Chapter 554: The End of Ryosuke Isoya (3)

The tiger released by Li Zongren was really powerful, extremely fierce, and gave the Japanese army a powerful shock, Guangxi is mountainous, the local people practice martial arts very well, the people are fierce, and the soldiers of the Gui army are all veterans of the war, slippery and fierce, and do not blindly fight and rush, but take the squad as a unit, form a group of attack arrows, short and sharp body, in the ruins and the craters of the shells, rolling and moving, in the blink of an eye close to the three footholds of the Japanese army.

The combat effectiveness of the Gui army is counted in the local military system in China, known as the trump card in the miscellaneous cards, and the Japanese soldiers are a little at a loss.

The soldiers of the Gui Army who approached the Japanese army, a burst of grenades, through the smoke of the explosion, and a burst of fierce shooting, caused the Japanese soldiers to retreat again and again, which also aroused the blood of the soldiers of the Sichuan army, they are all soldiers, and our Sichuan people are no worse than you Guangxi people, under the leadership of the commander, the 88th Division of the Sichuan Army launched a counterattack on all fronts.

Ryosuke Isoya, who had been beating the Japanese army far away from the city wall before returning to the position, and had always observed the situation on the battlefield, put down the binoculars, with a smug smile on his face, and said to the walkie-talkie: "Hyono-kun, you can start" This is Ryosuke Isoya's tactics, this scheming guy, knowing the movement of more than 40,000 troops, wants to completely hide the eyes of the commander of Shina, it is impossible.

With only a little military common sense, he knew that the reason why he stormed the west gate of Xuzhou was to cause confusion in the thinking of the commander of the defenders of China, thinking that the direction of Tongshan was the suspicious army he had laid out, and the real main direction of attack was still in the west gate, and the reinforcements sent there were transferred back.

Li Zongren's guard regiment joined the Ximen battlefield, which made Isoya Ryosuke think that his goal had been achieved, even if the commander of Shina did not increase his troops in the direction of Tongshan, he had to make this kind of onslaught posture, first, to attract the attention of the Chinese defenders, and secondly, to create favorable conditions for the attack of Hino Kutaro.

If the effect is not achieved, the city of Xuzhou, the protracted siege will inevitably become the flesh and blood mill of the Imperial Japanese Army, and the time does not know how long it will drag, he does not think that Tang Qiuli will make himself comfortable to attack Xuzhou, mobilize troops to surround it, and the end of the First Army will be miserable.

His consideration can not be described as incomplete, but he did not expect that there are still more than 200,000 Chinese troops, staring at him fiercely, waiting for the Japanese army to become a tired division in Xuzhou, and the opportunity to completely eliminate the sharpness will be pressed up, and the person in charge of commanding the Chinese army is not Tang Qiuli, whom he is deeply afraid of, but Li Zongren, a general who will soon become famous in China.

In the direction of Tongshan, Tang Qiusheng listened to the sound of artillery fire in the west of Xuzhou, and could not tell the number of shots, and ordered the troops to prepare for battle, but the Japanese army was always lurking, without a little movement, more than 40,000 troops, distributed on the high and low hills in the south of Xuzhou, and even the artillery was carefully camouflaged, if it were not for the location map of the Japanese army, there would be almost no signs of tens of thousands of people lurking here.

He secretly admired the discipline of the Japanese generals and the Japanese soldiers, there were fireworks on that side, but here you can calm down, it's really not simple, you wait for me, when you put all your energy on attacking, then make a surprise attack, stick a knife in the back, no matter how strong you are, you can't escape.

Hitaro Hino, who received the order, the muscles on his face twitched, he didn't forget to pray to Amaterasu, I don't know why, he always had a feeling of panic, his heart was not steady, maybe it was because of his years of professional military career, and he developed an instinctive feeling as if he was being targeted by something?

In the silent direction of the copper mountain, suddenly like a volcanic eruption, the Japanese artillery nearly 100 guns of different calibers, like the devil drilled out of the ground, spitting steel flames, one shell after another screamed over the copper mountain, accurately landed on the ancient city wall of Xuzhou, the city bricks flew, the explosion points one after another, can not tell the number, as if the earth was a huge hand, suddenly raised.

The south gate of Xuzhou, which was as quiet as a baby's sleep just now, was shrouded in steel wind and iron rain in an instant, gunpowder smoke and dust rose into the air, and a huge explosion echoed in the open field, with nearly 100 artillery pieces, bombarding the front that was only three kilometers wide, and the density of the fire strike reached a terrifying Cheng dù, which was enough to blow the Xuzhou city wall into a deep ditch and blow the defenders there into powder.

Hyono Kutaro's tactics achieved unprecedented success, the thick Xuzhou city wall, was blown up by the roots, revealing a huge gap, rushed into the road to Xuzhou, suddenly opened in front of the Byono, Hyono calmly observed the effect of the shelling, and then issued the second order, the chariots and infantry began to assault, and the artillery fire extended.

The roaring eight Japanese tanks, rolling up the dirt, rushed to the breach, behind them was a wing of infantry, and then behind, there were eight tanks of the second echelon and a wing of Japanese soldiers, there was no way, the terrain conditions were limited, so many troops could only be deployed, if it was possible, Hino Kutaro hoped to put all the tanks and soldiers into the attack, in that way, the chance of victory would be greater.

The Japanese tanks were already approaching the collapsed city wall, and there was no gunfire from the defenders of Shina to return fire, and Hino Kutaro suddenly became excited, he had never felt that victory was so close, he grabbed the phone, and prepared to report the good news to Commander Ryosuke Isoya, and at the same time hoped to attack the troops at the west gate of Xuzhou and start the offensive again.

A dense scream suddenly came from behind, and Hyono Kutaro's face turned pale, it was the sound of countless shells piercing the air and flying from far and near, but all his artillery was shelling the position of the defenders of China, how could there be shells flying from behind?

Several large-caliber shells accurately landed in the command post of Hisano Kutaro, and the concealment area dug out overnight, with a thin protective layer, could not resist the power of the explosion of large-caliber shells at all, the fire flashed, shrapnel flew sideways, the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and several huge craters appeared on the spot.

The division commander Hiyono Kutaro and all the Japanese officers in his command post were reduced to a sub-state, and not even a little residue could be found, the only fortunate thing was a wooden stake hanging from the telephone, a broken arm, and a tight grip on the phone, swinging in the wind, and anxious shouts came from inside.

The Japanese artillery, which was fighting vigorously, was overturned by the sudden shells, and the bombers turned on their backs, and they had no strength to fight back, and they didn't even have time to turn the muzzles, and the positions were covered by dense artillery fire, and the blown up artillery wheels flew into the air, and the bent barrels of the bombs were lying helplessly on the ground, and the detonated shells made the disaster even heavier, and the corpses of the Japanese artillery were thrown into the sky from time to time.

Tang Qiusheng was ruthless enough, concentrated five artillery regiments, and the number of artillery equipped far exceeded that of the Japanese army, and a salvo completely destroyed the Japanese artillery position, and then, the artillery fire chased the Japanese army rushing towards the breakthrough, and it was a whistling shell, in front of the breakthrough, exploded into a wall of fire.

Eight Japanese tanks, shrouded in artillery fire, did not escape the fate of the explosion and fire, the Japanese infantry following behind, was even more devastated, was bombed in all directions, this is not over, from the collapsed city wall, suddenly out of the team, light and heavy machine guns also roared like the wind, without any scruples to harvest the lives of Japanese soldiers, the Japanese army who was hit by a double blow, can no longer parry, crazy to flee in the direction of the frenzy.

The Japanese army, which had solved the charge, the artillery of the independent division began to shell the Japanese positions in accordance with the division of labor in advance, just like boiling molten iron poured on dry wood, the Japanese positions stirred up thick puffs of smoke and were completely shrouded in artillery fire, and more than 40,000 Japanese troops were driven out of the rudimentary fortifications by the fierce artillery bombardment, lost the central command system, and were subjected to sudden shelling, and the Japanese troops inevitably panicked.

Tang Qiusheng's sudden blow was like a thunderbolt, hitting the vital point of the Japanese army, killing the command system, destroying the Japanese artillery position, and disrupting more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers.

Li Zongren, who received Tang Qiusheng's war briefing, was so happy that he slapped the table again and again, this battle was really painful, and he killed more than 40,000 Japanese troops, and Ryosuke Isoya, who attacked head-on, was a toothless tiger who couldn't hurt anyone, not to mention the big meal prepared for him.

The effect of the artillery bombardment was unprecedentedly effective, and the Japanese soldiers who were hit by artillery fire were all over the country, and under the command of commanders at all levels, they formed an isolated temporary defensive circle and fell into a situation of fighting for themselves. It can be broken at any time.

The strength of the five brigades of the independent division and the one division of the Gui Army was nearly 80,000 troops, which was more than double the strength of the Japanese army, and the north and south flanked the Japanese army, tightly surrounding the Japanese army in the Tongshan area, shouting and killing everywhere, the surrounded Japanese army, realizing the fate they were about to face, the fierceness in their bones was stimulated, although the formation was disrupted, as long as a commander shouted, Japanese soldiers from different units gathered around him, and then formed a combat team.

Trapped beasts are still fighting, it should be the mentality of the surrounded Japanese troops at this time, they are under the command of different commanders, and the Chinese soldiers who have been surrounded, fighting for their lives, often to the last person, facing more than a dozen Chinese soldiers, do not put down their weapons, do suicide attacks, although they were stabbed by a few bayonets, but also with blood all over their bodies, stabbed the bayonets into the body of the Chinese soldier closest to him.

Such battles abound on the front line of Tongshan, and the Japanese soldiers faced desperate and fierce resistance, so that the troops had to attack one ring position after another, bringing a lot of casualties to the encircled troops, and the battle fell into a stalemate for a while.

(To be continued)