svetikya #281 - Destruction of the Eighth Division (Part 1)
#281 - Destruction of the Eighth Division (Part 1)
Yangyi, Wu'an County.
Dusk.
Temporary headquarters of the Eighth Division.
“General, the cavalry search team from Longhu Township reports that no traces of the enemy have been found yet. The Aomori Regiment has already occupied Longhu Township. The Aomori Regiment has advanced more than 60 li on foot in one day and is expected to reach the Xishe area of She County tomorrow, paving the way for the main force.”
“General, the armored search team reports that no traces of the enemy have been found from Yangyi to Douzhuang. The armored search team is requesting instructions on whether to continue searching forward.”
“General, the Akita Regiment has crossed the Nanluo River, and reconnaissance squads have controlled the high points on both sides of the mountains to maintain vigilance, ensuring the safety of the valley within a 2-kilometer radius. The Hirosaki Regiment has completed alert-style rest in Yangyi.
The artillery regiment, the supply regiment, the engineer regiment, etc., have all entered Yangyi following the division.”
Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, the division commander, and Major General Masashige Kobayashi, the division chief of staff, sat facing each other, listening to the routine intelligence report with expressionless faces.
“Kobayashi-kun, what suggestions do you have for the search team?” Yokoyama Shizuo asked calmly after listening.
“Yokoyama-kakka, the search team still cannot be careless. The Eighth Route Army is cunning. They are good at hiding in any place you would never expect. Order the armored search company to retreat, but the infantry search team should quietly follow up and continue to be vigilant and search! Report any unexpected situations first.
“Hai!”
“Kobayashi-kun, what else are you worried about?” After nightfall, Yokoyama Shizuo, lying on his cot, asked Kobayashi Masashige, who was standing in front of the battle map, deep in thought.
“Yokoyama-kun, this situation is a bit wrong, too abnormal. The place occupied by our Eighth Division is a strategic point for attacking She County. The terrain is wide and flat, surrounded by high mountains, making it a rare and easily defended basin. I really can't figure out why the Eighth Route Army would abandon this place so cleanly. It's as if they intentionally let our Eighth Division in.” Kobayashi Masashige said, frowning as he looked at the map.
“Kobayashi-kun is overthinking it. Even if there is an ambush, so what? Behind us, there are several divisions in succession, strictly defending the rear. Even if our Eighth Division is defeated, retreating is still worry-free.” Yokoyama Shizuo said indifferently.
“Even if the Eighth Route Army is ambushed in the mountains, how much do they know about our army's deployment? This time, it is strictly forbidden to stay in local villages. The marching tents are deceptive, spaced far apart. If there is a shelling attack, we have ample warning time to respond in the dozens of square kilometers from the mountains to Yangyi.”
Under the policy of clearing the fields, the entire Yangyi is now empty. Yokoyama Shizuo is not at all afraid of the Eighth Route Army's night raids.
In such towering mountains, it is extremely difficult to aim artillery fire, and it may even be impossible to find a firing range.
Reconnaissance squads control the high points of the mountains on both sides, observing all directions, and every move is within grasp.
If Yokoyama Shizuo himself were to plan this sneak attack, he would not have many advantages to exploit. Heavy weapons are basically difficult to pass through the mountains. Even weapons like mortars are troublesome to carry, and both the quantity and shells are believed to be very limited.
If only a few hundred people were ambushed, Yokoyama Shizuo could send people to wipe them out in an instant.
Yokoyama Shizuo is very calm because of this. According to normal military logic, he occupies the geographical advantage of being able to mobilize troops easily. He can concentrate firepower to launch a counterattack.
“Yokoyama-kun, the Eighth Route Army is a bit too strange. I am worried that the Nagasaki attack might be repeated in this decisive battle.” Kobayashi Masashige finally told the truth about the information he had.
After all, he had heard a lot of top secrets that could not be spread from a familiar classmate at the headquarters.
Although the headquarters defined the Nagasaki attack as being carried out by Allied forces led by Rogue Eagle, in the eyes of some high-ranking advisors at the headquarters, this was an attack launched from the Eighth Route Army's controlled territory, even if no one knows where it was launched from now, there is no doubt that it was from the west.
There is no reliable base for Rogue Eagle in the west.
That is the territory controlled by the Eighth Route Army without a doubt.
The Japanese had not received such information about such powerful weapons from the Big Bear either.
Of course, the headquarters would not admit that the Eighth Route Army had such achievements. If they did, it might be the biggest blow to the morale of the Imperial Army.
Having always instilled that they are the most excellent nation, how could they admit that they are technically inferior to their opponents?
Even more frightening is that if they admit that the opponent has such a weapon of mass destruction, then everyone's hometown will no longer have security, who would still have the confidence to fight thousands of miles away?
“Can that kind of weapon really be used in battle?” Hearing Kobayashi Masashige mention this matter, Yokoyama Shizuo, who did not know much about it, suddenly lost his sleepiness.
"I heard that the attack on Changqi was very regular. The enemy seemed to have calculated the distance of the bombing. The 5 rockets landed like a square distribution, with one right in the center of the square. This shouldn't be a coincidence, but a calculation of continuous firepower coverage," Kobayashi Masashige said with lingering fear. "The 5 rockets covered half the city. The power of this unidentified bomb is unprecedented. Now the headquarters and scientists have not figured out what kind of weapon it is. They only found no trace of TNT at the scene. There is reason to believe that this is a brand new weapon of mass destruction."
"With such a powerful weapon, if it can be directly applied to the battlefield, our situation will be unimaginable."
Taiyuan.
Ren Chong received intelligence about the Eighth Division.
He fell into deep thought.
The reconnaissance personnel lurking in the local cellar sent the approximate deployment location information of the little devils' Eighth Division to the headquarters and the front line.
However, because the little devils have established a strict sentry system, the reconnaissance personnel who have now entered the core area of the little devils cannot leave safely.
In fact, after sending out brief information, they have already entered a state of silence and will have to wait until the little devils leave before they can leave the dug-out cellar.
If a fuel-air explosive bomb attack is launched, the reconnaissance personnel hiding in the cellar will naturally have no chance of surviving.
This is a difficult decision to kill three thousand enemies and lose a dozen of our own.
After thinking about it, Ren Chong finally gave up. No matter what, he still couldn't bring himself to do it.
Let the people on the front line worry about it. The 107 rocket launcher and the RPG-80 rocket launcher carry much less powerful fuel-air explosive bombs, which pose little danger to the reconnaissance personnel hiding at least four or five hundred meters away from the little devils.
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The little devils worried for so long in vain, but things didn't go according to their script.
At midnight, the 16th Regiment, which had been ambushing in the mountains north of Yangyi, emerged one after another and began to raid the little devils' defense line, dividing into many company and platoon squads like flowing water, heading straight for the various garrisons of the little devils.
Compared to other troops, this unit is very distinctive in that each person carries a large tube, as well as 4 fuel-air explosive rockets!
The mass-produced RPG-80 rocket launchers have finally achieved the equipment freedom of the grassroots units!
After all, there were few little devils in the blocking force, and they couldn't stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army's automatic rifles and semi-automatic rifle assault teams. They almost resolved the battle within a few minutes after launching the attack.
The battle attracted the attention of the little devils. Shizuo Yokoyama did not expect that the Eighth Route Army had really ambushed troops to attack them at night.
Fortunately, the Eighth Division was tight on the inside and loose on the outside. Without Yokoyama Shizuo coming forward, the regiment commanders and battalion commanders naturally launched counterattacks according to their respective defense zones.
Facing the dense little devils, the soldiers of the 16th Regiment were not afraid at all. Taking advantage of the faint starlight at night, watching the crowded little devils' large team, the vanguard unhesitatingly took out the big tube and fired a fuel-air explosive bomb directly at the little devils' team.
According to the deployment before the battle, the vanguard carried out the first round of a dozen or so covers on the little devils at intervals of about 50 meters.
Boom boom boom...
When these individual fuel-air explosive bombs exploded for the first time, both sides of the battle were stunned.
The only difference was that the little devils of the Eighth Division, in a state of stunned silence, turned into a pile of ashes!
In the bright fire, a battalion of little devils who were still charging and screaming like pigs was directly written off in more than a dozen fuel-air explosive bombs. The air was filled with a strange smell, which made some soldiers of the 16th Regiment who saw this kind of battle scene for the first time couldn't help but vomit!
"My goodness, this is so fierce." Regiment Commander Cheng of the 16th Regiment couldn't help but feel his throat dry when he saw such an amazing scene.
Although the military industry told them that they must strictly control the attack initiated above 150 meters, everyone knew nothing about the fuel-air explosive bomb without personally testing its power.
Now that they saw the real power, Regiment Commander Cheng was stunned.
As for the first wave of counterattacking little devils, they were basically barbecued by the fuel-air explosive bomb in one wave, directly skipping the cremation process and ending!
The 16th Regiment soldiers who came back to their senses, even while vomiting, did not forget to bypass the barbecue scene and continue to advance!
Although the little devils' cold shots and cold artillery inevitably caused some casualties to the 16th Regiment, compared to the 16th Regiment's side, which would launch several covering fuel-air explosive bombs at the slightest disagreement!
Directly evaporating the little devils! From a distance of 200 meters to 800 meters, there was no room for the little devils to resist!
The little devils, who had no experience in dealing with this kind of situation, almost lost a battalion in a few encounters. In the darkness, the little devils didn't understand what they were going to do. They just subconsciously charged towards the enemy, and there was no problem with this logic.
The little devils' infantry artillery and heavy machine guns, which had been prepared in advance, began to indiscriminately bombard and strafe the direction of the Eighth Route Army's charge, but due to the lack of sufficient vision, most of them were in vain, and the attack of the fuel-air explosive bomb, with its extremely terrifying coverage and lethality, made the little devils completely unable to defend against it!
Like a wave rolling over, the 16th Regiment soldiers used the RPG-80 disposable rocket launcher to empty the 2 fuel-air explosive bombs they brought, and then automatically turned back to the second line to accompany the attack, continuing to fight with the 56 semi or 56 submachine guns in their hands.
Under the night, the high-level little devils faced this unprecedented situation and did not know whether to advance or retreat for a while.
Kobayashi Masashige's hands and feet were cold, and he muttered to himself, "It really is like this, it really is like this..." Looking at the large fireballs constantly rising not far in front, Kobayashi Masashige finally knew why there were so many casualties in Changqi. With such a powerful weapon, who can withstand it?
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