Chapter 403: Persistence

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Speaking of this, Asakawa Ladder swallowed his saliva, carefully looked at the face of Ushijima Man, who had not heard any good news except bad news, after arriving at his wing headquarters, after hesitating for a moment, he still said: "In addition, the 44th Wing has been fighting fiercely with the enemy of Baoqing for two days and one night since yesterday's attack on the periphery of Baoqing, and the troops have been extremely tired. 【. netbsp; "And because of the stubborn resistance of the defenders, the 44th Wing suffered heavy casualties. In a short period of two days and one night, in order to fulfill the task assigned by the division commander to the best of its ability, the 44th Wing had done its best, and nearly one-third of the casualties were inflicted. Although the 44th Wing has not yet been able to capture the county seat of Baoqing, I have to say that your Excellency, these warriors of the empire have done their best. ”

"On the premise that the 12th Wing has lost its combat effectiveness, the 44th Wing has been unable to make ends meet under the condition that it has to divide its troops to guard against the enemy's counterattack on the front line of Qixinghe and Jinshagang, and at the same time to adopt siege tactics against Baoqing County. If the 43rd Wing does not participate in the battle, it will be difficult for the 44th Wing to complete the task of attacking Baoqing County with the current strength alone. ”

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, I implore you that if you don't want the 43rd Wing to be thrown into the battlefield too early, you should at least transfer part of the 43rd Wing to take over our defense to the north. So that the 44th Wing can devote all its forces to the siege of Baoqing County, so that the 44th Wing can capture Baoqing in the shortest possible time. ”

Hearing that the divisional wings had suffered heavy losses in this air raid, and even the chief of staff of the division was killed, Ushijima frowned quite dissatisfied. However, he did not immediately agree to Asakawa Tatsuji's request for the 43rd Wing to be put into the battlefield as soon as possible. Reason told him that the Forty-Third Wing was not yet the best time to strike.

But Asakawa Teiji's analysis is not without truth in Ushijima's view. The 44th Wing, under the circumstance that it still had to divide its troops to the north to guard it, was indeed somewhat insufficient. And the most important thing now is to take Baoqing County as much as possible, so as to obtain a solid support point in the current chaotic war situation and open up the highway from Baoqing to Jiamusi as much as possible. With the stubborn resistance of the defenders and the heavy casualties of the 44th Wing, it was difficult for them to accomplish this goal within the prescribed requirements on their own.

After hesitating for a moment, Ushijima looked at Asakawa Teji who looked at him expectantly and said, "Asakawa-kun, you immediately dispatch a capable man to put the remnants of the Twelfth Wing in order in the shortest possible time, and take over your enemy forces on the front line of the Seven Star River in the northern defense."

"And you will vacate the first line of Jiaxinzi and hand it over to the 43rd Wing to take over your place to continue the offensive and carry out the task of opening up the road in Baoqing. Your 44th Wing was all transferred to the front line of Dongguan and attacked Baoqing County and Dongguan with all your might. I'm giving you a day, if you can't take Baoqing County, you can do it yourself. Remember that this time tomorrow is your deadline. ”

Lieutenant General Ushijima finally nodded and agreed to the 43rd Wing, which had been hiding and waiting, to go south to participate in the battle, and take over the 44th Wing's attack on the front line of Kanshinko, which finally made Asakawa Teiji breathe a sigh of relief. Although the casualties of the 44th Wing are not heavy compared to the current 12th Wing, they have also reached the point of breaking their muscles and bones. The 43rd Wing took over the offensive of the first line of Jiaxinzi, at least it could greatly reduce the pressure on the 44th Company.

It's just that while breathing a sigh of relief, he felt the pressure on the division commander's order that he must seize the county seat of Baoqing within twenty-four hours. Even if the 43rd Wing has shared half of the pressure, judging from the current battle situation, whether it can capture Baoqing County within 24 hours, Asakawa Ti 2 Dazuo really has no bottom in his heart.

Asakawa Ladder has no bottom in his heart, and Ushijima can't manage it. At the moment, he was calm on the surface, but in fact, he was messed up by the current battle situation, but Ushijima had no heart to talk nonsense with him. After waving his hand to signal Asakawa Osa to go out, Ushijima couldn't calm down even though his mind was there.

The defeat of the 12th Wing in the direction of Jinshagang cast a thick shadow on Ushijima's heart. The loss of the division headquarters greatly deepened this ominous premonition in his heart. Compared with this ominous premonition in my heart, the pain in my butt is secondary. For the first time, Ushijima Mitsuru had the idea of withdrawing.

Just after hesitating, Ushijima Man still decided that even if he wanted to retreat, he would at least take Baoqing County. Even though he wasn't the kind of person to force himself to obey his boss, he thought he should look again. At the very least, the true intentions of the opponent should be figured out. And Baoqing County, which has now fallen into a siege, happens to be a pretty good inducement.

However, Ushijima Mitsuru gave Asakawa Osaku time to occupy Baoqing by tomorrow evening. But Ushijima had already made up his mind, regardless of whether this tactical intent could be realized or not. He had already made up his mind that tomorrow the whole army would shrink back to Mishan overnight. Ushijima set the final retreat time at 18 o'clock the next day, and no matter how the battle went, even if he occupied the county seat of Baoqing and the line of Jiaxinzi, he would have to withdraw to Mishan no matter what.

Within twenty-four hours, it is still unclear whether Asakawa Dazuo will be able to capture the county seat of Baoqing, and whether the 43rd Wing will be able to capture the front line of Jiaxinzi. But after the 43rd Wing finally showed its head and joined the battlefield, whether it was Peng Shilu in Dongguan or Yang Zhen in the city, or Jia Xinzi to the front line of the backer, they all felt the real pressure increase dramatically.

The relatively strong Jiaxinzi front line can still be supported, but Peng Shilu, who is already struggling to support, is in an even more difficult situation. The entire Dongguan was razed to the ground by Japanese artillery fire, and the defenders could only rely on the ruins of Dongguan to barely support it. At dawn of the second day of the battle, the defenders' straight-line connection with the county seat was cut off, and the entire defensive position was only a corner of the southeast corner of Dongguan.

Although the city defense of Baoqing County was also extremely tight, after the northeast city wall had been captured by the 44th Wing at midnight, the county town had already reached the stage of street fighting. But Yang Zhen has been trying to find a way to support Dongguan, in addition to concentrating the limited mortar fire in the city in the direction of Dongguan, Yang Zhen even sent his own guard company......

However, compared to the battle until noon the next day, because the Japanese army had already reached Xiaohuzi, who was almost close to Yang Zhen's headquarters in Baoqing Catholic Church, Yang Zhen didn't seem to be too worried about the battle situation in front of him. Judging from the sound of gunfire in the direction of Dongguan that had been weakening since the afternoon, he keenly sensed that the attack power of the 44th Wing on the front line of Dongguan should be close to the bottom line.

From the sound of guns and cannons around Baoqing County, Yang Zhen judged that except for the Japanese troops on the first line of Jiaxinzi who were relatively strong because they had only entered the battle in the evening of the previous day, the Japanese offensive in the direction of Dongguan had obviously shown a lack of strength. In other words, the Japanese troops in the direction of Dongguan were somewhat unable to attack.

In Yang Zhen's view, as long as Dongguan is in hand, under the situation that the 43rd Wing is fully engaged in dealing with the first line of Jiaxinzi, even if all the 44th Wing of the Japanese Army with limited strength breaks into the city, they may not be able to stand.

Peng Shilu's stubborn resistance against an inch of land, although not fierce in the city, always appeared at the most critical moment to support artillery fire. The 44th Wing, which was caught in a bitter battle, was at a loss. Although considerable progress has been made in daytime battles with superiority in strength and firepower, casualty figures are changing almost by the hour.

Although it almost crushed the opponent completely several times, it was almost. It seems that he is already dying, and it seems that he can completely solve the opponent of the battle with more effort, but he has always been able to persist with extremely tenacious tenacity. And the opponent's aviation that appeared on the battlefield of Baoqing County for the first time brought a great threat to the 44th Wing.

After receiving Yang Zhen's order, because he was worried about Yang Zhen's safety in Baoqing County, Yuan Bin could be said to be out of the nest. Not to mention the family background, even the bottom of the pot has been taken out. It's just that this kind of close ground-to-ground support, those medium bombers that occupy the main force are of little use, and can only bomb the rear positions of the Japanese army. However, due to the insufficient number of stockpiled bombs, the effectiveness of the bombing was limited.

On the contrary, it was the lightweight ground attack aircraft that those fighters converted into played a considerable role. In order to inflict maximum damage to the Japanese army, Yuan Bin even sent out the training planes at hand, each of which was equipped with two temporarily modified mortar shells, which were thrown by the pilot in the back seat to carry out ground attacks.

In accordance with Yang Zhen's order, the aviation units that brought all suspicious targets on the ground into the line of sight of the attack, and all the marching brigades, artillery positions, baggage and material storage sites, and even hospitals for wounded soldiers in the entire Dongguan direction were all within the scope of the air force's attack.

The pilots went almost insane, and after their few stocks of bombs were depleted, they used their on-board machine guns to strafe the Japanese on the ground. There were even those who ran out of ammunition and pulled out grenades and threw them down. If you don't run out of ammunition and fuel tanks, these planes will never return.

If it weren't for Yang Zhen's insistence on disagreeing, Yuan Bin and Xia Boxun would even have the intention of transferring back all the 60 P-39 fighters of a brigade that had already completed the modification in Jiangbei to participate in the battle, so as to make up for the shortage of ground attack planes. Thinking about the 37-millimeter caliber cannon on this fighter, Yuan Bin was itching in his heart.

The power of this kind of cannon was seen when he went to Jiangbei to inspect the work. A big tree with a thick hug will blow up on the spot as long as it is hit by a shot. It is used for ground attack and ground support combat, which is much more powerful than the ordinary seven-millimeter machine guns that most attack aircraft are equipped with today. It was only because of Yang Zhen's insistence that the two gave up.

Xia Boxun, who was in Baoqing County, personally guided the bomb in order to make sure that the bomb was dropped as accurately as possible and that he could not be injured by mistake. Because the two armies on the Dongguan battlefield were too close to each other, the closest distance between the two armies was less than thirty meters in a straight line. There's a fart on the other side, and you can hear it clearly here. This distance is almost effortless for a 12.7 mm bullet to penetrate the past.

Although the positions of the two armies are staggered, the ability of these aircraft to attack the ground is greatly limited. But these aviation units still played a great role. The few remaining napalm bombs also brought considerable damage to the 44th Wing, and even directly destroyed several Japanese offensives.

It was also with the full support of the aviation that the shape of Dongguan was already in a precarious position, but it still persevered. It can even be said that if it were not for the full support of the air force, the troops in his hands would have been killed and wounded, and under the onslaught of the 44th Wing, which had exhausted its vigor but still had its offensive strength, Peng Shilu would not have been able to hold out at all for the arrival of Wang Guangyu's troops.

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