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    In fact, Japanese officers and soldiers have always been known for their strict discipline and tenacious will.  [.Com text] When faced with the sudden fierce and vigorous firepower, the performance was no better than that of the Chinese ** team, which they had always looked down upon.

    This is not the Xiaomi plus rifle used by the Eighteenth Group Army in Guannei during sneak attacks, or at best the absolutely inferior equipment of grenades, but hundreds of real artillery shells.

    The Japanese soldiers, who were caught off guard by the sudden attack, blew up their nest and were driven out of the house by the shells.  It was hard to wait until the gunfire stopped.  But he soon discovered that the houses outside the house were not as good as those that had been reduced to ruins by artillery shells, and were even more dangerous.  The dense machine gun bullets fired from around the village knocked down the Japanese troops who were driven out, regardless of officers and soldiers.  Those Japanese officers and soldiers who tried to rely on the ruins and their skilled military technology to resist soon found that the ruins they relied on to hide in the houses left by the enemy's shells had become a nightmare for them.

    The huge power of the flat-firing 12mm anti-aircraft machine gun and the 20mm small-caliber anti-aircraft gun made it impossible for the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding among the ruins blown up by the shells to escape.  The 12.7mm bullets and 20mm anti-aircraft shells easily passed through the earth wall, and the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding on the other side were easily torn into two pieces.

    The Japanese soldiers who were driven out of the house by the previous shells were driven back by these machine guns that swept over.  But before they could take a breath among the ruins, these two extremely powerful weapons immediately made them feel that it was safer outside.  At the very least, with his military qualities, he could judge where these life-threatening guys were coming from and whether there was still a chance to hide.

    But with the intense crossfire outside, they soon realized that going out at this time was tantamount to committing suicide.  Less than half an hour after the battle started, the Japanese officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division, who could not advance or retreat, and could not even find a safer corner, were being polished off bit by bit.  The few Japanese officers and soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the artillery fire and machine gun fire were pinned to the ground and did not even dare to raise their heads.

    "The tragic experience of the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division Regiment Headquarters happened when the gunfire sounded, because a room that was temporarily used as a war room was accurately hit in the first round of artillery fire.  On the spot, they all became ecstatic and were holding a combat meeting inside to discuss how to get out of the current predicament, including Major General Tasaka Senichi, Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army, and almost all the officers above the commander of the regiment of the Sixth Division did not know.

    Through the seized documents, it was confirmed that the seemingly high-level Japanese military organization that was destroyed was the Sixth Division Headquarters.  After Yi Liangpin reported the matter to the column headquarters as soon as possible, he simply cleaned the battlefield without stopping too much, and continued to move south with his troops.

    For the remaining troops of the Sixth Division who were still resisting in the front, the death of all senior officers, including the two commanders, was undoubtedly a heavy blow.  And the attack by Yi Liangpin, who stabbed the remnants of the Sixth Division in the back, was the most fatal blow to them.

    Although the remaining troops of the Sixth Division, especially the backbone of the 45th Regiment, are still fighting fiercely under the spontaneous command of their respective commanders, the overall resistance no longer exists.

    The only surviving commander-level commander of the Engineer Corps, Colonel Masuda Masakichi, is obviously lacking in ability.  Instead of being able to reorganize the Japanese army in a state of chaos, their random command exacerbated the chaos.

    The remaining troops of the Sixth Division, which could only fight independently on the basis of a large group, created an excellent fighter opportunity for the brigade that launched a frontal assault.  By two o'clock in the morning, the entire defense depth of the Sixth Division in southern Yilan had been completely disrupted, and it was completely divided into groups and even squadrons.

    The battle lasted until four o'clock in the morning. The 1st Brigade, which attacked from south to north, the 5th Brigade and 2nd Regiment, which attacked from north to east, and the 5th Brigade and 1st Regiment, which attacked from east to west, met at Majiagou and Xiaoheyan respectively.  At this point, the remaining 3,000 people of the Sixth Division in the entire southern Yilan region have been divided into six large and small encirclement circles that are not connected to each other.

    These six enclosures are not thousands of people, hundreds of people.  Under the superior firepower blockade of their opponents, although these divided Japanese troops tried to move closer to each other several times, they had to terminate this effort after paying a heavy price.

    To the east of Dawn, the first brigade and one regiment will be assigned to the two heavy artillery regiments left in the southern theater of Yilan among the three heavy artillery regiments of the Sixth Division, and the last eleven remaining 15th guns of an independent heavy artillery brigade.  Zero howitzers and 105 cannons were all captured.

    He also took the opportunity to beat the artillerymen of the Sixth Division to disability.  It once owned twenty-four 120mm howitzers and twenty-four 38-type howitzers.The Sixth Division of Field Artillery is directly under the Artillery Regiment.  Except for the twelve artillery pieces of a 120 howitzer brigade attached to the eastward detachment, there were only three pitiful 120mm howitzers left in the south of Yilan at this time, which had already fired all their shells.

    The other artillery pieces were either blown up in previous artillery battles, or were blown up by their own artillery after seeing their opponents encircle them.  Of course, several of these artillery pieces were captured by opponents from the north and the south, either because the artillerymen were slower in exploding the artillery, or because the opponents moved too fast and were unable to react in time.

    The first brigade, one regiment and the second regiment destroyed almost all the artillery of the Sixth Division.  The other part of the Second Regiment and the First Regiment of the Fifth Brigade also moved three tank regiments between Xiaoheyan and Zhangjiayoufang. After a day of fierce fighting during the day, the remaining fifteen ** and Type 97 tanks destroyed nine.  vehicles and six captured.

    The later-famous Lieutenant General of the 1st Japanese Tank Division, who commanded the twenty-one remaining Japanese tanks who resisted desperately and refused to give up their tanks, was still the fifth Japanese tank regiment at this time.  Colonel Hoshino Toshimoto, captain of the Colonel Regiment, was roasted alive along with the rest of the crew in his Type 97 tank that was hit by four rockets.

    At this point, plus a heavy artillery regiment missing in Boli and a tank regiment lost, the Kwantung Army has four tank regiments, three heavy artillery regiments and an independent heavy artillery brigade assigned to the Sixth Division.  Total loss.

    This loss is almost unforgettable for the Japanese army, which has weak production capacity and slow replenishment.  Four tank regiments, more than 200 tanks.  All forty-eight 150mm howitzers, sixteen 105mm cannons, and eight 150mm cannons of the three heavy artillery regiments were lost.  These heavy artillery units accounted for almost one-third of all the heavy artillery units of the Kwantung Army.

    And these four tank regiments account for more than half of all the tank regiments of the Kwantung Army.  You must know that even the current Kwantung Army is in a priority position in the equipment organization list of the Japanese base camp.  However, due to insufficient production capacity, especially when qualified armored steel is given priority to the navy, the entire Kwantung Army, in addition to the tanks assigned to the search wings of each division, has only seven independent tank units.

    However, within less than two days of the full launch of this battle, four tank regiments, more than 200 tanks and 200 well-trained tank crews were lost.  In particular, the First Tank Division, which was just formed from three tank regiments, was now empty-framed just after it opened.  This result is unacceptable to both the Tokyo base camp and the Kwantung Army.

    After this battle, I received a heavy beating in Nomonhan and understood what modern mechanized large-corps operations are, and finally changed my overly conservative tactical concept of using tanks.  The Japanese military leaders who began to form tank units instead of assigning tanks to various divisions as before only saw that without the cooperation of infantry, the tank units had poor survivability in the face of the opponent's huge number of anti-tank weapons.  question.  But the lessons learned in the previous battle of Nomenhan were completely lost.

    His tactical thinking has gone from one extreme to another.  The newly formed First Tank Division was disbanded after this battle.  The tank troops that had been assembled were redistributed to various field divisions.  The development speed of chariots also gradually slowed down.

    In addition to vigorously developing various anti-tank guns, it has only tinkered with the Type 97 tank and has not developed any new tanks in several years.  It was not until the end of the war that after being beaten to death by Yang Zhen's armored corps tactics, he picked up what he had thrown away before, reorganized armored divisions, and began to research new types of tanks to replace the increasingly outdated Type 97 combat vehicles.  car.

    It¡¯s just that the Japanese base camp¡¯s decision made Yang Zhen somewhat unexpected.  He never thought that he not only changed the course of history, but also changed the conservative concepts that the Japanese army had barely reversed, causing the Japanese army to go back to the old path.

    Of course, whether the Kwantung Army and even the Japanese base camp can accept this result is another matter for another day.  For the current Sixth Division, every day is like a year.  Especially after they finally got some supplementary artillery shells in the second half of the night, the 6th Division's seemingly fierce resistance looked so weak under the attack of the opponent's artillery, which had been suspended for a while and then became active again.  Although every surviving officer and soldier would not admit it, in fact the Sixth Division was on the eve of collapse at this time.

    The opponents simply did not attack them head-on.  When encountering stubborn resistance, a 107 rocket launcher was mobilized to fire a salvo, and its artillery coverage was enough to eliminate the resistance of a Japanese squadron.  At this time, under the attack of Wang Guangyu at all costs, the remaining troops of the Sixth Division had never looked forward to dawn as much as they did now.

    After being divided and encircled, several attempts to break through were blocked.The remnants of the Sixth Division were hit hard by artillery shells.  Under Wang Guangyu's full blow, it was rapidly disintegrating at a rate of five to six hundred casualties per hour.  Over there, after Yi Liangpin attacked the headquarters of the Sixth Division, Shigenori Namada, who lost all contact with the Sixth Division, was even more troubled.

    "For Namada Juichi, he knew very well what consequences the annihilation of the entire Sixth Division would bring.  This is not just a matter of the empire's old standing divisions being wiped out, but also a matter of completely shaking the frontline battle situation.  To go a step further, it involves the problem of the black hat on his own head.

    If the entire Sixth Division is really destroyed, Chuichi Namada will only want to add another star to his collar badge, and his goal of becoming a general will never be realized.  If he did not repeat the mistake of General Ueda Kenkichi, the former commander of the Kwantung Army, who was beaten to the end and demoted from general to major general, it would be an extrajudicial mercy from the emperor.

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