Compared to the trapped beast, he is still fighting, and has prepared for the worst. At this moment, because of the development of the war situation, Wang Jun, who had already led his 18th Division and the 54th Regiment Headquarters, advanced to a residential house outside the east gate of Tongliao, was not very happy in his heart, and it could even be said that his face was gloomy like water.

As the sky gradually darkened, visibility became worse and worse, and the Japanese army desperately resisted. Before it was completely dark, he interspersed with Yongfu Street, divided the Japanese army into east and west, first surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army in Dongcheng, and gradually compressed the Japanese army in Xicheng to the edge of the Liao River, but the plan was not realized.

Although the Japanese army, which had been defending the city layer by layer since the troops rushed into the city and consciously conserved their troops, did not launch a tactical counterattack, it could almost be said that they were fighting for territory when defending. The barricades of the main streets of the city are stacked on top of each other, and although the various fire points are made of sandbags, they are extremely numerous. Moreover, all the houses facing the street, without exception, were converted into fortifications by the Japanese army.

In addition, in addition to the barricades of the Japanese army on several main roads, it was almost impossible to use artillery support to deal with the fortifications built by the Japanese army relying on the houses in various alleys, and they could only gnaw hard little by little. As well as the unfamiliar terrain, the lack of an effective map of the urban area, and the county structure of the city full of narrow alleys.

I want to take a flanking tactic, but I often get lost or get lost in the labyrinthine alley. Frontal assault, the Japanese fortification group was too dense. Under these circumstances, the attacking troops became slower and slower, until the entire line of Xiaodong Street in the county seat was blocked.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, listening to the dense gunfire in front of him, and looking at the hands of the watch on his wrist, Wang Jun, who was about to point to eleven o'clock in the evening, frowned more and more. It was already midnight, but the troops were still blocked on the line from the kiln to the mosque. Even most of the offensive, with the exception of some areas, has been stopped.

According to the current progress, if you continue to fight like this, let alone at the fastest speed, even after another week, you may not be able to take Tongliao City. Now the tactics must be adjusted. The current progress is too slow to meet the requirements of the commander at all.

It's just that tactical adjustments are necessary, but how to adjust them is a headache for Wang Jun. The Japanese army opened almost all the houses facing the street and turned them into firing points, and even some houses in key locations or alleys with convenient transportation were also converted into fortifications.

These houses are closely connected to the houses at the back, and some of them are only separated by a wall from the ordinary houses. In the entire county town of Tongliao, except for some families with courtyards, there are cellars that can barely be used as anti-artillery bunkers, and there is almost no protection. And even these cellars will collapse if they can't withstand a single 75-mm shell.

What's more, apart from the thugs and lackeys they have cultivated for themselves, the Japanese will not allow China to receive any kind of military training and self-protection capabilities. Even if these people have cellars, they know how to use them. If artillery is used, who knows how much will be implicated in this cannon?

Although Tongliao County is located outside the Saiwai region, it is actually not much different from other counties in China in terms of structure. With the exception of a few main streets and some small streets that barely allow for horse-drawn carriages, most of the rest of the area is narrow alleys that cannot be crossed by horse-drawn carriages, except for pedestrians.

After the tank stormed into the city, except for the main arterial road, it could not even turn around. Even if they forcibly rushed into the alley, as long as the Japanese army set up some anti-tank obstacles at the exit of the alley, it would be equivalent to becoming the turtle in Wengzhong.

In some of the alleys that were too narrow and rugged, the tanks were either stuck in them or faced simultaneous fire from all directions. The narrow alley made it possible for the tank to fire directly ahead. Except for reversing and moving forward, you can't even make a U-turn. Some are even stuck in it and can't go back or out.

Rifle machine gun bullets, although such a close range does not pose a threat to the tank. However, the small-caliber direct fire of grenades, Molotov cocktails and devils is absolutely not to be underestimated against tanks at close range. Especially in the back and engine parts, it is absolutely unbearable to be next to a Molotov cocktail.

And the infantry who fought with them was too narrow because the alleys were too narrow. Once the tank gets stuck inside, the infantry may not be able to pass. Or they were blocked by Japanese machine-gun fire, and they could only watch the tanks being blown up by the Japanese using Molotov cocktails or cluster grenades.

After losing two tanks, the tank units participating in the battle did not dare to let the tanks cooperate with the infantry to attack in a roundabout way, so they could only honestly launch a surprise attack from the north and south streets. At present, in fact, the role that tank units can play in battle is extremely limited.

The most difficult thing is that at the moment, the attacking troops do not even have a detailed map of Tongliao County, let alone the Japanese fortifications and deployment maps. There are some ordinary people who are familiar with Tongliao, but these people are afraid of retaliation by the Japanese army after the withdrawal of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and none of them are willing to lead the way for the Anti-Japanese Federation.

Even if he is forced with a gun, he will not lead the way for the Anti-Japanese Federation. In the words of those ordinary people, if I don't lead the way, you will kill me at most. If I lead the way, the Japanese will definitely kill my family when you leave. I can't trade my family's lives for me.

No matter how much the political cadres who led the team tried to persuade the common people who were worried about the retaliation of the Japanese army, no one was willing to be this guide. Not all the common people were obedient people, preferring to live under the enslavement of the Japanese rather than be rescued by their own ranks. It's that the common people are really scared and numb by the high-pressure rule of the Japanese.

The common people here all think that the Anti-Japanese Federation will only stay in Tongliao for a while, and will not stay for long. After these anti-union are withdrawn, the little devils will make a comeback. Isn't it the same as the Volunteers back then, but what about the result? Those in the city who helped the volunteers, where the results were.

The inability to find civilians as guides, and the lack of detailed maps of the city in their hands, made the troops suffer greatly during the attack. Some troops painstakingly took down an alley, only to find that the alley was a dead end at all, and they could not rush through it at all. If you want to detour to the Japanese firing point in front, you can't count on it at all.

Some even rushed into the alley, followed the path in the middle, and returned to the starting point. When they found their way again, they found that the location of the exit they had found was completely different from the intended goal. The labyrinthine alley made the troops suffer. In this case, it is strange that the speed can be faster than that of street fighting.

looked at Wang Jun, who was a little dark-faced because of the slow progress of the troops after attacking the city. Lin Feng, the chief of staff of the Eighteenth Division on the side, hesitated for a moment and said: "Division commander, now the entire forward army has all suffered setbacks due to the terrain restrictions, and some units have been disrupted. ”

"It's the first time we've fought in such a large county town at night, and we hardly have any experience. Especially at the moment, we have neither a guide nor a detailed map, and in addition to the labyrinthine alleys, some troops are in a chaotic manner, and it takes a lot of time to determine their own location. If this continues, our army will easily suffer. ”

"I see if we can temporarily retreat and reorganize the troops, reorganize the structures that have been disrupted, and wait until dawn to continue the offensive. At the same time, let the political department mobilize a group of guides as much as possible to show the route of march for our army's attack troops? ”

"The visual distance after dawn is good, and we can use some small-caliber direct-aim fire appropriately in the middle of the battle. In addition, if the guide is mobilized, our army will not be in a situation of rushing blindly at the moment. At least those alleys are dead ends, those are open at both ends, there are several exits, and it is still clear where each exit leads. ”

Regarding Lin Feng's construction, Wang Jun vetoed it directly without thinking: "You can't withdraw, once you withdraw and enter it, you still have to pay the price." Since this price has to be paid early and late, it is better to pay some early. What are you afraid of? Fight indiscriminately. ”

"For this kind of county town with a small area and many alleys, it is more appropriate to spread out on the scale of the squad platoon. According to the old rules, as long as you unfold a company, you don't have to do it deliberately, and you will naturally be divided by alleys. Moreover, the situation of many alleys is not conducive to the formation of large troops. The troops crowded into one street, but restrained their hands and feet. ”

"The current situation is that even a first-level unit cannot be used, let alone a battalion-level unit? In the current situation, it's useless for you to assemble, and you have to spread out when you fight. Since the withdrawal still has to be scattered after the killing, is it still necessary to withdraw and regroup? ”

"At present, the Japanese army is desperately defending every position, but as long as the position is lost, no matter how critical the position is, there has never been a tactical counterattack. Moreover, among the Japanese soldiers who have been killed so far, there are not only regular Japanese soldiers, but also many old and weak armed civilians. What does this mean? It shows that the devil's current troops in Tongliao City are insufficient. ”

"They can't even fight tactical counterattacks, so they can only passively defend to the death. Relying on multi-level and large-depth defense, the entire Tongliao county town will be turned into a defensive system, so as to delay our offensive, buy time for them to mobilize reinforcements, and kill and injure the living forces of our army as much as possible. ”

"In the entire Tongliao county, the Japanese army is indeed more familiar than us now. However, according to the current tactics of the Japanese army, the focus of its defense is certainly on the two main east-west arteries. However, the depth around these two arterial roads has also been trying to control and ensure the depth of defense in key areas as much as possible. ”

"Since each of their defensive areas has a defensive focus, then each position must be flanked and protected. The county town of Tongliao is full of alleys, which has brought a lot of trouble to our army who are not familiar with the terrain. But in this way, the strength of the Japanese army will inevitably be dispersed. ”

"We do have a bit of a loss at the moment, but in this way, we have inadvertently formed a situation of multiple simultaneous assaults and small infiltrations. This also made it difficult for the Japanese army to find out which direction our main attack was. Who said that if you attack the county seat, you can only launch the main attack along the main street? Who said that the direction of the main attack in the street battle can only be set in stone? ”

"There are so many alleys, and it is impossible for the Japanese army to send heavy troops to guard every alley. We are based on a squad and platoon, and we can find the weak points in their defense area by attacking them from multiple ways. I think these alleys, no matter how complex they are, are still limited in size. Even if the troops are a little lost, they will not be delayed for too long, let alone run too scattered. Dispersion, centralization, this is also a tactic. ”

"We have an absolute advantage in individual firepower. In this kind of encounter, it is a melee situation, and the comparison is the rate of fire of the weapon in the hand. Moreover, our automatic rifle is much shorter than the Japanese army's 38 rifle, which is more conducive to combat in the case of narrow alleys. ”