yang Chengwu and others.

In fact, to be honest, Han Yunhua didn't want to take out the conscienceless cannon now, after all, the manufacturing process of the conscienceless cannon was too simple, and it was easy for the Japanese army to find a way to crack it. Moreover, the biggest role of the "unconscionable artillery" is not field warfare, but offensive operations. As far as the current situation is concerned, the tasks carried out by the Inner Mongolia Military Region are generally mostly defensive, so the role of the conscienceless cannon is limited.

However, Luo Ronghuan was very optimistic about this kind of artillery and was eager to know how this kind of artillery would perform in actual combat, so Han Yunhua equipped each of the three infantry brigades of the 300th Division with fifteen unconscionable guns. Han Yunhua also has a good idea of the power of the unconscionable artillery, in the previous life, in a big battle in which the People's Liberation Army surrounded and annihilated the Huang Wei Corps in the Huaihai Campaign, the Huang Wei Corps failed to attack and changed to defense, thinking that the PLA artillery was not strong, so he had no choice but to do it. However, he never expected that the field defense bunker he had painstakingly managed would be in ruins by a heavy explosives package of the People's Liberation Army, and his dense defense would be even more vulnerable to the blow of the "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers". Even the Kuomintang officers and soldiers who were captured after the war had to admit: "This dirt thing is much more powerful than artillery." ”。 In addition to firing explosive packs, it can also fire large rocks and cluster grenades, etc., and is very effective against enemy tanks, armored vehicles, field fortifications, and dense formations. …,

The success of the unconscionable cannon made Yang Chengwu extremely excited, and today only 30 such "giant cannons" were used to completely annihilate the two infantry wings of the Japanese army plus so many subsidiary troops, so far the 300th Division has annihilated nearly 19,000 Japanese puppet troops plus prisoners.

Soon, the 1st Brigade and the Tank Brigade also sent good news, and the 1st Brigade, with the cooperation of the Tank Brigade, completely annihilated the reinforcements led by Fuyuan Dazuo, chief of staff of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, at a depression 25 kilometers north of the county seat of Weixian County at half past seven in the evening. 5,414 Japanese troops were killed, of whom 1,420 were taken prisoner, and the rest were all killed. Now that the 1st Brigade has landed in the city of Wei County, it is impossible for the defenders of the only infantry squadron in the city to block the 1st Brigade from the city, so the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army has been destroyed and has become a settlement.

Immediately afterwards, Li Dayong also sent good news: The Fifth Field Division had engaged in an ambush battle with the "10,000-thousand" reinforcements of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army in a valley 10 kilometers west of Futujiao. It took only three hours for the Fifth Field Division to completely annihilate the Japanese support army, capturing 72 Japanese soldiers and 4,109 puppet soldiers.

Afterwards, Li Dayong found out that the so-called reinforcements were actually a ragtag army temporarily put together by the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, and there were less than 3,000 real Japanese troops in the 11,000-strong troops, and the rest were all puppet troops.

In fact, Li Dayong mistakenly blamed the commander of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, not because the commander of the 40th Division was unwilling to send troops to rescue the 33rd Division, but because the 40th Division at this time had no troops to adjust. Just two days ago, the North China Front Army Headquarters issued an order to immediately transfer the three infantry brigades assisting the 40th Division in the operation to assemble in the Huijin-Beijing area and stand by, so there were only less than 10,000 of the 40th Division left in Nangaoya, and in addition, an infantry brigade had already been eaten by the Inner Mongolia Military Region this morning, so Lieutenant General Naojiro Amaya had no choice but to let the infantry groups of the two puppet armies change into Japanese uniforms and equipment, and rushed to rescue the 33rd Division together with more than 3,000 real Japanese troops, so Li Dayong picked up a big bargain.

At 9:20 p.m., Ma Jiayuan sent a report to the headquarters of the 300th Division that the 1st Brigade of the 300th Division had completely occupied the county seat of Weixian 10 minutes earlier, captured 12 middle and senior officers of the Japanese army, including Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro, commander of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, and also captured 2,100 light and serious wounded Japanese soldiers. In addition, the 1st Brigade also captured a large amount of military supplies hoarded by the Japanese army in the county seat of Weixian, including more than 10 tons of oil in short supply in the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Because Ma Jiayuan used a clear code to send reports, the news that the 33rd Division had been completely annihilated immediately spread throughout the entire north and south of the river, and even General Nishio Toshizo, who was far away in Nanjing, immediately telegraphed Tada Jun, commander of the Japanese North China Front, to confirm the reliability of the news.

Originally, Tada Jun was very dissatisfied with Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro's idea of privately sending troops to wage war against the Chinese army in disregard of his strict orders, and originally planned to wait until the battle was over to settle accounts with Gampa Shigetaro, but he did not expect to receive a telegram from the 33rd Division requesting combat guidance in less than four hours, and then received a farewell telegram from Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro. But what made Tada Jun most angry was that the stupid guy of Gampa Shigetaro hadn't died yet, and had become a prisoner of the Shina people, and now the face of the entire Japanese Imperial Army was lost to him, and he didn't know how to explain it to His Majesty the Emperor......