The overwhelming shells smashed like raindrops on the outside of Pinglu Beicheng and its head, and suddenly exploded one after another, and the brilliant artillery smoke suddenly covered Pinglu City.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Cannonballs whistled and fell from the sky, fragments of which spread in all directions, eroding everything they struck.

Outside Beicheng, the rebel soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army, and the 2nd Company of the 2nd Company were shivering in the trenches outside the city with their heads in their hands. Under the smoke of artillery fire, the rebel soldiers were blown up in all directions, and their stumps and broken arms were lifted into the sky with the artillery fire.

"Sir, I can't stand it, let's withdraw! The artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army was so fierce that at least seven or so mortars, the brothers couldn't withstand it, and if they didn't withdraw, they were all blown up. ”

Chen Dehui, the commander of the 1st company of the rebels outside the city, risked being crippled by shells at this time, and found Zhang Fugui in the bunker headquarters who was in command of the rebel troops outside the city along the trench.

Under the shells, in the gloomy rebel bunker headquarters outside the city, the light on the oil lamps was blown up and swayed everywhere, which looked very strange.

"Made, hold it all for me. The infantry of the Eighth Route Army has not yet been killed, we are the strongest and best-equipped troops under Chu Yunfei's command, the troops of two reinforced companies, and the brothers of more than 980 people, can't they withstand the opponent's artillery fire? When the team goes out, those who dare to retreat will be shot on the spot! At the head of the city in the rear, the imperial army is blocking the back of the brothers with machine guns! Zhang Fugui's face was extremely ugly at this time, if the two companies of rebel soldiers under his command were so frightened by Li Yunlong's artillery fire that they ran towards the city, it would be a shame.

What's more, at this time, the Taijun at the head of the city set up machine guns to act as a supervising team at any time, if they dare to retreat, the Taijun have no scruples, and machine gun fire is inevitable.

can only bear the bullet, besides, Zhang Fugui feels that there are many troops in his hands, and it is still possible to withstand Li Yunlong's blow.

I saw that Chen Dehui, the commander of the first company of the rebels, was helpless when he heard this, so he could only take the supervision team designated by Zhang Fugui out of the bunker headquarters to supervise the battle.

With the deterrence of the war team, the soldiers of the two companies of the rebels outside the northern city of Pinglu did not dare to retreat easily, after all, five or six soldiers were killed on the battlefield.

At this time, Li Yunlong climbed behind a higher soil slope, and with the help of wind and snow, he lay on the slope of the soil slope and held a telescope to observe the effect of artillery fire on the rebels outside the city.

"Special mother, the rebels outside the North City can still withstand it! Let Wang Chengzhu's artillery bombard it for a few minutes, and then order Zhang Dabiao's infantry to attack! ”

A herald standing behind Li Yunlong replied, "Yes, regiment commander!" Then he hurried to the artillery position of Wang Chengzhu not far from the rear.

It had been nearly five minutes since the artillery bombardment of the rebel positions outside the city, except for the initial effect of forcing the rebel soldiers of the Jin Sui Army on the positions into confusion, and soon the rebel soldiers fell into composure.

"Sister, this rebel soldier of the 1st Battalion of the 358th Regiment under Qian Bojun really has good combat effectiveness. It's a pity that I took refuge in the little devil! Looking at the rebel troops outside Beicheng who quickly stabilized their positions in the artillery fire, Li Yunlong felt a burst of boos in his heart.

After all, the rebel soldiers under Qian Bojun's command are the powerful main force soldiers in Chu Yunfei's hands, and they can stabilize their positions under this kind of artillery bombardment, in fact, Li Yunlong has a knowledge.

At this time, Wang Chengzhu received Li Yunlong's order to continue to order the artillery team under his command to open artillery and bombard the positions built outside the rebel city.

"Boom, boom, boom!!!"

The artillery fire rained down, and in the gloomy wind and snow weather, the rebel positions outside the Beicheng city of Pinglu and the fortifications built by the Japanese troops at the head of the Beicheng City were all baptized by Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire.

"Baga Ya Road! Send a message to His Excellency General Seishiro Itagaki again, requesting reinforcements! Qian Bojun's 1st Regiment of the Imperial Association Army may not be able to withstand the attack of the troops commanded by Li Yunlong, and we must plan as soon as possible. On the roof of the highest building in the northern city area, looking at the situation at the head of the city and the position outside the city, he waved his hand and ordered Lieutenant Yuki Hirao, the squadron adjutant and the first squad leader on the side.

Hirao Yuki stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency Squadron Leader, General Itagaki has already called back a minute ago, and he has telegraphed the imperial army pursuing from the direction of Liangcheng to turn south to the area of Killing Tiger's Mouth, and now his troops are not far from Killing Tiger's Mouth. General Itagaki ordered our troops to stand by for reinforcements, and be sure to entangle Li Yunlong's troops. ”。

"Good! Pingwei-kun, you take people and personally supervise Qian Bojun's 1st Regiment of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and if there is any change, kill Qian Bojun first to deter the soldiers of the Imperial Cooperative Army. Nozomi Sakaguchi ordered again.

Hirao Yuhui nodded and said, "I understand Your Excellency the squadron leader, and obey your orders." Then he turned and left.

At this time, Qian Bojun, who was personally hiding at the head of the north city of Pinglu to command the defensive operation, watched with a pale face as the shells fired by Wang Chengzhu exploded, and the positions at the head of the city and outside the city were already in the smoke of artillery fire.

"Tuanza, the Eighth Route Army is attacking!" Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire soon stopped the large-scale artillery bombardment, and turned to small-scale artillery fire to cover the attack of Zhang Dabiao's infantry soldiers of the 1st Battalion in less than ten seconds, and the regimental staff officers beside Qian Bojun at the head of the city hurriedly shouted to Qian Bojun.

Qian Bojun hurriedly looked outside the city, only to see that Zhang Dabiao commanded the 1st Battalion and some soldiers of He Yongjie's 4th Battalion, totaling more than 500 people, under the cover of Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire, stepping on the explosive point of the cannonballs and attacking the positions held by the soldiers of the two companies of the rebels outside the city commanded by Zhang Fugui.

The quite disciplined battle formation made Qian Bojun, a dog traitor with good military command ability, suddenly gasp, "Damn, it's troublesome now." ”。

"You, take a team of labor-management guards out of the city, personally convey Lao Tzu's order to Zhang Fugui, and you are not allowed to retreat a single step, and those who dare to retreat are all sudden!"

The murderous Qian Bojun turned around and pointed to the regimental staff officer who spoke, and immediately ordered.

"Yes, Danza." The staff officer of the 1st Regiment of the Imperial Cooperative Army secretly shouted in his heart that he was unlucky, and he could only take a few Qian Bojun's guards and soldiers out of the city in a hurry to supervise the rebel troops commanded by Zhang Fugui.

At this time, Zhang Dabiao had already commanded the soldiers of the post headquarters and part of the fourth battalion, and after Wang Chengzhu's large-scale artillery fire stopped, they began to step on the explosive point of part of the artillery fire and kill the position held by the rebels outside the city.

"Above, brothers, kill all the rebels! Machine gun cover! ”

"Tutu Tu Tu, Tu, Tu Tu !!!!".

"Small, dare to resist? Brothers, kill! ”

In the shouting of the charge, the fierce battle against Pinglu officially began, and the rebel troops commanded by Zhang Fugui quickly felt Zhang Dabiao's fierce offensive!