Chapter 38 Heavy Losses
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The responsibility of the General Staff is to formulate combat plans or retreat plans. In the combat sequence of **, the General Staff Department is established in the regiment-level system, but the General Staff Departments of all levels of ** units are basically arranged. In a sense, the establishment of this General Staff Department is just to go up to the top to mix sand under the noses of the commanders under their command.
For example, no matter whether the commander trusts or does not trust his subordinates, he will arrange his absolute confidant to be the chief of staff for his subordinates. Those commanders will definitely do everything possible to isolate the chief of staff. At the same time, they will arrange their confidants to serve as chief of staff in various main groups under their command.
Everyone knows that **'s factional struggle is very strong, and the General Staff is the most intense battlefield.
Yang Shaoren was also the chief of staff who was placed in the 58th Division on the top of the peak, and was directly assigned by the Military Commission. However, Feng Shengfa still trusted Yang Shaoren. First, Yang Shaoren himself was a talented student who graduated from the Zhengzheng class of the Lu Da and was capable. Second, Feng Shengfa himself hated factions, so he wanted to establish another atmosphere in the 58th Division.
Yang Shaoren did not disappoint Feng Shengfa's trust, and his responsibilities were fulfilled very well.
After Yang Shao was appointed as the chief combat staff to convene for a while, he quickly formulated a retreat plan. Considering that the 14th Division of the Ri Army had crossed the Yellow River from Zhen County to occupy Heze, Shan County might be attacked by the 14th Division of the Ri Army at any time, it would be obvious that the 58th Division retreated to the Dan County direction again.
Because the main force of the 58th Division had a fierce battle in Fengxian, it is now in urgent need of a short rest.
The combat mission issued by General Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the 1st Corps, to protect the flanks of Dangshan and cover the retreat of the main force of the Fifth War Zone. Therefore, Yang Shaoren decided to retreat near Dangshan and move closer to the army. After this, everyone knew that Gui Yongqing's army was unreliable, but weren't there any Huang Jie's 8th Army and Li Xianzhou's 94th Army in Dangshan?
The retreat route formulated by the General Staff is still correct. Because Heze is lost, if the 58th Division retreats westward, it is very likely to collide with the 14th Division of the Ri Army. It is still very dangerous to defeat a permanent division of the Ri Army with the power of the 58th Division. To the east or northward, there are even more troops gathering. Only by going southward to Dangshan to rely on the disturbances are safer.
Feng Shengfa had not slept well for several days in a row, and he had not slept for a night last night. He was extremely tired. In addition, the battle in Fengxian was defeated and he was extremely angry. Therefore, he did not say anything more about the retreat route formulated by the General Staff, and directly sent it to the 17174th Brigade.
Seeing the veteran rushing forward holding the cluster grenade, he fell into a pool of blood again, Han Keqiang couldn't help but stretch out his fist and punched the broken wall in front of him. Even if his fist was broken, he had no idea. This was the sixth suicide squadron who fell under the machine gun of the tank.
After more than two hours of fierce attack, the remnants of Fengxian's army had been compressed to the last street and alley. However, after Xiaoli Ben's defense line was extremely compressed, the troops were relatively concentrated. In particular, Xiaoli Ben also had a chariot squadron, and six Type 95 light tanks blocked the streets and alleys at both ends, which became an insurmountable obstacle.
After killing the death squadron, Xiao Riben's tank machine gun immediately stopped attacking. Only the infantrymen hiding behind the tank and lying on the roofs of the houses on both sides were still using the 38th hood to carry out sporadic attacks. The machine gun firepower on this side was poured over like water, and the tanks had no intention of fighting back.
However, the ** machine gun cannot do anything to the tanks of the Ri Army. The armor of the Type 95 light tank of the Little Ri Ben is actually very thin. The side wall is only a mere umm Maxim heavy machine gun that can be penetrated within 200 meters. However, its front armor has mm, so the Maxim heavy machine gun cannot be penetrated. Now, due to the limitations of the street and alley terrain, it can only hit the front of the Ri Army tanks.
Not too far away, Han Keqiang could even see the radio antenna of the Xiaori division. There was no doubt that Nakajima Atsugo, the old devil, was right in front of him, but ** could not overcome this last obstacle. Han Keqiang was anxious and pulled the military cap off his head and slapped it on the ground, turned his head and shouted: "Grenade, tie me the grenade."
After saying that, Han Keqiang took the grenades from several veterans, and then untied his leggings from a corpse next to him, tied them up in bundles. Seeing Han Keqiang holding the bundle of grenades and rushing out, his guard Gu Niu suddenly became anxious, and immediately grabbed the bundle of grenades from Han Keqiang, jumped up from under the broken wall.
"Battle, Gu Niu will take the first step." Gu Niu finally turned around and smiled at Han Keqiang, then rushed up without looking back with the grenade head. Xiaoriben's big searchlight quickly came from the opposite side, and Gu Niu's figure was immediately exposed. Xiaoriben's tank machine gun fired again after a moment of silence.
The bull kept doing tactical evasion, making his progress as irregular as possible, but the tank machine gunners were all veterans who had experienced many battles. Three small tanks were three front she machine guns, one chased, one blocked, and one ziyoushe strike. After just a few short points, the bull was piled up.
Han Keqiang was scattered and was ordering to launch a charge regardless of everything. A communication soldier suddenly came up from behind and reported panting: "Battleman Commander Han, the regiment command."
Han Keqiang thought that Li Song sent someone to urge him again, and shouted: "Go back and tell the group to give me a quarter of an hour, and at most another quarter of an hour, I will definitely take the head of the old devil Nakajima, Akatsuki Nakajima, to see him."
The communications soldier didn't hear what Han Keqiang was saying at all, and then said, "The regiment commanded your troops to retreat immediately."
"I know, retreat immediately, I will retreat now." Han Keqiang waved his hand impatiently, and after a while, he suddenly came back to his senses. He immediately grabbed the collar of the communication soldier's clothes and roared, "What did you say, what did you say just now?"
The communication soldier was small, and was picked up by the tall Han Keqiang's chest. Facing Han Keqiang's eyes that seemed to be trying to eat people raw, the communication soldier was unmoved at all and said, "The regiment commanded your troops to retreat immediately."
The communications soldier's voice was loud this time. Several nearby platoon leaders and one of the company commanders who lived all gave surprise eyes to this side. Han Keqiang held the communications soldier for a few seconds before finally letting go. Then he turned his head and shouted at the platoon leaders in a crying voice: "Retreat, let me withdraw..."
With infinite resentment and unwillingness, Han Keqiang finally withdrew with the last more than 200 remaining officers and soldiers.
When he was about to leave the street, Han Keqiang looked back and saw that the big searchlight of the little man was shining. Under the light as bright as daylight, he saw that the whole street was covered with corpses. At least hundreds of brave officers and soldiers were sacrificed in the streets and alleys less than fifty meters short, but now, the blood of these officers and soldiers was in vain.
When the 19th Brigade rushed to Fengxian, it happened to retreat.
Zhu Qi and Fang Riying didn't say much nonsense, and directly asked the 19th Brigade to leave behind the rear. Xu Shijiu did not refuse. It is said that raising troops to use troops for a while. The 19th Brigade's equipment, supplies and training are better than other units, and even the food standards are even higher, so naturally they have to bear more responsibilities.
The 153rd Brigade also left a regiment to take on the cover mission, which was Qiu Weida's 30u regiment.
Qiu Weida and Xu Shijiu are also old acquaintances. At the time in Luodian, the two had a pleasant cooperation. Later, they participated in the Nanjing Defense War. Their tactics were almost the same. The difference was that Feng Shengfa adopted Xu Shijiu's tactics, but Wang Yaowu did not adopt Qiu Weida's suggestion.
This time we work together again, there is naturally no problem in the cooperation between the two.
The main force of the 16th Division of the Ri Army has returned from Dangshan. It is of course impossible to block the 16th Division's attack with the 30u regiment and the 19th Brigade. The only thing that is thankful is that Xiao Ri Ben still doesn't like night combat, and at night Xiao Ri Ben's aviation and artillery cannot participate in the battle, which greatly reduces the pressure to cover the troops.
After the order was issued, the 19th Brigade quickly established a defensive position in Wanggou, southwest of Feng County. Then the 30u Regiment also deployed on the right side of the 19th Brigade. Before the two troops could complete fortifications, the 305th Regiment of the 153rd Brigade, the 344th Regiment of the 17th Brigade and the 174th Brigade were all withdrawn, and then the ri army rushed over.
Li Ben invested about a brigade of infantry and four tanks as the leading guide.
However, Li Ben encountered an opponent this time. Hu Jie carried the mortar and used only two shells to drop the two tanks in front. Then the four Maxim heavy machine guns of the 19th brigade's heavy machine gun platoon and the four newly captured Type 92 heavy machine guns fired violently at the same time. Ri Ben's soldiers following behind the tank fell down in an instant.
When Xiao Riben saw that the situation was wrong, he shrank back and probably did not dare to attack before the artillery arrived.
After the battle stopped for a while, Xu Shijiu and the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade had the time to care for the retreating friendly forces. When the 17th Brigade and the 174th Brigade passed through the 19th Brigade's position, Xu Shijiu could not believe his eyes. The 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Regiment had more than 7,000 people, but in just one day there were only less than 4,000 people left.
Among the more than 4,000 people, most of them were still injured. Li Song's 348th Regiment was the worst. From the regiment commander to the Chefga, there was no one battalion. The regiment commander Li Song was injured, two of the three battalion commanders died, nine infantry companies and jing guard companies, and sixteen company commanders died. Almost all the squad platoon leaders below were temporarily promoted.
Of course, the sacrifice of the 348th Regiment was not without cost. The 38th Infantry Regiment, Xiao Ri Ben, belonged to the 38th Infantry Regiment, was almost all killed. In addition, the 3rd Battalion, which was completely wiped out by the 19th Battalion in Xin'anji and the two squadrons of the 10th Battalion in the Infantry Regiment in Shan County, the 38th Infantry Regiment was basically destroyed.
In addition, there are more than 2,000 non-combatants including the communications soldiers, health soldiers, mechanics and other divisions of the 16th Division in Fengxian, and almost all were injured or killed.
Judging from the casualties alone, Xiaori didn't actually take any advantage, but because he failed to clear the remnants of Fengxian Ri Army and even failed to kill Nakajima Imao. This small battle launched around Fengxian was actually lost, because in addition to the 58th Division, the 8th Army, which was responsible for blocking the enemy's reinforcements, all suffered great losses.
What's more serious is that due to the failure of the Battle of Fengxian, the 74th Army was forced to move closer to Dangshan. To defend Fengxian, the tactical intention of Shanxian to protect the flanks of Dangshan was also declared to be unsuccessful. After the 74th Army retreated to Dangshan, the 16th Division of the Ri Army quickly turned around and headed south, and the battlefield situation in the entire eastern Henan suddenly became serious.
Chapter completed!