7.79 Fierce fighting on the outskirts

At the suggestion of Jiang Baili, the Wuhan Military Commission also organized several officer training regiments to explain these classic examples of the Nanjing garrison to the senior commanders at the front. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Officers wearing the uniforms of generals of the tweed system gathered in batches from the front line of the Anti-Japanese War to the three towns of Wuhan and Lushan, and then returned to their units in batches. Although the Military Commission spent a lot of manpower and financial resources on these trainees, the tactical disadvantage of the Chinese army on the battlefield of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression still did not improve in any way!

The new tactics that the military instructors hired by the Military Commission explained to the front-line commanders in the classroom did not enter the minds of these generals from beginning to end, so when they returned to the battlefield, the tactical literacy of the Chinese army was not improved in the slightest!

In the final analysis, these generals just went to the rear to go through the motions, as if they had gone on vacation, and everything the Military Commission had done for them was useless.

At present, most of the senior commanders in the Chinese army are old people, and their generals who have rolled out of the battlefield of the civil war have entered their twilight years, and it is difficult for them to accept new things. For these people, it is best to use the old stuff that they are familiar with. So even when they find out that they are no longer facing the old factional armies of the warlords, but the murderous Japanese, they are still reluctant to change! Some of the reasons for their stubbornness are unwilling, but more are not!

Most of the young officers from Huangpu have not yet occupied important positions, and although they represent the backbone of the Chinese army, they are not yet in charge of giving orders! Chief Li, Cheng Qian and other veteran figures still occupy the center of the stage, and Chen Cixiu, Gu Mosan, "Xiao Zhuge and others" from Baoding Military Academy are even more prosperous! In contrast, the Whampoa officers were more like the private soldiers of the highest authorities, and Hu Zongnan, who had developed relatively smoothly among them, had only achieved the position of commander of the corps so far. Even Huang Haoran, the "victorious general", currently holds the highest position is only the deputy commander of the theater!

Ranking people according to seniority is a bad habit in Chinese officialdom, and this bad habit has long infiltrated the military......

What Huang Haoran didn't expect was that he actually saw a rare "good student" in Taierzhuang, and this good student was also the commander of the 2nd Group Army!

Sun Lianzhong, commander of the 2nd Group Army, has always admired Huang Haoran's tactics in the Battle of Nanjing, and he believes that the situation that Taierzhuang will face actually has many similarities with the previous Battle of Nanjing!

It is also a lonely city, the same is surrounded by enemies on three sides, and one is facing water, such a terrain that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, if the 2nd Group Army wants to hold Taierzhuang, if it adopts the conservative method of blindly defending all the troops in Zhuangzi, it will definitely not work. It is necessary to make a fuss in the peripheral operations!

Beiluo, Nanluo, Lancheng and Liujiahu are located between Taierzhuang and Nigou, and are all important defensive support points. The value of these four places in the Battle of Taierzhuang is equivalent to that of Lishui and Jiangning in the Battle of Nanjing, but the scale of the map is a little smaller.

Correspondingly, the strength of the invading Japanese army was far less powerful than the Central China Front faced by the Nanjing garrison, and the 10th Division of Ryosuke Isoya in the Taierzhuang area was also very complementary!

The only problem was that because the strategic space was relatively small, there was not much room for the 2nd Army to maneuver.

From the very beginning of formulating the defense plan, Sun Lianzhong determined the principle that these peripheral positions outside Taierzhuang and Zhuang must not be easily abandoned. So he moved the 31st Regiment of the 93rd Brigade of the 185th Division to the Beiluo, Nanluo, Lancheng and Liujiahu areas, and built the first line of defense in Taierzhuang!

So the 185th Regiment was honored to be the first opponent encountered by the Seya detachment on the way to attack Taierzhuang.

In retaliation for what the Chinese army did to the Seya detachment in Ryoshitadian, Major General Kei Seya threw in the entire main force of the Seya detachment in the first round of attacks!

The Senya detachment, which has been specially strengthened by Ryosuke Isoya, now has amazing firepower! The officers and men of the 185th Regiment had not yet seen the shadow of the Japanese infantry,1 and their positions were blown up into a sea of fire by Japanese artillery!

Major General Seya Kei was like showing the officers and men of the 185th Regiment the variety of artillery possessed by the Japanese army, urging mountain artillery, howitzers and mortars of various calibers to take turns to go into battle, and the number of shells falling in the Beiluo position at the forefront of the 185th Regiment had reached four figures in half an hour!

After seeing the scene of the Beiluo position being shrouded in gunpowder smoke from the telescope, Wang Yubin, the commander of the 185th Regiment, anxiously picked up the phone:

"Battalion Commander Gao! Gao Hongli! What is the situation in Beiluo now? ”

Wang Yubin, the head of the 185th regiment, shouted very loudly into the microphone! From the earpiece, Commander Wang could clearly hear the violent explosion on the Beiluo position, and his voice on the other end of the phone was a little intermittent:

"Tuanza! ... Devil... Brothers......"

Wang Yubin's ears were tightly attached to the telephone receiver, he wanted to use this way to make himself hear more clearly, but soon he found that this method was doomed to be futile, the intensive artillery fire of the Japanese army had completely overshadowed the voice of the battalion commander Gao, and gradually, even the intermittent sound Wang Yubin could not hear it, and there were not many continuous explosions left in his ears!

"Dog's day little devil! Can't run out of shells? I think that Seya Kai is planning to directly raze Beiluo to the ground, and then come up directly with the troops to receive it! ”

The anxious Wang Yubin began to curse, he was very worried about the current situation in the Beiluo position! Before the war, Wang Yubin had already considered that the position of Beiluo's position was relatively protruding and easy to be besieged by the Japanese army, so he deliberately put a whole battalion in Beiluo! But now, judging from the intensity of the Japanese army's artillery bombardment, even if the 185th Regiment is piled up on the Beiluo position, it may not be enough!

Little Japan is crazy! In Taierzhuang, the 31st Division is not having a good time!

Suddenly, the noisy sound in the earpiece disappeared all at once, and there was only silence left in Wang Yubin's ears! He immediately realized that the telephone line had been blown up by a devil's shell! I didn't expect bad things to come one after another! Less than an hour after the start of the battle, the headquarters of the 185th Regiment and the Beiluo position were cut off!

"Chief of Staff! Send a telephone soldier out to repair the line immediately! The telephone line to the Beiluo position was blown up by the little devils! ”

Wang Yubin, who was red-eyed, turned around and pointed to the telephone squad leader of the regiment headquarters and shouted, but he got a helpless answer.

The telephone squad leader replied a little weakly: "Tuanza! All my men have been sent out! Now I'm the squad leader! If I'm gone! What should I do if there is a problem with the telephone line leading to Taierzhuang at the regiment headquarters? ”

Wang Yubin then remembered that not only Beiluo, but Lancheng was also suffering from the shells of the Segu detachment, and the telephone line to Lancheng had been broken twice, and the telephone soldiers sent out each time failed to come back!

"If I lose Beiluo in less than an hour after the war starts, can I still have the face to say something to the master seat in the Zhuangzi!? There you go! You don't have to worry about me here! Bring a few more people to protect you! Now at this time, you are more expensive! ”

The telephone squad leader immediately saluted Wang Yubin, and then planned to rush out of the 185th regiment headquarters, but collided with the deputy regiment commander who walked in at the door!

"What are you doing in such a panic!? The devil is still far from here! ”

Obviously, the deputy head of the regiment misunderstood the telephone squad leader, and the telephone squad leader just wanted to explain for himself, but the deputy regiment leader had already thrown away the phone and walked in front of the regiment leader Wang Yubin.

"Tuanza! Our two companies in Liujiahu have received news that a friendly force has passed through the Liujiahu area from their flank! The strength of the army is not less than two regiments! Should we ask the division, will it be the 43rd Army that came up in advance? ”

The tone of the deputy regimental commander was full of excitement, and it was a pleasure to receive friendly reinforcements from two regiments at such a time. Although the 185th Regiment will be reduced to a supporting role because of the arrival of this group of reinforcements, what is this compared to the responsibility of losing its position?

"Impossible!" Wang Yubin said his judgment categorically: "You don't want to think about it!" The 27th Division was still in Jiawang yesterday, even if it got Commander Sun's order, it was already very good that the 27th Division could rush to Taierzhuang! I think that these two regiments that appeared in Liujiahu could never be the troops of the 27th Division! Judging from the location, it is possible that the Tang Enbo Department of the Central Army sent reinforcements! ”

"Towneburg! I can't believe he's so kind! When Wang Mingzhang was trapped in Teng County, the 20th Army didn't move a single step! The Japanese devils had just begun to attack the outlying positions of Taierzhuang, how could 'Tang Wangba' be willing to let his baby join the war now? ”

The deputy regiment commander is obviously also a firm "soup pouring faction", since the fall of Teng County, Tang Enbo's reputation is stinky, and many officers and soldiers in the 2nd Group Army are behind Tang Enbo's "Tang Wang Ba"!

"It's useless for us to scratch our scalp here! Let's just ask the teacher! ”

In the end, it was Wang Yubin who made the decision, he picked up the phone and called the 31st Division headquarters at Taierzhuang South Station, Wang Yubin's question made Chi Fengcheng a little confused!

The 27th Division did not receive the order to attack at all, and the 31st Division and the 44th Independent Brigade, which entered Taierzhuang in advance, are now overstretched, where can they take out two regiments at once?

The confused Chi Fengcheng could only call Huang Haoran, now Huang Haoran is the former enemy commander-in-chief in the Taierzhuang area, and Huang Haoran should know all the actions of the Chinese army in this area!

Huang Haoran calmly told Chi Fengcheng on the phone that the two regiments that appeared in Liujiahu were the troops of the 99th Army! In order to defeat the aggressive momentum of the Seya detachment, Huang Haoran ordered Shen Yuanlong to take the initiative!

Knowing that the 99th Army of the Ace Army had extended a helping hand to the 31st Division, Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division, naturally thanked him on the phone! Before, Chi Fengcheng was still worried that the 185th Regiment would not be able to hold the outer positions, but now his mood has suddenly changed a lot!

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After ending the call with Chi Fengcheng, Huang Haoran put the microphone in his hand back on the table, and then continued to discuss the latest battle situation with Fan Jie. After Huang Haoran and Fan Jie said a few words, Fan Jie suddenly raised his head and asked Huang Haoran:

"Bench! I see that Sun Lianzhong's troops are not so weak, and the Seya detachment will inevitably pay a great price if it wants to bargain with the 2nd Army! Isn't the attrition of the Japanese army the purpose of the first phase of our war? Now the deputy seat suddenly let Captain Shen attack.... Isn't it a bit .......? ”

Huang Haoran and Fan Jie have worked together for many years, and they are already very familiar with the way of thinking in the mortal world, and when they heard the beginning of what Fan Jie said, Huang Haoran had already guessed what Fan Jie was going to say.

In Fan Jie's opinion, the time for the 99th Army to attack was too early, according to the plan established by the 5th Theater and Huang Haoran, the time for the 99th Army to attack should be after the 2nd Army consumed a large amount of the Japanese army's vital forces! The mission of the 25th Army was supposed to be to deliver the final blow to the Japanese, not to fill the trenches!

In fact, Huang Haoran didn't want to proceed step by step according to the predetermined plan, so that the 25th Group Army could achieve the greatest victory with the smallest casualties, and the historical Battle of Taierzhuang was delayed for some time due to Tang Enbo's reluctance to send troops, resulting in Sun Lianzhong's injustice and unnecessary damage, as long as Huang Haoran let his 25th Group Army take over Tang Enbo's task and attack in time, then the unnecessary casualties of Sun Lianzhong's group could be avoided, and the results of the Chinese army could be expanded!

But all of this is based on the fact that the enemy situation has not changed! The Japanese army that appeared in Taierzhuang in history was only a Seya detachment, and the current situation that Huang Haoran is facing is indeed the Isoya Division!

Huang Haoran predicted that if he did not send strong reinforcements, it was very likely that the outlying positions of Taierzhuang would all fall within 12 hours! Such a speed was completely beyond Chief Li's previous expectations!

The situation has changed, and holding on to the old yellow calendar will not work! Huang Haoran can only improvise!

"Chief of Staff Fan, I understand your thoughts, but now the situation has changed! The performance of the Seya detachment is a bit too strong, if we can't beat Seya Kai the outer positions and weaken the combat strength of the Seya detachment, I'm afraid that even if we can surround it, we won't have the appetite to eat! ”

After Huang Haoran finished saying the reason why he ordered the 99th Army to attack in advance, Fan Jie thought for a few seconds and grasped the key to Huang Haoran's words. In fact, Huang Haoran's meaning is very simple, he just thinks that the strength of the Japanese army is still too big, and wants to use the peripheral positions of Taierzhuang to drag down the Japanese army first, and then concentrate his troops to eat it in one bite!

However, Fan Jie still has one thing that he can't figure out, with the strength of the Chinese army currently assembled in the Taierzhuang area, Huang Haoran doesn't have to be so cautious at all! As long as Tang Enbo's 20th Army can be killed at the same time as the 25th Army, not to mention a Seya detachment, even if Ryosuke Isoya's 10th Division is all in battle, it will not be difficult to destroy it!

Fan Jiegang wanted to ask Huang Haoran this question, but saw Huang Haoran bending over the map and drawing something with a pencil. Fan Jie walked behind Huang Haoran and looked at it carefully for a while, and unexpectedly got the answer that solved the doubts in his heart.

Huang Haoran's sketch on the map with red and blue pencils is the tactical deduction between China and Japan in the Taierzhuang area. Most of the content is the same as before the 5 theater of operations, the only change is indeed after the launch of the general offensive by the Chinese army. In Huang Haoran's deduction, the only Chinese army that attacked was the 25th Army south of the canal, and the Tang Enbo Army, which was located northeast of Taierzhuang, was actually a long time late to attack!

It turned out that Huang Haoran had calculated the possibility of Tang Enbo disobeying the military order, and Fan Jie also silently calculated it in his heart, and found that if Tang Enbo's 20th Army really dared to disobey the order to attack, it would indeed be a very difficult thing to rely on the Sichuan Army, the 2nd Army and the 25th Army to complete the Battle of Taierzhuang!

And there is only one reason for the difficulty, that is, Ryosuke Isoya's 10th Division is too strong! Even if it is under heavy encirclement, it is difficult for the Chinese army to eat these tens of thousands of Japanese troops in a short time!

No wonder Huang Haoran insisted that the intended goal of the Battle of Taierzhuang was to annihilate the first part of the Isogu Division, but never mentioned the total annihilation of the 10th Division!

Huang Haoran repeated the deduction on the map several times before throwing away the red and blue pencils and straightening up. Huang Haoran originally wanted to explain his new plan to Fan Jie, but it turned out that Fan Jie's had already walked away from behind him and returned to the staff officers to begin to perform the duties of chief of staff.

In such a short period of time, Fan Jie has actually completed the fine-tuning of the battle plan, and in the new instructions he issued, Tang Enbo's 20th Legion has changed from the protagonist of this battle to a dispensable character!

The tacit understanding formed by Huang Haoran and Fan Jie's years of cooperation is vividly displayed in these dozens of minutes!!

"Old Fan! Shen Lao Er picked up you, the chief of staff, it is really the most beautiful thing he has done in his life! ”

This sentence is Huang Haoran's highest reward to Fan Jie!

At the same time, inside the military headquarters of the 99th Army, Shen Yuanlong suddenly began to sneeze wildly!

"Ahh Cut! Grandma's, I don't know which kid is saying bad things about Lao Tzu again! ”

Shen Lao Er rubbed his nose vigorously, and then asked loudly at his chief of staff, Feng Yunqian, "Chief of Staff Feng!" Did Xie Wendong's two regiments arrive at the predetermined position? If he grinds like this again, he won't be able to catch up with the war! When the time comes, don't blame Lao Tzu for not being emotional1"

Feng Yunqian was accustomed to Shen Laoer's temper, and he, the chief of staff of the 99th Army, only fulfilled Shen Laoer's order in a short time.

"Throne! The 188th Regiment of the 705th Division had rushed to the rear of the Beiluo position, and the 706th Regiment had also arrived in Lancheng, and they were looking for an opportunity to enter the position of the 185th Regiment. Master Xie's legs and feet are not slow......"

"It's time for him Xie Wendong to show his face! Whether the 1st Army can fight or not, it will be clear after this battle! ”

Shen Lao Er sat on the chair and shook his legs desperately, completely without the consciousness that being a military commander must lead by example! Since the relationship between Shen Lao Er and Feng Yunqian is no longer incompatible, Shen Lao Er handed over a lot of "chores" in the 99 Army to Feng Yunqian.

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"Master! It seems that the 31st Regiment of the 185th Division is about to be overwhelmed! Don't say it's time for us to come! ”

The person who spoke was Deng Wenjin, the commander of the 705th Regiment of the 188th Division, and his 705th Regiment wanted to reinforce the Luobei position in front of the 185th Regiment, and Luo Cheng's 706th Regiment was in charge of Lancheng.

Xie Wendong paid enough attention to the first major battle after the establishment of the 188th Division, and he lost the division headquarters to the deputy division commander He Daru, and ran to the front line to personally supervise the battle. With Xie Wendong, the master of the division, following, Deng Wenjin, the head of the 705 regiment, really felt some pressure!

"Teacher, please rest assured! The Luobei position will be handed over to my 705th regiment! It is guaranteed that the Japanese army will not be able to take a single step within 24 hours! This front line is too dangerous! For your safety! Shall I send a company to escort you back to the division headquarters? ”

Deng Wenjin's roundabout words failed to hide from Xie Wendong, as soon as Deng Wenjin's words fell, Xie Wendong, who was holding a telescope to observe the battle situation in the Luobei position, turned his head and glared at Deng Wenjin, and then asked viciously:

"What? Are you kid driving me away? ”

"No! Division! When did I ever mean to catch you? I'm too late to be happy to have you in charge! It's all for your safety... Safe! ”

Deng Wenjin's explanation has always been empty-hearted, he was originally Xie Wendong's old subordinate, and he did not leave Xie Wendong when Xie Wendong was at his lowest ebb, so when Xie Wendong came back, Deng Wenjin became Xie Wendong's "head horse"! It is precisely because of the deep affection between him and Xie Wendong that Deng Wenjin dares to speak openly in front of Xie Wendong. Since Xie Wendong completely obeyed Huang Haoran's orders, he has used all his shady methods to train the troops, and anyone who offends Xie Wendong will not have any good fruit to eat!

"You kid don't play with Lao Tzu! The devil's artillery fire has begun to extend, and the defenders on the Luobei position have become the end of the crossbow, and it's time for our 188th Division to appear! Head Deng! I order you to send a battalion to take advantage of the interval in the Japanese artillery bombardment to rush to the position in Luobei to take over! Tell the officers of the 185th Regiment that we are Huang Vice's team! I didn't even leave my name even if I did a good deed! In the future, it is better to take care of Sun Lianzhong's salary! ”

"Hey!"

Deng Wenjin agreed very crisply, he quickly found the 1st battalion commander Bao Datong, and then conveyed Xie Wendong's order to the battalion commander Bao.

Bao Datong was originally a company commander of Hu Zongnan's 1st Army, but because he had no backstage, he was always pressed to the position of company commander and could not be promoted when he was in the 1st Army. Later, Bao Datong followed He Daru to take refuge with Huang Haoran, and finally got room to play in the 25th Group Army, the 1st Battalion is the main battalion of the 705th Regiment, and Bao Datong was able to be the commander of the 1st Battalion, which in itself shows his strength in leading the troops!

Now the battalion commander Bao wants to prove his command and actual combat level on the battlefield again!

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"After rushing to the position, the 1st company is deployed on the left flank, and the 2nd company is deployed on the right flank! 3 in the center! A few of you company commanders have given me a snack! Don't sprinkle all your troops on the position! The little devil's cannon is powerful, we can't suffer that loss! Keep your reserves ready! Distance between individual soldiers! Let's play slowly with Little Japan! ”

"Yes! Battalion commander! ”

The battalion commander Bao completed the combat missions of each company in just a few words, and the 1st battalion embarked on the journey of sortie after a simple pre-war mobilization, and at the same time, the Japanese artillery bombardment also stopped, and through the smoke of gunpowder, the battalion commander Bao could even see that the Japanese infantry of the brigade were swarming towards the Luobei position with bayonets under the cover of the combat vehicles!

"Run forward! Fast! We must get ahead of the devils! “

At the command of the battalion commander Bao, the officers and men of the 1st Battalion began to run wildly, and the machine gunners carrying heavy machine gun parts ran around on the road full of craters, and the water bottles and ordnance hanging on the soldiers' bodies also jingled under close contact.

Igarashi Shaoza leaned out of the turret of the bean chariot and leaned out halfway, he, the infantry captain, should not have stayed in the chariot in the first place, but as the infantry commander who accompanied the chariot forward, Igarashi Shaoza received special treatment.

The Isoya Division is a division with a relatively high degree of mechanization in the Japanese army, equipped with a large number of combat vehicles, and when launching an attack, the infantry is mostly used to accompany the combat vehicle impact. The commander of the tank unit is naturally well aware that a tank without infantry cover is very vulnerable! In order for the chariots to be carefully protected by the infantry, the relationship between the chariot units and the infantry commanders who fought together became very harmonious.

Although the bean chariot was very low, it still expanded Igarashi's vision a lot. Igarashi Shaozo quickly noticed that a large number of Chinese troops appeared on the back of the Luobei position!

It must be reinforcements from the Shina people!

Igarashi Shaozo made a judgment easily! Under the repeated attacks of the Seya detachment, the Chinese troops on the Luobei position have almost lost all casualties! At present, this round of attacks is the trip of the Seya detachment to reap the fruits of victory! Although the act of commanding two infantry squadrons and 5 bean chariots to kill a small number of remnants of the Chinese army was not majestic, Igarashi Shaozo was not willing to watch the duck fly away from his mouth!

Damn the Shina reinforcements, it's really not the right time to appear!

"Hey! Gunner! You see the soldiers in the distance! The cannon must be fired immediately! Stop them from rushing up! ”

Igarashi slammed his fist on the chariot turret, and he thought it was time for the Bean Chariot to exert its power!

Although the Bean's 37mm tank cannon was powerless against strong fortifications, it was absolutely useful to use it to cause trouble for Chinese reinforcements running at high speed in the field!

After Igarashi Shaosa's order was agreed to by the chariot commander, the communication soldiers accompanying the chariot began to use the flag language to communicate, and soon, all five bean chariots stopped in turn and entered the design state.

After the smoke and loud noise, the 37mm tank gun of the Bean Chariot began a round of rapid fire! The shells exploded in the ranks of the officers and men of the 1st Battalion, posing a threat to the officers and men under Bao Datong.

"Spread out! Disperse! Don't get together! Keep moving! This is a small-caliber artillery of devils! Not much! We could totally rush through! ”

When the first shell fell, the battalion commander was sure that the Japanese tank on the opposite side was doing something! The 1st Battalion was only equipped with a few grenadiers and two mortars, and it was obviously unrealistic to engage the Japanese tanks from a long distance, and the immediate priority was to rush to the position and gain support!

"Brothers! We're going to compete with the devils for speed! Come on! ”

The battalion commander took the lead, and the officers and men of the 1st battalion followed closely behind him...... (To be continued.) )