Of course, this slogan is illusory, and it is really ridiculous and pathetic to ignore the absolute superiority of the enemy's forces and completely rely on fanatical spiritual strength to defeat the enemy. www.biquge.info But whether it is Tanaka Ken or the war of aggression against China and the Pacific War launched by the Japanese warlords, they have always been in this kind of stupid motive and self-consciousness.

In the face of the sudden change in the situation, Tanaka did not want to withdraw all the troops responsible for vigilance and reconnaissance on the periphery and carry out the final hold here. But time does not seem to be in its own hands, and an early contraction may be in a deeper encirclement.

And the telegrams of the Japanese army everywhere also gave him some illusions, which is also a common problem of the Japanese army, which easily does not let out the lament of facing the end and begging for reinforcements. Even if the situation is unfavorable, the invincible spirit of Bushido must be reflected in the telegram.

There were still more than 3,000 troops, and although the situation was unfavorable, Tanaka did not think that it had really reached the point of exhaustion. If you want to break through, with the combat power of the locust army, you are still very sure. Of course, he still has a fluke mentality, hoping that the station town is still in Kawaguchi's hands. Even if it is conquered by the enemy and the main force turns to attack, it can take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to recapture it again and open up railway communication with Xuzhou.

In Tanaka's thoughts, the enemy can not only deploy strong troops in Yucheng, but also seem to have a large number of enemies in the surrounding area, so it is estimated that there will not be too many enemies who will make a detour to attack Station Town. Even if it had an advantage over the Kawaguchi brigade, it would be difficult to resist the counterattack of more than 3,000 locusts. What's more, there is also a brigade on the Xuzhou side that is ready to go, and the infantry regiment can form an east-west flank attack.

At this time, Tanaka Qin didn't know that Longhai Road had been broken and scattered, and it was not just the station town that was cut off. The Japanese troops in Xuzhou, who received the most emergency calls and calls, were still in speculation and judgment, not knowing how many troops the enemy had mobilized and what such a large-scale operation meant.

Tanaka's order was issued, and the Japanese army packed up overnight, returned the same way, and went straight to the station town. And our army pressed hard from all sides, forming an encirclement trend.

To the west, after our army forced the defenders to retreat into Zhanggezhuang, only a small number of troops were left to monitor the enemy, and the main force abandoned the defending enemy, passed around the town, and approached the Japanese army; The Northern Route Army also made a similar move, besieging Guoji and advancing most of its troops towards Yucheng. The 14th Cavalry Brigade in Zhouji, south of Yucheng, heard the order to attack, harassing the enemy's flank and back, and pinning down and delaying the enemy's eastward retreat.

At about 4 o'clock in the morning, the Western Route Army defeated a squadron of devils who reinforced Zhanggezhuang, advanced rapidly, and reached Yucheng, where it engaged in a fierce battle with the two squadrons of the Hashimoto Brigade that remained behind to block the attack. Guo Songlin led all the defenders of Yucheng to join the Western Route Army, which left a regiment to destroy the enemy, and the main force quickly bypassed the recalcitrant Hashimoto Brigade and pursued the Japanese army.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning, the enemy's forward Kurosawa Brigade was ambushed by the 1st Detachment of Chiang Kai-shek and Ma Bingzhong's Cavalry Brigade in Zhengji.

At this time, Tanaka received a telegram from Xuzhou and couldn't help but be shocked. The situation was far more serious than he imagined, and even if the station town was recaptured, Longhai Road was not opened. In other words, the infantry regiment he led was already a lone army.

Although the Xuzhou side said that the reinforced brigade had set out, attacked and advanced to the west, and mobilized sappers to speed up the repair of the railway. But Tanaka didn't need to measure it on the map, and he knew how far this distance was, and within a day or two, there would be no reinforcements at all.

What's more, the enemy has already surrounded it, and there must be blocking reinforcements, and if you want to join the reinforcements, what a difficult task it will be.

But there was not much time for Tanaka to think about the best countermeasures, and our army had already launched an offensive.

Time is very precious for both sides, and night is a good time for our army to kill the enemy. Just when the Japanese army was temporarily confused and sluggish, the Western Route Army led by Yang Tianfeng set up a position behind the devils and took the lead in attacking with a wide front.

In order to reduce casualties, they released "poison gas" in the upwind area. Wet grass straw mixed with chili peppers and pepper emitted billowing smoke, and the smoke-filled choking "poisonous gas" followed the wind and quickly flooded the hastily constructed positions of the enemy's rearguard.

Even if the gas mask is the individual equipment of the devils, it has caused some commotion in their defenses! Except for coughing loudly and reflexively directing the soldiers to shoot blindly, the devil officer has no good way to deal with a possible attack by the enemy!

Taking advantage of the cover of darkness and smoke, the first wave of infantry began to attack, and covered the artillery close to the bombardment, more than a dozen powerful thunder canisters, fiercely bombarded the enemy's position, under the bombardment of high-power bombs similar to heavy artillery, the Japanese rearguard suffered heavy casualties, and then fell into a bitter battle with the opposing infantry.

Boom, boom, boom...... The gelling gas* oil bomb smashed into the enemy's head, and immediately a sea of fire was formed. In the dark night, fireworks rise, illuminating the devils who are screaming in the fire.

The burning only lasted half a minute, but the psychological impact on the devil was huge. The flames were about to be extinguished, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves shook the devil's eardrums, and a large number of cavalry, under the cover of artillery fire, suddenly launched an attack at a distance of two or three hundred meters.

Kill, kill the devil!

Amid countless passionate shouts, the cavalry clung to their horses, raising the speed of their horses to the fastest. The front ones fell down from bullets, the ones behind did not hesitate, and the wave of impact was unstoppable.

Under this mixed and ferocious attack, the devil's position was broken through a little, which meant that the cavalry was able to penetrate and divide and surround the other defending devils.

Sharp Knife Breakthrough Tactics: Throw sharp knife troops from the front of the attack to form a powerful attack tip and concentrate on breaking through one point. The assault force should be particularly strong, divided into several echelons to attack continuously.

Interspersed Segmentation Tactics: Assault troops penetrate into enemy positions, divide enemy positions into several parts, and annihilate each one. It is characterized by dividing large targets into a number of small targets, forming an attack posture of "one point and two sides" in the enemy's position, and interspersing attacks and strong attacks on the enemy's weak parts.

The sudden and fierce attack from the rear was unexpected by Tanaka, and this was based on his judgment, and it was the main force of the enemy who blocked the retreat in front and had the strongest combat effectiveness. But the facts dealt him a heavy blow again, and in the telescope, explosions rang out from time to time in the east and west of the smoky position, and the flames were like brilliant fireworks.

At this time, the enemy in the north, south, and east directions also launched attacks one after another, and the shouts of killing and gunfire rang out in all directions, and Tanaka didn't know where to smash the main force in his hand for a while.

Artillery was hastily deployed to support the desperate positions. However, a breakthrough has already been formed, and our army, which is interspersed and divided everywhere, is mixed with the devils, and the devils' artillery throws rat traps and cannot exert its full power.

Moreover, the opponent's heavy mortars also quickly roared, smashing high-explosive shells and incendiary bombs into the artillery positions of the devils. Even the 82 mortars played their maximum range and bombarded the devils fiercely.

Tanaka listened to the reports of urgency everywhere, and pretended to be calm and dispatched his troops, hoping to delay the enemy's offensive as much as possible and support this battlefield with a radius of less than five kilometers. At the same time, he hurriedly sent a report to Xuzhou, requesting urgent reinforcements and aircraft support.

After dawn, the planes came to help, and under the cover of bombing and strafing, they should be able to fight their way out of the encirclement and get a life, right? Tanaka knew that he could not be compressed too much by the enemy, the locusts army took a step back, the enemy went further, the smaller the encirclement, the denser the troops, and the more difficult it was to break through.

At this time, Tanaka Qin complained about the high-ranking officers in Xuzhou who sat in front of the map and commanded blindly. They did not estimate the bad situation in eastern Henan at all, and when the enemy occupied Shangqiu and maintained the railway, they finally fell into the enemy's trap in the face of provocation or inducement.

Tanaka Ken also felt a deep sense of regret, regretting that he should not act rashly, but should have gathered troops at the station and waited for the troops to be stronger and more prepared before launching an attack. He also regretted that he should not have returned east overnight when the news was not accurate, vainly hoping to recapture the station and open up the Longhai line, so that the troops were placed in a movement without a solid position to rely on, and fell into the predicament of being besieged on all sides.

The sky is white, our army's offensive is more fierce, and the devil's stubborn resistance is more crazy. For the positions that were about to be lost, the devils began to cover them with artillery, destroying the enemy and our soldiers who fought on them. However, Tanaka also found that the artillery was fighting less and less, and it was constantly destroyed by the enemy's counter-artillery fire. What made him even more anxious was that there were not many shells left.

After the indiscriminate bombardment under Yucheng, the follow-up ammunition replenishment was not all delivered, and the station town was lost, which cut off the supply of the devils.

Not only were the shells getting ffewer and fewer, but Tanaka found that his hopes of holding up the battlefield were also in vain. Under the fierce attack of the enemy, the entire line of defense was short of men and dangerous everywhere. Squadron by squadron, he threw troops into the perimeter, but the speed of attrition shocked him.

120 heavy mortars, 82 mortars, 60 mortars, grenades, steel fists, grenades, slaughter chainsaws, Min 2 quadruple machine guns, Czech-made, rifles, shotguns, bayonets, sabers, and all kinds of weapons even overwhelmed the locust army in number and firepower.

Under the cover of heavy fire, the attacks of the Chinese X Army seemed to be endless, with waves of onslaught on the front, and attacks by cavalry and small groups of infantry interspersed on the flanks and behind.

In order to stop the powerful offensive of the Chinese X Army, Tanaka used almost all means. But this was only slowing down the advance of the Chinese Army X as much as possible, and the positions on the outskirts were still being lost piece by piece.

Tanaka saw that the positions were being broken through and occupied one after another in thunderous explosions or raging flames. Everywhere you can hear the sounds of fighting and shouting, as well as the wails of locust soldiers under the enemy's Molotov cocktails. (To be continued.) )