Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 406 Battle of Changzhi ([-])

Facts have proved that the little devil is also a human being. Since the battle started, no living defenders have entered the city.

At this point in the siege battle, the Eighth Route Army's artillery continued to bombard the position when the artillery support from one's own side was not in place.

Ikeda Jiro forced Changzhi City to only leave and not enter. In order to ensure the morale of the puppet army, even the wounded of the Japanese army were no exception.

Not only did the puppet troops that had been forced to fight show signs of collapse, but even the Japanese soldiers showed fear of war.

on the ground.

Two Japanese soldiers were mixed with a group of puppet troops. Originally, these two little devils were supervising the puppet army's operations.

But at this time, the puppet soldiers were all bowing their heads, holding tools in their hands, and were restoring the collapsed anti-bunker hole. The two little devils also fired a shot at the opposite side from time to time.

"Kojima-kun, why don't you say that the regiment captain didn't let the wounded enter the city? They were all wounded fighting for the empire. Senior Nakata once killed [-] enemies on the battlefield, but now he can only wait to die on the ground. I I don't understand!" said a slightly younger kid.

"Stupid, Mr. Fukui, remember, it is the honor of senior Nakata to be loyal to the emperor and die for the empire. These damn Chinese people will repay them a hundred times sooner or later!" Another kid said through gritted teeth , Obviously brainwashed by the ****.

"But I don't want to die in a foreign country, my mother is still waiting for me at home!" The little devil named Fukui said as he spoke, tears came out.

In Japan, not all Japanese soldiers are supporting military service. Many school-age young people are forced to serve in the military, and their family members are kept in the country as hostages in disguise. This phenomenon will become more obvious in the next few years.

"Baga, you are a disgrace to the Great Japanese Empire!"

After Kojima heard this, he went up and slapped Fukui. Fukui was not to be outdone, and the two immediately fought together in the trench.

The two princes were fighting, and the puppet soldiers next to them didn't dare to go up to persuade the fight, they all watched the fun from the sidelines, and one of the puppet soldiers even raised the engineering shovel in his hand, wanting to hit the little devil in front of him.

"You don't want to die! If you want to die, don't hurt your brothers!"

"If you kill the little devil, I'll run to the other side and join the Eighth Route Army. It's better than waiting here to die!"

"Nonsense, let's not talk about whether the Eighth Route Army knew that you were going to surrender. You are really a display for the Japanese on the battlefield. I am afraid that the boy was beaten to death before he ran a few steps!"

While the two were talking, a commotion suddenly broke out in a position not far from here, and more than [-] puppet soldiers ran towards the opposite Eighth Route Army position.

As a result, after running a few steps, the heavy machine guns on the fortifications of the city wall rang out, shooting at the fleeing puppet soldiers, and the puppet soldiers were shot in the back and fell to the ground.

"See, this is the end, the little devil will not be soft on killing people!"

In addition to this situation, even Kojima and Fukui, who had just been fighting together, stopped, looking warily at the puppet soldiers around them.

The situation on the battlefield is always changing rapidly. After receiving the order from Ikeda Jiro, the Japanese and puppet troops who had been defending in four directions also breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew to the city one after another, while some severely wounded who were unable to move were abandoned. on the ground.

The retreat of the Japanese and puppet troops attracted the attention of the siege troops, and the news was quickly reported to the headquarters.

"The little devil finally couldn't stand it anymore and launched a final general attack?" Xing Zhiguo asked.

Zhou Weihan nodded, glanced at the time, it was already past twelve noon, and then said: "Old Xing, inform the attacking troops to let the soldiers take a rest temporarily, the cooking team will send lunch to the front line, and all the soldiers are waiting for air support We will launch a general attack at that time!"

"understand!"

As the Japanese army withdrew into the city, the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops were unwilling to touch the fortifications of Changzhi City easily. Both sides were licking their wounds and waiting for the final decisive battle.

At the same time, in Changzhi Airport, the members of the flight team who received the order quickly entered the pilot's seat of the plane. After the last battle, all the planes were replenished with fuel and supplies, waiting for orders at all times.

Not long after, ten planes took off one by one, hovered over Changzhi Airport for a while, formed a formation and flew towards Changzhi.

On the positions outside Changzhi City, the soldiers of the first and second regiments were eating lunch. The battalion and company level officers had just finished their combat meeting at the regiment headquarters, and they had already learned that air support would arrive soon.

At the beginning of the battle, from the two regiment leaders Jing Dagang and Xu Dali to the grassroots fighters, they were reluctant to let the flying team intervene, but after fighting for a whole morning, they barely occupied the position outside the city. Don't dare to hold it up anymore.

The soldiers are gearing up one by one, preparing to take down Changzhi City in one battle.

"Here we come!" In the regiment headquarters, Jing Dagang was always observing the direction of Changzhi Airport with a telescope.

"Notify everyone on the ground to hide, and the third battalion should not be a reserve team, and rush up to me as soon as the bombing is over!"

The plane gradually descended, and the fuselage was revealed in the clouds. In a flying squadron, three Type [-] reconnaissance planes took the lead, three Type [-] dive bombers were in the center, and four Type [-] fighter jets followed.

At this time in Changzhi City, the supreme commander of the Japanese army, Jiro Ikeda, was leading a kind of officer in batches to condolences to the Japanese soldiers who had just withdrawn at the four city gates.

Ikeda Jiro has always been in the middle command. Although he has heard the people below report the tragic situation in the front line many times, now that he has witnessed it with his own eyes, he is still shocked.

At the gate of the east city, many of the retreated Japanese soldiers were wounded. On the entire fortification of the outer city wall on the east side, there were only [-] Japanese soldiers. As for the puppet army, the casualties were even more severe.

"How are the soldiers in the other three directions?" Ikeda Jiro asked.

"Your Excellency, the east and north directions have suffered particularly heavy casualties. Only half of the soldiers of the imperial army have survived!" the frontline commander Ryuhei Takeda said sadly.

At this time, there was only one supply squadron in the inner city of Changzhi as a defensive force, and the rest of the Japanese troops were all transferred to the outer city.

The total number of Japanese soldiers in the outer city is only a little over [-] people, and among these [-] people, there are also Japanese soldiers mixed with the Mountain Artillery Brigade and the Engineer Squadron.

Up to now, the supplies in the Japanese army city are still sufficient, and the arsenal is full of materials, but there are not enough combat personnel.

At this moment, Takeda Ryuhei, the captain of the First Battalion of the 238th Regiment, stared wide-eyed, pointed his finger at the sky, and said excitedly: "Your Excellency, the plane, the plane from the Empire of Japan has arrived."

I saw the sun flag of Little Japan imprinted on the fuselage of the hovering plane.

(End of this chapter)