Chapter five hundred and ninetieth tactical deception
The 106th Division suddenly encountered a large-scale attack by the Chinese Army at night.
The Chinese *** team had obviously planned it for a long time. After the attack was launched, division commander Junroku Matsuura's contact with the brigades and regiments was cut off.
In such a dark night when the enemy's situation was unclear, in order to preserve his troops, Junroku Matsuura had to send people to take risks to convey orders, asking each regiment to abandon their existing defense lines and shrink back in order to support them until dawn.
Fortunately, the commanders of each regiment were experienced in combat. Although they experienced the initial panic in the face of the sudden attack, they quickly stabilized their position and began to retreat in an orderly manner.
As communications with each regiment were restored again, division commander Matsuura Junrokuro's tense face finally relaxed. As long as the troops survived, they would have a chance to counterattack.
Although the Chinese ** team is still attacking desperately on all lines of defense, they have stabilized their position. Although they voluntarily gave up the defense line, they can quickly regain it as soon as the day breaks and the situation becomes clear.
"Order all troops to quickly break away from the entanglement with the Chinese army and cover the troops to prevent the Chinese from taking the opportunity to infiltrate."
Matsuura Junrokuro regained his composure and issued orders calmly.
"Hey Yi!" A Japanese staff officer hurriedly sent the order.
Although he didn't know why the Chinese ** team would launch a large-scale attack without warning at this time, he believed that everything would be figured out as soon as daybreak.
A Japanese officer hurriedly walked into the temporary division headquarters and stood at attention in front of Matsuura Junrokuro.
"General, the China Army has stopped attacking across the board." the officer reported loudly.
"Nani?" Junroku Matsuura thought it was bad news. Hearing the report, he didn't react for a while and confirmed again: "Are you sure the China Army has stopped attacking?"
The officer replied firmly: "General, the Chinese Army has withdrawn from the attack position and retreated across the board."
Matsuura Junrokuro's brows suddenly frowned, and he quickly walked to the set up sand table, full of doubts.
What is the Chinese ** team going to do? Attack without warning and stop without warning. Is their commander going crazy?
Matsuura Junrokuro didn't believe that the other party's commander was doing this for fun. He must have some purpose, but for what purpose, he couldn't figure it out.
"General, the frontline troops are asking if they want to counterattack and regain the position they just lost." The officer continued to speak when he saw Junroku Matsuura was silent.
Matsuura Junrokuro glanced at the dark outside. Sporadic gunshots were still ringing out. He suddenly seemed to understand something and suddenly became relaxed.
"No, let the troops stick to their existing defense lines and don't fight back. I'm afraid this is a conspiracy of the Chinese Army. Maybe they are setting up an ambush in the dark waiting for us to jump in."
Thinking that the Chinese ** team first made a large-scale surprise attack without warning and killed the security forces on its periphery, and then saw that it had stabilized its position and the attack was not going well, and then took the initiative to retreat, and then set up an ambush in the dark, it was really a wonderful sequence.
It's a trap. If you are careless, you may really fall into the trap.
Thinking that he had seen through the Chinese ** team's conspiracy, Junrokuro Matsuura snorted proudly, as long as he acted steadily, no scheme of yours could defeat me.
"The general is wise!" After hearing Matsuura Junrokuro's words, the surrounding staff officers all complimented him and agreed.
When they heard that the Chinese ** team took the initiative to stop the attack, they thought they could not attack. When they heard Matsuura Junrokuro's analysis, they suddenly broke into a cold sweat. The Chinese commander was really cunning.
"Let each regiment count the casualties and losses and report them quickly." Matsuura Junrokuro ordered.
"Hey Yi!" the Japanese officer hurried away, and the staff members relaxed because the squadron stopped attacking.
Junrokuro Matsuura, the commander of the 106th Division, did not know that the conspiracy theory he speculated on did not exist at all.
The Chinese ** team did not stay after withdrawing from the battlefield, but directly crossed their own positions and quickly retreated towards the second-line positions at Wushimen and Yongfeng Bridge.
Because the Ruiwu Road was tight, several divisions of troops were removed from the Mahuiling line. Their attack this time was just to prepare for shrinking defenses.
The troops on the Japanese front finally gathered and contacted each other quickly after the fighting ceased. The troops resumed communication, but when the casualties were counted, they burst into tears.
Most of their entire peripheral security force was annihilated, except for some soldiers who were scattered and hid in the grass and ditches.
The artillery position was destroyed in the first round of attacks. Many of the regiments suffered accidental injuries in the melee. Materials and weapons were severely damaged. Although it was not a defeat, it was still a serious injury.
When the losses of each regiment were summarized in the hands of the division commander Junroku Matsuura, holding the long list of scarlet-red casualties and material losses, his face was ashen.
In less than two hours, he had suffered so much loss that he almost went crazy. However, as a senior general, he still held it back to avoid losing his temper in front of his subordinates.
"Order all combat units to prepare for attack and launch a counterattack against the Chinese Army at dawn!"
"Contact the aviation force quickly and support our attack after dawn."
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The huge losses made Matsuura Junrokuro feel very angry. It was clear that they were an attacking force, but they were so cruelly attacked at night. It was really unbearable not to let out this bad breath.
While the Japanese troops in various units were actively counting their casualties and gathering on standby to prepare for retaliatory actions after dawn, the Chinese officers and soldiers were already retreating in large strides.
As soon as it dawned, the Japs' attack began, with hordes of swarms roaring darkly over the Chinese positions.
High-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs were thrown downwards, blasting the entire Chinese position and sending up mud and mist all over the sky. Barbed wire and rotten wood were also flying across the sky. The billowing black smoke seemed to be more than ten meters high.
Walls of smoke billowed, obscuring the battlefield.
"Kill and change!"
The commanders in the trenches on the Japs front had haggard faces, their sabers drawn forward with murderous eyes.
The Japanese soldiers who had already gathered in the trenches also poured out of the trenches with fierce faces, and pressed darkly towards the Chinese Army's position.
The Japanese soldiers charged fiercely. They suffered heavy losses in a surprise attack last night, and now they want to take revenge severely.
The Japanese machine gunners set up their machine guns more than 200 meters away from the Chinese team's position, and started firing strings of bullets.
The infantrymen with bayonets quickly covered the advance and were extremely skilled in tactics, but from beginning to end, they did not encounter any resistance, not even a bullet.
When they rushed into the squadron's position with murderous intent, apart from the charred trenches that were blown into pieces and the scattered debris, there was not a single living person left.
They were like a hard punch on cotton. The feeling made them extremely unhappy. The Japanese turned the whole thing over in anger, and then they had to admit a cruel fact. The Chinese ** team had already