NIP #200 - Fanning the Wheel of History
#200 - Fanning the Wheel of History
Having crushed the Japanese tanks and buried the arrogant Japanese tanks in front of the position, the commander of the Saibei Military Region, who was directing from the front, saw in his binoculars that using RPG rocket launchers and G20 machine guns to deal with the Japanese tanks was simply too easy.
A heavy weight lifted from his heart.
He had witnessed the might of the Japanese tanks before. Even the Type 97 Japanese tanks were basically unstoppable in the past. The only option was to have soldiers strap themselves with bundled grenades or explosive packs and use their lives to fill the gap!
It would take the lives of dozens of men to destroy a single tank.
Now, one rocket for one tank, no need to even finish them off!
It was as simple as sniping a Japanese soldier.
"Order the artillery to spread out and, in units of companies, begin zonal shelling of the Japanese clusters!" The commander of the Saibei Military Region could now fight with confidence.
Lacking air support and a tank regiment, and with more than half of their artillery regiment destroyed, the advantage in artillery had completely shifted to our side. At this time, as long as the rockets hadn't run out, they should be unleashed on the Japanese ranks to their heart's content.
Let the Japanese taste what artillery barrage was like.
For Shichida Ichiro, today was truly the most difficult day of his life.
The tank regiment he had placed high hopes on, which had swaggered onto the battlefield with great fanfare, lasted less than ten minutes before being completely wiped out!
This was not the result he wanted, but now he could only swallow it.
In order to avoid the annihilation of the entire army, Shichida Ichiro once again called in the air force to bomb the front lines. He had to withdraw the front-line troops.
As a seasoned battlefield commander, Shichida Ichiro knew that his gamble had failed, and failed completely, when the tank regiment collapsed. He thought that facing the mysterious heavy artillery was their last trump card.
Therefore, after dispersing the opponent's heavy artillery, Shichida Ichiro wanted to use the tank regiment to regain everything they had lost. Who knew that the enemy had more than just one trump card!
That unknown anti-tank weapon, which dealt a fatal blow to the Imperial Army's tanks, made Shichida Ichiro have a terrible thought: that the Imperial Army's tank units had lost their ability to roam freely on the Chinese battlefield.
Without a doubt, the opponent's weapons had already been mass-produced. This was just the first large-scale appearance on the battlefield.
Thinking of this, Shichida Ichiro's desire to retreat became even more determined.
He ordered the supply train to begin withdrawing first. The front-line troops would retreat with infantry battalions providing alternating cover, adopting a dispersed marching formation to reduce the casualties from the enemy's elusive heavy artillery.
However, as the Japanese changed their formation, the forward command post of the Saibei Military Region also saw an opportunity.
Three main cavalry regiments immediately mobilized, charging out of the mountains where they had been ambushing from the north, intercepting the dispersed Japanese infantry!
Shichida Ichiro, still unwilling to accept defeat, was about to go crazy after receiving this information.
In order to ensure that his troops could escape the pursuit of the border region's cavalry regiments, Shichida Ichiro ordered indiscriminate air strikes on the areas where the rearguard troops were engaged!
More than a dozen Japanese warplanes of various types quickly flew over the battle area. They did not need to carry out precise air strikes on the ground at all. Instead, they dropped bombs from more than a thousand meters above the battle area. Everywhere on the ground were people and horses running around. Within twenty or thirty meters of where the bombs landed, no living creatures, whether human or animal, survived!
Seeing that the Japanese were so ruthless that they even bombed their own people, the commander of the Saibei Military Region received the information and had no choice but to order the cavalry regiments to withdraw to the mountains.
The Japanese could be ruthless enough to abandon their rearguard of several thousand men, but the commander of the Saibei Military Region could not allow his three main cavalry regiments to be lost in such a melee.
After this battle, he finally understood the advantage of cavalry on the grassland. As long as he used the Type 107 rockets to destroy the Japanese artillery first, the cavalry would be the kings of the grassland!
Even if the Japanese sent out tank units, it would be useless. The RPG rocket launchers could teach them how to be reborn in minutes.
Therefore, the precious cavalry must not be wasted in reckless battles.
There were plenty of ways to slowly torment the remaining Japanese.
Thinking of this, the military region commander couldn't help but admire the border region's staff headquarters and Ren Zhong.
Simply using the Type 107 rockets to accompany the infantry was just a conventional exchange of fire, but once they were prepared in advance and used the extremely mobile Type 107 rockets on a pre-set battlefield, it would be a dimensional strike for the Japanese.
With the gridded map, as long as they found a familiar pre-set artillery position, the artillery regiment of the Saibei Military Region could launch an artillery barrage from 5 kilometers away based on the approximate location of the enemy.
Although the accuracy might have a deviation of a hundred or two meters, it was now completely compensated for by the number of shells fired, covering an area of several thousand square meters with one barrage!
This was something that infantry battalions simply could not resist!
The military region's artillery regiment, dispersed into artillery companies, were constantly transferring positions and shelling along the roads on the edge of the mountains under the guidance of forward artillery observers, and each artillery company now had two cavalry transport teams transporting rockets back and forth for resupply!
It seemed that they would not withdraw until they had wiped out the Japanese!
However, after Shichida Ichiro understood the tactics of the Saibei Military Region, he quickly sent out a battalion to set up a defense line near the mountains, and at the same time sent out valuable cavalry battalions to search for these artillery units.
The Japanese change in formation was reported back to the command post by the accompanying scouts, and they naturally countered the move by sending out cavalry regiments to restrain the enemy's cavalry.
However, after this cavalry chase ended, the Japanese had already boarded trains and fled back.
The Saibei Military Region and the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army ate up the Japanese rearguard cavalry battalion and infantry battalion, killing another seven or eight thousand Japanese soldiers in this battle!
In total, a division of Japanese soldiers was wiped out.
What made the Japanese even more upset was that the biggest losses this time were actually in the heavy weapons department.
Two artillery regiments, one tank regiment, and one artillery battalion were all written off at once!
In addition, they also lost two warplanes, more than a hundred vehicles, and a division commander!
In this battle, the Japanese suffered a great loss!
Not only that, but the Saibei Military Region now took advantage of the situation to recover the entire Jiufeng Mountain and the area south of Jiufeng Mountain to the Yellow River. This area is considered a good farmland base in Jiuyuan, with a dense network of rivers. After dredging and整治, these hundreds of square kilometers are the granary of Saibei.
Although it is still somewhat difficult to recover Qingcheng now, after all, the Japanese still have two divisions and a brigade here!
Now that the two divisions sent out from North China, one was buried! The other naturally did not dare to retreat back. The Japanese wanted to solve the grassland problem, but they did not expect to be solved instead.
When Okamura, the Japanese devil, heard the news, he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage and fainted!
The North China Front Army only had so much mobile force. Now, good, all of a sudden they are stuck on the grassland and cannot return!
In this battle, the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army quickly telegraphed the world, achieving a decisive victory in Jiuyuan. The Jiuyuan counterattack was a complete victory, annihilating two Japanese divisions and a tank regiment in a devastating blow!
Although the battle report was slightly exaggerated, it did actually destroy the heavy weapons of two Japanese division artillery regiments and one artillery battalion, plus the tanks of the tank regiment were photographed on the spot, leaving evidence!
In addition, after the Japanese shrank back to Qingcheng, they could no longer organize a counterattack.
Having suffered such a big loss, the Japanese were forced to stay in Qingcheng and dare not move again!
Such a record can be called the most glorious victory since the start of the war.
As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked!
The Border Region and the Eighth Route Army headquarters successively issued articles praising the grassland children for their lofty aspirations, announcing that the Border Region would further unite all forces that could be united, provide the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army with all the help that could be provided, and support them in completely driving the Japanese out of the grassland.
At the same time, it called on all ethnic forces across the country to unite, unite as one, learn from the wolfishness of the grassland children who fought bloody battles, and completely eliminate the Japanese in China.
This battle directly made the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia autistic. The North China Front Army was also helpless, ordering the main force of the stationed army in Mongolia to stand firm in Qingcheng. Now they have to consider whether the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army will attack!
After all, judging from the firepower of the battle, the heavy artillery firepower of the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army is quite amazing, completely surpassing the artillery fire of the Japanese division level.
More importantly, the mobility of the opponent's heavy artillery is so strong that it is almost on par with the tank regiment!
If it weren't for the air force suppressing them during the day, the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia believed that they were no longer the opponent of this force on the grassland.
This defensive counterattack in Jiuyuan immediately brought out the prestige of the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army. Those small and medium-sized forces on the grassland who were originally indecisive are now really starting to consider choosing a side. The tribes near Jiuyuan are now coming after hearing the news.
Through these two battles, the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army caused the situation on the grassland to change suddenly. The original situation of the Japanese army confronting Wuyuan began to turn into a three-way hegemony in which the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army occupied the upper hand.
Even if discerning people see the shadow of the border region behind the Sui-Mongolian Autonomous Army, so what? Now the strength of the border region is increasing day by day. As long as there is no difference in righteousness, the accompanying capitals will not dare to act again.
General Shi's side was very satisfied with the recent actions of the Border Region and the Eighth Route Army, which almost prevented the Japanese from drawing troops from the north to the south.
For this reason, General Shi's voice within the Rogue Eagle has also increased, because General Shi has ensured that the war situation in the China War Zone is developing in a good direction. According to Rogue Eagle's internal intelligence, two Goryeo divisions will be transferred to North China to further make up for the gap in the emptiness of North China's troops.
And originally these two divisions were to be sent to the Nanyang area to fight.
Because Ren Zhong was born out of nowhere, in this good show on the grassland, the Japanese army's troop investment was even more stretched.
The butterfly's wings finally began to fan the huge inertial wheels of history.
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