Chapter 60: The Siege

This is what Wang Dazhu wants, otherwise, how could he stop the five or six hundred men of the third squadron with only the dozens of devils and the three or four hundred puppet troops in Tucheng. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is not Wang Dazhu's arrogance, the combat effectiveness of the puppet army in these years is indeed the second, mainly because their fighting willpower is too poor, and it is more accurate that it is a force without thoughts and beliefs.

In this era, both the national army and the communist army are armies with their own beliefs.

Their belief is to overthrow all the unequal oppression pressed on the country by the great powers, so that the people can once again dominate the land, and let the country stand again in the forest of the world.

But the masters of the puppet army are the Japanese, and no matter how big they win, they are just a dog by someone else's side after all.

Who works hard to be a good dog! If the host is happy, he will reward you with a few bites of food, and if he is not happy, he may turn into dog meat and be served on the table.

As the saying goes: "If you are not of my race, your heart will be different", the little devil may not know this sentence, but people must understand this meaning.

Of course, the puppet army also understands this truth, but there is no turning back when the bow is opened, and the big guys know what the attitude of the Chinese people towards traitors is.

Ordinary soldiers will definitely have no problems anyway, and they will even be welcomed, but one traitor leader is about to be unlucky.

However, the power is in the hands of a small number of high-level leaders, so the traitors are basically unanimous, and the combat effectiveness is naturally very limited.

Captain Imura has been living a good life recently, and he took the opportunity of becoming the garrison commander of Fengning County to make a lot of money.

When he thought of the gold and silver treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings he had deposited in Zhengjin Bank, his heart was filled with a sense of happiness. With this money, if you retire and return to Japan in the future, you will be a rich man.

In Japan, he is just the son of a farmer, and his ancestors have lived by farming for generations, and they basically live a life of not having enough to eat and not starving.

If it weren't for the guidance of His Majesty the Wise and Great Emperor to launch this holy war, he would probably be living a miserable life facing the loess with his back to the sky.

Therefore, both spiritually and materially, Imura Yoshio was the most loyal and staunch supporter of the Holy War of the Great Japanese Empire.

When he heard that Tucheng was being attacked by the Shina army, Imura's first reaction was to believe it.

What are you kidding, it is now the imperial army that is attacking the Great Wall of the Chinese people, and he does not believe that the cowardly Chinese people dare to take the initiative to attack the Great Japanese Imperial Army.

After talking on the phone with the Imperial Army soldiers stationed in Tucheng, Imura immediately burst into a rage, and the people of China dared to treat themselves as soft persimmons, and he felt that his dignity was insulted.

Without thinking about it, Captain Imura immediately prepared to send troops to reinforce Tsuchijo.

If Tucheng is captured by the Chinese army, this is tantamount to discrediting the face of the invincible imperial army, and he will definitely not be able to escape at that time. If you lose your rights and positions, and make a fortune, you will be beaten back to becoming a peasant in an instant.

Thinking of this, Captain Imura couldn't sit still anymore, the defense force of Tucheng was still a little too weak, and if it was broken by the Shina people, then he would be guilty of a big crime.

This is not what worries him the most, what he is most worried about is that if the people of China take Tucheng and run away after sacking it, then they will completely confirm their reputation for incompetence.

Although he was born as a farmer, Imura no longer wanted to be a farmer in his return country.

The Japanese army was a well-trained unit, and the soldiers of a squadron were assembled in less than five minutes.

Looking at the performance of the puppet army who received the order at the same time, it made Imura very dissatisfied. Five minutes passed, and the puppet army came with less than 200 people, but the puppet army in the city had two battalions of nearly 800 people.

Captain Imura looked at the belated Imperial Cooperative Army with an expressionless face, and sneered in his heart: "Shina is really an inferior nation, and most of the Shina people are as lazy, timid, and incompetent as these Imperial Allies. They don't deserve the land at all. Sooner or later, this land will belong to the Yamato nation. ”

Finally, after waiting for nearly half an hour, the puppet army in the city finally assembled. Leaving thirty devils and two companies of puppet troops to defend the city, Captain Yamashita set off with one hundred and thirty-eight Imperial soldiers and two battalions of Imperial Army.

As for whether this would be a ploy by the Shina people, it was not in the scope of Captain Imura's consideration at all. He had also been in China for a while, and he had never seen a Chinese who dared to take the initiative to attack the imperial army.

As soon as the reinforcements on the devil's side set off, Li Han immediately sent a herald to inform the three squadrons.

About an hour after Captain Imura's reinforcements set off, Li Han silently calculated the time, they were almost about to enter the ambush circle of the first and second squadrons, and then ordered to attack the county seat.

The defenders of the county town were tossed by the previous incident for more than an hour, and they were all listless, except for a few unlucky puppet soldiers who were left to continue to be in charge of guarding, the others went back to make up for the lack of clarity.

Even the devils are no exception, after all, their large army has just set off, and no one would have thought that Li Han would attack the county seat at this time.

Several red flares rose into the air, and they were obviously particularly bright under the dark curtain of dawn.

Li Yong, who had already been lurking in the city, and the reconnaissance platoon began to gather towards the south gate after seeing the signal flare, which was the breakthrough that Li Han had discussed with them.

Soon, the sound of all kinds of guns and cannons spread throughout the city, and at the beginning of the battle, Li Han launched a feint attack on the north gate with the ninth company and the machine gun company with all his might, and Hu Zhi and his second company quietly hid on both sides of the south gate, waiting for the reconnaissance platoon to meet inside and outside

Originally, it should not be very difficult to use two companies of regular troops to attack these county towns with the puppet army as the main force. However, two companies of the troops involved in the attack this time were not very combative.

The Ninth Company is a recruit company that has just been established, and the machine gun company belongs to a semi-technical branch, and its field combat ability is not absent, but it is very weak, and it is estimated that the puppet army is a little higher.

It can be used for feints, and by the way, to train the troops, after all, the battlefield forms are changing rapidly, and if you run into the enemy, they don't care if you are a recruit or a technical soldier.

The combat effectiveness of the second company was able to rank in the top three in the entire anti-Japanese brigade, and it had been tested by war for a long time, and as long as they could successfully attack the county seat, the battle could basically be declared over.

Li Han was hundreds of meters away from the city wall, carefully observing the situation of this battlefield.

From the binoculars, it can be seen that the soldiers of the Ninth Company and the Machine Gun Company are shooting at the devils on the city wall from a distance of 200 meters, a small number of soldiers are bent towards the city wall, and the Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in the city are desperately shooting down.

Most of the soldiers who rushed to the front were soldiers of the guard platoon, and the guard platoon could be said to be the veterans of the veterans, and they had a lot of battlefield experience.

Jumping and jumping, crawling forward, detouring left and right, all kinds of tactical actions are quite standard, when the enemy's firepower is more urgent, throw a grenade, use the smoke from the explosion, continue to move forward, in short, the veteran's demeanor is vividly displayed.

Under the leadership of the guards platoon soldiers, the besieging troops were approaching the city gate little by little.

Of course, even if they are good at skill, it is difficult to ensure that they are unscathed in the rain of bullets, especially the dozens of devil soldiers in the city, which caused the greatest casualties to the attacking troops.

Fighters were constantly shot and killed, and even the fighters of the guard platoon were sacrificed several. Li Han, who was in the distance, was stunned when he saw this.

He trained the soldiers of the guard platoon as officers, and in peacetime they not only had to conduct tactical training, but also to learn cultural knowledge, and if they had the opportunity in the future, Li Han also planned to send them to the military academy for further study. Not to mention the fighters of the machine gun company, they are all technical arms.

Dying one is a major loss for Li Han, and five or six people died at once, and Li Han's heart was bleeding from pain.

But although it is very heart-wrenching, there is nothing to be done, war is so cruel, no one is born to be a soldier, he should have thought that there would be such a day.

In order to reduce casualties, Li Han hurriedly ordered the artillery to suppress the enemy's firepower, and the light and heavy machine guns also opened fire at full force at the same time to cover the attack of the troops.

The devils in the city were limited, and soon the guns of the devils were suppressed, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the siege troops advanced a lot, and there were only a few dozen meters away from the city gate.

However, Li Han was not in a hurry to capture the city gate, there were not many devils in the city, and the combat effectiveness was limited, so Li Han naturally wanted to do his best to reduce the casualties of the troops.

Moreover, Li Han also found that the enemy's fire seemed ferocious, but he did not hear the sound of heavy machine gun gunfire and the explosion of mortar shells, and only a few grenadiers were fighting with his machine gunners, but they were quickly suppressed by our mortars.

The north gate was lively, Li Yong and the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon also came to the south gate gate, because the battle at the north gate was tight, and there were not many troops in the city, so the Japanese squad leader who stayed in the city transferred all the devils on the south gate to the north gate.

Comrade Squad Leader is also helpless, he has a total of thirty soldiers under him, and he has to count himself.

The number of the Imperial Association Army is large, but for their combat effectiveness, the squad leader can only be described as: 'hehe'.

But there are too many places they need to defend, and the city headquarters, granaries, and arsenals all need to be defended by manpower. These departments, which were previously only accessible to Imperial soldiers, are now all puppet armies on alert missions.

The captain of the devil squad is a person who understands, and he knows very well in his heart that as long as they win the battle, everything here is still up to them. If he loses the battle and his life is gone, he doesn't need to worry about it.

Of course, the captain of the devil squad was also worried that the Chinese army would take the opportunity to capture the south gate, so he put the two heavy machine guns left by the squadron at the south gate, and left two platoons of puppet army defense, as long as there are these two killing weapons in hand, even if the combat effectiveness of the imperial alliance army is weak, it can hold on until the reinforcements arrive.