Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 485 Taking advantage of the victory to pursue ([-])

When the first explosion sounded, Major General Seki Kameji, the head of the second brigade of the Japanese army, was sitting in an armored vehicle with his eyes closed.The violent explosion stopped the entire marching queue, and the armored vehicle jerked violently and stopped.Guan Guizhi couldn't bear it anymore, his upper body leaned forward in inertia, and his head almost hit the front deck.He was taken aback, and immediately shouted, "What's going on? Quick, open the car door!"

A major assistant opened the door for him, and two guards quickly jumped out of the car and stood guard by the door.He got out of the car, looked towards the front of the team, and couldn't help but gasped.

On the side of the road facing Qiushan, hundreds of thousands of flames sprayed bullets among the green grass.In the face of such a dense rain of bullets, the brigade in front of the headquarters has been firmly suppressed.Among them, the dozen or so trucks running in the front were burning blazingly at the moment, and there were corpses scattered all over the place beside them.On the truck behind, soldiers were jumping down continuously at this moment, but the only thing they could do after they got down to the ground was to lie on their stomachs obediently, not daring to raise their heads to fire their guns.Because when he picked up the binoculars to see more clearly, in the lens of his binoculars, a soldier who had just exposed his head had not been able to mount his gun, and his head suddenly exploded!

He immediately realized: "The enemy has snipers!" He looked up the mountain through the binoculars, feeling a little uneasy in his heart.

This is a long-planned ambush by the Chinese!The number of people should not be less than 2000.This is the establishment of two regiments - thinking of the resistance of the superior enemy encountered in Lijia Village, Guan Guizhi was a little confused.Before the war, when the commander introduced the deployment of Chinese troops in North China, didn’t he say that only about three divisions of the Xuebing Army could really hinder the imperial army’s North China strategy?But why does this person seem to be fighting more and more? !
Just as he was meditating, the soldiers in the military uniforms of the Xuebing Army began to charge down the mountain.Densely packed camouflage colored helmets, hundreds of guns spewing flames - the firepower of the Chinese people is quite ferocious. Taking advantage of the timing of their attack, a small group of soldiers who stood out of the bunker and wanted to counterattack had only time to rush The bullets in the guns were fired and fell to the ground, and the most miserable chest and abdomen were almost smashed by the bullets.

The Chinese were coming fiercely. If they could not be contained and driven out of the mountain, they would have to pay a higher price if they wanted to get closer to this mountain.Guan Guizhi had a gloomy face, and quickly made a decision - he must resolutely block the charge of the Chinese, and this position must not be lost!He said to the adjutant next to him: "Let Daxiong also hide for me to resist. Where is the artillery! Pull the mountain cannon over!"

Facing the dense firepower of the Chinese, only cannons can break up their formation!Almost instinctively, Seki Kameji thought of the most effective way to deal with the dense formation, that is shelling!
The slightly larger caliber cannons of the Mixed Second Brigade have been defeated by Kiyoshi Kozuki. Now, the entire brigade still retains six 75mm caliber mountain cannons, and some mortars.

Since the Japanese army went out, there are two parts of the troops that are the most depressed.Tank units and artillery units.In the first Battle of the Great Wall, the tank units and artillery units of the Japanese army stole the limelight, especially the artillery units.At the most exaggerated moment, as soon as the guns fired from the side, the national army on the opposite side began to retreat.

Perhaps it was precisely because of the previous brilliant performance that before the expedition, the Japanese artillerymen were quite looking forward to the upcoming battle.However, the greater the expectation, the greater the result is an eternal law. No, whether it was the contact war at Xifengkou or the head-to-head confrontation at Tiemenguan, the Japanese artillery units just didn't get any good.Then when we arrived at Wangjiawei, the air force of the Xuebing Army appeared on the stage, well, the bombs were thrown down, and in the ensuing battle, there was nothing to do with the artillery.

Xu Shizheng was so aggrieved that once the opportunity to fight was seized, the little devil's artillery behaved so aggressively!But in less than 10 minutes, he pushed the six mountain cannons from the back row of the team to the center of the position, and then measured the distance, counted and shot each element, and soon "rumbled" and fired.

Gu Zhang asked the troops to charge, not as Guan Guizhi had guessed, to drive the Japanese army out of the mountains in order to prepare for the next sniper battle.Their purpose of doing this is entirely to obtain more results and to accumulate morale and capital for the possibly long and arduous sniper battle in the future.

Gu Mingchang and Zhang Yantian did not charge along with the army, and saw the Japanese army's response through the telescope. After discovering that six small cannons were pushed up, Gu Mingchang decisively asked the trumpeter to sound the order to retreat.Then, Zhang Yantian stayed behind to supervise the battle, and Gu Mingchang withdrew to Bagua Pass with a few guards.

As requested in Ouyang Yun's telegram, Gu and Zhang also knew that with only the current strength of troops, the ambush was just a prelude to a small fight, and the real fierce battle would still take place in Bagua Pass.Gu Mingchang rushed back to Bagua Pass for the pre-war deployment.The reason why Zhang Yantian wanted to stay was to ensure that the step-by-step retreat strategy could be implemented—this was a strategy they formulated before the war, and that was to make the little devil pay a bloody price for every step forward. Hurry up before the big troops arrive, beat the devils, and even drive them crazy.

Gu and Zhang's retreat order was issued very timely, which allowed the rumbling Japanese artillery to hit the soldiers on the way to retreat, and did not cause a large number of enemy casualties as Guan Guizhi hoped.Such a result was naturally not what Guan Guizhi wanted to see, but seeing the enemy army running faster than rabbits, he could only curse "sick man of East Asia" bitterly to relieve his evil spirits.Then, he reluctantly ordered to stop the shelling, and instead asked the soldiers behind to rescue the wounded as soon as possible and dredge the road.Because at this moment, the troops of other divisions had already come up one after another, and soon formed a congestion at the troops behind them.

After Kazuki Kiyoshi and Hashimoto Gun were dismissed, the command of the First Army was taken back by Terauchi Shouichi, which directly caused the disunity of military orders among the various divisions of the Japanese army.Then, contradictions arise.

The Japanese army is a traditional army that is very particular about seniority. In the large group of the First Army, each unit is divided into several groups according to the depth of seniority.Among them, the top [-] divisions are the domestic standing divisions with the oldest qualifications, and they have always looked down on miscellaneous troops such as the independent mixed first and second brigades and the [-]th division.This is also the time when the Ninth Division and the [-]th Division are jointly performing a mission. Although the Ninth Division suffered heavy casualties, the main reason why Xiayuan Xiongmi still had to rely on Jizhu Liangfu.

When Terauchi Shouichi resolutely carried out the order of the base camp and dismissed Kiyoshi Kazuki and Hashimoto, he never imagined that this would pave the way for the overall defeat of the First Army in Bagua Pass.

The Second Mixed Brigade was ambushed, and it stands to reason that other divisions and brigades of the First Army should give sympathy and strategic support.In fact, it's a completely different matter.It doesn't matter if you don't give support, and the heads of several divisions headed by Yoshizuru Ryosuke have also blamed the failures suffered by the First Army so far on the independent mixed first and second brigades.They believe that it is precisely because of the poor performance of these two pheasant brigades that the entire First Army and even the North China Front Army have been dragged down.He also cited facts to prove that if the mixed first brigade had not been defeated at Tiemenguan, and the mixed second brigade had indeed fulfilled its duty of support and kept Tiemenguan firmly in its hands, then the Xuebing Army would have It is impossible to send troops to Rehe, forcing the base camp to close Chengde Airport.If the Chengde Airport is not closed, then the imperial fighters can use this airport to compete with the Air Force of the Xuebing Army.However, it is impossible for the North China Front Army to lose the key air supremacy, resulting in the current situation of being passively beaten everywhere.

Immediately behind the mixed second brigade is the No.16 division. The commander of the division, Nakajima Konzago, saw that Seki Kameji's troops were in a mess, looking like a broken army. He was so angry that he directly transferred Send out the gendarmerie and let them deal with the officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade in the same way as they deal with deserters, saying: Anyone who blocks the progress of the large troops will be killed.

This measure of Nakajima Konzago is very necessary if we start from the point of resolutely implementing the order of General Toshida Terauchi.Of course, from another perspective, such as from the perspective of Guan Guizhi's subordinates, this order is really too unreasonable.

There is a strict hierarchy among the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army, among which the military police is a special existence.In normal times, once the military police came out to enforce discipline, no one would dare to provoke them unless someone showed off their brains, not even junior officers.But today is doomed to be an accident-first, the mixed second brigade did not commit battlefield discipline such as cowardice or defeat, and second, they are not affiliated to the No.16 division.

The ambush just now caused heavy casualties to the Mixed Second Brigade. In just over 20 minutes of fighting, nearly a brigade was killed or injured.Among them, the proportion of injuries caused by rollovers and gravel is still quite heavy.This requires survivors to spend energy and time cleaning up and organizing.The replenishment of soldiers in each unit of the Japanese army is fixed, which makes the proportion of fellow villagers and even relatives in the same unit quite high.When fellow villagers or relatives are injured, the living will naturally try their best to help them, which is also human nature.Of course, because of the brutal law enforcement by the gendarmerie of the No.16 Division, the officers and soldiers of the Mixed Second Brigade rose up to resist, which directly triggered large-scale riots (quoting from the book "Confessions of World War II" by Kohei Chengichi, a prisoner of the Mixed Second Brigade) " statement).

In the initial stage of the riot, there were only some not-so-intense pushing and shoving actions between the two parties. The reason why the two sides did not confront each other at the beginning was because of the strict self-discipline of the middle and low-level officers of the second brigade. Regarding (their obvious lack of confidence), and as a gendarme from the No.16 Division directly shot and killed a sergeant, the riots underwent a qualitative change, and the scale gradually got out of control.

(End of this chapter)