7.46 Suspension of the Southern Route

"Hatoyama Nakasa! Be sure to hold on! The main force of the division is about to break through Fangjiagou! As soon as the 103rd Brigade arrives, the troops besieging you will flee immediately! The Emperor is watching you in Tokyo! I hope you will be able to ......"

Inside the headphones, the voice of the commander of the Zhou Libing Division was a little hysterical. The commander of the www.biquge.info Won Zhou Division had already learned that the 17th Cavalry Brigade had been ambushed by the Chinese 25th Army near Xintaizi. In order to stabilize the morale of the 116th Wing and encourage Hatoyama Nakasa to fight to the end, the commander of the Continental Infantry Division had deliberately concealed the encounter of the 17th Cavalry Brigade in a call with Hatoyama Nakasa, but Hatoyama Nakasa, who had a "keen sense of smell", still smelled something wrong!

During the first few phone calls, the commander of the Won Chau Infantry Division always kept repeating that the 17th Cavalry Brigade would soon arrive, and now he suddenly stopped mentioning the 17th Cavalry Brigade, which means that something must have happened to Ono Ryozo Nakasa's troops!

The biggest possibility is that the 17th Cavalry Brigade is no longer able to meet with the 116th Wing, Huang Haoran can quickly divide and besiege the 116th Wing, and it is certainly not difficult to solve the 17th Cavalry Brigade!

Since you have pessimistic thoughts in your heart, it will naturally affect your emotions! Gradually, Hatoyama began to become a little impatient. Since the Hatoyama brigade retreated to this hill, Hatoyama Nakasa has heard such "encouragement" no less than four or five times......

Ten minutes ago, the brigade commander, Major General Sawada Tokushige, also said almost the same thing on the radio, and before that, it was the commander of the Central China Front, General Shunroku Hata, and the generals all hoped to bring strength to the Hatoyama brigade, but what the Hatoyama brigade needed at present was not these empty words, Hatoyama Nakasa hoped that someone could tell him how to deal with those Shina soldiers under the mountain!

The Hatoyama Brigade had completely fallen under the siege of the 99th Division. Since the Hatoyama brigade discarded all its artillery and lost the ability to attack from a long distance when it broke through, the Chinese army is now swaggering under the nose of Hatoyama Nakasa! The Japanese officers and soldiers on the hill are gritting their teeth!

Will the generals' reprimands be able to drive away these high-morale Chinese troops? Since you can't, let's leave some more time for Hatoyama Nakasa to organize a defensive position!

Two minutes later, the commander of the Continental Division finally put an end to his "nonsense", and a noisy electric current came from the earphones.

After putting down the receiver, Hatoyama Nakasa stood still and did not move. Asagong Shaozo next to Hatoyama Nakasa originally wanted to know what the commander of the Won Zhou Libing Division said on the radio, but when Asamiya Shaosa saw the loss and helplessness on Hatoyama Nakasa's face, he immediately decided to change the topic!

"Your Excellency, Captain, have the reinforcements still failed to break through Fangjiagou? What the hell is the 103rd Brigade doing? How come such a rotten line of defense still can't be broken through until now!? ”

After careful weighing, Ma Gong Shaozo began to criticize the 103 Brigade for its ineffective rescue! Asamiya Shaoza thinks that the Hatoyama Brigade has fallen to the point where it is now, and Hatoyama Nakasa is not responsible at all, and the only blame can only be blamed on the captain of the Tsugami Fu, and the two of them brought the 116 Wing to the point of no return!

Now, the "cowering" of the 103rd Brigade is likely to cut off the last brigade of the 116th Wing!

The 116th Wing was able to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the 25th Army, and it was the gap that opened from the Fangjiagou area! Asamiya Shaozo could not accept the reason why the 103 Brigade was blocked! A line of defense that an infantry wing can break through, and now an infantry brigade can't take it? Is there some conspiracy in this?

Since killing Qingtian Shaozuo, Ma Gong Shaozuo has suffered from victim paranoia, and now he feels that there will be an article behind everything he sees! The progress of the 103 Brigade is related to the survival of the Hatoyama Brigade, and Asamiya Shaozo will naturally think more and be more careful!

"Maybe when we passed, Fangjiagou was indeed a bad line of defense, but now, I think Huang Haoran should have built Fangjiagou into a solid 'Great Wall'! Blame us for being stupid! The thirst for victory blindfolded the Wing Captain! would actually believe that Huang Haoran's 25th Army has become unprecedentedly weak! will step into the trap step by step! Ma Gong Shaozuo, Huang Haoran has proven his strength and command art in Nanjing, as long as it is the place that Huang Haoran wants to defend, he will definitely be able to hold it! This time too! Before we were annihilated by Huang Haoran, Major General Yamada Meiji's 103rd Brigade would definitely not be able to cross Fangjiagou even a single step! ”

Hatoyama Nakasa, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said a lot of frustrating words, which frightened Asamiya Shaosa! Asamiya Shaosa is an old subordinate who has followed Hatoyama Nakasa for many years, and Hatoyama Nakasa, who has no confidence, is the first time Asamiya Shaosa has seen it!

"Your Excellency, Captain! Please don't give up! We still have almost a thousand troops! Occupy the location again! It is impossible for the people of China to destroy us easily!! Reinforcements will definitely arrive! The 13th Division could not do without the 116th Wing! ”

"Ahh Hatoyama Nakasa, you're right! I'm sorry, I had a gaffe just now......"

Under the reminder of Ma Gong Shaozuo, Hatoyama Nakasa tried hard to cheer up, but at this time, the officer in charge of the guard on the side shouted at the top of his voice!

"Shelling! Watch out for ......! ”

Asamiya Shosa hurriedly pulled Hatoyama Nakazo into the half-dug improvised trench and lay down. A few seconds later, the raining shells began to fall, and suddenly the entire hill was blown into a sea of fire, and Hatoyama Nakasa and Asamiya Shaosa in the trenches looked up at each other, and they both saw panic and fear in each other's eyes!

"Boom!" "Boom ......!"

Firearms, flags, and severed arms and limbs of Japanese soldiers flew in the air, and the violent explosion kicked up a huge amount of dirt and rubble, which were scattered in all directions, smashing on the ground and cracking like hail! Hatoyama Nakasa stuck his head out of the trench and took a quiet look, only to see thick smoke billowing from the entire mountain, covering the sky and the sun! He took a hard breath of air, and actually smelled blood from the pungent gunsmoke!

The number of artillery used by the Chinese army in this round of shelling was significantly higher than in the previous round, and in addition to the 90 mountain guns, 75 mountain guns and 82 mm mortars were also added. According to conservative estimates, at least hundreds of artillery pieces of various types were used, and the Japanese army, which had always relied on its artillery superiority to bully its opponents, finally suffered retribution!

Hatoyama Nakasa's mind inside the trenches was full of questions, when did the Shina army become so powerful? Where did so many large-caliber guns come from? You must know that even in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, the Japanese army rarely encountered such fierce artillery fire! But today, the 116th Wing actually met twice in Fangjiagou and Cao Laoji!

After retreating to the hill with the remnants of the 116th Wing, Hatoyama Nakasa ordered the soldiers to dig the fortifications immediately. However, due to the continuous artillery bombardment and exploratory attacks carried out by the 99th Army during the construction of the Hatoyama Brigade, Hatoyama Nakasa's troops not only failed to complete the standard ring fortifications, but even the improvised trenches were only half completed!

The soldiers had no place to hide from the shells, and the Hatoyama brigade naturally suffered heavy losses in the shelling!

As soon as the shelling stopped, Hatoyama Nakasa ordered the officers to count the numbers, and soon he got an unacceptable result, Hatoyama's brigade actually lost more than 300 people in this round of shelling!

Combined with the number of casualties in the previous shelling, the Hatoyama brigade has been reduced by more than 400 people! That is to say, after withdrawing to the hill, the infantry of the Chinese army has not yet been seen, and the total strength of the Hatoyama brigade has been reduced by almost half!

"The people of China! Get ready for battle! ”

Before Hatoyama Nakasa could get out of his heartache, there was even worse news from the trenches!

This time, the Chinese army is no longer a pure display of firepower, and the elite infantry that the Hatoyama brigade has seen at the bottom of the mountain pounced!

"Long live the Emperor! Long live Great Japan! ”

The Japanese troops of the Hatoyama Brigade burst out with all their strength without even the mobilization of the officers, but this slogan sounded a little more tragic, and it was usually shouted only when the Japanese combat units were preparing to "shatter the jade".

It seems that the devils of the Hatoyama Brigade have all realized their end......

In order to ensure that Shen Yuanlong could successfully annihilate the 116th Wing, Huang Haoran quickly transported Shi Jincai's artillery regiment to Cao Laoji. Now the artillery unit in Shen Yuanlong's hand can be said to be at the peak of the lineup! If it weren't for the fact that Japanese bombers flew over from time to time in the sky to make trouble, Shen Yuanlong really wanted to line up all the cannons on the plain, and then directly flattened the hill occupied by the Hatoyama Brigade with cannonballs! The little devils of the dog day should also let them taste the taste of lying on the ground and being shelled!

After abusing the Japanese soldiers on the mountain several times with artillery, Shen Yuanlong sent his 99th Division. To complete the occupation of the position, it was still necessary to rely on the infantry, and Shen Yuanlong had no way to put bayonets on the artillery.

If the 99th Division is the most experienced unit in the Chinese army in attacking the Japanese army, it is definitely a very appropriate description, from the siege of the Japanese Marine Corps Headquarters in Shanghai to the 114th Division in the siege of the devils in Nanjing, Huang Haoran's elite has summed up a set of methods to deal with the devils.

The Japanese troops of the Hatoyama Brigade did not see the crowd tactics they were familiar with, and the first wave of attack strength of the 99th Division was only about a company, and this company was also divided into dozens of tactical groups, which was somewhat similar to the triangular formation configuration of the Japanese army, except that the tactical group of the 99th Division was four people.

According to the type of main weapons carried, these tactical groups of the 99th Division are divided into three types: firepower, mobile and suppression, the core of the firepower group is a Czech light machine gun, the mobile group is a submachine gun, and the main weapon used by the suppression tactical group is the grenadier canister, these grenadiers are all bought back by Wang Huanzhi from the arms dealers of the 4th Division, all of which are serious Japanese goods!

Hitting a devil with a devil's weapon is also an interesting way to retaliate......

These tactical groups of the 99th Division would voluntarily stop their advance when they reached a position about 100 meters away from the Japanese defense line. Under the cover of Czech light machine guns, more than a dozen mobile groups were constantly roaming in front of the Japanese army's formation, using their submachine guns to sweep all the personnel who dared to show their heads on the Japanese position. The Hatoyama brigade that was punched by this combination was not depressed!

In fact, according to Huang Haoran's assumption, the standard equipment of the suppression team should be a bazooka or flamethrower, but now it is 1938 after all, so you can only use the devil's grenadier to make a living!

"Captain! These people are very cunning! What do we do now? ”

Seeing that the Hatoyama Brigade was at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Chinese army, Asamiya Shaosa was suddenly a little overwhelmed! After watching several Japanese machine-gun positions destroyed by the Chinese army, Asamiya Shaosa decided to ask Hatoyama Nakasa.

If you don't know what to do, ask your superiors, at least you won't make any mistakes.

For the strange way of playing the 99th Division, Hatoyama Nakasa didn't know what to do at all, but as a Japanese army Nakasa, his vision was much stronger than that of Asamiya Shaoza after all. Gradually, Hatoyama Nakasa saw the power of the 99th Division's tactics, and these tactical groups, which were equipped with grenadiers, light machine guns, and submachine guns, formed a relatively complete firepower system in the Japanese positions by learning from each other's strengths and working together. Then it moved forward step by step, and this attack was like a drop of water, although it was less imposing than a tidal group charge, but it was able to penetrate the Japanese defense line more easily.

The most suitable weapon to crack this tactic is the Type 92 infantry cannon, as long as it can break a link in the tactical system of the Chinese army, it can stop the infiltration of the Chinese army! It's a pity that when breaking through, the Hatoyama brigade threw all the Type 92 infantry guns in the encirclement of the Chinese army.

Hatoyama Nakasa can completely imagine what will happen to the top of the mountain once the defense line of the Hatoyama brigade is infiltrated by these "water droplets", and after that, they are afraid that they will have to face the group charge of the Shina army!

We can't let these soldiers get any closer! A counter-charge must be launched immediately! Chase these nasty guys away with bayonets!

Thinking of this, Hatoyama Nakasa pulled out his command knife and then ordered his herald to blow the military whistle!

The role of the whistle in the Japanese army is equivalent to the trumpet of the Chinese army, and driven by the sharp whistle, the devil soldiers of the Hatoyama brigade rushed out of the trench with bayonets! Pounced on the attacking troops of the 99th Division!

"Excellent! The devil is out! Mortar! Rapid fire! ”

The 99th Division had long expected that the Japanese would use the counter-charge, and Shen Yuanlong gathered several mortar companies of the 99th Division together, waiting for the Japanese to jump out of the trenches!

The rapid fire of dozens of mortars is amazing! Before the Japanese troops who broke out of the trenches could show their ferocity, they were drowned in gunpowder smoke and artillery fire! The attack troops of the 99th Division, which stayed in front of the Japanese positions, were not idle, and they fired fiercely at the devil soldiers in the smoke!

"It's now! Give the little devil the final blow! ”

Shen Yuanlong saw through the binoculars that the Japanese army had been completely disorganized, so he ordered the 531st Regiment to launch a full-scale attack! In the smoke of gunpowder, the tactical team in front had already followed the fleeing Japanese army and entered the trenches of the Hatoyama brigade! Their intrusion will completely paralyze the Japanese machine-gun fire! The road to the 531 regiment has been cleared!

The Thomson submachine gun equipped by the Mobile Tactical Group showed amazing power in the narrow trenches! In close combat, automatic weapons completely overwhelm rifles! Often, two or three officers and men of the 99th Division with Thomson submachine guns were able to clear a section of trenches! Simply put, it was a one-sided massacre!

When the large force of the 531st Regiment rushed to the top of the mountain, the end of the Hatoyama Brigade finally came! Hatoyama Nakasa and Asamiya Shaosa led the last more than 100 Japanese soldiers to resist desperately, the military flag of the 116th Wing was ignited, the radio station was blown up, and the Japanese soldiers shouted "jade shattering" The sound of "jade shattering" rose and fell on the mountain!

"Your Excellency, Captain! See you at Yasukuni Shrine! ”

The blood-red Asamiya Shaozo held a grenade in one hand, screaming and rushing at the officers and soldiers of the 531st Regiment.

It was not the first time that the officers and soldiers of the 99th Division had seen such a devil who had lost his mind, of course they knew that they could not let Ma Gong Shaozuo get close, so five or six guns were quickly aimed at Ma Gong Shaozuo, and then beat him into a sieve!

"Your Majesty the Emperor! Onboard! ”

These were the last words of Asamiya Shaoza......

At this moment, Hatoyama Nakasa's mind flashed like a movie, and the bold words of Wing Commander Timda Fu Dazuo had only been spoken for less than 24 hours, and the bait of the "central flowering" tactic of the 116th Wing was swallowed by the Chinese army in one gulp!

No, it seems that the 116 Wing is not even qualified to be a decoy! At best, they can only be a good meal delivered to Huang Haoran's 25th Army!

The Japanese troops beside Hatoyama Nakasa are ending their lives in a variety of ways. Hatoyama Nakasa naturally couldn't lag behind, he took out a pistol from his waist and stuffed it into his mouth, as long as he pulled the trigger, all the pain and humiliation would pass!

Just before Hatoyama Nakasa closed his eyes, he saw a baggage soldier pour gasoline on his body and light it with a match, and the whole person was suddenly turned into a torch! The pain and madness made the baggage soldier writhe cramps in the flames! A few seconds later, the heavy soldier with his whole body burned to black charcoal knelt down at Dongfang, and then cried with the last strength of his life:

"Ogasan......!"

The Japanese soldier did not think of the god-like emperor at the last second before he left this world, he was just attached to his mother......

Seeing this scene, Hatoyama Nakasa's heart seemed to be hollowed out, his feet were weak, he fell to the ground, and the pistol stuffed in his mouth also fell to the ground, and then Hatoyama Nakasa began to vomit desperately!

Yes, Mother! Will my mother be sad when I die? The military department should go from a thing that they have used themselves to the house, and then take away all the hope of the mother with a blank piece of paper!

I don't want to die!

I can't die!

I want to go home!!

Tears rolled down Hatoyama's eyes to the ground, and after a few seconds, he began to cry!

The officers and soldiers of the 531st Regiment didn't quite understand why this old devil was so sad, but they saw the rank of Hatoyama Nakasa clearly! Nakasa! It's still a big official! I don't know what reward I can get back when I send it to Director Xu's secret service!

Wu Guangrong, the commander of the 3rd company, walked out of a large group of stunned soldiers, came to Hatoyama Nakasa's side, and kicked the southern pistol and command knife on the ground far away with his foot. Then Wu Guangrong looked down at Hatoyama Nakasa, who was already emotionally broken, shook his head and said, "This thing is no good!" Come on, tie it up and carry it back to the regimental headquarters! See if the group seat is useful! ”

Hatoyama Nakasa's performance shocked the ghost soldiers around him, seeing that their captain took the lead as a prisoner, most of the remaining dozens of ghost soldiers gave up the idea of suicide, and only a few of the more stubborn guys ended their lives by themselves.

Wu Guangrong saw that these devil soldiers only knew that they were standing in place blankly with the props they were originally going to use to commit suicide, and they didn't know what to do. So he sighed and beckoned to the officers and soldiers of the 531st Regiment behind him: "What are you doing in a daze?" A sheep is a drive, and a flock of sheep is also a boom! Tie them all up! Send it to the regimental headquarters! ”

When the sunset completely sank below the horizon, the gunfire in the defense zone of the 25th Army completely stopped! The 116th Wing and the 17th Cavalry Brigade became a thin page in Huang Haoran's book of credits.

After the Central China Front Command continuously called the 116th Wing and the 17th Cavalry Brigade on the radio to no avail, General Shunroku Hahata ordered the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Hou Zhou Libing, to stop the unnecessary attack. It's not that General Shun Hata doesn't want revenge, it's because the Central China Front doesn't have enough troops to continue the offensive now! Let's take this operation to rescue the 116th Wing as an example, the simultaneous operation of the three divisions of the Central China Front seems to be huge, but in fact, it is still the 13th Division and the 3rd Division that participate in the operation, which has led to the delay in breaking through the defense line of the 139th Division! After the loss of the 116th Wing and the 17th Cavalry Brigade, the military strength of the Central China Front north of the Huai River has dropped to a very dangerous point! Now the six generals of Hata Shunliu need to think about how to protect themselves!

After learning that the 25th Group Army had annihilated the invading 116th Wing and a cavalry brigade reinforced by the Japanese army, Chief Li of Xuzhou immediately ordered the Chinese troops north of the Huai River to launch a counteroffensive, and transferred Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, which had just been transferred to the Fifth War Zone, to the vicinity of Guzhen to participate in the operation.

The 59th Army deployed the 38th Division to defend the line from Watuanji to Yangdianzi west of Guzhen, and the 180th Division to defend the line from Yangdianzi to Xiaolou southeast of Guzhen, with the military headquarters located at Renqiao. At this time, the 13th Division had only one and a half wings left north of the Huai River, and could only hold a group to defend. Commander Li also ordered the 31st Army to carry out flank attacks from Hefei to Mingguang and Dingyuan from the Huainan Railway to Shangyao and Fengyang, and ordered the 7th Army of the 21st Group Army of the Xinli Fifth Theater to carry out flank attacks from Hefei to Mingguang and Dingyuan; At the same time, the air force was asked to support the bombardment of Bengbu and Linhuai Pass, forcing the Japanese reinforcements who were crossing the Huai River to withdraw to Huainan to strengthen the defense of Bengbu and the Jinpu Railway. Zhang Zizhong took the opportunity to order the 180th Division and the 38th Division to form a reinforced regiment to counterattack the enemy at Xiaobengbu. After fierce fighting, Xiaobengbu was recaptured. General Shunroku Hata, fearing that the 13th Division would suffer serious losses again, took the initiative to abandon the north of the Huai River, and the whole army retreated across the Huai River.

Huang Haoran's 25th Army killed and wounded more than 4,200 Japanese soldiers in this time-consuming and decisive annihilation battle, and the number of captured Japanese soldiers reached a record 167! Among them, the Japanese cavalry surrendered to the 17th Cavalry Brigade, accounting for more than half, mainly because the Japanese cavalry had a higher cultural quality, was less influenced by militarism, and cherished life more.

This, coupled with the unexpected collapse of Hatoyama Nakasa, caused the 116th Japanese officers and soldiers of the 29th Wing to lay down their arms. This bumper harvest of the 25th Army finally led to this!

Since the Chinese army rarely captured Japanese soldiers before, when Huang Haoran reported the number of Japanese soldiers captured in the war to the headquarters of the commander of the 5th theater and the Wuhan Military Commission, it was immediately identified as "false report of war exploits"! Later, both Xuzhou and Wuhan specially sent people to the 25th Group Army to verify, and when the representatives of the highest authorities and Chief Li saw a large number of Oriental radish heads squatting in the prisoner of war camp of the 25th Group Army and gnawing on their heads, their mouths could be stuffed into their fists!

A group of Wang Huanzhi, who was in charge of the reception, smiled like a fox! He whispered in his heart, "So scared? If I let you know that my eldest brother still has a team of Japanese traitors, I won't scare you to death? The highest authorities and Chief Li also think too highly of Little Japan! It's still the big brother who is right! It's all two eyes and one nose, and they will die like a bullet! ”

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The Central China Front in the south suffered a setback, and the North China Front in the north suddenly slowed down, Huang Haoran knew that this was the North China Front accumulating strength and preparing to carry out the final blow to Xuzhou, but the Military Commission in Wuhan did not think so!

After the 5th Theater achieved certain achievements in the Huaihe battlefield, Wang Zhaoming suddenly became optimistic about the future of the confrontation against Japan! At the meeting, he put forward a proposal that the Japanese were no longer able to advance south, and that the 5 theater should take the opportunity to counterattack and lose ground with a down payment! Naturally, the highest authorities took Wang Zhaoming's words as literati and ignored them.

But no one thought that Wang Zhaoming's words would appear in the newspaper and be supported by quite a few people! Amid a clamor in the newspapers calling for a counterattack by the Wuhan government, the Military Commission advised Chief Li to adopt offensive tactics.

In desperation, Chief Li had no choice but to order the 3rd Army to launch an offensive against Jining, the 22nd Army to Zouxian, and the 3rd Army to Mengyin. It took several days for the divisions to prepare for a counterattack.

The 3rd Group Army was still defending in the southwestern region of Shandong at that time, and the task accepted by the acting commander-in-chief Sun Tongxuan was mainly to capture Jining with the main force and Wenshang with one part, and then carry out a flank attack between Jining and Yanzhou to respond to the main battle; The purpose was to ensure the safety of the Longhai Railway and threaten the right flank of the Japanese troops moving south along the Jinpu Road, and to cut off the traffic of the Jinpu Railway.

At this time, the Japanese army in Jining was the main force of the 39th Brigade of the 10th Division of the 2nd Army, with about 1,500 people, most of whom were controlled in Nanguan, and there were about 400 guards in the city; The Japanese army in Wenshang is the 3rd Brigade of the 39th Wing, about 500 people. The main force of the 8th Brigade and the headquarters of the 10th Division are located in Yanzhou. Sun Tongxuan ordered the 81st Army to attack the enemy from Jinxiang to Jining Nanguan; The 22nd Division of the 12th Army was ordered to detour from Dingtao through Juye and Jiaxiang to the vicinity of Twenty Lipu north of Jining, and then attack the north gate of Jining, and cooperate with the 81st Army to recover Jining City; It is scheduled to arrive at the starting point of the offensive before dawn on February 12, and the offensive will begin on the 12th.

Not long after the southern front calmed down, the north of Xuzhou began to be clouded again...... (To be continued.) )