It is not easy to hold Xuzhou City for three days, because the security regiment faces dozens of times its own Japanese invaders, and every day it holds out, the officers and men of the security regiment will pay the price of hundreds or thousands of casualties.

In fact, there is a reason why the residents of the city evacuated so slowly, and Li Hong knew too well that there were some outdated thoughts and concepts among the common people.

Many civilians are afraid of the pots and jars at home, and the family business is afraid of being destroyed, as long as it is valuable belongings that can be taken away, they want to take them all away.

"So many people haven't been transferred yet, this is indeed a big problem......" Li Hong sighed softly, very sad in his heart.

"Tuanzuo, some civilians have extreme thoughts, they are simply stubborn and ignorant, they regard family property as more important than life, the devil will be lost when he fights, and there is a P for money, I really don't know what to think......"

Ma Shangfeng grabbed his head and said angrily that he was also worried about the evacuation of civilians.

"Okay, old horse, don't complain, while the little devil hasn't come over yet, hurry up and help the residents in the city evacuate!"

Li Hong is now the city defense governor of Xuzhou City, and he has extremely heavy responsibilities, not only to defend against the Japanese invaders, but also to be responsible for the transfer of all the residents in the city.

The civilians in the city were not transferred, and the security regiment had some scruples, and they could not let go of their hands to fight the Japanese army.

"Yes, Tuanza!"

Ma Shangfeng gave a military salute, and then galloped away on horseback.

After Li Hong inspected the defensive positions of the battalions outside the city and deployed his troops, he returned to the regimental headquarters in the city.

The regimental headquarters of the security regiment set up a courtyard in the center of the city, and not far from the courtyard was a three- or four-story building.

If Li Hong wanted to reconnoiter the situation outside the city, he only had to climb the building building, which was very suitable for reconnoitring the enemy.

When he arrived at the regimental headquarters, the first thing Li Hong did was to ask the communications squad to contact the battalions and ask whether the communications of the various units were smooth.

"The regimental seat, the first battalion has smooth communication!"

"The regimental seat, the second battalion has smooth communication!"

"The regimental seat, the communication of the three battalions is unimpeded!"

……

The signal soldiers of the communications squad reported to Li Hongyi on the communications situation of each battalion one by one.

There was no fault in the communication of the battalions, and Li Hong nodded.

Immediately, he walked to the edge of the sand table and carefully checked the position of the troops on the sand table map to see if there were any weak points in the defense.

The 1st and 2nd Infantry Battalions of the Security Regiment were 10 kilometers outside the eastern city, the 3rd Infantry Battalion was 5 kilometers outside the southern city, and the 5th Battalion was 7 kilometers outside the northern city.

The 4th Infantry Battalion served as a reserve to support the other battalions at any time.

The armored battalion left half a battalion, as well as twenty combat vehicles, and the armored battalion was used as a battlefield attack force, and Li Hong was ready to leave the armored battalion.

Defending a city is a defensive battle that does not require a chariot group to charge, and the armored battalion can be used as a killer force for the last breakthrough.

There are more than 1,000 people in each battalion of the security regiment, of course, even if there are 2,000 people in each battalion, it is impossible to stop the siege of the devil's army.

After all, the difference between the strength of the enemy and our forces was too great, and Li Hong had no better tactics, so he could only drag the enemy by reducing casualties as much as possible, so as to buy a little more time for the transfer of troops and civilians.

Considering that there are too many devil troops, if the security regiment wants to resist the enemy's attack, it must first surpass the little devils in terms of firepower, and must be equipped with more and better artillery and machine guns.

Moreover, as soon as the battle starts, the ammunition consumption of the security regiment should be very large, so Li Hong went to the system mall to exchange a large amount of ammunition and replenish it to the battalions.

Li Hong spent 300,000 merit coupons and merit points to exchange for ten 105mm multiple rocket launchers in one go.

50 heavy machine guns, 100 light machine guns, 4 anti-aircraft guns, and 100 boxes of shells and bullets of various calibers.

The combat units of the security regiment all stuck to their positions, and the officers and men of the regiment entered a state of combat readiness and could be put into battle with the devils at any time.

……

Early the next morning, the roar of an airplane's engine broke the silence of Xuzhou City.

Several devil planes circled over the city dozens of kilometers outside Xuzhou.

The planes of these devils are here to carry out reconnaissance missions or test the firepower of the ground guard troops.

The devil's reconnaissance plane was very cautious, and did not dare to approach the sky over Xuzhou City at will, and several planes sailed back and forth at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters to reconnoitre.

The enemy planes reconnoitred for several minutes, and in order to test the firepower of the Nationalist troops on the ground, the devil reconnaissance planes immediately lowered their flight altitude and quickly sailed towards the positions outside Xuzhou City.

Hearing the sound of the plane's engine getting more and more harsh, Li Hong hurried to the outside of the headquarters, holding a telescope to observe the devil reconnaissance plane in the air.

Seeing the little devil's plane approaching at a low altitude, Li Hong immediately called the communication soldiers.

"Signal soldiers, inform the air defense forces outside the city that as long as the devil's reconnaissance plane is close to the effective range, immediately open fire and shoot down the devil's plane!"

"Understood, Tuanza!"

The signal corpsmen turned around and ran back to the headquarters and immediately called the air defense forces outside the city.

Li Hong absolutely must not allow the devil's reconnaissance plane to fly over Xuzhou City, otherwise, the deployment of the security regiment's troops and defense will be clearly detected by the enemy plane.

The security regiment is already under-manned, and if enemy planes are allowed to detect all the conditions on the position, the battlefield will be even more unfavorable to the security regiment.

"Buzz—"

The screeching engine sound of the plane resounded over Xuzhou City.

The crew of the devil's reconnaissance plane did not know which unit of the national army was guarding Xuzhou, so the enemy plane tentatively flew close to Xuzhou City.

When the devil's reconnaissance plane came within range of the ground air defense unit of the security regiment, the antiaircraft guns immediately aimed at the enemy plane in the air.

"Anti-aircraft artillery squad preparation, artillery !!"

At the sound of an order, the artillerymen on the anti-aircraft positions opened fire.

"Tom !!"

"Tom !!"

Two Bofors 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, continuously shelling enemy aircraft in the air.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen anti-aircraft artillery shells flew from the ground to the direction of enemy aircraft in the air at an extremely fast speed.

"Baga, be careful of the anti-aircraft artillery, quickly evade !!"

The pilots of the devil's reconnaissance planes reminded each other through their throats.

I saw that several devil reconnaissance planes were quickly and coherently making evasive flight maneuvers in the air.

Enemy planes sometimes dived in the air, sometimes turned sideways at 180 degrees, and several grenades whizzed past the fuselage.

The artillerymen of the anti-aircraft artillery squad of the security regiment quickly turned the barrels of the anti-aircraft guns to refire according to the flight speed and altitude of the enemy planes.

The Bofors anti-aircraft gun, which is both accurate and fast, is known as the nemesis of the aircraft, and the hit rate of the anti-aircraft gun at a height of 2,000 meters is very high.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, an explosion was heard in the air.

A devil chariot plane in the air was successfully hit by multiple grenades and exploded directly into pieces.

Then another enemy aircraft was hit by a grenade from an anti-aircraft gun. The grenade was impartial and hit the cockpit right in.

The enemy plane exploded into a huge ball of fire with a "boom" in the air, and parts of the plane were splashed and fell from the sky with flames.

(End of chapter)