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Text Chapter 518 The Unlucky 25th Division

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    Ma Fengqi's tactical intention succeeded.  ¡¾.Com/text.  !The 40th Regiment, which was completely unprepared, fell into chaos in the face of the sudden artillery attack.  Suzuki Teiichi and Shoji Tatsumi were completely unprepared for the large-scale artillery bombardment that suddenly started by the defenders in the city.  Although strict vigilance and precautions were taken, these precautions were taken to prevent the opponent from attacking at night.

    As for artillery strikes, there was no precaution at all.  Because during the entire daytime battle, most of the time, the opponent only responded with medium mortars and 92 infantry guns.  Occasionally, only when the battle situation was most dangerous, a few rounds of 75mm mountain artillery shells were fired.  The Japanese army believed that the defenders had weak firepower, there were not many artillery pieces at all, and there was a severe shortage of artillery shells.

    Although Suzuki Teichi and Shoji Tatsumi were well prepared to prevent night attacks after resting at night, they were prepared to prevent their opponents from taking advantage of the cover of night to launch a large-scale counterattack or sneak attack.  As for the opponent's fire attack, he didn't think about it at all.

    The weak firepower battle during the day gave the Japanese army an illusion. Although the opponent had a lot of light and heavy machine guns, the heavy weapons such as artillery only had mortars and a very small number of mountain guns, mortars, and infantry guns.  .  Moreover, these artillery shells do not have many shells, and their role in the battle is almost negligible.  It would be worse than the two field guns that had been destroyed by the defender during the battle at the Kong family shack, which caused more trouble.

    After the cannonball fell on the head, it was discovered that the opponent lacked fire cover.  The previous firepower was weak, but he was just playing tricks on himself.  Suzuki Teiichi, who was pinned to the ground by the guards, could clearly deduce from the density of the artillery shells falling on his head that the opponent's artillery bombarding him indiscriminately consisted of at least three artillery battalions.

    In addition to being unprepared for the fact that the opponent actually had a large number of artillery, what was even worse was that Colonel Shoji Tatsumi relied on his experience in fighting in the pass for many years. In order to prevent the defenders from attacking at night, he gathered the troops in a very dense position.  When fighting within the pass, the Chinese ** team, which was at a comprehensive firepower disadvantage, often launched night attacks at night in an attempt to regain the positions lost during the day.

    In the face of opponents who lack heavy weapons, in order to prevent possible night attacks by their opponents when they rest at night, the Japanese army will often gather their troops as densely as possible while camping.  In this battle in Manchuria, Colonel Shoji Tatsumi still copied all his experience from fighting in the pass and gathered the campsites very densely.

    The advantage of this arrangement is that if the opponent encounters a night attack, the entire alliance can respond in the shortest time, without giving the opponent a chance to succeed in a sneak attack.  The disadvantage is that if a shell falls, the number of casualties may be far greater than that of dispersed camping.

    After continuous traveling and fighting, the 40th Regiment was extremely tired.  Except for the front-line security troops, the rest of the Japanese troops slept very hard.  Most people went to see their Amaterasu in a daze while sleeping.  Because the Japanese camps were too dense, every artillery shell that fell into the Japanese camp would overturn one or even several tents.

    And for the Japanese army, there is another very unfortunate thing.  In order to break through the opponent's defense line as quickly as possible, the tents where the 25th Division carried a large number of special smoke shells on their way north were directly hit by a deflected 105 field shell.  The special smoke shells that exploded after being hit by artillery shells caused greater losses to the Japanese army.

    The Japanese army, who failed to find his gas mask in the panic, lifted a rock and hit his own feet this time.  Thousands of explosive special smoke shells and poison gas canisters smoked the Japanese soldiers down.  Even the poisonous gas shells that exploded affected the nearby artillery position.

    The poisonous gas spreading everywhere made the Japanese artillery panic.  The momentum of the counterattack's artillery fire has not been able to increase. On the contrary, it is because the artillery positions that had been hidden during the counterattack were exposed, and they suffered heavy losses when the opponent's prepared artillery fire swept over.  The three artillery squadrons lost their combat effectiveness in a short period of time under the fierce artillery fire.

    Although the Kwantung Army¡¯s enemy situation report has already stated that the opponent has a full set of gas masks.  The effect of special smoke is not too great, but in order to reduce casualties, Suzuki Teiichi still carries a large number of special smoke shells.  These suffocating chemical shells were used when the 40th Regiment attacked the Kong family shack.  It's just that because Gou Zaiquan's troops carried complete gas masks, it did not have the effect Suzuki Teiichi expected.

    ¡°It¡¯s just that in addition to cursing the cunning Chinese people in their hearts, facing the troops that suffered heavy losses under the fierce firepower of the opponent, the artillery regiment was suppressed and unable to carry out artillery counterattack.  The chemical artillery shell was hit by the opponent again, and the entire camp was now filled with poisonous gas.  No matter how arrogant Lieutenant General Suzuki Sadichi was, he could only order a retreat.  It's just that retreating under the firepower of the opponent is not an easy task.?

    It¡¯s just that even though you know that retreating under intensive artillery fire, you will suffer huge losses.  But Suzuki Teiichi understood that if he did not retreat and waited for the defenders to launch a counterattack, his losses would be even greater.  The defenders' attack with such fierce artillery fire should not be aimless, just to scare themselves.

    He and Lieutenant General Kiichiro Kuchi are angry at the same thing.  But putting the fate of the entire 25th Division on the line, Suzuki Teiichi asked himself that he was not that generous.  Although retreating now will have to suffer some losses, it is much better than repeating the mistakes of the 11th Division.

    Suzuki Teiichi lay on the ground while hiding from the seemingly endless artillery fire, while ordering the staff around him that the 40th Regiment and the 14th Regiment should immediately retreat across the board.  The staff officer who struggled to understand his order amid the sound of artillery hesitated a little, but under the sharp gaze of the division commander, he did not dare to hesitate. He sent messengers to separate units under artillery fire to notify each squadron to retreat.

    The telephone lines were broken when the first artillery shells fell. As for wireless communications, the Japanese army had not yet been so generous as to equip every squadron with a radio station.  And only God knows how many of the radios in each brigade are still functioning.  To be on the safe side, the staff still adopted the oldest method and sent messengers to notify the retreat order.

    Suzuki Zhenyi, who didn't know that Ma Fengqi opposite him was really trying to scare him, didn't care, even the wounded were thrown on the ground, and he rolled and crawled back to the front line of Lanling before stopping his feet.  After daybreak, after counting the losses, Suzuki Teiichi and Shoji Tatsumi were in tears.

    The 14th Regiment, which was not the main target of artillery fire, did better and only lost more than one squadron.  But the Forty Regiment was miserable. In this surprise artillery attack, they lost nearly a brigade of troops. Several squadrons also ran away during the retreat. Nearly a thousand troops did not know how to escape.  Got there.  Basically, no weapons above the light machine gun were brought out, and all were lost.

    The worst thing was the artillery regiment, which suffered heavy losses in the shelling.  Almost all the artillery was abandoned outside the Twin Cities because the draft horses were killed by artillery fire or poisoned by the explosive chemical shells.  In other words, the 25th Division now has nothing but rifles.

    What made it even harder for the two of them to accept was that after reaching the front line of Lanling, they discovered that their opponent had not carried out a large-scale tactical counterattack at all, except for a local tactical counterattack with a small force.  In other words, they are really bluffing to scare them.

    Out of anger, after discovering that he had been tricked and facing heavy casualties among his subordinates, Suzuki Teiichi, who had aged dozens of years in a short period of time, did not dare to return even if he was beaten to death.  Waiting for the arrival of the Ninth Division at the front line of Lanling.

    Without the advantage in firepower, the Japanese army is still a tiger without teeth.  Especially when his opponent showed a strong will to fight and a tactical quality that was almost inferior to that of the Japanese army, Suzuki Teiichi did not want to fight a tough battle head-on.  Just kidding, under the absolute firepower advantage, facing a small number of defenders, nearly a brigade was lost.  If there is no fire support to attack a county, the losses may not be borne by the 25th Division.

    But reaching the front line of Lanling does not mean the end of the 25th Division's misfortune.  Just after the 25th Division retreated to Lanling, they had not yet taken a breath.  After daybreak, Lanling, a small market town in a small plain area that was just a dot on the map, was once again engulfed in the overwhelming sound of explosions.  It's just that this time the warm hospitality that the 25th Division enjoyed came from heaven.

    When the Japanese soldiers who originally thought that the planes in the sky were sent by the aviation force to support them, happily laid out the ground and air identification marks, they found that they had made another mistake.  The planes in the sky were not our own air warriors, but the enemy planes that had driven the main force of the 70th Regiment back home on both sides of the Lalin River yesterday.

    It was not until bombs fell all over the place that the Japanese discovered that the planes in the sky were enemy planes.  I don¡¯t blame these Japanese troops for their bad eyesight, because the first few medium bombers were the Type 97 heavy bombers, the standard bombers of the Japanese Army Air Force.

    To be honest, the 25th Division¡¯s air raid was even more unjust.  Because according to the plan, these planes in the sky were originally looking for trouble with the Ninth Division.  However, after arriving at the Lanling line and discovering large Japanese troops on the ground, they mistakenly mistook the 25th Division on the ground for the leading unit of the 9th Division.

    Twelve medium bombers, more than fifty converted Polish-made fighter jets, and the P-39 Flying Snake fighter jets with bombs attached as temporary dive bombers dropped bombs that destroyed the 25th Division, which was unable to defend itself.  It's like people are on their backs.  In particular, the lethality of a hundred kilograms of napalm bombs was simply insurmountable to the resting Japanese army.It can be described as a nightmare.

    When these planes dropped the bombs they carried, the matter was not over.  More than fifty fighter jets swooped down one after another, using their onboard machine guns to straf all targets on the ground.  The lethality of these airborne large-caliber machine guns against unprotected ground troops is not much less than aviation high-explosive bombs.  These airborne machine guns caused more casualties to the Japanese army than even those high-explosive bombs.

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