Chapter 308: Breaking through the city walls
"It's just a general, the two infantry brigades stationed in the mountains outside Nancheng City have already suffered heavy casualties, and they will be lost in a few minutes! I humbly ask to send troops to reinforce my department, reinforce my department! ”
On the other end of the phone, 163 Wing Commander Hagiwara Matsudai said anxiously and loudly.
When Nanda Taijiro heard this, he said angrily: "Eight Geya Road, if the mountains outside the city are lost." You know the consequences, hold the southern city. I will immediately send two brigades to reinforce your department. After meeting with the chariot squadron, I will go out of the city to counterattack, and I must recapture the mountains outside the city, the commanding heights. Otherwise, you will kill yourself by caesarean section! ”。
"Hai, General!"
Taijiro Nanda hung up the battlefield phone fiercely, his eyes were gloomy.
Now it's troublesome, the mountains outside Nancheng City, the commanding heights have fallen into the hands of the enemy. In this way, Yangyuan City, at least the southern part of the city, is completely under the artillery attack of the enemy outside the city!
At this time, Sajiro Anto, the chief of staff of the brigade, pointed to the map of Yangyuan and said, "General, Yangyuan is just a county seat. Although it was protected by a city wall, the attacking enemy army captured the Hengshan Yumai Mountains outside the southern city, and several of the higher mountain commanding heights were too threatening to the imperial army forces in our city. We must recapture the mountains outside the south of the city, otherwise, we may not be able to keep Yangyuan City under the fierce attack of the enemy. ”。
"Immediately send a telegram to the Headquarters of the Front Army and the commander of the First Army, General Okabe, asking for reinforcements!"
Nanda Taijiro thought about it, and suddenly said to Sajiro Ando with a solemn expression.
Amid the sound of gunfire, Sajiro Ando was a little surprised when he heard this, "General, did we request reinforcements from the Front Army Headquarters and the First Army so quickly?" We have only lost about two infantry brigades in the mountains outside the south of the city! ”
Nanda Taijiro shook his head and said: "At the beginning, the 3rd Division of the Empire commanded by Matsui Ishine and the headquarters of the 53rd Brigade of the 37th Division that went out of Datong and our division wanted to go south to Weixian to attack the main force of the Independent Brigade, were all caused by underestimating the enemy and not requesting reinforcements in time. At present, judging from the strength and firepower of the enemy troops attacking the city from around Yangyuan City, there is a good chance that it is Li Yunlong's troops! ”。
"Li Yunlong's troops are so strong in combat that they are rare in the world! Around Yangyuan City, the only place that can kill us so quickly and quietly is the headquarters of the Hengshan Independent Brigade in the south! Ando-kun, let's do it! At least, we're alone now! ”
Seeing that Taijiro Nanda did not despise the attacking enemy army in the slightest, Sajiro Ando immediately paused and said, "Hai, general, I'll go and send a report right away!" He immediately walked to the side and personally supervised the Devil's Radio personnel at the brigade headquarters and urgently sent a report to the Devil's North China Front Headquarters and the commander of the Japanese First Army, Okabe Naosaburo, requesting reinforcements.
At this time, the 10 Devil 95 Type 95 tanks of the Devil 31 Brigade that galloped to the south city of Yangyuan rushed to the gate of the south city with murderous spirits.
As soon as the tanks arrived, the commander of the 163rd Wing of the 31st Brigade, Ogiwara Matsudai Daisa, who was hiding in the hiding hole under the southern city wall and commanding the counterattack, was extremely excited, and immediately made the devil tank ready, and waited until the two Japanese brigades of the 110th Wing, who came from the direction of the two wings of the city, to meet and fight, and then attack from the south gate of the city to recapture the mountains outside the city.
At this time, Li Yunlong had already commanded the three main regiments to capture the two Japanese brigades of the 163rd Wing defending on the Yumai Mountain of Hengshan outside the southern city of Yangyuan, and most of the soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield.
The artillery battalion commanded by Wang Chengzhu kept going to the head of the southern city and the depths of the city, and the Japanese army carried out precise artillery bombardment of the fortifications in the city, and the rumbling sound of shelling continued to sound.
"Brigade commander, completely annihilated the devils in the mountains outside the city, and killed the 1st and 3rd infantry brigades of the 163rd Wing of the devils stationed in these mountains, totaling more than 3,400 people! Lots of weapons and ammunition captured! Please instruct! ”
At the command headquarters, Li Yunlong received a call from the staff officer in charge of counting the results of the battle, which was transmitted back from the battlefield ahead.
"Made, let Zhang Dabiao and them immediately continue to attack Nancheng, and when the devil doesn't react, storm Nancheng! Storm the city! Don't clean up the battlefield yet! Hurry up, hurry up! Hearing this, Li Yunlong yelled at the statistical staff officer on the other end of the phone, don't clean up the battlefield at this time, and continue to attack.
"Yes, Brigadier General!"
Soon, Zhang Dabiao and others, who were commanding their respective troops to clean up the battlefield, came back to their senses. Brewed, at this time, he has not yet attacked Yangyuan City, although the Yangyuan city wall is not high, but the little devil is stubbornly defending the city wall, and if he can't attack the city, it will be a scorching battle.
And Yangyuan City is surrounded by Japanese troops in various cities that can be reinforced, although the reinforcement time is at least more than half a day to a few days, but it is still possible for the little devil's air force fighters to reinforce. After all, at this time, no one knows whether the rain and fog over Yangyuan will dissipate.
What's more, the Independent Brigade itself is a rush, and it can't fight in Yangyuan City for too long.
As soon as they thought of this, several independent brigade commanders immediately ordered their soldiers to abandon cleaning the mountain battlefield and instead coordinate to launch a charge attack on the southern city wall of Yangyuan.
Wang Chengzhu, commander of the artillery battalion, commanded his subordinate artillery units, covered with artillery fire, fired whistling shells, suppressed the devil soldiers at the head of Nancheng City, and the machine gun fire points of various little devils.
The infantry and artillery coordination of the various units of the independent brigade and the artillery battalion were already very skillful, and they were stunned to storm the southern city under the frightened gaze of the commander of the 163rd Wing of the devil, Ogiwara Matsudai, who had carefully climbed up to the top of the city to observe the situation outside the city.
"Eight Tooth Road! This is definitely not the elite of the national army. Even if it were, it couldn't be so elite! ”
Seeing the enemy's infantry and artillery coordination outside the city and the fierce and proficient attack tactics, Ogiwara Matsudai, the devil Osa, was stunned and frightened.
Next, I'm afraid that it may be a little difficult for Yangyuan City to be saved!
Not only is it difficult, if Hagihara Matsudai learns that it is Li Yunlong's troops, it is estimated that it will be very difficult to keep Yangyuan City.
At this time, the two Japanese infantry brigades of the 110th Wing, which were stationed in the city close to the 31st Brigade Headquarters stationed in the city, reinforced the 163rd Wing of the South City, and at this time there were at least three minutes before they could run to the South City Gate.
As soon as he saw the three regiments of the independent brigade outside the city covering the artillery fire of Wang Chengzhu's artillery battalion and the offensive wave scene of infantry and artillery coordination, Ogiwara Matsudai was suddenly anxious!
"Go to the city, go to the city, give me a stand!" Ogiwara Matsudai had no choice but to let the 1st Division of the 2nd Infantry Brigade under the wing and the reserve force under the wing be less than 700 people to go to the city and condescendingly carry out fire blockade.
Otherwise, I'm afraid the walls of the southern city won't be able to hold it!
It's just that without waiting for the devil herald to leave, a devil soldier hurriedly came from the side of the castle to find Hagiwara Matsudai and reported: "Report to the captain of the wing, the city wall about thirty meters to the left of the city gate has been blown down by enemy artillery fire, and the gap is seven or eight meters wide. At least one regiment of enemy troops broke through a breach in the wall! ”。