Yang Ling's Lieyan Special Forces Brigade has won consecutive battles in the Sulu Theater. They are elusive and powerful in combat. They rarely miss the targets they target.
In particular, a group of elite snipers who gradually grew up in the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade quickly grew up and became an important combat force after being fed a large amount of ammunition and tempered by actual combat.
The Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade not only eliminated the Japanese invading army, but also showed no mercy to those traitors who were working as a provocateur and running rampant in the countryside, which made the local people applaud for a while.
Although the Japanese and puppet troops hated the officers and soldiers of the Lieyan Special Operations Brigade, it was a pity that several concentrated encirclement and suppression campaigns ended in failure, and they suffered heavy losses.
Under Yang Ling's plan, the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps used Xiaoqingshan Camp as its base and continuously dispatched elite combat units to attack the Japanese and puppet troops. It achieved outstanding results and became famous.
After the Sulu Theater Command learned about the combat mode of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps, it specially sent staff to the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps to learn the experience of forming elite special operations forces to fight guerrilla warfare, and prepared for large-scale promotion behind enemy lines.
After all, although most of the squadrons in the Sulu theater were deployed behind enemy lines to fight guerrillas, their combat mode was still the same as that of the frontal battlefield despite the title of guerrilla force. Concentrated attack and concentrated defense often failed to defeat well-equipped troops.
, a Japanese soldier with combat literacy.
Now Yang Ling and others have formed an elite combat force to fight against the Japanese and puppet troops. Although it seems that there are not many people in the attack, and not many Japanese and puppet troops are eliminated each time, the frequency of the attack is high, and the cumulative number of Japanese and puppet troops is greater than the number of Japanese and puppet troops eliminated.
Not much in fact.
Moreover, the Lieyan Special Operations Brigade fought in turns. The number of troops in each attack was small, the target was small, and it was easy to hide, which made it difficult for the Japanese and puppet troops to hunt down.
Now, the officers and soldiers of the Lieyan Special Operations Brigade are leading the new with the old, and are constantly going out to hone themselves in actual combat, and more elite special operations units have been formed.
Although these newly formed special operations detachments are still inferior to the first and second Lieyan Squadrons in terms of tactical literacy and equipment, their combat effectiveness is still much stronger than that of conventional troops.
Under the repeated attacks of the Flame Special Operations Brigade and these newly formed special operations detachments, not only the Tanichuan troops are now devastated, but the surrounding counties are also under frequent attacks.
Facing the elusive King of Hell, the Japanese and puppet troops are now in a state of panic, and even squad-level combat units dare not leave the camp alone.
Yang Ling's order to his brothers was not only to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from going out, but also to blow up their grain depots, destroy their roads and telephone lines, and completely paralyze them in this area and prevent them from moving.
When they were trapped in each other's strongholds and did not dare to go out, it was time for the main force of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps to attack. By then, the storm would sweep away all of them.
However, now that the main force of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps is recuperating, we can only send these special combat troops to strike first and announce the existence of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps to the Japanese and puppet troops.
While Yang Ling and the others were fighting vigorously behind enemy lines, frightening the Japanese and puppet troops, a battle was also in full swing in the Zaoyang area of Yichang on the front battlefield.
Compared to Yang Ling and others who sent out special operations units to carry out frequent small-scale attacks behind enemy lines, this battle on the frontal battlefield was heavily crowded with troops and the fighting was fierce.
Fifty divisions under the command of General Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Fifth Theater, faced the troops under the newly appointed Japanese commanders of the Eleventh Army, Sonobe and Ichiro, in the Zaoyang area of Yichang.
The Japanese commander of the Eleventh Army, Neiji Okamura, was transferred away. The newly appointed commander, Sonobe Kazuichiro, couldn't wait to transfer seven divisions and four brigades of the Eleventh Army under his command to prepare for the attack.
At the same time, a large number of troops such as the Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Second Aviation Combined Force, the Third Aviation Regiment, and the First China Fleet were mobilized. Commander Sonobe Kazuichiro tried to eliminate the main force of China's fifth theater.
In order to break the Japanese's attempt to invade the west, the Chinese *** team actively fought against the enemy under the command of General Li Zongren, commander of the fifth theater.
Faced with the stubborn resistance of the Chinese Army, the Japanese troops attacking the fifth theater suffered unexpected and serious losses in just twenty days, and the time it took to capture the planned area was half the time planned.
However, the newly appointed commander of the Japanese Eleventh Army, Sonobe Kazuichiro, was not reconciled, because the first stage of failure would cause him to lose the trust of the emperor and damage the majesty of the imperial army.
Therefore, after a short rest, the commander of the Japanese Eleventh Army, Sonobe Kazuichiro, ordered the Japanese troops to implement the second phase of the offensive plan, forcefully cross the Han River, and launch a powerful offensive towards Xiangyang and Yichang.
The Japanese 3rd Division and the 39th Division fought side by side and launched a powerful offensive against the 41st Army of the Chinese Army defending the Han River.
Because the Chinese ** team failed to predict in time that the Japanese would continue to attack westward, they were caught off guard when the Japanese launched another attack.
"Boom-boom!"
While the Chinese *** troops were resting on the west bank of the Han River to monitor the Japanese, an overwhelming barrage of artillery shells suddenly passed over the surging river and hit the defensive positions of the Chinese defenders.
During the short rest period, the Japanese mobilized the strength of six car squadrons and urgently transported more than a thousand tons of ammunition and supplies to the front line to supplement the losses in the first phase of the operation.
Almost all of the artillery shells that were urgently transported hit the Chinese defenders' positions on the west bank of the Han River.
Faced with the overwhelming artillery bombardment, the entire Chinese garrison position on the west bank of the Han River suddenly rumbled and shook. The earth was trembling violently, and the defense fortifications built were almost flattened as if they were destroyed.
In the billowing smoke, countless turfs were blown away, large swaths of mud were blown everywhere, dense craters covered the west bank of the Han River, and heat waves billowed in the air, as if it was burning.
"Damn it, what do the people in the reconnaissance company do for food? The Japanese artillery shells were fired at them, why didn't they report it?!"
The sudden shelling made Zeng Xiandong, commander of the 123rd Division of the 41st Army, who was eating in the command post, jump up in shock and hurriedly grabbed his telescope and ran towards the lookout point.
"Withdraw, let the brothers withdraw first!"
Through the telescope, I saw violent explosions happening one after another on the front line, with thick smoke rising straight into the sky. Zeng Xiandong, the commander of the 123rd Division of the 41st Army in the hidden command post, yelled anxiously.
The people guarding the front line of Jiang's defense were all his brothers who had followed him through a hail of bullets. Now the enemy's sudden bombardment was too intense, beyond their expectations.
Although they dug artillery-proof holes, the commander of the 123rd Division, Zeng Xiandong, knew that under such intensity of shelling, those simple artillery-proof holes were vulnerable.
"Reporter's seat, the phone line has been blown down, and we can't contact the brothers guarding the shore!" Soon, the communications staff officer who went to convey the order hurried over to report.
"You are a pig. The phone line was blown up, so you won't send communications troops!" Division Commander Zeng Xiandong was so angry that he kicked the staff officer.
The communications staff officer didn't care about being kicked. Knowing that the situation was urgent, he got up and ran out: "Communications Corps! Communications Corps!"