Chapter 220: The Siege of Tianjin (2)

"Block them, stop them out of the city at all costs...... "It was the main force of the Japanese Second Army that defended Tianjin, and the commander was Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, and in less than a morning, the city wall was blasted open a few openings, and the armored forces of the Chinese army launched a fierce attack, and he was immediately anxious, he didn't want to follow in the footsteps of Kenji. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As a result, the Japanese began to concentrate their firepower mainly on a few gaps, and at the same time sent out death squads with Molotov cocktails, explosive packs or cluster grenades to wait for the Chinese army's armored units to arrive.

The Chinese Air Force in the sky directly saw this, and immediately concentrated its firepower on the gap, and one plane after another lined up to dive and strafe, and the dense bullets rained down, causing the Japanese troops below to howl miserably, and many people's bodies were directly shattered, and the Molotov cocktails in some hands were broken, and the whole body was suddenly engulfed by flames, and the terrible howl was terrifying.

And at this moment, the armor of the Chinese army also appeared in the gap, and the first tank began to enter despite the dangerous onslaught, and the tanks behind followed suit.

The "Boom Boom Boom ......" tanks kept bombarding with tank guns while moving, and the on-board machine guns were also firing wildly.

Although the Chinese army's firepower was fierce, the Japanese commanders knew that they would be more upset to let the Chinese army's armor rush into the city, so they desperately issued orders for the soldiers to risk a ferocious fire attack, and even tried to destroy several tanks entering the city, so that the tank wreckage could plug the gap.

The Chinese army also understood that even if the tank was to be destroyed, it could not be destroyed at the entrance, so the first tank was charged as fast as possible, and the air force in the sky also gave the most powerful assistance.

Both sides fought fiercely in a few gaps, and with the support of the bushido spirit, the Japanese army's flesh-and-bullet death squads kept charging at the armor of the Chinese army, killing batch after batch, and these people had obviously become neurotic who only knew how to charge, as if they had been wound up machines.

Several gaps were already covered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers, many of which were burned even after death because the Molotov cocktails were shattered, and the liquid inside flowed out and stained their bodies.

However, because there is a lot of gravel at the gap and it is relatively narrow, there are also tanks of the Chinese army that have been destroyed and paralyzed there and cannot move, but the tanks behind have not given up, but have done everything possible to squeeze the destroyed tanks out of the way, and then forcibly rush in.

And the artillery units of the Chinese army continue to bombard other parts of the city wall, which can attract Japanese firepower and at the same time open more gaps.

In the end, the Japanese lost sight of the other, and two of the gaps were broken through by the Chinese army's armor first, and each tank rushed into it first. As soon as the tanks entered the city, they turned up their speed and rushed wildly, the tank guns kept bombarding, and the vehicle-mounted machine guns fired wildly in order to provide cover and support for the rear armor to enter.

The armor of the Chinese army has already begun, and the Japanese army wants to prevent more tanks from entering, and then begin to encircle the Japanese near the gap, and then go deeper into the city to provide more access space for the armor behind.

"The west gate can't stand it, the enemy armor has been frantically pouring in, and the defenders will not retreat, they can only be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy......" The commander of the Japanese garrison guarding the west gate reported to Nishio Shouzo with a sad face.

"Retreat into the city and prepare for street fighting...... Nishio Shouzo ordered with a cold face, through the front of the Chinese army in the past few days, he already knew that without taking advantage of the advantage, face-to-face confrontation with the armor of the Chinese army was the only way to fail.

If the city gate was not opened by the armor of the Chinese army, the strong city wall defense could naturally provide a lot of cover for the defenders, but the city wall was broken through, and if it remained, it would only be dumpling. The Chinese army is covered by hordes of armor, and large-scale battles are not realistic, and the only way is to fight through street battles.

Because of the variety of buildings in the city, the armor of the Chinese army could not be fully deployed, so there was no way to push all the way through, which also gave them a certain opportunity for the Japanese army.

Under the orders of Nishio Shouzo, the Japanese quickly abandoned the guards of the West Gate and began to retreat into the city, while the Chinese army's armored forces poured in with one armored division, and the other continued to attack from the North City Gate. An armored division, which entered through the western gates, did not immediately attack, but waited for infantry reinforcements to arrive.

After the infantry was in place, the armored division and the infantry began to work together, divided into units and began to advance into the city little by little.

The Japanese army, with their familiarity with the city, set up firing points everywhere to ambush them, but as soon as they moved, they would be immediately discovered by the Chinese army. As a result, the Chinese army would first bombard directly with tank artillery, and then send infantry to encircle and suppress it, and often under such a joint attack, it would be difficult for the Japanese army to hold on to its strongholds.

After all, most of the buildings in the city are only civilian buildings, and it is difficult to prevent the close bombardment of tank guns, as long as the stronghold is blown up, the infantry of the Chinese army will quickly rush in, and then divide the Japanese army by two.

Of course, there were also some strong strongholds, after all, there were at least dozens of Japanese troops hiding in a four-story building, all of which were made of reinforced concrete, so it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was difficult for tank guns to knock them down in a short time.

Naturally, the Chinese army was not willing to slow down, and immediately began to deploy new tactics, while two tanks were transferred to bombard, and a few light and heavy machine guns suppressed the Japanese firepower, and the infantry began to attack.

Under the cover of smoke grenades, the infantry attacked in two directions, one along the front and the other quietly around the flank, taking advantage of the frontal to attract Japanese fire. A squad of soldiers on the side suddenly rushed out, only to see one of the soldiers take the lead, jumped up, and then directly stretched his hand forward, only to see a fierce flame spewing out dozens of meters long more than a meter in front of him.

It turned out that this was the terrorist weapon flamethrower, which was invented by the Germans in World War I, and has been further improved by the Germans in recent years, and the last time he asked the Germans for military aid, Wei Qidong named the flamethrower.

As a result, the Chinese army was equipped with this terrifying weapon, not that the killing area of the flamethrower was very large, but the main thing was that this weapon was very vicious, and the soldiers who were directly swept by the flamethrower died in a very miserable state. And hiding in the bunker, even if it is not sprayed by the flamethrower, but the fierce flames that spew out will quickly consume the oxygen in the bunker, and the person hiding inside will inevitably suffocate to death.

These two ways of dying will not be easy, so this weapon is said to be very vicious. But there was no way, for the Japanese, there was no reason not to use this kind of weapon, no matter how vicious the weapon was used on their heads, it would not be too much, so when Wei Qidong asked Germany for a large number of flamethrowers, there was no psychological pressure.