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Chapter 1272 Breaking the City

In the Baoding camp, An Yi, who was just about to leave for Jinghai, received an urgent report from Wanping, was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, and said to Hu Jialin, who saw him off:

"Leave this matter to General Feng Zhi'an and Yang Guan to deal with together...... Tell them: The Japanese invaders have always been ruthless and have no faith at all, and the Japanese troops stationed in Tianjin just created the 'Liangtai Massacre' a few days ago, resulting in the death of hundreds of innocent civilians. The Japanese army has always been extremely face-conscious, and in order to keep secrets, they can do anything! ”

After speaking, An Yi waved his hand to the first cadre of the Fifth Legion, bent down and got into the car door, and Shen Fengdao followed. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

As the car door closed, Fang Pengxiang, Li Yufu and other generals directly under the army said goodbye to their colleagues in the Fifth Army Corps, and got into the car one after another, and Lin Yaodong and the members of the guard also took their places. Soon, a huge convoy of 12 "big leopards", a communication vehicle, and two armored vehicles slowly started, and gradually accelerated after driving out of the camp gate.

Seeing An Yi silent after getting into the car, Shen Fengdao asked with a smile, "What are you thinking?" ”

An Yi smiled bitterly and withdrew his gaze from the window: "Look at the refugees gathered inside and outside Baoding City?" Since the Lugou Bridge incident, how many people have been displaced? The current situation is not bad, and the people are still waiting and seeing, deciding where they want to go depending on the changes in the current situation. Think about it, if we fail to hold the Pingjin line and resolutely stop the Japanese ambition of aggression and expansion, once the situation deteriorates, how many people will move south or inward to the northwest and southwest regions? Can our food sustain such a large consumption? I don't know the bottom of my heart!

"Also, during this period of air warfare, the Central Air Force has lost dozens of pilots, and this is still the result of fighting on the ground and all the pilots who parachuted were effectively treated. I am very worried now, once our fighters and pilots are exhausted in frequent air battles and lose air superiority, how can we sustain the war? ”

Shen Fengdao comforted: "Our supplies are well prepared, and we don't need to think about this aspect for at least a year or two." As for the pilot pool, I think we were too conservative before, and now it's time to expand it. In the past few months, many universities and middle schools in Pingjin and the coastal areas have moved inward, and it would be too wasteful for many young intellectuals to join the army and go directly to the front line to fight for attrition. If the big war is really as you expected, it will continue to be fought for several years, and these additional pilots will become the mainstay of our air force in the future! ”

An Yi's eyes lit up: "This suggestion is good, presumably the national disaster is at the head, and the chairman of the committee will not blame me for expanding the scale of the flight school without the permission of the central government." In this way, we will recruit 10,000 students in one go, and if half of them can become talents, it will be considered a success! But where can we find such a large school to accommodate the students? ”

Speaking of which, An Yi shook his head, and the joy on his face quickly dimmed.

Shen Fengdao reminded with a smile: "In order to expand the armament war, since the second half of last year, hasn't Yichang built many new military camps?" Most of them have their own school buildings for the purpose of eradicating the literacy of the newly recruited soldiers and inculcating us with the idea of being a national army. Anyway, we don't have to ask how luxurious and bright the school building is, we just need a place for lectures and demonstrations, and we can use it to build a few more airports for practice, and our flight school will be up and running. ”

An Yi nodded again and again, thought for a while and added: "It just so happened that Chu'er acquired the British Havilland Aircraft Company, which has a patent for 'molded glue synthetic wood structure' and changing the wood in the middle of the wood glue structure to a lightweight balsa wood, which further reduces the weight of the wooden structure for building the aircraft, but greatly increases the strength. I have seen the relevant information, the aircraft produced by Havilland, in addition to the two metal spars in the middle of the wing, is composed of two pieces of upper and lower wooden upper and lower wings molded as a whole, and the fuselage is made of the left and right halves of the wooden glued structure to form a cylindrical load-bearing structure, and the laying of wires and control cables is completed before the alignment, and the metal or metal frame cloth is covered on the wings and tail, the cooler is installed in the middle of the engine nacelle and the fuselage, the air intake is opened on the leading edge of the wing, and the main landing gear is a double-column structure. The engine is mounted on a steel tube bracket and supported by rubber mounts, which is very light and agile. Now the Havilland company's full set of production technology and various types of aircraft materials have been secretly sent to our research institute, I believe that it will not be long before the supporting production line will be developed, and we can also officially produce various types of wooden aircraft. When the time comes, let our cadets learn flying skills on this all-wooden fighter! ”

Although Shen Fengdao had doubts in his heart, he did not question An Yi's words, because previous cases have proved An Yi's vision and overall situation. In fact, he didn't know, at this time, even An Yi didn't know the bottom of his heart, his understanding of the aircraft was not more than that of people in this era, and the reason why he instructed Ou Chuer to buy Havilland Company was mainly because the low cost of this all-wooden aircraft and the requirements for materials were far less high than the A26 and AB26 series fighters produced by the South Sichuan Aircraft Factory, and he also wanted to collect as much information as possible about the aircraft engines of this era, analyze the pros and cons, and then strengthen the engine development capabilities of South Sichuan.

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The weather gradually became darker, and two kilometers outside the west gate of Wanping City, representatives of the riverside brigade and the 77th Army were negotiating.

"Han Jun, don't you really think about the safety of civilians? Here, I can guarantee that as long as your ministry gets out of the way, we will escort the people of Wanping County to a safe place, and they will all be released, and we will never hurt them in the slightest! Suzuki, the commander of the artillery wing of the riverside brigade, led Dao Daisa to still make his last efforts, and because he had been stationed in Tianjin for a long time, his official words were extremely smooth.

Han Changxing, commander of the 223rd Regiment of the 37th Division, looked resolute and once again reiterated the conclusion reached by Feng Zhi'an and Yang Guan after consultation: "Only by laying down your arms and surrendering unconditionally to our army can you guarantee your safety, and everything else is free from negotiation!" In addition, your act of taking civilians as hostages is a serious desecration of the bushido spirit of your Yamato nation and a violation of public international law. ”

Suzuki was furious, since he was stationed in China, even Song Zheyuan, Feng Zhi'an and others were extremely respectful when they saw him, and they didn't want to negotiate this time, and the 37th Division actually sent a small regiment commander to humiliate him, which was unbearable. However, Suzuki was clear about his situation and that of the entire garrison brigade, so he suppressed his resentment and tried his best to squeeze out a humble smile: "Han Jun, this matter is very important, please allow me to discuss it after I go back, okay?" ”

Han Changxing raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "It's getting dark, give us an answer before half past eight at the latest, when it is over, we will launch an attack, please seize the opportunity yourself!" ”

"Hay!"

Suzuki bowed to Han Changxing in the lead, his teeth clenched when he bent down, and his eyes were full of murderous intent, but when he stood up straight, he changed to a bright smile. Under Han Changxing's playful gaze, Suzuki turned around and quickly left with four guards with red cross and white flags tied to their guns.

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At 8:25 p.m., it was completely dark.

Just when the front-line troops of the 77th Army and the *** Division entered the sortie position one after another, waiting to launch a charge, there was a noisy noise in Wanping City, which seemed to be mixed with the crying of women and children.

The front-line soldiers looked at each other, trying their best to open their eyes to see what was going on, but because the clouds were thick tonight, the stars and the moon were not shining, and they couldn't distinguish their faces two or three meters in front of them, let alone Wanping City, which was one and a half kilometers away?

The sound of beating and crying became clearer and clearer, and just when some people couldn't help the curiosity in their hearts and wanted to touch the city of Wanping to see what was going on, a dazzling bright light suddenly bloomed under the dark night sky in front of them, like a cluster of beautiful fireworks, which instantly illuminated the entire Wanping City.

In the bunker at the east and east highways of Wanping City, Li Jun, deputy of the First Regiment of the *** Division, saw clearly from the binoculars, and saw that under the drive of Japanese bayonets and gun butts, groups of people were pushed up to the head of Wanping City, and there were men and women of all ages, and soon a section of the city wall was full.

Li Jun's face changed greatly, he put down the binoculars, and said to Zhang Dakui, the head of the regiment who was also holding up the binoculars to look around: "It's not good, regiment leader, *** people are going to poison our civilians!" What to do? ”

Zhang Dakui turned his head and looked solemn: "The general offensive is about to begin, and at this time, the *** people made such a move, just to force us to retreat...... But the arrow is on the string, and you can't help but ......"

Li Jun smiled bitterly: "Is there no other way?" ”

Zhang Dakui shook his head and patted Li Jun's shoulder gently: "At this time, there can be no kindness of a woman, if we let go of this enemy and let it taste the sweetness, I don't know how many ordinary people will suffer in the future, we must defeat their wishful thinking!" ”

Li Jun turned his head, raised his binoculars again, and looked at the people in Wanping City in the camera in panic and helplessness, crying one by one, and couldn't help but bow his head sadly.

Time passed minute by minute, and the flares of the *** people hit the sky as if they didn't want money, illuminating the inside and outside of Wanping City, as if to remind the squadron outside the city that they had a large number of hostages in their hands, and if they rashly launched an attack, the first unlucky ones were the people.

Soon half past eight o'clock came, the heavy artillery attack that was originally scheduled to be ten minutes before the general attack did not happen, Zhang Dakui was slightly surprised, thought about a few steps and ran out of the underground tunnel, jumped to a high place and looked at the direction of Zhengyangmen in Beiping City, the heavy artillery regiment of the 17th Army was arranged there, why did there be no movement when the time came? Could it be that under the coercion of the devil, the attitude of the above has changed?

Zhang Dakui held back the curiosity in his heart, and did not let the correspondent ask with a walkie-talkie. After many years of conquest, he understood that his superiors were not idle people, and there must be some new plan or arrangement, so he jumped down the tunnel again, returned to the bunker, and continued to carefully observe the movements of the Japanese troops on the opposite side through the lookout hole.

At the head of the city, the Japanese officers and soldiers took off their hats and waved them vigorously, they shouted loudly and cheered arrogantly, and when they were happy, they raised their guns and fired into the night sky. Two or three minutes passed, the excitement of the Japanese army slowly dissipated, and when I saw that there was still no movement on the position of the squadron, I felt bored, and the flares in the sky gradually thinned out.

Just when everyone thought that tonight's general attack would be in vain, a terrible scream suddenly sounded, and dozens of meteors pierced the sky and flew towards Wanping City. Zhang Dakui looked very carefully, at the moment of the explosion of the shell, dozens of *** soldiers facing him at the head of the city suddenly fell to the ground in unison, and at a glance, Zhang Dakui clearly saw that one of them was shot in the eyebrows, and in the eyes of the devil full of shock and suspicion, blood mixed with brains spurted out.

Zhang Dakui laughed: "Okay, let me say, it turns out that the special brigade of our division has taken advantage of the night to touch the city wall, and the five minutes of silence are to paralyze *** people and create conditions for our snipers." Now that the people in the city are no longer threatened, Li Jun, you kid should be relieved now, right? ”

Li Jun smiled on his face, saluted Zhang Dakui, and said loudly in the roaring cannon: "Regiment commander, I'm going to the front, and as soon as the shelling is over, it's time for us to charge...... Grandma's, I took the spy company to dig out the devil's nest and capture the old Wang Ba by the river. After speaking, without waiting for Zhang Dakui to answer, he picked up the submachine gun hanging on the wall and rushed out of the bunker.

Zhang Dakui shook his head and continued to raise the telescope to observe carefully.

I saw that countless ladders were erected under the city of Wanping, and soon leaned against the city wall, and many soldiers in camouflage uniforms beckoned the people above to evacuate quickly under the city wall.

At this moment, a bomb suddenly fell from the crowd at the head of the city, and it fell down in an instant, and the other people panicked and desperately stretched out their hands to the ladder, and suddenly, the crowd fell again like cutting wheat, Zhang Dakui speculated that it should be the Japanese machine gun, and the Japanese soldiers in the city finally got the black hand.

The devil mobilized all the remaining cannons and bombarded the city wall, each cannon exploded in the crowd, and the people who survived had no choice but a few to climb the ladder, and in despair they jumped off the city wall, and soon the city was empty. The Japanese artillery fire extended, and many siege ladders were hit by shells and blown into sawdust, and at the same time, it also brought many casualties to the soldiers of the Anjia Army who responded to the evacuation of the civilians outside the city.

Fortunately, the good fortune of the devil came to an end, and the Japanese artillery that exposed the target quickly fell silent under the absolute artillery superiority of the An Jiajun.

At the end of the five-minute heavy artillery bombardment, the characteristic "bang-bang" firing sound of small-caliber mortars sounded, and strings of fire once again appeared inside and outside Wanping City.

In the loud charge, countless Chinese people shouted and jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the ruined Wanping City. Just as the divisions were about to approach, the flares fired by the Japanese army shot up into the sky again, like a pocket sunset hanging in the night sky, emitting a dismal green light, instantly illuminating the entire earth.

The shooting holes and lookout holes on the city wall suddenly opened, spitting out tongues of fire, like a scythe sweeping across the wheat field, devouring the lives of the charging soldiers, and the surging charging tide was stagnant, and almost all the soldiers were suppressed by the enemy's fierce fire and fell to the ground, unable to move.

At the same time, the mortars and grenadiers deliberately hidden by the Japanese army also began to exert their power, covering an area of dozens of meters outside the city wall, and one after another siege ladders were destroyed, and shrapnel was splashed everywhere, causing heavy damage to the soldiers of the Anjia Army and a few escaped civilians who were hiding at the corners and roots of the city wall.

"Damn, fortunately, I expected the little devil's hand, otherwise this battle would be really difficult to fight!"

Zhang Dakui cursed, and immediately ordered the correspondent to transfer the artillery company directly under the regiment and use mortars to shoot directly at the city wall. This kind of mortar that can shoot directly is modified from a general mortar, with a tail tube added to the tail of the gun, a firing device is adopted, and the chassis is tilted to the ground, so that the oblique angle between the barrel and the horizon is kept below five degrees, and it can shoot both curved and direct, and has the function of an infantry gun, so that it can shoot directly at the enemy in the bunker. Of course, this mortar is the product of the rapid development of metallurgical technology in southern Sichuan, otherwise the general barrel is easy to explode.

Soon the artillery company touched it, and after about four or five minutes, the mortars equipped by the regiments of the *** division began to wield, and the firing ports on the city wall were blasted one by one, and at the same time, the artillery battalions directly under the brigades of the *** division began to exert their might to suppress the Japanese artillery fire in Wanping City, and the iron bucket-like defense line was finally in danger.

"Rush!"

Li Jun shouted, jumped up again with his soldiers, and rushed towards the city wall that was almost half blown down. Soon, on the follow-up siege ladder, Li Jun took the lead and took the lead in climbing the city, and before he could take a look at the situation in the city, rows of dense bullets were fired. Li Jun hurriedly rolled around and hid in the corner of the city. The next few warriors couldn't dodge, and were beaten into blood gourds and fell off the city wall.

Before the attack was launched, Li Jun had carefully observed the map of Wanping City, this section of the city wall was far away from the urn city at the city gate, and it should not be the focus of the enemy's defense, and the only threat should come from the long street below. It is estimated that the Japanese army was hidden in a position made of sandbags at the end of the long street, and used light and heavy machine guns to *** this section of the city wall.

Looking at the submachine gun in his hand, Li Jun shook his head, if only he had a mortar in his hand! As soon as he had this thought, he saw a black cylindrical object under the collapsed battlement, and several melon grenades next to it, which were clearly the grenadiers that the Japanese army had equipped at the squad and detachment level. In order to know himself and his opponent, Li Jun had carefully studied this kind of melee weapon, and he was quite confident in his artillery skills, but unfortunately this battlement was also exposed to machine gun fire in the city, and how to get his hands on it was a nerve-wracking problem.

Li Jun looked left and right, the shouts of killing inside and outside the city wall shook the sky, but the real rush to the city wall and gain a firm foothold has not yet been, the Japanese army is very cunning, the light and heavy machine guns are very hidden, and the blind mortar suppression outside the city does not bring a real threat to the Japanese army's firepower points. In just a short period of time, more than a dozen warriors who had just rushed to the top of the city fell down from the section of the city wall behind him.

At that moment, Li Jun no longer hesitated, put the submachine gun aside, cautiously approached the gap, lay on the ground, rolled his body a few times, took the grenadier into his arms, quickly grabbed three grenades, and then his body did not stop at all, desperately rolling towards the other side of the city wall, leaving behind a row of dense bullet rain.

Leaning against the wall on the other side, Li Jun sat up straight, let out a long breath, and then picked up the grenadier and looked at it carefully.

Fortunately, the smelting skills of *** people have passed, and the grenadiers that have withstood the test of bullets can still be used. Li Jun didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly adjusted his sitting posture, trying to hide his body while sitting back, in order to pull out enough shooting distance, and then erected the grenadier obliquely, compared the map in his mind, and then imagined the direction of the bullet just now, adjusted the angle and filled the grenade, pulled the firing rod, and with a "boom", there were several screams in the distance.

Li Jun didn't stop at all, continued to fill the grenade, fired again, and finished three grenades in a row before stopping.

The enemy's machine guns were really dumb, and soon, the soldiers who rushed up quickly occupied all the firing ports, and the follow-up soldiers rushed to the stairs of the city wall on the other side like a tide, and advanced towards the headquarters arranged by the river in Wanping County.