742, capture Gu Shoufu alive
Ling Kaishan hid behind a big tree and took a look, this was an independent room, sitting west and facing east, it should belong to the original corridor room. After an unknown number of years, the corridor has disappeared, and as a result, there is such a lonely house left.
"We don't have time, throw a grenade, blow it up!" Ling Kaishan said in a deep voice: "The commander-in-chief has made it clear that not a single one of the 6th Animal Divisions will be left behind, and all of them will be killed!" ”
Since the deputy regiment commander spoke, a platoon was 70 people, and half of them threw grenades. 30 grenades roared with a bang, and the entire house had completely collapsed. But now that the artillery is bombing, this little movement is not worth mentioning.
"Search carefully to see if there's anything alive! If one runs out, then the commander-in-chief will know about it in the future, and Lao Tzu will not be able to deal with it. ”
As soon as Ling Kaishan saw that the house had collapsed, he didn't bother to stay here, after all, his main task was to grasp the overall situation and provide artillery parameters for artillery positions.
As a result, he didn't go out for more than ten steps, and the soldiers behind him were exclaiming again: "Deputy regiment commander, come and see, among these corpses we dragged out, there are still two alive, it seems to be the general's shoulder tag!" ”
Ling Kaishan had no choice but to come back and say, "So many grenades didn't kill them, what's the matter?" ”
"No, there are 13 bodies dragged out of here. However, the other 11 corpses were all Osaku and Nakasa, but all of them were killed by the explosion on these two people. A platoon of leaders ran over and said, "That is to say, those big and middle sorrels tried their best to protect the two old miscellaneous pieces so that they were not killed." ”
"Tie it up, drag it away!" Ling Kaishan looked at the two old guys lying on the ground pretending to be dead in disgust, turned around and left: "The commander-in-chief doesn't want to see any of them alive, you guys have nothing to do with the fuck!" In the future, whoever sues Lao Tzu that he is still alive will be killed by himself! ”
The platoon commander thought about it, the order had already been given, he had nothing to do, and he smashed the butt of the gun just now, wouldn't everything be fine?
The soldier who reported to Ling Kaishan just now spoke up again: "Platoon commander, isn't that simple?" Drag it over and throw it into the fire, where will there be a living person! ”
"Fart!" Ling Kaishan stopped and turned around and scolded: "Since Lao Tzu has seen the two living ones, then let Lao Tzu report to the top." At the same time, we have to figure out what these two guys are. ”
Not to mention, Ling Kaishan returned to the cave and asked the communication platoon to send a telegram to Chengde quickly, and described the faces of the two old guys, especially emphasizing that there was a dwarf winter melon among them!
"Lao Tzu now tells you: Dwarf Winter Melon is the commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army of the little devil, and his name is Terauchi Shouichi. The other one is the division commander of the Animal Division, Gu Shoufu! Caught these two miscellaneous warriors and made meritorious contributions, you have to remember Lao Tzu. After the battle, arrange for people to chop these two old devils alive to pay tribute to the sacrificed soldiers! Bai Shujie. ”
After receiving Bai Shujie's telegram, Ling Kaishan finally put his heart in his stomach. But now it's troublesome, and I have to arrange two people to watch over the two old miscellaneous people. Wait until the battle is over to start chopping the living!
Bai Shujie's electrification and an hour's shelling have now become the most shocking thing in the entire land of China. Jiang in the south ordered Liu Zhi to quickly send someone to reconnoitre, whether anyone really dared to touch the tiger's buttocks.
The various units of the little devil sent a telegram to the headquarters, asking how to deal with the teleportation spirit of the devil Bai Shujie. As a result, all the troops did not receive a response from the command of the front, and this time it was chaotic.
The little devils near the county seat of Qingyuan first discovered that the enemy was bombing the county on a large scale. Moreover, the senior military officers all know that Commander Terauchi Shouichi moved his headquarters to Qingyuan County today.
Now that the enemy is besieging the county seat, his own commander will be in trouble! Reinforcements, reinforce Qingyuan County at any cost!
After the 20th Division of the little devils occupied Zhuozhou, the 77th Wing crossed the Juma River to catch up with the 26th Route Army. Then he went all the way south to occupy the two counties of Yixian and Laishui. Yi County and Laishui are the closest to Qingyuan County, so the first to dispatch are these two little devils.
The 20th Infantry Wing of the 77th Division was killed by General Zhao Dengyu when it attacked Nanyuan, and now there are still two brigades.
In fact, all the armies in the North China Front sequence of the little devil didn't know what was going on. Because the first round of shelling had completely destroyed the supreme command system of Terauchi Shouichi and Tani Toshio, it was impossible to send a telegram for help.
The reason why the 20th Division's Liden Xingyi was able to give orders also began with the division of the defensive areas of the various units under his command after Gu Shoufu's 6th Animal Life Division occupied Baoding.
Eight days ago, when the entire 6th Animal Division was attacked by a sneak attack, the 36th Brigade of Ushijima Man, which was stationed in the Mentetsu Battalion, was attacked by the cavalry battalion.
Although the cavalry battalion commander Yu Zhiqing led the whole battalion of 746 people to kill the enemy camp three times, because the speed of the war horse impact was very fast, each time it passed through the camp, mainly causing chaos among the enemy, so there were not many enemies who were really killed.
Among all the formations, Ushijima's 36th Infantry Brigade was considered to have suffered the smallest losses, adding up to more than 1,000 people, almost a brigade.
When the chief of staff, Shimono Kazuho, deployed a counterattack, Ushijima Man's 36th Brigade was the first to set off, and after taking Gaobeidian and Dingxing, it swept all the way to the south, and occupied Xushui.
Gu Shoufu and Shimono Kazuho's main purpose this time is to atone for their crimes, so winning the Baoding front line is the ultimate goal.
Tokutaro Sakai's 11th Infantry Brigade was bombarded by a mortar battalion led by Wei Chong, and Hasegawa Masan's 47th Wing was devastated, killing and wounding two brigades on the spot, and only one infantry brigade remained intact.
On the front line of the Cao River, Tani Toshio ordered Tokutaro Sakai's 11th Brigade, which had already lost two infantry brigades, to use the 13th Wing, which had not suffered losses from Okamoto Hoyuki, to carry out a diversionary attack on the defenders.
The 36th Brigade of Ushishima, which had the strongest troops, turned southwest and directly attacked Baoding. The troops that had a fierce battle with Guan Zhenglin's 52nd Army were them. Specifically, the occupation of Baoding and the capture of Qingyuan County were actually the 36th Infantry Brigade of Ushijima Man.
Because Niu Dao swept the whole of Baoding, he went around the city, and finally occupied the railway station in the west of the county seat, and set up the brigade headquarters in the railway station.
On September 25, 1937, as soon as the Supreme Commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Shou, came to Baoding, Ushijima Mitsuru's 36th Brigade assumed the defense task around the railway station.
Brigade Commander Mitsuru Ushijima led the 23rd Wing Commander Okamoto and the 45th Wing Commander Kanda Masashi to the county seat to attend the welcome banquet of Terauchi Shouichi, which was also a celebration banquet for the 36th Brigade of Ushijima Mitsuru, and soon after the indiscriminate shelling began.
To say that Ushijima Manjima's army was under such a fierce shelling, before the communications squadron of his brigade headquarters was hit by shells, nine radio stations sent out a telegram calling for help at the same time: "The station has been heavily shelled, and Your Excellency the Commander is in danger."
Naturally, not only Kawagishi Bunzaburo's 20th Division, but also Kenji Dohihara's 14th Division, received this "urgent telegram" without a head or tail.
However, Kenji Dohihara was anxious to meet his "old classmate Yan Xishan", so they had already killed directly in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and now they couldn't save the fire from far water.
Kawagishi Bunzaburo's 20th Division was the closest to Baoding, but he was also distressed. Because the headquarters of the 20th Division was in Seoul (present-day Seoul) on the Korean Peninsula, the real meaning of coming to North China this time was "reinforcement" rather than garrison.
Therefore, although Kawagishi Bunzaburo is the commander of the division, Yoshio last month's 40th Infantry Brigade was left to garrison Seoul, so his subordinates were actually the 39th Brigade of Yoshito Takagi. That is, two infantry wings, one cavalry wing and one field artillery wing, with a total strength of only more than 14,000 people.
The worst thing was that the 77th Wing was already half-crippled, and the two infantry brigades could not be full, so they were ordered by Kawagishi Bunzaburo to be the garrison of Yixian and Laishui.
Now that he has received an "urgent message", Kawagishi Fumizaburo does not know what is going on, because "shelling" and siege are two different things.
Besides, Tanisoo's 6th Division had 32,000 men, and it was impossible for any of the Chinese army to inflict any fatal damage. Therefore, Kawagishi Bunzaburo ordered the two brigades of Yixian and Laishui to send more than 500 people from two squadrons respectively, totaling about 1,000 people. The main thing is to go south to see the movement, which is the meaning of reconnaissance.
The book explains: Wei Chong's reconnaissance battalion 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies, under the leadership of deputy battalion commander Ge Quanzhuang, have already arrived in this area. Therefore, as soon as the enemies of Yixian and Laishui moved, Ge Quanzhuang could already see it clearly. When a telegram was sent, Ke Yuxin, the commander of the machine gun battalion, and Yu Zhiqing, the commander of the cavalry battalion, already knew about it.
Yu Zhiqing, the commander of the cavalry battalion, shook the telegram and said to Ke Yuxin with a smile: "Old Ke, you are the temporary commander-in-chief, see how to deal with the more than 1,000 infantry of the little devils?" ”
"Don't you understand your careful eye?" Ke Yuxin said angrily: "Now I can't see my five fingers, this is another plain area, and your cavalry battalion is just in the right role." With just one charge, these four squadrons can be crushed. The immediate consequence of that will be to let the other little devils know that we are prepared here. ”
"Even if it's not to annihilate the 6th Division, it's a typical encirclement and reinforcement. If all the little devils around us pounce on us, we may not be able to stop it. In addition to half of the 20th Division in the north, there are also the 11th Mixed Brigade and the 5th Mixed Brigade, adding up to more than 20,000 people. ”
"The key thing to remember is that our main task is to buy time for the division commander to take out the 6th Division. So my point is, keep these little devils at bay here for the time being. Let them neither move forward nor be oppressed by the powerful, and see how it goes. ”
"You're right!" Yu Zhiqing pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "Then so be it, you use the hidden fortifications to block these two groups of enemies, and I will pull the cavalry battalion to the east to hide." Monitor the Dingxing line while giving you protection of the flanks. ”
Ke Yuxin shook his head: "Leave a cavalry company in the northeast of my defensive front, and you personally lead the other two companies to insert between Dingxing and Gaobeidian, rip off all the railways, and then monitor the north of Gaobeidian." There was no enemy in Dinh Hing, no more than the strength of a squadron. Even if they all come out, it won't be of much use. ”
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.