Without the threat of Japanese artillery, the soldiers of the 99th Regiment burst out with strong combat effectiveness, although there was still the threat of Japanese pillboxes, but the soldiers of the 99th Regiment had their own methods. Before he came, Zhang Mingliang knew that the Japanese army had built a lot of pillboxes outside Tianzhen City, and Zhang Mingliang knew better than anyone about the role of pillboxes. As one of the first batch of officers to follow Han Yunhua, Zhang Mingliang participated in almost all the battles against Japan in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the most impressive thing for him was the first three battles to defend Daqingshan.

At that time, Han Yunhua's division had not yet grown, and in comparison, the strength of the Japanese army in the Chahar region was much stronger than that of Han Yunhua's division. However, Han Yunhua relied on those inconspicuous bunkers to block the Japanese army at the foot of Daqing Mountain again and again, so that the Japanese army returned again and again in vain.

What made Zhang Mingliang feel the most incredible was that in the second defense battle, Han Yunhua used less than 1,000 people to block the entire two wings of the Japanese army at the bottom of the mountain, no matter what means the Japanese army used, and in the end, even poison gas bombs were used, but they still couldn't shake the defense of Han Yunhua's department.

According to the intelligence collected by the intelligence department this time, the Japanese army actually built a large number of pillboxes outside Tianzhen City, which made Zhang Mingliang, who was the main attacker, feel very troublesome, so he specially summoned all the officers of the regiment to give advice. Not to mention, he really found a good way, a veteran who had been in the Kuomintang army for five years gave him an idea, the enemy's most powerful weapon in the pillbox is the heavy machine gun, so as long as the lethality of the enemy's heavy machine gun is minimized, then the Japanese pillbox will lose its effect.

Zhang Mingliang was right when he heard it, it was not easy to knock out those pillboxes, but it was not easy to reduce the lethality of heavy machine guns. Already in the first few battles, the commander found several ways to deal with the enemy's heavy machine guns.

Zhang Mingliang ordered the troops to collect a large number of shells of all the tanks, armored vehicles, combat vehicles, and scrapped cars in Jining City and brought them to the battlefield. He ordered his troops to attack according to the predetermined plan, and saw seventy or eighty "big shields" erected from the positions of the 99th Regiment, which were all pieced together from the shells of huge tanks or armored vehicles, and there were several unequal shooting holes on them. Four fighters carried a shield, and behind the shield were seven or eight machine gunners, ammunition men, and two heavy machine guns.

The Japanese army was also stunned by the sudden situation, and they didn't know what the opposite army had come up with, coupled with the intermittent strong winds and sand, the Japanese army actually thought that the squadron had used some new weapons.

Now the Japanese army has no firepower in their hands, so they have to frantically use heavy machine guns to strafe, dozens of heavy machine guns firing at the same time is actually very shocking, but when encountering steel plates more than ten millimeters thick, it still seems that the firepower is weak. Although the armor of the Japanese tanks was so thin that sometimes even mortars could burst, it had no problem dealing with heavy machine guns.

Under the cover of these big shields, the 99th Regiment advanced very quickly, and in less than half an hour after the battle began, the 99th Regiment advanced to a distance of less than 50 meters from the first line of defense of the Japanese army, but its own casualties were not large. The supreme commander of the East Gate position is called Nanfang Heavy Duty, and he is an infantry group leader with the rank of major lieutenant.

Obviously, he didn't expect the squadron's attack to be so sharp, the squadron's well-designed bunker had no effect on the enemy, and seeing that the squadron was about to rush into the position, he had no choice but to ask Takahashi Tundra for help, and Shaozo said this on the phone: "Moxi Moxi............ Your Excellency Wing Commander, the Chinese army has used a new weapon, our army's bunker group has met a nemesis, the Chinese army has attacked the first line of defense, the east gate position is crumbling, please come to the ............aid of Your Excellency the Wing Commander"

Shaozuo's call for help obviously startled Takahashi Tundra Daisa, and it was only a long time before a well-arranged defensive line was crumbling, and it was worth it. But he didn't have a lot of reserves in his hands, and the vast majority of them were the Imperial Army. It's okay for these Imperial Allied Army to bully and bully the common people of China in peacetime, but it is far from good if they deal with the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army, and they are more or less delivering food.

Moreover, some time ago, the senior agents of the special high-tech department risked their lives to send back a news, that is, more than 65% of the troops of Han Yunhua's department were from captured prisoners of the Imperial Army. This news caused an uproar in the entire North China Front, and this is worth it, isn't that the Imperial Japanese Army raising troops for the enemy? ,

However, without these Imperial Cooperative Army, the Japanese army will run into walls everywhere on the land of China, and the security of the occupied areas also needs these Imperial Cooperative Army to maintain, so the formation of the Imperial Cooperative Army is a necessary thing. This has become a difficult situation to solve, these imperial alliance troops can only fight a tailwind battle, once the war is not good, these spineless guys will surrender as a system. The two-faced nature of the Imperial Allied Army made the Japanese army very difficult, and they were entangled in whether to use it or not.

However, in order to quickly consolidate the occupied area, General Binshan Yuan still ordered the troops to use the Imperial Allied Army, but when it was not necessary, not to let these guys who had not achieved enough things and more than enough to defeat go to the battlefield, and only let them maintain law and order in the occupied area.

But when the battle came to this point, Takahashi Tundra could no longer treat the more than 4,000 Imperial Allied troops in his hands as air, no matter how it was said that it was more than 4,000 people, as long as the supervision was good, these 4,000 people could resist for a while. Besides, Takahashi Tundra reported to Datong as soon as Tianzhen was attacked, and I think that reinforcements are already ready over there. As long as the war here is not going well, you can ask Datong for help at any time, but Takahashi Tundra feels that he doesn't need to ask Datong for combat guidance for the time being, after all, it has only been a long time since the war started. If he asks for help now, even if Tianzhen County is saved, then his reputation will be ruined in the end.

Moreover, Takahashi Tundra and his troops are now on the blacklist of the North China Front, and it is very likely that he, the wing commander, will be taken out if he is not good, so Takahashi Tundra does not dare to take this risk. In addition, Takahashi Tundra is still very confident in his bunker group, and he doesn't think that the squadron will be able to take the East Gate position in less than an hour.

However, for the sake of safety, Takahashi Tundra Osa still ordered the gendarmerie to "hold" those imperial troops to support the East Gate position. The vicious Takahashi Tundra ordered all the puppet soldiers to wear the uniforms of the Japanese army, and the weapons were all guns that the Japanese army had eliminated. Takahashi Tundra knew that the army on the other side would not give the Imperial Japanese Army any chance, and it would never be left alive.

Not to mention, this method of Takahashi Tundra really worked, as soon as the puppet army entered the position, it was fiercely attacked by the 99th Regiment, and at this time the remaining troops of the Independent 77th Division also arrived, especially the arrival of the artillery battalion and the fire support regiment made the 99th Regiment feel like a tiger. Under Chen Geng's order, the fire support regiment and the artillery regiment were all put into battle.

For a time, the Japanese positions were full of explosive fire, and ten minutes later, in addition to those strong pillboxes, there were only a few scattered shots at the East Gate position. Zhang Mingliang knew that the devil was not dead yet, and a rash charge was likely to cause huge casualties to the troops, so he commanded the attacking troops on the front line to continue to advance thirty meters. At the same time, Zhang Mingliang asked the fire support regiment to cover the attack of the 99th regiment.

Zhang Mingming's request was supported by Chen Geng, and suddenly hundreds of light and heavy machine guns of the fire support regiment opened fire at the same time, and only a few members of the Jinsui Army Observation Group were stunned by that formation, and a question arose in their hearts at the same time: Is this still a dirt road with poor weapons and equipment? Is this still the Eighth Route Army, where each soldier is only given five magic ammunition?

Originally, the front-line commander of the Japanese army saw that the heavy machine guns were useless against those mysterious new weapons, and coupled with the non-stop shelling of the squadron, the defenders suffered heavy casualties. So he ordered the troops to suspend the return fire and wait until they got closer to fight, and at the same time prepared to let those Imperial Allied troops carry explosive bags on their backs to blow up the new weapons that the squadron did not have much.

However, Shaozo's wishful thinking was soon shattered. The difficulty of the squadron was far beyond his expectations, and when the squadron approached a distance of less than 30 meters from the Japanese position, grenades flew towards the Japanese position. The squadron following behind the big shield threw the grenade in its hand as fast as possible, unlike the shells, at such a close distance, the lethality of the grenades and the accuracy of the landing point were quite high, and the soldiers placed by the Japanese army on the first line of defense finally collapsed under the blow of this round of grenades.

Seeing the devils who fled to the rear line of defense, Zhang Mingliang ordered the troops to launch a group charge and rushed up to entangle these devils, and the Japanese pillbox was completely useless. If this is the case, when the soldiers on both sides are entangled, the devils in the bunker are also confused, and they don't know whether to shoot or not, and the probability of hitting their own people at such a close distance is almost equal to the probability of hitting the enemy.

However, Zhang Mingliang still underestimated the cruelty of the Japanese army, which can only be shown by treating the Chinese people, but also treating his own people. Seeing that the ** team was about to break through the position, the power of the pillbox group dropped to the extreme. The Japanese commander went so far as to order all the firing points to open fire on the entangled crowd, without caring about the lives of those Japanese soldiers.

From a purely military point of view, this is undoubtedly very correct, and at this time, when the decision is constantly being reversed, a decisive sacrifice of a part may be able to save the whole. But in terms of morale and other aspects, this kind of behavior of the Japanese army is really shocking, and seeing the Japanese soldiers who died at the guns of their own people one by one, Chen Geng, Zhang Mingliang and others were all shocked.