The rain has stopped, and the headquarters is a little stuffy at this time.
The area they were in was not far from the field hospital deployed by the Japanese army in the rear. Even inside the headquarters, they seemed to be able to smell the smell of disinfectant coming from the hospital in the distance.
Guderian touched his nose and seemed to be a little repelled by the smell of disinfectant.
He looked at Hans opposite and said, "Hans, and everyone, what can you do?" After saying that, he looked around at everyone.
He is not good at street fighting and does not dare to express too many opinions in this regard.
At this time, a Japanese army staff officer stood up and said: "I am an expert in street fighting and have some insights in this area."
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Guderian¡¯s blue eyes looked at the Japanese staff officer and said.
The Japanese staff officer nodded and said: "As far as I know, the enemy on the opposite side has always been very good at street fighting. If our troops want to attack the enemy-occupied neighborhoods through head-on confrontation, it will already be very energy-consuming.
If you want to hold on and resist the enemy's counterattack, you will need more strength.
The current situation is that our troops are often insufficient in strength, although they can launch a frontal attack to knock down the enemy-occupied neighborhoods.
But before our additional troops arrive, under the enemy's counterattack, the neighborhoods we finally conquered will be attacked back by the enemy's troops. "
"Then what you mean is that we need to concentrate enough troops? But in that case, as soon as the enemy on the opposite side discovers our large troop concentration, they will immediately call in their artillery fire to cover it.
I think you should be very clear about what happened last night. "
Hans looked at the Japanese staff officer and said.
What he said last night was that Xia Yang and his troops voluntarily evacuated from the city wall yesterday and entered the rear blocks for defense.
After occupying the city wall, the Japanese attacking troops began to gather forces there.
A large group of Japanese soldiers lined up in the direction of the city wall and planned to launch an attack on the neighborhood.
As a result, the assembled Japanese brigade was spotted by the artillery scouts of the Fourth Army, and howitzers were directly called for concentrated firepower.
After a round of shelling, the Japanese brigade, which had just completed its assembly, announced that it had withdrawn from the battlefield and was unable to continue fighting.
This also served as a wake-up call to the Japanese troops behind them. When they assembled their troops, they could only transport troops to the front in small groups, little by little.
In this case, the use of artillery groups to bombard the enemy is not worth the gain. If it is a squadron-scale attack, the enemy on the opposite side will immediately mobilize a large-scale artillery bombardment.
The Japanese troops had no good way to deal with the artillery fire from the Fourth Army.
Even at night, as long as the Japanese troops are locked by the Fourth Army's infrared night vision devices, they will be intensively bombarded by the Fourth Army's artillery in the city in a short period of time.
After a few times, these Japanese soldiers became more cautious and no longer dared to assemble casually.
¡°What I mean is that the main reason why our troops cannot assemble on a large scale near the city wall is that our soldiers have no place to hide from enemy artillery fire.
So what I mean is that we started from the periphery using engineering vehicles to dig trenches, traffic trenches.
These communication trenches should extend from the periphery to the bottom of the city wall. In this way, even if we encounter enemy bombardment, we can use the cover of communication trenches and trenches to minimize the casualties of soldiers rushing to the front. "
The Japanese military staff officer said.
"In this way, we can solve the problem of being unable to assemble large forces at the front, and at the same time, our FM's ammunition and material transportation problems can also be solved."
This reminded Guderian and Hans, as well as other Japanese commanders.
"To dig trenches, we can look for Chinese people to dig them. In this case, the enemy's artillery shells will not dare to bomb us."
A Japanese commander said at this time.
"But the Chinese people around us don't know where they are hiding. And most of the people before were caught by us."
A Japanese military staff officer said.
This time z.com Zhang Si. "Simple, if our soldiers put on the clothes of ordinary Chinese people, then it won't be a problem.
How do the enemies on the opposite side know whether we are Chinese? "
A Japanese military staff officer said with a smile.
Guderian immediately said: "Yes, at least in the eyes of us Germans, you all look the same.
The enemy on the opposite side cannot tell from your appearance whether you are Chinese or not. "
"In this way, we can dig faster and dig in turns. At least we can dig the trench to the bottom of the city wall before dark."
The Japanese staff officer who made the suggestion said.
"There can be no further delay. Start digging traffic trenches now, starting from multiple directions."
"The Japanese commanders answered and began to think of ways to gather their soldiers. At the same time, they found a lot of regular uniforms to wear on these Japanese soldiers.
In order to make these Japanese soldiers look more like Chinese people, the Japanese army tied their hands with ropes and escorted them to the position of digging trenches. At the same time, the Japanese soldiers also needed to supervise their work. .
As the morning mist gradually dissipated, at nine o'clock, the bells of the cathedral in Harbin echoed on the extremely silent battlefield.
"Our scouts discovered that the enemy captured many ordinary people and asked them to dig trenches."
Qiu Guoping said while walking in front.
They soon arrived at the location of the church bell tower.
Xia Yang picked up the telescope and looked outside the city wall in the distance. The Japanese army pointed their rifles at the civilians wearing ordinary clothes and kept digging traffic trenches.
Now these communication trenches are less than two kilometers away from the city wall.
Zhida z.com Zhixiao. If this continues, the enemy on the opposite side will be able to dig communication trenches under the city wall by night at most.
"The enemy is smart and knows how to use traffic trenches to ensure the safety of their troop transfers and avoid our artillery bombardment."
Xia Yang said as he put away the telescope.
"Then what should we do now? The enemy on the opposite side is using Chinese people to dig. We can't hit our own people with artillery shells."