Chapter 344: It's more cost-effective to stretch out your hand
Now that he has no soldiers in his hands, Shizuo Yokoyama hesitated for a long time and finally gritted his teeth, and from the few troops around him, he drew two squadrons. Take the only armored train of the Kwantung Army parked at Chaoyang Station, and use the cover of the guns and machine guns on the car to forcibly send reinforcements to the north.
Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama can ignore the final outcome of those coal mines in Beipiao, but he can't ignore the life and death of Lieutenant General Washizu Leadhei. He still has an excuse to explain if he loses the North Ticket, and he can also put the blame on Lieutenant General Washizu Leadhei, who is in charge of the deployment of the entire campaign.
The overall deployment of the battle situation this time was planned by Lieutenant General Washitsu Leadhei. He, the supreme commander of the front, only has the right to execute. The situation of the war has eroded to such a point in such a short period of time, and the first thing is the responsibility of deployment. Even if Beipiao City is really lost, there is no room for relaxation.
But if Lieutenant General Washitsu is also lost, he really has no way to give an account to the base camp. Not even to mention the Tokyo base camp, even General Umezu Mijiro couldn't escape there. There has already been a huge scandal in the Kwantung Army where a corps commander was captured, and if another corps commander is captured or killed in battle, I am afraid that Senior General Umezu Mijiro will have to return to Tokyo to retire. The fire has burned to the ass, so let's save the ass first.
As for the defense of Chaoyang City, he abandoned all the outlying strongholds and adopted a posture that could not be retracted. Although the Jianping defenders used the Chinese as meat shields to do the tactics, he really couldn't pull down his face to do it. But this did not prevent him from using a large number of poison gas bombs stored in Chaoyang City to desperately resist.
After the Battle of Rehe began, the Kwantung Army urgently dispatched a large amount of erosive and asphyxiating poison gas to Chaoyang and Fuxin under the condition that the troops were slightly insufficient. In Chaoyang alone, there are more than 100,000 rounds of poison gas shells and smoke canisters in reserve. For Shizuo Yokoyama, this batch of poison gas bombs and the two field artillery squadrons and one heavy artillery squadron in the city that have not yet had time to be put into the battlefield are the only hope he has for holding Chaoyang City.
Therefore, he ordered that whenever the enemy troops outside the city appeared, regardless of the number of troops dispatched, they would be greeted with cannonballs and poison gas bombs. In order to clear the shooting boundary outside the city, he set fire to all the villages around the city when he was about to shrink. At the same time, among the shells, a large number of incendiary bombs were mixed. Fortunately, the artillery reserves in Chaoyang City are still relatively sufficient, and he can let him spend some money.
After Yokoyama Shizuo gave up all the strongholds outside Chaoyang City, the brigade commander of the advance army in front of him, who was called Wang Luoman, came to cooperate with the political commissar in a division of labor. The commissar commanded a regiment plus a battalion of troops, directly looking at the Japanese troops in Chaoyang City. Now that the whole army has been equipped with gas masks, he is naturally not afraid of the Japanese army's poison gas bombs.
But in this case, attacking the fortified city was something he was unwilling to do. Since the Japanese army could not hold out, there was no need for him to gnaw bones. Instead of hoarding the whole army under the fortified city, it is better to go in the direction of Beipiao and Yixian to see if you can catch something.
Although the large-scale training at the end of last year and the improvement of weapons and equipment, the troops' ability to attack fortified positions has been considerably improved compared with the past. At least compared with the previous situation when there was no artillery, and only small arms and limited explosives could only be used to fight to the death, or even only to take the troops in a hard pile, it is much better.
However, in view of the lessons learned from the Battle of the Hundred Regiments the year before last, he was still reluctant to fight this kind of battle. Especially when I saw that the fortifications of Chaoyang City were complete, the number of defenders was not small, and there was a large amount of poisonous gas to cooperate with the battle. He believed that even if Chaoyang City could be captured, the troops would suffer certain losses.
In his opinion, under the current situation that the superiors do not have the idea of occupying the Beipiao and Chaoyang lines for a long time, the forced siege of the city will not only make it easy for the troops to be sticky, but will not be able to give full play to their own advantages in mobile warfare. And even if Chaoyang City can be defeated, it is not a good deal compared to the losses suffered.
Therefore, although it was burned to a white ground outside Chaoyang City, the whole army was emotional, and commanders and fighters at all levels wrote letters to ask for war, demanding that the Japanese puppet army in the city be completely eliminated and avenge the villagers. He still analyzes and judges the battle situation and keeps a cool head.
He tried his best to defy public opinion, insisted on leaving only part of the troops to look at the Japanese puppet army in the city, and dispatched a group of political workers and small troops to mobilize the masses around Chaoyang City. And he chose to lead part of the troops to attack outwards and expand the battlefield outward. And the preferred target is Kita, where the Washizu Leadhei Command is located.
Even the political commissar of the brigade and most of the cadres resolutely opposed it, and did not shake his train of thought and ideas. Compared with the current fire hedgehog Chaoyang City, judging from the information issued by his superiors before the war, the Japanese army headquarters is in Beipiao. Now that Beipiao is being attacked by the anti-union brothers, not to mention that there is such a big Buddha in Beipiao, even if it is not in the usual style of the Japanese army, it is necessary to quickly reinforce Beipiao.
After dealing with the Japanese army for so many years, he has seen the Japanese army who fought to the death, the Japanese army who died and did not retreat after the break, but he has never seen the Japanese army who died and did not save him. Fighting a field battle with a reinforced enemy is even more willing to do it. Encircling points to send reinforcements is also his favorite tactic used by his old commander of the 129th Division and the current commander of the Advance Army.
Although today's fraternal troops have a different purpose, they have basically played the effect of encircling the point. But the troops are insufficient to send reinforcements, so it is better for him to do this good man's good deeds. After all, from the Battle of Rehe last year to the present, when the two armies cooperate in combat, it is generally the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union who bear the heaviest battlefield. This time, I reached out to help with this, which can be regarded as a favor for others.
As for how much fat you can eat, that's when the time comes. Anyway, he made up his mind, as long as the Japanese troops in the city did not come out, he would resolutely not forcibly attack the city. That's a bit too high a price for him, and it's really a bit unworthy.
This dude went crazy on the battlefield, but his madness was not without purpose. When it's time to retreat, he doesn't hesitate to retreat. Fight hard, that's when you need to. He won't do it unless he has to. The madness that he came up with was talking about his belief on the battlefield that if he didn't die, he would fight and completely defeat the enemy army.
It's not that he really has convulsions at every turn, and he doesn't care about anything when he goes to the battlefield. Kill and pull, if you don't die, you will continue to fight. The madman is talking about his fierce fighting style, not saying that he can only be stupid and hard-topped. Desperate and desperate, but it's not a hard fight no matter what the situation. If that were the case, he'd probably died a long time ago.
As a cadre from the old Red Army, he grew step by step from an ordinary soldier to a deputy division commander. From the soldiers, squad leaders, platoon commanders, company commanders, battalion commanders, and regiment commanders, step by step, not a single step was left behind. At this time, the troops did not say anything nepotism when they promoted cadres, and there was no clear or unclear relationship between this and that.
can go step by step so solidly, from an ordinary soldier to a division and brigade commander, all from the battlefield. After many years of hard struggle, he has been fighting against an opponent with superior equipment, and this brigade commander's ability to capture fighters and his judgment of the situation on the battlefield are quite outstanding.
After many years of hard struggle, most of the senior commanders like him who survived the Red Army period, and can even be said to have crawled out of the pile of dead, are quite outstanding. Big Lang pans the sand, and what is left is real gold. The 10-year civil war, in which the enemy was strong and we were weak, indeed trained a large number of long-tested military cadres for the troops in the Guannai.
Although most of them did not have a formal military education. The many years of military career also made it difficult for them to receive more advanced military studies for a long time. Before and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it was a rare opportunity for them to read the Red University and the Anti-Japanese University for a period of time.
However, no matter how many deficiencies these senior commanders who have grown up on the battlefield, most of them lack the combat experience and ability of modern synthesis because of the constraints of conditions and opponents, and basically have no command experience in coordinated operations of artillery and other arms.
However, there is one thing that those cadres who have been trained in formal military education do not have, that is, they have cultivated a keen sense of smell on the battlefield and rich combat experience that they have cultivated after long-term fighting in the flames of war. The command experience cultivated on the battlefield is also something that cannot be learned in military academies. These cadres who crawled out of the pile of dead people can be said to be the essence, and they are all reliable old bones.
Although most of the command experience is mainly in a single infantry, he has learned some war from the war over the years and has accumulated a wealth of experience. As long as they are given the necessary conditions, the graduates of these war universities will be equipped with the military qualities that a modern and qualified commander should have in the shortest possible time.
Judging from the current situation of the entire battle, the highest command of the Japanese army on the battlefield in Liaodong is now in Beipiao. Then once Beipiao is attacked, the surrounding enemy forces will inevitably rush to the rescue. However, at present, judging from the entire battlefield in western Liaoning, it is difficult for the Japanese army to mobilize group forces.
That is to say, the various units of the Japanese army around Beipiao, who went to the Beipiao battlefield for reinforcements, were destined to be scattered rather than concentrated. In this way, it brings itself a rare fighter. Instead of fighting hard under Chaoyang City, you may not be able to take advantage of the price, and you may even suffer a loss. It's better to look out and look for fighters around the Chaoyang Battlefield.
Make full use of the fleeting fighters on the battlefield, grab the enemy and eat him completely. It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers. Rather than paying a lot of money to attack the city, it is better to make a good deal among the fighters created by the brother troops. Even if he assisted the brother troops in the battle, he also let himself eat meat, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In the first battle of Jianping Chengxi, a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army was cleanly solved. Although he also suffered some losses, this price was still bearable for the brigade's current strength of the entire brigade with a total strength of 5,000 people, and it brought considerable confidence to the brigade commander.
Lao Tzu can eat a fully loaded reinforced infantry brigade in one brigade, can't he eat one or two of your combat squadrons? And for this veteran of the Red Army, that battle brought him not only unprecedented self-confidence, but also an awareness of the declining command quality of the Japanese army's junior officers.
In that battle, he found that the quality of the Japanese army's junior commanders, especially those at the squadron leader and squad leader level, was almost incomparable with that between 38 and 40 years. Both the will to fight and the ability to command have slipped more than one notch. There were even cases where the main points of attack were staggated after two failed attacks.
Moreover, the first-level offensive tactics of the squad, whether it is firepower or the distribution of troops, cannot be compared with the Japanese army in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War. Although the style of the soldiers is still the same, the quality of the most basic officers has declined, which undoubtedly greatly affects the combat efficiency of the Japanese army. This discovery strengthened his desire to stretch out his hand.