In the suburbs of Xuzhou, the headquarters of the 6th Division.

The long night finally passed, and the ubiquitous and pervasive squadron finally withdrew.

The chief of staff of the Sixth Division, Shimono Osa, strode into the war room, and immediately straightened his feet and said to Lieutenant General Tani Shoufu, commander of the Sixth Division: "Your Excellency, the casualty statistics have come out, a brigade of the 13th Infantry Wing has been heavily damaged, more than 300 people have been killed, nearly 100 people have been seriously wounded, and the captain of the infantry brigade has also been killed. ”

"What!?" Gu Shoufu said in disbelief, "The casualties are so heavy? ”

"Hello!" Shimono Osa suddenly bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency General, according to the surviving reports of the soldiers, the Chinese army that attacked last night was very good at night fighting, and even better at street fighting, and its light firepower was even better than that of the imperial army, and the artillery of the imperial army was limited to the terrain of the roadway and it was difficult to exert its power, so it was at an absolute disadvantage in the street battle with the Chinese army. ”

"Yaga." Gu Shoufu said in a deep voice, "Shimono-kun, it seems that we are in trouble. ”

"Yes." Shimono Osa thought so, "Street fighting was not the director of the imperial army, and it was not conducive to the imperial army to give full play to its artillery advantages, but the opposite branch army was very good at street fighting, although the strength was less than 20,000, its combat effectiveness was even comparable to the 100,000 branch army that defended Nanjing, and the casualties of the imperial army in this battle were only afraid that they were even worse than the battle of Nanjing." ”

Gu Shoufu frowned and said, "Is street fighting really inevitable?" ”

Shimono Dasa shook his head solemnly and said, "Your Excellency General, I'm afraid it's hard to avoid it." ”

Gu Shoufu pondered for a moment and then said, "Shimono-kun, immediately report the battle damage to the Third Army Headquarters." ”

"Hello." Shimono Osa bowed his head suddenly, and immediately took the order.

………… Thirty miles southwest of Xuzhou, Xiao County.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe has officially assumed the post of commander of the Third Army and has established a headquarters in Xiao County.

Lieutenant General Okabe's first order as commander of the Third Army was not a combat order, but a personnel appointment, and he transferred the chief of staff of the Fifth Division, Tomoshi Tengda, to the headquarters of the Third Army almost immediately, and this little devil also changed from the chief of staff of the Fifth Division to the chief of staff of the major general of the Third Army.

In the war room, the communications staff officer was reporting the military situation to Lieutenant General Okabe: "Your Excellency, last night, the Zhina Army outside Xuzhou City suddenly launched a large-scale counterattack, especially the street fighting in the outer blocks of the railway station was the most intense, the 13th Infantry Wing under the Sixth Division suffered heavy losses, with nearly 400 casualties, and the casualties of the Zhina Army are unknown. ”

Lieutenant General Okabe waved his hand, and the communications staff officer suddenly bowed his head, and then turned to leave.

Lieutenant General Okabe turned his gaze to Teng Tian Zhi again and said, "Teng Tian-kun, what do you think?" ”

Teng Tianzhi frowned and pondered for a moment before saying, "Your Excellency General, I'm afraid we have to change our tactics!" ”

Lieutenant General Okabe solemnly motioned to Teng Tian Zhi and continued, Teng Tian Zhi strode to the front of the simulated sand table, pointed to the sand table and said: "Your Excellency General, please see, although Xuzhou also has an ancient city wall, but after thousands of years of development, its city has already expanded to outside the city wall, so there are also large blocks outside the city, if our army still adopts the original tactics and blindly attacks from the front, then a large area outside Xuzhou will become a street battle battlefield repeatedly fought by the enemy and our army!" ”

"Street fighting is not the strength of the imperial army, but the opposite Chinese Baoshan Brigade is the elite of the elite, according to the humble understanding, the Baoshan Brigade is very good at street fighting, even better at night fighting, and built a large number of tunnel fortifications inside and outside the city of Xuzhou, elusive, unable to prevent it, therefore, if our army still adopts strong attack tactics, huge casualties are inevitable."

Lieutenant General Okabe nodded and said, "So, do you have any good suggestions?" ”

Teng Tian Zhi said: "Your Excellency General, I think that we should carry out a destructive bombing of Xuzhou at any cost, so as to destroy the surface and tunnel fortifications of the [***] team as much as possible, kill and injure a large number of enemies while seriously dampening the enemy's spirit, and then draw veterans with outstanding marksmanship from various divisions and regiments to form a large number of sniper teams to carry out sniper operations with the [***] team." ”

"Sniper operations?" Lieutenant General Okabe said thoughtfully, "Tengda-kun, this is a completely new subject. ”

For the vast majority of high-ranking generals such as Lieutenant General Okabe, sniper warfare, street fighting, night fighting, special operations, and other tactics are all brand-new topics that have been involved in the past, but Tengtian Zhi graduated from the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, and has also systematically studied these cutting-edge topics, and his attainments are quite shallow.

Teng Tian Zhi said very seriously: "Your Excellency General, don't think that sniper operations are just piecemeal disturbance warfare, in fact, as long as the terrain is suitable, the effect of large-scale sniper operations is even better than that of frontal assault, and you can also save your strength as much as possible while killing and injuring a large number of enemy troops." ”

"Yo Si." Lieutenant General Okabe bowed his head happily and said, "Tengtian-kun, this matter is up to you." ”

"Hello!" Teng Tianzhi bowed his head suddenly, and said, "Your Excellency General, your humble duty will never disgrace your mission. ”

………… In Xuzhou City, the underground headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade.

Liu Yixing hurriedly walked into the war room and said to Yue Weihan: "Brigade seat, the results of the bayonet battalion have been reported. ”

After that, without waiting for Yue Weihan to reply, Liu Yi continued: "It is estimated that at least two squadrons of the Yue Army have been annihilated in rough steps!" ”

Yue Weihan's main concern was never this, and he hurriedly said at the moment: "What about the bayonet battalion itself, how many casualties have it?" ”

Liu Yi hurriedly said: "The bayonet battalion's own losses are not large, about 100 casualties, including more than 50 killed, brigade seats, the ratio of enemy and enemy losses is nearly four to one, such a result is exchanged for other [***] troops, that is not to even think about it, and our Baoshan Brigade can play such a record!" ”

"There's nothing to brag about." Yue Weihan shook his head and said coldly, "If it weren't for the favorable terrain and the heavy firepower of the Yue army would not be able to give full play to its advantages, the ratio of casualties between the enemy and us would probably be three to one or even two to one!" ”

If other [***] generals heard this, they would die of absolute shame, and if they let the generals of the Yue army hear it, they would be so angry that they vomited blood and died, and the other [***] could already be a huge victory if they could fight with the Yue army with casualties of one to one, but in Yue Weihan's eyes, a battle with the Yue army was two to one, or even three to one, it could only be regarded as a failure.

However, Yue Weihan is by no means sitting in a well and watching the sky, and Yelang is arrogant.

In addition to the fact that there is no heavy weapons and aviation units to coordinate operations, the Baoshan Brigade has to comprehensively overwhelm the Baoshan Brigade in terms of the allocation of light weapons, the tactical quality of grassroots officers, the proportion of veterans, and the tactical command ability of the commanders, and even the 17 permanent divisions and regiments that are the most elite in the combat sequence of the Yue Army cannot be compared with the Baoshan Brigade.

In addition, the tunnel fortifications carefully constructed by the Baoshan Brigade for several months greatly offset the superiority of the army's artillery and aviation, and it is not a problem that it can achieve such a result.

"......Boom, Boom" The scream of cannonballs suddenly sounded on the ground.

Yue Weihan's face suddenly changed drastically after listening to it: "What the dog said is a 240mm caliber grenade!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a huge explosion sounded on the ground, and in an instant, the entire underground headquarters began to shake slightly, and a large amount of rubble and smoke fell through the wooden beams on the top of the bunker, and Yue Weihan, Liu Yi, and several major staff officers in the war room were immediately disgraced.

Immediately after, a series of explosions came down through the surface.

The commanders and fighters in the headquarters of the Baoshan Brigade were not affected in any way, and even the dozen or so female dignitaries in the telecommunications room next door were also calm, and they did not appear panicked because of the shelling of the army's large-caliber heavy artillery.

Time passed slowly in the sound of a huge explosion, and when I looked up through the lookout hole, I saw that the entire ground was completely shrouded in gunsmoke, and there was no longer a trace of light!

Gradually, Yue Weihan's face changed a little.

Liu Yi's face was also a little embarrassed, and he said in a difficult tone: "Brigade, one hundred and eight shots!" ”

Yue Weihan's expression was cold, the one hundred and eight rounds that Liu Yi said did not refer to the number of shells, but the number of salvo rounds, that is to say, the large-caliber heavy artillery of the Yue army had already fired one hundred and eight rounds of salvo fire at Xuzhou City, and the total number of shells fired had definitely exceeded one thousand, and it seemed that the Yue army still had no intention of stopping the shelling.

At this moment, a terrible air defense siren sounded on the ground, and the air force of the Chinese army actually came.

As soon as the terrible air defense siren sounded, a huge explosion like a landslide and tsunami had already been violently transmitted from the surface, and in an instant, the entire underground bunker of the command headquarters began to tremble violently, several major staff officers in the war room suddenly fell to the ground, and the screams of the telegraph operators also sounded in the telecommunications room next door!

A blockbuster bomb turned out to be a blockbuster bomb! Yue Weihan and Liu Yi looked at each other awe-inspiringly.

The aftermath of the explosion of the first bomb has not yet dissipated, the second and third explosions hit one after another, and several major staff officers who had just struggled to get up suddenly fell to the ground without any image, Liu Yi also suddenly took two steps back, and could barely stabilize his body by holding on to the wall, only Yue Weihan's figure was still immovable.

In the endless explosions, a thunderbolt suddenly shattered everyone's eardrums.

Yue Weihan and Liu Yi's faces suddenly changed greatly, and they quickly flashed into the telecommunications room next door, as veterans, of course they could hear that this was a blockbuster bomb that fell directly on the ground above the head of the war room! Almost the moment Yue Weihan and Liu Yi flashed into the telecommunications room, the dozen or so beams on the roof of the war room collapsed.

This is the power of a super-large caliber heavy bomb, unless it is a reinforced concrete fortification, as long as it is directly hit, even if it is an underground bunker ten meters deep underground, it will collapse in a shock, poor those major staff officers were directly buried alive before they had time to react, although Yue Weihan and Liu Yi had the heart to save each other, they had no time to take care of it!

(To be continued)