Chapter 438: The Fall of the 33rd Division (5)

Going back to the 33rd Division, after receiving the order of Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro, the two infantry wings of the 33rd Division, the 213th and 215th Infantry Wings, and the three infantry groups of the puppet army immediately assembled and drove towards Huajialing.

As soon as the Japanese army left the county seat of Weixian, Yang Chengwu on the front line received an urgent telegram from the reconnaissance unit. Yang Chengwu, who was urgently appointed by Han Yunhua as the commander-in-chief of the southern front, was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the first brigade of the reorganized 300th Division to immediately get out of the way and let the Japanese army enter the mountain. The 2nd Brigade, 3rd Brigade, Tank Brigade, and Artillery Brigade of the 300th Division received an order to rush forward immediately after the Japanese army was surrounded and completely annihilate this Japanese puppet army.

However, after the order was issued to the front line, the first brigade from the brigade commander Ma Jiayuan to the ordinary soldiers were very dissatisfied, in Ma Jiayuan's words, how could our first brigade suddenly become a stepmother, and we could only drink soup when people ate meat, and called Yang Chengwu back at that time, hoping that their first brigade would serve as the main force in this annihilation war. But what attracted was a scolding from Yang Chengwu, and Yang Chengwu told him that although the 1st Brigade was not the main force to annihilate the 33rd Division this time, it was the vanguard of the recovery of Wei County.

Ma Jiayuan doesn't really want to fight for the main force of the attack, and it is expected to attract a scolding, although he has not worked with Yang Chengwu for a long time, but he knows the temper of this top boss. All the cadres of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region know that Han Yunhua is the absolute boss in the entire military region now, and the most effective thing to speak next is not the newly appointed political commissar Luo Ronghuan, but Chen Geng, who has always served as the commander of the 77th Independent Division of the Military Region, because everyone knows the relationship between Chen Geng and Han Yunhua. In addition, Yang Chengwu, who controls the most elite integrated division of the entire military region, has a status in the military region that ordinary people can match, and all the military and political cadres in the military region know that Yang Chengwu is Han Yunhua's most tacit partner in marching and fighting all the time, and when Han Yunhua became the commander of the military region, he handed over the 300th integrated division he built to Yang Chengwu, which shows Han Yunhua's trust in Yang Chengwu.

Ma Jiayuan knew that there was such a number one person as Yang Chengwu as early as the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and almost all the headquarters cadres and leaders mentioned Yang Chengwu with envy and jealousy, including General Peng and Liu Division Commander and Deng Gong and others often sighed Yang Chengwu's good luck, when Yang Chengwu was transferred to Saibei, he was transferred from the identity of the commander of the First Army Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, although the title of the commander of the First Army Division looked quite scary, but in fact, the entire Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was only ten thousand people. There are more than 3,000 guns, and the first army division has less than 2,000 troops, and the weapons and ammunition are all old products of the last century, and they can be used as cultural relics in museums. Although the division-level units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are far from being as huge as the 129th Division, the 120th Division, and the 115th Division, the combat effectiveness of the 300th Division is not to be underestimated, and the infantry, cavalry, engineers, artillery, charioteers, and special forces are all equipped with many arms, and its combat effectiveness is not to mention that it is an ordinary Japanese field division, and even the most elite permanent divisions of the Japanese Army are not necessarily the opponents of the 300th Division. So Yang Chengwu is definitely a legend at the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

When Ma Jiayuan was transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, he has been staying in the first brigade of the 300th Division, and the first brigade is the absolute main force of the 300th Division. It shows that he, the brigade commander, has done his best. …,

However, Yang Chengwu's telegram still made Ma Jiayuan very happy, compared to the annihilation of the two infantry wings of the Japanese army plus the infantry group of the three puppet armies, the temptation to recover Wei County was obviously greater. So when Ma Jiayuan conveyed Yang Chengwu's reply, the whole trip suddenly became vigorous and vigorous.

Akiyama Tadaiichi originally thought that as soon as they left the city, they would be blocked by the Chinese army, but they did not expect that they had already been more than ten kilometers out of the city, and they were less than 20 kilometers away from Huajialing, but they were still not blocked by the Chinese army. But Akiyama did not let his guard down because he was not attacked, and the more this happened, the more worried Akiyama Tadaichi became, he knew very well that the Chinese army was far from being as unbearable as those in the empire who had not been on the battlefield and had never seen the Shina troops said. In good conscience, the momentum of the Chinese army is still very strong, but it is limited by China's national strength, so they lose to the empire in terms of weapons and equipment.

Akiyama Tadaichi ordered the search troops to put the cordon two kilometers away to prevent being ambushed by the Chinese army, and encircling the point to send reinforcements was exactly the specialty of the Eighth Route Army, and it was also the essence of the guerrilla warfare they advocated, and Akiyama Tadaichi had no choice but to guard against it.

However, the closer you get to the battlefield, the more tense the atmosphere becomes, and Akiyama Tadaichi, less than five kilometers away from Huajialing Town, was blocked by the Chinese army, although there were not many Chinese troops on the opposite side, and there were only infantry battalions when they were full, but the battle of this Chinese infantry battalion was much more than Akiyama and others expected. The firepower of this unit and the high quality of the soldiers shocked Akiyama and others, and the Chinese troops, who were only four or five hundred people, were equipped with 12 heavy machine guns and more than 20 light machine guns, and on average, every 15 soldiers could be divided into one light and heavy machine gun, and the firepower of this infantry battalion alone was comparable to the firepower of two-thirds of his 213 infantry wing.

However, no matter how strong the enemy's firepower on the opposite side was, the commander of the 215th Wing of the Akiyama Synchronized Army, Jiro Fukuda Osa, decided to attack after some discussion, because just now His Excellency the division commander sent an urgent telegram saying that the battle on the other side of Huajialing was rapidly deteriorating here, and about 1,500 Chinese troops had surrounded the three unfortunate infantry squadrons of the empire on a hill north of Huajialing Town, and the Chinese troops were also equipped with a large number of mortars and grenadiers. The only five heavy machine guns of the three infantry squadrons of the empire have been destroyed, and now only three light machine guns are barely functional, and Captain Takahashi has sent a farewell telegram to the division headquarters, ready to lead the remaining 300 or so people to be crushed together with the Chinese people.

Fortunately, the aviation regiment was about to arrive, and although the Shina troops were well equipped, they did not have the weapons to deal with the Imperial Sky Samurai, so His Excellency the division commander ordered Akiyama's headquarters to break through the enemy in front of them at all costs, and rescue Takahashi and other infantry squadrons first.

In the opinion of Akiyama and others, although the position of the Chinese army on the opposite side was very distinctively built and the weapons and equipment were not bad, the number of people was only a few hundred, and the imperial army only needed ten minutes to break through the position of the Chinese army as long as any infantry brigade was dispatched.

Due to the urgency of the battle, Akiyama did not let the Imperial Allied Army act as cannon fodder this time, but ordered the Fukuda Brigade, the only fully manned infantry brigade of the 213th Infantry Wing, to fight, and also ordered the only mountain artillery brigade brought this time to provide fire assistance.

“… Rumble... Rumble... Boom..."

After the usual artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, the Futian brigade launched an attack on the positions of the Chinese troops.

The first brigade, one regiment and two battalions of the 300th Division, which was responsible for garrisoning the opposite position of the Japanese army, originally according to Yang Chengwu's plan, the first brigade only needed to let go of the main road and let the Japanese army enter the battlefield, but Ma Jiayuan was a careful person, Akiyama and others surprised Ma Jiayuan with all the performances since they left the city, no wonder this 33rd Division can enter the commander's eyes with a newly formed C-class infantry division, but this devil unit is extraordinary. …,

It is common for the party to have a cordon when marching and fighting, but there are not many people like Akiyama and others who put the cordon two kilometers away, and at this time, the Akiyama headquarters is still in an absolute advantage on the surface, after all, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region on the front line are only about 13,400 people, and with the huge strength of more than 17,000 people in the Akiyama Division, there is no need to be so cautious.

Ma Jiayuan found that the commander of the Japanese army was not simple, and if he didn't make a little trouble for the Japanese army, the commander of the Japanese army might not necessarily be fooled, so he ordered the first regiment and the second battalion to immediately build a defensive line on the spot to block the Japanese reinforcements.

"Battalion commander, the little devil of the dog day has come up," said a soldier under the age of twenty to a fierce officer with a shell gun in his left hand and a telescope in his right hand and a ghost-headed knife on his back.

"Brothers, the little devils of the dog day are coming up, they all cheer up Lao Tzu, this time it is not an ordinary devil, these guys are the dishes that the commander personally chose for us, don't shoot first, wait for the dog day to get closer and then fight, don't give Lao Tzu a heavy machine gun to look up, the artillery of the little devil is not vegetarian." Before the second battalion commander Xu Chunshan could finish his words, a shell exploded next to a heavy machine gun, and the machine gunner, ammunition man, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun were all thrown into the sky, and by the time they fell, they had already become a pile of parts.

"Beard... Second egg...**, the little devil of the dog day Lao Tzu is not finished with you" Xu Chunshan scolded angrily.

At this time, the Japanese infantry was already less than 50 meters away from the position of the second battalion, Xu Chunshan opened the nose of the barge gun, and then quickly raised his head and pulled the trigger on a second lieutenant who was bending down and trotting at the front. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Fire at Lao Tzu, don't save bullets, fight very hard"

"Little devil, grandpa gave you delicious ......"

"Russian ** grandma's, are the guns of the Russians Shanxi good......"

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The Japanese army was suddenly attacked, and the formation was immediately chaotic, although several soldiers and the devil squadron leader immediately scolded the stable formation organization to fight back, but the gap between the recruits and the veterans could not be offset by a few shouts from the officers. After all, the 33rd Division is a newly formed recruit unit, and the recruits in it account for more than two-thirds of all troops, and the successive victories some time ago have made these recruits empty-eyed, so in just two minutes, forty or fifty devil soldiers were hunted and killed by the second battalion.

Akiyama saw through the telescope that the Japanese attack had been frustrated, and he was immediately furious: "Yaga, order: the artillery brigade will destroy all the heavy machine guns of the Shina people with ten rapid fires"

"Dasa, our troops are less than fifty meters away from the positions of the Shina people, and it is easy to injure our troops by mistake," said the chief of staff of the 213th Infantry Wing, Hadaichiro Miyazaki.

Akiyama looked at Miyazaki Hanichiro with a fierce look, and then said: "Yagaya Road, you're not just stupid, it's just stupid, when our people are withdrawn, will the people of China still stop there and wait for us to bomb, hmph, since those guys can't even solve these few people, it will be a shame to keep it in the face of our Great Japanese Empire, it is better to use waste, you quickly carry out the order"

"Hail"

Akiyama was born in a divorced family, he was recruited into the Japanese army youth camp at a very young age, and participated in the cruel training of the emperor's guards, and his life was full of blood and killing since he was a child, so it also caused Akiyama to have a character of indifference to life, Akiyama not only ignores the lives of others, but also does not take his own life seriously, a person who does not take his own life seriously will care about the life and death of others, the answer is obvious. Therefore, although Akiyama was known for his bravery in the entire Japanese Army, he was not liked by that senior officer, so Akiyama was transferred to the reserve service after only less than two months in China, and was not reactivated until some time ago, but his rank was still not promoted, and he was still the captain of the Osaku Wing as he was eight years ago. …,

The Japanese artillery bombardment came very suddenly, and the second battalion did not expect that the Japanese army would carry out artillery bombardment at this time, although many shells fell on the Japanese position, but compared with the Japanese army's Song infantry squadron, the casualties of the second battalion were obviously much greater, and the most important thing was that more than a dozen heavy machine guns of the second battalion suffered heavy losses in the shelling just now, and there are less than eight that can still be used now.

But Xu Chunshan did not order the troops to retreat, although he knew that the brigade commander would not do anything to him if he withdrew now, anyway, this blocking battle was actually a show, just to dispel the doubts of the little devil. But this burst of shelling just now made the second battalion suffer a big loss, Xu Chunshan thought that he was also a figure who only took advantage and did not suffer losses, so he was put on such a scene by the little devil opposite, he couldn't swallow this breath, and the damage to their second battalion's position was not serious, and there was no problem at all after holding out for an hour or two. If he withdraws like this, not to mention that he can't explain to the soldiers of the second battalion, he won't even be able to pass this level himself.

The Japanese shelling passed quickly, but Xu Chunshan was surprised to find that only a few minutes of shelling had made the devil squadron attacking their position seize the opportunity to quickly approach the position of the second battalion.

Xu Chunshan was shocked and shouted loudly: "Brothers, give me a very strong beating, and beat this group of dogs into a sieve." ”

"Da Da Da ......"

"Da Da Da ......"

The gunfire on the position of the second battalion rang out again, and at the same time, Xu Chunshan also detonated the minefield buried in the front of the position, and in an instant, dozens of devil soldiers were blown to pieces without defense, and the flesh and blood flying everywhere fell on the heads of the soldiers of the second battalion, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

The soldiers of the 2nd Battalion are all veterans who have been in the army for at least two years, and they have seen such a scene more than once, but the soldiers of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army are different, most of them have only undergone 3 months of recruit military training, and then they were sent to China by the top level of the Japanese warlords.

After arriving in China, these recruits have hardly experienced many major battles, and although bloody scenes have not been seen before, it is the first time that human flesh is flying everywhere like this, and internal organs are thrown everywhere.

The Japanese soldiers who were about to attack the position of the second battalion were frightened, and most of the soldiers chose to turn around and run, and the Japanese captain with the command knife roared angrily. But the troops that have lost their fighting spirit cannot recover their fighting spirit by words at all, so no matter how the devil's captain orders, and even slash a deserter, it still can't make those recruits turn their guns.

Xu Chunshan seized the opportunity to order the troops to attack immediately, and made a counter-charge of the Japanese army, directly driving the attacking infantry squadron out of the safe range, and also killed and injured a large number of devils' living forces. The first round of the offensive ended with the loss of more than 140 Japanese troops and the loss of more than 30 men.

After fighting a counter-charge by the Japanese army, Xu Chunshan did not dare to stay on the position for longer, and the troops immediately withdrew from the position from the communication ditch after returning to the position.

As soon as the second battalion withdrew, the Japanese artillery bombardment began, and this shelling lasted for a long time, and Akiyama knew that the military situation in front was urgent, and he could not afford to fight with the Chinese army here, so he ordered the artillery brigade to immediately use shells to pears the positions of the Chinese army. From the telescope, Akiyama saw that the reason why the Japanese army was not able to take the position of the Chinese army in one fell swoop was that in addition to the fact that the vast majority of the Japanese army were new recruits and their psychological quality still needed to be improved, a very important point was that the weapons and equipment of the Chinese army were not worse than those of the regular troops of the empire, and the imperial army had the Type 38 rifles and Type 92 heavy machine guns, and the Imperial army had grenadiers and melon-type grenades that the army also had, so if you wanted to completely annihilate the infantry battalion of the China on the opposite side, you must completely destroy their weapons and equipment.

After ten minutes of continuous shelling, almost one-third of the total number of shells brought by the 213th Infantry Wing and the 215th Infantry Wing, Akiyama ordered the artillery to stop the shelling, and the infantry immediately launched ......a group charge, making sure to take the positions of the Chinese troops in one go.