From to 1935 2020

The last hour before dark was the most difficult hour in Tani Hisao's life.

During the counterattack, Lin Husan used his entire army to fight back. Using tanks as the tip of his spear, he continued to attack, split the Japanese army's position, and tried to divide and encircle the Japanese army.

What surprised Lin Husan was that after being replaced by the troops of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, after receiving such heavy losses, their morale had already collapsed and the entire army scattered.But the group of Japanese troops in front of them, even when their superiors and subordinates could no longer communicate with each other in time, they still spontaneously formed a defensive position to resist desperately according to the operational code.There are almost no so-called "deserters" on the battlefield. Even in the face of invulnerable monsters like tanks, they will frantically grab grenades and scream onboard to rush over to launch a flesh attack.

It's a pity that the courage of flesh and blood can't withstand the storm of steel after all.

In the battle of Bailing Temple, Hisao Tani brought the main force of the four brigades.After the bombing, every brigade was incomplete, and the Red Army counterattacked in an all-round way. After dark, each brigade lost more than half.

The first and second brigades, which were the most damaged among the infantry, were completely disabled. Two of the four brigade captains were killed and one was seriously injured, and one of the three cavalry brigades was also killed.

When Tani Hisao sent the "request for tactical guidance" telegram, his troops were already retreating.

Gu Hisao saw that the Red Army wanted to make big dumplings for his troops, and he knew that if he stayed here and did not leave, the situation would be even worse if the Red Army planes came back after dawn. As soon as the telegram was sent, he desperately retreated to the southeast.The remnants of the cavalry brigade under his command also recklessly launched a countercharge against the troops surrounded by the Red Army at this time, making sure to kill the blood and not give the opponent a chance to outflank.

It was getting dark, but the fighters on both sides were still roaring and hissing, taking advantage of the bright flames everywhere on the battlefield.

The battle has reached this level, and it is no longer tactical. The competition is the will, courage, and the tenacity of the "steel" in the hands.

The Red Army, which has tanks and armored vehicles as mobile fortresses, has finally taken advantage of this.

But the Japanese army was not helpless.

The Japanese imitation of the German 37mm anti-tank gun was actually equipped with the Japanese army in June this year. Hisao Tani brought six guns for this battle.Two doors were blown up in the air raid, one was blown up by shelling, and the other door was missing.Relying on the remaining two guns and the remnants of the shooters to counterattack regardless of life and death, they used these two guns to severely damage two CV33 tanks, one was hit by the rear engine, and then caught fire, and finally scrapped. The crew escaped in time.

Another CV33 was hit by a road wheel, breaking its tracks and temporarily losing power.

However, these two guns are still "outnumbered". When the defeated Japanese army could not hold their positions and was broken by other tanks, after one gun exposed its position, two T26s charged at it and confronted it at a distance of 100 meters. Then he fired four anti-infantry jump mines, and directly blasted the entire artillery position with shells and jump mines.

The last anti-tank gun was well hidden. It fired four shots at the T300 company from 26 meters away, hitting its front three shots.

If it is Maozi's own version of the T26, these three guns are enough to penetrate its frontal armor.It's a pity that the four used by Lin Husan were modified by Huang Ke himself.The frontal armor of the body was replaced with slanted armor, and additionally welded and thickened armor was added.Of the three shells that hit, two of them directly ricocheted, but the one in the middle could not penetrate the thickened armor, leaving only a pit less than 20mm deep on the armor surface, which did not form an effective shell. breakdown. (Note: The anti-tank guns of the Japanese army in the early days had poor armor-piercing ability because they did not have a cap, which was 10 mm less than similar German products, and the maximum vertical armor penetration within 100 shots was only 30 mm.)

It was almost dark at this time, and a cannon fired four times in a row at a gun position, which was naturally very eye-catching.Before the tankers could react, the Red Army covering the tank immediately discovered the existence of the artillery position. A dozen Red Army commandos stormed the location of the artillery position. An assault grenadier accompanying the army was at the edge of the limit range 200 meters away. He fired a grenade with a small yellow crossbow, directly blasting the gunner on the gun emplacement, and took the head of his teammates.

After losing the last weapon against tanks, Tani Hisao's remnants can only be left to the Red Army's tank troops to wreak havoc in future battles.

From the evening of October [-]th to the next morning, the fighting continued without a moment's rest.

When Tani Hisao retreated, his troops were in contact with the Red Army. When the Red Army counterattacked, it was extremely difficult tactically to surround him with a big dumpling.What Lin Husan can do is to constantly order the troops to attack and intersect, to entangle and drag his troops, and then try to cut up the troops with the knife in his hand, piece by piece, and surround them.

Gu Shoufu knew what Lin Husan wanted to do, he used the darkness as a cover, and the troops retreated eastward, but from time to time he would organize to fight back.

The Red Army is a master of night combat, but the Japanese army is not bad in this regard either.The benefits of darkness have weakened the advantages of both sides' weapons, and the battles have often turned into chaotic and bad battles.One side has quality advantage, one side has quantity advantage (five times)

They fought chaotically for a whole night. At the end of the battle, Lin Husan and Political Commissar Nie received reports from their subordinates that the formation of the troops was in chaos, and the entire battlefield had long been a mess.

Tani Hisao's troops who were retreating lost more than [-] pieces of "meat" overnight.The biggest one has hundreds of people, it is his field hospital, most of them are wounded soldiers, although these ferocious devil soldiers were injured, as long as they can move, they still take up their guns and shoot desperately at the Red Army surrounding them, hoping to sacrifice themselves Earn some time for the main force to escape.

"It really is a brutal militaristic lunatic."

After Lin Husan received the telegram from below, he only ordered more than a thousand people to stay under surveillance, and the main force still went all out to pursue Tani Hisao's men.

As for the other "little meat", there are as few as dozens of people and as many as two or 300 people, fighting against them individually, occupying the commanding heights nearby, and frantically attacking the incoming Red Army, and the Red Army has to continue to divide its forces , encircled and wiped out these Japanese troops who were fighting independently but with crazy fighting spirit.

This kind of scene where the defeat was already decided, but he was determined to resist desperately, reminded Lin Hu of the scene of the Xiangjiang Battle he had experienced, and the comrades who died, and then he immediately poohed again.

"Bah! What qualifications do you beasts have to compare with those comrades who died! We are all fighting to eliminate the cannibals, but you are acting as the lackeys of the cannibals. Your death is meaningless!"

In anger, Lin Husan ordered: "Chen Guang, where is your tank, come to area [-] immediately, and crush all the devils here!"

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The land distance from Baotou to Bailing Temple is 160 kilometers.

When the battle lasted until eleven o'clock that night, the Red Army in the direction of Bailing Temple received the first batch of reinforcements from the direction of Bianbaotou: a new force of 500 people.After that, every two hours, reinforcements that were also close to this number continued to join.

This is Lin Hu's third advantage over the Japanese army. He has a total of forty large trucks in his hands!

Since yesterday, these forty large trucks have been transporting troops from Baotou to Bailing Temple. Forty large trucks transport 20 soldiers each time.The reinforcements coming from the direction of Baotou were continuously pulled to gather in the valley more than [-] kilometers south of Bailing Temple, and then marched forward on foot—the reason why they were not pulled directly to Bailing Temple was because the last section of the road was difficult.

As for the road ahead, except for a few parts that have been slightly repaired, most of the rest are just bad roads that business travelers have stepped on for countless years.Those soldiers who came by car were actually too shocked.

Although most of the fighters were convulsed in the process, with the help of four wheels, they still caught up with the second half of the battle to encircle and wipe out Gu Hisao's troops.

With the continuous addition of reinforcements, when the battle reached dawn, the total strength of the Red Army besieging Tani Hisao's department exceeded 2.

Although Tani Hisao's elite Japanese army fought chaotically in the night battle, without tanks, they still relied on their excellent quality to break through the interception line set up by the Red Army time and time again, and kept retreating eastward.

Lin Hu's three divisions, whose numbers were nearly eight times that of their opponents, were like a pack of wolves chasing and killing a wounded tiger. No matter how hard they chased and bit them, they couldn't completely surround him.But at this time, it was impossible for the Sixth Division to run away.After getting reinforcements to join, Lin Husan divided the pursuing troops into several groups, took turns chasing and resting, but did not give Gu Hisao's troops any breathing space.

Fight, fight to the death, fight again, fight on and on.Hisao Tani, who was being chased, felt that the Red Army chasing and killing him was constantly rushing towards him like an endless sea of ​​insects, trying to surround, drown and eat his troops.

He could only keep ordering the troops to move forward, break through, break through the weak line of defense temporarily formed in front of him, and move on.

But within a few steps, the Red Army, which had detoured in front of it, formed a new line of defense, penetrated it, and advanced again.

It seemed easy to break through and intercept each time, but the enemies intercepted in front of him seemed endless, and they couldn't be beaten or killed.

His army is like a butterfly that has fallen into a spider web, and its body is already wrapped in spider silk. It seems that it can escape and fly away with a little struggle, but in fact, the spider silk tied to him is becoming more and more entangled. The more, his struggles became weaker and weaker.

When the battle lasted until eight o'clock in the morning, Hisao Tani's army was only divided into two.

One is the cavalry unit with the highest mobility. In the melee at night, relying on the cover of the night, they broke out of the encirclement many times and detoured back, causing great casualties to the Red Army, and of course they also suffered heavy casualties.After dawn, the Japanese cavalry, who realized that the situation was over, retreated eastward with all their strength-but they failed to escape. This exhausted cavalry unit had bad luck at ten o'clock in the morning. The 2nd Cavalry Division of the Jinsui Army.

On the vast grassland, it is not easy to chase a fleeing cavalry.But the Red Army had planes.After an El-[-] bomber chasing the Japanese army ran out of ammunition, it kept circling over the cavalry unit and continuously notified the nearest nearby Fu Zuoyi cavalry unit by radio.

On one side are the cavalry of the Jinsui Army in full condition, and on the other are the cavalry of the Devils who have been exhausted after a night of hard fighting.The two sides soon began an unequal battle on the Mongolian grassland, and the Japanese cavalry participating in the battle were wiped out within an hour.

As for the remaining main force of Tani Hisao, after dawn, it was completely unable to kill.

His troops were finally trapped on a hill [-] kilometers southeast of Bailing Temple, forming an formation to defend themselves.There is a small gathering place of herdsmen near here, named Tariya.

At this time, Gu Hisao counted the troops around him. Even with a small number of puppet Mongolian troops, there were only a little over 1000 troops, and most of them were wounded.

At this time, more than [-] Red Army troops surrounded him tightly.

In addition to this place, the other surrounded Japanese army was the wounded barracks surrounded by the Red Army last night. More than 700 abandoned Japanese wounded soldiers were surrounded by more than 3000 Red Army regiments commanded by Political Commissar Nie.This group of wounded ghost soldiers, obviously running out of ammunition and food and having no way to escape, still arrogantly clamored to die for the empire and refused to surrender.

After repeated attempts to persuade them to surrender failed, Political Commissar Nie gave an order, and the surrounded Red Army fired a burst of artillery fire. The perimeter had already been repaired, and the tanks that had returned to fighting status covered the infantry assault.What shocked Commissar Nie was that during this process, the soldiers of the attacking Red Army saw that desperate wounded Japanese soldiers committed suicide continuously, killing the wounded first and then committing suicide...and some officers even committed suicide at the end. Always brutally picked up the machine gun and fired wildly at his wounded soldiers.

"If you are cruel to others, you are also cruel to your own people!"

In the end, the Red Army only captured less than 30 Japanese wounded in this wounded battalion.

Seeing that the overall situation has been decided, in order to reduce casualties, Lin Husan was not in a hurry to attack Gu Hisao's remnants, and ordered the Red Army units that had fought hard all night to stop and rest.From yesterday's battle to now, his troops are not only very tired, but also very chaotic in organization.After surrounding Hisao Tani, the main forces of the various troops took the opportunity to stop and regroup, while waiting for the artillery and supplies to arrive from the rear.

Before the war, Lin Husan had twelve tanks and thirty armored vehicles.So far, there are only three tanks left that can be activated, and the rest are either injured, or have mechanical failures that need to be repaired, or have run out of fuel and are waiting for logistics to be delivered.As for the armored vehicles, five were also destroyed by the Japanese during the chaotic battle last night, and the rest were mostly damaged, and now that the Japanese troops are all on the mountain, it is of little use to force them to drive.

"Iron armored vehicles" are indeed the "kings of the battlefield" in all directions, but how to serve them well is also a headache.Although the Mongolian grassland is suitable for tank operations, there are no repaired roads, and tank trailers cannot drive in many places.

When Chen Guang, the head of the armored regiment, came to Lin Husan's command center with his precious T[-] tank, Lin Husan was sending a telegram to Taiyuan. Dig a big hole here to fight aid.

At this time, the Red Army that surrounded Gu Hisao was digging trenches in place - not only to prevent the devils from counterattacking and breaking through, but also to prevent Japanese planes from the direction of Rehe from coming to bomb them.

And here at Bailing Temple Airport, there is also a Red Army unit that is urgently repairing the airport that was destroyed in yesterday's war.Aircraft in this period had very low requirements for runways. Thousands of people worked at the same time, and a large section of the runway was quickly repaired.The previously seized Japanese gasoline barrels were also pushed to the edge of the runway—it is only a few dozen miles away from the place where Tani Hisao was surrounded, and it is the best front-line field airport.

At noon, another support army arrived. It was the reinforcements sent by Fu Zuoyi, a joint force formed by the 211 Brigade and the Daqingshan Independent Division.

Sun Lanfeng and Lin Husan, the brigade commanders of the 211th Brigade, fought against each other in Bayanjiuer. Unfortunately, the whole brigade was captured in World War I.But at that time the Red Army wanted to win over Fu Zuoyi's troops. After Chairman Li learned that the 211 Brigade, from the chief to the soldiers, did not disturb the people and was integrated with officers and soldiers, very much like the Red Army, he even personally ordered that these prisoners must be treated kindly.Treat the sick and treat the wounded, and at the same time strive hard to fight for and make friends.

During the time he was a prisoner, Sun Lanfeng became friends with Lin Husan instead.Apart from the fact that the guns were taken away, the relationship between the soldiers on both sides was very friendly.The officers are exchanging military experience and learning from each other, and the soldiers below are similar.Whatever the officers and soldiers of the Red Army eat, so do the officers and soldiers of the 211 Brigade.

Sun Lanfeng enjoyed everything that Wei Lihuang's troops encountered in the prisoner camp after the Shanxi campaign.In July, the Red Army and Fu Zuoyi reached an agreement to exchange Baotou for Zhangjiakou. After the two turned enemies into friends, all officers and soldiers of the 211th Brigade were released.

When he was released, Lin Husan returned all the seized weapons according to the instructions of his superiors. The generals of both sides also presented each other with their own guns.

At that time, Political Commissar Nie told Sun Lanfeng: "Your army is the most disciplined Kuomintang army I have ever seen. Your army is actually only one step away from being transformed into a people's army..."

After Sun Lanfeng returned to Jian, Fu Zuoyi sat alone in the room for a long time after asking about the situation.Afterwards, he did not "difficult" his subordinates who were obviously "unstable", and still let him reinstate his post.During this period, Fu Zuoyi's troops were also rapidly expanding. After the Shanxi campaign ended, Yan Laoxi was killed. Fu Zuoyi received a large number of old friends from the old Jinsui army to serve as officers to fill his new army, such as the famous Chen Changjie, he was captured and released during the battle, and then he took refuge in Fu Zuoyi.Old Fu has a lot of former Sui Army officers who have been captured by the Red Army.He is both envious and aware of the Red Army's tricks, and has been learning from the Red Army consciously or unconsciously.

In the days that followed, as the situation in Hebei and Pingjin became increasingly tense, Fu Zuoyi also desperately trained troops and hoarded weapons and ammunition.Later, although he was "forced" to join the Northern Anti-Japanese Alliance formed by the Red Army, as the "leader" of the Red Army, according to the agreement, there was no shortage of weapons and supplies that should be given. The anti-tank guns imported from the Soviet Union alone received hundreds of Bundle.

Although Fu Zuoyi is a warlord, he also has some personal petty thoughts in his heart, but this man has integrity, loyalty, and national righteousness, but he is never ambiguous.After learning about the battle at Bailing Temple, they immediately dispatched troops without waiting for the Red Army's request, and Sun Lanfeng, who had the best relationship with Lin Husan, was sent to lead the army.

With the addition of reinforcements from the Jinsui Army, the last hope of escape for the remnants of Tani Hisao was completely shattered.

Tani Hisao's troops finally persisted until the afternoon of October [-] before the entire army was wiped out.The biggest twists and turns in the process of encircling and annihilating its troops were the two days when the unwilling Japanese army sent multiple waves of planes from the direction of Jehol to bomb and drop supplies.

But at this time, the Red Army had already established a front-line airport at Bailing Temple, which was closer.The bombers who came to aid were not covered by escort planes, and they were purely killing people. The consequence of two days of air support was that the Soviet Air Force who participated in the war gave birth to the first ace pilot in China (shooting down five).Moreover, due to the interference of fighter jets, most of the airdropped materials fell into the positions of the Red Army.The price paid by the Japanese army was the "heads" of nearly forty planes.

Afterwards, the base camp of the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses, and they refused to send any more planes over.

After the cannons arrived and the troops were repaired, the coalition forces of the Red Army and the Jinsui Army began to attack the Japanese troops on the mountain.The petrol bombs dropped by the Irv bombing set the vegetation on the whole mountain on fire, and the remnants of Tani Hisao, who were exhausted and lacking supplies, were wiped out eighteen hours after the Red and Jin allied forces launched the general offensive. Tani Hisao and Yanagawa Heira helped Together with all his subordinates, "Jade Broken".

Yanagawa Heisuke shot himself in desperation.As for Hisao Tani, his death was more miserable. He was hit by a petrol bomb at the temporary command center on the mountain and burned to death alive.The Red Army later confirmed his identity through the officer's knife found near his charred corpse.

To commemorate this battle, the nameless mountain where the two men were killed was later renamed Sunset Mountain.

Ishihara Wan'er planned the Bailing Temple War. At the end of the battle, there were only dozens of cavalry. Within two weeks after the war, they fled back to Rehe through various channels one after another.

In the whole battle, including the pilots and latent agents in the early stage, the number of Japanese troops participating in the battle was as high as 7000. When the results were checked afterwards, the number of Japanese soldiers killed in battle reached 500, while only 430 and five people were captured. Almost everyone was wounded, and sixteen other pilots from the downed plane were taken prisoner.

Most of the Japanese army prisoners of war were dishonest after being captured. They even resisted and attacked the Red Army soldiers.Finally counting the pilots and prisoners of war, there were only 395 people left.

On October [-]th, a plane that took off from Bailing Temple landed in Beiping, and brought photos taken by war reporters on the front line, as well as evidence such as Japanese sabers seized, and then Wu Hao, a representative of the Red Army stationed in Beiping, held a press conference, The big news was announced.

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-------------------- Chapter 177 Chairman of the Four Provincial Committees ------------------

The Sixth Division is a well-known strong army in the Japanese army. Like the Red Army, the annihilated Japanese army was also an elite group drawn from the Sixth Division.After the First World War, the entire mixed brigade was wiped out, and the division commanders, chiefs of staff, and officers below the brigade commander were almost wiped out, and the losses were so heavy that they were almost wiped out.

The victory of the Bailing Temple inspired the whole of China, but the Red Army paid an astonishing price.

On the surface, the main force participating in the battle was Lin Husan's First Army, but in fact, with reinforcements, all participating troops were composed of elite soldiers from the 1st, 3rd, and 5th main Red Army.The number of shells consumed before and after was almost equal to that of the Shanxi campaign, and the air support received was much greater than during the Shanxi campaign—the Soviet Red Army even went on the battlefield in person and used a new type of bomb developed by Huang Ke.

Even with air superiority, positional superiority, and equipment superiority, and at the same time concentrated the most elite troops of the entire Red Army, the winning Red Army, including Fu Zuoyi's troops who helped out, paid 200 people to die in battle, and 400 to varying degrees. The heavy price of injury.Many Red Army soldiers who died even included the heroes of the battle of forcibly crossing the Dadu River.

Even though he was mentally prepared, Lin Husan was still trembling when he looked at the casualty data reported below.

After the war, all the troops who joined the army were unhappy.While working hard to treat the wounded, all officers and soldiers who participated in the battle were organized to hold combat seminars repeatedly to sum up the experience and lessons learned.

"We still have so much to learn."

From Chairman Li Runshi to Lin Husan, the upper echelons of the Red Army realized that although we won the Battle of Bailing Temple, too many problems were exposed in this battle. There is a significant gap.

The upper echelons of the Red Army are happy on the outside, but in fact they are heavy on the inside.The domestic people here are happy after the war.Needless to say, ordinary people, public opinion is full of praise for the Red Army, and even those in the Pingjin area began to bravely raise donations.The wounded who were transported back from the Bailing Temple by railway were welcomed like heroes by the local society in the hospitals of Pingjin and Tianjin.

"Japanese, trash, trash!"

Chang Kaishen was conflicted, gloating, and yelling in fear. The reason for his fear was that Li Runshi's Red Army had grown to such a terrible state, which naturally made him restless.What is gloating about his misfortune is that he understands that after this disastrous defeat, the Japanese and the Red Army will never stop dying. Knowing Japan very well, he can almost imagine that in the days to come, once the war of aggression against China breaks out, the Japanese army will definitely chase the Red Army to death. .

With the Japanese and the Red Army dying, Li Runshi would have to concentrate all his main forces in North China, constantly consuming his strength.But he, Chang Kaishen, can hide quietly in the south, resist Japan with zero points, develop very well, preserve his strength, and benefit from the fisherman.

"I am Chang Kaishen, I am the real Lord of Destiny!"

After thinking about it, Chang Kaishen decided to mobilize celebrities from all walks of life in Shanghai to raise a sum of money for the Red Army in the north to express his goodwill, and then once again made a request to Li Runshi to "stop the civil war, negotiate peacefully, and unite to resist Japan."Don't you, Li Runshi, want to fight against Japan?I will put national righteousness first, and use your favorite anti-Japanese slogans to deal with you in the past, and let those social celebrities who have always supported you in the past become your pig teammates to disgust you. There are so many voices asking you to "stop Civil war, unanimously external", can you still beat me like before?