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Text Chapter 236 The strange Japanese reinforcements

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    When Yu Wenze arrived, he discovered that the Japanese army was just a cavalry brigade?  Not counting all the infantry and part of the artillery of at least one brigade transported by vehicles, the cavalry alone is enough to have a reinforced regiment. No wonder Qu Xiangdong, who has always been tough and rarely complains, sent someone to call for reinforcements.  ¡¾.Com text¡¿

    It turns out that before Anjing Toji was encircled, he arranged the 2nd Cavalry Regiment under the 2nd Division back to the mouth of the Lotus River to prepare for escorting supplies, especially the extremely expensive artillery shells.  In order to ensure the safety of this batch of supplies, Fujiji Yasui, who was cautious by nature, sent out his second cavalry regiment.

    As a result, after receiving a telegram from Katayama Province Saburo asking for help, Sawada Shigeru, who was personally stationed on the front line of Renjiangkou in accordance with the orders of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, strengthened one of his cavalry brigade to the second cavalry regiment, and also strengthened a team composed entirely of vehicles.  A motorized infantry brigade mainly transporting infantry.  All were sent out to rescue Major General Katayama Shozaburo.

    Although Qu Xiangdong was an authentic political cadre, he was not proficient in cavalry tactics.  But he also knows that he has only one company of troops to go head-to-head with a Japanese cavalry regiment and a mobile brigade, which is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

    So after Qu Xiangdong encountered the Japanese forward, he completely annihilated a Japanese cavalry squad as the forward, only to find that the Japanese follow-up troops were far stronger than himself.  They quickly changed their tactics and did not fight the Japanese army head-on. Instead, they fought and retreated in a wandering way.

    Although the Japanese vehicle-mounted infantry did not travel very fast due to road conditions, they fell behind the cavalry.  But its cavalry moved very quickly.  Fortunately, the company led by Qu Xiangdong were horses from the Japanese Third Cavalry Brigade captured by Wang Xiaoming on Xingshan Street. The horses on both sides were the same.

    Coupled with Qu Xiangdong¡¯s starting advantage and the Japanese army¡¯s own tactical arrangements, otherwise the cavalry company he led might not have been able to wait for Yu Wenze to arrive, and would have been eaten alive by the swarming Japanese army.  Just because the horses are the same doesn't mean that both horses have the same physical strength.

    After Yu Wenze arrived, he was not in a hurry for reinforcements. Instead, he first raised his binoculars to observe the tactics adopted by the Japanese army and the true strength of the Japanese army.  After observing carefully for a while, Yu Wenze's brows furrowed tightly.  He found that although the Japanese army had an absolute numerical advantage, they did not seem to intend to attack by force or engage in a cavalry duel with their own cavalry.

    Instead, he just clung tightly to Qu Xiangdong's back, taking his time and keeping a certain distance.  Judging from the tactics they adopted, it didn't look like a pursuit, but rather like they were driving away the cavalry company led by Qu Xiangdong.  The movements of the Japanese cavalry puzzled Yu Wenze.

    After Yu Wenze and Qu Xiangdong reunited, they discovered that although the encounter between the two sides was not short, the cavalry company led by Qu Xiangdong faced the advantage of the Japanese infantry and cavalry artillery, and its casualties were not large.  This further proved his suspicion that the Japanese army did not try their best.

    Although he didn¡¯t know the reason why the Japanese army did this, Yu Wenze knew that if the enemy pursued them with all their strength, they might not be able to eat all of his company in one bite.  But there is no problem in enclosing it.

    Qu Xiangdong was able to persist until he came over. This was definitely not a problem with Qu Xiangdong's wandering tactics.  It's not a relationship between the two sides.  Among the three companies of his cavalry battalion, two companies use Mongolian horses, and only the company led by Qu Xiangdong uses Japanese war horses.

    Although the horses are all the same, our cavalry forcibly penetrated and pursued from the front line of Fuguitun. The horses, which had never rested, were far more fatigued than the Japanese army.  Although the Japanese war horses improved by European horses have good sprinting ability and speed, their load-bearing capacity is quite good.  However, the endurance and especially the stamina for long-distance marches are far inferior to those of Mongolian horses.

    Although the fatigue level of the horses in Qu Xiangdong's company has not reached the extreme level.  But it is far from starting from the front line of Lianjiangkou, which is only a dozen kilometers away from here. It can almost be said that it can be compared with the Japanese army who are waiting for work.  Especially in the previous pursuit battle, in order to capture Katayama Shozaburo as quickly as possible, after galloping for dozens of kilometers, the horses of the cavalry battalion were physically exhausted.

    Yu Wenze, who had fought against the Japanese cavalry in the pass, knew that the horses used by the improved Japanese cavalry were not only better than the Mongolian horses and Gansu horses used by the Chinese Army, but the quality of their well-trained cavalry was also far better than that of the Chinese Army.  The team is much better.  Although the shooting accuracy and slashing skills of the Japanese cavalry on horseback cannot be compared with that of their infantry, they are far superior to the Chinese cavalry.

    Needless to say, if they are determined to eat their own company.  Even if it is equipped with manual lances, its superb shooting accuracy on horseback will not cause so many casualties.

    Although he could not guess the reason for the Japanese army's move, Yu Wenze, who faced a face-to-face decisive battle with the Japanese cavalry that he had only dreamed of, did not have any idea.He used his own strength and the company led by Qu Xiangdong, a total of two companies, to fight a head-on cavalry showdown with the overwhelmingly superior Japanese army.

    After responding to Qu Xiangdong, Yu Wenze adopted the same tactics as Qu Xiangdong before.  Except for occasionally relying on the advantage of the automatic firearms equipped by their own cavalry to conduct a tactical counterattack to try to figure out the Japanese army's tactical intentions, most of the time they fought and retreated.

    However, the Japanese army still adopted the previous tactics. After repelling Yu Wenze's tactical counterattack, they did not launch a forcible attack.  Instead, he still just followed behind and pursued unhurriedly.  The battle formation of its cavalry is not only quite dense, but also always maintains a considerable distance from the vehicle-mounted infantry behind them.

    After several counterattacks but still unable to figure out the Japanese's tactical intentions, Yu Wenze felt that continuing the fight would only increase casualties. He looked at the Japanese cavalry, which was nearly twice as many as himself, and at least one group of vehicle-mounted infantry behind them.  , although somewhat reluctantly, he could only grit his teeth and give the order to retreat.

    When the two companies led by Yu Wenze and Qu Xiangdong withdrew and merged with a company led by deputy battalion commander Zhang Xiangui who had surrounded the remaining troops of Saburo Katayama on a high ground.  Knowing that Zhang Xiangui's fight was not going well, the three of them smiled bitterly at each other and led the troops away from the battlefield.

    A reinforced Japanese cavalry regiment behind him was ready to launch a charge after approaching the place where Saburo Katayama was surrounded.  Its vehicle-mounted artillery is also unloading the mountain cannon from the vehicle.  If he still wanted to eat up the remaining defeated Japanese soldiers on the high ground, it would not be difficult, he would just need to charge.

    But if this is the case, judging from the distance between the Japanese cavalry and themselves, which is less than a thousand meters, I am afraid that I will be surrounded by the Japanese troops before I can eat up all the Japanese troops on the high ground.  With only one 60mm mortar company and no advantage in troops, firepower, or even horse power, once surrounded by a large group of Japanese cavalry, it would be difficult to break through.

    So instead of persuading Qu Xiangdong and Zhang Xiangui, he found that the Japanese cavalry had begun to speed up and was ready to charge.  Moreover, it has begun to divide its troops and has a tendency to detour to its own two wings.  After reporting the situation to the headquarters, he wisely chose to retreat.

    Seeing Yu Wenze retreating, the Japanese cavalry did not pursue it.  In response to the millstone tactics used by Shozaburo Katayama in Zhang Xiangui.  In the eyes of the Japanese army, it was extremely shameless to bluff on one side to attract the attention of the Japanese soldiers on the high ground, and then suddenly rush up from the other side and bite them hard.

    And when biting, he was not greedy. He just killed a dozen or even a few people with guns and knives, and then quickly retreated. After a little bit of bloodletting tactics, only the remnants of seventy or eighty people were left, and they recovered.  The troops immediately retreated to the front line of Lianjiangkou.

    ¡°Seeing the Japanese army¡¯s response to Major General Saburo Katayama and the remnants of the Second Division, and then immediately retreating, the three Yu Wenze who had not gone far were stunned.  What on earth was this Japanese army thinking?  A full reinforced cavalry regiment and even a vehicle-mounted infantry brigade were dispatched to rescue the Second Division with great fanfare.  However, after just picking up Major General Katayama Shozaburo, he retreated with bluff.  What on earth are they going to do? Is it an armed march?

    After thinking about it for a long time, Yu Wenze was depressed to find that he had been deceived by the Japanese army.  These Japanese troops now have no confidence to fight a tough battle with themselves. They just use their superior strength to give themselves the illusion of a large army suppressing the situation.  Because he was worried about being surrounded by counterattacks, he did not dare to attack Katayama Shozaburo with all his strength, and because of his inferior strength and equipment, he did not dare to fight head-on with the Japanese army.

    Yu Wenze, who was already very uncomfortable because the cavalry battalion did not open well for the first time and fought a battle that ended in an anticlimactic manner, became even more depressed after he figured this out.

    When Qu Xiangdong, who saw that he had lost his fighter plane, suggested retreating and getting closer to the main force, Yu Wenze, who was depressed and holding his breath, rejected his suggestion.  In addition to leaving a link to respond to the main force, he led the remaining two companies to adopt the Japanese army's previous tactics, staying five miles away from the Japanese army's marching column, and sticking to it unhurriedly.

    After receiving a telegram from Yu Wenze, the final annihilation of the Japanese troops on the front line of Fuguitun has been completed. The first and third brigades that have been replenished, the field artillery regiment and the rocket artillery regiment directly under the headquarters have just transported a large amount of ammunition and materials to the logistics department of the battlefield military region.  Yang Zhen, who was also slightly stunned when the baggage regiment and the three militia regiments mobilized from Tangyuan went south simultaneously.

    He couldn¡¯t figure out for a while whether the Japanese army had other tactical intentions or was it just to meet the remnants of Shozaburo Katayama¡¯s troops?  In order to ensure their retreat during this Japanese battle, two infantry brigades, a cavalry brigade and an artillery unit of the Japanese Fourth Division were stationed on the front line of Lianjiangkou. Yang Zhen knew this situation.

      With the Second Division fighting like this, even if Sawada Shigeru is no longer willing to dispatch, the Kwantung Army commander will force him to go north to reinforce the Second Division.  No matter which Japanese general serves as the commander of the Kwantung Army, he will not allow a division to be destroyed under his own eyes.

    Judging from the actions of the Japanese army, the Japanese army's move was simply to respond to the remnants of the Second Division.  But judging from the strength of the troops dispatched, it seems a bit different.  If it was just to respond to the remnants of the Second Division, whose strength had been reduced to less than one squadron, even if there was a major general-level officer among them, Sawada Shigeru would not have to send such a large formation.

    Yang Zhen did not believe that Katayama Shozaburo would not fail to state that he only had one cavalry battalion to pursue and surround him when he asked for help from Sawada Shigeru.  Regarding the virtues of the Fourth Division, Major General Katayama Shozaburo will not fail to understand. If he falsely reports the enemy's situation, even if Sawada Shigeru personally controls the battle, the style of these Osaka soldiers will definitely drag him down until his bones are cold.  I won¡¯t walk these dozens of miles.

    But if you say that you are only a cavalry battalion, you will attract such attention from the opponent. Even if you kill Yang Zhen, you will not believe it.  Even if the Fourth Division suffered heavy losses in his own hands many times and was overly cautious.  But the cavalry regiment of the Second Division is still at Lianjiangkou.  Even if the Fourth Division is unable to do its job, shouldn't the Second Regiment be slow to rescue its colleagues?

    Yang Zhen, who had been pondering for a long time and still couldn't figure out what the Japanese army's intention was, simply stopped thinking about it.  After telling Yu Wenze to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese troops on the front line at Lianjiangkou before the arrival of the main force, he turned to his side and said to Zhang Zhenhua, the political commissar of the Logistics Department who was personally escorting the supplies because the amount of supplies to supplement the front line was too large and he was afraid of any accidents.  : "Lao Zhang, you must be more careful with those treasures."

    ¡°Whether they can successfully move south this time and take down the Japanese infantry and cavalry detachment on the front line of Lianjiangkou in one go depends on whether they can play a role.¡±

    What the baby is, the two of them understand each other tacitly.  These treasures, which have been stored separately since they were seized, are classified as first-level secrets in the Jidong Military Region. Except for a few people and the specific person in charge, Zhang Zhenhua, no one else knows about them at all.  Even the commander-in-chief and even Peng Dingjie, the logistics minister in charge of logistics in the military region, didn't know.

    Hearing that Yang Zhen wanted to use the things on the five trucks that were closely protected in the middle of the marching team, Zhang Zhenhua said: "Commander, don't worry, these secret materials have all been taken by the former 104th Division prisoners of war before departure.  The inspection is completed. They are in good condition and can be used at any time. Our two companies have basically completed the training on the use of such weapons and the installation of fuzes, and have undergone rigorous assessments and are ready to go into battle. "

    Having said this, Zhang Zhenhua hesitated for a moment and then said: "Commander, are you sure you really want to use these artillery shells? The Japs are two-legged jackals. They will do anything to defeat us and have no humanity. Do we also have to fight with them?  If the central government finds out about this, what kind of impact will it have on you? "

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