Li Hong thought carefully for a while, and slowly said to everyone: "The devil's firepower is too fierce, and the hard top is not a way, and the brothers will suffer too many casualties if they continue like this." ”

"That's it, wait a minute, let the three battalion brothers withdraw to the city to defend, and put the devil under the city to fight!"

When Meng Dazhu and the officers heard that they were going to evacuate the position, they looked at each other in confusion, and soon, they seemed to understand the intention of the regimental seat.

"Understood, Tuanza!"

Subsequently, Li Hong ordered the rocket artillery unit to move forward and launch an artillery bombardment on the devils attacking the forward position.

There were no heavy artillery positions outside the southern city, and only five 75-mm MLRS were arranged.

Rocket artillery is flexible, and although the number of artillery pieces is small, its effectiveness is far more practical than that of a dozen heavy guns.

After more than ten minutes, the advancing rocket artillery set up an artillery position.

The little devil at the front was repulsed twice, and the devil organized his troops to charge.

The commander of the devil knew that the security regiment was short of troops, so the enemy took advantage of the large number of troops and played wheel warfare.

The soldiers of the three battalions on the front line faced several fierce attacks by the enemy, causing a lot of casualties, and their combat effectiveness gradually declined.

The artillery aimed at the little devils who charged up halfway and quickly launched an artillery bombardment.

"Woo Woo !!"

"Woo Woo !!"

Dense rockets burst out of the launcher and flew quickly towards the little devil's charging line.

As soon as the artillery began to suppress the artillery fire, the forward troops immediately picked up their weapons and ammunition and quickly evacuated their positions along the communication trenches after receiving the order to evacuate.

Rocket artillery shells were fired out in waves, dense like swarms of locusts.

When the devil soldiers saw the cannonballs whizzing, they immediately shouted in panic.

"Baga, dense artillery fire is coming, disperse, quickly disperse and conceal !!"

The rate of fire of the rocket artillery was too fast, like a flash of light, and the dense shells bombarded down from the heads of the devil soldiers in an instant, and the devil soldiers had no time to dodge.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Shells exploded everywhere, mud and shrapnel flew everywhere, killing and injuring the little devils within a radius of several hundred meters.

The attacking devil soldiers were caught off guard, and nearly 100 little devils who rushed to the front were torn apart by shells on the spot, and there were bloody stumps and broken arms everywhere.

A large mist of blood and the smoke of the explosion filled the air, and the smell of blood filled the air.

The devil soldiers were hiding in all directions, crawling on the ground in embarrassment, desperately trying to escape from the explosion site.

Although the devil soldiers reacted very quickly and ran away desperately, how did the devil's little short legs outrun the cannonballs?

The flying shells were as dense as raindrops, and the shells were so accurate that they seemed to have eyes, and it was difficult for the little devils to avoid the bombardment of the shells wherever they ran.

"Ahh......h

A large group of little devils were thrown a few meters away by the shock wave of the cannonball, and the enemy's body was ruthlessly torn apart, a large piece of blood was thrown on the scorched earth, and a rain of blood was dripping in the air.

Countless shrapnel flew sideways, and the little devils who were dizzy by the shells were killed and injured by shrapnel, and the little devils fell to the ground in droves screaming and wailing.

The devil's miserable fate was not over, and suddenly, a large number of incendiary bombs followed.

The devil commander originally wanted to gather troops and reorganize his forces to continue the attack, but so many incendiary bombs exploded on the ground, and the devil troops were in chaos, and the devil soldiers did not obey the command orders at all.

"Baga, it's an incendiary bomb, run, run!!"

Hundreds of little devils scattered and fled in the explosion and flames, and the devil soldiers even lost their weapons in order to flee for their lives, and they were simply overwhelmed.

The front of the position of the three battalions became a sea of fire, the scorching flames spread everywhere, the scorched earth was burned white, and the position was full of little devils struggling in the sea of fire.

These little devils trapped in the sea of fire died very miserably, burned alive by the fire, and the heart-rending screams were endless.

The attacking devil troops were hit by rocket artillery, and the suppressed enemy was simply unable to launch an effective offensive.

The shelling continued for a while, and the devil's offensive formation was broken up, and the devil commander had no choice but to order a retreat.

After the devils evacuated, the artillery of the security regiment fired a volley of smoke bombs.

A large number of smoke bombs fell to the ground, forming layers of smoke curtain walls, and the smoke mixed with the flames turned into choking smoke.

Looking at the entire position outside the south of the city, it was completely covered by a sea of smoke, and nothing could be seen clearly in the line of sight except smoke and dazzling flames.

Li Hong glanced at the position full of smoke and flames, and quickly withdrew his gaze from the battlefield.

There were not a few little devils who died under the artillery fire just now, and at this time, all the outside of the south of the city were in flames, and the enemy would definitely not be able to attack again in a short time.

The devils were unable to attack, and the three battalions of soldiers who withdrew to the city had just enough time to set up defenses in the city.

The soldiers of the third battalion climbed the tower in the south of the city one after another, and quickly established a firepower point according to the fortifications of the tower.

Back in the city, Li Hong observed the other devil troops attacking from both sides.

The main attacking force of the devils was defeated, and the devil's troops who attacked from the north and east of the city also retreated one after another.

Subsequently, Li Hong returned to the headquarters and inquired about the casualties of the battalions, the redeployment of troops, and the deployment of defenses.

This time, the attacking troops of the two divisions of the devil were completely hurt, and the attacking troops of the devil were defeated again and again, and they were never able to capture an inch of land of the front-line troops outside the city of the security regiment.

After a fierce battle, the Japanese 9th Division suffered nearly 2,500 casualties and the 14th Division suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.

Although the loss of this bit of men and horses was not painful for the devil division and could not affect the overall combat effectiveness of the division and regiment, this battle completely disgraced the 9th Division and the 14th Division, and labeled them as "defeated troops......

As the sky darkened, the soldiers of the security regiment moved out of the city with the wounded and the residents of the city according to Li Hong's order.

In addition to being concerned about the war, Li Hong was most worried about the evacuation of the wounded and civilians.

After dinner, he took the communications squad and guards to walk through the streets of the city, carefully inspecting the evacuation of the people in the city.

Taking advantage of the nightfall, the residents of the city, carrying large bags and small bags, pushing wheelbarrows and wagons, moved out of the city in groups.

Li Hong inspected the civilians who had been transferred out of the city, and then asked Ma Shangfeng, who was in charge of the transfer.

"How many civilians in the city have not been evacuated out of the city? Can we all move out tonight? ”

Ma Shangfeng replied affirmatively without thinking: "Report to the group, as long as there is no accident tonight, all the people in the city can be completely evacuated from the city!" ”

After listening to the report, Li Hong nodded, and then said: "Remember, give more dry food to the transferred civilians, in the era of war and chaos, money may not necessarily buy food and drink." ”

"Yes, Tuanza!"

Ma Shangfeng saluted and immediately went to arrange for Li Hong's instructions.

(End of chapter)