"Boom!"
"Boom!"
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Hua Qizhi's 5th Battalion had destroyed the Japanese squadron stationed on the east side of the city and entered Changzhou. However, the Japanese army immediately counterattacked with the support of the Mountain Cannon Unit. Then, the 44th Regiment of the Japanese Army sent an infantry brigade to support the east side.
Continuous explosions sounded in the east and west city. Yan Wenbin's troops, who lacked artillery, were temporarily suppressed by the Japanese army at the east and west city gates.
"Regiment Commander, the Japanese's artillery is not light. Our troops on the east and west gates are being suppressed by the Japanese artillery!”
Wang Mingzhi stood next to Yan Wenbin, holding the telegrams that the confidential personnel had just received from the 1st and 5th Battalions.
"It seems that the Japanese army has stationed an exploration team in Changzhou.”
Yan Wenbin's eyes narrowed slightly. He was wondering if he should continue fighting. Logically speaking, the fact that the Japanese army still had an exploration team stationed in Changzhou City despite their lack of troops meant that Changzhou City was very important to the Japanese army.
Perhaps they had stockpiled a batch of weapons and ammunition at Henglin Train Station, but they had stockpiled even more in Changzhou.
One should not forget that Henglin Train Station alone could not store more than 200,000 Japanese ammunition supplies, so they definitely had a place to store them. Changzhou, on the other hand, had an exploration team stationed there.
When Yan Wenbin thought of this, his heart suddenly became determined. Fight! Changzhou City must have stored a large amount of resources. Otherwise, why would the Japanese army station an entire exploration team here? Could it be that the Japanese army had so many troops that they could waste them at will?
"Judging from the sound and the geographical environment of Changzhou, they should be mountain cannons. If it was a field cannon, they could only place it outside the city. However, it was obvious that it was fired from inside the city. Field artillery did not have such a short minimum range. Judging from the scale of the explosion, the Japanese army should have sent half a regiment to support Dongcheng Gate. Together with the east gate, they should be a mountain artillery regiment.”
Coming out of the military academy was different. Wang Mingzhi had graduated from Huangpu University's fourth phase and had fought for many years. Combined with the knowledge he had learned in the military academy, he quickly deduced the scale of the Japanese artillery in the city from the explosion of the artillery shells and other aspects.
There was one thing that Yan Wenbin and Wang Mingzhi didn't mention, and that was that they didn't think there was a division of Japanese soldiers in the city. If there was really a division of Japanese soldiers in the city, they would not be hiding in the city and defending passively. They would attack.
It was the early days of the war. What division did the Japanese army invest the most in?
Naturally, it was a regular division!
During this period, the Japanese army mainly invested in three divisions. The first was the regular division, which was also the division that invested the most. It was also the main force of the Japanese army.
The second type of division was the special division. The special division of the Japanese army was formed by replenishing the regular division. Their organization and weapons were all on par with the regular division. Although their combat effectiveness was slightly inferior to the regular division, it was very limited. Basically, the combat effectiveness was not much different from the regular division.
For example, the famous 101st and 105th Divisions. On the Chinese battlefield, because they were formed from the reinforcements of regular divisions, their combat strength was strong. All commanders used them as regular divisions.
As for the third type of division, it was the new division. However, the new division here was not a newly formed division, but a recovery division.
For example, the 13th Division. In 1925, before the Japanese army reduced their forces, they were considered a regular division. Moreover, they were the trump card of the regular division and had the strongest combat strength.
However, he was dismissed during the 1925 military reduction. After the war broke out, the island government re-established him. After the reorganization, even though the weapons and equipment given to him by the main camp were all allocated according to the standard division.
However, because the soldiers given to him were not the best, most of them were new recruits, so their combat strength was not very good, not even comparable to a special division. During this period, his combat strength was also the weakest.
Of course, as for the B division, C division, and infrastructure division, they were still in the process of being formed and had not yet been sent to China.
Therefore, the divisions that the Japanese army sent to China did not have any particularly weak combat forces. They were either regular divisions or special divisions. The weakest were the newly restored divisions, but even these divisions were difficult for the Chinese army to defeat. They were still arrogant and arrogant when facing the Chinese army.
This was also why Yan Wenbin and Wang Mingzhi didn't think that the Japanese troops stationed in Changzhou were a division.
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"A Japanese exploration team usually has two infantry regiments under their command. A exploration team that can also have a mountain artillery regiment under its command must be the elite of the Japanese army. Old Wang, looks like we've bitten off a big piece of fat meat tonight. What do you think? Do you dare to take down Changzhou City?"
Yan Wenbin turned his head to look at Wang Mingzhi and asked softly.
"Haha! Why not? A few days ago, we ate so many Japanese soldiers. This time, if we fight with the Japanese exploration teams, we can still swallow them. This is good news for us. However, we only have one night. Can we eat them? Changzhou was very close to Wuxi. Once the Japanese from Wuxi sent reinforcements to Changzhou, they could arrive within four hours!”
Wang Mingzhi pointed out the biggest problem. They didn't have enough time.
"One night?"
Yan Wenbin's eyes flashed slightly, and then he said resolutely,"Pass on my order. Have the 2nd and 3rd battalions attack from the north and south gates at the same time. The Japanese army only had one brigade and two infantry regiments in the city. They had used up a regiment at the west gate, and they had reinforcements at the east gate. They did not have many troops left. Surrounded from all sides, I don't believe that the Japanese army still has many troops to fight with me!”
In fact, Yan Wenbin had one more thing to say. Even if the Japanese army had a mountain artillery regiment, how much artillery did they have? You can support the four gates at the same time? At most, you'll only support two!
At that time, the north and south gates can directly attack the city. What do you have to fight with me?
Yan Wenbin's order was quickly passed down. After that, other than the 5th Battalion, 10th Battalion, and the Guard Battalion, the other eight battalions joined the attack. In the previous chapter, the fifth battalion Hua Qizhi was written wrongly. It should be the fourth battalion Zhao Deli! It had already been modified!
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"Brigade leader, the Zhi Na army is attacking us from four directions at the same time. I estimate that there are about ten thousand people attacking us!”
Chief of Staff of Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, Suzuki Kantaro, ran in from outside and shouted.
"Na ~ ni ~ has ten thousand people?"
"The frontline troops didn't mention the battle strength of the Zhi Na army, but they all said that the firepower of the Zhi Na army was very strong, and the firepower of the Empire's army couldn't catch up with them!”
"Even the army of the Nan Empire can't catch up?”
This time, Heiyan Yisheng was completely shocked. He immediately stood up in shock.
"Even the Empire's army can't match up to this army. Doesn't that mean that their firepower far exceeds that of all the other armies?”
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