Chapter 60: Fatigue
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After the 12th Wing on the beach got the news that most of the 22nd Wing of Yongjin Zuo was annihilated, the morale immediately reached the bottom, and the 99th Army freed up its hands to concentrate on dealing with the 23rd Wing of Anda, and the 12th Wing was immediately in a hurry!
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Huang Haoran saw that the exchange of fire during the day was too bad, so he ordered the troops to retreat to defend, and the Japanese saw that the 99th Army was retreating, and began to dive and bomb unscrupulously, and the anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the 99th Division could be regarded as handy.
I didn't expect that the Japanese planes on the ground were actually able to resist at a very low altitude, and they were simply flying close to the treetops, and the anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the artillery regiment disintegrated three Japanese planes in the air in the first salvo, and the 99th Division's position was thunderous, while the Japanese 11th Division was dejected.
Anda Twenty-three Zuo kept asking his officers to cheer up the soldiers, and finally calmed down the restless Japanese army again.
On the command ship, the first priority for Katamura Shihachi Daisa, who released the winning hand and was defeated, is now to save the fate of the 12th Wing.
If you retreat at this time, it will only give the 99th Army a chance to massacre, and if you want to save the 12th Wing, the only option is to increase your troops! Strengthening the forces on the beach little by little, and then relying on the superiority of the air force and naval guns, Hao used brute force to open the way, which is also the safest way to avoid falling into the trap of the 99th Army.
The performance of the 99th Army left a shadow on the mind of Chief of Staff Katamura 48, who did not send troops to make a detour again, but began to fight conservatively.
The chief of staff of Katamura 48 pondered that the 3rd Division was about to start going ashore, and the defending Chinese army would definitely take care of one or the other and show its flaws!
As a result, the 44th Wing of the 22nd Brigade of Major General Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu was transported ashore in batches, and the Wing Commander and Zhiying Nidaisa's tactics were very cunning, and they were the most suitable candidates to deal with such a situation.
At 7 o'clock on the 23rd, the advance troops of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, under the escort, guidance and vigorous cover of the fleet, forcibly landed at the railway ferry terminal and Zhanghuabang about 15 kilometers south of Wusong Town.
Because Huang Haoran moved the 56th Division to the area of Wusong Town in advance, the Chinese defenders, who had greatly increased their strength, and the landing force of the 5th Brigade were tied, the Japanese went ashore but were unable to break through, and the 15th Group Army did not have the strength to drive the Japanese into the sea, and the two armies formed a confrontation situation for a while.
After receiving the battle report of the 3rd Division, the stone in Matsui Ishone's heart fell to the ground.
The Chinese army is still the Chinese army, and although the morale of the Nanjing government army is now like a rainbow, the 3rd Brigade still discovered the weakness and immaturity of the opponent in the short exchange of fire.
The commander of the 5th Brigade, Major General Riichiro Katayama, said that as long as the 5th Brigade all go ashore, it is a sure thing to break through the Chinese army's defense line at Wusong!
It seems that the 99th Army is really just an outlier, no matter how strong a force is, what can it do? After all, it's just an army! You must know that there are as many as 10 first-class divisions such as the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, and with the expansion of the war in China, more Japanese divisions and regiments will be formed, and there will be a steady stream of ......
The elite soldiers of the 99th Army are one less than one, Japan has a complete reserve system, and the casualties of the troops can be replenished soon, don't look at the 22nd Wing almost killed by the 99th Army into an empty number, as long as you go back to the mainland or Taiwan and North Korea to repair it, it will be a fully equipped infantry wing at that time!
...... of the War Department of the Ministry of National Defense in Nanjing
The highest authorities looked at the Songhu war report on the 23rd, and their feelings were very complicated.
The Japanese finally came ashore, and they were attacked head-on by the 99th Army, and with the highest authorities' understanding of Japan, the devils would definitely retaliate and try to save face in Shanghai.
The sense of honor of the Japanese Army is simply strong and a little perverted!
Will the Japanese army in North China be transferred to Shanghai? It is not easy to start a war with Nanjing in two directions at the same time with Japan's strength, and his highest authority has more than 2 million men and horses in his hands, and it will take half a day to stand there and let the Japanese cut it, not to mention that Songhu is still a "profitable" situation in Nanjing.
It's just that the footsteps of the Japanese army in North China have become louder and louder, and on the plain, the Central Army is far from being the opponent of the Japanese mechanized divisions.
It seems that only by investing more troops in Songhu and achieving greater results can these Western countries feel that Japan is not as strong as they think, and then the peace talks will be possible.
The traitor role of the peace negotiation and signing is still done by Minister He, anyway, he is also familiar with the road, and it is not the first time!
After Xi'an, the highest authorities have been looking for Minister He's bad luck, and Minister He can endure it, and even his hometown unit, the Yunnan Army, can be dismantled by the highest authorities, and he can pretend not to see it.
Originally, the highest authorities thought that the minister would stand up and complain a few words, which was a good opportunity to beat the "He Department" faction, but Minister He did not say a word from beginning to end, and also sent a message of encouragement to the 121st Division, saying that the 99th Army is a sharp weapon of the country, and the children of Guizhou should fight with the Japanese invaders to the end.
Fortunately, Huang Haoran showed his face to the highest authorities, and the Japanese troops killed and wounded by the 99th Army actually accounted for more than half of the Chinese army's achievements since the start of the Songhu War, which greatly increased the prestige of the Central Army.
All the people are flattering the highest authorities, and the 99th Army is also praised to the sky, and only one person is sweating for Huang Haoran, that is, Jiang Baili, the year-old friend of Huang Junzuo----.
The 99th Division has been fighting from No. 13 to the present, and there are already signs of exhaustion, and if it is not supplemented and repaired, the aura of Huang Haoran, a famous general, will not last long!
As the commander of the 99th Army, Huang Haoran's worries at the moment are the same as Jiang Baili's, the results of the 99th Division since the start of the war are indeed amazing, but along with the results of the battle there are huge casualties, up to now, the casualties of the 99th Division have exceeded 4,000 people, and several regiments that have participated in the war for a long time, such as the 537th Regiment and the 531st Regiment, have a very serious shortage of personnel, and the rest of some companies can't afford to fight a platoon!
If this continues, the 99th Division will be wiped out sooner or later!
The devils on Chuanshakou Beach have increased their troops again, with the cover of naval guns and aircraft during the day, Huang Haoran basically has no way to affect the landing of the Japanese army, Shi Cannon's artillery regiment fired a few cannons and was quickly suppressed by Japanese artillery fire, if it was not for the precautions in advance, Huang Haoran's artillery regiment would have been repaid!
On the afternoon of the 23rd, the Japanese tanks also began to go ashore, although these "bean chariots" are simple, but they are still a huge threat to the defense line of the 99th Division, the casualties reported by the front line are getting bigger and bigger, and the 99th Division has lost too much blood!
Vice Chief Chen understood that the 99th Army could not be allowed to fight on the front line like this, and without Huang Haoran's barrier, the 18th Army would also have to go sooner or later, so Vice Chief Chen ordered Luo Zhuoying to send Huang Wei's 67th Division to reinforce the line from Chuanshakou to Liuhe.
The arrival of reinforcements gave the 99th Army a boost, the firepower on the defensive line was dense again, the 18th Army deserved to be the family of Vice Chief Chen, the 67th Division brought a company of battle defense guns, plus the 99th Division originally had the 37th battle defense artillery, the devil's tank was destroyed many in a row, and the night came, the Japanese 11th Division stopped attacking, and the 99th Division and the 11th Division maintained an exchange of fire without a shot at a distance of several hundred meters.
The 99th Army and the 11th Division were tired of killing and needed to rest......
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