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Chapter 1513: Battle of Luoyang (3)

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    After receiving the order, Colonel Li Qi, the commander of the third tank division, did not dare to neglect and immediately led his tank troops from Luoning to the northeast and along the road on the north bank of the Luo River to Luoyang.

    By the afternoon of the 19th, the 63rd Division's attack north of Luoyang still made no progress and suffered heavy casualties.

    At this time, the staff of the enemy's North China Front Army Headquarters believed that this division was organized as a field division based on the independent mixed 15th Brigade stationed in Beijing for security tasks in mid-June last year and lacked regular operations.  experience.

    The commander of the division, Lieutenant General Masatori Ye, deputy commander of the division, served as the captain of the 2nd Independent Guards of the Kwantung Army stationed in Changchun City for a long time when he was the first-level commander of the brigade.  However, he is still competent in performing security tasks near Peiping.

    But if he is asked to command a division to fight against the regular National Army troops defending Luoyang, after a day of combat, there is no hope of victory in a short time.

    North China Front Commander Okamura Neiji and Chief of Staff Oshiroto Sanji, based on the opinions of the staff and after many considerations, believed that the pursuit of the 12th Army to the upper reaches of the Yi River and Luo River was nearing completion, so they immediately decided:  The 12th Army of Eitaro Uchiyama also commanded the 63rd Division and continued to attack Luoyang.

    After receiving this order, Uchiyama and Tadao Teragaki immediately sent combat staff Colonel Orita Masao and Lieutenant Colonel Totsugi Toshio to contact the 63rd Division to understand the battle situation.

    And dispatched the 26th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Brigade to the south of Luoyang City for coordinated operations.

    At the same time, Okamura also ordered six light bombers of the 2nd Flying Regiment to bomb the Shangqing Palace garrison position in the north of Luoyang City to support the 63rd Division.

    After Liu Yong's 67th Brigade launched an attack in the northern area of ??Luoyang City on May 19, Lieutenant Commander Toshio Arima's 137th Independent Infantry Brigade was defeated by the defending troops. The brigade was hidden in the anti-tank ditch north of Jianggou.  There was a pause, but it was pinned down by the firepower of the defenders.

    According to this situation, the field deputy set out from Nanchenzhuang, the division headquarters station 10 kilometers north of Luoyang City, to the 67th Brigade in Tsukatou Town in the southwest to study methods of supporting Toshio Arima's brigade and determine the attack on the 21st tomorrow.  The focus is on the left side of the brigade, using infantry, tanks, artillery, and aviation units to attack the southeast highland of the back cave.

    At this time, the light bombers of the 2nd Flying Regiment continued to bomb the garrison positions in the Shangqing Palace area. Because the positions of the two armies were close to each other, some bombs fell on the positions of Toshio Arima's brigade, causing the enemy to be accidentally bombed.  Many more casualties occurred.

    In order to capture the southeastern highland of Houdong, at noon on the 21st, Nagayama, the combat director of the 3rd Division of Japanese Tanks, went to the 63rd Division to study the night's combat coordination.

    After some deliberations, the Japanese army decided that Lieutenant Colonel Yukichi Fukunaga's 25th Independent Infantry Battalion and the 13th Tank Regiment's 1st Tank Battalion would be the main attackers. After the battle started, Major Katsuro Saga's artillery team would provide fire support.

    Thanks to the coordinated attack of the tank troops, after the battle began, the Fukunaga Infantry Battalion braved the defenders' counterattack and advanced, breaking through a section of the defenders' outer trenches and obstacles. The defenders immediately strengthened their counterattack in an attempt to attack the enemy.  The enemy was killed heavily and driven back.

    Fuyong personally set up a formation to command the charge. With the coordination of the tank troops, the fierce battle continued until 8 o'clock in the evening. The commanding heights of 257, the commanding heights defended by the national army in the southeast of Houdong, were captured by the Japanese army.

    Subsequently, the enemy Major Jiro Oda's 78th Battalion, which attacked the camp northwest of Luoyang, cooperated with about 20 tanks commanded by Lieutenant Commander Kurisu Hidenosuke, the commander of the 13th Tank Regiment. When attacking the camp, they were met with a powerful counterattack by the defenders.  And no result.

    Then the enemy organized another attack. The initial fierce and close combat turned into a melee. Then a Japanese tank squadron circled behind the camp. After a flanking attack from both sides, the camp was captured by the enemy's 78th Battalion that night.

    On the evening of the 22nd, after the aircraft fleet and artillery unit of the Japanese 2nd Flying Regiment concentrated bombing and artillery fire on the West Mapo area, the infantry and tank troops of the 67th Brigade attacked the area together. By night, West Mapo  The nearby high ground was occupied by the enemy's 67th Brigade.

    Based on the fact that the enemy gradually captured key points and highlands in the north of Luoyang City, Commander Wu Tinglin ordered the main force of the 15th Army to withdraw from the Mangshan position north of Luoyang to the city on the afternoon of the 22nd.

    In the past few days, the enemy also launched attacks from the east, south and west of the city. The 94th Division of the National Army defending Luoyang City resisted heroically and caused great damage to the attacking enemy. More than 700 enemy soldiers were killed alone.  .  The 94th Division suffered nearly 3,000 casualties. The entire division only had about 1,700 combat personnel at this time, but its morale was still very high.

    On May 23, the Japanese 67th Brigade had advanced to the vicinity of the train station in the north of Luoyang City.

    Commanding the headquarters of the 12th Army of the enemy Eitaro Yamauchi who attacked Luoyang.At 5:00 on May 23, we moved from Li Village, about two kilometers northwest of Baisha Town, Yichuan County, to Sun Qitun, about 10 kilometers southwest of Luoyang, and set up a liaison office at Qili River west of Luoyang.

    According to the deployment of the 12th Uchiyama Army, the motorized infantry regiment, tank regiment, and artillery regiment of the 3rd Tank Division have entered the west and northwest areas of Luoyang, and the 12th Field Supplementary Group of Watian Longgen also belongs to it.  Command; After occupying the Mangshan area in the north of the city, the 63rd Division has advanced to the north and east of the city. The south of the city is still attacked and monitored by Qingshuiang's 74th Brigade and the 26th Cavalry Regiment.

    Subsequently, Uchiyama made a decision based on the fact that the attacking troops had reached their predetermined positions, and once again proposed Kaicheng surrender to the Luoyang defenders, limiting the time for their reply to noon on the 26th, and the reply location was the Japanese infantry at the north gate of Luoyang City.  Sentinel line.  If there is no reply, a general attack will be launched on Luoyang City at 13:00 on the 26th.

    In accordance with this regulation, the 12th Army used a large loudspeaker to broadcast broadcasts to the Luoyang defenders and dropped warnings from the air to persuade the Nationalist Army to lay down their weapons.

    These soft and hard tactics used by the Japanese army were naturally rejected by the bravely fighting 15th Army and its affiliated 64th, 65th and 94th Divisions.

    Subsequently, the 12th Army¡¯s 3rd Tank Division, 63rd Division and the coordinated 2nd Flying Group launched a general attack on Luoyang City as planned. Lieutenant General Uchiyama also went to the forward command post at Qilihe to take command.

    After the general offensive began, the Japanese army first concentrated its artillery and aviation forces to attack and bomb Luoyang, causing the sky above the ancient city to be covered with thick smoke.

    Subsequently, Hideo Yamaji¡¯s 3rd Tank Division and the troops belonging to Masatori Nofu¡¯s 63rd Division launched attacks based on the designated combat areas.

    In the evening of that day, the enemy's two main attack directions, namely the northwest corner and the northeast corner of Luoyang City, were both breached.

    According to the map linked by aerial photography, the 3rd Tank Division selected the northwest corner of Luoyang City as a breakthrough point, and Major Yamanobe Eikichi's 1st Battalion made a breakthrough there.

    The attack method is: the tank group covers the infantry, arrives at the outer edge of the anti-tank ditch in the breach area and stops, and then uses the artillery and machine guns on the tanks to destroy and blockade the fortresses and firepower points on the city wall and at the root of the city wall.

    The infantry who arrived at the edge of the trench under its cover tied one end of a rope or a ladder to the tank body, and then descended to the bottom of the anti-tank trench along the rope or ladder, braving the dense firepower of the defenders and jumping into the anti-tank trench.  The explosives in the trench were then used to climb up the steep wall opposite the anti-tank trench and the city wall using iron ladders to cover the engineers. They would blow up the steep walls on both sides of the anti-tank trench into slopes and collapse the city wall, allowing the tank troops and infantry groups to cross  Anti-tank trenches and rushed into the city.

    After the attack began, the 1st Battalion on the mountain side captured the northwest corner of Luoyang City. After the engineers blew up the two steep walls of the anti-tank trench into slopes and blew open the city wall, the tank troops rushed to the West Stadium in Luoyang City and headed towards the designated area.  The operational demarcation line within the city advanced.

    Watian Longgen's three infantry brigades and the Inagaki Brigade also entered the city from Jingjing Street and Wan'an Street outside the West City Gate at 18:30 and entered the area of ??Hujia Street, Weijia Street, and Liren Lane.

    The 2nd Motorized Infantry Battalion of the 3rd Chariot Division attacked the defenders near the train station in the northwest corner of Luoyang City to cope with their siege forces and prevent the defenders in the city from retreating northward.

    Since Luoyang's four outer reaches and the areas beyond Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Songxian, and Lushi have been occupied by the Japanese army, the three divisions defending Luoyang have been surrounded by the enemy on all sides after six days of intense fighting. The troops suffered heavy casualties and supplies were also in short supply.  has been interrupted. The Liu Kan Corps, which was originally scheduled to defend Luoyang with the 15th Army, was attacked west of Luoyang and in the Xin'an area by an infantry division, a tank division, and a cavalry brigade of the enemy's 12th Army.  After detouring to the Songxian area, the division retreated to the southwest.

    At this time, Commander Wu Tinglin of the 15th Army, who was commanding the front line, had already advanced to Yihe, Luohe and the vicinity of the west of Luoyang based on the main enemy forces in the east and south; the main enemy forces had crossed from Chengguan Town, Quyuan County to the south of the Yellow River.  , the situation in Mianchi and its east and west areas was still there, and the city defenders were immediately ordered to withdraw into the mountains from the southeast area of ??Luoyang City across the Luo River.

    At this point, Luoyang was captured by the Japanese 3rd Tank Division and the 63rd Infantry Division.

    When the news reached Peiping, the Japanese North China Front Army was in full jubilation. The North China Front Army even held a rare celebration party in the city.

    However, the good mood of the North China Front did not last long. Then a piece of news from the northern defense line caught Okamura Neji off guard - Li Guoyao's troops had taken action.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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