As he spoke, Okamura Ninji paused and continued: "I have already ordered the 114th Division to attack the main attacking force, speed up the pace of the attack, and strive to take Haicheng before the reinforcements of the China Army arrive, and form a horn with Yingkou. ”

"Well, Okamura-kun did a good job." Ryokari nodded happily and asked again, "How is the battle progressing in the direction of Wafangdian?" ”

"The various units of the Imperial Army are engaged in battle with the Chinese Army, and the Chinese have left behind a considerable number of tank and armored units, which have caused a lot of trouble to the attacking forces of the Imperial Army, and their air force has also caused us great difficulties during the day.

Therefore, after dark, it was only after dark that the real onslaught of the imperial army began. Okamura Ninji said.

"We must eat the Zhina Army left behind on the front line of Wafangdian as soon as possible, and join up with the 114th and 106th Master Regiments of Yingkou for the strategic purpose of victory." Takashi Hishikari instructed.

Okamura Ninji hurriedly bowed his head and said yes, "General, the humble post said that in this joint operation, whether Yingkou can be held is the most important thing, so I implore the general to allow him to go to Yingkou to command the 114th and 106th Divisions to fight, so as to buy more time for the imperial army." ”

"Okamura-kun, are you going to Yingkou? Where is the front line, isn't it a little too risky. Ryokari was a little surprised.

"General, although it is the front line, there are 40,000 imperial warriors, as the emperor's people, the soldiers of this empire, it is a privilege to have the honor to fight to the death with tens of thousands of imperial warriors against the Chinese army, and it is a humble honor!" Okamura Ninji bowed his head with a righteous face.

Ryokari Takashi's eyes were full of appreciation, and he nodded happily and said: "Yo Xi, Okamura Jun is both wise and brave, he is really the best senior general in the empire, be careful!" ”

"Thank you, General, for being successful, from the Humble Profession Society!" Okamura lowered his head again.

"Zhang Xinghan, I'm here, I want to compete with you!" Okamura Ninji seemed to have a fire burning in his eyes, and said to himself.

…………………… On the Wafangdian battlefield, as Okamura Ninji said, after dark fell, the air force of the Northeast New Army could not take off to provide air support.

Without the threat of the air force, the attack of the Japanese army began to become fierce and sharp.

The front of Wafangdian is more than 50 kilometers wide, and if it is fully fortified, the deployment of the two divisions of the Northeast New Army will be extremely diluted.

As a result, the defense line is fragile, and if one point is breached, the whole line is bound to collapse.

Therefore, Wang Yizhe and Zhao Zhenfan concentrated their troops in Wafangdian, and built several ring fortifications with Wafangdian as the center.

In this way, the Yue army can naturally bypass Wafangdian, but before the Northeast New Army in Wafangdian is eliminated, the Yue army will never and dare not do so.

Because Wafangdian is not one or two regiments, but two infantry divisions plus a tank armored division.

At any time, it can cut off the rear road of the Japanese army to form a counter-encirclement and give it a fatal blow.

Despite this, the Yue army adopted a frontal containment and a roundabout attack strategy on both flanks.

In charge of the roundabout attack were the two field wings of the 1st Division of the Chinese Army.

At the same time, there are more than 20 ** heavy tanks of the tank brigade directly under the 1st Division.

Zhao Zhenfan and Wang Yizhe deployed 200 tanks and 100 armed armored vehicles of the tank division on both flanks.

When they discovered that the Yue army was trying to make a detour, Zhao and Wang immediately ordered the tank division to take the initiative to attack the enemy.

A fierce battle ensued between the two sides on the periphery of the two flanks of Wafangdian, and a torrent of steel consisting of 150 tanks and armored vehicles broke the infantry group of the Yue army attacking in a roundabout way.

More than 20 ** heavy tanks responsible for covering the attack of the troops were even hit by the destruction of the 75mm tank artillery group.

In front of the huge steel torrent of the Northeast New Army, they were as vulnerable as a handful of waves under the blue waves, and they were submerged in an instant.

Although the Chinese army already has relatively rich experience in anti-tank combat, they still seem so passive and weak in the face of the cross-era steel torrent of the Northeast New Army, lacking effective and sufficient anti-tank weapons.

In the field, once the armored units are mobilized, their assault power is invincible and unstoppable.

Of course, there are also accidents, if the army has enough troops, the surprise attack of the armored forces is likely to fail, but will be overwhelmed by the flow of soldiers.

It's just that this is on the premise that the army can withstand the assault of the armored forces of the Northeast New Army, otherwise it will be the same if there are more troops.

However, the tactical thinking of a small number of troops taking a detour on both flanks has been deeply ingrained in his mind.

The use of heavy forces to carry out a flank breakthrough and roundabout attack said that the senior commander of the army would not be able to resist this momentum for a while and a half.

After all, not all generals of the Yue Army are talents like Okamura Ninji.

At the same time that the battle of Wafangdian entered the stage of stalemate, in the direction of Haicheng, the artillery bombardment of the Yue army finally ended.

After the artillery fire of the artillery wing began to extend, thousands of Japanese troops swarmed in from the four gates of Haicheng and launched an attack on Haicheng, which was filled with gunsmoke and flames.

Zhou Pingyuanhe shook his head, shook off the dirt and dust that had exploded on his head, and stood up with his Garand rifle.

The two soldiers next to him also stood up, their faces covered in dust.

Pulling the bolt of the gun, Zhou Pingyuan said to the two subordinates: "The little devil has finished picking up the three-plate axe, gather the troops, and beat him up as a bitch!" ”

After saying this, he rushed out of the courtyard with two subordinates, and at this time, more than a dozen officers and soldiers of the guard battalion hiding in other courtyards also rushed out one after another.

Together with the troops, Zhou Pingyuan immediately took them to the north of the city near the city gate to touch them.

To fight a street battle, you have to defend and attack, and there is me in the enemy, so that the devils do not dare to advance desperately.

Just now, in order to avoid artillery fire, Zhou Pingyuan and most of his subordinates left the marginal area that was most vulnerable to artillery fire.

Less than three hundred meters after advancing, Zhou Pingyuan, who was personally in the vanguard in front, discovered an abnormality.

Immediately waved his hand to signal the following subordinates to stop advancing, and it happened that a civilian house in front of them had been hit by a cannonball and was on fire, by the faint light of the fire.

Zhou Pingyuan vaguely saw that a large number of troops had opened on the main street in the north of the city.

After thinking about it, Zhou Pingyuan immediately led his subordinates to climb onto the roof, and as soon as he climbed up, a soldier close to the alley on the right was surprised to find a scene that shocked him.

In the alleys on the right, there were also groups of devil soldiers sweeping forward.

It turned out that in order to succeed in the first battle, after the shelling, the Yue army invested nearly 5,000 people from two field wings to attack the city at one time.

Basically, there are troops distributed at the entrance of every alley, echoing the main force of the devils advancing on the street, and carrying out carpet search and suppression.

At this time, gunshots were already faintly sounding in other directions, and it seemed that troops had already exchanged fire with the devils.

Zhou Pingyuan gritted his teeth, took the general-purpose machine gun from a machine gunner and put it on the roof, turned his head and shouted to the other subordinates: "Later, as soon as my gun goes out, you will use grenades to kill the devils in the alleys first, and then fight the devils on the street." ”

More than a dozen soldiers took the order, took out grenades, and opened the safety of rifles and submachine guns.

In the dark night, about 100 Japanese soldiers slowly came along the streets in a straggler line, and the Japanese soldiers in the alleys were also advancing.

Zhou Pingyuan licked his mouth, moistened his dry lips, pulled the bolt, and fired a quick short shot at the crowd of soldiers on the street.

"Da ......" Several hot 7.92 machine gun shells roared, and the two devil soldiers who took the lead fell to the ground in response.

The other devils suddenly seemed to be facing a great enemy, and scattered and hid in the alleys and alleys on both sides of the street, under the eaves of private houses.

Zhou Pingyuan continued to strafe, and the tongue of fire from the MG34 general-purpose machine gun in the dark night was particularly dazzling, and the dense bullets hit the street with sparks flying everywhere.

At the same time, other soldiers also threw squeaky and smoking grenades into several alleys, which immediately exploded and the devils screamed again and again.

After an initial panic, the Devil soldiers began to use the cover of night to set up machine guns to return fire, and the riflemen also hid and opened fire.

The dense rain of bullets hit the tiles on both sides of Zhou Pingyuan's side, instantly breaking them into rubble.

Zhou Pingyuan turned a blind eye, turned the muzzle of the gun, and fired fiercely at the light machine gun of the Yue Army, which kept spitting out tongues of fire.

The terrifying rate of fire constituted a powerful firepower, instantly suppressing the devil's Taisho eleventh year.

"Bang bang bang... Whoosh ...... "Dense bullets hit the gunner, the gunner, the two secondary shooters, and the ammunition man.

The devil machine gunner directly lay on the machine gun, and the crooked sub-machine gun that was roaring just now instantly fell silent.

Seeing this, a devil lieutenant was in a hurry, and hurriedly waved his hand to signal several grenadiers to prepare, while several other machine guns also took advantage of this gap in fire to dodge and fire.

The dense bullets hit the two riflemen behind Zhou Pingyuan, and the two fell in a pool of blood, and the corpses involuntarily rolled and fell.

"Fire suppression! Call me! Zhou Pingyuan roared angrily, pulled the trigger and shot wildly.

At this moment, the devil grenadiers on the opposite side suddenly opened fire.

"Tom tom ......tom" Several deafening muffled sounds rang out one after another, and several small grenades flew towards the roof of the house where they were hiding with a whistling sound.

"Company commander, be careful," a soldier saw this, and hurriedly rushed towards Zhou Pingyuan.

"Boom...... Boom ......" Two of the grenades landed directly on the roof and exploded, instantly blowing up a large part of the roof.

The shrapnel and rubble that flew rampantly took the lives of seven or eight soldiers.

Zhou Pingyuan only felt that his eardrums were shocked by the explosion and felt a faint pain, turned over and pulled down the subordinates lying on his body, and found that his back was already blurred with flesh and blood, and he couldn't find a piece of good meat.

The grief-stricken Zhou Pingyuan picked up the general-purpose machine gun and roared wildly: "Little devil, I'll your grandma!" ”

"Company commander, withdraw quickly!" The few surviving soldiers crawled over from the other side of the roof and pulled Zhou Pingyuan, who was in a frenzy.

At this time, the devil lieutenant waved his hand at the ghost soldiers, signaling them to make a detour from the two mouths, while the grenadiers were ready to fire a second time.

At this moment, a piercing whistling sound suddenly sounded in the night sky, and the devil lieutenant looked up to see several dazzling red fire clusters smashing rapidly towards them.

(To be continued)