Chapter 414: Capture of Misha

When the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Guard Brigade was reinforcing the fortifications, in the headquarters of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, the division commander Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa, was fiercely scolding the brigade commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade under his command, Major General Takesawa Takeo. Bayi Middle School =≤≈. Today's attack was carried out by the 19th Brigade. The strength of one brigade and the artillery support of the heavy artillery brigade could not take the city of Mytiera, which was defended by only a few China, in a whole day, which was unacceptable to Lieutenant General Morioka.

In fact, the scolded Major General Kazawa Bianfu was also angry, and the troops attacked for a day, and even if they broke through the defense line of the Shina people at night, they were defeated because of the arrival of reinforcements from the Shina people. It's night, and the soldiers can't afford to fight anymore, so it seems that they can only attack again tomorrow and take the city.

Major General Tsukazawa scolded him, saved his anger, returned to the 19th Brigade and called the two wing commanders over, and scolded him, which gave him a bad breath, and after scolding, Major General Tsusawa ordered his two wing commanders to attack early tomorrow morning, and be sure to take Mitiera City tomorrow. As for how the co-captain will scold those captains when he goes back, it's none of his business.

In the middle of the night, the remaining troops of the 2nd Regiment of the Guards Brigade rushed to Mithila City under the leadership of the regiment commander Li Li. Li Li first went to visit Zheng Daodong, the head of the 571st Regiment. Zheng Daodong had just undergone surgery and was still in a coma, but the surgeon said that the operation was successful, and the bullet was removed, and as long as he could wake up in the morning, his life would not be lost.

Li Li finished reading Zheng Daodong and began to temporarily take over the city defense of Mytiera City. Knowing that he had to face more than 50,000 Japanese troops, Li Li felt pressure that he had never felt before. After talking with Lu Mingyu, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 571st Regiment, the existing supreme commander of the 571st Regiment, Li Li asked Lu Mingyu to organize all the soldiers of the 571st Regiment who could still participate in the battle and use them as reserves, otherwise his regiment of more than 1,000 people would have to withstand the attack of the Japanese army of 50,000 people, which would be too thin.

After looking at the positions arranged by the first battalion and the situation of the entire Mitiera City, Li Li knew very well that the collapsed nearly 100-meter city wall would definitely become the focus of the Japanese attack tomorrow, and in the face of the powerful artillery fire of the Japanese army, it would definitely not work to deploy too many troops here, and it would be sent up to blow up the small Japanese artillery. However, after rushing repairs in the middle of the night, the officers and men of the first battalion had already built some fortifications in the gap.

Li Li asked Wei Song to put two heavy machine guns and three light machine guns on several sandbag forts, and after leaving one company of troops, he placed the other two companies on the walls on both sides of the gap, and used machine guns to condescend to deal with the Japanese attacking infantry with crossfire. Each regiment of the Guards Brigade also has artillery battalions, formerly heavy mortar battalions, and now twelve 122 caliber howitzers have also been added, which were originally from the Heavy Artillery Brigade, and after the Heavy Artillery Brigade received new guns, these guns were handed over to the Guards Brigade for use.

Now the artillery battalion of the Second Regiment is hidden in the city, and Li Li is preparing to use the artillery battalion to fight the Japanese army unprepared. After looking at the defense of the entire Mitiera City, Li Li called several battalion commanders under him together, tomorrow's battle to stop the Japanese army will be a very difficult battle, Li Li felt that it was necessary to explain to his battalion commanders, so that they could be prepared.

Let's go back and talk about Misha City. After Wang Haitao sent reinforcements to Mitiera City, he began to prepare for the attack at night. During the day, Japanese planes were dispatched continuously, and the 90th Army used all its anti-aircraft weapons to deal with the Japanese planes. Of course, a dozen planes were also knocked down, and the losses of anti-aircraft weapons and fighters were not small.

At last it was six o'clock in the evening, and night began to fall. Wang Haitao gave an order, and the attack began, and countless artillery fire flew towards the Japanese position again. In this shelling, Wang Haitao used the 13O cannon regiment and the 152nd howitzer regiment of the heavy artillery brigade. These two artillery regiments were used, which shows that Wang Haitao is determined to win this battle.

Two heavy artillery regiments, heavy artillery regiments of various divisions, and artillery battalions of each regiment shook the ground and shook the mountains. The shelling lasted for half an hour, leaving the Japanese positions in ruins, and even the impenetrable walls of Misha City collapsed in several places. As soon as the artillery fire weakened, the armored regiment of the 210th Division and the armored brigade directly under the corps launched a surprise attack on the Japanese positions from three directions.

After a dense artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions, resistance to the assault was extremely limited. It took little effort for the assault troops to occupy the Japanese positions outside the city. At this time, the Japanese army also seemed to have abandoned the positions outside the city, and no longer sent troops to support the positions outside the city, but put all their troops on the city wall, especially at several collapsed city walls, and even more heavily arranged, and the only 37 caliber guns were all deployed in these places.

Of the few collapsed walls, only two large gaps could be passed directly by tanks, and nothing else. The assault of the chariot was still with the Cheetah heavy tank as a sharp knife, and went straight to the gap in the city wall. When it was only about 100 meters away from the two large gaps, the Japanese 37-caliber guns opened fire at the gaps. The shells clanged at the Cheetah heavy tank, and although it could not penetrate the armor of the heavy tank, it also startled the crew of the heavy tank.

Several commanders unanimously ordered the use of vehicle-mounted artillery to knock out the Japanese guns. As a result, the 1oo mm caliber vehicle-mounted guns on the front several heavy tanks opened fire one after another, and the shells filled the gap with gunsmoke, and after a few rounds of artillery fire, the Japanese guns no longer moved. As the tank continued to move forward, the Japanese heavy machine guns began to fire at the gap, and the machine guns fired downward on the wall that had not collapsed.

The vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns and artillery began to fire at the city walls, suppressing and destroying the Japanese fire. The number of tanks must be limited, and it is impossible to suppress all of them in the face of the numerous firepower points of the Japanese army. At this time, the troops who followed the operation of the chariots attacked the Japanese troops here on the city wall with light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

After the two sides exchanged fire for an hour, several division and brigade commanders who were watching the battle were a little anxious, and the request of the military seat was to take Misha City before dawn, but several hours had passed, and even the city wall had not been breached, and the progress was too slow. As a result, several division and brigade commanders ordered the use of artillery to assist in the attack. With an order, another round of shelling of the walls by the artillery regiments began.

These artillery regiments did not have large-caliber heavy artillery, but the impenetrable walls against Misha City were sufficient for both 85-caliber howitzers and 75-caliber field guns. It's nothing more than a matter of spending more time on yourself. After another half an hour of shelling, most of the walls of Misha City collapsed, and at this time, the troops with light armored vehicles as sharp knives broke through the defense line of the Japanese city wall and attacked the city of Misha in one go.

The Japanese army also prepared a squadron to storm the city, and built a lot of street forts and fortifications in the city. Street fighting is the strength of the 90th Army, from the Battle of Shanghai to the present, there are countless street battles, at this time the troops who broke into the city, and the Japanese army started a battle little by little. In street battles, the weapons and equipment of the 90th Army occupied an absolute advantage.

Submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles, rocket Jane, 82 recoilless guns, and small-caliber mortars are very handy in street fighting. Little by little, the Japanese positions were encroached upon by the attacking troops, and the soldiers suffered a large number of casualties. After several hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese troops were compressed in several alleys centered on the headquarters.

The attacking troops here were met with stubborn resistance from the Japanese army, many of whom were strapped to explosives, shouted slogans, and frantically countercharged the attacking soldiers. In this case, the casualties of the attacking troops also increased significantly. The situation report reached Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao looked at his watch, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and there were still three hours before dawn, and Japanese planes would come to support.

At this time, the troops had been attacking for several hours, and it was difficult for Wang Haitao to decide whether to stop and rest and attack again, or to continue to destroy the Japanese army in one go. Just when Wang Haitao was thinking about it, Li Yuanhong, commander of the 93rd Division, said to Wang Haitao: "Military seat, tomorrow in Mitiera City, the Japanese army will definitely attack on a large scale, just rely on one brigade to block the attack, in case it can't stop the Japanese army......"

Wang Haitao's thinking was interrupted by Li Yuanhong, but Li Yuanhong's words made Wang Haitao make up his mind. Wang Haitao said: "Order all artillery regiments to concentrate artillery fire to cover the Japanese positions, and tonight we must destroy the Japanese troops in the city!" Half an hour later, each artillery regiment concentrated more than 200 artillery pieces and more than 100 heavy mortars and began to deliver the final fatal blow to the Japanese positions.

The rumbling artillery sounded, the Japanese positions were ravaged by the shells in the artillery fire, the houses collapsed in the artillery fire, the street forts were bulldozed in the artillery fire, and sandbags flew into the air in the artillery fire. After the artillery fire began to extend to the center of the Japanese position, the attacking soldiers shouted and charged the Japanese position.

The shelling ceased for an hour, and by this hour, the attacking troops had stepped on the landing points of the shells and continued to rush forward, and by the time the shelling stopped, the fighters had already attacked the vicinity of the Japanese headquarters, surrounding the remnants of the Japanese headquarters and several nearby courtyards. The remnants of the Japanese army made their last stubborn resistance in these courtyards.

But this is just the last dying struggle, the soldiers of the 90th Army used bazookas and 82 recoilless guns to easily blast open the wall of the courtyard, and then eliminate the recalcitrant Japanese troops in the courtyard. At five o'clock in the morning, a glimmer of white light erupted from the east, and the soldiers of the 90th Army surrounded the Japanese command. After blasting through the walls of the headquarters with bazookas, the fighters rushed into the Japanese headquarters in waves.

At 5:30 a.m., in the headquarters of the 90th Army, a communicator ran in, saluted after seeing Wang Haitao, and then said excitedly to Wang Haitao: "Report to the military seat, our army has occupied Misha City, Lieutenant General Bian Pifu, the commander of the 56th Division of the Japanese Army, and Lieutenant General Shinichi Tanaka, the commander of the 18th Division, have all been killed, and the troops are cleaning up the battlefield, and the results of the battle are also being counted." ”