freenovelworld Chapter 485 No progress
Chapter 485 No progress
On the morning of the next day, Major General Masao Nakamura, commander of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, drove to Liutang with the 42nd Regiment.
As soon as they arrived at Liutang, Major General Masao Nakamura, commander of the 21st Brigade, took over the battlefield command. After completing the battlefield handover, Colonel Lin Yixiong, commander of the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, led the 1st Regiment, which had lost half of its officers and soldiers, to retreat towards Nanning. They needed to rest well. The attacks in the past few days had completely destroyed the morale of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment, and the officers and soldiers were extremely tired.
After the commander of the 21st Brigade, Major General Masao Nakamura, completed the handover of the battlefield situation, he immediately ordered the 42nd Regiment to prepare for the attack. He wanted to quickly defeat the defense line of the Chinese government's newly formed 22nd Division in Liutang, because the 21st Regiment, which was now fighting on Kunlun Pass, was his basic force. He had to reinforce it quickly and not let any accidents happen to the 21st Regiment.
The commander of the 21st Brigade, Major General Masao Nakamura, was also very anxious. The commander of the 21st Regiment, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, had been fighting with his troops at Kunlun Pass for several days. Yesterday, even the commander of the regiment, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, sent a telegram to the division commander saying that the troops could not fight anymore. This showed that the 21st Regiment had reached its limit. If the Chinese army launched a major counterattack at this time, the 21st Regiment would be in great danger.
However, the 42nd Regiment, with the cooperation of the running troops, was still repelled by the newly formed 22nd Division defending Liutang. This made the brigade commander, Major General Masao Nakamura, a little confused. Was his own troops fighting against the Chinese army? Why did the Chinese army on the opposite side have so many tanks and armored vehicles? Moreover, their tanks and armored vehicles cooperated with the infantry so skillfully. This didn't look like the Chinese army they had encountered before.
Now the brigade commander, Major General Masao Nakamura, also understood why the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, which was responsible for the attack, had not been able to break through Liutang after fighting for so long. Before his own 42nd Regiment attacked, the brigade commander, Major General Masao Nakamura, had always believed that it was Colonel Lin Yixiong, commander of the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, who lied about military intelligence and said that the Chinese army was so well-equipped. In fact, he was just covering up the unfavorable combat situation of the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade and finding excuses for the defeat.
As a result, after such actual operations by their own troops, they really confirmed the previous battle situation report of Colonel Lin Yixiong, commander of the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade. Moreover, the brigade commander, Major General Masao Nakamura, even believed that the previous report of Colonel Lin Yixiong, commander of the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade, was polite. In the actual situation, the combat effectiveness demonstrated by the newly formed 22nd Division of the Chinese government in Liutang was much stronger than what Colonel Lin Yixiong reported.
This explains why the 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade made no progress after fighting for several days and even lost half of its troops. It was not because they did not work hard, but because the Chinese government's newly formed 22nd Division was too strong.
However, the brigade commander, Major General Masao Nakamura, knew that the newly formed 22nd Division in Liutang would be difficult to defeat, but he still ordered his troops to continue the attack. He had no choice but to break through the blocking position of the newly formed 22nd Chinese Division in Liutang. He was worried that if he dragged on, the 21st Regiment at Kunlun Pass would be in real danger.
Colonel Miki Yoshinosuke, commander of the 21st Regiment at Kunlun Pass, is now a little helpless. Although the officers and soldiers were allowed to rest yesterday, their fatigue cannot be recovered by just a short rest.
Deep down, the commander of the 21st Regiment, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, felt that his troops should take a rest today. However, the commander of the 5th Division, Lieutenant General Imamura Hitoshi, still asked them to occupy the main position of Kunlun Pass as soon as possible, which made Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki very worried.
The regiment commander, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, had no choice but to order the officers and soldiers who had not yet rested enough to continue attacking the main position of Kunlun Pass. However, with the officers and soldiers so tired, the effect of the attack was getting worse and worse. Faced with this situation, the regiment commander, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, had no good solution. Now he was thinking about the brigade commander quickly bringing reinforcements to Kunlun Pass, as his 21st Regiment really could not attack anymore.
Just as Major General Masao Nakamura, commander of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, worried, General Du of the Fifth Army fighting at Kunlun Pass was considering launching a counterattack against the Japanese troops at Kunlun Pass in an effort to destroy this extremely exhausted Japanese army.
When you shift your attention to the new 100th Division's defense line on the Luwu side of the Yongqin Highway, you will find that the battle scene here is extremely gentle. The 100nd Regiment of the Japanese Taiwan Mixed Brigade, responsible for the attack, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, the regiment's chief of staff, slowly launched a super-long-distance attack on the new th Division's defense positions in squadrons.
Yes, the battle plan previously formulated by the Chief of Staff of the Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, and the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Major Yoshitsugu Matsui, was to attack 300 meters in front of the Chinese army's defensive position. However, in the actual actions of the various attacking units below, they basically stopped advancing when they were 350 meters in front of the Chinese army's defensive position.
At this distance, the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the Taiwan Brigade of the Japanese Army felt that they had a certain degree of security. You know, the squadron in the first attack today rushed to within 300 meters of the Chinese army's position. As a result, more than 40 officers and soldiers were killed on the spot. This allowed the attacking troops behind them to control the advance distance very well.
Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto and commander of the 3rd Battalion Major Yoshitsugu Matsui did not express any dissatisfaction with the shoddy work of the troops below. After all, their ultimate goal was safety first. As for whether the attack was 300 meters or 350 meters in front of the Chinese position, it was not important at all. It would be impossible to capture the Chinese army's defensive positions anyway. What difference did it make if they attacked a few meters forward or a few meters behind?
"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, we have successfully completed today's attack. The losses of our regiment today were very good, with only more than 80 officers and soldiers killed or wounded." The commander of the 3rd Battalion, Major Yoshitsugu Matsui, came to the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, with gauze tied on his head and a happy face to report.