Chapter 585: Battle for the East City Gate
Your Excellency, let's retreat quickly! Takahashi immediately dragged up the small mound at this time, with a posture of impending disaster.
He knew that now that the Chinese army had launched a general attack, if he delayed any longer, he was afraid that all the devils hiding in this street would be buried under the fire of the Chinese team.
"Baga, let's go now, the Chinese army is going from Yucheng to reinforce Changsha, the main forces of our Great Japanese Empire are now on the front line in Changsha, it is irresponsible for them to do so, the Central China Dispatch Army Command will definitely be sent to the military court for the crime of not being good for us defending the city and causing the collapse of the defense line, and it will be our greatest shame at that time!" Kozuka was clearly reluctant to order a retreat.
As far as the immediate situation is concerned, if they withdraw from this street, the Chinese army will occupy the whole of Yucheng, and the defense of Yucheng will make him a defeated general, which is an unacceptable result for him.
"But the enemy's artillery is strong, and if it continues like this, we will be completely annihilated!" Takahashi persuaded, he knew very well what was waiting for them as the battle continued.
Although their weapons and equipment are superior to those of the Chinese army, it is difficult for them to withstand such a powerful artillery attack of the Chinese army.
"Order the formation of armored vehicles, rush to the city gate for me, and hold the city gate at all costs!" Hearing Takahashi's words, Kozuka hesitated several times, and finally made up his mind, "The other imperial soldiers, all of them will retreat to the back street for me and organize a defensive position over there!" ”
"Hello!" Hearing Kozuka's order, Takahashi and Hashimoto immediately responded, and then supported the injured Kotsuka to retreat towards the back street.
A devil Nakasa immediately beckoned all the devil soldiers in the shops and buildings to retreat and enter the backstreet defense line, intending to organize the backstreet defense position as quickly as possible.
But just when Kozuka and Takahashi were evacuating, a ghost soldier defending the West City Gate came to Kozuka, saluted Kozuka and immediately said: "Your Excellency Commander, the West City Gate has been attacked by the Shina army!" ”
"Yaga! The people of China are trying to attack us on both sides! Kozuka seemed to sense that something was wrong from both directions of his opponent's attack, "How many people are there?" ”
"Your Excellency, judging from the scale of their attack, there should be more than two regiments, and our Excellency Sakai judged that the Chinese army attacking the West City Gate should be Song Zhuoyi's thirty-fifth division." The devil soldier didn't dare to slack off, and immediately told Kozuka about the situation at the West City Gate,
"Thirty-fifth Division? In other words, there are only two divisions at the East City Gate, the 24th Division and the 46th Division? When Takahashi heard this, he immediately said.
He really didn't expect that Song Zhuoyi's troops, who had always been identified as a miscellaneous army, would use two divisions to open the East City Gate, which was heavily guarded by their troops, and mobilize so many cannons, which was really beyond his expectations.
"Takahashi! You take two squadrons to reinforce the West City Gate, and you can't let the Shina army come in no matter what! "Kotsuka is a little anxious, once the West City Gate is breached, the 35th Division will enter Yucheng and attack the East City Gate with the Chinese army at the East City Gate.
"Hello!" Takahashi immediately responded, and then beckoned the little devils of the two squadrons to rush to the west gate for reinforcements. You must know that they transferred all the main forces to the east city gate, and there were not enough defenders on the west city gate to withstand the strong attack of the 35th Division, and they were worried that the city would be broken if they went late.
So he hurriedly ran desperately with the two squadrons around him, urgently reinforcing the West City Gate, hoping to rush to the West City Gate to participate in the battle as soon as possible.
When Takahashi took two squadrons to reinforce the West City Gate, Kozuka immediately ordered Hashimoto to lead the team to open up the backstreets to prepare for the battle after Song Zhuoyi's large army broke through the city.
Anyway, no matter what, he will not give up on Yucheng easily, because he is a nail that is here to block Song Zhuoyi's army to reinforce Changsha, and he must not have the slightest concession and retreat.
At this time, Wang Si and the commandos took the opportunity of suppressing the little devils with artillery fire, and quickly jumped out of the bunker with the commandos, and used the flower device in his hand to shoot at the little devils who were escaping.
The moment they saw the little devils lying on the ground, they crossed and rushed towards the city gate.
Their role in entering the inner city is to cover the entry of large troops into the city, and now is the time for them to brush up on their sense of existence, so naturally there will be no retreat.
All the assault teams rushed towards the city gates, trying to take the city gates as quickly as possible, opening the city gates to allow the large army to enter the city.
The little devil did not arrange a team to guard the gate of the east city before, the purpose was to lure Wang Si and them into the gate of the east city, and then ambush the commandos who entered the city on this street.
But this will Song Zhuoyi's main force launch a general attack, and Kotsuka will naturally not leave the East City Gate alone. It's just that the East City Gate and the commando team have become a blind spot for the devils, and if the devils want to regain the East City Gate, they must first wipe out Wang Si and their commando team.
They had tried many times before, and the possibility of destroying Wang Si and their assault team was very small, and there was no way to take back the East City Gate for a while.
In order to achieve the final goal of not losing the city, the little devil did everything, so Kozuka ordered the devil chariot to attack in formation and came towards the east city gate.
The firepower and crushing pressure of the chariot, everyone knows that it is not a problem that can be solved by a large number of people, so the east city gate was blocked by the devil's chariot.
Wang Si, of course, they couldn't let the devils block the gate of the city and block the large army behind them from marching into the city, so they led the assault team to kill from the back of the chariot formation.
The devil soldiers on the side of the tank naturally fell to the ground one after another under Wang Si's strafing shot, but the devil's tank did not move at all, and their bullets were not enough to tickle it.
Just when they were helpless, the devil's tank began to fire at Wang Si and their side, and with a loud bang, the shell shot out of the barrel and smashed directly into the wall behind Wang Si and them, and the booming explosion blew up the wall, and all the bricks poured down and fell to the ground.
But because Wang Si and their distance was very close, the cannon of the devil's tank couldn't hit so close at all, and the explosion didn't cause any damage to Wang Si, so that Wang Si and they had a better chance to rush to the devil's tank.
The devil's tank probably already knew the weakness of the artillery fire, so they continued to advance and retreat, intending to use the heavy body of the tank to crush Wang Si and their assault team, even if they couldn't eliminate Wang Si and them, they couldn't let Wang Si harass them here to guard the city gate.