Almost at the same time that the Feixi Independent Regiment launched the ambush, the main force of the Dameishan Military Division also launched a general attack on the Kumamoto Division on the Badou Town battlefield.
In yesterday's battle, the Kumamoto Division's left and right wing positions had all been lost. The 13th Infantry Regiment and the 45th Infantry Regiment stationed on the two wing positions were all disabled. Now, the Kumamoto Division's positions have been
It has shrunk to the division headquarters and a narrow area on the periphery, and is still shrinking.
The battle has progressed so far. The 47th Infantry Regiment of the Kumamoto Division has been completely wiped out. The 13th Infantry Regiment and the 45th Infantry Regiment have been severely damaged successively. The 23rd Infantry Regiment has suffered relatively heavy losses.
It was smaller, but it still suffered more than half of its casualties, so there were not many infantrymen that the Kumamoto Division could really fight.
The current strength of the Kumamoto Division is still nearly 20,000, but the infantry has less than 10,000 left. The remaining 10,000 or so are all technical arms such as engineers, artillery, and baggage troops. These technical arms have the will to fight.
, or training, cannot be compared with the infantry of the infantry regiment.
Therefore, purely in terms of infantry, the Kumamoto Division no longer has any advantage, and is even at a disadvantage.
That's not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the ammunition reserve of the Kumamoto Division has been exhausted. The ammunition is gone. This is really fatal. Without the shells, all the cannons have become decorations. Without the bullets, all the cannons have become decorations.
The machine guns are useless, and without rifle bullets, the infantrymen have no choice but to fight with the enemy with their bayonets drawn.
In terms of fighting will, the Kumamoto Division is not inferior to the veterans of the Dameishan Military Division. In terms of individual soldier quality, the veterans of the Dameishan Military Division may be slightly better, but their superiority is limited. In terms of commanding attainments,
, Naosaburo Okabe is of course not as powerful as Xu Rui, but this is not irreparable. In positional warfare, his commanding skills are a little bit inferior, and the impact is not that big in fact, but without ammunition, this is really fatal.
In addition, it was night again, and the Kumamoto Division was unable to obtain fire support from the aviation force.
So the result was very bad. The defenses built hastily by the Kumamoto Division were like ice and snow poured with boiling water, melting quickly in the face of the attacks from various units in the Dameishan Military Division.
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The commander of the third battalion, Ji Cheng, led a combat team and personally took charge of the main attack.
"Xiao Wang!" Ji Cheng yelled, and Xiao Wang, the soldier in charge of fire support, immediately stood up from the crater where he was hiding, pointed his machine gun in front of him and fired a long burst. The fierce gunfire immediately attracted the enemy's attention. The next moment,
Then, the Japanese machine guns immediately swept over, and Xiao Wang quickly retreated into the crater.
Taking advantage of the brief gap when the Japanese machine gun was attracted by Xiao Wang, Ji Cheng and his guard Xiao Zhao jumped up at the same time and detoured from the left and right sides respectively. The Japanese machine gunner soon discovered it and fired fiercely at Ji Cheng.
He jumped into a trench and took cover, but Xiao Zhao continued to rush forward quickly.
By the time the Japanese machine gunner turned his gun and fired fiercely at Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao had already advanced more than ten steps and was less than fifty meters away from the Japanese machine gunner's hiding position. The next moment, Xiao Zhao pulled
A grenade, and when he pushed forward and raised his hand, the grenade landed exactly where the Japanese machine gunner was hiding.
"Boom!" After the explosion, the Japanese machine gunner was killed on the spot and the machine gun became mute.
As soon as the Japanese machine gun turned off, Xiao Wang, the machine gunner who had just been suppressed in the crater, immediately turned over and sat up, placed the machine gun on the edge of the crater, and fired violently at the front. The dense bullets poured over him like raindrops in an instant, crushing only the other side.
The dozen or so Japanese infantrymen in the 38th Army could not even lift their heads.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Cheng quickly moved forward.
In the blink of an eye, Ji Cheng also arrived in front of the Japanese position.
At the beginning, Ji Cheng was worried that the Japs would throw out grenades, but until Ji Cheng threw two grenades, the Japs on the other side never threw out grenades in retaliation. From this, Ji Cheng judged that the Japs on the other side had no more grenades.
A grenade was fired. He immediately took off all the remaining six grenades hanging from his waist and threw them out one by one.
After the continuous explosions, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers on the opposite position were either dead or injured.
Then, Ji Cheng's guard Xiao Zhao was the first to rush into the Japanese position with a bayonet. At this time, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers on the position had all fallen into a pool of blood. Only one Japanese soldier had not yet died, struggling to think.
He wanted to sit up and try to fight with Xiao Zhao hand-to-hand. Xiao Zhao almost didn't think about it. He raised the knife and stabbed it into the devil's heart. The devil let out a slight whimper and his head immediately dropped. Xiao Zhao put away the knife again and backed away.
He immediately fell to the ground slumped.
Almost at the same time that Ji Cheng's group broke through the Japanese defense line, the other two groups on both sides also made breakthroughs.
The same scene was played out simultaneously in many different directions on the entire battlefield, along several kilometers of fronts.
Xu Rui brought the three-by-three tactics from another time and space. It was the strongest infantry assault tactic that had been repeatedly proven through the Liberation War and the Korean War. Facing the three-by-three tactics of the Chinese People’s Volunteers, even those armed to the teeth
The U.S. military seems to have few options. In many cases, beating the barrel of a machine gun until it is scrapped may not be able to kill a volunteer soldier. This is of course inseparable from the superb tactical qualities of the volunteer soldiers, but the three-three system also plays an important role.
Facing the veterans of the Dameishan Military Division who were armed with the three-by-three system, the Japs really had little choice but to be beaten. Less than two hours after the start of the general offensive, the perimeter of the Kumamoto Division's core position was continuously lost.
The battle line has advanced to outside Naosaburo Okabe's division headquarters.
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The headquarters of the Kumamoto Division was almost in a state of chaos.
The telephone soldier yelled madly into the microphone, the communications soldier wore headphones and was nervously sending and receiving reports, and the operational staff of the staff headquarters were busy working on the map based on the latest battle reports from each regiment.
Several combat staff officers were working on the map. The red area on the map representing the Japanese defense zone was shrinking sharply.
The chief of staff of the Kumamoto Division, Shigenori Shigeta, was shouting on the phone. Several captains of the Engineer Regiment, the Baggage Regiment, the Cavalry Regiment, and the Artillery Regiment all gathered nervously around the map.
They were pointing at the latest situation between the enemy and ourselves on the map and talking about something. It could be seen that the several Japanese captains were a little nervous.
However, Naosaburo Okabe stood outside the tent with a dull expression, leaning on his saber.
"Boom!" A shell landed outside the large square-roofed tent of the headquarters. It exploded with a bang, splashing sand and rustling on the tent. A lot of sand also fell on Naosaburo Okabe's face.
, when these hot sand particles fell on his body, Okabe Naosaburo didn't even frown, as if it was not his body.
Naosaburo Okabe really didn't care much about this little physical pain. Compared with the pain and hesitation in his heart, this little physical pain was nothing.
After making the phone call, Shigetori Shigetori walked out of the tent and said to Naosaburo Okabe: "Division Commander, you'd better go to the underground shelter for shelter. It's no longer safe here."
But Naosaburo Okabe seemed not to have heard it and said, "Shigeta-san, do you regret it?"
"Regret?" Shigetori was stunned when he heard this, and then realized that Okabe Naosaburo was asking him if he did not regret his decision to stay in Badou Town. Shigetori pondered for a moment and then said, "Master
Leader, I don’t regret it. If I could do it over again, I would still recommend you to stay.”
Naosaburo Okabe said quietly: "Why?"
Shigetori Shigetori said solemnly: "Because we are the Kumamoto Division with a fine tradition. Our Kumamoto Division is one of the two most capable divisions among the seventeen permanent divisions of the Emperor of Japan. We can be defeated, even
We may be completely wiped out, but we must not be intimidated by the enemy!"
"You are right, we can be defeated, even annihilated, but we must not be intimidated." Naosaburo Okabe nodded, then looked up at the stars in the sky, and said quietly, "Shigeta-san, be good.
Take a quick look at the night sky, because soon we will fall into endless darkness and never see the light of day again."
Shigeta Shigenori looked miserable and whispered: "Division Commander, the situation is not that bad..."
"Shigeta-san, you don't have to comfort me anymore." Naosaburo Okabe shook his head and said calmly, "No matter what, I am the division commander of the Kumamoto Division. Do you know what the situation of the Kumamoto Division is now? Do I
Not sure? In fact, as early as when Daping Town was fighting with the Dameishan Independent Regiment, we were already at the end of the war."
Shigetori Shigetori was speechless, because what Naosaburo Okabe said was indeed the truth.
If it weren't for the fact that it was at the end of the war, how could the Kumamoto Division retreat from Daping Town?
After that, the reason why they decided to stay in Badou Town was not because the Kumamoto Division still had the strength to fight, but because they were unwilling to lose the reputation of the Kumamoto Division. On the other hand, they actually wanted to
Fortunately, they originally thought that they could insist on the arrival of reinforcements even at the end of the war!
However, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.
The final facts proved that they still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Dameishan Independent Regiment. After all, they could not hold on until the reinforcements arrived, because Nakamura Shun's independent mixed 13th Brigade was still at least thirty miles away, and at least it was not possible to reach Badou Town.
It took more than three hours, and they couldn't last even half an hour.
"Boom!" Another artillery shell landed not far away and exploded.
Shigetori Shigetori quickly put his body in front of Okabe Naosaburo and said: "Division commander, be careful."
But Naosaburo Okabe gently pushed Shigeta Shigetori away, looked up at the night sky, and said faintly: "The night tonight is really beautiful, even more beautiful than the night in my hometown of Hiroshima."
