Corpses were everywhere on the No. 1 squadron's position. There were corpses everywhere, including soldiers and Japanese soldiers. They were intertwined with each other, and some were even hugging each other very tightly. The soldiers couldn't break the soldiers' arms apart even after trying for a long time.
, it was not until the soldier's fingers were broken that they were separated.
Hu Delin's body was also found. He was lying in the city gate, in front of the first squadron's position. He looked very peaceful. There were about a dozen Japanese soldiers lying around his body. It could be seen from the wounds on his body that they were all injured.
He killed.
The soldiers gathered around him and couldn't help but shed tears. They were happy for this heroic comrade and sad to lose him.
The first platoon leader ordered the first and second squads to occupy the position of the second platoon and the first squad and quickly reinforce it in preparation for the Japanese counterattack. The third squad was left as a reserve team, allowing them to hide in the dark first and wait until needed.
Come out when the time comes.
Sure enough, as soon as they repaired their position, the Japs launched another attack. A small group of Japs divided into several groups and attacked them again and again. Suddenly, the position was once again plunged into flames of war.
When a platoon was fighting fiercely with the Japs at the South Gate, the East Gate and North Gate were also attacked by the Japs. Outside the west gate, which had always been controlled by the Northeast Army, a Japs squadron also appeared, forming a siege posture around the west gate.
However, no attack was launched.
Yuguan City is now surrounded by Japanese troops, with enemy troops on all sides. It seems that they intend to surround the 626th Regiment to prevent them from escaping, and to capture Yuguan City while annihilating them all.
Although certain preparations have been made, the 626th Regiment in Yuguan City is still very tight. The Japanese troops have very strong combat effectiveness. Although they have received some weapons supported by Luo Xiao of the Yanhuang Army, this is limited after all and can only be improved to a limited extent.
The combat effectiveness has not alleviated the situation at all.
Shi Shi'an has been living at the regiment headquarters since the battle started. He didn't sleep a wink all day and night. He chewed red peppers when he was sleepy and ate hard steamed buns when he was hungry. He directed the battle day and night.
During this period of time, the Japanese troops have invested in three garrison brigades and two independent mixed brigades, with a total strength of more than 8,000 troops, which can be said to be several times the number of Northeastern Army defenders in Yuguan City.
But even with so many troops, the result was that Yuguan City was still not captured, but a lot of troops were lost. This result made Shojiro Ochiai, who directed the incident, very dissatisfied, and he scolded his commander.
His head was so bloody that he almost committed suicide by disembowelling him.
Finally, he gave an order to each team, requiring that Yuguan City must be captured within three days. If they failed to do so by then, then all commanders would clean their bellies and wait to commit suicide to apologize to the emperor.
After giving the order, all the Japanese armies went crazy. The commander often went into battle personally and directed his troops to launch a fierce attack, striving to capture Yuguan City as soon as possible.
The battle situation suddenly became fierce, and the 626th Regiment of the Northeast Army suddenly felt tight. Many outstanding commanders and fighters were sacrificed in the battle, and the troop losses were also considerable.
Shi Shi'an was anxious, watching his troops being depleted little by little, but he had nothing to do, which made him really depressed.
It's not that he doesn't want to fight back, but that the Japanese army has gathered thousands of people outside the city. He only has more than a thousand people in hand, and the weapons, equipment and combat effectiveness are much worse than those of the Japanese. He only needs to rush out.
Will sacrifice faster.
At this time, Shi Shian felt extremely grateful to Luo Xiao. Otherwise, if he had sunk the Japanese aircraft carrier, then the Japanese aircraft would arrive to assist in the attack, and the 626th Regiment would be in disaster.
Dozens of planes, especially one-third of them are bombers. Once these planes loaded with large amounts of bombs fly over Yuguan City, the entire city will be razed to the ground in the blink of an eye and disappear into pieces of blazing fire.
In the burning fire.
However, although there are no aircraft carriers to assist the Japanese in the battle, if the Japanese aviation fleet arrives, then there will still be incalculable misfortune waiting for Shi Shian.
However, before Luo Xiaolin left Yuguan City, he left a message to Shi Shi'an, telling him not to worry about the Japs' aviation formation, saying that he would have someone to deal with them, and asking Shi Shi'an to concentrate his forces to defend Yuguan City.
"As long as we can persist for seventy-two hours, the situation will turn around and the crisis in Yuguan City will naturally be resolved." These were the original words Luo Xiao left to Shi Shi'an, which made Shi Shi'an think twice.
Can't figure it out.
Shi Shi'an couldn't figure out how Luo Xiao could help him solve the Shanhaiguan problem. You must know that this time the Japanese dispatched 8,000 people to attack Shanhaiguan, and later they were dispatching several regiments from the three northeastern provinces with heavy artillery to prepare to assist Yu
The Guan garrison and two independent brigades attacked Shanhaiguan together.
Although he was a little skeptical about Luo Xiao's words, Shi Shi'an still chose to stick around and wait for help, because this was the best way at the moment.
Shanhaiguan is an important location. If this place is lost, the natural barrier of the Great Wall will be meaningless. The Japanese army can move south smoothly through here, quickly occupy many areas north of the Great Wall defense line, form a two-sided attack on the Great Wall defense line, and finally defeat the Great Wall defense line.
In the Battle of the Great Wall, it was the fall of Lengkou and other places that forced the 29th Army to destroy its gains at Xifengkou and was finally forced to retreat.
The battle is still going on. It has been fighting for a day and a night. The 626th Regiment has suffered heavy casualties. Nearly one-third of the entire regiment has died on the battlefield. On the contrary, there are only a few injured. The main reason is that the battle is too fierce.
, people will fight to the end as long as they have one breath.
Outside the city, Shojiro Ochiai, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army's incident, was sitting in the headquarters with a livid face. On the table in front of him was the latest battle report. On both sides were commanders at all levels standing with their hands down, waiting for his orders.
Issue.
The brigade commanders of the 14th Brigade and the 33rd Brigade were assassinated at a banquet not long ago, and they all lost their lives. The two newly promoted brigade commanders were originally the commanders below, so they are higher in rank than Ochiai.
Shojiro was lowered by half a level. They were also standing aside.
Several brigades of the Japanese independent garrison have been sent out to attack the south gate and the north gate respectively. The team outside the west gate is also a force of the independent garrison, and is mainly responsible for containing the defenders of the west gate.
In this way, it was the joint force composed of the independent 14th Brigade and the 33rd Brigade that launched the attack outside the east gate. In the plan to bomb the aircraft carrier organized by Chu Yifei and others, the planes attacked these two brigades and destroyed them.
They were so overwhelmed that they lost more than half of their troops, so with the approval from above, they united and acted together.
Although there were more than 5,000 people, the terrain outside the east gate was complex and difficult to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, although they launched attacks many times, they still had a hard time fighting the people guarding the east gate. Although they stormed the position several times,
But before my butt was warmed up, I was beaten back, and I still haven't taken the east gate yet.
As a result, the Japanese army's offensive plan obviously suffered setbacks and was not progressing smoothly.
Ochiai Shojiro was very dissatisfied with the current war situation, but he could only urge his troops to step up the attack and capture Yuguan City as soon as possible.
An officer hurried in from outside. He held a document in his hand and handed it to Ochiai Shojiro. Then he said, "Captain, a telegram was sent from Qinhuangdao Air Force Base saying that the Osaka Air Group, which came from Japan to support, has arrived.
Arrive and ask for instructions if you need support."
Ochiai Shojiro was overjoyed when he heard this. He quickly stood up, took the document, and "ordered them to dispatch immediately to support the attack on Yuguan City."
The staff officer went down with the order, and Shojiro Ochiai felt a little more at ease. He believed that with the support of the aircraft, he would be able to capture Yuguan City as soon as possible.
At this moment, someone else ran in and hurriedly came to him, "Captain, there was a breach in the south gate wall. Now Ozaki's team is launching a fierce attack there. It is estimated that they will probably attack the city this time."
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"Really?!" Shojiro Ochiai stood up and asked again for confirmation.
"Yes, Captain, it's a telegram personally sent by Captain Ozaki."
Ochiai Shojiro nodded, and then said, "Okay, Ozaki team did a good job. Tell them that after this battle is over, I will ask for credit from above for them, and ask them to work hard now and strive to win Yuguan as soon as possible.
city"
"Yes!" The Japanese soldier who delivered the order hurriedly went down to deliver the order.
Colonel Ochiai Shojiro also stood up and walked to the Yuguan map. He looked at the distribution of troops on both sides of Yuguan City on the map and thought about how to deploy the troops next.
At the southwestern corner of the south gate of Yuguan City, a gap with a width of tens of meters appeared there. Bricks and tiles were scattered inside and outside the city wall, making it a mess. Standing outside the city, you can already see the situation inside the city through the gap.
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Second Lieutenant Ozaki, the leader of the Japanese army, was standing outside the gap at this time, excitedly watching his soldiers running towards the gap. Several Japanese soldiers had already arrived there and were climbing up the pile of collapsed bricks.
"Quick, quick, we must capture that place before the enemy arrives." Ozaki's sergeant shouted loudly, asking the soldiers to speed up.
The Japanese soldiers all sped up one by one and rushed straight there bravely.
Just when the Japanese army was about to occupy the gap, gunshots rang out, and the Japanese soldier who climbed to the top of the pile of bricks fell upside down and rolled down to the bottom of the pile of bricks and tiles.
The other Japanese soldiers were stunned for a moment. They knew that the Northeast Army should have arrived, but after being stunned, they immediately accelerated and rushed forward, "We must capture this place before the Chinese army arrives."
"Kill!" In the gap, the Northeastern Army shouted and rushed towards here.
"Charge!" Outside the gap, the Japanese troops also screamed with all their strength, without stopping.
Both sides are racing for time and trying to gain the commanding heights before the other side.
"Boom!"
The Japanese grenades fired into the gap. Although they could not see clearly what was going on inside, they still fired no less than ten rounds near the gap.
Near the city wall in the gap, shrapnel flew across the gap, leaving scars everywhere on the wall and pits on the ground.
The Northeast Army troops that were charging towards the gap were blocked for a while and several people were injured. Their speed suddenly slowed down a bit and the Japanese army rushed to the gap in advance.