binnovel Chapter 587: All the houses have been blown up. What's the point of fighting a street fight?
Chapter 587: All the houses have been blown up. What's the point of fighting a street fight?
There really are people who are so fearless of death.
Zhou Weiguo wanted to tell whether the other person was being truthful or not from his eyes.
Unfortunately, he didn't see any fear in the other party.
"Well, since County Magistrate Li said so, I will not be polite. I would like to ask County Magistrate Li, as a parent official, to work with my subordinates to persuade the people who have not yet evacuated to evacuate. This place is not suitable for them to stay."
After dinner.
Zhou Weiguo stood up and said goodbye.
As he passed by a row of wooden houses, Zhou Weiguo's eyes stopped on the tiles.
After a while, he turned to Fang Shengli who was following him and said, "Old Fang, tell the first battalion to remove all the tiles from the roofs that have tiles on them."
County Magistrate Li, who was following nearby, asked in confusion, "Captain Zhou, why did you remove these roof tiles?"
Chao Xiang Xiuling beside him explained to him, "This thing should be on the roof. If the enemy bombers come and the bombs fall and explode, these tiles will be blown away, which will increase the casualties of soldiers. If these things are lifted to the ground, unless the shells fall directly on them, the impact will not be that big."
County Magistrate Li turned his head and looked at the people following him. "You will arrange for someone to assist the troops in handling this matter later."
The regimental headquarters, radio stations, maps and document bags were already being hung up.
Xu Hu, who was out gathering information, saw Zhou Weiguo coming over, so he took Zhou Weiguo to the map and said, "Captain, as you expected, our map has errors."
The regiment's battle map was obtained from the Japanese army and was highly accurate. However, the Japanese army's map was probably drawn ten years ago, and it always didn't match the map when they arrived at a place.
Even so, it is much better than the domestic military maps. At least the error will not be hundreds of meters. At least there will be no roads where there should be roads, and no hillsides where there should be hillsides.
"How do we fight this time?" Asaka Hiderei asked while looking at the map.
"It's not easy to fight them this time. Even if Zhou Weiguo has all the skills and strategies, I'm afraid it won't be of any use."
In Xi'an, Nakamura heard that Zhou Weiguo's independent regiment went to Yu County. Nanzō Yunko, who was sitting on a chair drinking tea, frowned for a moment and made a comment.
"Miss, will it be difficult this time?"
"That's about right. I dare say that this will be the first fierce battle for the independent regiment since its establishment, because Yu County is important to them and to the empire. Otherwise, why would Ueda Kanekichi use the forces of two detachments to attack Yu County?"
At this point, she motioned for Nakamura to fetch the map over there and find the location of Yu County. She said, "If we take Yu County, the empire can attack or defend. Similarly, if Yu County is controlled by Shancheng, Changsha behind us will be safe. Both sides know what this place means, so they will attach great importance to it and will mobilize their main forces for attack and defense accordingly.
After bowing her head and pondering for a moment, Nanzō Yunko pointed to the map; "Knowing shame leads to courage. The Hata and Seya detachments were the ones who were defeated by the independent regiment. Ueda Kanekichi asked them to take the lead in the attack. This is a chance for Yao to give them to wash away their previous shame. How can they not work hard?"
In terms of terrain, Yu County does not have an advantage. It is a rare small dam. If there is a hillside, it is more than 700 meters away. However, that place has been separated from the county seat, and what the empire wants is only to control the county seat.
So this time, Zhou Weiguo has really met his match.
No one knew how many days he could hold out under the attack of the two detachments.
Boom boom... boom boom boom...
Bang bang bang... bang bang bang...
The sounds of bombers, the explosions of artillery shells landing on the ground, and the sound of anti-aircraft machine guns intercepting Japanese bombers filled my ears.
It's been three days.
The three lines of defense outside the city were all taken down by the Japanese army. Now, the troops retreated into the city walls and the defensive positions under the walls using the memorial hall as a retreat route.
Japanese bombers would basically take off at regular intervals. There were almost no intact houses left in Yun County today. Most of them had been destroyed by the Japanese bombing, and some places were even on fire.
boom……
A shell exploded less than ten meters away from the regiment headquarters.
After a few screams, calm returned over there.
Zhou Weiguo sat on the chair without raising his head, discussing with Sano Tadayoshi and others how to deal with the Japanese attack.
"Damn it." Fang Shengli came in cursing. He dusted himself off and came to Zhou Weiguo. "Old Zhou, we have to change the battle plan. It's too bad. The first battalion stayed in the position outside the city for more than half an hour, and only one company was gone."
"How about the other battalions?" Zhou Weiguo asked as he lit a cigarette.
Fang Shengli sat dejectedly on the chair. "The Fourth Battalion was crippled, with only about a hundred people left. The Fifth Battalion lost more than a hundred people. The Sixth Battalion was the reserve, but bombs also killed more than a dozen people. Old Zhou, if this continues, it will probably take less than two days for our regiment to be wiped out."
Sano Tadayoshi didn't expect the loss to be so great. He looked at the map for a while and said, "Why don't we let them in and have a street fight? The losses outside the city are really too great. Their bombers have been keeping an eye on us."
"Fighting street fighting?" Xiang Xiuling raised her voice a little.
Sano Tadayoshi nodded; "Yes, we can use the complex terrain of the city to fight with them in street battles. We have to fight with them for every house and every tower. After all, we are more familiar with the terrain here than they are."
"No." Chaoxiang Xiuling pointed outside. "Sano, are you talking nonsense? The alleys in the city have long been destroyed by the Japanese army. In addition, the fires have almost burned down many alleys. What's the point of street fighting?"
Sano Tadayoshi stopped talking immediately. He really hadn't considered this point. The houses here were actually the same as those in the mainland. In small towns, there were not many brick and tile houses. Most of them were wooden houses. Once they caught fire, they would cause a large area of fire that could not be extinguished.
In addition, the troops were busy fighting and no one cared, so two-thirds of the houses in the city had been burned down.
To say that it is easier to fight in the city than outside the city is really deceiving yourself.
"Damn it. Our independent regiment has never fought such a frustrating battle." Fang Shengli spread his hands in confusion; "Are we going to fail here?"
Although the battle had been going on for five days, the problem was that it had only been going on for two days outside the city, and now it had only been three days. In just three days, the independent regiment was already like this.
If we wait for three days, then we will have to take up arms and fight the enemy to the death.
"Damn it, how did we get to this point?" Fang Shengli pounded the map and said in frustration.
Nanzō Akiko, who had been silent the whole time, looked at Fang Shengli, then fixed her gaze on Zhou Weiguo for a while before saying, "Weiguo...are we putting the cart before the horse?"