Anti-Japanese War: From Becoming Chu Yunfei to Rising

Chapter 248 The war is getting bigger and bigger, and the Japanese army is getting anxious! (Subscribe)
"The 771st Regiment was bombarded by heavy artillery from the Japanese Army and currently has suffered heavy casualties. It is gradually retreating. The mission of the raid has been accomplished. Your troops should retreat according to the original combat plan."

Chen Zejun frowned slightly and rejected the proposal of Brigade Commander Chen: "Brigade Commander Chen, the enemy has already come out in full force. The Yangquan and Niangzi Pass lines are bound to be extremely empty. Our army is determined to expand the victory. I wonder what your army thinks."

"Expand the results of the battle?" Brigade Commander Chen asked after a moment's silence.

Chen Zejun continued, "Yes, at present, our army has already contained the main force of the Japanese army advancing eastward with only two battalions of combat troops. If we can contain more main forces of the Japanese army, we can complete the combat mission of capturing Yangquan.

According to intelligence, the Japanese army has a material warehouse in Yangquan City, which contains a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition.

If successfully obtained, it can equip at least two infantry battalions. "

Supply warehouse, two infantry battalions!

Brigade Commander Chen relented: "How does Commander Chen plan to fight?"

"Please help us complete the diversionary operations by using guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. Our reinforcements will arrive within two days, and we will launch an attack on Niangzi Pass in three days."

Chen Zejun emphasized: "It takes a long time to deploy our heavy artillery units, but it only takes two days for infantry support to arrive. Commander Chu has already contacted Commander Zeng's Third Army, which will provide strong support for your army."

"Well, I will cooperate with your actions."

After hanging up the phone, the political commissar beside him spoke up: "Old Chen, why don't you ask your superiors for instructions?"

"Did this bastard give me a chance to ask for instructions?" Brigade Commander Chen was quite helpless.

In his opinion.

This battle was not commanded by Chen Zejun.

The real commander should be Chu Yunfei.

After sensing an opportunity, he acted first and asked for permission later.

Needless to say, his 386th Brigade joined the battle along with Zeng Wanzhong's Third Army.

Maybe even the entire 18th Group Army will be involved in this battle.

Damn!

At the beginning, it was just a raid.

It was a battle based on political considerations and the cooperative attitude of both sides.

And now.

Following Chu Yunfei's actions.

It is very likely that the fight will get bigger and bigger!

Zeng Wanzhong was also confused after receiving Chu Yunfei's telegram.

"What does Chu Yunfei want to do?"

The adjutant at the side whispered: "Could it be because of a sudden impulse?"

"I know about their raid. They mobilized three regiments, which is a lot of troops."

Zeng Wanzhong rubbed his nose and said, "Could it be that Chu Yunfei has other ideas?"

"Commander Yan has been preparing to counterattack Taiyuan for a month. If he doesn't take action now, I'm afraid Wuhan will have a hard time explaining it. Is it possible that Chu Yunfei's move this time was instructed by Commander Yan, and that he mobilized us just to boost momentum, but with much ado about nothing?"

"It's not impossible."

Chu Yunfei did not greet him in advance before the battle began.

There were also no military orders from the Second War Zone or the 18th Group Army.

Suddenly a telegram was sent to him.

Ask him to go north to reinforce the Niangziguan front and support the operations of the 386th Brigade.

Even though the 18th Group Army was his friendly defense zone, the cooperative relationship between the two sides was quite good before.

But shouldn’t the troops of the 18th Group Army be the first to provide reinforcements?
"What I'm worried about now is that this war was a spur-of-the-moment idea of ​​Chu Yunfei, not instructed by Commander Yan. We can only use our own resources to fight this war." Zeng Wanzhong frowned, very worried.

He paced back and forth in the war room.

Other senior commanders of the Third Army also remained silent.

This is the reality of the Third Army.

One of their Yunnan Army generals was sent to Shanxi and ordered not to retreat across the Yellow River.

In essence, it is Chiang Kai-shek's balancing act.

They are from Yunnan and don't get much support here.

Naturally, Old Man Yan would not give limited consideration to this group of guest troops.

The supplies that can be obtained basically come from the mountain city, that is, the Military Committee.

It was only after the battle of southeastern Shanxi.

Sun Weimou was in charge of work in southeastern Shanxi.

Under the instruction of Chu Yunfei, he has a good cooperative relationship with him.

Zeng Wanzhong was known for his strict and honest military discipline, and the Third Army had a good reputation in the southeastern Shanxi region.

It is also one of the troops that Chu Yunfei wants to strive for in the future.

"In my opinion, the troops should be mobilized. Chu Yunfei is young and very arrogant. If we don't give him this face, no one knows whether he will have other ideas in his mind." Li Shilong suggested, "But we can't mobilize too many troops, otherwise the losses will be too great and there will be no way to replenish them."

"That's right. In this way, Shilong, you lead a brigade to the north to reinforce. After establishing contact with the 18th Group Army, consider the follow-up actions."

"Yes!"

Li Shilong was the commander of the Seventh Division promoted by Zeng Wanzhong.

Previously, Zeng Wanzhong concurrently served as the commander of this division.

It is equivalent to the 196 under Chu Yunfei, and is the direct descendant of Zeng Wanzhong's troops.

Eat people with short mouths, and take people softly.

Even if it was not Chu Yunfei's troops who sought support, other troops of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army did.

Zeng Wanzhong couldn't just sit back and watch.
After playing for more than ten hours.

Its daybreak.

Chu Yunfei, Sun Ming and others also arrived at the second-line forward command post.

Chen Zejun's command center moved forward and was set up here.

Sun Ming was sent by him to conduct a brief inspection of the trenches.

It is called an inspection, but in fact it is also about learning and verification.

This type of German-style field fortification construction is rare in Shanxi.

After all, Chen Zejun graduated from the ninth class.

This is a serious and pioneering issue.

When the Germans built fortifications, they often liked to use machine guns as the core.

This fighting style also influenced every Whampoa student who received German education.

When they command the battle.

They would also subconsciously take the machine gun position as the core, and then fight in the form of teams.

When the enemy stops attacking, we will dig communication trenches to connect the points into lines and use lines to represent the surface.

This defensive warfare idea can be regarded as a relatively modern defensive warfare idea.

Priority is often given to controlling commanding heights to ensure the continuity of flanking fire and firepower.

Even in Chu Yunfei's eyes, there are still many details that need to be improved.

But overall, it can already score 80 points.

It is more than enough to deal with these little Japanese devils.

Not long after, Sun Ming returned to the command center and pointed out some shortcomings in the current position in front of Chen Zejun.

Chen Zejun nodded and immediately ordered people to make immediate rectifications and strengthen the fortifications to ensure that the battle could last longer.

"Sir, it will take 197B another day to reach the outskirts of Yangquan. Should we launch an offensive operation in advance?"

Chu Yunfei shook his head: "We have to wait until the first battalion of the mountain artillery regiment and the anti-aircraft company are deployed in place."

"If we attack at night..." Chen Zejun suggested, "the amount of shells and ammunition consumed by our army will be much smaller."

Chu Yunfei rejected Chen Zejun's proposal.

In his opinion.

Night raid, yes, no problem.

But the prerequisite is that the Japanese army’s firepower is stronger than ours.

In this case, it is better to fight in close combat to reduce one's own losses.

As for the reduction in consumption of artillery shells and ammunition, that is just a byproduct, not the key.

Although Chu Yunfei is now tightening his belt to make ends meet.

But he would not be so foolish as to exchange the lives of his elite veterans for these shells and ammunition.

Chu Yunfei then explained, "What you learned in Huangpu was almost a flat attack, and at most you learned some infantry and artillery coordination tactics. However, due to the different ratios of the various armies and the actual combat situations, your understanding of the battle level is quite superficial."

"Remember, at this stage of fighting in the country, you not only need to consider the comprehensive strength comparison between the enemy and us, but also the corresponding political considerations."

"For example, I can trust the Third Army, I can trust the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and I can even fight side by side with the Eighth Route Army. But when I'm not around, you have to think twice."

Chen Zejun nodded thoughtfully.

The gap between the two people's identities and status is bound to affect many things.

Chu Yunfei didn't go into too much detail, he just raised the telescope in his hand and observed the situation on the Japanese side.

Ever since the Japanese army "broke through" the first-line blocking positions.

Then they launched six consecutive attacks on the second-line defense positions.

Perhaps because it was dark, no progress was made.

It can be clearly seen in the three-dimensional combat map.

The organization level of the Kashiwazaki Regiment, which was blocking the enemy with the 95th Infantry Regiment, also dropped from 70% to %.

This is enough to show that the Kashiwazaki Regiment suffered considerable casualties.

The reason why they did not continue the attack was probably because their morale was affected.

As the order to continue the attack was given by Umezu Mijiro.

The Kashiwazaki regiment launched another attack.

Their opponent was the Flying Tiger Honor Division under Chu Yunfei.

This actually means that from the very beginning, these little devils never thought of fighting a war of annihilation.

It's just about defeating the enemy in front and then launching a pursuit.

I don't know.

In the plain terrain, the main force of a regiment under Chu Yunfei's command was able to withstand the attack of the main infantry regiment of the Japanese army.

Under mountainous terrain.

The 7th Infantry Regiment, which occupied a lot of advantageous terrain, naturally felt like a fish in water.

"Da da~"

"Da da~"

As the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns launched suppressive fire.

Rounds of artillery fire once again bombarded the position.

Chu Yunfei looked down at the watch in his hand, while paying attention to the situation of the Japanese artillery regiment.

As shells continued to be fired.

The evaluation data of the Japanese field artillery regiment in the three-dimensional combat map has also changed from good to moderate.

In the three-dimensional combat map, there are only five levels for evaluating the Japanese army's logistics situation.

They are poor, relatively poor, moderate, relatively good, and good.

As the Japanese continued to use artillery fire, the logistics situation of this field artillery regiment also quickly declined from good to relatively good.
From this information, Chu Yunfei made a bold inference.

The Japanese army's current logistical supply situation cannot maintain the current combat intensity.

Judging from the percentage of yellow bars, their original material equipment situation was 98%, but now it is shown as 60%.

If it is based on the normal combat carrying capacity of the Japanese field artillery regiment when fighting independently.

They had a total of twenty-four field guns, with each Type 38 field gun carrying an average of 302 rounds.

If there are twenty-four guns, that means there are 7248 shells.

Some of these are explosive bombs and shrapnel shells, and the rest are high-explosive bombs.

But no matter how you count it.
The Japs had only been fighting for less than twenty-four hours.

This Japanese unit had already wasted 2,750 artillery shells.

At present, the number of casualties of the 7th Infantry Regiment has just exceeded 300.

After all, the Japanese at this point in time were still wealthy and powerful, and were used to spending lavishly.

If it is against other troops, even some Jinsui Army troops.

If the Japanese army continued to bombard with this artillery fire, not to mention being defeated, there would be thousands of casualties.

The field fortifications of the 7th Infantry Regiment were built quite well.

Wu Ziqiang was an officer who tended to be conservative in his style of fighting.

Chen Zejun is now considered one of the few young officers under Chu Yunfei who is good at building defensive fortifications and has a very safe combat style.

Before American aid entered the country in large quantities.

In general, the fighting style is still based on strategic defense and small-scale counterattacks.

A commander like Chen Zejun.

Chu Yunfei will definitely make use of him.

After the shelling ended.

A squadron leader waved his command knife and shouted: "Assault!"

The confidence was visible to the naked eye, and three infantry squadrons were mobilized at once.

It seems that these Japanese soldiers from the Kashiwazaki Regiment.

It is not night now.

They could see the flames from the explosion splashing across the hilltop.

The Japanese artillery, even if it was indirect fire.

It can also be adjusted continuously under the guidance of an observer.

They hit accurately, but it didn't mean much.

No one would place too many troops on the frontline.

Not to mention things like anti-gun holes.

For the entire Flying Tiger Honor Division, that is basic operation.

Even if the Japanese army poured out their artillery fire, the casualties would not be many, but the destruction of some fortifications was inevitable.

Neither Chu Yunfei nor Chen Zejun expected that this temporary defensive fortification could stop the Japanese attack.

All they did was buy time.

Even the three blocking positions prepared in advance were destroyed by the Japanese army.

In the doorstep of southeastern Shanxi.

Break the whole into small units, and engage in mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare while fighting and retreating.

The Japanese army is unlikely to dare to pursue further, as they do not have many troops to be deployed in Shanxi.

"Da da da~!"

The Japanese army climbed up the mountainside with difficulty.

In addition to grenades, they were also greeted by bullets.

The Japanese army mobilized a large number of offensive forces, so naturally they displayed more firepower.

Even several anti-tank guns deployed on the flank opened fire.

Kashiwazaki Nobujiro, who was observing the enemy situation on the front line, discovered this situation: "The enemy seems to be equipped with a new type of direct-fire artillery."

"Send a message to the Commander, reporting the situation."

"Hayi..."

the other side.

The New 1st Regiment has retreated to the Daxinzhuang line.

Zhang Dabiao walked over quickly and said, "Captain, we have checked everything. Seventy-eight people were killed, including a platoon leader, four squad leaders, and the rest were soldiers. Most of them died in the first round of attacks."

"What about the wounded?"

"All the wounded were lightly wounded, and none of them were seriously injured. We have seized 38 Type 38 rifles and 40 bayonets. Including the Turtle Box and Browning pistol, we have seized 45 long and short guns, two crooked-handled machine guns, and a grenade launcher."

Li Yunlong nodded, looking excited: "These damn Japanese devils have made a small fortune by delivering the fat meat right before their mouths."

"Okay, according to the original battle plan, our New 1st Regiment will withdraw to the base to rest first."

"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao saluted, then turned around and organized the team.

Just as the group was heading towards Liwa Village.

The cavalry messenger from the brigade caught up with them: "Captain Li, Captain Li."

Li Yunlong frowned and said, "Yes, there must be something new happening in the 771st Regiment."

Shanxi.

First Army Headquarters.

Telegrams came in one after another from all sides.

The entire First Army Headquarters is like a sophisticated machine.

Handling telegrams, intelligence, and all kinds of information.

However, the Japanese army was not efficient at all.

At least when Mijiro Umezu got around to processing the crucial information.

It was already the fifth hour since the Kashiwazaki Unit generated the power.

"The information that Chu Yunfei's troops are equipped with new artillery has been confirmed. This batch of direct-fire artillery is likely to come from Germany..."

"During the Battle of Lanfeng, the 14th Division had a related report. Their firepower point was attacked by direct artillery. Now it seems that it was Chu Yunfei's troops who did it."

Mijiro Umezu did not pay much attention to the battle situation here. For him.

He did not expect that a field infantry regiment under his command and a field artillery regiment could defeat the elite Flying Tiger Honor Division.

The combat staff standing by could understand this just from the telegram that Umezu Mijiro was paying close attention to.

The commander of the First Army was obviously more concerned about the Imamura Regiment (231st Regiment) in the direction of Niangzi Pass.

Just looking at the results reported so far.

They inflicted heavy damage to the Eighth Route Army troops that were carrying out the blocking mission in the direction of Niangzi Pass, and caused heavy casualties.

According to the tone of the telegram, at least 2,000 casualties were caused to the Eighth Army.

The initial strategic goal has been achieved, and we are currently pursuing the attack according to the original battle plan, seeking to expand the results of the battle.

Before Umezu Mijiro could even have a chance to be happy.

He found the intelligence compiled by the Chief of Staff of the First Army, Shojiro Iida, placed in front of him.

After reading it carefully, Umezu Mijiro frowned.

All bad news.

Not only did the main force of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army in the Linfen direction make major moves.

Fu Zuoyi's troops in northwestern Shanxi and Suiyuan areas, and He's division of the Eighth Route Army.

The Liu and Lin divisions of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi, as well as Zeng Wanzhong's troops, were frequently mobilized.

For a time, the impending storm became increasingly obvious. Obviously, based on the current deployment situation of the Second War Zone.

They can launch a full-scale counterattack in Shanxi at any time.

And their combat strength.

After Chu Yunfei's troops arrived in southeastern Shanxi, they were far from enough.

Previously, Yan Laoxi's counterattack was just a lot of noise but little results, but now...
No one could guess whether the Second War Zone, with the Flying Tiger Honor Division, would really make up its mind to launch an offensive operation.

When Meijin Mijiro thought of this, he stopped hesitating and said, "Send a telegram to the North China Front Army Headquarters to request the dispatch of at least two brigades of combat troops to the north to reinforce Shanxi!"

"Hai!"

(End of this chapter)