Age of Rebirth

Chapter 550 The End of Isoya Rensuke ([-])

The tiger released by Li Zongren was really powerful and fierce, and it gave the Japanese army a powerful shock. Guangxi is mountainous, and the local people practice martial arts very well. , cunning and fierce, did not blindly hit and rush, but took the squad as a unit to form attacking arrows, with a short and thin body, rolling and moving in the ruins and the pits created by the bombardment, and approached the Japanese army in a blink of an eye. Three footholds.

The fighting power of the Gui army is unmatched among the local military systems in the country. It is known as the trump card of miscellaneous cards. The Japanese soldiers were a little at a loss. According to a direction, at most the strength of a squad.

The soldiers of the Guangxi army who approached the Japanese army fired a burst of hand grenades, and with the help of the smoke from the explosion, they fired violently, causing the Japanese soldiers to retreat again and again. This also aroused the blood of the soldiers of the Sichuan army. No worse than you Guangxi people, under the leadership of the commander, the 88th Division of the Sichuan Army launched a counterattack across the board.

After driving the Japanese army far away from the city wall, he returned to the position. Rensuke Isotani, who had been observing the situation on the battlefield, put down his binoculars, and with a smug smile on his face, he said to the walkie-talkie: "Heyano-kun, you can It's started!" This is the tactic of Rensuke Isotani, a scheming guy who knows the mobilization of more than 4 troops, and it is impossible to completely hide it from the eyes of the Chinese commander. [

As long as he has a little military common sense, he knows that the direction of Tongshan is to increase troops. The reason why he stormed the west gate of Xuzhou was to cause confusion in the minds of the commanders of the Chinese defenders. It is still at the west gate, and the reinforcements sent there will be transferred back.

Li Zongren's guard group joined the Ximen battlefield, which just made Isoya Rensuke think that his goal had been achieved. Even if the Chinese commander did not increase his troops in the direction of Tongshan, he had to make this aggressive posture. First, to attract the Chinese defenders Second, to create all favorable conditions for Heino Kutaro's attack.

Heyano Kyutaro's regiment is his surprise soldier and the final killer move. If the effect is not achieved, the protracted siege under the city of Xuzhou will inevitably become a flesh and blood mill for the Imperial Japanese Army. I don't know how long it will take. Thinking that Tang Qiuli would let him attack Xuzhou comfortably and mobilize troops to encircle him, the end of the First Army would be miserable.

His consideration is not incomplete, but he did not expect that there are two squadrons of 10,000+ squadrons, staring at him covetously, just waiting for the Japanese army to become a tired army in Xuzhou and lose all their vigor , took the lead, and the person in charge of commanding the squadron was not Tang Qiuli, who he was deeply afraid of, but Li Zongren, a general who would soon become famous in the country.

In the direction of Tongshan, Tang Qiusheng listened to the continuous artillery fire in the west of Xuzhou. He couldn't distinguish the number of shots. He had ordered the troops to prepare for the battle, but the Japanese army was always lurking and there was no movement. There were more than 4 troops. On the high and low hills in the south of Xuzhou, even the artillery was carefully camouflaged. If it were not for the location map of the Japanese army, there would be almost no sign of tens of thousands of people lurking here.

He secretly admired the quality of the Japanese generals and the discipline of the Japanese soldiers. There was a lot of fighting over there, but here they were able to hold their breath. When the time comes, there will be another sudden attack, with a knife stabbed in the back, no matter how powerful your army is, you will not be able to escape.

After receiving the order, the muscles on his face twitched. He did not forget to pray to God Amaterasu. For some reason, he always had a feeling of trepidation, and his heart was not at ease. Maybe it was because of his years of professional military career. Instinctive feeling, as if being targeted by something?

In the direction of the silent Tongshan, it suddenly seemed like a volcanic eruption. Nearly a hundred artillery pieces of different calibers from the Japanese army, like devils drilled out of the ground, spewed out steel flames. The bricks fell on the ancient city wall of Xuzhou, and the bricks were flying, one after the other, and the number could not be distinguished, as if the earth was suddenly raised by a huge hand.

The south gate of Xuzhou, which was still sleeping like a baby just now, was instantly shrouded in steel wind and iron rain. Gunpowder smoke and dust rose into the sky, and the sound of huge explosions echoed in the open field. Nearly a hundred artillery pieces bombarded With a front of only three kilometers wide, the density of firepower strikes reached a frightening level, enough to blow up the city wall of Xuzhou into a deep ditch and blow up the defenders there into powder.

Heino Kyutaro's tactics achieved unprecedented success. The generous Xuzhou city wall was blown down by the roots, revealing a huge gap, rushing into the Xuzhou road, and suddenly opened in front of Heino, who calmly observed the effect of the shelling , Then the second order was issued, the tanks and infantry began to charge, and the artillery fire extended.

The eight roaring Japanese tanks rolled up the soil and rushed towards the breakthrough. Behind them was a regiment of infantry, and behind them were eight tanks of the second echelon and a regiment of Japanese soldiers. There was no way, due to the limited terrain conditions. , can only deploy so many troops, if possible, Heno Kutaro hopes to put all the chariots and soldiers into the attack, then the chances of winning will be greater.

The Japanese tanks were already approaching the collapsed city wall, and there was no sound of gunfire from the defenders. Heino Kyutaro suddenly became excited. He had never felt that victory was so close. He grabbed the phone and prepared to report the good news to Commander Isoya Rensuke. At the same time, he also hoped to attack the troops at the west gate of Xuzhou and start the offensive again.

A burst of intense screams suddenly came from behind, and Hisano Kyutaro's face turned pale. It was the sound of several cannons piercing the air and flying from far to near, but all his artillery were shelling How could there be artillery flying behind the positions of the Chinese defenders?

Several large-caliber cannons landed accurately in the command post of Heino Kutaro. The concealed part dug out overnight and the thin protective layer could not resist the power of the large-caliber cannon explosion. Dispersed, several huge pits appeared on the spot.

The division commander Heino Kutaro and all the Japanese officers in his command post were restored to their molecular state, and there was not even a single residue to be found. Clutching the phone tightly, swinging to and fro in the wind, anxious shouts came from inside.

The artillerymen of the Japanese army who were fighting vigorously were turned upside down by the sudden cannon, and they had no power to fight back. They didn't even have time to turn the muzzle of the gun, and the position was covered by dense artillery fire. The barrels of the guns lay on the ground, and the guns that exploded made the disaster even worse. The corpses of Japanese artillery were thrown into the sky from time to time.

Tang Qiusheng was ruthless enough. He gathered five artillery regiments, and the number of artillery equipped far exceeded that of the Japanese army. One round of salvo completely destroyed the Japanese artillery positions. Afterwards, the artillery fire chased the Japanese army rushing towards the breakthrough, roaring again. The coming artillery blasted into a wall of fire in front of the breach.

Eight Japanese tanks were shrouded in artillery fire, and did not escape the fate of explosion and fire. The Japanese infantry following them suffered a devastating blow, and they were blown up and down. A large group of people came out, and the light and heavy machine guns roared like the wind, reaping the lives of the Japanese soldiers without any scruples. The Japanese soldiers who had been hit by a double blow could no longer parry, and fled in the direction of frantic exchanges.

Solving the charge of the Japanese army, the artillery of the independent division began to bombard the Japanese army positions according to the previous division of labor. It was like boiling molten iron splashed on dry wood. The Japanese army positions aroused thick smoke and were completely shrouded in artillery fire. The Japanese army was driven out of the simple fortifications by the fierce shelling, lost the central command system, and was suddenly shelled again. The Japanese army inevitably panicked. [

Tang Qiusheng's sudden attack, like thunder, hit the vital points of the Japanese army, killed the command system, destroyed the Japanese artillery positions, and disrupted more than 4 Japanese soldiers. The deployment before the war was a complete success.

Li Zongren, who received Tang Qiusheng's report on the battle, was so happy that he repeatedly slapped the table. The battle was really happy and smooth. After killing more than 4 Japanese soldiers, Isoya Rensuke, who was attacking head-on, was a toothless tiger and could not be hurt. People, not to mention the big meal prepared for him.

The bombardment effect was unprecedentedly effective. Japanese soldiers were scattered all over the mountains and fields, under the command of commanders at all levels, they formed isolated temporary defense circles and fell into a situation where they were fighting on their own. At this time, the Japanese army The combat quality and fighting will of the soldiers were fully demonstrated. Knowing the way out, they calmed down and dug fortifications on the spot. They took out white silk ribbons with the words "must win" and wrapped them around their foreheads. The Japanese soldiers are ready to dedicate their lives to His Majesty the Emperor, and they can be broken at any time.

The five brigades of the Independent Division and one division of the Guangxi Army have nearly 8 troops, more than double the strength of the Japanese army. The north-south attack encircled the Japanese army tightly in the Tongshan area. There were shouts of killing everywhere. The surrounded Japanese army realized that The fate he was about to face brought out the ferocity in his bones. Although the organizational system was disrupted, as long as a commander shouted, Japanese soldiers from different units would gather around him and immediately form a combat team.

The trapped beast is still fighting, which should be the mentality of the surrounded Japanese army at this time. Under the command of different commanders, they fought desperately with the surrounded Chinese soldiers, and often hit the last person, facing a dozen Chinese soldiers. He did not put down his weapon and made a suicide attack. Although he was stabbed by several bayonets, he stabbed the bayonet into the body of the Chinese soldier closest to him with blood all over his body.

Such battles can be found everywhere on the front line of Tongshan. The Japanese soldiers faced desperate and fierce resistance, so that the troops had to attack the circular positions one by one, causing a lot of casualties to the encircled troops, and the battle fell into a stalemate for a while. .

(To be continued)