The officers of the 1st Independent Brigade knew very well how powerful the fighting power of more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers gathered together. If they wanted to eat so many Japanese soldiers in one bite, they might be too small.
Xu Dalong saw their worries and patiently explained to them. When the officers of the First Independent Brigade listened to Xu Dalong's explanation, they all became excited. They said that once the battle started, they would resolutely hold their position and never
Will let the Japanese army break out from them.
The First Independent Brigade continued to provide Kawamoto with false information, so Kawamoto led the Japanese army to launch a rapid march toward Zhencheng with confidence and boldness.
At 1:50 noon that day, the Japanese Fifth Division Engineer Regiment, as the vanguard, first entered the encirclement set by Xu Dalong. Then Kawamoto led the follow-up troops and rushed over.
At five minutes past two o'clock, the battle started. The Japanese forward, wings and rear were all attacked by guerrillas.
Heben had experienced hundreds of battles, and faced the guerrilla attacks, he did not panic. He quickly observed the battlefield and saw that the Japanese army was in a low-lying area. However, this low-lying area was very large, and the enemy did not have the ability to attack the Japanese army from a high position.
Superior geographical location. Although the Japanese army encountered guerrilla attacks, the casualties of the troops were very small.
Kawamoto ordered the troops to defend on the spot, and after they understood the enemy's situation, they launched a counterattack against the guerrillas.
Kawamoto first called the First Independent Brigade and asked them to report the enemy's situation. However, the First Independent Brigade, which had been in contact, could not be contacted at this moment.
This did not surprise Kawamoto, because he understood what was going on outside the First Independent Brigade. However, I did not think that anything had happened to the First Independent Brigade. Although the First Independent Brigade was a puppet army, it did not happen after all.
It is absolutely possible for a brigade of less than 5,000 people to be eaten up by guerrillas in such a short period of time.
Kawamoto guessed that there might be a communication problem, but it couldn't be too coincidental. Why did the problem occur at exactly that time? Kawamoto ordered people to continue to contact the Independent First Brigade. If the walkie-talkie was connected, he would use the radio, and at the same time, he would give orders.
Each department quickly understood the situation around the battlefield.
That time we took out all the money and handed it over to Smith. Only then did Huang Yeyue lose the confidence to directly encircle and annihilate the Heben Division.
18 US Army B29 Flying Fortress bombers roared over and launched a fierce bombing campaign against the Japanese troops. A small number of aerial bombs fell into the Japanese troops, continuously throwing their incomplete and incomplete limbs into the air.
Looking at the miserable scene of the Japanese bombing, the guerrillas who participated in the battle burst into earth-shaking cheers. Especially the officers and soldiers of the First Independent Brigade, we really didn't expect that the guerrillas could actually invite the American air force.
With their cooperation, the brigade commander and officers and soldiers of the First Independent Brigade began to trust Huang Yeyue's abilities more and more.
Among those British-made weapons, there were 26 102mm howitzers, 48 75mm mountain guns, and less than 80 81mm mortars. Such a small number of artillery firepower was very fierce. The Japanese Type 92 infantry gun and 60mm mortar were originally
It was an opponent, and the guerrilla artillery was not fully prepared in advance, so they miscalculated their shots.
Faced with such a fighting style, the commander of the Kawamoto Division had no deep sense of power. Also in the plains, the enemy troops were hiding in front of the bunkers, but the Japanese troops were exposed in the open area. The casualties on both sides were proportional.
. If they attack like this, the Japanese army will be completely defeated.
The commander of the Kawamoto Division is still relaxed now, and I feel that the severity of the situation is not beyond my imagination. I still have a sense of crisis, and I am worried that my troops will be annihilated by the enemy.
Just when the Japanese army regrouped their troops and prepared to attack again, a huge roar came from the sky.
Kawamoto knew that the airport in Kuala Lumpur was destroyed by the American air force, but I did not expect that the American army would be able to send bombers to cooperate with the guerrillas. After a fierce bombing, the morale of the Japanese army, including the commander of the Kawamoto division, was
It has obviously gone up.
At that moment, groups of artillery shells flew over, and the intensity of the artillery fire far exceeded the imagination of Kawamoto and the Japanese officers and soldiers.
I made a prompt decision. Instead of retreating and discussing with the officers who attended the meeting later, I directly issued the order and immediately organized troops to break out.
The only thing that can be expected is not to defeat the First Independent Brigade. After all, these are former puppet troops and should be the opponents of the Japanese army. Thinking of this, Kawamoto immediately issued an order, and the Japanese army that was missing went all out to attack the First Independent Brigade.
A brigade attacks.
At that moment, Smith commanded the guerrillas to launch an attack from behind the Japanese army. We were also well prepared in advance. While retreating, we built defensive positions with sandbags, which restrained the Japanese army and reduced the weight of the First Independent Brigade.
The right pressure.
The Japanese army occasionally looked at them as puppet troops, so when we launched a retreat towards the 1st Independent Brigade, we were not fully prepared to retreat. As a result, we were attacked by the 1st Independent Brigade. It was embarrassing to see the Japanese army being beaten in such a mess.
, which increased the morale of the officers and soldiers of the First Independent Brigade.
The First Brigade was not fully prepared yet. We used trucks and carriages to transport a small amount of sandbags filled with soil and built a small amount of fortifications in an instant. The officers and soldiers hid in front of the sandbags and moved towards the exposed open area.
The Japanese troops opened fire violently.
During that period, Wei Xiaoyong and others also played an important role. The special operations team members, especially these snipers, continuously killed Japanese commanders and machine gunners, causing confusion in the Japanese army's command, difficulty in using firepower, and minimally reducing the number of troops.
This strengthened our ability to retreat. The Japanese army finally withstood the heavy firepower, threw corpses on the ground, and entered in embarrassment.
When the Japanese artillery had time to take up its stance, it encountered fierce shelling and suffered heavy losses. It took a full four minutes before the Japanese army used a large number of remaining artillery pieces to retreat and counterattack the guerrillas. During this period, the Japanese army
Despite the fierce artillery fire, the bodies of the officers and soldiers were not scattered all over the field.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A small batch of artillery suddenly appeared in the guerrillas, which was provided by the British army. The British army has been operating in Malaysia for a few years and has built a few ammunition depots. Among them, some of them have not been made public.
There is no secret. Before the Japanese invaded Malaysia, a small part of the British ammunition depots was occupied or destroyed by the Japanese, but there was not a small secret ammunition depot that was not discovered by the Japanese.
Kawamoto was determined and immediately ordered his troops to break out towards Xu Dalong.
At that moment, bad news suddenly came: the First Independent Brigade appeared in front of us.
There are low-lying mountains on both flanks of the Japanese army. They must choose to break out on both wings. The enemy occupies unfavorable terrain and is condescending, which will cause slight losses to the Japanese army. Continuing to retreat towards Xu Dalong is the last step in the end.
It was a bad choice. On the one hand, the terrain here was relatively open, and on the other hand, Kawamoto felt that he should still be able to get support from the Independent First Brigade.
The Japanese officers and soldiers who had been watching over there were shocked when they saw that scene, and immediately reported the situation to the commander of the Kawamoto Division.
Of course, what Kawamoto could think of, Smith could also think of. When setting up the encirclement, Smith was judging which direction the Japanese army would choose to break out. I also think that Kawamoto's division would definitely break out toward Xu Dalong and join up with the Independent First Brigade. Therefore,
Smith focused his defense on Xu Dalong.
The officers and soldiers of the First Independent Brigade dared to confront the Japanese army head-on. On the one hand, it was because Wei Xiaoyong had not arrived yet and fought side by side with us. On the other hand, the officers and soldiers of the Independent First Brigade saw the Japanese army attacking the guerrillas with heavy artillery fire.
On the battlefield, we were in a state of embarrassment with heavy casualties, but we still had little confidence in defeating us.
After choosing the direction to break out, my first feeling was that we could not go back the way we came. I thought Smith would definitely make the same judgment. In order to cut off the Japanese army's approach, heavy troops must be placed along the way we came.
The good news came soon after. Kawamoto discovered that the anti-Japanese armed forces appearing around us were large groups of guerrillas. The number of them was small, far beyond my imagination. Judging from the number of people who could not see it yet, the enemy
The strength of the army is no less than ten thousand at most.
Seeing that the breakout was about to go out, Kawamoto could only order the troops to build defensive positions on the spot, and then go to the mountain to ask for help. Of course, Kawamoto knew that it was extremely safe to do so. The enemy's air force must continue to bombard later, and we are afraid to insist on it.
When Fengwen's reinforcements arrived on the mountain, the whole army was not wiped out yet. However, in reality, people like this, and we have no choice at all.
Kawamoto did not panic, on the contrary, he was secretly happy. I have been in Malaysia for less than a year. Although these guerrillas are in a different climate, they are very cunning and it is very easy to catch us. Now those guerrillas know
Gathering together life and death is the perfect opportunity to eliminate our little evil.
Colonel Zhen Chengfang, the commander of the seventh detachment of the guerrilla detachment, knew about that ammunition depot. In the past year or so, the British army and the Malaysian servant army that I followed were able to support themselves mainly because of that ammunition depot. That
The capacity of the ammunition depot is extremely small. After such a long period of consumption, half of the inventory is still retained.
Kawamoto quickly judged the situation on the battlefield. I'm very vague. The troops can break through to the two wings, so they will be attacked by the two enemy forces in the rear and front; it is also realistic to break through to Huang Yeyue, and there are no British troops with weak combat effectiveness.
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When the bombing ended, Kawamoto was thrown to the ground by the soldiers, and then protected me with his body. Before the bombing started, I stood up, looked at the broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and heard the wails of the wounded Japanese soldiers.
.Looking around at the countless enemy troops, Kawamoto no longer felt as hopeless as Watanabe.
Why did the guerrillas suddenly lose such weak firepower? Through the next battle to annihilate the Watanabe Regiment, the guerrillas' artillery shells were basically exhausted. In terms of artillery, the guerrillas had no way to compete with the Kawamoto Division.
Relying on such meager firepower, Huang Yeyue dared to directly surround the Kawamoto Division.
The Japanese army broke through Xu Dalong and soon began to fight peacefully with the guerrillas who were responsible for blocking the attack.
The reason why the officers and soldiers of the 1st Independent Brigade dared to confront the Japanese army head-on was because Mr. Smith loved to tell us bad news.
There, under the command of Smith himself, the seventh detachment of the first detachment was responsible for the blocking task, as well as the seventh detachment of the guerrilla corps, which was composed of British troops and Malaysian servants commanded by Colonel Zhen Chengfang. These were the guerrilla corps with the weakest combat effectiveness.
After the battle started, Smith had not promised Colonel Huang Yeyue that the British army could not save ammunition. Before the battle began, I would retreat and replenish the British troops.
The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army also knew that the situation was serious. While using firepower to block the guerrillas, they also seized the time to repair the fortifications.
I immediately ordered the officers below the squad leader to run and report later. I was going to hold a short military meeting to make arrangements for the upcoming battle.
In addition, the officers and soldiers of the independent brigade know that we have no way out now. The only way is not to eliminate the Japanese troops behind us, so that we can have no way out. Therefore, the officers and soldiers fight very tenaciously. Compared with the past cooperation with the Japanese army,
Their performance in combat is almost the same.
I am now very much looking forward to the First Independent Brigade arriving for reinforcements. But now I have contacted the First Independent Brigade using the walkie-talkie. The radio operator kept sending messages at the same time, but there has been no reply from the First Independent Brigade.
In the past, when the Japanese army fought against the guerrillas, they only relied on our superior firepower. However, as soon as the battle started, we found that the enemy's firepower on the opposite side was so fierce that it was even more than double that of the Japanese army. Under such fierce firepower
In terms of blows, the Japanese army could not attack at all. Before launching two consecutive retreat attacks, the Japanese army abandoned the corpses on the ground, so they temporarily stopped the attack.
But at this time, I still maintained my sanity. I knew that I had to break through the encirclement immediately, otherwise, the safety of the entire army would not be possible.
The Japanese officers and soldiers also knew that the situation was tense, so we thought about retreat tactics and swarmed towards the defensive position of the 1st Independent Brigade.
Only then did Kawamoto realize the seriousness of the problem. I saw the guerrillas hiding outside the seven-week mountain forest, while my own troops were exposed outside the high-lying valley. That situation could continue.
Kawamoto was furious, and immediately ordered the front group of troops to change to the rear group, and launched a fierce attack on the Independence Brigade.
The equipment of the 1st Independent Brigade lags behind the Japanese army, and the technical and tactical level of the officers and soldiers is also inferior to that of the Japanese army. However, we have a small number of people and a large number of people. Although the 1st Regiment has not suffered 70% losses, we still have less than 4,000 people.
, and relying on the defensive position, it was still able to withstand the fierce retreat of the Japanese army.
The Japanese combat staff sat on a motorcycle and headed towards the 1st Independent Brigade. When I approached the leading troops of the 1st Brigade, the other party suddenly fired bullets at me. The driver of the motorcycle and the combat staff were immediately beaten to death.
Sieves and motorcycles also overturned on the side of the road.
Kawamoto was very happy when he heard the news just now, but a moment ago, I felt no doubt. The First Independent Brigade should have appeared behind us, so why did it suddenly run to the front? But now the situation is tense, and
It seems that Kawamoto thought too little, so he immediately sent a combat staff officer to get in touch with the 1st Independent Brigade.
Regarding the Independent First Brigade, Kawamoto later believed that the best outcome was not that we were besieged by the guerrillas. Didn’t he expect that the outcome would be more popular than I thought? It was simply unimaginable. Those damn guys actually rebelled against the Japanese army.
And at that critical moment, he launched a counterattack against the Japanese army.