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Chapter 416: Bloody Battle in Mengcheng (4)

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    At 1:30 in the afternoon, the battle on the front line of Mengcheng started again!

    This time, the little devils spent a lot of money. First, the artillery began to bombard from all directions. At the same time, dozens of fighter planes arrived at the front line of Mengcheng, and then carried out carpet bombing on the forward positions.

    However, Li Guoyao in the Mengcheng headquarters did not order the troops to hide their strength as he did in the morning. After the Japanese artillery bombardment began, Li Guoyao immediately ordered the artillery in the city to start counterattack immediately.

    The 61st Army has a large number of artillery, one regiment each of the division-affiliated artillery and the army-affiliated artillery, and these two artillery regiments were all placed by Li Guoyao in the urban area of ??Mengcheng.

    Li Guoyao knew that this battle was crucial to the 61st Army. It would be foolish to continue to hide its strength. He must reveal all his family assets, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

    "Boom boom boom"

    When the Japanese artillery bombarded the defenders' positions, Li Guoyao's artillery was not ambiguous at all. On one side, it fired back at the Japanese artillery positions, and on the other, it bombarded the Japanese soldiers who were gathering at the front.

    Suddenly encountered a counterattack by the Chinese artillery, the Japanese troops on the front line were shocked. The Japanese troops on the artillery position immediately moved their positions, while the infantry who were gathering fled in all directions.

    But even so, several artillery pieces were still destroyed, and a large number of soldiers were killed and injured.

    After the Japanese aviation troops arrived on the battlefield, Li Guoyao immediately ordered the air defense regiment to open fire.

    The air defense regiment suffered heavy losses in previous battles, but because it was the only combat unit of the 61st Army to deal with Japanese fighter planes, it was highly valued by Li Guoyao. No matter how many soldiers and equipment were lost, they would be replenished first after the war. Therefore, the Mengcheng battlefield  The air defense regiment on board is still well-organized and well-equipped.

    Three anti-aircraft machine gun battalions and one anti-aircraft artillery battalion were divided into four parts by Li Guoyao. The three machine-gun battalions were respectively deployed on the three main battlefields in the southeast and west of Mengcheng, while the anti-aircraft artillery was placed directly near the city gate building.  Once Japanese fighter planes appeared in Mengcheng, these anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns would fire from four directions at the same time, forming a net of death.

    "Bang bang bang"

    "Boom boom boom"

    Powerful aerial bombs continued to explode on the defenders' positions. Each time the explosion exploded, a section of trenches and bunkers would be blown up. From time to time, defenders and soldiers would be blown away, and then they would turn into a pile of bloody pieces when they landed.  Parts.

    The defenders at the front counterattacked the Japanese aviation with anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery. Although the little Japanese pilots were very careful, fighter planes were still shot down from time to time, and some were injured.

    The Japanese aviation force in Central China has fought against Li Guoyao's troops more than once. This unit has been listed as a key target for surveillance. The temporary commander of the Japanese aviation force even personally ordered the Central China Front Army's temporary aviation group to fight against the 61st Army.  You must pay attention to safety and maintain a safe altitude. You may not even require bombing effects, but you must protect your own fighters.

    When the technical arms were fighting to death, the Japanese infantry that had been scattered before began to gather again.

    I don¡¯t know whether it was because they were stunned by the bombing before or something else, but in general the density of Japanese troops on the front line has dropped a lot. Originally, the Japanese army directly deployed an infantry brigade of more than a thousand people on the southern front to attack the city, but they were bombed once.  After that, there were only less than three squadrons of five to six hundred men left on the frontier battlefield, about half less.

    "Obviously, the little Japanese are also aware of the danger. With so many infantry gathered at the front, isn't this going to kill the defenders?"

    But in order to strengthen the firepower, the little devils dispatched more than 30 tanks at once, and their momentum was still astonishing.

    On the garrison position, Huang Haipeng already knew that their battalion, which had suffered more than half of its casualties, could no longer hold the position, and immediately had no choice but to ask for help from the regiment headquarters behind it.

    After receiving the request for help from the regiment headquarters, Zhang Hao, commander of the First Duba Brigade, did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent another infantry battalion to support the first battalion!

    As the distance between the two sides gets closer and closer, the battle begins!

    With a violent "boom", a tank shell fell on the front line, making Huang Haipeng, who was directing the battle, dizzy.

    But he still tried his best to shake his head, and then said loudly: "Immediately send a message to Battalion Commander Chen of the air defense regiment, saying that the little devil's iron bastard is here, leave it to them!"

    "yes!"

    "The rest of you should cheer up for me and fight against my ruthless infantry! Fire!"

    Following Huang Haipeng¡¯s order, the defenders on the frontier battlefield opened fire one after another. The light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time along with a large number of infantry. A dense fire net suddenly enveloped the enemy.??Army.

    This attack and defense lasted for an hour and a half. The Japanese army added reinforcements to the forward position three times, and Zhang Hao on the defender side also invested all the troops in his hands. In the end, the Japanese army retreated because they could not bear the huge casualties.

    When the fighting was at its fiercest, the Japanese troops had rushed to a place less than ten meters away from the defenders' position. Soldiers on both sides could see the ferocious faces of the other side, and it seemed that they were about to engage in bayonet fighting at the next moment.

    However, in the end, the defenders persisted. Seven to eight hundred of the more than a thousand soldiers who participated in the attack were killed, and less than five hundred were withdrawn. Only 16 of the more than forty tanks that the Japanese army put into the battlefield were withdrawn.  All that was left was beaten into scrap metal.

    The captain of the 34th Regiment of the Third Division felt pain in his eyes. Today, their 34th Regiment was responsible for the main attack. Except for the artillery and tank troops who cooperated with the operation, the rest were all soldiers of their 34th Regiment.  Most of them are even from the same area.

    However, after he gathered his troops, he was heartbroken to discover that the 34th Regiment had suffered huge casualties. In less than a day, more than 1,300 people were killed and more than a thousand were injured. A complete infantry regiment was actually killed at this time.  There were less than a thousand people left, and they were basically all gone.

    Such a result is really astonishing. The fighting power of the defenders on the opposite side is really too strong. Not only are their fighting will beyond imagination, but their weapons, equipment and firepower are not weaker than those of the Imperial Japanese Army. This battle must be a battle.  A tough battle, Colonel Sasaki thought.

    In fact, what Sasaki didn't know was that Lu Dashan and others on the front line were also uncomfortable. After the Japanese troops withdrew, they asked the front line troops to report casualties. When Zhang Hao, the commander of the first regiment, reported the casualty statistics to the brigade headquarters, everyone was silent.  .

    In less than a day, the 4 battalion commanders and 4 deputy battalion commanders of the first regiment were killed, 2 were seriously injured, 2 were slightly injured, and one person was slightly injured. Only three people were intact, while 13 of the 24 captains and deputy company commanders were killed and 8 injured.  Only three of them were intact, and the platoon leader had almost changed.

    As for the soldiers, they suffered heavy casualties. A regiment of more than 1,600 people only had more than 300 people left after the battle. The number of casualties exceeded 800, and the casualties were more than 500. It can be said that after this battle, one regiment  It's considered disabled.

    This battle can be said to be a typical one in which ten thousand enemies were killed and eight thousand were injured. No one, be it the defenders or the Japanese army, took advantage.

    The only good thing is that due to the different offensive and defensive positions of the two sides, as the defensive side, Li Guoyao's troops are fully capable of sending all the wounded off their positions.

    As the attacking party, the Japs failed to attack and were unable to take care of the seriously wounded when retreating. The result of those wounded staying on the position was to wait for death.

    The most important thing is that the Japanese army attacked for a whole day, but still failed to capture the defenders' first-line positions, which had a great impact on morale.

    Perhaps the results of today¡¯s attack were a bit unexpected, so even though it was still more than two hours before dark, the little devils did not continue to gather troops, let alone attack, and the battlefield unexpectedly became quiet.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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