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Chapter 358: Street fighting begins

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    Bengbu City District. Defense Headquarters.

    The entry of the Japanese army into the city was definitely a huge challenge for the defenders, because after the Japanese army entered the city, the defenders lost the protection of solid fortifications, and they would then have to fight in the streets with the Japanese army.

    Thinking that the troops were about to engage in street fighting with the Japanese army, Li Guoyao became silent. This was the last thing he wanted to see.

    Street fighting not only means face-to-face fighting between two sides, this fighting method is often associated with death and blood. If I have to use one word to describe it, it must be "cruel".

    Once street fighting begins, it often means close combat and hand-to-hand combat between the enemy and ourselves. At the same time, due to the terrain characteristics of the streets and alleys, it is easy for the enemy and us to mix and interlock with each other.  Sometimes the two sides would fight house to house in the streets, so much so that more than one world-famous general listed street fighting as the most difficult battle in the war.

    Li Guoyao also thinks so. Street fighting is indeed not comparable to ordinary fighting. Even if they are strictly trained special forces, fighting in the city is full of dangers.

    Someone once asked a veteran who had participated in fierce street fighting, what was street fighting like?  The veteran only answered with four words: "It's chaos!".

    These four words directly summarize the characteristics of street fighting, and they are very vivid!

    You must know that the battlefields of street fighting are often in towns and cities. These places are not only filled with high-rise buildings, but also full of ruins. The view is blocked and movement is inconvenient, which is beneficial to the defender.

    The defender can often use the scattered buildings to deploy troops and firepower, place explosives in familiar streets, and plan the best counterattack and retreat routes.

    For attackers with superior forces, the urban environment is the last thing they want to encounter, because heavy weapons are almost impossible to play in street fighting, artillery and aircraft are difficult to play, and tanks are also vulnerable in narrow streets.  Close attack from the opponent's anti-tank weapons.

    In a small space, superior forces cannot be deployed and exert their effect. Sometimes they even become excellent targets and are ambushed.

    In fact, the advantage of the defender is relative in street fighting, because street fighting often breaks out at close range, the fronts of double counterattacks are intertwined, and a building often changes hands multiple times.

    Street fighting is a great test for soldiers¡¯ experience and psychology. After all, they often encounter enemies on narrow roads, and bloody hand-to-hand combat may even break out.

    Precisely because of the particularity of street fighting, it is very difficult to fight, and the casualty rate is very high. It can be said to be the bloodiest battle.

    In addition to the casualties of the troops on both sides, street fighting will also cause casualties of urban residents, and these casualties are very heavy.

    There are many famous and tragic street battles in history, such as the Battle of Taierzhuang and the well-known Battle of Stalingrad. They are all famous street battles.

    Take the Battle of Stalingrad as an example. This battle was the turning point on the Eastern Front of World War II.  At that time, the elite Sixth Army of the German Army was dragged into the quagmire of street fighting. It fought repeatedly with the Soviet army in the city, and was later surrounded and eaten by the Soviet army that counterattacked.  A total of 250,000 German corpses were buried in this city, and 470,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers were killed.

    The number of casualties can be used as evidence of the brutality of street fighting, but the most shocking thing is the average life span of Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad. Soldiers often only have an average survival time of 24 hours, and officers only have an average survival time of about three days. This shows that this kind of battle  How tragic.

    In fact, Li Guoyao wanted to fight the Japanese army in street battles from the beginning. However, God is not as good as man. Even though Li Guoyao tried his best to avoid this, in the end he could not withstand the Japanese army's crazy attack and had to meet the Japanese army on a narrow road.

    Although he was unwilling to do so, Li Guoyao was not afraid at this point. Although the street fighting was fierce, he still had certain advantages over the defenders. Moreover, he had also made certain preparations when the Japanese army attacked the peripheral positions.  They were defeated by the Japanese army in a short period of time.

    The night is already deep, but the Japanese attack has not stopped yet!

    Five minutes ago, Li Guoyao had received the good news from Chu County from Jiang Feng and Lu Wenlong. They had captured Chu County fifteen minutes ago, and the defenders were almost wiped out. They were clearing out the remaining enemies in the city.

    " Nanqiao's troops completed their mission half an hour ago and captured Nanqiao City. The Japanese troops in the city were completely wiped out.

    Li Guoyao originally thought that the Japanese army would stop the attack immediately and then go all-out south to support Chuxian County. But now it seems that the Japanese are planning to make a desperate move and prepare to capture Bengbu City first.

    I have to say that from the perspective of the Japanese army, this? is the most correct choice. Obviously, the former enemy commander of the Japanese army is not a idiot, and his command level is still good.

    With such desperate efforts by the Japanese army, Li Guoyao himself and the defenders in Bengbu City suddenly fell into a dangerous situation.

    You must know that there are less than 10,000 troops in Bengbu City at this time, but there are still more than 16,000 Japanese troops outside the city. They have an absolute advantage in strength. Secondly, the Japanese troops have experience in street fighting, whether it is  During the Battle of Songhu and later the Battle of Nanjing, the Japanese army had records of street fighting with the Chinese army.

    But most of the soldiers of the Seventh Division do not have this experience. A large part of them don't even know what street fighting is, let alone fight with the little devils inside the city.

    In terms of weapons and equipment, the Japanese army also has more than a dozen tanks. The reasonable combination of infantry and tanks for clearing operations is definitely a classic tactic in street fighting, which poses a great threat to the defenders.

    Apart from being familiar with the terrain, the defenders had almost no advantages. Now that the Japanese army was determined to capture Bengbu, the defenders were under great pressure.

    Under the crazy bombardment of heavy artillery, the originally shabby city walls of Bengbu City collapsed section by section, and many defenders were buried in the ruins before they even had time to retreat.

    And often after a section of the city wall collapsed, a large number of Japanese troops rushed into the city through the gap in the city wall. For a time, the entire Bengbu City looked like a rotten house with leaks everywhere, and was in danger of collapse at any time.

    With the influx of Japanese troops in large numbers, the fighting in the city became fierce. Finally, at around 12:15 in the evening, the defenders had to abandon the city wall across the board.

    At this time, the time has entered April 15th. As long as we persist through the last 24 hours, then this task will be completely completed.

    Although it is difficult, Li Guoyao feels that his chances of winning are quite high!  After all, there are more than 10,000 national troops in the city, and there are still a lot of weapons, equipment and ammunition. On the other hand, the little devil's ammunition reserves are being depleted rapidly, so it is not difficult to do it 24 hours a day.

    What's more, the troops outside the city have captured Chuxian and Nanqiao, and the main force of the Duba Brigade has arrived near Dingyuan to guard. Once the troops in Chuxian make a move to go north, the Japanese army will have to make a new choice. He would like to  Let¡¯s see what that old devil Yoshizumi Ryosuke will do!

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