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Chapter 1576: Battle of Jehol (2)

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    According to the battle plan formulated by Zhou Dafu's troops, except for a few regiments that have penetrated into Fengning, Karaqin and other places, the remaining main forces are divided into two groups. One group is to send troops to the paddock, and then go south to attack Longhua.  There were about five regiments of troops along this route.

    The other road goes south from the Harqin Banner, approaching the important town of Qijia Town, and then from here to Chengde City.

    There are eight regiments in this army, as well as a large number of elite troops, and even a powerful armored force.

    Weichang Town is the seat of Weichang County. It is a small county established not long ago, with a population of less than 10,000.

    But since this is an important transportation hub from Chengde to Chifeng and Tongliao in the north, and it is only more than 80 kilometers away from Longhua County, the northern gateway of Chengde, its geographical location is extremely important.

    Moreover, the paddock was still a hunting place for the Manchu royal family. Although the Qing Dynasty has died, many high-level Japanese and puppet troops come here every year for hunting and vacation. For example, the former commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Yoshijiro, came here at least every year during his tenure.  Twice, even the ruler of the puppet Manchukuo government came here.

    Because of this, the Japanese army stationed many troops here, usually no less than one infantry brigade.

    Now this has become the first line of defense for the national army to seize Rehe, and it has also become the place where the first exchange of fire occurred in this battle.

    At 9:10 p.m. on September 1, after more than two hours of rapid march, the seventh column commander You Keyong commanded the troops to arrive at the outskirts of Weichang Town.

    After the troops took a short rest, You Keyong ordered the troops on the front line to prepare and launch an attack on the Japanese troops in Weichang Town twenty minutes later.

    Since the Chinese army has launched a powerful and fierce attack on Chaoyang and Fuxin, and these places are not very far from Chengde, although the Japanese army does not know that the Chinese army intends to capture Chengde, it is inevitable to strengthen the alert.

    You must know that although General Yamada Yisan is not very courageous, he is a commander with rich combat experience and is quite accomplished in tactical command. He will not fail to order the garrison in Rehe to be on guard.

    And along the way, You Keyong and others have noticed that all the strongholds on the periphery of the paddock have been removed, the gun towers and positions have all been abandoned, and the defenders have disappeared without a trace, apparently shrinking into the city.

    Under such circumstances, You Keyong and others could only set the time of attack at night, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Japanese army removed the peripheral strongholds, and suddenly moved the main force to the siege city and launched a sudden attack.

    At 9:30, the general attack begins!

    Since the siege city is not very big, it is impossible to deploy the heavy troops of five regiments, so Youkeyong ordered the troops of two regiments to go south to the paddock, while the remaining three regiments surrounded the paddock and launched a full-scale attack.

    Part of the three regiments are mainly attacking feints, and all are main attacks in several directions. Whoever takes the lead in the city will get the first victory.

    "Boom boom boom"

    Under the roar of cannons, the battle officially kicked off!

    After ten minutes of shelling, the soldiers of the Chinese army skillfully approached the Japanese position. At this time, the Japanese outer position was already filled with smoke, and the Japanese in the enemy's trenches could not be seen clearly.

    However, experienced soldiers know that this shelling is not a big threat to the Japanese with strong fortifications, especially now that both the Japanese and Chinese troops have the habit of digging holes for artillery defense, so the first round of attacks is very cautious.  .

    Sure enough, when the soldiers of the Chinese army approached less than 80 meters away from the Japanese position, the Japanese position suddenly became lively. All light and heavy firepower fired at the first battalion at the same time, and the Japanese artillery also began to counterattack at this time.

    The ten-minute retaliatory bombardment caused certain casualties to the national army's offensive troops, but was immediately suppressed by the artillery regiment of the 7th Column. The artillery of only one squadron in Weichang City soon became silent.

    Think about it, the artillery of the Seventh Column is a reinforced regiment equipped with 25 mountain guns and 8 field guns. It is not bad at all even against the Japanese artillery regiment, while the Japanese artillery squadron is usually only equipped with 8 guns.  Small-caliber mortars, coupled with at most two infantry guns, are no match in magnitude.

    After instantly killing the Japanese artillery unit, the artillery regiment continued to show off its power and once again launched an attack on the Japanese forward positions.

    However, the paddock was a hunting ground prepared by the Manchu Empire for the royal family. For the safety of the royal family, although the city here was not large, it was built very solidly.

    "And after the Japanese army occupied the paddock, they also carried out large-scale renovations of the defenses here. Especially recently, after the fall of Chifeng, the Kwantung Army CommanderIt was expected that Rehe would become prey in the eyes of the Chinese army sooner or later, so he ordered the defenders of Rehe to recruit a large number of civilians to build fortifications.

    At this time, Weichang City not only had trenches and turrets, but also built many reinforced concrete bunkers outside the city. With the addition of automatic firepower such as light and heavy machine guns, it was as if there was a turtle shell outside the city.

    Faced with such a strong fortification, even though the enemy army only had more than a thousand people, You Keyong and others still felt the pressure.

    In addition, the Japanese and puppet troops on the periphery were also very tenacious in fighting will. After realizing that they were surrounded, instead of surrendering or breaking out, they immediately went into battle and launched a counterattack.

    Under the counterattack of the Japanese army, Yu Keyong's unit failed two consecutive attacks, causing heavy casualties.

    The peripheral troops failed to attack twice, which made the frontline commander in charge feel the pressure. Everyone knew the significance of this battle.

    The headquarters paid a huge price for this battle. If they lose the first battle, what a blow it will be to the subsequent battles!

    In view of this, Lin Jianqiang, the leader of the First Column and the First Regiment, personally went to the front line to supervise the battle and launched the third attack on the Japanese troops at the main position of the North Gate.

    ¡°Boom, boom, boom!¡±

    Under the cover of artillery, a regiment's attack began!

    Unlike the previous tentative attack, which was so gentle, the third attack was obviously serious and extremely violent.

    This time, a regiment directly invested more than 500 troops, but they were divided into two batches. The troops in one batch carried homemade bunkers, followed closely by the machine gun troops, and the second batch were ordinary infantry.  .

    The so-called homemade bunker is actually to remove the frontal armor of tanks or armored vehicles captured on the battlefield, then install it with a wooden frame and cover it with a wet quilt.

    This thing is like a huge shield. Once it is placed in front of the position, whether it is a machine gun or a rifle, it will be useless. It will not even make a clanking sound.

    With this thing as a bunker, the casualties of the troops will be much smaller.

    In fact, the biggest fear in offensive operations is that the opponent has complete and solid fortifications, but the attacking party can only rely on flesh and blood to fight hard. For example, during the Hundred Regiments War, the Eighth Route Army fought the Japanese army at Guanjianao.  , 20,000 Eighth Route Army fought against 500 Japanese troops. In the end, they suffered 2,000 casualties, but failed to annihilate only 500 Japanese soldiers.

    This is not to say that the Eighth Route Army's combat was really so bad that it could achieve a 20 to 1 gap with the Japs. Although the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness was indeed inferior to that of the Japanese army, there could not be such a big gap. The reason why the battle was like that was mainly because the Japanese army was  Occupying an absolute terrain advantage, the Eighth Route Army had no way to restrain the opponent and could only attack by force.

    And forget about a forceful attack. The Eighth Route Army did not have artillery to suppress the opponent's automatic firepower, which ultimately led to the defeat of the Guanjianao battle.

    During the entire offensive process, the troops suffered the greatest casualties when they were close to the main position of Guanjia Nao. Most of the troops died on the way to the charge. In fact, there were not many casualties in the final fight.

    It is precisely because of this lesson that Li Guoyao ordered all troops to prepare more or less such bunkers to provide cover for the troops to attack fortresses.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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