At this time, the military discipline of the Central Army was still very good, and in less than half an hour, the men and horses of a regiment arrived at the designated position. The head of the regiment took the binoculars and looked at the Red Army on the city wall. At this time, the Red Army was building fortifications with sandbags prepared by its own people.

"The mortar battery was ordered to suppress fire, and a battalion immediately charged under the cover of artillery fire." As soon as the words fell, a test-fired cannonball landed at the base of the city wall. The soldiers who were building the fortifications couldn't help but be stunned. Liu Hua, who was inspecting the fortifications and troop casualties on the city wall, was also taken aback. "The enemy is coming so fast! It deserves to be a well-trained Central Army. ”

"Order: The mortar company immediately searched for the enemy's artillery positions, carried out a destructive artillery bombardment of the enemy's artillery positions, and all the fighters immediately entered the positions and resolutely thighed the enemy's counterattack. Send a telegram to the commander of the plateau division, asking him to send a regiment of troops to support him, and tell him to guard the south gate and resolutely destroy all the enemies outside the prominent city. ”

"Boom, boom, boom" The enemy artillery battery, which had already trimmed the ruler, began to carry out artillery shelling. Cheng manufacturers immediately set off a rain of blood. "The mortar company immediately returned fire." Liu Hua shouted loudly.

With the completion of the first test firing, the mortar battery of the 1st Division immediately carried out an effective return fire according to the resting trajectory, and the enemy's mortar battery was instantly enveloped by 12 shells.

The explosion of the "boom" shell, the sound of the shell immediately sounded. The commander of the enemy regiment stared blankly at the sea of fire behind him. "How is it possible, when did the communist army have such a powerful artillery fire, you must know that this mortar company is the only artillery of the defending force, and it was destroyed in front of your eyes like this......"

"Regiment commander, attack quickly, now that there is no artillery, if we don't take the city wall, what awaits us must be military law, regiment commander, give an order!" The deputy head of the regiment immediately reminded.

"Yes, order the first battalion to attack immediately, and the second battalion and the third battalion will follow up, with a gap of 100 meters between the battalions, even if they are employed, they will also take back the city wall for me, and the heavy machine guns will immediately open fire to suppress the fire." The regiment commander roared at several battalion commanders beside him at the adjutant's reminder.

Liu Hua stood on the city wall, looking at the dense formation of enemy troops on the street, and couldn't help but scold, "Stupid, isn't this looking for death?" Then he ordered the commander of the mortar company behind him, "Immediately correct the coordinates, shell the enemy's charging formation, and fire the heavy machine gun after the groundman is close to 200 meters." After speaking, he shook his head and walked towards the castle tower.

With the order of the artillery company commander, more than a dozen large holes immediately appeared in the enemy's attack formation. In a dense attacking formation, each shell can take away a few or even a dozen lives.

One of the battalions attacked by the enemy immediately dispersed, and the soldiers began to retreat from place to place, but before they could take a few steps back, the second battalion behind them had already pressed forward with bayonets, and the rout had to join the attacking formation again under the threat of re-arrival. In this way, under the shelling of more than a dozen mortars, when the enemy approached 200 meters of the city wall, the strength of less than two battalions remained in the three battalions, and then, the heavy machine gun companies of the regiment that had been preparing for a long time opened fire one after another, and the attacking enemy fell on the way to attack one after another, but the design was that it could not break through 150 meters to get the fire net.

Finally, some of the soldiers could not stand the test of blood and fire, and the overseers who were not behind the pass began to flee, and with one as an example, the remaining soldiers threw down their rifles and joined the rout. "Order a battalion to follow the rout and carry out a tailgating attack. A fortification was erected at the street crossing, followed by a heavy machine-gun company. Liu Hua, who had been paying attention to the battle situation, immediately ordered.

Looking at his own fleeing team, looking at the Red Army following closely behind the team, the regiment commander's face was purple and blue. A regiment, that's it. "Guard company, immediately build a position, we must block the attack of the communist army, and we will retreat and kill." After speaking, regardless of the reaction of the guard company commander, he took the deputy regiment commander and ran to the headquarters with the guards.

"Division, division, no, the communist army has entered the city 500 meters." The regiment commander ran into the headquarters with a face full of gunsmoke.

"What, you have men? Lao Tzu killed you," After speaking, the angry division commander began to pull out his gun.

"Master, now is the time to employ people, can you spare him, listen to him tell me about the current situation?" The chief of staff stopped the angry division commander and comforted.

"Hmph, say it quickly, if you can't say it, I'm going to shoot you." The division commander snorted coldly.

"Yes, Master, thank you for not killing. Division, my regiment is gone, one regiment, and now there are only more than 200 people left to hold on to the streets. The head of the regiment immediately began to cry in front of him.

"What, there are only more than 200 people left, how can it be" The division commander looked at the regiment commander in front of him in surprise. "Tell me, what's going on?" The chief of staff next to him immediately reminded.

The regiment commander looked at the chief of staff with a grateful face, and immediately said: "That's the case, division" The regiment commander quickly told the battle of Beicheng Tianyou.

After listening to the words of the regiment commander, the division commander was silent, now that the firepower of the communist army has been greatly strengthened, even better than himself, how can he hold it for two days!

"Quick, Commander-in-Chief Chen Cheng sent a report, saying that since the communist army attacked the city for three hours, our department has lost two elite regiments, and now there are less than four regiments of available soldiers in the city, and it is impossible to hold on for two days, please send reinforcements to the commander-in-chief quickly, otherwise Changde will not be guaranteed." After saying that, he closed his eyes.

Chen Cheng's general headquarters was already in a mess at this time. Chen Cheng was standing in front of the map, his brows furrowed. "Chief of Staff, what do you think of Changde's telegram," Chen Cheng looked at the chief of staff next to him.

"Commander-in-chief, with my knowledge of the commander of Changde City, it is impossible for him to lie about the military situation."

"Well, I also know this, but I didn't expect the communist army to be so strong now, and two regiments were wiped out in three hours, it seems that Changde is really not guaranteed." Chen Cheng shook his head.

"Commander-in-chief, now we can only order Li Jue's troops to speed up the march, and the communist army will capture Changde in time, and we will also trap the communist army in Changde City." The chief of staff thought for a while and said.

"Well, that's it, send a report to Li Jue, so that he must rush outside Changde City within two days and surround the county seat," Prime Minister Chen Cheng said later. "Send a report to the chairman of the committee, talk about the current battle situation, and ask the chairman to arrange planes to fight, and be sure to drag He Long's troops in Changde."

At this time, the Red 26th Army led by He Long was secretly and slowly moving towards Li Jue's defense area, preparing to break through the defense area in one fell swoop and begin to rush to the base of the Fourth Front Army.

After receiving the telegram from the commander-in-chief, Li Jue was eager to make meritorious contributions, and could no longer take care of the tasks of the defense area, mobilized all his main forces, and rushed to Changde non-stop, leaving only a few garrison regiments in the entire Cadbury wide defense line, and after the arrival of the 26th Army Corps, he was very busy and easily surrounded and annihilated the enemy of these regiments, and in this way, the 26th Army easily broke through the enemy's heavy encirclement.

At this time, the Seventh Army led by Liu Hua was engaged in fierce street fighting, due to the participation of enemy aircraft, Sun Jian interrupted Liu Hua's battle plan, although there was great progress without reading the card, and with the cooperation of zhenchayi8ng, half of Changde was occupied, but the enemy's bombing has become more and more frequent. There were even some low-level people who had already strafed the city walls, causing heavy casualties to the Seventh Legion.

Liu Hua, the political commissar and others were at the temporary headquarters at this time, frowning and thinking, thinking about how to deal with the enemy's plane.

Suddenly, the example of using light machine guns to fight planes in later generations appeared in front of Liu Hua's eyes. "Political commissar, immediately concentrate all the light machine guns in the reserve to the temporary headquarters, I have a task to them."

Political Commissar Guan Xiangying looked at Liu Hua suspiciously, but still ordered a staff officer to give it.