After receiving the report from the troops below, Wang Jun, who had set up the command post in Bajiaweizi, was not a little happy on his face. Even some of the troops had already broken into Tongliao City, which did not make him excited. Because for him, seizing the last peripheral positions in Tongliao was just the beginning. The real bitter battle has just begun.

Street fighting was a military problem that would continue to be a headache even decades later. There are not a few powerful armies in the world that have been defeated in street battles. This is a kind of battle in which 1,000 enemies are destroyed and 800 are self-inflicted. The most troublesome thing is that although the city of Tongliao is not big, there are still tens of thousands of compatriots of their own flesh and blood in the city.

How to avoid accidental injuries in street battles is undoubtedly more difficult. This is not fighting on the enemy's territory, and it is simply impossible to let go and destroy the enemy. The experience of the battle for the county town of Linxi transferred from the battlefield in Linxi did not have any experience that Wang Jun could learn from at all.

Although Tongliao County is not much larger than Linxi County, because it is located in a major transportation route, it has the advantages of railways and water transportation of the West Liao River, and is the main grain producing area in the West Manchurian region. The population density here is much larger than that of Linxi, not counting the periphery, and the total population of a single county is almost equivalent to the population of the entire Linxi County.

The difficulty of fighting in such a densely populated county town without injuring too many people by mistake can be imagined. With the exception of some direct-aim guns, I am afraid that weapons such as explosives, artillery, and flamethrowers will not be usable. Even the highly penetrating twin 14-mm anti-aircraft machine guns were equally unusable.

At a distance of 800 meters, even ordinary reinforced concrete fortifications and the armor of light tanks and armored vehicles can penetrate, let alone ordinary houses? If this one broke into the house, it would be difficult for the people in it to keep a whole corpse.

Breaking through the defense line of the city wall, in Wang Jun's view, was just a starting position to break through in depth into the city. The real test is just beginning. So for Wang Jun, there is nothing to be excited about and nothing to celebrate when he breaks through the defense line of the Japanese wall.

So, after receiving a report that the troops had broken through into the city. Wang Jun was not in a hurry, and ordered the troops to fight and rush. Rather, it is to order the troops, to advance steadily and divided. Yongfu Avenue is the two dividing lines from north to south, pressing the Japanese troops south of Yongfu Street in the direction of the railway station, and the Japanese troops in the north to the Japanese puppet county government and county police station.

After giving the order to attack, Wang Jun hesitated, but Wang Jun still gave an order to the troops who broke into the city. Except for the reinforced concrete fortifications of the non-Japanese army, as well as the Japanese puppet government offices at all levels, the use of artillery in street battles is strictly prohibited. Although his divisional artillerymen had transferred all the last shells, he did not dare to use them.

Although he also knew that this would skyrocket his casualty toll, and maybe even more than he could bear. But this is an option for which there is no choice. He couldn't let these ordinary people in the city go to the Japanese army for burial. Not only him, but even the headquarters could not afford this consequence.

Fortunately, the county seat of Tongliao is not large, and the main streets are in the shape of a tic-tac-toe. There are only four main roads, east, west, north and south. All the administrative facilities of the Japanese pseudo-government, as well as the most sturdy buildings, are mainly concentrated on these four main streets. The troops can save a lot of hands and feet by attacking along these four avenues.

Compared with Wang Jun, who received a report that the troops had broken into the city, he knew that the real test had just begun, and there was no trace of excitement. Lieutenant General Chuan and Mi, who was set up in the city at the headquarters of the 14th Division in the puppet Tongliao County Government, was even more depressed in the face of the deteriorating battle situation, and even the city wall had been breached.

In fact, at this time of the battle, Chuan and Mi already knew very well in his heart that he was just a trapped beast fighting now. After the defeat in the battle for Kongjiawobao, the defenders of the entire Tongliao City, together with some non-combat units such as miscellaneous baggage and engineers, plus the remnants of the search wing, were actually less than two brigades, and hundreds of armed expatriates were also carried with them.

As for the remaining troops, they were either lost on the front line of Kongjiawobao by Ghost Wu Wuyi, or they were trapped in Kailu and Zhanggutai like themselves. In particular, the battle for Kongjiawo Fort suffered the greatest losses to the defenders in the entire Tongliao City. The main force of the 14th Division, the second wing, and the three infantry brigades that participated in the battle, went to two of them.

Even if the gendarmes, cremators, horsemen and other personnel are shot, and the lightly wounded are mobilized to not get out of the line of fire. In addition, under the circumstance that the artillery shells were consumed too much and only some of the artillery could be guaranteed, some of the artillery that had no artillery available was withdrawn and added to the infantry combat sequence, and the actual combat personnel in the entire Tongliao City were less than 1,500 people.

Tongliao County is not big, but it also needs people to defend. Fortunately, this is the county seat, which is known as the thoroughfare of nine provinces, and no matter how bad it is, it is much larger than a village. With such a small number of troops, defending a county town without a complete city wall still seems to be a little less.

And the most critical, and the most fatal, problem is that ammunition is already insufficient, especially since shells with a caliber of more than 75 mm have actually bottomed out. In the course of the previous battles, the 14th Division had consumed too much shells. In just one battle for Kongjiawobao and the firepower coverage of Gangtongwobao, tens of thousands of shells of more than 75 mm caliber were consumed by the 14th Division.

Coupled with the huge attrition of the previous Bayantala battle, the artillery shells of the 14th Division have also bottomed out. Even if it is supported by the combat readiness warehouses of the Eastern Army, this ammunition consumption is not affordable. Especially the 150-mm howitzer, which is old, but still very powerful, has almost run out of shells.

The remaining Type 38 field artillery and Liao 14 Type 77 mm field artillery, all the shells combined, are already less than 200 rounds, even if they are used sparingly, I am afraid they will not be able to support it for too long. Now the only relatively adequate shells are only one hundred and twenty-millimeter howitzer shells. But this old antique artillery is very unsuitable for street fighting, it is too bulky.

Among all the artillery equipment, the only 77-millimeter field guns with anti-tank capabilities were devoid of shells, which was the most troublesome thing for Kawa and Mi. As for light weapons, especially the weapons and ammunition of the old Northeast Army that have been captured, the amount is still sufficient. But if a rifle machine gun can destroy a tank, then what else do you need an anti-tank gun for?

The number of Type 97 20-mm automatic guns and ammunition is also quite large, but the effectiveness of this automatic cannon in the face of enemy tanks is quite limited except at a certain angle. It doesn't work, even if there are more shells, what's the use? In the midst of street fighting, it is simply impossible to adopt the tactics of Bayantara.

Faced with the situation of insufficient troops and the bottom of the artillery shells, Lieutenant General Kawa Namimi, who had nothing to do, sent a telegram asking for help to Senior General Umezu Mijiro, which was almost an hour. Although the 14th Division suffered a crushing defeat last year, it still retained some troops. But this year, if the fight continues according to this situation, the entire 14th Division will not even have seeds left.

Just his telegram for help, got only two words to insist. As for the reinforcements he was expecting, there was no answer at all. In the face of Lieutenant General Kawa Mi's request for reinforcements from the Fifth Division, which had been deployed on the front line of Zhangwu and Xifu, the Kwantung Army was also slow to give any reply. As long as he sues him, the Kwantung Army Command is still trying to figure out a way.

The last telegram replied by the Kwantung Army, which made Kawa Namimi extremely angry. At the moment, the blood of the 14th Division is about to run dry, and the 5th Division, which is fully manned and well-equipped, and even has a chariot wing, is just a stone's throw away, basking in the sun, what are the heads of the Kwantung Army Headquarters and General Umezu Mijiro?

And the 18th Division, who didn't come directly to the battlefield to rescue the 14th Division, but ran to cut off the enemy's rear route? Now it has not cut off the back road of others, but it has been caused by the tactics of fire adopted by others, coupled with the tactics of delaying and blocking. The 14th Division was not rescued, but suffered heavy casualties of its own.

Now the 14th Division has no rescuers outside, no soldiers and ammunition inside, even if it insists on it, how long can it hold out? Didn't the Kwantung Army Command know what it meant to have cold lips and teeth? Could it be that the Kwantung Army Command really wants to sit back and watch the 14th Division be wiped out?

Aren't they afraid that after the loss of Tongliao and Kailu counties, and after the 14th Division was completely wiped out, the 14th Division's face-to-face resistance alliance went straight to the back of the two Japanese divisions in Linxi? The front and rear flanked the two divisions in front of Linxi, plus the 7th Division in the territory of the Alukorqin Banner, also repeated the mistakes of the 14th Division?

Extremely angry that he never gave a clear answer, he is now like a prisoner trapped in a prison, although he is almost angry. But he didn't have the slightest way to ignore the Kwantung Army Command. I can't even say anything like this threat to go to the Tokyo base camp to sue you.

Because he didn't know if the war situation continued to develop according to the current situation, he would be able to return to his homeland one day. If the Kwantung Army does not send reinforcements again, then for the 14th Division. According to the current development of the war situation, the time to survive in this world is running out.

Although it is unlikely that he will break through from the land with the whole army, if he wants to break through with a few senior officers of the division and regimental headquarters, there is no problem. Because in a reed swing on the edge of the West Liao River in the north of the city, there is a gunboat that the Liaohe Branch of the puppet Manchurian Coast Guard Force uses to patrol every day.

Although this 10-ton gunboat could not carry too many people, it was still no problem to transport Chuan Hemi and several of the most senior officers of the 14th Division out of the encirclement in Tongliao City. Moreover, this gunboat, which was already full of fuel, could drive to the confluence of the East and West Liao Rivers in Changtu in one breath without refueling on the way.

If he wants, he can also mobilize a 45-ton gunboat from the Liaohe Water Police Station of the puppet Manchurian coast guard force at the mouth of the Tongjiang River to trace it up to Tongliao City to meet him in breaking through the siege. At this time, the amount of water in the Xiliao River, this kind of 45-ton gunboat traced back to Tongliao absolutely no problem.

And judging from the current battle situation, as long as the gunboat he was riding on rushed through Shuangliao safely, it could basically be said to be safe. And now that the sky is getting darker, if he breaks through at night, the possibility of him escaping safely is still quite large. After all, the West Liao River is such a long river in Tongliao, it is impossible for the Anti-Japanese Federation to fortify everywhere?

At the same time, the Anti-Japanese Federation did not have any water power in the Liao River Valley. Their aviation, at the moment, is also mainly concentrated on the Linxi battlefield. Since the start of the Tongliao battlefield, neither the Anti-Japanese Union nor the Kwantung Army has dispatched aviation to support the operation, and this battle is mainly fought on the ground between the enemy and us.

It can be said that he wanted to escape by gunboat, and at this time the combat troops had basically all crossed the West Liao River to resist the alliance, and basically had no ability to intercept him. And if he really does this, according to the consistent practice of exonerating generals in the Japanese army, even if there is no current situation, at most he will be allowed to retire.