Outside Baoshan City, Pingye Brigade Headquarters.
It can be clearly seen through the observation hole of the headquarters that six bombers are repeatedly swooping and strafing Baoshan City. The artillery wing directly under the Third Division's artillery wing is also bombing Baoshan City indiscriminately with various caliber cannons.
Baoshan City was burned into flames and filled with smoke and dust, which was clearly visible even through the tall city walls.
Ichiro Hirano put down the telescope in his hand, and a ferocious sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. Looking back at the several major officers behind him, he said: "With such intense artillery fire, even rats will not be able to survive. Even if the Chinese army in Baoshan City is not dead,
, and most of them are buried under the ruins, and it is impossible for them to organize a decent resistance."
At twelve o'clock, the Japanese bombardment stopped, and the Japanese bombers in the sky flapped their wings and flew away.
Hirano Ichiro gave an order, and the remaining 600 people of Hirano's brigade launched an attack on Baoshan Castle in three groups at the same time. Among them, two incomplete squadrons of about 300 people stormed the east gate gap. The remaining troops were divided into two groups, starting from the west gate and the north gate.
The door launches a feint attack, and if there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, the feint attack will immediately turn into a real attack.
After Yue Weihan understood the intention of the Japanese army, he left only a small number of troops to guard the walls of the west gate and north gate to block the enemy's feigned attack. The main force defended the main street of the east city and started street fighting with the Japanese army house by house. The fighting was extremely fierce. Every house and every pile of ruins was
Even the ruined walls have become positions that the two armies have repeatedly fought over.
At about 5 p.m., the Japanese army broke into the central city again, and Yue Weihan personally led a death squad to fight back desperately.
Chi Chengfeng rushed forward and killed four Japanese soldiers one after another, which immediately attracted the attention of a Japanese squad leader.
The Japanese squad leader raised his saber and rushed towards Chi Chengfeng. After two rounds, Chi Chengfeng knew that he had met his opponent. This Japanese squad leader was definitely a master, with steady horse steps and an excellent dance with the Japanese sword.
With the wind blowing, Chi Chengfeng made two rash attacks. Not only did he fail to injure his opponent, but he almost had his left arm removed by his opponent.
"Grandma, are the Japs quite difficult to deal with?" Chi Chengfeng held a bayonet and began to confront the Japs squad leader.
"Boom!" I don't know who detonated the grenade. In the smoke and dust, a palm-sized tile suddenly shot towards Chi Chengfeng's left cheek. Chi Chengfeng instinctively closed his eyes and turned around.
His heart was filled with judgments of life and death. How could the Japanese captain miss this God-given opportunity? He suddenly took a step forward and stabbed with his sword.
Just when Chi Chengfeng was about to die, he suddenly heard a crisp sound.
When Chi Chengfeng opened his eyes again, he saw that the Jaap squad leader's head had been cut open. The tip of the saber in the kid's hand was only a millimeter away from his heart. Chi Chengfeng suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and was anxious.
When I looked back, I saw Yue Weihan standing on the ruins not far away, the smoke from the German-made noodle box in his hand not yet completely cleared.
Chi Chengfeng was about to say thank you when he suddenly saw a Japanese officer not far away from the corner of his eye, raising a southern pistol and aiming it at Yue Weihan's head. Chi Chengfeng's eyes widened suddenly. Just when he was about to say be careful, Yue Weihan
Turning around suddenly, the face-cleansing box in his hand clicked without aiming, and the shot hit the little devil between the eyebrows. The little devil immediately fell on his back.
"His grandma, the pretty boy can shoot quite accurately." Chi Chengfeng curled his lips and muttered a few words softly.
When he looked around again, Chi Chengfeng found that all the dozens of little devils who had rushed into the central city had been eliminated.
"Chi Chengfeng, don't forget that you are a fucking officer of the national army, not a flyover artist!" Yue Weihan walked up to Chi Chengfeng in two strides and reprimanded him bluntly, "I'll use the gun to greet the little kid."
Japs, why don't you show your sword skills like that, do you look like you're good at assassination?"
Chi Chengfeng snorted and held his neck without saying a word. He didn't know if he heard it.
However, Cao Xinglong approached Yue Weihan and said excitedly: "Sir, I didn't expect this little devil to be so careless."
Chi Chengfeng said coldly: "The Japs are indeed powerful in the field, but that's because they are covered by planes in the sky, protected by tanks on the ground, and supported by light and heavy artillery. But when they get to this alley, their planes and tanks
The artillery and artillery are all just fucking decorations. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, we are the ancestors of the little devil!"
Yue Weihan looked up at the sky and saw that it was almost getting dark again. The Japs were never good at night fighting. He probably would not attack again today. He immediately asked Cao Xinglong: "What are the casualties of the troops?"
Cao Xinglong said: "The casualties of the sniper platoon are not large, but the machine gun platoon and the death squads have already suffered more than half of their casualties."
Yue Weihan frowned when he heard this, and then asked: "Where is the tunnel? How is the digging of the tunnel?"
Yue Weihan left some lightly wounded soldiers to dig tunnels in the backyard of the battalion headquarters. Even when the fighting was at its most intense, he never sent these troops to the front line of fire because the tunnels concerned the lives of hundreds of people in Yao Camp.
Life and death are more closely related to Yue Weihan's own life. The relationship is definitely of great importance.
Cao Xinglong said: "I just went to see it and it went well."
"Okay." Yue Weihan nodded and said, "Give me the order, the brothers in the sniper platoon, machine gun platoon and death squads should take time to rest, but the brothers in the excavation team cannot rest. Cao Xinglong, tell them, let them suffer and sweat a little now.
, it’s better than letting all the soldiers in the battalion bleed to death!”
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Outside Baoshan City, Pingye Brigade Headquarters.
Ichiro Hirano held the microphone in his hand, his body straight, but his head dropped to his chest, and he kept cheering in reply. Several squadron leaders and squad leaders next to him also had their heads lowered and their expressions were solemn. They could even speak clearly
I heard the extremely angry roar of Colonel Takashi Takamori coming from the microphone.
"Pa." Hirano Ichiro hung up the phone and looked up suddenly.
Several squadron leaders and squad leaders also raised their heads, and seven or eight pairs of eyes were all focused on Lieutenant Colonel Hirano. At this moment, Hirano Ichiro had long lost his usual polite demeanor, and his entire face was even filled with intense anger.
It became a little distorted and deformed, and the eyes almost burst out of fire.
The progress of the Baoshan War once again exceeded Hirano Ichiro's expectations, and the tenacious performance of the national army once again slapped him hard on the face. If Colonel Takashi Takamori hadn't been an old acquaintance with him, he would have been killed sooner.
He was ordered to commit seppuku! But even though Takamori Takashi had a good personal relationship with him, he could only be given one more day!
Just when several Japanese squadron leaders and squad leaders thought that Hirano Ichiro was about to get angry, Hirano Ichiro suddenly raised his head and took a deep breath of cold air, and his whole body suddenly regained his composure.
After regaining his composure, Hirano Ichiro walked back and forth in the headquarters with his hands behind his back for a few steps, then turned back to several Japanese officers and said: "Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. You all have received higher education, so I believe you all understand this sentence.
Meaning, but we seem to lack sufficient understanding of our opponents in Baoshan City. Yamaguchi-kun, Kono-kun and Matsui-kun, you all should analyze our opponent."
"Hai." A Japanese squadron leader responded and said, "Sir, this group of Chinese soldiers are very brave and good at fighting, especially their death squad. They have equal strength and fight hand-to-hand, and the well-trained Imperial Japanese Army is not theirs."
Opponent, our squadron broke into the central block twice, but was driven out by the Chinese army's death squad."
Another Japanese squadron leader said disapprovingly: "Except for the Northeastern Army, the other Chinese armies can be said to be brave and good at fighting, especially their Northwest Army, which once used a large blade to severely damage the Japanese Imperial Army at Xifengkou.
But the group of Chinese soldiers in Baoshan City in front of us are by no means just brave and good at fighting!"
"Kono-kun is right, these Chinese soldiers are not only brave and good at fighting, but also extremely cunning!"
Finally, the Japanese squadron leader nodded repeatedly and said, "According to my observation, the Chinese soldiers in Baoshan City are obviously divided into three groups. One group hides in hidden fortifications and specializes in shooting our officers at all levels, machine gunners, and grenadiers.
, one group defends the commanding heights and organizes machine gun fire to suppress the imperial army's actions, but the last group is the death squad, which often launches desperate counterattacks at the most critical moments, repeatedly defeating the imperial army! Sir, I think what Xiaolin-kun said before committing seppuku is very important.
It makes sense, the key reason why this group of Chinese soldiers in Baoshan City are so cunning and so difficult to deal with is because of their commander!"