Chapter 1442 Report to the headquarters, we have no troops
In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from getting close to the city, the captain had to move all the troops that were still available to the city and let everyone use rifles to shoot outside the city to make up for the firepower gap caused by the destruction of a large number of light and heavy machine guns.
This also creates another problem.
The density of Japanese and Imperial Army troops on the city wall was too high.
There is a person hiding behind almost every battlement. As long as a cannonball hits the top of the city, there will be a victory.
Therefore, in less than half an hour from the beginning of the general attack to the present, the captain has lost nearly 300 men.
In the previous feint attack, the troops only lost 300 to 400 people in three or four hours. The huge casualty gap made the captain not optimistic about the next battle, and his face was full of worry.
"Sir! The headquarters ordered us to dispatch one hundred and fifty Imperial Army soldiers and policemen to march urgently to reinforce the east of the city... This order is extremely urgent. No one can disobey it, otherwise military law will be imposed!" The ordering soldier ran over to report.
"Nani? Is the headquarters crazy? The west of the city can hardly be defended. How can we allocate troops to reinforce the east of the city!" The captain shouted as if he had heard a big joke, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"But this is the general's death order!" the ordering soldier reminded hesitantly.
"I don't care what the orders are!" The captain decided to refuse to carry out the order.
"I am the commander of the garrison in the west of the city. The safety of the west of the city must come first. If the defense line in the west of the city is breached by the Eighth Route Army, everyone here will die."
"As for the east of the city, that is something that the garrison and brigade commander in the east should consider."
"Even if I don't think about my own future, I still have to think about the lives of the hundreds of soldiers under my command."
"Call the headquarters immediately. Not even a single soldier can be mobilized from the west of the city. The Eighth Route Army's offensive is too fierce and we have suffered heavy losses. We are in urgent need of light and heavy machine guns and reinforcements, otherwise it will be difficult to hold on until dawn."
The Japanese military headquarters arranged for the west, south, and north of the city to discuss the same situation. At the same time, they reported that the headquarters had insufficient troops. Not only could they not mobilize troops to reinforce the east of the city, but they also needed the headquarters to send troops for reinforcements.
The brigade leader gritted his teeth with hatred, but there was nothing he could do.
My subordinates know it well and will definitely not disobey their orders unless absolutely necessary.
Therefore, the battles in the other three directions of Datong are not optimistic. Although it has not reached the point of life and death, it is obviously impossible to divide the troops.
The deputy chief of staff began to panic.
Without enough troops to reinforce the east of the city, the gap created by heavy artillery will become larger and larger, eventually causing the city wall to collapse...
He didn't dare to think about it any more, so he could only look at the brigade commander, hoping that he would come up with some good ideas.
"Give an order to the garrison in the east of the city: In addition to the more than a hundred private armed forces who have just passed by as reinforcements, I will give him all the armed foreigners who have just been assembled, and ensure that the city wall is not destroyed before five o'clock at all costs."
On the battlefield in the east of the city, the gap in the city wall blown out by the explosion is getting bigger and bigger.
The soil wrapped in the city wall is like flood water that bursts from the city wall, constantly flowing out from the inside of the city wall, and then forming slopes inside and outside the city wall.
Mortar shells rained down on the gap, knocking over one enemy after another who wanted to get close to the gap...
Now that the battle has begun, the situation of the battle can no longer be changed by the number of troops.
No matter how many troops the Japanese army reinforced, they were still flesh and blood. They were like paper toys, vulnerable to steel cannonballs.
A large number of corpses had fallen on the ground surrounding the gap in the city wall, densely packed.
The living puppet soldiers and expatriates, like crazy, stepped on the corpses, carried sandbags, and continued to rush towards the gap...
However, only a handful of enemies were able to escape the layers of artillery fire and successfully rush to the gap. The sandbags they carried over could not protect the gap in the city wall much.
The garrison attacked the position, and the widening gap made Li Hao's face become more and more serious.
After another artillery shell hit the gap, he decisively ordered: "The heavy artillery battalion will begin extending artillery fire in five minutes."
"The Hunyuan Independent Battalion launched an assault on the gap in the city wall under the cover of all the light and heavy machine guns and mortars of the entire army. The troops of the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment and the Laishui Independent Regiment covered the attack. After occupying the gap in the city wall, they quickly attacked the walls on both sides. I want
Wipe out all the Japanese and puppet troops on top of the city and don't give them the chance to retreat into the city."
At the top of the city, the captain had lost his previous composure.
Looking at the bigger and bigger gap in the city wall not far away, he knew that it was impossible to block the gap in the city wall with manpower alone.
While ordering the troops at the top of the city to increase their firepower output and use bullets to block all channels for the Eighth Route Army to approach the gap, they also ordered the troops behind the gap to prepare for battle, turn the gap into a trap, eliminate all the Eighth Route Army who want to break through from there, and prevent them from entering.
city opportunity.
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery has begun to fire!" a lieutenant suddenly shouted.
The explosion sound at the gap in the city wall became obviously weaker. The impact point was centered on the gap and expanded to the surroundings little by little...
"The Eighth Route Army has begun to attack, and the target is the gap in the city wall!" the lieutenant who just spoke shouted again.
Nearly a thousand Eighth Route Army troops rushed out of the offensive position like a wave and rushed towards the city wall.
Looking down from the air, these attacking troops were divided into several groups to attack the city wall, but the priority of the attack could still be seen.
Most of the troops are concentrated in the direction of the gap.
There were also many Eighth Route Army troops in other directions, but their offensive was not strong. It was obvious at first glance that it was a feint attack, spreading the city walls to block the firepower.
Even so, the captain did not dare to underestimate these feint attacks.
Many attacking troops brought explosives. If they were allowed to rush to the foot of the city wall and detonate the explosives, a new gap would be blown out of the city wall.
At that time, it will be even harder for you to block the Eighth Route Army's attack.
Therefore, the captain's plan to concentrate all firepower to seal the gap was over before it even started.
A large number of troops and firepower had to be allocated to intercept those feint attacking troops.
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
The sound of explosions kept ringing in my ears and became increasingly dense.
Light and heavy machine gun bullets hit the battlements, causing bricks and stones to fly. Bullets continued to pass through the battlements and hit the soldiers behind.
By this time, the attacking troops had already rushed to a position two hundred meters outside the city.
At least a hundred Eighth Route Army troops suddenly stopped, half-crouched on the ground, and worked in teams of two to operate grenade launchers that had never appeared in previous battles.
The captain was confused for a moment, and then showed a desperate expression.
The grenade has a short range, but the grenade can definitely be launched to the top of the city from a distance of 200 meters.
Two hundred meters away, the Eighth Route Army prepared at least fifty grenade launchers. Even if the hit rate was only 20%, more than ten grenades would fly to the top of the city in one round of shooting.
Even if a grenade kills only one soldier, a round of shooting can take away the lives of more than a dozen subordinates.
The grenade has a fast rate of fire, and a well-trained gunner can fire seven or eight grenades in a minute, and the more it hits, the higher the hit rate.
This means that after the grenade is fired, it only takes one minute for the garrison at the top of the city to lose more than a hundred people.
Coupled with the casualties caused by mortars and light and heavy machine guns to the troops, there will definitely be a large number of defense holes at the top of the city...
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