"Immediately order all troops outside the city to evacuate to the city as soon as possible. Only a small number of imperial soldiers are placed on the city wall fortifications in four directions to command the guards in the city. Shooting holes are drilled in the gatehouses on both sides of the central street, and four rapid-fire cannons and machine guns are
The firepower points are arranged there!" The fourth floor of Tamamidi waved his hand and said to the adjutant.
"Hi!" the adjutant said, bowing his head.
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, have you decided to stay in Handan City and wait for help?" Onodera Yuzo asked hesitantly.
"Mr. Ono, now Handan City has become an isolated city, surrounded by the Eighth Route Army. In the words of the Chinese people, you and I are grasshoppers on a rope. If you have anything to say, don't hesitate, please speak up!"
The fourth floor said in a muffled voice.
"Hey, brigade commander, it's too dangerous on the city wall. Please get off the city wall first!" Mitsuo Onodera stretched out his hand and said.
Then the two of them walked into a wing room under the city wall.
"With all due respect, Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, during the second Shanghai Incident, the Marine Corps used side firepower to destroy a battalion of the 88th Division of the Chinese government army at Zhabei Railway Station. Although we can learn from the experience of this battle,
But after all, the Eighth Route Army is not the Chinese government army and is flexible in operations. Although its troops have expanded too quickly in recent years, their combat effectiveness has declined!"
"But the Eighth Route Army unit in front of me is probably not among them. Judging from yesterday's battle situation, its commander's tactical command ability is not weak. Our army's layout in the city alone may not be enough to wait for the arrival of reinforcements!" Onodera Yuzo said.
"Xingtai's division headquarters no longer has any extra troops to support Handan, and the surrounding counties are struggling to protect themselves. The Eighth Route Army in Shanxi and Hebei has carried out raids everywhere, and there are no extra troops to support everywhere. The only heavy troop groups that can support are in
On both sides of the Yellow River, water from afar cannot quench the thirst of those near you!"
"Don't forget, we still have air support!" Tommidi defended on the fourth floor.
"Fighters from SJZ Airport flew to Handan. I'm afraid the Eighth Route Army has already invaded the city and is strangled with the Imperial Army. There is no need to talk about air support!" Onodera Yuzo said with a grimace.
The expression on the fourth floor of Xiang Mi Di's face froze, and he turned to say angrily: "Baga, what do you think we should do?"
"First, report to the division headquarters and order the Imperial Army in surrounding counties to abandon the counties they are defending, quickly assemble and come to support, and at the same time request General Shinozuka to mobilize troops from the southern front for reinforcements!"
"Second, when the Eighth Route Army entered the city, use the firepower points on both sides to kill it, and immediately use tanks and armored vehicles to carve out a bloody path and break out in the direction of Xingtai!"
"Do you mean to give up Handan City voluntarily?" Hemidi asked on the fourth floor.
"Hi!"
After hearing the accurate answer, the face of the fourth floor of Tammidi looked uncertain. In addition to its brigade and league headquarters, Handan City also had various organizations such as the Xinmin Association and the Maintenance Association. In addition, there were also a large number of traitors and relatives.
Japanese landowners and squires lived here.
Once abandoned, it would not only have a military impact, but also a political impact. As a result, the Japanese pro-Japanese elements near HD would be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
"Commander of the brigade, please make a decision as soon as possible!" Yuzo Onodera, as the chief of staff, is considered a very intelligent person within the Japanese army, but the decision-making power is not in his hands.
"Ono-kun, I will ask for support as soon as possible, but Handan City cannot be abandoned. The honor of the Imperial Japanese Army cannot be lost at my hands. The consequences of abandoning Handan City are not something you and I can bear!"
"Ono-kun, I have made preparations for the jade shredding. Please leave me with the layout of the city!" The fourth floor of Tamami ground bowed to Yuzo Onodera.
"Hi!"
Outside the north gate.
The six mountain guns of the artillery battalion and the six captured field guns were displayed on two selected artillery positions.
Fortunately, the artillery battalion had enough reserve gunners, and the six captured field guns were not left idle.
The field gun had a long barrel and a long range. It was placed at the edge of a forest in Chen Feng.
There is no camouflage net in the artillery battalion, but a lot of branches and weeds were cut at both artillery positions to use as camouflage.
"Cut more branches and be sure to camouflage them, especially the field artillery. The Japanese planes are coming and there will be no time to move!" Chen Feng warned tirelessly.
Although Zhou Weihan mentioned during the meeting that the Japanese aircraft would not be able to fly to Handan for a short period of time, Chen Feng still made adequate arrangements based on the concept of being careful and making no big mistakes.
Zhou Weihan held a telescope and looked at the bunkers outside the city in front of him being cleared one by one. Many Japanese and puppet troops in the bunkers wanted to escape into the city. As a result, a group was bombarded with shelling on their escape route. Finally, the Japanese and puppet troops outside the North City
The army was completely wiped out.
The reason why Zhou Weihan deployed a whole regiment of troops at the north gate of Handan City was mainly to prevent the Japanese troops in the city from breaking through to the north.
Seeing that the attack was progressing smoothly, Zhou Weihan immediately said: "Correspondent, order the leading troops of the first regiment to withdraw first, and the artillery battalion will immediately shell the city wall fortifications!"
"yes!"
A correspondent rode up to the artillery position and shouted: "Batalion Commander Chen, command headquarters orders, start artillery fire immediately!"
"Every artillery position is ready immediately!" Chen Feng ordered.
When the artillery battalion soldiers heard the order, they immediately took their positions.
Not long after, there was a dull sound from the artillery position, first two test-fired artillery shells.
Immediately afterwards, a round of 12 artillery shells crossed the regiment's position and all landed near the city wall fortifications.
In an instant, the entire area near the North City Gate was covered by artillery fire, and the smoke filled the air, making it difficult to see clearly for a while.
Looking at the huge momentum, Zhao Gang couldn't help but sigh: "This little devil's field cannon is much more powerful than the mountain cannon!"
"This is where we are. Unfortunately, the two 105mm howitzers are too bulky. This battle has to be fought in many places. It is really difficult to carry them. Otherwise, the city wall will be just like paper!" Zhou Weihan said with a smile.
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"Old Zhao, you stay here, I'll go to the regiment's position in front to see how the commando team is preparing!" After Zhou Weihan finished speaking, he turned around and went to the regiment's position not far from the headquarters.
In a group position, the commando team was making final preparations.
The commando team that attacked the city was carefully selected by Zhou Weihan. It included a reconnaissance company and many soldiers from a regiment, totaling 300 people.
When Zhou Weihan arrived, Dong Jiang, as the captain of the commando team, was giving pre-war training.
"Detachment leader!" Dong Jiang saw Zhou Weihan coming and immediately came over to salute.
"How are the preparations going?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"Report to the detachment leader, comrades are all determined to die!" Dong Jiang replied firmly.
"good!"
"Comrades, some of you are members of the reconnaissance company, some are selected from the regiment, and all of them are the elites of our detachment. Handan is an important Japanese town that our Eighth Route Army attacked for the first time!"
"Although I have no experience in attacking fortresses, I gave you assault training before the war last night. I want to tell you again not to advance along the streets, but to engage in house-to-house street battles with the Japanese troops in the city! Do you understand?" Zhou Weihan?
said.
"Understood!" the commando soldiers replied in unison.
"The bombardment will end soon, keep preparing!"
"yes!"
"Everyone check the equipment!" Dong Jiang said loudly.
The commando soldiers all put on Japanese helmets and then checked the flower traps in their hands.
Not long after the bombardment ended, Dong Jiang and his soldiers rushed out from the position. The soldiers of the reconnaissance company rushed in front as the main force, and a group of soldiers followed closely behind with ladders, and soon disappeared in the smoke.
Since the Japanese and puppet troops in the fortifications outside the city had been cleared, the commando team successfully entered the fortifications outside the city.
As the smoke gradually dissipated, the surviving Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall fortifications began sporadic counterattacks.
Although the Japanese army had the advantage of the terrain, the commandos had ferocious firepower and were not afraid to shoot at the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall, overwhelming them until they could not lift their heads.
On the right front of the commando team, there was a city wall that had been blown down by artillery shells, forming a gap of about seven or eight meters.
"Yang Tiansheng, lead the men to attack me through the gap and kill the enemies on the wall!" Dong Jiang said loudly.
Yang Tiansheng stood up in response and summoned more than thirty soldiers to rush to the gap in the city wall with ladders.
"Covering fire!"
The dense bullets continued to suppress the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall. Yang Tiansheng and others successfully reached the gap without any damage.
A Japanese machine gun group guarding the gap and more than a dozen puppet troops from the garrison opened fire violently at Yang Tiansheng and others.
Immediately, the flower trap in the hands of Yang Tiansheng and others immediately launched a counterattack, and the enemy troops were annihilated by the dense firepower net.
The gap in the city wall is about five meters high. The collapsed bricks formed a gentle slope below the gap, but there is still at least three meters from the top of the gentle slope to the gap.
"Get up the ladder!"
Following the ladder set up, Yang Tiansheng was the first to climb the city wall, and then Dong Jiang led the main force of the commando to join him.
In an instant, more intense gunfire erupted from the city wall.
In a high-rise building in the city.
"Captain of the brigade, the North City Gate has been lost!" Yuzo Onodera pointed in the direction of the North City Gate.
On the fourth floor of Tomidi, he picked up a telescope and looked at the North City Gate. Within his field of vision, soldiers wearing Eighth Route Army uniforms could clearly be seen swarming in through the gap.
"Baga, how could the Eighth Route Army break through the city wall fortifications so quickly?" The fourth floor of Tamimidi looked very ugly. Although he did not deploy too many troops on the city wall, the speed of the city's breach still frightened him.
"Listen to the gunfire, the Eighth Route Army's siege troops are equipped with a lot of automatic firepower. This Eighth Route Army is extraordinary!" Onodera Yuzo said with a sad face. He had a vague feeling that the next progress would not go as expected.
"Order the warriors to get ready and give the Eighth Route Army a big surprise when they invade the city!" On the fourth floor of Tamamidi, he turned to the adjutant behind him and said with a ferocious smile.
At this time, the soldiers of the commando team used their tactics to pour out firepower based on the city wall, targeting the Japanese and puppet troops who had withdrawn from the city wall fortifications and tried to flee along the streets, killing them one by one.
As a follow-up force, a group of main forces swarmed in from various gaps near Beicheng.
"Something is wrong. The Japs have deployed too few troops on the city wall. They are not even equipped with a heavy machine gun!"
"It seems that as the detachment leader said, the Japs have deployed all their firepower on both sides of the street!"
"Yang Tiansheng, tell the soldiers to be careful and act according to the plan!" Dong Jiang ordered.