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Qinhuangdao¡¯s defense system is actually very simple.
Because the terrain around Qinhuangdao is mostly plain areas.
Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic to use the surrounding plains to build defensive positions to resist the advance of Japanese artillery and armored vehicles.
Precisely because of this, they placed their main defensive positions near the city wall, relying on the city wall to resist the Japanese attack.
According to Chen Shiliang¡¯s order, they need to withstand the Japanese attack for at least a whole day. Let the main force of the Fourth Division led by Chen Shiliang complete the encirclement of the Japanese army.
Tang Minghai knew very well that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
He has issued a death order. All soldiers need to hold on to the defense line along the city wall and cannot let the Japanese army enter the city wall.
Because once they entered the street fighting stage, the Japanese army relied on their numerical advantage to quickly occupy a barricade position in this small town, leading them to complete defeat.
Speaking of which, it doesn¡¯t sound very difficult to withstand the Japanese attack for a day.
However, at this time, they had only more than 4,000 defensive troops in the city.
The number of Japanese troops was more than three times theirs.
In order to capture Qinhuangdao as quickly as possible, Kuai Zeichi and Xiangzu Yoshijiro began to seize all the time to formulate detailed battle plans.
It¡¯s 5:00 pm and the sun has not yet set on the western horizon.
The whole world is still shrouded in the dim daylight.
The Japanese armored forces have begun to appear outside the city wall. They are just observing and marking some coordinates of the defensive positions of the Fourth Army under the city wall to facilitate the artillery troops in the rear to carry out fire strikes on these defensive positions.
After these observations, Kuaisawa issued the first attack order.
Their four infantry brigades, under the cover of an armored brigade, began to launch a fierce attack on the defensive positions to the south and east of Qinhuangdao.
Under the first round of artillery fire, some defensive positions deployed by the Fourth Army outside the city had been bombed into craters.
Tang Minghai looked at the Japanese attacking troops slowly advancing from behind the smoke, and immediately ordered his soldiers to stick to the line.
At the same time, he began to send telegrams requesting air forces in the rear to provide them with fire support.
At the same time, he also called Chen Shiliang for instructions, hoping to receive fire support from the howitzer regiment.
However, the howitzer regiment at this time was driving away the Japanese fleet, so there was no way to provide them with firepower.
The artillery firepower in the city also began to violently bombard the Japanese charging troops at this time.
Most of these artillery pieces are small-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery, and some are mortars. Although their firepower is limited, they can also play a certain delaying role in the Japanese attack.
As the Japanese troops gradually approached, Tang Minghai ordered his soldiers to use the rocket nest launch system to start pouring rockets against the Japanese troops.
These rockets, accompanied by bursts of roaring sounds, began to fall on the Japanese charging formation like heavy rain and hail.
Those Japanese offensive troops were hit by such fierce firepower, and they began to disperse their original offensive formations amidst the roars of the commanders in the rear.
This makes their offensive surface as a brigade spread over an offensive front with a width of 1 kilometer.
When Kuaisawa saw the progress ahead, he was very angry.
He realized at this time that the troops under his command were indeed a bit immature compared to the experienced Chinese troops on the opposite side.
With just the advance of the Japanese army, it can be seen that the grassroots commanders of the Japanese army did not let their soldiers disperse their formations, but concentrated them behind the tanks and armored vehicles.
This formation can indeed play a very good protective role in the face of enemy infantry fire.
Because the machine gun bullets and rifle bullets of the enemy in front will be blocked by the heavy armor plates at the rear of tanks and armored vehicles, thereby protecting the safety of the infantry.
However, the situation is different now. The enemy obviously has artillery firepower, and can also possess a large number of anti-tank weapons that can destroy tanks and armored vehicles. If this formation is still used, the infantry hiding behind the tanks will it is very likelyWhen the tank was destroyed, it suffered collateral damage.
Not only that, their relatively dense formation will also suffer greater damage under the enemy's artillery fire.
After the formation was dispersed, although the advancement speed of these Japanese troops became slower, the number of casualties was greatly reduced.
As soon as Jiujingze saw that their charge troops were getting closer and closer to the enemy's defensive positions outside Qinhuangdao, he immediately ordered the accompanying cavalry troops to be ready to harvest the battlefield at any time.
At this time, on the defensive positions on the periphery of the Fourth Army, their machine gun firepower, rifle firepower, and various anti-tank weapons had begun to fire violently at the Japanese offensive troops.
The tanks and armored vehicles advanced by the Japanese army began to be destroyed one by one under the cover of anti-tank firepower.
However, the mission of these steel behemoths has been completed.
Because these tanks and armored vehicles have successfully covered a large number of Japanese infantry and advanced to a position less than 30 meters away from the 4th Army¡¯s defensive position.
At this distance, the Japanese soldiers had already begun to throw grenades and other explosives towards the defensive positions of the Fourth Army to suppress their firepower.
Not only that, the heavy machine gun and light machine gun firepower deployed by the Japanese army in the rear also began to carry out overtaking shooting, throwing bullets in an arc in the air, and then all fell behind the Fourth Army's position, affecting its deep firepower.
Tang Minghai looked at the Japanese advance below and knew that the situation on the outer defensive positions was more critical.
However, the Japanese army only relied on these infantry, which was not enough to attack the surrounding defensive positions. Tang Minghai also had great confidence in his soldiers.
But at this moment, Kuizawa issued an order for his two cavalry brigades to penetrate directly from the flanks.
The Japanese cavalry unit had been hidden behind a small slope until now, so Tang Minghai and his reconnaissance unit had never discovered the existence of this unit.
At this time, the Japanese cavalry troops suddenly rushed out from the flank.
It happened to appear in the fire blind spot of the frontal defense position. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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