I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 214 The Japanese were all fooled

Da da da... There was a burst of intensive gunfire, and dozens of 11.43 caliber pistol bullets were fired by Zhou Weiguo.

In an instant, the three devil soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground.

That's right, after entering the range of 150 meters, the devil changed into a charging posture.

And following Zhou Weiguo's order, Xu Hu, Sun Kui and other officers and soldiers of the first battalion and the second battalion also opened fire.

Because, Zhou Weiguo said something first, so there is no need to reserve firepower.

There were nearly a thousand officers and soldiers in the two battalions, and almost all of them opened fire.

Therefore, in an instant, the Huben regiment was on the forward position outside the south gate, and there was loud gunfire, and bullets of various calibers, like raindrops, poured towards a squadron led by Murakami Major.

Even though the interval between the charges of the devil soldiers has been scattered, they cannot stand up to the dense firepower of the defenders.

Therefore, as soon as the gunfire rang out, Japanese soldiers began to be shot and fell down.

Facts have proved that Zhou Weiguo concentrated his firepower to attack first, and the decision of the squadron at the front was correct.

Goshawk fought the rabbit with all his strength. If he let the first or second battalion preserve its strength at the beginning, he would only use one or two companies to fight against the devils.

So with the firepower of these two companies alone, it may be difficult to wipe out the Japanese army in the front in a short time.

Even, it may not be able to be eliminated, at most it is blocked from the position.

Behind the devils, there are at least two or three infantry squadrons and four tanks.

Once the first group of devils' vanguard troops cannot be quickly resolved, the two sides will fall into a dogfight.

The main force of the Japanese army behind will quickly enter the battle. Once the two sides come into contact, the artillery battalion behind them will lose their use.

If you want to repel the nearly thousand Japanese infantry and four tanks outside, it may not be so easy.

Zhou Weiguo is very smart. He understands that there is only one army left in Hefei City, the Huben Regiment.

The main forces are all deployed in the area around the south gate, and the defenses at the east and west gates and the north gate are relatively empty.

If they were in a fierce battle with the devils at the south gate, once the devils realized that the troops in other directions were weak, they would inevitably divide their forces and turn around.

At that time, the Huben Group may be passive.

In addition, it is daytime, and the Japanese air superiority can be brought into play.

Therefore, when he received Xu Qingfeng's instruction, he immediately understood it by heart.

They could only engage in a brief exchange of fire with the Japanese troops in the south of the city. After giving the enemy a certain blow, they quickly withdrew into the city and lured the Japanese into the city for street fighting.

Only in this way can the devil's superiority in military strength and air firepower be offset.

However, since it was withdrawn after the fight, there was nothing to keep.

Naturally, there is no need to worry about being afraid of exposing the firepower in advance, concentrate all the firepower, and destroy the leading squadron of the devils first.

Lieutenant Colonel Kanze, who was behind the Japanese army, saw such a powerful and intensive firepower suddenly burst out from the defenders' position, causing heavy casualties to his vanguard.

Unable to help being shocked and angry, he hurriedly ordered the remaining 600 or so Japanese infantrymen to charge forward at full speed in coordination with four Type [-] tanks, trying to receive reinforcements.

Among them, the four Type 37 tanks even began to use their [-]mm caliber tank main guns to bombard the forward positions of the Huben Regiment.

Boom boom boom... Although the main gun of the Devil's Type 37 tank is only [-]mm, its power is far from being comparable to the Sherman tank owned by the Huben regiment.

But it is enough to hit some simple fortifications.

With the continuous shelling of the devil tanks, high-explosive grenades roared and landed on the positions of the first battalion and the second battalion.

Group after group of violent explosions were set off, and some soldiers who were forgetting to shoot at the devils had no time to dodge and were hit by explosion fragments one after another.

Some died tragically on the spot, while others were bleeding profusely and fell injured in the trenches.

However, the Japanese tanks did not remain arrogant for long.

Almost as soon as he finished his third round of salvo, a large number of shells of various calibers roared out of the city.

Then it slammed on the heads of the Japanese tanks and the follow-up infantry units. In an instant, explosions continued.

The devil infantry who were charging and the four Type [-] tanks in charge of fire cover were instantly submerged by the smoke and flames from the artillery fire.

In less than two or three minutes, hundreds of devils were killed.

Two of the four tanks were hit by shells, caught fire and exploded on the spot, turning into piles of scrap metal.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the remaining two Type [-] tanks did not dare to stay any longer.

Under the command of the commander, the two devil tank drivers hurriedly steered the tanks to turn around, speeding up and fleeing in the direction they came from.

The safety of their tank squadrons is more important than supporting their own infantry with firepower for exploratory attacks.

But the devil infantry saw that one of their own tanks was destroyed, and the rest left them and fled alone.

In addition, the artillery fire of the national army in the city was too dense and violent, and it immediately lost the courage to continue moving forward.

They stopped charging one after another, and some people began to turn around and flee backwards.

Lieutenant Colonel Kanze was furious when he saw this. Just as he was about to stop the retreat, a shell suddenly roared and hit him on the head.

The unlucky Kuanze had no time to dodge, he could only open his eyes wide, watching the shells fall in horror.

Ah... Boom, with the sound of the explosion, his screams stopped abruptly, and his whole body was instantly blown into pieces.

The two devil officers who gathered around him also had bloody luck and were all killed on the spot.

Without the commander, the devil soldiers who were ravaged by the artillery fire of the Huben regiment had no obstacles in escaping.

One by one, they rushed back, only regretting that their parents had lost two legs.

However, what they didn't know was that Wang Tiezhu's artillery battalion was tasked with intercepting and bombarding the Japanese follow-up troops.

Its main aiming shelling position is within the range of 300 meters from the front and 500 meters away.

If the hundreds of devils under Kuan Ze's command did not escape, but continued to attack.

On the contrary, they will not be threatened by too much artillery fire, because it is impossible for the artillery of the Huben regiment to fire shells on their forward positions.

In other words, the closer the Japanese offensive troops are to the forward position of the Tiger Regiment, the safer they will be.

However, the Japanese soldiers saw the ferocious artillery fire of the Tiger Regiment, and the two battalions commanded by Zhou Weiguo were fully fired, and they also burst out with extremely strong blocking firepower.

As a result, the devils were frightened and lost the courage to continue attacking.

As a result, when they ran, they were hit by the subsequent artillery fire of the Huben Regiment, and the casualties were even more serious.

In the end, less than 600 of the more than 300 devils fled back, and more than 300 people died under the artillery fire of the Huben regiment and the machine gun fire of the forward positions.

As for the vanguard squadron led by Shao Zuo Murakami, Zhou Weiguo led the first and second battalions to completely annihilate them in front of the position with absolute strength and firepower superiority due to lack of backup.

All of this is late to say, but in fact it took less than half an hour.

During this period, as artillery shells continued to fall on the battlefield, a large amount of dust and smoke was raised, obscuring the view of the Japanese command post.

Therefore, the devil generals such as Tanabe Shengichi and Takamori Rei did not know what happened in front of them.

It wasn't until seeing the remnant soldiers led by Kuan Zezhong Zuo retreating in defeat that they found out that there were more than 800 attacking troops and more than 500 people had been lost.

Even the four Type [-] tanks that were cooperating to cover lost two of them.

But our own side couldn't even attack the national army's position on the opposite side.

In anger, Tanabe Shoichi and Takamori Rei immediately ordered their two detachments of artillery to carry out retaliatory bombardment in the area near the South Gate of Hefei.

The Tanabe Detachment and the Takamori Detachment have a total of two artillery wings.

The artillery group formed by these two artillery regiments has more than 70 infantry artillery with a caliber above [-]mm, and mountain artillery and field artillery.

Coupled with mortars and other artillery, both in number and power, they have far surpassed the artillery battalion of the Huben Regiment.

In addition to shelling to retaliate, the two old devils were still angry and called for air fire support.

However, not before their air support arrived.

Zhou Weiguo followed Xu Qingfeng's instructions and quickly commanded the first and second battalions to retreat into the city despite Japanese artillery fire.

Xu Qingfeng himself led the guard company and regiment headquarters, retreated to an inconspicuous private house near the north of the city, and hid himself.

This area has already been hollowed out by infantrymen from the baggage camp, field hospital, and some tank battalions, and air defense and artillery bunkers have been built.

After the communications department set up the temporary regiment headquarters, Xu Qingfeng immediately ordered Chief of Staff Liang Shan, Deputy Chief of Staff Lin Baoguo and others: "Quickly report to me the situation of each battalion company and each department."

Liang Shan immediately took the lead in answering: "Currently, all the battalions have been withdrawn, the third battalion and the fourth battalion have entered the west gate and east gate respectively.

The fifth battalion and tank battalion, cavalry company, guard company, and reconnaissance company were stationed in the north of the city, serving as a reserve team and guarding the regiment headquarters.

The most important area around the south gate is under the command of deputy head Zhou. I believe that the meeting should have already withdrawn into the city and is deploying defenses. "

"Yes." Xu Qingfeng felt relieved, and said to Lin Baoguo, "Old Lin, you send someone to contact Xia Weiguo, and ask him to go back to the regiment headquarters after deploying the defense of the south gate. I will discuss the next step with him. fighting."

"Okay!" Lin Baoguo nodded in response, immediately walked out of the bunker, summoned a soldier, and informed Zhou Weiguo to go.

About an hour later, Japanese air support arrived.

Immediately launched a large-scale air strike and bombardment on the positions of the Huben Regiment including Hefei City and the south of the city.

It's just that at this time, the officers and soldiers of the battalions and companies of the Huben Regiment had already retreated into the city, scattered and concealed.

Therefore, the devil's air strikes and shelling did not cause them too many casualties.

Zhou Weiguo got the news long before the devil's air attack arrived, and withdrew to the temporary headquarters near the north of the city.

When we met, Xu Qingfeng first handed him a cigarette, and then asked.

"Weiguo, are the first and second battalions suffering a lot of casualties?"

Zhou Weiguo took out a match, lit the cigarette in his mouth, took a puff and said: "The casualties are less than one platoon, it's okay, not too big.

The main casualties were caused by the shelling of the devils when they retreated into the city. "

Xu Qingfeng felt relieved when he heard that there were not many casualties in the first battalion.

"The battle in the south of the city was well fought, and hundreds of devils were wiped out."

Zhou Weiguo smiled and said: "The main thing is that the artillery battalion has made meritorious service!"

The artillery battalion commander Wang Tiezhu who was present couldn't help grinning when he heard this.

Xu Qingfeng tossed the remaining half pack of cigarettes to him directly, and said with a smile: "The Paoying has established a great achievement, and I will reward you later!"

After saying that, Xu Qingfeng put away his smile and said to everyone with a serious expression: "After the Japanese shelling and air strikes are over, they will definitely launch a fierce attack on Hefei.

Therefore, calling you over is to discuss how we will fight next. "

After speaking, Xu Qingfeng looked at Zhou Weiguo and said, "Weiguo, tell me your opinion."

Zhou Weiguo took a puff of cigarette and said without hesitation: "I think the Japanese will attack from the south gate first and use the south gate as the main direction of attack.

Because the terrain in the south of the city is open, it is conducive to the deployment of Japanese troops and the input of firepower.

However, before I came, the first battalion and the second battalion had been deployed in the urban areas on both sides of the main street of the South Gate, relying on a large number of private houses and shops facing the street, and deployed multiple lines of defense.

If the devil wants to make a breakthrough from the south gate, he will definitely not be able to do so in a short time! "

The chief of staff Liang Shan on the side analyzed deeply: "Then the devils at the South Gate can't be attacked, so maybe they have to split up and attack in a roundabout way?"

Zhou Weiguo nodded and said: "It's not possible, it's certain. If you can't win with a frontal attack, using a small number of troops to outflank and attack in a roundabout way is the devil's specialty."

"Therefore, I suggest that we increase our defensive strength at the west gate and east gate, and at the same time pay attention to the north of the city to prevent the Japanese from outflanking and attacking!"

"But, in this way, isn't our force too scattered?" Deputy Chief of Staff Lin Baoguo expressed concern.

Zhou Weiguo looked at Xu Qingfeng who did not speak, and continued: "If we plan to stay in Hefei for a long time, then such a deployment is indeed not conducive to long-term persistence.

The troops are dispersed and easily defeated by the enemy one by one. "

Xu Qingfeng continued: "That's right, but I only plan to stay in Hefei for one more day to buy one more day for those fellow soldiers and civilians who are still on the way to transfer.

If you deploy it like this, there is no problem. "

Zhou Weiguo nodded and said, "Yes, the first and second battalions will be responsible for blocking the south of the city where the Japanese army is mainly attacking.

The third battalion and the fourth battalion are responsible for defending the east and west directions respectively. The fifth battalion and the cavalry company, the guard company, the reconnaissance company, the supply battalion, and the tank battalion are used as reserves, and at the same time take into account the defense of the north of the city.

When necessary, the cavalry company can cooperate with tanks and infantry battalions to launch counterattacks against the Japanese army and adopt flexible defense tactics.

With our equipment level and combat effectiveness, it is not a big problem to resist the Japanese army's attack for a day. "

"That's it for the defense. Next, let's discuss the offensive plan."

Xu Qingfeng said something amazing.

"Attack?" Liang Shan, Lin Baoguo and the others looked at each other.

"Yes, it's the attack." Xu Qingfeng said with a smile: "It's agreed, we will only guard for one day, and we will naturally break through after dark!
But our breakthrough cannot be the same as other troops, let alone break through to the north.

Instead, attack to the south or east! "

"Break out to the southeast? Then we will enter the enemy-occupied area?" Lin Baoguo was taken aback.

(End of this chapter)