After receiving the order of Yang Chen, the soldiers of the battalions of the Tiger Ben Regiment outside the city relied on the defensive positions dug in advance and the minefield to block the advance of the devils, and fought and retreated.

After a bloody battle, he finally retreated into Gushi City.

After a series of fierce battles, although the Tiger Ben Regiment lost all its positions outside the city, it also caused a lot of casualties to the devils.

Coupled with the previous losses, the Japanese army lost nearly 20,000 men and horses before they could enter Gushi City.

And the losses of the Tiger Bentuan are not small, more than 4,000, nearly half.

However, most of them were recruits, and the losses of veterans were not large.

Even many veterans sacrificed to protect the recruits and inherit the immortal soul of the Tiger Regiment.

And the vast majority of these casualties were caused by devil planes, tanks and artillery.

If Yang Chen is given 20,000 elite regular troops, even if he does not have air supremacy, he has absolute confidence to defeat the three divisions of the devils.

It's just a pity that all this is hypothetical.

In this world, there are not so many ifs.

Fortunately, as the Tiger Ben Regiment retreated into the city, it was almost dark.

Although the devil may not stop attacking here, give the tiger group a chance to breathe.

However, once it gets dark, their superior firepower such as aircraft, tanks, and artillery will be unable to give full play, and their overall combat strength will be greatly reduced.

With their familiarity with the terrain in the city, the Tiger Ben Regiment could easily block the night attack of the devils.

At this time, the company commander, who was in charge of digging the tunnel, also crawled out of the tunnel.

came to the regiment headquarters and reported to Yang Chen: "Tuanzuo, the tunnel should have been dug outside the city!" ”

"Oh? How do you know for sure? Xu Guoren asked.

"Some soldiers heard the roar of devil tanks coming from the ground during the digging."

"That should be digging out of the city, and for safety, dig three miles further. Let the brothers speed up and strive to dig a tunnel before dawn, and open up this way of life for the brothers in the whole group! Yang Chen instructed.

"Yes!" The company commander suddenly agreed and immediately took the order.

……

At the same time that Yang Chen led the Tiger Ben Regiment and the Japanese army to fight a bloody battle under Gushi City.

In the Dabie Mountains, an independent regiment of the New Fourth Army also received orders from the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army.

Their total strength is about 2,000 people, and they are also the only well-equipped and powerful regular troops of our party in the Dabie Mountain area.

The head of the Independent Regiment of the New Fourth Army is named Yan Tianzhong, and the political commissar is named Tong Lingshu.

After receiving the order, the two immediately gathered their troops and prepared to march to the Gushi area.

The temporary station of the Independent Regiment is in a small mountain village about 100 miles away from the county seat of Gushi.

Before leaving, in order to facilitate the connection and find out the specific battle situation of Gushi, the political commissar Tong Lingshu took a cipher code to find the communication soldier and signaled to him: "This is the contact information of the Tiger Ben Regiment provided to us by the Yan'an headquarters, you try to contact them!" ”

The signal soldier, who was wearing a New Fourth Army uniform, hurriedly got up from the radio, took the cipher code with both hands, and stood up and saluted: "Yes, political commissar!" ”

Then he began to tinker with the radio station and try to contact the Tiger Buntuan.

…………

The picture pulls back to Gushi County.

After the Tiger Regiment retreated into the city, the Japanese army temporarily stopped attacking.

Because of the all-day attack, not only did the Japanese divisions suffer heavy casualties, but the officers and men were also very tired and urgently needed to rest and eat to replenish their strength.

However, after dinner, Gu Shoufu, who was worried about the long night, received the unanimous support of the other two division commanders, and once again concentrated artillery fire on the city.

Although the Air Force cannot be dispatched at night, the accuracy of artillery will be greatly reduced.

However, at this time, the Japanese army only surrounded Gushi County and did not rush in, so the city was full of enemies, so it could carry out indiscriminate firepower blind strikes.

In the devil's opinion, as long as they can kill and injure some more of the Tiger Regiment's troops, their resistance to attack will be reduced by one more point.

Therefore, all of a sudden, the entire Gushi County was under artillery fire, and explosions continued to resound in the night sky all over the city.

Clusters of red light rose into the sky, illuminating the night as if it were day.

In the red light, bricks and rubble flew sideways, blasting the small city in ruins, even more dilapidated.

Yang Chen and the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment were all hiding in the repaired trenches and underground tunnels, ready to resist the attack of the devils.

After the bombardment was over, countless devils quietly dispatched from all directions outside the city and swarmed towards the city walls.

Yang Chen walked out of the basement of the regiment headquarters, picked up the phone and ordered the battalions: "All battalions pay attention, resist step by step, let the devils enter the city, and according to the advantages of our familiarity with the terrain, use night battles, street battles, sparrow battles, curtain battles, tunnel battles, and ambush warfare to deal with devils.

All in all, we have only one goal, and that is to do everything we can to consume and block the enemy as much as possible! ”

Liu Zheping, Xu Ming, Li Da, Sun Cheng and others readily agreed, and then they each took their troops and acted separately with their deputy battalion commanders.

A few people first asked their deputy battalion commander to take part of the troops and rely on the city wall gate to resist the attack of the devils.

A few of them led a large army, scattered in companies and platoons, and began to build ambush positions and various deceitful traps in the city by using courtyards, houses and other buildings.

After the basic arrangement on their side was completed, they sent someone to inform Jiang Wenqiang, Rong Hao, and Wen Xiansheng that their deputy commanders led people to retreat and lure the devil into the ambush circle!

After the defenders on the city wall withdrew, the pressure on the devil's attacking troops was greatly reduced.

Then he immediately advanced rapidly with superior troops, and swarmed into the city through the gates and the crumbling walls.

Jiang Wenqiang, Rong Hao and others did not withdraw too far from the city in order to lure the little devil into the bait, but stopped dozens of meters away from the city wall and set up the first line of fire.

Among them, Jiang Wenqiang was originally the deputy commander of the machine gun battalion, and after the reorganization of the Tiger Regiment, the machine gun battalion was disbanded, and he was transferred to the deputy commander of the first battalion, but he still did not lose his love for machine guns.

At this time, he was holding a fire god Gatling, roaring and firing.

A dense rain of bullets poured out, and although most of them hit the city walls, some of the bullets still hit the little devils and swept them down.

The rest of the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment also opened fire at this time, hitting the little devil who rushed into the city first.

Jiang Wenqiang and the others are not in love with war, and after winning the first blow, they don't wait for the devil to organize a retaliatory firepower to counterattack and suppress.

They followed the plan and led their troops to retreat.

The devil's artillery fire and heavy machine gun counter-fire were all in vain.

Seeing that there was no fire to stop the attack, these little devils got up and marched forward again under the orders of some basic officers.

…………