Chapter 22 Recapture Gaoan

When Regiment Commander Gui Wen of the First Regiment received the order, he was overjoyed. For the past few days, all the brother regiments had been fighting the Japanese, but only his regiment was guarding the airport.

Although the airport received hundreds of wounded soldiers from the front lines every day, and it was very important, it was still not as comfortable as fighting the Japanese directly on the battlefield.

Especially hearing the wounded National Army soldiers in the rear talk about how powerful the enemy was, and how the Japanese could set up a few machine guns on the defense line to block large areas of the offensive road.

These wounded soldiers were rushing up through the rain of bullets, only to be swept back by the Japanese machine guns.

The soldiers of the First Regiment watched so many wounded being sent back, all holding their breath, wanting to go to the battlefield to vent their anger for their brothers.

Now the opportunity has come, and it is to attack Gaoan again, with familiar roads, familiar defense lines, and familiar routines to fight. Regiment Commander Gui Wen already has an offensive plan in mind.

The current location of the Second Regiment is less than ten kilometers away from Gaoan County. They set off on the morning of the 26th, and the team quickly arrived at the offensive position.

Su Fei, the company commander of the 12th Company of the Second Regiment, received twelve 75mm field guns.

Now his rocket artillery company has a total of twenty-four guns. After arriving at the battlefield, they immediately began to set up artillery positions.

For the 12th Company, their artillery positions had been selected by the reconnaissance platoon yesterday. When they arrived, they immediately began to deploy, and within an hour, all twenty-four were in place.

They immediately began test firing to adjust various shooting parameters. At ten o'clock, Ji Wudi gave an order: the cannons in the east and west directions simultaneously bombarded the 138th Infantry Regiment entrenched in Gaoan City.

Regiment Commander Ishitani Shinzaburo's mouth is now full of bitterness. His regiment was fully staffed when it attacked Gaoan.

But after occupying Gaoan, it did not settle down. Instead, it sent out one battalion after another towards the direction of Dacheng.

Now his regiment in Gaoan does not even have two infantry battalions, although there are also an engineer battalion, a cavalry battalion, and a part of the field artillery battalion.

But can such a team defend Gaoan?

Battalion Commander Ishitani Shinzaburo has no confidence. He is not a commander who gives up easily, he is just able to calmly analyze the situation.

The artillery bombardment from outside the city came very fiercely, and their shells were fired as if they didn't cost any money.

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro hid in the command post, watching the shells falling on the defense line, and could only pray for the Japanese soldiers under his command.

Inoue Riku, the artillery battalion commander, ordered the Japanese soldiers under his command to quickly adjust the artillery positions.

The Japanese in Gaoan County are being bombarded by artillery fire from the east and west. The next offensive should also be from the east and west.

He wants to have the entire battalion's cannons facing these two directions to facilitate timely support for the infantry.

Although his artillery battalion is not complete, it does not affect his command.

Just after the artillery bombardment ended, the team outside the city did not immediately launch an attack. Jiang Yuanwu and his team, who took off from Shanggao Airport, made their appearance.

In the air, Jiang Yuanwu easily discovered the Japanese artillery positions. Attacking the Japanese artillery first has become an unwritten rule of the aviation brigade.

When every pilot scans the ground in the air, the first thing they look at is the artillery.

In fact, Jiang Yuanwu also saw the rocket artillery positions of the First Regiment. When the fighter jets swooped down from the air and strafed Inoue Riku's artillery positions,

Battalion Commander Inoue Riku was still unable to react. He did not expect that the artillery battalion's doomsday would come before the sound of artillery was even heard.

Hua Xiao strafed the Japanese soldiers on the ground from a height of fifty meters, and he saw that the person charging in the front was Ji Wudi.

He shouted loudly, "Look! The one charging in the front is Captain Ji!"

This is the highest commander of the Special Operations Brigade in Shanggao, and also a woman, but she is charging at the front of the team.

Isn't this taking the highest commander too lightly?

When Jiang Yuanwu heard him shout this, he immediately asked, "Are you sure?"

Hua Xiao was a little dissatisfied, "Are you doubting a pilot's eyes?"

Jiang Yuanwu just couldn't believe it. Pilots have very high requirements for eyesight. Like Hua Xiao now, being only about fifty meters above the ground, he can see a person on the ground very clearly.

"Protect her!" From any perspective, Captain Ji should be protected.

"Yes!"

The ground attack aircraft that Hua Xiao was flying, although it was the slowest flying aircraft intentionally developed by the Special Operations Brigade, was still faster than the infantry charging on foot on the ground.

He has already flown to the front, and can only order, "The planes behind, keep up and protect the captain!"

Ji Wudi could feel the planes flying overhead one after another. The Japanese defense line in front was torn open, making the Japanese defense line fragmented.

Today, the Japanese defense line outside the city is not as tenacious as it was during the last attack.

This is indeed a fact. The last time they attacked, it was the Japanese 6th Division's team that was defending.

Today, when they attacked, the defending team was the Japanese 116th Division. Strictly speaking, the combat effectiveness of this division is indeed not as good as the 6th Division.

Of course, there were also special circumstances today. Twelve ground attack aircraft were lined up to support her overhead. No matter how tenacious the Japanese soldiers in front of her were, they couldn't resist it.

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro personally commanded on the defense line outside the city. He saw the Second Regiment's attack.

He also saw the arrowhead charging in the front, and could recognize that it was a woman.

Although Ji Wudi was wearing a steel helmet and the same uniform as ordinary soldiers, her figure was too obvious, and it was impossible to mistake her.

"Kill her! Kill that woman charging in front!" Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro pointed at Ji Wudi and gave the order.

Many of the Japanese soldiers in his team had already seen the charging woman.

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro was very angry now. According to the plan, the regimental artillery would provide artillery fire when the National Army's infantry attacked.

But now? When his defense line was bombarded by the National Army's artillery fire, Inoue Riku's artillery battalion did not make a sound.

The National Army's infantry has already charged in front of his command post, but the artillery battalion has not fired even a single shell.

He kept calling Regiment Commander Ishitani Shinzaburo, requesting artillery bombardment.

The regimental commander actually said that the artillery was under attack and could not provide support.

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro vented all his anger on Ji Wudi, who was charging. He had already seen that this defense line could not be held, and wanted to make the attacking team pay some price.

Yoshikawa Kazuki was a machine gunner and a member of Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro's guard. Hearing the battalion commander's order, he immediately rushed out of the command post with a machine gun.

Braving the strafing from the ground attack aircraft overhead, he crawled on the ground and adjusted his posture. Sergeant First Class Tezuka Kai and Tomosaka Hyuga were also members of Battalion Commander Ito's guard.

They were not to be outdone and rushed out of the command post one after another. Without the artillery bombardment, the command post was very safe.

At least the machine gun bullets from the ground attack aircraft could not penetrate it. They all saw the danger now: although the command post was safe, it would not be safe when the attacking infantry charged up.

And in this situation, as long as they ran out of the command post, they would be violently strafed by the planes overhead, and there was no way to retreat.

This is also why Yoshikawa Kazuki wanted to rush out and kill the female soldier leading the charge on the opposite side.

In their opinion, as long as the bravest soldier charging in the front is killed, it will affect the morale of the subsequent soldiers.

Yoshikawa Kazuki's machine gun opened fire. As soon as he opened fire, he was discovered by the planes in the air, and four machine guns simultaneously strafed him.

Yoshikawa Kazuki, who was completely unprepared, was shot full of holes before he could finish a magazine, and died beyond death.

On the other hand, Sergeant First Class Tezuka Kai, who was not with him, lived a little longer. He had carefully observed the female soldier when he was in the command post.

Now, when he rushed out and really started aiming outside, he realized that this person's steps were a bit strange, and he couldn't aim at her no matter what.

The constantly moving footsteps always made her figure flash across the sights, not giving him time to react at all.

Seeing Ji Wudi advance more than ten meters, Tezuka Kai finally couldn't hold back.

Seeing Ji Wudi's figure appear in the sights, he immediately fired.

"Bang!"

Ji Wudi felt a bullet whizzing past her, and saw two Japanese soldiers crawling on the ground a hundred meters away, preparing unhurriedly.

Those who can act calmly on the battlefield are not to be trifled with!

Ji Wudi was going to deal with such Japanese soldiers. She pointed her submachine gun and returned a burst of fire.

She was more careful when running. Jing Liquan, who was beside her, also discovered the two Japanese soldiers in the distance.

Stand still, aim! Fire!

All in one go!

Tezuka Kai and Tomosaka Hyuga were shot at the same time, and they could no longer fire.

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro did not hesitate this time. Seeing several Japanese soldiers being shot dead like this,

He immediately rushed out of the command post. He was not going to command on the front line, but wanted to retreat back to the city.

His battalion still has a defense line on the city wall. These troops are so brave on the plains. With the city wall to stop them, they should not be able to attack, right!

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro intentionally had fewer Japanese soldiers following him, but suddenly twenty or thirty Japanese soldiers rushed out of a house on the ground.

A pile of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers fled towards the city, which did not escape Hua Xiao's eyes.

The ground attack aircraft chased after these dozen Japanese soldiers and opened fire, until all these Japanese soldiers were beaten into minced meat.

Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro never expected that his first time going to the front line would be his death on the front line, and he couldn't even retreat.

Regiment Commander Ishitani Shinzaburo in the city silently put down the phone after receiving the news of Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro's honorable death.

He also has a bad feeling now: the biggest difference between the team attacking Gaoan and the team defending Gaoan the day before yesterday is that the weapons are completely different.

His regiment's artillery is finished. This is what Battalion Commander Inoue Riku reported: the entire artillery battalion was subjected to devastating strafing by planes.

It was strafing, not bombing! The artillery battalion had never prepared for air defense. It was pinned to the ground by planes in the air and strafed repeatedly. Only one in ten of the entire battalion survived. The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were unable to operate the cannons at all.

This is unfortunate news!

Regiment Commander Ishitani Shinzaburo can only pin his last hope on the Nakadai Kazuki Cavalry Battalion now.

He ordered the cavalry battalion to immediately charge towards the attacking team in the east, to avenge Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro and bring back his body.

Letting the cavalry battalion attack the east is not just to avenge Battalion Commander Ito Taro. The regimental commander is already preparing to escape.

He thinks that if the cavalry battalion can repel the attacking infantry, he will immediately lead the team out of the city and return to Fengxin.

The team defending Gaoan is not just Battalion Commander Ito Chitaro's battalion suffering heavy casualties. Okazaki Naoto's battalion, defending Gaoan's west, is also suffering very heavy casualties.

So much so that he felt unable to bear it. However, Battalion Commander Okazaki Naoto did not personally command outside the city. Although he had lost two infantry companies, the entire battalion's command system was still there.

Ji Wudi is charging in the front. This is the second time she has led a team to attack Gaoan City.

The second time she led a team to the outside of Gaoan City's wall, just when she was about to rush to the city wall.

The city gate opened, and a team of Japanese cavalry suddenly rushed out of the city.

Nakadai Kazuki's battalion has a total of more than seven hundred cavalry. This time, they were all dispatched.

Rushing out of the opened city gate and charging towards the First Company, no matter how good a person's combat skills are, it is useless against such a cavalry charge.

First Company Commander Jing Liquan ordered, "Machine guns, heavy machine guns, immediately block them and don't let them charge forward."

Hua Xiao in the air saw this cavalry that suddenly rushed out, and was also calling out, "Strafing them from behind, I'll block them in front."

The First Company's infantry guns fired at the city gate. A shell exploded in the city gate cave, and you could see many warhorses staggering and falling to the ground after running a few steps when they rushed out of the city gate.

Matsushita Shiji was riding a warhorse just when he rushed into the city gate cave and saw many warhorses and Japanese soldiers piled up on the ground.

The neighing of warhorses and the groaning of Japanese soldiers echoed in the city gate cave. He was eager to charge and did not pay attention to these Japanese soldiers calling for help.

The warhorse stepped on the ground softly. It didn't matter whether it was stepping on the warhorse or the Japanese soldiers being crushed by the warhorse.

The most important thing now is to rush out and repel the attacking team, and then come back to rescue them.

Tomosaka Hyuga fell to the ground. He was not injured himself, but his feet were crushed by the warhorse and he couldn't get up.

Just being stepped on a few times by the warhorses that followed up, he now felt that all the bones in his body were broken.

When he saw Matsushita Shiji, he quickly called out his name. The two of them had been drinking together yesterday.

Hearing someone calling his name, Matsushita Shiji was very helpless. Even if he wanted to stop now, he didn't dare. There were still warhorses behind him urging him to move forward.

If he stopped, the warhorses behind him would accidentally step on him and he would fall here too.

Although he heard that it was Tomosaka Hyuga calling for help, Matsushita Shiji could only pretend that he didn't hear it and drove the warhorse all the way out.

As soon as these cavalry rushed out, they were greeted by a dense barrage of bullets.

The soldiers of the First Company have all rushed up. They will temporarily not attack the city wall, but will defend the city gate and strafe.

With a line of fire composed of heavy machine guns, machine guns, submachine guns, rocket launchers, and infantry guns, the Nakadai Kazuki Cavalry Battalion simply cannot charge up.

Such a charge cannot last. Battalion Commander Nakadai Kazuki does not know that his rear team is also suffering from the ravages of planes in the air.

Hua Hong saw in the air that the Japanese cavalry was no longer a threat, and only then ordered the planes to strafe the Japanese defense line on the city wall.

The city gate has been opened. I believe the attacking infantry team will directly attack from the city gate.

The air force focused on attacking the Japanese soldiers near the city gate. Ji Wudi saw the planes in the air strafing the Japanese soldiers along the city gate.

She ordered, "Follow me!"

She has already rushed towards the city gate. When she rushed into the city gate cave, she smelled the bloody smell, the smell of feces and urine after the warhorse's belly ruptured, which was extremely unpleasant.

The ground here was covered with a layer of corpses. When she rushed in, there was no more neighing of warhorses or groaning of Japanese soldiers. They were either trampled to death by warhorses or blown up by the shells that kept hitting later.

The artillerymen of the First Company saw that the power of the shells was greatest in the city gate cave, and had always intentionally fired the shells into the city gate cave.

This is correct. The Japanese soldiers squeezed in the city gate cave had no choice in the narrow space and could only withstand all the shrapnel and the huge noise generated by the explosion.

It's just that the sound made them dizzy, not to mention the shock wave generated by the explosion and the flying debris, as well as the broken bricks and rubble stirred up by the explosion.

Ji Wudi leading the team into Gaoan City Gate declared the failure of the Ishitani Shinzaburo Regiment's defense.

Jiang Yuanwu, who had been defending and firing at the Inoue Riku Artillery Position in the city, connected to Shi Junxia's regimental headquarters and told him the location of the Japanese artillery position.

He also said, "The cannons are intact!"