In the shadow of the fire, the smoke turned a dark red.

It's like hell, right at the head of the city of Taierzhuang.

The smell of burnt human flesh wafted through the air, which did not attract the attention of the soldiers who survived the artillery fire. They just straightened out their weapons and looked at the soldiers around them, as well as their faces, as well as their faceless faces, just like his own.

After several hours of shelling, the female wall on the head of the city has been bombarded in pieces. Fortunately, the walls were still strong and did not fall under the attack of thousands of shells.

The Chinese-style city wall is an extremely strong fighting fortress. The inquiry is a long strip of bluestone, surrounded by a 1.5~2 meter thick brick wall, and the inside of the wall is a rammed earth structure. Although it was vulnerable to 20th-century artillery, it was still able to provide maximum protection to the defenders.

Cannonballs hit the wall, and different shells reacted differently. The explosion of the armor-piercing projectile will be absorbed by most of the soil. However, due to the problem of penetration, it is difficult for the blaster to easily penetrate the thick layer of bricks. Therefore, despite several hours of continuous bombardment, the head of the wall has not collapsed so far.

If you look down from the top of the city, there are huge craters everywhere in front and back of the city wall. However, apart from the 57 mm bomb points on the outer skin of the city walls, the 70 mm infantry guns and 150 mm howitzers did not leave many points on the city walls.

As howitzers, the latter two have a high parabolic trajectory, and even if they are used directly on the top of the city wall, they will only blow up a large crater in the brick layer. Because there was no guarantee of a repeat hit, the entire wall could not be blasted open under the attack that consumed thousands of shells.

To deal with the Chinese-style city walls, it may be necessary to use large armor-piercing shells dropped by aircraft to attack. That would allow you to go deep into the walls and explode, thus literally destroying the walls.

In the case of an attack by force in the air, there is also a problem of the impact point. Come to think of it, it would be better to deal with such a wall, or a relatively accurate dive bomber like the German Stuka.

"Ah...... Whining...... Haha......"

Among the recruits who survived the shelling on the city walls, some could no longer stand the mental pressure because of the continuous and heavy shelling. The screaming man was dragged under the city wall by several soldiers. If there were any medics under the walls, they might have sent him to the rear.

"Crazy, baby is scared crazy!"

The veteran glanced at it, said something indifferently, and then stared at the fields beneath the city, which had begun to sink into darkness.

By the last touch of sunset, the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who had been killed in the afternoon could be seen to have been removed from the battlefield. Farther away, you can't see anything. It's just that the thick-eyed recruits who have experienced the artillery fire seem to be able to sense that some beast is hiding in the falling night, watching them.

"Be careful at night, the night attack of the little devil is full of power!"

When the night finally came, it was no longer possible to distinguish the five views of people. The thick-eyed and big-eyed recruit's heart jumped with a "thump", because the night had completely enveloped him. The reassuring face of the veteran was no longer visible.

"Don't run around when you open it for a while, shoot where there are guns, and change places after shooting a row of bullets!"

The veteran lowered his voice and whispered in the ear of the thick-eyed recruit. The night battles, which had never been trained, made the thick-eyed recruits nervous. Under such tension, the smoke with the stench of corpses had been completely left behind him.

"Devil...... The devil is coming......"

Before the old soldier's words fell, someone's shouts could be heard from the top of the city in complete darkness.

Almost at the same time as the shouting, a violent explosion rang out.

In the light of the explosion, it could be seen that part of the wall was moving diagonally downward. The Chinese soldiers, who fell along with the city walls, let out screams of terror.

The light was only momentary, and dissipated into the sound of "boom" that followed. Almost at the same time, machine guns rang out from under the city. Tracer bullets streaked out lightning in the night, and dark red projectiles swept over the sides of the soldiers on the city.

The collapse of the city wall occurred not far to the right of the thick-eyed recruits, and although the artillery fire did not destroy the wall, many of the bunkers on the wall were destroyed. The soldiers had no choice but to lie down in the ruins and open fire on the city.

"Don't, don't shoot, you can't hit the machine gun, the bullets will run out in a while, and you'll be crying! Get ready for grenades, and you'll be beating those little devils hard! If they go to the city, they will cut it with a big sword! ”

The veteran scolded in a rough voice and continued to teach his soldiers.

Such a battle is carried out at night, or a grenade is a better weapon. And firing may attract the opponent's machine guns, artillery, or grenadiers. Attacking an opponent's machine gun with rifle fire is a stupid thing to do. Because the opponent's machine gun must be in a well-covered place, and it is even less likely to be hit in the dark.

Suppress the right machine gun fire, that's the task of the machine guns in the city. If the infantry fights blindly, it is difficult to recruit grenadiers to the previous guy, and I am afraid that an infantry squad will not survive a few people.

"I haven't practiced it yet!"

Behind the thick-eyed and big-eyed recruit, he also carried a large knife on his back. It's just that his broadsword was not tied with a red strip of cloth, not that he couldn't find it, but because of the order of the veteran squad leader, he didn't dare to hang it. He felt a little uncomfortable, but he was a new soldier, so he didn't dare to do what the veteran said.

"Breaking the edge and eight knives", this thing is the tradition of the Northwest Army. It's a pity that the thick-eyed and big-eyed recruits have not been trained at all, and only after being assigned to the old squad leader, they have learned to use both hands.

"Boom ......"

I don't know who threw out the grenade exploded, and in the flash of that explosion, a group of yellow military uniforms appeared in front of me.

"Thunder!"

Suddenly, the figure of the old squad leader flashed in the background of the firelight. One of his arms was raised, but in his hand was a terracotta grenade. As we mentioned earlier, this light and space-less cylindrical terracotta grenade could be packed in a small satchel by each soldier.

Just as the flash was about to go out, several grenades flew out of the hands of the sturdy backs in the firelight.

"Boom ......"

The explosion of the terracotta grenade was different from the grenades of the past, and in the continuous flickering firelight, you could see Japanese soldiers in yellow uniforms who had to be blown up.

"Fight, use those dogs. Exercise. Target! ”

Some people complain that there is too much foul language in war novels. Probably this is a kind of extremely hypocritical person who has been over-educated in Confucian culture.

War is iron and blood, the last cry of life. Foul language, it's really a normal situation. A war without foul language is a strange war, even a war of hypocrisy.

There is no image of "tall and complete" in the war, and what is only in the war is just for one's own life and dignity, and the final cry full of iron and blood is carried out.

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――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― at this moment, near the collapsed city wall in Taierzhuang, it can be described as electric lightning and thunder. Because of the number of terracotta grenades, the grenades dropped by the soldiers on the city can be described as "raining".

As we have said, terracotta grenades, with the exception of explosives, are extremely cheap and can be mass-produced using the most rudimentary crafts. Therefore, Li Zongren learned the lesson of the battle of Tengxian, and this time equipped the defenders of Taierzhuang with a large number of terracotta grenades.

Precisely, in addition to the famous broadsword, the Northwest Army's favorite use of box guns and grenades is the most. Their assaults are often pistol teams with grenades on their bodies. Now that there are plenty of terracotta grenades, it makes it a little easier to defend the city.

Don't look at the terracotta grenade is not as long as a normal grenade, but its charge is not at all smaller than that of a normal grenade. Moreover, thanks to the use of prefabricated fragmentation technology, the lethality of this terracotta grenade is not at all less than that of a grenade.

In fact, the reason for the use of long-handled grenades in the Chinese army at that time was the extreme lack of artillery in the Chinese army. Even the number of artillery guns equipped by the so-called German mechanics is far from the standard. According to records, the artillery regiment, which the so-called German armor division was supposed to have at that time, was downgraded to an artillery battalion.

Short-sighted people can't understand the cats in it, and it is impossible to see its essence through the phenomenon.

The essence of this choice is that China, the world's most populous country, is not a cause for leaders to worry about. Therefore, there is no need for "rule of law", "**", and "justice", anyway, they are all small people who can be called "grass and trees".

This may seem like a "resource advantage", but in fact it is as we have already described. The relationship between the country and the people is like "falling in love", and unrequited love is a minority that cannot last long after all. When the great chairman of the committee loses all his reverence, he has to go to a corner of Taiwan.

It is the true performance of the so-called "water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a boat"!

I don't know if the chairman of the committee later came to his senses, because if according to his division, Einstein, a person without an official title, is he considered a "generation of grass and trees"?

Anyway, at this moment, the worthless terracotta grenades on the city were falling as if it were raining.

According to the order of the commander of the Seya detachment, Major General Seya Kei, the Japanese soldiers, who were approaching in the dark, were a little helpless in the face of the rain-like grenades on the castle.

The darkness of the night became the best cover for the Chinese soldiers at the head of the city, and when the grenades were thrown down like stones that did not cost money, the infantrymen, who were as strong as devil soldiers, still carried the wounded that could be saved, and retreated from the line of fire.

Because the Chinese soldiers who threw grenades could not be seen in the dark. The grenade attack did not come from any direction. Machine gun fire support didn't know where to shoot, and grenadiers didn't know where to fire. Devil soldiers are not stupid, and if they want to reach the breakthrough in the face of such a situation, it is meaningless to send them to death.

What they needed was flares, they needed artillery support.

"...... Uproar"

The flares in the sky were like turning on a light, and the battlefield instantly appeared in the eyes of the Chinese defenders at the head of the city. At the head of the city, there were some corpses in khaki military uniforms. From the difference in color, it is easy to distinguish which are the devils who came to attack and which are the Chinese soldiers who died in battle.

At this time, the veteran squad leader shouted again.

"It's fired, the devil is going to fire!"

During the Sino-Japanese War, the accuracy of artillery was quite low. Despite the fact that the besieging Japanese forces used everything from 57 mm tank guns to 150 mm heavy guns, the walls of Taierzhuang still stood tall in the dark red smoke.