readytorunbook Chapter 533: Suddenly Surrounded
Chapter 533: Suddenly Surrounded
Lieutenant General Ohgamo, commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, quickly put on his uniform, then took his command knife and walked quickly to the tent of the division headquarters and asked loudly: "What's going on? Where did so many Chinese troops come from?"
"Your Excellency the division commander, our guard troops to the north, south and behind us were attacked by the Chinese army at the same time. Our guard troops are currently engaged in a fierce battle with the Chinese army. Judging from the direction of the Chinese army's attack, we should be surrounded by the Chinese army." Major General Ishikawa Harunaga, Chief of Staff of the 34th Division, reported the current situation with a worried look on his face.
Lieutenant General Ohgamo of the division walked over to the chief of staff, Major General Ishikawa Harunaga, and looked at the battle map in front of him with an incredulous look on his face and asked, "Mr. Ishikawa, where did the Chinese army come from? Have you figured out the numbers of the Chinese army?"
The division chief of staff, Major General Ishikawa Harunaga, shook his head. It was pitch black outside and the surrounding guard troops were fighting fiercely with the Chinese army. It was still unclear how many Chinese troops were attacking and which troops they were from the Chinese Ninth War Zone.
"Your Excellency the division commander, I believe that the guard troops will soon be able to figure out the numbers of the attacking Chinese troops. However, Your Excellency the division commander, should we also let the main force of the division prepare for defense to prevent harassment from the Chinese army?" The division chief of staff, Major General Ishikawa Harunaga, felt that it would be more practical to prepare the defense of the division headquarters first. Judging from the current scale of the Chinese army's attack, the guard troops on the periphery would certainly find it difficult to withstand such a fierce attack from the Chinese army. Moreover, it is still night, which is the night battle that the Chinese army is best at.
After hearing the suggestion of the Chief of Staff, Major General Ishikawa Harunaga, the division commander Lieutenant General Ogamo nodded. The situation of the Chinese troops launching the attack around them was unclear. In this case, the safest way was to let the main force around the division headquarters prepare for defense. After daybreak, they would naturally know what was going on.
If the Chinese army withdrew and stopped the attack after daybreak, it would mean that the Chinese army was just taking advantage of the cover of darkness to launch a night raid and harassment operation against its own troops. The purpose was to tire the attacking force of the 34th Division and prevent it from launching a large-scale full-scale attack during the day.
But if the Chinese army continued to attack after dawn, that would be a big problem. It would mean that the Chinese army was targeting their 34th Division this time, and there must be a lot of Chinese troops around them, otherwise the Chinese army would not be able to and would not dare to attack the 34th Division so blatantly.
The initial combat plan of General Xue, commander of the Ninth War Zone, was that in the first attack, the troops on both wings would be responsible for attacking the troops on the two wings of the 100th Division, attracting the attention of the th Division and creating an opportunity for the new th Division to cut off the supply lines and retreat of the th Division in one fell swoop.
The 100th Division's long supply line was guarded by only one logistics regiment, which made the new th Division's attack very smooth. Moreover, in order to ensure the realization of the attack objectives, Zhang Wenwu also used the death squads and special service battalions with relatively strong attack capabilities as the vanguard of the attack, striving to cut off the th Division's retreat in the first attack.
In the direction of attack of the new 100th Division was the defense zone of the nd Squadron of the Quartermaster Regiment of the th Division. Li Zhengying, with the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad and the special service battalion, lurked near the Japanese defensive positions before the attack. Some members of the suicide squad even lurked within five meters in front of the Japanese positions.
The moment the signal flare for the attack was launched, the lurking soldiers of the suicide squad and the special service battalion suddenly rushed into the Japanese defensive positions. The grenades they threw kept exploding in the Japanese defensive positions. In less than five minutes, the attacking forces of the new 100th Division broke through the defense line of this Japanese squadron, divided and surrounded this squadron of Japanese troops on the position. What awaits these Japanese troops will be a road of no return.
It took less than an hour for the attacking force of the new 100th Division to cut off the supply lines and retreat routes of the 100th Division. Then, Zhang Wenwu ordered the officers and soldiers of the new th Division to quickly expand the original defensive positions of the Japanese army to block the counterattack that the main force of the th Division of the Japanese army might launch at any time after dawn.
The defensive forces on both wings of the 34th Division were also thrown into disarray by the night attack launched by the offensive forces of the 9th War Zone. It was not until the commander of the 34th Division, Lieutenant General Ogamo, sent the main combat wing to reinforce them that the offensive forces of the 9th War Zone were stopped.
When the attacking forces of the Ninth War Zone saw that the sky was about to brighten, they gradually stopped the attack. Their mission was to attract the attention of the main force of the Japanese army so that the new 100th Division could successfully cut off the supply lines and retreat of the 100th Division of the Japanese Army. Now, the new th Division has completed its combat mission, and they have also completed the first phase of the attack mission.
When it got light, Lieutenant General Ogamo of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army finally realized a fact through the battle reports of various units: his 34th Division of the Japanese Army was originally preparing to encircle and annihilate the 74th Army and the 70th Army of the Chinese government, but now it has become the target of encirclement and annihilation of the 9th War Zone of the Chinese government. This made Lieutenant General Ogamo sigh about his bad luck and prepare to order his troops to teach the Chinese army a lesson in the night attack.
However, the division chief of staff, Major General Ishikawa Harunaga, brought very bad news to the division commander, Lieutenant General Ohgamo. That is, after a night of fierce fighting, the combat units of the 34th Division discovered that there were as many as nine Chinese army divisions with clear numbers around them. Moreover, the supply lines and retreat routes had been cut off by the Chinese army in last night's attack. The ammunition needed by the troops could not be transported up, and the injured officers and soldiers could not be transported down. The 34th Division had been completely surrounded by the troops of the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government in the Shanggao area. Moreover, judging from the current actual situation, the 34th Division is likely to be wiped out in Shanggao.
The news brought by the division chief of staff, Major General Harunaga Ishikawa, shocked the division commander, Lieutenant General Ogamo, so much that he was speechless for a long time. After Lieutenant General Ogamo realized what was happening, he anxiously sent a distress telegram to Lieutenant General Sonobe Kazuichiro, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army.