Chapter 405: The Erosive Battle Situation

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In fact, for the current situation of the war, Ushijima is not mentally prepared at all. 【. As early as after the division headquarters was destroyed in the bombing, Ushijima was very clear in his heart that without the support of external intelligence, he had lost his grasp of the outside situation. The most critical thing is to lose contact with friendly forces and not be able to cooperate with friendly forces. For the 11th Division, which was actually already fighting alone, it was tantamount to being in a dangerous situation.

This is something that Ushijima knows in his heart, and in fact, there is another point that Ushijima himself is not clear. After the defeat on the northern front, he decided to throw the last intact 43rd Wing at hand into the attack on the first line of Jiaxinzi, in an attempt to open up the road in Baoqing.

And all the 44th Wing was transferred to the direction of Dongguan and all of them were put into the attack on Baoqing County and Dongguan, an important stronghold on the periphery of Baoqing, was it really for the convenience of follow-up operations, or for the unwillingness in my heart to save a little face? I'm afraid only he knows.

If he can be truly sensible, based on his unique tactical insights of Ushijima, he may not understand that the early green plains were bombed and all the baggage was destroyed. Baoqing County is putting in a wing, but it still can't be occupied for a long time. When the 12th Wing's attack on the Jinshagang front line failed, and when it suffered heavy losses in the opponent's air raids, it should have known that it was time to retreat.

Although I have figured it out now, for Lieutenant General Ushijima, who finally defeated reason with utilitarian intentions, although he was a little hesitant at the time, he finally chose to decide to play for another 24 hours. And it was this short twenty-four hours that made the shape shì have a subtle transformation. It is this change that seems small now, but it will kill people at any time, but it fills Ushijima's heart with an indescribable sense of foreboding.

After learning the latest news that the 44th Wing had lost its offensive capability, the northern front was in danger, and the defensive line was in danger of being broken through at any time, although it was not yet known what exactly would change the situation in other directions. But the information he got now was enough to make Ushijima Mitsuru shudder a little in his heart, and he felt that an unspeakable conspiracy was rushing towards him and the 11th Division.

At the moment, it seems that Baoqing has the upper hand on the battlefield, but the actual situation is very clear in Ushijima's heart, and this qiē is just an illusion. When the 12th Wing's attack on the Jinshagang line was defeated by the opponent and suffered heavy losses in the subsequent air raids, the tide of battle had already begun to unfavorable to the 11th Division. For the 11th Division, the tide of battle had begun to change in the direction of erosion at this time.

In fact, this feeling was as early as the early hours of the morning, and the Jinshagang front line was beaten by the 12th Wing before, and there was almost no room to fight back, but in just a few hours, he was like a person who was about to die, but suddenly returned to the yang when the opponent started a full-line counterattack.

But the reason for the face that he couldn't get rid of in his heart, especially the factor that he didn't want to bow to Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hatada, made him decide to play for a day. In his opinion, as long as he can take Baoqing County, he can be regarded as regaining some face for the northward operation that has lost troops so far.

And in the face of the 44th Wing, which was almost exhausted by a small Baoqing county, the uneasy feeling in his heart became clearer. At this time, he suddenly had the feeling that he fell into the trap of his opponent centered on Baoqing County, consuming his strength little by little, and then drumming himself into a trap.

After losing the radio station and password that the division headquarters could contact with the outside world, he became blind and deaf, and he was ignorant of the changes in the battle situation in the outside world. At this moment, I don't care if the commander of the army who resolutely opposed him to the north has any ideas, and whether he will give himself small shoes to wear. At this moment, there is only one thought in his heart, and that is a withdrawal word. And in his opinion, it can be as fast as it can be.

Lieutenant General Ushijima, who had finally made up his mind, had all the staff officers of the division and regiment boiled with a spoon, so he could only let Asakawa Teiji, the only officer of the Osa-level rank beside him, temporarily take the position of chief of staff, and as for the staff officers, he could only temporarily requisition the only few operational staff officers of the 44th Wing. Fortunately, he is in the headquarters of the 44th Wing at the moment, and he does not need to move temporarily.

And Asakawa Teiji was full of reluctance to be entrusted with a heavy task at this critical moment, and although the chief of staff who temporarily served as the commander of the division was reluctant, he could only hand over the broken wing to the deputy wing commander to command, and he took office hard.

Ushijima, who had made up his mind not to delay and retreat immediately, looked at the map slightly, and said to the newly released acting chief of staff of the division, Asakawa Daisa, "Asaka-kun, order the Temporary Brigade of the 12th Wing to make every effort to block the enemy troops moving south from Jinshagang. Before receiving the order from the division and regiment headquarters, they must stick to the 12-mile line, which is their final bottom line. Even if all the 12 Wings are gone, they will hold on to me for at least six hours. ”

"Order the 43rd Wing to strengthen the attack on the front line of Jiaxinzi and the backer with the strength of no less than one brigade. Sue sù Qingshan Qing Dazuo, let him no matter how much it costs, even if this brigade is all gone, he must take the first line of Jiaxinzi before ten o'clock in the evening. The main force of the wing immediately withdrew south to the first line of Erdaohezi and the lighthouse to wait for the 43rd wing.

"Your 43rd Wing will immediately withdraw from Baoqing County, but except for leaving more than two squadrons of troops to continue to besiege Dongguan. Then one of the most complete squadrons was transferred to the command of the 12th Wing. The rest of the wing's troops were withdrawn to the lighthouse line in the shortest possible time. After joining up with the 43rd Wing, it immediately withdrew to Mishan. ”

Although he felt that there was a conspiracy coming at him, in Ushijima's opinion, as long as he acted quickly, no matter what conspiracy the opponent had against the 11th Division, he would not necessarily be able to leave the 11th Division in Baoqing. As long as the main force of the 11th Division is preserved, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata will not be helpless to win it himself.

Hearing this deployment of Ushijima Man, Asakawa Teiji was slightly shocked in his heart, he knew that these troops left behind to attack were the forces used by the division commander to confuse the opponent. In the case of a full division retreat, this unit means that it will be destined to be abandoned as an outcast. And what awaits these abandoned troops, no one dares to imagine.

It's just that the follow-up progress was not as Ushijima imagined, and none of his orders were conveyed, and the radio stations of the 44th Wing were almost all mute and deaf, and they could not get any contact with the outside world at all. No matter how the communications soldier called, there was only a lot of noisy and shrill sound coming from the headset.

Although this collective failure of all tactical radio stations has not been the first time in the past two days. But the reason is that even if the signal soldiers try to break their heads, they can't find the problem. The sky was clear, and there was neither cumulonimbus nor thunder and lightning so much disturbance from the zone.

Radio stations failed, and cable communications were intermittent and unsatisfactory. In desperation, under the urging of Ushijima Manu, Asakawa Ladder, who temporarily played the chief of staff of the division, could only requisition all the war horses in the wing according to the most primitive method, and temporarily formed a group of cavalry communication officers. Use human methods to pass on orders.

Although these selected cavalry communication officers were loyal to their duties, in the unpredictable battlefield, the cavalry means of communication were undoubtedly quite backward and slow. By the time these orders finally reached the hands of those who should have conveyed them, the battle situation had already eroded to the bottom of the 11th Division.

No matter how cunning he was, Ushijima Mitsuru finally paid an unimaginable price for his initial hesitation and the death of his heart to save face. And this price is the main force of his 11th Division.

As for the 44th Wing, which was a landlord, it moved much faster. As soon as Asakawa Osaku conveyed the order, the troops that attacked Baoqing County immediately began to search and withdrew from Baoqing County under alternate cover. Although it took two days to attack the county seat of Baoqing, it took less than an hour to evacuate. And the evacuation was so clean and neat that not a single bullet was left except for empty ammunition boxes in one place.

It's just that the 44th Wing, which has no intention of fighting from top to bottom, doesn't know that in these 24 hours, the entire battle situation in Baoqing, whether for Ushijima Man or all the officers and men of the 11th Division, can even be described as a sharp turn. The twenty-four hours of delay in Baoqing in vain gave them no chance to withdraw smoothly.

At noon, Asakawa Osa, who was extremely annoyed by the heavy losses of the opponent's all-out air raids, ignored the impact and scolded in front of his subordinates that the aviation troops that had not been seen until now were waste and did not deserve to be called the warriors of the empire. According to Yang Zhen's order, Wang Guangyu's 1st Column and 5th Brigade, which were forcibly interspersed with a rapid march eastward from the line of Laobaldingzi Mountain, had already seized the line from Erdaohezi to the lighthouse, where they had to retreat to Mishan, and was stuck in the retreat of the 11th Division to the south.

Wang Guangyu's timely arrival not only cut off the retreat of the 11th Division. At their planned retreat assembly area, the strength of an entire brigade of the 5th Brigade had been concentrated, and under the current shortage of ammunition of the 11th Division, it could basically be said that its hope of retreating south was curbed.

Moreover, Wang Guangyu, who had been worried about the safety of Yang Zhen, who was trapped in Baoqing County, immediately attacked north with no less than one regiment of troops after arriving at Erdaohezi, and passed towards Dongguan along the direction of Xigou. Wang Guangyu's instructions to this regiment were very simple, after tearing apart the joint headquarters of the two Japanese wings, they would go all out to storm Dongguan. And with a strength of no less than one battalion, they all rushed into the county seat at any cost to protect the safety of No. 1.

He commanded the remaining two regiments to divide into two routes, one regiment detoured along the direction of Xigou to the southern line of the 43rd Wing, which was fighting fiercely on the Jiaxinzi line. It formed a north-south flank attack with the 1st Brigade commanded by the political commissar on the northern front against the 43rd Wing on the Jiaxinzi line. He commanded a regiment to follow the attack line of the vanguard regiment and attack the right flank of the 44th Wing of Dongguan.

At the same time, it was ordered that one regiment of the Second Column attached to the 1st Column should be attached to the 107th Rocket Artillery Battalion to immediately cross the Luoli River and forcibly penetrate the Wanjin Mountain and the line of Wanzhong and Jinshan, cut off the final route of the 44 th Wing's eastward retreat, and finally complete the entire encirclement centered on Baoqing County.

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