The transportation of the Fifth Army comes in batches and leaves in batches, with only one purpose, to pull the troops to Guinan as quickly as possible.
The army has three infantry divisions, one tank regiment, two field supplementary regiments, and one automobile regiment.
It is impossible for more than 50,000 people to be in place at once, and it is even less possible to assemble them all at once.
Time, what the Fifth Army needs most now is time.
The Fifth Army Headquarters received the latest battle status report on the train: the troops of the Fifth Division attacking Nanning had appeared outside Nanning City.
Since then, there have been no new battle status reports from the direction of Nanning.
No news is the worst news Realizing the critical situation, the Military Commission urged the Fifth Army and other units to speed up their march.
It would take time to assemble the entire Fifth Army, and there was an emergency near Nanning.
In order to take both into consideration, Commander Du decided to take the initiative.
The first to set off was the 200th Division, and the first unit of the 200th Division was the 600th Regiment.
He ordered: After the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division got off the bus and assembled, the entire regiment should take the initiative to search and attack in the direction of Nanning, ascertain the situation, reinforce Nanning, and buy time for the entire army to assemble.
That is to say, while Zhang Wei's teaching team was still sleeping on the train, the leading troops of the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division had already got off the train.
In the early morning of November 24, before the main force of the Fifth Army had assembled and arrived, the 600th Regiment, as the vanguard, advanced towards Nanning at dawn.
The 200th Division has three main combat regiments, the 598th, 599th, and 600th.
The equipment level is very good.
The whole regiment has three infantry battalions and a special agent platoon, a baggage company, and a communications platoon for the 82nd mortar.
Artillery Battery.
The three infantry battalions are fully equipped with light and heavy machine guns.
The squad has Czech light machine guns, and the battalion has a heavy machine gun company.
There are more than 2,000 people in the regiment, and everyone has a helmet.
The infantry has sufficient ammunition.
Except for the lack of direct-fire artillery, the equipment can be said to be sophisticated.
Shao Yizhi, the colonel commander of the 600th Regiment, looked solemnly at the unknown front.
The vanguard troops had tight tasks and heavy responsibilities.
After getting off the train at the train station, the whole regiment marched for dozens of miles on foot.
He did not encounter Japanese troops, nor did he encounter friendly troops.
Shao Yizhi gradually had a bad idea in his mind.
The important town of Nanning might have fallen.
In fact, Shao Yizhi's idea was correct.
Just a few hours before they got off the bus, the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Fifth Division had already captured Nanning.
This brigade, together with various attached units, formed a combat unit of nearly ten thousand people.
They swept through the outskirts of Nanning and fought in with great force.
Surrounded by the 42nd Brigade of the 5th Division, the 5th Engineer Regiment, the 5th Cavalry Regiment and the 5th Field Artillery Regiment were fighting on their side.
"Regiment, don't worry.
The troops have been sent out and are searching in the direction of Nanning."
Wen Mo, the lieutenant colonel and deputy commander of the 600th Regiment, advised.
Seeing the worried commander, he couldn't help but become worried.
He could only Comfort the leader.
Who wouldn’t be frightened if we advance tentatively with a group of troops?
"Well, let the troops advance carefully."
Before daybreak, more than two thousand soldiers of the 600th Regiment wearing steel helmets were marching through the mist in southern Guangxi.
Santang is an important area on the outskirts of Nanning.
The surrounding area of Nanning is very interesting.
It is surrounded by nine important areas with villages.
The names of these nine important points happen to be from one row to nine, and they are called one pond and two ponds respectively.
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Until Jiutang.
The 600 Regiment occupied Ertang and nearby key areas and continued to advance toward Nanning.
When the forward search force advanced toward Nanning, there was finally a movement.
The national army was advancing in search, and the 21st Brigade, which had just captured Nanning, also had the same idea.
The leading soldiers of the 600th Regiment were lucky enough to discover the Japanese search troops in advance.
After that, sporadic exchanges of fire broke out between the two armies, and they completely discovered each other.
After reporting at all levels, the situation before Shao Yizhi, the leader of the 600th Regiment, was obvious.
Nanning had probably been lost.
Shao Yizhi made a prompt decision and ordered the entire regiment to retreat, abandoning Three Ponds and retreating to Second Ponds.
In Ertang, the soldiers of the 600th Regiment urgently built fortifications, and Shao Yizhi organized the troops to deploy and assume a defensive posture.
After a small-scale exchange of fire between the 21st Brigade and the 600th Regiment, the Japanese also took action to send troops to attack and advance, preparing to destroy the 600th Regiment.
The main force of the attack was an infantry brigade of the 21st Brigade.
The Six Hundred Regiment guarding the Ertang position began a fierce battle with the attacking Japanese army, which was also the first battle of the Fifth Army.
The Japanese army initially bombarded the 600th Regiment with artillery fire.
After the bombardment, the infantry adopted the tried-and-tested attack method of combining frontal assault and side detours.
As soon as the battle began, the Japanese army felt the pressure.
The battalions of the 600th Regiment fought back desperately, and with better equipment, the Japanese army suffered a lot in the first round of attacks.
On the position, bullets were flying everywhere, and the bodies of Japanese soldiers were scattered in front of the position.
The Six Hundred Regiment's firepower, equipment, and combat quality were stronger than those of the Gui Army and local armed forces that had fought the Japanese army before.
The Japanese army was used to fighting troops with poor combat effectiveness, and made the mistake of underestimating the enemy.
In the first round, the attacking A little tricky.
Shao Yizhi observed the movements of the battalions on the front line in the temporary command post.
"Report to the regiment, the Japanese troops in front of the first battalion are rushing up," said the regimental communications soldier next to Shao Yizhi.
Among the three infantry battalions of the 600 Regiment, the position of the First Battalion suffered the greatest attack.
"Order the mortar company to reinforce the first company position" The regiment's mortar company located near the command post of the 600th Regiment opened fire quickly, bombarding the Japanese troops in front of the 1st Battalion's position.
"Boom" six mortars fired rapidly.
The attacking Japanese army had to postpone the attack.
The front-line infantry of the 600th Regiment increased their firepower and attacked the Japanese infantry with rifle machine guns and grenades.
The first round of Japanese attacks had underestimated the enemy.
After the fierce counterattack of the 600th Regiment, the Japanese squadron was forced to withdraw.
The Japanese squadron that detoured from the flanks was blocked by firepower from other troops of the 600th Regiment.
The position of the 600th Regiment was not a simple first-line defensive position, but also guarded the flanks.
Regiment commander Shao Yizhi used mortars and infantry to counterattack and withstood the outflanking Japanese squadron.
Once the Japanese troops attacking from the front left, the detour on the flanks became meaningless.
The Japanese troops on the flanks left behind more than a dozen corpses and withdrew.
The gunfire stopped, and the first small-scale battle between the Six Hundred Regiment and the Japanese army ended.
The battle lasted only half an hour.
The casualties on both sides were not large.
The 600 regiment held its position.
The Japanese army suffered some casualties because they underestimated the enemy, but they also understood the situation.
Through the strength, firepower and combat quality of their troops in the battle, the Japanese army realized that their opponents had stronger combat capabilities and were not the local armed forces they had fought before.
The regrouped Japanese army was ready to launch a new attack on the 600th Regiment holding the Ertang position.
The 600th Regiment guarding the Ertang position also continued to prepare for battle.
Through this battle, Shao Yizhi judged that Nanning had been lost.
He ordered the troops to step up combat preparations and reported the battle situation to the Fifth Army via radio.
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Military Department.
The battle between the 600th Regiment and the Japanese 21st Brigade was just an episode.
The Japanese army adjusted their attack posture and prepared for a new offensive.
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