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Text Chapter 7 The 10th Division was attacked first

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    Umezu Yoshijiro was making all-out efforts to make final preparations for the campaign. Over there, Yang Zhen was also seizing the time to adjust his troops according to the plan. When a meeting of cadres of the two columns and each military division was held, and after assigning the tasks of each brigade, Yang Zhen announced  The first requirement is confidentiality.

    According to Yang Zhen's request, all ministries must march at night during the march, and find places with dense vegetation to hide and rest during the day. After each ministry arrives at the area where the attack is launched, they all concentrate on hiding and implement radio silence.  Within fourteen hours, they are allowed to enter the area where the respective attack is launched.

    The attack order is only allowed to be conveyed to each brigade ten hours before the launch of the entire line. It is conveyed to each regiment six hours ago. The time it takes to convey it to the first-line regiment and lower troops is not allowed to exceed one hour. When issuing orders, wired communication is always used.  Tools, radio stations are not allowed.

    After arriving at the area where the attack is launched, strict fireworks controls must be implemented. Smoking and cooking are not allowed. Solid food must be used to satisfy hunger. All vehicles, including horse-drawn carriages, are not allowed to enter the area within 20 kilometers of the front. All artillery units are prohibited from entering the area before the attack is launched.  Within six hours, they were allowed to enter the artillery positions that the headquarters had already selected for them.

    Cadres at all levels are not allowed to go to front-line positions to check the terrain. All attack route selections are based on the maps issued by the headquarters. If they must go to front-line positions, they are not allowed to bring guards, carry pistols, or anything that may reveal their identity.

    When Yang Zhen announced this order, he used an extremely stern tone and repeatedly emphasized that if that cadre violated these orders, in addition to being severely punished himself, his superior military and political officials would be held jointly and severally responsible.

    It was precisely because of the strict confidentiality that the Japanese army was not aware of Yang Zhen's various preparations before Yang Zhen's attack. It was not until twenty-four hours before the war that some Japanese troops at the front slightly felt that something was wrong with the situation on the opposite side.  .

    No matter how efficient the Japanese army is, this information must be reported layer by layer and assessed layer by layer. By the time this information is reported to Umezu Yoshijiro, it is already too late. Before Umezu Yoshijiro can react, Yang  Zhen had already taken the lead on the Western Front.

    At 1:58 a.m. on May 26, Guo Bingxun, who rushed to the Fourth Division Headquarters of Baoqing County in person according to the scheduled plan, held a phone in his hand and looked at his watch, which pointed to two o'clock, the scheduled attack launch time.  , but was unusually calm. It wasn't until the hour hand pointed to two o'clock that he issued an attack order to Du Kaishan on the other end of the phone.

    After receiving a call from Guo Bingxun, Du Kaishan, who was commanding on the front line of Lanbang Mountain, waved fiercely to the several combat staff officers behind him who were also holding phones. With his gesture, Yang Zhen deployed in Bao  All the artillery on the clear front line opened fire, and intensive artillery fire rang out from the front of the Japanese Tenth Division.

    Yang Zhen's strengthened 150 mm howitzers, 105 mountain artillery, the brigade's 100 mm howitzers, 75 mm mountain field artillery, and a temporarily strengthened 122 rocket artillery battalion attacked with dense artillery.  Facing the unprepared 10th Division, the Japanese heavy artillery positions, tank assembly areas and the stations of each regiment were immediately covered by fire.

    Du Kaishan divided all the artillery on hand into nine artillery groups and delineated different targets. He combined the 150 howitzer and 100mm howitzer with a larger range, plus the 122 rocket artillery, to form five heavy artillery groups.  Groups of howitzers over 100 mm were used exclusively to suppress the Japanese Seventh Field Heavy Artillery Regiment and the First Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion, and the 122nd Rocket Artillery Battalion with the maximum range covered the Japanese tank assembly areas on the side and rear of the Japanese army, as well as the areas that have been identified  material reserve.

    All wild mountain artillery and 105 heavy mountain artillery were divided into four artillery groups, specifically to provide firepower coverage for the Japanese infantry assembly areas, while the artillery of each regiment concentrated firepower to attack various firepower points in the Japanese forward positions. Nine artillery groups  Each has locked its target, and the division of labor is extremely accurate.

    This artillery bombardment lasted for an entire hour. A total of more than 20,000 artillery shells landed on the front line of the Japanese 10th Division in Baoqing and in depth, inflicting heavy damage to the 10th Division and its attached heavy artillery and armored forces, which had no defense at all.  Heavy casualties were incurred, and a large amount of technical units and reserves of supplies were destroyed.

    In particular, the assembly areas of the 7th Independent Field Heavy Artillery Regiment, the 1st Independent Field Heavy Artillery Battalion and the 3rd Tank Regiment, which were the top targets of the attack, were accurately hit in the first round of artillery fire.  The speed made the Japanese soldiers themselves puzzled as to how their artillery could fire so accurately at night.

    The third tank regiment, which was assembled eight kilometers deep in the 10th Division and was preparing to enter the final offensive area, suffered the heaviest losses. Fifty-eight tanks were fired. Without firing a single shot, they were hit by six cannons with a maximum range of 20 kilometers.  A wave of incendiary bombs from a 122 mm rocket launcher and two blasts of explosive grenades.Under the fire, most of them were reduced to ashes. Either they were killed by the ammunition and exploded into the sky, or they were swallowed up by the fire ignited by the incendiary bombs. Almost no one was left.

    The 7th Field Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 1st Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion, which had repeatedly carried out fire strikes against Du Kaishan's deep positions, were more careless because the opponent did not return a single shot. Although they were better than the 3rd Tank Regiment, they were not as strong.  Go there.

    Since the deployment of these Japanese heavy artillery units, their opponents have never fired back a single shot, were too careless, and have never moved their exposed positions. Under the firepower of a 150 heavy artillery regiment's twenty-four 150 howitzers,  The enemy suffered heavy losses, and without even returning a single shot, they completely lost the ability to fight back.

    Compared with the losses of equipment, the losses of ammunition and supplies stored in the open air, as well as the Japanese troops with only simple field fortifications, were even more severe. Most of the supplies that were only simply camouflaged suffered two-thirds losses in the shelling, and half of the front-line troops were lost.  There were many more, and almost all the forward fortifications were destroyed by artillery fire.

    In order to find out the main material storage points, heavy artillery positions, and tank assembly areas of the Japanese army, Du Kaishan took great pains. Within a week before the full-scale counterattack, he sent out a platoon assigned to his headquarters reconnaissance battalion to conduct detailed inspections of various ammunition of the Japanese army.  Conduct detailed reconnaissance of hoarding points, artillery positions, and technical weapons assembly areas.

    In order to ensure the reconnaissance results and not alert the Japanese army, Du Kaishan put forward three requirements for the reconnaissance platoon. First, he was absolutely not allowed to expose himself. Second, he was not allowed to scratch his tongue until he received an order, so as not to alert the Japanese army. The Japanese army deployed in the third-line position  They don't have to worry about the situation. They are only responsible for reconnaissance of the Japanese army, especially the tanks and heavy artillery units.

    Du Kaishan already knew the situation of the Japanese army's front-line defenses. As soon as the 10th Division arrived in Baoqing, he secretly led people to conduct a detailed and meticulous reconnaissance of the 10th Division's front-line positions.  The deployment of the main force of the division and the garrison status of each unit can be clearly understood.

    Due to Du Kaishan's orders, the reconnaissance platoon spent a whole week to find out the deep positions of the Japanese army. Finally, within 24 hours of the launch of the attack, they captured a staff officer of the 3rd Tank Regiment and obtained  Information about the location of the Third Tank Regiment.

    When the attack was launched, the reconnaissance platoon did not return, but corrected the artillery fire deep inside the Japanese army. Because of the great effort, Du Kaishan's first round of artillery fire was both fierce and accurate, giving  The Japanese Tenth Division faced heavy losses.

    Du Kaishan, who was quite satisfied with the results of the bombardment, did not wait for the bombardment to stop completely. Only after the front-line artillery fire extended, he issued the order for a general attack on the entire front.

    With the rising flares and under the cover of artillery fire, the four regiments that were responsible for the first wave of attack missions as planned launched a full-line attack on the 10th Division with the strength of three regiments, while one regiment forcibly tore apart the 10th Division.  Behind the right wing of the division, move deep into it. Du Kaishan's order to this regiment is very simple, that is, we must try to disrupt the depth deployment of the 10th Division in the shortest possible time.

    At this time, the Tenth Division had fallen into chaos under the fierce artillery fire. All front-line wired communications were interrupted, and wireless communications were intermittent. Eighty percent of all fortifications in the forward positions were destroyed, and all infantry positions were completely destroyed.  Suffering a fire attack, as for the artillery, the battle damage rate reached 80%.

    In addition, the attached heavy artillery regiment and the tank regiment suffered a devastating blow. From the beginning of the battle, the 10th Division lost 80% of its artillery support. What was even worse was that at this time, the 10th Division lost 80% of its artillery support.  Lieutenant General Nagaishikawa Erlang was attending a combat meeting in Mudanjiang and was not in the 10th Division at all.

    The newly appointed Chief of Staff Mabuchi Hisanosuke and most of the officers at the Division Headquarters, together with the thirty-year-old who drank too much with the Chief of Staff when he came to the Division Headquarters for business the day before, were sleeping like dead pigs with their arms around the military prostitute.  The ninth regiment captain, Harada Yoshikazu, went to the west in the first round of artillery fire, which meant that the 10th Division lost effective unified command from the beginning.

    No matter how elite the 10th Division is, it is helpless when encountering this situation. Without the frontline troops under unified command, they passively resist while constantly retreating. By the early morning of the battle, the 10th Division's frontline positions have all collapsed.  A large number of organized troops were killed by accurate artillery fire in simple field fortifications or temporary barracks without firing a single shot.

    Especially the 10th Regiment, which was targeted as a key target and suffered the heaviest casualties. Although the commander of the regiment, Miyashita Kenichiro, fought desperately, he could only rely on extremely unreliable communications troops to maintain command. He was still unable to gather the troops. The results of his efforts  But it is extremely limited.

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