It wasn't until the infantry company carried the sandbags of the fortifications at the city gate into the city gate cave that Chen Yunfa's gunshots alarmed the Japanese troops in the fortifications in the city.

Some frightened shouts came one after another, after finding that there was no response from the Japanese army on this side of the city wall, several flares on the Japanese position more than 30 meters away hit the city wall, and what caught the eyes of the Japanese army was that a group of dark blue military uniforms quickly relied on the city wall to build sandbag fortifications, and at the same time, the gunfire on the city wall was loud, and the fire flashed.

It was a row of rifles, and several machine guns were firing heavily.

As soon as they heard the gunshots and knew that it was impossible to kill people quietly, the officers and men of the first infantry company of the death battalion who climbed the city wall with people as ladders simply stopped hiding their tracks and fired directly at the Japanese position.

The light of the flares illuminated not only the city walls, but also the Japanese positions, which were mainly based on the streets and the houses on both sides of the streets, and built a well-established defensive position.

Although there is still some regret in my heart, I can't quietly solve this large number of Japanese troops without paying any casualties, but Zhou Shiyu is already very satisfied, people can't be too greedy, they can take the city gate without spending a single soldier, and they can also occupy favorable terrain to strike at the Japanese troops in the fortifications in the city, what is not satisfied?

However, it does not mean that the upper and lower layers of the city wall and the city gate hole have formed a three-dimensional firepower, and their own forces are also superior, and the firepower of the infantry company is far beyond the two light machine guns and one heavy machine gun that the Japanese army has been exposed, so that the Japanese army can be beaten to the ground crying wolf and corpses.

Only those who are on the front line know that a vicious battle has just begun.

The Japanese reacted quickly and counterattacked fiercely.

The death battalion also fired three flares at the Japanese position, illuminating the Japanese position behind the city wall at a glance, and quietly arrived at the city wall, Zhou Shiyu, who was lying at the back of the fortification, frowned and quietly observed.

For safety, he didn't even use a telescope.

In this dark night, the danger to the commander from the telescope lenses, which will reflect the light under the flare, will definitely increase exponentially. Just as the elite shooters of the infantry squad of the death battalion never shoot indiscriminately and only shoot when they find valuable targets, the Japanese army also has lurking cold gunners hiding in corners you can't see, scanning the Chinese positions in search of more valuable targets.

For example, officers.

At this point, the independent regiment has always paid attention to it because of Liu Tuanzuo, who was born in special forces and likes to snipe enemy commanders the most. All officers are not allowed to wear military rank during marching operations. If you want your subordinates to listen to the command and listen to the order, you will always rely on brushing your face.

If there are still people in the independent regiment who do not know you, a major or a captain and lieutenant, then you really take yourself too seriously and do not mingle with the officers and men at the grassroots level, which is a dereliction of duty in itself. In Liu Lang's opinion, after five years of combat training together, you can't be familiar with the three or four thousand people, so if this officer doesn't do it, go to the infantry squad as a small soldier first.

In the first two years, many officers still had some old habits of the national army, and they did not take this topic that was not included in the military regulations but Liu Lang had already said seriously, and they were not subject to military regulations anyway. When the officers and men of the regiment have dinners, there is always a phenomenon that the grassroots soldiers of the same company do not recognize the commanders of other infantry companies.

Without exception, the commanders of these infantry companies were sent to the infantry squad of the infantry company as recruits for half a month in their backpacks, until the officers and men of the infantry company became familiar with the lieutenant.

Don't say it, this trick is very good, in the next two years, almost all the officers who put down their posture are well known to the soldiers, especially the faceless battalion commander like Zhao Ergou, not only the soldiers are familiar with him, but even the workers of the regimental military factory can tell his romance when they open their mouths.

For example, Battalion Commander Zhao once missed his daughter-in-law too much, so he dragged Xiaocui, the head nurse who was not on duty in the field hospital, to the mountain to watch the moon when he was not on vacation.

It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, and the timing is really too coincidental. The special brigade returning from a mission is conducting stealth training。。。。。。

Just when Battalion Commander Zhao was roaring and ignoring the small wind blowing on the mountain, Captain Yu, who really couldn't look at it, blew a whistle to withdraw the whistle. Seven members of the Fifth Special Squad, dressed in camouflage clothes with withered branches and leaves, ran away from the two who were "watching the moon".

It is said that the deputy captain of the fifth special squad closest to the stunned Battalion Commander Zhao, Diao Ye, grinned and said: So white!

I don't know if it means that the moon in the sky is white! It's still the butt of Camp Commander Zhao. Probably, the only thing worth really watching the moon in the middle of the night is that Camp Chief Zhao is fortunate that his daughter-in-law may be used to being the head nurse.

And it is rumored that when Battalion Commander Zhao, who was watching the moon with his wife's ears in the middle of the night, went to Liu Tuanzuo to complain about the shamelessness of the special brigade and peeping into people's privacy, Liu Tuanzuo laughed so much that he cried wolf howls and scared Xiong Sidu so much that he took the initiative to leave the small courtyard of the regiment headquarters and hid in the field hospital, the sound was much more terrible than the wolf howl of the bear.

Of course, jokes are jokes, but Liu Lang's move is a good implantation of the concept of equality of officers and soldiers of the red army in the early days of the founding of the Republic of China into the independent regiment, although it has not reached the high level of eating, living and training together, but the officers and soldiers are by no means as clear as those in the general national army, and the kind of officers of the Japanese army can wantonly beat and scold and even torture and kill the low-level soldiers.

In the independent regiment, the officers and soldiers at the lowest level received not only a generous military salary, but also after solving the stomach problem, human beings often began to think about spiritual things. And what Liu Lang gave them through these is dignity.

Dignity is actually needed by people from all walks of life, especially those who were once at the bottom of the ladder without food and clothing, and their desire for dignity is even less than food. Otherwise, how can red ideas form a prairie fire from a spark? The people themselves are the masters of their own affairs, which is to give dignity.

Small regulations that are not written often contain big truths.

In addition to not wearing military ranks, from Liu Lang to privates, the military uniforms are the same, and the feet are also uniformly wearing rubber-soled "liberation shoes", if you want to distinguish the officers of the independent regiment, unless you really see him giving orders, otherwise, it is difficult for the Japanese army to distinguish who is a soldier and who is an officer.

The two sides were already exchanging fierce fire, and at the same time that the Japanese army fired flares, more flares were fired from the side of the death battalion, illuminating the Japanese army's position with an area of tens of thousands of square meters.

Shinichi Harada deserves to be a front-line infantry commander, and his level of building defensive positions is really not bad. In fact, the Japanese troops placed on the city wall and the fortifications at the entrance of the city gate were far from having an infantry squad, or even only an infantry squad.

As Zhou Shiyu thought, the city wall was short and thin, not enough to become the main defensive position, if too many troops were placed, and the enemy had howitzers or even mountain artillery infantry guns, the city wall that would collapse with a bang would become a burden to bury his own troops.

From the very beginning, Harada Shinichi used the city walls of each city gate as an outpost, and only a small detachment of fifteen people was deployed on it, that is, fifteen rifles, not even machine guns, even if there was an enemy, the defenders in the rear positions would only be reinforced in small groups, and would not rely on the city walls to fight the enemy to the death.

The real defensive force is the defensive position behind the city walls.

The Japanese army demolished all the houses more than 30 meters away from the city wall, and made fortifications with the bricks and solid timber that had been demolished and relied on the endless dwellings, and they were very particular.

There are main positions and two flank positions, and each wing position has a light machine gun to form a cross-strike fire on the open field 30 meters in front of the main position, although the rate of fire of the crooked sub-machine gun is a bit scum, but under the blow of such two crossfire, the enemy who dares to charge will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

What's more, there is also a Type 92 heavy machine gun on the main position, which is placed on the roof of a flat-roofed house, and is tightly protected by sandbags around it, revealing only a firing hole with a firing range of up to 70 degrees, like a pillbox without a roof, unless it is bombarded with mortars, ordinary machine rifles do not pose any threat to them.

At the same time, the Japanese army also laid out the first-line position and the second-line position, the two lines of positions are only more than 20 meters apart, and there are civilian houses and lanes in the middle as cover, which can not only allow the soldiers of the first-line position to retreat to the second-line position at any time, but also make it more convenient for the second-line position to increase troops to the first-line position.

The entire position was more than 300 meters wide, and almost all the passages in the south gate were included in its firepower, and in order to pass through them, they had to be routed.

If artillery is used, such a position is naturally not worth the sun, and four mountain cannons are called in to bombard their positions indiscriminately, and these not very strong dwellings will not only not become their shelter, but perhaps because the collapse of the houses will hasten their demise.

Yes, when Shinichi Harada set up these positions, he did not count the Chinese artillery at all. Since the war in North China, very few Chinese troops could possess mountain artillery, and even if they did, they were beaten by Japanese planes and stronger artillery to hide in Tibet.

He probably didn't expect that one day, he would face a Chinese army with mountain artillery and mortars, and he didn't have a single artillery.

Yes, in the entire Jingcheng county, there are not many soldiers, and there are no artillery, which is an absolute dilemma.

But Zhou Shiyu didn't dare to fire rashly, God knows how many Jingcheng people live in this area? It was simple for him to command the artillery to open fire, but when he buried the Japanese army, he also buried his own compatriots, and this consequence was not something he, the battalion commander, could bear.

But if you can't use artillery, you have to fight hard with infantry, and you have to pay a lot of price.

It's like, it's a dead knot.

Zhou Shiyu, who dared to ask his artillery unit to open fire on him, rarely hesitated at this time.