Yanagawa Heisuke withdrew, and with a small number of henchmen and staff officers and attendants, took advantage of the fact that the independent brigade did not kill Zhito, and withdrew to a transport ship left behind by the landing of the 10th Army, thus withdrawing into the sea.

Almost as soon as Yanagawa Heisuke withdrew to the sea, Xu Wen led the independent brigade to the east gate of Hangzhou.

As for the small alert force of the Japanese army that had discovered and blocked them earlier, it had already been easily wiped out by the independent brigade with strong firepower, and had become a pool of bloody flesh under the tracks of the tanks and armored vehicles of the independent brigade.

The commander of the Japanese army who was in charge of staying in Hangzhou, Osaku Hirano, had only two infantry brigades in his hands at this time, that is, a strength of 2,000 people.

The 2,000 men were not all stationed at the East Gate, but at the four city gates of Hangzhou at that time, as well as the nearby city walls, as well as several military camps in the city.

Because the Japanese army had just occupied the big city of Hangzhou, many places still needed them to maintain so-called law and order in case of accidents.

If the pace of infantry advance is carried out, it will take at least half an hour for the independent brigade to reach the east gate and launch an attack.

Therefore, Hirano Osa had plenty of time to mobilize troops and strengthen his defenses.

However, the Independent Brigade is a mechanized force, and under the command of Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo, it is even more powerful, and its combat effectiveness soars.

In less than ten minutes, they killed their guard and blocking troops outside the east gate, and easily killed them under the east gate of Hangzhou.

At that time, there were less than 300 devil soldiers and dozens of traitors and puppet soldiers stationed at the east city gate.

In the face of the hundreds of tanks of the independent brigade, the steel torrent composed of armored vehicles, and the black barrels of the tanks, they all trembled with fright, and their legs were weak.

Xu Wen was in position in the troops, and more than 30 tanks lined up outside the east gate to prepare for fire.

Immediately took the radio and gave a loud order: "Fire!" Offensive! ”

More than thirty tanks, including the Tiger tank, opened fire one after another! For a while, the cannon roared and the fire burst out.

The tank guns of these more than 30 tanks have the smallest caliber of more than 70 millimeters.

What's more, the caliber of the guns of the Tiger tank and the 34 tank is more than ten, so their firepower is stronger than the artillery fire of a Japanese division.

Just the first round of artillery fire collapsed the city gate building of Hangzhou's east city gate on the spot, and the wooden city gate was also turned into powder in the artillery explosion.

As for the more than 300 days of pseudo-traitor defenders on the head of the city, they were even more bombed crying fathers and mothers, and their flesh and blood were blurred.

Many Japanese puppet troops were even swept away by the blast wave and fell directly from the city.

Boom Boom! Boom Boom! The tank guns of the Separate Brigade shelled three times in a row, firing a total of hundreds of various high-explosive grenades and incendiary bombs.

The flames and smoke from the violent explosion enveloped the entire east gate.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Wen stood on the Tiger tank and waved his hand: "Vehicle-mounted machine guns, anti-aircraft machine gun fire suppression, reserve regiment rush in for me, wipe out the remnants of the enemy!" Take control of the gates! ”

With Xu Wen's order, hundreds of armored vehicles, anti-aircraft combat vehicles, as well as vehicle-mounted general-purpose machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on tank vehicles, opened fire one after another.

Tongues of scorching fire formed a dense network of fire, and flew straight towards the city.

Whoosh, poof, poof! Bang bang bang!

The dense rain of bullets on the city wall was full of sparks and dust, and the remnants of the Japanese puppet army did not dare to raise their heads at all, let alone open fire and shoot to block the attack of the independent brigade outside the city.

Under the cover of this absolute suppression of firepower, the officers and men of the reserve regiment rushed out one after another from behind the tanks and armored vehicles, shouting passionate slogans such as recovering Hangzhou and killing all the little Japan, and swarmed towards the east gate, which had already been opened.

Under the cover of their own strong firepower, the soldiers of the reserve regiment broke into the city very easily, and then the soldiers attacked the city head in two ways along the climbing roads and stairs on both sides of the city gate.

The soldiers were armed with Garand rifles and Thomson submachine guns, and when they saw the devils and the puppet army, they shot fiercely, and they fell down one after another, and they had no power to fight back.

Soon the remnants of the enemy on the head of the city were successfully eliminated and the east gate was controlled.

At this time, the reinforcements drawn by Ichiro Hirano arrived at the time!

Because the devil reinforcements, in addition to the reinforcements from the main street in the city, there are two other groups that rushed from the north and south gates along the city wall.

Therefore, the reserve regiment of the independent brigade immediately opened fire on the Japanese reinforcements on the city wall, and the semi-automatic rifles and Thomson submachine guns in the hands of the soldiers burst out with fierce and dense firepower, and immediately gave the devil reinforcements a head-on blow!

When Xu Wen saw that the devil's reinforcements had arrived, he immediately ordered armored vehicles and air defense combat vehicles to quickly drive into the city, using vehicle-mounted general-purpose machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to cooperate with the reserve regiment to attack the devil's reinforcements in the city.

In the fierce battle in the city, more agile armored vehicles and anti-aircraft combat vehicles are actually more suitable than bulkier tanks.

With more than a hundred armored vehicles and anti-aircraft combat vehicles rushing into the city and joining the battle, the firepower on the side of the independent brigade increased greatly.

Under the devastating fire of hundreds of anti-aircraft machine guns, vehicle-mounted universal machine guns, as well as the combined fire of rifle, submachine guns in the dense reserve regiments.

The more than 1,000 devil infantry who came to support were beaten like wheat in the harvest, falling in pieces.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, with heavy casualties, and had to be hastily withdrawn to the rear.

Xu Wen ordered Chen Zhenglun and Zhou Weiguo to lead 500 people and dozens of armored vehicles each, launched a pursuit, and followed the devil's rout to attack the city.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Hirano Ichiro gathered about 500 people and engaged in a fierce battle with the pursuing troops led by Zhou Weiguo in the southeast of the city.

Try to resist stubbornly and resist the attack of the Independent Brigade here!

Zhou Weiguo immediately opened the road in front with an armored car, and the infantry followed up, and the armored car not only resisted the devil's blocking fire in front, but also relied on the vehicle-mounted machine gun to form a counterfire, firing at the devil, hitting the devil's flesh and blood, and killing and wounding.

In the face of absolute strength, the more than 500 devil defenders around Ichiro Hirano could not resist Zhou Weiguo's attack at all.

Soon more than half of the casualties were beaten and had to retreat.

No matter how much Ichiro Hirano tried to stop it, it didn't help.

Because the firepower of the armored units of the independent brigade is so fierce, dozens of armored vehicles have up to hundreds of vehicle-mounted machine guns, which can fire tens of thousands of rounds per minute on average. ，

With such terrifying dense firepower, the devil can't shoot at all, and as long as someone shows up, they will be killed on the spot.

Therefore, the devil soldiers were completely frightened!

In this case, Zhou Weiguo led the army to take advantage of the situation to attack, and easily and completely defeated the troops organized by Ichiro Hirano, and even Ichiro Hirano was beaten into a bloody sieve by the on-board machine gun of an armored car, and fell straight down in a barricade fortification.