Chapter 57: More than 9,000 people were killed in battle

"Yes, Chief of Staff!" Hiroaki Sakamoto said.

Yamada Hao said again: "The main forces of the rest of the divisions immediately withdrew from the siege and immediately attacked and advanced in the direction of Wei County. We can't afford to spend our time on this siege. Even if our main force attacks and advances towards Wei County, the enemy army in Guangling City will come out of a dead end, and in the field, the main force of our South Road army is still not afraid of a battle. Execute the order! ”。

"Hai, Chief of Staff, humbly obey."

Hiroshi Sakamoto, commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then paused heavily.

Hiroshi Yamada did not insist on continuing to storm Guangling Castle, which was also expected by Hiroaki Sakamoto.

You must know that Guangling City has now been commanded by Zhou Hua, the commander of the independent battalion, and has built a strong city fortification like an iron barrel. Not to mention holding on for a few days, but keeping a complete day and night, Zhou Hua still feels that he can do it.

And this is actually the helpless choice of Hiroshi Yamada and Hiroaki Sakamoto. The two old devils had already observed Guangling's city fortifications, and if they wanted to completely capture Guangling, they needed to leave at least one or two thousand devil soldiers behind.

But for the current Hiroshi Yamada and Hiroaki Sakamoto, the elite troops are really too wasteful to attack and consume in this weather, and it is not worth it!

Therefore, after watching the siege for nearly ten minutes, Yamada Hao reluctantly gave up the idea of capturing Guangling, and first attacked and advanced towards Wei County, so as to kill Li Yunlong's main force first.

With Yamada Hao's order, the devil army on the south road of the 2nd Division immediately assembled, and after withdrawing from the siege of Guangling County, it quickly braved the heavy snow to attack and advance to Wei County.

The devil's movement was naturally observed by Zhou Hua, the commander of the independent battalion of the Guangling Defenders, with a telescope in the field headquarters on the roof, and couldn't help but smile.

"Made, Hiroshi Yamada can't hold the consumption of the siege and the delay of time! This old devil has given up attacking us, this is to attack Wei County! Immediately send an urgent telegram to the regiment commander to inform him of the enemy situation and ask for instructions on whether to go out of the city to pursue? ”

Zhou Hua, the commander of the independent battalion, waved his hand with a smile and ordered to the staff officer of the command on the side.

"Yes, Battalion Commander."

Subsequently, a staff officer of the headquarters left in a hurry and sent someone to directly contact the defenders of Wei County and Li Yunlong by radio.

At this time, Li Yunlong was at the temporary field headquarters behind the southern position of the ambush circle at the forked estuary five kilometers north of Wei County, directing Zhang Dabiao and others to besiege the Japanese troops on the northern route commanded by Kenichi Muto.

"Commander, Commander! Guangling independent battalion emergency electricity! A regimental staff officer of the field headquarters hurriedly came to Li Yunlong's eyes and set up a righteous path.

Li Yunlong bowed, took the telegram and looked at it, his brows furrowed.

"Damn, Yamada Hao, this old devil, really hasn't been in Guangling City for a long time, and he has withdrawn the siege so cleanly." Li Yunlong thought to himself in his heart.

After thinking about it, Li Yunlong still said in a condensed voice: "Guangling is an important part of our efforts to eat the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army this time, and call back to Zhou Hua: Order the independent battalion and 2,000 guerrillas to guard the county seat of Guangling." Without my orders, you are not allowed to go out of the city to pursue without permission, lest you fall into the ambush of the Japanese army. Hiroshi Yamada is Kenichi Muto's chief of staff, and he is cunning and unusually careless. But order Zhou Hua, wait for my order at any time. ”。

"Yes, Captain." The confidential staff officer immediately stood up and saluted, then turned around and left to send someone to call Zhou Hua back.

At this moment, the encircled devils suddenly had a great morale, and they continued to launch fierce attacks on their own positions in the south, and once a trench was captured by the Japanese breakthrough troops.

"Made, what's wrong with the little devil? Could it be that the situation of the Japanese army on the southern route was known so quickly? Li Yunlong sneered and secretly thought that even if he knew, the highway from Wei County to Guangling had been blocked by Li Yunlong with a large number of blockages, creating an obstacle for the Japanese army on the South Road under the command of Yamada Hao to attack and advance towards Wei County.

And this made Li Yunlong know that even if the devils under Guangling City had gathered and hurriedly attacked Wei County, it would take at least half an hour or more to be able to kill Wei County.

However, the snow on the highway caused by the heavy snow was also very deep, and at the main highway intersections, where the dangerous narrow roads were located, Li Yunlong sent people to block them with things, or dig up the railway, so as to block the time when the Japanese army's southern road army attacked Wei County.

Li Yunlong estimated that at least at present, it would take at least about 50 minutes for the Japanese troops on the southern route under the command of Yamada Hao, who had withdrawn from Guangling to attack and advance rapidly towards Ul County.

And at this time, it is already a question whether Kenichi Muto's army of the North Road can exist.

Once the Japanese troops on the northern route commanded by Kenichi Muto are eliminated, then Li Yunlong, who turns back and holds the sword, will launch a counterattack against the Japanese troops on the southern route commanded by Hiroshi Yamada, who are attacking and advancing in Wei County!

Just as Li Yunlong sneered and guessed, a herald soon arrived and reported: "Report to the regiment commander, according to the latest reports of various departments, Kenichi Muto has gone crazy, and I don't know why the commander of the 15th Brigade, Kenichiro Yokogawa, has led the rest of the brigade to launch a fierce attack on us. The 3rd and 4th Battalions reported that they had withstood the onslaught of two infantry brigades of the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Army. Please rest assured! ”。

"yes, I see. Order the 3rd and 4th battalions to hold their positions, block the offensive of the construction, and all the firepower will be sent out, and now the little devils are unobstructed at the mouth of the bifurcated river, it is the best time to destroy the enemy with firepower! Order the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion to cooperate, seize the time to lock the neck of the little devil, and I will strangle the vitality of Kenichi Muto, the old devil. ”

Li Yunlong calmly issued an order, at this time, even if Kenichi Muto was under the command of Yamada Hiroshi, the Japanese army on the southern route was attacking and advancing towards Wei County. But for Li Yunlong, the battle situation is still in his expectations.

"Yes, Captain." The staff officer of the command headquarters who recorded the order stood up and saluted, and then sent the messengers on standby to deliver the order to the various departments.

At this time, the Japanese troops on the northern route commanded by Kenichi Muto, who were surrounded and ambushed, received a telegram that the Japanese troops on the southern route under the command of Hiroshi Yamada were attacking and advancing towards Ul County.

But what Muto Kenichi didn't know was that the Japanese troops on the southern route under the command of Hiroshi Yamada would need to trek for at least about fifty minutes before they could reach Wei County and counter-encircle the main force of the new regiment that ambushed his northern army.

Kenichi Muto immediately spread the news that the Japanese army on the southern route had begun to attack and advance towards Wei County, which caused a great morale boost in the morale of a wave of devils.

It's just that this wave of morale has been greatly boosted, but it still can't solve the embarrassing situation of being surrounded by the main force of Li Yunlong and the new regiment in the bifurcated estuary area, and being killed with heavy casualties.

"Your Excellency Division Commander, our casualties have reached more than 9,000 people, and the number of Imperial warriors who can pick up guns and fight is currently less than 6,000 people!!" Without waiting for Kenichi Muto to be pleased with the joy that the southern road commanded by Hiroshi Yamada had begun to attack Wei County, a devil staff officer hurried to Kenichi Muto and reported in a low and solemn voice.