413 Defeat is set
Zhang Yusheng, who rushed to the forefront, had not had time to take a breath, and a terrified scream came from the command center's lookout mouth to Zhang Yusheng's ears...
"There is something wrong with the 10th Regiment's position... It seems that something happened to the 10th Regiment..."
Before he could sit on the position for a while, Zhang Yusheng quickly picked up his telescope and walked quickly to the lookout. Following the direction of the staff's finger, he saw the tenth regiment position where the guns and cannons were just heard. Facing the Japanese attacking troops rushing towards the position, he was indifferent at this moment and did not react at all. Even the minimum gunshots did not come out...
Zhang Yusheng frowned and asked subconsciously: "What's going on? Why is there no gunshots... Could it be that all the ten regiments defending the positions are dead... It's impossible. Just now, when I heard the gunshots, the ten regiments still have at least one battalion of troops. How could the entire army suddenly be destroyed? Something must have happened that we don't know..."
After saying that, he turned his head to the communications soldier with a step-phone behind him, and ordered with an anxious look on his face: "Communication soldier, why are you still stunned? I'm going to talk to the 10th regiment commander Chen Kaiyun quickly, the Japanese are about to rush into their position..."
Under the contact of the correspondents, Zhang Yusheng, who had just arrived at the position, had already understood the latest bad situation facing the 10th Regiment. At the same time, due to tension and anxiety, beads of sweat were constantly flowing down Zhang Yusheng's forehead.
At the same anxious face, the Chief of Staff beside him, he ordered loudly: "Reinforcements must immediately send reinforcements to the 10th Regiment position. Otherwise, the 10th Regiment position will definitely be a strange move, and there will be a big gap in our defense line. The Chief of Staff will immediately transfer a guard battalion that the Deputy Chief of Staff gave us. In any case, he must defend the 10th Regiment position..."
The Chief of Staff did not leave, but answered firmly: "Trial seat, judging from the current situation, it is absolutely too late to send troops to reinforce. After all, the 10th Regiment has only less than one battalion of troops left, while the Japanese attacking troops have a whole infantry regiment. If you want to protect the 10th Regiment's position, you must think of other ways?"
"Other way..." Hearing the sound of cannons and bomb explosions on the battlefield, Commander Zhang Yusheng immediately fell into deep thought. He pointed at the Chief of Staff, who was also frowning, and analyzed: "There is no way for the infantry, and only the air force and artillery units can provide fire support to the 10th Regiment immediately, so they are..."
After saying that, he continued to order the communications soldier who was on standby behind him: "Contact Commander Gao of the Air Force immediately, and draw two bomber brigades to support the 10th Regiment and tell Commander Gao by the way. The 100,000-Hurry Hot Tenth Regiment will not be able to hold on..."
After saying that, he continued to order to another communications soldier: "You send a telegram to the artillery cluster immediately, quickly draw at least two artillery regiments of artillery, and cover the fifty to one hundred meters ahead of the tenth registrar's position for half an hour, so as to cover the artillery fire for half an hour..."
"Chief of Staff. No matter how you reinforce the troops, you must send them... You immediately send the Deputy Chief of Staff to our guard battalion to quickly reinforce the 10th Regiment's positions."
Sixty meters, fifty meters...
The commander of the tenth regiment, Chen Kaiyun, silently calculating the specific distance between the enemy and us in his heart, and preparing to throw grenades. When he fought to the death with the Japanese army, a sudden whistling through the air suddenly spread from far to near to Chen Kaiyun's ears.
As a leader of a regiment, he had not yet reacted from the sudden shock. A Situka bomber that was diving suddenly appeared above the position.
With the increasing sound of whistling through the air, three black shells quickly broke away from the constraints of the plane, and smashed the Japanese group that was getting closer and closer to him in front of the position.
"Boom boom boom..." Three explosions of earth-shaking mountains reached Chen Kaiyun's ears, and three black smoke columns that were dozens of meters high rose quickly from the ground. Look at the Japanese attacking troops on the ground, the flames and shock waves generated by the bomb explosion quickly spread around, and all the Japanese soldiers covered by fireballs were all falling in blood.
Looking around, the Japanese attack cluster, which was still densely packed just now, had three huge gaps appeared as the bomb exploded. What's more important is that the Japanese army, which was advancing quickly, was stunned by these three sudden bombs. The yellow wave that was still advancing quickly just suddenly stopped on the spot.
The Japanese offensive formation was in a short time, and two bomber brigades that rushed to the scene were less polite. Three attack teams took turns to drop bombs at the Japanese attacking troops on the ground.
"Damn it, it's the Air Force. The brothers of the Air Force are here to rescue us. Brothers, our 10th Regiment is saved..." The 10th Regiment commander Chen Kaiyun was quickly covered by excitement from the bottom of his heart. He said to Huang Longxiang, the chief of staff beside him, with a look of surviving disaster.
Just as the smile on Shen Kaiyun's face lasted less than five seconds, a dense whistling of artillery shells suddenly reached his ears. Because the target of the shelling was too close to the position, even Chen Kaiyun, who had been through the battlefield for a long time, could not tell the difference. As soon as the whistling sound reached his ears, Chen Kaiyun's face became nervous again in an instant.
He shouted loudly at his subordinates in the trench who were also alive for surviving the disaster: "Bombardment is a shelling, everyone should hide..." What made Chen Kaiyun breathe a sigh of relief was that the shells mixed with sharp whistling through the air did not fall to him. Instead, they quickly crossed over everyone's heads from a low altitude of more than ten meters, and finally smashed them 50 meters away in front of the position.
Faced with the sound of shell explosions that were so close, although the regiment commander Chen Kaiyun squatted in the trenches, he could still clearly feel the hot air waves caused by the explosion of hundreds of shells at the same time, and quickly came from the shells dozens of meters away.
Although the power of shells is not as powerful as that of aviation bombs, it is due to the large number of shells and is too dense. After a round of explosions, at least a no-man's land with a front width of more than 100 meters appeared in front of the position.
First, the bomber used its precise dive drop to identify important Japanese targets, and then saturated artillery fire covering without any shooting dead spots.
Under Shen Kaiyun's gaze, at least a thousand elite Japanese soldiers fell to the position in just half a minute, either dead or injured.
The artillery covers the Japanese offensive troops within the range of firepower, while hiding behind the tank wreckage and constantly shooting strings of flames at the regiment positions, and is not spared.
A thrust of anti-aircraft machine gun that kept ejecting flames forward was blown into pieces along with the wreckage of the tank.
One anti-aircraft machine gun was like paper. Together with the Japanese soldiers behind him, they were directly thrown into the sky by the air waves caused by the explosion of the shells. In the end, they were blown into the most primitive parts.
The remnants of the ten regiments who lost these heavy weapons and were unable to lift their heads because they had been suppressed. Finally, they had the opportunity to pick up their weapons again and leaned towards the Japanese attacking troops struggling in artillery fire, but they wanted to vent their dissatisfaction.
Dozens of general-purpose machine guns and hundreds of semi-automatic rifles joined Zhang Or at the same time, further aggravated the loss speed of the Japanese offensive troops.
The Japanese offensive troops, which had not yet received the order to retreat, were like wheat being cut. After a rain of bullets, they were swept to the ground in pieces. A shell exploded, centered on the bullet point. The Japanese army within a radius of ten meters seemed to have agreed, all their heads facing outward and feet facing inward, fell to the ground motionlessly, turning into corpses...
When hundreds of officers and soldiers, led by the 10th Regiment of the National Defense Forces, were frantically harvesting the lives of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Okamura Yanji, the face of the Japanese commander-in-chief, had already become gloomy with the explosion of the first air bomb of the Air Force.
Because, the increasingly harsh battle situation for the Japanese army was like a loud slap in the face of Lieutenant General Okamura, telling Lieutenant General Okamura that he had planned for a long time and even threw away the action plan at the cost of two Army Aviation Divisions. Not only did he not achieve any results in the slightest victory, but he also lost his troops and generals...
Seeing the elite Japanese soldiers, under the full blown attack of various firepower, they were swept to the ground in pieces and turned into corpses. The adjutant who had been standing beside Lieutenant General Okamura Nagaji could not bear to look down, and persuaded Okamura Nagaji, who was still gloomy with a face beside him, "General, please issue a retreat order quickly. Otherwise, the remaining more than a thousand imperial soldiers on the battlefield would be massacred by the Chinese army..."
"Forget..." A long sigh slowly emerged from Lieutenant General Okamura Nagajima's mouth. If you are careful, you can clearly see that the light revealed in Lieutenant General Okamura Nagajima's eyes is dissipating little by little. Instead, it is filled with despair and powerlessness.
Under the gaze of the subordinates around him, he opened his order: "Order the remaining artillery troops to cover the offensive troops at all costs. Since there is no hope of breaking through, in the next defense, facing the superior artillery fire and air supremacy of the Chinese army, the remaining artillery troops will not work at all... Issuing an order immediately..."
"Hayi...Gen...."
Thousands of elite Japanese troops, after they dropped more than a thousand corpses again, retreated from the battlefield in a panic like a dog that was strayed from the family.
Less than ten minutes after the Japanese army withdrew from the battlefield, the remaining four major generals, brigade commanders of tens of thousands of Japanese troops, more than a dozen colonels, and the captain of the Nakazo regiment. As if they had agreed, they all walked into Okamura Yasuji's office with a serious expression, hoping that Okamura Yasuji, the leader of the entire breakthrough plan, could give everyone an explanation and point out a way out for everyone.
Okamura Yasuji, who had been shrouded in despair, did not let everyone wait for too long. He spoke frankly: "You guys, the failure to break through means we have lost the only chance to break through. From now on, we will not get any reinforcements from the domestic and even the Kanto Army General Command. Everything depends on ourselves..."
"God of General, then we will..." A colonel captain stood up from his seat with a look of horror and asked back.
For a time, more than a dozen officers representing tens of thousands of Japanese troops focused their attention on Okamura Yasuji and waited for Okamura Yasuji to answer.
Under everyone's anxious waiting, an answer that everyone knew was clear was told by Okamura Yasuji: "The entire army immediately contracted its defense line and continued to build trenches and fortifications... The ammunition and food in our hands were very sufficient, enough for us to last for half a month. And the Chinese army surrounding us, according to the investigation of the Special High-tech Technology Co., Ltd., the total strength of the Chinese people was only two main divisions, which was less than 30,000 troops...",
Seeing that everyone was gradually attracted by their own analysis, Okamura Yasuji, who was still holding his breath and refused to give in, continued to speak: "We have more than 40,000 people and more than 30,000 Chinese troops. If used for defense, if we have air superiority and artillery fire advantages, the troops may be sufficient. However, if used for attack, it is absolutely not enough to use the fortifications under our feet like spider webs."
"So, I can say with certainty that the Chinese army that defends us will not attack us without sufficient support. This means that we will be safe in the next week or even half a month."
"Of course, we cannot wait for the Chinese army to attack us... Now I order that all combat troops will return to their original positions immediately. Continue to build trench fortifications and prepare for a decisive battle with the surrounding Chinese army... Of course, if there are still colleagues who think that they can break out and build trench fortifications, they can also pray to the heavens, hoping that Northeast China will have a major change in the next week..."
Compared with the lifelessness in the Japanese command center, Zhang Yusheng's front command center was full of laughter.
After breathing a sigh of relief, the Chief of Staff quickly walked to Zhang Yusheng and reported with a smile: "Secretary seat, good news, the Japanese army attacking the 10th Regiment's position left more than a thousand bodies and retreated... In addition, the guard battalion responsible for reinforcement of the 10th Regiment also arrived at the battlefield smoothly. If nothing unexpected happened, the encirclement of the Japanese surrounded the Japanese and turned into an iron barrel that was not leaking..."
"Well, I saw the situation through the telescope... During the entire blocking battle, the 10th Regiment destroyed at least one infantry corps of the Japanese army, which really made them suffer... The guard battalion was ordered to stabilize the defense line. For the time being, the commander of the 10th Regiment Shen Kaiyun was temporarily assigned to the command and assist in the defensive position. At the same time, the battlefield situation was quickly reported to the Deputy Chief of Staff. If nothing unexpected happened, the Deputy Chief of Staff is now waiting anxious..." Commander Zhang Yusheng, who put down the telescope, said with a rare look of ease.
Just as the Chief of Staff was about to leave, a communication soldier quickly walked towards him and spoke to Zhang Yusheng: "Second, the deputy chief of staff orders you to hand over the command of the battlefield to the Chief of Staff immediately, and then rush to the Tonghua County Command for a meeting..."
"It seems that the Deputy Chief of Staff already knows the news of the Japanese retreat..." Zhang Yusheng said with a smile.
Then, he ordered to the Chief of Staff: "Chief of Staff, the position will be handed over to you. If nothing unexpected happens, this meeting must be about how to eliminate tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers surrounded by us..."
Tonghua County Command, Zhang Yusheng had just heard an excited voice in front of the sand table in the aisle, and blurted out from Deputy Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi: "Team Commander Zhang, he fought well... After this battle, he lost two army aviation divisions, one infantry gangs, two chariot brigades and one Japanese army that shot all the artillery, and no longer had the strength to break through. Here, I can say with certainty that the Japanese army's defeat was decided. Next, we will discuss how to eat this Japanese army..."
Faced with the praise of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Zhang Yusheng quickly said modestly: "Deputy Chief of Staff, these achievements were achieved by the soldiers with their lives. I dare not take credit... Especially the 10th Regiment, with less than a thousand troops, blocked the attack of a Japanese brigade. By the end of the battle, only 300 people could move, which was exactly one-tenth of the previous war. The battle was so miserable..."
After analyzing the battle just now, Deputy Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi said frankly: "Team Commander Zhang, Commander Luo, since the Japanese army is defeated, we must find a way to eat it and quickly end the battle that has lasted for more than a week... The command given to us is to end the battle within three days. Now, half a day has passed, everyone talks about how we should fight this annihilation battle..."
Zhang Yusheng, who had just returned from the battlefield, said first: "Deputy Chief of Staff, from the perspective of military strength, the Japanese army still has about 15,000 more people than us... In addition to the large number of trench fortifications built by the Japanese army on the battlefield, I thought that without this annihilation battle, we would never be able to fight according to conventional tactics. Otherwise, our attack would provide the Japanese with the opportunity to break through..."
"Teacher Zhang is right... using more than 20,000 people to attack more than 40,000 Japanese troops, at that time, there will be loopholes everywhere on the entire offensive and defense line. With the cleverness of Japanese commander Okamura, he will definitely choose to break through at this time. At that time, not only will he not eat the Japanese devils, but he will also let the tiger go back to the mountain..." Commander Luo Zhang followed closely and echoed.
Bai Chongxi nodded without comment and replied: "You are all right. The conventional offensive tactics are indeed not applicable to us..."
After saying that, Bai Chongxi, who had just stretched his eyebrows because of the victory of the battle, frowned again and fell into deep thought. Of course, Zhang Yusheng and Luo Zhang, who were deputys, also frowned, thinking about possible tactics.
And at this moment, a big red arrow on the map on the wall suddenly attracted Bai Chongxi's attention.
Seeing Bai Chongxi's eyes quickly shifting away, Luo Zhang, who had been staying at the command center, explained: "This was marked by the command center's staff when the Japanese army just launched a breakthrough war based on the actual situation, so that the command center can better understand the situation."
Bai Chongxi shook his head first, then quickly walked to the map, pointed to the direction pointed by the arrow and asked: "Is this the tenth regiment position? Before the Japanese army broke through, how was the tenth regiment position built?"
Chapter completed!