Age of Conquest Reborn

Liu Hongzhang looked at the division commander's face and saw that he was definitely not joking. He knew that no matter how hard he tried, it would be useless. If he made the division commander angry, the first brigade might change from the main attack force to the reserve force, so he hurriedly told the deputy brigade commander Gao Jingkun and the staff officer

Commander Liu Chenglin winked, jumped into the armored command vehicle, and ran away in a hurry.

In the car, Gao Jingkun complained to Liu Hongzhang, "Speaking of the brigade commander, what did I tell the chief of staff when we came here? The battle plan that the corps headquarters had determined was useless. You didn't believe it. You came all the way here and got beaten.

The teacher gives you a lecture and then goes back in despair, why bother?"

Liu Hongzhang showed no regrets at all. He smiled and said: "This is called looking for opportunities. If you don't try, you won't know if it will work! What if the division commander agrees? We won't make money! You two will also participate in the battle of the Corps.

Why didn’t you study the map during the meeting? You must have suffered a loss this time!”

Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin were relatively speechless...

The incident caused by the First Brigade Commander Liu Hongzhang was just an interlude before the attack on Yamagata Castle. Tang Qiuli watched Liu Hongzhang's armored command vehicle disappear and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart. The First Brigade was

An ace brigade directly under the corps,

Fighting the most difficult battles, the entire brigade was somewhat arrogant. When determining the battle plan to attack Yamagata Castle, he asked Ge Zhenzhuang, the director of the General Staff Department, to place the first brigade behind the second brigade.

Liu Hongzhang's arrogant meaning.

The attack on Yamagata Castle began. The intensive artillery fire easily tore apart the Japanese outer defensive positions and caused the Japanese soldiers to fly bloody. Then, six brigades of troops, under the cover of tanks, broke into Yamagata Castle. The entire attack process

.less than two hours.

Compared with the large battlefield that took place on Japan's Honshu Island, where millions of division troops participated in the battle, the battle of nearly 100,000 people from six brigades directly under the corps attacked Yamagata Castle. It was an inconspicuous little wave, with a mere population of hundreds of thousands of Japanese. The defense

Yamagata Castle, with only over 50,000 Japanese troops, was a very small target.

"Reporting to the division commander, the attacking troops have all broken through the Japanese army's outer positions in Yamagata Castle, broke into the urban area from different directions, and are advancing in depth. The progress is going smoothly!" Ge Zhenzhuang, director of the Staff Division, reported.

"Yeah! Got it!" Tang Qiuli replied nonchalantly. His thoughts were not focused on the siege battle on the battlefield in front of him, but on the entire Honshu Island battlefield.

Chu Ziye's fourth brigade broke into the city from the northeast of Yamagata City. Compared with other brigades, the fourth brigade took more effort to break through the Japanese outer defense line because there was a line with an altitude of 2,000 meters.

The multi-meter-high Mount Tsukiyama Mountains block the attack path. If you want to break into Yamagata Castle, you must first capture Mount Tsukiyama.

Before the attack was launched, Chu Ziye looked at the Yueshan Mountains. He smacked his teeth and felt very unhappy. If the fourth brigade alone captured Yamagata City and the Yueshan Mountains with an altitude of only 2,000 meters, it would not be a problem at all.

Chu Ziye had countless ways to capture the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains and invade Yamagata City at the lowest cost.

But it’s different now. Six brigades of the directly affiliated corps participated in the battle to attack Yamagata City. If other brigades had already broken into the urban area of ​​Yamagata City, the fourth brigade was grinding on the line of the Yueshan Mountains. It was so late that Chu Zi could

Where can I put my face?

"Chengguang. This mountain range is a big obstacle to our attack. After the attack begins, we must concentrate all the artillery fire of the brigade to open a passage. We cannot waste time on the outer positions!" Chu Ziye held up a hand held in his hand.

Using binoculars, while observing the situation of the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains, he gave instructions to the brigade chief of staff Wu Chengguang.

Wu Chengguang said with a smile: "Don't worry, brigade commander, everything has been arranged according to your requirements. The brigade's heavy artillery regiment, self-propelled artillery regiment, rocket launcher battalion, artillery battalions of each regiment, and the attached tank regiment, all heavy firepower

The units have all been centralized and divided into several artillery groups, all under the command of the brigade artillery chief!"

"That's good!" Chu Ziye nodded with satisfaction and asked again: "Which army are the little Japs defending the Yueshan Mountains?"

"The Takashima Regiment of the 107th Division of the Japanese Army's Northeastern Defense Zone Headquarters on Honshu Island has more than 4,000 troops. In the Japanese army's combat order, it is regarded as a regular field regiment!" Wu Chengguang's mind,

Filled with information on the Japanese defense forces of Yamagata Castle, Chu Ziye’s questions were easily answered.

"More than four thousand little devils, a super-staffed reinforced team, well, it's worth a bite!" Chu Ziye said nonchalantly.

After more than 40 minutes of shelling, the artillery group of the 4th Brigade dropped tens of thousands of artillery shells of various calibers on the position of the Japanese Takashima Regiment in the Yueshan Mountains. Fireworks exploded and smoke filled the air. Then, the troops

Under the cover of tanks, a charge was launched.

Chu Ziye's armored command vehicle followed the first regiment's offensive troops and quickly captured the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains outside Yamagata City. The huge craters and collapsed Japanese fortifications all showed that the fourth brigade's artillery fire

Violence.

Chu Ziye exposed half of his body outside the armored command vehicle, observing the situation. Soon, he frowned. Something was wrong. Under normal circumstances, with such fierce artillery fire coverage, the defending Japanese troops should have suffered heavy casualties. The position

He should have seen the corpse of the little Japanese soldier, but he had already penetrated several hundred meters in depth. Apart from the craters everywhere, the collapsed fortifications, and the bunker with its roof blown off, he didn't even see the corpse of a Japanese soldier.

"Chengguang, have you noticed something is wrong?" Chu Ziye retracted his body and asked the chief of staff, Colonel Wu Chengguang.

Wu Chengguang, with the unique delicacy of a staff officer, had long seen the strangeness of the Japanese positions in the Yueshan Mountains. When the brigade commander asked him, he replied: "The Japanese positions are empty. The only possibility is that the Japanese troops defending the Yueshan Mountains are high."

The Island Alliance is no longer on the outer positions and has withdrawn into Yamagata Castle!"

"Damn it!" Chu Ziye scolded in annoyance: "Oh! I wasted tens of thousands of artillery shells in vain. The little devil is planning to fight with us in urban street fighting! He is quite smart, and he will not be able to win in the field.

Chengguang, immediately order each regiment to conduct separate assaults in company units, bring more short-range heavy equipment, and prepare for street fighting, we have to change our tactics!"

Chu Ziye's response was quite rapid. Not only in the direction of attack of the fourth brigade, but also in the direction of attack of several other brigades, similar situations occurred. The Japanese troops on the outer positions of Yamagata City may have all disappeared.

Or there are only a small number of troops.

The sound of gunfire was rumbling outside, and inside Yamagata Castle, Lieutenant General Yoshida Konosuke, commander of the 107th Division affiliated with the headquarters of the Northeastern Defense District of Honshu Island, Japan, was holding an emergency military meeting in the division headquarters. Several people who came to attend the meeting

The commanders of the regiment were very dissatisfied. The China Division troops were launching a fierce artillery bombardment on the outer positions of Yamagata Castle. After all this time, the division commander still had the time to convene a military meeting.

If we have this time, we might as well fight with the Chinese soldiers. What makes these company captains even more puzzled and angry is that the commander of the division, Yukiyoshi Yoshida, actually issued an unbelievable and absurd order to send most of the troops of each company to

Withdrawing into Yamagata Castle and voluntarily giving up the outer positions, isn't this retreating without a fight?

The commander of the Yoshida Division looked gloomy, looked at the several commanders, and said: "You must have a lot of doubts and confusion about my orders, right? I don't have time to explain to you. I just need to tell you that the outer positions are

The purpose of withdrawing our troops into the city is not to give up, but to better inflict heavy losses on the Chinese soldiers. I have made up my mind to be crushed in Yamagata Castle!"

"Now I order each regiment to be dispersed in the city in squadrons or squads to fight street battles with the China Division troops. In addition, all the officers and soldiers of the division have to shoulder an important mission, which is to command and drive the city.

The civilians in the area became brave and fearless warriors who sacrificed themselves, using their flesh and blood to pay for the heavy casualties of the Chinese soldiers!"

"What His Majesty the Emperor put forward, 'All people are broken,' is not an empty slogan, but requires the actual actions of the Imperial soldiers to complete it. There are hundreds of thousands of Imperial civilians in Yamagata Castle, and everyone is a soldier of His Majesty the Emperor. Armed,

After they are shattered, it will be the moment when more than 50,000 Imperial soldiers of the 107th Division are shattered. There will not be a single Imperial soldier or civilian left alive in the Empire's Yamagata Castle!"

Only then did several regiment commanders, filled with resentment and confusion, understand the profound intentions of the Yoshida division commander. Indeed, although the outer positions of Yamagata Castle were well-fortified, they were not allowed to withdraw into the city without the powerful artillery strikes of the China Division troops.

Mobilizing civilians to engage in street fighting is the best tactic. They looked at the Yoshida division commander with eyes full of admiration and admiration!

Captain Liu Changjiu, commander of the third company of the first battalion of the third regiment of the fourth brigade, commanded his company and rushed into Yamagata City in the first time. There were more than 200 soldiers in the company, all veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles and knew the city well.

How to fight in street fights? I have fought many street fights. After rushing in, I immediately dispersed and looked for favorable terrain to hide. The situation in the city was unclear. If I charged rashly, I would suffer a loss.

Liu Changjiu had just passed a private house when several strings of machine gun bullets flew towards him. He hurriedly dodged and hid behind the wall. The bullets hit the opposite wall, and the soil "swished" down. He quickly looked around and saw that the building opposite

On the roof of the house, there was a Japanese machine gun position. Three Type 92 heavy machine guns were shooting wildly. Bullets were flying like raindrops. He saw several soldiers in the first row behind him lying in a pool of blood.

!

The entire company's charge was blocked by three Japs' heavy machine guns. "We must destroy the Japs' firepower point!" Liu Changjiu turned around and shouted: "Bazooka shooters, kill the Japs' firepower point!"

A rocket launcher reloaded quickly and stood up, but before he had time to pull the trigger, he was hit by a Japanese heavy machine gun bullet and fell in a pool of blood. The Japanese army's firepower point was in a very awkward position. If the rocket launcher wanted to hit

The target will inevitably be exposed to heavy machine gun fire.

Beads of sweat appeared on Liu Changjiu's forehead. He looked at the closed door of this house and suddenly had an idea...

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