An hour later, Liu Yuan came to the east gate and sent a righteous declaration of war out of the city.

When Kojima saw the battle letter sent by Liu Yuancai, his face flashed with murderous intent, and then with a wave of his hand, he asked Nogawa, the squadron leader in charge of attacking Dongcheng, to command the troops to start attacking the east gate.

As the little devil spread out on the opposite side of the city wall, the defenders on the city wall also began to prepare for battle. However, the tactics of the little devils attacking the city are still artillery to open the way.

Four 92 infantry guns lined up opposite the city gate, and at the same time, a squadron of Japanese troops began to move in front of the city gate, and when they rushed to a distance of 400 meters from the city gate, they immediately stopped on the spot, and the heavy machine gun group began to build machine gun fortifications, and the rest of the Japanese troops were ready to attack.

With the order of the island, the four Type 92 infantry guns of the little devil began to bombard the city gate, and the cannonballs flew towards the city wall with a terrible whistling sound, and a few shells happened to fall on the city wall, and as the cannonballs exploded, several fires rose on the city wall, and three unlucky soldiers were hit by the cannonballs, and flew out with the explosion, and one of them flew directly down from the city wall.

More shells flew over the city wall and landed in the city, and the two houses next to the city wall were hit by the shells and collapsed with a bang, but fortunately the people inside had already taken refuge in the city, but there were no casualties.

Liu Tianshu's courtyard was not far from the house that had collapsed, and when they heard a loud noise, many people couldn't help but shrink their bodies. As for the young men who were temporarily requisitioned to carry supplies, a few of them were trembling with fear.

Liu Tianshu saw that the little devil's shells kept flying, and the surrounding houses were constantly blown up, so he hurriedly said to Tan Liu, who was squatting in the corner of the house and looking outside: "Squadron leader, the little devil's artillery fire is very strong, it's not safe here, I think we should move over there." ”

The location that Liu Tianshu was referring to was under the base of the city wall, which was next to the staircase of the upper city wall.

Tan Liu looked at the sky, nodded and said, "Okay, let's go over quickly." ”

The devil's infantry cannon was a curved artillery, and it was a parabola that hit out, and it was close to the base of the wall, and it was not easy for the shells to hit anywhere, and in comparison, it was much better than the courtyard where they had just been.

When Liu Jianguang heard Tan Liu's promise, he immediately said to leave, and ran towards that position quickly with the rest of the people.

The dozens of young men who cooperated with the action saw that these self-defense forces had all run over, glanced at each other, and also rushed over.

As soon as the group reached the base of the wall, they heard several violent explosions behind them, and then saw a few fires rising from the courtyard where they had just stayed, and the houses were collapsing.

Everyone suddenly took a breath of cold air, and they were glad to have listened to Liu Tianshu's words and left there early, otherwise, I don't know how many brothers would be buried there.

At this moment, a crisp gunfire sounded on the city wall, and it seemed that the little devils had begun to attack the city in earnest.

The city wall of Liugu County is very strong, and the small island brigade only has infantry guns, and there are no field artillery mountain artillery, etc., even if the cannonball falls on the city wall, at most it will blow up a few stones, and there will be no serious damage to the entire city wall.

It's just that the little devil's artillery bombardment suppressed the defenders on the city wall, and of course, many soldiers were directly blown away.

However, under the cover of artillery fire, a squadron of Japanese troops rushed towards the city gate, and at the same time, the grenadiers that cooperated with the action also began to bombard the city gate.

Qi Jiaqiang hid in the corner tower of the city wall, and when he saw the little devil rushing closer and closer, his subordinates were embarrassed by the little devil's artillery fire, and he was immediately anxious.

He grabbed the phone, shook it violently, and called Qi Fuyou.

"Uncle, the little devil's artillery fire is so fierce that the brothers are so pressed that they can't raise their heads, and many brothers are killed by the little devil's shells."

"Jiaqiang, don't panic, there are strong city walls in the county, it is not easy for the little devil to take it down, you let the brothers pay attention to the anti-artillery, and wait for the little devil to get close before fighting." Qi Fuyou shouted loudly in the command post.

As soon as he put down the phone, he saw Liu Yuan just walk in.

"Commander Qi, how is the situation of the troops?" Liu Yuancai's hair became messy, and his snow-white shirt was also stained with a lot of mud.

"County Magistrate Liu, the little devil is concentrating his forces to storm the east gate, I'm worried that the second battalion won't be able to hold it." Qi Fuyou looked at County Magistrate Liu and said worriedly.

"In this way, I will let Yan Guoye take the Self-Defense Force to reinforce the East Gate, you command here, we must defend the county seat." Liu Yuancai said loudly.

After seeing Liu Yuancai leave, Qi Fuyou sat on the chair and thought for a long time, then picked up the phone and called the third battalion commander......

Kojima saw that the opposite city wall was shrouded in his own artillery fire, and a smug smile appeared in his eyes, since he set foot on the Chinese battlefield, he had fought with the Chinese army many times, and he knew the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army very well, although the defenders on the opposite side were holding on to the strong city wall, in his opinion, it was only a matter of time before he captured the county seat of Liugu.

After all, he has a large number of troops, and there is also a Chinese army that has surrendered to cooperate with the operation, besides, this Liugu county has been surrounded by himself, a lonely city, what else is there to worry about.

After Qi Jiaqiang put down the phone, he threw away his hat, walked out of the corner tower with a shell gun, kicked twice at a few soldiers who were shrinking in the bunker at the battlement, and shouted: "Shoot, the little devil is rushing over." ”

At this time, the little devil's artillery fire was all concentrated around the city gate, but no shells fell on the city wall in other locations, and through the diffuse gunsmoke, he had seen countless devil soldiers, rushing towards the city gate.

The soldiers guarding the city wall, hearing the words of the commander, had to muster up the courage to raise their guns and shoot outside, but their marksmanship was too poor, and the gunshots rang out, but only three devil soldiers were knocked to the ground.

Immediately, the devil's heavy machine gun hit the wall fiercely, and the two soldiers could not dodge, and they were hit by the bullet and fell backwards screaming.

Hearing the screams of their comrades in pain, some of the soldiers were aroused to the same hatred, and two soldiers desperately came out, raised their guns and opened fire on the devils who were getting closer and closer, and after killing the two devils, they were hit by bullets and fell to the head of the city.

All of a sudden, there was a loud gunfire in the city, and the little devils, under the cover of artillery fire, fired at the city one after another, suppressing the security regiment guarding the city gate, and then more than a dozen devil soldiers rushed to the city gate desperately.

Qi Jiaqiang saw that the little devil wanted to forcibly break through the city gate, and he was in a hurry, braving the rain of bullets to grab it, and shouted anxiously: "Quick, quickly throw a grenade and blow up the **** little devil." ”

As he spoke, he grabbed the grenade and pulled the lead, and threw it down to the city, and the rest of the soldiers saw the battalion commander personally going into battle, and suddenly their courage increased greatly, and they grabbed the grenades and threw them under the city one after another, braving the dense bullet rain of the little devils.

Suddenly, a dense explosion sounded under the city, and the little devils who rushed to the city gate were blown to pieces by grenades falling from the sky, and the entire city gate became Shura Hell.

Seeing the heavy casualties of the soldiers who rushed to the city gate, Nogawa was so anxious that he waved his command knife and ordered the heavy machine gun to fire at the top of the city gate.

The bullets spit out by the heavy machine gun cut like a sickle to the top of the city gate, and several soldiers who were throwing grenades down were unfortunately hit, and the grenades in their hands fell silently, and one of them rolled down the city wall, and with an explosion, the three soldiers were blown away.

Kojima saw that the defenders were desperately defending and that the Nogawa squadron besieging the city suffered a lot of casualties, so he frowned and ordered Nogawa to withdraw his troops.

The lives of the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire were precious, and he did not want to waste them in this small county town of Ruya.

Seeing that the devil finally retreated, Qi Jiaqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and he sat on the city wall, only to find that his military uniform was completely soaked.

Yan Guoye rushed to the east gate with more than 100 self-defense members, just when the little devil retreated, he hurriedly ran up the city wall, saw Qi Jiaqiang sitting there, hurriedly walked over, took out a cigarette and handed it over, and at the same time lit a match, lit it for Qi Jiaqiang, and lit one himself.

"Second battalion commander, how is the situation in your battalion?"

"Battalion commander, the little devil is really hard to fight, just one attack, you see, let me lose so many brothers, alas, if I don't retreat, I'm afraid all the brothers in our security regiment will have to be confessed here." Hearing Yan Guoye's words, Qi Jiaqiang's eyes were full of grief and indignation, his second battalion occupied the high and thick geographical advantage of the city wall, but in a round of attacks by the little devils, he lost one-third, looking at the casualties who were carried down by the young and strong people, listening to the screams of those injured brothers, his heart ached.

You know, many of them are brothers who have been with him for many years.

"Second battalion commander, I have seen it all, the brothers of the second battalion are all good, and the people of Liugu County will always remember them." Yan Guoye said emotionally.

His first battalion was crippled in the morning, and now the second battalion has lost another third, and the next battle, even those who don't know how to fight at all, know that if they don't think about breaking through, they can only get a tragic end in the end.

It's just that as a soldier, dying on the battlefield was originally his best ending, although he was only a battalion commander of a security regiment.

The two of them were relatively silent there, and could only smoke quietly, while the self-defense team members he brought with him had already begun to walk up the city wall with Tan Liu's squadron to repair the fortifications that had been damaged by Japanese artillery fire.

Liu Tianshu walked up to the city wall and saw that the entire city wall was unrecognizable, although there was no big gap, but many sections were still loosened by the artillery fire of the little devils, and the blood of the brothers was killed and injured everywhere on the city wall.

He and Shi Qiang silently carried a sandbag and placed it at the battlement of the city wall, looking out of the city, only to find that the Japanese army seemed to have begun to eat lunch.

The daring little devil was tired all morning and began to replenish nutrition and accumulate strength.

Seeing this scene, he realized that he had already had an empty stomach, and he didn't know when the county government would bring lunch.

While he was thinking about this, a group of people carrying burdens came from the city, followed by the sound of brothers, having lunch.

The voice seemed to come from heaven, Liu Tianshu lifted Shi Qiang on the side, and said, "Qiangzi, go, go to dinner." ”