Many Japanese soldiers in Kato Hebei's battalion could surrender, but Captain Yuto of Kidou Village did not dare to have such an idea.

Although the three infantry brigades it had deployed outside the city were all gone, the strength of the entire division was actually quite sufficient.

An infantry division has two infantry brigades and sixteen infantry brigades, plus a cavalry regiment, an engineering regiment, a heavy baggage regiment, a field artillery regiment, four field hospitals, etc.

Only three infantry brigades and a field artillery regiment have been lost now. It can be said that the damage to the entire division is far less than the damage to the bones.

However, the three carefully arranged defense lines outside the city were not defended for half a day, which caused more than 10,000 damage to the morale of the entire division.

The commander of the Yuto Division in Guitou Village left a large number of infantry brigades in the city to use as reserves.

According to its original plan: after each line of defense outside the city sends a signal for help, it will send reinforcements to change the defense.

A large number of reserve teams can ensure that the front-line combat teams maintain high morale and strong combat effectiveness at all times.

Now such a plan has been aborted, and nearly 20,000 Japanese soldiers are huddled in Panshan County.

The leader of the Yuto Division in Guitou Village has no idea of ​​sending his team out of the city to attack proactively: it is now very afraid of the national army's tanks.

Now that the national army has captured three lines of defense outside the city, it is thankful to have a short rest.

If we could give a number for the time for the national army to rest and recuperate, I hope it would be: ten thousand years!

Chief of Staff Suzuki Ryo also knows that they are now facing a dead end:

Don't dare to retreat, can't hold on!

Since it is a dead end, how to break it?

The more than twenty staff officers in the staff department of the Guitou Village Division were all gloomy, trying to look like I was thinking.

But no staff member could make any suggestions.

You can't blame them, these advisers are not usually like this.

Just a few days ago when the defense line outside the city was being built, they spoke very enthusiastically.

It's just that the desperate situation faced by the division today left these staff officers completely at their wits' end.

The leader of the Yuto Division in Guitou Village looked at the staff officers who were all staring at the sand table. None of these Japanese dared to look at him.

They are all trying to reduce their presence.

"Gentlemen! The national army's attack is imminent. Do you have any suggestions?"

"Here we come! The division commander personally sent a message to ask for opinions. These staff officers can no longer pretend to be dead and not reply."

In this case, Staff Officer Suzuki Ryo is often the last to speak. His position is high enough and he has to finally synthesize the opinions and suggestions put forward by various staff officers and put forward what he thinks is the best plan.

If the chief of staff does not speak, the ordinary staff officers should make suggestions.

The staff officers who had been staring at the sand table finally began to make eye contact. Their eyes were communicating with each other, discussing to see who had a plan.

Seeing that no one was speaking, Kazuki Nakayama finally cleared his throat: "Your Excellency, Division Commander! Your Excellency, Chief of Staff! Gentlemen!

The most powerful force of the national army is the tank. We should use sandbags to block the city gate now.

So that their tanks cannot rush into the city.

We just need to guard the city walls and block the city gates to prevent tanks from entering the city.

If you stick to it, there will be no problem!”

Tanks cannot fly with wings, and the city wall more than ten meters high is indeed a chasm that tanks cannot cross.

After Kazuki Nakamura spoke, more staff members began to speak.

There are suggestions to arrange mortar positions on the city walls to attack tanks.

There are also suggestions to concentrate all the artillery of the entire division on the city wall.

I have to say: the Japanese commanders all graduated from military academy, and their ideas are surprisingly consistent.

The staff officers who made the suggestions did not know that Eikura Takuma's division had concentrated all its artillery on the city wall, and all of them were blown up by the attacking national army.

After all, the leader of the Yuto Division in Guitou Village is a bit of a genius, although he doesn't know what the leader of the Rongcang Division went through in Montenegro.

But it is clear: the artillery regiment was destroyed by a round of artillery fire from the national army.

I have long been skeptical about concentrating the artillery of the entire division on the city wall.

When it stated the issues it was considering, all the more than 20 Japanese soldiers in the staff fell silent.

After the artillery fire of the national army bombarded the artillery regiment, there was no movement again, so that these Japanese staff officers forgot their existence.

Staff officer Kazuki Nakayama said with shame: "Your Excellency, Division Commander! Your Excellency, Chief of Staff! Gentlemen! I didn't think carefully.

Considering the power of the Chinese army's heavy artillery bombardment, the city wall would collapse if it could not withstand heavy artillery bombardment for a long time.

By then, tanks will also be able to drive into the city.

We should abandon city wall defense and move to inner city defense.

Abandon the main position on the street and devote all your strength to street fighting."

street fighting?

This is a method of combat that the Japanese are not familiar with, and it seems to be the only method of combat that can be carried out today.

After Staff Officer Kazuki Nakamura's speech was over, the Japanese in the staff remained silent for a while.

Their minds can no longer move: This won’t work! That won’t work!

Now a street fight is brought up again. How to fight a street fight?

The team has never trained for street fighting.

The leader of the Yuto Division of Guitou Village was very interested in the proposal of Staff Officer Kazuki Nakamura: "Yo Xi! Nakamura-kun, tell me!"

The feeling of being taken seriously made Staff Officer Kazuki Nakamura energetic: "Your Excellency, Division Commander! Your Excellency, Chief of Staff! Gentlemen!

Let us make an assumption: the warriors placed on the city wall were bombarded by the heavy artillery of the Chinese army, and the city wall collapsed.

The tanks and infantry of the national army swarmed forward. How long can the defense line on the city wall hold?

One hour or two hours?

Based on the three lines of defense outside the city holding for three hours, the city wall can hold for a maximum of two hours.

It is not cost-effective to exchange the lives of several warriors for two hours of persistence.

If we abandon the defense of the city wall and scatter all the soldiers in the streets and alleys of the city.

All infantry artillery and mortars were scattered and hidden in the city, and they bombarded the national army tanks and infantry entering the city.

I believe the effect will be very different.”

The devil is not a fool after all!

Staff officer Kazuki Nakayama has said this, as if another window has been opened for these staff officers.

"Yoshi! I understand!" a staff officer said happily.

"We can hide in those houses, avoid the tanks in front, and fire on the soldiers following the tanks.

You can also just blow up the tank tracks to immobilize their tanks."

"What a great idea!" The Japs in the staff of the Yuto Division in Guitou Village finally felt a little happy.

This time they really think they have found a way.

"Yoshi! Let's do it!" Leader of Yuto Division of Guitou Village agreed.

The battle plan was being formulated urgently, and the rumble of cannons also sounded.

"Eight grids!" the leader of Yuto Division of Guitou Village roared angrily.

Its battle plan has not yet been completed, and the Japanese guarding the city wall have not yet retreated.

According to the analysis just made by Staff Officer Kazuki Nakayama, even though the Japanese on the city wall were huddled in the carefully built fortress, they would inevitably be affected by the collapsed city wall.

"Immediately order: Let the teams on the city wall retreat!"

"Hai!" Chief of Staff Suzuki Ryo agreed and immediately went to convey the order.

Captain Matsuda Yosei stood on the city wall and observed the entire process as the last line of defense was captured.

It saw the sharpness of the national army's tank attack, and also saw that the strong fortresses on the third line of defense persisted until the last moment.

However, without weapons that can attack tanks, no matter how strong the fortress is, it will eventually be attacked by tanks.

"Fortunately, my defense line is on the city wall, and it is impossible for tanks to get up." Captain Matsuda Yosei secretly rejoiced.

It is not an idiot. It knows that in order to let the tanks drive into the city, the national army will definitely send infantry to blow up the city wall.

Ordered all the Japs guarding the city wall: "Watch carefully, don't let those infantry rush to the front."

"Hai!" Several squadron leaders under him agreed in unison, and they knew it very well.

As long as the national army blows a gap in the city wall, they will be finished.

These squadron leaders immediately conveyed the captain's orders to every Japanese on the city wall.

What Captain Matsuda Yosheng didn't expect was that after the national army captured the last line of defense outside the city, it temporarily stopped.

"Nani? What are they doing?" Captain Matsuda Yosheng was puzzled.

At this time, shouldn't the national army take advantage of the victory and pursue it? Should they continue to expand the results?

Are they going to have a rest today?

Facts have proved that Captain Matsuda Yosei was overthinking.

"Boom!" When the first artillery shell exploded in the city, Captain Matsuda Yosheng's expression changed.

This is not a rest for the national army, they want to use heavy artillery to bombard the city wall.

The heavy artillery of the national army had not bombed the third line of defense just now, which made the Japanese soldiers of Matsuda Yosei's brigade completely ignore this point.
To be continued...