Chapter 355: The Eve of Collapse

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In fact, Japanese officers and soldiers who have always been known for their strict discipline and tenacious will. 【. In the face of a sudden ferocious and exuberant firepower attack, the expression was no better than the squadron that they had always looked down on.

This is not the absolutely inferior equipment of millet plus rifles and grenades used by the troops of the 18th Group Army in Guannai when they carried out sneak attacks, but hundreds of shells.

Caught off guard by the sudden blow, the Japanese bombardment was blown up and the shells were driven out of the house. Finally, the cannonade stopped. But soon the outside of the house was not as good as the houses that had been bombed into ruins by the shells, and even more dangerous. The dense machine-gun bullets that came from around the village knocked down the Japanese soldiers who were driven out, regardless of officers and soldiers, in pieces. The Japanese officers and soldiers who tried to resist by relying on the ruins and their own military skills soon realized that the ruins of the houses they relied on for hiding from the bombs of the enemy had become a nightmare for themselves.

The 12-mm flat-firing anti-aircraft machine guns and 20-mm small-caliber anti-aircraft guns were so powerful that the Japanese officers and soldiers who were hiding among the ruins and ruins destroyed by the shells could not escape. The 12.7 mm bullets and 20 mm anti-aircraft shells easily passed through the earthen wall, and the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding on the other side easily tore in two.

The Japanese soldiers, who had been driven out of the house by the previous shells, were driven back by the machine guns that swept over. But before they could catch their breath from the ruins, these two powerful weapons immediately made them feel safer outside. At least with his own military literacy, he can judge where these fatal-killing guys came from, and there is still a chance to hide.

But the dense crossfire outside made them soon feel that going out at this time was tantamount to suicide. Less than half an hour after the battle began, the Japanese officers and men of the Sixth Division, who could not even find a safe corner, were polished away by a little bit of force. The few Japanese officers and men who were lucky enough to escape the artillery fire and machine-gun fire were crushed to the ground and did not even dare to raise their heads.

However, this tragic encounter of the officers and men of the regimental headquarters of the 6th Division was when the guns rang out, because a room that temporarily served as a war room was accurately hit in the first round of artillery fire. On the spot, a group of people were holding an operational meeting to discuss how to get out of the current predicament, including Major General Tanaka Shinichi, chief of staff of the Fifth Army, and almost all the officers of the Sixth Division and above did not know about it.

In the captured Wen Jiàn in Tongguò, it was confirmed that the high-level Japanese military organization that was knocked out was the headquarters of the 6th Division. After Yi Liangpin reported the matter to the column headquarters as soon as possible, he simply cleaned up the battlefield, did not stay too long, and continued to go south with his troops.

For the remnants of the Sixth Division, which were still stubbornly resisting at the front, the death of all the senior officers, including the commanders of the two wings, was undoubtedly a rather heavy blow. And the attack of Yi Liangpin, who stabbed the remnants of the Sixth Division in the back, was the most fatal blow to it.

Although the remnants of the 6th Division, especially the remnants of the 45th Wing, which was used as the backbone, were still fierce under the command of their respective commanders, the overall resistance was gone.

The only surviving wing commander, Engineer Wing Commander Masuda Masayoshi Daisa, was clearly incompetent. Far from being able to reorganize the Japanese army in a state of confusion, it was indiscriminate command that exacerbated the confusion.

The remnants of the Sixth Division, which could only fight separately on the basis of the brigade, gave the 1st Brigade a frontal assault an excellent fighter. By 2 o'clock in the morning, the entire defensive depth of the 6th Division in southern Yilan had been completely disrupted, and it had been completely divided by brigades and even squadrons.

At 4 a.m., the 1st Brigade attacking from the south to the north, the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Brigade attacking from the north to the east, and the 1st Regiment of the 5th Brigade attacking from the east to the west converged at Majiagou and Xiaoheyan respectively. At this point, the remnants of the Sixth Division in the southern region of Yilan, more than 3,000 people, have been divided into six large and small encirclements that are not connected to each other.

Of these six circles, the big ones are no more than a thousand people, and the small ones are a few hundred. Under the blockade of the opponent's superior firepower, although these divided Japanese troops tried to get closer to each other several times, they had to stop this effort after paying a heavy price.

To the east of Shuguang, the 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment captured the last 150 howitzers and 105 cannons of the two heavy artillery wings and one ** heavy artillery brigade left in the southern theater of Yilan among the three heavy artillery wings assigned to the 6th Division.

He also carried the artillery of the 6th Division to be crippled. The artillery wing directly under the 6th Division, which once had 24 120-mm howitzers and 24 38-type field guns. In addition to the 120 guns of a 120 howitzer brigade attached to the eastward detachment, there were only three miserable 120-mm howitzers left in the south of Yilan at this time.

The other artillery pieces were either blown up in the previous artillery battle, or they were blown up by their own artillery when they saw their opponents coming up. Of course, these guns were either slow to be bombarded by the artillery, or because the opponent was too fast to react, and several of them were captured by the opponents advancing from the north and south.

The 1st Brigade, 1st Regiment and 1st 2nd Regiment knocked out almost all the artillery of the 6th Division. The other part of the 2nd Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 5th Brigade also destroyed 9 of the remaining 15 ** and 97 tank tanks and captured six after a day of fierce fighting between Xiaoheyan and Zhangjiayoufang.

The commander of the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army, who was the commander of the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army, who commanded the remnants of the Japanese army to resist desperately and refused to give up the tank, was still the captain of the 5th Wing of the Japanese Tank at this time, and was roasted alive along with the rest of the crew in his Type 97 tank, which was hit by four rockets.

So far, with the addition of a heavy artillery wing missing in the territory of Boli and a lost tank wing, the four tank wings, three heavy artillery wings and one ** heavy artillery wing assigned to the 6th Division by the Kwantung Army have all been lost.

This loss was almost unforgettable for the Japanese army, which had weak production capacity and was slow to replenish. Four chariot wings, more than two hundred chariots. Forty-eight 150-mm howitzers, sixteen 105 cannons, and eight 150 cannons of the three heavy artillery wings were all lost. And these heavy artillery accounted for almost a third of all heavy artillery of the Kwantung Army.

And these four tank wings accounted for more than half of all tank wings of the Kwantung Army. You must know that even though the current Kwantung Army is in a priority position on the equipment establishment table of the Japanese army's base camp. However, in the case of insufficient production capacity, especially in the case of qualified armored steel giving priority to the navy, the entire Kwantung Army, in addition to the tanks assigned to the search wings of various divisions and regiments, had only seven tank units.

However, in less than two days of the campaign in full swing, four chariot wings, more than 200 chariot units and 200 well-trained chariot crews were lost. In particular, the first tank division, which had just been formed by the three tank wings, became an empty shelf again as soon as it opened. This result was unacceptable to either the Tokyo base camp or the Kwantung Army.

After this battle, I was beaten in Normenhan, understood what it means to fight in a modern mechanized corps, and finally changed the tactical concept of being too conservative in the use of tanks. The Japanese top brass who began to organize into tank units, instead of assigning tanks to various divisions and regiments as before, only saw the problem of poor survivability of tank units in the face of the huge number of anti-tank weapons of the opposing side without infantry cooperation. But he threw away all the lessons he had learned in the Battle of Normenheim.

Its tactical thinking has gone from one extreme to another. The 1st Tank Division, which had just been formed, was disbanded after this battle. The tank units, which had already been assembled, were reassigned to the various field divisions. The spread of the chariot has also gradually slowed down.

In addition to vigorously displaying various anti-tank guns, it is only tinkering with the Type 97 tank, and no new tanks have been exhibited for several years. It wasn't until the end of the war that Yang Zhen's corps was beaten by the armored tactics of Yang Zhen's army, so he picked up what he had lost before, reorganized the armored division, and began to study new types of combat vehicles to replace the increasingly old Type 97 chariots.

It's just that the decision of the Japanese army base camp made Yang Zhen somewhat unexpected. He never imagined that he would not only change the course of history, but also change the conservative concept that the Japanese army had barely reversed, so that the Japanese army would return to the old path.

Of course, whether this result can be accepted by the Kwantung Army or even the base camp of the Japanese army or not, that is a later story. For the current Sixth Division, it is simply like a year. Especially after the second half of the night finally received some replenishment shells, which had been interrupted for a time, and at this time re-energized under the blows of the opponent's artillery, the 6th Division's fierce-looking resistance looked so weak. Although not every officer and soldier who was still alive did not admit it, in fact the 6th Division at this time was on the eve of collapse.

The opponent simply does not go toe-to-toe with them. In the face of stubborn resistance, a salvo of 107 rocket artillery was transferred, and its artillery coverage was enough to solve the resistance of a Japanese squadron. At this time, under the blow of Wang Guangyu's artillery shells, the remnants of the Sixth Division had never looked forward to the dawn as much as they did now.

After being divided and encircled, the remnants of the Sixth Division were knocked back by a shell that forced them to break through several times. Under Wang Guangyu's full force, it quickly disintegrated with five or six hundred casualties per hour. After Yi Liangpin attacked the headquarters of the Sixth Division, Shigeichi Hata, who had lost contact with the Sixth Division, was even more restless.

For Shigeichi Hata, he knew very well what the consequences would be of the total annihilation of the Sixth Division. This is not only a matter of the total annihilation of an old standing division of the empire, but also a matter of complete shaking of the battle situation on the front line. And to go deeper, it involves the issue of the black gauze hat on his own head.

If the Sixth Division is really wiped out, he Harata Shigeichi is bent on adding another star to his collar badge, and his goal of becoming a general will never be achieved again. If you do not repeat the mistakes of the former commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenkichi Ueda, and be swept to the end, the result of being demoted from a general to a major general is already an extrajudicial favor of the emperor.

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