Officers at all levels of the Japanese army breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that when the Southwest Army entered the city, they were blocked by the imperial troops hiding on the side of the street or in the houses. At least for now, the effect of the street fighting looks good, and the armored units of the Southwestern Army are not playing their role.

However, it didn't take long for the actions of the Southwest Army to puzzle many Japanese officers hiding in the corners. Except for a small number of tanks that had entered Taipei, the rest of the tanks began to withdraw from Taipei City, and at the same time, the armored vehicles that had been following behind came to the front. Then, with armored vehicles as the lead, they advanced to several large roads in Taipei, and the tanks that had not been evacuated began to move towards the main roads in Taipei.

As always, the counterattack was carried out, but this time the results of the Japanese army were completely different from before.

Cao Jun is a graduate of the Chinese Military Academy this year, the army department, and his grades belong to the level that is neither good nor bad, and after graduating this year, he was appointed as the leader of the infantry squad. In this battle against the stage, Cao Jun's troops were classified as the battle sequence of the battle of the stage. When Cao Jun knew that his troops were going to retake Taiwan, his excitement was palpable. As a freshman who has just graduated, he can start going to the battlefield in less than a few months, which is rare among all the cadets of the Chinese Military Academy. Although there is some element of luck in this, not every graduate has such luck.

In the previous attack on Taipei, one squad of Cao's army was in the middle position, and by the time they entered Taipei, the troops had already stopped the attack. Cao Jun, who was still a little disappointed, was originally a little disappointed, but when he received the order to start the street fight, Cao Jun was originally a little disappointed, and he was thrown to Java in an instant. In the military academy, Cao Jun studied the army department, specializing in urban attack and defense, and can definitely be said to be familiar with street fighting, although the graduation results belong to the middle stream, but there are also several disciplines that are excellent, especially about the examination of urban combat, Cao Jun is excellent every time. Now Cao Jun's virgin battle is a street battle, which makes Cao Jun feel that his luck is not ordinarily good.

Like the rest of the troops, they hastily ate some dry food, and one of Cao's squads began to check the ammunition. In this street battle, the infantry's preparations were sufficient, and basically a squad of combat units could take away as much ammunition as they could. After sorting out the weapons, Cao Jun gathered the excess ammunition in the squad and placed it on the armored vehicle that was operating with them.

After the order to start the attack came from the walkie-talkie, a squad of Cao's army followed behind the armored vehicles that had already departed. When they entered the unsafe area, a group of twelve people bowed slightly, their eyes constantly scanning the surrounding buildings. Their mission was to sweep away a block of Japanese troops.

As soon as the marching team turned a street corner, a large pile of sparks appeared from the front armor part of the armored car, and the sound of gunshots and bullets also reached Cao Jun's ears.

"Watch out for cover, the enemy is coming." Cao Jun dodged into a corner next to the street and shouted to his comrades behind him.

Before Cao Jun could speak, the other warriors began to take cover when they heard the gunshots. Some, like Cao Jun, hid in the corners, some lay directly on the ground, and the rest directly took the armored vehicle as cover.

Taking advantage of the gap when the Japanese troops stopped shooting, Cao Jun looked at it, and at this time, in front of them, in a T-shaped intersection, there were bullets fired from buildings in three directions, and four machine guns were placed on the side of the street under the cover of sandbags.

At this time, the two heavy machine guns on top of the armored vehicle also began to return fire. The armored vehicles in the southwest are not comparable to the thin-skinned combat vehicles of Japan, not to mention the Japanese heavy machine guns, even the southwest's own Chinese Z-type heavy machine guns cannot penetrate. Therefore, the armored vehicles were not afraid of the Japanese fire network at all and advanced directly.

Cao Jun glanced at the terrain of the surrounding houses, gestured to a soldier with a sniper rifle behind him, and pointed to the three-story buildings on the street.

The latter nodded knowingly, and when the armored vehicle suppressed the Japanese fire, the sniper quickly crossed the street, holding a sniper rifle in one hand and a pistol in the other, and entered the three-story building.

When the snipers entered the small building, a squad of fighters, with the armored vehicle, launched a counterattack.

Cao Jun put aside the submachine gun in his hand, took out the rifle behind his back, and pointed it at the window of a two-story building diagonally opposite the street corner. Cao Jun had found out before that there were at least six or seven firing points in this house, all of which were rifles. The accuracy and range of the submachine gun could not be compared with that of the rifle, so when he set off, Cao Jun specially prepared a rifle.

Through the crosshairs, Cao Jun saw a rifle sticking out of a window, and under the light of the noon sun, the Japanese army inside was extremely clear to Cao Jun's eyes. Seeing that the Japanese army was right in front of his eyes, Cao Jun had no reason to let it go, and unceremoniously pulled the trigger. At the same time as Cao Jun's gun, a soldier behind him also flipped his rifle, and the Japanese soldier in the other window, and Cao Jun's target, the two corpses fell backwards at the same time.

Cao Jun turned around and gave a thumbs up to the warrior behind him, who responded with a thumbs up.

After a squad of fighters attacked, the Japanese firepower was completely suppressed, especially in the houses on both sides of the street, basically as long as the Japanese poked their heads out, they could not be spared.

The sniper cautiously climbed to the top of the third floor, took out his snipering rifle, and leaned against the low wall at the top of the building. The sniper rifle was aimed at the four Japanese machine-gun positions on the street, and the bolt was pulled and shot at the head of a Japanese soldier who was pulling the trigger of the machine gun. After the sniper fired, he did not look to see if he had been hit, and immediately aimed at another machine gunner, who was confident in his marksmanship. With a quick pull of the bolt, another shot was fired into the head of another Japanese machine gunner. Four shots were fired quickly, and all four machine-gun positions were silent.

Seeing that the snipers were starting to shoot, Cao Jun shouted to a soldier who was following behind the armored car: "Fireman, take out the opponent's machine gun, and the others take cover." ”

When the soldiers heard Cao Jun's words, they fired non-stop at the few remaining firing points of the Japanese army. Without hesitation, the fireman dodged out from behind the armored car, and the bazooka in his hand was aimed at a Japanese machine-gun position that had been dumbfounded. The shells flew towards the machine gun emplacement, and in the explosion, the remaining two Japanese soldiers in the machine gun emplacement, and the heavy machine gun were directly blown away by the shells.

After recapturing the armored body, the bazooka shooter quickly loaded the new shells, and under the cover of his comrades, he dodged out again and pulled the launch button at another machine gun position. In the blink of an eye, the two machine gun positions of the Japanese army were terminated, and the remaining two machine gun positions were also suppressed by the machine guns on the armored vehicles, which could not exert their original firepower at all, and were soon blown up by bazookas.

The fall of the four machine-gun positions made the already weak Japanese army even worse. Heavy machine guns on armored vehicles began to fire at buildings on both sides of the street. The bullets hit the walls, leaving deep craters, and the fighters on the ground followed the armored vehicles as they moved quickly. The suppressed Japanese troops were unable to fight back at all, and the KPA soldiers who followed up were not polite at all, and grenades were thrown into the buildings on both sides, and the sound of explosions was mixed with the shouts of the Japanese soldiers.

The flamethrower, who had not made a move, also began to attack at this time. Fire dragons were sprayed into the houses where the Japanese soldiers were hiding, and the flames ignited the combustible materials in the houses, including the Japanese soldiers who were hiding inside.

The sky, which had been fairly clean, was soon obscured by thick smoke. The Japanese soldiers, who were scorched by the flames, struggled out of the house and were shot dead by snipers hiding on the third floor.

The houses that had not yet been attacked, and the Japanese soldiers inside did not dare to stay in the houses at all when they saw such a situation. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers, led by a military officer, ran out of a shop and rushed to the KPA soldiers on the street while shouting "board load". The machine guns on the armored vehicles and the snipers on the roof fired together, and the dozen or so Japanese soldiers fell under the guns before they could run twenty meters.

More and more Japanese soldiers ran out of their hiding houses, preferring to be killed by bullets rather than burned by fire.

Cao's army, which was still speeding up, saw that the Japanese troops were running into the streets, and immediately ordered the troops to slow down the pace of attack and focus on destroying the enemy's living forces.

The Japanese troops who ran out from behind did not rush up in a swarm, and learned from the KPA to hide in the corners and find various covers, and began to shoot at Cao Jun and others. Although the marksmanship of the Japanese army was not bad, the marksmanship of the KPA soldiers was even better. Moreover, now the Japanese army has no machine guns, although they are more numerically than Cao Jun and others, but in the face of the two heavy machine guns on the armored vehicle, they are completely in a posture of being pressed and beaten.

Cao Jun and others can be said to have killed with guns, and they dodged in time, shooting at each other for ten minutes. Only one soldier accidentally pierced his calf by the Japanese army's 38 big cover, and after emergency bandaging, he was thrown into a firefight with the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was not so lucky, not only suffered heavy casualties, but was also driven out by Cao Jun and others, and with the advance of armored vehicles, the Japanese army also retreated all the way. When the Japanese retreated to another battlefield, they found that there were less than five of the teams that were originally stationed there. When the remaining five Japanese troops and the remnants of another squad of Japanese troops converged, they found that less than half an hour had passed in the battle, the blocks they were defending had been breached, the streets had been opened, and the strength of the original two squads was now less than twenty people.

Cao Jun saw that the five Japanese soldiers and the Japanese soldiers running from a distance converged, and they could also see from a distance, and there were also their own people chasing after them at the opposite street corner. When the two sides could see who the other side was, those Japanese troops had been compressed together, with a strong enemy in front and pursuers in the rear. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers reluctantly hid in a small alley, and now they are like frightened birds.

The soldiers of the two squads converged, and two armored vehicles blocked the ends of the small alley. After Cao Jun and another squad leader nodded, Cao Jun shouted loudly into the alley: "Listen to the little Japan inside, immediately put down your weapons and come out to surrender, otherwise we will be fireproof, and none of you will survive at that time." "The shouting is Chinese, and Cao Jun is not afraid that the Japanese inside will not understand.

Soon, without Cao Jun shouting a second time, the Japanese soldiers who were blocked in the small alley walked out with their weapons, and the soldiers who were waiting on the side immediately walked over and collected all the weapons on the surrendered Japanese soldiers.

After the prisoners were handed over, the soldiers of the two squads separated and continued to advance towards their respective goals.

At this time, the KPA was advancing at a very fast pace, and it was expected to be able to block the Japanese army's street fighting tactics of the Southwest Army, but at this time it was completely ineffective. Moreover, the offensive methods of the Southwest Army were completely different from what the commander of the division stationed in Taiwan thought. According to his line of thinking, the attack was preceded by an artillery bombardment, followed by an attack on land. But the Southwestern Army did not shell, but attacked directly, and the effect was very good. The Imperial Japanese Army, which has always been proud, has no advantage at all in front of the Southwest Army. What made the commander of the division stationed in Taiwan even more unbelievable was that in just two hours, one-third of the huge Taipei City had already fallen.

The People's Army, with squad formations as units, supplemented by armored vehicles and tanks, launched attacks on the streets and alleys of Taipei City from all directions. When encountering a difficult defensive point, you can also call in artillery fire support outside the city. Under the combined attack of flamethrowers and bazookas, it is only a simple house or a defensive line made of sandbags, which is simply vulnerable. In addition, the People's Army at this time was highly motivated, experienced in street fighting, and advanced in weaponry. On the contrary, the morale of the Japanese side was poor, the experience of street fighting was almost zero, and the weapons and equipment could not be compared. Two hours, if it weren't for the delay of a lot of time for the delivery of the prisoners, half of them might have been taken now.

The Japanese army headquarters in the center of Taipei City was gloomy at this time. It was home to most of the Japanese defenses, and the expatriates were concentrated here. Now the KPA has formed a huge encirclement and is pressing here from all sides. The expatriates didn't know what was going on, but that didn't prevent them from seeing anything on the faces of the nervous officers. Then came the mouth of a wounded man who had been withdrawn from the front that Taipei was now almost halfway down. Only then did those expatriates realize that the situation had become so grim.

After two days of fighting, many family members of the expatriates here fell on the battlefield, and now they hear that the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable, which makes many expatriates feel dissatisfied. In the past two days, there have not been many deaths in the army, and most of the deaths are armed expatriates, who originally thought that these troops could defeat the Southwestern Army, but now hearing such news, it is really difficult for them to accept. Many people are weak in their hearts: if they knew this, it would be better to surrender directly at the beginning, so as to save so many people from dying.

At this time, Chen Shao was at home with his wife and daughter during lunch time. He has always maintained a high degree of concern about the war in Taiwan, and since yesterday, a detailed war report has been placed on his desk, except for some general directions, how to fight and what tactics to adopt. For these things, Chen Shao let Cai Ye and Kong Wenhong decide for themselves, and they will not be subject to the orders of foreign monarchs, since they have handed over the command to them, they must believe them, not to mention that Chen Shao does not think that his military command is very powerful. It's just that he has a broader perspective than others, and he is also familiar with various classic combat examples in later generations, so when he was in the military academy, those cadets thought that their principal's military quality was definitely the first in the whole military academy. However, his family knows about his own family affairs, and Chen Shao did not deny anything.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Shao appeared in the office on time, and after processing a few documents that were not very important, he picked up the development reports of various regions on the side and read them.

Chen Shao was also very concerned about the change of course in the Feng department and the invasion of Mongolia, and it was better to take back the three northeastern provinces, and he had already done a lot of work in the Feng department before, and now many officials have begun to work in the three northeastern provinces. The officials who were originally affiliated with the department are also being screened, and the order is not excessive, which has always been the criterion in the southwest. In particular, the appointment of officials is much stricter.

The matter is more serious in Mongolia, which has a large territory, from the northeast to the northwest. This time, in order to solve the famine in Mongolia, Chen Shao has mobilized tens of thousands of tons of grain from major cities, which has alleviated the food problem in Mongolia. Famine is one problem, and there is another problem of taking back Mongolia, and that is the problem of the Soviet Union. In Mongolia, the Soviet Union has made a lot of moves, although it is not very serious at this time, but now Chen Shao does not want to touch the nerves of the Soviet Union too much.

For this reason, as early as when he sent troops to Mongolia, Chen Shao ordered Zongli to have a good talk with the Soviet ambassador, and used the weapons purchased by the Soviet Union as a bargaining chip to start a dialogue with the Soviet side, forcing the Soviet Union to agree to recognize Mongolia as belonging to China. For this reason, Chen Shao promised the Soviet Union that Chen Shao would give the Soviet Union a 20% discount on this arms deal. Originally, the Soviet Union was still fragmented, pulling things from the east to the west, and had an attitude of non-cooperation. But when Zhongli put the chips on the table, the Soviet ambassador finally agreed to Chen Shao's request after contacting Moscow.

At this time, it was the time when the industrial economy of the Soviet Union was recovering, and Stalin was very reluctant to spend so much money to buy arms from the southwest. There is also a point that Stalin's attention is not in Mongolia at this time, although there are some small actions, but they are all dispensable little things, besides, now Mongolia is still the Soviet Union, and China has such a thing as a tank, Stalin does not want to be too stiff with Chen Shao, at least before the Soviet Union has more powerful tanks, not to mention that Stalin does not want the current Soviet Union to fall into the war, and the most important thing is to bury his head in development.

Chen Shao originally thought that the other party would agree to the batch of equipment only after a five-percent discount, so Chen Shao also thought that even if he didn't make money, the Soviets would agree. I didn't expect to send it away with an eight-fold discount, which was very unexpected by Chen Shao. When the dust settled on this matter, Chen Shao was also very unhappy, Mongolia is the territory of China, and he didn't expect to get back his own things and ask foreign countries to agree not to interfere. After Zong Li reported this matter to him, he burst into a foul language in Zong Li's surprised expression: "What a hell of a wreck, Stalin, we will have a long life in the future!"

To say that Chen Shao had an impulse to fight hard with the other party in those days, but he still understood the truth of the snipe and clam competing for the benefit of the fisherman, the Soviet Union was not Japan, even if it could defeat the Soviet Union, but for China, there was no benefit at all. At this time, it was still at war with Japan, and when the two countries united, Chen Shao's chances of victory were slim. Moreover, if the north and the south are reunified, if there is any more moth at that time, it will ruin the originally good situation, and the land of China is very likely to fall into the flames of war again. This is also the reason why Chen Shao tried not to conflict with the Soviet Union, not because he was afraid, but because it was not the right time.

More than ten days have passed, and the current Mongolia has also been taken, except for some remote areas, the rest of the places are in the hands of the southwest. Two armies and a large number of reserve forces had reached the borders of the Soviet Union, but fortunately, both sides were restrained and nothing went wrong.

Just as Chen Shao was looking at the report, Wang Jie knocked on the door and entered. Handing Chen Shao a copy of the latest Taiwan war report, he turned around and walked out.

Chen Shao picked up the battle report and read it.

At this time, the offensive of the Southwestern Army was as fierce as ever, although it was a street battle, but the speed was not slow at all, and from morning to now, the battle line was pushed again and again. At present, most of the Japanese army is surrounded in the center of Taipei City, within a diameter of five kilometers. However, the range was small, but the density was very high, which also slowed down the offensive speed of the Southwest People's Army, and in the last half hour, there was no further advance. For this reason, Cai Ye has set off from Kinmen and rushed to Keelung Port. By the time the battle report was issued, the Southwestern Army had already stopped attacking. For this reason, Cai Ye specially asked Chen Shao for instructions at the back of the war report whether it was possible to dispatch bombers and artillery to bomb Taipei.

This matter is not simple, at this time Taipei is besieged not only Japanese soldiers, but also hundreds of thousands of expatriates. Countries around the world are paying attention to this battle, and if they launch an artillery attack regardless of those expatriates, it will cause some undesirable consequences in international public opinion. Therefore, Cai Ye specially asked Chen Shao for instructions.

Chen Shao's idea is very simple, and it is not as complicated as Cai Yi, how many of the expatriates in Taiwan at this time have not done anything sorry for the people of Taiwan, and Chen Shao does not have the slightest pity for these people. As for international public opinion, Chen Shao also said that so many armed expatriates are fighting against the People's Army, and it is difficult to distinguish between them, and they are purely injured by mistake. If you want to say that you are worried, Chen Shao thinks that if the buildings in Taipei start to be bombed, it will inevitably cost money to rebuild, and it will cost money to rebuild the bombs, and then it will cost money to rebuild them. Chen Shao was very unhappy with the Japanese soldiers who resisted. This also led to the fact that when the Japanese in Taiwan were taken prisoner, everyone was swept away and only a body of clothing was left. In addition, they must also take on the task of rebuilding Taipei.

Soon, Chen Shao's reply agreeing to the shelling appeared in Cai Ye's hand. Regarding Chen Shao's reply, Cai Ye had already guessed it. With his understanding of Chen Shao, it is even more difficult to ask Chen Shao to exchange the lives of soldiers for victory. You don't see that there is a medical ship docked on the sea at this time, ready to rescue those wounded soldiers, and a temporary medical center has been established in Keelung Harbor. Regarding Chen Shao's thoughts about protecting calves, Cai Ye and others are very clear. So in the face of such a war situation, Cai Ye also guessed Chen Shao's reply when he sent out the request.

(To be continued)