Chapter 204 The devil bloodbathed Jizhou City
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Looking at the soldiers who suffered heavy casualties, Jiro Yamamura, who was in charge of commanding the attack on Jishu Castle, was undoubtedly very annoyed. Seeing that the other party actually used this kind of stone-throwing cart of the old era to repair his attacking troops and chariots in such a mess.
To add insult to injury, he waited for the tanks to enter the gate and blew it up. What you see is that a city gate hole has been filled with piles of sandbags, which almost clearly tells them that the defenders inside are going to live and die with Jizhou City!
Since the march into Longhua, Jiro Yamamura asked himself if the soldiers of Longhua were no match for the elite Japanese army, but he found it hard to believe. Why on that day, when they invaded Heihe Prefecture, those Longhua defenders almost fled. When I arrived in Jizhou, I completely changed, and all the people I met were Longhua soldiers who were not afraid of life and death.
For these Longhua soldiers who no longer take their lives seriously, even if he is better armed and equipped than the other party, he is also scared away by this way of fighting with his life.
After all, as a high-ranking general of the Japanese army, he knew very well that even if they claimed to have a million army. But if it continues to be consumed like this, or a few cities, their soldiers will almost die. What is the use of the best weapons if there are no soldiers?
Seeing that the city gate had been blocked, there was only one way to enter the city, and that was to blow up the old city wall and blow up a gap for the follow-up troops to attack. But in the face of those, the Beiyi army, which was hiding in the hole in the city gate, directly shrouded dozens of meters under the city wall with grenades. As soon as the little devil gets close, grenades will fall like hailstones.
Jiro Yamamura, who is really helpless, once again shows his madness to the world, and has a tank car loaded with bombs. After igniting the explosives on the car, he directly increased his horsepower and crashed into the city wall. In this way the car is destroyed and people die. Finally they managed to blow up a section of the city wall.
Seeing that the city wall was blown open a gap, Jiro Yamamura immediately ordered the artillery unit to carry out a ten-minute artillery bombardment along this gap. The first is to suppress the Longhua soldiers who are ready to come over to fill the gap, and the second is to expand the width of the gap and open up more passages for the follow-up attacking troops.
In the face of the Japanese army about to break into the city, the commander of the first division, who had already prepared, quickly adjusted the arrangement. Order the troops in the city to withdraw, all enter the city to build haode fortifications, and fight the alley battle with the little devil's troops entering the city. And before the little devil arrived. They had set up obstacles and ambushes in some of the city's passages that were convenient for tanks and armored vehicles to travel.
As long as the chariot of the little devil enters, it will definitely be destroyed by the infantry at close range. And in the opinion of the commander of the 1st Division, as long as the little devils enter the city, their most threatening howitzer unit will not be useful. All they could do was be in this unfamiliar city. Fought until there was not a single surviving officer of the 1st Division in the city.
Look at the defenders of the city, as they begin to attack. Quickly retreat from the walls. Jiro Yamamura didn't have any surprises. Because at this moment, he already knew what would happen to his attacking troops next. In such a strange city, the advantage of their equipment in street battles will probably be reduced to the minimum.
But no matter what, they at least attacked Jizhou City, as long as they took the capital of Jizhou. That means: It is only a matter of time before they rule the entire territory of Jizhou. Therefore, no matter how hard the bones of the city in front of him are, he must bite them and swallow them. Or, all the previous losses will be in vain.
At the time when the two armies were at war. Knowing that the little devil had blown up the city wall and had entered the city, the young men and the old man who stayed in the city refused the request to go out of the city through the tunnel.
On the contrary, if they would shoot, they would ask the officers and men of the first division to borrow guns and bullets, and the ordinary people who could not shoot would ask these soldiers, who seemed a little excited and ashamed, to take a grenade. For them, they don't want to be slaves to the country, and they don't want to be obedient people who are little devils. Therefore, they will accompany these soldiers and fight to the zuihou of their lives.
The commander of the first division, who happened to have a lot of weapons and ammunition that had not been removed, still refused to leave when he saw the people, and insisted on living and dying with them. I also know that these people who stayed, I am afraid that they are also like them, ready to live and die with Jizhou City. Soon ordered his subordinates to open an ordnance warehouse and give the rifles and bullets stored in it to these young men to use.
Compared with the young generals who cooperated with the soldiers and fought with the little devils in the streets and rooms of the city, these old people with limited mobility calmly took a few grenades each. Tell these soldiers who handed over the grenades to them that Jizhou has produced heroes since ancient times, and there has never been a person who is afraid of death. Even if they can't shoot now, it's still okay to pull off the grenade and play with the little devil.
Such a strong temperament, an old man who is calm in the face of death, undoubtedly makes every soldier look very excited. Even some soldiers who didn't want to die here, when they saw the resoluteness on the faces of these old men, they secretly vowed to kill more little devils. Avenge these hometown fathers.
It is this way of unity between the military and the people that makes the little devil troops who rushed into the city suddenly find that they seem to have entered the quagmire of war. Every street, every alley, even every house, is like a forbidden area for them. You have to pay the price of blood to break through.
Even some Japanese soldiers rushed into the homes of ordinary people and looked at the old man of Longhua sitting at home. When he got up, all he saw was the old man, and he pulled the grenade in his hand with a smile on his face. The Japanese soldiers who were close to them were killed and wounded.
When the news was fed back to Jiro Yamamura, who was sitting outside the city, the admiral suddenly felt a chill soar. Who used to say that the people of Longhua were all soft bones, and now Yamamura Jiro really wants to pull them over and let them take a good look. Is there such a soft bone in this world that even the old man is not afraid of life and death?
It is clear that if they do not change their tactics, their remaining two infantry divisions may all be buried in Jizhou City. Therefore, Jiro Yamamura issued a massacre order, killing all men, women, and children in the city, as long as they could move and move. This cruel way naturally allowed their besieging troops to reduce their losses.
But at the same time, they also attracted the anger of some of the city's citizens who did not want to participate in the war. When it is clear that this little devil who is attacking the city does not have any humanity at all. Even the old people who need someone to help them will ask the younger generation of the family to prepare a grenade for them. Then they changed into their birthday clothes when they were going to go out of the funeral, and sat at home waiting for the red-eyed little devil to enter the door.
As the imps capture almost every street, they will reduce a portion of their attacking force. Jiro Yamamura looked at the city in front of him, where gunshots and explosions were heard from time to time, and suddenly felt that this was a hellish city. The infantry under his command, brigade by brigade, increased inward. But I can't hear the end of the gunshot!
Wait until they fight from morning to night, and then to the early morning of the next day, an attacking Japanese infantry unit. I don't know how many people they died along the way, and how many people they killed. When the entire army finally pushed to the other side of Jizhou City, it was announced that Jizhou City was in their hands.
When Jiro Yamamura, who entered the city, gathered the troops in the city again, he found that each infantry brigade was not fully organized. In this Jizhou city, they killed at least twenty or thirty thousand Longhua soldiers and civilians, but the price they paid. It was the infantry in front of him that had lost more than 10,000 people from nearly 30,000 before the battle. This means that more than 10,000 of them have died here.
Jishu City is occupied, but Yamamura Jiro does not have any joy about occupying this city, on the contrary, he feels cold to the bone. Because, at this time, in Jizhou City, except for the red-faced Japanese soldiers, there was no living thing to be seen. In particular, I want to get some loot in terms of materials or wealth from here. What you get is volcanoes with a lot of explosives.
The result of the Japanese soldiers who happily rushed into the warehouse was to take off with the materials in the warehouse. So much so that they didn't get anything at all except for a dead body and a devastated Jizhou City.
In order to occupy the city in front of them, their Japanese army paid more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and an armored division that can basically be described as crippled. They don't seem to have anything to gain except for getting the territory of Jizhou Prefecture.
But they didn't know that when their soldiers hung the plaster flag over Jizhou City. A telegram from Xu Jiajun's intelligence office in Jizhou was soon sent to Governor Xu Bin's palace in Gannan. Hearing that the Japanese army in Jizhou City actually killed the people, so that tens of thousands of people in the entire city all died under the massacre, the anger in my heart can be imagined.
He knew that these Japanese soldiers shot and killed the civilians, although they sensed that the civilians were resisting and even counterattacking them. The inhumane shooting in order to reduce his own casualties can be for Xu Bin. There is only one thing he knows, that is, the Japanese army killed the civilians of Longhua, making the entire city of Jizhou a dead city.
Knowing that a group of people were evacuated through the Tunnel Intelligence Department, and at the same time, a lot of photos were taken, which can prove the evidence that those little devils carried out a massacre in Jizhou City. Other wounded soldiers and civilians rescued by the intelligence services can also testify to the world about the Japanese army's policy of massacring civilians here.
Everything happened according to Xu Bin's expectations, but Xu Bin was not happy, but full of anger. This is another copy of the Nanjing Massacre in a previous life!
Soon, along with these photos and reports, they were reported by the intelligence department of Xu Jiajun in Beiyi to the People's Daily under the control of Xu Jiajun in the south as quickly as possible. Knowing that the Japanese army actually committed such an inhumane massacre of civilians in Jizhou City undoubtedly aroused the indignation of the people of Longhua.
Even the Japanese army, who has always felt that should not do such a self-digging thing. Looking at the photos taken by those war correspondents, there were foreigners from the consulate in Longhua who also criticized the brutality of the Japanese army for a while. In short, this incident of the Japanese army's bloody destruction of Jizhou once again pushed this national war into the eyes of the world! (To be continued......)