At 7:30 a.m. on June 13, the battle to recover Caozhou (Heze) began, the new 38th Division invested three main regiments to attack from the south and west, a regiment of the new 37th Brigade attacked from the east, and two regiments of the Sichuan Army feint, with a strong force of nearly 10,000 people launching a fierce attack on the remnants of Toshima Botaro in Caozhou City. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Half an hour of artillery preparation, thousands of shells fell on the Japanese positions!

The 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment of the New 38th Division, which took the initiative, took the lead in launching the attack and launched a charge from the southwest corner of the Caozhou city wall.

Two Type 95 light tanks acted as pioneers!

The 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment served as the main force of the attack, and the 1st Battalion Commander Li Dongsheng personally led the troops to launch a charge.

There were less than 2,000 remnants of the Japanese army besieged in Caozhou City, but they were all the most die-hard devils, and they fought back against the attacking 38th Division of the Chinese Army based on the fortifications of the Caozhou city wall, and the battle was extremely brutal.

The Japanese army seemed to know that the end was coming, so they put up desperate resistance.

The soldiers of the regiment and the battalion carried the ladder and launched a charge under the cover of the Japanese 95 tank, and suffered dozens of casualties, but they were not able to approach and climb the city wall.

"Regiment commander, give me a ninety-two infantry cannon, and I'm going to blast a hole in the city wall!"

"Are you sure you want to do this?" The head of the regiment, Ding Yiming, asked seriously.

"Yes!"

"Okay, I'll give you a cannon!" Ding Yiming picked up the telephone on the table and sent a call to the artillery battalion, and a Type 92 infantry gun and 20 shells were transferred.

The infantry artillery was pushed to a distance of 500 meters from the city wall and erected, and the Japanese soldiers on the city wall were horrified when they saw this scene, and they also set up mortars on the city wall, ready to shoot!

Mortars were erected faster than infantry guns, and the Japanese mortars fired first, forcing the artillery to run forward with the guns!

Rumble!

The shells fell, and the violent explosion set off a wave of air that overturned the rifle cannon.

The artillerymen operating the infantry guns hurriedly got up, straightened the guns, and pushed the guns behind a wall at the corner of the street outside the city, just avoiding the sight of the Japanese city walls.

"Quick, reload!"

The loader pulls out a yellowed cannonball from the cannonball box and presses it into the chamber at once.

"Launch!"

The gun commander gave an order, and the launcher grabbed his injured hemp rope violently and pulled it back!

Bang Dang!

The cannon burst out and bore and flew towards the Japanese troops on the city walls.

Rumble!

With a loud bang, the Japanese troops on the city wall were blown to pieces, and the mortars fired at each other were also affected, and the artillery that was loading the shells was lifted by the air wave and flew down the city wall.

Like falling onions, the seven or eight meter-high city wall, head down, smashed on the ruins of the city bricks, and the head suddenly cracked, and the bright red blood and white were like tofu brains, like ripe watermelons.

The shelling continued until almost all the shells were exhausted, and a gap was opened in the city wall, and the wall more than ten meters high suddenly became a large shortening, and the Japanese soldiers on it screamed and buried themselves in the rubble of the city bricks.

"Rush!"

Li Dongsheng, the commander of the first battalion, roared, and once again led a platoon to rush to the bottom of the city wall with a ladder, and the ladder was placed on the gap in the city wall and climbed up first.

"Battalion commander, be careful......"

A bullet shot out from behind the gap, Li Dongsheng heard someone shouting behind him, and subconsciously turned his head, and the bullet flew out after grazing his head, frightening him into a cold sweat.

A Japanese soldier was buried in the rubble, and he was shooting at him with a 38 rifle in his hand.

As soon as Li Dongsheng raised his hand, the box cannon in his hand went off, hitting the Japanese soldier in the head, and then using both hands and feet together, he rushed forward at once.

Behind him, five or six soldiers from a battalion came up, quickly looking for cover, and took up the position of the gap.

"Boom!"

Another shell fell on the city wall, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed up were bombed again and again before they could get close to the ladder, and the four light machine guns and two heavy machine guns of the battalion under the city wall covered the fire, and the Japanese troops who were pressed could not raise their heads for a moment!

"Go up, Li Dongsheng, this kid went up, ordered the second battalion to get ready, wait for the first battalion to gain a firm foothold, and immediately break in to expand the results!" Ding Yiming, the commander of the first regiment who commanded the battle, was excited and only shot big. Leg tract.

"Yes!"

"General, general, no, the Chinese have occupied the city wall in the southwest corner, and their soldiers are constantly killing in, and our soldiers are almost unable to withstand it."

"What's the panic, remember, you are an army officer of the Great Japanese Empire, and you must not be alarmed at all times." Toshima Fangtaro's eyes were red and he reprimanded his subordinates, in fact, his heart was on the verge of collapse at the moment.

Judging from the intensity of today's artillery fire and the offensive intensity of the Chinese army, it is obvious that the opponent has no patience to continue to play offensive and defensive games with him.

The final assault began.

He had just received a secret telegram from Kenji Dohihara, the commander of the division, from the Guide side, that the Chinese army had launched an unprecedented and fierce artillery attack on Guide, almost immediately inflicting heavy damage on the defense line that the division commander had painstakingly managed for five days.

At this last moment when reinforcements are about to arrive, the Chinese army will definitely launch the fiercest attack, and as long as they get through, there will be a glimmer of life.

Kenji Dohihara hoped that he would lead his troops to break through and move closer to Guide.

At this time, such an order to break through suddenly came, and Toshima Botaro couldn't help but think about it for a while, what did Kenji Dohihara want to do, using himself to disrupt and contain the sight of the Chinese army?

Is he planning to sacrifice himself for his own sake?

Toshima Botaro was very angry, but he didn't dare to disobey Kenji Dohihara's orders, the spirit of bushido is dedication and sacrifice, not to mention that this is a military order!

"Order the troops, hold out until dark, our troops break through to the south and join the division commander!" Toshima Fangtaro gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Hay!"

Xinxiang, New First Army Special Technology Research Institute, code: 701.

"Director Xue, we found a Japanese military radio signal, which has been tracking for several days, and their contact is very frequent, and its cipher code encryption method is very similar to the secret telecommunication within the Japanese army that we have mastered before."

"Can you decipher it?"

"Team Leader Chi is deciphering, because the Japanese army has changed the cipher code, although we have a certain law, it takes time to decipher." Pony Road, the liaison of the deciphering team.

The 701 Institute was created in the hands of Wu Xiaoyun, and the director is naturally Wu Xiaoyun himself, Leng Feng is still a senior consultant, Wu Xiaoyun is not there, and Xue Ping, the head of the intelligence section in charge of telecommunications, manages it on his behalf.

Now the 701 Institute has also reached a cooperation agreement with the military commander, and the decipherment team of the military commander Chi Buzhou has also sent a liaison officer, and the decipherment results on Chi Buzhou's side have basically been shared with the military commander.

Of course, the decipherment team is not without secrets, and if they don't want the liaison officer to know, the liaison officer will naturally not know.

"When?"

"Soon, Team Leader Chi said that he had mastered the rules, and he was about to kick the door."

"Let him hurry up, the front is tight, we haven't been able to decipher the important secret telecommunications of the Japanese army for a few days." Xue Ping said solemnly.

"Yes!"

New First Army, War Room.

"Lao Luo called and said that a regiment has opened a hole, but the Japanese resistance is very tenacious, and if there is a street battle with the Japanese army in Caozhou City, I am afraid there will be a lot of casualties."

"Have you ever thought of another way?" Leng Feng frowned, street fighting, this is all a last resort, any general, the last thing he wants to fight is street fighting, street fighting is too cruel, even if the tactics are proper and skillful, then kill a thousand enemies, and it is also eight hundred descendants.

"Judging from the current situation, it seems that Toshima Fangtaro wants to defend Caozhou City and resist us to the end!"

"Even if we intend to open an opening now, I'm afraid he won't easily abandon the city and break through." Long Yingqin also chimed in.

"It's not that there is no way, it's just ......," at this time, Bai Pengfei, an operational staff officer, opened his mouth and said.

"Xiaobai, if you have anything, you can say it, don't swallow it."

"Military seat, Senza, if we use special ammunition in Caozhou, we should be able to take it quickly, anyway, there are no more people in Caozhou City."

Everyone in the War Department was frightened by Bai Pengfei's proposal.

With special ammunition, isn't it just poison gas bombs, this kind of ammunition, other troops don't have it, but the new army really has it, of course, this is also captured by the Japanese army.

This kind of ammunition will not be easily used by the Japanese army, even if it is carried with them, which is anti-humane and anti-international law, at least they are also flaunting the so-called humanitarian spirit of a civilized country.

But once the veil of hypocrisy is torn off, they are crueler than anyone else, and they have no scruples about using them.

These two extremes of thought appear in the same kind of people, and it is true that only the Japanese can do it.

"Don't worry, it's not there yet." Leng Feng did not object immediately, but reached out and gently knocked twice on the edge of the sand table.

"Military seat, Chief Xue called, our army has broken east along the Longhai Line into the depth of the Japanese army's defense, five kilometers deep, less than three kilometers away from the Liuhe Station in Guide."

"It seems that Xie Zaoshi and Li Ye fought well." A smile appeared on Leng Feng's face, "What about our losses?" ”

"Our unit lost four chariots and suffered one hundred and fifty casualties."

"So few casualties?"

"We are just cooperating with the operation, and the 88th and 51st Divisions are the main attackers, which are the trump cards of the Central Army, and their combat effectiveness is not weak, but the weapons and equipment are a little worse."

"The 88th Division and the 51st Division were transferred later, didn't they fight with the Tufeiyuan Division in Lanfeng, and the two divisions combined have more than 10,000 people, right?"

"Well, some soldiers were urgently replenished from the rear, and before the expedition returned to Germany, the two divisions combined were about 12,000 people."

"Who is the commander of the 88th Division?"

"Long Muhan, Junzao, are you interested in this Dragon Division?"

"No, it's just that this person is a little unknown, and there should be something extraordinary about being able to be the commander of the 88th Division." Leng Feng snorted and said.

Although Long Muhan was a scapegoat for Gui Yongqing in history, he died unjustly, Gui Yongqing in order to preserve his strength, he first withdrew from Lanfeng, let Long Muhan defend Lanfeng, at that time Long Muhan had only one brigade in his hands, and he had just arrived, and the troops had not yet entered the fortifications, and the Japanese army had killed, and this battle could not be fought at all, he ordered the troops to retreat, although he later recaptured Lanfeng in blood, but in the end he was still killed by Lao Jiang to make an example.

Long Muhan himself is also problematic, but although he is also a protégé of the Son of Heaven, he is not as hard as anyone in the background, which is a tragedy.

On the afternoon of the 13th, after several killings, Kenji Dohihara also learned the armored cluster assault tactics of the New First Army, gathered the tanks and armored vehicles of the 14th Division, and fought with Li Ye's armored brigade.

The heavy artillery brigade commanded by Xie Zaoshi constantly changed its position, sometimes gathered, sometimes dispersed, and the flexible and changeable artillery tactics caused the Japanese army to suffer a little.

By constantly changing positions and camouflage, the heavy artillery brigade evaded several bombardments by Japanese fighters and avoided heavy losses.

For a whole afternoon, although I advanced a kilometer, it was too far from the results of the morning.

And the losses of the armored brigade in the afternoon were more than in the morning, and the casualties were not counted. Four of the nine tanks were lost, and two were left untouched.

The attack echelon of the New First Army suffered more than 300 casualties.

This casualty figure is roughly the same as the final casualty figure of the armored brigade in Taierzhuang.

Even if they still dodge the bombing of the Japanese army, the heavy artillery is still in strict protection, and the damage cannot be completely avoided, the Japanese army still has artillery on the ground, and there are Japanese planes in the sky, once discovered, they will mercilessly pounce down and drop bombs.

At the end of the day, the heavy artillery brigade damaged three 150 heavy howitzers, two 115-mm cannons, and seven other field guns, battle defense guns and other artillery pieces of various calibers.

This was the largest loss of the heavy artillery brigade since the Battle of Taierzhuang.

(To be continued.) )