Boom, boom! A huge fire rose from the snow. After the explosion, several craters of no small size were blown out in place. And not far away, a group of soldiers is directing a large group of people to set up an iron pot to boil water in the north of the city, pouring hot water on the snow, the winter ground snow and frost, frozen much harder than usual, a good shovel shovel will not be long before it will be broken. Pingluo is the largest county in the north of Ningxia, bordering the Yellow River in the east and Helan Mountain in the west, which is the gateway to the Ningxia Plain and has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

The county town of Pingluo is small and strong, with only two gates in the north and south. However, due to the accumulation of sand in the north for many years, the sand outside is almost piled up at the same height as the city gate, if it is not shoveled, the 45th Army can directly attack the city wall of Pingluo from the sandy land in the north, so the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 15th Route Army of Pingluo defenders ordered the merchants and houses in the south of the city to be demolished, and the people were moved to the county seat, and the fortifications were built with the demolished wood. and organized the people to dig a trench wide enough around Pingluo City to block the attack of the 45th Army. At this time, time was pressing, and Ma Baolin had to rush the people of the brigade to dig the trenches day and night. So much so that when Jiang Li arrived with a large group of men, the moat outside Pingluo County had still not been dug yet.

"It seems that Ma Hongbin has also been prepared, and I am afraid that this battle will not be easy to fight." Yang Yaofeng frowned and said, at least in his impression, let his men capture such a county, I am afraid that he will suffer heavy losses. If Jiang Li let his people go, Yang Yaofeng could only grit his teeth and fight a few times. But it's hard to say whether it can be taken down, Ma Jiajun all believe in Islam, and these people are extremely crazy when they fight.

"Is this still hard?" Jiang Wenhao, who had brought most of the brigade over, smiled, and seeing Yang Yaofeng's somewhat annoyed eyes, Jiang Wenhao put away his smile slightly, and didn't pay much attention to Yang Yaofeng. "Military seat, Pingluo County will be handed over to the temporary first brigade."

"Let's also learn how Brigade Commander Jiang attacked the city." Yang Yaofeng replied without being soft or hard.

"Well, you can fight for a while." Jiang Li nodded at Jiang Wenhao, since the night of 918, Jiang Wenhao has always been his hardcore, daring to fight on the battlefield. has the talent of a general, but his personality is also very arrogant, and his relationship with Zhao Tieshu is not very good. It's better to get along with other brigade commanders in the army, after all, they have fought together on the battlefield of Fengtian, but Yang Yaofeng, who is a monk halfway, can also become a brigade commander, Jiang Wenhao has no good face. didn't go back, it was already for Jiang Li's face.

"Rest assured, you won't let the traveler down. If the Ma Jiajun is all of this kind of goods, without the military seat, two or three brigades are enough to wipe out the Ma Jiajun. Jiang Wenhao's somewhat slender face didn't pay attention to the defenders of Pingluo City.

Jiang Wenhao, who turned around, said to Mo Jiarong, who was looking at Pingluo. "Mo Jiarong, pull your group up, why don't you have to explain to me?"

"Don't worry, don't let the military seat disappoint, the brigade seat will be disappointed." Mo Jiarong still had a whip mark on his face, and after saluting Jiang Li and Jiang Wenhao, he pulled the troops up.

"Strategically despise the enemy, tactically value the enemy. Although Ma Jiajun is a little behind. However, there is always some reason for being able to occupy half of the northwest from this cannibalistic place. Jiang Li picked up the binoculars. reminded Jiang Wenhao not to underestimate the enemy.

Seeing Mo Jiarong's actions commanding the 1st Regiment in the telescope, Jiang Li nodded secretly and dug trenches around the city, vainly trying to use this means to block the enemy's army, which made Jiang Li full of expectations for the end of this battle. How could this way of defending the city, which was almost in the era of cold weapons, stop the 45th Army.

I really don't know what the quality of those warlords in the Guannai is, if those local emperors are facing the Japanese army with this kind of tricks. I'm afraid I don't know how to die. The moats were used to block the enemy, but the high ground outside the city could be directly suppressed by artillery fire inside the city. So that Mo Jiarong can calmly deploy the mortar to the high ground outside the city, although it is not as high as the city wall, but it is enough to suppress the defenders on the city.

Originally, Jiang Li planned to wait for the arrival of the 75MM field artillery that had not yet arrived behind him before launching an attack, but after hearing the reply of the front-line sentinel. It's kind of incredible. I went out of town to check it out in person before I really settled down. The arrangement of the defenders can only show one point, and there is a considerable lack of common sense about the already changing combat methods, and I really don't know how such a general can protect one side. It seems that the training of officers in the future will have to keep up with the lessons in time.

With two mountain artillery batteries that have just arrived, as well as some mortars, and a few hundred shells, it is enough to deal with one such county.

While Jiang Li thought like this, the mortar company had moved to a place more than a thousand meters away from the city wall, which was a relatively safe distance, of course, if the defenders in the city were Japanese troops, Mo Jiarong's courage would not be so great.

"Bastard, what are these defenders doing, they are so far away, and they don't attack the city, and our machine guns can't reach each other." The regiment commander Ma Fugui scratched his ears and looked at the brigade commander Ma Baolin next to him, in order to deal with the enemy's possible landing battle, Ma Fugui also specially organized a two-hundred-person broadsword team, which was specially used to cut and kill the enemy troops who climbed the city.

"You are guarding the city, and the enemy is attacking, and you are repulsed. I'll go and look around the other places. Ma Baolin frowned, and she didn't know what the other party had in mind. He set up two machine guns at the head of the city, and when there were many enemy troops besieging the city, the machine guns could be swept away, and if there were few people, it was enough to use rifles, although the machine guns were powerful, but they consumed bullets too quickly.

"Yes, Brigade." Ma Fugui puffed out his chest and said. Although the county seat of Pingluo is small, the city wall is very thick, with this strong city, and four or five thousand soldiers in the city, Ma Fugui naturally has information to defend.

Watching the brigade leave the city, Ma Fugui's heart also relaxed, no matter what tricks the other party plays, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it.

However, what happened next surprised all the defenders of the city.

"1275 yards away, one test shot!"

TOM, A CRISP SOUND, THE 82MM MORTAR JUMPED OVER A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN A THOUSAND METERS AND LANDED MORE THAN TEN METERS OUTSIDE THE CITY GATE.

Rumble! The movement was not big or small, but it also made Ma Fugui break out in a cold sweat, Ni Mei, what kind of artillery is the enemy fighting, it can be hit like this, like throwing something, doesn't it mean that it can hit the city?

A strong sense of uneasiness suddenly surged up in my heart. Ma Fugui found an excuse to go down the city and temporarily handed over the defense of the city to his battalion commander. Soon, Ma Fugui's speculation became a fact. After the initial test firing, the crisp sound of tom tom was heard one after another.

Explosions rang out one after another above the head of Pingluo County. The fire kept rising. THERE WAS A LOT OF SCREAMING AT THE HEAD OF THE CITY, THE 82MM MORTAR AT THE BEGINNING WAS JUST A DESSERT, AND THE 150MM MORTAR AT THE BACK WAS AN APPETIZER. There are still two stone steps that have not been completed, Ma Fugui heard the explosion on the head of the city and immediately turned over, and even crawled to the ground to hide in a safe area, the city was already panicked, just look at the posture on the head of the city, in such a bad situation, I am afraid there are few living people. A few mutilated arms, legs, and the like were thrown off the city. The people of the city were so frightened that they were colorless. (To be continued......)