Hirata Kenkichi was immediately asked by Ishida Kinzo.
To rush to rescue or not to rush to rescue, this is a question worth thinking about.
Most of the puppet troops were used as cannon fodder outside the city and on the city wall fortifications by Kenkichi Hirata.
In addition to the puppet troops outside the city and on the city walls, there was also a squadron of Japanese troops.
Kenkichi Hirata has a total of 13 infantry squadrons.
It seems that there are many troops, but to defend the fortifications outside the city and the city wall on all sides, Hirata Kenkichi feels that the troops are not enough.
He placed 4 squadrons outside the city and on the city walls, 2 squadrons as reinforcements for mobile troops at any time, and 7 infantry squadrons and artillery regiments, which he prepared to use to fight street battles with the Eighth Route Army.
However, the idea was very good. Less than an hour after the Eighth Route Army began the bombardment, four city walls were attacked at the same time. At this time, at least four infantry squadrons had to be sent for reinforcements.
If 4 infantry squadrons are sent for reinforcements, there will only be 5 squadrons of infantry fighting in the streets behind.
After the Eighth Route Army entered the city and was besieged on all sides, there was at most one squadron plus one squad in each direction, so it was certain that they would not be able to hold on until reinforcements arrived.
Ishida Kinzo said with a gloomy face: "Division Commander, it is better not to reinforce. Give up the city wall fortifications to the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army can use cannons to attack the city wall fortifications. The imperial army can also use cannons to attack the city wall fortifications. After a bombardment, order the troops
Go up and take back the city wall!"
Hirata Kenkichi asked: "Ishida-kun, if you were the Eighth Route Army, after occupying the city wall, would you have been standing on the wall without getting down?"
Ishida Kinzo suddenly said: "That's right. After the Eighth Route Army captures the city wall, they will definitely go into the city and fight with the imperial army in the streets, not on the city wall."
"The city wall must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army easily!" Division Commander Hirata Kenkichi said coldly.
The most important thing facing Kenkichi Hirata now is to delay time. Only by delaying the arrival of reinforcements can the disadvantage be turned into an advantage.
If the city wall was captured so quickly, the two sides would definitely not be able to last a day if they fought in the streets.
Because street fighting has its own rules and is very cruel, the battle loss ratio between the two sides is basically 1:1, and the Eighth Route Army can kill the Japanese army with just the number of people they have.
After a pause, Hirata Kenkichi continued: "Ishida-kun, immediately deploy 4 squadrons to reinforce each city wall!"
"Division Commander." Ishida Kinzo said hesitantly, "What if all four squadrons are used up and engage in street fighting? We will only have five infantry squadrons."
Hirata Kenkichi said coldly: "Open the reserve weapons depot at the division headquarters, select 1,000 artillerymen from the artillery regiment to issue weapons, and change them to infantry to join the street fighting. In this way, we have 1,000 more infantrymen."
The spare weapons and ammunition of the 37th Division are stored in the three counties of Changzhi, Xiangyuan and Licheng.
When the Japanese ammunition and supplies prepared to support mopping up the Eighth Route Base Area were running out, the Engineer Regiment and the Troops Regiment were responsible for the logistics and transportation.
Ishida Kinzo said: "The heavy baggage regiment in Licheng and the engineer regiment in Xiangyuan County can also take up arms and join the battle. In this way, it would be a fantasy for the Eighth Route Army to eat up my 37th Division.
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Although the combat effectiveness of artillery and logistics personnel is not as good as that of infantry, they are certainly much more powerful than the Imperial Army.
Hirata Kenkichi nodded and said: "Immediately convey the order, and also urge Commander Shinozuka to ask for reinforcements to speed up!"
"Hi!" Ishida Kinzo lowered his head, then turned and walked to the phone. He first dialed a number to mobilize troops from four squadrons to rush for immediate reinforcements, and then ordered 1,000 artillerymen to go to the division headquarters warehouse to collect weapons and ammunition, and then drafted a telegram.
Report the situation here in detail and request reinforcements for quick reinforcements.
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Outside the north of the city, the Eighth Route Army forward headquarters.
Kong Jie and Zhao Gang each held a telescope and observed the battle situation on the north city wall.
In front of Li Yunlong is a pair of artillery scopes, which can see farther and clearer than a telescope.
The northern city wall has been riddled with holes by artillery shells. In the field of view of the artillery mirror, even the bullet holes on the city wall are very clear.
Through the field of vision of the telescope and artillery scope, it can be clearly seen that the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion and 4th Company of the Independent Regiment put up more than a dozen ladders on the city wall and the city wall that was destroyed by the shells.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the 4th company were divided into three parts. Dozens of elite veterans climbed up the ladder. Some soldiers raised their guns and shot at the city wall, while the other soldiers climbed up the ladder to the ruins of the collapsed wall.
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When the dozen or so elite veterans who were the first to climb up the ladder were about to reach the top, they almost simultaneously pulled the grenade string with their mouths and threw the grenade onto the city wall.
The red light and smoke produced by the grenade explosion immediately appeared on the city wall.
After a few seconds, the roar of the explosion reached the headquarters.
Taking advantage of the grenades that fatally wounded the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall, a dozen elite veterans jumped onto the city wall with submachine guns and fired at the remaining Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall.
Under intensive bullet fire, the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall were quickly eliminated.
The Eighth Route Army soldiers who were about to enter through the bombed area were suppressed by Japanese firepower.
The Japanese set up a sandbag position on the street. A Type 92 heavy machine gun and a crooked machine gun continued to fire. Several soldiers fell into a pool of blood.
However, the soldiers occupying the city wall soon discovered the enemy's firepower, and fired submachine guns downwards.
The seven or eight Japs at the two fire points were immediately beaten into a honeycomb, and the soldiers swarmed in from the collapsed positions.
Under the cover of crossfire from their comrades, a steady stream of soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ladder.
However, the Japanese quickly gathered their forces to counterattack, using grenade launchers, infantry artillery and mountain artillery fire to smash into the city walls.
The Eighth Route Army soldiers above and below the city fought to the death. The Eighth Route Army and the Japanese fought repeatedly over the city wall fortifications, and the battle suddenly became fierce again.
Then, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie could no longer see the specific battle situation. They could only hear the intensive gunshots, and the battle was extremely fierce.
"Lao Kong, ask about the situation of the other three regiments." Li Yunlong said.
"Yes!" Kong Jie immediately grabbed the high-power walkie-talkie and asked.
After a while, Kong Jie reported to Li Yunlong solemnly: "The other three regiments are similar to ours and have already rushed to the city wall. The Japanese counterattacked under the cover of artillery fire. The battle was extremely fierce. Some regiments have already suffered 1 casualty.
A company."
Zhao Gang said: "We can't continue fighting like this, we have to find a way."
"Yes!" Kong Jie nodded and said, "When the Japs are on the city wall, we take advantage. When we occupy the city wall, the Japs take advantage."
"So, our soldiers can't tangle with the Japanese at the city wall. They have to enter the city early and fight with the Japanese in the streets."
Listening to what Kong Jie and Zhao Gang said, Li Yunlong thought about it in silence.
After a while, Li Yunlong said: "Order the swordsmen to go to the city wall, use high-power walkie-talkies to guide the mountain artillery and howitzers, and kill the Japanese headquarters and artillery positions in the city for me!"
Previously, Kong Jie suggested that the city should be covered with artillery fire. The reason why Li Yunlong was not accurate was that he did not know the location of the Japanese headquarters and artillery positions.
If you don't know the location, you can't choose to shoot at each element, so you can only bombard them indiscriminately, turning Changzhi County into a sea of flames.
Although it can greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers, the people in Changzhi City will have to suffer.
Li Yunlong can't do that kind of thing.
However, you can definitely see the Japanese headquarters and Japanese artillery positions on the city wall.
Even if the Japanese artillery placed their cannons on the street, for the sake of safety, the Japanese artillery would definitely clear out the Chinese people in the residential buildings on both sides of the street.
If you use the accurate method to call the cannon to strike accurately, you will no longer have any worries.
Once the Japs in the city were no longer covered by artillery fire, it would not take long for the Eighth Route Army soldiers to break into the city and engage in street fighting with the Japs.
Kong Jie grabbed the high-power walkie-talkie and immediately conveyed the order.
After hanging up the call, Kong Jie couldn't help but sigh in his heart again: Walkie-talkies are indeed a good thing. It's very fast to transmit orders with this thing. It seems that after the war, he will have to ask Lao Li for a few walkie-talkies.
Outside the four walls of the east, west, south and north, there were swordsmen running towards the city wall carrying high-power walkie-talkies on their backs.
Running towards the north wall of Changzhi were Duan Peng and a soldier from the guard company. The soldier from the guard company was responsible for carrying a high-power walkie-talkie, and Duan Peng was responsible for calculating the shooting of Zhu Yuan and calling for artillery bombardment.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the foot of the city wall, and cannonballs fell outside the city from time to time.
The two climbed up the ladder and soon arrived at the city wall.
The entire city wall was covered with corpses and broken limbs, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army braved the enemy's artillery fire and fired down at the crenel with their weapons.
Duan Peng bent over and came to a crenel where there was no shooting, and stuck out half of his head to look into the city.
The Japanese built many sandbags on the street and shot at the city walls and city walls. Eighth Route Army soldiers also fired at the Japanese soldiers at the city walls and city walls.
However, the Japanese had more artillery support, and the Eighth Route Army was in a suppressed situation.
According to this method of attack, the Japanese will be able to take back the city wall in ten minutes at most.
Duan Peng zoomed out and saw the Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery positions about 1 kilometer away.
The Japanese's mountain artillery and field artillery were placed on the street, but they looked like they were short of manpower.
"Damn it, I found you!"
Duan Peng took out the precise map from his body and calculated the shooting elements based on the location and distance of the enemy's running position.
In order to fight this battle, Li Yunlong not only advanced 50 high-power walkie-talkies from Chen Feng, but also advanced 100 accurate maps.
To ensure that every member of the Sword Squadron has a map.
Duan Peng quickly calculated the shooting parameters, and he immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie: "Call the 1st Artillery Battalion, call the 1st Artillery Battalion."
"The 1st Artillery Battalion received it!"
Duan Peng: "Standard six hundred and seventy-five, zero sixty-four to the right, 1 battery of 2 guns, one shot!"
As Duan Peng finished speaking, about ten seconds later, a sharp whistling sound sounded from behind him, falling into the city from far to near.
This shell landed on another street and exploded, creating a large crater in the street. The impact point was more than 30 meters to the right from the target.
Duan Peng immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie: "The ruler remains unchanged, move to the left zero zero three, release!"
Ten seconds later, another sharp sound sounded from the sky behind him, roaring into the city.
This shell hit the Japanese artillery and mountain artillery directly, blowing up the Japanese artillery and mountain artillery.
Duan Peng said again: "Whole battalion, fire 2 salvos, let go!"
And the tone of the last word was emphasized.
Ten seconds later, more than a dozen artillery shells roared towards the Japanese artillery position. The Japanese artillerymen heard the whistling sound of the shells flying through the air and hurriedly abandoned their guns and fled.
But it's obviously too late.
The artillery shells had already fallen, and the blast of air blew the cannon away, and the metal projectiles flying freely took away the lives of the Japanese artillerymen.
Duan Peng said again: "Whole battalion, fire 2 salvos, Xu Jin barrage, let go!"