Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 581 Defending Nanjing (XIV)
In today's war, the requirements for soldiers' personal abilities are getting higher and higher.In fact, since the birth of firearms, the situation of relying on numerical superiority to win a battle is gone forever.How important is an all-round soldier to a team?Looking at the battle of Zhenjiang, we can get a clear answer.It was the service, and it was precisely because the team led by Shan Renxiong telegraphed every move of the Tiangu Detachment to the Xuebing Army Command in a timely manner, so Ouyang Yun and Li Hanhun could make various arrangements in a targeted manner, thus almost killing the Tiangu Detachment. Annihilation.

The battle was divided into three steps in total and lasted four days.

The day before was the first stage.

After receiving the telegram from Shan Renxiong, Ouyang Yun found out the strength of the Tiangu detachment, and ordered the troops to carry out civil engineering work in the sight of the Japanese reconnaissance troops, assuming that they were going to fight a positional battle.On the one hand, he ordered Shan Renxiong to find out the location of the Japanese artillery positions, and at the same time integrated all the artillery units of the two divisions, striving to destroy the enemy's artillery units within one round.

About three hours later, Shan Renxiong sent back a telegram again, informing the Japanese artillery unit that it was about three kilometers north of the east gate of Zhenjiang.About a quarter of an hour after his telegram was sent, when the Japanese army detected Shan Renxiong's radio signal and sent a squadron of devils to encircle and suppress, Ouyang Yun gave an order to send two divisions of the Xuebing Army to nearly two The artillery units of the two brigades showed their power together, and immediately, nearly a hundred shells roared towards the Japanese artillery positions.

However, since Amaya Naojiro, the commander of the Amaya Detachment, learned that the soldiers of the Xuebing Army were suppressing the border, this once arrogant devil immediately became cautious.While mobilizing troops frequently, he began to put on a defensive posture in response to the operational characteristics of the Xuebing Army, and at the same time telegraphed the headquarters of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, requesting air force support.In his opinion, when the own side has no ground weapons and firepower superiority, it is tantamount to suicidal to use the main force to fight against the student army whose number is almost two and a half times that of his own.Therefore, dispatching aviation to bomb and destroying the armored units of the cadet army with heavy bombs is an indispensable part of winning the battle.At the same time, he sent power to the Guoqi detachment belonging to the Fifth Division, which was marching towards Jurong, claiming that it had encountered a sniper attack from the superior student army, and asked the Guoqi detachment to give up attacking Jurong and head towards Danyang instead, hoping that the two sides would rendezvous and confront each other. The Xuebing Army was severely injured.

For middle-aged officers of the Japanese army, defeating the Xuebing Army and even capturing Ouyang Yun alive were their favorite things.After the Battle of Jiangyin, this sentiment was even higher than ever. Many Japanese commanders even asked to abandon the Nanjing Raid first, and instead annihilate the Xuebing Army, the largest hostile force in the empire.

If it is said that the commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Matsui Iwane, did not take the student army seriously at the beginning, after the Jiangyin battle, the old devil hated this warlord-like Chinese army to the bone, and even wanted to eat Ouyang Yun .Therefore, after receiving the call for help from Naojiro Amaya, the old devil did not dare to be careless at all, and immediately ordered the two air teams under his command to temporarily abandon the original bombing plan and fully support the Amiya detachment.At the same time, the Kunisaki Detachment and Ushishima Sadao's 18th Division, which is in Hangzhou Bay, are also ordered to march towards Zhenjiang, in order to solve the serious problem of the Xuebing Army once and for all, and at least keep all the mixed troops that went north. Let his vitality be greatly injured.

Matsui Iwane still underestimated the strength of the Xuebing Army.Among them, the most underestimated is the determination of the cadet army and the sharpness of its artillery.

Compared with the heavy artillery used by the Japanese army, the howitzers of the Xuebing Army with a diameter of more than 150 mm have a larger diameter, so the range is longer.This is not the most important thing, what makes the Japanese most defenseless is the terrifying movement speed of the Xuebing Army's self-propelled artillery—in fact, as long as Ouyang Yun is willing, it is entirely possible for the Xuebing Army's artillery to change places with one shot of.

After Amaya Naojiro got in touch with the headquarters of the dispatched army, he made arrangements wholeheartedly, intending to entangle the student army in Zhenjiang.For this reason, he even made a record that once the student army wanted to leave the battle and cross the river, he would order the troops to attack at all costs——

Nearly a hundred cannons fired in unison, and the sound was so loud that anyone who had experienced it would be deeply impressed.At that time, Tiangu was worrying about Shan Renxiong, a small Chinese army, in the headquarters.

Although this force is small, the damage it causes is enormous.Because, they were able to come and go freely in Zhenjiang City, and even entered the team headquarters of a brigade and robbed a radio station.Once they learn about the situation of their own defense and send it to the headquarters of the Xuebing Army, the Tiangu detachment will fall into an extremely passive situation.

The rumble of cannons proved that Naojiro Amaya's judgment was accurate.And a few minutes later, what shocked him was that the target of the Xuebing Army's attack this time turned out to be his own artillery position.

Ouyang Yun launched this bombardment, leaving no room for it—whether it was for the Japanese army or the Xuebing army itself, if this saturated attack continued, there would be only one result, either the Japanese artillery unit would be completely wiped out, or the Xuebing army The army's artillery units will suffer huge losses in the Japanese counterattack.Of course, no matter which angle you look at, the chances of winning for the Xuebing Army are much greater-first of all, they have the exact position of the Japanese artillery positions, and secondly, the quantity and quality of the Japanese artillery are far inferior to the Xuebing Army.

The 15-minute saturated shelling completely destroyed the Japanese artillery positions.Of course, the destruction of the Japanese artillery was not useless, that is, it gave Tiangu the opportunity to withdraw the armored troops to Jinshan.

Amaya Naojiro is worthy of being a general who can stand alone. Hearing the intensity of the artillery fire of the Xuebing Army, he immediately realized that the artillery unit on his side must be hopeless.And if there is no accident, it must be the armored force that suffered such a devastating blow.The student army used all its artillery to carry out this kind of saturated attack, so the next step can be expected, and it must launch a full-scale attack.

"Ouyang Yun is an expert? Has he already realized that I will ask for aviation support? That's why he wants to make a quick decision? In the current situation, there is no need for our army to take the initiative to attack—" Tian Gu couldn't help thinking about it. A wry smile emerged—even though he thought this way, he actually knew that, without heavy artillery support, wanting to take the initiative to launch an attack is actually no risk of death?You must know that the Xuebing Army is not other national army units, they have more powerful armored units.

On the position of the Xuebing Army at the East Gate of Zhenjiang, Ouyang Yun observed the Japanese armored force position with a binoculars. Seeing the Japanese army starting to retreat, he was slightly upset.

He Zheng lowered his binoculars and said to him: "Commander, it seems that our opponent is not mediocre either!"

Ouyang Yun put down the binoculars and said: "It's a difficult opponent, Zhe Liang, let the staff officer on duty send electricity to Commander Li Hanhun, tell them to speed up the march, and tell him to beware of the Japanese army that may come down from Zhejiang. In addition, let the They repaired the fortifications more firmly—whether we can eat the Tiangu detachment depends on whether they can withstand the attack from both sides."

The activity of Shan Renxiong's team in Zhenjiang City is the crowning touch of this battle. Because of these extra eyes, the Xuebing Army has now fully grasped the initiative.After successfully destroying the artillery unit of the Tiangu Detachment, if they were just driven out of Zhenjiang, no matter what other people think, at least Ouyang Yun would feel aggrieved—it was like a game of chess, the layout is so perfect, but the middle game still has At the end, there was a big colander. Naturally, this should not be a mistake that a master should make.

The sound of the cannons stopped, and Ouyang Yun gave no order, He Zhengjiang let out a loud roar, and under the cover of the armored troops, all the officers and soldiers of the Third Xue Division rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards Zhenjiang City.

Suddenly, a burst of flames flashed from the chassis of the Jiguang tank rushing to the front—with a "boom", the tank was immediately paralyzed.

"Anti-tank mine!" Ouyang Yun blurted out, then picked up the walkie-talkie and gave He Zhengjiang an order to let the armored troops stop and use as artillery batteries, and let the infantry attack instead.

The officers and soldiers of the Third Xue Division like a tide rushed towards the east gate, and soon, the duel between the infantry of the two sides started centering on the gate tower of the east gate.

"The Japanese army is well prepared! They even brought anti-tank mines!" Ouyang Yun thought about this, with a worried look on his face.In that time and space, it was impossible for this scene to happen—even during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army did not seem to have planted such landmines on the Chinese battlefield, but what is going on now?Do butterfly wings really flap?This hurricane is so violent!
The cadet army has the support of artillery and tank guns, and it has an overwhelming advantage from beginning to end.Of course, the Tiangu Detachment is not a full-bodied force. Regardless of its equipment, the military quality of its soldiers is still quite high.The obvious point is that although most of the weapons of the Japanese army are the kind of three-eighth cover that can be shot and bolted, the damage to the student army is extremely great.Within a range of about 200 meters outside the East Gate Gate, the Third Xue Division fell down with a regiment of officers and soldiers, half of whom were penetrating wounds. quite big.Just to save the first group of wounded comrades, the subsequent soldiers fell on that route one after another, and even later, a company commander who saw something strange stopped the actions of his comrades, limped one leg and stood firm. Standing up, he swiped at the Japanese army's position with the Wei Qing style, and then he was smashed into a sieve by the [-] bullets, and fell down extremely heroically.

On the first day of the battle, more than [-] soldiers were killed in the battle, but very few were injured, only more than [-] people.The reason is that the company commander made a bad head, which caused those injured officers and soldiers, even if they were only slightly injured, to follow his example and stand up and launch a desperate charge towards the enemy's position. As a result, most of them fell in that dead area.The battle on the first day was particularly tragic.

(End of this chapter)