In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from having the opportunity to get close to the city, the captain had to transfer all the troops that could still be used in his hands to the city, and let everyone use rifles to shoot outside the city to make up for the firepower loopholes caused by the destruction of a large number of light and heavy machine guns.

This creates another problem.

The density of the Japanese army and the Imperial Allied army at the head of the city was too high.

Almost every battlement was hiding behind a person, and as long as a cannonball fell on the top of the city, there would be a result.

As a result, from the beginning of the general offensive to the present, in less than half an hour, the captain has lost nearly three hundred people in his hands.

In the previous feint, the troops only lost three or four hundred men in three or four hours, and the huge casualties gap made the captain very optimistic about the next battle, and his face was full of worry.

"Sir! The command ordered us to send 150 Imperial Troops and police to reinforce the eastern part of the city...... This order is urgent, and no one can disobey it, otherwise military law will be engaged! The herald came running and reported.

"Nani? Is the headquarters crazy, the west of the city is almost unable to hold it, how can you divide troops to reinforce the east of the city! The captain shouted as if he had heard a big joke and his face was full of incredulity.

"But this is the general's death order!" The herald hesitated to remind.

"I don't care about any dead orders!" The group leader decided to refuse to carry out the order.

"I am the commander of the garrison in the west of the city, and the security of the west of the city must be in the first place, if the defense line in the west of the city is broken through by the Eighth Route Army, everyone here will die."

"As for the east of the city, that is something that the garrison and brigade commanders in the east of the city should consider."

"Even if I don't think about my own future, I have to think about the lives of hundreds of soldiers under my command."

"Call the headquarters immediately, not a single soldier in the west of the city can be transferred. The Eighth Route Army's offensive was too fierce, and we suffered heavy losses, and we urgently needed light and heavy machine guns and reinforcements, otherwise it would be difficult to hold out until dawn. ”

The Japanese headquarters, west of the city, south of the city, and north of the city, discussed the same, and at the same time reported that the command headquarters itself had insufficient troops, and not only could not transfer troops to reinforce the east of the city, but also needed the command to send troops to reinforce it.

The brigade commander gritted his teeth with hatred, but there was nothing he could do.

His subordinates knew that they would not disobey their orders unless they had to.

Therefore, the battle in the other three directions of Datong is not optimistic, although it has not yet reached the point of life and death, but it is obviously impossible to divide the troops.

The deputy chief of staff began to panic.

Without enough troops to reinforce the eastern part of the city, the gap created by the heavy artillery will become wider and wider, and eventually the city wall will be blown down......

He didn't dare to continue thinking about it, so he could only look at the brigade commander, hoping that he could do something good.

"Give an order to the garrison in the east of the city: In addition to the reinforcements of more than 100 private armed forces that have just passed, I will give him all the armed expatriates who have just assembled, and ensure that the city wall will not be destroyed before five o'clock at all costs."

On the battlefield to the east of the city, the gap in the city wall that was blown out is getting bigger and bigger.

The earth wrapped in the walls is like a flood that bursts its banks, constantly flowing out of the walls, and then forming slopes inside and outside the walls.

Mortar shells rained down on the side of the breach, blowing up one enemy after another who wanted to get close to the breach......

At this point, the tide of battle can no longer be changed by the number of troops.

No matter how many troops the Japanese army reinforced, they were flesh and blood, and in front of the steel shells, they were like papier-mâché toys, vulnerable to attack.

A large number of corpses had fallen on the ground around the gap in the city wall, densely packed.

The living puppet soldiers and expatriates, like crazy, stepped on the corpses, carried sandbags, and continued to rush to the breach......

However, only a handful of enemies were able to evade the artillery fire and successfully rush to the gap, and the sandbags they carried through did not protect the gap in the city wall.

The garrison regiment attacked the position, and the expansion of the gap made Li Hao's face more and more serious.

After another shell hit the gap, he decisively ordered: "The heavy artillery battalion will begin to extend the artillery fire in five minutes." ”

"The Hunyuan Independent Battalion launched a surprise attack on the gap in the city wall under the cover of all light and heavy machine guns and mortars in the whole army, and the troops of the Huaiyuan Independent Regiment and the Laishui Independent Regiment covered the attack, and after occupying the gap in the city wall, they quickly attacked and advanced to the city walls on both sides, I want to wipe out the Japanese puppet army on the head of the city, and do not give them the opportunity to withdraw into the city."

At the top of the city, the captain had lost his previous composure.

Looking at the gap in the city wall that was getting bigger and bigger not far away, he knew that it was impossible to plug the gap in the city wall with manpower alone.

While ordering the troops at the head of the city to increase their firepower output and block all the passages of the Eighth Route Army approaching the gap with bullets, he ordered the troops behind the gap to prepare for battle, turn the gap into a trap, and destroy all the Eighth Route Army that wanted to break through from there, and not give them a chance to enter the city.

"Sir, the heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army has begun to extend!" A lieutenant suddenly shouted.

The sound of the explosion at the gap in the wall wall was noticeably weaker, and the impact point was centered on the gap, expanding little by little......

"The Eighth Route Army has begun to attack, and the goal is the gap in the city wall!" The lieutenant who had just spoken shouted again.

Nearly 1,000 Eighth Route Army rushed out of the offensive position like a tide and rushed towards the city wall.

Looking down from the air, these attacking troops fought towards the city wall in several directions, but the main attack could still be seen.

Most of the forces were concentrated in the direction of the gap.

There were also many Eighth Route Corps in other directions, but the offensive was not strong, and at a glance it was a feint, scattering the city's head to block fire.

Even so, the captain did not dare to underestimate these feints.

Many of the attacking troops had brought explosives packs, and if they were to rush to the foot of the city wall and detonate the explosives, a new breach would be blown up in the wall.

At that time, it will be more difficult for him to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

So the captain's plan to concentrate all the firepower to block the gap ended before it began.

A large number of troops and firepower had to be divided to intercept the feints.

"Boom, boom...... Dadada......"

The sound of explosions kept ringing in my ears, and they were getting denser and denser.

Light and heavy machine-gun bullets hit the battlements, masonry and stone flew and bullets continued to pass through the battlements to hit the soldiers behind.

By this time, the attacking troops had already rushed to a position two hundred meters outside the city.

At least a hundred Eighth Route Corps suddenly stopped, half-crouched on the ground, and worked in pairs to operate grenadiers that had not been seen in the previous battle.

The captain was blindfolded for a moment, and then he showed a look of despair.

The grenadier has a short range, but a distance of 200 meters can certainly launch a grenade into the city.

Two hundred meters away, the Eighth Route Army prepared at least 50 grenadiers, and even if the hit rate was only 20 percent, more than 10 grenades flew up to the city in one round of shooting.

Even if a grenade kills only one soldier, a single shot can take the lives of more than a dozen subordinates.

The grenadier canister has a fast rate of fire, and a well-trained gunner can fire seven or eight grenades at will in a minute, and the more he hits, the higher the hit rate.

This meant that after the grenadiers were fired, it would only take one minute for the garrison at the head of the city to lose more than 100 people.

Add to that the casualties caused by mortars and light and heavy machine guns, and there are bound to be plenty of holes in the city's defenses......

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