The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 268 Steel Collision 4 (Please collect red flowers!)

From 3:062 in the morning, the 12nd Division began to attack the enemy of Xingta, and by 063:[-] noon, the Sixth Army except the [-]rd Division as the battle reserve team did not meet the enemy, and the rest of the divisions had already fought fiercely with their respective combat targets. Together.

The 062 Division and the 2nd Regiment of the Rocket Artillery Brigade, which were in charge of the "blocking", marched nearly 5 kilometers in a surprise attack in the past 40 hours, annihilating a total of six groups of Japanese troops, large and small, and finally inserted horizontally between Xinbang and Shihudang. Villages, towns, natural rivers, and railway facilities have built a complete "isolation line" that separates Jiaxing, Jiashan from Hongxi, Yangmiao, and Yaozhuang. split into two completely different regions.

As for the enemy's 117th Division in Huzhou and Changxing, because of the spatial distance, it has little impact on this "isolation line".

Before the war, when the General Staff of the Field Division deduced the situation of the enemy and ourselves and the direction of the battle, this "isolation line" was of great significance to both the enemy and us in the early stage of the battle.

For the National Defense Forces, the successful establishment of this "isolation line" and its persistence for 48 hours is the key to whether the National Defense Forces can successfully annihilate the 3rd Division and the 107th Division of the Japanese Army. The possibility is too small to be counted for the time being.

For the Japanese army, if this "isolation line" is successfully established, it will completely disconnect the front and rear of the Japanese army, and the 3rd Division and the 107th Division will become "solitary troops", even if the Japanese 18th Division is close at hand. The regiment, the independent tank brigade of the 10th army, and the independent heavy artillery brigade will also become "out of reach". In front of hundreds of thousands of national defense forces, the "solitary army" of the two divisions will appear invincible and have no way to retreat. embarrassing situation.

Before the launch of the battle, the Japanese army did not know the deployment of the Wehrmacht, so they did not take any countermeasures.However, the General Staff of the National Defense Forces knew that once the battle started, the "isolation line" would become a thorn in the side of the Japanese army, and it would definitely be attacked by the Japanese army frantically.

Because of this, when the battle was launched, Yesi ordered the Xu Shangqian Department of the 023 Division Wartime Reconnaissance Regiment, the Peng Chenggui Department of the 025 Division Wartime Reconnaissance Regiment, the Jiang Wencui Department of the 041 Division Wartime Reconnaissance Regiment, and the 062 Division Wartime Reconnaissance Reconnaissance Division to operate nearby. The Ma Changling Department of the Regiment quickly went to Xinbang and Shihudang, where the 062 Division was about to arrive, to accept the command of Pan Erchun, the commander of the 062 Division.

The Ma Changling Department is the headquarters of the original 062 Division, not counting the increase of the 062 Division, but after adding 3 "wartime reconnaissance regiments" and 1 rocket artillery regiment, the total number of combat groups of the 062 Division has reached 4. , Dealing with the front and back attack from the 3rd Division and the 18th Division, although I dare not say it is easy, but it will not show defeat soon.

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Since the National Defense Forces formed a "wartime reconnaissance team" to go deep into the rear of the Japanese army to "harass" the Japanese-occupied areas, General Matsui Iwane, commander of the Japanese East China Front Army, has been closely watching the movements of the National Defense Forces.

Matsui Iwane knew that the National Defense Forces gathered this time, and their combat intentions were clearly revealed, that is, to seek a decisive battle with the Japanese army to relieve the danger of the Xuzhou Battle, and even to relieve the danger of China.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, if the national army is defeated, the national army will no longer be a threat, and the Japanese army can concentrate nearly 150 million troops to deal with the defense forces of Fujian and Guangdong.Therefore, the National Defense Forces are unwilling to see the national army defeated in Xuzhou.

In the battle of Xuzhou, if the national army wins, the Japanese army is very likely to return to the position before the Zhangbei Incident in 1935, which is unacceptable to Japan.Of course, as far as the Xuzhou battle itself is concerned, the possibility of the national army winning is very small.

Therefore, Wu Aihua and the National Defense Forces will not wait until the end of the Xuzhou Battle to use troops against the Japanese army.

As a senior military commander, Matsui Iwane knew that Wu Aihua and the National Defense Forces would not miss this opportunity.But Matsui Iwane didn't want to take advantage of this opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the National Defense Forces!

In Matsui Iwane's view, the National Defense Forces marching into the Yangtze River Delta was a guest army, while the Japanese army was waiting for work and had strong fortifications to use, so it was the main army.Besides, apart from the troops of the Nanjing government and the national defense forces of Fujian and Guangdong, China's military power has almost no decent military power, and the Empire of Japan also has a South China Front Army that no country dare to underestimate.The East China Front Army and the South China Front Army are united. Matsui Iwane believes that even if the National Defense Army has three heads and six arms, it is not an opponent of the Japanese army.

Naturally, Matsui Iwane also took into account other factors, such as the air force and navy.Perhaps in terms of the air force, the Japanese army may be inferior to the National Defense Force in terms of fighter quality, but it must be superior in quantity; and the navy, does China have a navy?I heard that the Wehrmacht has formed a naval fleet, but until now, no one in the world has seen the true face of the Wehrmacht Navy.

It is conceivable how powerful a fleet that never dares to see people will have!

The National Defense Forces did not see any action, and sent lightly armed troops to harass the Japanese army. In Matsui Iwane's view, this is the usual practice of weak troops.Although this strategy will cause some trouble to the Japanese army, it is not insurmountable.

Matsui Iwane is paying close attention to the movements of the three main group armies of the National Defense Forces.

A brigade of Japanese troops in Xingta Town was attacked by Chinese tank troops. This news was not reflected in the front army headquarters in time. Even the 107th Division reported it to Heisuke Yanagawa of the 10th Army as a general exchange of fire.

However, the news of the fierce battle between the 57th Tank Regiment of Yoshida Osamu and the Chinese Army Tank Unit in Maojiabang, southwest of Jiaxing, was promptly reported to the Front Army Command by Seiichi Kita, head of the 107th Division.

Because Kita Seiichi needs the "air support" of the Front Army!

"What, there are hundreds of tanks in China's chariot troops? Alright, I'll order the third aviation group to take off immediately!" After receiving the news, Matsui Iwane was like an old fisherman suddenly catching a big fish he had never seen before. Like fish, very excited.I never thought about it at all, why did the tank troops of the Japanese army rush to the southwest of Jiaxing?Is China's chariot force only a hundred vehicles?

The time when Matsui Iwane ordered the Third Aviation Group to support the 107th Division was 2 am on February 24.

At 10:10 in the morning, the secret radar station set up by the National Defense Force's "Customs Bureau" located on the top of the Christian Church in Zhongxing, Chongming Island, intercepted the information that hundreds of fighter planes from the Japanese Third Air Group took off and flew in formation to the southwest.

At 10:15 in the morning, at the temporary airport of the National Defense Forces in Deqing County, 96 "Eagle Dragon 1" fighters from two fighter brigades took off one by one at an emergency speed, forming a squadron every 3 minutes in the air , flew to the northeast.

This is the second aerial contest between the Air Force of the National Defense Forces and the Japanese Air Force after the air battle at Fozizhuang on the outskirts of Peking.In the air battle of Fozizhuang, the ground anti-aircraft artillery fire has made great achievements, but the role of the air force is not so obvious.Moreover, the air battle at Fozizhuang was the result of the 1st Air Force Regiment.For the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th air regiments living in Fujian Province, the air battle at Fozizhuang seems to have nothing to do with them.Although the Air Force later reorganized, the Air Force 1 Regiment became the "Strategic Bomber Regiment" and then became the "Strategic Bomber Division", but the old pilots of the Air Force 1 Regiment always talked about the air combat in Fozizhuang , This embarrasses the pilots of other regiments. Everyone was born with the same parents. Are 2 regiments, 3 regiments, and 4 regiments not as good as 1 regiment?

Therefore, these pilots who have been flying into the sky one after another have long been full of strength, and they want to beat the little devil hard, so that those guys in the 1st regiment will shut up!

At 10:35, after all the fighter planes of the two brigades and six squadrons took off, Deqing Temporary Airport ushered in the peak take-off of the second batch of planes!

Come and not reciprocate!The second wave of take-offs was a retaliatory action against the Japanese Air Force, with the intention of attacking or destroying the airports, aircraft and facilities newly established by the Japanese army on Chongming Island.

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Flying in the vast airspace of China, Nakamura, the Japanese flying brigade, was very excited.The ace pilot of the Army Aviation Corps, who had just been transferred from China, sneered at the previous attack on the Japanese Air Force at Hongqiao Airport.In Nakamura's impression, Chinese people are always proud of engaging in conspiracies and tricks and shameless attacks, as evidenced by so many military books and strategies in ancient China.If the Chinese dared to fight a decisive battle with the imperial army of the Great Japanese Empire, they would definitely not be opponents of the imperial army.

The reason Nakamura was so excited was not that he was about to go to battle, but because the mission book for this battle stated very clearly: a Chinese chariot force was fighting fiercely with the Imperial Japanese Army in the southwest of Jiaxing. The number of vehicles was twice that of the imperial army, so they called for reinforcements.

Colonel Nakamura read from the mission book that China also had tank troops, and that they were in a decisive battle with the Imperial Army's tank troops. It seemed that China's tank troops were a bit courageous, and they could barely be regarded as a force that dared to fight head-on.Therefore, Nakamura was very excited, because he finally had a worthy opponent.

As for dispatching the air force to bomb the tanks, whether it is suspected of being unfair is naturally out of Nakamura's consideration.Because, the result he wants is to blast the Chinese chariot into a pile of scrap iron!

"Aerial warriors of the imperial army, we will arrive at the designated combat area in 5 minutes, prepare to fight!" When the plane was about to enter the sky above Songjiang, Colonel Nakamura looked at his companions and subordinates flying around, and even scanned the radar with his eyes. There was not even a bird in the sky, so he raised his head and waved to all the pilots.

"01, 01, 20 kilometers ahead, a group of Japanese aircraft was found, with an altitude of 3200 and a speed of 360, flying towards our army!" In the southwest of Songjiang, pilots of the Air Force of the National Defense Forces were the first to discover the enemy.

"01 understands, 01 understands, speed up to pass the Japanese plane, and then jump down from behind the Japanese plane, speed up to pass the Japanese plane, and then jump down from behind the Japanese plane!" 01 is Ye Dao, the captain of the first brigade of fighter jets of the 2nd Air Regiment.

After speaking, a large group of 48 fighter planes quickly rose from the cruising altitude of 4500 to 6300. This altitude can completely avoid the radar detection of the Japanese aircraft.

Just after reaching the altitude of 6300, Ye Dao told his assistant, "Call 02, let them face the enemy planes head-on!"