1182 Encirclement and Annihilation of Inoue Division (End)
The more he thought about it, the more Harada felt that this plan was brilliant, and he immediately expressed his thoughts to his immediate boss, the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu.
Iwamatsu also expressed his support for this, and specially applied for the Masuko Air Advance Team to Harada to parachute onto the railway line outside Yanggao East Gate after dark and launch a feint attack.
At that time, the main force of the 35th Division, which has removed its disguise, can go straight to the Ximen Goods Yard, and then occupy Yanggao County, completely cutting off the Eighth Route Army's retreat, and teaching the Eighth Route Army a lesson!
At this time, the battle around Datong had already entered its fourth day.
Regarding the encirclement of the 14th Division, the Japanese military headquarters at all levels had mixed reactions.
Harada and the Ito Division conspired to feign an attack west of Yangyuan. Harada went out at night, put on national army uniforms, disguised as reinforcements of the 35th Army, and secretly detoured from the east of Datong to Yanggao.
The North China Expeditionary Force's night bombers, fighter jets, and airborne troops cooperated to cut off the retreat and logistics base of the Eighth Route Army's besieging troops.
"In China's Sun Tzu Art of War, this is called encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao. It is definitely not feasible for us to directly reinforce the 14th Division. It is better to cut off the retreat of the Eighth Route Army and indirectly support the 14th Division in the battle!"
Old Japanese Harada swears by this.
In addition, in the direction of Baoding, the main force of the Japanese army moved forward to the outer defense line of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area and launched a tentative attack.
In the direction of Yi County, the Japanese Niu Daoman troops successfully captured Laiyuan County and are attacking Yu County.
At the same time, the Thirteenth Division, which is following the 14th Division to the west, is going to Huashaoying to fill the gaps in the defense line. After filling the defense line, it will launch and send some troops to attack Yu County - because most of the mechanized vehicles are transferred to the 14th Division, the Tenth Division
The Third Division became a camel and horse division, with only a few transport trucks left to tow artillery and transport logistics supplies, and only one forward reinforcement brigade equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and armored personnel carriers.
Therefore, the marching speed of the main force in the ice and snow was extremely slow.
In the direction of Zhangjiakou, the old Japanese from Qita and the commander of the First Division, the old Japanese from Zhongze, are also plotting.
Qita believed: "The 14th Division successfully attracted the main force of the 35th Army, and then it can use the secret passage left in Zhangjiakou to conduct a surprise attack.
During the day, the First Division launched an attack in the front direction of Zhangjiakou.
At night, the Type 95 and Type 98 light tanks specially deployed from the south can use the secret mountain road to bypass the southern defense line of Datong, launch a surprise attack from the north of Datong, and attack from both front and rear."
——Although the Japanese light tanks are small and light, they also have the advantages of being more maneuverable, faster, and more suitable for various complex and dangerous environments. They can still come in handy in swamps, mountains, and jungles. If the Eighth Route Army does not have
It is difficult for a solid anti-tank position to withstand the attack of Japanese tank troops, even if it is just some light tanks.
Besides, there are no swamps near Zhangjiakou, so no special modifications are needed. Just follow the secret passage.
The deployment of each party is different.
Although the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was besieged in the Yangyuan area, due to the fierce attack from the Eighth Route Army, the old Japanese Inoue had to lower his face and constantly ask for help from all directions.
But in the final analysis, as an elite member of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Inoue, an old devil, still wanted to save some face for himself.
In the communication sent to all parties of the Japanese army, he urgently stated that the 14th Division was facing a crisis, being surrounded by a large number of Eighth Route Army troops, and was in a bitter battle.
But on the other hand, they changed the subject and hoped that reinforcements could arrive quickly and cooperate with the 14th Division's intermediate blooming tactics to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army outside the encirclement in one fell swoop.
As a fully-staffed Kwantung Army field division, it has tens of thousands of troops. In addition, when the 14th division went south to reinforce the North China operation, it specially strengthened a considerable number of mechanized combat vehicles and various field artillery.
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Such a powerful line of Japanese field elites.
Let alone all the Japanese troops, they never believed that these 14 divisions would be defeated or even wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time.
Even though the initial main force of the forward force was attacked by artillery fire, and the troops led by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei quickly penetrated and attacked.
Although the old Japanese Inoue felt shocked and angry, he did not think that with the strong strength of his 14th Division, he would be defeated by the enemy.
He even wanted to find out this group of enemies and eliminate them all to relieve the hatred in his heart.
So, even the old Japanese Inoue thinks so, let alone the reinforcements from all walks of life.
Most Japanese military officers probably thought the same as Harada.
"Your Kwantung Army is so powerful. It has always been called the elite of the imperial army. You even look down on us imperial troops in North China. You must be capable. It's just the 35th Route Army. What is the Eighth Route Army? Isn't it just surrounded by enemy forces? With you
With the strength of the 14th Division, wouldn’t it be easy to even wipe out all the surrounding enemy forces?”
Besides, Mr. Inoue made it very clear in the communication.
"They are not surrounded, they are deliberately attracting enemy troops, and they are going to use a trick to bloom!"
Therefore, although the various reinforcements were fighting fiercely on the surface, once they encountered the obstruction of the Eighth Route Army's reinforcements, their original advance speed immediately slowed down, and they even started to fight with the Eighth Route Army unhurriedly.
A tug of war.
The Japanese reinforcements from all sides seemed to be waiting for his 14th Division to take the lead in opening up the situation and respond to the reinforcements with intermediate tactics!
At this time, the 14 divisions and various groups in the Yangyuan area pretended to be the 35th Route Army of the National Army. How did the actual combat situation of the Iron Triangle Field Army evolve?
——After the 14th Division was raided, the forward troops suffered heavy losses directly, and then were attacked by various intersecting troops led by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, and were roughly divided into four parts.
One group for the forward troops, one group for the central army, one group for the rearguard troops, and one group for the Yangyuan East Gate reserve group.
The Japs in these four places stretched out a long snake array for dozens of kilometers.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Originally, I wanted to completely get rid of the enemy's encirclement. With the help of a long and flexible body, I could form a counter-encirclement against the enemy's intersecting troops in the local battle situation at any time.
In this regard, the old Japanese Inoue was originally very confident that he could use a large number of mechanized equipment to rampage and directly break through the enemy's blockade along the way.
As a result, the Japanese's main armored force could not defeat the Eighth Route Army's armored force.
After the large-scale tank battle between the two sides, the battle situation turned out to be one-sided.
A large number of armored vehicles and tanks attached to the 14th Division were quickly destroyed, causing heavy casualties.
Now it's funny.
Without the fangs and sharp teeth, the long snake becomes a big spicy stick that can be slaughtered. The one-word long snake formation becomes the one-word death formation.
The forward troops fought hard all morning, but could not defeat the main force of Kong Jie's first guerrilla force, nor could they penetrate the defense troops at the junction, and could not join the Chinese army.
The Chinese army was fiercely penetrated by the main force of Li Yunlong's Second Guerrilla Army and was forced to retreat to the isolated hills on both sides of the road.
The rearguard troops were completely raided by Ding Wei's third guerrilla group, completely disrupted their formation, and forced to spread out on both sides of the road to engage in chaotic fighting.
Ding Wei's troops are currently the Eighth Route Army's best at interspersing. After disrupting the formation of the enemy's large forces, they can directly start chaotic battles. They can divide the main force into company-level tactical groups for interspersion, disrupting the opponent's organization while ensuring their own safety.
There is no chaos, and all parties work together in tacit cooperation.
This is a topic that Ding Wei has been studying for more than a year.
Ding Wei believes: "The strength of the Japanese army lies in its external defense, but in fact, once this layer of external defense is broken, the Japanese are like a bastard who has been shed out of his shell, and the inside will be much more vulnerable.
So I have been thinking about whether we can change the traditional way of fighting. Even if it is a large-scale confrontation between the main forces, while containing the enemy head-on, should we have a tactical force that is extremely good at interspersing and directly breaking through the Japanese army's perimeter?
Defense, completely disrupting the opponent within the Japanese formation?"
In this battle, Ding Wei put his theory into practice.
The Japanese rear army is basically composed of ammunition, oil transportation teams, mechanized infantry, first-type artillery tanks, and divisional heavy artillery units, and is responsible for ensuring logistics.
Faced with the ferocity of an opponent like Ding Wei, he had no strength to use. He had to protect supplies and artillery, so he was timid in combat.
How can they withstand the team led by Ding Wei that fights with red eyes like wild wolves?
As for the reserves of the 14th Division for the attack outside the east gate of Yangyuan, it was originally a feint attack. There were only a small number of armored troops, most of which were heavy supplies, as well as a siege heavy artillery brigade, as well as a large amount of food and weapon parts.
transportation team, as well as a mechanized unit responsible for protection.
Overall, he doesn't have very strong field combat capabilities.
It can be said that the attack is insufficient and self-protection is barely sufficient.
After the battle to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division began, the reserve team of the 14th Division was like a big piece of fat meat, which was directly targeted by Lao Pi and the main reinforcements of the Northward Detachment.
Lao Pi also made a special declaration of sovereignty: "I targeted this piece of fat first. If your northern advance detachment wanted to fight, they would have to put it behind us in the order of battle.
I have no objection to having some soup with you, but if anyone tries to steal meat from me, don’t blame me for not recognizing my old comrade-in-arms!"
After the battle quickly unfolded, the reserve force was the first to be eaten out of the four divisions of the 14th Division.
For this battle around Datong and Zhangjiakou, the Japanese army specially strengthened the heavy firepower of the 14th Division.
The Chinese army has the Type 91 105mm howitzer and the Type 92 105mm cannon, which are relatively mobile.
The rear army brought a field heavy artillery regiment consisting of the slower towed Type 96 cannon brigade, the Type 96 150mm howitzer, and the Type 96 150mm mortar brigade.
The reserve force consists of Taisho 14-year-old 270mm mortars, Type 45 240mm howitzers, and Type 96 240mm howitzers, forming a siege heavy artillery wing.
The remaining 75-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery were all assigned to various mechanized regiments, and the intensity of the assigned firepower was quite astonishing.
As a result, the reserve force was directly eaten by Lao Pi and the mobile troops of the BJ detachment. The Japanese's large-caliber artillery, which had almost reached a strategic level, was completely strangled before it had time to open its fangs.
As for the main force of the Chinese army in the 14th Division, it was originally the most difficult to deal with.
It was a pity that Inoue Laojiao's army was in a state of maintenance when it was marching and was suddenly attacked by the field troops led by Li Yunlong. The troops responded in a hurry. Faced with the fierce attack by Li Yunlong's troops, they had to retreat in a hurry.
But this little devil was able to run away, but the slow-moving tractors and heavy artillery had no time to evacuate. In addition, Li Yunlong fired a cannon, and under the first attack of the artillery fire, many Japanese tractors that were originally pulling the heavy artillery forward were directly blown up.
This is the disadvantage of these heavy artillery. Once attacked by the enemy at close range, there is no time to show its power. Once the towing vehicle is destroyed, this very cumbersome heavy artillery will immediately become useless.
Even moving became very difficult, let alone resisting the attack of the Eighth Route Army's pursuing troops. As the Japanese troops went up the mountain, they held on to the danger.
Not to mention the rear army.
Those large-caliber heavy artillery tractors moved very slowly and were hit unexpectedly. Some of the technical troops even abandoned their vehicles and fled.
As for the siege heavy artillery unit outside the Yanggao East Gate, it was still in a state of transportation. It was completely destroyed before it had time to assemble.
At this point, under the various attacks of the Iron Triangle Group Army, the heavy firepower of the 14th Division was basically lost, leaving only some 1-year-old 75mm anti-tank gun combat vehicles and Type 2 105mm artillery combat vehicles.
The only towed artillery left is the Type 99 mountain gun and the 75-caliber mountain field gun. These artillery pieces are relatively light in weight and easier to transfer.
Everything else was basically lost!
Old Japanese Inoue was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood. Without these heavy artillery as a foundation, his 14th Division became an empty shell. It only had a strong appearance, but it was already strong on the outside but capable on the inside.
The divided troops on each road can only rely on some terrain along the way to defend themselves.
At this time, Inoue suddenly realized that at this stage of the battle, let alone continuing to carry out intermediate flowering tactics, if reinforcements did not arrive in time, his 14th Division would not be able to escape the fate of being destroyed.
So in the communication sent to various Japanese reinforcements again, Inoue said with great urgency: Our unit has been severely damaged and is facing the crisis of destruction. We can't delay, and we hope all armies can quickly reinforce us!
As for the mid-flowering strategy, Inoue didn’t mention it at all this time.
But what happened after this communication reached the various reinforcement headquarters of the Japanese army?
A day or two ago, you Inoue vowed that you could use the tactics of blooming in the middle and cooperate with reinforcements to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.
How could the situation be reversed in such a blink of an eye that the entire army was about to be wiped out?
Can you believe that?
Totally unbelievable!
For example, Lieutenant General Harada expressed deep doubts about this.
"Inoue-kun really knows how to joke!"
Harada, who was executing his great Black Tiger tactic of cutting out the enemy's heart and cutting off the Eighth Route Army's retreat, said this, and then continued to work on his battle plan.
As for the Japanese troops in Baoding.
And Qita is trying to attack Zhangjiakou.
Everyone is busy with their own affairs. Everyone is still thinking about taking advantage of the exposure of the 14th Division in Yangyuan to attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army to capture Datong and Zhangjiakou to complete the goal of this campaign!
In Qita's words: "The focus of the Eighth Route Army is probably on the defense of the two important cities of Datong and Zhangjiakou. Judging from the intelligence we have detected before, this is the case.
Why did they put so much effort into besieging the 14th Division?
Is it possible that we can really eat the 14th Division in front of our two armies?
How is this possible?"
It was at this juncture that the Eighth Route Army launched a fatal blow against the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army. The aviation force was fully mobilized, and more than a hundred fighter planes roared over Yangyuan.
For the little devils of the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army on this day.
It seemed to be raining in the sky, and the power of the raindrops was extremely great. They fell one after another, and they watched helplessly as their companions died one after another, with no bones left, and not even a trace of ashes could be found.