Major General Sakai finally understood why the siege troops suffered a disastrous defeat yesterday afternoon!
On the Chinese battlefield, the reason why the imperial army was able to match any opponent, aircraft and artillery definitely played a top priority!
But yesterday afternoon, neither planes nor artillery were used!
Without these trump cards and the fact that the siege troops are not familiar with the terrain inside the city, it will be difficult to remain undefeated!
But Sakai came here with his own ideas today, and he will definitely not make the same mistake!
He raised his eyebrows and replied: "Yesterday was yesterday. Today I am here and I will definitely make the aviation force play its role!"
"Contact the aviation force immediately, rush to the battlefield, and bomb Lingqiu City directly without waiting for orders! If you can't carry out low-altitude bombing, carry out high-altitude bombing, and use aerial bombs to blow Lingqiu City to the ground!"
"Don't the Eighth Route Army want to fight in the street with us? I'll blow up their street fighting battlefield and see how they fight!"
"The general is wise!" Major flattered him a little!
Their ideas yesterday afternoon were too simple!
Fighting the garrison regiment in the same way as other squadron armies were played in the past greatly underestimates the strength of the garrison regiment!
I originally thought that the Eighth Route Army would collapse after the imperial army entered the city, but it didn't happen. They just used street fighting to give everyone a showdown!
By the time everyone reacted and wanted to retreat, the troops had already fallen in and suffered heavy casualties!
The casualties of the retreating troops were in vain, and they were unwilling to do so. As a result, the fight lasted for two hours, and in the end there were more than 2,000 casualties!
The brigade commander obviously learned from everyone's experience of underestimating the enemy yesterday, and came up to destroy the Eighth Route Army's street fighting battlefield and eliminate the Eighth Route Army's advantage!
Major General Sakai ignored his subordinates' flattery and continued to speak!
"Have you calculated the number of artillery pieces left in the siege force?"
"Hi!" Major replied quickly!
"We also have four squadrons of mountain artillery, four squadrons of infantry artillery, and nearly five squadrons of mortars!"
Major General Sakai quickly made a decision: "Order that each brigade of the siege force increase a squadron of mortar artillery, a squadron of infantry artillery, and a squadron of mountain artillery, and launch simultaneous attacks from four directions of Lingqiu City!"
"After the troops enter the city, they divide their forces to sweep Lingqiu City. Each sweep force is equipped with at least two mountain cannons or two infantry cannons and three mortars!"
"First use artillery to destroy all the houses and yards passing by, and then attack house by house and yard by yard to completely kill the remaining Eighth Route Army in the city!"
"The aviation troops will arrive on the battlefield in half an hour and give them half an hour to bomb Lingqiu City. We will launch the attack in half an hour!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions kept ringing in Lingqiu City!
Aerial bombs weighing dozens of kilograms rained down on the city!
Hong Linfeng saw it in his eyes and felt anxious in his heart.
After another bomb exploded at close range, Huang Sheng looked at him and asked anxiously!
"Have the troops dispersed?"
The chief of staff had asked this question at least five times in just ten minutes of bombing. Huang Sheng's ears almost sounded numb and he quickly answered: "In infantry squads, they are scattered in every corner of Lingqiu City!"
"However, the Japanese bombing was too severe, and the casualties among the troops will definitely not be much smaller!"
"Bombs fell from the sky. Although they were not accurate, they were numerous and powerful!"
"When a bomb hits, any living thing within a dozen meters will be either blown to death or shocked to death!"
"Even if our troops are scattered, a blind cat hitting a mouse can kill many soldiers!"
Hong Linfeng sighed and replied helplessly: "There is no way, the enemy's advantage lies there, we cannot avoid this kind of casualties, we can only reduce the casualties as much as possible by spreading the troops!"
After another twenty minutes of suffering, the roar of planes in the sky finally weakened!
Hong Linfeng's tense nerves did not relax. Instead, he looked at Huang Sheng and ordered with a serious face: "As soon as the plane leaves, the Japanese will definitely launch an attack!"
"Order all the troops that can be contacted to prepare for battle and fight the Japanese according to the predetermined battle plan!"
"No one, no unit, can fight head-on with the Japs! If you win, fight, if you can't win, run away. You must not fight to waste!"
"Rumble..."
As soon as the plane left, explosions sounded on the four walls of Lingqiu!
Dozens of artillery pieces, including mortars, mountain artillery and infantry artillery, took turns firing!
The gap in the city wall and the city head were soon submerged in artillery fire!
He Jun, the commander of the first company, has now become the acting commander of the first battalion!
There are still more than 20 people left in the first company and the security platoon directly under the battalion headquarters. The first platoon of the fire company is the unit he currently commands!
"Battal Commander, we lost sixteen soldiers in the plane bombing just now, all of them died!" the guard platoon leader reported heartbrokenly!
"Blood debt must be paid with blood. Tell the living soldiers that we will avenge this revenge soon!" He Jun ordered through gritted teeth!
"The troops are all hidden. We will not defend the city. When all the Japanese attacking troops climb up to the city, we will retreat after a burst of firepower and let the Japanese enter the city and fight with them in the streets!"
The artillery fire lasted for ten minutes before it stopped!
Learning from yesterday's experience and lessons, the Japanese not only blew up the front line of the city, but also blew up all the houses within fifty meters of the city wall!
If He Jun hadn't been cautious and ordered the troops to hide a hundred meters away from the city wall, the troops would definitely have suffered casualties in the shelling!
"Batalion Commander, the Japanese have begun to attack!"
Behind a broken wall nearly a hundred meters away from the city wall, the guard platoon leader was squatting beside He Jun. Next to him was a heavy machine gun and two light machine guns! The Japanese shouted as soon as they emerged from the gap in the city wall!
"Don't be anxious, calm down!" He Jun replied, patting the heavy machine gunner on the shoulder!
"The Japanese will definitely have grenades and mortars to accompany their attack. They will definitely counterattack. In half a minute from the sky, there will be shells hitting us!"
"So we only have one chance. No matter who it is, it takes ten seconds to retreat!"
"We have to stay here for three days. Only by protecting ourselves can we kill more Japanese!"
There were only a few scattered heads on the city wall, but in the blink of an eye they became densely packed!
No one saw the mortars, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns have already appeared!
He was being carried to the top of the city by the Japanese, and he was condescendingly providing fire cover for the attacking troops!
"shot!"
Before the Japanese heavy machine gun was ready, He Jun gave a decisive order!
Three tongues of fire spurted out from the shooting holes in the broken wall, and bullets flew towards the city head like rain!
Among the ruins along the city wall, it was very quiet just now, as if they were asleep!
When the heavy machine gun fired, everyone woke up from their deep sleep, and the ruins suddenly became lively!
Light and heavy machine guns, rifles, pistols, all join the battle!
Although the defending troops suffered heavy casualties, they did not lack any equipment!
Equipped by myself, captured from the Lingqiu City ammunition depot, plus those captured in the battle yesterday afternoon, there are nearly two hundred light and heavy machine guns alone!
After the troop drawdown, each infantry squad will be equipped with two light machine guns!
Almost everyone has a pistol. Looking at the whole of China, there is probably no army with such luxurious equipment!
"retreat……"
While looking at the city, He Jun stared at the watch on his wrist, and ordered as soon as the time was up, not to waste a second more!
The remaining few hundred people in the city defense force are all veterans and elites!
To carry out orders, there will be no discounts or even the slightest thought of war!
After receiving the order, we ceased fire. A few people formed a group, carrying machine guns and started running away from the predetermined retreat route!
The bustling ruins fell into silence again in less than two seconds!
On the top of the city, the Japanese just lay down on the ground to avoid the blow, and subconsciously shouted: "Reattack immediately with heavy machine gun grenades and kill these Eighth Route Army troops who have emerged!"
"All the mortars went to the top of the city and killed them all with shells!"
Before the heavy machine gun fired, the bullets flying overhead disappeared!
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army seems to have retreated!" the second lieutenant reminded tentatively!
"Continue to fire, heavy machine gun and grenade fire, mortar fire, sweep the ruins where the gunshots were just fired with bullets and artillery shells!"
"They are too cunning. No one can guarantee that this is a conspiracy. They wait until everyone shows up before shooting. We have already suffered a lot in this regard and cannot be fooled again!"
The Japs fought for five minutes before they stopped!
Then the attacking troops climbed over the city wall and entered the city, quickly occupying the houses closest to the city wall that had been bombed into ruins!
He Jun stepped back fifty meters and then stopped!
There is a machine gun position that they prepared in advance. Although it was damaged a lot by plane bombing, it is still usable!
"Add all the machine guns, everyone hide, wait for the Japanese to come!" He Jun ordered seriously!
After waiting for ten minutes, there was still no Japanese on the street!
"Batalion Commander, the Japanese did not attack the city, they all stayed on the line of the city wall!" the observation post rushed over and reported!
He Jun raised his eyebrows and had a bad feeling in his mind!
Everyone discussed last night that today the Japanese army is likely to use artillery to destroy all the houses and then attack the center of the city to break up the street fighting!
Now it seems that this worry will become a reality!
Without houses, although everyone can use the ruins of bombed houses to continue fighting street battles with the Japanese, there will definitely be many limitations, and there will definitely be fewer places to hide people on the battlefield!
"Boom boom!"
Two explosions interrupted He Jun's thoughts!
Just looking in the direction of the explosion, a look of solemnity flashed across his serious face!
What everyone was most worried about has happened!
Less than fifty meters closer to the city wall, explosions rang out at least five times, and then He Jun saw every move of the Japanese army!
Two mountain cannons were set up on the street, and the walls and houses on both sides were called one by one!
The mortar is set up next to it!
After the mountain artillery destroyed the courtyard walls and houses, the mortars followed!
Artillery shells fall from the sky and hit the ruins, killing the Eighth Route Army who may be hiding in the ruins!
After the mortars exploded, the infantry rushed into the ruins under the cover of light and heavy machine guns to ensure that no one was in the yard!
Seeing this, the expression on He Jun's face became even more solemn!
According to the Japanese method of attack, houses and yards that have not been destroyed cannot hide from people at all, otherwise they will become living targets for the Japanese artillery!
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