Chapter 404: Missed the Best Time

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Compared to Peng Shilu, who managed to barely hold on without collapsing with the full support of the aviation forces. 【. com text] Asakawa Tsuji Daisa looked at the opposing planes shuttling in the sky and dive-bombing, and looked at the troops and equipment that had suffered heavy losses under the attack of the opponent's planes, but his lungs were blown up.

The sky was full of the opponent's planes, but the air support promised by the division commander before the battle was never visible. I only saw the opponent smashing bombs and countless large-caliber bullets on his head, and the planes on his side, let alone air support, fought for a whole day, but there was not even a ghost shadow.

This is another plain area, and except for the lucky one who can find a crater to dodge, most of it can only be exposed to bare positions and bombed. And the enormous power of the new incendiary bombs used by the opponent almost left you with nowhere to hide, and the morale of the troops plummeted.

Anyone who sees their comrades being roasted to the appearance of whole sheep or suffocating to death due to suffocation caused by lack of oxygen, no matter how tough your nerves are, I am afraid that you will not be able to stand it. Plus the tragic situation of those who were beaten into parts by the large-caliber airborne machine guns fired at the ground from the opponent's aircraft.

The tragic situation of the comrades-in-arms around him and the fatigue after a long battle made the morale of the Japanese army plummet. By noon, the intensity of the Japanese attack had dropped significantly. By the afternoon, the morale of the 44th Wing had fallen to the bottom. Although he occupied almost three-quarters of Dongguan and most of the county seat, he could no longer attack in the face of the opponent who had gathered in a group of hedgehogs.

The most critical was the artillery, which had suffered heavy losses in the enemy's repeated air strikes, but had bottomed out in the artillery reserves that had been expected to last for two days, together with the losses in the battle and air raids. On average, the reserve of shells for each gun is less than five, and the average number of infantry shells that have been used as a key point is even less than three.

When it came to this Cheng dù, not only Lieutenant General Ushijima Man, but even Asakawa Tiji Daisa, who had always advocated taking the county seat of Baoqing first, also had the idea of retreating. I thought that according to the situation of the first day, there should be no problem in taking the already crumbling Baoqing County in 24 hours. But I didn't expect that the opponent was like a cockroach that couldn't be killed, and despite the heavy casualties, he still persevered.

Twenty-four hours later, the 44th Wing suffered heavy casualties. Along with the previous battles, the 44th Wing had already suffered more than half of its casualties. The various field ambulance stations were already filled with wounded soldiers. Because there were too many wounded soldiers, medicines and bandages had consumed the embers. The wounded soldier who came down in the later stage could only hastily bandage his leggings and let them moan.

The seriously injured were unable to perform surgery due to the depletion of medicines, and even the morphine for pain relief had been exhausted, so they had to be placed in a relatively clean place and left to die. Not to mention the fact that several field bandages were bombed during the air raids of the opposing side, and almost none of the wounded evacuated survived.

In order to carry as much food and ammunition as possible when leaving Mishan, the rest of the supplies only carried the minimum standard. Moreover, I thought that the opponent was just some miscellaneous 11th Division such as some so-called local garrison troops, and I didn't expect the battle to be so fierce. When I left, I only carried a small amount of medical supplies. And most of these materials have been turned into ashes in Qingyuan. As soon as the battle dragged on, the 44th Wing's limited medical reserves were depleted in a short time.

The Qingyuan Baggage Base was completely destroyed in the air raid, and nothing could be seen at first. But after a long battle, the consequences of Yan zhòng became apparent. The 43rd Wing, which had been fighting for less than 12 hours, was better, but the 44th Wing was a little struggling to make ends meet. Ammunition and medical supplies are almost all in trouble. In particular, there is no cure for the wounded, which has a considerable impact on morale.

Although the Japanese army, which has always taken death seriously, did not pay much attention to morale, it was impossible to watch the dead and wounded soldiers suffer alive because they did not have medical treatment, and it was impossible to make others feel cold. Even if you are not afraid of death, but there are many kinds of death, I am afraid that no one will choose to be willing to be hurt to death.

On the northern front, a brigade temporarily reorganized by the remnants of the 12th Wing, which was forced south from the Jinshagang line to reinforce Baoqing County, also fell into a bitter battle. Despite being under the supervision of officers, the brigade was stubbornly defended against enemy counterattacks.

However, under the offensive blows of the opponent in turn, regardless of casualties, he also fought left and right. Even when the opponent repeatedly adopted the tactics of flanking and detouring, several times he almost did not get caught in the encirclement. In order to avoid being surrounded by the opponent, the blocking line of this brigade, which was temporarily organized by the remnants of the defeated army, had retreated from facing Jubao on the front line of Jinshagang to the front line of Nancangzi in less than 24 hours.

What made Asakawa even more troublesome was that the officers he sent to command this brigade had already proposed several times that if reinforcements were not mobilized, the blockade of this brigade was very likely to cause casualties and embers within a few hours, and even the entire front collapsed. And the first line of Nancangzi is already close to the main battlefield of Baoqing.

The decline in morale, the shortage of ammunition, the casualties of more than half of the troops, and the crisis on the northern front made the previous offensive of the 44th Wing lose the sharpness it should have. At dusk, without the order of Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru, Asakawa Daisa, who already felt that he could not fight, first proposed to terminate the attack.

Asakawa was not unaware of the consequences of proposing to terminate the offensive when he at least seemed to have an advantage for the time being, especially the impact on himself. He knew very well that once this proposal was proposed, it would even mean the end of his career.

In the Japanese army, which has always focused on offensives, especially known for its strong attack power, and did not know what it was to retreat, as a wing commander, he took the initiative to propose to his superiors to stop the attack, although Asakawa Tsuiji did not make a groundbreak, but it was definitely a minority of the few.

Under normal circumstances, officers who are not good at attacking in the Japanese army that advocates attacking, especially officers who are only one level away from the general such as the wing commander, will be greatly affected in their official career. Therefore, as long as they can barely hold on, almost all Japanese officers never give up the offensive.

Even if the troops have been exhausted to the point that they are not capable of fighting a battle, they will not give up the attack. As for giving up the attack and retreating when the strength and firepower are superior, this is very contemptuous among the Japanese army, especially the Japanese army that is now in its heyday.

This is also the reason why the middle and lower-ranking officers of the Japanese army repeatedly appeared in the battle, and attacked without regard to the orders of their superiors. You must know that even the Japanese army, which was absolutely inferior in firepower in the Battle of Normenhan, actually became an offensive all the time. It's just that his offensive was strangled alive in the cradle by the Soviets with powerful artillery fire and armored forces.

Although he knew that the consequences would be very strict, he would even be removed on the spot by the division commander who had strictly ordered him to take Baoqing County within twenty-four little fingers the day before. But the current exhibition of the entire battle situation made him feel that he couldn't fight like this no matter what.

Ushijima Mitsuru was also slightly surprised that Asakawa Daisa's proposal to terminate the offensive before he issued the general retreat order, and to abandon Baoqing County, which was already crumbling in the eyes of the 11th Division, and it seemed that it could be completely taken with a single effort, and the whole army retreated to Mishan.

Although he had already made a plan in his heart that the offensive was not making progress today, the whole army would retreat. But this plan is still only pressed in his heart, and he will not put forward it first until the final implementation. As an old fox, he would not fail to understand what kind of impact this plan would have on the troops in the fierce battle once it was proposed.

But Asakawa Daisa was the first to propose a retreat, but he was somewhat surprised. It was also Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, who also came out of the position of captain of the Daisa, that he would not be unaware of the thoughts of these crazy mid-level officers.

If Asakawa Daisa, who has always been arrogant, does not bow his head lightly, never gives up easily, and whose tenacity of character has always been known as the leader of the three wings of the 11th Division, proposes to terminate the offensive at this time, it can only show one point that the 44th Wing has really reached the point of exhaustion.

After patiently listening to the reason for the termination of the offensive proposed by Asakawa Teiji, Ushijima, who was not as violent as Asakawa Teiji expected, looked quite calm on the surface, but in fact, his heart, which was already in turmoil, was even more troubled. Ushijima, who has always been conceited, seems to be in the initiative, but in fact, the exhibition of the battle situation is not in his own hands.

The divisional headquarters was destroyed, and communication with the corps command was interrupted. The 44th Wing, which was the vanguard of the entire 11th Division, was equipped with a 15-watt radio station, but it did not have a password for direct communication with the army headquarters.

The consequence of the destruction of the divisional headquarters was not only the loss of all staff officers and unified command, but more importantly, the loss of all the codebooks for external liaison. In addition to communicating in clear code, that is the way he lost his mind and wanted to restore the human power of a hundred years ago to convey information, otherwise he would not have any contact with the outside world at all.

The security of the unreliable communication is too low, and as for the use of cavalry to communicate with the outside world, it is even more fantastic. The army headquarters is far away in Mudanjiang, and the daylily has already been cold when the news is delivered. As for the 29th Division, which was most hoped to contact, although it was closer to Boli, it was to pass through the entire theater of operations. The chances of the cavalry communications officer sent getting there are almost slim.

Although he looked down on Shigeichi Harata in his heart and felt extremely dissatisfied with the disappointment of the military intelligence department in this battle, at least he still needed to communicate with the military headquarters about the situation in the surrounding battlefield. Lost direct line of contact with the army headquarters, although there will no longer be the constraints of the army headquarters. However, the 11th Division also lost its understanding of the surrounding war situation, and almost became deaf and blind.

And the destruction of the division headquarters also had the most serious consequence, that is, the plan he had reached privately with the commander of the 29th Division, Lieutenant General Uemura Toshimichi, to cooperate with each other in the battle could only be terminated. Without the codebooks of interconnection, the original plan to cooperate with the battle had to be stopped.

Without the coordination and cooperation of friendly forces, there is no intelligence support from the outside world. Although less than forty-eight hours had passed, Ushijima, who was now ignorant of the battle situation in the outside world, realized that he had missed the best time to retreat when the 44th Wing lost its ability to attack.

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