Outside the city of Datong, a steady stream of tentative attacks came to a halt at three o'clock in the morning.

On the offensive position, groups of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were half-squatting in the trenches, holding their guns, with solemn expressions, waiting for a new offensive order.

In previous exploratory attacks, only one infantry company had been deployed in each attack.

This time, the four-way attacking force dispatched four main battalions.

Ammunition men shuttled back and forth through the trenches, delivering crates of light and heavy machine gun ammunition to each machine gun.

On the machine-gun position, except for the machine gunner staring at the wall with a serious face, the secondary shooter and ammunition driver all lay next to him and loaded the magazines to prepare more magazines to ensure that the machine gun fire would not be interrupted after the attack began.

On the artillery positions, all the mortars that could be used were erected.

Not far away, in the shell storage pit, box after box of shells were opened, fused, and sent by the gunners to the artillery.

The next attack is related to whether the troops can enter Datong City before dawn, and both the garrison regiment and the reinforcements from the northwest of Jin have moved their homes out.

When the time for the attack comes, attack the city with your fiercest attack.

In the offensive position in the east of the city, the car bomb judged by the Japanese army did not appear, but Li Hao prepared more than 20 heavy machine guns, nearly 30 mortars, 6 mountain guns, 16 heavy artillery, and nearly 4,000 attacking troops for the Japanese puppet army in the east of the city.

Everyone is like a leopard ready to attack, rushing out when the time is up......

"Commander Li, it's almost time......" Chief of Staff Zhou reminded by staring at his watch.

"Let's get started!" Li Hao said very calmly, as if he was giving an ordinary order.

The "boom, boom, boom......" mortar was the first to react.

Ten mortars roared at the same time, sending shells at the city.

"Shelling, concealment......" On the eastern side of the city, the Japanese captain did not realize that this was an extraordinary attack.

It was exactly the same as Li Hao's judgment, and it was directly regarded as a feint attack that he had encountered before.

Immediately ordered: "The artillery will immediately counterattack and suppress the enemy's artillery fire." ”

Two minutes later, the captain of the devil brigade was blinded, and ten more mortars of the Eighth Route Army outside the city joined the battle.

Shells don't want to be smashed into their own artillery positions like money.

In order to preserve strength, the artillery had to stop firing and shift positions.

As a result, at least ten mortars outside the city were staring at the city.

The attacking troops happened to appear, and more than five hundred Eighth Route Army, like a wave, rushed towards the city wall.

"It's not good, this is not a feint before, the Eighth Route Army has launched a general attack on us!" The captain's eyes quickly widened, and he exclaimed with a shocked expression.

Then he yelled at the subordinates next to him: "What are you doing in a daze? ”

"All the soldiers who can still move in the army participate in the battle and repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army."

The herald immediately reported to the command that the Eighth Route Army in the east of the city still officially attacked the city head and asked for reinforcements.

As soon as the words "boom ......" came out, several different explosions sounded not far away.

Ordinary mortar shells fell on the city, and the damage to the city walls was almost zero.

The shells were noticeably different, and one of them hit the battlements right on.

In the flying firelight, the battlements made of bricks and stones were instantly shattered, and the flying stones exploded everywhere like scattered flowers.

A heavy machine-gun squad hiding behind the battlements was blown up on the spot.

The heavy machine gun and one Heavy were blown into parts and minced meat, and the remaining Heavy was blown away......

The scene was a mess and very tragic.

The captain was blown up, but his reaction was not slow at all, and he quickly ordered: "What are you sending out, immediately counterattack and block the ...... of the Eighth Route Army rushing over."

"Woo woo woo ......"

A series of screams suddenly sounded in the air, easily overpowering the guns on the battlefield, and finally reaching the ears of the captain.

"It's a heavy artillery ......" The captain's face turned pale instantly, and he subconsciously exclaimed.

"Boom, ......boom," and then he heard a thunderous explosion more than 300 meters to his left.

The walls beneath his feet seemed to tremble slightly in the explosion.

The huge fireball that rose into the air was ten meters high, and the thick black smoke column was wrapped in flames and soared into the sky.

When the explosion had dissipated somewhat, the captain finally saw the situation clearly.

A section of the nearly 50-meter-long city wall was covered with artillery fire, the battlements were blown up with breaches everywhere, and several craters were blown out of the ground of the city wall.

The soldiers guarding this section of the wall all fell to the ground, and some of them were blown to the ground, which was very tragic.

What frightened the captain the most was that a small gap of two meters wide was blown out in the middle of this section of the wall.

Large chunks of the bricks of the city wall were blown off, revealing the earthy yellow dirt that had been wrapped inside, and then continued to leak out through the gaps.

If the artillery of the Eighth Route Army continued to blow up from this gap, after more than a dozen rounds of shelling, the gap would definitely become bigger and bigger, and finally become a breakthrough for the Eighth Route Army to enter the city.

The captain immediately ordered: "All the imperial troops continue to fight in place." ”

"The Imperial Army and the police gave me a ride and plugged the gap with sandbags...... Armed expatriates supervise the battle, and if they are afraid of the enemy, they will be shot directly, and the gap in the city wall must be blocked for me. ”

"What about the heralds? Continue to contact the headquarters, the Eighth Route Army dispatched heavy artillery to attack the east of the city, the city wall has already shown signs of being blown up, I want reinforcements to build another temporary defense line behind the gap to prevent the Eighth Route Army from entering the city from the gap. ”

On the battlefield in the west of the city, the head of the 12th Regiment Wang and the head of the 6th Regiment Zhang stood together at the observation mouth of the headquarters, their expressions unprecedentedly relaxed.

The offensive went too well tonight.

There are still thirteen mortars left in the two artillery companies temporarily formed by the two regiments, and the devils have minus five to reinforce the east of the city, and then minus the two that were blown up in the feint, which is not the opponent of the Eighth Route Army at all.

The two regiment commanders specially assigned four mortars to fight the Japanese army, and the remaining two guns.

The other nine mortars were staring at the city and bombing, and wherever there were heavy machine guns, they fired shells and uprooted one fire point after another.

Such a clean attack, they had never played before.

"Commander Wang, if we continue to fight like this, we won't be able to enter Datong City before the east of the city!" The head of the sixth regiment said with anticipation on his face.

"Impossible!" Head Wang is very self-aware.

"There is heavy artillery in the east of the city, which can directly blow up the city wall, and if we want to enter the city, we can only send troops to rush to the foot of the city wall to blast, and the casualties are too great."

"Don't look at the devils who are being pressed and beaten by us now, but there are too many of them, and there are many light and heavy machine guns, according to the current pace of attack, three hours may not be able to blow up all the machine gun fire points on the city wall."

"I think we still fight according to the rules, and slowly consume the devils on the city wall with cannonballs."

"When the east of the city is broken through, the Japanese puppet army will naturally abandon the city wall, and then we will kill it again and beat the water dogs."

Head Zhang thought for a moment and agreed: "Listen to you!" But our offensive must be strengthened, otherwise we don't know that the devils will send troops from here to reinforce the east of the city. ”

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