Chapter 395: Bloody Battle in Jinshagang
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Because the offensive is unfavorable. 【. com text] has been unable to make a breakthrough for a long time. And the commander of the 12th Wing, Tahoda Daisa, who was commanding the 12th Wing to attack the Jinshagang line with all his strength and advancing to the front line of Jinshagang, was actually suffering now. It's not that the Twelfth Wing doesn't work hard and doesn't attack much, or it's not that he is cowering.
However, it was really a great effort, and although it occupied some of the opponent's secondary positions, it was never able to achieve a breakthrough on the whole front. In order to be able to break through the Jinshagang line in the shortest possible time according to the deployment of the division and regiment, Tabaoda Dazuo almost used his strength to eat milk. But the result was not as expected. After the attack in the middle of the night, the 12th Wing hit the head and broke the blood.
Judging from the information that Tabota received before the war from the army headquarters that the division was transferred, the other side had only two dissatisfied regiments in the entire Baoqing area. Now it has been attracted by the 44th Wing to the direction of Baoqing County, and the troops in the border area between Baoqing and Fujin are weak. Even if there are blocking troops, there will definitely not be many of them. In the evening, the scouts reported that the other party's reinforcements in Baoqing County were only one company.
But when you get to the front line of Jinshagang, it's not the same thing at all. The opponent's troops deployed on the front line of Jinshagang were at least one regiment or more. Not only are the forces sufficient, but the firepower is not weak. Light and heavy machine guns, mortars, infantry guns, and even mountain artillery. As soon as the two armies clashed, the 12th Wing immediately fell into a bitter battle. Several attacks, all repulsed by the opponent's dense fire.
In several strong attacks, the 12th Wing made some progress. But this progress is really not big, and even if it is really said, I am afraid that Tabota Daisa himself will feel embarrassed. A few hours passed, and the Twelfth Wing had only advanced the battle line to the Qixing River for less than two kilometers.
Tabota Daisa's original intention to attack Jinshagang with all his might, trying to lead the way with a point and break through a point to shake the opponent's entire line failed, but the opponent's stubborn resistance failed. Although the other side took the initiative to give up some inconvenient guard positions and secondary positions, the defense of the main position was extremely tenacious. As soon as any position is lost, immediately organize troops to counterattack immediately.
Almost every position has to be fought over and over several times before the final ownership is determined. Whenever the 12th Wing rushed to the opponent's position before the dust kicked up by the shells had fallen, before they could stand their ground, the opponent's fierce counterattack had already begun.
On the right flank of Jinshagang, a small but very important position, it changed hands eight times in two hours. Fighting troops were quickly escalated from platoon level, to company level, and eventually to battalion level combat. All the fortifications on this small position were almost flattened by artillery fire by daybreak.
In some places, they were even filled with corpses from both sides. By daybreak, the entire position was littered with stumps and severed arms, and had become a floating earth. Grab a handful of floating soil and there is shrapnel inside, except for the smell of gunpowder, it is the smell of blood. Thirty meters in front of the battle, a depression was filled with blood from the dead on both sides.
The 12th Wing increased the strength of the offensive several times, a dozen charges under the cover of artillery. The cover fire was increased from one mountain artillery squadron, two brigade artillery squads, to one field artillery squadron plus one heavy mortar squadron. Not only did they not be able to take this seemingly inconspicuous, but the position was very important. rushed in several times, but was beaten back by the opponent's fierce counterattack.
In the end, on this position, which was only a few hundred square meters in circumference, Tabaotian invested a large number of troops before finally stabilizing his position. One position involved the strength of an entire brigade of the 12th Wing, plus the attack on the main position of Jinshagang and other directions. The 12th Wing had only been engaged in a fierce battle for a short period of five or six hours, but it had already felt the lack of troops.
Before going north, three infantry squadrons of the 12th Wing were left behind to serve as the remaining mission of Mishan, and two of the several squadrons assigned to the 63rd Wing of the 10th Division were also transferred from the 12th Wing. Although five infantry squadrons and one mountain artillery squadron of the Eighth National Border Garrison, as well as two police brigades of the Mishan Puppet Manchurians, were urgently replenished before this battle, there were quite a few problems in the coordination of operations.
Although the combat effectiveness of the border garrison unit that was supplemented was not inferior to that of the field division, the two sides never coordinated training. Even because he had just been added to the wing, he rushed out because of the change in the battle situation, so that Tabota couldn't even call the names of several squadron leaders.
The most important thing is that these border garrisons, which serve as garrisons, are clearly better at defense than offensive. Field capabilities can only be described as reluctantly.
The brigade attacking the right flank position of Jinshagang was temporarily formed with two squadrons of the 8th Garrison and one squadron of the original 12th Wing. Although under the cover of artillery fire, some progress was made, but under the repeated struggle of the opponent, which was almost desperate, it was never able to completely occupy the position within a radius of only a few hundred meters, and it paid a great price.
Within a few hours, both squadrons were all crippled and incapacitated. In the end, the squadron of the 11th Division, which was the old foundation, was thrown into battle, and it was only then that it barely held its existing position and was not driven back by others. But the entire brigade also lost the ability to follow up the attack.
As the captain of the Great Zuo Wing, he has also fought many times in the Shina Pass, and Tabaotian, who has been rolling on the battlefield for many years, is not the kind of rookie who has just entered the battlefield. But it was the first time he had seen a battle like today, which was only a battle on the scale of a brigade, with an average of more than 100 casualties per hour.
After receiving another telegram from the division urging the exhibition, Tabota had no choice but to bite the bullet and risk weakening the offensive force of the left flank. A squadron was drawn from the 3rd Brigade on the left flank, and the Baggage Squadron of the wing was supplemented by the 1st Brigade, which was already less than a squadron in strength, to strengthen the offensive on the right flank. The main firepower of the whole regiment and the artillery attached to the division and regiment were assigned to the 1st Brigade.
After giving the main forces to the 1st Brigade, looking at the sky that had already dawned in the east, Tahoda Osa, who had paid a heavy price in the fierce battle in the middle of the night, but had almost no gains, gave a death order to the captain of the 1st Brigade, Shibayama Hanaji Shosa, to break through the defense line of the opponent's right flank before 8 o'clock today. Create favorable conditions for the follow-up attack of the main force of the United Wing. If he could not break through the right flank position of Jinshagang on time, then he would apologize to the emperor for his guilt.
Under the practice of crushing people at the level of officials, the meaning of leadership is always right. Looking at the position where the opponent was bubbling with tongues of fire everywhere, Shibayama Hanaji, who knew that there was little hope, gritted his teeth and had to put all the living forces at hand into it. He didn't believe that after a night of fierce fighting, his first brigade was crippled. Under the damage of the opponent's superior artillery fire, the casualties can go to their own small places.
The corpses scattered everywhere in front of the position were not only Imperial soldiers, but also those who wore the strange military uniforms of their opponents. Now it depends on who can hold out until the last critical moment, and he Shibayama Shaozo does not believe that the soldiers of the Imperial Army, who have always been known for their tenacity and tenacity, will lose to those cowardly Shina people.
In order to boost morale, try to make a breakthrough in the shortest possible time. In addition to the requirements of the wing captain, Shibayama Shaozo selected a death squad of 200 people. He also stripped off his military uniform, tied a menstrual belt on his head, and wanted to charge with the death squad in person. For the sake of insurance, the brigade was also assigned to Captain Masamune Hana to command a squadron of the second echelon, which immediately followed. If the death squad fails, the second echelon immediately takes over the attack.
However, what Shibayama Hanaji Shaozo didn't know was that in order to be able to completely break through the opponent's defense within the specified time according to the requirements of the division commander, his immediate boss had decided not to give him a chance to withdraw or survive. Before he made the final decisive charge, Tabota had already ordered the artillery to prepare. If the two sides enter hand-to-hand combat, indiscriminate covering artillery bombardment of the defenders' positions is resorted to.
In other words, Tahoda had already made up his mind to take the so-called Jade Crushing Offensive and put the defenders in a pot with his own attacking forces. For the fact that he had rushed to the opponent's position several times before, but was knocked down by the opponent's huge number of automatic firearms and grenades, he would never allow him to live again.
As for whether the casualties of his own attacking troops will be greater than those of the defenders after an indiscriminate shelling, Tahoda Daisa, who was already forced to commit suicide by Ushijima at this moment, can't care less. Now for Duobaotian, it is the most important thing to break through the first line of Jinshagang as soon as possible. As for the casualties of soldiers, which are considered expendables, they are nothing compared to the progress of the battle.
Tabota Dazuo is preparing to break the boat, and the blocking force on Jinshagang over there, which has just been reorganized from the 14th Reserve Regiment to the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division, is not easy. After six hours of fierce fighting, the 1st Brigade of the 12th Wing was crippled. Bearing the greatest pressure on the entire Jinshagang frontline, and also the fiercest battle before, a reinforced battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the Right Wing Although it finally held its position, the casualties were as high as two-thirds.
Looking at the Japanese army who was repulsed again, Qi Zhibiao, the commander of the first battalion who was holding on to the right flank of Jinshagang, wiped the blood on his face because of the head wound, lay in the trench and lit a cigarette on the wood ignited by the shells, took a puff, and comfortably spit out a few circles of his eyes and said to the instructor Guo Zhixin beside him: "Old Guo, this is the first time that the devil has been repelled?" ”
The left arm was stabbed with a bayonet by a Japanese soldier before dying in hand-to-hand combat, wrapped in bandages. Guo Zhixin, who was struggling to press the bullet in the fast and slow machine magazine in his hand with his right arm, smiled and said: "I don't know, it seems that there are seventeen or eighteen times." The devil has taken some medicine today, and he is almost crazy. There was hardly any pause in the offensive, and there were almost no gaps in the offensive. There's no way to count them. ”
"But Lao Qi, you have to think of a way. We have a reinforced battalion, and now there are less than a third left. Combined with the lightly wounded who could still pick up guns and fight, there were now less than two companies left in the patchwork. If the devil continues to fight with this attack intensity, I'm afraid we won't even be able to hold out at noon. ”
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