Chapter 924: The Battle for the City Wall (Subscription Requested!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Itagaki Seishiro saw a panic on the eastern position of the Eighth Route Army, and the command system was also chaotic, and it seemed that he had been hit. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the 10th Infantry Wing of the 10th Division, which had long been ready to attack, to immediately charge.

The 10th Infantry Wing is the main force of the 10th Division, and the vast majority of the troops in the wing are veterans with more than three years of military experience, and its combat effectiveness has been tested in many major wars.

The 10th Infantry Wing's attack was fierce, and the location of the attack on Itagaki was the defense area of the Wanquan Garrison Regiment, whose command system was attacked by Japanese aerial bombs, so the Japanese soon broke through the position at this point, forcing the defenders to retreat along all fronts.

After the Japanese occupied the position east of Zhangjiakou, they began to move to the flank, and the flank positions of Shi Wenhu and Li Wenqing were mortally threatened, and Yang Chengwu had no choice but to order the two brigades to withdraw to Zhangjiakou immediately.

After taking all the outlying positions of Zhangjiakou City, the arrogance of the Japanese army suddenly became extremely arrogant, and it was only a matter of time before Seishiro Itagaki even clamored for the elimination of Ma Zheng's division, and the imperial army would completely occupy Zhangjiakou within two days and completely expel Ma Zheng's division, which was the most effective force in the Chinese battlefield, from the southern part of the Chachanan region.

But the progress of the next battle stunned all the senior Japanese generals, including Itagaki, that the Zhangjiakou city wall, which had been destroyed by them, had been secretly reinforced by the Eighth Route Army, and the city wall was full of light and dark bunkers built of reinforced concrete.

Originally, Itagaki Seishiro was ready to take the city of Zhangjiakou in one go, and he had to gain a foothold in the city at the worst, but an infantry wing did not even break through the city fortifications of the Eighth Route Army with the cooperation of a large number of artillery.

Moreover, the sensitive Itagaki also found that the number of Tsuchihachi Road seemed to have increased a lot, and in addition, the troops that had participated in the battle before were strong in combat and had fought with the Imperial Army for more than a month did not seem to participate in the final offensive and defensive battles.

Itagaki Seishiro guessed very accurately, Shi Wenhu and Li Wenqing's two brigades suffered a lot of losses in the previous battle, so they were arranged by Yang Chengwu to rest in the underground fortifications after they withdrew into the city.

As for the city defense of Zhangjiakou, it was handed over to the garrison regiments of Wanquan, Zhangbei, Shangyi, Huai'an and other places in the southern military sub-district, and the guard regiment and engineer regiment directly under the military sub-district, as well as the police force in the city, also participated in the battle.

The reason for this was that, on the one hand, the two brigades of the main force of the Second Division suffered heavy losses and urgently needed to rest and replenish, and on the other hand, because the fortifications of Zhangjiakou were extremely strong, which was very suitable for the second-line troops to conduct actual combat training.

Although the second-line garrison of the Suicha Military Region is not a recruit unit that has not seen blood, its combat effectiveness is still unable to compete with the Japanese army, so generally speaking, Ma Zheng will not let the second-line garrison fight with the Japanese army, which is similar to delivering food.

But if you are stationed in a fortified position, it is much simpler, the soldiers only need to pull the trigger when the enemy comes up, and the rest is almost nothing, and if the garrisons can't do it, then they don't deserve to be called an army.

No, just after the first round of counterattack, the Shangyi Garrison Regiment beat the attacking Japanese 63rd Wing to the ground, and it only took half an hour to repel the first round of the Japanese attack, and also caused huge casualties to the Japanese army.

The second-line troops are like this, it is very easy to fight a good fight, if these guys are allowed to fight with the Japanese army face to face with bayonets, the whole line will be routed in two hours at most, and it is very possible that they will even be completely annihilated by the Japanese army.

But if these guys take advantage of the opportunity, then all the soldiers will burst out with 200% combat effectiveness. The morale and the quality of the soldiers will be greatly improved in a short period of time, which is also the main reason why Yang Chengwu transferred these garrison regiments to Zhangjiakou at this critical juncture.

Seeing that the city fortifications in Zhangjiakou were unexpectedly strong, Itagaki Seishiro immediately had a certain understanding of the intentions of the Eighth Route Army, and immediately ordered the troops to stop the attack. And convene all the senior officers on the front line to discuss countermeasures, if they attack Zhangjiakou according to the strong attack tactics formulated earlier, then the price to pay is too great.

The front, the operational command of the Japanese army.

"Gentlemen, this is the case, the intention of the people of China is obvious, that is, to use strong city fortifications to fight with the empire, and to fill the empire with a famous person Zhangjiakou, and even if the front army takes Zhangjiakou, the gains will outweigh the losses. Therefore, I hope that you can come up with a practical way to take Zhangjiakou with a large reduction in the casualties of the imperial army. Seishiro Itagaki looked at all the senior generals in the command "sincerely".

In fact, the intention of the Eighth Route Army was discovered shortly after Itagaki Seishiro arrived at the front line, but because the entire North China Front Army was already difficult to ride a tiger at this time, in order to take care of the face of Okamura Ningji and the entire North China Front Army, it was necessary not to make a noise, let alone say a word to warn.

But now it's different, Okamura Ninji has handed over the command of the front line to him, so there are some things to say to these people, although it doesn't need to be said explicitly, with the intelligence of these people, they can't even hear the voice outside the phone.

"Your Excellency, Chief of the General Staff, have we all been... Both..."

Lieutenant General Maeda said with a somewhat pale face, thinking of the terrible result, the commander of the Japanese lieutenant general's division did not even dare to say it.

Itagaki Seishiro looked at the famous fierce general in the Imperial Army in front of him, sighed and said: "Maeda-kun, you guessed right, this battle is completely a bureau specially set up for the Imperial Army by the Eighth Route of Japan and Turkey, and an insoluble situation that the Imperial Army knows is a trap and has to drill into it. ”

Seeing that there were still a few major generals in the army who still had some disbelief or disdainful expressions, Itagaki said with some anger: "Gentlemen, don't think that I really say nothing, think about the performance of the people since the beginning of the war, judging from the combat effectiveness shown by Ma Zheng's department, are they much worse than the elite of the empire?" ”

"No matter how the people of China disguise themselves, the intention to lure the front army cannot be concealed. As long as you count the casualties of the front army in this battle, you can see the intentions of the Tubalu people clearly, so you must change your concept, and the people of China are no longer the people of China three years ago. ”

"Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff, I agree with you that the people of China did use strong fortifications to lure the Front Army to besiege it, and then take the opportunity to kill and injure the living forces of the Front Army in large numbers."

"Since the outbreak of the Battle of Zhangjiakou, our 10th Division has suffered heavy casualties, so far more than 5,400 soldiers have been killed in the battle, and more than 10,000 people have been wounded, so the entire 10th Division still has less than 6,000 combat strength troops, and all the chariots have been destroyed by the Chinese people. With its strong fortifications and large-caliber artillery, the 10th Division, the most elite of the Empire, has already rendered the Empire's most elite Division incapacitated, so I support your opinion. Ueda of the 10th Division said.

Immediately after that, Lieutenant General Nishihara Kazuse, commander of the 3rd Tank Division, stood up and said: "The loss of the 3rd Tank Division is even more heart-wrenching, and the earth is very cunning, and almost all the tanks of the tank division have been destroyed in just over a month with those hateful mines and large-caliber artillery that can fire explosive packs. ”

Then Nishihara Kazusei added: "Although the loss of soldiers of the Third Division is not large, the loss of those heavy equipment cannot be replenished in a short period of time, so before the tank is replenished, the Third Division can be regarded as losing its combat effectiveness." ”

With the support of Ueda and Nishihara Kazuse, Itagaki Seishiro's assertion was quickly accepted by all the officers present, even if they did not approve of it, they did not dare to say anything at this time.

After Itagaki Seishiro's analysis, all the senior Japanese officers present knew that they had been led by the Eighth Route Army all along, and they had completely lost the initiative in the battle. (To be continued.) )