Chapter 336: The Battle of Western Liaoxi (4)
After a detailed analysis of the battle situation in front, Lee Myung-bak directly told the front-line commanders that he was not afraid of the disruption of the establishment. Tell the troops to shoot wherever there is gunfire, and where there are Japanese troops, shoot there. The sound of gunfire is an order, and the enemy is a signal. When the Japanese army is in chaos, it is easy to attack, and it is only in the shortest possible time that the enemy will be confronted. If the Japanese army is allowed to hug each other, it will increase the difficulty of destroying the enemy.
Compared with Lee Myung-bak's subordinates, that Kobayashi Island Si Dazuo was not so lucky. Repeated attempts to gather the troops scattered throughout the valley, or even outside the valley in front of them, always ended in failure because the fighting sides bit too hard. His immediate boss, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, was very dissatisfied with his current situation and repeatedly called to severely reprimand him.
However, Kobayashijima Tsukasa, who did not have an advantage in his own strength, no matter how hard he tried, the strength around him never exceeded the size of a squadron. If the squadron around him seizes a small hill and puts up desperate resistance to the enemy forces rushing around, I am afraid that his command will be scattered.
Kobayashi Island Si Dazuo never understood where this diagonally inserted anti-alliance came from. I was originally going to ambush them, how could I be caught off guard by them? The two infantry brigades, divided in two ravines separated by a ridge, not only did they try many times but they never got close, but even the two infantry brigades themselves were divided.
On the entire battlefield, the situation between us and the enemy is that you have me, and I have you. You're hitting me, and I'm hitting you. Between the two valleys, there are fierce battlefields everywhere. The only thing that can be talked about is that the commanding heights in the entire battlefield are controlled in their own hands.
But the follow-up forces could not go up, the infantry artillery could not be transported, and they could only watch the defenders on the commanding heights, suppressed by the oblique fire of the enemy's inclined plane, and it was useless. The five heavy machine guns rushed up the hill hardly played any role. On the contrary, three of the enemy's unusually accurate mortar shells were blown up in a short period of time by the enemy's unusually accurate mortar shells from the anti-slope position.
Although his own troops are now being rushed everywhere, the enemy army is not getting any better. However, in the overall situation, this style of play is a disadvantage in the battle situation, and he obviously suffers a little. In order to gather the scattered forces, Kobayashijima Si Daisa, when the balance on the battlefield was already a little tilted, did not even dare to rely on the commanding heights controlled in his hands, and all of them turned to defensive operations.
And what made Kobayashijima Si Dazuo even more troublesome was that the puppet Manchurian ironstone troops that were attached to him were defeated and dispersed as soon as they were defeated, and even the Kwantung Army could not suppress the collapse of this army. If he hadn't taken the opportunity to order to open fire on the rout, his troops would have been disrupted in formation, and they would have been disrupted from their formation, which was almost the same as their performance on the so-called Redong battlefield.
When this so-called ironstone army, which had high hopes from Lieutenant General Washitsu Leadhei, was defeated as soon as the battle began, and dispersed as soon as it collapsed, Kobayashijima Tsukasa understood that in the Reto battlefield a month ago, this army was not only defeated by troops, but also by broken backbones.
As a puppet army, this so-called ironstone army itself is a soulless army, which he sees very clearly in Kobayashijima. An army without a soul, without the spirit of bushido as a support, can only be a pile of garbage that cannot be supported on the battlefield.
This army is still fighting and can be maintained except that it relies on the bayonets and high pressure of the Kwantung Army, as in their so-called Manchukuo. I am afraid that it is a large number of Japanese officers who are the backbone of the army, who have strict control and control over this force.
If the empire has an advantage on the battlefield, the Manchu officers and soldiers in this army will die for the empire and the Kwantung Army for the sake of glory and wealth. Once the empire is defeated and the situation turns to a disadvantage, then this army will definitely find an opportunity to turn back. Fighting the Comintern, they might not dare.
Their hands were stained with the blood of the communist army, whether it was the Anti-Japanese Union in the northeast or the 18th Group Army in the interior of China, many people died at the hands of this army. When they fought against the communist army, because there would be no way back, they would definitely fight to the death. But if it fights against the Chongqing government army, I am afraid that it will be good if this army does not fight back against the Kwantung Army.
Although I have had this opinion for a long time, I also despise this armed force in my heart. But he always believed that as long as the backbone of the Japanese officers was still in control of the troops, the army would not behave too outrageously. And now they are fighting against the communist army, and they are still trustworthy. Didn't the Battle of Redong some time ago also prove this?
As a result, the battle was good, not only did the Manchu officers take the lead in fleeing for their lives after the battle began, but they slipped away without paying attention. Even the Japanese officers, instead of suppressing the deserters, also retreated. He split a few officers in front of the rout in one go, and he did not prevent the collapse of this so-called iron and stone army. Far from playing any role, they almost failed to crush the Japanese troops.
The only thing he can count on now is the two original Japanese infantry brigades under his command. As for the remnants of the so-called iron-stone army, there is no strength that finally collapses, don't make any more trouble for yourself on the battlefield, and you will be content.
But in the eyes of some people in the Kwantung Army, even in the eyes of Lieutenant General Washizsu Leadhei, this puppet Manchurian ironstone force whose combat effectiveness is not inferior to those security divisions and garrisons is too many, so that the number of troops that can be mobilized in his hands is directly reduced by one-third. As a result, his troops, in the face of the superior forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, were even more stretched in terms of troop adjustment and deployment.
Although he insisted on fighting against the Anti-Japanese Federation, the more he fought Kobayashi, the more shocked he became. After the Puppet Manchurian Iron and Stone forces were defeated in one blow, his strength gradually decreased as the number of casualties increased. The situation on the battlefield on the other side of the ridge is not known at the moment, except for the dense sound of gunfire.
But even though he knew that he was fighting according to the current tactics, he would only face a little bit of the consumption of the embers in the end, but Kobayashijima still didn't dare to adjust the overall offensive tactics. Because he knew that if he turned to the defense on the spot, according to the current battlefield situation, then waiting for himself with fewer troops and the two brigades under his command could only be completely divided and encircled.
Even if you know that you are fighting against the enemy, you can only increase your own casualties. But he could only bite the bullet and fight against the enemy army in front of him. If the attack continues, there may be a chance to gather troops. If once transferred to the defense, then the entire army is divided into pieces.
After cursing the so-called Iron and Stone Army 10,000 times, it's bullshit. Now he can only hope that the few stragglers can find the battlefield this morning. But when the few infantry squads that fell behind would be able to rush to the battlefield, Kobayashijima Si Dazuo was not sure at all.
The defect of the low quality of the officers who had been added in before was fully exposed in this sneak attack. From Chaoyang to the northwest of Jianping, the short march route of less than 100 kilometers actually left a few squads behind. Until now, I can't get in touch, and I can't find anyone, which makes Kobayashijima Si Dazuo very speechless.
You must know that these people are equipped with compasses, as well as detailed military maps, and they can actually lead their own squads and fall behind in the process of marching not too long. This phenomenon was almost impossible before, but now it is happening.
During the day's and night's rapid march, there were seven or eight infantry and heavy machine-gun squads that had fallen behind along the way. That is to say, the equivalent of two infantry squadrons lost the combat effectiveness of two infantry squadrons without encountering any fighting. As for when these two infantry squadrons will be able to arrive at the battlefield, the current Kobayashijima Tsujima can only pray that it is not too late, and that he will not only have time to collect his corpses.
Eleven hours after the Northeast Battlefield of Jianping took the lead in breaking the relatively silent situation of only small fights and small fights in the western Liaoning battlefield for more than a month. In the southwest of Jianping County, the Anti-Japanese Federation interspersed the first advance army on the front line of Zhangyingzi, and arranged a detachment interspersed with the anti-Japanese Union behind the Eagle Jin Lead Ping, and encountered on the front line of the Sihancheng River.
Although the two armies were prepared for battle on the way, they were not prepared for the sudden appearance of a large force of enemy in front of them. is different from the direction of the northeast battlefield of Jianping, in that direction, the Anti-Japanese Union has already obtained information by capturing the deserters of the ironstone troops of the puppet Manchu army, and has been psychologically prepared before participating in the war.
But in this direction, it's completely different things, and it's an encounter through and through. Whether it was a brigade that participated in the roundabout advance march, or a detachment interspersed behind the Japanese army to the anti-alliance. When the commanders of both sides encountered their own vanguard and the opposing vanguard, they both thought that the enemy army was nothing more than a small vigilance force.
However, the commander of the advance brigade commanding this direction was a veteran of the Red Army and had an unusually rich experience in dealing with such mountain encounters. As early as the first moment when the vanguard encountered the vanguard of the Japanese army, the Japanese spearhead did not retreat from the battle, and the dense heavy machine gun fire from the flank and rear immediately reflected that something was wrong with the enemy troops in front of them.
But without knowing exactly how many troops the enemy had, he did not dare to act hastily. After immediately directing the troops to seize the commanding heights of the perimeter by taking advantage of the distance between most of the Japanese troops and the sharp soldiers, he immediately commanded the troops to outflank them from both flanks.
In terms of his character, since he has already encountered the enemy, the overall intention of interspersing has been exposed, and the Japanese army has been alarmed. Then for the time being, don't care where this Japanese army came from, let's fight first. At present, the commanding heights are in their own hands, and even if the Japanese army comes from a wing, there is nothing to scruple about.
The most important thing is that this brigade commander, who has a big picture of the overall situation, knows that if he lets go of this group of Japanese troops, judging from the direction and momentum of their penetration, no matter where they are targeting. All of them pose a considerable threat to the overall deployment of the superiors. No matter how many enemy troops come, they have to be nailed here.
At this time, the Japanese army would not be idle, and sent a force to move from the northwest direction in this direction. At this time, the appearance of such a Japanese army here will definitely not be untargeted, allowing such a force to come in this direction to relax. Judging by the equipment and tactical movements of this unit, they are all veterans at first glance. As soon as this situation comes out, I'm afraid that even sweeping is absolutely impossible.
If this Japanese army is allowed to break through its own resistance, then the flanks of the troops in the battlefield of Jianping County will all be exposed. The troops that are embarking on the attack on Jianping County will face a situation in which the enemy forces are flanked in front and rear. If they choose to penetrate in the northwest direction, then Chifeng, which is currently empty of troops, will also be in danger.
It was the logistics base of the entire Redong and Liaoxi battlefields, and there were not only a large number of supplies, ammunition and food, but also the wounded who had been wounded in the previous Redong campaign. Once Chifeng is lost, the loss will not be a problem of the rear roads of the front-line troops being cut off, but the danger that the entire army will be cut off from food and ammunition supplies.