Chapter 568: Hard bones

Facing an opponent with nearly twice as many troops, instead of being afraid, Li He, who seemed very excited, commanded the troops to cover alternately and launched a battle with the Japanese army. The Japanese troops in front of them reacted quite quickly, and after sobering up from the sudden blow, they did not hesitate to respond to the anti-coalition forces rushing out from across the street.

It was obvious that the attention of the Japanese troops in front of them was attracted by the battle to the south. Although the army that took the lead was not what Li He expected. However, Li He's speed of adaptation was not affected by his plan before the Japanese army could fully react. But the Japanese army was Japanese after all, and after a short period of confusion, it quickly stabilized its position.

And after discovering that the anti-coalition forces rushing over did not have many troops, the Japanese army in front of them even spread their wings and outflanked Li He's subordinates, trying to surround the anti-coalition in front of them and eat them in one bite. Both want to eat each other's opponents, just like enemies who are very red when they meet.

One side has an absolute advantage in troops, and the other side has an advantage in the performance of the weapons in their hands, and they collide fiercely. Li He commanded the troops and used the tactics of three groups and one team stipulated by the Anti-Japanese Federation to the extreme. Using dense infantry fire, the grenades flying in the sky first broke down the outer defenses of the Japanese army.

Li He, who knew that he did not have many troops and that there was a huge difference between the total strength of the Japanese army in front of him, did not disperse his troops to meet the enemy. For the Japanese army who reacted and wanted to encircle him and was outflanking his two flanks, he didn't pay attention to it at all, knowing that he didn't have many troops at hand. After breaking through the perimeter, only one squad of troops was left to protect his rear, and part of the troops were left to control the outside.

Commanding the vast majority of all the troops around him at present, he clenched into a fist and pounced directly towards the super large compound formed by the Japanese army composed of three different courtyards. His hand of not retreating but advancing was very unexpected by the Japanese army in front of him, and he rushed into his own depth by his fierce blows.

Not only was it rushed into the depth, but the defenders were even caught off guard and forced out of the street. And this courtyard, which they used as a key fortification, also lost a third. It's just that although it has occupied a certain lead, the real losses of the Japanese army in this period of attack are not too much.

Despite the loss of the streets and a third of the fortifications, the combat effectiveness was far from being broken. Under the blow, the Japanese army, which reacted quickly, did not eat dry food, relying on the superiority in strength to constantly launch front and back flanking attacks on the anti-Japanese coalition that rushed into their positions, trying to eat this uninvited opponent.

The Japanese troops in the courtyard also took advantage of the advantage in strength and desperately squeezed outward, because the troops were insufficient, and only barely occupied one-third of the courtyard Li He's department. It was only due to the limitations of the overall environment that the superiority of the Japanese army in terms of strength was not brought into play after Li He rushed into the depth of the Japanese army.

Although the east-west street is 150 meters long, it is the widest of the surrounding streets. But after all, it is not the main road, it is just a main alley, and at most it can only be called an alley. The actual width is only about five meters, so it can be said that the frontal width for the Japanese army to counterattack is only five meters.

Although Li He's troops were not many, as long as they controlled the exits on both sides, it was equivalent to strangling the passage of the Japanese counterattack. Moreover, the infantry in the anti-Japanese coalition had a fast rate of fire, and there was no need to leave too many troops at the mouth of the alley, leaving only a few people to shoot crosswise, and the Japanese counterattack channel could be blocked.

Coupled with the squad machine guns deployed in depth, the density of fire made it extremely difficult for the Japanese to retake the street. Moreover, in addition to a back gate in the large courtyard of the south of the road, this roadway is full of houses on both sides and a wall more than two people high, which further restricts the choice of the Japanese army's breakthrough.

Despite the heavy machine guns deployed in the rear of the Japanese desperately trying to suppress enemy fire, grenadiers kept shooting grenades into the streets. However, it was never able to suppress the dense fire of the Resistance League, and the heavy machine gunners were killed and wounded when the opponent took advantage of the obvious muzzle fire at night.

And at the position where Li He launched the charge, his flank troops fought at the same time in the north and south, although the strength was smaller. But it was also on a certain course, which greatly dispersed the pressure of the Japanese army on him. No matter how small the rat is, if you always wander around this dinner table and catch the opportunity to bite it, wouldn't it be uncomfortable?

Less than half an hour after the battle began, the Japanese found that although the bones that had crashed into their arms were not large, the largest one was only two platoons of troops. But they are all very hard-boned. Not only is it hard and abnormal, but it is also full of edges and corners, and it is not as easy as you think to swallow it.

Although the Japanese grenadiers and heavy machine guns poured into this small street as if they were desperately pouring money into this small street, the strength of the resistance to the United Nations inside did not weaken in the slightest. Although the small anti-coalition forces that broke through on both flanks were smaller, and at most only two reinforced squads, they were like a slippery fish that was more difficult to catch.

Use the alleys on both wings to string around, and I don't know when they will come out and shoot black guns for a while. When counterattacking forces counter-charge, formations are often disrupted by fire from their flanks. In particular, the grenadiers of the Japanese army, who were responsible for suppressing the fire in the streets and creating conditions for the counterattacking troops, suffered heavy losses under the black guns of these people.

Although the grenadier is the main melee suppressive firepower of the Japanese army's standard squadron level, the number of equipment is very large. But this thing does not have any aiming tools, and not all soldiers are proficient in using it, except for specially trained grenadiers and some veterans. Although there were five or six grenadiers in the hands of the Japanese troops, there were not so many grenadiers in reserve.

If this situation continues, the grenadier will be knocked out little by little. But once the troops are sent to search and pursue, they are always secretly stumbling by these guys who rush through the streets. At the mouth of the narrow alley, the strings of the two grenades are tied together, which is a ready-made tripping thunder.

The large and small courtyards in the alleys constitute a natural ambush circle. A limited number of searchlights were knocked out as early as the first moment the battle began. It's hard to clearly expose these damn guys who only hide in the dark and shoot black guns with flares. So that the Japanese troops who pursued and searched for them were always unable to bite these damn rats, and they also caused themselves to suffer a lot of casualties.

After paying a lot of price for pursuing these two small anti-United Nations forces that were as disgusting as flies, the Japanese commander in front of him simply stopped shrinking. Sending a small force will not solve the problem, not to mention, it is easy to be bitten back. Sending a large number of troops to search, he does not have so many idle troops.

In the end, this guy simply gritted his teeth, anyway, your main force is here, and the monk can't run the temple. As long as your main force is trapped, even if you are temporarily spared, there will be no strong winds with this little force. Wait until dawn to get rid of you ground rats.

However, the captain of the 14th Division Search Wing, who was fighting with Li He, did not really ignore it, and he didn't dare to really ignore it. Now the number of flares in his hands is limited, and it is impossible to illuminate all the surrounding areas. If you really ignore it, it won't be a good thing if these two stragglers-like anti-alliance use the cover of night to touch their side.

He sent two squads to split into two lines, except for a rifle group and a grenadier to block the main exits. The rest of the troops were slowly moving around in the alley and the two small units of the Anti-Japanese Federation, pinning down the stragglers of the two parts of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and not approaching the main battlefield.

Although he has made up his mind to ignore the other two small anti-alliances, the positive anti-alliances give him a headache. For him, this piece of anti-union is gnawed and gnawed, and he can't spit it out. He wanted to give up this place and shrink his forces, but he didn't dare.

Although the place he is holding on to now is not on the main road, it is an important node between the North Street and the North Street to the north, which are just 100 meters to the south, and the two streets north of the central street of Tongliao County. If the Anti-Japanese Union crosses its own position, to the west is the main north-south arterial road of Tongliao, Dongdajie. If you lose here, it can almost be said that the northeast of the entire Tongliao County will be difficult to defend.

But when the gunfire on the front of North Street in the south is getting more and more intensive, and it is getting closer and closer to his side, such a force of resistance has firmly contained his forces here. If you want to send reinforcements to the south, you can't draw troops. If the front is broken through, and there is a force of resistance to the United Nations outflanking their rear road at this moment, then the possibility of their side being surrounded and annihilated is extremely great.

If there is any accident on their side, then the Tongliao defenders will lose not only one-fifth of their troops, but also the backbone of the entire northeastern city. How long can the more important North Street defense line, which has lost the protection and support of its flanks, hold out? Once the North Street is breached, then the entire Tongliao garrison will also mean the collapse.

As one of the several wing commanders of the 14th Division, the only one who is still in Tongliao City, this guy doesn't know if he's lucky or not. As a search wing leader, he was ordered to fulfill the mission of a serious infantry wing commander.

In normal times, he would be excited about the transfer or appointment. At present, the search wings of various divisions and regiments of the Japanese army are generally adapted from the original divisional cavalry wings. It is limited by the fact that the strength of the entire wing is much worse than that of the infantry wing. Compared with the infantry wing commander or artillery wing commander, who is generally a large commander, the wing commander is generally a middle commander rank.

If he was transferred to the infantry wing as a wing commander, it was difficult for these arrogant cavalrymen to accept. But this also means that his military rank will be promoted up one level and promoted to Dazuo. But now, he feels that the division commander has entrusted him with a heavy task at this time, but it is really a crater.

He searched all the tanks and most of the troops of the wing, and had already lost embers on the front line of Kongjiawo Fort. The remaining limited forces, together with a patchwork of sappers and armed expatriates, were all transferred in this direction. The location is very important, but the combat effectiveness of the troops is a headache for him.

Although the division commander was very understanding of his own allocation, there was not much of a complete infantry squadron, a heavy machine gun squadron, and dozens of armed expatriates in Tongliao City at this moment. But this position still makes him feel like he is walking on thin ice at the moment.

Because he was still well aware of his location, the importance of his position in the defense system of the entire Tongliao City. As a senior officer, he knew better what it meant for the division commander to transfer the regular troops of this squadron to himself, plus most of the strength of the remnants of the engineer wing and the search wing, under the current situation of only more than 1,000 defenders in Tongliao City.