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Chapter 1977: Quick Encirclement and Encirclement Tactics

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    These small units of the Japanese army used this kind of fire reconnaissance to find out which defensive positions around Peiping had more fierce firepower and which defensive positions were weaker.

    When someone from the staff asked General He how he should respond, the general laughed and just recited a poem.

    That was written by the Chairman when he was fighting in the Jinggangshan area and faced with the heavy encirclement and suppression by the national army at that time.

    "The enemy is surrounded by thousands of troops, but I remain unmoved."

    Also in the middle of the night, the fighting outside Qinhuangdao was much more intense than the fighting outside Peiping City.

    Compared with the Japanese troops outside Peiping City, Kuai Zeichi and Xiangzu Yoshijiro were more urgent in their need to capture the city in front of them.

    Because their support has been cut off, the fleet that transported them here was also driven away by enemy artillery.

    In a short period of time, these fleets will no longer be able to easily approach the coastline.  Nor will any supply resources be provided to them.

    Three hours after darkness fell, the two Japanese brigades once again launched a fierce attack on the outer defense line of Qinhuangdao from three directions at the same time.

    These Japanese attacking troops did not conceal their whereabouts at all.

    In fact, under the observation of infrared night vision devices, it was difficult for these Japanese troops to launch a surprise attack on the Qinhuangdao defenders.

    As the illumination bombs took off one after another, the white light suddenly lit up.  From a distance, it looks like glowing white bubbles in the endless darkness.

    Under the light of such illumination bombs, the Japanese soldiers launched a fierce charge towards the defensive positions outside Qinhuangdao.

    These Japanese attacks came at almost no cost.

    Their brigade commander, Kuai Zeichi, has issued the most severe attack order, asking them to charge desperately even if they sacrifice their lives.

    The crazy Japanese soldiers shouted "board, board, board!" Then under the roar of the commander, they kept getting up from the ground and launched a charge towards the national army position in front.

    However, soon after they get up, they will be swept to the ground by a dense rain of bullets.

    On the corpses of these Japanese soldiers, large bullet holes can be seen, like honeycombs.  This shows how dense the defensive firepower of the Fourth Army is.

    It was also on this night that the main force of the 4th Division began to launch an attack on the two Japanese brigades from the periphery.

    According to Chen Shiliang¡¯s order, they need to use one night tonight to eliminate all the defensive fortifications set up by the two Japanese brigades on the outside.  The main force was besieged near the city of Qinhuangdao.

    On this night, many people are destined to die because of this battle.

    Amidst the continuous sound of cannons and gunshots, the tranquility that originally belonged to the night has been completely deprived.

    During the charge, Japanese soldiers fell in large numbers in front of the defensive positions of the Fourth Army.

    Outside the perimeter of the Fourth Army's defense line, you can see swarms of Japanese troops lying on the ground, as if the land was covered with a blood-stained carpet.

    Tang Minghai continued to mobilize mobile forces in the city to support the outer defense lines. These defense lines outside Qinhuangdao would help them resist the Japanese attack for a longer period of time.

    The Japanese artillery began to carry out large-scale bombing of the city regardless of target.

    These Japanese artillery pieces, whether large or small caliber, are not enough to pour all the shells into the city and the defense lines outside the city.

    The city walls of Qinhuangdao are low, and a large number of them have collapsed under Japanese bombing.

    ¡°If the Japanese offensive troops successfully advance under the city wall, they can follow these collapsed walls, climb directly to the top of the city wall, and then shoot down the entire city.

    "Xiangzu Meijiro was no longer afraid of the battle in front of him. He even personally pulled out the command sword from his waist and went to the front line to direct his soldiers to charge.

    Kuaisawa sat in the rear and constantly mobilized troops to block the attack of the main force of the 4th Division outside.

    Neither side has any reinforcements to provide support to each other. They can only rely on themselves for the current battle.

    Xia Yang slowly put down the telescope in his hand.

    On the skyline at the end of his sight, the fire caused by the booming explosion of artillery shells has dyed the sky blood red

    He knew that the fighting around Qinhuangdao was still continuing fiercely.

    Now, their main force is located in an area northeast of Beijing.

    In the afternoon and the first half of the night, their troops took a short rest.

    After this short rest, they will continue to move forward and attack the Japanese army under the cover of night.

    This time Xia Yang will learn from the tactics Wei Xing used before in the northern Henan region.

    It is to concentrate superior forces and take advantage of the cover of night to encircle the points and call for reinforcements, while at the same time annihilating the besieged enemies in a short period of time.

    At this time, under his command were the garrison division, the armored division and a cavalry division.

    The combined strength of these three divisions is as many as 80,000.

    However, compared to the more than 100,000 Japanese troops on the front, such a number does not have any advantage.

    But these Japanese troops were scattered over a vast area.

    They need to besiege Tianjin and Peiping, and at the same time they also need to divide their forces to launch an offensive in southern Hebei.

    But Xia Yang has the strength of three combat divisions, and they can put all these forces into an area.

    This time, Xia Yang¡¯s target was the Japanese 19th Reorganized Division.

    That is, the Japanese division that stormed Tianjin Harbor during the day.

    The division commander of the Japanese division, Ha Zhimingxiu, didn¡¯t know yet that he had been targeted by Xia Yang for a night attack tonight.

    However, this time, Xia Yang did not intend to annihilate the entire Japanese 19th Division in this area.

    He has received intelligence that the Japanese 19th Division, two brigades and several attached brigades are all scattered over a relatively wide area.

    It is almost impossible to completely surround this area overnight.

    What he was able to do was to eliminate two artillery brigades and an infantry brigade under the Japanese 19th Division.

    If this can be done, then this integrated brigade of the Japanese army will lose the ability to continue fighting.

    After annihilating this Japanese army, Xia Yang will let his soldiers march directly to the Hebei area.  The next wave of goals is to deal with the Japanese troops trying to launch a fierce attack on Hebei.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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