Chapter 409: Breakthrough
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Under the realistic situation that the Eighth Division actually did not even have forty percent of its combat effectiveness, even if it was known that the opponent had taken advantage of the situation to capture the provincial capital of Dong'an and the county seat of Mishan. 【. But at the moment, even self-preservation is a problem, and Tsukada does not dare to send troops south to fight the opponent.
Don't look at Dong'an Street, which is the capital of Dong'an Province established by the puppet Manchurians last year, but the current situation of the Eighth Division makes Tsukada Attack, who does not know how many troops the opponent has, can only transfer troops that still have combat effectiveness to shrink back to the division headquarters in order to find a way to protect themselves, instead of sending troops to recover the two strategic places of Dong'an and Mishan.
After learning that Mishan was lost and that a large number of opponents' troops were advancing north along the road from Mishan to Hulin, Tsukada immediately transferred the original deployment to the Boli battlefield, and was also the only one of the Eighth Division with half of its combat strength. As for the other two wings, he didn't dare to think about it at all.
Because his troops, who now have a problem walking without drugs, once the source of drugs is cut off, I am afraid they will not even be able to raise their guns. And after the attack on Mudanjiang airport, the source of heroin has been cut off because there is no air transport. The small amount of drugs stored can barely maintain the minimum standard of use of the 8th Division.
Even when the airlift was interrupted and the inventory was really small, it could only be used as much as possible to ensure the use of the Fifth Wing, which was originally used for the main combat direction, and the rest could only make other drug-addicted soldiers stand up. And this standard simply cannot allow the officers and men of the 8th Division to fight long distances.
By the time Sun San arrived at the front line of Yanggang, the Fifth Wing was still on its way back to the division headquarters. The 17th Wing and the Search Wing were mobilizing all the officers and men who could still move, and they were relying on the fortifications in the fortified area originally built by the Kwantung Army on the Hongling Line to engage in fierce battles with the two regiments of Du Kaishan, which immediately went north after capturing the county town of Mishan. Before the 5th Wing was repatriated, the living forces of the 8th Division, including the divisional headquarters, were in fact empty.
In the face of the attack of an armored brigade commanded by Sun San, as the hardest hit area of drug addiction in the Eighth Division, 80 percent of the officers and men of the 31st Wing, including Wing Commander Shiro Omoto and ordinary soldiers, were addicted to drugs, and less than one-fifth of the soldiers of the 31st Wing were now combat-effective.
And these one-fifth of the troops that still have combat effectiveness were all concentrated on the front line of the Seven Tigers Forest River by the wing commander Shiro Omoto to protect their flanks and guard against Yang Zhen's headquarters in Baoqing. As for the Yanggang front, apart from a small number of artillery and half a guard squadron, there were hardly any units with combat effectiveness that could pick up guns.
Sun San's bold surprise attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army did not know that its opponent already had a relatively strong and concentrated use of armored troops, and using a small number of Japanese-style equipment in the equipment to take the lead, successfully confused the Japanese flank direction troops, forcibly passed from the Japanese position, hit Yanggang in the shortest possible time, and inserted a fierce knife in the back of the Eighth Division, which perfectly achieved the purpose of the tactical raid.
But Jean didn't know that the Eighth Division had been collectively addicted to drugs since the beginning of winter last year, and Sun San, who had no combat effectiveness at this time, did not expect that the hammer he had hit with all his might hit the cotton sleeve. The battle of Yanggang was hardly challenging for Sun San and his armored soldiers. For Sun San, he didn't even use the power of blowing.
Originally, because he was facing an entire Japanese wing with reinforced artillery, Sun San was still a little cautious. However, he did not expect that not long after the battle began, the Japanese artillery had reacted fairly quickly and fired fairly accurately when the battle had just started, but it became extremely scattered.
In less than ten minutes, the ferocity of the original ferocious artillery fire plummeted. He fired a cannonball, and the opponent only shot back for half a day. And the impact point can deviate by as much as 100 meters. Although there was a trace of suspicion in his heart that this was a trick of the Japanese army, Sun San almost made up his mind to block it in the shortest possible time and attack with all his might at any cost.
It's just that to his surprise, the battle formation on his side has just begun, and the battle has not yet started. On the Japanese position opposite, the Japanese army first heard the crying father and mother, which made people listen to the screams of the wilderness. When they rushed up, they appeared, and the Japanese troops were rolling all over the position. Except for the guard squadron at the headquarters of the 31st Wing, which barely managed to maintain resistance for less than half an hour, the rest of the battle was almost without suspense.
The battle didn't take as much time as it took to gather the convulsive Japanese soldiers together and disarm them. Compared to drug addiction, he didn't resist for long at all and became a subordinate of a pile of mud, and the captain of the 31st Wing, Shiro Omoto, was much tougher.
After absorbing enough heroin, Shiro Omoto led all the dozens of people in the wing headquarters who could still stand up, covered with grenades, and the human bullets rushed up against the tank. In Shiro Omoto's view, he has no strength to break through, even if he can't break through, but at least he has to fight out part of the opponent's tank.
It's just that there is quite a pair of big Benshiro Dazuo who would rather be broken than crushed. As a result, the three-seven-millimeter guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns on several seven-TP tanks that had been prepared for a meat-and-gun offensive against the Japanese army were smashed to pieces along with dozens of his subordinates.
The battle of Yang Gang only took an hour and ended without any suspense. Sun San was not happy, and he did not find the radio station he wanted. After carefully cleaning the battlefield, only two five-watt 94-type tactical radios used by the Japanese army brigade were found, and none of the high-power radios were found.
It was only after the interrogation of the prisoners of war that they learned. The 15-watt radio station and code book equipped by the 35th Wing were blown up with a cluster grenade by Shiro Omoto, who was worried that the radio station would fall into the hands of the enemy, as early as when his tank had just rushed into Yanggang. Even the communications soldier was killed by Shiro Omoto with a pistol with his own hands.
Sun San, who did not find the radio station and did not fight happily, simply left part of his troops to respond to the 31st Wing that was encircling and annihilating the Qihu Forest River. He concentrated most of his troops and continued to penetrate southward, directly killing the front line of the Tiger Lizi where the headquarters of the Japanese Eighth Division was located.
At the same time, 13 French-made R35 medium tanks with relatively large armor thickness in the brigade, 20 TKS combat vehicles equipped with 79 machine guns, and two infantry battalions forcibly crossed the Bimian River to cut off the 5th Wing's return route. Sun San's plan for this detachment was very simple, that is, neither blocking the waist nor cutting the tail, only machine guns and artillery to block the return route of the Fifth Wing.
The First Battle of Normenheim proved that although the Japanese army lacked anti-tank weapons, the tactical power of meat bullets at the cost of human lives was still very great. The Japanese soldiers who were strapped with grenades and ** bags were still very powerful against these light tanks in their hands. Sun San didn't want the few chariots in his hands to be destroyed by the Japanese bombers or his own shells in the night battle.
As for himself, he took the fast-moving seven-TP tank and the Japanese tank to turn on the headlights, and forced a breakthrough along the highway to the Tiger Lizi line with a rapid march. Although the road conditions in this area are all dirt roads and the road conditions are not good, they are enough for the use of full-track tanks.
The cars assigned to the armored brigade are also solid and durable, suitable for Soviet-made vehicles with poor road conditions, and the poor road conditions have not affected the sudden progress of the armored brigade. In the end, the tracks and wheels marched much faster than the two legs of the 5th Wing. When the Fifth Wing was still retreating towards Tiger Lizi in a hurry, the main force of the armored brigade commanded by Sun San had already caught up behind and rushed into the headquarters of the Eighth Division of Tiger Lizi.
Sun San drove his own Japanese-made 97-type chariot and took the lead in rushing into the Tiger Jar. All those who could still pick up guns were sent to the front line of Hongling, and reinforcements were still on their way back. With almost no available troops, the headquarters of the 8th Division, which was caught off guard, was in disarray under the onslaught of tanks and motorized infantry.
As an important cantonment area and sortie point for the Kwantung Army's war against the Soviet Union, although there were quite a few permanent fortifications, it was only a defensive support point and a cantonment point, and more of a communication trench and civil fortification. Its scale and fortifications were much worse than those of the half-river fortress and the Hulin fortress on both sides. Moreover, most of its permanent fortifications are simply not sufficient in the face of the 75 mountain artillery that shoots flat.
And although there are permanent fortifications that have been built in advance, what is the use of not having troops to defend them. Moreover, the tanks that Sun San used to lead the battle were all medium tanks equipped with 37-mm guns, plus the support of 75-mm self-propelled guns. As soon as the Japanese army's firepower point showed up, the 37 artillery and 75 artillery guns that were shooting at close range answered directly with artillery fire. As for the civil fortifications, the tanks simply drove up and crushed back and forth.
Although Tsukada organized death squads to try to destroy the tanks that were firing at close range with human bullets. However, under the tight protection of the light and heavy machine guns and a large number of submachine guns of the infantry attacking with the vehicles, the meat bullet offensive paid a heavy price, and the results were pitiful. Only one seven-TP tank was damaged, and one TKS light tank was blown up.
Although this result of the Eighth Division had already made Sun San very distressed, only one squadron had stubbornly built a temporary defense that broke through the entire line in less than an hour. Seeing that the overall defense line of the Japanese army was broken through, Sun San didn't care that the sky was completely dark at this time, and immediately commanded the troops to expand in depth.
Sun San is almost crazy, and Tsukada is not stupid. Seeing a large number of opponents' tanks rushing from behind, he knew that the 31st Wing was probably finished. And the Fifth Wing didn't know when the time would come, and the Seventeenth Wing was still taking advantage of the time when the guard squadron was desperately resisting, and retreated to the front line of Hongling.
In the end, it was an old fox, knowing that the target of the car was obvious, and once he was caught up by the opponent, Tsukada Tsukada, who was likely to throw himself into the net, simply dropped the car. No one else was informed, only two personal guards escaped from the division headquarters along a secret tunnel, and rushed all the way towards Hongling. Behind him was the left division headquarters and all the papers, weapons and ammunition.
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