Yang Xingguo, as usual, stared at Liaodong on the map as soon as he entered the war room. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, Sun Liechen, chief of staff, also sent the latest battle situation in Liaodong to the war room as usual.

But as soon as Sun Liechen came in today, Yang Xingguo felt that something was wrong.

Sure enough, Sun Liechen, who was frowning, said in a heavy tone as soon as he walked into the war room: "Commander, there is something wrong with Li Zhilong. ”

"The devil garrison in Dalian City actually abandoned the outer defense line of Dalian City, and all of them retreated back into the city to prepare for street battles with the Fourth Army. Dalian City is so big, not to mention that the casualties in the street fighting are too great for us to bear. In terms of time, I don't think we'll be in time. ”

"After all, Dashanyan still has more than 20,000 elites in his hands, and he can return to Dalian in two days. If Li Zhilong fails to take Dalian within two days, then the Fourth Army will be attacked on its back, and if one is not good, the whole army may be annihilated. ”

Yang Xingguo's brows immediately furrowed, what Sun Liechen said was the truth, for the attacking troops, street fighting was indeed a nightmare.

Seeing Yang Xingguo frowning and not speaking, Sun Liechen, who thought that Yang Xingguo also had no choice, immediately comforted: "Commander, if you really can't do it, we won't fight Dalian City." ”

"In this battle, the devils lost at least 60,000 troops, and we only lost 20,000 or 30,000. In terms of casualty ratios, we definitely earned it. In addition, the Fourth Army captured more than 300 artillery pieces and a large amount of ammunition and supplies, which were enough to make up for our losses. Now stop and don't fight, we don't suffer at all. ”

To Sun Liechen's surprise, Yang Xingguo shook his head and agreed to his proposal.

Then he replied with an affirmative face: "No, this battle must continue, and Dalian City must be taken." ”

"Chief of Staff, you think, if you let the devils continue to occupy Dalian City, the devil Manchurian army can continue to increase troops from the country, and then continue to attack our Liaodong idea and attack us."

"At that time, Liaodong will be enveloped in endless war. If one is not good, it is possible that the war will spread to the entire three northeastern provinces. ”

"In this case, even if we occupy the entire three eastern provinces, we will not be able to develop and expand the three northeastern provinces because we do not have a suitable development environment."

"There is another problem, this time we did not succeed in raiding Dalian City, and the devils will definitely strengthen Dalian's defenses in the future. When the time comes, it will be even more difficult for us to recapture Dalian. ”

"I have only one request, as long as there is a little hope, we can't give up Dalian City."

Sun Liechen understood all these truths, but in the face of problems and difficulties, because he couldn't think of a solution, Sun Liechen could only lower his head, frown, and not say a word.

At this time, Yang Xing said in an astonishing Chinese voice: "Chief of Staff, fighting street battles is not impossible. ”

"Didn't Li Zhilong capture a large amount of ammunition and materials from the Japanese army, there must have been a lot of explosives in it. As long as there are enough explosives, we can take Dalian City in the shortest time and with the least casualties. ”

Sun Liechen's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "Commander, how are you going to fight?" ”

After briefly telling Sun Liechen how to use explosives to fight street battles against the map, Yang Xingguo ignored the excited expression on Sun Liechen's face, and directly ordered: "Write the analysis just now into a telegram and call Li Zhilong back,"

In addition, he told Li Zhilong that he would not need more than 20,000 people to fight street battles, and the more than 400 artillery pieces in his hands would basically not be used. However, the 20,000 troops in the hands of Oyama Yan can be used. ”

"Also, Dalian City is so big, this street battle will definitely not end in two days. In order to return to Dalian City as soon as possible, the more than 20,000 people in Dashanyan's hands will definitely take the nearest road. ”

"Tell Li Zhilong to find out the only way to go through Dashanyan, and use 10,000 elites and more than 400 artillery pieces to fight Dashanyan in an ambush."

"Now that everyone is staring at Dalian City, no one will think that we still have the strength to divide our troops to fight the ambush of Dashanyan."

"Finally, I plan to go to Dalian in person. At this time, it was the first time since the formation of our Liaodong Army that I was faced with a street battle of such a scale, and I was not at ease if I didn't go there in person. ”

As soon as Li Zhilong received Yang Xingguo's reply, the entire Fourth Army began to get busy.

There were only six streets that the Liaodong Army could directly attack, so Li Zhilong only sent two regiments and six main battalions of the guard division to kill Dalian City.

The six main battalions, in addition to the standard firepower, Li Zhilong specially added a mountain artillery company, a heavy machine gun platoon, an engineer platoon and a large number of explosives bags.

With a strong firepower advantage, in the face of the devils who relied on scattered houses to block the attack, the six main battalions fought smoothly. A blast of artillery destroyed the house, and the devils hiding in the house were buried in the waste.

But as they entered the city, facing one brick and concrete house after another in the city, the casualties of the troops began to rise.

Because there were still civilians in the houses, the attacking troops could not directly bombard them with mountain artillery.

And because the house is very strong, even if it is bombarded, it will blow up a big D on the wall at most, and it is difficult to blow the house directly into ruins. For the devils guarding the house, it didn't hurt much.

But the devils hiding in the houses did not care, because they hid in the shadows and shot at the attacking troops at every opportunity.

Some devil veterans even changed places with one shot, which not only made it impossible for the Liaodong Army to counterattack, but also allowed them to continuously shoot and injure a large number of attacking troops of the Liaodong Army.

In this case, the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion of the Guards Division advanced only thirty meters before losing one and a half platoons.

"All stop, pack with explosives." The battalion commander, who was in pain because of the heavy casualties, immediately thought of the regiment commander's repeated explanations to himself before the attack.

With the idea of giving it a try, he ordered: "Machine gun cover, sapper on, blow the side wall with an explosive pack, and throw grenades into the room." ”

After a few explosions, it was occupied by the attacking forces, and several large D's immediately appeared on the side wall adjacent to the house occupied by the devils.

Before the smoke of gunpowder shrouded in D-port cleared, several Liaodong troops rushed over and threw grenades at D-port.

Soon, the explosion sounded in the adjacent house, mixed with several devil screams in the middle.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, several Liaodong troops quickly drilled through the D port and smashed into the adjacent houses.

Through the smoke of gunpowder, several devils who had fallen to the ground faintly appeared in their field of vision.

Several Liaodong troops, who had long been holding back their anger, did not hesitate. Regardless of whether these devils are dead or not, they subconsciously pick up their rifles and pull the trigger on the devils.

By the time the smoke cleared, several devils had turned into corpses.

When the company commander saw that the blasting was effective, he eliminated four or five devils in the blink of an eye, and he did not suffer any casualties, so he immediately ordered the battalion commander to prepare explosives for his engineer squad and continue the blasting attack. (To be continued.) )