When the Japanese artillery fire began to extend, the regiments and battalions responsible for defending the south of the city blew their whistles to meet the enemy. Under the command of company and platoon-level officers, groups of soldiers with live ammunition rushed out of the tunnel entrance. Start to seize advantageous terrain and prepare for the enemy's attack.
Most of the barricades built before were destroyed, but those barricades were made of sandbags. Even if they collapsed, they would be an obstacle to hide the body. More than half of the houses in the south of the city were destroyed, and there were ruins everywhere. The position of a regiment and a battalion;
Chen Wu, the former commander of the second company of the first battalion, was promoted to the commander of the first battalion in this unit upgrade. Defense is his forte. In the Battle of Chenjiapo, his supplementary company fought very well. One supplementary company withstood two Japanese squadrons. The continuous attacks made great contributions to the annihilation of the Japanese battalion. Since then, it has been transferred to the main force. Within a few months, Luo Ying was promoted to the position of the main battalion commander.
This time, Luo Ying was given an important task again and assumed the main combat mission. The second regiment and the first battalion served as the reserve team.
Chen Wu had very rich combat experience. He was well aware of the lethality of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery, so he did not leave any troops at the city gate. Instead, he boldly chose to put the Japanese into the city to fight. In order to facilitate command, the brigade The Ministry also equipped them with a radio station. There were only five radio stations in the entire brigade. They could be assigned a radio station at the battalion level. Only the reconnaissance battalion had this treatment.
With this radio, he can call for support from the regiment's mortar company at critical moments. The first battalion also has a machine gun company, equipped with 2 mine cannons, 2 mortars and 6 92 heavy machine guns. , this heavy firepower unit was firmly in his hands, plus a company, this was the reserve team of their first battalion.
The second and third companies set up defenses along the main road passing through the city, one company on each side. It was the company commander's business to decide how to fight. He, the battalion commander, would not interfere. The brigade commander's task for them was to defend the southern city for more than three days, and follow up. The Japs engage in street fighting to consume the Japs as much as possible.
After the Japanese bombardment stopped, he ran out of the tunnel at the battalion headquarters and observed the Japanese situation with his binoculars. When he saw the Japanese from the 65th Regiment rushing into the city swarm, he couldn't help but said:
"Captain Dai, have you seen that the Japanese still think highly of us? The enemy's posture must be at least a regiment, no less than 3,000 people. This is the rhythm of preparing to kill our lone brigade with one hammer. Second There’s a lot of pressure on companies and companies three.”
First company commander Dai Zhongqiang said with a worried look:
"The combined number of the second and third companies is less than 400, and the Japs are 3,000. That's nearly ten times the strength difference. This battle is not going to be easy. Do you want us to join the first company?"
Chen Wu shook his hand and said:
"Don't worry, we have just started the fight and have already mobilized the reserve team. How are we going to defend the back?
Although the Japs have a large number of people, we are on the defensive side and have a huge terrain advantage. After they entered the city, their eyes darkened, and their strength advantage could not be used at all. We will wait and see. "
Dai Zongqiang thought about it. If he cared, he would be in chaos. If he really couldn't stand it, wouldn't he still have their first company and the machine gun company? They had to withstand this wave of Japanese offensive.
"Captain Dai, as long as our first battalion withstands the enemy's three axes at the beginning, we will have to enter our rhythm later on, and the strength advantage in street fighting will not be so obvious."
Chen Wu said confidently that after experiencing the bitter battle on the Songhu battlefield, he had a psychological advantage when facing the Japanese again, and their troops were all veterans of the Songhu battlefield. In such an extreme environment, Under this situation, those who can survive are the best of the best.
A few hundred meters away, the Japs of the 65th Regiment thought the same way. They entered the city easily without encountering any resistance. As far as the eye could see, there were all ruins and no one could be seen;
This is not the first time that Major Miyamoto has fought against Luo Ying's troops. He has experienced the tenacity of the lone brigade. It is inevitable that the defenders will recover from casualties during the bombing, but even if they are all wiped out, he will not be killed. Not believing it, he asked the signal corpsman to convey to the other two captains that they must be treated with caution to avoid falling into the Chinese deceit.
Captain Osawa was not impressed by the captain's caution. He felt that the captain had been psychologically affected by the lone brigade. He only believed in his own eyes;
The city has been conquered by them. There are at most a thousand defenders in the city, and they invested more than 3,000 people at one time. The city can be filled with Kunshan City. What he is most worried about now is that Luo Ying will burn down the alliance after being forced. team flag, then they have no objection to their victory. Thinking of this, he urged loudly:
"Warriors, hurry up, the Chinese people have been reduced to ashes by the fierce artillery fire of the empire, rush boldly, penetrate the main streets of the city as soon as possible, and eliminate all the remaining Chinese soldiers you see."
As the vanguard, Daze Squadron cautiously advanced two to three hundred meters, but he was no longer willing to wait any longer. Their squadron was responsible for attacking the main road, and his flanks were the other two squadrons. As they accelerated their assault, , they quickly left behind the other two squadrons, took the lead, and drove straight in.
The three Japanese brigades formed two offensive echelons, which were deployed in a "pin" shape, one in front and two in back. The two echelons were separated by about 200 meters;
The one at the front was the Miyamoto Brigade. Their four infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron, and an infantry artillery squad were also two echelons. The first echelon was three squadrons, located on the left, center and right, along the main road in the city. Push from south to north.
The Fourth Squadron, the Machine Gun Squadron, the Infantry Artillery Squadron, and the Group Headquarters followed suit. The formations were quite regular, but as they deepened step by step, the Daze Squadron in the middle was taking the main road, so they were advancing at a faster speed. It was obviously faster than the two wings walking along the secondary streets, and soon they were two to three hundred meters away from the two wings.
Li Conghai was a superior soldier in the first squadron of Daze Squadron. He was a member of the baggage regiment before replenishing the 65th Regiment. Most of their baggage regiment came from Korea. Although they also wore Japanese clothes, their treatment was completely different. , so he dreams of entering the main team;
Goryeo has been conquered by the Tribe for decades. Their generation has received colonial education. They have accepted the rule of the Tribe in terms of thoughts and actions. They regard the tribe as their fathers and are proud to fight for the Tribe.
In order to perform well in front of their master, since entering China, they have behaved more cruelly than the real Japs, killing Chinese people without blinking an eye. Since landing, Li Conghai has killed 6 Chinese people. His hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese people;
The object of his worship now is the two demon kings of the 16th Division who competed in the 100-man killing competition. He even made an appointment with his friend Jin Junhao to kill 100 people to pay tribute to his idol, so that they can wear noble clothes. The surnames of various ethnic groups.
"Jin Jun, I'm worried that the Chinese people have been wiped out by artillery fire. If this is the case, we will have to wait until next time to complete our goal."
Li Conghai whispered to Jin Junhao, who was on his left, that Jin Junhao was not as simple as his head. He had been an Orion before joining the army and had already smelled the smell of danger, just like when he was a child hunting with his father in the old forest. It's the same feeling as encountering a beast.
He didn't want to talk to Li Conghai, an idiot, because Li Conghai was his competitor to become a footbath chicken man, and the number of places was limited. He wished that Li Conghai would die, so he didn't remind Li Conghai, but gave him a smile of approval, and he consciously He bent down and walked specifically to the crater, ready to hide at any time.
He looked at Li Conghai's tall chest with his peripheral vision, and a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He was looking forward to seeing the tragic scene of Li Conghai's tall chest being exploded by bullets...
Sure enough, he was not disappointed. He first heard the sound of a machine gun. He jumped into a crater. As soon as he hid in the crater, Li Conghai fell in front of him. A large-caliber machine gun bullet hit Li Conghai in the chest. , he could tell just by looking at the wound that it was the work of the 92nd Heavy Machine Gun.
"Yo Xi, Li Conghai, just go to hell with a lowly name. In your next life, remember to join the Miyamoto family. If I can get you, I dare to think of Miyamoto's noble surname. I only dare to think of a surname of Tanaka."
Raining bullets passed over his head, knocking a group of companions to the ground. He was not in a hurry to fight back. He wanted to save his life first, so he conveniently dragged Li Conghai's body to him, and then used his body to kill himself. Blocking bullets was the only contribution he made to his friend after his death.
Captain Osawa's luck seemed to be good. He also escaped the first round of bullets from the Chinese, but he was not happy at all. His squadron suffered heavy losses in this sudden attack, and there was a lot of people lying on the ground around him. The shit is yellow.
Captain Miyamoto, who was also hiding in a deep pit, found that the Chinese who fired at them were located on both sides of the main road. There were two to three machine guns, dozens of rifles, and no artillery on one side. From visual inspection, it should be a battalion of troops, one of the Chinese. The company doesn't have that many machine guns.
The reason why there seemed to be only a hundred guns was that the others must have been killed by artillery fire. He calculated that there should be nearly a hundred people in his squadron, which was about the same strength as the Chinese, and could still fight, so he immediately gave the order loudly. road:
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
Then he used hand gestures to signal his troops to fire on the Chinese. His purpose was to hold the Chinese back and wait for the other two squadrons to arrive and then outflank the Chinese from both sides. This was also a common tactic of the Japanese.
The sound of gunfire soon attracted the attention of the Japs following on both wings. They understood from the sound of gunfire that the Daze Squadron was being attacked by the Chinese, and quickly ran to outflank the place where the gunfire sounded from both wings.
