"I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin! Hum! ”

Li Yunlong put down the binoculars in his hand, Lin Xi's devil looked very tough, he didn't surrender, he had no fear!

"Order artillery cover, you can attack!" Li Yunlong sneered, and then waved his hand and ordered to the staff officer who was waiting on the side.

The staff officer of the army smiled, "Yes, regiment commander!" ”

With Li Yunlong's order, Zhang Dabiao and other units, who had already completed preparations for the encirclement and siege of Linxi County, followed the agreed battle plan. Under the cover of Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire, they began to concentrate their forces in the north of Linxi County to attack the positions of the Japanese defenders.

The attacking troops concentrated two battalions, with an actual strength of more than 4,000 people, and focused on attacking the Japanese positions in the north of Linxi County. In addition, more than 3,000 people from the other three battalions of Ma Wenhai's headquarters, Sun Desheng's cavalry battalion and Duan Peng's special assault force feinted to attack the eastern, western and southern areas of the county to contain the Japanese reinforcements in the northern areas.

"Boom, boom, boom!!!"

Countless shells whistled across the sky, and in an instant, they quickly smashed heavily on the Japanese defensive positions in the north of Linxi County, exploding clouds of blood mist and soil.

The fierce artillery bombardment immediately bombed the Japanese defensive positions in the north of the county. The devil soldiers hiding in the trenches held their heads one by one, hid in the anti-artillery holes of the horses dismounted in the trenches, covering their ears and opening their mouths, so as not to be shocked to death!

Hattori Musashi, who lives in the center of Linxi County and is on the roof of the tallest building in the county government, twitched the corners of his mouth from the binoculars, "Eight grid Yalu, there are at least more than fifteen infantry guns, and they are all Empire-made Type 92 infantry guns." There are also twenty 60 mm caliber mortars, which are concentrated in the north of the county seat, which is to tear a hole from the northern region! ”

The corners of Hattori Musashi's mouth twitched, you must know that although his brigade is a reinforced brigade, there are only three squadrons strengthened, and the total strength is only more than 1,800 people. Although more than 200 Japanese troops fled north from the town of Udan, the number of Japanese soldiers in the hands of Hattori Musashi reached more than 2,000.

But at present, the defense of the city is worrying.

The enemy's artillery fire was too fierce, and Hattori Musashi only had an artillery squad and three Type 92 infantry guns in his hands. The number of mortars is not as good as Li Yunlong's troops, and it is indeed extremely difficult to defend the city!

"Captain, look at this stance! Li Yunlong concentrated artillery fire from the north of the county seat to break into the city, and the county seat of Linxi did not have many city walls to rely on. Fortunately, we dug the trenches and pulled barbed wire in front of the positions. Defending the city for an hour should not be a problem. ”

Seeing that Hattori Musashi was worried, the chief of staff of the brigade standing beside him, Di Ye Zhen, persuaded him.

Hattori Musashi smiled bitterly: "I hope so!" Give the defenders of the northern position an order to wait for the enemy's artillery fire to stop shelling and be ready to counterattack at any time. The first wave of enemy offensive is bound to not be too violent. Let the defenders of the northern position pay attention to the concealment of the firing points. ”。

At this point, Hattori Musashi, who has experience in defending the city, can only give such an order.

"Hairy, Captain!" Di Ye really paused heavily.

Fortunately, most of the Japanese troops in Linxi County were devil soldiers from Kyushu, and most of them were miners.

After learning that Chifeng was attacked by Li Yunlong's troops, although it was more than 200 kilometers away from Chifeng at that time, Hattori Musashi, who was stationed in Linxi County, quickly mobilized the Japanese soldiers in the city to carry iron catalpa and began to dig fortifications around Linxi County and in the area conducive to defense. 29GG

Among them, when Li Yunlong's army was attacking and advancing northward, Hattori Musashi personally commanded all the devil soldiers to dig a large number of trenches, which were very dense. All the barbed wire was removed from the stockpiled warehouses and pulled in the main defensive areas.

The most important section is deployed in the northern part of the county.

Because the terrain of Linxi County is higher in the north, there is the Xing'anling Mountains in the north, once Li Yunlong breaks through from the north, it will be a condescending attack.

This was extremely unfavorable to the Japanese defenders. Therefore, Hattori Musashi's defensive fortifications in the northern area of the prefecture were very dense. A large number of trenches, barbed wire fences are concentrated here.

At this time, the artillery under the command of Wang Chengzhu of the new regiment fiercely bombarded the Japanese defensive positions north of Linxi County for at least ten minutes.

Such a large-scale artillery bombardment caused the Japanese defensive positions north of the county to be bombed with gunsmoke.

But Li Yunlong, who was observing from the command headquarters, frowned, the Japanese army defending Linxi County was not a weak army! Under the fierce bombardment of his own side, although the defensive position of the Japanese army north of the county town was turned upside down, Li Yunlong saw from the telescope that none of the little devils were clearly standing in the trenches waiting for their own artillery bombardment.

"Made, you've met your opponent. Let Zhang Dabiao and Shen Qun pay attention to the degree of attack, and the devils who defend the city should not be underestimated. Li Yunlong saw that the artillery bombardment did not shatter the Japanese position, but only after careful observation did he find that the Japanese defensive position north of the county town actually had a large number of trench fortifications, and there were barbed wire densely blocking in front of the trenches.

This made Li Yunlong feel excited, and the devil commander who defended Linxi was so quick to defend the city.

"Yes, Captain." The staff officer of the command headquarters standing beside Li Yunlong stood up and saluted, and then picked up the battlefield phone behind him to contact Zhang Dabiao and Shen Qun directly.

In fact, without Li Yunlong's instructions, after Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire was extended, Zhang Dabiao and Shen Qun respectively commanded each unit to attack in a coordinated manner.

But when the forward troops attacked in front of the Japanese trenches, they found that there were too many trenches and barbed wire fences for the little devils. Not to mention dense, but it is also criss-crossed enough, and it is impossible for the infantry to take the position of the devils without paying hundreds of people.

Especially Zhang Dabiao, who was familiar with positional warfare and urban siege, also put away his contempt for Linxi's devil defenders.

"Linxi's devils have a hand in defending the city! Order the forward troops, pay attention to the fire strikes of the devils. Watch your attack speed! Don't rush in! ”

Zhang Dabiao personally went to the front line, hid behind a dirt slope and carefully observed the Japanese positions in front, and also knew that the devils had dug so many fortifications, trenches, and barbed wire in a short period of time.

However, Zhang Dabiao had just given the order to the heralds around him, and the soldiers of the new regiment and the first battalion of the forward attack, a reconnaissance vanguard unit of 100 people, soon encountered the devils in the Japanese defensive trenches, and suddenly came out to carry out a fire strike.

"Dada, dada!!!"

The little devil's Type 92 heavy machine guns, Type 38 rifles, melon grenades, mortars, grenadiers and other weapons were constantly exporting firepower, and some of the soldiers of the vanguard units of the 1st and 2nd Battalions who were attacking suffered a lot of losses.

"Made, call me!" The front-line commanders and fighters roared and commanded the soldiers to counterattack, and the front-line infantry on both sides began to fight, and the offensive and defensive battle in Linxi County began!