Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Soldiers Are Coming to the City

The Japanese squadron leader was excited and ordered the soldiers to immediately launch a fierce attack on the county seat. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, the performance of the Zhina Army yesterday made His Excellency the Squadron Leader still have lingering palpitations. But this time he occupied the position of the Zhina Army so easily, and the squadron leader felt that the Zhina Army was just a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre, and this should be the real combat effectiveness of the Zhina Army.

The ambitious squadron leader is now bent on taking Jianping City. He believed that as long as he took the county seat and annihilated all the defenders of China, then because of the death of Yekan Shaozuo, the vacated position of captain would belong to him.

Li Han stood beside Xu Hu, and behind them nine mortars were facing the positions outside the city. He and Xu Hu took binoculars and observed the outer positions of the city wall occupied by the devils.

From the binoculars, I saw that the devil commander was brandishing a command knife, shouting and directing a large group of devils to rush over here, and soon a squadron of devils rushed in.

Looking at these devils who forgot the pain after the scars, Li Han was very happy, the devils were in a hurry to die, of course Li Han couldn't help but give face to others, nodded lightly at Xu Hu, and let him start acting.

"The azimuth is thirty-five degrees north-south, and the distance is two hundred and forty meters, and three rapid fires are fired!"

Listening to the company commander report a series of accurate shooting coordinate units, the artillerymen hurriedly concentrated on aiming and firing!

Boom! Boom! Boom! ……

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ……

The sound of shells firing and explosions formed a heart-pounding symphony, and dozens of shells exploded in the crowd of devils! Many of the shells were aimed at the location where Hu Zhi had buried the explosives yesterday, and more than 70 10-kilogram explosives exploded together.

Thundered! ……

The dull roar sounded like an earthquake, followed by a series of loud noises like the sky collapsing, and I saw that the positions abandoned by Li Han and the others before appeared in large craters ranging from a few meters to more than ten meters, and the black smoke rising up to the sky.

The violent explosion sound even Li Han, who was standing on the city wall and observing from a few hundred meters away, could clearly feel that the ground trembled.

The poor squadron leader was still immersed in the dream of being promoted to become rich, and his bones were blown up on the spot, and he successfully returned to the arms of Amaterasu, and I don't know if Amaterasu will remember his fighting courage and let him be a captain in the underworld.

The soldiers defending the city were surprised to find that the Japanese troops on the position, who had just been messing around like ground mice, seemed to have disappeared all at once. In the blink of an eye, a large piece fell, and the position was like a freshly cut leek, a slippery piece.

Through the telescope, Li Han saw that the surface of the position was as desolate and pitted as the surface of the moon, and most of the Japanese troops were either killed by artillery shells or blown to pieces by explosives.

Some of them were shocked to death by the violent explosion, in short, after Xu Hu's artillery bombardment, there were less than thirty devils left in a squadron standing alone in a daze.

There was jubilation on the position of the four battalions in Jianping City, Li Han patted Xu Hu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Xu Hu, well done, one of the devil's squadrons was wiped out by you with a few cannons." ”

Seeing Li Han praising himself, Xu Hu was also happy in his heart, but he still smiled very modestly: "If it weren't for Company Commander Hu burying so many explosive bags on the position yesterday, our artillery company would not be able to do it like now." It is mainly due to the battalion commander, your good command and the full help of the brothers. ”

Li Han didn't expect Xu Hu to take no credit in the face of victory, and put the credit on his boss and colleagues.

Li Han felt a little strange in his heart, looking at Xu Hu like this, he would be a man! Why did he still work as a platoon commander in Tang Yulin's army for five or six years?

"Despicable China, I will definitely break you into pieces!"

Yoshio Nagano's binoculars fell to the ground with a crackle, and his face was hideous and terrifying, even more terrifying than a wounded beast.

A squadron of more than one hundred and eighty imperial warriors who had just rushed up, and in less than ten minutes, there were only thirty or so left.

The elite troops of a squadron did not even see the face of the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, there was less than a squad left. You must know that yesterday there were five attacks in a row, and after five or six hours of fighting, the losses were a little bigger than that.

Yoshio Nagano's anger can be imagined......

As soon as some of the remnants of the little devils on the battlefield retreated, the leader of the squad was slapped by Yoshio Nagano more than a dozen times one after another, and then a murderous order roared out of Yoshio Nagano's mouth.

"Fire, keep firing at me, blow up the enemy's walls......"

This time, six Type 92 infantry guns and four 75mm mountain guns fired more than 200 shells at the head position of Jianping County, and the roaring artillery slowly stopped.

"Woo Woo ......"

A barrage of shells fell around the city gates, blasting up rows of walls of fire.

The city wall is already the last gateway to the county seat that has been built, and if even this place is lost, you can only fight with the devils in the streets. Li Han entrusted the task of defending the city wall to the fully organized Gao Jian Ministry.

Finally it was his turn, Gao Jian's blood was boiling for a while, but at the same time, he also felt a great responsibility, yesterday the day was so fierce, Li Han did not mobilize Gao Jian's troops and soldiers, it can be seen that Li Han attaches great importance to their task of defending the city.

Gao Jian himself took this city defense task very seriously, and in addition, the artillery company just made a good start, which greatly enhanced the confidence of the soldiers to defend the city.

In order to prevent other brother troops from looking down on him, Gao Jian gave death orders to several company commanders under him: "The city is in the people, and the city is dead."

Of course, the more stubborn Gao Jian's resistance was, the more fierce the Japanese artillery fire became.

Infantry artillery shells blew out craters one after another on the city wall, and the city wall was full of fire, and the artillery bombardment of the devils intensified the confusion of the position.

Since there were no decent rock masses on the city wall, the defenders could only rely on the female wall to resist, but this kind of city wall, designed and built to resist cold weapons, could play too little role in today's situation.

The thick smoke that hung over the castle had not yet dissipated, and the soldiers of the two squadrons, under the order of Yoshio Nagano, rushed to the battlefield.

At the same time, the 30 Type 92 heavy machine guns equipped with the 13th Wing also began to fire a very dense number of heavy machine gun bullets at the city's head position.

More than 400 devils rushed to a distance of only more than 100 meters from the city gate, and the devils' shelling slowly stopped, because if they fought again, they would hit their own people. As soon as the shelling stopped, the devil infantry began to accelerate, preparing for a final attack on our troops.

"I can finally fight back, I thought the devil wanted to attack the city with artillery!"

Gao Jian patted the dusty new military uniform, wiped off the beads of sweat that appeared on his forehead because of nervousness, and looked at the devils who were approaching under the city, and he finally gave the order to counterattack.

Four heavy machine guns, more than a dozen crooked light machine guns, and more than four hundred rifles fired a very dense storm of steel forward at their fastest speed.

The devil who had just started to sprint couldn't help but smile victoriously on his face. Before they could react from their astonishment, they were already enveloped by the bullets that were flying towards them.

The hundreds of little devils who rushed to the front, like ripe wheat, were cut to the ground one after another.

"Get down...... Get down ......"

The remaining devil soldiers, under the command of their respective officers, with their skilled tactical movements, lay on the ground for the first time.

But even so, due to the sudden blow from the powerful firepower of the defenders, in this short period of one or two minutes, the devils lost at least fifty people.

Seeing that his own people were suppressed by the Chinese army, of course, the devil was not to be outdone, although the barrel of the machine gun had been burned red, and white smoke was constantly emitting. Thirty heavy machine guns were still shooting wildly at Gao Jian.

More than thirty heavy machine guns opened fire together, and for a while, the whole sky was left with the shadow of heavy machine guns, and the soldiers of the volunteer battalion would be hit as soon as they showed their heads slightly.

Suppressed by more than thirty heavy machine guns, despite the favorable terrain of the city walls, the volunteers defending the city were suppressed and could not raise their heads, and the losses soon exceeded more than a platoon.

In order to mitigate the losses and avoid unnecessary casualties, Gao Jian had to order the soldiers to hide next to the squatting women's wall. Only a few veterans can find an opportunity to shoot a few bullets out from time to time.

Fortunately, four heavy machine guns continued to fire. Because Li Han had already built a heavy machine gun fortress before the war.

Because of the limited location on the city walls, it was impossible to build a large number of permanent fortifications, so Li Han focused on building heavy machine-gun fortresses, which were known as the weapons of defending the city. Only eight such forts were built in Lihan, and there were four at each of the two city gates.

If it weren't for the limited space, Li Han also planned to build a 180-strong machine gun fortress on the city wall, but this is not realistic, and although such a fortress can easily block the impact of artillery shells of less than 100 millimeters, but in the face of the devil's plane, these immovable fortresses are simply live targets.

The heavy machine gun fort built by Li Han was all poured with concrete, leaving a head-sized shooting hole in front of the fort and an entrance and exit at the back.

All the openings were reinforced with cement, and on the roof of the fort, a layer of concrete with a thickness of more than one and a half meters was poured with cement, and the interior of the heavy machine-gun fort was three meters wide, which could accommodate one front shooter, two secondary shooters, and two ammunition men.

Four heavy machine guns kept firing, and four thick tongues of fire, like four scythes of death, continued to reap the lives of the devils in front of the battle.

"How is that possible...... Under such a powerful firepower suppression, how could the heavy machine guns of the Chinese army still be able to counterattack. ”

After taking in the full view of the changes on the battlefield, Yoshio Nagano could hardly believe his eyes, and his face was dumbfounded.

"Quick! Hurry up and press on the grenadier! ”

The Japanese commander in charge of the attack of the two squadrons was the commander of the 2nd Infantry Group, Suzuki Seiichi Shosa, and when he found that his troops were threatened by the heavy machine gun fire of the defenders, he immediately asked the grenadier bombardier to eliminate the heavy machine guns on the castle.

This is the usual method of the devils, using heavy machine guns against our infantry, grenadiers suppressing our army's heavy machine gunners, and mountain artillery being responsible for destroying our army's mortars, so that the threat of our army's heavy fire is minimized.

Therefore, when he was hit by a heavy machine gun, Suzuki Seiichi Shozo could not wait to order the grenadier team to quickly destroy the enemy's fire point. The armament of the devil's troop grenadiers is very common, and there are three grenadiers in a squad.