mtlumby2d Chapter 382 No rules
Chapter 382 No rules
On March 3, various units sent back reconnaissance news that the Japanese Imperial Guards Division did not advance westward. The troops were defending the line from the two cities to Arashiyama. In the north, they connected with the Qingdao defenders, and in the south, they joined up with the 5th Division in Ganyu. They were vigorously building defensive fortifications and had no intention of attacking westward.
Chen Feng was still somewhat confused. Yokoyama Isamu, this was a familiar name. Bringing the Imperial Guards Division just to block his own outlet to the sea, it didn't make sense no matter how he explained it!
On March 3, news came from Chongqing that the 8st Division was not complete but was the product of a reorganization. In March last year, the division reserve was reorganized into the 101st Division and participated in the Battle of Wuhan.
In November last year, the division continued to reorganize. The 1st Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Fortress Artillery Regiment directly under the Combined Division, the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, and the 2nd Tank Regiment formed the 28th Division, which is still stationed in Tokyo.
In fact, the only original members of the First Division involved in this attack were the 2nd Infantry Brigade, the 7th Field Heavy Artillery Regiment, and the 1st Quartermaster Regiment. The rest were reserves near Tokyo. However, the newly formed First Division had very strong firepower.
大正十一式轻机枪约360挺，九二式重机枪约110挺，九七式曲射炮约342门，十年式重型掷弹筒24门。九二式70mm大队炮18门，四一式75联队炮12门，三十七mm速射炮24门，九七自动炮18门，九五式75野炮12门、一零五榴弹炮24门、四年式一五零榴弹炮12门。
This is more than powerful! Chen Feng was jealous of this firepower configuration. Thinking about the heavy artillery and munitions on the beach, Chen Feng felt that he couldn't sleep well. If he could grab it, would he still have to worry about munitions? Mengshan has everything except heavy firepower, especially heavy artillery above 100mm. He had to find a way to turn Hengshan Yong into a boy who brings wealth.
On the night of March 3, Chen Feng ordered the communication team to send a telegram to all the teams heading east, ordering no team to rely on positional defense and to send out special forces to conduct reconnaissance. Once the Japanese troops were dispatched, they must rely on deep utilization of maneuvers to consume and destroy them. With such a heavy artillery group, the Japanese army would only lose lives in positional warfare.
On March 3, the Second Regiment sent a telegram that the 10th Division on the Longhai East Line had begun its activities. It forcibly recruited tens of thousands of laborers and began to restore the damaged railway line. Unlike the construction of the Jinpu Line, the th Division was completely in a coercive mode, with forced conscription and no compensation. The labor intensity was very high, and they would be whipped if they were not obedient. Killing those who were disobedient was also commonplace. The laborers were only given two meals a day, which were worse than those fed by pigs. At night, the laborers were driven into simple board houses, which were surrounded by barbed wire, with no regard for their lives.
Many traitor translators did propaganda to the laborers on the construction site. The Imperial Army had no intention of recruiting laborers. This was all the result of the sowing of the Yimeng guerrillas. If anyone was to blame, they could only blame the Yimeng guerrillas for breaking the rules and destroying the railway.
Chen Feng was furious when he heard the news. Is 116 courting death? Why? Because the Imperial Guards Division was stationed along the coast? Or because they were part of the Central China Expeditionary Force and were transferred from south of the Huai River. They were ignorant and fearless.
However, there must be something wrong. Chen Feng did not send troops to attack immediately, but asked the special forces of the Second Regiment and the Guard Regiment to investigate for a night. Hundreds of special forces crossed the Longhai East Line and rode south for thirty or forty kilometers without finding anything abnormal. They went to Guanyun, Muyang, Suqian, and the farthest place was Siyang County, but nothing was found. Chen Feng, who was not giving up, asked Song Zihan to contact the attendant's office. The attendant's office asked the Statistics Bureau, and the result was that the Japanese troops stationed in Huainan and Anhui did not have any large-scale activities.
No matter what, we have to fight. It would be better if there is no conspiracy, but if there is a conspiracy, we have to fight it out. When we reach the outskirts of our own territory, we still have to follow the rules.
On the morning of March 3, Chen Feng communicated with the New Fourth Division and the Lunan Detachment to formulate a joint combat plan:
The Guard Regiment dispatched a battalion of troops and joined forces with the Lunan Detachment to launch an attack on the railway line from Xuzhou to Xinyi. The purpose of this battle was not to destroy the railway line that had just begun to be repaired, but to eliminate the manpower of the 116th Division.
The Second Regiment dispatched all its forces and joined forces with the two new regiments of the New Fourth Division to launch an attack on the railway line from Xinyi to Haizhou. Chen Feng had only one request for the unruly 116th Division: to control the Jingguan.
The actual battle plan is jointly formulated by various departments. Without a good opportunity, the troops should try not to attack cities, even small county towns.
Shen Honglie felt that the three words "Zhi Jingguan" in the order were very manly, and was worried that the two new recruits would not perform well and lose face for the Menglianggu army. He urgently mobilized two battalions of cavalry from the east end of the courtyard in the southwest of Yishui County, and commanded them personally by the regiment commander Shen Zizhong, to join the attack sequence east of Xinyi on the Longhai East Line.
In fact, the commander of the 116th Division, Shinohara Seiichirō, had a lot of grievances. According to his own plan, it would be best to use money and food to repair the railway line, so that the task could be completed within the specified time of the headquarters.
However, the commander of the Central China Expeditionary Army, Anami Korechika, obviously did not think so. As soon as the money and grain declaration was sent in, he was immediately scolded. Anami Korechika called Shinohara Seiichiro a coward, the same coward as the North China Expeditionary Army, who was scared by the Chinese like this and was not worthy of the rank of Imperial Lieutenant General.
There was no other way, so Shinohara Seiichirō ordered his troops to capture laborers. It was easy to capture laborers. In the plains, they could capture a large number of laborers by simply blocking some villages and towns. The soldiers took the opportunity to burn, kill and loot. There is an old Chinese saying that goes, "If you don't seek death, you won't die." Fearing retaliation from a cold gun, Shinohara Seiichirō had been hiding in Haizhou East Station. The division headquarters was located only three kilometers away from the pier. The naval guns on the sea gave him the greatest sense of security.
At six o'clock in the afternoon on March 3, it was completely dark and the laborers were driven back to the wooden houses. There was no meal in the evening and only two steamed buns would be distributed before work the next morning. Except for the sentry guarding the laborers, the Japanese soldiers all went to the stronghold to eat and drink. Laborers were still being recruited every day, and the pigs, cattle and sheep that were brought back had already been packed up and were waiting to be grilled and stewed in the evening.
At eight o'clock in the evening, all the attacking teams had crossed the provincial line and agreed to launch a general attack at nine o'clock. The railway line was too long, and the guerrillas had been carrying out sabotage raids. There were not many Japanese troops stationed within the provincial border. Some simple strongholds only had a few Imperial Army troops sent there, and these Imperial Army troops were used as alert cannon fodder.
At 8:30 in the evening, all the teams participating in the attack reached a position two kilometers away from the railway line. Led by the Imperial Army without firing a single shot, they advanced towards the railway line. Each team had a clear division of labor, some were responsible for siege and some for attacking reinforcements. The surrendered puppet soldiers did not understand why some people were still carrying machetes despite such powerful firepower.