Sakamoto Jun is the favorite of the fifth division commander Itagaki Seishiro. This expedition can be said to have high hopes.
This time, Jun Sakamoto led the main force of the 21st Brigade southward, with the purpose of capturing Mengyin in one fell swoop!
Traffic was rolling, horses were neighing, and thousands of Japanese troops were advancing along the Mengyin Highway, as if they were in an uninhabited land.
In fact, the national army also organized militia troops to intercept the main force of the Japanese army. However, with the strength of the militia, they simply could not stop the main force of the 21st Brigade with more than 9,000 troops!
The battle at the outer positions of Mengyin ended not long after, ending in a complete victory for the Japanese army.
The artillery squadrons of the two Japanese regiments and the artillery squadron directly under the brigade have been gathered together to form a joint artillery position.
"Oh! Hurry up!" Japanese artillery commander Sako Takahashi Sugi was shouting. As the temporary person in charge of the artillery position, he must set up the artillery position in the shortest possible time!
Brigade commander Sakamoto Jun has given a clear order. Battle preparations must be completed within one hour. A tentative feint attack must be launched before three o'clock in the afternoon. The general attack tomorrow morning must be launched as scheduled!
Artillery is originally an arm used to suppress enemy firepower, so Takahashi Sugi has a very heavy task. Whether it is a feint attack or a main attack, the role played by artillery is crucial!
"Takahashi-kun, the brigade commander sent me to inquire about the construction status of the artillery position!" A Japanese officer with the same rank of Lieutenant Colonel ran to Takahashi Sugi and reported.
In fact, before Takahashi Sugi was appointed as the person in charge of this artillery position, he, like the officer in front of him, was the staff officer of the 21st Brigade Headquarters. This was just because he was from the artillery department and had a relatively high military rank. Gao, it is most suitable for him to be the person in charge of this artillery position.
"So, please give Matsushita-kun a reply to His Excellency, Brigade Commander Sakamoto, please give me a little more time. In twenty-five minutes, the artillery fire from the artillery position will definitely be fired as scheduled. Please rest assured, Brigade Commander!" Qiao Shanmu said sternly, his tone already implying the establishment of a military order.
"Hai! Thank you for your hard work! Takahashi-kun!" Lieutenant Colonel Matsushita said, giving a military salute to Takahashi Sugi.
"Martial arts will last forever!" Takahashi Shanmu replied with a military salute.
"Martial arts will last forever!" Matsushita responded before turning around and leaving.
Looking at the head of Mengyin County in the distance, Takahashi Shanmu's face sank slightly, and he said: "Come on, speed up!!"
Just as Takahashi Sugi promised Sakamoto Jun, he completed the task in half an hour.
Cannonballs with screaming sounds burst out from the muzzle, friction with the air emitted a strong light, and then slammed into Mengyin's ancient city wall.
This is the second time that the ancient city of Mengyin has suffered such heavy damage, and the perpetrators are still the brutal Japanese troops.
The thick city wall appeared to be crumbling under the attack of Japanese artillery fire, and the fragments shattered by the artillery shells were flying outside the city.
Watching this scene through the telescope, Jun Sakamoto murmured: "I hate this kind of siege battle the most. It is difficult to fight and difficult to attack..."
Compared with the Japanese army's ease, the northwest officers and soldiers at the city wall were scolding: "You damn little devil, you just won't give us a good life!"
"Stop scolding, save some energy and wait for these little devils to come up! These are their appetizers, and the next battle is the focus." Shao Ensan, the leader of the 229th Regiment, said to the company commander next to him.
As before, Shao Ensan always takes the lead in fighting.
Since the Fortieth Army was renovated, its firearms and equipment have also been updated. There are about 8,000 rifles, 900 pistols of various types, about 60 light and heavy mortars, and about 60 heavy machine guns. Sixty, including about 600 light machine guns, more than 200 grenades, four mountain guns, and more than 300 horses.
It is said that such weapons and equipment can be compared with the adjustment division. In fact, after Pang Bingxun's troops moved to Haizhou to replenish the garrison, the Military Command gave the 39th Division (division commander Ma Fawu) the title of adjustment division. To facilitate procedures.
In addition, Pang Bingxun's special agent regiment was also compressed into the 40th Army Special Agent Battalion, and the excess soldiers were formed into a supplementary regiment, headed by Li Zhenqing.
However, Pang Bingxun's troops also suffered serious losses after fighting in Cangxian County, Hebei Province (today's Cangzhou), and they also recruited a considerable number of new soldiers, so their combat effectiveness was also affected to a certain extent.
It was also for this reason that Shao Ensan had to board the tower again to direct the battle. Although the 229th Regiment suffered heavy losses this time, it couldn't have lost troops and ground in the first wave of enemy attacks, right?
"Brothers, you must hold on to this wave! This is just a tentative feint attack by the enemy! Pay attention to concealment! Pay attention to concealment!" Shao Ensan shouted, for fear that the new recruits who had never been on the battlefield would accidentally die because of this!
The officers and soldiers on the city wall are living like years, but what about the officers and soldiers outside the city gate? They must hold on to the outer positions of the city gate. If the city gate is lost, Meng Yin is not far away from falling.
Finally, the bombardment stopped. Shao Ensan picked up his binoculars and discovered that the Japanese army, covered by more than a dozen tanks, had slowly approached Mengyin County.
The Japanese soldiers with steel helmets on their heads and ferocious faces were hiding behind the tanks and advancing. At this moment, the shelling started again.
The shrieking shells once again hit the ancient city wall that was riddled with holes, making a deafening rumbling sound.
"Damn, these little devils are really not easy to mess with." Shao Ensan cursed. This was not the first time he fought against the Japanese army. Every battle was very fierce.
He originally thought that the 40th Army had been equipped with so much good equipment, so how could it be able to compete with little Japan? But I didn't expect that the gap was still so big. The Japanese army not only had artillery, but also tanks!
These necessities happen to be what the national army does not possess.
There was no way. The country was poor and weak. It had just emerged from a semi-feudal and semi-colonial state. Before the country could become a little stronger, it encountered Japan's war of aggression against China.
This scene makes people sigh: the Chinese nation in modern history is really ill-fated...
While the 115th Brigade, the forward force of Pang Bingxun's Third Army, was fighting desperately on the front line, Zhang Tianhai's troops had already purchased a batch of war horses on the market.
At the same time, Zhang Tianhai also recruited people who knew how to ride horses from all over the regiment to serve as the old foundation of the cavalry battalion.
However, after recruiting and recruiting, there were always only more than fifty people who could ride a horse. This put Zhang Tianhai in a difficult position: How could he set up a good cavalry battalion with just such a small number of people? Furthermore, who should be the appropriate commander of this cavalry battalion? It seems that there is no officer in the regiment who is from the cavalry department, right? It’s easy to get a background in the engineering and artillery departments, but the cavalry department is really difficult...
As the old saying goes, it’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice...
Unfortunately, he, Zhang Yulin, is now that clever woman trying to make a meal out of nothing.
"That's all, let's recruit people back first!" Zhang Tianhai, who was sitting in the office, immediately put out the burning cigarette butt.
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