Chapter 179: Counterattack

At 11 am on July 6, 1932.
When the Southwest Air Force took off again from Beiping Daxing Airport and Taiyuan North Airfield, the annihilation campaign began. Aircraft taking off in the direction of Daxing Airport are still responsible for supporting the KMT ’s blocking positions in the direction of Xushui and Xin'an, while Taiyuan North Africa Airport is responsible for supporting the annihilation battle outside Baoding.
The annihilation battle outside Baoding City went very fast. When a huge bomber group of hundreds of various aircraft flew over the Japanese army, the Japanese army had lost all anti-aircraft firepower, and any fighter plane could shoot at any place at low altitude. The Japanese It was painful to find that they could only hide in the trenches and mourn, and enjoyed the repeated dives and aerial bombardment of Chinese fighter jets in the air.
Different from previous ground bombings, the aircraft flying from the southwest to the North Airfield in this bombardment put tremendous pressure on the Japanese army. It can be said that it was the bombing of a cluster of more than 100 advanced aircraft. The fifth division, which was enclosed in a small circle.
After the siege battle began, the bombing of the air force was the pioneer. The two main divisions in the southwest took the third division and the fourth division of the main division equipped with 1,500 submachine guns as attack pioneers. With firepower, more than 20,000 people from the two divisions launched a final onslaught against the Japanese army with more than 10,000 people remaining.
When attacking the Japanese trenches, the submachine gun once again showed the great power of its Trench Broom. The short gun body and dense firepower were simply the nightmare of the Japanese trench soldiers. As long as it was penetrated by several Southwest troops, the entire position I lost it.
Although this type of submachine gun is temporarily delivered on a large scale, the main division originally had one or two pieces of equipment in each class. Moreover, the lack of large-scale equipment does not mean that it is usually not trained. As a practice in the southwest, the main force must be well equipped to receive new equipment at the same time as it is trying to equip these weapons. You must complete training tasks while saving. Throughout the year, the army will focus on several submachine gun firing exercises. For these professional soldiers, the recoil of the submachine gun is much smaller than that of a single-shot rifle, and it is easy to operate. Even if it is issued on the battlefield, it only takes half a magazine to find the feeling.
This time the siege battle was extremely smooth. After the Japanese army was besieged, the ammunition was exhausted under high-intensity battles. In the face of the siege of the two southwestern main divisions, there was no penetration ability at all.
It was also in this battle that the collective offensive capabilities of the modern army in the southwest were finally reflected.
Earlier, when a regiment or a division's troops were placed on the defensive battlefield, the Japanese simply felt that the defense lines of the Southwest Army could not break through, and the feeling of being difficult to confront was not as strong as it is now.
After the siege battle began, Lieutenant General Liu Chuanping, commander of the fifth division of the Japanese Army, finally understood that the Southwest Army was so terrible.
For example, the Japanese army that also set up a position, a large team lost resistance, but was quickly attacked by the same number of troops in the Southwest Army, the kind of cooperation and tacit understanding, so that the Japanese army has always been proud of training had to bow their heads.
They have a complete range of troops. Except for the absence of chariot troops and cluster artillery, their infantry configuration almost suppressed the Japanese army.
When encountering the resistance of the grenade group, in addition to pulling up the infantry cannon, the opponent often just shot a rocket to fly over and directly destroyed the stubborn grenade group.
In addition to the Japanese heavy machine guns, in addition to the suppression of rockets, the opponent's Ripper heavy machine guns can easily follow the troops to provide fire suppression during the march due to the convenient movement. In contrast to the rate of fire, it is often the Japanese that must be suppressed. Heavy machine gun.
Speaking of marksmanship, the Japanese also found that the marksmanship of the Southwest Army is more accurate than themselves, especially their widely-used grass-roots sharpshooters, which can be seen in almost every lineup. As a result, at any point of attack, as long as there is Several Japanese troops with good marksmanship will be immediately taken care of by the sharpshooter of the other side, and then they will be directly headshot.
Of course, these only reflect the details of the combat effectiveness of an army, and from the perspective of Yanagawa Hirata, the real terribleness of the Southwest Army lies in its cluster advantage. The combat effectiveness erupted by the two divisions is much stronger than the two divisions fighting alone, and it is well used in offensive tactics. Even a battalion-level commander can formulate several plans in the offense.
This proves that modern officer education in the southwest has been ahead of the empire.
This proves that not only do they have an army that has undergone professional military training for two decades, they also have a large number of outstanding officers.
He didn't even expect that the two Chinese people who had been very disdainful, and the two schoolmates of the non-commissioned officer school, Cai Jun and Jiang Baili, who were in the sixteenth and seventeenth periods of the army non-commissioned officer school, would cause such a big empire. harm. One is the Chief of Staff of the Southwest Army, and the other is the highest military academy in China. He has trained a large number of modern military personnel.
After the Japanese army's fifth division was quickly breached, it was divided into small groups in less than half a day. During the fierce attack, the Southwest Army quickly decomposed the Japanese army, and then organized to threaten these already lost Offensive unit.
At 3 pm on the 6th, the Southwest Army was already cleaning the battlefield.
Throughout the battlefield, teams of Japanese troops were escorted and walked towards prisoners of war. There were burning bodies everywhere. Some Japanese bodies were still pressed against heavy machine guns after death, and some were hit by artillery fire. Remaining limbs falling in the trenches proclaimed that they had fought, and some were dying to fight back, or pretend to be wounded, hide under the corpse, and wanted to burn with the Chinese soldiers and jade, but they ushered in a round that penetrated the corpse. bullet.
For the Japanese army that did not actively surrender the gun, the Southwest Army adopted a massacre without any mercy. As for the wounded, the Southwest Army refused to provide medical treatment and entered the prisoner of war camp. It would not matter if they could survive, otherwise, they would go to see the Aizhao as soon as possible As well. It is better to spend a lot of medical expenses for these Japanese pirates to make more submachine guns.
For the captured Japanese army, although the Southwest Army did not mass kill, the few thousand Japanese troops remaining will not be used as bargaining chips in the future. They will use their brilliant youth to forgive sins in China. In the revival of China, there are too many large-scale transportation projects or mines waiting for them.
After the third and fourth divisions completed the siege battle and captured the Japanese army, they gave the task of cleaning the battlefield to the only National Army Division B on the battlefield. In this siege battle, this Division B also established Thanks to the credit, the remote position of their defense actually repelled a sudden attack by the Japanese army and a brigade.
The third and fourth divisions quickly advanced to Xu Shui and Xin'an, intending to build new achievements. However, Shirakawa Yoshino, who received the news of the fifth division's destruction, ordered the two divisions to retreat while preparing to plead guilty to the military. .
It is regrettable that before the retreat, the forces of the four divisions of the National Army had already lacked the ability to pursue. When the two main divisions in the southwest arrived on the battlefield, the Japanese army had lost contact with the Chinese army and escaped. More than ten miles away.
The entire battlefield was abandoned by the Japanese, and they did not even have time to take away a wounded. All the wounded were shot by the Japanese at the battlefield hospital.
On this day, the siege of Baoding was completely ended, and the Chinese people achieved their biggest victory since the War of Resistance. Excluding Beiping's defensive forces, more than 800 divisions and 100,000 troops were mobilized before and after the annihilation. More than 800 sorties were taken off by air planes.
Due to the rapid movement of the Southwest Army, the Fifth Division was defeated within a short period of time that exceeded the expectations of the Japanese Army. In the end, the Chinese Army of eight divisions achieved a big victory over the Japanese Army's more than three divisions.
The head of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, Liu Chuanping, assisted the following. Except for His Excellency the Division Leader opened his belly with a sabre to confess his guilt, he killed or injured more than 10,000 people, and captured thousands of Japanese troops. The two Japanese divisions responsible for the rescue also suffered heavy losses. In addition to the air strikes of the Southwest Air Force, the two divisions also left too many dead bodies in front of the four Kuomintang divisions. The combined injuries of the two divisions reached More than 6,000 people. (About 1,000 people were killed or injured in the air strike. The four divisions and the national army eliminated a total of nearly 4,000 people.) This is still under the premise that the national army has air support provided by the Southwest Air Force, but the Japanese army lacks artillery. It is the other way round, or the fighting time is dragged on for another day or two, then the national army of the four divisions will end in a fiasco defeat.
Of course, the Chinese army has also paid a heavy price. In addition to the two divisions' small losses in the Southwest Division, the losses of each Kuomintang combat division reached thousands of people, especially Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division and Fang Shuhong. The 21st Division, who also serves as the division head, suffered particularly heavy casualties. Zhang Zizhong himself was injured in the leg, Fang Shuhong was also injured by shell shrapnel, and Huo Shouyi, the 21st division commander, was killed by Japanese shells. Compared with the more elite Xin'an blocking forces, the 38th Division counted the number of people after the war, leaving only more than 2,000 with almost everyone injured, and the battle damage was as high as two-thirds.
After the war, Zhang Zizhong himself told reporters truthfully: If the Southwest Army had not achieved victory in the rapid annihilation of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, the only option for the 38th Division was to retreat.
On July 7, 1932, Zhang Shusheng, the chief executive of the Southwest United Government, delivered a speech on anti-Japanese war in Kunming. He spoke highly of the victory achieved by the cooperation between the two armies.
"... This is a great victory. The fall of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army proves an iron fact. China is no longer the late Qing Dynasty. The Chinese have the ability to fight back against any aggression ... We will fight to the end until Take back all our fallen territories ... and their sacrifice will drive the entire nation's revival process ... "
The Nanjing National Government Chiang Kai-shek also delivered a warm anti-Japanese speech at the official residence of Nanjing, claiming that this was a huge victory since the Anti-Japanese War. The myth of the Japanese army's invincibility was finally broken, and it will be completely broken from then on. China will definitely win the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
In the ensuing news discussions, many people also reflected on the fact that it is also the military, why the Kuomintang army is not as good as the southwest army. Although they can also fight bravely, the alarming number of casualties is distressing.
Although the results of the discussion are diverse, the name of the Southwest Army's good combat has been known to the Chinese people. Photos of them can be found on the front page of each newspaper: Southwest Army officers and men in field camouflage uniforms are full of spirits His face was full of war. They are taking a nap in the trenches ~ EbookFREE.me ~, or they are fighting or escorting the captured Japanese ...
In this big discussion, there was another incident that made the Nanjing National Government extremely passive.
Southwest Daily published a signed article, and famous patriots Ms. Song Qingling, Mr. Lu Xun, Cai Yuanpei and others jointly called on the Southwest Government to start a unified talk with the Nanjing National Government.
"... In this national defense battle, we see that an ununited China cannot exert its maximum energy. A unified government can defend the country and defend the people. We call on the Southwest United Autonomous Government and Nanjing The National Government is faced with the major issues of national unity and national unity, and has sincerely negotiated on the issue of unity ... "
After the incident of this signed article, all the people of China began to realize a truth. Only by uniting and strengthening China can we counter foreign aggression, defend the people, and bring hope to the nation.
From north to south, the voices calling for unification have never ceased.

With the next updated counterattack, the Battle of Tianjin-Beijing is over ()