The general buildings in the city have long been destroyed by aircraft and artillery, there are broken walls and rubble everywhere, and among the ruins, those few solid buildings that have not been blown up are very dazzling, this must be the stronghold of the Japanese army, rush up and occupy it!

But when the troops entering the city crawled through the ruins, deadly bullets flew from all directions, without any obstacles that could be used as cover, and it was not even known where the bullets were coming from.

It was easy to dodge with open guns, but it was difficult to defend against hidden arrows, and as soon as they entered the city, many Chinese soldiers fell in pieces.

At that time, the captain of the Japanese garrison, Yasumi Kurashige, had died in battle, and it was Masato Ota who was organizing the garrison to resist stubbornly under the name of the captain.

In the hidden fortifications, the Japanese army could peep into all the movements of the troops entering the city from the shadows, and then quickly appeared at the street entrance through the underground passage reconstructed from the sewer, and suddenly surrounded the Chinese troops in the city. By the time the attacked expeditionary force turned their guns, the Japanese had quickly dispersed and disappeared without a trace.

This is flexible tunnel warfare, its creator was originally the Central Plains guerrillas of the Chinese Communist Party, but now the Japanese army here has moved it to deal with the Chinese army, and it is used freely.

Although Commander Huo had the strength of a group army, under the flexible attack of the Japanese army, the strength was quickly reduced, and all the attacking units of the 20th Army were severely hit by the Japanese army.

It's like being in a giant trap, everyone is on high tension, listening in all directions, dodging the bullets flying in the shadows. At the same time, you must be quick to take down the enemy before they can shoot.

It's not just numbers, it's a competition of strength, it's like hide and seek, and the battle becomes very passive.

The various units had no choice but to adopt the method of attacking house by house and alley, first destroying the flank fire points of the Japanese ambush, and at the same time, under the cover of artillery fire, advancing step by step, capturing one place and consolidating another. It's also the dumbest way, and at the same time the only way.

At any time, the troops encountered bullets fired from multiple angles by the Japanese from rooftops, walls, alley corners, and remaining broken walls, and searched and advanced through piles of rubble and debris.

In the face of the indiscriminate and cold guns fired by the Japanese army at any time, the entire street battle was not smooth, and the progress of the day was only a few tens of meters, and even these dozens of meters did not know how much blood and lives of the officers and men of the expeditionary force had to be paid.

On August 23, the three regiments of the 116th Division finally reached Wenchang Palace, Confucian Temple, Chenghuang Temple and other places.

These three buildings are parallel to the first line, and they are important strongholds of the Japanese army in the southeast center of Tengchong, and only by taking these strongholds can they cross Dongmen Street and attack the Japanese command center in the northeast of the city.

Commander Peng Gang of the Pre-2nd Regiment led his troops, broke through the firepower ports, and finally approached Wenchang Palace!

This building built in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, is very magnificent and magnificent, the original is the ancient trees are verdant, the palace is lofty, after the baptism of war, these ancient trees have been blown up, but the palace building is still upright. The relentless artillery fire did not hurt its fur at all, and its large stone wall at the foot of the blue brick wall was like the wall of Tengchong City, which was very strong.

Peng Gang cleared the remnants of the Japanese army on the periphery with the 1st and 2nd battalions, and ordered the battalion to quickly attack the main hall. Unexpectedly, a series of machine gun fire came from the shadows, and one company that rushed to the front fell, and the second company rushed up again, and the two fell again in pieces. Finally let Han Shigui see the Japanese army's firepower clearly, and the evil bullet actually shot from a big bell.

The bell was inside the hall, right across from the entrance, and all those who rushed into the hall were in its firing circle. Commander Peng was angry, and immediately ordered Han Shigui and Shandong to take the firepower point. Almost at the same time, the two of them raised their machine guns and fired at the bell, but the bell was so hard that they could only hear a clanging sound, and the bullets were bounced back by the bell. It seems that this method still cannot take down the firepower point. Han Shigui ordered to use mortars and hand ** to blow up, but he still couldn't blow up the hard bell. However, this time it was good, the shock wave of ** caused a huge roar of the bell, and it was this sound wave that shook the Japanese soldiers hidden in the bell to the point of bleeding and dying.

So far, the Ming Dynasty cast Hou Jin bell still retains the Wenchang Palace, the bronze cast bell body, but there is a shooting hole chiseled by the Japanese invaders is still clearly visible.

The units of the 20th Army struggled to approach the center of the city with great difficulty.

Hand-to-hand combat, white-bladed encounters, brutal hand-to-hand combat, blood every step of the way!

On August 23, the 198th Division finally reached Tianjiaxiang, which was only 50 meters away from the east gate.

On August 25, the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Reserve Division began to attack the Wuhou Temple on the west side.

This Wuhou Temple and Wenchang Palace are the same buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the huge stone wall, very solid, and the houses around it have been transformed into fortifications, forming a fortress group that responds to each other.

The regiment commander Fang Cheng commanded the 6th Regiment to launch 6 attacks, each time it rushed up and was beaten back, the bullets were fired from all sides, and several company commanders who were charging in front were shot and died. Fang Cheng had to change his style of play, ordering the troops to attack from the flanks and gnaw at this hard bone little by little.

In this way, it was not until August 29 that the Japanese captain Lieutenant Matsuoka saw that the general situation was gone, and committed suicide by disemboweling himself with a knife in the shouts of the soldiers of the 6th Regiment Expeditionary Force, and the battle of Wuhou Temple finally ended.

If we count from August 2, it has been almost a month since the siege.

The 20th Group Army threw five divisions into this projectile land, continuous bloody battles, slow progress, Commander Huo asked about the results of the battle every day, every meter advanced and every house captured was in his battle report statistics, but the progress was too slow, too slow.

When the news came that the 8th Army had conquered the Songshanzi Heights by means of tunnel blasting, he was even more anxious, and he felt anxious about Tengchong, a stone town where a small number of Japanese troops might emerge underground at any time, and there was no better way, the only way was to press down layer by layer.

On 30 August, he issued the most severe warrant, requiring all units to settle the battle within five days, and the commanders of all armies and divisions were to be held accountable for the failure of those who violated the limit.

No one dares to take the responsibility for delaying the military plane!

The commanders of the armies and divisions had to press down again.

On August 31, all units of the 20th Group Army strengthened the siege under the high pressure of their superiors, and the regimental and battalion commanders were on the front line and supervised the battle at all levels.

In the bloody battles from alley to alley and house to house, more than half of the battalions, companies, and platoons of various units suffered casualties, many regimental-level officers were wounded, not to mention the soldiers who charged forward.

After a bloody battle, new progress has finally been made. But the casualties paid were too great......