In the end, Song Defang, the leader of the blasting team, lit three fuses at the same time (for the sake of safety, three fuses in different directions were connected at the same time), and everyone began to desperately flee away from the blasting site.

With a loud sound behind him, the broken stone and bricks fell all over the sky, hitting everyone's backs, causing pain, and after a while, I looked back and saw that the Fengxin North Gate Tower was blown open, and the city wall was still collapsing tremblingly.

Without waiting for the Japanese army to react, the three or four trumpets of the third battalion sounded collectively, and in the bloody winter afternoon, in the smoke of gunpowder blown by the harsh north wind, and in front of the raging flames of war, the soldiers of the third battalion launched an overwhelming charge.

Two years ago in Nanjing, the Japanese army blew up the city wall of Nanjing, and Luo Zhicheng and his city defense troops fought to the death for the city tower, where Luo Zhicheng killed and injured a large number of comrades.

Now, after two years of bloody battles, Luo Zhicheng has quickly grown from a midshipman who graduated from a military academy to the commander of an infantry battalion, and is commanding an elite reinforced battalion, in the same way, blowing up the city wall and commanding the troops to enter Fengxincheng.

Due to the emptiness of the Japanese army at the north gate of Fengxin, most of the city defense troops were placed outside the city, and the devils on the city tower were suppressed by the mortars and heavy machine guns in the middle of the city.

Therefore, the devils can't organize an effective resistance force to plug the gap in the city wall, and the few devils are like a drop in the bucket, and they can't withstand the tide at all, and they are drowned in the sea of people when they are very open.

The fourth platoon of the seventh company took the lead in rushing up to the city tower, and the platoon commander Wang Xinjia took the lead, braving the rain of bullets, picking up and holding high the military flag with one hand and the shell gun in the other, and was covered in blood, but he still rushed to the city tower and planted the military flag on the city tower.

The cold north wind swept away the blood-like red flags, and although the flags were full of bullet holes and even tattered like rags, they were of great significance at the moment.

The military flag is the same as the military horn, not only to guide the direction of the soldiers' advance, but also a symbol of the spiritual strength of a force, although the third battalion now does not have a special number and military flag, but the national emblem on the red flag, shining on all Chinese soldiers.

Under the blue sky and white sun, Fengxincheng is now killing everywhere with blood red, and the 216th Wing of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army was attacked in many places, and the troops were stretched.

It was too late to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, especially the empty north gate was attacked by the three battalions, and there was no time to react and rescue, the city tower was blown up, and a large number of Chinese soldiers attacked the city tower.

After the third battalion attacked the Fengxin North Gate Tower, the battalion commander Luo Zhicheng immediately ordered the last reserve force to protect the flank, the Ninth Company, and also followed the tower.

The 7th Company, which was the first to attack the tower, now made a cone attack and penetrated directly into the city, while the 8th and 9th companies advanced along the tower and attacked on both sides, expanding the attack area and deploying the troops.

With the help of the transport team, the last machine gun company also carried mortars and heavy machine guns to the north gate tower, guarding the gap and protecting everyone's flanks, and also using mortars to clear the way for the seventh company.

Those devils who had been ordered to aid the North Gate had just marched not far from the North Gate and were colliding with the Seventh Company.

Once it broke into the city, it was like a tiger moving forward quickly, and when it encountered the enemy, it was also calm, and immediately deployed its troops, occupied favorable terrain, and carried out a semi-encircled siege of the enemy.

Since Luo Zhicheng became the company commander, the Seventh Company has also fought many street battles, and now Xiucai has also won the essence of Luo Zhicheng's street fighting tactics, which are similar to trench warfare and close combat with various obstacles.

Mainly also the use of short-hit weapons, grenades are the best weapon to open the way, and then machine guns and shell guns submachine guns, the seventh company is attacking the devils outside the north gate, mainly using broadswords and bayonets, weapons and ammunition are relatively sufficient, so it is arranged to break into the city to fight.

Instead of walking on the street, they used grenades to blow up the walls and make a way through the shops on both sides of the street, and most of the shops at that time were made of wooden planks or thin earthen walls, supported by wooden pillars, forming the walls.

This kind of wall is relatively easy to explode, and once it is blown up, the burst weapon will attack with a wave of dense bullets, attacking and advancing, gradually compressing the enemy's defensive area.

Another very advantageous factor in the street fighting of the Seventh Company is the use of signal flares or smoke bombs to guide the attack position of the machine gun company on the tower behind it.

Once they encountered a Japanese stronghold that was difficult to attack, the soldiers of the 7th Company gave the machine gun company guidance on the position, and in a short time, the mortar shells accurately landed on the target.

This is already a light or simple type of infantry artillery coordination, but at this time the effect is very good, only the devils who came to the rescue are extremely passive, and soon they can't resist it, and they have to retreat one after another.

At the same time, the huge bombing sound of the 3rd Battalion blasting the city tower at the north gate and the sound of charging in all directions inspired the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 152nd Regiment fighting at the Fengxin West Gate, and also shocked the main force of the Japanese army in the city.

In the afternoon of this attack on Fengxin, the 153rd Regiment of the 51st Division also came to help attack the south gate of Fengxin.

Now, after the third battalion broke into the city, the other brother troops were greatly encouraged, and they began to break through the line of the Japanese city defense troops and began to enter the blasting operation of the city wall.

With the blasting of many city walls, Fengxin was already a big funnel full of holes, and the captain of the 216th Wing of the Japanese Army, Ogawa Daisa, saw that the situation was not good, so he had to start organizing the breakthrough troops and began to retreat to the east gate while resisting.

As soon as the enemy retreated, the pressure on the 3rd Battalion was lightened, especially the 7th Company, which followed the Japanese advance closely, while pursuing, seizing favorable terrain and expanding the area of attack.

The Eighth Company was attacking from the North Gate to the West Gate, and the Ninth Company was attacking from the North Gate to the East Gate, and the Eighth Company was now under almost no pressure, and soon joined forces with the 152nd Regiment at the West Gate, opened up the passage from the North Gate to the West Gate, and also connected the attack area together.

However, the Ninth Company is now feeling unprecedented pressure, because the main force of the 216th Wing of the Japanese Army is now retreating towards the West Gate.

The Ninth Company had already lost a platoon at Ganshulong, and now it was even more powerless in the face of the Japanese army who were fighting to the death, and the Japanese army used heavy troops to block the positions on both sides of the east gate, and resisted the Ninth Company of the Third Battalion and the 153rd Regiment from the south.

This east gate was the lifeline of the Japanese army, and it was the only way for them to retreat to Nanchang, so they set up heavy troops here to defend it at the beginning.

The Ninth Company and a vanguard company of the 153rd Regiment could only watch as the enemy poured out of Fengxin and retreated to the east, and could only make a little senseless shooting.

The machine gun company of the third battalion, on the tower of the north gate, also fired shells towards the east gate, but the target was not clear, so it could only shoot blindly, and the effect was average.

However, the Seventh Company, which broke into the city, bit a broken Japanese army and did not let go, while finding the heavy artillery position of the Japanese army, only to find that the Japanese artillery had destroyed several heavy guns, and there was no joy.