I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 243 It's time to counterattack across the board
When the devil's aerial bomber fleet rushed over Xuyi, the three artillery regiments of its ground troops had already launched a fierce shelling of Xuyi County for nearly 10 minutes.

Therefore, look at it from the perspective of the devil pilot.

The Xuyi County town below was already a sea of ​​flames. There were ruins of various collapsed buildings everywhere, as well as balls of burning fire and billowing smoke.

Seeing this situation, a Japanese wingman second lieutenant couldn't help but said to his lead pilot: "Sir, Xuyi County has been razed to the ground by army artillery fire. Do we still need to bomb?"

Another ghost pilot said: "Yes, in this case, do we still need to bomb? Wouldn't that be a waste of our precious aerial bombs?"

The Jaap lead pilot said in a serious voice: "This is an order from the Front Army Headquarters. As imperial soldiers, we just have to carry out the order.

What's more, do you know that the Xuyi County below is the unit of the Chinese Army? "

"I don't know!" a Japanese pilot responded via radio.

"China Army Huben Regiment!" the devil's lead pilot said.

"Is this the unit that caused heavy losses to the Imperial Army many times?" Other Japanese pilots exclaimed.

"That's right, it's them." The devil pilot who piloted the lead plane said with a sinister sneer, "Such opponents are worth dispatching all the bombers from our 3rd Flying Corps!"

"Gentlemen, fly your fighter planes and bomb to your heart's content. Target the entire Xuyi County and attack indiscriminately!
Let our fierce firepower come to wish the army a helping hand and completely wipe out the tiger group in the city! "

"Hay!" Without any hesitation, a group of devil pilots took orders in unison, each flying their planes, and started bombing and bombing.

Because it was determined that there was no anti-aircraft firepower network in the city, the devil's bombers flew relatively low, and dropped all the aerial bombs they carried to various places in Xuyi County.

As for the escorting Japanese fighter jets, they were cruising and flying over the city in an ultra-low-altitude dive attitude, looking for the suspicious whereabouts of the Tiger Regiment.

As the Devils bombed the fleet, they dropped heavy aerial bombs one after another.

A deafening explosion began to resound everywhere in Xuyi.

Groups of red light are the first to rise from the ground, straight into the sky.

The thick smoke and fire produced by the explosion soon mixed with the explosion shock wave caused by the Japanese artillery fire, covering the entire county.

Under the temporary regiment bunker near the north gate, I heard the deafening violent explosions, as well as the Japanese fighter jets roaring overhead from time to time.

Deputy Chief of Staff Lin Baoguo said with an aggrieved look: "Damn, the firepower of the little devils is really strong. Look at their planes flying so low. They are so damn arrogant!"

"Yeah, I really want to take a few machine guns and kill them all at once!"

The company commander of the guard company, Chen Qifeng, couldn't help staring at a Devil fighter jet whizzing past.

Xu Qingfeng, who was hiding with them, seemed much calmer: "Don't worry, when the time is right, you will contribute your strength."

Chen Qifeng couldn't help asking: "Tuan Zuo, when should we contribute?"

Xu Qingfeng lit a cigarette, took a puff and said: "We will hold off the Japanese's full-scale attack, and the tank battalion and cavalry company will successfully bypass the enemy's rear and take away the enemy's artillery positions and headquarters.

At that time, it's time for us to counterattack across the board and the tank battalion and cavalry company to pinch the devils back and forth! "

Chen Qifeng was full of yearning and said: "Then we can defeat all the devils outside the city in one fell swoop?"

Xu Qingfeng nodded and said: "That's right, our goal this time is not only to defend Xuyi County, but also to wipe out all the devils outside the city as much as possible!

At worst, it must be severely injured!
Only in this way will the Japs be unable to invade again within a short period of time, and Xuyi County can be truly defended! "

Chief of Staff Liang Shan, who had been silent all this time, nodded his head and murmured, "I don't know where Deputy Commander Zhou and the others are now, and whether they can successfully detour behind the enemy's rear!"

Xu Qingfeng said: "Not so fast. The Japs haven't started a full-scale attack yet, so we can't start the roundabout operation. Otherwise, we'll scare the enemy and the Japs won't dare to attack.

Once the devils turn on the defensive and form a confrontation with us, it will be troublesome. "

Hearing this, Chen Qifeng couldn't help asking: "Where are the deputy head Zhou and the others now?"

Xu Qingfeng said with confidence: "If nothing else happens, he should have been hiding and waiting for our news."

……

Ten kilometers north of the city, in a virgin forest near Hongze Lake.

Zhou Weiguo, Xu Hu, Wang Changgui and others are taking a tank battalion and a cavalry company to rest in this dense forest.

Xu Hu jumped off his tank and came to Zhou Weiguo. He couldn't bear the loneliness and asked, "Commander, how long are we going to hide here?"

Zhou Weiguo picked up the water bottle, took a sip of water and said, "Wait for the order from the group seat!"

After finishing speaking, he stood up and turned his head to look at the hidden tank, and asked worriedly: "Have the bunkers on the tank been arranged?"

Xu Hu quickly replied with a smile: "Everything is done, don't worry. Even if the little devil sticks to the treetops of this forest for low-altitude reconnaissance, it is impossible to find our tanks!"

It turned out that Zhou Weiguo was worried that his whereabouts would be discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane.

As a result, they were spotted by the devils, and they hadn't really withdrawn. They specially asked Xu Hu and other officers and soldiers of the tank battalion to drive the tanks deep into the dense forest, and covered the tanks with natural shelters such as various shrubs, flowers, grasses and branches.

At this time, Wang Changgui also came over, and said to Zhou Weiguo, "Deputy Commander Zhou, we only have less than a hundred cavalry, plus ten tanks. If we attack in a roundabout way, will the force be too weak?"

In consideration of mobility, an infantry company belonging to the tank battalion stayed in the city with Xu Qingfeng and the others.

Only ten tanks and their crew members, as well as the downsized cavalry company, actually followed Zhou Weiguo and the others.

The current cavalry company has fewer than a hundred soldiers who actually have horses.

In other words, Zhou Weiguo and the others only had less than a hundred coordinated troops this time.

No wonder Wang Changgui was worried, after all, what they were going to attack in a detour was the three detachments of the Devils, the brigade-level artillery positions.

Such a powerful artillery position must have at least one or two thousand Japanese infantry as guards.

The strength of the enemy and our forces is at least fifteen to one, or even more.

Zhou Weiguo said with a smile: "The number of troops has never been the decisive factor in determining the outcome of a war!
The grasp of fighters, powerful firepower, advanced equipment, and the use of tactics and equipment are the most critical! "

As he said that, he said to Wang Changgui and Xu Hu confidently: "As long as we grasp the timing well, with the powerful assault firepower of our tank battalion and cavalry company, we can definitely catch the devils by surprise!
For our tank battalion, as long as we find the Japanese artillery position, we can directly destroy it with artillery fire!

Therefore, the number of troops does not have much impact on our operation! "

Wang Changgui was relieved to hear this, and said longingly: "If we can kill the devil's artillery positions, then the little devil really doesn't have heavy firepower.

Even if they are not defeated by us, they will not be able to capture Xuyi County! "

Just as Xu Hu wanted to nod his head in agreement, Zhou Weiguo jumped ahead of him and said, "It's not enough for us just to kill the enemy's artillery positions!"

"Our ultimate goal should be to destroy the devil's artillery position and headquarters together!
Then proceed to launch a surprise attack from behind the enemy!

Give full play to our mobility and firepower, contain and attract devils, cooperate with the main forces of our army in the city, and launch a full-line counterattack against the enemy!
Under such an enemy, even if the devil has three heads and six arms, it is impossible to escape defeat! "

Both Wang Changgui and Xu Hu nodded their heads again and again, their eyes were full of excitement, as if they wished they could start this significant roundabout attack right away!

……

On the side of Xuyi County, after half an hour of frenzied bombing, the devil's bomber group finally had to return and leave because they ran out of ammunition.

At this time, Xuyi County was under the joint bombardment of devils' ground artillery fire and air firepower.

It was almost reduced to scorched earth, and as far as the eye could see, there was almost no intact building in the entire county.

Under such circumstances, Rao even the battalions and companies of the Huben Regiment had been prepared for a long time, and there were also many casualties.

After all, the time for the Huben regiment to evacuate Xuyi was too short, and there was no time to dig underground tunnel fortifications and other anti-aircraft bunkers.

The hastily built temporary bunker is okay to block the shell fragments of some devils.

But in the face of the devil's heavy aerial bomb attack, he was a little helpless. ,

However, the Japanese invaders at this time were much worse than the air forces of Britain, the United States, France and Germany in the same period.

The scale of its air strike firepower is absolutely crushing for an agricultural country like China.

However, the firepower is worse than that of the US military.

The medium-range bombers they are equipped with have very few aerial bombs.

In less than half an hour, it was all used up and had to return to resupply.

Moreover, the number of bombing planes dispatched by the devils was not many, only a dozen or so.

Otherwise, the casualties of the Huben Regiment may be unpredictable.

On the Huben regiment's side, the Japanese air raid had just ended when Xu Qingfeng ordered Lin Baoguo, Liang Shan and others to quickly send people to contact each battalion and company to inquire about the battle damage.

Moreover, the main battalions were notified to prepare for the battle.

Because the devil's artillery fire also began to extend, which means that the devil is about to start attacking!

At the same time, at the Japanese military headquarters outside the city.

Rei Takamori and Hirobumi Yamada, as well as the Japanese commanders who had been observing their own air strikes and bombings, saw that their bomber groups began to return.

Takamori Ling immediately said to Hirofumi Yamada: "Mr. Yamada, the air force has completed the air strike support mission, and it will be up to us next!"

Yamada Hirobumi nodded with deep understanding and said calmly: "Next, let our army prove ourselves!"

As he said that, he turned his head and told one of his adjutants: "Pass the order, all troops of the whole detachment, except the artillery regiment, will be put into attack!

This time, we must take Xuyi County in one fell swoop and wipe out the Huben regiment! "

Takamori also ordered to his chief of staff: "Send the order, and all departments will act according to General Yamada's orders!
This time, we will go all out to win Xuyi County! "

"Hai!" Several Japanese staff lieutenants present bowed their heads and accepted orders.

Takamori Rei even saluted Yamada Hirobumi: "Yamada-kun, I hope we can join forces in the castle this time!"

"If we can't join forces in the city, then we can only meet each other in the Jin Kingdom!"

Yamada Hirobumi solemnly returned a military salute, and said solemnly: "We will definitely join forces in the city!!"

Takamori Ling and the commander of the 18th Mixed Brigade did not say much, and even took their people away.

Yamada Hirobumi also walked out of the headquarters and came to his own offensive position not far away.

At this time, the main infantry under Yamada Hirobumi's department still has about [-] people left.

Under his order, a group of guard troops belonging to the baggage corps and artillery troops were also gathering here.

About 10 minutes later, more than 3000 people gathered in front of Hirofumi Yamada again.

Looking at the last three thousand main men under his command, Yamada Hirobumi ordered with a solemn expression: "Fellow warriors of the Yamada detachment, you are the last hope of my Yamada detachment!

If this attack fails to capture Xuyi County, I will commit seppuku and you will become a shame to the entire Yamada detachment and even the entire 16th Division!

For the honor of the imperial soldiers, for the parents, wives and children far away in Fusang, and for the smooth establishment of the Dadong and Asia Co-Prosperity Spheres, please show your courage and fight to the death with me! "

"Long live the Imperial Army of Japan! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

Under the leadership of a devil officer, more than 3000 devils raised their arms and shouted: "Long live the imperial army of the Japanese Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!
"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

After three calls in response, Hirofumi Yamada immediately swung his saber fiercely in the direction of Xuyi County in front, and ordered sharply: "Assault! Assault!"

Thousands of Japanese soldiers jumped out of their positions quickly like a flood that broke a dike, and swarmed toward Xuyi County, which was shrouded in smoke and fire.

At the same time, in the southwest, two other Japanese offensive forces of several thousand people, led by Takamori Ling and others, launched a full-line attack on Xuyi County.

The battalions and companies of the Huben Regiment did not bother to count the casualties and were forced to quickly rise to attack.

In order to defend the county seat and hold off the Japs, Xu Qingfeng directly threw the 5th Infantry Battalion, the baggage battalion, the guard company, the remaining infantry company of the tank battalion and other reserve teams around him into the battle after the battle started.

Under his command, the remaining officers and soldiers of the Huben Regiment, relying on the broken walls in the city, launched a bloody battle with the devil's attacking troops!
Unlike the previous retreat while fighting, this time all the officers and soldiers of the Huben Regiment were uncharacteristically fighting for every inch of land!

Fighting repeatedly with the devils from house to house, the battle between the two sides has entered a fierce battle from the very beginning!

(End of this chapter)