Wang Qiang didn't know that the First Division had taken the Jianmen Pass, and he was now uprooting the bunkers of the Qing soldiers one by one.

The second, third, and fifth divisions of the National Defense Force were originally concentrated outside Wanzhou, and now the seventh division, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, has also arrived, which has put great pressure on Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou, who was already guarding Chongqing in person, knew that the Seventh Division was coming, and personally rushed to the front line in Wanzhou.

After the artillery of the 7th Division was transported, Wang Qiang immediately organized the artillery to advance forward, and he knew that it was basically difficult to attack the pillboxes without artillery.

The artillery was pushed to a place just over a mile away from the nearest pillbox, and Wang Qiang had to test the water today to see if the soldiers' blockhouses could withstand the direct fire of the artillery.

In fact, the bunkers of the Qing soldiers are not quite like the bunkers built by Japanese devils in another time and space, it is more accurate to say that they are bunkers, because most of them are relatively low, and they are all made of stones, with some mud.

Huang Degong and Li Chengdong were also standing beside Wang Qiang with binoculars around their necks, and their mood was more urgent than Wang Qiang's.

"Xiao Wang, is your cannon okay? I've tried, but our artillery can't do anything about these turtle shells. ”

Seeing that the artillery of the Seventh Division was preparing for shooting, Li Chengdong said with some concern. Before the arrival of the Seventh Division, Li Chengdong had also organized artillery to fire directly at these pillboxes, but the black fire shells could not cause substantial damage to these pillboxes.

"I don't know, just look at us." Since Wang Qiang was taught a lesson by Luo Jian in Nanjing, people seem to have changed a lot, and he is no longer so confident in speaking.

Seeing that the artillery was basically ready. Huang Degong and Li Chengdong both held up their binoculars.

"Let's fight." Wang Qiang ordered the herald.

The herald raised the red flag in his hand. Swing it down.

A loud bang sounded on the artillery emplacement. In the blink of an eye, another loud bang sounded in front of the bunker, and Huang Degong and Li Chengdong didn't dare to blink their eyes, just stared at the bunker in front of them.

"Knocked over! Good! Good! Good! Seeing that the bunker of the Qing soldiers collapsed, Huang Degong shouted first.

Although the bunkers of the Qing soldiers were built with stones, in the face of the bombardment of the new type of zha medicine, the defensive capability was indeed too limited, and it took more than half an hour. The artillery of the 7th Division cleared the bunkers of seven or eight Qing soldiers on both sides of the road.

Huang Degong and Li Chengdong were both overjoyed, and they knew that they wouldn't need all the Seventh Division to come, and they would just get a few new artillery.

However, there was trouble in clearing the two large pillboxes in the back, these two large pillboxes were a little different from the small pillboxes in front, apparently the hills on both sides of the road were hollowed out, and then built with stones, the artillery fired four or five shots in a row, everyone saw that it was obviously a direct hit, but the pillboxes did not seem to be affected in any way except for a few stones scattered.

Wang Qiang used a telescope to carefully observe the two bunkers in front of him. It was found that the two bunkers were not simply made of stone, and that a lot of glued things were poured into the cracks of the stones. It doesn't look like cement, I don't know what it is.

"You can only use blasting!" Wang Qiang called Xie Kui, the head of the regiment, over.

"You gather all the soldiers of your regiment who are accurate with their guns, suppress the fire of the Qing soldiers for me, and cover the demomen to carry out the blasting." Wang Qiang commanded Xie Kui.

However, the blasting did not go well, and the crossfire formed by the two large pillboxes almost completely blocked the way for the Demomen to charge forward, and after two of the four Demomen were killed and two were wounded, Wang Qiang decisively ordered the attack to be stopped.

Holding a telescope and looking at the bunker in front of him, Wang Qiang thought carefully, it seemed that it was no longer feasible to blast from the front, so he could only bypass it from the side and back.

Wang Qiang called Xie Kui over again and asked him to lead someone to cover the Demoman from the side and back to the top of the bunker to blast.

"Xiao Wang, you can't blow up this turtle shell from above." Li Chengdong saw that Wang Qiang arranged for someone to blast from the top, and said anxiously.

"It doesn't matter if you can't blow it up, just shock the Qing soldiers inside to death." Wang Qiang gritted his teeth and said, Li Chengdong looked at Wang Qiang in surprise, shaking people to death, he had never heard of this.

The two bunkers are not small, Wang Qiang estimates that each can be loaded with forty or fifty Qing soldiers, it seems that Hong Chengchou is extremely concerned about the defense of Wanzhou, the amount of work in these two bunkers alone is huge, and the small hills on both sides are almost hollowed out, and the barrels protruding from the shooting holes show that there are artillery in these two bunkers, which makes Wang Qiang a little jealous.

A regiment of sharpshooters is still shooting at the Qing soldiers in the bunker, such a distance is actually impossible to hit, a group of guns is to cover the Demoman from the side to climb to the top of the bunker, the Qing soldiers are probably shooting to strengthen their courage.

Huang Degong and the others were still holding binoculars, and they all watched nervously as a group of two platoons of cover and a few Demomen began to climb the hills on both sides, and it took a lot of time to get around here, and by the time the Demomen reached the top of the small mountain, more than half an hour had passed.

The telescope saw very clearly, the demoman reached the top of the mountain and began to take off the sapper shovel from his back to dig the pit, and after a while, he dug it and put the zha medicine bag in it, Li Chengdong's eyes were the most clear, two were placed in the pit, and after they were placed, the demoman brought stones from the side to suppress them.

Huang Degong saw Wang Qiang put down the telescope and covered his ears with both hands, and quickly put down the telescope and covered his ears with both hands, and saw that Li Chengdong was still holding the telescope and watching, Huang Degong smiled narrowly, and did not remind Li Chengdong.

Two loud bangs sounded from the mountain bag, Li Chengdong was shocked and let go, and the telescope fell directly, but fortunately it was hung around his neck and did not fall to the ground.

As soon as the Zha medicine bag exploded, Wang Qiang put down his hands covering his ears and yelled at Xie Kui: "Quick! Hurry up! ”

In fact, without waiting for Wang Qiangqiang to roar, Xie Kui had already made a group ready to charge, and a group from Xie Kui down knew to cover their ears with their hands, and as soon as the sound passed, the soldiers rushed out of cover and rushed towards the two bunkers.

Li Chengdong was still a little dazed, but Huang Degong and Wang Qiang had already raised their binoculars to look over, and the bunker still looked intact. Both stared at the bunker's outward-facing firing port. Seeing that there was no shooting in the bunker. The two of them settled down.

Li Chengdong glanced at Wang Qiang and Huang Degong, and saw that both of them were like no one, so he was shocked, seeing that Wang Qiang had been busy commanding the troops, he stared at Huang Degong very dissatisfied, Huang Degong smiled at him a little proudly, Li Chengdong was angry enough, but he didn't dare to get angry.

Xie Kui rushed to the bunker with a group. It was still a grenade that blew the door of the entrance to the bunker open, and the soldiers who rushed in quickly retreated, and Xie Kui, who followed him, kicked one of the soldiers in the ass, shouting: "Rush in!" ”

The soldier ignored him, but ran to the side, ran to the side and began to vomit, and after a while several soldiers who had entered the bunker rushed out, and they all ran to the side of the road and vomited.

"Xiao Wang, what's the matter with your soldiers? Are you afraid to see the dead in war? Li Chengdong would have come to his senses and saw the soldiers of the Seventh Division running to the side of the road and vomiting. said to Wang Qiang with some disdain.

"Yes, Commander Li. These soldiers, I'm going to fix them when I go back, Commander Li, aren't you going to see what's going on inside? Wang Qiang did not refute Li Chengdong, but pleaded him to take a look.

Li Chengdong took two guards out of the fortifications and went to the bunker, Huang Degong also wanted to follow, Wang Qiang pulled him back, "Minister Huang, if you don't want to eat at night, you'd better not go." ”

Huang Degong looked at Li Chengdong, who had already run over, and looked back at Wang Qiang, "Xiao Wang, do you already know what's going on inside?" ”

Wang Qiang did not answer Huang Degong, but pointed to the bunker, where Xie Kui was still vomiting as he ran outside.

At dinner, Huang Degong and Wang Qiang held a canned braised pork and ate it very deliciously, and Li Chengdong looked disgusting next to him.

"Xiao Wang, you kid is really not interesting, the firecrackers are so loud that they don't remind me of Lao Li, you must know the miserable appearance in the bunker, and you refuse to remind me of Lao Li, so that my Lao Li can't even eat dinner, it's really not interesting." Li Chengdong muttered beside him.

"Li Chengdong, you kid is so stupid, I saw Xiao Wang cover his ears, I covered it, Xiao Wang didn't remind me Lao Huang, you have to say that the soldiers of the Seventh Division are bad soldiers, that's why you are asking for trouble, no wonder Xiao Wang!" Huang Degong began to fight Wang Qiang on the side.

"By the way, Minister Huang and Commander Li, we have smashed the turtle shell in Wanzhou, is the next step to go straight to Chongqing Mansion?" Wang Qiang put down his rice bowl after eating, and said to the two.

"How about our second army taking the lead? It's been here for so long, and it's suffocating us. Li Chengdong hurriedly said.

"Your two armies are in the lead? Do you know that Hong Chengchou, the old boy in front, didn't repair the turtle shell? Huang Degong said disdainfully.

"Let's take the lead with our Seventh Division, you just follow up." Wang Qiang said.

After Hong Chengchou's bunker defense group in Wanzhou was broken by the Seventh Division, he retreated to Chongqing Mansion overnight with more than 10,000 Qing soldiers, and the next morning, when the Seventh Division was advancing to attack forward, he found that there was no one on the Qing army's position.

Wang Qiang saw that Hong Chengchou had retreated from Wanzhou, and began to chase after him with the Seventh Division, and Li Chengdong's Second Army and Huang Dequan's Third and Fifth Divisions also set up camp to follow.

After seven or eight days of pursuit, Hong Chengchou had already entered Chongqing Prefecture, and the 80,000 or 90,000 troops of the National Defense Army had also arrived at the periphery of Chongqing Prefecture, but Chongqing Mansion was full of rivers, and the National Defense Force had no way to completely surround Chongqing Prefecture.

Outside Chongqing Mansion, Huang Degong took the third and fifth divisions and began to turn to attack in the direction of Tongliang and Anyue, Wang Qiang felt that since he could not encircle Chongqing Mansion, so many troops were also wasted on the periphery of Chongqing, so he suggested that Huang Degong simply lead his army to Chengdu Mansion.

Huang Degong listened to Wang Qiang's suggestion, the third and fifth divisions are indeed not strong in their ability to attack fortifications, and staying here will not help much.

The city walls of Chongqing Mansion were not very tall, and more than 50 warships of the Navy Division finally rushed to the Yangtze River outside Chongqing Mansion after many hardships.

Although the artillery on the battleships of the naval division did not cause much damage to the city walls of Chongqing Prefecture, the power of dozens of battleships firing at the same time was still a little terrifying, and at the same time, the artillery regiment of the Seventh Division also set up artillery positions on the opposite bank and began to shell Chongqing Prefecture.

Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong had already known through the captives that Hong Chengchou had concentrated more than 60,000 horses in Chongqing, and most of them were brought by him from Hunan, so it can be said that he was his elite troops. (To be continued.) )