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Chapter 1032: The troops are approaching the city

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    As soon as the Japanese army took action, Li Guoyao and others received the news, and immediately ordered the troops in the direction of Dingtao to retreat immediately and put the Japanese army under the city of Heze.

    In fact, Zhou Jinlong and others have indeed reached their limit these days. Although they have greatly strengthened their weapons and equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Japs is truly astonishing. In addition, the enemy has conquered several counties one after another, and their morale is really high.

    Before Li Guoyao¡¯s telegram was sent to Dingtao, three sides of Dingtao had been captured by the Japanese army, and only a small area in the north was still in the hands of the Chinese army.

    According to the development trend of the war, even if Zhou Jinlong¡¯s troops do not withdraw, they will not be able to sustain it for much longer!

    However, the bloody battles in the past few days still caused heavy losses to the Japanese army. Li Guoyao's troops took a group and a half here and suffered at least two thousand casualties. The Japanese army also suffered heavy losses. After the troops conquered Dingtao, Colonel Okazaki discovered in horror that his troops  The two regiments together have less than 2,000 people.

    You must know that when they attacked, they used an infantry regiment plus a cavalry regiment, as well as artillery, engineers, baggage troops and other auxiliary troops. The total strength was more than 6,000 people. They have not yet reached Heze, and there are only two troops left.  There are more than a thousand people.

    Of course, not all the remaining four thousand people were killed. In fact, there were at least a thousand wounded on the front line.

    "But the wounded are wounded after all. They can't fight with guns before they recover and return to the team. The troops have to be distracted to take care of them, which is a complete burden.

    But Heze City was right in front of him. Although Colonel Okazaki had doubts in his heart, the troops below reported that a large number of remains of the soldiers had been found in the city, adding up to no less than 1,500.

    After receiving the report from the soldiers below, Colonel Okazaki suddenly made a small calculation in his mind. The Chinese army lost 1,500 lives in battle, which means that the total number of casualties on the other side was more than that.

    Generally speaking, the casualty ratio on the battlefield is usually one to one or one to two. For some troops, it may be one to three or one to five. Even if you choose an intermediate number, the number of injured soldiers in the Chinese army will not be less.  Between two and three thousand people.

    Including the dead troops, the total number of casualties is at least four to five thousand!  Such a large number of casualties is equivalent to directly wiping out an infantry brigade of the national army.

    Coupled with the Chinese army that was wiped out some time ago, Colonel Okazaki believed that there were not many troops left in Heze, so he decided to take a risk and took the remaining two thousand people north to attack Heze.

    In fact, Colonel Okazaki's prediction was correct. There were indeed not many troops left in Heze City at this time. Except for the few hundred people who had withdrawn from the direction of Dingtao, there was only one infantry brigade left. All the defenders combined  Less than two thousand people.

    The remaining troops were quietly moved by Li Guoyao to the vicinity of Shan County. Compared with Colonel Okazaki who wanted to capture Heze City, Li Guoyao set his sights on the 17th Division Regiment Headquarters.

    By the way, Hirabayashi Morito was extremely happy after receiving the telegram from Colonel Okazaki from the front line.

    We finally captured Dingtao, which is the gateway to Heze. It not only has an important geographical location, but also has complete fortifications.

    In comparison, Heze City, which is the center of the region, is far behind and is not conducive to defense at all. As long as the troops are approaching the city, everything will be easy to handle, and the capture of Heze City will be just around the corner.

    And there is also new news from the aviation force. The aviation force conducted a careful investigation along the line from the county seat to Yanwang Mountain, and found that except for the sound of exchanges of fire on the Jiangzhuang line, no other troops were found nearby.

    Now, as long as they rescue the two infantry brigades and eliminate or defeat that abominable army, they can head directly north to Heze.

    Thinking of the glory of winning Heze City, Ping Lin Shengren's heart felt hot!

    However, what Ping Lin Shengren didn¡¯t know was that Heze City at this time was different from a few months ago!

    As the central city in southwest Shandong, Li Guoyao attached great importance to Heze City, and he had always cared about the attractiveness of heavy cities to the Japanese army. Therefore, it was inevitable for the Japanese army to counterattack southwest Shandong.

    Because he knew this, after attacking the southwest of Kru, Li Guoyao ordered Wen Debiao's troops to strengthen the defense construction of Heze City, and also allocated a large amount of money and materials for them.

    With the support of a large amount of financial and material resources from the headquarters, after half a year of construction, the entire Heze has now become a huge fortress.

    And before this battle started, Li Guoyao directly transferred about half of the ammunition transferred from the headquarters to Heze. Although there are only two thousand defenders in the city now, the fortifications are complete and the ammunition is sufficient.

      Li Guoyao wanted to turn this place into a meat grinder, just like Dingtao before, and keep all the Japanese soldiers who came to attack here.

    As for the actions of the troops, the people of Heze City also gave strong support. In fact, the reason why the troops were able to build Heze into such a small fortress in less than half a year was because of the great efforts of the people.

    This is of course also due to the trust of the people in Heze in the army. At its peak, at least 20,000 young adults helped the army build fortifications every day.

    Of course, this is also related to the current objective environment. On the one hand, the ravages and massacres of the Japanese army aroused the resistance of the Heze people, and on the other hand, the arrival of Li Guoyao's troops did bring hope to the Heze people.

    Since Li Guoyao¡¯s troops stationed in Heze, they have not only cracked down on traitors and illegal traders, stabilized prices and regulated grain and oil prices, but also distributed part of the seized grain to those really poor families, allowing them to have a good year.

    Therefore, the people of Heze heartily supported Li Guoyao's troops. When the army asked them to help build fortifications, everyone was very happy, not to mention that the people were not in vain, and they had to pay wages every day.

    Urban offensive and defensive battles are a problem that no army is willing to face. The reason is naturally that the casualties are too heavy, whether it is the attacking side or the defending side.

    "This is especially true when the fight turns into a street fight. To be honest, Li Guoyao doesn't want to fight a street fight with a kid.

    But there is no way, because he wants to eat the little devil¡¯s infantry division!

    But if the entire Japanese division is huddled together, he has no way to attack and can only use means to divide it into several parts and then defeat them one by one.

    Heze is a good bait. He not only attracted one-third of the Japanese army to this line, but also greatly destroyed the Japanese army's effective forces in the process. Now everything is ready and all we need is east wind.

    However, as Heze¡¯s garrison, Li Guoyao and others had to consider another issue, which was how to ensure the safety of the people of Heze when fighting the Japanese army.

    Because they were fighting within China, the Japanese army could not consider the life or death of the Chinese in any Chinese city. They could frantically create horrific massacres. They could also use chemical weapons in any Chinese city without any scruples, even if  It is the kind of poison gas bomb with corrosive chemical ingredients that is banned internationally. Even they will use Chinese people as experimental subjects for their development of poison gas and viruses.

    But the Chinese army, which exists to protect the homeland and the country, has to worry about these. The reason why the Chinese army has suffered such high casualties in history is not because the Chinese army often has to protect civilians when fighting.

    Therefore, before the battle started, Li Guoyao made a difficult decision. He wanted to move all 150,000 Heze people out of the city!

    "But this is not a small village with dozens or hundreds of people, but hundreds of thousands of people. How to arrange these people has become a troublesome matter.

    Fortunately, the people in Heze understood the mood of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps very well. They knew that the troops really cared about their lives, so before the Japanese army arrived in Heze, most of the people in Heze City successfully evacuated Heze.

    Some of them rushed to Juye not far away overnight, while the rest moved to the countryside and came back after the battle was over.

    Of course, there must be some among the hundreds of thousands of people who are unwilling to leave their hometowns. The vast majority of these people are elderly people. They are too old and frail to migrate like young adults. Li Guoyao and others will not force it. As long as most people evacuate  Just go out, this battle won't last long anyway.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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