The commander of the second battalion reported the battle to Chen Chunyi, Chen Chunyi encouraged him a few words, looking at the soldiers who had survived the bloody battle, Chen Chunyi could only smile bitterly, the troops that had just been replenished and reorganized had now become like this again.

"Commander Chen, there will always be new recruits, let's still think about how to fight the current battle." Zhang Wei saw that Chen Chunyi felt uncomfortable, so he went up and persuaded him.

Chen Chun nodded, and ordered the second battalion to continue to advance, don't look at their losses just now, but it is still the most complete battalion of the 23rd regiment now, the second battalion commander ordered the main attack company to withdraw, and the other company to go on top and search forward.

When the troops who had just attacked withdrew, they took out all the weapons of the Japanese army, and they didn't ask for rifles, and Zhang Wei asked for all the grenades, after all, grenadiers needed ammunition.

The military situation was urgent, and the 23rd Regiment changed its battle formation very quickly, and after the forward company was exchanged, it immediately moved forward.

Since the 4th Division besieged Zaozhuang, the troops have continued to attack, and the watchtowers around and the Japanese troops hidden around have basically been cleaned up by the troops, although the casualties of the 4th Division are greater.

At present, the Japanese army still has two strongholds, one is the water tower of the Zhongxing Company, and the other is the teaching building of the Zhongxing Middle School, which are relatively solid buildings, which are naturally best used as defenses. After clearing the surrounding Japanese troops, the various attacking units of the 4th Division all tacitly encircled these two strongholds.

The 23rd Regiment was closer to the Zhongxing Water Tower, so it naturally surrounded it, Chen Chunyi learned the lesson of the last time this time and did not rashly launch an attack, the troops of the second battalion were deployed not far away, and the friendly troops on the other side gradually arrived, it was the troops of the 10th Brigade, this brigade has suffered little losses since the beginning of the war, and the personnel are neat.

Zhang Wei looked at those friendly troops, and a bad idea came out of his heart, he should let the friendly troops attack first, their losses these days are not big, although he has nothing to do with the 23rd regiment, but after all, he has been fighting together for so long, and he feels bad when he sees that this regiment is gone.

Zhang Wei walked to Chen Chunyi's side and said in a low voice: "Commander Chen, send someone to contact the friendly forces, let them attack first, and we will cooperate." Chen Chunyi didn't answer, and glanced at Zhang Wei thoughtfully.

"Hmm"

The signal corps ran over, and after about ten minutes, ran back to get back to his life.

"Tuanza, the friendly army is the troops of the 10th Brigade and the 20th Regiment, and the friendly army will launch a surprise attack in about ten minutes, so let us cooperate together when the time comes."

"Understood." Chen Chunyi glanced at Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei knew that this was signaling himself to cover, to be honest, this kind of battle, Zhang Wei really didn't want to let his infantry rush in and die, so he naturally took on the cover task.

"Zhang Wei, please go and prepare a grenadier for cover, and in addition, let your people also shoot light machine guns."

Chen Chun's mortars and heavy machine guns were almost all lost, and the only automatic firepower was light machine guns, and Zhang Wei's automatic firepower at hand was only light machine guns, grenadier bombardment, and light machine guns suppressed the firing ports of the Japanese army everywhere, which was the most effective and only way at present.

On the side of the 20th regiment, the troops who occupied the hidden place began to prepare for the attack, and the 6 82 mortars of the mortar company were scattered and hidden in the dilapidated houses scattered under the water tower, and the roof of the house had long been demolished, leaving only the ruins and broken walls, which were just able to block the guns and bullets for the mortars.

In addition to mortars, the 20th Regiment also moved heavy machine guns to the front, arranged suppressed firing ports, and suppressed fire composed of heavy machine guns and mortars would suppress the Japanese army to the greatest extent. Zhang Wei's 12 light machine guns and grenadiers were ready to be fired, Zhang Wei wanted to throw grenades into the building, but the mortars of the 20th Regiment were difficult to do because of concealment and firing range, but the grenadiers in Zhang Wei's hands were possible.

Czechs and rifles of all classes were aimed at the windows and open perforations, just waiting for the sound of the 20 regiment's artillery, the gate under the water tower was open, through the doorway, and the Japanese troops were not seen, quite simply, the Japanese troops would not be exposed to the light.

An infantry company of the 20th Regiment was ready, and the Japanese troops in the water tower were also arranged, the first floor did not stay behind the defenders, the defenders were arranged at the junction of the stairs on the first and second floors, the crooked handles and a few 38 large covers were hidden here, and a large number of grenades were prepared at the same time, the upper floor was the top priority, the remaining Japanese troops were all concentrated here, a few crooked handles and a 92 type were hidden near the window and the perforation, and there were two grenadiers that were useless and could only be left on the side.

Before the 20th regiment began, gunshots rang out in the distance, attracting the attention of the two armies, and the battle at Zhongxing Middle School started first, and it was better to fight there, and it started first.

The mortars of the 20th regiment adjusted their mortars and aimed them at their respective targets, the main targets of which were the open doorways and the windows outside the first floor, in short, to smash the shells on the water tower as much as possible, although the real effect was mediocre.

The heavy machine gun raised the tripod and aimed at the various holes high on the second floor.

The H-6 mortar shells were discharged one after another, exploding under the water tower, two of which exploded at the entrance of the water tower, and the scattered shrapnel entered the first floor of the water tower along the open gate, and thick smoke rose everywhere.

The heavy machine guns followed, suppressing the firing ports and windows on the second floor, and Zhang Wei saw that the combat performance of the 20th Regiment was slightly better than that of the 23rd Regiment, at least the distribution and use of firearms was passable. The 4th Division was the Central Army, but it was not rich in bullets, and after five hundred rounds per heavy machine gun, it stopped firing.

The signal corps had already run over just now and told the officers of the 20th regiment not to attack yet.

"Dong Erli, grenadiers!"

Following Zhang Wei's order, Dong Erli personally copied a grenadier and guided the other groups to shoot. The first shot hit the outer wall, breaking off several layers of wall skin, and the second shot hit directly into the window, only a puff of smoke was seen, and the other groups fired in turn, and after a dozen grenades, confusion and shouting began to appear in the water tower, presumably to the credit of the grenades that entered it.

"Charge!"

The troops of the two regiments rushed almost at the same time, and the troops of the 20th regiment took the lead in getting into the building, Zhang Wei and the independent company did not rush, but only suppressed the Japanese machine guns on the perforation outside.

In the water tower, a grenade killed several Chinese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers who threw the grenades were also killed at the same time, and then the Chinese soldiers who swarmed in......

Zhang Wei listened to the shouting and killing inside, and personally picked up a Czech-style ** attack on the window above, and the Japanese troops who tried to intercept the national army on it couldn't raise their heads at all.

In the small water tower, shouts of killing, explosions and screams were ...... In the end, under the attack of the national army, all the Japanese troops in the water tower were swallowed up.

At this time, Zhongxing Zhongxing was a different scene, a group of devils broke through the besieging national army, repelled a small group of pursuers, for this group of stragglers, the national army had no intention of pursuing.

And these Japanese soldiers hid in an alley, and this alley was only five hundred meters away from the Zhongxing Water Tower.