After drinking a sip of water, Cai Heyuan felt that the dryness in his throat was slightly relieved.
"What's wrong? Have all the little devils across the street escaped?"
Cai Heyuan raised his head, looked at the soldiers around him and said.
The soldiers nodded and said: "That's right, they all ran away. But we can't catch up. Our casualties are too heavy."
Cai Heyuan looked at the surrounding soldiers, and then asked: 'Is everyone here? ¡¯
"Basically everything in our direction is here."
A platoon leader said with blood on his face.
Hearing these words, Cai Heyuan's heart sank.
If nothing else, he has at least two to three hundred troops in this direction.
But now there are only a few dozen people left. One can imagine how heavy their losses were in this battle.
The soldiers who originally fought side by side with him have now become corpses on the ground. There are only a few dozen people standing in front of him.
He felt exhausted, and the joy of the arrival of reinforcements seemed to be overshadowed by the sadness of most of his comrades being killed.
¡°Go back, let¡¯s go back and continue to defend.
Our reinforcements have arrived, and they need us to continue to contain the enemy here. "
Cai Heyuan put away the sadness in his heart and tried to stand up.
Then, with the support of his soldiers, he walked towards the dilapidated neighborhood not far away.
At this moment, most of Langfang City has been turned into ruins. The Japanese army's day and night bombing has caused a large number of houses here to collapse.
Only a very small part of the house is still intact, but in invisible places, you can still see some bullet holes left by Japanese machine guns, just like a pair of eyes, through which walls, you can see this extremely tragic place. battlefield.
It was also at this time that their artillery units in the central area of ??the city were still using artillery to bombard the Japanese positions on the periphery.
They are no longer bombarding the position of the previous Japanese army, but intending to support the Japanese army in the past.
At this time, on the defensive position in front of the Japanese army, their captain had fallen into despair.
This is real despair, because even if their infantry is made of flesh and blood, it is impossible to effectively block the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles.
All the charges and their so-called bravery seemed worthless under the crazy advancement of these steel behemoths.
The bushido spirit that supported their battle was now crushed to pieces by the enemy's tank tracks, just like the corpses of Japanese soldiers who were pressed into the soil by the tanks and turned into meat.
"Captain, our FM support troops will be here soon. The division commander asked us to hold on a little longer."
The soldier shouted, his eyes bloodshot.
"Tell the division commander that we can hold on for ten minutes at most. If reinforcements still cannot arrive, we will have no choice but to retreat."
When he said this, the Japanese captain couldn't help but sigh and muttered: "If by then, I still have the power to choose."
While he was speaking, the artillery on tanks and armored vehicles once again concentrated bombardment on the Japanese defensive positions.
Together with them, there were mortars equipped by the Fourth Army troops, bombing the last line of defense of the Japanese brigade.
It was as if a huge battering ram was constantly hitting the solid city gate.
But now, the originally solid city gate has become shaky under the impact of such a battering ram, like an autumn leaf that has not had time to fall from the tree.
¡°Boom!!!!¡±
The extremely violent explosion came around the Japanese captain.
He could clearly feel that the violent explosion vibrated his eardrums, making his ears buzz with a buzzing sound, as if there were ten thousand flies constantly cruising in his ears.
"Soldiers, resist, continue to pick up the rifles in your hands and resist the enemy's attack."
He shouted, almost hysterically. Even in such an explosion, he could not even hear his own voice, but he still hoped that his voice could be heard by the Japanese soldiers under him.
Those Japanese soldiers at the front?There is no intention to continue to resist.
Their casualties have been very heavy, even more than two-thirds.
With such a huge casualty ratio, if it were an ordinary army, they would have already chosen to retreat.
But now, they have no other choice, because someone is pointing a gun at them from behind.
As long as they choose to retreat, their comrades will choose to shoot at them with machine guns.
Under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, soldiers of the Fourth Army continued to charge against the Japanese front lines.
At the same time, the Eighth Route Army infantry units on both wings also began to make detours from both wings at this time, intending to cut off the Japanese army's retreat route in the rear.
In addition, there are other troops approaching the Japanese positions in other directions at this time, and their attacks will soon begin.
By then, the Japanese 122nd Division will be truly besieged on all sides.
At this time, the Japanese division commander Sato Sakura and his staff officer Shirai Matsushita obviously did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
At this moment, their eyes were still focused on the tank unit that attacked them. They felt that the appearance of the tank unit in front of them was still constraining their troops attacking Langfang City.
If this is not the case, is it possible that the enemy wants to use these troops to annihilate them all?
That is a possibility that they have directly ruled out, because in other directions, they also have a large number of troops fighting with the troops of the Fourth Army.
As long as this enemy force is discovered and intends to carry out encirclement and annihilation operations against them, their other surrounding forces will immediately come to support them.
By then, as long as a huge encirclement is formed on the outside, Sakura Sato even feels that their troops can easily eat up the enemy's troops.
No, it¡¯s not just the enemy¡¯s tank unit, but also their cavalry unit.
The enemy cavalry unit that was running around and attacking their various positions from time to time would also be buried with this tank unit.
"Our troops are supporting the front, but they encountered enemy artillery fire on the way, and now their action is relatively slow." (Remember this website's website address: www.hlnovel.com