Chapter 153: The tension is on the verge (please subscribe!) )
[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 153: The tension is on the verge of breaking out (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! )
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Soon Major General Takashima's adjutant hurriedly ran in and said, "Your Excellency, you must evacuate here immediately, the large army of the Shina people has already attacked, so you and the doctor must leave immediately." ”
"Matsushima, we can't leave anymore, just now His Excellency Commander Yamada sent a telegram saying that there is a war going on on the territory of the upper kilometer with this place as the center of our place, and it is the Shina people attacking!"
"Nani?"
"Yes, you heard it right, it's the guy who is attacking. Even if we get out of the city, we can't go far, there are troops of the Shina people everywhere, and now we can only hold on here and wait for reinforcements. His Excellency the Commander assured that the first reinforcements would arrive in 1 hour and the second by 8 a.m. tomorrow, so all we have to do now is hold out for an hour. Major General Takashima said helplessly.
"Hay! I believe that with the most elite guard unit of our water supply and epidemic prevention department, not to say an hour, even if it is 3 hours, there is no problem, but the question is whether our reinforcements can arrive within an hour, as far as we know, the nearest unit to us here is in Shuangyashan, but it is also hundreds of kilometers away from the small city where we are, and there is no day that cannot be rushed, unless they can fly for an hour. Captain Matsushima said.
Matsushima may have been unintentional, but it was true that the reinforcements sent by Yamada Otozo were indeed flying, and the paratroopers of an entire infantry wing were rushing from Changchun Airport to the Qitai River.
Although Major General Takashima is not good at operational command, there is indeed a capable person in the Japanese army, this person is called Muto Kazuki, with the rank of captain and the position of squadron leader.
This Captain Muto is not an ordinary person, the 48-year-old Captain Muto was once a real son of heaven, serving as the captain of the Daizo Wing, and was later demoted and retained by the military department because of a major mistake.
Although his post was reduced, he did not forget the experience of leading troops to fight. Captain Muto knew that it was impossible to garrison the entire county with more than 200 people in his hands, and these people couldn't even fill the fortifications of the ring city, let alone hold on for long.
Therefore, Captain Muto made the most correct defensive plan in the shortest possible time, and he ordered the troops to blow up all the civilian houses around the headquarters, clear the field of sight, and try not to leave any blind spots for shooting.
At the same time, some of the civilian houses around the garrison headquarters were opened, and then all the troops were concentrated in this area, Captain Muto knew that his task was to hold out for 1 hour, and he didn't need to do anything else, so there was no need to stick to the entire county, and the focus on defense was the most correct.
In addition, Captain Muto also ordered the troops to take out all the weapons and equipment in the county, especially the heavy machine guns, and make sure that there is one every 20 meters, anyway, those weapons and equipment will fall into the hands of the people of Renzhi if they are not used.
The battle was not as smooth as Wu Xiuda imagined, and the defenders who had lost their elite were only two or three hundred people, how could they withstand the siege of two battalions.
Besides, in such a large county, as long as one place is breached, then the defense of the entire county town will be broken. The reason why two battalions were sent here was entirely to prepare for the evacuation of the county seat.
But what Wu Xiuda didn't expect was that the Japanese army defending the city neither broke through nor surrendered, but abandoned the seemingly strong fortifications on the periphery of the county, but in fact full of loopholes, and re-established a defensive line on the periphery of the garrison headquarters, the depth of this defense line is not large, only less than 30 meters, but the defense is extremely effective.
Half an hour after the start of the battle, the troops organized six charges, and although the casualties were great, they had no effect at all.
The defensive firepower of the Japanese army was so fierce that as soon as the battle began, there was a crackling of gunfire, and the crossfire composed of more than 30 heavy machine guns and dozens of light machine guns was enough to beat the charging Chinese soldiers into a sieve.
In just half an hour of the battle, the first battalion lost more than 120 people. What puzzled the commander of the first battalion the most was that the Japanese army's fortifications were too tricky, and because the frontal field was too small, there was at most one company of troops at a time, and no more would be enough.
A company of infantry wants to break the fire network of 300 people head-on, it is a dream, although the mortar attack is still somewhat effective, but because the Japanese trenches are very immoral, and the inside is a civilian area, large-scale artillery bombardment will definitely cause huge civilian casualties, so the troops have a large number of mortars but cannot be used.
Let's not talk about the hard battles fought here by Wu Xiuda's subordinates, and then let's talk about the battles in other places. Because the battle in the Qitaihe area was too fierce, and the battle situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the Japanese army, and because Major General Takashima and others were too special to fall into the hands of the Chinese, General Yamada Otosan, in addition to ordering the paratrooper wing to come for reinforcements, also ordered the main force of the 75th Division, which was making every effort to resist the attack and harassment of Bilige's troops, to immediately set off from Shuangyashan and rush to Qitaihe by train.
So a surprising battle happened, the side that was fighting fiercely suddenly withdrew from the battle, hurriedly covered each other and rushed to Dunhua City, in just two hours, all the strongholds on the periphery of Shuangyashan were abandoned by the Japanese army one after another, and a large number of infantry began to assemble in the city.
After another hour, under the opening of the railway patrol armored car, a column of troops drove out of Shuangyashan and headed for the direction of the Qitai River.
After receiving the report from the front, Bi Lige immediately asked the general headquarters what was going on, but since the attack on Qitaihe was Wu Xiuda's temporary intention, many people, including Xu Hu, did not know what was going on here.
Fortunately, the communication between the two sides was still smooth, and soon the news of Wu Xiuda's siege of Qitaihe spread to the other troops of Xu Hu's department. After receiving a definite answer, Bilig was overjoyed and immediately ordered the troops on the front line to blow up the railway to the Qitai River at all costs, slowing down the advance of the Japanese army.
And Wu Xiuda was also surprised to learn that the Japanese army had sent the main division to reinforce it, and at the same time realized that there must be something in the city that the Japanese army valued, otherwise he would not be so nervous.
Immediately, Wu Xiuda made a decision and immediately ordered the main force to dispatch to urgently reinforce Qitaihe.
As an important town in the North Manchurian region, Shuangyashan has always been valued by the Japanese army. After the reconquest of Shuangyashan, the Japanese army had as many as one complete infantry division stationed here, and there was also a puppet Manchukuo infantry division stationed here.
Originally, Xu Hu didn't plan to let the troops storm Shuangyashan this time, after all, it was not the same as Qitai River. The defenders of an infantry brigade in Qitaihe were easy to pack up, and the casualties of the troops would not be too great. However, if the troops are allowed to storm Shuangyashan, not to mention whether the troops can be defeated, even if they can be defeated, the gains outweigh the losses.
However, Wu Xiuda's actions on his side created an excellent opportunity for Bi Lige's department, compared to the Japanese army, Shuangyashan is important, but Takashima and others who are surrounded in the Qitai River are more important, because Takashima and others are experts in bacterial biochemistry in the Japanese Empire, and they are the main persons in charge of Unit 731 and Unit 100 in Manchuria.
Not to mention that it would be a great loss for these people to lose any of them, and if these people were captured by the Shina people, it would be even more troublesome.
The capture of a prince of Fushiminomiya made the empire famous in the international community, and if such a group of bacteriological experts announced the experiments carried out by the empire in Manchuria, it would be tantamount to a disaster for the empire, so General Yamada Otozo knew that Shuangyashan was under great pressure, but still ordered the 75th Division to immediately transfer troops to reinforce the Qitaihe.
Although the overall strength of the reorganized 4th Division was far stronger than that of the 75th Division, the Japanese army's fortifications in the Shuangyashan area were quite good, and it was not cost-effective to attack them. Now that the opportunity has come, how could Bilig let it go, and soon the main force of the reorganized 4th Division was assembled.
At this point, the entire North Manchurian region has once again become tense because of a decision made by Wu Xiuda on a whim, and the war is about to break out!