As soon as the little devil moved, the fighters of the airborne regiment found out.

A major who was holding a telescope to observe the enemy's situation put down the telescope and said to Commander Wang next to him: "Commander, have you seen it, the little devil has divided his troops and may attack us from several different directions." ”

Hearing this, Regiment Commander Wang nodded, and then said to several commanders next to him: "Order the brothers, guard your position, never take a step back, people are at the airport." ”

"People at the airport are in !!"

Several commanders at all levels next to him shouted at the same time, and then conveyed the combat orders to the battalions and companies below to resolutely resist the attack of the little devils.

Maybe they wanted to hurry up, not long after the little devils retreated on a large scale, from several different directions, the little devils launched another attack, and each team attacked the little devils, with hundreds of people at least and thousands at most.

In front of Xuzhou Airport, that is, the direction in which the highway passes, there are the largest number of little devils, at least thousands, a large number of little devils began to attack again under the cover of machine guns, grenadiers, etc., and even some little devils bypassed the first line of defense of the fighters and attacked from the flanks.

The first line of defense is only composed of a few small mounds, and the fortifications built by the soldiers are only trenches, as well as some simple civil fortifications, plus a few ring fortifications, the whole front is not large, it is impossible to hold the entire front of Xuzhou Airport, and it can only resist the little devils who come along the road.

Fortunately, the Kono Wing came over to reinforce quickly, and did not carry infantry artillery or mountain artillery. In addition to the Type 38 rifle, there are only some light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, etc. There were also only a few mortars.

A few hundred meters away from the first line of defense of the fighters, several small-caliber mortars of the little devils have been set up in a row, which may be all the mortars carried by the Kono Wing.

Taro Kono personally raised his command knife and gave the order to attack.

"Kill to !!"

Taro Kono shouted as hard as he could, his ears red and his neck thick. Hearing the shouts of their own wing commanders, some of the little devil officers also raised their command knives and ordered the little devils to start a large-scale attack.

First of all. The 60-mm mortars of the little devils began to shell the positions of the fighters, one shell after another made a sharp whistling sound, and one shell after another exploded on the positions of the fighters. Blow up a lot of dirt.

Shelled by the little devils, the soldiers lay dead in the trenches, showing their heads, holding their weapons and staring at a large number of little devils who charged over.

Commander of the Airborne Regiment Wang. Seeing that the little devils began to shell their own troops. Immediately, the small mortar position of the little devil was discovered, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth when he saw that several small-caliber mortars of the little devil were also so arrogant.

shouted loudly to the commanders next to him: "Give me a tooth for a tooth, shell the little devils, and knock out the mortars of the little devils." ”

The airborne regiment had much more mortars than the Kono Wing, with not only 60-mm mortars, 81-mm mortars, but also several 120-mm large-caliber mortars.

Hear the order of your own regimental commander. The dozens of fighters who operated these 120-mm large-caliber mortars immediately turned their muzzles. Adjust the shelling parameters, and immediately retaliate with those small-caliber mortars of the little devils.

"Tom, tom, tom"

Dense artillery firing sounded, and mortar shells flew off the barrels, making a sharp whistling sound, and flew towards the mortar positions of the little devils. The 120-mm mortar fires a lot more than the 60-mm mortar.

Hearing such a big movement, some of the little devil officers even looked up at the sky, trying to see something. The face of Taro Kono, the captain of the devil's wing, changed, and he turned his head to look at the mortar position that was not very far away from him.

Taro Kono said that his own mortar positions pose the greatest threat to the airborne regiment, and the first target of these large-caliber mortars of the airborne regiment must be his own mortars.

Kono Taro thought sadly in his heart, is it easy to march in a hurry and carry a few mortars to get here? As soon as the artillery was fired, it was targeted by the large-caliber mortars of the newly formed 6th Army. Kono Taro was really depressed in his heart.

Sure enough, a sharp whistling sound sounded in the sky, and soon, one after another mortar shells of 120 mm caliber exploded on the mortar positions of the little devils.

The power of the 120 mm caliber mortar shells is huge, and there are no birds or beasts within a radius of one or twenty meters when one cannon goes down, and the same is true for the little devils, who are killed in a large area when they go down with one shot, and when a few such shells come down, the small mortar position of the little devils disappears.

Lying in the trenches, the soldiers who were holding their weapons tightly saw that the mortar position of the little devil in the distance was reimbursed, and their threat was gone, and suddenly, the soldiers shot fiercely at the little devil who charged in front. Garand rifles, Thomson submachine guns, and various light and heavy machine guns fired in unison.

The fierce battle immediately began again.

The mortars of the airborne regiment also carried out precise shelling of the attacking little devils from time to time, and one shell after another exploded in the ranks of the little devils from time to time, relieving the pressure on the fighters.

Some mortars were even erected on high points, condescendingly, shelling the little devils attacking in front.

There are more than a dozen fighters on the roof of an airport building more than ten meters high, three 60-millimeter mortars have been erected, and several boxes of shells have been opened.

A soldier looked at a small devil heavy machine gun that was shooting a few hundred meters away, then carefully adjusted his shooting parameters, and nodded to the other soldier next to him.

The soldier next to him had already picked up a shell and stood by, and when he saw the soldier nodding, he immediately put the shell into the muzzle of the 60-mm mortar.

With a soft "tom", the shell whistled out and exploded next to the Type 92 heavy machine gun, killing several little devils who were shooting with this heavy machine gun, and the machine gun shooter of the little devil was even more bloody and fell headlong on the machine gun.

There were quite a few mortars of various types in the airborne regiment, but there were not many shells transported by airplane, and the fighters could not carry out large-scale attacks on the attacking imps. Intensive shelling, only accurate shelling.

Aim carefully at some of the more important targets, such as light and heavy machine guns. Grenadiers, or crowded places, are fired only after careful aiming, and after a shell is fired, they begin to look for the next target, and the rate of fire of each mortar is not fast, but the hit rate is high.

The Xuzhou airport was filled with gunfire. The fighters of the airborne regiment and the little devils fought together completely fiercely, and the battle was very fierce.

Kono United was the attacker and suffered heavy casualties. The airborne regiment was the defending side. The soldiers are all experienced veterans, and their weapons and equipment are more than one grade better than those of the little devils, and the casualties of the soldiers are much smaller than those of the little devils for the time being.

Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself.

Although the casualties of the fighters of the airborne regiment are much smaller than those of the little devils. But. It's not the way to do it. Commander Wang had a serious face, holding a telescope and looking at the battle of the soldiers in front of him, seeing that the battle was very fierce, his heart was not easy at all.

"Regiment commander, this group of little devils must have received a death order, completely ignoring the losses, and has been attacking." A major commander next to him frowned. Said slowly.

The attacks of the little devils were repelled again and again by the fighters, after being repulsed. The little devil immediately began to attack again, and so on, and time passed minute by minute.

Holding a telescope and looking at the battle situation in front of him, the worried look on Commander Wang's face was obviously a little thicker, and he said in a deep voice: "This little devil army has obviously suffered more than half of the casualties, but it is still attacking, if this continues, after we finish destroying this little devil army, our casualties will definitely exceed 1,000." ”

After speaking, Regiment Commander Wang continued: "In case there is another army of little devils in the back, we will be in danger." ”

This is Xuzhou, the heavy military area of small Japan, intelligence shows that the little devils in Xuzhou have at least one division or more, so far, the little devil troops who came to Xuzhou Airport are only a few thousand, if the Kono Wing can not attack for a long time, there will definitely be reinforcements in the follow-up.

Once the next batch of large number of transport planes arrives again, it will be a foregone conclusion that the entire Xuzhou airport will be firmly controlled by the new 6th Army, and the little devils will definitely know this, and they will definitely capture Xuzhou Airport at all costs.

Taro Kono looked at his troops with a gloomy face, and his heart was full of grief and indignation when he saw that the attacking little devils had suffered heavy casualties.

looked at his pocket watch, the time had passed half past eleven, the casualties of his wing had already passed half, the attack power had been greatly reduced, and he was unwilling to rely on his own wing to take Xuzhou Airport.

Thinking that it was impossible to take Xuzhou Airport, Kono Taro thought of the death order given to him by his division, and he couldn't take Xuzhou Airport, so he could only be loyal to the emperor by seppuku.

Thinking of seppuku, Taro Kono had a little despair in his eyes.

At this time, a devil Shaozuo ran over with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and this devil Shaozuo actually had a happy look on his face, and ran over with an excited face, and shouted as soon as he came over.

"Your Excellency, the brigade commander is here in person."

The brigade commander is here, what is there to be happy about. Seeing Kono Taro looking at him suspiciously, the devil Shaozo immediately said happily: "Your Excellency the brigade has brought a large number of reinforcements, and also brought a field artillery brigade, with a total of 12 105mm field guns. ”

A large number of reinforcements have come, this is indeed a great news, hearing this, Kono Taro's face lightened, if he can take Xuzhou Airport with the cooperation of a large number of reinforcements, then he will not have to cut his stomach, thinking about this, Kono Taro's face is obviously a little better.

No, 12 105-mm field guns also came. What are so many heavy artillery coming here for?

Kono Taro thought about it, and quickly figured it out, and swept away the gloomy face just now, and Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed. Taro Kono has already figured it out, and the division headquarters must have made a decision to carry out a large-scale artillery bombardment of Xuzhou Airport and destroy Xuzhou Airport.

The commander of the 110th Division of the little devil, Noto Matashiro, is indeed this idea, since he can't capture Xuzhou Airport, then destroy it, once Xuzhou Airport is destroyed, the follow-up planes of the new 6th Army will not be able to land, and this unit that has been airborne first is a lone army.

Matashiro Noto has been scheming for a long time, once the Xuzhou airport is destroyed, this airborne unit of the new 6th Army will be a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of its own slaughter.

"Ha Lu Ha"

After laughing, Kono Taro felt a lot better, and shouted loudly to several devil officers next to him: "Order our warriors to withdraw and suspend the attack." ”

Although the few devil officers next to him didn't understand for the time being, why they had to suspend the attack. These little devil officers believe that the time is urgent, and if they do not seize all the time to attack, the time will drag on for too long, and a large number of planes of the newly formed 6th Army will come over.

However, for Kono Taro's order, these little devil officers faithfully carried it out, and immediately conveyed the order, and the little devils who were attacking Xuzhou Airport retreated one after another.

On a road leading to the Xuzhou airport, a long contingent of Japanese troops, numbering at least 2,000, was on a rapid march. In front of this Japanese contingent, a convoy of twenty or thirty large trucks was moving along the road.

These large trucks are all marked with plaster flags, and some of the trucks have heavy artillery towed in the back, and the caliber of this cannon is at least 105 mm caliber.

The heavy artillery group of the little devils is coming! (To be continued......)