The noon sun was lazy, illuminating the Linqing City in the war in a strange light.

The Fourth Brigade adopted the tactics of group advancement, so that the cavalry battalion of the Fifth Brigade, which was tasked with harassing the attack, had nowhere to start and could only attack and harass from left to right along the way.

This kind of raiding and harassment battle was like tickling for the 8,000-strong Fourth Brigade, which had lost a few more corpses, and did not have the effect of a fundamental delay. At 12 o'clock at noon, the main force of the Fourth Brigade finally arrived at the city of Linqing and besieged the Linqing regiment.

This time, Major General Kawamura Dong learned well and no longer recklessly sent troops into the city. Although it seemed that the four gates of Linqing City were wide open and the city seemed to be empty, Kawamura Dong still ordered the artillery brigade directly under the brigade to set up mountain artillery and aim at the south gate of Linqing Tucheng City to fire and reconnoitre.

The earthen city of Linqing City is not large, and it has been a trade market in Linqing since it was built. Due to the special geographical location of Linqing, Tucheng has been prosperous in the past. There is a lot of traffic, businessmen gathered, and there are many shops. It's a time of war, and business is naturally sluggish.

After Zhang Yicheng led the 13th Regiment and the New 5th Regiment to accept the task of defending Tucheng, he mobilized residents and merchants to retreat urgently, and buried everything that could not be taken away on the spot.

After the fire reconnaissance, seeing that there was no response to the shelling site, Kawamura Dong underestimated it in his heart, and could not figure out whether there were people in the city, so he had to order the artillery to conduct fire reconnaissance again on several gates of the brick city of Linqing City, but there was still no response. Kawamura Dong knew that the more this happened, the greater the danger, because if the people in the city were not organized, they would not have run so cleanly.

After all, Major General Dong of Hecun, the old devil, was strictly educated and very skillful, and he even ordered all troops to set up positions on the spot outside Linqing City, and only sent a search team of seven people into the city to search. Artillery, tanks, armored vehicles were ordered to be ready for fire support at any time.

The devil search team left the starting position with the plaster flag and walked towards the south gate of Tucheng. Behind them were the nervous eyes of Kawamura Dong and the captains of those devils.

Although this devil search team walked cautiously, for fear that a bullet would fly from somewhere and let them go back to their grandmother's house, but at this time, it seemed that Amaterasu was not asleep, and was still blessing the seven little devils.

The devils outside the city let out bursts of cheers, and several captains asked to be the first to enter the city.

Kawamura Dong turned a blind eye to the request of several captains to fight, and only ordered a squadron to be dispatched into the city to continue the search.

The leader of the devil squadron who received the order didn't know that the god of death had already smiled and beckoned to him, and felt that His Excellency the brigade commander was too kind to him, and let himself do such a showy thing, so he drew his combat knife, got on a three-wheeled motorcycle, and rushed into the south gate of Tucheng with his squadron.

This time, the devil's good luck has come to an end. There were sporadic gunshots in the city, and it seemed that it was still the crisp gunshots of the 38 Dagai, and when the gunshots stopped, Kawamura Dong ordered the flag soldiers to send the flag to contact. During this exercise, I found that there was not the slightest movement in the city, as if a squadron of devils had never entered the city.

Kawamura Dong was furious and ordered all the artillery to open fire and raze the small Linqing city to the ground.

There was another round of shelling, and strangely silent in the city. Kawamura Dong was completely lost by this silence, and only felt that this small county town seemed to be a monster devouring the soldiers of the imperial army, with a black hole and a sharp mouth, waiting to eat people. Tactical guidance from the aviation forces had to be requested.

The four devil bombers came belatedly, hovering over Linqing City, really did not find that there were defensive troops in the city, and after reporting to Hecun Dong, they dropped all the bombs in the most concentrated place in the county seat, and then the devil pilot took a photo, and then flapped his wings and flew away.

Seizing the opportunity of the bombing by the planes, Kawamura Dong directly ordered the tank squadron and three armored vehicle squadrons directly under the brigade to cover the infantry to attack the city from several city gates at the same time, so as to capture Linqing in one fell swoop.

The main force of the devils was dispatched, led by tanks and armored vehicles, and the infantry followed behind with guns.

At this time, Hong Chaoyuan, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, was completely relieved, and what he wanted was to let the main force of the devils attack the city by separate routes, and fight with the Fifth Brigade in the city to make its superior aviation firepower useless.

Hong Chaoyuan was most afraid that the devil would be frightened and fled under the cover of the plane. In that case, if the troops carry out a large-scale pursuit during the day, the losses will be great.

After the recovery of the Second Brigade of Linqing City, in accordance with Liu Yimin's instructions, it mobilized and organized the masses to dig tunnels under the command of the engineers. The method of how to dig tunnels given to officers at all levels by Liu Yimin is much more advanced and more complete in functions than the tunnels dug by the military and civilians during the war in history. After the Fifth Brigade took over the defense, the engineer battalion seized the time to build concealed fortifications on the ground, turning Linqing City into a battle fortress connected above ground and underground, and with courtyards connected to each other. The devil search team and the vanguard squadron that first entered the city just now were eliminated by the soldiers of the 13th Regiment and the New Fifth Regiment who were guarding Tucheng with rifles after entering the city.

Seeing the devil's large-scale siege of the city, Hong Chaoyuan's cold face showed an unprecedented smile, and ordered the sappers to detonate the explosive packages buried in the city gates in advance, and ordered the rocket launcher groups to use the concealed fortifications to destroy the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles, and the brigade artillery concentrated artillery fire on the Japanese army in one direction to carry out a round of fire raids, and then went underground to prevent the enemy artillery from retaliating.

Now it was lively, and when the main force of the devils passed through the city gates, they immediately tasted what it was like to be a local plane. The devils who attacked the east gate of the brick city were even more unlucky, and after taking the earthen plane, they experienced another round of mortar fire, resulting in a mess of dead and wounded. Major General Kawamura Dong, who was watching the battlefield with a telescope outside the city, almost dropped the telescope into the ground. Fortunately, the major teams have finally attacked Linqing City, as long as they gain a firm foothold in the city, Major General Kawamura Dong believes that with the training level of the imperial army, it is conceivable to eliminate the [***] team that resists in the city.

The first battalion of the 13th Regiment led by Qi Fengnian guarded the south gate of Tucheng, but the soldiers were basically hidden in the tunnels and courtyards, and there was basically no one on the city wall. The reason for this deployment is that the brigade commander Hong Chaoyuan is unwilling to fight hard with the devils, but wants to use tunnels and fortifications to fight high-tech urban street battles. Therefore, the elite battalion did not go up to the city wall or close the city gate, but through various shooting holes, it watched the large army of devils who were blown up by explosives bags enter the city, preparing to wait for the devils to enter the city and then slowly wear down the devils.

From the beginning of the passage, he has accumulated military exploits, and he is a military cadre who is very important to the instructor and teacher Liu Yimin. After several years of training, Qi Fengnian has grown rapidly and uses the tactics taught by Liu Yimin freely.

Seeing that the troops attacking the south gate of the devil have basically all entered the city, Qi Fengnian gave the order to fire in a hurry. The movements of the soldiers of the first battalion are a bit like the scenes in the movie "Mine Warfare", and they go to the roof to strafe and throw grenades with machine guns, and they take off the bricks on the courtyard wall to block the shooting holes for shooting, and so on, and so on, and the combination of tunnel warfare and street fighting is perfect.

The devils who entered the city realized that they had become targets, and they all hid in the corners. Who knows that the corners of the wall are not safe, there are also shooting holes, and the bullets fired are more accurate and more lethal. Fortunately, the Fifth Brigade still wanted to entangle the devils, and the attack rhythm of the various units was better controlled, and no large-scale counterattack was launched, otherwise, the devils would have to obediently withdraw from Linqing City.

Of course, the devils are not vegetarians, and under the command of the officers, the devils who suffered heavy casualties began to fight with our army under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles. Often, tank guns are used directly to bombard courtyard walls or houses, and grenadiers are used to attack roofs. This trick was really good, and gradually, the devils seized some yards and houses, took control of most of the streets, and finally built a protective position. It wasn't until the devil's tanks and armored vehicles were knocked out by the bazookas one after another that the devil's crazy attack was somewhat restrained.

At this time, the devil commanders and soldiers in the city were bent on retreating immediately, and they must not be targets in this city. Major General Kawamura Dong outside the city did not see it that way, he felt that his reading power was still okay mixed with the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Brigade, and this attack was well fought and had basically controlled the county seat. As a result, Major General Kawamura Dong changed his foresight and hesitation when he was suffering losses at the beginning of the siege, and sent a report to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo with joy: "We have attacked the county seat of Linqing and controlled all the gates and streets of Linqing, and the defenders of China are forced to retreat to the houses and start street battles with me. Our department is searching for the remnants of the Chinese army. ”

In order to prevent accidents, Major General Kawamura Dong again requested in a telegram that Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo ordered his aircraft to carry out uninterrupted reconnaissance over Linqing City, and found the courtyard where the Shina troops were entrenched, and directly bombed them, so as to fully support the operation of the Fourth Brigade of the Reading Force and completely destroy the Shina troops stationed in Linqing County.

After sending the telegram, Major General Kawamura Dong entered the city.

After receiving the telegram from Kawamura Dong, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, commander of the Second Army, was also full of joy and sent a telegram directly to General Terauchi Shouichi, saying that the Fourth Brigade had reported that the brigade had captured Linqing and was now clearing out the remnants of the enemy. Once the situation in Linqing is stabilized, there will be no decent resistance in the Luxi Plain, and then the Second Army will concentrate on sweeping the Lunan area, and then attack Xuzhou, join forces with the 13th Division of the Central China Front, and completely eliminate the Central [***] team in this area.

(To be continued)