Chapter 144 is officially engaged

The devils supervised the battle behind with bayonets and heavy machine guns, and the puppet army had no choice but to charge the minefield of the Anti-United Nations.

The results are self-evident, and it didn't take long for the puppet army to step on the mines!

Boom Boom! Violent explosions resounded in the sky one after another, and at this time, as the sun set, countless puppet soldiers were hit by the explosion and fell down one after another.

In less than half an hour, Xiqia, Zhang Haipeng, Yu Zhishan and other puppet troops suffered thousands of casualties, but they also successfully destroyed the minefields in the area of Xue Jiayuan and Erdaogou.

When the puppet army charged regardless of casualties, Xu Guoren and Yang Jingyu also thought about opening artillery to stop it, but after thinking about it, they felt that it was not cost-effective to exchange the artillery regiment for the puppet army's gang of traitors and lackeys. Because, at that time, no matter whether the defenders fired with artillery fire or light and heavy machine guns to stop the puppet army from wading mines, it would inevitably attract retaliatory artillery fire from the devils.

The minefield is gone, as long as you hold your position, repel the enemy's attack, and you can rearrange it at night.

Xu Guoren didn't pin all his hopes on these minefields, and if he wanted to defend Jiangcheng, he had to rely on tens of thousands of soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Federation to fight bloodily and fight bravely.

After the minefield was completely destroyed, the puppet army, which had already suffered more than half of the casualties, rushed to the position of the Anti-Union under the urging of the devils.

Xu Guoren put down the binoculars, picked up the phone, and immediately gave the order to open fire on a group of front-line troops: "Hit me hard!" Kill these traitors raised by bitches! ”

The officers and soldiers of the first regiment had been holding back for a day, and when they saw the devils and the puppet army rushing up, they opened fire one after another.

A dense stream of bullets hit it, and the puppet soldiers were shot and fell down one after another.

Ignoring the devils behind them, the puppet army that was lucky enough to avoid the rain of bullets turned around and ran.

The devils who followed up were also disrupted.

Some devil officers angrily brandished their sabers and slashed some of the puppet soldiers who escaped from them to the ground, trying to stop the collapse of the puppet army, but all in vain.

No matter how they cut and killed, they couldn't stop the collapse of the puppet army, because these puppet troops were first used as cannon fodder and thundered, and were killed and injured by mines, and finally broke through the blockade of the minefield, and the attack was met with a head-on attack by the Anti-Japanese Union.

At this moment, there is only one thought in the minds of these living puppet soldiers, and that is to live! Flee this damn battlefield and just want to live, desperate for it.

Even, the slashing and blocking of some devil officers provoked a few puppet army retreats who wanted to flee for their lives, and they were shot black and killed on the spot.

The devil also had to stop this failed attack, however, for the devil, after all, the minefield of the Chinese army has been broken through, and next, deal with the fleeing Imperial Cooperative Army, and then attack calmly, it will definitely be successful.

So the devil's officer ordered the Japanese army to retreat back like a tide of defeat from the puppet army.

Soon, several puppet army leaders were killed by the devils and executed on the spot! Knowing that the minefield had been breached, Jiro Tamon personally gave an order to his forward officers to launch an immediate and formal attack.

The 2nd Division and the 20th Division each dispatched a field wing, plus two artillery wings, and more than 20 tanks to form a huge attack group and once again launched an attack on the Xue Jiayuan position.

Seeing that the devil was menacing, Xu Guoren personally called the commanders of the regiments, battalions, and companies on the position, ordering them to strictly defend and resist desperately, and not to retreat without an order.

The officers are all backbone party members, and they have expressed their stance and vowed to live and die with the position.

In addition to the frontal attack, the other two wings of the 20th Division also attacked the two flanks of Xue Jiayuan such as Sandaogou and Mujiagou respectively! The 2nd and 3rd regiments of the 1st Division rose up to fight back.

The battle to defend Jiangcheng officially began.

The devils were bound to win, bombarding the main position of Xuejiayuan with tanks, artillery and planes in turn, and the infantry charged in groups.

Under the command of Xu Guoren, a regiment of soldiers would rather die than retreat, desperately resisted, and the two sides fought fiercely until the sun set in the evening, and the casualties of the regiment had exceeded 30 percent.

Under the fierce bombardment of the Japanese army, the main position of the Xue family was full of blood and flames.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the Japanese army was still attacking fiercely, and there was a great momentum to break through the main position of the Xue family.

Xu Guoren put down the binoculars in his hand with a solemn face, and personally picked up the phone to call the cavalry division that had been on standby.

"Hey, I'm Xu Guoren!"

On the other end of the phone, Guo Xiaoliu hurriedly straightened up and said solemnly: "Chief, please instruct!" ”

"Xue Jiayuan was in an emergency, and the cavalry division immediately assembled and dispatched to cooperate with the main force of the 1st Division to launch a counterattack against the enemy! Repel enemy attacks! Xu Guoren's voice was indifferent, as if he had no feelings.

At this time, Xu Guoren's mind was full of scenes of soldiers fighting bloody battles and heroic sacrifices.

Under the repeated bombardment and attack of the enemy's tanks and artillery, the soldiers, in order to resist the enemy's attack, constantly rushed out of the trenches with explosive packets, braving the enemy's bullets and bullets, and rushed to the enemy's tanks.

There were also people who were hit by the explosion of enemy shells, some were blown to a blur of flesh and blood, some were blown off legs and feet, and died all kinds of miserable deaths.

Many fell on the way to the charge, and their blood stained almost the entire position!

The cruelty of modern warfare was vividly embodied, and through the fighting, Xu Guoren understood that there was still a big gap between the Anti-Japanese Union and the Japanese army.

It is so big that even if they wait for work, the combat effectiveness of the two sides is no longer on the same order of magnitude.

Perhaps, holding on to Jiangcheng is a wrong strategic choice, Xu Guoren now understands that he is dealing with a strong enemy like the Japanese Empire, which is ahead of his own in all aspects of industry, military and national strength.

In addition to fighting for their lives, the officers and men of the three armed forces still had to flexibly use tactics, combine sports warfare, and guerrilla warfare to deal with them.

Taking advantage of the vastness of China's territory and large population, it constantly depletes their war potential.

Instead of this kind of hard-fought positional offensive and defensive warfare, this kind of fighting, not to mention that the current anti-Japanese alliance is not good, even the well-equipped, well-trained, and national strength of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government is not good.

It was also in the later stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that they accepted American-style equipment and training methods, and constantly learned from the experience and lessons learned from the battles with the Japanese army. In addition, the national strength of the Japanese army has declined due to continuous attrition, so that it can stand on the same order of magnitude as the Japanese army.

After witnessing the tragic battle situation on the main position of the Xue family, Xu Guoren had already thought about it, gave up Jiangcheng, made a strategic shift again, moved flexibly, mobilized the people, and carried out a national war of resistance! This is the principle that people move to live, and trees move to die.

However, it is not necessary to withdraw immediately, the arsenal, people, and strategic materials in Jiangcheng must all be transferred.

The anti-Japanese coalition forces must continue to fight against the Japanese invaders on the Jiangcheng front, and they cannot be transferred until the transfer of people and materials is completed. Moreover, if you withdraw now, I'm afraid that the superiors won't be able to explain it, so we have to fight and wait for a suitable time.

And now, Xu Guoren wants to play a local counterattack, because he always believes that the best defense is offense!

Only by attacking can the combat effectiveness of the cavalry division be brought into play, and only by repelling the Japanese attack can we replace defense with offense and stabilize the defense line of Xuejiayuan.

Otherwise, if the devils continue to attack like this, the main position of the Xue family may not even survive tonight!

(To be continued.) )