Chapter 114: The Eastern Hebei Incident

After receiving the telegram, Han Yunhua couldn't help laughing, in the strange eyes of other officers in the forward command, Han Yunhua asked the operator to reply to Yang Ruihua in the form of an oral message: "Call to know the situation encountered by your department, the madness of the Japanese army is only temporary, as long as your department can hold on until dark, I think the devil will retreat." After Chengde was occupied by our army, the Japanese army not only lost a large number of military supplies, but also a large number of expatriates fell under our control, so Terauchi Shouichi will definitely mobilize a large army to destroy the main force of our department, and by then the task of your department will be completed........."

Han Yunhua's telegram gave Jining's defenders a boost, and their morale was significantly boosted. However, the casualties of the troops were still rising in a straight line, and the troops suffered thousands of casualties in less than an hour, which was far beyond Yang Ruihua's expectations.

Although Jining's city defense was completed under Han Yunhua's personal guidance, according to the design standards, Jining's city defense facilities and hundreds of reinforced concrete pillboxes could withstand the continuous attack of two divisions for a whole month. However, due to the shortage of materials, especially concrete, which could not meet half of the design requirements, the actual protection of the bunker was far from the level expected by Han Yunhua.

Despite this, these bunkers, which were carefully designed by Han Yunhua, still played a great role. It is not without units that can easily fight back under the continuous attacks of the 6th Division, but there are very few. On the battlefield in China, in addition to the limited number of integrated German armament divisions of the Central Army, such as the 87th, 88th, and 36th of the Central Army, which were built with huge sums of money by the Nationalist Government, only the two units of the Central Teaching Corps and the Tax Police Corps could do so. Among the troops led by **, there was indeed no force that could resist the Sixth Division, but with the help of these pillbox groups, the temporary independent 1st Brigade simply blocked Gu Shoufu's troops under Jining City for five days.

After this period of fighting, all the pillboxes were already dilapidated, and more than half of them had irreparable cracks. Today's Japanese offensive is even more fierce than ever, the Japanese army continuously dispatched field heavy artillery and bombers to attack the bunker group on the periphery of Jining, under such a fierce blow, dozens of pillboxes finally collapsed, burying a battalion of soldiers alive in the ruins. At the same time, the devils dropped a large number of gasoline incendiary bombs in the city, and most of the houses in the city were on fire.

At this time, the battle outside the city was in full swing, and the Japanese had launched thirteen group charges in a row, although each time the enemy was narrowly and dangerously repulsed, but the casualties of the troops were also greater than before. Fortunately, Han Yunhua had already made arrangements, otherwise that chariot brigade would be enough for Yang Ruihua to drink a pot. On the Chinese battlefield, the best weapon against the Japanese tank unit is the 37 battle defense artillery, but the only ones who can really equip this weapon are Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, and there are few 37 war defense guns in the entire second theater, not to mention the Eighth Route Army, which has always been ridiculed by the Japanese army in terms of weapons and ammunition.

However, Han Yunhua's department did have a few battle defense guns, which were captured in a sneak attack on Jining, but unfortunately all of them were taken to eastern Hebei by Han Yunhua, and there was indeed no 37 battle defense gun on the battlefield in Jining. However, Han Yunhua had already expected that Gu Shoufu would use the chariot troops, not that Han Yunhua was like a god, but that Han Yunhua knew that the six veteran field divisions of the Japanese army were each equipped with two chariot brigades, and if the infantry attack did not go well, as long as the head was fine, it would definitely let the chariot troops go up, and if you keep these iron bumps, you can't have children, and you don't need to let your brain enter the water.

Han Yunhua had already laid out the method of dealing with the Japanese tank troops, he asked the troops to dig anti-tank trenches along the main road into the city, and at the same time built many tank cones, these anti-tank cones were made of concrete, for which Han Yunhua almost used up the hundreds of tons of cement captured. In addition, Han Yunhua dug a circle of three-meter-wide and five-meter-deep trenches in the open ground in front of the pillbox, and these trenches were covered with ten-centimeter-thick concrete slabs, and a thick layer of soil was sprinkled on the boards, and there was nothing abnormal at all when the infantry walked up, but as long as the Japanese cars, tanks and invincible chariots walked up, the concrete slabs would immediately break, and the chariots would fall into the trenches, and if there were no professional tools, they would not come up.

The devil's chariot troops are used to being rampant and domineering on the Chinese battlefield, so they didn't feel how terrible Han Yunhua's troops were, and after receiving the order, they rushed to Jining City desperately. However, less than a third of the way to the front, more than half of the chariots fell into the deep ditch dug by Han Yunhua's department, and the rest no longer dared to rampage in front of the Eighth Route Army's position so unscrupulously. ,

Without the protection of the pillboxes, it was even more difficult to defend, especially with a newly formed provisional unit under the attack of the most elite army field division of the Japanese army, the difficulty of defending a city without walls can be imagined.

The fierceness of the battle far exceeded Yang Ruihua and Gu Shoufu's expectations, Yang Ruihua turned out to be a civilian personnel, although he had also fought a few big battles, but they were all battles with Han Yunhua, and this was the first time he commanded a simple defensive battle of land occupation. But Gu Shoufu is different, Rong Ma has been half a life, from the hairy boy who dared to dedicate himself to His Majesty the Emperor and was not afraid of dying on the battlefield, and was still proud of the horse leather shroud to the current lieutenant general division commander with heavy troops, Gu Shoufu has never seen what kind of battle, even in the shocking duel with the polar bear in Nomenkan, Gu Shoufu did not frown, although the Japanese Imperial Army was undeniably defeated. However, it was against the powerful Soviet Russia, whose industrial production capacity far exceeded that of the Japanese Empire, and as far as Tani Toshio knew, the GDP of Soviet Russia had surpassed that of Germany, ranking first in Europe and second in the world. It is still acceptable to confront such an industrial power and suffer a crushing defeat. However, in China, which is still the poorest agricultural country, his Sixth Division has been hit so badly that it is difficult for Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu, who has always looked down on China, especially on China's national defense, to accept it. And the tragedy of this battle also surprised Gu Shoufu, he only encountered such stubborn resistance once on the Chinese battlefield, that is, the Battle of Songhu is the Luodian offensive and defensive battle, in that place known as the flesh mill, the squadron has to consume one brigade a day, and the Japanese army has to cripple two brigades. It was at that time that Gu Shoufu's opinion of the squadron changed slightly, but he never imagined that Jining, a small border city in China, would be so stubbornly blocked.

However, the combat effectiveness of the 6th Division was undoubted, and after most of the pillboxes of the provisional brigade were destroyed, the Japanese offensive began to go smoothly.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the outer positions of Jining City were declared lost, and the devils in the south had already rushed into the city several times and engaged in several fierce white-knuckle battles with the soldiers of the temporarily organized First Independent Brigade. At present, China and Japan have invested nearly 60,000 troops in the small city of Jining, and the density of soldiers in Jining City is far higher than that of several other battlefields.

Fortunately, Jining City is not large, and the strategic offensive space provided for the devils is not large, and there are not many devils who can come into direct contact with the soldiers of the temporary brigade and fight street battles. Yang Ruihua transferred all the light and serious wounded to the underground air-raid shelter on the Hushan Heights, and transferred the two infantry regiments with smaller casualties to the Tiger Mountain, because it was the last reliance of the entire temporary brigade and the three local security regiments, and it was really impossible to lose it.

The fierce street fighting continued until four o'clock in the afternoon, and the devils had already occupied half of the Jining city, and the temporary brigade was besieged in the middle of the city. However, the good fortune of the devil also came to an end, and the soldiers of the temporary brigade in the inner city also built many inner city defense lines and street pillboxes, where the Japanese army's field heavy artillery and aviation could not help, and all relied on infantry to advance, except for mortars, other heavy weapons could not be used. The Japanese attack began to become difficult, and at the same time, Yang Ruihua also issued a death order to the temporary brigade and several local security regiments, we must hold on, not to take a step back, the platoon commander will die if the soldier retreats, and the company commander will be shot if the platoon commander retreats, and if the brigade commander escapes, then he, the supreme commander, will go to the battlefield alone.

At half past four in the afternoon, the momentum of the Japanese offensive was finally contained, and the large-scale group charge of the Japanese army also stopped, and the two sides faced each other across several streets, except for the mortar whistling from time to time, the whole battlefield began to slowly quiet.