"Send the signal, the troops begin to counterattack, and the night attack begins!" Hong Linfeng ordered decisively in the Japanese encirclement!
"Bang bang bang..."
As soon as he finished speaking, three signal bombs took off in front of the dim command post, and then exploded into three brilliant white lights!
"Boom boom boom..."
The artilleryman spoke first!
It is no longer like during the day, when one artillery shell is fired and then moved, but an artillery position fires five rounds of rapid fire before stopping, moving to a new artillery position and continuing to fire!
In the violent explosion, the Japanese were blinded and hid in the ruins, waiting for the shelling to end!
The Eighth Route Army in the encirclement was not idle. Under the cover of artillery fire, they walked through the ruins like monkeys, trying to get as close as possible to the Japanese defense line!
During the day, the troops behind the enemy were not idle. As long as they could still move, they all moved around the defense line quietly, preparing to cooperate with the assault in the encirclement, attack from inside and outside, and break the enemy's blockade!
"Baga, there are enemies coming from ahead, machine gun fire!" Amidst the artillery fire, a Japanese second lieutenant suddenly saw a figure walking through the ruins and immediately shouted!
"Da da da……"
The heavy machine gun hiding behind the broken wall opened fire quickly!
Tongues of flame spurted out from the shooting holes dug out of the broken wall, and bullets flew out like meteors, flying in the night!
One soldier was caught off guard and was killed. The other soldiers quickly fell down and were suppressed in the ruins in front of the defense line, unable to move!
"Grenade fire, kill these sneak attackers!" The Japanese second lieutenant's eyes lit up and he continued to shout, he wanted to wipe out all these sneak attackers!
"Da da da……"
Before his subordinates could move, a series of gunshots came from behind and reached his ears!
The heavy machine gun misfired instantly. The machine gunner and the assistant shooter fell down in the shooting position together. Several shooting holes appeared in the back, and blood gushed out like a fountain. They lost their lives in an instant!
The second lieutenant subconsciously threw himself on the ground, and a bullet penetrated the barely broken wall right next to his scalp, escaping the fatal blow!
His face suddenly turned pale, and he shouted out loud: "Baga, the enemy is attacking, the Eighth Route Army has touched behind us!"
"One team turned around to counterattack and stop them!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Before the order was finished, there was an explosion!
A grenade emitting white smoke hit my feet!
In the violent explosion, both feet were instantly broken off and then blown away!
The excruciating pain in his legs made the second lieutenant faint from the pain!
Of the four Japanese grenadiers, two were killed with machine guns and two were killed with grenades, but there was no sound!
"Kill over, kill the little Japs in front, and cover the main force to come over!" shouted the company commander of the garrison who was attacking the Japs from behind the defense line!
Originally there were four squads under my command, but they were surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese for a whole afternoon, and now there are only two left!
The huge casualties made the company commander angry and heartbroken. He wished he could kill all the little devils in the city alive!
After finally waiting until dark, the battle situation was favorable to the Eighth Route Army. As a company commander, he would not let go of this opportunity for revenge no matter what!
Holding the box cannon in his hand, under the cover of two riflemen, he kept approaching the Japanese defense line!
In the ruins, an injured little Japanese soldier just raised his rifle and prepared to fight to the end. He saw it!
You're welcome, just raise the box cannon and throw it into the fire!
Five bullets flew towards the Japanese in a fan shape. The sound of gunshots and screams came together, and they hit the target!
The riflemen are not idle either!
From the seizure of the Lingqiu City ammunition depot plus the seizure on the battlefield, the garrison gained at least 250 bastard box pistols!
Although they are not as good as the German box guns, as long as they don't malfunction, there is no problem at all in close combat and self-defense!
Hong Linfeng did not waste these pistols and equipped them all at once for the troops!
In addition to the pistols originally equipped by the garrison, the remaining few hundred people in the garrison have reached the standard of one pistol per person!
Therefore, every soldier in the garrison on the battlefield is equipped with two guns. If the enemy is far away, he will use the rifle, and if the enemy is close, he will use the pistol. There is no need to save bullets at all!
There are corpses everywhere in the ruins, including those from the Japanese and the Eighth Route Army!
In the fierce battle, the enemy and we rarely had the opportunity to clean up the battlefield, so there must be a lot of ammunition on these corpses!
As long as you can survive on the battlefield, you can replenish ammunition everywhere, wherever you hit!
Soon, a gap was opened in the defense line that the Japanese army had built for several hours!
Dozens of Eighth Route Army troops poured out of the encirclement through the gap and quickly disappeared into the ruins!
Under the cover of night, the troops were divided into multiple routes to other positions on the Japanese defense line, and cooperated with the frontal assault troops to completely destroy the Japanese defense line, and then forced the little Japanese out of Lingqiu City!
At the Japanese military headquarters in the south of the city, Major General Sakai was alerted by the sound of gunfire!
Hearing the sound of gunfire everywhere in the city, and the sudden fire, which became more and more intense, with no intention of ending at all, he became anxious!
Major had an experience last night and immediately suggested!
"General, I humbly suggest that the troops retreat immediately!"
"Last night the Eighth Route Army used this method of attack to cause a large number of casualties to us, and then forced us out of Lingqiu City!"
"Judging from the sound of gunfire, even if we destroyed all the houses near the defense line, we did not stop the Eighth Route Army from approaching our defense line!"
"Once the Eighth Route Army and our troops get into a melee, the troops in the city will not be able to withdraw even if they want to. They will have no choice but to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army and fight to the death!"
Major General Sakai said nothing and continued to look at the battlefield with his telescope!
No one would be willing to retreat like this!
Even if the troops lost more than 2,000 people yesterday afternoon because they did not retreat in time, the bloody experience and lessons are in front of him, and his reason tells him that he must retreat!
But when the matter was really put before me and it was my turn to make a decision, I suddenly couldn't speak!
Once this order is issued, it means that all the results of the day will be in vain, and the casualties of the troops will be in vain!
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army has opened a hole in the defense line. At least fifty Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed out from the encirclement!" A second lieutenant suddenly rushed to the top of the city and reported from a distance, his face full of nervousness!
"Sir, the eastern defense line was also attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and it was attacked from both inside and outside by the Eighth Route Army. It can hardly be defended!" Another communications soldier rushed over and reported!
"Sir, the northern defense line was breached by the Eighth Route Army!"
"The defensive line defenders are already fighting with the Eighth Route Army!"
"retreat……"
One bad news after another finally forced Major General Sakai to make up his mind!
He raised his eyebrows and ordered: "All troops abandon their defense lines and retreat outside the city. Everyone withdraw from Lingqiu City!"
Major General Sakai is guarding the city, waiting for the troops to withdraw!
The sound of guns and artillery in the city was so dense that it made him feel terrified!
If you don't see the troops safely evacuated in front of you, you won't feel relieved!
You must know that the troops on the defense line are all mobile troops that you can mobilize!
If they had an accident and were defeated, he would not be able to attack except for passive defense until the follow-up reinforcements arrived, even if the fighter plane was right in front of him!
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
Ten minutes have passed, and the sound of gunfire has not weakened!
Half an hour later, the scattered troops that successfully retreated to the south gate totaled only one infantry squadron. The gunfire in the city continued, and the combat scope became wider and wider, no longer limited to the perimeter of the defense line!
At this time, the fool also understood: the troops still in the city have been held back by the Eighth Route Army!
Major General Sakai remained calm and silent, but his heart was already filled with huge waves!
The difficulty of the garrison was once again beyond his imagination. After the battle had been fought like this, they could still fight back, and the imperial army was retreating steadily. It was not clear that they were a group that was about to be wiped out and was making trouble.
The remnants of the battle between beasts!
Taking a deep breath, he decisively ordered: "We also retreat!"
"Order the troops still fighting in the city to find a way to break away from the battle and withdraw from Lingqiu City!"
"If you really can't evacuate, then fight. Use the full combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army. Even if you die in battle, you must kill more Eighth Route Army soldiers before you die!"
Outside Lingqiu City, Li Hao was shocked when he saw Japanese soldiers pouring out of Lingqiu City!
I thought the Japanese were aware of their purpose and took the initiative to fight against me!
But soon this worry disappeared!
"Captain, more than 500 Japanese soldiers have left the city. Many of them are technical troops, only half are infantry, and the defense directions are all facing the city!" Xiao Yuan reported!
Li Hao's eyes lit up and he immediately reacted: "I understand!"
"This must be the work of the Chief of Staff. They forced the little Japs out of Lingqiu City again!"
"Contact the artillery battalion immediately, cover the enemy assembly area with artillery fire first, and launch a sudden artillery attack for five minutes!"
"Then the artillery fire extended for 150 meters, aimed at the city head, and then retreated after three minutes!"
"This is the fat meat that the little devil brought to our mouths. If we don't eat it, we won't eat it for free!"
"As soon as the bombardment stopped, we formed a skirmish line and fought through it. The troops could only move forward but not retreat. They crossed the city wall all the way and rushed into Lingqiu City. We killed as many Japanese as we could along the way and tried to severely injure the five in front of us.
More than a hundred days of puppet troops!”
Major General Sakai was also among the more than 500 Japanese soldiers, and the guards were surrounding him, forming a safe area!
As expected, this is Sakai's temporary headquarters tonight.
The conditions were very simple, and not even a tent was set up in a hurry, but the best thing about it was safety!
On a table made of several ammunition boxes, the Lingqiu city defense map was spread out on it!
Sakai didn't show any dissatisfaction and just lay down beside him to study the map, his brows furrowed.
Just now on the top of the city, he once again realized the cunning and toughness of his opponents. In order to completely kill them and take revenge tomorrow, he had to calm down and re-study his opponents and formulate more foolproof tactics!
"Woooooooo..."
Suddenly, the scream of a string of artillery shells streaking across the sky was heard!
The artillery staff officer next to him turned pale at that moment, and shouted out loud: "It's a mountain artillery, the shells are flying towards us, protect the brigade commander, take cover..."
"Boom boom boom..."
The explosion came so quickly that it directly interrupted the artillery staff's reminder!
Fortunately, the guard captain reacted quickly and rushed behind Major General Sakai. Regardless, he threw him to the ground, and the two of them smashed him together and ate his shit!
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