Early the next morning, Li Guotao led the main force of the seventh column to Chengde and launched an attack on the Japanese army, the battle lasted until noon, and the Japanese army outside the eastern city was forced to abandon most of the positions outside the city, and the main force retreated to the city, trying to hold the city to the death.At the same time, more than 80,000 people from the Ninth Column of the Eighth Route Army and the main force of the Pingxi Military Region also launched a siege of Chengde from the west and south.Originally, according to the plan of the headquarters, the seventh column of the Eighth Route Army attacked from all sides in the eastern Hebei region to attract the main force of the Japanese army, especially the main force of the Japanese army in Rehe to the front line of the Great Wall.However, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army did not expect that Li Guotao would lead the main force to easily break through the defense line of the Great Wall of the Japanese army and approach the city of Chengde.Originally, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was not completely sure whether it could take Chengde, but now with the addition of Li Guotao, a fierce general, and tens of thousands of tigers and wolves under him, it can really be said that his confidence has doubled.Therefore, the headquarters directly ordered Li Guotao to be appointed as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, responsible for coordinating the recovery of Chengde by various troops.Li Guotao suddenly received this appointment, although he was a little surprised, but he was not polite, and immediately ordered the Pingxi Military Region to send 10,000 troops to the south to assist the new 3rd Brigade and the new 5th Brigade to attack Gubeikou from both sides, and the rest of the troops were responsible for attacking Chengde with all their might, striving to take Chengde in the shortest possible time.However, Chengde City is a mountain city, surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it is not easy to take Chengde.Li Guotao immediately convened an emergency meeting of his main generals.Li Guotao said with a serious face: "In 1933, the Japanese army attacked Rehe, and because Rehe Chairman Tang Yulin fled without a fight, the 100,000-strong army of Rehe lost its unified command and was defeated by the Japanese army.What's more, the little devil only relied on 128 cavalry to take Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province, which led to the loss of Rehe in various places, and the fire of war burned directly along the Great Wall, under the heroic resistance of the 29th Army and other troops, this blocked the Japanese army's front and curbed the ambition of the Japanese invaders to further invade.It is a great shame that a provincial capital city is easily occupied by more than 100 little devils.Now that more than 100,000 soldiers of our Eighth Route Army are in Rehe, and there are troops rushing to support in the future, the purpose of our attack on Rehe this time is to wash away this shame, recover Chengde, and recover the entire Rehe Province. ”"Regain Chengde and Rehe" The soldiers were excited, and they raised their arms and shouted one by one.Li Guotao waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "At present, the Japanese army in Chengde has basically retreated into the city, trying to rely on the city fortifications and wait for reinforcements.The little devil will definitely not give up Rehe easily, the Kwantung Army will definitely send troops to reinforce Rehe, and the North China Dispatch Army in the Guannai will not sit idly by.According to the latest information received, the North China Dispatch Army has already transferred two divisions from the Henan battlefield to the north to support the eastern Hebei region. ”Li Guotao paused, and then said: "Although Chengde has fallen into the encirclement of my army of more than 100,000, the current situation is still very critical for our army.We must take Chengde before the Japanese reinforcements arrive, so that we can concentrate our main forces to meet the Japanese reinforcements with all our might.Therefore, even if Chengde City is really an iron city, we will smash it to pieces this time to wash away the shame of the Rehe War of Resistance. ”"Avenge the shame and take Chengde" The generals shouted again, in order to express their determination to take Chengde with seven oaths."
Good" Li Guotao said with a look of admiration: "As long as we work together, even the most powerful enemy will be defeated by us and completely trampled under our feet." ”Li Guotao then said with a serious face: "In the north, the eighth column of our Eighth Route Army has occupied the paddock, preparing to block the Japanese reinforcements that may arrive in Chifeng, and there are also troops stationed in Xifengkou and Lengkou along the Great Wall, at least they can resist the counterattack of the devils in a short time."
The only thing we are worried about now is the direction of Lingyuan in the east, where the Japanese army is very likely to support Chengde.Now I order the new 4th Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade to advance to Pingquan at once, regain Pingquan, and prepare to block the Japanese reinforcements from the east. ”"Yes," Yang Erhu and Guo Lihui responded in unison.Li Guotao nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "The new First Brigade, the new Second Brigade, the artillery brigade and other units directly under the column are preparing to launch a general attack on Chengde City.The time for the general attack is scheduled for 5 a.m. tomorrow, when the 9th Column and the main forces of the Pingxi Military Region will also launch an attack from other directions at the same time.Our 100,000-strong army besieged on three sides, striving to take Chengde in one fell swoop. ”"Yes," the rest of the congregation replied in unison.Although the time of the general attack was set for the morning of the next day, the fighting in the afternoon of that day did not stop, and the Eighth Route Army was still doing its best to clear out the remnants of the Japanese army outside the city, further compressing the living space of the devils, and at the same time launching one tentative attack after another on Chengde City.At the same time, the Japanese army also launched a counteroffensive on Lengkou and Xifengkou, but under the stubborn resistance of the defenders of our Eighth Route Army, the Japanese offensive was broken up again and again, until nightfall, and the little devils with heavy losses were forced to stop the attack.Retreated to his own position, silently wounded, ready to continue the attack in the coming day.At five o'clock the next day, just after dawn, a rumbling cannon sound sounded on the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.Under Li Guotao's order, the units of the Eighth Route Army concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces of various types and launched a wanton bombardment of Chengde's fortifications.In the piercing whistling sound, the dense cannonballs continued to fall on the city walls of Chengde like hailstones."
Boom, boom, boom" A deafening explosion sounded continuously, and pieces of artillery fire continued to rise, drowning the city wall in a field of artillery fire.Streams of gunpowder smoke rose into the sky, drifting in all directions, and gradually enveloped the entire Chengde City.Within a radius of dozens of miles, the earth-shattering sound of artillery could be heard gently, and the ground began to tremble slightly, as if an earthquake had occurred.In the midst of a scream, the Japanese puppet soldiers on the city wall were blown into a mist of broken corpses and blood one after another.Many little devils were so frightened that they hid in the fortifications and shivered, silently praying for their bullshit Amaterasu to bless them and keep the cannonballs from falling on their heads, but unfortunately their shit Apayasu couldn't help them at all, and Lord Yama warmly embraced them and generously put them in hell.After a heavy bombardment, the sound of the artillery gradually stopped.At this time, suddenly a burst of earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded, and thousands of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army roared loudly and viciously pounced on Chengde City, launching the final general attack on the Japanese army.aa2705221: