HCB Chapter 210: Sakai Naoji is suddenly defeated
Chapter 210: Sakai Naoji is suddenly defeated
Although the armored regiment performed well in previous battles, both the Battle of Majiazhai and the Battle of Queshu Valley were basically mountain battles, and the mobility of tanks and armored vehicles could only be half utilized at most.
The current battle is a pure plains combat, in which the power of tanks can be fully exerted. No country's army in the world today can withstand hundreds of Type 59 and Type 69 tanks.
Moreover, the Japanese positions had been cleared by heavy artillery, and with helicopters reporting the Japanese combat deployment to the division headquarters in real time every 10 minutes, it was no exaggeration to say that the tank regiment was like a fish in water.
In just over 10 minutes, the advance tank battalion of 30 tanks rushed to the Japanese outer positions under the tickling of the Japanese ammunition and opened a huge gap.
At the same time, a squadron of bombers took off from Yuncheng Airport and flew over the battlefield. Their target was not the front-line positions, but the command center and logistics replenishment troops in the rear of the Japanese.
The Japanese deployed heavy troops in Luowangzhuang, and they must have some anti-aircraft weapons, but not many, and they were quite backward.
The main reason is that in their perception, the Tang Dynasty Air Force had been defeated long ago and there were no organized air force units that could be deployed.
Moreover, their intelligence did not show that the 88th Army had an air force.
Even so, just in case, Iwamatsu Yoshio, commander-in-chief of the First Army and highest commander of the Shanxi Provincial Defense Army, also mobilized anti-aircraft guns equipped by the army.
These included the 105th-year type 20mm anti-aircraft gun and the Type 88 mm anti-aircraft machine gun. Several Type mm anti-aircraft guns were also deployed in the rear fortress, which almost exhausted half of the Tang Expeditionary Force's air defense force.
However, the Japanese military has always been dominated by the navy, which has almost taken away all the resources of the army. Therefore, the army's air defense capabilities are very weak. Not only are there few air defense weapons, they are also very backward, and the hit rate is frighteningly low.
Take the Type 20 1500mm anti-aircraft machine gun as an example. Its firing altitude is less than meters and it cannot threaten medium and low-altitude flying bombers. It is equivalent to a decoration.
buzzing...
As the air defense alarm sounded, the Japanese discovered that more than 10 high-flying planes had appeared above their heads at some point in time.
However, no matter how they looked through the telescope, they couldn't tell whether it was a fighter or a bomber because they had no idea what it was.
It was not until the bomber's ammunition bay was opened, dense bombs fell from the sky, and the sound of breaking through the air gradually approached that the Japanese realized that it was a bomber.
The Japanese officer immediately ordered the air defense forces to fire at the bombers!
However, it was too late. Their anti-aircraft guns were not accurate enough to hit the bombers flying at high speed in the middle altitude.
As the saying goes: Air defense, air defense, nine out of ten defenses will fail.
This is a description of the anti-aircraft firepower during World War II. The average hit rate of ground-based air defense was only one percent, not to mention the Japanese who used anti-aircraft weapons that were inferior to those of their contemporaries. The shells they fired seemed more like celebrating the successful bombing of the bombers.
In just two minutes, the 12 H-5s each found a suitable large target, completed the entire bombing mission, and began to return.
As for the specific losses suffered by the Japanese, no one knew. After all, the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower was still there, and the reconnaissance battalion's helicopters did not dare to get too close.
But the helicopter could roughly estimate through the telescope that at least dozens of trucks and more than ten Japanese military buildings were destroyed.
Because the distance was too far, what they didn't know was that in a coincidental bombing, a bomb accurately fell on the headquarters of the Japanese 15th Division.
Perhaps God also couldn't stand the 15th Division. During the Battle of Queshu Valley, the 15th Division was tasked with secretly approaching the 88th Army's jurisdiction. Although most of the officers broke out, half of the lower-level organizations were lost.
After all, it was a permanent division, and the command level was still there. It would not be good to suddenly disband it, so Hata Shunroku of the Tang Expeditionary Army Headquarters drew troops from the field forces in central and southern China to supplement the 15th Division.
However, it was not the original 4th Regiment Division, but the 3rd Regiment Division.
However, they did not expect that this time, none of their lower-level soldiers were killed. The division headquarters was bombed, and the division commander Naotsugu Sakai and all the officers in the headquarters were wiped out.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for killing a lieutenant general, and you will be rewarded with 50 military merit points."
"Ding, congratulations to the host for killing a major general, and you will be rewarded with 5 military merit points."
After issuing the order to start the attack, Xu Le, who was taking a nap, was awakened by the sound of the system.
Because he was afraid of noise, he set the system prompt so that the prompt would only sound after the general was killed.
Xu Le was also confused. He looked at his watch. It had only been less than an hour since the attack began, so how come a general had been gained?
Although he knew that the armored regiment was extremely powerful, the enemy was the elite of the Japanese. Even if they could not break the tanks' defenses, their field artillery's flat fire could slow down the tanks' advance.
Moreover, it is impossible for a Japanese lieutenant general to be on the front line. He must be commanding from the rear.
What on earth was going on? How did they deal with several generals so quickly?
"Looking at the continuous rising sounds, it should be that a single shot destroyed the enemy's headquarters. This is quite efficient, but I don't know who destroyed it!"
Xu Le didn't care why the number of kills of a lieutenant general was not increased by 5 times that of a major general. It would not be good if there were more!
Thinking of this, he called Xu Da in and asked him to inform the whole army of the good news and find out who destroyed the division headquarters. He would reward him handsomely!
Soon, the news that a Japanese division headquarters had been destroyed was passed from the army headquarters to the division headquarters, and then passed down from the division headquarters to each battalion and company.
At once, the morale of all the troops was greatly boosted, and the regiments and divisions were asking each other about who had made such a great contribution.
This reward may be enough to upgrade several levels, and it’s worth at least several hundred dollars!
Just as the blood on the front line was boiling and a group of soldiers were inspired by this information to kill the enemy and compete for merit, the 665th Motorized Infantry Regiment on the southernmost battlefield was the first to cross the Zhongtiao Mountains and reach the outer positions of Qinshui County where the Japanese were stationed.
The heavy Japanese troops in Jincheng were mainly concentrated on the east bank of the Qin River, and Qinshui County was on the west bank. Commander Yan had been afraid of the Japanese, so he did not rush to send troops to attack here, so the Japanese only left two squadrons to garrison here.
After receiving the news of the arrival of the 664th Regiment, the Japanese in Qinshui County hurriedly led their troops to retreat, leaving only a few hundred puppet troops in the city to hold on and resist.
The puppet army was not stupid. When they saw dozens of armored vehicles and cannons adjusting their directions from the opposing army on the city wall, they knew that something was wrong.
The puppet army commander had long heard of the reputation of the 88th Army, so he immediately ordered his men to raise the white flag and open the city gates in surrender.
Anyway, the Japanese have all run away, so I don’t want to die in vain. There are dozens of cannons, and my small body can’t stop them!
In this way, the 664th Regiment captured Qinshui County without firing a single shot and captured more than 300 puppet troops.