A shockwave spilled countless rubble and other debris on Tao Ran's body, and he hurriedly looked back, only to see a soldier behind him lying on the ground with a painful face, his right leg had disappeared, and Bai Sensen's bones were looming in the minced flesh.

"Ahh

Looking at his tragic situation, although Tao Ran was also in great pain in his heart, he was a commander after all, so he could only leave behind this seriously injured soldier and command a counterattack.

The firepower of the opposite side is far inferior to its own, but with heavy weapons, the firepower on both sides is equal, and no one can help the other.

Listening to the gunfire of the three-story building, Tao Ran had a number in his heart, the firepower configuration of this three-story building was roughly a mortar, a heavy machine gun and two light machine guns, about the strength of a platoon.

Tao Ran knew that he couldn't build the small building opposite by relying on the nine people alone, and even if he could, he would suffer heavy losses.

He clearly remembered the speech of His Majesty the Emperor during the training of recruits, as long as the problem can be solved with firepower, he must cherish his life.

He hurriedly picked up the walkie-talkie of the herald next to him and asked for support from Shang Feng.

On the Purple Mountain outside the gate of the south city of Hanjing City, it is already brightly lit and full of people at this moment.

Because of the wide field of vision, the front-line combat command was arranged here, and similarly, because of the excellent geographical conditions, the artillery commander first took a fancy to the open space halfway up the mountain.

In an instant, the halfway of the Purple Mountain, which was originally overgrown with weeds, instantly turned into a steel forest, with countless cannon barrels towering to the sky, and countless artillery soldiers were busy setting up formations and carrying ammunition.

I saw that the barrel of a PZH2000 self-propelled howitzer suddenly began to adjust its position, and the surrounding artillerymen looked at this artillery truck, you know, this is the first show of their artillery in this battle, and it is also the first gun, but it must be fired.

The data was entered into the computer, a shell was loaded, only a loud "boom" was heard, the earth shook, the dust was flying, a shell swished across the sky, and the surrounding artillery all surrounded it.

Then, less than half a minute later, the radio in the car heard the answer that the target had been hit, and the surrounding artillerymen smiled and hugged each other.

The first shot was fired, which was auspicious good news.

In Hanjing City, Tao Ran looked at the three-story building at the intersection in front of him that was gone, leaving only rubble and a pit about five meters deep, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that the first shot of the artillery unit was given to Tao Ran's small unit.

Seeing that the obstacles in front of him were cleared, Tao Ran hurriedly asked people to carry the wounded down and continued to attack with the remaining soldiers.

From this crossroads, Tao Ran's forward squad encountered more and more enemies, so he had to defend in place and wait for the rear reinforcements to arrive.

Due to the lack of strength of the vanguard troops entering the city, the various units reluctantly stopped advancing after penetrating more than ten kilometers into the city, and the deeper they went into the center of Hanjing, the more and more enemies they encountered, and even a number of heavy weapons such as armored vehicles appeared.

This made the Han army, which originally had absolute firepower superiority, inevitably a little depressed, and could only wait for support from the rear.

At the Purple Mountain Frontline Headquarters, the artillery positions in front of them continued to burst into flames in the dark night, and the fierce artillery fire continued, and the choking smoke of gunpowder almost covered the entire mountain, but Tao Ran, as the front-line commander, had to insist on command in this environment.

Listening to the reports of the officers under his command and the dynamics of the sand table on the table, Tao Ran's brows became tighter and tighter, and he hurriedly sent a herald to ask the headquarters to send support troops as soon as possible.

Similarly, Xu Yang, who was thousands of miles away, frowned slightly, and asked his subordinates, "How long will it take for the nearest reinforcements to arrive?"

Hearing Xu Yang's question, the officer in charge of communications hurriedly stood up from the radio station and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the 11th Division of the Third Army has arrived at Jinshan Town half an hour ago, and it is only 50 kilometers away from the Purple Mountain Front Headquarters, and according to their estimation of the speed of their march, it is probably only more than 10 kilometers away from Purple Mountain. ”

"Very good, continue to urge them to speed up, by the way, what kind of division does this eleventh division belong to?" Xu Yang's face finally looked better, and he continued to ask.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the 11th Division belongs to the motorized infantry division, including a tank regiment, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, two infantry regiments, and also has an artillery battalion directly under the division, carrying a number of heavy artillery, which belongs to the Tianzi-level establishment. The officer replied truthfully.

Each unit in the Han army has a corresponding level division, the Tianzi level is a first-class army, and so on are the Tianzi level, the earth character level, and the herringbone level.

At present, there are only three Tianzi-class units in the Southeast Theater, of which two Tianzi-class motorized infantry divisions belong to the army, while the remaining ones belong to the air force.

The entire Southeast Theater is so vast that it is naturally impossible to send all the troops to recover the national capital, and most of the troops still have to carry out normal military operations, and slowly recover those lands occupied by the Japanese invaders in one town and one county.

A battle is like a big tree, the trunk is necessarily important, but it also needs lush branches and foliage to form a finished tree.

After getting the accurate news from the headquarters, Tao Ran's long-hanging heart calmed down a little, but after listening to the reports of his subordinates, he found that the situation in the city did not seem to be as good as he imagined.

The intersection of Longhu Road in Hanjing City, which is only four kilometers away from the Imperial Palace, and the towering minaret of the Imperial Palace can even be seen with the naked eye, which was already a prosperous neighborhood in the city before the war.

Of course, this can be seen from the clothes worn by the corpses all over the ground.

The high-rise buildings on both sides of the street were reduced to rubble during the exchange of fire between the two sides, and the houses continued to collapse in the shelling, directly burying the enemy and enemy soldiers who had no time to escape from the houses.

Jiang Chen used to only need one squad to sweep a street, but now, the entire company is concentrated at this intersection, but it still can't take the Japanese troops on the opposite side.

Even, the Japanese side began to have artillery support, which made the Han army, which had the advantage of artillery fire, also lose this advantage. But no matter what, the Han soldiers in body armor and armed with automatic weapons still annihilated the enemy in the ravages of enemy artillery, but their own losses became greater.

At this moment, Jiang Chen's third company still had more than 100 people before the battle, but after fighting with the Japanese army for a day and night, the number of troops was reduced by more than 30%, although the number of people has not been counted, but according to Jiang Chen's estimates, there are probably 60 or 70 people left on his side.

Although it seems to be a lot, if they have been pinned down by the Japanese and let the enemy's artillery fire continue to bombard, I am afraid that the casualties will increase, which will make their already insufficient troops even more stretched.

It can't go on like this, Jiang Chen said secretly, at this moment, a soldier crawled to Jiang Chen's side and shouted loudly: "Platoon commander, I just counted the number of people, and there are eighteen people left in our platoon." ”

Braving the fierce explosions and gunshots on the battlefield, and under the repeated repetition of the soldiers beside him, Jiang Chen heard what he said clearly, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little empty.

The two veteran platoon commanders who served as his immediate superiors before the war had already died on this night, and according to the order, he, the squad leader, was promoted to the line of fire and became the platoon commander.

However, such a promotion price is not what he wants.

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