Chapter 22, The City Wall
The drone swayed around the Japanese position, transmitting all the deployments on the position, and the site of the battle, the wreckage of 59 was still burning, and bright red blood was sprinkled all over the ground, and corpses were everywhere.
The corpses of the two armies were placed there and no one was to collect them, Lu Qiang didn't want people to take this risk to collect the corpses, and the Japanese army also didn't want to take this risk, fortunately it was winter, otherwise these corpses would stink for an hour, and a large number of bacteria would breed.
The deployment of the Japanese positions was no different from the sky, and the Japanese did not clean up after being ploughed in the morning, and there were only a few pillboxes left. On the surface, there were almost no people in this position, and it was possible to take down an army at will. However, one of Lu Qiang's infantry regiments and one armored regiment suffered here.
"It seems that the devil is hiding underground? Do you want to blow it up with a small nucleus/bomb? Lu Qiang said to himself, like to deal with this kind of ground mouse, using a cloud burst bomb is the best choice.
Although he said in a questioning tone, he still asked the artillery to prepare a big meal for the Japanese army.
Before coming, he had prepared a batch of 107 rocket cloud burst bombs, which was an enhanced version of the 107 rocket.
At a distance of 7,000 meters from the Japanese position, the launchers of 24 107 rocket launchers were loaded with ammunition and ready to fire.
"A profound lesson for the little devils." As Lu Qiang's words exited, the button of the launch stand was pressed, and the rocket whizzed out of the launch stand.
The 107 rocket, which dragged a long tail flame, came to the Japanese position more than 20 seconds later, and the flickering tail flame fell to the ground under the panicked expressions of some Japanese soldiers.
A dazzling light flashed, and the explosion was not loud. But the Japanese soldiers who were watching from a distance were shocked and broke out in a cold sweat, they had seen this kind of shell more than half a month ago. I still remember it vividly, but it was changed from an airdrop to a rocket launch at that time.
Intense flashes. The low explosion was thought to be an oversized flashbang by those who didn't know.
Matsui Ishone tugged at the telegram sent below, which was about the cloud bomb, and he was caught off guard that he didn't expect that the other party would be able to miniaturize that terrible bomb in a rocket.
For this particular weapon, they did not have any defenses at all, and the trench tunnels were completely ornamental in front of it.
Matsui Ishine was also worried, if they didn't enter Lu'an and threw that kind of bomb directly into it, then all their fortifications in Lu'an would not be all useless. Mao didn't use it, his heart was entangled, and he didn't know what to do.
Different from Matsui Shigen's various entanglements, Lu Qiang looked at the Japanese position covered by cloudburst bombs, and his mood was much better, and he even wanted to stand in front of the other party's commander-in-chief, pointing to the other party's nose mountain and saying: See, this is the consequence that makes me angry.
The 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 254th Division, which was almost out of formation, was pushed to the rear by Lu Stress, before the new recruits arrived. None of them have anything to do with it.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the 4th and 5th regiments went on the offensive.
The Fourth Defensive Front of the Japanese Army, which had been covered by cloudburst bombs, was now in ruins, and the Japanese troops inside wanted to live and die obediently.
Two regiments stopped at the 4th defensive position of the Japanese army. Search around and make sure there is no one alive, and use this as a point. Xiang Liu'an killed the past.
"I remember that the walls of Lu'an were not bombed? How is it good again? Lu Qiang looked at the city wall that had been rebuilt by the Japanese army, and he didn't react yet.
"Because it's new. There were traces of cement on it. Zhang Guohua also looked at it with a telescope.
"Oh, no wonder." Lu Qiang nodded. And then to put it mildly.
At the same time, Matsui Ishine and a large number of high-ranking officers withdrew from Lu'an, there was no way, the power of the cloud burst bombs was too terrifying, they couldn't help but run away, before leaving, he ordered the attacking troops to be shelled, not to skimp on the shells.
The Japanese obeyed Matsui Ishone's order, and the artillery, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately opened fire, and frightening flames erupted from the muzzle, and 15cm shells were pushed out of the chamber and flew towards the 4th and 5th regiments.
"Boom~~" The two regiments, which were completely defenseless, were stunned by the Japanese artillery, and they never thought that the Japanese would have shells to hit them.
Lu Qiang also found out that something was wrong, the root of the Japanese city wall suddenly flashed with fire, and it was not a once, but a lot, and then the middle of the two regiments exploded.
"The devil is really yin, he actually hid the cannon here, and he waited until now to fire." really responded to Lu Qiang's guess, the devil did have artillery, but he didn't expect the other party to hide until this time, and then ordered his own artillery to bombard.
B-4 howitzers, Type 66 howitzers and howitzers roared, and huge shells were thrown into the sky and smashed towards the city walls.
"Boom~~" Compared with the Japanese army's 15cm field guns and the like, Lu Qiang's artillery is much more powerful, especially the B-4 howitzer, known as Stalin's heavy hammer.
The heavy cannonballs were wrapped in an unrivaled crash on the city wall, making an earth-shattering explosion, and the entire reinforced concrete city wall shook violently, and large cement blocks flew around with the explosion, and there was a large black mark on the city wall.
The Japanese artillery under the city covered their heads, blocking the cement ash sprinkled from their heads, and the earth shook so that they could not stand on their feet and could not open fire.
More shells flew in from afar, slamming down on the walls, and the thick concrete walls were sliced off layer by layer. The Japanese soldiers in the wall were miserable, and many of them were shocked and vomited blood, and even their internal organs were shattered and died directly.
Rounds of shells exploded on the city wall, after more than 30 minutes of explosion, began to collapse, the Japanese army seems to have built a very strong city wall in Lu'an, if it is the fruit army or the Red Party, it will not be able to take it down, fortunately Lu Qiang has enough bomb B, but so to shoot the shells, Lu Qiang's heart twitched, his heart hurt, it is all war points.
The large section of the city wall covered by artillery was completely shrouded in smoke and fire, and the drones in the sky were circling in circles, and the cameras could not capture the situation in the smoke.
The artillery was pumped there for a whole hour, and the barrels of the Japanese guns could be used for barbecue, and in the winter, the water vapor visible to the naked eye rose from the barrels. After stopping the artillery, an artilleryman took a damp rag soaked in water and tied it to the barrel and stuffed it into the chamber to clean the chamber and cool down the cannon by the way, and will continue to use it later.
"Ah~~~" A large cloud of water vapor came out of the barrel, the hot water vapor, the artillery also had to retreat, and after the water vapor dissipated, the gun rod was withdrawn, and the wet rag wrapped in the gun rod had all dried up, and even some of them began to be a little burnt.
To cool down the artillery, you can't directly pour water on it, and don't use this method until you have no choice, because it will explode if you don't do it.
A piece of wet rag slowly cools down the barrel, which is much faster than natural cooling, and the water used must be clean water, fortunately Lu Qiang's army has this condition.
The 203 and 152 caliber guns are not their business for the time being, and they obediently go to the side to cool down.
Looking at the city wall where the Japanese army had high hopes, the part that was bombarded by artillery in turn broke a gap hundreds of meters long, and there were also quite a few cracks in other places, which were precarious.
"What about the casualties of the four regiments and the five regiments?" Lu Qiang looked at the gap in the city wall, it was time to attack, but first asked about the casualties of the two regiments.
"In total, there were 482 losses, and those who were slightly injured and could fight were not among them."
"Alright, order them, attack! In addition, inform the remaining three infantry regiments of the 254th Division to be ready to attack at any time, and the 255th and 256th Divisions should also be prepared. ”
"Do you have to prepare?"
"If you want to go, you will go, grinding and chirping."
"Yes!" Zhang Guohua stood upright, and then ran to inform.
"Slow down, there are still artillery, high-speed their table number support preparations, heavy artillery is forgotten, just 105 howitzers."
"Okay."
The 4th and 5th regiments slowly leaned into the city wall, and a row of black cannon holes were exposed in the corners of the wall that had not yet been broken, which made them feel cold, but fortunately the artillery in the wall was dead, and most of them were shocked to death by the impact of the artillery explosion.
Although the walls had fallen, the rubble had become a major obstacle, and the infantry could climb over them with their hands and feet, but the tanks could do nothing but wait and see.
Lu Qiang heard the message from the front line and learned that the tanks could not climb through the blown gap, so he asked them to run around the city.
"By the way, the 255th, 256th and 257th divisions all set off, surround Lu'an, don't let them escape, the Japanese troops inside will be the whetstone for our recruits."
With Lu Qiang's words, in addition to the 254th Division, the remaining three divisions were immediately dispatched to surround the Lu'an Regiment to death, and then slowly clean up the Japanese troops in the city.
After the 4th Regiment and 5th Regiment of the 254th Division entered the city, the Japanese resistance was very fierce, and the two regiments that had just rushed in almost blocked the Japanese in the gap.
The Japanese had two 92 heavy machine guns and a number of infantry, and after occupying a vantage point, they opened fire on the two regiments. Superb marksmanship, one shot at a time, killed more than 20 people in the two regiments that had just come up and had not yet arrived.
Suddenly ambushed by the Japanese army, the men of the two regiments quickly retracted their heads. The Japanese were about 200 meters away from them at the end of the street, which was already beyond the range of gun-mounted grenades. At this time, they had no choice but to throw out a batch of smoke bombs to block the sight of the Yue army, and then rushed out on the smoke. The Japanese were not stupid, they naturally knew their intentions, and the two machine guns clicked into the smoke and fired aimlessly.
With the help of smoke bombs, they broke through the blockade and entered the city of Lu'an, paying the price of six casualties.
After entering the city, the sniper immediately went to find the commanding heights, and destroying the enemy was secondary.
As for the Japanese troops who blocked the gap, after approaching them, they did not hesitate to give them some grenades, and two heavy machine guns fell crookedly on the sandbags, and the rest of the Japanese troops immediately dispersed and played peek-a-boo with them in the city.
"Whew~" A tongue of fire erupted from the muzzle, the flames shot a few meters and then hit a wall, along the hole in the wall to invade inside, this is a Japanese shooting, only fists, grenades can't be thrown, and no one dares to stand in front of the shooting hole, at this time the flamethrower is a good choice.
"Ahhhh After more than ten seconds, there was no sound inside, and the Japanese soldier hiccuped. (To be continued.) )
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