A heavy howitzer of 155mm caliber with an effective killing radius of more than 50 meters.

Especially in this open area with a wide field of vision, its lethality can be brought into full play.

As the artillery battalion turned its guns, it launched an attack on the crowd of little devils.

Almost every time a cannon falls, it will cause great casualties to the little devils.

The corpses of the little devils were blown all over the field, and many of the little devils in the center of the shell landing point were bombarded with no bones.

This made the two old devils, Fujita Jin and Yoshika Ryosuke, look at it, and they are all angry and gritted their teeth, but they are a little helpless.

Because the fighter formation has just returned, it will take some time to replenish fuel and fly bombs to Zhoukou again.

Therefore, these two old devils could only be heartbroken, and continued to urge the officers and soldiers under their command to step up the attack.

As long as you can take Zhoukou and annihilate the defenders of Zhoukou, then everything will be worth it!

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The picture pulls back to the main battlefield of the Tiger Regiment.

The attack of the little devils became more and more fierce, and more and more little devils, as if they were completely killed, continued to swarm towards the battlefield.

The defenders of the Tiger Ben Regiment fought desperately to eliminate a group of little devils, but more little devils rushed over.

The drawbacks of insufficient troops were completely exposed at this moment.

Seeing that the position was about to be lost, Xu Hailang, Liu Zheping and others had no choice but to send someone to ask Yang Chen for help.

After receiving the news of the emergency at the front, Yang Chen immediately led Sun Cheng's baggage battalion and the Dragon Soul Special Operations Brigade to rush to reinforcements.

At this time, the two armies were completely intertwined, and they could not retreat.

Once you retreat, you will definitely be swept into the city by the devil infantry.

Under the elimination of one and the other, it will not only wear down the morale of its own soldiers, but also encourage the arrogance of the little devils.

At that time, it will not be so easy to get these little devils out and recapture the field defensive positions outside the city.

Especially when the devils have absolute superiority in troops, firepower and equipment.

It is even more important for them to easily take away their own field defensive positions.

Under Yang Chen's arrangement, the baggage battalion and the special operations brigade were divided into two routes.

rushed to the east gate and south gate for reinforcements respectively, and Yang Chen led Duan Peng to lead half of the troops to reinforce the east gate.

Chen Ming and Sun Cheng led the other half of the troops to reinforce the south gate.

With the addition of their new force, especially the special combat personnel, all of whom are equipped with the same Type 95 automatic rifles, not only are most of the veterans experienced in a hundred battles, but even half of the special combat personnel have taken the quenching pill and become super soldiers.

In terms of bayonet fighting technology, these super fighters can almost all be used as ten, and even one as a hundred in a specific environment.

Ordinary devil infantry is not their enemy at all.

Everywhere I passed, there were little devils who were killed, and corpses were everywhere.

Saved many of the Tiger Brothers from danger.

Among them, Yang Chen is the first soldier, holding a Miao knife with a lucky value of 9, in the crowd of devils, God blocks and kills God, invincible.

In a moment, he was bloodied, so that the little devil in front of him was afraid and did not dare to continue to rush towards him.

Such a picture greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers, and everyone broke out into combat effectiveness at their peak.

Soon, the situation was stabilized.

In this battle, the super soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment were dispatched almost by the whole army, and all the soldiers of the regiment fought desperately.

After a full two hours of bloody fighting, the Tiger Ben Regiment finally won a difficult victory in the white-knuckle battle at the cost of huge casualties.

Knock out the little devils of the 3rd and 9th Divisions.

In order to reduce the casualties of the brothers, Yang Chen was almost always in a state of high-intensity fighting in this battle.

The little devils who died under his knife alone exceeded 500.

At the end of the battle, Rao was a little exhausted with his 45-year-old super physical comprehensive quality.

So he did not lead the team to take advantage of the situation to cover up.

Yang Chen took a big breath of the bloody air, and after looking around, he ordered breathlessly: "Give up the position outside the city, the whole regiment retreats to the city, and then make plans!"

So the battalions retreated into the city in turn.

As soon as they entered the city, the devil's retaliatory artillery fire came again as promised, turning the area where the two sides had fought just now into a sea of fire.

Because the battlefield was not cleaned, on the battlefield, on both sides of the enemy, the corpses of many soldiers were tragically affected and turned into mutilated bodies in the artillery fire.

After entering the city, Yang Chen simply arranged the defense, and then gathered all the battalion commanders together to discuss the next battle plan.

"Judging from the scale of the Japanese army's artillery fire, it can already be determined that the heavy artillery unit owned by the little devil is at least a brigade level!

Although Zhang Dali has just countered it with artillery fire, judging from the results, the effect is not particularly ideal.

Now it seems that Zhoukou, which has no danger to defend, can no longer be defended, otherwise, if we can't wait for reinforcements, our Tiger Ben Regiment will be completely wiped out!" Yang Chen said to everyone with a heavy face.

"However, the regimental seat, the order given to us by the Theater Commander's Department is to let us defend Zhoukou! Hold out until reinforcements arrive. Liao Yong, the deputy head of the regiment, frowned slightly, and said with some worry: "If we withdraw now, will we disobey the military order?"

"If the little devil doesn't have this heavy artillery brigade, and the terrain here is quite steep, let alone a week or half a month, we can hold it.

However, this is no longer possible.

You see the defense of the city of Zhoukou, except for the west gate and the north gate, which are quite well preserved because they have not been attacked by the devils.

The city defenses of the east and south gates can almost be said to have ceased to exist.

As long as the little devil attacks, he may enter the city at any time.

What's more, the little devil still has absolute air supremacy.

I can't take you here to make unnecessary sacrifices.

Of course, I have always emphasized what the duties of a soldier are, and what is the purpose of the existence of my Tiger Regiment.

I'm sure you know it in your hearts!

Therefore, we can't watch the devils break through the defense line and directly sweep the Central Plains, and it will be the people of the Central Plains who will be so bad!"

After saying this, Yang Chen's face became extremely solemn, and after a moment of silence, he continued to speak: "That's why I summoned you here to see if I can discuss a two-way solution."

It can not only contain and block the Japanese army, but also reduce our casualties.

Otherwise, it will be really rigid and stubborn, not only will it not be able to hold Zhoukou, but it will not be able to stop the Japanese army.

It will also take the lives of thousands of soldiers of our Tiger Regiment, which is too unworthy. ”

Liu Zheping, the commander of the first battalion, was the first to speak: "What the regiment said makes sense, I roughly counted the casualties before I came just now, and our first battalion, in the battle just now, lost more than 70 percent, and now there are less than 300 people left.

Therefore, we can't blindly stick to it, that would be too passive.

You have to think of a way to get both! ”

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