At this moment, the cavalry divisions of the Fourth Army that were fighting the Japanese army frontally had finished their charge against the Japanese troops and were resting in a jungle not far away.
Their charge just now lasted four rounds in total.
Every time they kill, the number of enemies they encounter during the charge will decrease.
Until their last charge, when almost no Japanese soldiers were left standing, they ended the charge.
Of course, their charge can only go so far. The physical strength of those war horses has reached its limit. If they continue to charge, the physical strength of these horses and soldiers will not be able to sustain it.
Most of the Japanese soldiers have now dispersed to the surrounding fields.
Most of them are just stragglers, and only a small number of Japanese soldiers have their own organization.
And in such a vast wilderness, the troops surrounded by the Eighth Route Army began to launch a final encirclement and suppression campaign against the Japanese troops hiding in the darkness.
The 49th Division of the Japanese Army was thus destroyed in this wilderness of North China.
At this moment, in a port dozens of kilometers away from here.
The battle has begun.
The Japanese troops have now entered their combat positions. For these Japanese troops, they have only one goal, which is to grit their teeth and persevere to withstand the impact of the enemy's armored forces on the opposite side.
As long as they hold on until dawn, their reinforcements will arrive.
The Japanese army has a lot of troops nearby, and the troops who get here the fastest should only take a few hours to arrive.
As for other troops, even if they are farther away, they can arrive here within 24 hours.
Of course, Ping Tianzhen also knows that the situation cannot be so ideal. At least the enemy on the opposite side will build a large number of blocking and defensive positions along the way.
If they want to survive the enemy's onslaught tonight, they can't just rely on their support troops on the periphery, they still need to rely on their own strength.
At this moment, the Japanese troops in the port, whether they are the personnel in charge of logistics or the personnel in charge of staff, have become combat personnel.
Ping Tianzhen also distributed rifles or grenades to every Japanese soldier, and also distributed glory bombs to each of them.
If they are in a desperate situation and can no longer defeat the enemy on the opposite side, Ping Tian really hopes that they can die in a more dignified way.
This decent way is to commit suicide, which is to use the glory bomb in their hands to end their own lives.
Of course, those are only things that ordinary Japanese soldiers need to use. When Japanese commanders commit suicide, they can use the samurai method, which is to commit suicide by committing seppuku.
The Japanese soldiers also realized at this time that their battle this time would most likely lead to death.
The blocking troops in the front basically did not cause any effective obstruction to the enemy's offensive troops, and were crushed by the enemy's armored troops.
At this moment, a large number of enemy artillery is covering their defensive positions and the port where they are located.
As for the enemy's bombers and fighter jets, they also carried out large-scale bombings on all Japanese positions around the port one after another, without giving the Japanese troops on the opposite side a chance to breathe.
During this period of time, the soldiers of the Fourth Army were organizing combatants, arranging their armored vehicles and tanks, and were ready for the next wave of attacks.
He Changxing rode an armored vehicle to a hillside not far away.
From this place, he could see more clearly the Japanese-occupied port that was submerged under artillery fire.
If this port is captured by them, it will basically lose its value for continued use. It will take at least several months to repair it before it can resume navigation.
Of course, they don¡¯t have any ships that need to dock in this port.
On the contrary, the large ships of the Japanese army need to be anchored in such ports.
If there is no such port to anchor, those Japanese ships can only anchor far away from the coastline. Naturally, they will not be able to carry out firepower or supplies against the Japanese ground troops besieged here. support.
At this time, the Japanese troops had suffered heavy casualties.
They are nowThe number of troops in the port has been reduced by a quarter compared to before the bombing.
Most of them were killed by enemy bombing, and some Japanese soldiers died of suffocation, flames, etc.
Finally, the bombing, which lasted for more than half an hour, ended at this time.
The port suddenly became quiet from being extremely noisy before.
But such silence could not relax the tense mood of the Japanese army in the slightest.
For these Japanese soldiers, they knew too well what they would face after the enemy's bombing.
"The enemy's ground troops have begun to advance."
"Shiro Oto said wearing a helmet.
Now he looks more like a fully armed soldier, except that the weapon he uses is a pistol.
Ping Tianzhen also said: "I know, but I have some bad news that I need to tell you."
"what news?"
Oto Shiro asked, with anxiety in his eyes.
"The 49th Division encountered a fierce enemy siege along the Haihe River. Now their division headquarters has lost contact with us.
The news we received before was that Dagu¡¯s cavalry troops were dispatched on the opposite side and launched repeated attacks on them.
In the process of this charge, many of our soldiers died under the iron hoof of the enemy. "
When he mentioned this place, he saw a flash of despair in Oto Shiro's eyes.
"Oto Shiro, I see the despair in your eyes, but in fact, I also have such thoughts in my heart.
But we are commanders, and we cannot convey such emotions to the soldiers.
We will continue to hold on here until our reinforcements arrive. "
He said this, but Shiro Oto knew it very well.
Reinforcements may not arrive.
Other troops supporting them will inevitably encounter enemy obstruction along the way.
Originally, Oto Shiro thought that even if the enemy on the opposite side launched an attack against them, they would not use too many troops, let alone pose a fatal threat to their supporting troops. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com