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    In fact, the Japanese officers and soldiers, who have always been known for their strict discipline and tenacious will, performed no better than the Chinese army, which they had always looked down upon, when faced with a sudden, fierce and vigorous firepower attack.

    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 blow, immediately exploded their nest and were driven out of the house by the shells. They finally waited until the sound of gunfire stopped, but soon discovered that the outside of the house had not been turned into ruins by the shells.  How good are those houses?

    It was even more dangerous. The dense machine gun bullets fired around the village knocked down the Japanese soldiers who were driven out, regardless of the officers and soldiers. Those Japanese officers and soldiers who tried to resist relying on the ruins of the ruins and their skilled military technology soon discovered that  The ruins left by the houses blown up by the enemy's shells, which he relied on for hiding, became a nightmare for him.

    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 artillery shells  Easily passing through the earthen wall, the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding on the other side were easily torn into two pieces.

    The Japanese troops who had been driven out of the house by the previous shells were driven back by these sweeping machine guns. But before they could take a breath among the ruins, these two extremely powerful weapons immediately made them feel like they were still outside.  It's safer. At least with your own military literacy, you can judge where these life-threatening guys are coming from and whether you have a chance to hide.

    However, the intensive crossfire outside made them soon realize that going out at this time was tantamount to committing suicide. The battle started less than half an hour ago, and they were unable to advance or retreat. They could not even find a safer corner for the Japanese troops at the headquarters of the Sixth Division.  The officers and soldiers were 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, not even daring to raise their heads.

    But this tragic experience of the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division Regiment Headquarters happened when the sound of artillery sounded, because a room that was temporarily used as a war room was accurately hit in the first round of artillery fire, and they all became crazy on the spot and were firing inside.  The combat meeting, which discussed how to get out of the current predicament, included Major General Tasaka Senichi, Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army, and included almost all the officers of the Sixth Division's regiment commander or above who did not know.

    After verifying through the seized documents that the seemingly high-level Japanese military organization that had been destroyed was the Sixth Division Headquarters, Yi Liangpin reported the matter to the column headquarters as soon as possible.  After cleaning the battlefield, without stopping too much, he led the troops and continued southward.

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

    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 Wing, Colonel Masuda Masakichi, was obviously incompetent. Instead of being able to reorganize the Japanese army in a state of chaos, his random command exacerbated the chaos.

    The remaining troops of the Sixth Division, which could only fight independently on the basis of large groups, created an excellent fighter opportunity for the brigade that launched the frontal assault. The battle lasted until two o'clock in the morning, and the entire defense depth of the Sixth Division in the south of Yilan was  It has been completely disrupted and 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, and 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 encirclement circles, ranging from no more than a thousand men to a few hundred men, were blocked by the superior firepower of their opponents. Although these divided Japanese troops tried several times to get closer to each other, they failed after paying a heavy price.  , had to terminate this effort that was not worth the gain.

    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 artillery of the Sixth Division to a pulp and disabled it. It once had twenty-four 120mm howitzers and twentyThe artillery regiment of the Sixth Division directly under the jurisdiction of the 38-type modified field artillery. Except for the twelve artillery pieces of the 120 howitzer battalion assigned to the eastward detachment, there are only pitiful ones left in the south of Yilan at this time.  Xi's three 120mm howitzers 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, these artillery pieces were either because the artillery bombardment was slower, or because the opponent's movements were excessive.  Too late to react, several doors were captured by opponents from the north and the south.

    The 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Regiment destroyed almost all the artillery of the 6th Division. The other 1st Regiment of the 2nd Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 5th Brigade also combined three tanks between Xiaoheyan and Zhangjia Youfang.  After a day of fierce fighting during the day, nine of the fifteen remaining Type 1 and Type 97 tanks were destroyed 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, three heavy artillery regiments, forty-eight 150mm howitzers, sixteen  All 05 cannons and eight 150 cannons were lost, and these heavy artillery accounted for almost one-third of all the heavy artillery of the Kwantung Army.

    These four tank regiments account for more than half of all the tank regiments of the Kwantung Army. You must know that even though the current Kwantung Army is in a priority position in the equipment organization list of the Japanese base camp, it has no production capacity.  Insufficient, especially when qualified armored steel is given priority to the navy, the entire Kwantung Army, in addition to the tanks assigned to search regiments of each division, has only seven independent tank regiments.

    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, especially among them.  The First Tank Division, which had just been formed by three tank regiments, became an empty frame as soon as it opened. This result was unacceptable to both the Tokyo base camp and the Kwantung Army.

    After this battle, I received a heavy beating in Nomenhan and understood what modern mechanized corps combat is. I finally changed my overly conservative tactical concept of using tanks and began to organize them into tank troops instead of fighting with tanks.  As in the past, the Japanese military leaders who assigned tanks to various divisions only saw the problem of poor survivability of tank units in the face of the opponent's huge number of anti-tank weapons without the cooperation of infantry, but they changed the previous battle in the Battle of Nomonhan  All the lessons learned were lost.

    Its tactical thinking went from one extreme to the other. The first tank division that had just been formed was disbanded after this battle, and the tank troops that had been assembled were redistributed to various field battles.  The development speed of divisions and tanks also gradually slowed down.

    In addition to vigorously developing various anti-tank guns, they only tinkered with the Type 97 tank and did not develop any new tanks for several years. It was not until the end of the war that they were beaten to death by the armored tactics of Yang Zhen's large corps.  They picked up what had been thrown away before, reorganized armored divisions, and began to study new types of tanks to replace the increasingly outdated Type 97 tanks.

    It's just that the decision of the Japanese army base camp was somewhat unexpected by Yang Zhen. He never thought that he not only changed the course of history, but also changed the conservative concept that the Japanese army had barely reversed, allowing the Japanese army to regain its control.  Went back to the old road.

    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, life is just like a year, especially after they finally got some supplementary artillery shells in the second half of the night.  Under the attack of the opponent's artillery that suddenly became active again, the seemingly fierce resistance of the Sixth Division looked so weak. Although every officer and soldier still alive would not admit it, in fact, the Sixth Division at this time  The division was on the eve of collapse.

    The opponent simply refused to attack them head-on. When they encountered stubborn resistance, they deployed a 107 rocket launcher to fire volleys one after another. The artillery coverage was enough to eliminate the resistance of a Japanese squadron. At this time, Wang Guangyu did not hesitate to use artillery shells.  Under the blow, the remaining troops of the Sixth Division have never looked forward to dawn as much as they do now.

    After being divided and surrounded, the area was forced toThe remnants of the Sixth Division, which had been beaten back by a barrage of artillery shells even as they tried to break through, were rapidly disintegrating under Wang Guangyu's full blow, at a rate of five to six hundred casualties per hour. Over there, Yi Liangpin made a sneak attack on the third division.  After the Sixth Division's headquarters, Namada Shigenori, who lost all contact with the Sixth Division, became even more troubled.

    For Juichi Namada, he knew very well what consequences the annihilation of the Sixth Division would bring. This was not just a matter of the annihilation of an old standing division of the empire, but also a matter of completely shaking the frontline battle situation.  , and to go a step further, it involves the issue of the black hat on his own head.

    If the entire army of the Sixth Division is really destroyed, Shigeichi Namada wants to add another star to his collar badge, and his goal of becoming a general will never be achieved again, and he will never repeat the same fate as the former commander of the Kwantung Army.  General Kan Ueda Kenkichi's mistakes were punished to the end, and the result of being demoted from general to major general was already an act of mercy by the emperor.
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