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Chapter 248: The End of the Hedong Japs
The Japanese devils' desperate gamble at Anda had no effect.

Faced with the powerful attack power of Li Yunlong's current mechanized infantry independent brigade, relying solely on infantry attacks is doomed to be futile.

When the tank battalion destroyed the Japanese artillery regiment's positions, it basically declared the end of the Japanese attack team.

When the Japanese soldier Anda received the news that the artillery position on the battlefield had been lost, he had already become somewhat dispirited.

He didn't expect that his artillery regiment and tank battalion were completely powerless against the opponent's tank battalion.

The Eighth Route Army is now so powerful that it is beyond his imagination.

The Japanese finally believed that in a field battle, an ordinary division-level army could no longer shake the main force of the Eighth Route Army. This cruel fact verified that the previous demise of Yingsen Xiao and others was not due to too many command errors, but simply because of their lack of strength.

The enemy's tanks were too powerful, and the Empire's light tanks were like little chickens in front of their opponents, with no power to resist.

In addition to the powerful firepower of 107mm guns, the enemy now also has a stronger assault force such as tanks.

After being distracted for a while, Anda Twenty-three suddenly regained his spirits. He tried to struggle back and tell the empire that it now needed to reform its arsenal. Light tanks were no longer enough on the Asian battlefield. Now the empire urgently needed more medium and heavy tanks to fight against the opponent's increasingly powerful tank forces.

Otherwise, when the enemy's tanks grow up, the empire will no longer have a foothold in Asia.

The 76mm tank gun of the enemy tank was an overwhelming advantage over the Imperial tank.

Anda Twenty-three thought the matter through and suddenly had a new expectation for his mission.

He had originally made up his mind to cover Goro Mano's retreat and was ready to fight to the end relying on the city.

But now, Anda 23 had to struggle back and tell the upper echelons of the empire about his discovery, convincing them to immediately invest more resources to develop stronger tanks and more artillery.

Adachi Nijusan reported the current battle situation to Mano Goro who was fighting across the river.

At this moment, there was the sound of artillery fire on both sides of Shanzhou.

The Guosu army and the Japanese 41st Division were engaged in a fierce battle across the Yellow River.

However, for the cannon guard troops under the command of the artillery officer, they are clearly at a disadvantage in the artillery decisive battle.

The Japanese vanguard troops crossing the river have arrived at the other side.

On the beachhead, more than half of the defenders of Guosu had been killed or wounded by the Japanese artillery fire. However, facing the Japanese soldiers rushing onto the beach, the wounded soldiers still gritted their teeth, stood back in the trenches, pulled the triggers, and shot bullets into the bodies of the Japanese soldiers one by one.

The unprotected Japanese soldiers howled and rushed forward one after another, but faced with the ruthless bullets, they fell on the beach one after another.

Although the Japanese are beasts, they are not indestructible.

Faced with the desperate counterattack of the defenders, a squadron of Japanese troops who were trying to reach the beach were soon left with only their bodies lying on the sand.

Goro Mano looked pale.

This is the nth time we have charged and landed on the beach.

The 37th Division on Anda's side is finished.

The main force was basically destroyed.

Anda Twenty-three led the cavalry regiment from the south and entered Zhongtiao Mountain and continued to move south, leaving other troops behind to fight in street fighting.

There is not much time left for Goro Mano.

Although he left two infantry battalions as a cover on Zhongtiao Mountain, facing the fierce main force of the Eighth Route Army, Goro Mano did not dare to think too much. Two or three days was already the limit for him.

Although the roads in the mountainous area were rugged and narrow and the Eighth Route Army's tanks could not enter, Goro Mano knew that it would be very difficult for his rearguard team to hold on under the enemy's flexible and mobile 107 rocket launchers.

I hope they are smarter and don't gather together to be swept away by a wave of attacks.

Li Yunlong didn't know that the old Japanese devil Anda had run away.

It took most of the day to wait for the defeat of the Japanese and the reunion with Kong Jiexin's Second Brigade.

Leave two battalions to block the intersection.

The rest gathered and prepared to attack the city.

We have now seized the Japanese artillery regiment's artillery pieces, and most of them are still usable.

When the tank battalion was attacking, they paid attention to protecting the safety of the artillery. Most of the enemies were eliminated with machine guns. Except for the 37mm anti-tank gun squadron that was killed by artillery, all other artillery pieces were seized.

In this way, most of the cannons only have some machine gun scratches, which will not affect their use.

It just so happened that Kong Jie's artillery had not arrived yet, so they had to make use of the Japanese artillery for the time being.

However, the battle that follows will mainly be street fighting, and these cannons are actually of little use.

Tanks can serve as natural cover in street fighting and cooperate with soldiers in the attack.

Hedong City was the first big city that Li Yunlong attacked. To be honest, he was still a little unsure.

Before this, Li Yunlong had attacked the county town.

However, even if it was a grown-up girl getting into the sedan chair, Li Yunlong had to rush forward despite his dreadful temper.

Fortunately, the tactical books that Ren Zhong gave the three of them contained some teaching materials on siege and street fighting. After all, the mechanized infantry brigade is not just for field battles, it is a sharp knife that needs to be able to handle siege and field battles.

According to the plan made in advance, the independent brigade had strong mobility and would directly rush to the west to launch an attack, while the new second brigade would directly attack from the east city direction.

The Japanese army turned their mountain cannons and howitzers around and started bombarding the city walls directly.

More than 30 field guns and howitzers were a powerful firepower that Kong Jie could not have imagined two years ago. Now, Kong Jie can command such powerful artillery fire facing Hedong East City.

Although the regular artillery was still on the way, the battalion and company were equipped with a large number of mortars. Although these gunners had little training in barreled artillery, they still had no problems using them. However, their accuracy was poor at the beginning. After firing several rounds of calibration, the shells finally fell against the tower and the wall. After the artillery observers in front reported the situation back to the artillery position, the temporary guest artillery began a large-scale artillery attack.

Shells fell on the city wall one after another.

The Japanese soldiers on the city wall flew up and then fell down.

The puppet soldiers lay on the ground trembling.

Soon someone couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "I quit!" Even though the puppet army hadn't figured out that the Japanese had suffered a great defeat outside the city, they were not stupid. Seeing such fierce artillery fire, they could predict the final outcome with their feet.

If we don't run now, we will all become cannon fodder.

When the puppet soldiers near the city wall saw someone running away, they also ran away one after another.

The Japanese are now running around under the artillery shells, so they don't have the time or energy to deal with these fence-sitting puppet troops.

Not long after the shelling began, the two squadrons of Japanese soldiers near the city wall were blown to pieces by the shells, with only a few men left.

Now that the cannons are picked up for free, Kong Jie doesn't need to control the amount of shells used too much. As long as the city walls don't fall down, just fire!

However, the city wall did not hold out for long under such fierce artillery fire.

The city gate was opened the fastest. The New Second Regiment pushed four captured mountain cannons to the city gate and fired directly at the gate, opening it without much effort.

However, the city gate is narrow, and Kong Jie now has a powerful weapon with firepower coverage, so he would never take human lives to fill this city gate meat grinder.

With one shot after another, almost all the Japanese soldiers near the city gate were killed. A big hole collapsed in the city gate, and only then did Kong Jie stop the shelling.

In today's war, the role of city walls against artillery is becoming increasingly limited.

In the new city captured by the brigade commander, the city walls were not repaired again.

Ever since the ordnance industry's production capacity exploded and large-scale mass production of artillery began, relying on city walls for defense has been removed from the options of the Eighth Route Army.

Next it’s all about attack, attack, and attack again!

In the minds of people like the brigade commander, the era of passively accepting beatings is over!
Seeing that the Japanese soldiers near the city gate were barely breathing, Kong Jie waved his hand and ordered the assault battalion to go up and control the city gate.

A large group of people then rushed into the city.

The combat units were arranged according to the platoon, with the assault squad at the front. The four soldiers in front formed a search and advance formation, relying on the cover on both sides of the street to advance in turn. The sharpshooter and RPG rocket launcher operator followed behind, and the two soldiers at the back were the rear guard.

Although it had not been practiced much, in the street fighting tactics given by Ren Zhong, this formation quickly showed its power in the face of the Japanese devils' layers of sniping in the city.

Even if the soldiers searching in front did not notice the enemy, they would be taken care of by the sharpshooters and bazooka operators immediately after the Japanese exposed their firepower!
If the sharpshooter cannot solve the problem, the rocket launcher can directly fire at them, which can quickly complete the physical salvation of the Japanese.

Next, the soldiers behind rushed up to take control of the newly occupied streets.

The Japanese were actually novices when it came to street fighting and didn't have many tricks.

In addition to blocking the streets with sandbags, people retreated to the houses on both sides of the street.

However, all this was of no use. The Japanese soldiers exposed on the streets would soon be wiped out by the attacks of RPG rocket launchers and had no qualifications to confront the New 2nd Brigade.

Relying on RPG rocket launchers, the New 2nd Brigade advanced steadily and resolutely.

On the other hand, Li Yunlong's advancement was even more explosive!

After blasting open the city gate, the tanks rushed forward first and fired mercilessly at the remaining Japanese soldiers. The infantry squad following the tanks used the tanks as a natural cover to continuously clear out the crazy Japanese soldiers who were trying to hold explosive packs or cluster grenades.

Wherever the tanks passed, there were corpses of Japanese soldiers who died in despair with their eyes open!

Staying in the city and fighting street battles has already doomed the Japanese to hell.

For the Japanese field troops, these crazy beasts, each of whom dared to rush towards the tanks with explosives in their arms, were a way to send themselves back home as soon as possible.

As for the Japanese soldiers in the Engineering Regiment and the Quartermaster Regiment, when the bloody street fighting began, many of them who had not experienced much fighting collapsed.

Under the tank bombardment and machine gun fire, the Japanese soldiers, who had already gone crazy, rushed towards the tanks one by one, holding their Type 38 rifles.

For these little Japanese devils, the tank battalion doesn't even need to fire a shot. They can just run over them and crush these crazy little Japanese devils!
The tank battalion is advancing at full speed!
The Japanese were killed one by one in the city.

Although it took some time to clean up the debris, it took the Independent Brigade and the New Second Brigade a whole day to find and kill most of the Japanese in the city.

But after this battle, the Japanese 37th Division no longer existed except for the cavalry regiment that escaped.

An entire division of the Japanese devils has been beaten into this state and can basically be eliminated.

Li Yunlong was quite unwilling to accept that Anda Twenty-three left without saying goodbye and without following the moral code of martial arts.

It was from the captured puppet soldiers that Li Yunlong learned that the old devil had actually escaped first with the cavalry regiment.

This coward!
After hearing the news, Li Yunlong spat at the Japanese devils fiercely, and no longer took it to heart. He began to coordinate the city defense matters with Kong Jie.

At the same time, they are also waiting for the replenishment of ammunition and fuel in the rear.

Mechanized troops are very happy when marching and fighting, but logistical support is also a headache. After Li Yunlong traveled hundreds of miles, the tank battalion is almost on the verge of collapse.

Not only is there not enough fuel, but we also need to start repairing wearing parts such as the tracks.

According to the plan, we need to rest for a day before we can continue the mission.

However, according to the latest battle reports from the scouts sent out to Pinglu to gather information, the fighting there had become fierce and the Yellow River defense line was already crumbling. There was not enough time to wait for rest before setting off again.

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