The war that is being waged now is a negative teaching material, and the brave General Nogi obviously does not know enough about the Volunteers, although the attacking Japanese army is large in number and strong in combat, but the attack of small Japan is still progressing slowly, and every step forward will pay a huge price.

By 18 June, the field fortifications outside the city on which the Volunteers relied had been leveled by Japanese artillery fire in many places. The soldiers who were sticking to the second line of defense were already skirmishers, but even so, the footsteps of small Japan could not smoothly cross the border, and the section of the defense line seemed to be scattered.

The snipers of the Volunteers play a huge role, they are like soul messengers from hell on the battlefield, as long as they are targeted, they will definitely not live long.

Little Japan, with its absolute superiority in artillery fire and numbers, approached the position of the Volunteers regardless of casualties, trying to drive these guys out of the second line of defense. When the Japanese rushed to the front with the tactics of a sea of people, the volunteers simply jumped out of the fortifications, threw a dense number of grenades at the Japanese troops, and at the same time engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

In hand-to-hand combat, the pistols and grenades of the volunteers were extremely powerful, while the artillery fire of Little Japan was completely useless!

After repeated setbacks in the all-out offensive, the Japanese were running out of patience, and they chose to open fire during hand-to-hand combat between the Japanese and the Volunteers on the front line, which forced the Volunteers to withdraw from the second line of defense.

The battle was fought for two more days, and little Japan was finally able to see the city walls. For this goal, Hisunao Oshima paid nearly 10,000 casualties! When Nogi Noshinori ordered him to make persistent efforts to launch an assault, Oshima Hisunori asked for more than just artillery guidance, and he offered to let Nogi Noshinori attack with another force, so that he could replenish his troops and recuperate.

Nogi Noshinori was also shocked to hear that the most courageous division commander under his command actually said such a thing. When he saw Hisunao Oshima's troops, he finally knew how strong the Volunteers were.

"Oshima-kun, don't you think that under our absolute superiority of artillery fire, your casualties are a little too great?"

Hisachi Oshima bowed his head: "Hayi! I beg your pardon, Commander! ”

Nogi Noshinori is very trusting of his subordinate, he will not blame Oshima Hisuno, and a somewhat friendly smile appeared on his face: "I want to know what the reason is?" ”

Oshima Hisachi said: "Commander Mingjian, the tactics of those volunteers are very flexible, and they fight bravely, each of their companies can make full use of the fortifications outside the Windy City to fight actively and flexibly, and every soldier can play the effectiveness of every bullet. ”

Hearing Hisunao Oshima say this about his opponent. Nogi Noshinori's mood is very complicated, and Hisunao Oshima is a proud guy. To be able to make him so praised, the combat power of that Yang Fighting Ghost must be very strong, which strengthened Nogi Noshinori's idea of defeating the Wind City to kill Yang Fighting Ghost.

You must know that there are less than 20,000 volunteers now, and they must not be allowed to grow. If they had 200,000 of these troops, the Great East Asia Jihua of the Great Japanese Empire would probably have to be challenged by this guy.

"The mines and rifles in their hands have caused us a lot of casualties. The most important thing is that those guys are very smart, and they know that there is no way to compete with us in long-range firepower. So their firepower is mostly concentrated at medium and long ranges. ”

Nogi Noshinori was stunned for a moment: "Oh? ”

Oshima Hisachi stood upright: "I have several of their main weapons on the battlefield, please allow me to bring them in and show you them!" ”

Nogi Noshinori nodded: "Okay, bring it in." ”

A conscienceless cannon, a shoulder-mounted conscienceless cannon, a sniper rifle, and a mine that didn't explode because of the jishu problem.

"This is the main weapon of the Volunteers, and their artillery bombardment is between 200 and 400 meters. There's also this rifle, Commander, try aiming! ”…,

He placed the rifle in Nogi's hand, then walked over and opened a window, and Nogi Noshinori took a look and found his gaze through the scope. I could see very clearly a few sparrows parked on top of the old tree far ahead!

"I see!"

Nogi Noshinori was very surprised, he was a man who was proficient in battle formations. At a glance, you can understand the key to this. Yes, the artillery fire of the Japanese troops is very powerful, and those so-called volunteers can only be beaten and cannot fight back, but once they charge, their troops must be about 100 meters close to the other side to pose a threat to the enemy, while the enemy can start attacking them from 500 meters away.

Hisashi Oshima said: "Many of our soldiers were killed and injured by these weapons at medium and long distances, Commander, if this situation cannot be changed, I think we will pay a greater price!" ”

Nogi Noshinori nodded: "The opponent is brave in battle, the position is strong, and the weapon configuration is also very reasonable, it seems that we are a little careless in this battle." As Oshima-kun said, we must now face up to our opponents and readjust our offensive plans. ”

The tactics of the little Japanese changed, and when they attacked the Volunteers' defense line outside the city, they no longer pressed on all fronts, but concentrated their superior forces to storm the smaller southern area in addition to maintaining full pressure on the positions around Windy City.

Garrisoned here was a platoon of three companies of the 1st Battalion, and after four hours of hard fighting, the ammunition was depleted and the losses were quite heavy. Although the second pole sent people over to reinforce them, the ammunition really couldn't keep up!

Little Japan was divided into squadrons, and the attacks of one squadron had not stopped, and the other squadron went up! This leaves the soldiers of the Volunteers without even having a chance to replenish!

The repeated attacks finally paid off, and four hours later a Japanese squadron broke through the Volunteers' lines, and hand-to-hand combat ensued. In the face of the Japanese troops still pouring in from behind, those volunteers were like a speck of dust in the sea. In less than ten minutes of fighting, the ratio of volunteers to Japanese on the battlefield has reached an astonishing 1:10!

The platoon commander saw that if he continued to fight, he would be sent to death, and at that moment he took his brothers to use grenades to open a bloody road and wanted to rush back to the city, and the surrounding comrades were also covering their retreat, but the little Japanese bit them tightly and tried to follow them to break through the defense line of the county town, and only three people came back from a platoon. In fact, all the fighters died.

The defense line of Zuihou outside the city was also broken, and the second pole was forced to retreat.

He didn't complete the task of Biaozi letting him hold a line of defense for two days, and now there are still two full days to go before Yang Xiaolin said to let Biaozi hold on for another five days.

Biaozi knew that he had to use the fortifications in the city to hold back the Japanese in the past two days.

Next came the siege battle, and on the first day, Little Japan repeated its old tricks, still choosing the southern part of Windy City as a breakthrough.

The Japanese concentrated the fire of two corps to storm the southern part of the city, destroying all the walls and some fortifications arranged by the volunteers, and then a company of soldiers advanced into the city, in a vain attempt to open the gap.

However, the Japanese troops who entered the city were counterattacked by the troops led by Waihui.

Biaozi also saw the tactics of little Japan. He threw all his reserves into the southern city, and let the warriors fight alternately. From time to time, several counter-charges were also launched against the Japanese in order to stop the tidal offensive of the Japanese army.

Both sides focused on Nancheng for a while, and it was dark to kill here.

By noon the next day, little Japan still hadn't been able to get the results they wanted, and Biaoko knew that the Japanese didn't have much chance. Tonight the 4th Regiment and the Guard Regiment will attack from behind the Japanese to meet them in the encirclement.

"Two poles. How's it going? ”…,

Biaozi handed over the task of breaking through to the second pole, and when the night was approaching, Biaozi came over to see how the preparations for the second pole were doing.

Most of the current volunteers are very well-behaved under Cai Yi's training, but there is an exception between the second pole and the biaozi, and the second pole will never behave towards the biaozi.

When Biaozi came over, he lay on the ground with a big grin, and squinted at Biaozi: "Prepare a fart, Lao Tzu fights a battalion and a company." You still let me take the lead, do I really doubt that you are my brother? ”

Biaozi came over and kicked him: "Do you think I want to?" There are not many of the three battalions left, and if I put the second battalion in front of me to charge, even if we fight out, our regiment will be crippled. Leave a slightly more complete battalion, and then go to Liaoxi Laozi to block the commander. ”

The second pole got up from the ground with a hula: "You are the commander?" ”

Biaozi straightened his clothes: "What?" Don't believe me? I don't believe you, go ask Commander Yang to go. He told me personally, after winning this battle. Let us go to Liaoxi to develop, and then we will not be the third regiment, but the Liaoxi detachment of the Volunteer Army, and Lao Tzu will be the commander of the detachment. ”

The second pole smiled: "Okay, you should be my deputy commander?" ”

Biao Zi glanced at him, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth: "You are still the deputy commander?" I've thought about it, tomorrow I'll have a whole guard company, and the company commander is none other than you! ”

The second pole was furious when he heard this, grabbed his hat and threw it on the ground: "Serving you? Don't do it! I'm just looking for the commander now, and I told him I'm going to be transferred, and I don't want to see you bastard again! ”

His finger had already pointed to Biaozi's nose, but Biaozi was not angry, seeing that the second pole was really angry, he was about to go to Yang Xiaolin with his legs, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold him: "I'm kidding you, why can't you understand whether it's true or false?" Let me tell you clearly, you will always be my brother, I am the regiment commander, you are the battalion commander, if I am the brigade commander, you will be the regiment commander, is it interesting? ”

The second pole calmed down a little: "It's pretty much the same." ”

"Then I'll leave it to you to fight the vanguard."

"Don't worry, Lao Tzu promises to let Captain Li rush out! Get me some grenades, give me all the light machine guns of the regiment, and explosives packs, the more the better, until I can't carry them! ”

"No problem!"

At night, the Japanese, who had been attacking for three days in a row, finally rested temporarily, and there was a rare calm on the entire battlefield. The second pole with more than two hundred brothers was already ready to zuihou, just waiting for Tang Yulin and Qian Yao's team to start outside, they would immediately kill out of the Windy City!

The battle has now completed Yang Xiaolin's intended goal, and although the Japanese casualties have not reached 20,000, there are definitely 16,700. After they have killed this place, they will retreat to the north.

Thirty miles north of Windy City, Qian Yao had already built another line of defense.

There is a legend in the northeast, saying that there was no mountain in that place, once Nurhachi and the Ming army won the battle, he killed tens of thousands of Ming troops, he cut off all the heads of these people and piled them up, did not allow people to bury, slowly the wind blew the soil, the birds and birds brought some grass and trees, it became a mountain forest.

Whether this legend is true or false Yang Xiaolin does not know, but from this legend you can see how the Manchu Qing Dynasty started. The location of the ridge is very good, it is stuck on the official road, and it is an obstacle that the Japanese must overcome to attack forward.

After the siege war, let the Japanese fight a mountain battle, if the two battles were fought haode, it would consume 40,000 or 50,000 Japanese troops, and it could delay them for a month. This month is enough for Cai Songpo to attack Dalian. (To be continued) RQ