Beat the devil with a system

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The security regiment had fought against the 4th Division of the Japanese Army in Osaka. Li Hong knew the combat effectiveness of the 4th Division best, as well as the enemy's cunning tactics.

Among all the national army units in the entire 5th theater, except for the security regiment, no unit can take advantage of the Japanese 4th Division.

Now the 4th Division of the Japanese Army is stationed in Lengshuipu Town, which is less than 50 kilometers away from Taierzhuang.

From a military point of view and geographical location, the 4th Division of the Japanese Army has the most advantage in reinforcing the 9th Brigade. Moreover, the road from Lengshuipu Town to Taierzhuang is flat, which is especially suitable for the Japanese mechanized troops to launch an attack.

Beware of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army. All the officers and generals agree with this point, but which force will stop the 4th Division of the Japanese Army from attacking?

The officers looked at each other in blank dismay, and they had no idea how to deal with the Osaka Division.

Li Hong saw the embarrassment of the other generals, and he volunteered: "Sirs, I am familiar with the 4th Division of the Japanese Army. The blocking mission can be entrusted to our security regiment."

"There is a security regiment blocking the 4th Division Japanese Army, very good, very good!!"

Li Zongyao agreed to Li Hong's request to fight, and he was not at ease if other troops blocked the 4th Division.

Immediately, Li Zongyao finalized Li Hong's combat deployment, and immediately issued combat orders to the troops under the command of the 5th theater.

After receiving the blocking combat mission, without further delay, Li Hong quickly left the frontline headquarters and returned to the security regiment without staying too long.

As soon as he returned to the security regiment, Li Hong mobilized three battalions, and the battalions who received the combat missions began to prepare for the battle.

The cavalry battalion, the first infantry battalion, and the fifth infantry battalion were responsible for blocking the 4th division of the Japanese army.

The national army did not have powerful attack tanks. In order to cooperate with the national army to encircle and wipe out the 9th Brigade of Devils, Li Hong seconded more than a dozen chariots to the frontline troops.

Considering that the devils would definitely send planes to support them, Li Hong also deployed anti-aircraft weapons to the front line to make up for the lack of anti-aircraft firepower of the national army.

After deploying everything, Li Hong set off in a hurry with his troops.

This time it was not a war of annihilation and did not require too many troops, so Li Hong did not lead the whole regiment to attack.

Li Hong had fought against the 4th Division in Osaka, and he knew the enemy's combat effectiveness. It was no problem for the three battalions of the security regiment to block the enemy's reinforcements.

It was inevitable for the Devil's 4th Division to reinforce the 9th Brigade. However, the Osaka Division liked to deliberately delay and lose the chain as soon as they fought. According to Li Hong's judgment, the enemy would only send one regiment for reinforcements.

In order to avoid the war, the Osaka Division did all kinds of absurd things. This is really not intentional to belittle this Japanese Type A unit.

Li Hong predicted that the enemy would send a regiment of reinforcements, which was an overestimation of the courage of the commander of the Osaka Division. The enemy would most likely only send a brigade or less to deal with the Japanese headquarters.

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After a few hours.

At this time, the tens of kilometers of Taierzhuang was filled with the sound of gunfire and fierce fighting.

"Thumbs up!!!"

"Clap clap clap!!!"

"Tom tom tom!!!"

The sound of gunfire was deafening, bullets and shells flew all over the battlefield, and columns of smoke dozens of meters high were clearly visible.

Tens of thousands of troops of the national army surrounded the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army from the outer defense line. The 17th Division of the Central Army, which was in the center of the battlefield, blossomed from the center of the enemy's position and took the lead in launching a counterattack against the Japanese.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and sometimes the fighter plane will change dramatically.

Originally, the Japanese army desperately attacked the positions of the 17th Division of the Central Army, but now the devils voluntarily gave up the captured positions. Instead, the officers and soldiers of the 17th Division fought back, chasing and pestering the devils.

The offensive and defensive sides switched, and the initiative to attack was in the hands of the national army.

During the fierce battle between the 17th Division of the Central Army and the Devil's 9th Brigade, the peripheral national army troops slowly tightened the encirclement and launched attacks from the left and right wings of the enemy's position at the same time.

Although the Devil's 9th Brigade was elite and fierce in firepower, but tens of thousands of national troops took turns attacking alone, the Devil gradually showed signs of decline.

Soon, reinforcements from the north and the south of the Japanese army rushed to help, trying to rescue the 9th Brigade of the Devils.

The Japanese reinforcements moved very fast and had tanks to cooperate with the attack. However, the enemy's reinforcements from both routes were stubbornly blocked by the national army.

During several fierce battles between the devil reinforcements and the national army, the two sides fought each other for an inch of ground, and the Japanese army organized multiple charges and lost a lot of troops.

In order to save the 9th Brigade, the Japanese army sent dozens of fighter jets and bombers to join the battle.

Even though the devils had the upper hand in the air, and the number of ground artillery was stronger than that of the national army, the national army united against the enemy, and the soldiers fought tenaciously. The devil's reinforcements were still unable to break through the national army's defense line.

At this moment, 10,000+ troops from both the enemy and our side are fighting in the counties and towns around Taierzhuang.

At the same time, Li Hong led three battalions of the security regiment to [-] kilometers away from Lengshuipu Town.

The surrounding terrain on the outskirts of the town is relatively open, so Li Hong chose to ambush near a road.

This road is convenient for the enemy's mechanized troops to march. If the devils of the 4th Division want reinforcements, then this road is the only way for the enemy to pass.

Under Li Hong's order, the soldiers of the security regiment occupied the important terrain near the road with machine guns and artillery, and the rest of the soldiers quickly dug trenches with engineering shovels to carry out field fortification operations.

After the soldiers built various field fortifications, they quickly established defensive positions and firepower points according to the surrounding favorable terrain.

The security regiment set up an ambush in advance, but the Devil's 4th Division didn't know about it, because the Osaka Division had not yet received the reinforcement order from the North China Command.

When the time was pushed to noon, the two reinforcements of the Japanese army broke through the first line of defense of the blocking national army.

The Japanese reinforcements' offensive was so slow, it wasn't because the devils didn't work hard in the war, the key national army's combat effectiveness was not weak, and there were bomber support in the 5th theater.

There was no progress in the reinforcement of the devils, but the besieged 9th brigade of the devils was in trouble, and the soldiers of the devils gradually disappeared and were wiped out by the national army.

Itagaki Seishiro was not the only one who couldn't go up to the devil's reinforcements, and even the Japanese North China Command was very concerned about the survival of the 9th Brigade.

At this critical time, Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the Japanese army in North China, thought of the 4th Division under his command.

It’s not that Terauchi Shouichi had never thought of using the 4th Division as reinforcements before, but he was worried that Matsui Yusaburo was playing tricks, so the Osaka Division was not in the reinforcement sequence.

Soon, Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the Japanese army in North China, issued a death order to the 4th Division in Osaka. Terauchi Shouichi strictly ordered Matsui Yusaburo to reinforce the 9th Brigade at all costs...

Chapter 485 Encircling and Annihilating the Enemy ([-])

Matsui Yusaburo, the commander of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army, really did not like the two old devils, Toriisotani and Itagaki, but he would never dare to disobey the orders of the North China Commander.

A few days ago, the Osaka Division voluntarily withdrew from the positions outside the northern city of Taierzhuang. It sounds like evacuation, but it sounds like running away.

Although Matsui Yusaburo's escape strategy was correct, avoiding the encirclement of the neighboring 4th Division, but the Japanese commander Terauchi Shouichi was very annoyed by this.

Of course, Matsui Yusaburo has certain military talents, and the Osaka division is also very powerful. Besides, the Japanese army and the national army are currently fighting tensely, and Terauchi Shouichi cannot temporarily change generals.

Matsui Yusaburo received a telegram order from the North China Command to go to reinforce the 9th Brigade, looking very helpless.

Because he was very aware of the military situation outside Taierzhuang, if he went to reinforce the 9th Brigade, it was very likely that the reinforcements he sent would be eaten up by more than half of the national army, or the entire army would be wiped out.