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Umezu Mijiro was making the final preparations for this purge with all his might, and Yang Zhen was also seizing the time to adjust the strength according to the plan, and when he held a meeting of the cadres of the two columns and the various army divisions, and after assigning the tasks of each brigade, Yang Zhen's first request was to keep it secret.

According to Yang Zhen's requirements, all units must change their march to night on the way in, and during the day they must look for places with dense vegetation to conceal and recuperate; after all units arrive at their respective attack areas, they must all concentrate on concealment, implement radio silence, and only allow them to enter their respective attack areas within 24 hours before the attack.

The order to attack is not allowed to be transmitted to the brigades until 10 hours before the start of the whole line, and to the regiments and to the troops of the first-line regiment six hours before, and it is not allowed to exceed an hour.

After arriving at the area where the attack started, strict fireworks control should be imposed, no smoking, no cooking fires, no dry rations should be used to satisfy hunger, all vehicles, including horse-drawn carriages, should not enter the area within 20 kilometers of the front line, and all artillery should be allowed to enter the artillery positions that had been selected for them by the headquarters within six hours of the attack.

Cadres at all levels are not allowed to go to the front-line positions to check the terrain, and all the selection of attack routes is arranged in accordance with the map under the headquarters.

When Yang Zhen announced this order, he used an extremely stern tone and repeatedly emphasized that if that cadre violated these orders, in addition to severely punishing himself, his superior military and political chief would be held jointly and severally responsible.

It was precisely because of strict secrecy that the Japanese army was not aware of Yang Zhen's various preparations before Yang Zhen's attack, and it was not until 24 hours before the battle that some Japanese troops at the front slightly felt that something was wrong with the situation on the other side.

No matter how efficient the Japanese army is, this information has to be reported layer by layer, layer by layer assessment, and by the time this information is reported to Umezu Mijiro, it is already too late, and before Umezu Mijiro can react, Yang Zhen has already taken the lead on the Western Front.

At 1:58 a.m. on 26 May, Guo Bingxun, who had personally rushed to the headquarters of the Fourth Division of Baoqing County according to the predetermined plan, held a telephone with a microphone in his hand and looked at his watch, pointing to the scheduled attack time of 2 o'clock, but he was unusually calm, and it was not until the hour hand pointed to 2 o'clock that he gave the order to attack Du Kaishan on the other end of the phone.

After receiving Guo Bingxun's call, Du Kaishan, who was commanding on the front line of Lanbang Mountain, waved his hand fiercely to several combat staff officers who were also holding phones behind him, and with his gesture, all the artillery deployed by Yang Zhen on the front line of Baoqing opened fire, and the front of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army resounded with dense artillery sounds.

Yang Zhen's reinforced 150-mm howitzers and 105-mm mountain artillery, the 100-mm howitzers and 75-mm mountain artillery of each brigade, and a battalion of temporarily reinforced 122 rocket artillery smashed the unsuspecting 10th Division with dense artillery.

Du Kaishan divided all the artillery at hand into nine artillery groups, delineated their different targets, he used the 150 howitzers and 100 mm howitzers with a large range plus 122 rocket artillery to form five heavy artillery groups, and used more than 100 mm howitzers to suppress the Japanese Seventh Field Heavy Artillery Wing and the ** First Heavy Artillery Brigade, and covered the Japanese tank assembly areas in the rear of the Japanese flanks with the 122 rocket artillery battalion with the largest firing range, as well as the material reserves that had been identified.

All the wild mountain guns and the 105 heavy mountain guns were divided into four artillery groups to cover the Japanese infantry assembly area, while the artillery of each regiment concentrated their firepower and attacked each firepower point of the Japanese forward position.

The shelling lasted for an hour!! More than 20,000 artillery shells fell on the front line of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army on the Baoqing line and in depth, causing heavy casualties to the 10th Division and the heavy artillery and armored troops attached to it, and destroying a large number of technical units and reserves.

In particular, the assembly area of the 7th Field Heavy Artillery Wing, the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 3rd Tank Wing, which were the most important targets, were accurately hit in the first round of artillery fire, and the accuracy of their artillery fire puzzled the Japanese themselves how their artillery could hit so accurately at night.

The 3rd Wing of the Combat Vehicles, which was assembled at a depth of 8 kilometers and was preparing to enter the final attack area, suffered the heaviest losses of 58 combat vehicles.

Previously, they had repeatedly carried out firepower strikes on Du Kaishan's deep positions, because the opponent's first artillery was more careless than the seventh field heavy artillery brigade and the ** first heavy artillery brigade, although they were better than the third tank wing, they were not strong there.

Since their deployment, these Japanese heavy artillery units have never returned fire from a single artillery shot, and they have never been careless and have never shifted the positions that have been exposed, and they have suffered heavy losses under the fire of the 24 150 howitzers of the 150 Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Compared with the loss of equipment, the losses of ammunition and materials stored in the open environment, as well as the Japanese troops with only simple field fortifications, suffered even more heavy losses, most of the materials that were only simply camouflaged were lost two-thirds in the shelling, and more than half of the front-line troops were lost, and almost all the forward fortifications were destroyed by artillery fire.

In order to find out the main material hoarding points, heavy artillery positions, and tank assembly areas of the Japanese army, Du Kaishan took great pains to dispatch a platoon assigned to the reconnaissance battalion of his headquarters within a week before the all-out counterattack to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the ammunition hoarding points, artillery positions, and technical weapons assembly points in the depth of the Japanese army's front line.

In order to ensure the results of the reconnaissance and not to alarm the Japanese troops, Du Kaishan put forward three requirements for this reconnaissance platoon: First, it was absolutely not allowed to expose itself, and second, it was not allowed to scratch its tongue until it received an order, so as not to alarm the Japanese troops, and they did not care about the deployment of the Japanese troops in the front-line positions, and they were only responsible for reconnoitring the depth of the Japanese troops, especially the tank and heavy artillery units.

As soon as the 10th Division arrived in Baoqing, he secretly led people to conduct a detailed and meticulous reconnaissance of the 10th Division's front-line positions, and he knew the deployment of the main forces of the 10th Division and the garrison of various units.

Due to Du Kaishan's orders, it took the reconnaissance platoon a whole week to find out the Japanese army's position in depth, and finally within 24 hours of the attack, it captured a staff officer of the Third Tank Wing and obtained information on the location of the Third Tank Wing.

At the beginning of the attack, this reconnaissance platoon did not return, and corrected the artillery fire in the depths of the Japanese army, and it was precisely because of the great effort that Du Kaishan fired the first round of artillery fire that could be described as ruthless and accurate, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese 10th Division in front of him.

Du Kaishan, who was quite satisfied with the results of the shelling, did not wait for the shelling to stop completely, but only gave the order for a general attack on the whole line after the first-line artillery fire was extended.

With the constantly rising flares, under the cover of artillery fire, the four regiments that were responsible for the first wave of attack tasks according to the plan launched a full-line attack on the 10th Division with the strength of three regiments, and one regiment went down to its depth after forcibly tearing open the right flank of the 10th Division.

At this time, the 10th Division had fallen into confusion under the fierce artillery fire for a while, all wired communications on the front line were cut off, wireless communications were intermittent, 80 percent of all fortifications in the forward positions were destroyed, all infantry positions were hit by firepower, and the battle loss rate of the artillery reached 80 percent.

In addition, the heavy artillery wing and the chariot wing suffered a devastating blow, and from the very beginning of the battle, the 10th Division lost 80 percent of its artillery support, and what was even worse was that the commander of the 10th Division, Lieutenant General Jiro Ishikawa, was attending an operational meeting in Mudanjiang at this time, and was not in the 10th Division at all.

However, the newly appointed chief of staff Ma Yuanosuke and most of the officers of the division and regiment headquarters, together with the commander of the 39th Wing, who had drunk excessively with His Excellency the Chief of Staff when he came to the division headquarters the day before, and who was now sleeping like a dead pig with a military prostitute, went to the west in the first round of artillery fire, which means that the 10th Division lost its effective unified command from the very beginning.

No matter how elite the 10th Division was, it was helpless in the face of such a situation, and it lost its forward troops under unified command, and while passively resisting, it kept retreating, and by early morning, the front-line positions of the 10th Division had all collapsed, and a large number of troops were killed in improvised field fortifications or temporary barracks by accurate artillery fire without firing a single shot.

In particular, the 10th Wing, which suffered the heaviest casualties as a key attack, despite the desperate resistance of Wing Commander Kenichiro Miyashita, could only rely on extremely unreliable communications troops to maintain his command, and he was never able to gather his troops, but the results of his efforts were extremely limited.

I don't know how many troops the opponent has invested to attack, I don't know how many troops I still have to concentrate, it can be said that I don't know anything about Kenichiro Miyashita, with only one brigade and three squadrons on hand plus three squadrons of troops, barely supported for two hours, and now I can't support it anymore.

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