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Chapter 577: The Liu'an Defense Battle Begins!

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    Regarding the fact that Lu'an City was captured and the Second Army's logistics base was taken over at once, the most angry person was the Japanese base camp.

    After receiving the news from the Second Army Headquarters, everyone in the base camp was extremely shocked and immediately called the front line to inquire about the detailed battle situation.

    When they learned that the Chinese army that captured Lu'an City was actually the famous 61st Army, everyone in the base camp fell silent.  The losses and humiliation caused by this force to the Imperial Japanese Army were too great.

    So much so that now this unit and Li Guoyao have become a taboo in the base camp, and most people will never mention it in important meetings.

    ¡°More importantly, according to the top-secret intelligence sent back from the Wuhan battlefield by Ttech over the past few days, the complete annihilation of the Matsuura Division was closely related to Li Guoyao¡¯s command.

    This made the base camp quite angry. In addition, both the scale of the war and the expected direction of the Wuhan offensive exceeded the expectations of the base camp. Tokyo's decision-makers originally planned to make a large-scale breakthrough from the south of the Yangtze River and attack Wuhan along the south of the Yangtze River.

    But now the development of the war situation has taken a 180-degree turn. After two months of bloody fighting in the south of the Yangtze River, all the elite divisions have been exhausted, but there has been no progress. An entire division of Songpu Junrokuro was also lost.

    Although Jiangbei has fewer troops, its progress is much faster than that of Jiangnan.  At the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains, although Inaba's 6th Division suffered heavy casualties, the troops were unable to fight anymore.  However, Inaba's troops have finally broken through the natural dangers of Tianjia Town. They only need to recruit new troops and prepare enough food and grass before marching on the plains east of Jiangcheng.

    In addition, the troops at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains are also making rapid progress. As long as they capture the Chinese defenders on the front line of Mount Fujin, the army can go straight to Xinyang and to Wuhan.

    Although the direction of the war was very different from the base camp's expectations, at this point in the war, the initiative in the Wuhan battle was gradually shifting to the Japanese army.

    As the war situation evolved, the Japanese base camp also had to adjust its strategic layout and decided to change the auxiliary offensive on the battlefields in Jiangbei to the main attack on Wuhan. The 11th Army on the Jiangnan battlefield changed to attack southwest to cut off the Guangdong-Han Line and block it.  The retreat route of the Chinese troops of the two corps in the 9th Theater.

    The Japanese base camp posed another big problem for Chiang Kai-shek. Not only did they want to take the city of Wuhan, they also wanted to eat hundreds of thousands of the main force of the Chinese army.

    But the premise of this battle is that the 13th Division must recapture Lu'an City and restore the logistics supply lines of the troops in Jiangbei.

    To this end, the base camp strictly ordered the 13th Division to recapture Lu'an City within two days and annihilate Li Guoyao's troops.

    After receiving the order from the base camp, Tanaka Jingyi did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered the troops to rush to Lu'an City all night and night.

    Yeji is not far from Lu'an City, only more than 50 kilometers away. Even after resting for more than eight hours on the road, the 13th Division arrived at the west of Lu'an City at around 10 o'clock in the morning on November 1.

    After the Japanese army arrived in Lu'an, they hardly rested and did not even set up camp. They just found a hidden place behind the position and set up a simple command tent, and then organized the troops to launch an attack.

    The main attacker was the Japanese 104th Regiment, led by Colonel Masaru Kawamura.

    After receiving the order to attack, Masaji Kawamura looked solemn because he already knew that the defenders on the opposite side were under Li Guoyao.

    As one of the few surviving commanders of the 13th Division, Kawamura Shoji was wary of Li Guoyao's troops.

    He could not forget that a few months ago it was this unit that severely damaged the 13th Division twice in the Quanjiao area, and then almost annihilated the 13th Division at the foot of Bengbu City. Even the division commander Ogisu Tatebei paid his life.  price.

    Unexpectedly, a few months later they would face off against this force again. They were really enemies, but Kawamura Shoji had to take it seriously.

    Because of his fear, Colonel Kawamura did not launch a group charge at the beginning. Instead, he sent an infantry squadron first, and under the cover of artillery, launched a tentative attack on the west gate of Lu'an!

    "Boom boom boom"

    As soon as the battle began, all the artillery on the Japanese front line opened fire with all their strength, but it only lasted a few minutes, and then the bombardment stopped.

    The reason is also very simple. After Li Guoyao's troops destroyed the Japanese army's logistics base, the Japanese army's ammunition inventory on the front line was limited and did not support them for long-term shelling. The few remaining shells were used at critical moments.

    Seeing the "unpleasant" bombardment by the little Japanese, Li Guoyao immediately understood what was going on, and immediately ordered all units of the machine gun regiment in the city to counterattack immediately.

    ¡°Anyway, the Japanese ammunition they seized this time amounted to hundreds of tons, and there were tens of thousands of mountain artillery shells and field artillery shells alone. Although most of them were taken back to Huanghuazhai by Huang Dazi, but??Li Guoyao still left hundreds of rounds in Lu'an City.

    "There are only 6 mountain cannons and four field cannons in Lu'an City. A few hundred rounds of artillery shells are enough."

    With the counterattack of the defenders' artillery, the little devil's infantry was blown up as soon as they stepped onto the battlefield. The infantry squadron at the beginning was even beaten to pieces. After withdrawing from the front-line position, more than a hundred soldiers were killed.  At this time, there were only more than 60 people left in the infantry squadron, and nearly a hundred people were killed.

    Kawamura Shoji¡¯s eyes were fixed on the front line, but his body was trembling slightly!

    It was still the same familiar smell and the same familiar formula, and the fear that this army had brought to him a few months ago came to his mind again.

    He fought face to face with Li Guoyao's troops. Although he was only a regimental deputy at the time, he personally commanded the troops to charge. Although he was not killed by luck, the soldiers who followed him in the charge survived less than five points.  one.

    Thinking of that scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ??blood, even Kawamura Shoji, who was accustomed to death and blood, couldn't help but tremble.

    ¡°But Kawamura Shoji knew that he could not be dominated by fear at this time, otherwise he would not be able to win the opposite city, and he would not be able to make a breakthrough in this life.

    Fighting back the fear in his heart, Kawamura Shoji issued an order for a second attack. This time he increased the total strength of the participating troops to two squadrons.

    They even applied to the division and regiment headquarters for a tank squadron to participate in the battle to coordinate the infantry attack.

    It turned out that they were all dead. Three or four hundred Japanese soldiers were shot down within ten minutes after they had gone up. More than two hundred people were killed or injured, and the rest were trembling like quails.

    After the exploratory attack, Kawamura Shoji knew that the defenders in the opposite city should be the main force of Li Guoyao's troops. The opponent's strong firepower had fully exposed this.

    Therefore, this refueling tactic has no effect at all. The only solution now is to concentrate on a group charge.

    In view of this, this time Kawamura Shoji decided to personally participate in the attack and requested artillery support from the division headquarters.

    The big bosses of the 13th Division Regiment also understood the dilemma faced by the Kawamura Regiment, so without any hesitation, they directly opened fire with the artillery to cover the Kawamura Regiment and continue the attack.

    "Boom boom boom"

    After receiving the order from the division commander, the Japanese artillery concentrated its firepower on the defensive positions outside Lu'an City. At the same time, it also waited for opportunities to destroy Li Guoyao's artillery positions.

    From time to time, artillery shells exploded in the urban area, blowing up houses one after another, and sometimes even threatening the 61st Army headquarters in the urban area.

    With a loud "boom", a mountain artillery shell exploded outside the 61st Army Headquarters, causing a wing to collapse.

    Fortunately, this wing was more than fifty meters away from the main hall where the 61st Army headquarters was located, so the front was not affected, but it scared all the Chinese-level officers in the headquarters into cold sweats.

    Ma Desheng did not dare to neglect. After being shocked, he immediately suggested that Li Guoyao move his position, but Li Guoyao refused.

    Although this place is dangerous, as a general, Li Guoyao does not want to leave his command post.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? What's more, there are fighting everywhere in the city. Where can you go if you evacuate here?

    So Li Guoyao calmly sat in the center and commanded the troops to fight back!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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