"The regiment commander, plus the political commissar who sat in Ping'an County and commanded more than 2,000 people from the 15th Brigade of the Devil Regiment that the second battalion annihilated in Liujia Town, the number of enemies we have destroyed from the early morning to now has exceeded 5,000."

On the eight-story roof of the east gate of Qingzhou City, in Li Yunlong's temporary field headquarters, Wang Huaibao, the commander of the third battalion, smiled at Li Yunlong and concluded.

Li Yunlong nodded with a smile and said, "You kid is good." ”。

"Right now, it's enough to hit Zhenxiong Nakamura!"

Wang Huaibao nodded and smiled.

The loss of more than 5,000 devils is indeed enough for Nakamura Zhenxiong's flesh.

"But now is not the time to celebrate the victory, and the soldiers are ordered to continue to be vigilant and be ready for the devils to attack the city at any time."

Li Yunlong then put away his smiling face and said to Wang Huaibao, the commander of the third battalion.

"Don't worry, Captain."

Wang Huaibao's eyes also became serious, and he said rightly: "Each company of my three battalions is strictly guarding the position, just wait for the devil to continue to die." ”。

"Hmm!!"

Li Yunlong nodded, then walked to the edge of the wall on the roof, raised the telescope and Wang Huaibao to observe the situation outside the East Gate.

I saw the battlefield outside the East Gate, the smoke of the explosion and the corpses of the killed devils everywhere.

However, the battlefield outside the East Gate has quieted down, and there is no sign of Nakamura Masao's angry and angry orders for the devil troops to continue to storm the East Gate.

"It's just right, it's eleven o'clock in the morning!"

Li Yunlong then took out the pocket watch given by Zhao Gang, opened it and saw that the time had just reached eleven o'clock in the morning.

And unlike Li Yunlong and Wang Huaibao's siege joy of defeating the devil again, there was a strange silence in the military tent headquarters where Nakamura Zhenxiong was at this time.

Major General Sato Jio, commander of the 9th Brigade of the devils, Kenjiro Kawaguchi, chief of staff of the 19th Infantry Wing, Konan Akano, and Kita Taijiro, chief of staff of Zheno Nakamura, who rushed to the military tent headquarters, were silent and did not speak one by one.

Nakamura Zhenxiong stood on the main seat, his hands propped up on the table at the military tent headquarters, his eyes stared at the map of Qingzhou City, and his eyes were now red!

The fierce eyes were murderous, so that the senior generals of the devils such as Jio Sato who gathered in the military tent headquarters did not dare to breathe!

"Bang !!"

With Nakamura Zhenxiong slapping the table in front of him, the loud sound of shaking immediately startled the devil senior officers present.

"Eight grid tooth road, eight grid tooth road!"

Nakamura Zhenxiong gritted his teeth and said angrily: "This is our shame! ”。

"The Type 92 infantry guns on the artillery position were all destroyed by the martyrdom explosion, Sato-kun, how did your artillery position go? Isn't it deployed on an anticline on a hillside? ”

Seeing this, Haruo Sato hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, General, I didn't expect that the enemy's artillery fire in the city actually found our artillery position. ”。

"Moreover, the artillery commander of the opposing side was very familiar with artillery tactics, and concentrated although not a lot of artillery, but hit the artillery position on the anti-slope of the hillside, so that the artillery position was accidentally hit by enemy artillery fire and caused a martyrdom."

Hearing this, Zhenxiong Nakamura also knew that Jio Sato was also innocent.

However, all the Type 92 infantry guns in the two artillery squadrons of the 9th Brigade were blown up by the enemy's one-pot artillery counterattack.

The number of mortars of 82 mm caliber was also killed in the explosion, and a lot of losses were lost. The remaining mortars were few in number, and they were only capable of supporting the infantry's generally inintense attacks.

In this way, Nakamura Zhenxiong knew that it would no longer be possible to rely solely on the cover of the two 105 mm caliber howitzers of the howitzer squad about four kilometers behind the rear.

What's more, before Nakamura Zhenxiong summoned Haruo Sato and other devils to discuss the military situation, he had already called the commander of the howitzer squad, Kazuro Kishida.

Kazuro Kishida's reply to Zheno Nakamura was that only three base shells remained of the two 105 howitzers.

In this case, you can only save a little.

"Division Commander!!"

Chief of Staff Kita Taijiro, who was standing to the left of Nakamura Zhenxiong, said in a condensed voice: "The artillery position was hit by enemy artillery fire and was destroyed by the explosion, which was not something that Sato-kun could have predicted. ”。

"Now the division commander, the most important thing for us is how to take Qingzhou City. There was only a little more than an hour left, and the order given to us by the commander was achieved, and the combat mission of Qingzhou City was taken within two hours! ”

In the last sentence, Kido Taijiro reminded Nakamura Zhenxiong, It is pointless to talk about this now, think about how to take Qingzhou City and talk about the rest!

Hearing this, Nakamura Zhenxiong's face suddenly turned gloomy and he stared at the map.

"The four gates of Qingzhou City, the terrain outside the east gate is suitable for the imperial army to attack the city."

Nakamura Zhenxiong pointed to the map of Qingzhou City on the table, and said with a solemn face: "The terrain outside the other three gates is rugged and uneven, which is not suitable for a large army to attack the city. ”。

"What do you mean, Your Excellency, or do you want to start a siege at the east gate?"

When Haruo Sato, commander of the 9th Brigade, heard the front, he thought that Nakamura Zheno would give up the attack from the east gate and launch the main attack from one of the other three gates, including the south gate.

Unexpectedly, it was still the main attack on the east gate.

But the east gate, apparently, was the main defensive direction of the defenders of the 3rd battalion of the Independent Regiment.

Most of the enemy's artillery fire and firepower were concentrated at the east gate.

However, what Nakamura Zhenxiong said was right, the troops belonging to the 9th Brigade Group, which divided the troops to feint and attack the other three gates, also reported to Sato Jio, and the outside of the city in the direction of the other three gates was indeed not suitable for a large army to attack the city.

What's more, the walls of the other three gates of Qingzhou City are also very strong, and the firepower of the defenders outside the city and at the head of the city is not weaker than the organizational firepower of the east gate.

Thinking of this, Jio Sato then understood what Nakamura Zheno meant.

Nakamura Zhenxiong heard Sato's words, nodded helplessly and said, "Sato-kun is right. ”。

"We can only continue to launch a fierce attack from the east gate, and the other three directions are not suitable for a large army to attack the city. What's more, the strength of the opponent's defenders at the remaining three gates is no less than that of the defenders at the east gate. ”

The devil officers looked at each other, and then they didn't know how to break through Qingzhou City.

For the defense of the east gate, Li Yunlong must be the focus of defense.

Now the east gate of Qingzhou City has been attacked twice during the day, but the opponent's defense is too tenacious, and the firepower is not weaker than that of the besieging side.

If you continue to attack, you will definitely suffer too many casualties.

Now, Nakamura Zhenxiong takes stock.

The army of devils who attacked Qingzhou City under his personal command had already lost a lot of troops, and now there were not even 6,000 people.

"Your Excellency General, how should we fight? The casualties of the assault are too great! ”

Jio Sato stiffened his head and reminded.

After all, under the strong attack, most of the casualties were his troops belonging to the 9th Brigade as the main force!

"Urgently request for infantry artillery reinforcements, it's a little too late in time."

Nakamura Zhenxiong is also worthy of being the commander of the 36th Division of the devil, and he still has a lot of combat experience.

After thinking about it, Nakamura Zhenxiong suddenly thought of a solution, but it would take some time.

Nakamura Zhenxiong said in a condensed voice: "So, I decided to attack the east gate with a feint, draw out part of the troops, dig a tunnel in the hidden place outside the east gate, go straight to the east gate city wall, and then blast the city wall with explosives!" ”。

Hearing this, if Li Yunlong was present, it was easy to realize that Nakamura Zhenxiong's siege method was very similar to the method of attacking the city with a tunnel under the city wall and exploding the city wall with explosives.

Sato Jio and other devils think that this method is good, but the east gate city wall was blown up by two 105 howitzers in the previous attack, and many gaps in the city wall were opened.

(End of chapter)

Lewen