Anti-Japanese War: From Becoming Chu Yunfei to Rising

Chapter 199 The Japanese army is anxious: There is a cheat, how can we fight! (Subscribe)

Subtitle: The encirclement and annihilation campaign began, how come it was the 52nd Army that was encircled and annihilated?
"Captain, the latest news is that the cavalry battalion has just destroyed the artillery position north of Yi County."

"Cavalry battalion?"

Bian Fucheng subconsciously raised his head and looked at the battalion commander under his command: "Commander Chu is here to command the troops in person?"

In the eyes of an "old man" like Bian Fucheng.

Such an aggressive offensive style is unlikely to come from Qian Bojun.

Command of a cavalry battalion.

It also belongs to Chu Yunfei himself.

Qian Bojun had no authority to transfer, let alone command Ma Keying.

As the only mobile assault force in Chu Yunfei's hands.

The cavalry battalion is actually the elite among the elite, and Chu Yunfei values ​​it very much.

However, the cavalry battalion had never been fully staffed before.

Mark Ying and his soldiers never took on high-risk combat missions.

In other words, this is Chu Yunfei's treasure.

Not until the critical moment.

Chu Yunfei was reluctant to use the cavalry battalion.

"Captain, is our attack..."

"Wait."

Bian Fucheng said: "If it was Commander Chu who was in charge, he would not have launched an attack on Yi County now."

"Order the Second Battalion to be ready. After each round of shelling, send a company to conduct a tentative attack to check the results of the shelling."

"Yes!"

Just as Bian Fucheng judged.

His order had just been issued.

Sun Ming then called his command center and conveyed Chu Yunfei's order.

At this time, Chu Yunfei was standing next to the heavy mortar battalion position.

Song Ming ran to Chu Yunfei and said, "Sir, the heavy mortar battalion is ready for battle."

Chu Yunfei put down the telescope in his hand: "Then open fire."

"Yes!"

Following his order.

The 82mm mortar shells were continuously fired, hitting the Japanese light and heavy machine gun fire points with incredible precision.

Boom~!

Boom~!

Explosions continued one after another.

Chu Yunfei marked out thirty similar combat targets for Song Ming in just five minutes.

Within fifteen minutes of the first shell leaving the chamber.

These thirty firing points were all hit by targeted artillery fire.

Japanese forward command post.

Major Shoichi Mizutani, the Japanese commander in charge of guarding the outer front position, frowned slightly.

He looked up and listened carefully to the continuous explosions.

Not long after, a Japanese lieutenant rushed into the command center.

"Captain~!"

"Don't panic. It's the enemy's infantry artillery (the Japanese called mortars indirect-fire infantry artillery). This small-caliber support artillery has no chance of destroying our machine gun positions."

While comforting his men, Shoichi Mizutani ordered the deputy battalion commander and the combat staff in the battalion headquarters to go to the front line to supervise the battle and boost morale.

After the shelling ended.

Under Chu Yunfei's command, the first regiment commander Bian Fucheng sent out a company under his command to launch a tentative attack.

Under the powerful firepower counterattack of the Japanese invaders.

The attacking force quickly withdrew.

There has been no effective progress.

But after the Japanese attacked like this, everyone discovered a problem.

The effect of this shelling did not seem to be very good.

Chu Yunfei discovered this after comparing it again with the previously marked map.

This round of shelling.

Only 40 percent of the Japanese machine gun positions were destroyed.

Far lower than the previous artillery efficiency.

When Chu Yunfei launched the artillery attack, he clearly saw on the three-dimensional combat map that the reaction speed of this group of Japanese devils was much faster than all the Japanese devils he had fought before.

After hearing the sound of the artillery shells breaking through the air.

The first choice of these Japanese soldiers was to hide on the side of the trench.

Or evacuate to both sides.

It is clear.

It is very likely that this group of Japanese devils belonging to the North China Expeditionary Army have obtained some intelligence.

Or perhaps he summarized Chu Yunfei's troops' fighting style based on previous battlefield traces.

Targeted training and advocacy were carried out.

From this point of view, these Japanese devils are progressing very quickly.

The regular battle lasted less than half a year.

The Japanese army has found an effective way to reduce its own losses when facing Chu Yunfei's troops.

under these circumstances.

Unless the shells directly hit the light or heavy machine guns, the damage to the Japanese troops in the bunkers was limited.

Facing Song Ming's somewhat worried gaze, Chu Yunfei slowly said: "It seems that these little devils are very smart. They know that our light artillery is accurate, so they have reinforced the firepower points accordingly."

"Sir...what about us?" Song Ming asked in a low voice.

Chu Yunfei sneered: "To deal with these bastards, we still have to use mountain artillery to bombard them."

Japanese forward command post.

Mizutani Shoichi, the frontline commander, reported the latest battle situation to the Japanese Yixian commander Colonel Hideo Nomura over the phone.

After hearing explosions and gunshots.

The wing commander, Hideo Nomura, called immediately to inquire about the specific situation.

Mizutani Shoichi said confidently.

They had repelled the infantry attack of Chu Yunfei's troops and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy.

In addition, Mizutani Shoichi emphasized the artillery bombardment by Chu Yunfei's troops.

With its targeted deployment, not much was lost.

Hideo Nomura originally felt that the defense of Yi County was very dangerous because his artillery positions were destroyed by Chu Yunfei's troops.

He had already prepared himself for the heavy losses suffered by the troops on the front line.

But I never expected to hear such good news from the front line.

For a moment, Hideo Nomura was extremely excited!
The sound on the phone was slightly broken.

Hideo Nomura was even more generous in praising the captain under his command.

"Major Mizutani, your command is very good, just like a true artist completing his masterpiece. It makes me deeply feel the charm of frontal defense warfare."

Mizutani Shoichi's mouth curled up slightly, unable to suppress his excitement: "Please rest assured, Captain, Chu Yunfei's troops will not be able to break through our defense line. Once our main force moves south, we will surely defeat them or even annihilate them."

"Yoshi~! After this battle is over, I will personally meet with the brigade commander and ask for credit for your battalion!"

"Hayi, thank you for your cultivation, Captain!"

After hanging up the phone, Mizutani Shoichi turned his head and looked at the Japanese soldiers behind him, and then said: "The commander is very satisfied with our operations. Please keep up the good work."

Before the Japanese could feel proud for too long, they soon fell into despair.

Chu Yunfei not only found the Japanese invaders' forward command post.

The field artillery regiment has also been ordered to prepare for a direct attack on the command center in Yi County.

A few days.

These Japanese devils not only repaired the relatively complete field fortifications.

Some trees were even cut down to reinforce the joints.

The frontal defensive position was indeed difficult to attack. No wonder Qian Bojun's troops had previously entered the county town, but then retreated due to heavy casualties.

Judging from Chu Yunfei’s personal presence on the front line, the so-called breakthrough in the Japanese invaders’ frontal positions.

It is highly likely that the Japanese invaders were luring the enemy deeper into their territory.

What they wanted was to surround Qian Bojun's main force in the county town and then annihilate it.

However, they underestimated the combat effectiveness of Honor 196B.

The main force of the attack successfully broke out.

These little Japanese devils have some merit, but in Chu Yunfei's eyes they are still not good enough.

Before the Japanese soldiers at the Yi County Command reported the so-called good news to Seya Kei.

One shell after another hit the command post where Hideo Nomura was located.

These little Japanese devils are quite careful about their lives.

Its headquarters was located in a trading company in Yi County.

This is one of the few brick and stone buildings in the county.

The Kong family's property.

According to Hideo Nomura's own idea, if the command center is set up in the county government.

It is very likely that they will be bombarded or even hit by the national army immediately.

Because of this, he took a different approach and chose to set up his headquarters in this trading company.

Small but complete.

The small trading company not only accommodated an entire brigade headquarters, but Hideo Nomura also deployed some combat personnel to provide protection.

The county seat of Yi County had been bombed by the 28th Air Force Squadron before.

But their regiment headquarters did not suffer any attack.

Hideo Nomura was quite proud of this.

Now, he was drafting a telegram to report the situation in front of the radio station, and he only heard a deafening explosion.

The next second, he was knocked unconscious by the falling bricks and stones.

"Boom~!"

75mm mountain artillery shells and mm field artillery shells came one after another.

They only stopped after each of them had reached two base points.

The trading company, which had once been quite solid, had now been reduced to ruins.

Perhaps there is an adjective that is very appropriate, that is razed to the ground.

The Japanese soldiers in Yi County quickly came to the rescue.

Then they found the body of their squadron leader under the collapsed masonry.
From the military uniform and rank on the puddle of flesh, one could barely tell.

This is their captain.
In the end, only a major staff officer was left in the entire regiment headquarters. He was crushed by bricks and stones in the rubble, and his life or death was unknown.

When Shoichi Mizutani got the news, he was dumbfounded.

This all took less than an hour.

The regiment commander, who had just spoken to him on the phone not long ago, was killed in the artillery fire of the Kuomintang troops.

A strong sense of uneasiness enveloped his heart.

It was as if he would be killed the next moment if he stayed in the forward command post.

The skulls in the three-dimensional combat map are very conspicuous and easy to hit.

The wing-level command will mark it.

For a little Karami like Shoichi Mizutani.

Although the function of the three-dimensional combat map is extraordinary, Chu Yunfei still needs to find the location bit by bit by himself.

If there is no personal perspective on the battle map, you cannot switch perspectives.

From a bird's-eye view, most areas of the Japanese positions were camouflaged accordingly.

It’s not that easy to find.

And now.

More than half an hour passed.

Chu Yunfei also found three possible locations of the Japanese forward command posts.

After quickly completing the corresponding annotations, Chu Yunfei turned to look at Wei Dayong on the side and said, "Monk, go and deliver this information to the commander of the mountain artillery regiment, Liang Guoping."

Sun Ming had already set off to deliver maps to the field artillery regiment again, and Wei Dayong was the only guard left at his disposal.

"Sir, I'm going to go, and there's no one around you. If the Japanese attack, who will protect your safety?"

Chu Yunfei burst into laughter when he heard this.

I haven't heard such doubts and concerns for a long time.

"Go ahead. None of these bastards can defeat me."

"Yes!"

Seeing Chu Yunfei so confident, Wei Dayong nodded immediately and said, "Sir, I'll go then."

"Ah."

Ten minutes later.
The uneasiness that had been hanging over Shoichi Mizutani's heart came true at this moment.

Sporadic explosions sounded again.

All the Japanese knew that this was the artillery bombardment from Chu Yunfei's troops.

Soon, the shells seemed to have eyes.

It smashed directly into the Japanese's frontier command post
Boom!

With a loud bang, the Japanese command center collapsed instantly.

Shoichi Mizutani died instantly at the first moment of the bombardment.

Then, shells hit the target location again, and all the old devils and radio soldiers in the front command post were wiped out.
The highest commander of the Japanese in Yi County and the frontline commander were all killed.
Even all the radio stations that could communicate with the outside world were completely destroyed by shelling.

Chu Yunfei looked at the front battlefield in the distance with satisfaction.

He can feel it.

When the infantry was charging just now, the Japanese defense line was briefly in chaos but quickly stabilized.

But the original scene of rapid support and coordination between each other disappeared.

This group of Japanese devils are fighting in squadrons or even teams.

This proves one thing: the artillery bombardment that I just directed hit the right place.

"Dingling bell~!"

The telephone rang in the heavy mortar battalion.

Song Ming asked loudly: "Commander Chu, Brigade Commander Qian asked whether we should launch a large-scale offensive immediately?"

"Order them to break through the Japanese invaders' outer positions, divide and annihilate them, and surround all the Japanese troops in the county!"

"Yes!"

Chu Yunfei's offensive was unstoppable and progressed quite smoothly.

That night, the defense system built by the Japanese invaders outside Yi County was cleared out.

Seven villages were captured and more than 400 Japanese soldiers were killed.

It can be said that the Japanese devils at this time.

The situation of the National Army is much worse than that of the National Army in Taierzhuang.

There were at least 2,000 people on the periphery of the 31st Division in Taierzhuang, conducting diversionary offensive operations.

These less than 3,000 Japanese soldiers had actually become an isolated force, and the county seat of Yi County had become an isolated city.

Another very critical battlefield.

That is the 52nd Army that attacked Zaozhuang from east to west.

Suffered relatively huge losses.

It will be much more difficult for the 52nd Army to fight.

They were facing the main force of the Seya Detachment.

The military strength is about 6,000 people.

A fully-strength 10th Infantry Regiment and its corresponding artillery power should not be underestimated.

When the Yizhou detachment moved eastward to provide support, the combat effectiveness of both sides was basically equal.

The Japanese invaders were on the defensive and naturally had the advantage.

Just when Chu Yunfei used precise micromanagement to take out the Japanese forward command post.

The main force of the Second Division launched another round of attack.

This group of soldiers huddled closely under the military flag.

Another round of charge was launched towards the Japanese bunkers in Zaozhuang City.

To be honest.

The quality of the officers and soldiers of the Second Division is relatively above average among the National Army.

However, even the elite troops of the National Army did not know how to coordinate infantry and artillery operations.

It is worth mentioning that each member of their mountain artillery battalion is an expert.

This group of German-style artillery cadets from the Central Tangshan Artillery School are the most elite artillery force of the current National Government and the National Revolutionary Army.

The power of the German 75mm mountain gun should not be underestimated.

On the battlefield today, in order to destroy the Japanese invaders' firepower points.

Zheng Dongguo spared no effort to do this and ordered two 75mm mountain cannons to move to the front line to engage in a fire battle with the enemy's Type infantry guns.

Even destroyed a lot of fortifications.

However, the Second Division also suffered many casualties.

As for the other unit of the 52nd Army.

That is, Zhang Yaoming's troops in the 25th Division not only needed to send out three regiments to support the offensive operations of the 2nd Division.

The main force of the unit also needs to be divided into several groups to intercept the Guoqi Detachment.

The offensive operations of the 59th Army and the 3rd Corps were a threat to the elite Allied forces of the Japanese invaders.

There is an effect, but it comes at the cost of constant sacrifice.

The losses of ammunition, artillery shells, weapons and personnel were several times higher than those of the Japanese army.

The fighting continued for several days.

Although enough time was gained to "deploy" the encirclement and annihilation troops.

But their attack was already extremely weak at this time, and even Pang Bingxun had already asked Chang Kai for instructions to regroup and fight again.

If the fighting continues like this, it will be his turn as the legion commander to lead the charge himself.

Guan Linzheng's troops of the 52nd Army were attacked from two sides.

Just as Tang Enbo had previously judged.

Upon learning the news, Tang Enbo not only did not send any reinforcements.

Instead, he was glad that he did not send his 85th Army to attack Zaozhuang... otherwise, his entire army would be surrounded by the main force of the Japanese army.

Third Army.

In Tang Enbo's eyes, it is also extremely unreliable.

The predecessor of this unit was Han Fuju's unit.

Sun Tongxuan is Han Fuju's old general.

When Han Fuju was taken to Wuhan and executed, Sun Tongxuan and others were still working on his rescue.

If it weren’t for Chiang Kai-shek’s nod.

Sun Tongxuan couldn't even walk out of his courtyard.

After Han Fuju's death.

Sun Tongxuan served as acting commander-in-chief of the Third Army.

The Third Army was tying down the main force of the Japanese army moving south.

If they fail to fight effectively, they may be "defeated by the powerful Japanese offensive."

This would very likely cause Tang's army to be caught in a situation where they were attacked from three sides.

Chiang Kai-shek, Lin Wei, Liu Fei and others who were stationed in Xuzhou were quite surprised to find out.

After the encirclement and annihilation campaign started, how come it was our own 52nd Army that was encircled and annihilated?

I’m sorry, brothers. I wrote yesterday’s chapter using my mobile phone while riding in a car. It was my first time typing with a mobile phone. After sending it out, I found that I didn’t have the permission to modify it... I’m so embarrassed and I’ve been criticized.

However, the result is good news for the readers: I sent out more than 300 resumes, but only got one interview invitation, and I didn’t get any interviews.

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