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Volume 1: On the Songhua River Chapter 3242: An Attack Too Smooth

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    Liu Hongzhang looked at the division commander's face and saw that he was definitely not joking. He knew that no matter how hard he tried, it would not help. If he made the division commander angry, the first brigade might change from the main attack force to the reserve force, so he hurriedly told the deputy brigade commander Gao Jingkun and the staff officer  Commander Liu Chenglin winked, jumped on the armored command vehicle, and ran away in a hurry.

    In the car, Gao Jingkun complained to Liu Hongzhang, "Speaking of the brigade commander, what did I tell the chief of staff when I came here? The battle plan that the corps headquarters had decided was useless. You didn't believe it. You came all the way here and got beaten.  The teacher gives you a lecture and then goes back in despair, why bother? "

    Liu Hongzhang showed no regrets at all. He smiled and said: "This is called looking for opportunities. If you don't try, you won't know whether it will work! What if the division commander agrees? We won't make money! You two will also join the battle of the Corps.  Why didn¡¯t you study the map during the meeting? You¡¯re at a disadvantage this time!¡±

    Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin were relatively speechless.  .  .  .  .  .

    The incident caused by the First Brigade Commander Liu Hongzhang was just an interlude before the attack on Yamagata Castle. Tang Qiuli watched Liu Hongzhang's armored command vehicle disappear and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart. The First Brigade was  An ace brigade directly under the corps has always fought the most difficult battles. The whole brigade can't help but feel a little arrogant. When determining the battle plan to attack Yamagata Castle, he asked Ge Zhenzhuang, the director of the staff department, to put the first brigade into the second brigade.  The people behind the brigade also wanted to kill Liu Hongzhang's arrogance.

    The attack on Yamagata Castle began. The intensive artillery fire easily tore apart the Japanese outer defensive positions and caused the Japanese soldiers to fly bloody. Then, six brigades of troops, under the cover of tanks, broke into Yamagata Castle. The entire attack process  .  Less than two hours to go.

    ¡°Compared to the battle that took place on Japan¡¯s Honshu Island, where the division¡¯s participating troops reached millions of people, nearly 100,000 people from six brigades directly under the corps attacked Yamagata Castle.  It is an inconspicuous little wave, with a population of only a few hundred thousand Japanese.  Yamagata Castle, which was defended by only more than 50,000 Japanese troops, was a very small target.

    "Reporting to the division commander, the attacking troops have all broken through the Japanese army's outer positions in Yamagata Castle, broke into the urban area from different directions, and are advancing in depth. The progress is going smoothly!" Ge Zhenzhuang, director of the Staff Division, reported.

    "Yeah! Got it!" Tang Qiuli replied nonchalantly. His thoughts were not focused on the siege battle on the battlefield in front of him, but on the entire Honshu Island battlefield.

    Chu Ziye¡¯s fourth brigade.  It broke into the city from the northeast of Yamagata Castle. Compared with other brigades, the fourth brigade took more effort to break through the Japanese outer defense line because there was a mountain range of more than 2,000 meters above sea level, blocking it.  Before attacking the road, if you want to break into Yamagata Castle, you must first capture Mount Tsukiyama.

    Before launching the attack, Chu Ziye looked at the Yueshan Mountains.  Nao clicked his teeth and felt very unhappy, if the fourth brigade had captured Yamagata Castle alone.  The Yueshan Mountain Range, which is only two thousand meters above sea level, is not a problem at all. Chu Ziye has countless ways to capture the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains and invade Yamagata City at the minimum cost.

    But now it¡¯s different. Six brigades of the directly affiliated corps participated in the battle to attack Yamagata Castle. If the other brigades had already broken into the urban area of ??Yamagata City, the fourth brigade was grinding on the front line of the Tsukiyama Mountains.  So many hours late, where could Chu Ziye put his face?

    "Chengguang. This mountain range is a big obstacle for our attack. After the attack begins, we must concentrate all the artillery fire of the brigade to open a passage. We cannot waste time on the outer positions!" Chu Ziye held up a hand held in his hand.  Using binoculars, he ordered the brigade chief of staff Wu Chengguang while observing the situation of the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains.

    Wu Chengguang said with a smile: "Don't worry, brigade commander, everything has been arranged according to your requirements. The brigade has heavy artillery regiments, self-propelled artillery regiments, rocket launcher battalions, artillery battalions of each regiment, and the attached tank regiments. All heavy firepower  The units have been gathered together and divided into several artillery groups, all under the command of the brigade artillery chief! "

    "That's good!" Chu Ziye nodded with satisfaction and asked: "Which army are the little devils defending the Yueshan Mountains?"

    "The Takashima Regiment of the 107th Division of the Japanese Army's Northeastern Defense Zone Headquarters on Honshu Island has more than 4,000 troops. In the Japanese army's combat order, it can be regarded as a regular field regiment!" In Wu Chengguang's mind,  Filled with information on the Japanese defense forces of Yamagata Castle, Chu Ziye's questions were easily answered.

    "More than four thousand little devils, a super-staffed reinforced team, well, it's worth a bite!" Chu Ziye said nonchalantly.

    After more than 40 minutes of shelling, the artillery group of the 4th Brigade dropped tens of thousands of artillery shells of various calibers on the position of the Japanese Takashima Regiment in the Yueshan Mountains. Fireworks exploded and smoke filled the air. Then, the troops  Under the cover of tanks, a charge was launched.

    Chu Ziye¡¯s armored command vehicle followed the first regiment¡¯s offensive troops and quickly captured the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains outside Yamagata City.?, huge craters and collapsed Japanese fortifications all illustrate the intensity of the Fourth Brigade's artillery fire.

    Chu Ziye exposed half of his body outside the armored command vehicle, observing the situation. Soon, he frowned. Something was wrong. Under normal circumstances, with such fierce artillery fire, the defending Japanese troops should have suffered heavy casualties. The position  He should have seen the corpse of the little Japanese soldier, but he had already penetrated several hundred meters in depth. Apart from the craters everywhere, collapsed fortifications, and the bunker with its roof blown off, he did not see the corpse of a Japanese soldier.

    "Chengguang, did you see something was wrong?" Chu Ziye retracted his body and asked the chief of staff, Colonel Wu Chengguang.

    Wu Chengguang, with the unique delicacy of a staff officer, had long seen the strangeness of the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains. When the brigade commander asked him, he replied: "The Japanese positions are empty. The only possibility is that the Japanese troops defending the Yueshan Mountains are high."  The Island Alliance is no longer in the outer position and has withdrawn into Yamagata Castle!"

    "Damn it!" Chu Ziye scolded in annoyance: "Oh! I wasted tens of thousands of artillery shells in vain. The little devil is planning to fight with us in urban street fighting! He is quite smart, and he can't get good results in the field.  Chengguang, immediately order each regiment to conduct separate assaults as a company, bring more short-range heavy equipment, and prepare for street fighting, we have to change our tactics!"

    Chu Ziye's response was quite rapid. Similar situations occurred not only in the offensive direction of the fourth brigade, but also in the offensive directions of several other brigades. The Japanese troops on the outer positions of Yamagata City may have all disappeared.  Or only a small number of troops.

    Outside, gunfire was rumbling, and inside Yamagata Castle, Lieutenant General Yoshida Konosuke, commander of the 107th Division affiliated with the headquarters of the Northeastern Defense Zone of Honshu Island, Japan, was holding an emergency military meeting at the division headquarters. Several people who came to attend the meeting  The commanders of the regiment were very dissatisfied. The China Division troops were launching a fierce artillery bombardment on the outer positions of Yamagata City. After all this time, the division commander still had the time to convene a military meeting.

    If we have this time, we might as well fight with the Chinese soldiers. What makes these regiment leaders even more puzzled and angry is that the commander of the division, Yukiyoshi Yoshida, actually issued an incredible and absurd order to remove most of the troops from each regiment.  Withdrawing into Yamagata Castle and voluntarily giving up the outer positions, isn't this retreating without a fight?

    Division Commander Yoshida looked gloomy, looked at the several commanders, and said: "You must have a lot of doubts and confusion about my orders, right? I don't have time to explain to you. I just need to tell you that the positions of the peripheral positions  The purpose of withdrawing our troops into the city is not to give up, but to inflict heavy losses on the Chinese soldiers. I have made up my mind to crush them in Yamagata Castle!"

    "Now I order that each regiment is divided into squadrons or squads to be dispersed in the city to fight street battles with the China Division troops. In addition, all the officers and soldiers of the division have to shoulder an important mission, which is to command and drive the city.  The civilians in the area became brave and fearless warriors, using their flesh and blood to pay for the heavy casualties of the Chinese soldiers!"

    "What His Majesty the Emperor put forward, 'All people are broken,' is not an empty slogan, but requires the actual actions of the Imperial soldiers to complete it. There are hundreds of thousands of Imperial civilians in Yamagata Castle, and everyone is a soldier of His Majesty the Emperor. Armed,  After they are shattered, it will be the moment when more than 50,000 Imperial soldiers of the 107th Division are shattered. There will not be a single Imperial soldier or civilian left alive in the Empire's Yamagata Castle!"

    Only then did several regiment captains, filled with resentment and confusion, understand the profound intentions of the Yoshida division commander. Indeed, although the outer positions of Yamagata Castle were well-fortified, they were not allowed to retreat into the city without the powerful artillery strikes of the China Division troops.  Mobilizing civilians to engage in street fighting is the best tactic. They looked at the Yoshida division commander with eyes filled with admiration and admiration!

    Captain Liu Changjiu, commander of the third company of the first battalion of the third regiment of the fourth brigade, commanded his company and rushed into Yamagata City in the first time. There were more than 200 soldiers in the company, all veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles and knew the city well.  I know how to fight in street fights, and I have fought many street fights. After rushing in, I immediately dispersed and looked for favorable terrain to hide. The situation in the city was unknown, so charging rashly would suffer.

    Liu Changjiu had just passed a private house when several strings of machine gun bullets flew towards him. He hurriedly dodged and hid behind the wall. The bullets hit the opposite wall, and the soil "swished" down. He quickly looked around and saw that the building opposite  On the roof of the house, there was a Japanese machine gun position. Three Type 92 heavy machine guns were shooting wildly. Bullets were flying like raindrops. He saw several soldiers in the first row behind him lying in a pool of blood.  !

    The path of the entire company's charge was blocked by three Japs' heavy machine guns. "We must destroy the Japs' firepower point!" Liu Changjiu turned around and shouted: "Bazooka launcher, kill the Japs' firepower point!"

    A bazooka shooter quickly reloaded and stood up, but before he had time to pull the trigger, he was hit by a Japanese heavy machine gun.He was hit by a bullet and fell into a pool of blood. The Japanese army's firepower was in a very awkward position. If the rocket launcher wanted to hit the target, he would inevitably be exposed to the firepower of the heavy machine gun.

    Liu Changjiu had beads of sweat on his forehead. He looked at the closed door of this house and suddenly had an idea.  .  .  .  .  .

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