In the night battle, for the first time, the city defense troops were in no hurry to repair the damaged places of the city walls. Their task is to throw grenades, and the number of ghost soldiers in the gap is the largest and densest, and throwing grenades in that place will maximize the effect. As a result, the passages that had been bombarded by enemy artillery became death traps.

No matter how many Japanese soldiers rushed over, they threw down a bunch of grenades with their heads and faces, and the devil soldiers howled and retreated amid the sound of explosions. The battle can be fought like this, not to mention that the thick-eyed and big-eyed recruits have never seen it, and the veterans who have been a veteran for many years have also never seen it.

At least as far as the Chinese army is concerned, there has never been any kind of combat material that can be used in unlimited quantities.

Correspondingly, there has never been a grenade that is simpler and easier to produce than this terracotta grenade.

What is unconvincing is that the thin two pages changed the tide of battle in the city. After all, throwing grenades at night, the support fire under the city could not be hit, and no one even knew where the grenades were thrown from. And fire support at night is too difficult. If you hit too intensively, you won't hit your own people.

Unlike the people in the city, as long as they throw grenades into the crowd, they will complete the task, and the number of grenades is unlimited anyway.

The reason why two thin pages of paper can change the tide of battle is because the terracotta grenade has only one drawing and one description. Unlike the "Accordion-Multi-Barrel Grenadier" and the "Gasoline Drum Cannon", it would take a few more drawings to fully draw it.

Since the two pages have changed the battle at the head of Taierzhuang, the situation on the entire Taierzhuang battlefield has changed only a matter of 10 pages.

Comparatively speaking, there are more descriptions and drawings for "Accordion-Multi-barrel Grenadier" and "Gasoline Drum Cannon". Therefore, the new weapons used on the battlefield in Taierzhuang are the problem of these 10 pages.

The thick-eyed recruits looked out of the "periscope viewing glass" in the hands of the old squad leader, and when the morning came after dawn, more Japanese soldiers entered the positions of the attack line. In the distance behind the Japanese position, there were groups of medics wearing red cross armbands, carrying single frames into the distance.

"Hey, boy, get some sleep, the most important thing on the battlefield is to learn to sleep all the time."

"Sleep?"

A recruit with thick eyebrows and big eyes who won a battle, he didn't feel sleepy at all when he was excited at the moment. But the veteran squad leader obviously had a better understanding of war, so he lay down on his own, and then covered his face with a straw hat.

"Boy, don't say I didn't teach you, don't wake up if you can sleep on the battlefield, don't sit if you can lie down, don't stand if you can sit. If you eat, eat quickly, and if you can sleep, go to sleep! ”

Listening to this seemingly slippery mouth, the recruit pursed his lips slightly. When he was young, he was too easy to fall asleep, and when he was playing cards at home, he could stay up for several days without sleeping.

Just as he was thinking, the snoring of the veteran could be heard under the straw hat.

"I really didn't expect it, he said to sleep when he slept, and he actually fell asleep, it's really good!"

At the same time, the commander of the city defense, the commander of the fifth regiment of the crown who had stayed up all night on the battlefield, took the telescope from his bloodshot eyes. Although his eyes were full of blood, his face was also full of excitement. He had just seen that the battalion commander in charge of the defense of the city had sent a casualty report. The number on it was much lower than he had imagined.

Reaching out and scratching his chin, he thought for a moment.

"Isn't it time to replace them at noon for a meal and rest, several battalions should be able to hold on for a longer time!"

Thinking of this, he grabbed the phone that had been restored and went to the city.

"The head of the city? Tell your battalion commander that he should send someone to repair the earthquake wall now and prepare to change the guard at noon! ”

Before he finished speaking, the telephone soldier on the other end of the phone had already run away with excited shouts.

"Damn, they're down, Lao Tzu must train this little devil well."

The head of the regiment, who was in an excellent mood, had a smile on his face when he scolded five times, and he did not expect that the battle of this afternoon and night would be so relaxed.

"Well, during the day, we're going to make good use of the power of those new weapons. I don't know where these new weapons are made, but it really makes a big difference! ”

When the regiment commander Wang Guanwu thought so, the sound of artillery bombardment came from outside the city, and the sound came from near the position Guanzhuang outside the city of Taierzhuang.

"No more sieges? I hope those weapons can be as useful outside the city as they are on the city! ”

After thinking about it, the fifth head of the crown felt unsure, after all, it was not like Taierzhuang with tall city walls, and it was a farmstead there. Could it be that with these weapons, it will be able to resist the attack of tanks?

Before noon, other new weapons were being used on the battlefield. Sure enough, it was not the Taierzhuang position, it was the Guanzhuang defended by another regiment.

The Seya detachment, which had won consecutive battles, did not pay attention to the Chinese army in front of him at all, although Yorikawa Yukio Osaku kept reminding him that the troops in front of him were the "Northwest Army", but Major General Seya Kei, who had attacked very smoothly all the way, did not listen to it at all. It wasn't until last night, when he lost nearly 500 troops under the head of Taierzhuang, that he began to "fight regularly".

That is, if you want to break through Taierzhuang, you must first cut off his peripheral positions. Therefore, from early in the morning, Major General Seya Kei ordered his artillery to start bombarding the farm. One is to reduce the amount of fire he receives during the siege, and to attack from multiple directions, he hopes to get more gunfire.

Last night's attack really made Major General Seya a little sad.

Supporting fire reports that there were no targets worth hitting at all. In the beginning, there was still some machine-gun fire, but later there was no machine-gun fire. However, the attacking forces also reported that as soon as they approached the gaps that had been opened by artillery fire, and at a distance, they were bombarded with aerial grenades. Closer to it were the grenades that were thrown from the top of the city.

"It's strange where they got so many grenades?"

Major General Kei Seya knew that there was a general lack of artillery in the squadron army, and grenades were almost the only suppressive firepower that the front-line infantry could rely on. Therefore, the Chinese infantry will carry more than 6 grenades with wooden handles, imitated from Germany.

In such a state, often after several tentative attacks and blocking their supply routes with artillery fire, the Chinese army will lose the most important suppressive firepower of resistance. In other words, when the soldiers ran out of grenades they carried and stored on the front, they were desperately lacking in deterrent fire.

Then the situation last night was very strange, and the other party's grenades didn't seem to run out. If you don't get close, it's enough, and if you get close, it's a lot of grenades. At least from the situation of last night's battle, in this battle of Taierzhuang, the supply of the Kuomintang army was quite sufficient.

At least from this, we can know that this battle is extremely difficult.

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According to historical records, the Northwest Army was doing its work of repairing fortifications, and all the bunkers were dug underground, one to two zhang in each place, and they could be built small at the top and large at the bottom, and it was very convenient to cover them. This time, new weapons have been added, and it seems that the Japanese are in trouble.

At noon, the Japanese infantry, under the cover of tanks, launched a charge.

The shells of the heavy artillery kept exploding on the position, and the civilian buildings of Guanzhuang were blown to pieces one by one under the shells of these heavy artillery.

Under the cover of artillery fire, tanks and infantry continued to advance. When it was about 200 meters away from Guanzhuang, the attacking tanks stopped and began to bombard Guanjuzhuang with 57mm guns. The heavy machine guns of the machine gun squadron, which were used to strengthen the attack, also began to fire a barrage of bullets at Guanzhuang to suppress the counterattack fire of the Kuomintang troops.

Unlike in the past, the Chinese defenders of Guanzhuang almost did not counterattack at all during the approach of the Japanese army, thanks to the tactical changes transferred from the Taierzhuang City Defense Command. The soldiers hid in the anti-artillery holes, waiting for the end of the heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese army.

After all, shrapnel from heavy artillery could fly up to 200 meters away, so when the infantry broke away from the tanks and began to advance alone towards Guanzhuang, the counterattack began.

The reason why the Japanese tanks did not enter the Guanzhuang was because the Japanese army's tactics of using tanks were still wrong at this time. Just like at the beginning of World War II, except for Germany, France and Britain at that time did not have the habit of using armored forces intensively.

In almost all countries, tanks are used as a support fire platform for infantry attacks. Even in the early days of World War II, the French and British armies tended to disperse their tanks to the infantry.

Of course, the Japanese army in 1938 could not have the same advanced concept as the German armored forces. Therefore, the tank, which was a platform for fire, did not enter Guanzhuang outside of Guanzhuang. In addition, they also knew that, of course, tanks were getting caught in street fighting, and that was definitely not a good choice.

Chinese soldiers, who can maneuver with the help of buildings, are likely to use weapons such as Molotov cocktails from buildings to launch attacks that make tanks undefensible.

Therefore, the Japanese soldiers of the brigade opened the skirmish line and advanced towards Guanzhuang. At the same time, they were also divided into three attack directions in accordance with the Japanese army's habit of attacking: left, center, and right. As we said earlier, the Japanese army's offensive methods were rigid and old-fashioned.

However, in terms of tactical use, it is very flexible. Attacks in three directions can be switched at any time. At the same time, the roundabout attacks on both sides can often make the attacked side can only carry out a scramble defense.

But this time, they met a strong enemy. Because no matter from which direction they approach the positions of the Chinese troops, they will come across "weapons of mass destruction" specifically aimed at infantry.

Guanzhuang, which was defended by the Northwest Army, continued to remain silent under the machine-gun sound of the Japanese infantry attacking. It was as if the Chinese defenders in Guanzhuang had been completely overwhelmed by the Japanese artillery preparations and were not capable of combat.

The recruits in the Japanese army became excited at this time. The battle in front of them was as easy as before the bloody battle of Tengxian, those who faced those Kuomintang troops who were about to collapse at the touch of a button. But this is not what the veterans think, especially when they hear that the Chinese army in front of them seems to have some new weapons, which makes their hearts feel more and more heavy as the Guanzhuang approaches!

Originally, the Japanese army only carried out basic fire suppression.