Chapter 69 Attack and Defense of Yixian County (3)

Behind the city gate hole, there is a wider area of the urn city, Zhang Wei has set up defensive positions on the front and side, the three lines of defense on the front are still the same, of course, the distance is relatively tight, the mortar is at the end, and the three battalion soldiers who have just gathered are all gathered together, and a platoon is assigned to Zhang Wei to command, and the rest of the people go to the city to prepare for street battles, and at the same time, they also return to Chen Chunyi.

There were no automatic firearms in the three frontal fortifications, and the main fire was the last three 82 mortars and a reinforced heavy machine gun. The flank positions were all arranged behind the city wall, arranged vertically, and horizontally, and the three lines of defense facing the city gate hole caught the city gate hole.

The flank defense lines on both sides were commanded by Qiu Wei and Hao Zhong respectively, and Zhang Wei concentrated all the light machine guns in these two platoons, which can be said to have two light machine guns in each squad (of course, this squad had to be returned after getting rid of this squad). Their purpose was to wait for the Japanese army to rush in, kill and wound, block the retreat of the Japanese army to the city gate hole, and then cooperate with the defenders in the frontal position to encircle and annihilate this small group of devils.

At this time, all the people were lying behind the sandbags, only the rifle with the bayonet was lying diagonally, Zhang Wei counted the time silently in his heart, and in a few minutes, it was estimated that the Japanese army would rush in.

He commanded, "Prepare." The soldiers in the position took out the cluster grenades that had been prepared for a long time, and the mortars and heavy machine guns were also ready to fire, and it was up to them to cooperate. As long as they cooperate well this time, it won't be a problem to kill them.

Chirping and shouting could be heard in the distance.

The Japanese squad rushed in directly like headless flies, it seemed that they felt that the Chinese army had lost the ability to resist, Zhang Wei did not give the order to fire, everyone was waiting behind the sandbags, what they had to wait for was the gunfire of the flank position, because only on the flank, could they see whether the Japanese army had all entered the city, so Zhang Wei handed over the power to take the lead in firing to Qiu Wei and Hao Zhong.

The Japanese army was very strange that there were still a few mortars on the position not far away, why didn't these Chinese soldiers shoot, just as they were thinking, they had all entered the city, exposed in front of the fortifications on the front side.

"Hit!" Qiu Wei shouted, Qiu Wei's platoon of six light machine guns and machine rifles took the lead in firing, the Japanese army who was caught off guard was killed on the spot more than a dozen, Hao Zhong platoon also fired, the Japanese army now thought that the defense of the national army was on the flank, and immediately knelt down to shoot at the defense on both sides, at this moment, Zhang Wei ordered to fire.

The crossfire network composed of mortars and heavy machine guns hit near the city gate, and nothing could be seen clearly, only flesh and blood could be seen. The mortar fired in a rapid-fire manner, and shrapnel almost hit its own people.

After a wave of attacks, there were only a dozen people left in the Japanese army, Zhang Wei didn't want to bother, picked up the cluster grenade next to him, threw it, and the soldiers also threw it, nearly 100 grenades played a song of death at the city gate, and after the grenade rain, it was a machine rifle fire. The bullet passed through the smoke, and I don't know who it hit, and everyone held a belief, that is, to fight and kill.

By the time the dust and smoke cleared, there was no movement at the gates, only stumps and corpses, and flesh and blood were dripping all over the ground.

Zhang Wei stood up, put down the rifle in his hand, and won the first battle, completely annihilating a small unit of the Japanese army. It was the first time that the soldiers were so happy, you know, they were chased and beaten before, everyone began to cheer, and almost no casualties were paid, and they killed a small team, and they didn't dare to think about it before.

Zhang Wei sent someone to inform Chen Chunyi that the others would clean up the battlefield and clean up the position, and wait a while to let these corpses cover the firing range, in view of the fact that the Japanese army would not attack for a while and a half, Zhang Wei asked Qiu Wei to look at the troops first and returned to the city by himself.

Chen Chunyi's headquarters was located in the county government, which had long been empty, and the three-story concrete building provided a fairly good defense.

When the two met, Chen Chunyi first praised Zhang Wei a few words, and talked about the next way of fighting, Zhang Wei's opinion was that all the troops near the city gate should be withdrawn immediately, withdrawn to the houses and alleys, and rely on these fortifications to kill them in street battles with the Japanese army.

Chen Chunyi also thought that he could not be hard topped, and agreed to Zhang Wei's request to shrink the troops.

Back at the city gate, Qiu Wei had already gathered the troops, Qiu Wei came over and asked, "Company commander, what should I do?" ”

"Take them all back to the city, and rely on those houses to fight with the devils." After Zhang Wei finished speaking, the troops retreated to the urban area in an orderly manner, and the division of the defense area adopted the system of subdivision and contracting, with the platoon as a unit, occupying a certain area and civilian houses, and each squad was stationed in a different room, using the open perforations to shoot, and at the same time distributing a large number of grenades to the troops.

The four platoons formed a square defensive zone, which coordinated with the three battalions of the friendly neighbors, and the regimental headquarters was not far behind.

Zhang Wei's headquarters was set up in a paper shop, which was relatively strong, and the mortar company was also returned to Chen Chunyi, and Zhang Wei asked Dong Erli to set up a position on the roof and wait for an opportunity to support.

Before the arrival of the Japanese army, the troops were all ready, hidden in various civilian houses, men and horses were also arranged at the commanding heights, and the defense areas of each platoon were isolated from each other, except for some connecting parts, as long as the order to open fire, the Japanese army would be eaten to death.

After the Japanese army lost a squad, it was very shocked, the Chinese defenders in the city actually had the ability to eat a squad, which had to attract attention, after entering the peripheral battle, the siege brigade still had two and a half squadrons of infantry troops, the Japanese commander did not lose the use of careless, this time must increase the troops, in order to be safe, he dispatched a squadron and a half, this is the largest force that can be taken out, the strength is still slightly insufficient, then make up for it with artillery bombardment.

A squadron of mountain artillery, without careful aiming, carried out a cover shelling of the city. Zhang Wei and the soldiers were all in the private house, at this time, they could only watch their fate, just now, a shell hit a building in the third battalion defense area, and the collapsed building directly destroyed a squad below, the scene was unbearable.

At such a time, the killing of shrapnel is at the bottom.

Zhang Wei's men were a little better, in the shelling just now, only seven or eight people were wounded, and no one died.

"Hold on, don't mess around."

After the Japanese shelling, what was left was a ruin, and the soldiers hurriedly repaired the fortifications and treated the wounded, and the cessation of the shelling was a signal for the infantry to attack.

The attacking Japanese infantry, armed with no heavy weapons or heavy machine guns, rushed into the city with the light weapons of the infantry.

After entering the city, the Japanese army was divided into two groups, each with more than 100 people, one part entered Zhang Wei's defense area, and the other part entered the defense area of the third battalion.

The Japanese soldiers looked at the increasing number of buildings and began to slow down their advance, and searched around with guns raised.

All this was watched by the soldiers who were secretly observing in the houses.