PFC Chapter 197 Defeat General Tu Feiyuan!
Chapter 197 Defeat General Tu Feiyuan!
Retreat to Huixian City.
The telegram was from Chu Yunfei: "Commander: I have wiped out a Japanese unit of over 3000 men and captured over 120, including one brigade commander and two lieutenant colonels."
The two armies soon joined forces.
Let Commander Pu and the original officers of the 24th Army gather together, let them lead the way, search for the lost officers and soldiers separately, and try to restore the 24th Army.
Commander Pu saluted Su Fei, standing at attention. "Commander Su, you are truly remarkable. With only a single division of 2500 men, you were able to sweep across the Hebei-Chahar War Zone and save our 24th Army. On behalf of the 24th Army, I, Pu, would like to thank you for your great kindness!"
Some officers expressed regret, saying that it was a pity that they did not ambush the old Japanese soldier Tu Feiyuan.
pity?
Just as he was about to speak, someone reported on the walkie-talkie: "A large group of Japanese troops are attacking us from the Xinxiang area. The number is estimated to be at least 5,000!"
Su Fei smiled and said, "You don't regret it now, do you? That old thief Tu Feiyuan was so cunning and treacherous. He deliberately tried to defraud us. If we hadn't retreated in time, we would have been surrounded by the Japanese army."
what?
All the officers and soldiers admired Su Fei's wise judgment.
However, sending officers from the 24th Army to look for their old subordinates would cause many problems and great dangers. They might be intercepted by the Japanese army or attacked by the rebel troops. This was Commander Pu's concern.
In this case, they sent a small number of officers to lead the troops to find those more reliable and dependable troops. In the end, Su Fei and Chu Yunfei were left with a cavalry unit of more than 800 people.
A new infantry unit of 2000 people was formed.
What the Chinese people lack is weapons and ammunition, but what they have is the spirit of resistance. As long as they are given weapons and ammunition, many people will immediately rise up in rebellion!
These infantrymen were similar to the baggage soldiers, as they had to protect and transport large amounts of spoils, and the weapons and ammunition capable of arming 8000 people were in their hands.
They used Huixian City as their base and temporarily took shelter.
Some veterans were assigned to the infantry as commanders, and after being taught some military knowledge, they began to deploy defenses in Huixian City.
Here, there are also some veterans, the defeated soldiers of the 24th Army.
There are also some local guerrillas and exiled local grassroots government officials who have military qualities.
The Eighth Route Army also has a lot of militiamen, all of whom are semi-underground. Now, Su Fei has sent people to distribute weapons and ammunition, and they have also organized themselves.
All troops have intensified their training.
Many trenches and tunnels were dug inside and outside the county town of Huixian to arrange defenses.
Rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, infantry guns, etc. were all quickly learned and used.
More than 80 cavalrymen came outside and hid.
A day later, the Japanese army besieged Huixian City. The Japanese troops were endless and surrounded Huixian tightly.
The Japanese army was estimated to be at least an infantry brigade.
Use field artillery with a range of 150mm or more to bombard the defenders in the county town.
The officer of the defending army was Chu Yunfei.
There were tens of thousands of civilians in the city, and he mobilized more than 3,000 able-bodied men to participate in digging fortifications. When the Japanese army began to bomb, all the soldiers and civilians hid in the tunnels.
The commander of the Japanese army was General Tu Feiyuan.
Yes, it was the general, a veteran spy and China expert. He later served as the commander of the 14th Division, wielding a butcher knife to massacre Chinese soldiers and civilians. Later, he was transferred back to the country and served as the director of education. He was one of the giants of the Japanese army and was promoted to general.
He came to the Second Army to inspect and assist in the battle. Under his planning, the Second Army would organize several units to form an iron wall encirclement, encircling, expelling and eventually annihilating the 24th Army in the Hebei-Chahar War Zone of China.
He was a big spy who was good at using intelligence and traitors. He sent people to instigate the commander Yun of the Provisional Fifth Army to rebel, and directly destroyed the army group from within.
Now, he leads his troops to seek revenge.
He personally led the officers and soldiers on the battlefield to shout slogans to avenge General Mizukawa!
The Japanese offensive is like a rainbow!
They gnashed their teeth, vowing to capture Huixian without a single soul, because they had witnessed the carnage in and around Xinxiang. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers lay dead in the streets, and some Imperial Army soldiers had their heads shot. The airport was a scorched earth, with Japanese bodies piled on top of each other. A major military base, including an air force base, had been wiped out. Furthermore, not far outside Huixian, over 3000 Japanese soldiers had died en masse, all killed by artillery fire. It was a tragic scene.
The Japanese are going crazy.
Carrying several heavy artillery pieces, they blew the walls of Huixian city into pieces.
Mortars and mountain artillery also fired fiercely. Afterwards, the Japanese and puppet troops began to charge and the battle began.
The Japanese and puppet troops rushed into the city easily. When General Tu Feiyuan was feeling proud, suddenly, a burst of intensive gunfire and artillery explosions overwhelmed the Japanese and puppet troops.
More than 5000 soldiers and civilians launched a fierce counterattack against the Japanese army.
The automatic rifles, owned by both officers and soldiers, were extremely powerful and could wipe out a large area.
Since there were not many 35mm grenades, they were not used. However, many grenade launchers and mortars were captured, especially a large number of artillery shells seized from the Japanese arsenal in Xinxiang City. These shells were used to bombard the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was repelled with heavy casualties.
Tu Feiyuan was furious and fired again and charged again.
In this way, the two armies fought repeatedly for 5 hours.
Chu Yunfei is no joke!
After such a long time, the Japanese army suffered huge losses. Helplessly, Tu Feiyuan ordered the outer guard troops to be gradually transferred to join the battle.
He was not discouraged or lost his mind. Instead, he felt very good, because it meant that he had surrounded a large number of Chinese troops and could decide the outcome in one battle and completely pacify the southern Hebei and northwestern Henan areas.
The telegram requested General Iijima, commander of the Second Army, to dispatch more troops.
"I've surrounded a big fish. It could very well be Su Fei, the once arrogant commander of the Independent Cavalry Group Army of the Hebei-Chahar War Zone of the Chinese Army! I must catch him."
Chu Yunfei started arguing with Tu Feiyuan's army.
After fighting for another five hours, the Japanese army continued their attack after dark.
Both sides suffered huge losses.
Chu Yunfei's troops already have more than 1,500 people.
Tu Feiyuan's troops lost 1000 Japanese soldiers and 800 puppet soldiers, some of whom were killed, as well as more than 500 wounded Japanese soldiers and more than 300 wounded Imperial Army soldiers.
Blood flowed like a river, and the city walls of Huixian collapsed completely, turning into ruins of high earthen mounds, with craters everywhere from artillery bombardments.
The blood dyed the soil red.
Tu Feiyuan's eyes were red with anger. He couldn't understand why. In the past, a single division of his could sweep across the Central Plains of China. In the Battle of Lanfeng, a single division, with the support of smaller units nearby, could single-handedly challenge over 20 elite Chinese divisions, creating a miracle. But today, with a single elite brigade, he couldn't even capture a tiny, battered county town? How shameful!
The battle lasted until late at night, and the Japanese army lost more than 500 people again.
General Tu Feiyuan wanted to mobilize planes to help in the battle, but the airport here had been bombed and the Japanese army had very few planes left. A large number of them were consumed in the Pacific battlefield, and some were fighting in the battlefield in Burma and in central and southern China, so there were no planes to be spared.
Only then did Fatty Rabbit get angry.
Give the order to mobilize poison gas bombs to attack.
One o'clock in the morning.
Su Fei successfully contacted Chu Yunfei in the city via telegram, and then ordered Chu Yunfei's troops to launch a counterattack to tie down the enemy.
Chu Yunfei immediately counterattacked, mobilizing more than a thousand people and dividing them into several groups to counterattack the Japanese army. At the same time, artillery fire also bombarded the Japanese positions.
Tu Feiyuan analyzed that the Chinese army in Huixian City had exhausted its combat effectiveness and had no choice but to break out, and they must not be let go, so he ordered the troops to conduct a full-scale interception battle.
The main force of the Japanese infantry rushed to the front line.
Highly nervous.
The fight never stops.
Just when the battle was getting intense, Su Fei's cavalry was dispatched.
800 cavalrymen launched a large-scale charge directly at the Japanese army from behind.
That was the Japanese artillery position.
They fired the few remaining 35mm grenades and took advantage of the enemy's confusion. The cavalry pressed down like a tide, with horses' hooves kicking and sabers whistling. The Japanese artillery and the escorting infantry were quickly crushed into smelly fertilizer.
Artillery fire was the unit and position that Su Fei valued most. It was the devil's fang that bit and devoured people. After pulling it out, Su Fei ordered an attack on other Japanese troops.
This is an attack from behind.
The Japanese army soon realized the danger and sent troops to encircle them. Some Japanese troops took the initiative to counterattack.
There were about 2000 Japanese troops besieging Su Fei's troops.
However, the cavalry of Su Fei's troops directly dispersed the enemy, and later, they simply released the soldiers and horses, allowing them to charge at the Japanese army, trample on the enemy, and defeat the enemy.
A knife stabbed into the buttocks, the warhorse felt pain and ran wildly!
Taking advantage of the chaos, Su Fei's troops repeatedly fired at the Japanese army.
The special forces equipped with night vision goggles were ruthless and fastest, killing more than a thousand Japanese soldiers.
They also used 81 rifles, which allowed them to see the enemy clearly and fire very quickly. Other troops also had a large number of 81 rifles, which were too powerful. The elite Japanese troops were shot in the head before they could even aim and shoot.
Strike first and strike later to control others!
Under the suppression of groups of 81 rifles, the Japanese army's single-shot bolt-action rifles looked so pitiful and helpless.
More than 2000 people were slaughtered within just over ten minutes.
Su Fei's troops also lost more than 300 people, half of whom were wounded. The wounded refused to fall down and continued to shoot. Anyway, they were all red-eyed.
Su Fei's army continued to advance, and the Japanese attacked fiercely from behind. Especially the officers and soldiers wearing night vision goggles, they were omnipresent and elusive, like sitting ducks. The Japanese had no idea of their location and were killed off immediately.
In the later battles, the special forces directly killed 1300 Japanese soldiers, and they only had more than 20 night vision goggles.
Chu Yunfei also had night vision goggles, not many, but they were extremely powerful. More than a thousand Japanese soldiers were killed by snipers and strafing by them.
After fighting for more than half an hour, the Japanese army had suffered heavy casualties and lost its organization. Tu Feiyuan himself had no choice but to retreat under the protection of the guard troops.
This old guy is quite cunning and disguised himself. At first glance, he is a silly old chef, a fat old man who cooks with a spoon in his hand. He is really an old actor with superb acting skills.
Tu Feiyuan ran away and the entire army was defeated.
Su Fei's troops pursued and killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers.
Big win.
The night vision goggles troops were of great help in cleaning up the battlefield at night. They eliminated many hidden dangers one after another. The wounded Japanese soldiers who were assassinating or resisting were all discovered and killed.
On the second day, the battlefield was thoroughly cleaned up and 6 Japanese field cannons, 12 mountain cannons, 24 mortars, 12 anti-tank guns, more than 150 machine guns and grenade launchers were seized.
More than 1200 war horses were seized.
Su Fei's army also suffered heavy losses. Chu Yunfei's infantry suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, and Su Fei's 800 elite cavalry veterans lost 180 men and 369 were injured, with more than half of them killed or wounded.
However, it was worth it to defeat the oldest and most brutal Tu Feiyuan unit of the Japanese army!
The Japanese army left behind more than 6000 corpses, more than 1000 Imperial Army soldiers were killed, and more than 500 were captured.
Chu Yunfei was so excited that he cried: "Today is the first time I personally participated in a battle. I defeated a large group of Japanese troops in one fell swoop, and it was that old devil Tu Feiyuan's grandson! I am so happy! It's so satisfying."
After the victory, many soldiers and civilians touched the bodies of their comrades, relatives and family members, crying and laughing, with a mixture of pain and happiness, and filled with emotion.
Su Fei's troops quickly reorganized and rescued the wounded. At the same time, they reorganized and trained the troops, continued to dig and repair fortifications, and prepared for battle.
Fortunately, within three days, the Japanese army did not dare to attack again.
During these three days, the 24th Army's response work was very good, and afterward, the troops were concentrated in Huixian City.
Commander Pu arrived and brought more than 3000 officers and soldiers.
Several other army commanders, chiefs of staff and division commanders also brought some troops, totaling more than 8000 people.
It’s not good that there are only so few people left in an army group, but it’s not bad at all!
Phoenix Nirvana!
Su Fei ordered that all the more than 5000 new recruits he had expanded be handed over to Commander Pu, and that a large number of weapons and ammunition captured from the Japanese army be handed over to them as the basis for the revival of the army group. Commander Pu and all the officers were deeply moved.
"You are the reborn parents of our 24th Army!"
Led by Commander Pu, dozens of senior military officers stood at attention and saluted Su Fei. Feeling that it was not enough, they knelt down and kowtowed.
After settling this place, Su Fei decided to withdraw his troops, leaving the wounded behind. Due to the strong demands of some officers and soldiers, and the firm support of Commander Pu and others, Su Fei's cavalry division of 2500 people was replenished, the number of people was restored, and they returned to their original station.
The officers and soldiers of the 24th Group Army bid farewell with tears in their eyes.
After returning to the base, Su Fei and others rested for a few days. Su Fei personally went to the arsenal to repeatedly urge them to refuel.
At this time, the government sent a telegram to reward their military merits, award them medals and large sums of money!
Su Fei was promoted to the official rank of Army Lieutenant General, concurrently holding the rank of General!
The good news came with a significant and tenacious mission: "Dispatch Commander Su Fei to lead some officers and soldiers to southern Xinjiang to assist in the battle and save the crisis."
Southern Xinjiang?
It’s the battlefield in Myanmar, right?
Is there something wrong with the expeditionary force?
Yes, except for the problem, the situation is at stake!
After being defeated by the Japanese army, some of them retreated to the mountainous area of northeastern India, while others retreated but were swallowed by the primeval forest and their whereabouts are unknown!