At 7:30 am on June 13, the battle to recover Caozhou (Heze) began. The New 38th Division invested three main regiments to attack from the south and west, one regiment of the New 37th Brigade attacked the east, and two regiments of the Sichuan Army. A powerful force of nearly 10,000 people launched a fierce attack on the remnants of Toshima Yataro's troops in Caozhou City.

After half an hour of artillery fire preparation, thousands of shells landed on the Japanese positions!

The first brigade and the first regiment of the New 38th Division, which took the initiative, took the lead in launching an attack and launched a charge from the southwest corner of the Caozhou City Wall.

Two Type 95 light tanks act as pioneers!

The first brigade and the other regiment acted as the main force of the offensive, and the first battalion commander Li Dongsheng personally led the troops to launch a charge.

The Japanese army was besieged in Caozhou City with less than 2,000 remaining, but they were all the most stubborn Japanese soldiers. They launched a counterattack against the attacking Chinese New 38th Division based on the fortifications of the Caozhou City Wall. The battle was extremely cruel.

The Japanese army seemed to know the arrival of the doomsday, so they fought to the death.

The soldiers of the battalion, carrying a ladder, launched a charge under the cover of Japanese 95 tanks. Dozens of people were injured and killed, but they were unable to approach and climb the city wall. Seeing that the gap could not be opened for a long time, Battalion Commander Li Dongsheng rushed into the regiment command center with red eyes!

"Captain, give me a 92 infantry cannon, I want to open a hole in the city wall!"

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Commander Ding Yiming asked seriously.

"yes!"

"Okay, I'll give you a cannon!" Ding Yiming picked up the telephone on the table and called the cannon battalion. A Type 92 infantry cannon and twenty shells were transferred over.

The infantry cannon was pushed to a place not falling five hundred meters away from the city wall and was erected. When the Japanese army on the city wall saw this scene, they were extremely frightened and also put the mortar on the city wall and prepared to shoot!

The mortar was set up faster than the infantry artillery. The Japanese mortars fired first, and the artillery that forced the infantry artillery to push the artillery forward!

boom!

The shells fell down, and the violent explosion caused a wave of air that overturned the inch gun.

The artillery soldiers operating infantry artillery quickly got up, straightened the artillery with all their strength, pushed the artillery behind a wall at the corner of the street outside the city, just avoiding the sight of the Japanese city wall.

"Quick, load!"

The loader took out a shiny yellow shell from the shell box and pressed it into the cannon chamber.

"emission!"

With the command of the cannon leader, the firinger grabbed the injured hemp rope and pulled it backwards!

Bang!

The cannon was bored and flew towards the Japanese army on the city wall.

boom!

With a loud bang, the Japanese army on the city wall was blown to pieces, and the pair of firing mortars were also affected. The artillery loading shells flew down the city wall by the air waves.

Like a falling onion, the city wall was seven or eight meters high, with its head facing downwards and hitting the ruins of the city bricks. The head suddenly cracked, and the bright red blood and white were like tofu brains, like ripe watermelons.

The artillery continued to be bombarded until almost all the shells were burned, and a gap was opened on the city wall. The city wall, which was more than ten meters high, suddenly became much shorter. The Japanese army on it screamed and buried it into the bricks and rubble.

"rush!"

The first battalion commander Li Dongsheng roared and once again led a platoon to rush under the city wall, which ladders ladders ladders on the gap in the city wall and climbed up first.

"Battery Commander, be careful..."

A bullet shot out from behind the gap. When Li Dongsheng heard someone shouting behind him, he subconsciously turned his head. The bullet wiped his forehead and flew out, scaring him to his cold sweat.

A Japanese soldier was buried in rubble and was still shooting at him with a 38 rifle in his hand.

Li Dongsheng raised his hand, and the box cannon in his hand rang, hitting the Japanese army in the head, then using both hands and feet, and rushed up in an instant.

Behind him, five or six soldiers from the first battalion came up, quickly searching for cover, and occupying the gap.

"boom!"

Another shell fell on the city wall. The Japanese troops rushing up were blown up before they could get close to the ladder and screamed in pain. The four light machine guns and two heavy machine guns of the first battalion under the city wall were covered with fire, which made the Japanese army unable to raise their heads for a moment!

"I've gone up, Li Dongsheng has gone up, ordered the Second Battalion to be prepared, and wait for the First Battalion to gain a foothold, and immediately break in and expand the results of the battle!" Ding Yiming, the commander of the First Regiment, excitedly slapped his legs.

"yes!"

"General, general, no, the Chinese have occupied the city walls in the southwest corner. Their soldiers are constantly killing in, and our soldiers can hardly stand it."

"What a panic? Remember, you are an army officer of the Great Japanese Empire, and you must be calm at any time." Toyoshima Yasutaro scolded his subordinates with bloody eyes. In fact, his heart was on the verge of collapse at this moment.

Judging from the intensity of artillery fire today and the strength of the Chinese army's offensive, the opponent obviously no longer has the patience to continue playing offensive and defensive games with him.

The final attack began.

He had just received a secret telegram from Guide's commander Kenji Doihara. The Chinese army also launched an unprecedented fierce shelling of Guide, almost hitting the defense line that the division commander had worked hard to manage for five days.

At the last moment when reinforcements are about to arrive, the Chinese army will definitely launch the most fierce attack. As long as you survive, there will be a glimmer of hope.

Kenji Doihara hoped that he would lead his troops to break through and move closer to Guide.

At this time, a sudden order to break through was coming. Toshima Yataro couldn't help but think about it more. What did Kenji Doihara want to do? Do you use yourself to disrupt and restrain the Chinese army's sight?

Is he planning to sacrifice himself for himself?

Toshima Yataro was very angry, but he dared not disobey Kenji Doihara's orders. The Bushido spirit emphasizes dedication and sacrifice, not to mention that this is a military order!

"Order the troops and persist until dark. Our troops break south and meet with the division commander!" Toshima Yataro gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Hayi!"

Xinxiang, New First Army Special Technology Research Institute, code name: 701.

"Director Xue, we found a Japanese radio signal that has been tracking for several days. They have contacted very frequently. The encryption method of the secret code is very similar to the secret communications within the Japanese army we had before."

"Can you decipher it?"

"Team leader Chi is deciphering. Since the Japanese army changed the secret code, although we have mastered certain rules, it takes time to decipher it." Xiao Ma, the liaison officer of the deciphering team, said.

Institute 701 was founded in the hands of Wu Xiaoyun. The director is naturally Wu Xiaoyun himself, Leng Feng is also a senior consultant. Wu Xiaoyun is not there, and Xue Ping, the head of the intelligence department in charge of telecommunications, manages it on his behalf.

Now the 701st Institute has reached a cooperation agreement with the Military Control Commission. The Military Control Commission’s deciphering team also sent liaison officers, and the deciphering results of the Chibuzhou side have basically been shared with the Military Control Commission.

Of course, the deciphering team is not without secrets. If you don’t want the liaison officer to know, the liaison officer will naturally not know.

"time?"

"Soon, Team Leader Chi said that the rules that he had mastered were just about to hit the ball."

"Let him seize the time, the front is tight. We have been unable to decipher the important secret telecommunications and information of the Japanese army." Xue Ping said solemnly.

"yes!"

New Army, war room.

"Lao Luo called and said that the first regiment had opened a hole, but the Japanese army was very tenacious in resistance. If they engage in street fighting with the Japanese army in Caozhou City, there would be a lot of casualties."

"Have you ever thought about using other methods?" Leng Feng frowned. Street fighting was a last resort. Any general who did not want to fight the most was street fighting. Street fighting was too cruel. Even if he had proper tactics and skillful cooperation, he would have been eight hundred descendants if he killed one thousand enemies.

"From the current situation, Toshima Yataro seems to want to defend Caozhou Castle to the end and fight with us to the end!"

"Even if we intend to open a hole now, he may not easily abandon the city and break through the siege." Long Yingqin also echoed.

"It's not impossible to have a solution, but..." At this time, the combat staff officer Bai Pengfei opened his mouth and said.

"Xiaobai, just say whatever you have and don't hesitate."

"Military seats, if we use special ammunition in Caozhou, we should be able to take it down quickly. Anyway, there are no people from our side in Caozhou City."

Everyone in the Operations Department was frightened by Bai Pengfei's proposal.

Isn’t it just a poisonous gas bomb when using special bullets? There are no such ammunition from other troops, but the New Army really has one, of course it was also captured by the Japanese army.

Even if the Japanese army carried this kind of ammunition, they would not use it easily. This is anti-humanity and anti-international law. At least they also boast about the so-called humanitarian spirit of a civilized country.

But once the veil of hypocrisy is torn apart, they are crueler than anyone else and are even more scrupulous to use.

These two extreme ideas appear in the same person, and only the Japanese can do it.

"Don't hurry, it's not that far." Leng Feng did not object immediately, but reached out and tapped the edge of the sand table twice.

"Military captain, Chief Xue called, our army had already broken east along the Longhai Line into the Japanese defense depth of five kilometers, less than three kilometers away from Liuhe Station in Guide."

"It seems that Xie Zaoshi and Li Ye and the others are fighting well." Leng Feng smiled and said, "How are our losses?"

"Our unit lost four chariots and suffered 150 casualties."

"So few casualties?"

"We are just cooperating with each other. The 88th Division and 51st Division are the main attackers. This is the trump card of the Central Army. Its combat effectiveness is not weak, but its weapons and equipment are a little poor."

"The 88th Division and the 51st Division were later transferred. Didn't they fight with the Doihara Division in Lanfeng? The two divisions have more than 10,000 people in total, right?"

"Well, some soldiers were urgently added from the rear. Before going to Guide, the two divisions combined for about 12,000 people."

"Who is that commander of the 88th Division?"

"Long Muhan, Military Commander, are you interested in this Commander Long?"

"No, it's just that this person is a little famous. If you can be the commander of the 88th Division, you should be outstanding." Leng Feng said with a haha.

Although Long Muhan was a scapegoat for Gui Yongqing in history and died unjustly, Gui Yongqing withdrew from Lanfeng to preserve his strength and asked Long Muhan to defend Lanfeng to death. At that time, Long Muhan had only one brigade in his hands and had just arrived. Before the troops entered the fortifications, the Japanese army arrived. There was no way to fight this battle. He ordered the troops to retreat. Although he later took back Lanfeng in blood, he was eventually killed by Jiang Jiang to warn him.

Long Muhan himself has problems, but although he is also a disciple of the emperor, he is not as strong as others in the background, so this is a tragedy.

The battle was on the afternoon of the 13th. After several storms, Kenji Doihara also learned the armored cluster assault tactics of the New First Army, gathered the tanks and armored vehicles of the 14th Division to fight with Li Ye's armored brigade, and cooperated with air support to curb the offensive momentum of the National Army.

The heavy artillery brigade commanded by Xie Zaoshi constantly changed positions, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing. The flexible and changeable artillery tactics caused the Japanese army to suffer a little.

With the continuous changes in positions and camouflage, the heavy artillery brigade avoided several bombings of Japanese fighter jets and avoided major losses. At this time, some generals of the national army came to their senses. It turned out that the people had a brain-like battle, and they knew that their minds were hot. If they were to follow their fighting style, the heavy artillery brigade and the armored brigade would have already lost money.

Although I pushed forward for a kilometer for a whole afternoon, it was far worse than the results in the morning.

The armored brigade suffered more losses in the afternoon than in the morning. Not counting casualties, four tanks in the eighth and nineth tanks were lost, and two of them were still stuck.

The New First Army attack echelon suffered more than 300 casualties.

This casualty number is roughly equivalent to the final casualty number of the armored brigade in Taierzhuang.

Even if they avoided the Japanese bombing, the heavy artillery was still under strict protection and could not completely avoid damage. The Japanese army also had artillery on the ground and Japanese planes in the sky. Once discovered, they would rush down without mercy and drop the bomb.

After one day, the heavy artillery brigade destroyed three 150 heavy howitzers, two 115mm cannons, and seven artillery pieces of various caliber, including other field cannons, war defense cannons, etc.

This is the biggest loss of heavy artillery brigade since the Battle of Taierzhuang.
Chapter completed!