Chapter 556 Counterattack
Amid the gunshots, bullets kept flying out of all kinds of guns from the soldiers' hands.
The "School" was empty, except for the snow, but the Japanese army was wearing a yellow military uniform and was very conspicuous in the white. So the bullets greeted the Japanese army like eyes, and soon dyed the snow outside red.
The soldiers fought calmly, but the Japanese army was filled with screams, calls and commands... This pretentious Japanese 59th Division had just begun to show its defeat as soon as it fought with the Expeditionary Force.
Zhang Chi, who looked at the battle situation at the back, found something was wrong, so he called a fellow villager and scolded: "What did you do? Didn't you ask you to keep it a little?"
"Master!" The fellow villager replied aggrievedly: "I took it... If I were not taken away, could the Japanese still behave like this?"
"Keep it a little longer!" Zhang Chi ordered: "Be careful of safety and retreat when it is almost 200 meters!"
"yes!"
At this time, the Japanese artillery decisively joined the battle group... Tadakayashi Hosokawa did not intend to let the artillery take action, but this was because he believed that the Qiqihar and the "Institute" where more than 3,000 people were stationed in this regiment did not require artillery at all. Didn't the Chinese troops have no artillery either? Tadakayashi Hosokawa decided to carry forward the spirit of samurai and not use artillery to fight fairly with the Chinese troops.
On the other hand, the Japanese army had insufficient ammunition and had to be transported from Nomenkan... So Tadaoka Hosokawa hoped to save these shells to the mechanized forces against the Chinese troops.
But now, he found that it seemed impossible not to use artillery. If he continued to fight like this, he would probably not be able to rush forward even if he had to fight.
So with an order, the artillery fire rumbling onto the defense line of the expeditionary army.
The fellow villagers were worried that they had fought too hard just now and didn't know how to stop... Suddenly, they reduced their firepower or gave up their positions for no reason. The Japanese devils were not fools, they could see something.
The Japanese were shooting artillery just as the villagers in the contract, and withdrew the troops to the second line with a wave.
The Japanese had no doubts and followed the artillery fire to close to 200 meters. Then the standard machine gun and grenade launcher smashed towards the defense line of the Expeditionary Force. The infantry in front shouted and rushed into the first line of defense with a bayonet...
Tadakaya Hosokawa nodded with satisfaction and said intimidatingly, fortunately the artillery fire could still be suppressed, otherwise the 59th Division would have lost all its face in this battle. You must know that he was laughing at the Manchu division for being a shame to the Japanese Empire not long ago.
"Lieutenant General!" The Honkono Staff sent a telegram to Tadakayashi Hosokawa, saying: "The 63rd Division has arrived, and Lieutenant General Masatoku, deputy, asked for instructions on the next move!"
Tadaoyasu Hosokawa did not hesitate at all and said confidently: "Let Nori continue to march towards Harbin, and this is handed over to the 59th Division!"
"yes!"
Tadashi Hosokawa's order itself is fine. The reason is that the battlefields of Qiqihar and the "Study Institute" are too small, and the forces of the two divisions cannot play a greater role when they are put into this battlefield at the same time. Moreover, Tadashi Hitsunami believes that the 59th Division is fully capable of defeating the enemy in front of them, so in order to occupy the "State-East Railway" faster and establish a defense on the "State-East Railway", of course, it is to let the 63rd Division bypass Qiqihar and fight eastward.
However, Tadashi Hosokawa's plan was wrong this time, and Tadashi Hosokawa refused to admit defeat and went to the dark... This set the foreshadowing for the subsequent complete defeat of the 43rd Army.
The Japanese army's attack went very smoothly. They left behind a hundred bodies and then attacked the last line of defense of the Expeditionary Force... "School".
The "Study Institute" was surrounded by a half-meter-thick wall, with perforations on the wall... This was obviously the Japanese army wanted to resist the possible attacks of guerrillas when they were built. Who would have thought that the Expeditionary Force descended from the sky and directly descended to the "Study Institute" to launch an attack, leaving the wall completely useless.
At this time, the wall became a line of defense between the soldiers.
And this line of defense is nothing in the eyes of the Japanese army... The Japanese army has artillery in their hands. What walls can be broken even after one round of artillery?!
Sure enough, after a round of artillery fire passed, the wall was blown to the point of falling. Hosokawa Tadahiko smiled fiercely, waved his hand forward fiercely, and ordered loudly: "Attack!"
In his eyes, Tadaoyasu Hosokawa almost saw his subordinates rushing into the wall and then strung the enemies one by one on the bayonets.
But at this time the style suddenly changed...
Just as the Japanese army rushed to the vicinity, a "rumbling" sound of cannons suddenly came, and rows of mortar shells hit the outside of the wall accurately. To be precise, they were thrown out with the "School" as the center and then smashed out in circles. The shells were almost like no money, throwing out like raindrops.
Tadaoyashi Hosokawa couldn't help but be stunned because in just a few minutes... the enemy fired more shells than all the shells fired by the Japanese army. Of course, on the one hand, the expeditionary army's artillery fire was fierce, and on the other hand, Tadaoyashi Hosokawa was reluctant to fire more shells.
But this is enough to prove that the Chinese team is not as "weak" as it had performed before, although this "weak" can already be considered strong in Tadaoka Hosokawa's eyes.
Then Tadaoyasu Hosokawa's face changed. He had rich combat experience and soon realized that this was a trap set by the enemy, so he immediately stopped and ordered: "Retreat! Retreat immediately!"
However, it was too late to wake up at this time.
While the Japanese army was dizzy by artillery shells, a shout of killing suddenly sounded inside the fence... The Chinese Expeditionary Force jumped out of the gap in the fence and followed closely behind the artillery fire.
Who would have thought that the Japanese army wanted to break out the gap in the wall and rush out, but instead were used by the Expeditionary Force as an exit for counterattack.
The Japanese army was originally determined to fight in close combat because they were quite arrogant about their thorn-fighting skills.
But at this moment, they really discovered that the thorn-striking technology was about to be outdated... The semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns in the enemy's hands made them basically have no chance to thorn-striking.
Of course, the rate of firing of the semi-automatic rifle is not fast enough. Occasionally, some Japanese troops can get close to each other during the melee, but the Japanese troops who are close to each other were quickly defeated by the bayonets or buttstocks of the Expeditionary Force... Compared with the soldiers who crawled out of the sea of blood in the Expeditionary Force, the soldiers of the 59th Division of the Japanese were still a little tender.
What's even more terrifying is that two troops appeared on both sides of the "Research Institute" to directly penetrate the Japanese army's retreat. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!