Rise From Eight Hundred

The special forces in the city almost perfectly fulfilled the combat mission deployed before the war.

If we have to find a regret, it should be the control of the Japanese baggage warehouse located at the junction of the West City and the North City.

From the beginning to the end, the Japanese baggage warehouse, which was most valued by the Four-Line Regiment Headquarters, was not attacked by the special forces.

In other words, although the city was in chaos, the artillery outside the city was even more deafening. The Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting each other like glue and paint, and almost stabbed each other face to face. As for the baggage warehouse guarded by the Japanese army, which was stockpiled by nearly 200 baggage soldiers, everything was the same as before, and it really became the last piece of pure land in Licheng County.

But the Japanese were also panicking!

Even though no bullets had fallen on their heads yet, Lieutenant Oguri Tun Kurata, the highest commander of the baggage soldiers responsible for the defense of the baggage warehouse, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Every two minutes, he had to call the infantry squadron responsible for the defense of several city walls to inquire about the battle situation.

As the highest commander of the Licheng baggage warehouse, Lieutenant Oguri knew the heavy responsibility he had. The supplies he guarded were not for the 6th Infantry Battalion, but for the entire division.

Not only was there food for the entire division to assemble 20,000 troops for a month, but there was also a supply of weapons for the infantry brigade. These supplies did not fall from the sky. They were personally requested by Division Commander Xiong Yuan to the North China Front Army Headquarters. For this reason, the 108th Division even made a guarantee to capture Linfen within two months.

A small county like Licheng has nothing. At least half of the rich people in China ran away before the city fell, and the remaining half surrendered. For the sake of stability, the empire could not rob openly. If it was lost, it was lost, but the baggage could not run away with legs!

If these bags were lost, Lieutenant Oguri could imagine the face of Division Commander Xiong Yuan, who had become ugly due to madness. There were few people whose heads would not be able to calm down.

Unfortunately, except for the first few calls, there were no more calls!

It's not that the city fell so early, but no one wants to pay attention to this anxious "ant" anymore! You don't provide reinforcements, and you can't give tactical guidance, so you just ask questions, what are you asking!

It's like going to a brothel. You feel so good that you can't do it anymore, but there is still a pig teammate next door who keeps urging you, brother, can you do it? If you can, give me a definite answer!

What's the matter, just hope that I will die soon, so that your heart will be at peace, right?

It is this kind of tormenting waiting that is the most difficult to endure. Lieutenant Oguri held on for at least an hour. This mentality is already strong enough.

However, he didn't dare to send a single soldier, even though the sound of artillery from the south and east cities has become sparser, but the shouting and killing is getting more and more intense, which is a sign that the city is about to fall.

The only consolation for him is that the baggage warehouse is still intact in his hands.

Looking at the various fortifications he had spent nearly a week building around the baggage warehouse, Lieutenant Oguri, who was almost weak, forced himself to give himself a shot of adrenaline. Although the Chinese had artillery, they dared not use artillery to attack as long as they wanted to obtain these baggage. Otherwise, they would detonate the ammunition and not get a single bullet.

Attack with infantry? Although he had been marching in the smell of packhorse feces and urine for a long time, Lieutenant Oguri, who graduated from the NCO school, was fully confident in the fortifications he built and could stop thousands of infantry attacks for three hours.

Ordinary and confident, this is not just limited to a certain time period or a certain area. There is no shortage of such patients in this era. The Japanese Army baggage lieutenant belongs to this category.

Of course, he is not blindly arrogant, and there are some reasons.

The two heavy machine guns sent by the Sixth Infantry Battalion to strengthen the defense were all placed on the roofs of two sturdy baggage warehouses, and each of them built a sturdy heavy machine gun fortification with steel plates and sandbags, one on the left and one on the right, looking down from a high position to form a crossfire. Any enemy who wants to attack from the front will have to accept the test of two heavy machine guns.

If you want to attack them, you must first break through the defense line of nearly a hundred baggage soldiers hiding behind the fortifications, and you must also climb up the high roof, which is almost an impossible task.

However, Lieutenant Oguri is not a brain with a gun. He will not be so crazy as to put a heavy machine gun on the top of the warehouse where artillery shells are stored. If the enemy does not know, the "crazy" throwing of grenades will cause the ammunition to explode. Not only will more than a hundred defenders be blown to ashes, but a large amount of supplies will also be lost. They are defenders, not here to play a game of mutual destruction.

He is betting that the Chinese dare not fire easily. Those piles of food and ammunition should be the main purpose of the Chinese attacking Licheng at the cost of human lives.

This was his only chance to survive.

Without using artillery, only using light weapons to capture the baggage warehouse, the casualties paid would make any commander cry bitterly.

Unfortunately, it turned out that Lieutenant Oguri really thought too much.

The first unit of the Four-Line Regiment to enter the city was the Third Battalion from the South City!

The first Third Battalion to enter the city did not rush to send infantry to kill directly at the baggage warehouse, but first sent two infantry companies to attack the Japanese defenders on the South City and West City walls. The Japanese defenders in the two wall areas immediately had a buzzing head.

The seemingly strong defense line was instantly riddled with holes. The Second Battalion, which had not yet begun its assault, was able to enter the city smoothly and began to make the final destruction of the Japanese army's already cut and shattered defense line. It sent an infantry company and two firepower groups to join an infantry company of the Third Battalion to attack the West City and the North City. The mortar platoon of the 1st Artillery Company also followed into the city. Only the headquarters of the Four-Line Regiment and part of the guard company remained outside the city.

At this point, the capture of Licheng has basically become a foregone conclusion!

The only variable is the baggage warehouse in the city and the number of Japanese troops annihilated.

In order to ensure the breakthrough of the Japanese army's defensive positions in the city wall area and reduce casualties, Tang Dao adopted a new strategy of "encircling two, disturbing one, and killing one", that is, the West City direction is just a sheep attack, and the North City direction is purely let go. If the Japanese want to escape, they can only let him escape first.

Tang Dao would not increase the casualties of his brothers in order to annihilate enough Japanese troops. He has now left the stage of completely looking at the number of enemies killed to determine whether this battle is a big victory or a small victory. To put it bluntly, Tang Dao at this time pays more attention to whether his tactical goals have been successfully completed.

Just like the battle to capture Licheng, victory or not actually depends on whether a large number of Japanese reinforcements can be killed in the direction of Shentouling and whether the Japanese army can obtain the maximum amount of supplies stored.

Although even the insiders cannot know how much supplies the Japanese army has stored, it is a bit like opening a blind box for Tang Dao, but Tang Dao believes that a Japanese infantry division that intends to attack Linfen will never be too stingy.

If these two tactical goals cannot be achieved, even if the Four-Line Regiment completely annihilates the Japanese infantry battalion defending the city, today's battle will also be a failure.

Qiliang Zhongyu: What about me, the great Japanese Imperial Army Zhongzuo! Nothing!

That's true. Tang Dao had taken two heads of Japanese Army's Da Zuo, and even killed Gu Shoufu. Zhong Zuo was nothing!

Perhaps not only Tang Dao thought so, but also his subordinates thought so. Hei Zi and others who entered Wang's mansion searched for a while, but did not find the bodies of Japanese officers with ranks above captain, and did not take it too seriously.

Now their military exploits are no longer proved by killing senior Japanese officers, but by completing tactical goals.

Besides, as long as Licheng is captured, even if that guy hides in the basement, he can be pulled out by digging three feet into the ground. There is no need to rush.

Tang Dao and the Four-line Group are constantly growing in the war!

Qiliang Zhongyu: Then I leave?

Qiliang Zhongyu really did so.

Even if he knew the Chinese military tactics, the so-called encircle three and kill one, that one, is it really that easy to run? After escaping the city and losing the position, the Chinese army ambushing in the mountains and fields may be able to shoot and kill the infantry without position protection more easily.

However, even if he knew that drinking poison would only quench thirst, the Japanese Army Nakatama had to do it. He would die anyway, so why did he say that he had to fight for his life? What if he survived?

Therefore, this is also the real reason why the Japanese army fought fiercely in various defensive positions, but did not get any command and support.

After discovering that the communication staff who went to find reinforcements had not returned, Qiliang Zhongyu, the highest commander of the Japanese army, actually predicted in advance that today's battle was irreversible. He immediately made a decisive decision and ran towards the north city in the dark with the father and son of the Wang family who were familiar with the terrain.

Don't say that he took the right road. The special forces were either blocking in the direction of the west city or in the southeast two cities. The north city area was the safest area.

Qiliang Zhongyu, who finally joined his subordinates in the north city area, made a heroic decision. Regardless of the number of his subordinates in the city, who numbered up to a thousand, he ordered the two infantry squads in the north city area without any damage to open the way immediately!

In layman's terms: Let's run together, and you are responsible for the front station!

This unexpected and cool operation, not only did his opponent, the Four-line Group, not expect it, but even the Japanese themselves were confused.

You know, at that time, the battle on the city wall was still in a stalemate, and the Chinese did not say they would win. How could this great Japanese Imperial Army Lieutenant General so accurately predict that Licheng would fall?

What's more amazing is that he did not send a retreat message to any of his troops, but led his men to open the city gate and run away first.

"Sign in to Become a God"

This kind of operation, not to mention in the Japanese army, is also rarely seen in the Imperial Army because of strict military orders.

But Qiliang Zhongyu did it, and he told the confused Japanese captain and squadron leader with reason: This move is called "escape from the golden cicada shell". When the Chinese tried their best to attack the city, they found that the real brain of our Sixth Infantry Battalion had already left, and they got nothing. Not only that, when the reinforcements from Lucheng and Shecheng arrive, the city they just captured will become their cemetery, and the imperial army will bury all the damn Chinese and their small cities with artillery fire!

How to say it? The logic is quite right. As long as the main general is still there, the Sixth Infantry Battalion can be rebuilt after the war no matter how serious the damage is! The Japanese army has always had a tradition of sacrificing soldiers to protect officers.

What's more, a certain left-winger said that if the deputy battalion commander who is still in the city dies in battle, the position will be vacant.

The vacant position is not for the dead, it must be only for the living. The Japanese captain, whose mind was opened, hesitated for a moment!

They are not called fleeing in a panic, but a strategic shift. It doesn't matter if they lose now. As long as they can shake people and win in the end, all the ugliness will be covered by victory.

As for those colleagues who are still fighting to the death in the city, they are brave and loyal to the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor. After death, they will be gloriously entered into small wooden boxes and solemnly sent back to the Empire by the living people. That will be endless glory.

What's even more outrageous is that Sakira Nakatama and the 100 Japanese troops who escaped from the North City Gate and entered the mountains not only ran away, but also used the field radio that was about to run out of power to continue to generate electricity to the division headquarters dozens of kilometers away: Reinforcements are coming quickly, the Chinese are so powerful!

Good guy, Sakira Nakatama is no longer afraid of settling the scores, he just wants to win someone to make up for his ugliness!

Once the bottom line of this person is crossed, there will be no bottom line at all!

"March quickly!" Xiong Yuan, Lieutenant General of the 108th Division, commander of the 108th Division, received repeated military orders from his subordinates. The Japanese reinforcements almost died on the mountain road and arrived at the battlefield earlier than expected. 1 hour.

According to the battle report of the 683rd Brigade, at the beginning of the hand-to-hand combat, most of the Japanese soldiers were breathing heavily, and their physical fitness was only 40% of their usual strength at most. The red tassel gun pierced the belly with just one poke. It was much easier than imagined.

Tang Dao, who was assisting with this, was a bit incompetent.

Really, when the post-war summary came to light, and after learning about a series of slutty moves by the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Licheng, Tang Dao even had the urge to re-understand the Japanese nation. This was so damn atavistic!

It can only be said that as big as the bird is, it can be found in any forest. China has produced so many traitors. It should be normal for the Japanese to produce a few weirdos.

Life is more important than glory. In the Western world, that's normal operation, right?

Do you think the Japanese will not surrender? It was just that he didn't beat him hard enough. The island nation was kneeling after being bombed by two big fat men. It had been kneeling for a hundred years, but it reached a new height.

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Not to mention Sakira Nakatama, who has already escaped, but the Japanese Army Troopers Lieutenant who still doesn’t know that he has been completely abandoned and only deserves to enjoy the glory of serving His Majesty the Emperor.

Having basically established victory, the Third Battalion finally received permission to march into the city. Otherwise, they would have entered the city half an hour ago. The first target of the Third Battalion was of course the baggage warehouse.

Leng Feng, who led two infantry companies, the first fire support company and the mortar platoon of the 1st artillery company, checked with Heizi who ran over to pick up the defensive terrain map of the Japanese army's baggage warehouse. Leng Feng immediately ordered his infantry to attack the Japanese baggage warehouse. The warehouse area was attacked from both sides.

However, the attack distance is 200 meters away!

Several illumination bombs fired from grenades illuminated the sky above the Japanese army's baggage warehouse position in a snow-white light, and also made the little face of Lieutenant Oguri hiding in the fortifications pale and pale. Even without ten layers of powder, it would not have been revealed. Effect.

He's coming, he's coming, they are coming in a fierce manner!

Lieutenant Oguri screamed desperately at that moment!

Then, all his previous extravagant hopes turned out to be false!

Leng Feng, who had been observing the Japanese position through the telescope for a while, had no intention of attacking with infantry. He seemed not to pay attention to the warehouses storing a large amount of supplies. He directly ordered the six mortars in the rear to attack the Japanese troops on top of the two warehouses. Heavy machine gun fortifications opened fire.

In his original words: "The ammunition will explode, but the food will not. If it explodes just right, it will send the Japanese directly to the sky. It will be effortless."

The Japanese Army Troops Lieutenant who had been imagining it for a long time unfortunately met a Chinese cold-blooded 'reckless man' who came up with a big iron-blooded stick!

More than a dozen consecutive artillery shells accurately hit the area around the heavy machine gun fortifications. The terrible shock waves and shrapnel not only blew up sandbags all over the sky, but also blew the 10 mm thick steel plate into a rag.

The two Type 92 heavy machine guns that were leaning against the Great Wall barely lasted more than a minute and disappeared in the face of Lieutenant Oguri's already innocent face!

But this is just the first wave of cold-blooded recklessness.

"Continue to bombard the front of the warehouse! Don't be stingy with ammunition, just bombard me! The infantry are all hidden by me to prevent the ammunition from exploding!" Leng Feng's eyes never left the telescope, and he continued to issue cold orders.

This was a good time. The six 82 mortars that took the order had no scruples and fired 60 rounds of artillery shells at the forward position of the Japanese army's heavy troops.

Although they are said to be positions, they are actually sandbag fortifications. No matter how idle the Japanese army is, they will not dig trenches around the warehouse under the protection of the city wall.

Piling up sandbags at key locations so that the infantry can have a hiding place is already a very complete fortification. When Lieutenant General Xiong Yuan came to inspect it, he could only nod his head and say it was good.

Such a position, under the patronage of 60 rounds of artillery shells, how will it be fought?

It can only be blown to pieces, along with the human body inside.

Seeing his forward position and the thirty men being bombarded by a burst of Chinese artillery and turned into scattered parts on the ground, Lieutenant Oguri's heart, which had been completely cold, fell directly into focus!

At this time, the sky is already slightly bright!

In his telescope, he could already see shadowy black figures flashing in the distance, but they had no intention of attacking the front and stayed at least two hundred meters away.

What does this mean? Lieutenant Oguri can guess it with his heels.

Good guy, the Chinese are here to seize some baggage, and they are here to blow up the baggage, along with their hundreds of defenders.