Outside Tieling City, the temporary headquarters of the Seventh Army.
Yano Otonzaburo bent down and got into the command tent, walked up to Ishihara Wanji and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, I suggest that you leave an infantry division to continue the siege of Tieling, and the main force of the regiment directly bypasses Tieling and goes south. Don't continue to attack Tieling." Tieling has had too many entanglements with the Chinese army, and if we continue to attack like this, the losses will be too great!"
Ishihara Wanji frowned and asked, "How big is the loss?"
Yano Otonzaburo said after a pause: "Your Excellency, Commander, it has only been less than half a day, and the First Battalion of the Second Infantry Regiment has already suffered nearly 500 casualties, and the cooperating First Armored Regiment also suffered losses. At least thirty tanks, but the results achieved are almost negligible!"
After a pause, Yano Otonzaburo continued: "During the field battle outside the city, the Chinese army seemed vulnerable, but after entering the urban street fighting, the performance of the Chinese army was completely different. If we continue to fight like this, I am worried that even if I take advantage of The entire Second Division plus the First Armored Regiment may not be able to capture Tieling City in a short time."
Upon hearing this, Ishihara Wan'er's face immediately fell. Even before the war started, he had already expected that the losses in the Battle of Tieling would not be small, but he still did not expect that the losses would be so huge! In just half a day, half of the infantry brigade and a tank squadron were lost. Who could bear such a heavy loss
"Baga Yalu! What are the aviation forces doing? Let the aviation regiment continue to increase the bombing of Tieling City!" Ishihara Wanji's first reaction was that the Third Aviation Regiment did not work hard enough and did not carry out carpet bombing of Tieling. Otherwise, the aviation regiment would The regiment's bombardment was sufficient, and the intensity of the resistance encountered by the infantry was much less intense.
"Your Excellency, Commander, the aviation regiment even used sulfur bombs, but they had little effect." Otonzaburo Yano shook his head and smiled bitterly, "These damn Chinese soldiers are like ground rats. When the aviation bombing, they all hid. They stood up, but as soon as the bombing was over, they immediately emerged from every corner."
After a pause, Yano Otozaburo continued: "I have serious suspicions. Xu Rui's troops have already dug a large number of tunnels and fortifications in Tieling City. Therefore, the cost of continuing to attack Tieling is too high. I suggest leaving an infantry division to attack Tieling." If we are surrounded but not attacked, the main force of the legion will bypass Tieling and attack Fengtian!"
Ishihara glanced at Yano Otonzaburo and said quietly: "Yano-kun, if a small iron ridge is like this, can Fengtian be easier? If Xu Rui's troops had dug tunnels and fortifications in Tieling, then what would happen in Fengtian City? The tunnel fortifications will only become more complete and stronger! If the imperial army cannot even take down Tieling, let alone Fengtian."
After a pause, Ishihara Wanji continued: "Besides, is it really okay to keep such an elite force in Tieling? Yano-kun, you should also know that all the military supplies of our Seventh Army have to pass through the highway. Supplying from Harbin, God knows, will this unit suddenly slip out of the city and attack the military supplies of the Seventh Army?"
Yano Otonzaburo said: "Your Excellency, Commander, you can surround Tieling City on all sides to ensure that they cannot get out of the city."
Ishihara Wanji said: "Yano-kun, you just said that Xu Rui's troops have probably dug tunnels and fortifications in Tieling City, so who can guarantee that they have not dug a tunnel to lead outside the city? If such a tunnel really exists, wouldn’t it be a bad thing at a critical moment?”
Yano Otonzaburo immediately fell silent because he did not dare to make this guarantee at all.
At that moment, Ishihara Wanji continued: "Therefore, it is more serious to let the Second Division innovate tactics and eliminate the Chinese soldiers in Tieling City as soon as possible! If the enemies of Tieling are not eliminated for one day, the Seventh Army will not be able to go south for one day!"
"Hai!" Yano Otonzaburo paused heavily, turned around and left depressedly.
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Fengtian, the headquarters of the Chahar Independent Regiment.
Du Junjie hurried into the war room and reported to Xu Rui: "Captain, the little devil seems to be anxious after suffering a loss this morning! Just after noon, they launched a fierce attack from four directions at the same time! Now the southeast of Tieling The four northwest urban districts have all fallen into fierce fighting, and the first battalion has suffered very heavy casualties! Especially the first company guarding the northern city district has suffered more than half of its casualties by noon, and instructor Liu of the first company has also died!"
The entire war room suddenly became silent.
Including Du Junjie, all the staff officers present have realized that the current situation is very serious. It will take at least a week for Fengtian's defenses to be fully formed. However, the First Battalion is already in danger in Tieling. It seems that the First Battalion is in danger. They could only hold out in Tieling for two days at most, and Ishihara Wanji's Seventh Army was far more difficult to deal with than they expected.
However, Xu Rui didn't even have any expression on his face. He nodded and said, "I understand."
Du Junjie originally wanted to ask if reinforcements should be sent? But seeing Xu Rui like this, he immediately swallowed it back in his stomach.
After Xu Rui said, "I know," he picked up a pencil square and prepared to draw a line on the map. However, he heard a squeaking sound and scratched the kraft paper map. Du Junjie and several staff officers present looked at him sideways and looked at him. With a surprised look, Xu Rui put away his pen and ruler as if nothing happened, turned around and walked towards the lounge.
But when he crossed the threshold, Xu Rui's foot hit the threshold with a loud click, and he almost fell to the ground on the spot. Du Junjie and several staff members suddenly looked at each other, what happened to the regiment leader
Draw a picture and scratch the map. Can the aisle also touch the threshold
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Ishihara Kanji asked the Second Division to innovate tactics and capture Tieling as soon as possible. After receiving the order, the commander of the Second Division, Maruyama Masao, thought hard for a long time, but could not think of any good way. Finally, the old devil finally thought of a way, That is to change the previous main attack on Beicheng District into a siege on all sides!
Maruyama Masao's intention is very clear. I have more than 22,000 people in the Second Division, but the Chinese army in the city only has more than 2,000 people. In other words, the strength of the Second Division is almost ten times. For the Chinese army, at this time, if it only engages in small-scale street fighting on local battlefields, it is equivalent to a fueling tactic and cannot take advantage of its large numbers. However, if it launches a fierce attack from four directions at the same time, the second division's strength advantage can be brought into play.
It must be admitted that although Maruyama Masao's method is stupid, it is very targeted.
After noon, first the 3rd Flying Regiment dispatched more than a dozen squadrons of attack aircraft, which turned Tieling City upside down. Then the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment launched a cluster bombardment on Tieling. Then, the 2nd Division was dispatched at once. Four brigades were formed, and under the guidance of two tank squadrons, they launched a fierce attack from four directions at the same time.
In the blink of an eye, Tieling City fell into a huge crisis.
Among them, the most dangerous one is the Beicheng District guarded by the Yi Company. Because the other directions did not suffer large-scale attacks from the Japs this morning, the casualties were not large. However, the Beicheng District guarded by the Yi Company was violently attacked by the Japs. The final position was held, but more than half of the officers and soldiers of the company had been killed or injured.
In other words, one can imagine how difficult it is for a company to defend Beicheng District with less than 300 troops.
But no matter how difficult it is, the officers and soldiers of the first company can only grit their teeth and carry it on their own, because the battalion commander He Guangming has already said that he will not send any reinforcements to the first company, because the other directions are also under fierce attack by the Japanese. The second and third companies There are also guard platoons directly under the battalion, each guarding a city area. Now He Guangming does not have a single soldier in his hands.
At this moment, the battle in Beicheng District has entered the most critical juncture.
The six-story reinforced concrete building has been lost again, and the first company is no longer able to organize a counterattack again, because the reserve team in Zhao Dasha's hand has been used up, and now there are less than fifty people left in the entire first company, but since In this way, the first company was still holding on to the last position.
"Brothers!" Taking advantage of the lull in the Japs' attack, Zhao Dasha called the last forty people of the entire company to him, and roared with a ferocious expression, "Behind us is the city center. Once the city center is lost, the Second Company , the third company and the guard platoon will be exposed to the enemy's gunfire, and this battle will be impossible to fight."
More than forty remaining soldiers stared at Zhao Dasha silently, all with miserable expressions.
"So, we have no choice but to retreat." Zhao Dasha said sadly, "Everything that needs to be said has been said, and the suicide note and relics have been left. Now, it is time to face our fate as soldiers. !”
After finishing speaking, Zhao Dasha bent down and walked past the formation, and patted the helmets of the remaining soldiers one by one.
The remnant soldier who had been photographed with his helmet turned around silently and silently arranged his equipment.
He took off the last grenade from his waist and put it in front of him, wiped off the blood on the curled bayonet, inserted it into the card slot, and loaded the last magazine into the barrel of the Bobosha submachine gun. A remnant soldier with gauze wrapped around his eyes. He even found a rocket bomb from somewhere, and held it tightly in his arms with both hands, as if holding a rare treasure.
A moment later, the crunching sound of tank tracks was heard again at the street ahead. The Japanese were coming!
Looking up, he saw two Type 95 light tanks coming out of the street in front. Behind the tanks, at least a hundred Japanese infantrymen were bending over to follow up, holding 38-inch caps. A thousand meters ahead, The four Japanese heavy machine guns mounted on the rooftop of the six-story building also began to fire violently, and dense bullets poured over them like a rainstorm in an instant.
Zhao Dasha held his helmet and huddled behind the ruins, quietly waiting for the last moment to arrive.
This battle may be the last battle in Zhao Dasha's life, but he has no regrets. As a soldier, this is his duty, and it is his destiny! As a soldier, you should fight for your country and sacrifice for your nation!