Chapter 111: Breaking into the City
Although it was night, and although the moon was faint and the stars were scarce, standing on the city wall and looking west, I could still see piles and clusters of shadows with black pupils. Moreover, this shadow is still pressing towards the west gate, and there is a smell of black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy it.
The Japanese puppet army on the city wall panicked when they landed!
Gaoping dual-purpose guns and rapid-fire guns are more suitable for striking directly at targets than mountain guns and field guns, and even a single test shot is exempted, and the parameters of resting and recuperating artillery are exempted.
The 92 infantry guns and grenadiers must be tested at one shot, otherwise they will not be able to hit accurately!
Artillery captain Zhao Xiuchuan was extremely powerful at this time, and when he heard the reports of the artillery commanders such as "No. 1 gun in place" and "No. 2 gun in place", he pointed to the west gate of Shouyang City and shouted: "Open the cannon!" Fire! Fire! ”
In an instant, the mountains shook, and one shell after another flew out of the barrel, dragging long wings of light, and rushed towards the Huiyangmen and the city wall.
At the same time, Zhao Fufu, who commanded two infantry guns, and Liu Li, who commanded the grenadier group, gave the order for a test firing at the same time!
The grenades fired by the 92 infantry guns and grenadiers arced in the air and fell towards the city wall.
The Japanese army had only four mountain guns in one wing, two infantry guns in the brigade artillery squad, and some infantry battalions were infantry artillery squadrons, but they only had four infantry guns. The independent battalion suddenly launched eight Gaoping dual-purpose guns, four rapid-fire guns, two infantry guns, plus grenadiers, and the intensity of this artillery fire exceeded the imagination of the Japanese puppet army left behind in Shouyang City.
With just one volley, the tightly closed gate of the Huiyang Gate at the west gate of Shouyang City was pierced, the city wall on the north side was blown out of a large gap several battles wide, and the city wall on the south side was also blown down by a big gap.
Now, everyone knows that Shouyang City is broken and can't be defended!
Immediately afterwards, the heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army fired, and the first shot was tracer bullets, just like a meteor shower suddenly falling in the sky, and the bullets flashed brightly towards the city wall, illuminating the night sky extremely bright!
After the tracer bullets, strings of bullets blew towards the city walls like a wind.
Just as the cannons roared and the machine guns were chanting, a company and a platoon began to move, and I saw the soldiers forming an infantry squad charge formation and rushing towards the city gate.
50 meters behind the first row, there are two and three rows.
Second company followed.
The Japanese puppet army on the city wall was frightened, and the puppet guards who were urgently assembled by the devils to assist in defending the city were scared to pee their pants first, panicked, and confused, and some people began to roll their eyes and think of a way out.
I don't know which puppet army led the lead, anyway, after a while, the instructor of the puppet garrison holding the Wang Ba box and the command knife suddenly found that the puppet garrison under his command had collapsed, and the soldiers were like frightened sheep, shouting, crying, and running backwards towards the city.
In a hurry, the devil instructor raised the Wang Ba box in his hand and hit a puppet army on the back, beating that guy in the mouth and gnawing mud!
When an army is defeated, killing a deterrent can have a deterrent effect, and can force the defeated soldiers to return to their positions. It's a pity that the devil instructor found out late, and it was night again, and he shot from behind, killing a deserter was useless!
The Japanese troops who remained in the city had only a brigade transport team and a small squad of the machine gun squadron. The transport team was originally full of 110 people, but more than 20 rubber-tyred carts were dispatched to transport the infantry, and now the maximum is 80 people, plus the personnel left behind in the brigade headquarters, at most about 150 people.
If it is an ordinary Eighth Route Army unit without artillery, so many grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns, without the cooperation of the pseudo-garrison, these 150 little devils can rely on the strong city wall to block the attack of a battalion or even a regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and maybe they can go out of the city to counterattack. But these little devils were unlucky, they encountered the Eighth Route Army system, and even the 115th Division Independent Battalion, which has the most powerful firepower in the entire Chinese army system at the moment, and ran into a hard stubble, and the Eighth Route Army didn't say anything politely when they came up, and directly set up a cannon and blasted away, where can the little devils resist it!
Just now, the little devil deployed the two Type 92 heavy machine guns of the machine gun squad on the city gate building, with the muzzle of the gun facing the road, ready to kill and wound the attacking Eighth Route Army.
This kind of firepower deployment is military common sense, and the city gate tower is facing the highway where the enemy is attacking, and it is the most convenient to display firepower because it has a wide field of vision and is condescending. The premise is that the other party has no artillery!
I didn't expect the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army to be so powerful, just a salvo fired, it blew down the city wall and blew open the city gate, followed by the 92-type infantry cannon and grenade grenade smashed down, directly overturning the city gate building, and the two heavy machine guns of the machine gun squad were buried in the smoke and dust at once.
At this point, it will be impossible for the little devils to hold on to the city wall anymore, which will bury the limited forces under artillery fire! The only way out is to quickly evacuate the county seat of Shouyang, report to the superiors, and ask for urgent tactical guidance!
In this way, after the puppet army began to flee, the remnants of the devils who could not hold the city wall also began to retreat.
The independent battalion was the first to rush into the city gate, one company after another, one platoon and one squad!
All the grenadier and light machine gun crews that were responsible for the task of suppressing fire stopped firing, put away their grenadiers, picked up their machine guns, and swarmed into the city behind the first and second companies to provide fire support to the first and second companies.
Immediately afterwards, infantry artillery and rapid-fire artillery were pushed into the city by the soldiers. The Gaoping dual-purpose artillery also stopped the shelling, put on the pack horse, and drove into the city.
Xiao Siming, commander of the independent battalion of the 115th Division, with a Type 97 sniper rifle in one hand and a Wang Ba box in the other, also rushed into the city with a communications platoon!
In the night, in Shouyang City, gunshots rang out. The Japanese puppet army was in front, and the Eighth Route Army was behind, one fled, the other chased, the bullets swished and chirped, flying towards the back of the Japanese puppet army.
Originally, the Japanese army supported the establishment of a garrison, which was used to block bullets for them, and they should have rushed to the front and withdrawn to the rear.
It's a pity that the pseudo-garrison is a native of Shouyang, the terrain is familiar, the withdrawal is early, the run is fast, this rout, the captain can't find the company commander, the company commander can't find the platoon commander, the troops are completely dispersed, all like lost dogs, scurrying around in the streets and alleys of Shouyang City, the goal is to get out of the east gate, south gate, north gate of Shouyang City, as long as you can run out is victory!
The little devil withdrew a little late, so he could only run behind the puppet army's ass and block the bullets for the puppet army!
Qiu Wei, commander of the first company of the independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army, instructor Yuan Gang, commander of the third company, Wang Meng, and instructor Chen Minghui, all of whom were veteran Red Army veterans of a hundred battles, were excited when they heard the sound of artillery.
rushed into the city, and Wang Meng, the commander of the third company, roared: "Concentrate firepower and sweep Lao Tzu!" Don't feel sorry for bullets and grenades, there are a lot of them in the little devil warehouse! Which one rushed to the east gate first, Lao Tzu invited him to drink! ”
Chen Minghui, the instructor of the Third Company, shouted: "One row, follow me!" ”
Looking at this posture, Sanlian is holding his breath, and he wants to compete with Yilian to see who rushed to the east gate first!
Not to mention a company, chasing the devil's ass and beating hard, light machine guns, Jinzao submachine guns, and barge guns were compiled into a firepower network, tearing the little devils who were caught up to pieces, and the little devils who beat only hated the grandmother for having two legs!
The 109th Division is an ad hoc division, and the soldiers are all conscripted reservists, and the will to fight cannot be compared with the fanatical young soldiers of the permanent division. The soldiers of the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division, who were brainwashed by militarism, would definitely not retreat from the city wall, they would jump from the city wall with a grenade, and die together with the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who attacked the city gate. At the very least, when they evacuate the city wall, they will leave a small detachment to block the attack of the delayed Eighth Route Army and cover the retreat of most of them.
The soldiers of the 109th Division are all old devils around 30 years old, and they have wives and children at home, so they will not jump from the city wall with a grenade and die with the Eighth Route Army, none of them want to die, and no one wants to be blocked behind the palace, they just want to retreat quickly!
In fact, even if it is to leave the blocking detachment behind, it will not be much use, and it will quickly drown in the attack wave of the Eighth Route Army.
The sound of gunfire also woke up the sweet dreams of those traitors in Shouyang City. These guys, knowing that they were guilty of great sins, and that the Eighth Route Army would not spare them after entering the city, also opened the door with a roar and joined the ranks of escape, and became lost dogs in panic!
At this time, Shouyang City is said to be a big county town, in fact, it is not big, the distance from the West Gate to the East Gate is not too far, this is another pursuit operation, the bullets of the Eighth Route Army are chasing behind the buttocks, and the speed of the Japanese puppet army must be fast!
Seeing that the east gate was in sight, the defeated soldiers of the pseudo-garrison who ran first suddenly went crazy, shouted, rushed into the cave of the city gate, opened the city gate, and rushed towards the misery of the night.
The traitors and the devils who didn't have many people left behind also rushed into the Dongmen cave with a roar, and behind them were the sound of clucking machine guns and the crisp sound of the Jinzao submachine gun and the German shell gun, and even the crisp sound of the usual "horn hook" and "horn hook" of the 38 big cover were connected, and it sounded "bang bang bang" and "bang bang bang", continuously!
Cao Ming'an, the commander of the second company of the independent battalion, and Zhang Huaide, the instructor, with the three heavy machine guns of the whole company and the heavy machine gun team, had already laid an ambush circle, and the position was crescent-shaped, and the muzzles of the black holes were all pointed at the gate of the East Gate!
Seeing the puppet army head out of the city, Cao Mingan couldn't suppress his excitement, spat in the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, and said in a low voice: "It's finally Lao Tzu's turn!" ”
After speaking, Cao Ming'an ordered in a low voice: "Machine gun preparation!" ”
When fighting, the command position of the company platoon commander is generally in the machine gun position, and he personally masters the machine gun fire!
It's ridiculous that the Japanese puppet army didn't know that a death trap had been laid outside the east gate, and they jumped down with a roar!
It's close, it's close, 200 meters, 100 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters, just when the few puppet garrison soldiers running in the front were only 30 meters away from the position of the third company, Cao Ming'an shouted "hit", and the shell gun in his hand "Da Da Da" was a flat sweep and continuous shooting, and the three puppet soldiers who rushed to the front were beaten upside down!
In an instant, there was a loud burst of gunfire on the position of the third company, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, Jinzao submachine guns, and rifles, all of which opened fire, and the dense firepower shrouded the Japanese puppet army and traitors who dreamed of escaping into the firepower net.
As soon as they saw that there was an ambush, the devils and traitors who finally went out of the city turned their heads and ran towards Chengcheng, and they were greeted by the more ferocious firepower of the first and third companies that caught up!
Under such ferocious firepower, devils, puppet soldiers, and traitors don't even have a chance to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, they can only be killed by bullets! (To be continued.) )