However, compared to the smooth attack on Haza Town, the troops attacking Nanao encountered some obstacles.

Since he received a message from Haza Town, Nanao had almost two hours to prepare for the KPA attack.

The entire Noto Peninsula is in the shape of an inverted "L", so a bay is formed at the corner, and there is a small island in the bay Notojima, and Nanao is located in this bay area, due to the geographical location, Nanao developed earlier, and the history is relatively long, and in 1428 it has begun to build the city, and in 1583, Oda Nobunaga's subordinates Maeda Toshiya entered the castle from Nanao's Komaruzan Castle, ruled Kaga, Echichu, and Noto, and established the Kaga Domain, which is also regarded as Nanao leaving a mark in history.

At present, the population of Nanao is about 250,000, of which about 80,000 are in the town, and there is a well-equipped port in the city where 10,000 tons of ships can be berthed. And there are also 2 squadrons of troops, one is city defense and the other is coastal defense, with a total of about 300 people.

The current mayor of Nanao, named Naoshige Oshima, was a Japanese Army soldier who had fought in the Sino-Japanese War and had been on the battlefield as a squadron leader at the time, and when he was discharged from the army, he was promoted to the rank of Shosa.

After receiving the alarm from Haza Town, Naoshige Oshima immediately arranged for the defense of Nanao, first mobilized the army, and organized the police, veterans, etc. in Nanao Castle, a total of more than 500 people, and removed several small and medium-caliber artillery pieces from the shore-based battery, and at the same time organized the residents of the city to help the army dig trenches, pile sandbags, and set up positions outside Nanao Castle to prepare to block the attack of the People's Army. Therefore, by the time the KPA reached the vicinity of Nanao, the Japanese army had basically completed the preparation of the defensive position. Moreover, from the professional point of view of the People's Army, the Japanese army's defensive positions were arranged in a moderate manner, not at an amateur level.

However, compared with the offensive momentum of the People's Army, the Japanese defense line is still vulnerable, after all, the People's Army has 2 regiments of troops, almost 5,000 troops, although there is no artillery, but with a large number of mortars of various types, so both the strength and firepower are far superior to the Japanese.

At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army was completely suppressed by the fire of the People's Army, and the battle only lasted for more than 10 minutes, and the regiment commander Ban Jianwei ordered the 1st Regiment of the mercenary army, like the Japanese army's position, to launch an attack, and the result was this charge, the mercenary successfully broke through the Japanese position, and the Japanese army was withdrawn and defeated.

However, although the Japanese army was defeated, after withdrawing to the Nanao Castle Castle, it was quickly reorganized under the organization of Naoshige Oshima, and was broken into pieces, relying on the buildings in the castle to resist the succession.

Although the area of the Nanao urban area is not large, after all, there are more than 80,000 people, more than 15,000 households, there are nearly 20,000 houses in the city alone, and there are nearly 100 streets and alleys.

Naoshige Oshima, on the other hand, took some of his soldiers to hide in Koyamamaru Castle and continued to resist under the cover of the city walls.

Koyama Marujo Castle is a standard Japanese-style castle building, which is basically inhabited by inhabitants, but is purely military. Although Koyamamaru Castle does not occupy a large area, it has thick stone walls, arrow towers, watchtowers, and other buildings, as well as the landmark of a Japanese-style castle, the towering Moriten Pavilion.

The KPA broke through the Japanese position, and the number of casualties did not fall to 30, and the number of casualties was less than 10, but after launching an attack on the Nanao district, in less than half an hour, the casualties exceeded 50, and the number of soldiers killed reached 27.

Seeing this, the regiment commander Ban Jianwei did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly ordered the troops to be withdrawn from the city for reorganization, and ordered the mercenaries to temporarily retreat, and the People's Army was responsible for the attack. Because urban warfare requires cooperation and patience, as well as appropriate weapons, and in these aspects the KPA is much stronger than the mercenaries, if the mercenaries are allowed to attack, it will inevitably cause heavy casualties, although the purpose of the KPA to set up mercenaries is to let the mercenaries assist the KPA in fighting and do some dirty work, but it does not mean that the mercenaries are to be used as cannon fodder.

At the same time, Ban Jianwei also ordered that the residents of the city should no longer show mercy to the residents of the city, and once they found that the residents of the city had behaviors that the People's Army considered dangerous, they could immediately shoot and kill them, and if it was determined that there were other threats from enemy troops hiding in a certain house, they could directly carry out artillery bombardment, without worrying about the casualties of the residents, etc., and then launch another attack on the Seven Tails City.

The KPA has received special training in urban warfare, and once it becomes serious and does not have to worry about the casualties of the residents, then the offensive efficiency will be much higher, and its own casualties will be greatly reduced, and of course, the casualties of the residents will also increase significantly, and many houses will be destroyed by shells. At the same time, after clearing a block, it will be left to the mercenary guards who will follow behind, and the Japanese soldiers will never be allowed to take advantage of it again.

However, this did work, and the Japanese soldiers found that their space for movement was getting smaller and smaller, and the houses of the residents were not safe places to take refuge. Moreover, with the KPA's unscrupulous shelling of houses, some residents began to refuse the entry of the Japanese soldiers, after all, at this time, it was better to protect themselves first.

Of course, the speed of the KPA was undoubtedly much slower than that, so after more than three hours of fierce fighting, the number of Japanese soldiers and residents of the city exceeded 1,000, and nearly 100 houses were destroyed, but it finally took control of most of the Nanao City area, and only Koyama Marujo and a few surrounding areas still had about 100 Japanese soldiers under the command of Naoshige Oshima who put up stubborn resistance.

Although there were not many Japanese defenders, the strong walls of Koyama Marujo Castle caused a lot of trouble to the KPA, because mortars were not suitable for destroying strong fortified targets, and in order to carry light barrels, the 1st Regiment only brought 60 mortars and 82 mortars, which were very limited in attacking the city walls. Therefore, the KPA used mortars to bombard the walls of Koyamamaru Castle fiercely, but although more than 100 shells were fired, the walls were filled with holes, but they were unable to break the walls.

At this time, Ban Jianwei couldn't help but regret a little, he knew that he would meet Jiancheng here, so he should have brought a few 100 mortars, only mortars of this caliber have a certain ability to strike at solid targets.

Of course, Qiwei City is only more than 10 kilometers away from the beachhead, and Ban Jianwei can use the walkie-talkie to directly contact the command headquarters and ask the command headquarters to send 100 mortar reinforcements, but at most it is one hour, and 100 mortar troops can reach the battlefield. However, Ban Jianwei did not intend to rescue the headquarters, but decided to take a strong attack on Xiaoshan Jiucheng. Although the People's Army attaches great importance to firepower, the traversers do not want to train the People's Army into a force that can only blindly rely on firepower, and if the firepower is insufficient, it cannot fight. What's more, in addition to the strong city walls, Koyama Marujo does not have many defenders, and the People's Army can completely attack and take it.

Ban Jianwei first ordered to concentrate mortars and machine guns to attack the city wall and the Shoutian Pavilion in the city to provide cover for the assault troops, and at the same time sent two assault teams to attack from the city walls in two directions.

Since the KPA also did not have long ladders, it adopted the most primitive siege tactics, climbing with ropes. I saw the assault team advance under the city wall, throw a rope with a claw hook to the city, and then climb upward. Fortunately, the number of Japanese troops was small, and the firepower of the People's Army was too fierce, providing a tight fire barrier for the assault team, and the soldiers of the People's Army were also trained to climb the wall, so it didn't take long for some soldiers to climb the city wall, and then more and more soldiers climbed the city wall.

Oshima Naoshige saw it, and also knew that if the soldiers of the People's Army were allowed to climb the city wall, Koyama Marujo would definitely not be able to hold it, so he also commanded the Japanese army to brave the fire of the People's Army to suppress and desperately counterattack, but the number was too small, and after the soldiers of the People's Army climbed the city wall, they also immediately organized a position defense, but the Japanese army still could not prevent the People's Army soldiers from pulling the rope one after another and climbing the city wall.

At this time, the People's Army, which had climbed the city wall, also began to send some personnel, go down to the city to open the city gate, and enlarge the troops into the city, and the Japanese army was powerless to stop it at this time, so it didn't take long, the gate of Koyama Maru Castle opened, and this time it was finally the mercenary turn to go into battle, and they all entered from the city gate to find the remaining Japanese soldiers.

In fact, at this time, there were not many Japanese soldiers left, including the wounded, there were only more than 50 people, plus a few other personnel in Koyama Marujo, but more than 150 people, even the main general Oshima Naoshige was seriously injured at this time, and he was unable to resist the surprise attack of the mercenaries, and the red-eyed Russian soldiers searched around in Koyama Maru, and they didn't care about the wounded or the wounded at all, as long as they saw the Japanese soldiers, they were killed, and the non-uniformed personnel were also killed, although the People's Army tried their best to stop it, but in the end there were only more than 6 survivors left in the city. Naoshige Oshima also died in the chaos.

Of course, the capture of Koyama Marujo also marked the full occupation of Nanao City by the KPA, and the battle lasted for nearly 5 hours, with 53 KPA killed and 127 wounded, 77 mercenaries killed and 154 wounded, while the Japanese soldiers and the residents of Nanao City were killed 1573 and 2155 wounded, and 117 houses were destroyed. Only then did the People's Army fully complete its operational plan for landing on the Noto Peninsula.