Chapter five hundred and thirty second problem
A real siege battle began.
To be precise, this should be called street fighting rather than siege battle... because it had already started close combat the moment the Expeditionary Force's tanks drove into the edge of Changchun City.
This is the most difficult battle since the Expeditionary Force entered the puppet Manchukuo... Although the soldiers advanced very carefully, and there is also the cover of the "Sheerman" tank with invincible protection and firepower, Changchun is like a huge trap. Expeditionary Force soldiers always get stuck again and again when entering the city...
Sometimes it is because of a trap. This trap is not a trap like digging a pit on the ground in ordinary sense. This trap is too uncreative. Expeditionary soldiers who have fought all the way from Myanmar can deal with this trap.
The 39th Division of the Japanese Army was also fighting on the battlefield. They knew that they could design more clever traps... using buildings on both sides of the street.
As mentioned before, Changchun was built by the Japanese army for propaganda and deceiving the outside world, so its multi-story buildings are everywhere, not even inferior to Shanghai, known as the Oriental Pearl. On the one hand, these buildings can become a good hiding place for the Japanese army... Put a few sandbags on the window and then put a few guns on it, and the Chinese troops had to use guns one after another.
And that's all. When the Chinese troops finally cleared a building and advanced forward, the building that was dozens of meters tall suddenly collapsed and buried the nearby Expeditionary Force under the building... The Japanese army had already laid bombs under the foundation of the building. This could attack the living forces of the Expeditionary Force, and block the road.
Sometimes it is because of the Japanese army... This is the most troublesome thing for the soldiers. Many Japanese soldiers are wearing people's clothes, and they can't tell whether it is the Japanese army or the people from the outside. So every time they kill such a target, the soldiers will involuntarily think: Are they Chinese or Japanese? Maybe they are not tied with explosives, but just want to escape from the Japanese's pursuit?
These thoughts almost made the soldiers collapse. When they saw that the enemy did not dare to pull the trigger, they had to retreat after suffering casualties.
Later, Zhang Chi learned that under the management of Sasa Manosuke, Changchun City had become a solid defensive fortress at this time:
The group bunker group that combines points and surfaces is spread all over the city, with steel and concrete and civil steel plate structures... There are so many materials in Changchun that the Japanese army was going to build a "model city" in Changchun, and it was still in the construction at this time, so what Changchun lacks the least is construction workers and materials. Sasa Manosuke used it and built a bunker in key parts in just a short time.
In order to facilitate communication and transport of ammunition from soldiers, all core support points and between the battalions are connected. Important core position troops, divisions and regiments are built with tunnels and basements, ammunition depots, command posts, and power generation and lighting equipment. Firepower points are everywhere in the building. There are obstacles in the city, including foot pits, stumbling stands, barbed wire mesh with bells, deer forts, mine arrays, etc.
Each garrison area is equipped with light and heavy artillery, various light and heavy machine guns and automatic firearms according to the high and low levels, forming a dense firepower network that combines ortho-fire, side-fire, cross-fire, and inverted shooting.
This makes basically every building in Changchun City a firepower point with light and darkness, and every step is a death trap for the mechanism, forming a ring-shaped defense whole composed of various independent support points.
This defense system, coupled with the Japanese use of the people, caused the expeditionary army to attack for only a few dozen meters in one morning, and the casualties reached an unprecedented more than 500 people...
"Suspend the attack!" Zhang Chi gave a timely order when he saw the casualties.
"Master!" The fellow villagers were fighting a little crazy. He asked in a hoarse voice on the walkie-phone: "I request to continue the attack. I don't believe this evil anymore..."
"Abide by the order!" Zhang Chi ordered with a dark face: "Everyone withdraws from Changchun City!"
"Retreat from Changchun City?" Wu Yuhang was a little confused: "Then we are fighting in vain?"
"Stop talking nonsense, withdraw!" Zhang Chi hung up the phone.
Zhang Chi was furious when the battle ended like this, but if you continue to compete like this... it will be even worse when it gets dark.
Then Zhang Chi sighed deeply, and more than 500 casualties were injured after only a few dozen meters. If Changchun was to be defeated, wouldn’t the New First Division and even the Sixth Army be killed?!
But what can I do now?
After thinking about it, Zhang Chi sent a telegram to the slaughter, asking the slaughter to find out the location of the Japanese ammunition depot.
The Expeditionary Force has air power, as long as it knows the location of the ammunition depot, coupled with the guidance of the extremely poor... the bomb ammunition depot seems to be feasible.
But the callback received from the extremely poor student disappointed Zhang Chi: "The enemy ammunition has been evacuated!"
Sasa Manosuke is not an ordinary person. He is an officer with rich practical experience. Of course, it is impossible for him to not know how to evacuate ammunition when the enemy has air supremacy.
After walking back and forth in front of the command center's map, Zhang Chi sent another telegram to the Duojian: "The location of the enemy command center!"
If you can't blow up the ammunition depot, you can blow up the command center!
However, the answer still disappointed Zhang Chi: "The command center is frequently replaced and cannot be proven!"
This is really not a big deal for the extremely poor student. The extremely poor student and his group are already very powerful. While the expeditionary army was sieging the city, they dressed up as puppet troops and moved around the city to collect information. Even the extremely poor student planned to launch an attack on the Japanese command center.
But he had no choice but to know that there were enemy scouts in the city... He would not be so stupid that he would find the scouts at this time. This would only lead to the coordination between the Japanese and puppet troops and even suspicion. So he used the tunnel to secretly change the location in the city, so that the slutty and others could not accurately grasp Sasa Manosuke's whereabouts.
Zhang Chi walked around the command center anxiously, with cigarettes in his hand one after another, but no matter how Zhang Chi wanted to break his head, he couldn't find a solution.
This time, Zhang Chi met an opponent, a very difficult opponent.
"Teacher!" At this time, a communications soldier came in and reported: "Someone wants to see you!"
"No!" Zhang Chi refused without thinking. He was in a mood to meet anyone at this time.
"But he said..." the correspondent soldier hesitated: "He said he knew the master's seat and could solve the problem of the master's seat!"
"What?" Zhang Chi was stunned when he heard this.
Staff Liang, who was busy sorting out information, couldn't help but turn around.
Chapter completed!