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Chapter 398: The Fall of Hefei

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    After a night of silence, the Japanese attack began early the next morning.

    "But compared to yesterday's battle, the little Japanese's behavior today was a bit abnormal. The frontal battlefield was not very fierce. There was only less than one brigade of Japanese troops on the main position.

    In addition, the artillery fire was not very violent, so it was very easy for the front-line troops to deal with it.

    Of course, with Li Guoyao's combat experience, he could naturally tell that something was wrong, and immediately sent out a reconnaissance unit to check the movements of the remaining Japanese troops.

    Soon the reconnaissance team got the news. They found a large number of Japanese soldiers on the avenue east of Shuangjian Town. The other party did not hide their movements and went straight to the back of Shuangjian Town.

    After receiving the news from the reconnaissance team, Li Guoyao smiled. The little devil only used this trick, which was to attack in roundabouts and flanks if he could not break through from the front. It was really too unoriginal.

    But it doesn¡¯t matter, the positions at the back and sides are not bad, so it may not be easy for the little devil to break through from the back.

    Sure enough, when the Japanese troops positioned themselves behind to launch an attack at nine o'clock in the morning, the defenders responded calmly and were easily repelled several times. This made the senior officers in the Japanese command headquarters anxious, angry and helpless.

    However, the defenders were not happy for long. At around ten o'clock in the morning, the sound of aircraft engines suddenly came from the sky.

    Then more than 30 fighter planes appeared over Shuangjian Town, and then launched a crazy bombing on the town.

    The Japanese army spent a lot of money this time, using a full flight wing of bombers. A dense group of aircraft dropped from the sky and frantically dropped bombs on the small town of Shuangjian Town.

    Li Guoyao did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered the air defense regiment to open fire immediately, and a super battle between ground and air began immediately.

    "Boom"

    A heavy aerial bomb exploded outside Li Guoyao's command headquarters. The violent explosion destroyed the towering walls of the Hui-style building and threw up bursts of dust.

    Zhang Shaolin on the side was shocked and immediately stood in front of Li Guoyao and said hurriedly: "Military seat, this place is dangerous, you should retreat!"

    Li Guoyao patted the dust on his body and said coldly: "My soldiers are here, and my brothers are also here. Where should I retreat?"

    "but"

    "Nothing but, immediately send someone to notify the air defense regiment, saying that I have been bullied and asking them to take care of it!" Li Guoyao said loudly.

    "yes!"

    When receiving Li Guoyao's order, the air defense regiment was busy counterattacking. However, since the Little Devil's fighter planes were already prepared, they did not dare to dive at low altitude, and their flying altitude was above three thousand meters. At this distance,  The Type 75 anti-aircraft machine gun has reached its limit.

    Therefore, the effect of today's counterattack is not good. Since the war started, they have only shot down one enemy plane, with very few results!

    After listening to the words conveyed by the messenger, Xu Wenlong, the commander of the air defense regiment, knew that the military commander was angry, and immediately shouted: "The military commander is angry, take off all the disguises of the third battalion, and remove all the anti-aircraft guns."  If I show my face, I won¡¯t be able to survive!¡±

    "yes!"

    Following Xu Wenlong's order, all eight 20mm anti-aircraft guns hidden in the town were also revealed. This Japanese-made anti-aircraft gun was captured by Li Guoyao's troops from the Japanese army during the Battle of Bengbu. There were 11 guns in total. Three of them turned out to be  Important parts are broken, and only 8 doors are usable.

    With a wave of his hand, Li Guoyao transferred all these anti-aircraft guns to the air defense regiment, and used these anti-aircraft guns to form an anti-aircraft artillery battalion. This is also the most powerful battalion of the air defense regiment, and Xu Wenlong is usually reluctant to use it.

    Now that the military commander has given the order, Xu Wenlong no longer hides and tucks away, and immediately reveals all his trump cards.

    When the camouflage was removed, the eight twin anti-aircraft guns revealed their black barrels and were pointed at the void.

    "Prepare!"

    "Fire!"

    Following the order of the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion, the eight anti-aircraft guns were ready to fire at the same time, and then freely captured targets in the air and opened fire

    "Bang bang bang"

    "Da da da"

    Compared with anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns are designed to have a higher height, and the firepower density of double-linked anti-aircraft guns is also stronger than that of single-linked anti-aircraft machine guns.

    The Japanese fighter planes were caught off guard and were hit immediately. In an instant, two fighter planes were hit. One of them exploded in the air, and the other had its wing damaged, and then flew into the distance dragging billowing black smoke.

    The Japanese fighter planes in the sky suddenly became confused, while the air defense regiment on the ground opened fire, and soon two more fighters appeared.?Shoot down.

    However, the Japanese army also spent a lot of money this time. Even though five fighter planes have been shot down, the remaining Japanese fighter planes still did not retreat and continued to throw various bombs towards Shuangjian Town.

    There were fires everywhere in the town, and there were huge craters everywhere after the explosion of aerial bombs.  Fortunately, Li Guoyao had already ordered people to evacuate all the people in the town the afternoon before yesterday. Otherwise, there would be no telling how many people were killed or injured in this bombing alone.

    But even so, the soldiers in the town also suffered a lot of losses, and even Li Guoyao's guards were killed and injured a lot.

    The only good thing is that the Japanese bombers are all old-fashioned Type 96 bombers, which not only have a small bomb load, but also have limited endurance, and can stay in the air for no more than one and a half hours.

    At around eleven o'clock, all Japanese fighter planes returned, giving the defenders a chance to breathe.

    Although the little Japanese infantry had been attacking during this period, they were never able to rush into the town. Instead, they suffered heavy casualties from the defenders.

    All in all, no one took advantage of this morning's battle, and it was considered a draw.

    At one o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese attack began again. Compared with the morning, the Japanese army was even more crazy in the afternoon. Not only did they use aircraft and artillery, they even fired poison gas bombs at the defenders' positions.

    However, the three-hour bloody battle resulted in heavy casualties on both the offensive and defensive sides. However, the defenders' positions remained firm and the Japanese offensive was repulsed time and time again.

    However, just when Li Guoyao thought that today's battle would be like this and there would be no other changes, a piece of bad news suddenly came from the headquarters of the Third War Zone Commander - Hefei had been lost.

    One day earlier, after occupying Hexian, Hanshan, Chaoxian and other places, the Japanese army assembled two regiments of infantry and besieged Hefei with the cooperation of artillery, cavalry and tank troops.

    At this time, the Japanese army had captured Feidong, the gateway to the east of Hefei. It was only dozens of kilometers away from the important town of Hefei. The defenders were in a very dangerous situation.

    Because the Japanese army was too close to Hefei City, as early as May 10, the Chief of the Third War Zone withdrew from Hefei. Chief Gu took the command center of the Third War Zone withdrew to Lu'an City in the southwest of Hefei.  Only the 194th Division was left to guard Hefei.

    But both Commander Gu and the troops of the 194th Division who stayed in Hefei knew that the city of Hefei could not be defended. Leaving the 194th Division was just a fig leaf for the national army, so that the Chinese people would not say that the third theater was running away.  That's all.

    On the afternoon of May 13, more than 500 Japanese soldiers from the Liujiafan and Changlinhe areas approached the Wuli Temple area in front of the Kuomintang garrison position in the southeast of Hefei City. The defenders immediately fought with them and the Japanese army was unable to move north.

    Soon afterwards, more than 3,000 Japanese troops marching westward along the Hechao Highway launched an attack on the Kuomintang army position in Dianbu.  At the same time, a regiment of Japanese troops from Feidong also approached Hefei City.

    At 19:30 in the evening, the Japanese army began to attack the city across the board.

    Although the Hefei defenders resisted tenaciously, due to insufficient troops and improper deployment, the Zhujiagang and Wangdaying frontline positions were destroyed by the Japanese in the early morning of the 14th.

    On the morning of May 14, the defenders of the Third Theater Zone could not resist the Japanese attack and retreated westward. The Japanese army immediately used 12 aircraft to bombard the follow-up troops to attack the city, and invaded Hefei City from Deshengmen and Xiaonanmen.

    In the afternoon, the ancient city of Hefei was captured by the Japanese army.

    Soon, 38 of the 130 towns and villages in Hefei became occupied areas, and 17 became semi-occupied areas.

    And on the day Hefei fell, Japanese troops invaded the city and residents fled to the west and north respectively.  There is a stone bridge outside the North Gate, which is the only way to enter and exit the North Gate. Refugees swarmed across the bridge, crowding the bridge deck to a crawl.

    At this time, the inhumane Japanese army fired machine guns. Suddenly, corpses were lying on the bridge, corpses were piled under the bridge, and the river was cut off.

    Starting from the next day, the Japanese army searched house by house throughout the city, and took all suspected persons to Weiya Gate and other places for mass murder. Hefei residents suffered unprecedented disasters.  Soon, more than 5,000 people died at the hands of the Japanese army, more than half of the people who stayed in the city at that time.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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