Chapter 10: Anqing (27)

Because of the inaccuracy of the intelligence, Wei Yunsong lost the best opportunity to attack Kunlun Pass, and the Japanese army publicized that 2,500 people from the 1st and 4th Infantry Brigades of the 9th Wing of the 9th Brigade occupied Kunlun Pass, but in fact there were not so many people, and only the 4th Infantry Brigade was defending on Kunlun Pass. The Japanese army's bluff confused Wei Yunsong of Silong and Zhou Zuhuang of Tengxiang. The 1st Infantry Brigade of the 600th Regiment, which had fought with the 200th Regiment in Ertang, shook a shot to the east, and turned around and went to Fengfeng Pass with the mountain artillery brigade and the chariot brigade of the division headquarters. The two infantry brigades in Wei Yunsong's intelligence were actually one, but the two infantry brigades in Zhou Zuhuang's eyes became three, plus the mountain artillery brigade and armored vehicle brigade of the Fifth Division.

As a type A division, the fifth division is composed of two brigades and units directly under the division, each brigade is directly under the jurisdiction of troops and two infantry wings, each infantry wing is composed of four infantry brigades, each infantry brigade is under the jurisdiction of four infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron (eight heavy machine guns), a brigade artillery squad (two 70mm infantry guns), each infantry squadron has three infantry squadrons, as a division of the first division, the number of the squad is also relatively full, the number of a squad is 54 people, and the number of a squadron is 208 people, The number of a brigade is one thousand and one hundred people. A wing is 4,500 men, a brigade is about 10,000, and the entire Fifth Division plus the number of units directly under it has a total of 25,718 men.

The battle of the peak pass has entered the seventh day, these days, because there is no aircraft to help the battle, the Japanese attack has not been smooth, the peak pass slope steep valley deep road is dangerous, there is no other way except a road, although the Japanese army has three infantry brigades, but can really appear on the front line will not exceed 100 people, there is a desire to find a second way, the locals are extremely uncooperative, far away. The battle reached a stalemate, and the Japanese army was at a loss, especially on the fourth day, under the command of Liu Shuren, the commander of the 599th Regiment, after knocking down a Japanese Type 94 tank, the other three tanks of the Japanese army did not dare to rise again, and they were completely unable to break through the peak pass with infantry charging alone. The two sides were at a stalemate.

Although the Japanese army only had four tanks, they only needed two tanks to swing side by side in front of them, and the Yongwu Highway was occupied, and a steel barrier was planted in front of them. Fortunately, the road has been broken, and the tank can only be on the side of the broken pass, and it will not be able to pass, otherwise, the peak pass position would have been lost long ago.

On the third day, the willow people found that there was also a problem, there were no planes to help in the past few days, so they arranged a squad of soldiers to climb from the hillside to the top of the mountain, came to the top of the Japanese tank barrier, tied ten * into a bunch, pulled it open and threw it down from above, the power of more than a dozen * was really extraordinary, dozens of Japanese troops followed by the tank were blown apart, one tank was also blown up to the ground, and the other tank immediately retreated, regardless of the corpse of the Japanese soldier who fell to the ground behind him.

The tank on fire kept burning, burning for more than an hour, so much so that it burned to the point of a pile of scrap metal.

Dai Anlan was also wondering, why the Japanese plane did not come for a few days, he handed over this question to Li Xingshu, Li Xingshu turned around and handed it over to Zhou Zuhuang, in the afternoon, the news came over, the new 19th Division, under the leadership of Zhao Guolong, the chief of staff of the division, ambushed the supply transport team of the Taiwan mixed wing in the Baekje area, this Zhao Guolong, full of tricks, obviously has completed the task, and is still acting, letting a group of people play the Japanese army, a group of people play the national army, the fight is lively and difficult to solve, until the plane on Qinzhou Bay arrives. When the plane dived, the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun, which had been prepared early, spoke, only to see three high-legged Type 92 heavy machine guns stretched out from the crowd playing the Japanese army, and as the three bullet belts swept by, a Type 96 carrier-based fighter was caught off guard and was broken in two by volley.

"Zhao Guolong? Who is it? Zhou Zuhuang asked Li Xingshu.

"I don't know, this person can use trickery to lure down enemy planes to attack, and he is by no means mortal." Li Xingshu said: "Oh, I remember, this time, all the students from the Pingle Campus of the Sixth Branch of the Central Military Academy were incorporated into our army, and the vast majority of them were assigned to the new 19th Division, and this Chief of Staff Zhao should also be one of them." There are also more than a dozen of them from our division, and they are not of high rank, most of them are leading soldiers at the battalion and company level, wait for me to ask which one knows him. ”

"No need to ask, I remember who it is." Zhou Zuhuang shook his hand and said with a smile: "I have also seen him, before he was the chief of staff of the 526th Regiment of the 176th Division of the 48th Army, and before that he was the little follower of the commander of the 526th Regiment. ”

Li Xingshu suddenly realized, patted his head, and said: "It's Mo Tianzong, oops, I also remembered, and only Mo Tianzong can bring out this kind of guy who doesn't play cards according to the regulations." ”

Dai Anlan also seemed to remember something, and asked: "What Chief Zhou said is that there is no enemy who fights a sightseeing ship in Xiaogu Mountain on the Yangtze River?" ”

"It's not him! In addition to him, who else in the world dares to name Mo Enemy. Zhou Zuhuang said with a smile: "This kid, I am a year-old friend, a belly of crooked ideas, do good deeds, my fishing rod by the Peach Blossom River, he is idle, hehehehe." ”

Hearing Zhou Zuhuang say that in addition to him, who else in the world dares to name Mo Di, Dai Anlan was a little unconvinced, but when he thought about the rumors he had heard about Mo Di before, he was relieved. Dai Anlan is a no-man in Anhui, and he pays more attention to the anti-Japanese war in his hometown, and Mo Enemy's actions in Anhui have become the talk of Anhui people after dinner, "If you want to eat devil meat, there is only 176" This is a smooth mouth, and the Anhui people will say that this is invincible, but it is an important part of the 176th Division, and most of the credit is won by Mo Enemy.

"Without the help of planes, we should change our strategy and tactics, and tomorrow, if the Japanese army attacks again, we should take the initiative." Dai Anlan said.

Zhou Zuhuang nodded and said: "From these days, the Japanese attack adopts a rotation system, except for yesterday's large casualties, not many deaths in the past few days, Commander Liu's initiative is very effective, it should be carried forward, I think, it is still the 200th division to defend, by the 135th division and the 170th division to form a small force, to flank the Japanese army." ”

In the next few days, the commander of the 135th Division, Wu Zongjun, and the commander of the 170th Division, Wu Tingjun, led small troops to attack the side around the mountain from the peak ridge, and achieved excellent results.

The 3rd Combined Air Force in Qinzhou Bay was inexplicably shot down three planes, which surprised the air team, and Rear Admiral Yoshio Hongo claimed that he would not send any more planes to help the battle if he did not clear the route of the remaining enemy. On the one hand, the commander of the South China Front, Ando Toshiki, demanded that the Fifth Division speed up the repair of the Nanning airfield, and at the same time ordered Major General Shiota Dingqi of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade in Qinzhou to send a large force to focus on clearing and suppressing along the road, not only to clear the passage for the air force, but also to clear the passage for the transport team; all the materials of the Fifth Division in Nanning depended on transportation, and once the supply line was cut off by the Chinese army, the Fifth Division would fall short and retreat without a fight.

Perhaps seeing the weakness of the enemy, Zhao Guolong directly took the Yongqin Highway to attack. For three consecutive days, from Xiaodong to Baekje sixty miles of road, there is not an inch of good road, all of them have been destroyed, these three days, the materials and supplies sent from Qinzhou have also been all accepted by Zhao Guolong, from bullets and medicine, from rice grain to seafood, not even a receipt, delicious and delicious so that Yang Li Tianle can't help but pat Zhao Guolong's shoulder and say good. On the fourth day, the Taiwan Mixed Brigade Yantian Dingqi sacrificed a killer weapon, transporting supplies by armored vehicles and escorting them with tanks, but Zhao Guolong could not find a chance to start, so that the Fifth Division, which had eaten pickles and black beans for several days, could eat seafood, so that Lieutenant General Imamura, who was in a hurry, could calm down.

Since then, the offensive and defensive battles of the peak pass have been carried out intermittently, and unlike before, without the help of aircraft, there is more active interference from the Chinese army, and the casualties of the Japanese army have increased significantly, and this situation has continued to this day, December 1.

Early this morning, the Japanese planes that had not been seen for a long time reappeared, and as soon as the four light criti planes passed over the city of Nanning, they began to dive, direction, and peak passes. After the first wave of four light critters passed, there were four more, and a few minutes later, there were four more, and the willow people on the peak pass looked stupid!

As the planes bombed, Japanese sappers hastily filled in the severed road, and the two tanks drove side by side.

Air-ground coordination, standard air-ground coordination, the tanks rushed to the pass, the Japanese planes changed from light critters to carrier-based fighters, and the small fighters circled over the mountains, treating themselves as a hunting eagle, and where the Chinese troops gathered, the planes immediately flew there, and the machine-gun bullets rained down.

A flock of chickens on the ground can't compete with an eagle in the sky!

"Retreat! Hurry up and retreat! With Zhou Zuhuang's shouting, the 599 regiment retreated along the small ditch in the valley, and they were all gray and numb. The Japanese army did not pursue, and immediately started the earthwork work on the top of the peak pass, and when the news came, Zhou Zu shook it up: Are these dog-day Japanese preparing to hold on to the peak pass?

It's not that the Japanese want to hold on to the peak pass, it's that he can't help but hold on, because there is no manpower to attack, and the Japanese army has been fighting on the peak pass for seven days, the Japanese have killed and wounded 908 people, and almost one infantry brigade has withdrawn from the battle, and the rest of the people can no longer support the attack. Especially a few days ago, because the 41st Wing was in a difficult situation in Longzhou, the commander of the 9th Brigade and Major General Chuan Yuanqi personally went to Longzhou to command, and the 9th Wing became a direct subordinate of the division, in other words, a motherless child. The 4th Infantry Brigade of the 9th Wing transferred the defensive task of Kunlun Pass to the 21st Brigade and returned to Nanning City to become the mobile force of Imamura Jun, and the other three wings, after losing 908 people, occupied the peak pass, which is considered to have completed the set task, and the rest is to garrison, and to hold the peak pass is victory.

The Japanese army was actually satisfied with occupying the peak pass, so that Zhou Zuhuang of Tengxiang was a little incomprehensible, and planned to take the initiative to attack and engage in fire reconnaissance, but he got the order of General Bai at the Qianjiang headquarters, the 200th division returned to Silong to rebuild, and the Gui army was divided into three columns, the first column Zhou Zuhuang led the 135th division and the 170th division to monitor the enemy situation in Tengxiang to monitor the enemy situation in the peak pass, and the second column Wei Yunsong led the 131st and 188th divisions to retreat from Silong to Wuming, and then transferred from the direction of Shibu Laokou to the area of Funan, Zuojiang, in case the Japanese 42nd Wing suddenly retreated to Nanning. He Xuan, the third column, went to Datang on the South Road and led the 175th Division and the New 19th Division to interfere with the enemy's logistical support line along the Yongqin Highway. General Du Yuming's Fifth Army has arrived in Binyang, the battle plan has been handed over to the Central Military Commission by Du Yuming, and the attack on Kunlun Pass will be launched on December 10.