"That being said!"

Izumi Teng Taro Taro Shaozo said in a condensed voice: "But the co-captain, the enemy army that ambushed His Royal Highness Boyan must have something to do with the enemy army defending Qingzhou City. ”。

"The 3rd Infantry Brigade of the wing is back to help Shuocheng, and the enemy troops in Qingzhou City will definitely see it, and they will definitely report to the enemy army that ambushed His Highness Boyan through the radio!"

Hearing this, Kenzaburo Tabe said in a condensed voice, "You mean, the enemy army that will kill Shuocheng next will judge our intention to put them in the city and drag them down when they see us retreating into the city?"

"Yes."

The chief of staff, Izumi Fujitaro Shaozuo, bowed his head and said, "Wing Commander, the enemy army who ambushed His Highness Bohiko, as well as the reinforcements we sent from Shuocheng twice, its commander must not be very stupid. ”。

"But if we don't, we will only have more than six hundred troops left in Shuocheng City."

Kenzaburo Tabe said helplessly: "If it was in the past, with these troops, I, Kenzaburo Tabe, are confident that I can rely on Shuocheng to block at least one brigade of the enemy's troops from attacking the city." ”。

"But what we are facing is the Independent Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. This enemy unit, already in Ping'an County and other places, has eaten up the two infantry brigades of the Fourth Brigade of the Imperial Army, Sakata Wing, and Ito Wing. ”

After a pause, Kenzaburo Tabe continued, "What's more, General Nakamura Zhenxiong commanded the 9th Brigade and other troops to attack the Independent Regiment, and so far, more than 6,000 troops have been lost, plus the loss of troops in our wing. ”

"Divide troops to defend Shuocheng, the current situation no longer allows it."

Izumi Tengtaro also didn't expect that Kenzaburo Tabe would be afraid of Li Yunlong's troops.

However, judging from the current situation, the division of troops to defend the four gates of Shuocheng is indeed a great allocation of the strength of the city defenders.

If he is the commander of the enemy army, after the troops are under the city, he only needs to concentrate his forces to attack one of the gates, which is enough to break through the city.

In this way, why not concentrate your forces and retreat to the neighborhoods around the wing headquarters in the city, relying on street battles to entangle the other party!

As long as the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the wing that returned from Qingzhou City to the east to return to the reinforcements rushed back, there would be no problem in keeping Shuocheng.

Now, the first thing is to seek stability!

Thinking of this, Izumi Totaro immediately said, "What the wing captain said is true. ”。

"In this case, we will abandon the four gates of Shuocheng, concentrate our forces and retreat to the core blocks around the joint team headquarters in the city, and build a large number of street fighting fortifications."

After a pause, Izumi Taro continued, "According to the current time, the enemy army that ambushed the two squadrons commanded by Iwato Taijiro is estimated to be killed at about seven o'clock. ”

"That's right."

Kenzaburo Tabe nodded, and then said with a solemn look in his eyes: "Immediately pass my order, abandon the four gates of Shuocheng, concentrate your forces and retreat to the core blocks around the joint team headquarters in the city, and prepare for street fighting." ”。

"In addition, order the communications staff officer to send a telegram to the 3rd Infantry Brigade, telling them to speed up and return to Shuocheng."

Hearing the order, Izumi Fujitaro Shaozo said heavily: "Yes, Wing Captain." ”。

"I'll deploy it immediately!"

Kenzaburo Tabe bowed his head and said, "Act immediately." ”。

"Hay! Co-Captain! ”

Izumi said heavily, then immediately stepped aside and began to deploy.

At this time, Zhang Dabiao, commander of the first battalion of the independent regiment, was commanding Liu Ziming's division of the first battalion and one company of the post headquarters, and Xu Jiayou's division of the second company, totaling more than 1,000 soldiers of the first battalion of the independent regiment.

The site of the third ambush was only 2.5 kilometers away from Shuocheng in a straight line, and the actual distance must have been more than 3 kilometers.

However, the soldiers of the first battalion, whose ability to march in a hurry can shake off the little devils by a large margin, are all veterans of the rapid march in the mountains.

Therefore, what Kenzaburo Tabe didn't know at this time was that Zhang Dabiao had already commanded the soldiers of the first and second companies of the post to kill under Shuocheng City.

On the way, Zhang Dabiao received a call back from Li Yunlong!

"Nakamura Zhenxiong transferred a brigade back to help Shuocheng, damn it, if we want to control Shuocheng for a long time, I'm afraid it won't work."

Zhang Dabiao handed the telegram sent by Li Yunlong to Liu Ziming, the commander of the company on the side.

After Liu Ziming took it and read it, he handed it to Xu Jiayou, the commander of the second company on the side.

Subsequently, Liu Ziming said: "Battalion commander, the 15th Brigade of the Devils who attacked Liujia Town also went south. ”。

"Even if we take Shuocheng, we won't be able to defend it! The 15th Brigade still has at least 6,000 to 7,000 men. There are too many enemy troops to gather in Shuocheng next, and we can't hold Shuocheng even if we take it. ”

Zhang Dabiao said with a smile, "If the 15th Brigade of the Devils is not transferred south by Nakamura Zhenxiong, we will actually be able to block the devils who come back from Qingzhou City after the second battle of Shuocheng takes Shuocheng, relying on the defense of Shuocheng City." ”

"It's a pity, no!"

Xu Jiayou, the commander of the second company, also nodded, and then said: "The regiment commander called back and ordered us to take Shuocheng if we can take it, and if we can annihilate the devils who stay in Shuocheng, we will annihilate them, and we can't annihilate them. ”。

"That's right!"

Zhang Dabiao bowed his head, and then said with a smile: "Let the brothers speed up, try to get ahead of the reinforcements from Qingzhou City to help Shuocheng, if you can eat the current devil troops in Shuocheng, it will be a victory." ”。

"When the time comes, if you can block the devils who come back from Qingzhou City in Shuocheng, you can block it. can't stop it, and then retreat to Dulong Village. ”

Liu Ziming and Xu Jiayou smiled and said in unison: "Yes, battalion commander!" ”。

Subsequently, Zhang Dabiao commanded the troops to speed up the march.

And the soldiers of the first battalion, the leg strength is not bad, at least for the soldiers of the independent regiment who have always been trained in rapid marching, these requirements to speed up the rapid march are simply commonplace!

So, Zhang Dabiao commanded the soldiers of the first battalion, threw off his feet and rushed towards Shuocheng.

At about 6:47 p.m., Zhang Dabiao commanded the first battalion and one company, and the second company was outside the north gate of Shuocheng, and the main force of the third company commanded by Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, who rushed to the north gate of Shuocheng one step in advance.

"Battalion Commander !!"

Seeing Zhang Dabiao, Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, smiled and saluted.

"You're coming fast!"

Zhang Dabiao saw the kid Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, patted the kid on the shoulder, and laughed: "How is it?" The situation in Dulong Village! ”。

"There's nothing wrong with Dulong Village!"

Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, said with a smile: "I left some people in Dulong Village to guard, and more than 400 people from the main force of the third company have already gone south. ”。

"Hmm!"

Zhang Dabiao nodded, and then said, "How is the current situation in Shuocheng?" Your kid rushed to the city of Shuocheng one step ahead of schedule. ”。

Speaking of this, Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, said with a strange expression: "Battalion commander, after I commanded the brothers of the third company to rush to the outside of the north gate of Shuocheng, I sent some brothers to the fourth gate of Shuocheng to investigate. ”。

"It seems that there are no devils defending the four gates of Shuocheng, and there is not a single figure!"

When Zhang Dabiao heard this, he immediately went out with Liu Ziming and others to a hillside outside the North Gate City, and observed the North Gate City with binoculars one by one!

"There are really no devils in the city, but the north gate is closed!"

Zhang Dabiao looked at the head of the North Gate City for a while, and then asked Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company: "Are the other Shuocheng Three Gates the same as the North Gate?" ”。

"All the same, battalion commander."

Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, nodded, and said in a somewhat serious tone: "I feel that the devils in the city don't seem to be guarding the four gates!" ”。

"Battalion commander, what shall we do? I didn't dare to attack the city before you arrived! ”

When Zhang Dabiao bowed his head and Lin Yuxuan rushed outside the North Gate, before the large army arrived at Huihe, the strength of the Third Company outside the North Gate was more than 400 people.

This amount of troops, the siege of the city is not strong enough, and it may be eaten by the devils in the city.

Therefore, before the large army arrived at Huihe, Lin Yuxuan was right not to command the three companies to attack the city.

"Order the battalion to belong to the mortar, set it up, and aim it at the north gate and the north gate for me, boom and take a look!"

Seeing the situation at the north gate, Zhang Dabiao waved his hand and said to a soldier on the side.

"Yes, Battalion Commander."

The fighters who received the order immediately trotted away to give the order.

In less than a minute, the sound of two cannonballs whizzing overhead, accompanied by a tom tom, was heard.

I saw that two mortar shells shot out from not far behind the crowd roared and smashed towards the north gate and the north gate of Shuocheng.

The artillery shelling technology of the first battalion was not bad, and the mortar shells fired by the two were not wasted in the slightest.

One hit the head of the North Gate and exploded with huge dazzling sparks! Fragments of masonry from the explosion were smashed everywhere.

Another mortar shell accurately hit the north city gate, directly blasting the city gate open, and the city gate was shattered.

The gates of Shuocheng are all the kind of city gates wrapped in iron sheets, which could not support the power of a mortar shell at all, and they were directly blown open.

When the smoke and dust generated by the explosion dispersed, Zhang Dabiao and others saw that after the north gate of Shuocheng was opened, there were no devils in the passage behind the city gate.

"Battalion commander, it's fucking weird!"

Liu Ziming, the commander of the first company, said a little confused: "Behind the North City Gate, why are there no devils." ”。

"The little devil won't know that we are going to kill Shuocheng and have already run away, right?"

Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, said, "Lao Liu, it's impossible!" ”

"Shuocheng is now the rear supply base of the devil army commanded by Nakamura Zhenxiong, if the devils who stayed in Shuocheng gave up Shuocheng and withdrew from the city and ran away, Nakamura Zhenxiong would not skin the devils who stayed in Shuocheng alive!"

Liu Ziming said, "But behind the North City Gate, you can't see the devil!" ”

"Could it be that the devils in the city did not defend the four gates, but retreated into the city?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Jiayou, the commander of the second company, and Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company, both felt that there was such a possibility.

Zhang Dabiao said, "It's possible!" ”

"The head of the city and the city gate are the most important defensive places to defend the city!"

Zhang Dabiao said in a condensed voice: "Now that the north city gate has been blasted open, there are no devils behind it, and even the back of the city gate is not blocked with sandbags or anything." ”。

"It shows that it is possible that the devils in the city did not withdraw from the city and ran away."

Liu Ziming, the commander of the first company, said, "Battalion commander, I think I will send a team of brothers to attack the city tentatively. ”

"Otherwise, it's a waste of time to be so bluffed by the devil!"

When Zhang Dabiao heard this, he nodded after thinking about it and said, "That's right!" ”。

"It doesn't matter if he has withdrawn from Shuocheng or not, he will send a platoon of brothers to attack the north gate!"

When Liu Ziming heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "Yes, battalion commander." ”。

Immediately, Liu Ziming immediately went to the first company of the command post headquarters, and dispatched a platoon of troops from the first company to immediately attack the north gate of Shuocheng.

At present, the actual strength of each company of the first battalion of the independent regiment is about 500 people, and the strength of each platoon is almost 150 people.

After Liu Ziming ordered his headquarters to dispatch a company and a platoon, more than 150 soldiers in this platoon immediately dispersed in battle formation and launched an attack on the north gate of Shuocheng.

Of course, Zhang Dabiao could not let the infantry attack alone, and soon ordered the mortars directly under the battalion to concentrate all their artillery fire on the north gate of Shuocheng to suppress the artillery fire.

The light and heavy machine guns of the other companies, as well as the machine guns directly under the battalion, also launched fire together to suppress the devils who might suddenly appear at the head of the city.

"Da Da Da!"

"Boom, boom!"

All kinds of machine gun bullets and mortar shells roared and smashed into the north gate of Shuocheng, covering the siege of a battalion, a company and a platoon of soldiers who tentatively attacked the north gate.

However, in fact, at the north gate of Shuocheng, there was only one devil sentry watching the movement outside the city.

After Zhang Dabiao ordered a platoon of soldiers to launch a tentative attack, the devil soldiers outside the city as a sentry at the north gate immediately went down the city, and ran directly back to the 73rd Wing headquarters of the Japanese army in the city, and reported the situation of the opponent to the wing commander Kenzaburo Tabe.

In fact, after Zhang Dabiao's troops rushed from the third ambush site to the main force of the first battalion and three companies commanded by Lin Yuxuan, Kenzaburo Tabe already knew the situation of the Centaur Club commanded by Zhang Dabiao and the three companies outside the North Gate.

Now, as soon as the guns rang out at the north gate, Kenzaburo Tabe certainly heard it in the castle.

After all, such a loud gunshot!

"Report to the Wing Commander, the enemy has launched an attack and launched an attack on the north gate."

The devil soldiers who rushed back to the headquarters of the 73rd Wing reported to Kenzaburo Tabe and said: "The enemy troops attacking the north gate are attacking the north gate under the cover of strong artillery and machine-gun fire, and the attack strength is about the strength of a company. ”。

"More than a hundred!"

After listening to the report, Kenzaburo Tabe waved his hand to let the devil soldiers who reported the situation go down, and then said to the chief of staff, Izumi Fujitaro: "This is a temptation, but soon the enemy army will find out that we have not sent troops to defend the castle, and will immediately concentrate their forces to attack the castle." ”。

"The empty city plan, the enemy commander who didn't let the soldiers come to the city dull for a long time, Izumito-kun!"

Chief of Staff Izumi Tengtaro also said helplessly: "Captain, Shuocheng does not have the conditions to realize the empty city plan. ”。

"What's more, our situation is very likely to be clear to the opponent, so the enemy commander quickly launched a tentative attack."

Listening to the deafening sound of gunfire, Kenzaburo Tabe no longer thought of the failed plan of the empty castle plan, but said to Izumi Tengtaro: "Are the blocks around the wing headquarters ready for defense?" ”。

"Wing Commander, it's ready, and it shouldn't be a problem to hold on until the 3rd Brigade arrives in Shuocheng."

The chief of staff of the wing, Izumi Fujitaro Shaozuo, said with a grim expression: "The officers and men of the imperial army of my wing, the strength of the street battles in the city, not to mention the first, at least it is not a problem to withstand the onslaught of the Eighth Route Army, Wing Captain." ”。

(End of chapter)

Lewen