Toshiyoshi Komatsu sent a telegram to Aoki asking for help, signed by Shun Tsumoto's name. Among the devils who knew the content of this message, Sakuragi Shota had a good personal relationship with Shun Tsumoto, and as the staff officer of the detachment in charge of communications, he dared to question Aoki: "Aoki Daisa, why don't you send reinforcements, do you want to disobey the order of the detachment leader?" If the detachment leader encounters an accident because of this, who will bear the responsibility? ”

The Japanese army had strict military regulations, and once an officer died in battle, his subordinates would be subjected to reprimand, and those who were demoted and retained would be retained, and those who were serious would be court-martialed, so there were not a few people who were executed.

Aoki Seijiro's answer at the time was: "The people of Shina are cunning, how do you know that this is not their trick to lure the enemy?" The detachment commander led the team to carry out a night raid combat exercise, which I did not approve of in the first place. Listen to the density of artillery fire in the Chinese army, the size of its artillery is no less than that of a regiment, right? The artillery of the Chinese army is limited, and often only one army is equipped with one artillery regiment. Moreover, the people of China were obviously prepared, and I was even worried that the detachment commander had fallen into the ambush of the China army. Sakuragi Shaosa, if you are in my place, may I ask, on the premise of asking for help, how many troops should we dispatch? It's not enough to send out one or two brigades, right? If the whole army is dispatched, what will Linyi do? Who will guard the stockpiles? ”

What Aoki said was the truth, but Sakuragi Shota was stumped by his series of rhetorical questions, and could only insist on his own opinion under the excuse of "the strength of the Shina army is unbearable". Aoki sneered and threw out the fact that the Xuebing Army was in Xuzhou City, and sealed his mouth at once.

The Cadet Army, whether it is weapons or soldiers' personal abilities, is not inferior to the Imperial Army. If he really ran into the student army, then he could only ask for more blessings - Sakuragi thought helplessly, and never mentioned the rescue again. However, he has always been lucky in his heart, and he always thinks that there will be no such coincidental thing - he only wanted to engage in such a night raid battle exercise on the impromptu basis, how could he happen to meet the student army? Xuzhou is not close to Linyi! He didn't know what to say, as early as two days ago, the 57th Army had already entered Xiangcheng.

"What a student army!" Standing beside Aoki, looking at the dense star-like lights outside Linyi City, he knew that he was done.

The Japanese spy agents did a lot of work for the Battle of Xuzhou, and as early as a few months ago, they learned that two divisions of the Xuebing Army had joined Zhang Zizhong's 57th Army.

The Chinese gathered a large number of troops in Xuzhou, but only the Xuebing Army had such a high degree of mechanization. Only the Cadet Army can hide from the eyes of the Imperial Army and carry out this kind of long-distance attack.

"Sakuragi Shaosa, you trust my judgment now," Aoki was a little smug, but he controlled it well. Although he had made a correct guess, he still felt a little shudder when the Cadet Army really appeared in front of him. The battle in the distance was not over, which made him miscalculate when calculating the number of enemy troops. He took it for granted that it was Zhang Zizhong's 57th Army that appeared outside Linyi City, not just the two divisions of the Xuebing Army.

He shouted to the heralds beside him, "Inform the brigades to prepare for battle." Komura, immediately notify the mountain artillery troops, so that they are ready to fight back at any time, and tell Kameno that his mission is to destroy the Shina tanks and suppress the enemy artillery! ”

"Hello!" Xiao Cun and a few other heralds nodded and bowed, and quickly ran down the tower.

As early as the time of arranging the position, Aoki took into account the sharpness of the artillery of the Cadet Army, and set up his headquarters in a private house next to the wall of the West Gate, where the telephone line that had just been assumed connected to the other four positions. Komura and other devils are each in charge of a line, and they can convey Aoki's orders to various places as quickly as possible.

Suddenly, the battle began. When Aoki was about to order his men to fire flares so that he could observe the specific situation of the enemy army, Huang Haifu took the lead in giving the order to attack. A flare suddenly flew from the temporary position of the Cadet Army to the sky above the West Gate, at the moment when the light bloomed to drive the darkness away, the three Jiguang tanks that rushed to the front opened fire at the same time, and the next moment, the West Gate and the city tower were hit at the same time, in the explosion of "boom", the two devils who could not dodge were blown up into the air, and against the background of smoke and fire, the ghost cried wolf howled and fell heavily in front of the city gate, making a tooth-sore sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

The next moment, a flare also rose on the wall guarded by the devils. The flare lit up the night sky above the Mountain Division, and Aoki seized the opportunity to peek out from behind the wall of the wall where he was hiding and saw an amazing sight. About 200 meters from the city wall, the soldiers were scattered in a long row, lying on the ground, wielding shovels and digging fortifications. Digging fortifications under the noses of the imperial army, are these pigs determined to win Linyi City and want to fight steadily? It's so rampant, do they think that the 38 big cover in the hands of the imperial army is a burning stick?! Aoki didn't expect that the attack under the castle was originally to deceive his eyeballs, so thinking like this, a hideous smile appeared on his face. He brandished his command knife and shouted hoarsely to both sides: "Warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army, use such accurate shooting to teach the people of China a painful lesson, let them know that the Imperial Army is invincible!" ”

"Horn Horn!" The gunfire of the 38 big cover rang out intensively, but the results achieved were limited. Aoki saw the helmets of the five Shina soldiers being smashed in a row, and finally realized that the Shina people had carefully calculated the way they were digging the fortifications at that distance. And when Wei Qingshi's peculiar gunshot rang out, he was shocked, and finally understood the beauty of the Zhina people's effort to dig the fortifications - once the Zhina people could shoot at the imperial army within a radius of nearly a thousand meters, they could suppress the imperial army on the city wall, so that they could not threaten the tanks outside the west gate. If the tanks of China were allowed to bombard the West Gate in turn, the West Gate would be blasted open sooner or later. At that time, the advantage given to the defenders by the tall and strong walls of Linyi will not exist. In the event of a brutal street battle between the two sides, it must be the Imperial Army that is passive - realizing this, Aoki immediately ordered the artillery to carry out a vigorous attack on the outside of the West Gate, and at the same time asked Sakuragi to go down and organize a special attack team, so that he would prevent the Shina people from attacking the city no matter what.

Thousands of guns were fired in turn, and the flames spit out from the muzzles of the guns were as gorgeous as flowers, the difference is that flowers in full bloom bring people a feeling of beauty, while guns can only bring people pain and even death. From time to time, the tanks of the mountain division hit a certain battlement, and with a loud "boom", fireworks rose, bricks and stones burst out, and occasionally a few devils danced and were lifted by the air - suddenly, there was a sudden flame in the dark middle of Linyi City, and then a fireball dragged through the night sky and smashed into the tank positions outside the city. The fireball slammed into a clearing, exploding with a "boom", and the splatters of earth and masonry smashed on several nearby Jiguang tanks, smashing the steel bodies with a clattering sound. This was the beginning, minutes later, from the place where the shells came, dozens of flames flashed at the same time, and then dozens of shells swept across the night sky, densely smashed on the tank positions of the mountain division, and the fireworks from the continuous explosions completely engulfed more than a dozen Jiguang tanks.

Narijiro Aoki, who was beaten to the point of losing his temper, saw all this and shouted excitedly, "Good job!" Then, he suddenly froze, gasped and scolded, "Eight grids! ”

The Imp has a gun of no more than 75 mm in the largest caliber, which is simply not enough to tear down the protection of the Jiguang tank. More than two dozen guns fired at the same time, which was spectacular, but the effect received was almost zero. Although the tanks equipped with the mountain division are relatively old, they have been modified and even the tracks are equipped with protection. The first round of re-fire from the little devil artillery failed to do any substantial damage to them.

"Dog's day finally can't help it!" In an alley in Linyi City, Xiao Liang cursed in a low voice, and the tense nerves in his body finally relaxed.

The Japanese army was very well defended on the city wall, and except for the vicinity of the four gates, there were patrols in all other sections of the city without stopping. Xiao Liang and the others took a lot of effort to sneak into the city, and then something unbelievable happened, after they turned around, they actually got lost. The little devils were afraid that the people in the city would take advantage of the chaos or sabotage, so they implemented a curfew and a light ban, and the city was dark, which seriously affected Xiao Liang's judgment of the direction. They were walking in the middle of the city, but they were too unfamiliar with the road conditions, and even if they had a compass, after crossing a few streets and alleys, they still lost their sense of direction, and they didn't know where they were. Fortunately, at this time, the little devil's artillery finally opened fire, and Xiao Liang and the others found out at this time that the original devil's artillery position was only two or three hundred meters away from their current place. The next thing was simple, he first ordered his men to take a ladder to send him to the roof, and then he stood on the roof ridge and fired a flare over the devil's artillery position. The flares not only provided the artillery regiment outside with the coordinates of the shelling, but also illuminated the vicinity, allowing him to condescendingly look for the location of the Devil's military warehouse.

Aoki was well aware of the danger of artillery battles, so he set up artillery positions far away from the military warehouses. However, Linyi City is so big, Xiao Liang is condescending, although he couldn't find the location of the warehouse at once, he found the right direction. Descending to the ground, he gestured to his brothers by the light of the flares, and the group trotted quickly in the direction of the warehouse marked on the map.

Flares suddenly rose in Linyi City, and it was the approximate position of the enemy artillery, and Fang Qing, the commander of the artillery regiment of the Mountain Division, did not use Huang Haifu to greet him, and immediately ordered a five-minute rapid fire under the flares.