The combat staff responded quickly and immediately marked the specific location of the offensive position on the sand table.
It was obvious at a glance that Major General Kawasaki's already frowning frown deepened at this time.
Seeing this scene, Lieutenant Colonel Cun Shang was a little afraid to continue reporting.
I'm afraid that what follows will completely anger the brigade commander, make him lose his mind, and eventually lead to him getting burned.
After a long pause, he mustered up the courage to answer: "They also reported..."
"Starting from dark, the Eighth Route Army's offensive positions suddenly became extremely quiet."
"The soldiers were well prepared, as if they were planning a large-scale attack."
"The city defense troops are trying to prevent the city from being raided."
"Everyone is in position, ready to repel the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops and defend the city."
"No..." Major General Kawasaki suddenly heard something was wrong and immediately retorted.
"There are more than 10,000 troops stationed in the city, and the total strength of the Eighth Route Army in the wing is not as large as ours. Even if they build an offensive position, they cannot immediately launch a general offensive and advance into Baoding through an attack."
"Tonight, the most they can do is use feint attacks to consume our army's strength."
After saying that, the trick Li Yunlong used during his last raid on the North Gate came to mind.
Although he did not experience that battle personally, his subordinates' summary of the battle was very detailed. After reading it, the entire battle process appeared before his eyes like a movie.
in that battle.
The Eighth Route Army first launched a surprise attack on the city with thunder cannons, using the powerful power of the explosive packs to kill a large number of troops stationed at the city.
Before the reinforcements arrived at the city, there were insufficient troops at the city, so they immediately sent infantry to seize the city and advance into Baoding.
The Yizhong Eighth Route Army in front of us does not yet have the strength to attack Baoding, but they can consume the troops stationed at the city head and reduce the pressure of the general attack.
His face suddenly turned pale, and he ordered with an anxious expression: "Baga, we have been fooled."
"Contact the city defense force immediately."
"Leave 30% of the troops to defend the city, and all other troops will withdraw to the city and be on standby, ready to reinforce the city at any time."
"Now the Eighth Route Army will only pretend to attack the city and consume our troops, but will never attack the city by force."
"The more troops we gather at the top of the city, the greater the losses will be in a short time."
"Hurry up and give the order. If it's too late, it'll be too late."
"Rumble..."
A ground-shaking explosion suddenly reached the command headquarters, and Major General Kawasaki was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground.
An expression of despair quickly flashed across his pale face,
He shouted out loud: "It's a flying thunder cannon."
"The Eighth Route Army was using thunder cannons to attack the city walls and consume the strength of the city defense troops. We were fooled."
"Rumble..."
The sound of explosions reaching the headquarters suddenly became louder.
At first, only the east side of the city was attacked. Within five seconds, the remaining three city gates in Baoding were also attacked.
Lieutenant Colonel Cun Shang was anxious and rushed to the side of the telephone. He grabbed the receiver and called the garrison in the east of the city. While shaking the phone, he pointed at the three telephone soldiers and gave orders.
"You call the garrison in the west of the city..."
"You call the garrison in the south of the city, and you are responsible for contacting the garrison in the north."
"Let them retreat immediately, leaving only 30% of the troops to defend the city."
"All other troops are pushing into the city and reinforcing the city at any time."
"Hurry up, otherwise they will be blown up by thunder cannons."
After speaking, the voice of the captain of the garrison stationed in the east of the city came from the microphone: "Sir, the east of the city was attacked by more than 50 flying thunder cannons of the Eighth Route Army. The troops suffered heavy losses. We are requesting reinforcements..."
Lieutenant Colonel Cun Shang knew as soon as he heard this that it was too late to issue the order.
But still holding on to the last glimmer of hope, he asked: "How many casualties did the troops have and how many are left?"
"At least three hundred casualties..."
The voice of the captain of the Chengdong garrison soon sounded on the microphone.
"Immediately leave 400 people to continue to defend the city. Everyone else retreats to the city. Hurry up." Lieutenant Commander Cun immediately ordered.
After hanging up the phone, he walked quickly to Major General Kawasaki.
"General, the troops stationed in the east of the city were attacked by at least fifty thunder cannons from the Eighth Route Army."
"The troops suffered more than three hundred casualties."
"I have issued a retreat order."
"If the Eighth Route Army continues to use thunder cannons to attack the city, the garrison casualties will definitely plummet."
Major General Kawasaki looked very ugly and ordered with suppressed anger: "Our reaction speed is still too slow."
"Order……"
"The mortar squadrons under each city defense force immediately launched a counterattack. They must find the Eighth Route Army's flying mine artillery position and blow it up."
"The garrison in the east of the city suffered more than 300 casualties, and the losses of other city defense troops will definitely not be much smaller."
"The Yizhong Eighth Route Army took action and killed more than a thousand of us."
"It shows how inevitable they are to attack Baoding."
"We must be extremely cautious in the next battle to defend the city."
"The Eighth Route Army must not be given any opportunity to take advantage of it."
"We must persist for the longest time with the least casualties."
…………
"Rumble..."
On the battlefield in the east of the city, the second round of more than fifty explosive charges quickly flew towards the city.
The accuracy was not as good as the first round of shooting, and only eleven explosive packets hit the city head.
Li Yunlong immediately frowned and waved his hand to order: "Stop firing the thunder cannon. Something is wrong on the top of the city."
"Lao Li, why don't you stop fighting?" Kong Jie asked from a distance.
"There seem to be fewer Japanese and puppet troops on top of the city." Li Yunlong frowned and replied.
"After the first round of explosives hits the ground, each explosive can blow up five or six little devils."
"The explosive package that landed just now only blew up one or two Japanese and puppet troops. Even if the Japanese and puppet troops at the top of the city were killed and injured more than 300 people by the first round of shelling, the enemy-killing effect would not be so bad."
Kong Jie understood as soon as he heard it: "The little devils have probably retreated."
"It can be seen that we want to use thunder cannons to consume a large number of their troops."
"Only a small number of troops will be left to defend the city. The other troops will retreat to the city to reduce casualties."
After saying that, he looked to Huang Yu and asked, "Xiaoguang, what do you think?"
Huang Yu snorted coldly and said: "If the Japanese and puppet troops want to retreat, it depends on whether we agree or not."
"Let the troops launch an attack on the city head immediately."
"Force the Japanese and puppet troops who have just retreated into the city to the top of the city."
"The thunder artillery unit is on standby."
"As soon as the number of Japanese and puppet troops on the city increases, they will fire. I don't believe they can be killed."
Li Yunlong laughed after hearing this: "I like this."
Then he rushed towards the battlefield with a cheerful expression: "I will make arrangements now."
"Try to kill another two to three hundred Japanese and puppet troops in the next round of artillery fire."
…………
At the top of the east gate of Baoding, the adjutant was reporting the casualties. The captain felt that he had heard wrong and asked with disbelief: "How much did you say? Say it again..."
"There are no more than seventy casualties..." the adjutant replied quickly.
When he first saw this statistical result, he didn't believe it. There was a huge disparity with the casualties caused by the first round of shelling.
Seeing that most of the soldiers left behind were alive and well, I ran over to report.
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