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Text Chapter 268 A bloody battle under the night

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    Yang Zhen felt sorry for the casualties of those key members who were transferred to the battlefield by Wang Guangyu and were preparing to form new troops in the future. However, Wang Guangyu's life on the battlefield was enjoyable. The two companies that were temporarily transferred and formed turned out to be true.  He was not disappointed, at least his performance was much better than that of the new recruits with no actual combat experience who were added to the army after the battle at Qunce Mountain.  [.Com text] The backbone is the backbone. Putting aside military literacy, the rich actual combat experience alone cannot be compared with those of new recruits.

    After the full-scale counterattack was fully launched, Wang Guangyu was very happy that he took the huge risk of the commander's anger and mobilized a group of troops from the third regiment to participate in the battle.  If it weren't for these two companies, how could he have broken through the Japanese defense line so quickly?

    In fact, for the two days of fierce fighting, Wang Guangyu, who had already had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the 40th Regiment, was actually very well prepared.  He had already figured out the Japanese army's troop deployment and main firepower configuration during the two days of fierce fighting.  He doesn't have to worry about the Japanese artillery, as there will naturally be artillery directly under the military region to deal with it.

    But facing the Japanese infantry firepower and troop deployment, that is what he must master as a front-line commander.  After two days of fierce fighting with the 40th Regiment, Wang Guangyu knew his opponent in much more detail than Liu Changshun, who had just arrived and rushed into the battle because of the defection incident before he even had time to rest.

    Since the First Brigade suffered too many casualties in previous battles, it only served as support and assist in Yang Zhen's counterattack plan, and did not strengthen the artillery.  The first brigade's own artillery encountered Japanese air attacks several times in previous battles, suffering considerable losses and basically losing much combat effectiveness.

    In addition to the multiple rocket launcher battery, which he had used cautiously and only a few times before, there were only four 75mm mountain guns from the mountain gun battalion of the brigade as supporting firepower.  Therefore, under the current situation that his own troops are very thin and his fire support is also very weak, Wang Guangyu fights boldly but still quite steadily.

    Guo Bingxun was not wrong. Wang Guangyu changed his assist to the main attack without authorization, and he was indeed competitive.  But this does not mean that he acted recklessly or hastily.  After all, Wang Guangyu was quite prudent in his actual actions.

    Not only did he already know the terrain of General Shi's front line well, he also went to the front line several times to check the attack route before launching the attack, personally selected the attack route, and adjusted the deployment of troops according to the layout of the enemy in front of him.  After the attack was launched, he personally organized fire support at the front line positions.

    This is also the biggest reason why Wang Guangyu was able to achieve a major breakthrough even though he had no advantage in military strength or firepower.

    The route selected by Wang Guangyu to launch the attack was exactly the junction of the two squadrons of the 40th Regiment that suffered the greatest losses during the daytime battle. At this time, they were still at the forefront and had not withdrawn to rest.  Wang Guangyu's attack point was chosen accurately. The two Japanese squadrons that suffered heavy losses in the daytime battle were weak in defense due to insufficient troops.

    His tactics are also very clear, which is to use the strength of the second regiment to act as a feint attack under the cover of most of the artillery fire that the first brigade can currently concentrate.  After attracting most of the attention of the Japanese troops on the front line, one regiment was temporarily integrated, and the only fully-staffed company at the moment plus the attached three regiments and one company formed a commando team.  Under the cover of two 120mm mortars, plus two regiment-affiliated infantry guns and two 90mm mortars, they attacked from the weak joint of the Japanese army.

    While Liu Changshun's Second Brigade launched a full-scale attack on General Shi's front-line Japanese troops, Wang Guangyu tried his best to concentrate all the troops he could. Even the lightly wounded were mobilized by him. He also launched a simultaneous attack on General Shi's front-line Japanese troops.  Fight back.

    The first brigade and the second regiment took the lead in launching a feint attack almost at all costs.  The first regiment, which launched the attack five minutes later than the second regiment who was feinting to attack, fired the infantry artillery at close range to suppress the Japanese light and heavy machine gun positions.  The 120mm heavy mortars and the 90mm mortars formed a mobile artillery group. With the attacking troops covering the Japanese infantry artillery and rapid-fire artillery, it only took ten minutes to defeat the Japanese army.  The combination of the two squadrons tore open the Japanese defense line.

    After tearing apart the Japanese defense line, the first regiment left one company and the subsequent regiment to participate in the battle. The other two companies, composed of lightly wounded soldiers, engineers and regimental service personnel, were commanded by the political commissar of the first regiment Li Mingfeng. In the attack that had already begun  Two embankments were built on both sides of the passage to block the Japanese counterattack and ensure the smooth flow of the attack passage.

    The remaining company, composed of personnel drawn from the third regiment, was temporarily formed by the first regiment. Two reinforced platoons were temporarily formed with a large number of automatic firearms, almost a submachine gun per man. They were personally commanded by the commander of the first regiment, He Zhishan, and did not stop at the breakthrough point.  , under the cover of the mobile artillery group, rushed deep into the Japanese army.

    The tactics Wang Guangyu assigned to the group were very simple.  existAfter breaking through the defense of the 40th Regiment, they penetrated deep into it.  Fully deploy the three fierce tactics of daily training, and strive to tear the defense of the 40th Regiment to pieces.  Of course, it would be better if the headquarters of the 40th Regiment could be knocked out easily.

    After breaking through the Japanese defense line in one fell swoop, He Zhishan followed Wang Guangyu's order and personally directed the assault troops without stopping at the breach, and directly penetrated deeply into the Japanese army.

    Behind him, the mobile artillery group commanded by Wang Guangyu personally provided fire cover for him at all costs.  The Japanese army encountered resistance there, and the artillery shells fell there.  During the previous training at Xingshan Fortress, Wang Guangyu's painstaking infantry and artillery coordination training gave him a lot of rewards at this time.

    After the Japanese defense line was torn apart and the insertion operation began, the supporting artillery fire commanded by Wang Guangyu almost exploded following the footsteps of the attacking troops.  It can be said that it refers to that and that.  Its reaction speed is fast, its shooting accuracy is high, and its coordination with the forward infantry is perfect. It can be said that it is extremely outstanding.

    In order to ensure the success of his plan, Wang Guangyu not only took out all 60 illumination bombs assigned to him by Yang Zhen.  Didn't even dare to use the Japanese-style flare guns now commonly used by troops.  Instead, the only three Soviet-made signal guns in the first brigade were handed over to He Zhishan.  As long as the predetermined red and green signals are sent out there, the shells of the artillery group commanded by Wang Guangyu will fall there.

    Wang Guangyu acted quickly, and the Japanese army¡¯s reaction fluid in front of him was not slow.  After discovering that he had fallen into his opponent's trick of attacking in the east and west, Wang Guangyu faced the Japanese army. Behind the two squadrons, the 40th Regiment was originally a reserve team. It had just been transferred up and was ready to take over after dawn.  The remaining First Battalion, and the Third Battalion of the 40th Regiment, which continued to attack General Shixian, immediately launched a counterattack in an attempt to regain the breach.

    As soon as they arrived at the battlefield, Wang Guangyu took advantage of him and tore a hole in his chest. The Third Battalion of the 40th Regiment left the task of blocking Wang Guangyu's feint attack to the Second Regiment before it had time to withdraw.  Go down to the remnants of the first brigade.  He used all his strength to deal with the group that opened the breakthrough first.

    The Third Brigade, eager to re-seal the breach, immediately concentrated all its forces from two infantry squadrons, the brigade's artillery squad, plus a heavy machine gun squadron, and launched a desperate charge towards the breach opened by the regiment.  After trying to seal the breach again, he freed his hands to clean up the small fish that got into his stomach.

    Faced with almost wave after wave of counterattacks by the Japanese troops on both sides, in order to cover He Zhishan who was advancing deeply towards the Japanese troops, Li Mingfeng, the political commissar of the regiment, commanded the two companies that were pieced together, and the regiment left by He Zhishan  At present, the last relatively intact company is resisting desperately with the cooperation.

    And his enemy in front of him, Major Matsuno Shohei, captain of the Third Battalion of the 40th Regiment of the Japanese Army, spent a lot of money in order to counterattack the opponents who broke into his position.  As soon as they came up, they concentrated the two infantry squadrons in their hands, and under the full firepower cover of two infantry cannons from the brigade artillery squad and a heavy machine gun squadron, they launched waves of attacks.

    In the face of the Japanese army's all-out counterattack, Li Mingfeng's blocking battle was extremely painful.  In addition to the only relatively intact infantry company in the regiment left by He Zhishan, the main body is the engineer company directly under the regiment headquarters, plus a few lightly wounded people who can still move and even non-combatants such as grooms, cooks, and clerks.  As soon as the two companies formed exchanged fire, they immediately showed a huge gap with the Japanese army.

    Although these two temporary companies, composed mostly of non-combatants, have no fighting enthusiasm, their tactical literacy and daily training are incomparable to regular field companies.  The gap with the Japanese army is even more obvious.

    One can imagine the difficulty of commanding two companies like this to fight against the elite Japanese troops.  After just one encounter, one of the companies suffered more than half casualties and lost its combat effectiveness.  If the old company left behind by He Zhishan hadn't been able to coordinate and dispatch two squads to quickly rush over for support when he was also under great pressure, I'm afraid it would have collapsed long ago.

    In order to ensure the retreat of his regiment commander, Li Mingfeng not only carried the speed controller with the nose of the plane wide open in his left hand, but also carried two Soviet-made F1 grenades in his right hand, and led his guards to the front line in the battle.  He even set a record for the first time by personally shooting two squad leaders who were afraid of fighting, and it was the first time that Yang Zhen's troops enforced battlefield discipline.

    Li Mingfeng¡¯s painstaking support here not only ensured He Zhishan¡¯s retreat, but also attracted most of the Japanese troops in front of General Shi¡¯s front line to him, which brought great convenience to He Zhishan¡¯s subsequent combat operations.  The three companies of the second regiment that launched a feint attack over there finally found an opportunity to break through after a hard fight and successfully broke through the enemy's blockade.

    Wang Guangyu is not dissatisfied with Li Mingfeng¡¯s hard work.Tao.  After the Second Regiment made a breakthrough, in order to support Li Mingfeng, Wang Guangyu immediately transferred the regiment's mortars and infantry artillery that had been reinforced to the artillery there.  One of the two regiment-affiliated anti-aircraft machine gun companies was even transferred to the command of Li Mingfeng.  No expense was spared and mortar shells were used to form a dense fire net on both sides of the passage to give Li Mingfeng the greatest support possible.

    Although the firepower has been greatly strengthened, the situation on Li Mingfeng's side is still becoming increasingly tight as the Japanese army spared no expense and almost committed suicide in the second half of the attack.  Not only did the improvised blocking force suffer heavy casualties, but Li Mingfeng himself was wounded in three places during several hand-to-hand combats with the Japanese troops who broke into the position.

    After receiving a report that Li Mingfeng's blocking force had suffered heavy casualties, if one company of reinforcements could not be added within half an hour, the entire blocking force might be in danger of collapse due to excessive casualties.  Knowing that Li Mingfeng, who could easily refrain from complaining, said this, the situation had definitely reached an extremely serious point.

    But now it can be said that the situation is exhausted. Even the last reserve team has been put in. Wang Guangyu, who actually has no troops left, has to arm all the people in the brigade who can afford guns, plus the brigade security company.  The remaining two squads were temporarily organized into a company and sent to Li Mingfeng.

    When the reinforcements sent by Wang Guangyu arrived, they saw that Wang Guangyu had even sent non-combatants from the brigade. Knowing that the situation was almost exhausted and that there were no available troops at hand, the brigade commander Li Mingfeng gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth.  Until the end of the battle, there was no further request for reinforcements from Wang Guangyu.

    Wang Guangyu didn¡¯t know that what he was actually facing was not part of the 40th Regiment.  He now had only seven companies on hand that were incomplete and had been disrupted, plus two temporarily formed companies. The total of nine companies competing against them was actually the main force of the 40th Regiment.

    The Japanese troops facing Liu Changshun were only the field detachment that had been replaced by the 40th Regiment, the 24th Division Engineer Regiment, the Search Regiment, the two squadrons of the 40th Regiment, and part of the baggage regiment.  At this moment, the main forces of the Forty Regiment are actually concentrated on Wang Guangyu's side.

    Although before the counterattack, Wang Guangyu had already figured out the general deployment of the Japanese front-line troops.  But the adjustment of the strength of the Forty Regiment at midnight was something he had not yet mastered.  In particular, the newly transferred Third Battalion, which had not participated in the war before and had been acting as cover on the flanks, suddenly appeared on the front line at the last moment. He did not expect it at all.

    The third battalion of the Forty Regiment suddenly appeared in front of General Shixian, which directly caused Wang Guangyu's current bitter battle.  After the headquarters of the 24th Division was defeated by Liu Changshun, they lost unified command. In fact, the Japanese troops were now fighting independently, although their mutual support was greatly reduced.

    But precisely because of the loss of unified command, the Japanese troops fighting individually were unable to know the fighting situation in other places.  The enemy forces that both Wang Guangyu and Liu Changshun have to face have never been reduced.

    Just like now, neither Komatsuzaki Rikio, who was fighting fiercely with Wang Guangyu, nor Nochi Kahei, who was struggling to hold on under Liu Changshun's attack like a mad tiger, didn't know that their escape route had been cut off by Ma Chunsheng.  All the supplies stored by the 24th Division in Xinhua Street, an important place on the Jiahe Railway, have been lost.  And Ma Chunsheng, who had completed his task, was rushing towards their backs.

    It broke the unified command of the Japanese army, but caused a certain passivity in the implementation of its own combat plan.  The original plan to cut off the Japanese army's retreat and mobilize the Japanese army with logistical supplies was blocked in an attempt to give the counterattack forces the greatest opportunity. This was probably something Yang Zhen did not expect when he formulated this combat plan.

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