In order to put more psychological pressure on Zheng Hongkui, the artillery regiment of the First Army bombarded for more than two hours in one day, and fired as many as three or four thousand shells of various types alone.

The stock of artillery shells carried by the logistics troops was depleted by a full two-thirds.

However, the effect of the shelling was also obvious, the northern wall of Jianning City was blown up with thousands of holes, and one section of the battlement wall was blown down.

Even the North Tower had been blown down to a corner, and the walls were littered with craters, large and small, and the ground was covered with rubble bricks of various sizes, mixed with many black blood stains, the color of blood mixed with dirt.

Zheng Jiajun's corpses were layered on top of each other, and many of them were in a state of fragmentation.

When the cannonfire stopped for a long time, there was not a single figure visible on the entire northern wall.

It's not that they were all killed by the shelling, but they ran away.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Zheng family, no one could survive such an overwhelming and dense artillery fire, so running away became the only option.

Even Zheng Hongkui himself hid so much that he didn't know where to go, and there was no one in sight in the entire city.

Bai Mu, who was watching this scene from the telescope, was a little stunned, why did he not fight well yet? You guys are cowardly like this, how can I continue to sing the next play?

Looking at the undefended northern city wall in front of him, Bai Mu felt that if he continued to fire, it seemed to be a bit of a waste of ammunition.

Could it be that these Zheng Jiajun are really so unbeaten?

Bai Mu thought about it, and asked the commander of the first infantry regiment of the first division to order: "Send a battalion to take a look, don't Zheng Hongkui, this old boy what kind of moth is he doing?" ”

Soon, a battalion of Wehrmacht troops scattered in a straggler formation and made a tentative attack on the quiet northern wall.

But getting closer and closer, I saw that I had reached the place of a stone's throw away, but the city wall was still quiet, and there was no movement, which made the battalion commander who led the team a little confused, could it be that Zheng Jiajun really ran away?

After thinking about it, the battalion commander made a decision to send a company to quickly maneuver under the city walls to conduct fire reconnaissance.

Soon, the soldiers of an infantry company who received the task quickly rushed to the base of the city wall in an irregular route, and then after the company commander shouted, everyone quickly untied the grenade on their waists and threw it on the city wall with a loop.

The city wall is actually not very high, that is, about three zhang high. For soldiers who threw bombs as a necessary part of their daily training, this distance was a breeze.

Grenades exploded on top of the walls, but there was no movement.

"Company commander, these goods are really not gone, are they?" A sergeant squad leader asked.

"Just try it, gather all the grenades in the company and move towards the city gate." The company commander thought about it and ordered categorically.

Soon, the soldiers of the whole company quickly moved to both sides of the city gate outside the north gate to maintain a state of vigilance.

All the grenades carried by the company were grouped together, and then they were made into several cluster bombs, which were placed in a few unused positions under the heavy city gates by the spearheads.

"Commander, aren't those guys going to blow up the city gates?" The adjutant beside Bai Mu looked at this scene from the telescope and asked curiously.

"Eight achievements are. This battalion is the battalion with the best performance in the assessment of grenade projection and use, and their battalion commander Chu Xiu is a guy who is obsessed with studying hand grenades, and these soldiers under his command must have obtained his true inheritance. Bai Mu nodded with a telescope.

Several cluster grenades were trained with a long fuse that stretched all the way to the outside of the city gate.

"Stay away, it's going to explode!" The company commander roared, causing the soldiers to hide in the distance, and then took out a fire fold from his bosom and blew it with his mouth, leaned down and lit the fuse on the ground.

After igniting it, he quickly retreated backwards.

The fuse burned rapidly, and the fire spread rapidly towards the depths of the city gate.

A loud "boom" came from the cave in the city gate, followed by several almost connected loud noises.

With the sound of a huge continuous explosion, the city gate cave was filled with smoke and dust, and the bricks, stones, and wood chips gushed out in an instant, and even the city tower on the top of the city gate had several huge cracks, which began to slowly tilt down.

The loud noises that took place focused everyone's eyes on the place.

Before all the smoke and dust cleared, the company commander spat out the dirt that flew into his mouth and quickly rushed towards the city gate.

The soldiers in the back followed, and many of them had already taken the sapper shovels in their hands and were ready for hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, and as far as the eye could see, the originally huge and thick city gate with a height of more than a zhang completely disappeared, and the entire city gate cave became a pothole, and the ground was full of fallen masonry and soil, blocking the originally spacious passage of the city gate cave and making it difficult to walk.

"Rush, follow me!" The battalion commander Chu Xiu also roared at this time, brandished his pistol and rushed towards the city gate first, and the soldiers of the battalion behind him followed closely.

It was only after rushing through the ruins and into the city that the soldiers realized that there was not a single living defender in sight behind the entire city gate, except for a dozen corpses that had been shocked to death by the huge explosion just now.

After sending people to search the sides and the surrounding area, and confirming that all the defenders of the north gate had fled, the commander of the first company sent a signal to the troops behind.

After receiving the signal from the front troops, saying that the defenders of the North Gate had finished escaping, Bai Mu was stunned for a moment, took off his hat and rubbed his head, and grinned: "These cowards really ran away like this?" ”

However, he quickly reacted in the next second, and said loudly: "Go and contact the 47th Army and tell Commander Chu that Zheng Hongkui, this old boy, has run away, and his plan is going to change, so he must block Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Zhilong's mother." “

Soon the heralds were gone.

Bai Muzhen didn't expect Zheng Jiajun to be so unresistant, and he ran out after only a few shots on his side, and the original plan to encircle and send reinforcements seemed to be useless.

Come on, now is not the time to scold people and get angry, Bai Mu scolded Zheng Hongkui a few words, and decisively ordered the cavalry to continue to chase and kill the fleeing enemy, and the infantry entered the city except for the artillery, and quickly captured the other three gates and occupied the whole city.

Since the enemy has already fled, let's simply occupy the city first.

Under Bai Mu's order, the First Army of the National Defense Army rushed into Jianning City in a steady stream.

After entering the city, the infantry quickly attacked the remaining three gates along the walls. As expected, the defenders of the other three gates were almost frightened by the heavy shelling of the Wehrmacht.

The rest did not have time to run, and they did not have much courage to resist under the guns of the Wehrmacht, and they were either killed or surrendered on their knees.

By dusk, the entire city of Jianning had completely fallen into the hands of the Wehrmacht.