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Unfortunately, thinking that the steering was not fast, the Japanese machine gun position hiding on the roof of the No. 1 tank had already shrunk back when the No. 1 improved tank fired. The shells in this magazine www.biquge.info did not cause substantial damage to the Japanese army.
On the contrary, because of the flying shells and the splashed rubble, Mo Dongshan and his subordinates, who were outflanking behind the building, suffered a lot. They held their steel helmets against the wall and waited for the falling rocks to stop before moving on.
Turning another right angle, Mo Dongshan, who was leaning on the corner, saw seven or eight Japanese soldiers leaning on the alley and firing. He retracted his head and gestured with a clenched fist and a thumb up.
The two soldiers who followed him immediately nodded, and then each of them removed a grenade from his chest and pulled the safety ring along the way. Then Mo Dongshan counted down to three-two-one with gestures, and they threw the guy in their hands into the alley full of Japanese soldiers.
Two grenades smashed into the wall and bounced forward, one tumbling at the feet of a Japanese soldier who was shooting, and the other smashed right on the calf of the Japanese soldier who was leading.
This military cao looked down at his calf and found the Ming Empire grenade that was still spinning. Unfortunately, before he could bend down, the two grenades exploded almost simultaneously, and countless shrapnel instantly drowned everything around him.
Dozens of prefabricated fragments of destruction set off a bloody storm in the alley. Most of the shrapnel penetrated the fragile human body and then inlaid the walls on both sides with blood.
Three Japanese soldiers on the roof, who were dealing with tanks, saw the smoke rising from the alley and heard a loud explosion. Immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and fired fiercely at the wall where Mo Dongshan and the others were hiding.
The bullets hit the walls, sending the rubble off the walls everywhere. Mo Dongshan and the others also knew that they had been discovered, so they lay down on the steel helmet, letting the peeling stones from the wall crackle on the steel helmet.
The Japanese soldiers on the roof ran out of bullets loaded on the machine guns and began to reload the machine guns, but unfortunately, it was obvious that the Ming Jun on the front did not intend to give them a chance to continue firing, and a distant No. 1 tank used a 20 mm caliber machine gun to suppress the Japanese machine gun position from a relatively straight angle.
Apparently, these Japanese machine gunners who discovered Mo Dongshan forgot about the Ming troops in front of them because they were too nervous, and the 20 mm caliber machine guns attacked, beating them to pieces, rolling off the roof, and falling to the ground.
Street fighting continued frantically, but the outnumbered Japanese defenders began to show themselves slowly, wasting too many troops outside the city, and without a huge city to offer the terrifying advantage of street fighting.
Soon, under the cover of the infantry, the Ming soldiers advanced to the center of the city of Hamhung. Buildings began to dense here, and there were blocks divided by multiple streets.
The remnants of the Japanese soldiers used the buildings here to put up stubborn resistance, and after occupying the outlying cities, Akijun began to clean up and fight for the core positions house by house.
At this time, the infantry of the Ming Empire, which was equipped with submachine guns, reflected the advantage of firepower, and the Japanese army could only rely on bayonets and rifles to compete with the Ming army most of the time, except for a few cases with the support of heavy machine guns, and suffered heavy losses and was not effective.
The poor effect is already a very decent statement, because the situation that often occurs on the battlefield is that the buildings where more than a dozen Japanese soldiers are stationed are swept away by several Ming soldiers carrying submachine guns.
At this time, it was obvious that the Japanese army was not cost-effective, and some important node buildings that were relied on were also lost too quickly, so that the Japanese defenders who contracted their defenses did not have time to form an effective defense system, so they had to continue to retreat.
For street fighting, although the infantry and armored units of the Ming Empire were not very good at it, the Japanese defenders were also in the exploration stage. The kind of bloody and tragic street battles similar to World War II really don't appear now.
I have to say that this is good news for the Ming Dynasty army, which has more armored troops. The capture of Hamhung in a short period of time was the focus of the 2nd Army's ability to block the retreat route of the Japanese 5th Army.
In the city of Xianxing, the retreating Japanese defenders found that the urban area under their control was shrinking, and the speed of shrinkage was very fast, so fast that they had no time to deal with it, and they were surrounded by the tanks and infantry of the Ming Empire along the main road.
In the end, the trapped Japanese soldiers decided to launch a counter-charge, and thousands of Japanese soldiers braved the dense fire of the Ming army, shouting the slogan "Long live His Majesty the Emperor", and rushed to the position of the Ming Imperial army.
When these Japanese soldiers were charging, Mo Dongshan, who was leaning against the wall and waiting for the Japanese soldiers to enter the shooting angle, suddenly found that a small crystal clear snowflake fell on his gun.
Then came a second snowflake, which fell on his cuffs, followed by his shoulders and toes. On the morning of December 11, the day the Ming army launched the Hamxing Siege, the sky finally snowed, and the good weather ended.
Mo Dongshan looked at the snowflakes, and then exhaled, and it didn't take long for a Japanese soldier to appear under Mo Dongshan's gun, he habitually pulled the trigger, and then the dense bullets knocked down all the Japanese soldiers passing through the alley across the road.
The Japanese soldiers who discovered the location of Modong Mountain tried to raise their guns against him across the road, but unfortunately the crossfire of the Ming troops in front of them killed the Japanese soldiers who had stopped, turning them into new corpses stacked on top of the old ones.
Although the Japanese defenders heroically carried out the order given to them by General Miyamoto Yuhito to guard Hamxing, they had no choice but to have limited ammunition and exhausted troops, which was really too different from the Ming Empire army besieging them.
These valiant Japanese soldiers were quickly driven back by the dense firepower, and because the losses were so heavy, they gave up continuing their struggle, and in the midst of the ruins, surrendered their weapons and surrendered to the troops of the Ming Empire.
Of the nearly 20,000 Japanese defenders in Hamhung City, only about 1,700 capable soldiers and more than 3,500 wounded were left at the time of surrender - the Japanese regained their bravery on the banks of the Yalu River on the morning of December 11, once again causing problems for the attacking 2nd Army.
Unfortunately, although they fought very bravely, the retreating Japanese 5th Army in the ravine missed the opportunity for them to escape because the speed of the retreating Japanese army over the mountains and mountains was too slow. It was only on December 12, the day after the city was occupied by the Ming army, that they walked to the city of Hamxing. (To be continued.) )