The brigade commander ignored the reminders of his subordinates and insisted on ordering all reserves to reinforce the eastern part of the city.

The deputy chief of staff knew that he could not change the general's decision, but still thought that the brigade commander's desperate plan to have all the reserves reinforce the east of the city was too risky.

As the only deputy of the brigade commander, since he couldn't change this decision, he could only find a way to reduce the risk that this order would bring to Datong City.

After racking his brains for half a minute, he proposed: "General, I suggest that at least two squadrons from the gendarmerie and the remaining guard units in the city be transferred to the headquarters to stand by as a new reserve in case of emergency!" ”

A staff officer next to him immediately objected: "Sir, so there will be no troops in the city?" ”

"Minus the garrison troops, we have only one squadron of gendarmes in the city, a squadron of guards to protect the brigade headquarters, and a squadron of guards to protect important facilities and warehouses in the city."

"Transfer all of them to the headquarters, and there will be less than two companies of the Imperial Allied Army left in the important facilities and material warehouses in the city to protect them."

"If there are hidden troops of the Eighth Route Army in the city to make trouble, this guard will definitely not be an opponent."

The deputy chief of staff thought for a moment and continued: "At least the military police squadron must be transferred over, and the command cannot be without reserves. ”

The brigade commander was well aware of the importance of the reserve and thought for a moment the order: "Transfer the gendarmerie squadron as a reserve." ”

"Divide a military police squad and continue to organize the armed expatriates in the city."

"Just now, when we organized the armed expatriates, there was an age requirement, but now the situation is getting more and more severe, I can't control so much, all the expatriates between the ages of fifteen and sixty are organized, organized into several infantry squadrons, and weapons are issued for use as reserves."

"There are still many Chinese private armed forces in the city, all of them are organized and organized into infantry companies, which are also used as reserves, and the speed must be fast!"

On the battlefield in the east of the city, the roaring cannons continued to sound on the battlefield like thunder, and the black smoke rising from the sky was like a mushroom cloud, constantly rising at the head of the city.

The gap in the city wall that was bombarded by heavy artillery became bigger and bigger, and more than 200 puppet soldiers and policemen rushed to the gap one after another amid the shouts and curses of the armed expatriate, blocking the sandbags on their shoulders to prevent the gap from widening further.

The heavy artillery was so powerful that it was hard to carry more than a hundred sandbags, and when a cannonball smashed down, it was blown to pieces in an instant, revealing the bottom wall and dirt.

A few minutes of hard work came to naught.

Of course, their efforts are not without meaning.

Because sandbags negated out most of the power of the heavy artillery shells, the damage to the walls was significantly smaller.

The cannonball just now, if there is no sandbag protection, the city wall will definitely be blown off a large piece, and the soil wrapped in the city wall bricks will also be blown up in large quantities.

It's not the same with sandbag protection, most of the shells are sandbags, and there is no way to directly destroy the city wall.

The leader of the devil squadron who supervised the battle saw that the pile of sandbags was useful, and immediately shouted to the puppet army and the policemen who were immersed in the explosion just now: "What are you doing, are you waiting to die?" Keep filling the gap with sandbags, you have to plug the gap! ”

The company commander of the puppet army was the first to react, but he did not want to carry out the order.

The gap in the wall was too dangerous, although the hit rate of the heavy artillery was not high, and it took a few minutes for one shell to hit there, but many shells hit the city next to the gap.

The powerful power is harvesting everyone's lives all the time.

In the first round of sandbag filling, at least thirty of his men fell on the city walls.

Originally, there were more than 300 people in themselves, but after filling in the gaps for a few rounds, there were less than 200 people who could still move.

Continue to carry out the order to fill the gap, and in half an hour at most, this little bit of people under your hands will be blown up.

Seeing that the company commander didn't move, the leader of the devil squadron who led the team didn't have so much politeness.

The captain gave him a death order, and he couldn't plug the gap, so he directly apologized to His Majesty the Emperor.

The lives of these Chinese in front of them were obviously not as valuable as their own lives, and under the threat of seppuku, they quickly drew their command knives and ordered without hesitation.

"The Warlords are ready to shoot: from now on, if anyone is afraid of the enemy, they will all be shot."

After saying this, the squadron leader had already raised his command knife and slashed at a policeman who was trembling all over.

"Ah......h

Amid screams of pain, the policeman fell to the ground in despair and unwillingness.

His eyes were round, and he couldn't bat at himself.

The company commander was scared, and hurriedly ordered: "If you don't want to be shot by the imperial army, follow me to carry sandbags, this is the only way for us to live......"

"Boom ......"

The shelling did not stop because of the desperate efforts of the Japanese puppet army, but intensified.

The garrison regiment attacked the position, and Li Hao's eyes never left the battlefield, especially the gap where the heavy artillery took special care of.

The shelling worked well at first, and in just a few minutes there were signs of damage to the walls, and then some gaps slowly appeared.

After another ten minutes, the gap continued to grow, but it was too slow.

At this rate of destruction, the walls will not be blown apart for another two hours.

"Boom ......"

A cannonball landed right on the top of the city next to the breach.

The splashing firelight quickly illuminated the surroundings, and Li Hao kept staring at it, clearly seeing the puppet army that was braving artillery fire to plug the gap.

The city was densely packed with people, carrying sandbags on their shoulders, rushing towards the gap as if they were dying.

Someone was blown up before they could reach the gap, and the living puppet army was not affected, continuing to rush to the gap, and then blocking the sandbags on their shoulders at the gap.

There are also Japanese puppet soldiers who are even more ruthless, directly blocking the corpses of the puppet soldiers killed in the bombing like sandbags......

Li Hao finally knew why the effect of heavy artillery shelling had deteriorated.

As soon as he raised his eyebrows, he began to give an order: "Staff Officer Wang, give an order to the mortar group, divide ten mortars to attack the city walls on both sides of the gap, and resolutely not let the Japanese puppet army get close to the gap again." ”

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

Mortars are less powerful, but have a high rate of fire and high accuracy.

Every minute, a large number of shells were falling on the city.

The puppet army ran back and forth on Cheng's head with sandbags on his back, completely exposed to the surface of the city wall, and a mortar shell could blow up at least one puppet army.

In less than two minutes, more than half of the nearly 200 puppet soldiers and police were killed or wounded.

The rate of casualties was several times faster than the judgment of the company commander.

At this time, the remaining puppet army did not dare to rush into the gap even if there were armed expatriates to supervise the battle.

The artillery fire there was so fierce that to rush in was to die.

The leader of the devil squadron was also blinded by the sudden artillery fire, but in order to survive, he was like a madman, shouting while waving a command knife.

"Keep plugging the gap with sandbags, or you'll all be shot!"

Seeing that the puppet army was still not moving, he pointed to a few puppet soldiers not far away and ordered: "Shoot, kill those imperial alliance troops who are afraid of the enemy!" ”

"Horn ......"

The gun went off, and several puppet soldiers were not killed by their opponents, but they died at the hands of their masters......

"Brothers, if you continue to go up the city wall, you will definitely be killed...... "A platoon commander was enraged, unwilling to die here like this, shouting while raising his gun.

"There are not many little devils who supervise us, and they are all expatriates, kill them, run back to Datong City to hide, maybe there is still a chance to live."

"Those who want to live are against me!"

"Horn ......" The platoon commander pulled the trigger after speaking, and the devil squadron leader fell to the ground in response, this time it was his turn to stare at the round eyes and not blink a blind eye.

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