The devil's retaliatory artillery fire did not last long, and when it succeeded in covering the retreat of the attacking troops, it gradually stopped.

The battle was won, and the defenders of the Tiger Ben Regiment all let out a mournful cheer.

Especially those Sichuan soldiers who have just joined the Tiger Ben Regiment.

All of them had fought more than one battle with the Japanese army, and they knew that the Japanese army was strong.

Compared with them, the soldiers of the original tiger camp are much calmer, after all, they have fought a lot of such victories, and they are used to it.

……

The picture pulls to the headquarters of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.

The commander of the Devil's Division, Nakajima Isago was not only greatly surprised to learn that this operation of the attacking troops had ended in failure again.

Subsequently, he directly summoned the commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade in charge of the attack, Sasaki Toichi, to the headquarters.

"Sasaki-kun, I think you should give me a reasonable explanation! It was raided by the Chinese army before, and the attack failed, so why did this carefully prepared offensive operation still fail to work? Nakajima asked with a gloomy face.

Major General Sasaki hurriedly straightened his body, and said with some trepidation: "Your Excellency the division commander, please calm your anger, this time it is not a lowly position with poor planning, it is really the tenacity of the defenders, beyond the imagination of the lowly duty and the attacking troops under his command."

This defender is completely different from the previous ones with inferior equipment and backward tactics!

The defenders of China were not only well-equipped, but also had a strong firepower and a well-coordinated tactics.

The most critical thing is that they are armed with sophisticated anti-tank guns and have more than one extremely good gunner.

In less than 10 minutes, the Imperial Army tanks covering our attack were destroyed one after another under the fire of the Chinese artillery.

Your Excellency, Division Commander, you know that both the Imperial Army's tank corps and tank fighting vehicles are very valuable assets of the Empire.

Therefore, the lowly position had to order a retreat; And this is also the main reason for the failure of our attack. ”

When Nakajima heard this, he couldn't help but be a little stunned and said, "You mean? Now the Chinese army in the city of Kunshan is equipped with anti-tank guns? ”

"Yes! Your Excellency, Division Commander! Sasaki nodded heavily.

Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa interjected: "As far as I know, anti-tank guns, in the Chinese Army, only the 87th and 88th divisions, as well as the most elite German divisions such as the Central Teaching Corps, are configured. Could it be that the Kunshan defenders were reinforced by these elite units of the Central Army? ”

After a pause, Sanfu Nakazawa continued: "If this is the case, then the difficulty for our army to take Kunshan City will be greatly increased. ”

Nakajima's face was also extremely difficult to see, and he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Nakazawa-kun, has the intelligence department figured out the number of the Kunshan reinforcements?" ”

Nakazawa Sanfu shook his head and said: "Not yet, but the special high school is already stepping up the investigation, and I believe that it will not be long before we can get intelligence information about this unit." ”

This was obviously not the answer Nakajima was looking for, so he smashed his right hand into a fist on the conference table in front of him, and then roared angrily: "Yaga Yalu! It doesn't matter if the Kunshan defenders came from the 88th Division of China, or the teaching corps! If you dare to block the advance of the Imperial Japanese Army, you are looking for death!

Nakazawa-kun, immediately send a telegram to the dispatch command, asking the Navy to dispatch a carrier-based aircraft group to assist us in the attack!

Kunshan, the 16th Division of our Imperial Army is determined to win, and no one wants to stop our progress! ”

"Yes!"

Mitsuo Nakazawa stood up and shook his head.

……

Take Kunshan, advance to Suzhou, and cut off China. The army's westward escape route and annihilation of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese main forces withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield on the shore of Taihu Lake was the absolute goal of the Japanese army's Shanghai Dispatch Army.

Therefore, Nakajima's request for help was quickly approved and supported by the Japanese Dispatch Army Command.

Dozens of devil fighters immediately took off one after another, forming a huge fighter formation, and came straight to Kunshan, an inconspicuous small county town.

Inside Kunshan City.

The Tiger Regiment and the 67th Army were not idle, and were in their respective positions, taking advantage of the gap in the battle, to hurry up the repair of bunkers and strengthen the fortifications to cope with the next attack of the Japanese army.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz! ——”

Suddenly, Yang Jing saw the Japanese fighter group coming from the sky, his face sank, and he immediately commanded in his throat: "The devil fighter is coming, hurry!" Come on! ”

And he himself was the first to run to the pre-prepared anti-aircraft fortifications.

The gray appearance is completely devoid of the heroic demeanor of the past.

In his words, this is all, only survival is king!

This time, the Japanese dispatched more than 40 fighters and bombers, but because they were not the same branch as the 16th Division on the ground, they did not belong to the same combat command.

There is also no direct link between the two, so there is no ground army to guide them.

However, the devil's bombers and fighters all targeted Kunshan City, and carried out a wide range of strafing and bombing. Anyway, the enemy army is in this city, as long as you bomb this city, you can't go wrong.

"Hurricane!"

"Hurricane, hurricane! ——”

One after another, powerful aerial bombs smashed down viciously on the ground of Kunshan City from under the belly of the devil bomber in a free-fall manner, with the sound of whirring wind.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom! ——”

After the bomb landed, a violent explosion suddenly occurred, and first a dazzling burst of fire rose violently from the ground.

In the firelight, the buildings were torn apart and collapsed; Countless building debris scattered in all directions with the raging shock wave generated by the explosion.

Sprinkled all over the nearby streets.

Some of the soldiers who were hiding in the fortifications were unfortunately affected and died heroically and died in their country.

Suddenly, the devil pilots seemed to find a large number of neatly arranged military vehicles on the ground, as well as tanks and combat vehicles, as well as field artillery.

A cold smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then he immediately piloted the bomber and swooped down fiercely with the momentum of a goshawk fighting a rabbit.

And dropped the bombs one by one.

Immediately afterwards, more and more devil pilots discovered the tank positions and artillery positions of the Tiger Regiment on the outskirts of the city and in inconspicuous positions in the city, and poured all their firepower over them like hungry tigers.

Some of these devil pilots were even very annoyed, why didn't they notice it in the first place, and dumped all the bombs on the buildings in the city?

What a waste! What a waste!

Under the concentrated fire of the devil's aviation unit, the "automobile position," "tank and combat vehicle position," and "artillery position" of the Tiger Regiment suddenly burst into a sea of fire.

The "military cars", as well as the "tank fighting vehicles", as well as the "field artillery", all turned into a pool of scrap metal in the skyrocketing fire.

Uh, no, it burned along with the firelight.

……