At 4:26 p.m., the New Third Regiment and the Independent Regiment under the leadership of Li Yunlong and Han Feng approached the southern gate of Linfen.

The ancient city of Linfen, with a long history, is said to be the early Ming Dynasty at the earliest, in order to resist foreign invasion, the country's prefectures, prefectures, and counties generally build city walls according to their hierarchical status, in order to rely on defense, Linfen city wall was built at that time, and later due to military needs, and on the basis of the original, the city wall was rebuilt into a more reliable, solid masonry structure, these hundreds of years have experienced ups and downs, suffered from devastation and the withering of the years, but has always stood still, and has made great contributions to the stability of the people of Linfen, until modern times were knocked by guns and cannons, and the city was broken, which fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

It's just that at this moment, it was used by the Japanese army, turned the muzzle, and aimed it at the Chinese.

On the top of the six- to ten-meter-high city wall, the top of the wall with a width of four or five meters paved with bricks was lined up with Japanese troops, and the light and heavy machine guns were lined up in the gaps between the battlements of the outer wall on both sides of the city gate, and the machine gunners were prostrate, holding the firing buttons of the machine guns, waiting solemnly, and the two deputy shooters, who were ready to take over at any time, hid silently behind the battlements on both sides of the machine gunners.

The muzzles of the guns were tilted down together, aimed outside the city gates, and once the enemy appeared, they could immediately inflict a devastating blow on the enemy with powerful firepower.

Outside the city gate, there is also a moat next to the root of the city wall, which was originally one zhang deep and wide, but after the Japanese army occupied the city, they did things more resolutely, and simply expanded it to three zhang in depth and width, and the only way to enter and exit in peacetime was through the suspension bridge.

This unexpected architectural feature rendered the ladder ropes of the old era completely useless, and there was hardly a better way to attack the city gates than the drawbridge was the only way.

In this case, without the internal collapse of the county seat, it would be very difficult for external enemies to break through the city, even if Han Feng and Li Yunlong temporarily eliminated the enemy at the city gate, if they couldn't use the drawbridge for a while, they would not be able to enter the city at all.

The danger of the ancient city gate of Linfen is really a one-man pass, and it is not open.

In front of such an ancient city gate that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even Li Yunlong, who has been on the battlefield for a long time and is well-informed, has no good way to attack the city for a while.

Again, the method of crushing the enemy with absolute force and force, as in the capture of Jiangxian and Quwo, will not work here at all.

Not to mention that this bottomless moat is not easy to pass through, not to mention that the Japanese army is heavily guarded at the top of the city wall, and the machine guns and artillery are solemnly waiting, which may give a fatal blow to the enemy besieging the city at any time.

Although Li Yunlong sometimes seems to be out of order in battle, and there are a lot of ghost ideas, he also cherishes the lives of the soldiers under his command.

Sharpening knives does not mistake woodcutters, at this point, Han Feng and Li Yunlong saw the same heroes, and the two immediately ordered to be stationed a few kilometers outside the southern city gate where the enemy was eyeing them, and did not order the siege of the city for the time being, but discussed specific countermeasures.

On the south gate of Linfen, the supreme commander of the Japanese army, the Japanese army captain Gu Saburo, looked at Han Feng and Li Yunlong who were temporarily stopped not far away, and a contemptuous sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He has elite soldiers in hand, a brigade plus nearly two squadrons of imperial elites, about 1,500 people, and more than 2,000 people from two brigades of the Imperial Cooperative Army are ready to be dispatched at any time.

Gu Saburo also has a superhuman strategic vision, he has already judged from the form that after Li Yunlong and Han Feng and his party break through Xiangfen, they will definitely come to the south gate of Linfen, so they will take the south gate as a key defense gate in advance.

On this small south city gate, he stationed nearly one-third of the elite strength of his Japanese army, plus the number of most of the imperial alliance army's number of troops to help defend, Gu Saburo has this self-confidence, on the south city gate under his heavy defense, with a strong firepower advantage, not to mention the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army, even if the two armies of the Central Army come over, he can also withstand the pressure and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

And the facts in front of him all prove this, Han Feng and his entourage fought all the way, like a bamboo, and it took almost less than a day to break through all the counties around Linfen, starting from Hongdong and extending to Jiangxian County.

This kind of speed of breaking the city, not to mention others, even Gu Saburo was taken aback.

But even if it is such an enemy, at this moment, the soldiers are approaching the city, and seeing that the southern gate of Linfen is impregnable, don't they still choose to retreat and dare not forcibly attack the city?

Gu Saburo had heard that when he captured Quwo, Jiangxian, Yicheng and other county seats, the enemy directly attacked the four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest at the same time, regardless of the strategic rules.

Such tactics did not work in Linfen.

The city wall of Linfen stretches for more than ten miles, the place is so big, if it is around the city wall from the south gate to the north gate, it may take several hours, even if the enemy bypasses it, there are Japanese puppet army heavy troops in Linfen County, and the four city gates can also be defended as tightly as this south city gate.

It is impossible for the enemy to spend this time in vain, both sides know the urgency and importance of time at this moment, and the Japanese reinforcements from the north, south and east may arrive at any time, in other words, Saburo Valley is the commander of the Eighth Route Army, and he will definitely choose a nearby city gate to attack the city directly.

But even if Saburo Gu, who thinks he is smart, puts himself in the other party's shoes, he wants to break his head, and he can't find any opportunity to break the city.

He was just a little surprised, but he didn't expect that these two teams did not attack Xiangfen, but directly bypassed Xiangfen and went to the city.

This undoubtedly provided more time for the Eighth Route Army to support the siege.

"Keep an eye on the dirt and report to me if they have any weird moves."

After Saburo Tani gave the order, he suddenly laughed at himself again, he felt that he had no need to deal with this rabble with such an attitude of attention, he had heavy guards, and strong firepower, holding on to this steep city wall, let alone a few hours, as long as he wanted, it was ten days and half a month, and the enemy did not want to break through the city.

But is that really the case?

Although the southern gate of Linfen seemed to be an insurmountable curse under the strict defense of the Japanese army, when discussing the strategy of breaking the city, both Han Feng and Li Yunlong firmly believed that as long as they were under the correct command, the Linfen city gate would definitely be broken, and now it was just a lack of a clever plan to go bankrupt.

How to take the south gate of Linfen?

The generals were in deep thought at the Provisional Military Conference.

Li Yunlong smoked a pack of Japanese-style cigarettes one by one, which was seized when Jiangxian County was breached, he had this problem for a long time, and he always liked to smoke two when he thought about the problem, but fortunately it was an open-air environment at this moment, and the smoke dissipated quickly, otherwise according to the past habits, political commissar Zhao Gang would have frowned again.

Han Feng is quietly waiting for the opportunity, Linfen is the last key point of all the battles this time, Han Feng lined up a lot of cattle here at a very early stage, he knows the situation of the four city gates in Linfen, and he has been thinking about the way to break through the city for a long time.

He is confident about breaking the city, but who can guarantee that other generals will not be able to think of a better way?

Sharpening the knife and cutting wood, Han Feng was not in a hurry, just quietly waiting for the ideas of the generals.

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(The monthly pass is not more than 1,000, it seems that there is no need to add more today, hehe!) ）