"Sir, the casualties of the troops have been calculated. The Imperial Army suffered 109 casualties and the Imperial Association Army suffered 88 casualties. Their entire company was almost wiped out!" the temporary captain of the garrison brigade walked up to the chief of staff and reported with his head lowered!
"All the wounded and corpses have been moved down, what should we do next!"
"Replace the first garrison squadron with the second garrison squadron, and bring up another company of the Imperial Army!" the Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff ordered!
Just now, he had been thinking about why the troops fought so badly and suffered so many casualties!
Finally, he figured out that most of the casualties just now were caused by the shelling of the Eighth Route Army outside the city!
If the artillery is removed and the two armies only rely on light weapons to fight, the Eighth Route Army attacking Lingqiu City will not be able to match them even if they attack Lingqiu City several times more!
So the solemn expression on the chief of staff's face was replaced by confidence again!
As long as I don't fall for the trick this time and try to weaken the threat of the Eighth Route Army artillery to my own troops, I will definitely win the next battle!
He can definitely complete the mission assigned to him by the brigade commander and eliminate the largest number of Eighth Route Army troops with the smallest casualties!
"Woooooooo..."
The independent regiment's time is limited. It must use the shortest possible time to corner the Japanese and puppet troops in the city, and then mobilize troops from the front line to mobilize reinforcements to create opportunities for the regiment's main force to reinforce!
So less than ten minutes after the first battle ended, the scream of cannonballs streaking across the sky started!
The Japs chief of staff reacted quickly this time. He frowned and ordered: "The troops will move covertly. Only observation posts will be left at the top of the city. All others will leave the city!"
The shelling ends as quickly as it comes!
Perhaps knowing that there were no more Japanese on the city, the mountain cannon only fired three rounds of shells before stopping!
"The Eighth Route Army has begun to attack, with three heavy machine guns covering it, and a company of attacking troops!" the observation post shouted at the top of the city filled with smoke!
The chief of staff did not move and ordered in a deep voice: "Continue to observe and wait until the Eighth Route Army rushes to a position 100 meters outside the city before reporting!"
Soon the voice of the observation post rang: "Sir, they have rushed to 100 meters!"
Just when the chief of staff was about to order the troops to enter the position, the observation post's next words made him swallow the order that was already on his lips!
"They stopped. The Eighth Route Army stopped sixty meters outside the city and stopped attacking!"
"This must be another conspiracy of the Eighth Route Army. They forced our troops to the top of the city and then bombed them with artillery. Fortunately, I was not fooled!" The chief of staff was secretly glad!
But before he had time to be happy, the observation post spoke again, and it directly made him tense up again!
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army is digging trenches and building a position sixty meters outside the city!"
The chief of staff couldn't sit still and immediately rushed to the city under the protection of the guards!
I glanced outside the city through the shooting hole, and my face turned solemn!
More than a hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers were lined up in a line. Some held shovels in their hands, others held poles in their hands, and rifles on their backs. They worked in pairs, digging hard on the ground!
The fast Eighth Route Army had already used the excavated soil to pile up a mound facing the city head!
In addition to the small pit dug out, people can hide in it, which can already block most of the body!
"I understand. The Eighth Route Army wants to push their offensive position sixty meters outside the city to shorten their offensive distance!" A flash of realization flashed across the chief of staff's dignified face!
Then he shouted anxiously: "We must not let their conspiracy succeed!"
"Once their offensive position is repaired and they launch an attack on us from sixty meters away, as long as they have enough troops, they can reach the foot of the city wall with a single charge. We won't have enough time to stop them!"
"The troops immediately enter the position, use firepower to counterattack, and force them to retreat! If they don't retreat, kill them!"
"The grenadier soldiers are also coming up together. Sixty meters is far beyond the throwing range of our grenades. Only they can hit the grenade to the Eighth Route Army!"
"The mounds of soil they piled in front of us can block the bullets we fire at us, but they can't block the grenades falling from the sky!"
For more than 300 days, the puppet troops slaughtered and wounded the city's top, and opened fire on the Eighth Route Army scattered outside the city!
The firepower was dense and precise, because the individual soldier bunkers had not yet been formed, and the mounds and pits could not fully provide cover for the soldiers. People kept getting hit by bullets and fell to the ground with screams!
But this casualty did not scare off the third company!
If you can't dig while standing, you squat down to dig. If you can't dig while squatting, you dig on your stomach. Soon, the figures that keep popping up from behind the mound disappear, and you can only see shovel after shovel of soil being lifted out and piled up.
Facing the city wall, continue to raise the mound!
The chief of staff became anxious and continued to shout: "Shoot, continue to increase the firepower, and fire grenades. Resolutely repel them. We must not let them build offensive positions under our noses!"
"Boom boom boom..."
The moment the grenade fell from the sky and exploded in the middle of the third company, Hong Linfeng spoke!
He ordered in a deep voice: "All the Japs have arrived at the top of the city. Let's open fire immediately. Blast them to hell!"
"Woooooooo..."
The familiar high-pitched scream sounded again, and on top of the bustling city, the face of the Japanese Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff suddenly turned pale!
Under the protection of the guards, as soon as I hid in the corner, a violent explosion rang in my ears!
Dozens of grenadier soldiers lined up in a row on the open ground at the head of the city bore the brunt of the attack. Just five or six shells dropped down and they were knocked upside down!
"Sir, the artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army is too fierce. The troops continue to defend the city and the casualties are too great! Please make up your mind as soon as possible about what to do next!" the captain of the garrison shouted anxiously!
There is no cover at all on the empty city. Every cannonball that hits can take away the life of at least one soldier!
These soldiers are all subordinates of the garrison. No one is more heartbroken than the captain!
The chief of staff was in a dilemma.
At this time, a difficult question was placed in front of him!
The simplest and most direct way to reduce the casualties of troops in shelling is to evacuate the city!
But in this way, he would not be able to stop the Eighth Route Army from building offensive positions outside the city!
At this moment, his face no longer showed any arrogance when accepting the task, but a look of confusion, even a little overwhelmed!
His lack of combat experience is his fatal flaw. Although he is already a lieutenant colonel, he has always stayed at the headquarters and has almost no experience of leading troops alone!
Let him fight a head-to-head conventional battle and fight according to the instructions of the military academy instructors. There will be no problem at all!
But let him face such an unpredictable battle situation and make smart decisions on the battlefield, and he has no inventory in his mind!
At this time, he thought of the experienced brigade commander, as if he suddenly grasped a life-saving straw in despair, and immediately shouted!
"Contact the brigade headquarters immediately. I want to have a phone call with the brigade commander. Hurry!"
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