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Text Chapter 560 Prisoner¡¯s Dilemma

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    After receiving the report from the troops below that the command post was set up in Bajiaweizi, Wang Jun was not happy at all.  Even some troops had broken into Tongliao City, which did not excite him.  Because for him, seizing Tongliao's last peripheral position is just the beginning.  The real hard fight has just begun.

    Street fighting is a military problem that still causes headaches decades later.  Not a few of the world's most powerful military units have fallen into disarray in street battles.  This is a battle in which one thousand enemies are annihilated and one loses eight hundred.  The most troublesome thing is that although Tongliao City is not big, there are still tens of thousands of our own flesh and blood compatriots in Tongliao City.

    How to avoid accidental injuries in street fighting is undoubtedly even more difficult.  This is not fighting on the enemy's territory, and there is no way to annihilate the enemy without letting go.  The experience of the Linxi County battle transferred from the Linxi battlefield had no experience for Wang Jun to learn from.

    Although Tongliao County is not much larger than Linxi County, it is located on a transportation artery, has the advantages of railway and Xiliao River water transportation, and is a major grain-producing area in Western Manchuria.  As a result, the population density here is much greater than that of Linxi. Not counting the periphery, the total population in one county is almost equivalent to the population of the entire Linxi County.

    You can imagine how difficult it is to fight in such a densely populated county without accidentally injuring too many people.  Except for some direct-aiming artillery, I am afraid that weapons such as guns, artillery, and flamethrowers cannot be used.  Even the extremely penetrating twin-mounted 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns cannot be used.

    That thing can penetrate even ordinary reinforced concrete fortifications and the armor of light tanks and armored vehicles at a distance of 800 meters, let alone ordinary residential buildings?  If this burst of fire penetrated into a residential building, it would be difficult for the people there to leave their bodies intact.

    Breaking through the city wall defense line, in Wang Jun's view, was just a starting position for a deep breakthrough into the city.  The real test has just begun.  Therefore, for Wang Jun, there was nothing exciting and nothing to celebrate about breaking through the Japanese city wall defenses.

    So, after receiving the report that the troops had broken through and entered the city.  Wang Jun was not in a hurry and ordered his troops to fight fiercely.  Instead, he ordered the troops to advance steadily and in division.  Yongfu Street is a dividing line between the north and the south. It pushed the Japanese troops south of Yongfu Street toward the train station and the Japanese troops in the north toward the Japanese puppet county government and county police station.

    After hesitating for a moment after issuing the attack order, Wang Jun still gave an order to the troops that broke into the city.  The use of artillery in street fighting is strictly prohibited except for the reinforced concrete fortification groups of the Japanese army and the Japanese and puppet government offices at all levels.  Although his divisional artillery had transferred all the last shells, he did not dare to use them.

    Although he also knows that this will cause his casualty number to rise sharply, and may even exceed his ability to bear.  But this is a choice without a choice.  He could not let the common people in the city be buried with the Japanese army.  Not only him, but even the headquarters cannot afford this consequence.

    Fortunately, Tongliao County is not big, and the main streets are in the shape of a tic-tac-toe.  There are only four main roads in total, east, west, north and south.  All the Japanese and puppet administrative facilities, as well as the strongest buildings, are mainly concentrated on these four streets.  By attacking along these four streets, the troops can save a lot of effort.

    " Compared to receiving the report that the troops had broken into the city, Wang Jun knew that the real test had just begun, and Wang Jun was not excited at all.  Lieutenant General Chuan Bingmi, who was set up in the city at the headquarters of the 14th Division in the puppet Tongliao County Government, looked even more depressed in the face of the increasingly deteriorating battle situation, where the city wall had even been breached.

    In fact, at this point in the battle, Kawami knew that he was just a trapped beast still fighting.  After the failure of the battle for Kongjiawo Fort, the entire defenders in Tongliao City, including miscellaneous baggage, engineers and other non-combat troops, plus the remnants of the search regiment, were actually less than two brigades.  Picked up hundreds of armed expatriates.

    As for the remaining troops, they were either left on the front line of Kongjiawobao by Oniwu May Day, or they were trapped in Kailu and Zhanggutai like themselves.  In particular, the battle for Kongjiawo Fort caused the greatest losses to the defenders in Tongliao City.  The main force of the 2nd Regiment of the 14th Division that participated in the battle was lost to two out of three infantry brigades.

    Even if the military police, cremation troops, grooms and other personnel are given guns, the lightly wounded are mobilized to stay in the firing line.  And when artillery shells were consumed too much and only part of the artillery could be guaranteed, part of the artillery that had no more guns available was mobilized and added to the infantry combat sequence. The actual number of combat soldiers in the entire Tongliao City was less than 1,500.

    Tongliao County is not a big town, but it still needs people to defend it.  Fortunately, this is the county seat, a place known as the thoroughfare of nine provinces. No matter how bad it is, it is much larger than a village.  Such a small force can defend a county without a complete city wall.??It still seems a little less.

    The most critical and fatal problem is that ammunition is insufficient, especially artillery shells with calibers above 75 mm that have actually bottomed out.  During the previous battle, the 14th Division consumed too much artillery shells.  In just one battle for Kongjiawo Fort and the firepower coverage of Bangtongwo Fort, the 14th Division consumed tens of thousands of artillery shells with a caliber of more than 75 mm.

    Coupled with the huge consumption in the previous Battle of Bayantala, the 14th Division's artillery shells have also bottomed out.  Even with the support of the Eastern Army's combat readiness warehouse, this ammunition consumption is not affordable.  Especially the 150mm howitzer, which although old, is still very powerful, has almost used up all its shells.

    The remaining 38-type field guns and Liao 14-type 77mm field guns, all the shells added together, are less than 200 rounds. Even if they are used sparingly, they may not be able to last for too long.  The only relatively sufficient artillery shells now are 120mm howitzer shells.  But this old antique artillery is not suitable for street fighting. It is too bulky.

    Among all the artillery equipment, the only 77mm field gun with anti-tank capability has no shells. This is the biggest headache for Kawami.  As for light weapons, especially the weapons and ammunition captured by the old Northeast Army, the quantity is still sufficient.  But if a rifle machine gun can destroy a tank, what is the need for an anti-tank gun?

    There are also a lot of Type 97 20mm automatic cannons and ammunition, but when faced with enemy tanks, except at certain angles, the effect of this type of automatic cannon is quite limited.  If it doesn't work, no matter how many shells there are, what's the use?  In the street fighting, it is simply impossible to adopt the tactics used in the Bayantala battle.

    Faced with a serious shortage of troops and a battle situation where artillery shells have bottomed out, the helpless Lieutenant General Kawami sent a telegram to General Umezu Yoshijiro asking for help almost every hour.  Although the 14th Division suffered a disastrous defeat last year, Haolai still retained some troops.  But if the fight continues this year, the entire Fourteenth Division will not even have any seeds left.

    It was just his telegram asking for help, which only contained two words: insist.  As for the reinforcements he expected, there was no answer at all.  Faced with Lieutenant General Kawami's request for reinforcements from the Fifth Division that had been deployed on the Zhangwu and Xifuxin front lines, the Kwantung Army did not give any reply.  Just tell him that the Kwantung Army headquarters is still thinking of a solution.

    The last telegram replied by the Kwantung Army made Sichuan Mi extremely angry.  At present, the blood of the Fourteenth Division is about to be drained, but the Fifth Division, which is fully staffed, well-equipped, and even has a tank regiment, is just around the corner, enjoying the sun leisurely.  Looking at the sun, what on earth are the Kwantung Army Headquarters and General Yoshijiro Umezu thinking in their heads?

    And the 18th Division didn¡¯t come directly to the battlefield to rescue the 14th Division, but what the hell did they go to cut off the enemy¡¯s retreat?  Now, instead of cutting off their escape route, they have been tortured by the sea of ????fire tactics and delayed blocking tactics adopted by them.  The Fourteenth Division was not rescued, but suffered heavy casualties.

    "Now the Fourteenth Division has no reinforcements from outside, no soldiers and ammunition inside, how long can it persist even if it persists?"  Doesn¡¯t the Kwantung Army Headquarters know what it means to have cold lips and teeth?  Could it be that the Kwantung Army Headquarters really wanted to sit back and watch the entire 14th Division be destroyed?

    Aren¡¯t they afraid that the two counties of Tongliao and Kailu will be lost, and that after the 14th Division¡¯s entire army is wiped out, the resistance forces in front of the 14th Division will directly intervene in the retreat of the two Japanese divisions in Linxi?  Attacking from the front and back, the two divisions in front of Linxi, plus the 7th Division in Alukorqin Banner, also made the same mistake as the 14th Division?

    Being extremely angry because of the failure to give a clear answer, Kawami Mi was like a prisoner trapped in a prison, even though he was so angry that he almost died.  But there was nothing he could do about the Kwantung Army Headquarters's indifference.  I can't even threaten to go to Tokyo base camp to sue you.

    Because he doesn¡¯t know if the war situation continues to develop according to the current situation, whether he will ever be able to return to his homeland.  If the Kwantung Army does not send reinforcements, then for the 14th Division.  According to the current development of the war situation, the time to survive in this world is running out.

    In fact, Lieutenant General Kawami did this to save face and suffer. Although it was impossible to break out from the land with the entire army, if he wanted to break through with a few senior officers from the division headquarters, there would be no problem.  Because in a reed marsh on the west side of the Liao River in the north of the city, there is a gunboat used by the Liaohe Branch of the Puppet Manchukuo Coast Guard for daily patrols.

    Although this ten-ton gunboat cannot carry too many people, there is still no problem in transporting Chuan Binmi and several of the most senior officers of the 14th Division currently in Tongliao City out of the encirclement.  Moreover, this gunboat, already filled with fuel, was midwayWithout refueling, you can drive to the intersection of the East and West Liaohe Rivers in Changtu in one go.

    If he is willing, he can also mobilize a 45-ton gunboat from the Liaohe Water Police Station of the Puppet Manchukuo Coast Guard Force at Tongjiangkou to go up from Tongjiangkou to Tongliao City to support his breakout.  With the amount of water in the Xiliao River at this time, there would be absolutely no problem for this 45-ton gunboat to go up to Tongliao.

    Judging from the current battle situation, as long as the gunboat he is riding in safely passes Shuangliao, it can basically be said to be safe.  It was getting dark now, so if he could break out at night, the possibility of his safe escape was still quite high.  After all, the Xiliao River is such a long river in Tongliao, so it is impossible for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to fortify everywhere?

    At the same time, the Anti-Japanese Alliance did not have any water power in the Liaohe River Basin.  Their aviation force is now mainly concentrated on the Linxi battlefield.  Since the start of the Tongliao battlefield, neither the Anti-Japanese Alliance nor the Kwantung Army has dispatched aviation to support the operation. This battle was mainly fought between the enemy and ourselves on the ground.

    It can be said that he wanted to escape on a gunboat. At this time, basically all the combat troops had crossed the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Xiliao River, and there was basically no ability to intercept him.  And if he really did this, according to the Japanese army's usual practice of exonerating generals, even if there was no such situation, at most he would be retired.
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