Chapter 792: Besiege but not Attack
Once the war begins, it is to open the bow and there is no turning back. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Leng Feng has been preparing for so long, planning openly and secretly, and even doing countless wargames, and finally starting to fight at the end, which is the most thrilling.
Once the fight starts, all the trivial things Leng Feng will push to his subordinates, except for the important and urgent ones, he will be distracted and deal with them, and all the other spirits will be on the mountains and rivers on this sand table.
Cong Hu gave him a good start in Caozhuang, Leng Feng was naturally very happy, this unexpected victory heralded an excellent start.
The unpredictable speaks for itself.
The Secret Service Corps is a fist unit of the Honor First Division, interspersed. It is not difficult to enter the Japanese defense area at all, not to mention that the new 40 Brigade has pinned down most of the strength of the Sakai detachment!
Kenji Dohihara's order to withdraw part of his troops to support Puyang couldn't do it.
He had moved all the forces available to him to the forefront of the battle against the 1st Division of Honor, and he was suddenly about to withdraw and adopt a defensive strategy, giving him no time for this conversion.
Takashi Sakai also understood that the Chinese began to fight back, and the troops who had been fighting with them for more than ten days withdrew, and a fierce force came up.
The weaponry and quality of the soldiers of this unit are several times higher than that of the original one.
Dai Xu commanded the new 40th Brigade to chase and beat the Japanese Sakai detachment, pestering him to the death, not allowing him to have the slightest chance to get out, interspersed with detours, and outflanking left and right!
The Japanese army's own habitual tactics were used, and they were more flexible and more brilliant than the Japanese army.
Takashi Sakai could only order the troops to stabilize the front and at the same time send a telegram to Kenji Dohihara, who was too weak to send troops to reinforce Puyang.
Kenji Dohihara got the telegram from Takashi Sakai and let out a long sigh, he knew that his order was a little late, and there was no time for Takashi Sakai to carry it out.
And once the opponent launches, he will definitely take all his reactions into account, and he will never easily let Sakai Takashi retreat or divide his troops to support Puyang.
He knows Leng Feng too well, this person is too calculating, too ruthless, I really don't understand, he is only in his twenties, how can he have such a deep calculation?
Now Sakai Takashi can't fight again, and he can't withdraw and withdraw, so he can only hold on.
Kenji Dohihara was in a heart, and at this time, he couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, and ordered Sakai Takashi to stick to Juancheng and ensure the safety of the Dongkou Ferry pontoon.
As long as the pontoon bridge is still in their hands, then at least there is a way back.
Unbeknownst to Kenji Dohihara, Takashi Sakai sent him a telegram saying that he had not sent a division of troops, Takashi Sakai received a report from his subordinates that an elite Chinese army unit had broken through the Japanese defense line and penetrated deep into the occupied area.
This elite Chinese army numbered at least five or six hundred men, and it was also heavily armed.
Takashi Sakai's face turned white all of a sudden, the Chinese are rushing to the Dongkou ferry, this is not to guess at all, now in his defense area, is there anything more important than the pontoon bridge of the Dongkou ferry?
The Dongkou Ferry Pontoon Bridge must be guarded, otherwise everything will be over.
Takashi Sakai ordered a squadron of Japanese troops to be removed from the front line and rushed to the aid of Dongkou, and immediately ordered the defenders of Dongkou Ferry to be on high alert.
The removal of a squadron would have a great impact on the Japanese troops who were on the defensive.
"Division, Takashi Sakai pulled out a squadron of troops and went in the direction of Dongkou."
"It seems that I didn't expect it badly, so I immediately contacted Yang Rui and told him this information, first hit Takashi Sakai's reinforcements, and then attack Dongkou Town." Leng Feng ordered categorically.
"Isn't it okay to hit Dongkou Town first and send a force to block the reinforcements?"
"No, Dongkou Town doesn't dare to divide the troops at all, you can fight at any time, besides, Takashi Sakai already knows our purpose, it's the same to fight early and late, and the reinforcements are different, if they are defeated, I'm afraid Takashi Sakai won't have the ability to send a second one, so that we can take Dongkou with peace of mind." Leng Feng explained.
"Understood!"
"Guoguang, we still have a surplus of troops in hand, do you want to shoot a force to support the special service group?"
"No, order the Second Division of the Luxi People's Army to set off from Liangshan County, march west along the Yellow River, and prepare to encircle Juancheng." Leng Feng ordered.
"Yes."
"Are you going to eat the Sakai detachment?"
"Yes, the Tohihara Kenji I want to force has no way to retreat, so I can only go west and attack Lanfeng." Leng Feng nodded.
"That's Chief Xue's defense area over there, can we do this well?"
"Hu Pengfei, you don't know this, the division and Chief Xue have already reached a tacit understanding, and the battlefield of the encirclement and annihilation of the Tufeiyuan Division is in Lanfeng."
"Lan Feng, the land in that place is barren, all of which is flat saline-alkali land, which is very suitable for the assault of a heavy mechanized corps like the Tufeiyuan Division?"
"If it weren't for the terrain that was favorable to the Tufeiyuan Division, do you think he would go?"
"This ......"
"To deal with the heavy mechanized equipment of the Tufeiyuan Division, we already have a sharp weapon that can deal with it, and why we are trying our best to destroy their logistics, is to make the heavy equipment of the Tufeiyuan become scrap metal, but people are still not as good as the sky, and actually let Tufeiyuan Kenji get a part of the oil supply, however, this is so that he has the capital to struggle once, if there is no oil supply in hand, I'm afraid he will have another choice." Leng Feng explained.
"What choice?"
"Just go back the way you came." Leng Feng said.
"Withdraw the troops, he still doesn't dare to disobey the orders of the North China Front Command, right?"
"He dares to do this, but he may not be able to achieve this goal, but he will definitely use it as a threat, as for how Terauchi Shouichi will react, it is unknown."
After receiving Leng Feng's order, Zhang Zhongling ordered the troops to march overnight, and launched an attack on the selected target early the next morning, fighting all the way, and in less than half a day, the vanguard of the new 39th Brigade had already arrived in Puyang City.
Puyang had a Japanese garrison brigade, two infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron (four heavy machine guns), a cavalry squadron, and an infantry artillery squadron (four infantry guns), with a total strength of about 800 people.
The captain of the garrison is a Nakasa named Ando, with a round figure and a pair of glasses. Lustful, this guy also prefers widows, and he can be regarded as a strange guy.
Although Kenji Dohihara ordered the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Xinxiang to urgently send troops to help Puyang, the Japanese army was still a step late, and the reinforcements arrived at the crossing, but were intercepted by the cavalry led by Liang Dong.
In the area of four rooms, a large brigade of the Japanese army and the cavalry detachment led by Liang Dong started a melee, and the Japanese army mixed into the fourth brigade was adapted from the garrison force, and its combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the elite field division.
The Japanese retreated to Daokou Town, and then Liang Dong was supported by the local guerrillas who arrived, although it was not known whose team was fighting the devils.
However, as soon as the anti-Japanese guerrillas in these ten miles and eight towns heard that there was their own team to fight the Japanese devils again, and they were still pressing the devils to fight, they all came.
Let's not talk about this paragraph, just talk about the battle of Puyang.
Zhang Zhongling rode a white horse all the way to wade across the bridge, and the troops fought all the way to the city of Puyang County.
The Japanese troops in the city had already gotten the news, closed the city gates, rushed to repair the fortifications, and hurriedly used everything that could be used.
Nakasa Ando did not take this attack to heart, although Kenji Dohihara told him to be careful in a telegram and said that the enemy was an elite unit of the Chinese Army.
Ando Nakasa can be regarded as having seen the world, he has not seen the elite of the Chinese army, and he really didn't take it to heart, although his subordinates are garrisons, but when they encounter the so-called elite of the Chinese army, they still fight the other party and flee in embarrassment.
But when Ando received the news that the county occupied by the Japanese army such as Qingfeng, Neihuang and Nanle had been captured, he had a little caution, and this time the Chinese may have come to the truth.
Although the garrison strength of these counties was far inferior to Puyang, according to his judgment, with the clumsy weapons of the Chinese, they were not capable of conquering it in a short time.
The Chinese chose a good time, the main force of the 14th Division was not in Yubei, and they took the opportunity to attack Yubei at this time.
There were several thousand soldiers in these counties, and they attacked almost simultaneously, so it is no wonder that the Japanese defenders in these counties could not stop them and were captured in a short time.
Ando Nakasa didn't feel scared at this moment, after all, the troops he garrisoned in Puyang far exceeded these county towns, there was no shortage of food and ammunition, and most importantly, the Sakai detachment on the other side of Juancheng could come back to his aid at any time.
This is his greatest reliance.
What he didn't know was that his biggest reliance, Major General Takashi Sakai, also encountered the biggest crisis since joining the army, and he was surrounded.
When Zhang Zhongling arrived outside Puyang City, he did not immediately order the siege of the city, but let the troops be stationed outside the city first, and slowly surrounded Puyang.
Leng Feng has given orders, and when to attack, he has to wait for orders.
Puyang is a chess piece in Leng Feng's hands, and when the time comes, he can't attack easily.
"Call back to the division, I have arrived in Puyang, and the water around Puyang City is impassable, and not even a fly can fly in." Zhang Zhongling observed the deployment of the Japanese army in the north of the city and gave an order to the combat staff officer.
"Yes."
"How's the situation on Chief of Staff Liang?"
"Chief of Staff Liang trapped a large group of the Japanese army at the crossing, and the nearby anti-Japanese guerrillas rushed to support, there were nearly 20 or so, ranging from a dozen to hundreds of people, although the combat effectiveness is not very good, but it is more familiar with the terrain than us, and there is absolutely no problem in looking out for the wind and spying on the Japanese army, we enter northern Henan, if there is no help from the Luxi People's Army and the local guerrillas, I am afraid that many things will not be clear."
"Well, you can't underestimate these anti-Japanese guerrillas, guerrilla tactics are really a little useful, and the vision of the division is much stronger than mine." Zhang Zhongling muttered to himself.
"Teacher's telegram!"
"Besiege but not attack, wait for orders, unless the Japanese army destroys the materiel again. Leng Feng, 27th year of the Republic of China, May 29, 1:23 p.m. ”
(To be continued.) )