Age of Rebirth

A typical Japanese-style residential building is located on the side of the Japanese army’s heavy machine gun firepower point. Although the height is not as high as it is, it can well avoid the heavy machine gun bullets fired from the front. The Japanese army's heavy machine gun firepower point on the opposite roof, the troops can also cut through the courtyard wall, bypass the Japanese firepower point behind, and after continuously cutting through the wall, the street was taken down.

This is what Liu Changshui came up with. He called four platoon leaders and ordered: "The first platoon and the heavy fire platoon follow me into the yard, and the other three platoons attract the firepower of the little devils and cover us! Wait until you knock down the little devils on the opposite roof." After the heavy machine gun fire is fired, all companies enter the yard!"

The thin door panel was kicked away by a strong soldier, and more than 70 people from the first row and the heavy firepower row poured into the yard. An old Japanese man in his 50s with gray hair was dressed in shabby clothes. In a kimono, he shivered in the corner of the wall, his face full of fear, and looked in horror at the soldiers of the independent division who suddenly broke in.

Liu Changshui was taken aback. He didn't expect that he would meet a Japanese. He instinctively raised his submachine gun, but put it down again, and ordered the long line beside him: "Search it, and send someone to guard it!"

A platoon leader went forward to search the Japanese old man himself, and there was nothing unusual, so he nodded towards Liu Changshui. Liu Changshui was busy commanding the bazooka players of the heavy fire platoon, climbed onto the roof, and ordered the soldiers in the platoon to start chiseling. Through the courtyard wall, he turned his head inadvertently, and seemed to see an abnormal light in the eyes of the old Japanese man squatting on the ground.

He was about to question the old Japanese man, when a bazooka player shouted from the roof, "Company commander, the position is just right, let's shoot down. Make sure to blow up the little devil's heavy machine gun on the opposite roof!"

Liu Changshui's attention was immediately attracted.He raised his face and shouted loudly: "Be careful to protect yourself, all the bazookas shoot at the same time, make sure to kill the little devil's firepower at once!"

A few rockets, dragging their tails, flew towards the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army on the opposite roof, "Boom boom boom!" Several violent explosions sounded, and the Japanese heavy machine guns on the opposite roof immediately flew into the air.Even the roof was blown down.

"Good job!" Liu Changshui shouted excitedly. At the same time, a row of soldiers were about to cut through the courtyard wall. At this moment, the old Japanese man who was squatting on the ground suddenly fell back and grabbed Pick up a rope while shouting in the mouth.The rope was jerked.

In an instant, Liu Changshui understood what was going on, "Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the soil flew.Smoke and dust rose everywhere, and most of the entire yard was blown down, before the smoke cleared.The three platoon soldiers who were covering fire outside screamed.Rushed into the almost ruined yard.

They saw a horrible situation, more than 70 soldiers in the first platoon and the heavy fire platoon and the company commander Liu Changshui.They were all lying in a pool of blood. More than a dozen soldiers were crushed under the ruins. They were obviously sacrificed. More soldiers were covered in blood, missing arms and legs. Their military uniforms were blown into pieces. The blood was so bad that the original appearance could not be seen, and the seriously wounded were crying in pain.

Several other platoon leaders shouted heart-piercingly, and the second platoon leader picked up a seriously wounded person and asked hurriedly, "What happened?"

"Yes, it's a damned little devil civilian who blew off the explosives buried in the yard when we weren't paying attention!" The seriously injured said intermittently: "I thought it was an ordinary Japanese citizen, we were not prepared ah!"

"Ah!" The second platoon leader howled in pain, and beat himself on the head with his fists. Just a little devil and a commoner cost the lives of dozens of soldiers from the third company. He was not willing to be bombed to pieces!

"Report to the battalion commander immediately!" The second platoon leader is now the supreme commander, and said to the radio operator with bloodshot eyes: "When the third company pulled out the firepower of the Japanese heavy machine gun, it was suddenly attacked by Japanese civilians. The company commander Liu Changshui was killed in battle, and more than [-] soldiers were killed or injured, please pay attention to the battalion commander!"

In the armored command vehicle, Chu Ziye's face was frighteningly gloomy, and the brigade headquarters received constant reports that after the regiments rushed into the urban area of ​​Yamagata, they encountered little resistance from the Japanese army, but they were attacked by a large number of Japanese residents in the city with suicide attacks , There are elderly people, women, and even twelve or thirteen-year-olds, all of them seem to want to live, and they use various methods of suicide attacks.

Some Japanese took the same method as dealing with the third company, and some Japanese pretended to be dead and lay down on the street where the troops attacked, and when the soldiers passed by, they suddenly blew off the grenades and explosives on their bodies, and some Japanese People, hiding behind the door of their own house, and when the soldiers passed by, they blew the explosives and grenades on their bodies, and suddenly rushed into the crowd. . . . . .

The soldiers were very uncomfortable. If they were facing Japanese soldiers fighting in the streets, the soldiers had countless ways to deal with it, but they were facing the ubiquitous Japanese civilians. The Fourth Brigade rushed into the urban area of ​​Yamagata within an hour There were heavy casualties. Chief of Staff Wu Chengguang counted more than [-] casualties, and most of them were lost at the hands of Japanese civilians.

Chu Ziye gritted his teeth, and roared in a low voice: "You little devils should be damned! No matter if they are devil soldiers or devil civilians!" He was so angry that he was going crazy. Just now, My own was also attacked by a suicide attack. A Japanese boy who was only a teenager, holding two smoking grenades, rushed towards him with fierce eyes. Fortunately, the personnel of his brigade headquarters were in the armored command vehicle. There were no casualties.

"Chief of staff, report to the division commander immediately. The fourth brigade requests to stop the attack, and the troops will temporarily withdraw from the downtown area of ​​Yamagata!" Chu Ziye said to Wu Chengguang, the chief of staff, with a livid face: "If the battle continues like this, we will definitely suffer losses, even if it is the last Captured Yamagata Castle, and the cost of casualties is huge!"

Wu Chengguang worriedly reminded, "Brigade Commander, I'm afraid it's not suitable! Several other brigades are attacking, but our brigade's stop will disrupt the overall offensive deployment. The division commander will not agree!"

"The little devil is fighting a suicidal street fight with us. There is no difference between soldiers and civilians!" Chu Ziye said in a deep voice: "I can't let my soldiers die at the hands of the little devil's civilians. After reporting to the teacher, you Order the artillery chief of the brigade to pull up all the artillery. I don’t care about the other brigades. In the direction of our brigade’s attack, we must use artillery shells to open a path! There is no time to distinguish between the little devil soldiers and the little devil’s civilians! Go!"

Tang Qiuli's complexion was many times uglier than Chu Ziye's. Before receiving the call from Wu Chengguang, Chief of Staff of the Fourth Brigade, he had received calls from several other brigade commanders. The brigade was about the same, and the troops were attacked by suicide attacks by Japanese civilians, causing heavy casualties.

Especially Liu Hongzhang's first brigade, in order to grab the title of being the first to attack Yamagata Castle, the first brigade rushed ahead of the second brigade and rushed into the urban area in a dense formation. As a result, the casualties were the most, with 1000 Many soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

"Master, do you want to order the brigades to adjust their tactics immediately, suspend the attack speed, or stop the attack on the spot?" The division pointed to Major General Ge Zhenzhuang, the chief of staff, seeing the division commander's ugly face, and suggested.

"No, it's not that troublesome!" Tang Qiuli said in a cold tone: "Order all the brigades to withdraw from the Yamagata city immediately, stand by on the periphery and surround them, and if they find the escaped Japanese, shoot them, order the brigades The subordinate artillery, concentrated artillery fire, bombarded Yamagata Castle from all directions, covering the shelling in all directions, leaving no dead ends!"

"Order Liu Cuigang to immediately dispatch three bomber regiments, carrying 'Buddha Light' bombs, to bombard Yamagata City intensively. Since the Japanese are playing with all the people's jade pieces and suicide attacks, for the sake of the blood of the soldiers not to be shed, there will be no more unnecessary sacrifices , then I will completely erase this Yamagata city from the map! Slaughtering this city will make the Japanese remember longer!"

At this moment, Tang Qiuli's inner murderous intent reached its apex, and Ge Zhenzhuang trembled slightly, "Master is so murderous!" There are 10,000+ Japanese residents in Yamagata Castle, and there are more than 5 Japanese soldiers. The possibility of survival, the suicide attack of Japanese civilians, completely angered the division commander, and his desire to kill was aroused. He wanted to massacre the city with artillery fire.

But Ge Zhenzhuang obviously did not stop the teacher's idea. The Japanese's practice of smashing the whole people, suicide attacks, and using civilians as cannon fodder also made him angry. Crazy, to deal with this kind of madness, can only be more crazy and bloody means.

"What, the commander told us to retreat? Yamagata Castle is not going to be fought anymore?" Liu Hongzhang, the commander of the first brigade, glared at Liu Chenglin, the chief of staff, and shouted angrily, "Will my more than 1000 brothers be killed in vain? No, I will talk to the commander myself. , if you don’t take down Yamagata Castle, I’ll come and see you!”

"Brigade Commander!" Liu Chenglin hurriedly called to stop him, and said, "The division commander also issued an order to concentrate the artillery of all the troops and bombard Yamagata Castle!"

"Ah!" Liu Hongzhang was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, grinning happily, "Okay! Talk to the little devils in the city with shells!"

In Yamagata Castle, at the headquarters of the [-]th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Yoshida, the commander of the division, put down the phone, heaved a long sigh of relief, and said to the chief of staff, Major General Shinto, "The tactics are preliminary. It worked, and the attacking China Independent Division suffered certain casualties and withdrew from the urban area.”

"In this way, at least they can stop the Chinese people from entering Yamagata Castle for more than a week, and buy enough time for the troops of the Northeast Defense Zone Headquarters of Honshu Island to retreat, which is worthy of His Majesty the Emperor!"

Chief of Staff Nobuto is not as optimistic as Lieutenant General Yoshida. The independent division of China, with nearly [-] troops, besieged Yamagata Castle. How could it be slightly frustrated and retreated? The temporary retreat is probably brewing a more violent attack. However, Right now, the head of the division is on the verge of happiness, how can he be a disappointment?

(to be continued) (to be continued...)