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Chapter 1326: Blood and Fire (2)

The Japanese officers and soldiers gathered under the city wall, scrambling to climb up the siege ladder, the city wall suddenly threw dense grenades, and a machine gun also stretched out at the battlement of the city wall, spraying a surging tongue of fire, beating the Japanese soldiers who were huddled together to cry wolf, and soon the root of the city wall was stained red with blood, and the corpses of the devils were piled up all over the city wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the same time, the Japanese troops who stormed the city gate hole also encountered a strong firepower, one by one officers and soldiers fell in groups, as if crossing the moat and rushing into the city gate hole means death, the city defenders by light and heavy machine guns carefully organized fire network, like a scythe wielded by death, everywhere emptied, ruthlessly harvesting life.

Seeing that the attack was deflated, the Japanese army woke up like a dream, and the light and heavy machine guns responsible for providing cover opened fire together, and mortars and grenadiers fired intensively at the city head as if they didn't need money, and soon the city wall was shrouded in violent explosions and heavy smoke. The Japanese tanks had nothing to do, and they also fired directly at the city gate, and there was a violent explosion wherever the shells went, but because of the clever design of the fire points of the defenders in the city, the Japanese tanks found nothing.

"Kill, give!"

The Japanese commander on the front line waved his command knife again, and the Japanese officers and soldiers rushed towards the county city wall like a tide, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers arrived in front of the moat in the blink of an eye, waiting for the sappers to lower the siege ladder.

"Dada-da-"

On the city wall, countless shooting holes suddenly appeared, constantly spitting out tongues of fire to the outside.

Due to the flat terrain on the other side of the moat, a large number of Japanese troops who had made a charge were knocked out at once. The Japanese soldiers were well-trained, and they hurriedly fell on the spot, raised the 38 big cover in their hands, and fired at the shooting hole. However, one side was covered by the bricks of the city wall, and the other side did not have any terrain and features that could be used, and the casualties of the Japanese army continued to increase.

The Japanese commander in charge of the siege of the city was furious, and this time he did not save shells, and once again ordered to concentrate all artillery fire and bombard the city wall indiscriminately.

Hearing the sound of artillery, Bai Mingyi, the instructor and division commander of the First Army Corps, immediately made a decision and immediately instructed the soldiers hidden in the hidden caves and secret passages of the city wall at both ends of the south gate of the county to retreat, quickly retreat to the buildings nearly 100 meters away from the city wall, and use the buildings built by the Japanese army to set up a defensive line again.

At this time, there was also a fierce sound of gunfire outside the east gate of the county, Bai Mingyi knew that the Japanese army at the south gate had detoured to the east gate, but as long as there was no heavy artillery to carry out continuous bombardment, he believed that the defense line would not be so easy to break through for a while, so he still calmly paid attention to the battle at the south gate, and he didn't even have the heart to move to the window on the other side and watch with a telescope.

Finally, after withstanding the devastation of the Japanese army's continuous heavy artillery bombardment for more than ten minutes, the wall gradually burst apart, and the cracks on the wall became bigger and bigger, and finally in a deafening roar, the city wall of dozens of meters to the left of the south gate of the county collapsed and collapsed, stirring up high smoke and dust. The collapsed bricks and stones, due to the huge thrust of various shells, tilted into the city, and the door of Yuping County finally opened, like a ** lamb that has lost its fur in front of *** people.

Seeing that the gap was opened, the Japanese artillery stopped the bombardment, and the Japanese officers and soldiers lying on the ground jumped up, rushed over the simple bridge that the engineers had erected, and soon rushed into the city on the rubble, and the smiling face on the face of the Japanese commander on the front line did not show for long, and the dense shooting sound in the city sounded again, and the squadron laid out reasonable firepower points, from the windows, corners, roofs and other parts of the houses facing the city wall, to give the Japanese troops in the charge a head-on blow. The Japanese officers and soldiers were also extremely brave, using the collapsed city wall as a cover to shoot at the squadron, and from time to time the defenders were shot and fell from the roof to the ground.

For a time, there was a lot of gunfire.

Seeing that the battle situation was in a stalemate, the 16th Division General Zuo, whose headquarters was located in Fanzhuang in the south of the city, couldn't sit still, and the chief of staff, Mifu Nakazawa, took the initiative to suggest:

"General, we can't get too entangled with the Shina army here, we just need to leave one to monitor the movements of the Shina army, the main force bypasses Yutian County, and attacks from the line of Lin Nancang and Da'an to the flank of the Shina army, cut off the connection between the various departments of the Shina army, and after eating the defeated Shina army, we will return to the division to solve this stubborn enemy in one fell swoop."

"Nakazawa-kun, you are wrong, according to the strength of the resistance of the Chinese army, Yutian County must be the main force of the Chinese army. According to our spy report, in addition to the four divisions of the Central Army, the Second Group Army of China has outstanding combat strength in the First Army Sun Lianzhong's division. Since the start of the war, the emperor's *** team has almost no advantage in the face of the strong army of China, in my opinion, this is purely due to the incompetence of the generals of the unified army, I must lead the 16th division, in one fell swoop to eat the main force of the first army of the Chinese army, let the world see the strength of my Kyoto division. Lieutenant General Nakajima of the 16th Division said proudly.

"My subordinates admire the courage of the general!" Seeing that Nakajima had made up his mind, Mitsuo Nakazawa hurriedly complimented.

Lieutenant General Nakajima raised his white-gloved hand: "Order Kusaba-kun to speed up the pace of the attack, is the mortar and grenadier in his hand a vegetarian?" Now our division, with the support of the 1st *** Brigade of armored vehicles, is still fighting like this, what kind of system has it become? Remember, what I need is a breakthrough, a breakthrough across the globe. ”

"Hey!"

Major General Kusaba Tatsumi, commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade, received an order from Nakajima and immediately intensified the attack, and the Ninth Infantry Wing, which was the main attacker, suddenly threw another brigade into the attack to participate in the attack, and after the machine gun squadron gained a firm foothold at the gap in the city wall, the artillery company also quickly passed through the improvised pontoon bridge repaired by the engineer unit, and used four 70-millimeter Type 92 infantry guns to carry out precise strikes at the firing points of the squadron at close range.

At the same time, the mortar squadron directly under the brigade also began to exert its might, and soon, the light and heavy machine gun fire points exposed by the squadron were removed by the Japanese army one by one, and the gunfire of the return fire in the city gradually thinned out.

Kusaba Tatsuji was overjoyed, and just wanted to order the entire Ninth Wing to attack, breaking through the defense line of the squadron in one fell swoop, at this time, a mortar shell fell overwhelmingly towards the gap in the city wall, in a violent explosion, shrapnel flew everywhere, and the first to suffer was more than a hundred gunners of the infantry guns and mortars, they fell miserably, and many devil artillerymen who were directly hit by the shells were torn apart, and the stumps and broken arms flew everywhere. The machine gun positions covered by the second wave of artillery fire were not easy either, twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns were in unison, and the machine gun squadron of more than 100 people was able to survive less than a tenth of them.

The mortar fire stopped, the machine guns in the city sounded happily again, and the Japanese troops who were charging were quickly suppressed, lying on the ground and desperately returning fire, and from time to time someone was hit and killed.

"Baga!"

Kusaba Tatsuki's face was pale, after this battle, the Ninth Wing had invested two brigades, with nearly a thousand casualties, especially the loss of the machine gun squadron and the artillery company, which made Kusaba Tatsumi feel sorry for the Ninth Wing Wing Captain Katagiri Goro Osa, but such a huge number of casualties still could not break through the defense of the squadron, which made Kusaba Tatsumi feel that the squadron should not be humiliated for the first time.

In the headquarters of the Chinese defenders in the center of the county, Bai Mingyi was extremely happy, and laughed: "*** His little devil's mother!" I thought that Lao Tzu couldn't do anything with your cannons and machine guns, now I'm dumbfounded! Lao Tzu has endured the uselessness of mortars, in order to let you grandsons fall into the net under paralysis and carelessness. Now the mortars of the entire corps are in our division, which is enough for you to drink a pot. ”

The chief of staff, Colonel Zhong Shan, reminded: "You have to tell Ou Yenan to be careful, it won't be good if the devil's heavy artillery discovers the location!" ”

Bai Mingyi waved his hand: "It's okay, Lao Ou is good at fighting, he is also a student of General An Yi, he has learned the use of mortars from General An, coupled with years of strict training, he can't make a mistake." Besides, it is common sense to shoot a few shots in front of the enemy's superior artillery fire to change places, and they will not make this mistake. ”

Zhong Shan sighed and said: "Thanks to the 37 battle defense artillery supplied by the An Jiajun, otherwise it is estimated that when the city gate is opened, we will have to use the killer weapon, so that it will be difficult to achieve the purpose of using the city defense to delay the Japanese army, and once the Japanese army's follow-up tanks are put into battle, we will be in big trouble." ”

"yes!"

Bai Mingyi nodded, and then looked worried: "I heard that General An Yi's special plane was ambushed by Japanese fighters, and I don't know my whereabouts yet, I hope that Jiren will bless him and be safe." ”

At this time, a deafening explosion sounded again inside and outside Yutian County, and it seemed that the Japanese army could not attack hard, and began to cover the old trick with artillery fire, hoping to be able to touch the dead mouse and pull out the firepower points in the county.

Hearing the shells flying overhead, and the sound of explosions sounded in the distance, Bai Mingyi hurriedly went downstairs with Zhong Shan, came to the ground floor, sat down at the desk in the corner of the north wall, and contacted the ministries through the phone of the Japanese puppet government in Yutian County to arrange the next defensive matter.

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The long convoy is speeding on the highway from Beiping to Bangjun, Xunyu, Yutian County, Fengrun County and Tangshan. The Japanese puppet regime is not without good deeds, for example, this asphalt paved road, the road surface is flat and the grade is quite high, so that the commander of the Fifth Army Headquarters is very satisfied, only more than two hours of driving, the convoy has already passed through Sanhe County, came to the Loess Town, as long as the Loess Town, the front will enter the Panshan Mountains, not far from Bangjun.

Suddenly, the front of the vehicles in front of and behind the convoy sounded a terrible siren, and all the generals got out of the car as soon as possible and avoided the dense woods next to the road in time.

Small vehicles turned around and burrowed into the woods, while large vehicles quickly pulled up camouflage nets and evacuated the personnel. Soon, three reconnaissance planes flew first in the eastern sky in a zigzag shape, and after circling in the sky for a while, they continued to fly westward, and after another three or four minutes, more than 40 Japanese fighters flew into the eastern sky, and they flew westward with almost no stop, presumably to bomb the beachhead on the west bank of the Chaobai River, which was being intensively repaired.

Fortunately, after losing air supremacy, the Anjia army was very afraid of the Japanese fighters, and sent a large number of reconnaissance personnel to monitor the area of more than 10 kilometers to the left and right of the front and back, thus creating conditions for the troops to give early warning.

Hu Jialin got out of the woods, picked off the green leaves attached to his chest, and looked at the western sky: "The Japanese army has really learned the lessons of the past, and now when fighters are dispatched, they first send reconnaissance planes for early warning, and then attack planes and bombers are in formation, so with such a combination, it will not be so easy to clean them up in the future." ”

Huang Zhi nodded: "*** The Emperor and the generals of the War Department are still tolerant, and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi made such a big mistake and still let him sit on the throne of the commander of the aviation forces." This person has suffered a big loss from us, so he is naturally cautious everywhere and does not allow his subordinates to make any mistakes. Anyway, the pilots and generals of the air force are all his disciples and grandchildren, and he is not afraid of anyone who will disobey him. ”

Colonel Liu Zongyu, the chief of intelligence, hurriedly came and handed Hu Jialin a telegram.

After reading it, Hu Jialin's face changed greatly, he raised the telegram in his hand, and said to the generals who surrounded him: "The special task force disguised itself as a Japanese soldier and came into contact with the Japanese army in the northern area of Yuguzhuang Town.

"This time, the Japanese army really made a big bet, and invested the 4th Division, 6th Division, 7th Division, 14th Division, 16th Division, 24th Division, 25th Division, and 26th Division, a total of eight divisions, in addition to more than ten brigades, as well as a large number of field heavy artillery brigades, armored vehicles and mountain artillery wings. It can be said that the current Jidong is like a hedgehog with thorns, piercing his hands! ”

Lu Yixuan's face twitched slightly, and he gasped: "Good guy, the Japanese army is doing their best, trying to treat me as a Jedi!" What to do? If we can't attack Bangjun for a long time, once we are surrounded by the Japanese army, our army will end up dead and alive! ”

Hu Jialin said resolutely: "Fight, you still have to fight!" Now the Japanese don't know that we've moved right under their noses, so we have created fighters. The Japanese army has air supremacy, and the casualties during the day are too large, so we can wait for night to fall and suddenly launch an attack on the front line of Bangjun, and open up this communication artery in one fell swoop. ”

Speaking of this, Hu Jialin raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still four hours before dark...... where are the *** divisions, the seventeenth divisions, and the forty divisions?" ”

Chief of Operations Wen Junhao reported: "The *** Division has moved to Baijian Town in the past of the Panshan Mountain Road an hour ago, and for fear that the Japanese army in Bangjun will find the traces of our troops, it has left the road and entered the dense forest under the Panshan Mountain in the north, and is now resting and standby. The 17th Division is crossing the Tiejialing Mountain Road, and it is expected that it will arrive at Baijian Town half an hour later than the scheduled time in order to avoid the wave of fighters just now, and the 40th Division is not far in front of us and is on the way up the mountain. ”

Hu Jialin nodded: "Okay, we will set up the corps headquarters to Tiejialing, guard this communication artery, catch as many troops as they come, and seize all of them to build fortifications." Just now we received a telegram from the headquarters of the Second Army on the road that the First Army is gathering the rout, and at least it will not be able to move closer to Jixian until tomorrow, that is to say, we must hold on to the line from Jixian to Sanhe for at least one day and one night before we can retreat, otherwise the First Army will fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army. ”

The generals nodded yes, and at this time, Qin Zhenbang, the director of communications, stumbled over, crying with joy: "Good news, good news, I just received an urgent report from Xuzhou, the commander has woken up, the commander has woken up......"

Hu Jialin stretched his brows and laughed loudly: "Okay, that's really good news!" I got this good news before the war, even if I die in this battle, my old Hu has no regrets! ”

The generals laughed, cheered and embraced, all immersed in the good news that An Yi woke up.