A major Chong Yelei said loudly: "The devil is too tenacious, if we continue to fight like this, we don't have enough troops to surround the main force of the devil!" ”

In one of the few buildings, Ye Lei set up a front-line command here. Two hours had passed since the counteroffensive, and the troops had occupied two-thirds of the area on the right flank, and the remaining devils were still resisting stubbornly, and the attackers suffered great losses between the attack and defense.

The devil in front of him received a death order, and he has never found a devil retreating until the battle, even if it is a wounded soldier. Ye Lei's troops were very difficult to attack every time, and they paid great sacrifices.

Ye Lei looked at the time, his scheduled plan was to hold on until the evening and use the night to make a decisive counterattack, but now, ......

"Keep attacking."

Ye Lei finally gritted his teeth and ordered the troops to continue attacking, the purpose was to get the greatest results.

"Dadada" "......"

"Brothers, rush!"

"Kill~" "Ah~" "......"

After receiving the order, the front-line troops continued to launch a fierce attack on the defending devils. They mainly occupied the main roads and then expanded their gains on both sides.

The streets are full of ruins, and it is no longer possible to distinguish what the original road looked like. The devils don't have decent fortifications, they just fight back on sandbags, ruins, and dilapidated buildings.

In the rain of bullets, the charging soldiers fell one by one, and the soldiers behind rushed forward one after another.

"Machine gun cover, keep rushing!"

"Da Da Da" "Da Da Da" "Da Da Da" "......"

The fire team followed closely with the attacking troops, erecting machine guns at the commanding heights to cover the troops' attacks, while machine guns were set up in the middle of the road to fire at the devils in the fortifications ahead.

In the comparison of melee light firepower, the 88th Division was slightly superior to the Japanese army, and if the Japanese army did not have the support of aircraft, artillery, and armored vehicles, the 88th Division would not have fought so hard, but this is the reality.

The middle lane is the main battlefield of the decisive battle, and both sides are fighting very hard. After two hours of hard fighting, the devil's attack was not as sharp as before, and the defenders were also scarred and a two-hour war of attrition, and both sides seemed to have reached the end of their crossbows.

As for the left flank, the attacking units of the 88th Division were similarly in a bitter battle, but the situation was slightly better than in the other two directions. In the morning battle, they did not ask the devils to take much advantage, and there was no rout like the Right Wing Einsatzgruppen.

As the minutes passed, the two sides continued to consume their troops. It's like the positive and negative poles are constantly canceling out, and it is only a matter of time before the deadlock is broken, and the one who remains is king.

Sato was terrified by the indomitable will of the Chinese army, a strong will that could not be destroyed by a steel ship. If time goes on again, it will be extremely detrimental to the Japanese army, and Sato knows this, so he decided that Zhabei must be taken before dark.

On the front line, the two sides are fighting fiercely, but the command in the rear is very quiet, and the silence is suffocating. Both sides have used all their strength, but no tactics can be used now, and they can only wait for the moment when the deadlock will be broken. However, the commanders of both sides left the last trump card and did not want to play it easily until the critical moment.

Sato couldn't wait any longer, he didn't want time to continue to drain, he couldn't let his combat power continue to be consumed, so at a critical moment, he played this trump card: poison gas bombs.

As a noble nobleman, as a proud samurai, Sato didn't want to do it in his heart because it was too despicable, but he had to do it in order to win, to keep his honor.

In the midst of the contradictions, Sato still gave this crazy order to attack the last line of defense in the middle of the 88th Division with poison gas bombs.

After the order was given, the devil's attack suddenly stopped, and the attacking troops withdrew. This took the defenders by surprise, and at last they were given a rare respite.

Unexpectedly, Sun Yuanliang and Ye Lei also had the defense in the middle lane very weak, and at this critical moment, the devil did not attack. This is not a good thing, the Japanese army will not give up easily if they sacrifice so much, Sun Yuanliang thinks that the devil is brewing a bigger conspiracy.

Ye Lei is very sensitive to war, he has a premonition that a huge storm is coming, but he will not expect the devil to use poison gas bombs, because he understands that Sato has the pride of a samurai.

"Order the troops to stop attacking!"

Suddenly, Ye Lei ordered his troops to stop the attack and respond to the changes.

A battalion commander beside him was puzzled and asked loudly: "Why!?" We have sacrificed so many brothers, and now you want us to stop attacking! It's about to be breached! ”

"The division commander handed over the command of this place to me, obey the order!"

Ye Lei's eyes were a little terrifying, he couldn't be hot-headed because of a huge sacrifice, at this critical moment, he must always stay sober, so he ordered: "Order the troops to do a defensive posture and move our main force closer to the middle." Ordered Li Hu to take the people to the middle road together. ”

The devils on the right flank were beaten like this by themselves, they were simply powerless to fight back, as long as it was enough to leave two platoons. Ye Lei is still worried about the middle lane, which is the key to the whole battle.

In this gap, the defenders of the middle lane hurriedly carried the wounded away and simply built fortifications.

But the devil did not have much time for the defenders to prepare, and after a quarter of an hour the sky sounded a shrill grenade.

When the officers of the position heard this, they shouted from the position: "The devils are shelling, hide!" ”

After hearing the order, the soldiers entered the anti-artillery hole very well, but there was no sound from the artillery shell landing position, only yellow smoke kept coming out.

Someone on the position exclaimed: "It's a poison gas bomb!" Bring a gas mask, hurry! Fast! ”

The veterans knew what to do, and immediately took out gas masks from their backpacks and put them on, but the recruits didn't seem to understand very well, and besides, half of them did not have gas masks, and they were all lightly armed before, especially the wounded who rushed to reinforce them.

"cough~cough~cough~""......"

"My eyes are so hot!"

"Ah~Ah~Ah~"""

There were soldiers in the position who were constantly wailing in pain, clutching their throats and rolling on the ground. The devil shot yellow No. 1 poison gas (mustard seed gas), which will cause great damage to the eyes, respiratory tract, and skin of the human body.

The entire position was soon covered in yellow smoke, and the logistics and medical teams behind them had no choice but to watch their brothers groan in pain in the poisonous gas.

Even with such a tragic urge, the devils will not show any mercy to the enemy, and soon they will launch a tsunami-like attack.

"The devil is here, ready to fight!"

Someone shouted orders in the smoke, they didn't care about those comrades in pain, their task was only to fight, insisting on sacrificing to the last man.

"Hit!"

"Da Da Da" "Da Da Da" "Da Da Da" "......"

The sound sounded again in the position, and the fighters put up their last resistance with their lives, and even then the firepower was much less than before.

"Why are you all standing stupid!? Don't go to save people yet! ”

When Li Yanan learned that the enemy was using poison gas bombs, he immediately rushed to the front line with a medical team. But those stretcher teams didn't dare to come forward when they looked at the poisonous gas, and everyone knew that going up would be death.

Li Yanan shouted again: "We can't let our brothers sacrifice in vain, cover my nose with a towel and put it on me!" ”

After hearing this, everyone took out a towel or a rag on their bodies to cover their noses, and then rushed to the front line under the leadership of Li Yanan.