As for the north gate, the terrain is more dangerous than the south gate, with high mountains to the west and a canyon to the east, and there is only a dirt road less than 10 meters wide in the area where the devils move around. And last night they also planted countless mines on the road, judging from the strength of only one brigade at the north gate, Jiang Haoran estimated that this brigade must be the garrison of Jiujiang, and the Japanese troops transferred overnight must have gone to Panyang Lake to support the 27th Division, otherwise it would not be possible to explain the fact that Xue Yue's First Corps could not annihilate a 27th Division without a command system. If it was just a garrison brigade, there would definitely be no heavy weapons, even if the devil's aerial bombs blew the city wall into ruins, it would be impossible for these fallen stones on the city wall to turn into powder and be blown away by the wind. Yin Donglai's assault battalion still has some support, although it is inferior in terms of strength, it has an absolute advantage in firepower and terrain, and there should be no problem in holding on.

Jiang Haoran ordered Chen Yihan to send a report to Xu Biao, if it was determined that there was no heavy firepower of the Japanese army at the north gate, all the gun ports should be aimed at the Japanese army at the south gate, and be ready to fire the cannon at any time.

If the north gate is really as Jiang Haoran wishes, there are no heavy weapons, Jiang Haoran believes that at least today, the devils will not be able to break through Mahuiling, so that the artillery battalion can be less threatened, and the Japanese planes will not be in the sky all the time, seize an opportunity just like yesterday to attack the Suzuki Wing, I am afraid that the Japanese army in the south will not look good. Of course, this opportunity can only be used for the life and death of the city, even if the enemy in the south is completely annihilated today, the devil's plane will definitely clean up the artillery battalion. As long as the artillery battalion is left in one more day, the backbone of the Nanshan Independent Brigade will still be there, the morale of the soldiers will be there, and the hope will be there.

At this time, more than a dozen people from the guard company came in a row, holding gas masks in their hands or hanging on their shoulders, because the tunnel entrance was blocked by wet cotton quilts, and the poisonous gas was rising, so there was no poisonous gas in the tunnel. These dozen or so people were sent by Jiang Haoran to the north and south gates to deliver letters, and when they saw that the other brothers had gone to the south gate, they came in to ask for war at this moment.

Jiang Haoran asked about the situation outside, and was told that the devil plane dropped a large number of mustard gas bombs in the town, the north and south city walls destroyed Yan zhòng, and the various departments had already entered the combat position, but the enemy only set up an attack formation and did not attack.

The guard company is a soldier king who came down from Nanshan, and naturally he will not admit his mistake about the devil's poison gas bomb. Mustard gas is an erosive poisonous gas, which has an effect on the eyes, respiratory tract and skin, and once contacted, it can cause human skin ulceration, difficulty breathing, general weakness, and loss of combat effectiveness in a short period of time. At the beginning of the war of aggression against China, once the war situation was blocked, the Japanese army, which had lost its conscience, used a large number of such poison gas bombs against the Chinese people. The Battle of Wuhan alone was used more than 300 times. As for the fact that the devil has not yet attacked, Jiang Haoran estimates that they want to wait for the poisonous gas to dissipate, after all, the devil does not want to inhale this kind of thing.

The guard company's request for battle was not approved, and these dozen or so people have become Jiang Haoran's last reserve force at this moment. After all, there is still a command here, and if there is an emergency, it is impossible to transfer people back from the battlefield.

The deafening explosion of "boom, boom, boom" sounded without warning. Listening to the sound, it can be concluded that the south gate was attacked by the devil's shells, and the explosion sound was large and small, although it was chaotic, but it was dense. Jiang Haoran listened attentively for a long time, but he didn't hear his machine guns and rifles ringing, if it wasn't suppressed by the devil's artillery fire, or the devil didn't brave the artillery fire. Originally, he was going to wait for Liu He to come back before going out, but now he can't wait. Ordered several staff officers to collect battle reports from various positions, and send them to the front line in a hurry, but they could wait for Liu He to come back to deal with them. Ignoring the dissuasion of the staff officers and Chen Yihan, he picked up a gas mask from one of the guards and put it on, and rushed out with two guards.

A faint yellow smoke could also be seen in the town, indicating that the mustard gas had not completely dissipated. The houses crumbled to the deafening sound of the explosion. The entire south gate was completely shrouded in artillery fire, and the black smoke clouds that rose were really obscuring the sky. The damage to the city wall is even worse than Jiang Haoran imagined, the city gate has completely collapsed, the three-meter-high city wall, there are very few places that can be seen two meters high, many places are directly a two-three-meter-wide gap, in the town you can see the devils lined up in a line of tanks, constantly spitting out shells, from time to time there are soldiers flying up and down from the artillery fire, and even a few are half buried under the stones, and the upper half of the body is desperately climbing out. Although you can't see your face while wearing a mask, the panic and helplessness are easy to reminisce. Most of the soldiers were huddled under the ruins of the city walls, and the flying shrapnel and rubble made them dare not take the lead at all, except for a few light machine guns and 38 large covers, and from time to time they took advantage of the limited gap in the artillery fire to throw a few shots.

It made Jiang Haoran very strange, the devil's shells still did not enter the town, all the shells were hung in the city wall area, and even the tanks were aimed at the remnants of the city wall that were still standing.

On the front line of the original headquarters, there was another trench, and Yuan Dongzheng was directing the soldiers to dig and keep turning up the soil, so that the trench had begun to take shape. Because the city wall was destroyed by the plane's aerial bombs, after the mobile battalion went up, the troops could no longer take advantage of the favorable terrain to turn away, so Liu Dakun, Yuan Dong and Su Peng discussed and laid this second line of defense, and because of this, the sharp knife battalion did not suffer losses.

Yuan Dong suddenly saw a person carrying the rank of colonel into the trench, and knew that Jiang Haoran was coming, although Jiang Haoran was now a major general and brigade commander, but there was no way to change this military uniform, so he immediately took off his gas mask and greeted him, and shouted: "Brigade seat, why did you come here?" Go back, it's too dangerous here! ”

Jiang Haoran threw off the gas mask, ignored Yuan Dong's construction, and said loudly: "What's the situation ahead?" ”

"The devils had two tanks blown up by petrol bombs, stopped advancing, constantly suppressed us with artillery fire, sent a large number of sappers to start clearing mines. The casualties of the mobile battalion are estimated to be nearly half, and this battle is not easy to fight.

"If it's not easy to fight, you have to fight! If you fight out in front, you will go up again, and you will have to defend this line of defense for me to the death! As he spoke, Jiang Haoran took a 38 cover from a soldier, grabbed two magazines from the ammunition box and stuffed them into his pocket. Jumping out of the trench with a bang, he threw his arms and rushed forward.

Yuan Dong was so frightened that his face was pale, and he hurriedly jumped out of the trench and dragged Jiang Haoran back: "Luzao, what are you doing here, this can't be done!" Back to ??????"

Jiang Haoran shook off Yuan Dong and said angrily at him with a hideous face: "You dare not listen to my orders? ”

Yuan Dong immediately stayed there and didn't dare to move again, because Jiang Haoran had already pulled the bolt of the gun in a hurry, seeing that if he still stopped him like this, he would really shoot if he didn't do it. I had to look at Jiang Haoran and the two guards and go deep into the artillery fire.

Jiang Haoran can't do this, the morale of the mobile battalion is obviously insufficient, except for Liu Dakun, Su Peng and more than a dozen veterans of the guard company who are still resisting there, no one else dares to come forward, if this continues, it won't be long before the devil will sweep away the mines, once the devil's tank is out of obstacles, he can only use the artillery battalion, so that there is no problem today, and the whole army should be wiped out tomorrow.