"That is, as long as the Japanese army in the city is annihilated, the Imperial Alliance Army will collapse without a fight!"

Li Yunlong said with a smile, the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Association Army in the Shangdu City is not even as good as toilet paper, and it is no longer in Li Yunlong's eyes.

The scout captain also smiled and nodded in agreement.

Immediately, Li Yunlong began to wave his army to surround the county seat of Shangdu, and also pretended to issue an ultimatum to the Japanese puppet army defenders in the city demanding immediate surrender.

If there is no response within five minutes, immediately attack the city, and on the day the city is broken, there will be no one left!

In the county seat of Shangdu, Li Yunlong's army, which stood at the head of the city and climbed high with a telescope to observe the soldiers approaching the city, surrounded the county seat of Shangdu, and the captain of the devil infantry brigade who mastered the defensive strength of the county town of Shangdu, Kiyojiro Kamoto, was a little trembling with his legs and feet.

He has been stationed in the county seat of Shangdu for at least a year, and he has never encountered so many enemy soldiers outside the county seat!

"Your Excellency Shaozuo, looking at the strength of the enemy army besieging the city outside the city, I am afraid that there are three or four regiments of troops! Humilly took a look, behind the low slope more than 300 meters outside the West Gate, I am afraid that there is an artillery position of the enemy, and there are at least ten or more cannons! ”

Captain Aoki Kuma, the chief of staff of the brigade of Kiyojiro Camoto, said to Kiyojiro Camoto in a low voice with a condensed look in his eyes, this time it was a bit of a big trouble.

Kiyojiro Gamoto said with a little bitterness: "It seems that the call from the division headquarters is good, this should be the unit of Li Yunlong, the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army." I heard that all the units of our Mongolian Xinjiang garrison army are now under the command of General Matsui, and now the army of His Excellency General Matsui is chasing after Li Yunlong, but it will take time! Now, Li Yunlong's main force has come to the city, we just need to wait for help! Has the report sent to the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in the direction of Kangbao been called back? ”。

Seeing the strength of Li Yunlong's army besieging the city, the arrogant Gayuan Seijiro did not dare to lead the army out of the city to counterattack. You must know that the current strength of the Japanese army in the city is less than 700, and the losses caused by the previous attack on the national army have not been replenished, so the establishment of the Canadian dollar brigade is not enough, and the actual strength is only about 700.

There is a regiment of the Imperial Association Army in the city to assist in garrisoning the Shang Capital, but the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Association Army is okay to maintain normal law and order.

Therefore, it is necessary to send a report for help. The nearest is the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 18th Wing in Kangbao City, which is located southeast of Shangdu, and they have a complete infantry brigade of more than 1,100 people, as well as four Type 92 infantry guns, which can be arrived within half an hour of reinforcements to Shangdu.

"The Kangbao direction has been called, let us hold on and wait for help, the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in Kangbao City has been dispatched and is advancing towards Shangdu!" Kumaji Aoki said hurriedly.

If it hadn't been for the call back from the 2nd Infantry Brigade, perhaps Kumaji Aoki would have suggested that Kiyojiro of the Canadian Yuan abandon the defenders and retreat to Kangbo.

However, the Shang capital city has already contacted Matsui Shigen's army headquarters, and Matsui Shigen has strictly ordered the Shang capital defenders to hold on to the death, blocking the possibility of Li Yunlong's troops continuing to advance eastward.

In this way, Kiyojiro of the Canadian dollar could only follow Matsui Ishone's orders and defend the Shang capital.

"Yo Xi!"

Hearing this, Kiyojiro of the Canadian Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the Shangdu was not far from Kangbao in the southeast and Xinghe in the south.

As long as the power arrives urgently, the devil defenders in the direction of Kangbao will inevitably need to go north to reinforce Shangdu. Otherwise, once the Shang capital is breached, it is difficult to guarantee that Li Yunlong's troops will not go south to attack Kangbao.

"Order all troops, defend the West Gate, and defend the Shang Capital! Defend the city with the Imperial Army, and the Imperial Army will supervise the battle! You have to defend the city for forty minutes or even an hour or so. As long as the tens of thousands of troops of the Imperial 3rd Division under the command of General Matsui come east, Li Yunlong's troops will be unable to escape! Those who dare to run away in wartime will all burst out! ”

Kiyojiro Gamoto once again took the binoculars and looked at Li Yunlong's army outside the city that had entered the siege of the city, although he was brave in his heart, he still ordered a few devil staff officers around him on the surface.

Several devil staff officers standing beside Kiyojiro of the Canadian dollar, and the chief of staff of the brigade, Kumaji Aoki, all stood up and said!

Subsequently, Kiyojiro Kamoto pretended to be calm and went down to the city with the devil staff officers, and returned to the brigade headquarters in the city to take command.

After all, Kiyojiro also knows that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!

With the order of Kiyojiro of the Canadian dollar, all the units of the Japanese puppet army in the Shang capital strengthened their defense, and did not respond to the surrender ultimatum issued by Li Yunlong and others outside the city.

A few hundred meters outside the west gate of the Shang capital, Li Yunlong stood behind a dirt slope and observed the enemy army at the head of the Shang capital with a telescope.

The five-minute ultimatum time has passed, and seeing that the time on the watch has passed, Li Yunlong sneered!

"Made, if you don't surrender, I'll destroy you!"

Li Yunlong thought with a sneer, and then waved his hand and ordered the herald beside him: "Order all troops, according to the plan, to storm Shangdu." Within half an hour, all the enemy forces must be annihilated!"

"Yes, Captain!" The heralds and soldiers on standby stood up and saluted one by one, and then scattered one after another, ordering the commanders and fighters of each department to start the siege!

With Li Yunlong's order, three signal flares exploded in the sky above the county seat of Shangdu.

The brilliant white fireworks are very eye-catching, and the fireworks exploded enough to make everyone on the ground see clearly!

"There are four target merchants, no base number of continuous fires, five minutes of artillery bombardment, give me artillery!" Outside the city, Wang Chengzhu, who occupied a higher terrain, had already deployed his artillery positions in place.

With Li Yunlong's order, the artillery battalion of the new regiment accompanying the army first launched an artillery attack.

Wang Chengzhu concentrated on using at least 20 infantry guns to bombard the enemy fortifications in Shangdu County, especially at the west gate wall and city gate of the main attack, and was bombarded by at least thousands of shells!

"Boom, boom!!!"

One after another, the cannonballs roared in, constantly bombarding the four gates of Shangdu and the enemy's fortifications on the city walls, and the debris from the explosion flew everywhere, and turned into cannonballs, flying in all directions, killing and injuring the defending soldiers.

The focus of the artillery bombardment was on the west gate of Shangdu County, and the troops of the Imperial Allied Army and a squadron of the Japanese army at the west gate were bombed and suffered heavy casualties. The devils of Shangdu and the Imperial Association Army did not expect that Li Yunlong's troops actually had so many artillery, this was a plan to blow up the enemy defending Shangdu to ashes!

In the city, Kiyojiro Gayuan was in his brigade headquarters, and he heard the continuous rain of cannonballs coming in from outside the city, and the sound of cannons rumbled, and the deafening sound of cannons was almost about to cover the county seat of Shangdu!

"Baga Ya Road, how can there be so many artillery pieces of the Eighth Route Army?" Kiyojiro Gamoto trembled involuntarily and muttered to himself, there are at least fifteen or more cannons.

The Canadian Brigade only had two infantry guns in its hands, and the artillery fire was not strong, and it was completely unable to suppress the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

The shelling of the new regiment lasted for five minutes before stopping, followed by the shouting of killing resounded in the small county town of Shangdu, and in less than five minutes, the chief of staff of the brigade, Aoki Kumaji, walked quickly from the side of the brigade headquarters, "Your Excellency Shaozuo, Li Yunlong's troops have entered the city from the west gate!" The defenders of the West Gate suffered heavy casualties, and the remnants have retreated along the main street of the West Gate to the city! ”