Bang! Boom Boom Boom ...... A brigade-sized artillery unit of the devil was ordered to fire at the minefield area in front of the position of the 2nd Longya Regiment.

Shells trailed a long tail flame, whirring through the air, making a sharp and piercing sound, and slamming down on the minefield.

I have to say that the shelling of the devils still had some effect, and many mines that Qiao Youhua ordered people to plant in advance were detonated by explosions.

The entire minefield exploded continuously, and soon it was enveloped in the smoke of gunpowder, and taking advantage of this opportunity, about 1,000 puppet troops immediately swarmed out and launched a charge attack under the personal order of the commander of the puppet army division.

Within the city walls, the twenty 75mm mountain guns of the Longya Artillery Battalion suddenly opened fire after receiving the notice, and after a series of cannons were ejected with a muffled sound, twenty shells rose into the air almost simultaneously.

Leaving an arc of flame in the air, with a rapid whistling sound, it smashed towards the outside of the position of the Second Dragon's Tooth Regiment.

The crowd of puppet soldiers who were charging was immediately hit head-on, and the cannonballs fell on their heads and faces, and suddenly there was a violent explosion.

There were constantly fires rising from the ground, and groups of puppet soldiers were knocked to the ground by the explosion, screaming and dying.

In front of the Japanese army, Sakai Rizo and a group of Japanese puppet army officers witnessed this qiē, and suddenly their faces turned blue with anger, and Sakai Lizo was even more furious: "Bagaya Road, cunning dragon tooth column!" Order the Imperial artillery to immediately return fire, return fire! Calling for Air Force Support! The offensive must not be stopped! ”

The devil's artillery soon began to retaliate back, and shells continued to fall on the position of the Second Regiment of Longya, raising clusters of scarlet fire, and the entire position was full of fire, and the dust and smoke were filled.

For a time, the sight of many officers and soldiers was strictly blocked, and of course, the enemy's vision was also blocked.

Due to Sakai Rizo's strict orders, although the more than 1,000 puppet troops were shelled and suffered many casualties, they did not stop the charge, and resolutely braved the increasingly rapid and dense artillery fire and continued to rush forward.

Finally, after paying nearly a third of the casualties, the remaining seven or eight hundred puppet troops passed through the already dilapidated minefield and entered the effective fire range of the forward positions of the Second Dragon's Tooth Regiment.

The difference between the puppet army and the devil, in addition to the combat effectiveness of the strict zhòng, also has a characteristic, that is, when charging, they like to shout to strengthen their courage, which is not the same as the silent charge of the devil.

Therefore, although there was gunsmoke, but listening to the voice of the puppet army getting closer and closer, Ma Biao, the commander of the second regiment, immediately gave the order to open fire.

The officers and men of the Second Regiment, who had been waiting for a long time, were almost a little impatient, and suddenly opened fire one after another, and for a while, the guns of the Second Regiment were loud on the position, and dazzling tongues of fire that were constantly spraying out could be seen everywhere in the smoke of gunpowder.

Scarlet and dazzling tongues of fire erupted crosswise, and a large number of bullets seemed to be woven into a criss-crossing network of firepower, blocking the puppet army.

The two devils who were charging were suddenly hit by intensive firepower, screaming again and again, and fell down in pieces like wheat grass mustard.

The grenadiers and mortars on the positions of the 2nd Longya Regiment also opened fire one after another, inflicting a more fierce fire blow on the puppet army.

Today's Dragon's Tooth Column is not the poor and white anti-Japanese armed force at the beginning, it is fully organized, well-equipped, and even if it encounters the elite divisions of the Japanese army, its firepower is not bad at all.

The amount of machine guns, submachine guns, grenadiers, and mortars far exceeded the amount of equipment of the puppet army attacking them, and the only advantage of the puppet army in this battle was their strength advantage, plus the fire support of the air force with a pitiful number of attendance.

And these two advantages were lowered a lot by the insufficient combat effectiveness of the puppet army.

On the contrary, the Dragon's Tooth Column was well-trained, well-equipped, and had strong combat power, and had a well-established defensive position to defend, which completely made up for the lack of troops.

Taking a defensive position, it can be said that it is unbreakable, and the charging puppet army is like a moth to a fire, and one after another falls under the firepower net of the second regiment of dragon teeth.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and less than 300 of the more than 1,000 puppet troops who participated in the attack remained, and most of them were wounded, but Sakai Tatsuzo did not allow them to retreat, but instead sent more than 1,000 puppet troops to unite them to continue the attack.

Ma Biao, the commander of the second regiment, personally went into battle and operated an MG34 general-purpose machine gun to strafe, and the puppet army continued to increase its troops, repeatedly charged, and the battle gradually became white-hot.

At the head of the East City Gate, Qiao Youhua, Guo Meng and others were standing behind the battlement wall, looking at the battlefield in the east of the city, standing condescending at the head of the city, and they could take in the scene of the entire battlefield in the east of the city.

On either side of them, there stood heavily armed soldiers of the guard battalion, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry.

At this moment, the smoke from the previous shelling by the two sides had gradually dissipated, and they could clearly see the scene of the fierce exchange of fire between the attacking and defending sides outside the city.

I saw that under the coercion of the Japanese army, countless puppet troops rushed to the defensive position of the Second Regiment like a tide, and then fell under the dense blocking fire of the Second Regiment of Longya in pieces.

Guo Meng said with some emotion: "These puppet soldiers are really stupid, they are willing to be cannon fodder for the Japanese devils and kill our compatriots." ”

"When we become a puppet army, we are traitors, we are soft-hearted, that is, we are not responsible for our own lives, on the battlefield, there is only victory and defeat, either we die, or they die, and they are now a puppet army, it is not a pity to die!" Qiao Youhua said.

Suddenly, Zheng Yunshan, the commander of the guard battalion, said: "Commander, look, there are puppet troops detouring in the south and north of the city. ”

When Qiao Youhua heard this, he hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked, and sure enough, he saw that two groups of puppet troops with a number of 3,000 people were taking advantage of the fierce battle in the east of the city to make a detour in the south and north of the city.

After observing for a while, Qiao Youhua said with a smile: "It seems that the little devils are attacking head-on, and the tactics of roundabout surprise attacks have not changed, but the execution ability of these puppet troops is greatly reduced compared with the real Japanese army!" ”

Qiao Youhua was not worried about this at all, because the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Third Regiment had already been waiting in the south and north of the city.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the fierce gunfire and explosions to come from the south and north of the city, and after lasting for more than half an hour, the two groups of puppet troops responsible for the roundabout attack were defeated, and the wolf bèi fled back to the extreme.

The number of people was several hundred fewer than before the departure.

At the head of the city, Qiao Youhua put away the binoculars and said to Guo Meng: "Political commissar, do you see it?" The fortifications we have built with tens of thousands of manpower have now begun to play their due role, as long as a regiment blocks the Japanese puppet army on the west road in Lingshou, we can continue to consume the Japanese puppet army in Shimen and the east road.

In the end, the victory will be ours. ”