"Report, report to Your Majesty the Prince, the imperial army can no longer withstand it. We had already prepared for the Dragon Boat Festival. After opening the city gate, the leading soldiers took the lead to seize the city gate, and then the cavalry rushed in. In an instant, the defense line of the southern city was gone. ”
The Japanese soldiers came to report, and when Kitashirakawa heard the report, his entire facial expression became angry and distorted.
"Baga, they are all just losers."
Kitashirakawa was furious, but at this time, none of the Japanese standing in his office dared to speak out.
Because everyone knows the consequences of the Beibai Prince's anger.
But at this time, Taro Aso was relatively calm and quickly stepped forward and said: "Senior, if you want to stabilize the battle situation, you must protect the defense line in the middle from being broken through by the enemy. Move the troops from the east and west brigades to the city for defense, and place them on the streets. By resisting the horse and preventing the enemy's cavalry from advancing, the current situation can be stabilized."
Kitashirakawa thought it made sense and ordered: "You still won't do it?"
"Hi!"
Several Japanese staff officers, including Captain Ito, responded immediately, and then quickly sent orders to set up defenses.
The two brigades of the little Japanese quickly moved toward the city from east to west, while the original Japanese sentries and so on would block the horses or place some larger debris on the streets to block the cavalry charge.
The Japanese who came to support them removed door panels, reinforced the original fortifications with sandbags, and built three lines of defense in front and back to block the cavalry attack.
It was just that the little devil had been busy for a long time, but the cavalry of the independent regiment did not rush over again.
It turns out that Dragon Boat Festival has already made arrangements for this.
Because just think about it, the cavalry attack is to be surprised and to attack quickly. Once the enemy is prepared, the cavalry will be a living target under the hot weapon machine gun.
And this is also the reason why cavalry has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history in modern times.
But there are no absolutes. Although the cavalry has been weakened after the emergence of thermal weapons, and especially the emergence of the Maxim machine gun, the cavalry has been greatly weakened. However, in rapid raids, the cavalry is still a nightmare for the infantry.
Therefore, Duanwu took advantage of the fast speed of the cavalry. After the south city gate was broken, the cavalry rushed in directly, smashing all the Japanese defense lines in Nancheng, and then chased the defeated troops in Nancheng everywhere. As for the Japanese middle road, the attack was only in vain. To increase casualties, Duanwu was not so stupid as to let the cavalry team he had finally cultivated lose their lives.
"Run!"
"Don't kill me, ah!"
The Japs in Nancheng were still desperately trying to escape, but they were helpless in front of the cavalry.
The heads of the Japanese were cut off one by one, but the Japanese in the distance could only watch this scene.
At this time, no one dared to run to Nancheng to save people, because just as the cavalry was chasing the Nancheng Japs, a sea of fire swept through most of Nancheng in the next second.
Wang Tong and Lu Jian came in with their men. Except for some of them who accompanied the cavalry to encircle and suppress the Japs in Nancheng, the rest of the troops quickly occupied the entire Nancheng. Wang Tong directly led his regiment to rush forward and hit the Japs' middle road head-on. force.
The two sides had nothing to say and just started fighting. On the narrow streets east and west of the city center, there were fierce exchanges of fire from at least five or six positions.
Lu Jian's two regiments, in addition to occupying and consolidating many commanding heights in the south city, one detoured from the east and the other attacked from the west, hoping to break through the little Japanese's defense line and force the little Japanese to continue to retreat in a three-sided attack.
And once the Japanese retreat, they will win this battle tonight.
But after encountering successive raids, the little devil gradually stabilized his position. The Japanese defense line in the middle of the city was so strong that it was fixed there like a sea-fixing needle. In addition, the Japanese mobilized artillery to suppress Wang Tong's troops with firepower.
Wang Tong launched Xiaojiazi's Type 92 infantry gun to fight back. After a fierce gun battle, the two sides started an artillery battle again.
The Japanese positions in the city could not be captured in a short time, and Lu Jian's left and right armies were also hampered.
The resistance of the little Japanese was very tenacious, and their counterattacks and surprise attacks also made the Sichuan army very passive.
What's more, the Japanese on the city wall have not yet been defeated. Although Duanwu disassembled Chen Shusheng's machine gun company and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese along the city wall. But the Japanese on the city wall hid in the fortifications and put up a tenacious resistance.
Obviously, the little devils also know the importance of the commanding heights of the city wall to them.
The little devils came one after another. Although they suffered heavy casualties under the fierce machine gun fire of the independent regiment, the little devils still continued to reinforce the city wall.
The battle on the city wall gradually became tense. Duanwu led his men to attack several times, but still could not win.
The little Japs were hiding behind bunkers made of sandbags. Even machine guns could not penetrate the Japs' bunkers.
The Japs thus stabilized their position and used grenades and grenade launchers to block the city wall, making it impossible for the machine gun company to break through.
The other little Japs, after their positions were stabilized, provided support to the Japs below the city.
So Lu Jian's Sichuan Army launched several charges but was repelled.
Lu Jian was very angry and was about to order the troops to continue organizing the suicide squads to charge, but at this moment, Duanwu's order came down, telling them to stop the attack immediately and switch to a defensive state.
The same goes for Wang Tong's regiment. The troops quickly withdrew from the front-line battle, leaving the little devil looking confused. It was like a raging flood coming, and everyone mobilized to fight the flood on the embankment. But at this moment, the originally raging flood suddenly disappeared.
Of course, the flood did not really disappear, because the battle with the Japanese on the city wall continued.
It turned out that Duanwu discovered that if the Japanese on the city wall were not dealt with, the street fighting in Bengbu City would be very detrimental to them.
It's night now, and the Japs' vision is limited. Once it's daytime, the Japs on the west and east walls will shoot at the soldiers within their range. As a result, not only will the soldiers suffer heavy casualties, but their range of movement will also be limited.
Therefore, Duanwu immediately withdrew all his troops and temporarily stopped the frontal attack.
But stopping the attack does not mean that the Dragon Boat Festival will really retreat. In addition to the ongoing battle on the city wall, the frontal defense is still there.
Seeing that the Chinese army had retreated, a squadron of Japs made a tentative attack. However, before they could advance two hundred meters, they encountered crossfire from two directions.
The little devils immediately retreated, but even so, more than thirty corpses were left on the ground.
From then on, the little devils no longer dared to venture forward. They all huddled behind the main defense line in the city, hoping to start a street battle with Dragon Boat Festival in the city.
This is not good news for Dragon Boat Festival. The Japanese have stabilized the situation. If Dragon Boat Festival does not have a big breakthrough, they will be very passive. Due to the strength of Bengbu's troops, Duanwu did not have an advantage, and he had just received news from the 51st Army that a group of Japs with at least one regiment's strength had penetrated from the back of the 114th Division to the east of Bengbu. Chang suspected that he was heading towards the defense area of the 113th Division.
Commander Yu was a little worried about his 113th Division, but Duanwu felt that the strength of this regiment was most likely directed at him! .
