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    When Du Kaishan went south, Yang Zhen did not go south with him.  [.Com text] Instead, the task of capturing the Banjiehe fortress group was handed over to Du Kaishan and Sui Changsheng with full command, and he prepared to turn around and return to the Baoqing battlefield.  After all, as the highest military commander of the entire Jidong Military Region, Yang Zhen cannot put all his energy in one direction.

    Behind them, Hongshi and Baoqing in the northern part of Mishan are fighting to encircle and annihilate the 8th and 11th Divisions. The center line is fighting a fierce battle with the 29th Division along the Guokui River. The western front is fighting to suppress the 14th Division.  You need to consider it yourself.  And now is the time to start thinking about the next battle plan.

    Although all the command was handed over to Du Kaishan, Yang Zhen asked them to immediately go south to Muling after capturing the Banjiehe fortress group, seize Muling County as quickly as possible, and completely blockade the troops stationed in Sui.  The road for reinforcements from the Japanese 12th Division heading north.

    Although the 12th Division has not been dispatched, a fully equipped Japanese division is now very close to the battlefield, which is not a comfortable thing after all.  The war situation has now deteriorated considerably for the Japanese army, and it will only be a matter of time before the Twelfth Division is dispatched.

    Once fierce fighting is taking place on all battlefields and we no longer have mobile troops on hand, all the Japanese divisions in the Northeast have either been completely destroyed or have suffered heavy losses.  The 12th Division appeared on the battlefield supreme.  For myself, this is not a good thing.

    Although two regiments have been sent south to set up defenses in the northern mountains of Muling to prevent the 12th Division from moving north.  However, compared with a fully-staffed Japanese division, the two regiments had the advantage of terrain, but their strength was still slightly thinner.  In particular, the 12th Division has been stationed on this line for many years and is quite familiar with the terrain. There are also a large number of puppet Manchu troops to cooperate in the battle.  Only by occupying Muling County can the 12th Division's northward reinforcement route be completely blocked.

    "But I'm afraid that Du Kaishan will get his way and ignore the overall combat plan and act on his own initiative.  Before Du Kaishan set off, Yang Zhen required him to report the battle situation every hour.

    And asked them to stop advancing on the spot and wait for orders after occupying Muling County.  In order to supervise this adventurous guy, Yang Zhen transferred back Huang Yuqing, who was engaged in counter-revolutionary work in Mishan County.

    Yang Zhen, who was worried that Du Kaishan was suffering from sexual illness, actually didn't know that Du Kaishan was much more stable now than before.  He is no longer an adventurous person.  In everything, we will no longer only look at immediate interests.

    After seeing off Du Kaishan, Yang Zhen was about to return to Baoqing County when he received a telegram of victory from Wang Guangyu.  Wang Guangyu reported that while Du Kaishan was fiercely fighting on the 458th Highland, with the full cooperation of the artillery, the main force of the first column had completed the clearing of the enemies around Baoqing County.  Two Japanese regiments and one cavalry and artillery unit were completely wiped out.

    During the battle, Colonel Aoyama Kiyoshi, captain of the 43rd Regiment of the 11th Division, was killed, and Colonel Asakawa Tieji, captain of the 44th Regiment, was captured alive.  More than 9,000 Japanese officers and soldiers at all levels were killed and more than 300 were captured.  During the subsequent search for the remaining Japanese troops, Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the 11th Japanese Division, was captured.

    In addition to the previous losses of the 12th Regiment on the Jinshagang front line and the 11th Division Regiment headquarters on the Qingyuan front line, as well as the 44th Regiment's casualties in the attack on Baoqing County and the results of Liu Changshun's battle on the northern front.  So far in the Battle of Baoqing, more than 17,000 Japanese soldiers have been killed and more than 1,000 captured.  More than a thousand Japanese troops were missing on the battlefield.

    Wang Guangyu also emphasized in the telegram that the new incendiary rockets are extremely powerful. A single salvo can destroy all the Japanese field fortifications and inflict heavy damage to the Japanese troops in front of them.  In the battle outside Baoqing County, especially in the battle to encircle and annihilate the 43rd Regiment, it played a decisive role.  After only one fire coverage, the 43rd Regiment suffered heavy losses and lost its combat effectiveness.

    Wang Guangyu hopes that this new type of extremely lethal weapon can be used extensively in future combat operations.  The Japanese army has a tenacious fighting spirit, and often pays a heavy price for encircling and annihilating the encircled Japanese army.  Using this new type of incendiary rocket can effectively kill the Japanese troops of the Hedgehog Group and greatly reduce the casualties of the attacking troops.

    Yang Zhen smiled bitterly while holding Wang Guangyu's telegram of victory.  He knew very well what the so-called new incendiary rockets were.  He knew better the power of these fuel-air shells.  But Wang Guangyu really can stand and talk without pain in his back.  Although the production process of these rockets is not complicated, the raw materials are not high-end items.  However, all raw materials cannot be produced by oneself, and all need to be imported from Jiangbei, including the steel for making missile bodies.

    Although the production process of this kind of weapon is not complicated, the process requirements are very high.  Moreover, production is also very dangerous, and the requirements for production workers¡¯ skills and equipment are also very high.?'s.  According to the current equipment in the arsenal, the fuel-air bombs and artillery shells currently produced are already at their limit.

    Especially the various chemical products used as the main charge can only rely on imports.  Ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. To be honest, although these raw materials have some dangers, the production process is not complicated.  But even if it's not complicated, I can't produce it myself now.  There was no equipment and no chemical experts needed.  It can only be imported from Jiangbei in the name of dyes and disinfectants.

    ??This type of ammunition began to be produced before I was injured last year.  However, due to production capacity, equipment, and raw materials, not much was produced until the battle started this year.  This batch of rocket shells was the largest among all similar products. The remaining 105 cannon shells were only 200 rounds, and the number of aerial bombs was even less.

    ¡°But in order to produce these ammunition, imported raw materials cost a lot of money.  Jiangbei has to pay in cash for all these raw materials, and the prices are also very high.  It is also a large-scale production, and it is already a great effort to produce these.  It is still used in large quantities. Not to mention the issue of confidentiality, even the production capacity cannot keep up.  It¡¯s true that if you don¡¯t become a householder, you don¡¯t know how expensive firewood and rice are, and your back doesn¡¯t hurt when you stand and talk.

    It¡¯s just that Wang Guangyu¡¯s side actually solved the 11th Division so quickly, which somewhat surprised Yang Zhen.  In Yang Zhen's view, even with the help of fuel-air artillery shells, a new type of weapon that will be called atomic bombs in later generations, as well as an absolute advantage in troop strength and firepower, according to the combat effectiveness that the 11th Division should have, the progress will not be  So fast.

    According to Yang Zhen¡¯s plan, Wang Guangyu will need at least three days to complete the encirclement and annihilation mission.  After all, the 11th Division is a veteran standing division of the Japanese army. Although its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Second Division and the Sixth Division, its real strength lies there.  But he didn't expect that in less than two days, Wang Guangyu had already ended the battle.

    It wasn¡¯t until Wang Guangyu¡¯s telegram reporting the battle situation arrived that Yang Zhen knew that after learning that the 122nd Rocket Artillery Regiment directly under the military region was equipped with a powerful new artillery shell, Wang Guangyu changed his previous tactics of encirclement on all sides and a steady attack.  Instead, they divided their forces and blocked all the breakout routes of the 43rd Regiment, the main force of the Japanese army outside Baoqing.

    Wang Guangyu and Yi Jianping, who were overall commanding the Baoqing battle, issued a death order to all participating troops in the Baoqing battlefield. Even if the troops were wiped out, the 43rd Regiment could not be allowed to stand out and fight against the 44th Regiment.  After the alliances merged, the 43rd Alliance could not be allowed to escape from other directions.

    In the process of blocking the 43rd Regiment from breaking through and encircling and annihilating it, Wang Guangyu did not simply stop it.  Instead, while blocking the 43rd Regiment's breakout, other troops were mobilized from the northwest and two directions to mobilize troops under the cover of artillery fire, using step-by-step tactics to compress the 43rd Regiment's position as much as possible.

    After receiving the order from Ushijima Manchu to break out, the 43rd Regiment launched breakout operations in two directions to the southeast that night, trying to either join up with the 44th Regiment, or break south and return to Mishan.  However, under the blocking of the troops deployed in these two directions, there was no progress.

    After a night of fierce fighting, instead of breaking out of the encirclement, they suffered considerable losses during the night battle.  Not to mention that half of the brigade was crippled, the artillery unit was completely defeated in the artillery battle.  After a night of artillery battle by the attached artillery, only one-third of the artillery was left.

    The breakthrough was fruitless, but he suffered great losses, while the opponent's offensive behind him continued unabated.  During the next day, in order to open the gap as soon as possible.  Colonel Aoyama Kiyoshi was forced to give up the idea of ??breaking out eastward and joining the 44th Regiment.  Concentrating all the strength of the 43rd Regiment, they turned around and headed south, trying to break through directly to the Taipinggou line.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? away from Colonel Aoyama Kiyoshi who wanted to try his best to open a way out for himself.  On his front, his opponent Wang Guangyu had long expected that the 43rd Regiment would turn around and break out south if it suffered heavy losses during the night breakout.  In this direction, not only a reinforcement regiment was mobilized, but also a 107th rocket launcher battalion and two 100mm howitzer battalions were mobilized.

    As soon as Qingshan Qing's breakout operation began, he was hit by intensive artillery fire.  As soon as a brigade completed its assembly, it was covered by fire from 107 rocket launchers.  This brigade lost its combat effectiveness due to heavy casualties without firing a single shot.  The subsequent breakout was even more disastrous.

    The Japanese troops who launched the attack suffered heavy casualties under the intense artillery and machine gun fire of their opponents.  In just one morning, the 43rd Regiment suffered nearly a thousand casualties, not counting the group that broke out and was defeated by the opponent's artillery fire.  In the afternoon, his heart grew colder and colder. He knew that if he continued to fight at this casualty rate, even if the 43rd Regiment suffered casualties, he might not be able to open a gap. Colonel Aoyama Kiyoshi saw that he had no choice but to break through and could only stand on the spot.  Trying to wait for reinforcements.

     He wanted to hold on and wait for reinforcements.  Because Qingshan Qing knew that the Twelfth Division was stationed on the Suiyang line south of Baoqing.  The 11th Division has lost contact. Unless the Kwantung Army Headquarters wants to completely abandon the 11th Division, reinforcements will definitely be available.  Not only will there be reinforcements, but according to the Japanese army's habit of rescuing people in the face of death, the reinforcements will come very quickly.

    ¡°Excluding casualties, we still have more than 2,000 troops on hand, and we think we still have the strength to fight.  Colonel Aoyama Kiyoshi, who could rely on the Dabaishi River as a natural barrier to support the arrival of reinforcements, did not think about whether his opponent would give him time to wait for reinforcements.

    He never thought that his opponent, with superior strength, would only block his breakthrough from the front, and slowly and slowly compress his living space from behind. It was really just because his troops were strong enough.  Don't want to pay too many casualties?

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