9ooo8622 Chapter 459 Death Highway It is said that there have been several battles in Hengyang.
In addition, the attack of the 1st Heavy Armored Division has already destroyed the overall defense system of Heng Nai Gang 11.
There was no city defense at all, so Song Yuhang decided to take the risk and push the garrison of Hengyang forward.
Outside the city wall, Wangjiao Mountain, Nanpo and Xiating formed a fire triangle support, except for seventy bow light tanks were retained as reserves, the rest of the tanks and Peng Greyhound series armored vehicles were all dispersed to the front-line position, acting as a fixed fire point, the three battalions of hellcat and big lynx are millimeter self-propelled howitzers in the company unit and subordinated in sections, and Hengyang City is in the middle of the defense of this iron triangle.
High density and high mobility.
Elastic defense is the biggest feature of Song Yuhang's overall defense, but high-density firepower also means that the space for the defenders' defense is narrow, so Song Yuhang transferred all the gunboats and planes back to Guangzhou, and he planned to use this sharp weapon to give the Japanese a profound lesson in the Pacific Ocean, knocking out the Japanese army's artillery group that posed the greatest threat to him in one fell swoop, and knocking out the Japanese army's artillery group, so the Japanese army was like a poisonous snake that had been pulled out of its fangs.
In the face of the vanguard of the Japanese army coming in a hurry, Song Yuhang arranged for Tang Ziqiang's headquarters of the First Heavy Armored Cavalry Regiment of the First Heavy Armored Division to give the Japanese army an unforgettable head-on attack After some field investigation, Tang Ziqiang decided to ambush the vanguard of the Japanese army at the link between a hill and an open land of dozens of kilometers not far from Lincheng, and Song Yuhang did not know how big the dish sent to the door by the little devil, Song Yuhang did not know, Tang Ziqiang naturally did not know, the order Song Yuhang gave him was very vague, basically just to act at the opportunity.
The concept of grabbing a vote and leaving.
For fear of alarming the Japanese army, Song Yuhang did not use any aerial reconnaissance force.
In his imagination, based on Okamura Ningji's performance of being unwilling to withdraw from Guilin, Wangcun Ningji estimated that he was afraid that he would lead his troops to retreat, and then the entire Guinan operation of Wangcun Ningji would evolve into a large-scale war of attrition.
For this reason, because according to Song Yuhang's judgment, Wangcun Ningci was afraid that he would leave the battlefield from the bow side, and in order to quickly mobilize his troops, he was likely to concentrate a large number of cars and rely on the road to maneuver quickly.
If the vanguard of the Japanese army concentrates a large number of cars and armored vehicles, then it is believed that the defeat of the Japanese army's already small number of cars will be enough for the old guy of Netmura Ningci to have a heartache.
As the head of the Japanese army's vanguard, Yasu Sakai, the commander of the division, was sitting in his Chevrolet at the moment, looking at the troops who were marching out, and this Chevrolet was originally Bai Chongxi's spare car.
After the fall of Guilin, the car was given to Amimura Ninji as a captured trophy, and Okamura Ninji was transferred to Yasushi Sakai, the commander of the division who was struggling to have a car.
Sakai Yasu was grateful for the warm and considerate nature of Netmura Ningji, and this time Netimura Ningji concentrated almost all the cars and allocated them to him, asking him to just entangle Hengyang's squadron, although Sakai Kang was a little angry, but the order was faithfully carried out.
Like the vast majority of the Japanese army's base camp senior staff officers and academy factions, Sakai Yasu has always believed that it was those guys on the front line who were unfavorable in combat to infinitely exaggerate the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in order to shirk their responsibilities, and the other side had only two divisions, while his own side had to mobilize the troops of two independent tank brigades, another tank wing, plus three divisions and two independent mixed brigades to besiege Sakai Kang wondered whether this move by the Dispatch Army was a bit excessive The dusty road quickly made Sakai Yasu lose interest, the stubborn resistance of the squadron made it more and more difficult for the Imperial Army to achieve the set combat objectives, the Allies were approaching the mainland step by step, and only by breaking up the frontal resistance of the Chinese battlefield as soon as possible could the Imperial Army be able to draw more troops for the Pacific front, and the Kwantung Army, who was clamoring for depth to the Far East, demanded refuge in the base camp and His Majesty the Emperor, and were only a few pigs and cowards who were blind.
Suddenly, there was a violent explosion, which swept several cars within a dozen meters, and in the continuous detonation, the Japanese soldiers covered in fire jumped out of the cars screaming.
Yasu Sakai hurriedly got out of the car.
The road was evacuated under the cover of guards and adjutants.
Yasu Sakai looked up as he ran, and in his opinion, he must have been attacked by an Allied air raid.
As more and more vehicles were hit, explosions and fires, the Yokota Wing in front of them had been completely thrown into chaos, and there was a dense sound of machine guns everywhere, and Yasu Sakai raised his binoculars in confusion, but unfortunately he could not see anything but the billowing smoke and gunpowder dust Suddenly, Sakai Yasukakudai seemed to be shaking slightly, and the vibration was getting stronger and stronger, and the roar of the huge motor seemed to be ringing in his ears.
Suddenly, the adjutant shoved Sakai to the ground.
A huge tank with the insignia of the squadron's blue sky and white Japanese army rushed out from behind the dirt slope next to Yasushi Sakai, and with billowing dust, it flattened Yasushi Sakai's car, and several Japanese soldiers who could not dodge were also crushed into a puddle of flesh.
Yasui Sakai, whose face was pale and cold sweat was rolling down, had just bravely saved his lieutenant, and the lower half of his body had disappeared into the tracks of the tank.
All that was left was a patch of red and broken bones.
Although Yasu Sakai knew about the information that the United States was stereotyping a Pershing heavy tank, the information could never be compared with the shock brought by the real thing.
Don Ziqiang's seat car after the rampage course machine gun parallel machine gun coaxial machine gun top high After the violent explosion, the machine gunners on the turret of the enemy tank turret disappeared, but the course machine gun and the side-by-side machine gun and the coaxial machine gun only paused for five seconds and came back to life.
After knocking over several cars in a row, they rushed into the convoy, and more and more Chinese tanks appeared on the road.
While fleeing in panic, Yasushi Sakai ordered his troops to get out of the battle as soon as possible.
The Japanese troops who were pinched by the squadron, cut off the tail, and hit the middle were completely paralyzed on the road like a long snake, and became the target of the squadron's arbitrary firing, and the more than 20 chariot defensive guns carried by the 17th Division of the Japanese army were all pulled in the marching column of the field artillery wing at this moment, and they could not return fire at all, and the Japanese soldiers who had realized that the rout was a foregone conclusion ran all over the mountains, and the Japanese soldiers were constantly convulsed and fell to the ground under the strafing of the old Browning concave inch caliber machine guns of the Peng Greyhound assault vehicle.
This was an ambush battle under field conditions that was beyond the expectations of everyone in the Japanese army, and it can be said that the Japanese army suffered unprecedented losses, which can be said to be caused by the Japanese army's lack of timely response mechanism to the changeable tactical system of the mechanized forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
On this five-kilometer-long stretch of road, about 300 Japanese trucks of various types and fuel tankers were destroyed and burned.
Billowing black smoke filled the air, the smell of burnt fur filled the air, the corpses of Japanese soldiers could be seen everywhere, and the charred and deformed corpses in the wreckage of burning vehicles could be seen, and the entire stretch of the road became an easy passage to hell.
The fate of the Japanese convoy that was ambushed in the state of riding was undoubtedly very tragic, and the unprepared Japanese soldiers were even torn apart in cars along with the hit trucks, and the motorized infantry riding on the axis of ambush by the armored forces could only be slaughtered, with stumps, broken arms and internal organs, and a barbecue-like sound on the charred steel plates The Japanese scouts carefully dialed the range of 500 meters on both sides of the road according to the usual practice, but the Panzer Department thought that they could effectively avoid the opponent's visual reconnaissance, and the ambush distance was generally 1,000 meters away, and generally speaking, the effective second firing range of the tank main gun was its ambush distance.
The losses of the Japanese army can be said to be huge, and the first division of the Japanese army, which has only been formed for more than three months, is only one battle.
After losing more than half of the troops, the field artillery wing was completely destroyed, all the radial weights carried on the road were burned, and nearly 6,000 officers and men fell to death on this death road.
For the brilliant results he achieved, Tang Ziqiang couldn't believe his eyes, and the losses of the assault troops were nothing more than a few light tanks and four or five Peng Greyhound assault vehicles.
Tang Ziqiang himself took advantage of the gap between the troops cleaning up the battlefield and laying mines, like a conscientious war correspondent.
Holding a camera, as if the negatives didn't cost money, they took a big shot, and even posed the dead bodies of the Japanese soldiers in various shapes and took group photos, and the officers and men of the First Heavy Cavalry Regiment knew that the regiment was seated in the same place, and a military officer in the commander's department was optimistic, but this was all Tang Ziqiang's unilateral declaration.
People familiar with the matter said that Tang was purely self-inflicted, and with a dead face, it is estimated that the first-hand information of this shooting is to take it back and offer treasures, in line with the principle of not harming the little devil and giving birth to a son, Tang Ziqiang finally ordered to leave an old pressure mine for the Japanese under the corpse of the Japanese soldier as a souvenir.
Yasushi Sakai, who escaped death, was defeated with more than a dozen remnants and was taken in by the follow-up infantry detachment of the 1st Division.
When Yuichiro Nagano, commander of the 1st Division, heard that the vanguard was attacked, he hurriedly ordered the troops to stop advancing and defend on the spot, and sent people to directly send Yasu Sakai and others directly to the commander of the dispatch army, Okamura Ninji.
For the tragic encounter of Yasushi Sakai, who is usually extremely arrogant and has no one in his eyes, Nagano Quiichiro is more shocking than a little bit of schadenfreude, and he was directly involved in the previous strategic deployment meeting, and only two divisions of the troops stuck to Hengyang, in addition to dealing with the pressure in the direction of Changsha, he had to face the siege of his own army.
For Song Yuhang, the supreme commander of the expeditionary force who has been noisy for a while, Nagano Shiichiro still admires him, and the people who can sit that far are not simply achieved by luck.
However, Yuichiro Nagano believes that people make mistakes as long as they are arrogant, and no one is exempt.
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Song Yuhang made the mistake of going deep alone this time.
Before the attack on Yasushi Sakai's division, in Nagano Yuichiro's opinion, Song Yuhang and his First Mechanized Army were doomed this time, and the price they paid for their arrogance and ignorance was the annihilation of the whole army, with three main divisions and two independent mixed brigades, plus two independent tank brigades and a tank wing, against the two exhausted divisions of the Chinese troops, even if there was a miracle, I am afraid that Hengyang would not be able to be saved.
But.
The situation in front of him is that Hengyang has not yet arrived as one of the main attacks, and the first division has been defeated, and the whole fraud regiment has been devastated.
It can be said that the Japanese army's overall command concept and the idea of the command organization are still stuck in the simple infantry stage, and the initial infantry artillery combined with air-ground support for the combat vehicle breakthrough is a tactical support means for the Japanese army, and the Japanese army's tank divisions and regiments are still at the tactical level of support in the Japanese army's combat system, and the Japanese army does not understand the tactical combat concept and combat mode of the mechanized troops, and what they understand is the great depth and powerful firepower and mobility of the First Mechanized Army, and they do not know much about the actual composition and command and tactical characteristics of this unit.
When Netimura Ninji saw Sakai Yasu, who had a bandage on his head and an arm hanging on his chest, he had the idea of pulling out the katana and directly chopping this bastard, he had a certain prejudice against the academic school, and he had a certain prejudice against the academic school, so he supported Sakai Yasushi this time, but in just one round, Sakai Yasu was inexplicably knocked to the ground by his opponent.
Although Tanmura Ningji repeatedly reminded himself that he could not underestimate the enemy, he still made the mistake of underestimating the enemy, and the original three-way advance became the rapid advance of the first division, but out of the net, what Ningji expected was that the Chinese Expeditionary Force was able to use armored forces to fight their own ambushes, which was too incredible.
Suffering a loss, Nakamura Ningji immediately adjusted the adjustment of the troops attacking Hengyang, and planned to concentrate on Takeshita Yoshiharu's sword division Ran.
Nagano Shinichiro's Blade Division, Koji Takahashi's Retention Division, and the Kwantung Army's Setsuki Anan's Independent Mixed 1st Blade Brigade, and Kamikawa Binbu's Independent Mixed 1st Bi Brigade.
Cooperate with the 1st Brigade of the Independent War Poison and the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Tank to attack Hengyang from three sides.
The main force of the 3rd Division blocked the squadron in Shaoyang with the intention of reinforcing Hengyang in a roundabout way.
The 1st Division engaged the enemy before the 3rd Division in Longhui County.
The 1st Concave Division was in Shuangpai County, and the 1st Division was between Changning and Moyang, and the 1st Hong Division and the 1st Division were deployed in Hengshan County, Zhuzhou County and Xiangtan to ensure the smooth and safe operation of Changsha.
Netimura Ningji's order made the commanders of the Japanese divisions present look sideways, so it can be said that it was to annihilate the strength of the opponent's two divisions.
The dispatch of troops actually came up with the deployment of a large-scale campaign, which cannot but be said to be the first time in history.
After a cautious march and deployment, the various units of the Japanese army to send reinforcements from the periphery had been put in place, but the Hong Division and the 1st Sheng Division, which were supposed to be deployed in the direction of Hengshan County, Zhuzhou County, and Xiangtan, were concentrated together with the 22nd Division and the Independent Mixed Brigade Regiment No one knows what the specific intentions of Netmura Ninji are, as the commander of the dispatch army, it is not the first time that he has been in a large-scale redeployment and adjustment of troops.
Three divisions and two regiments of the Japanese army outside Hengyang City.
The independent mixed brigade soon entered the offensive position, and the chief of staff of the Chinese dispatch army, Hirotoshi Ohara, served as the commander-in-chief, but the five people, including Takeshita Yoshichai, Nagano Quiichiro, Takahashi Koji, Setsuki Anan, and Kamikawa Binbu, privately agreed that whoever broke through the defense of Hengyang first would be considered the merit of whom, and the five of them had no objection to this agreement.
As for the independent tank regiment and the independent tank brigade of the 3rd brigade to cooperate with the operation, although the two were a little dissatisfied, but they also raised objections, after all, the tank unit and the heavy artillery unit have the same role, both as a subordinate force, no matter who wins the battle, the credit is indispensable, and it is even more difficult to take the lead.
Daisakuma and Ji Minloufu were very interested in the fact that the armored forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force were used as the main combat arms alone, especially after the attack on the first division, and they were even more excited, because they saw the tremendous power and broad prospects of the armored forces being used alone as an independent strategic force.
However, Daisaku and Kimingeev did not notice the huge gap in the performance of their combat vehicles and armored vehicles with the heavy, medium, and light tanks equipped by the Chinese Expeditionary Force, as well as the armored vehicles derived from the models.
Under the adjustment of Netmura Ningji.
March 4 Japanese troops from three.
The general direction is long, and the city of Hengyang is encircled, and it is a coincidence that the direction of the Japanese army's encirclement is exactly on the three corners of Song Yuhang's defense triangle, which is really the tip of the needle, and the other party.
The Japanese army could be said to have concentrated all their efforts on Hengyang, wanting to make a ride down, while the Chinese Expeditionary Force was in a solid mode, and the machine gun turrets of the Peng Greyhound armored vehicles that drove into the trenches were exposed to the ground.
The rest of the car was covered with logs, and it was driven away like an ordinary point of fire.
In the trenches of the main positions.
About every twenty meters, there will be a Greyhound armored car, which is both a fire point and an anti-artillery shelter, interspersed between the positions, running back and forth, throwing Sherman medium tanks and Peng light tanks as a swimming fire point, the yellow and clear bullet chains swaying slightly on the Oh Ming general machine gun, and the armored infantry sitting in the Greyhound are waiting for them
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