Chapter 276: Storming Baoding (3)

At this time, on the city wall, which had been completely damaged by artillery fire and had collapsed in many places, Wing Commander Matsui was going back and forth to command the remaining troops of less than 1,000 people in the entire wing, and engaged in a hard battle. You must know that this is the third attack of the Eighth Route Army under Matsui's command.

Seeing the Eighth Route Army outside the city carrying the bodies of the wounded and sacrificed soldiers, under the cover of heavy machine guns, slowly withdrew from the range of their machine gun fire. Matsui Osa breathed a sigh of relief, ordered the soldiers around him to stop this wasted bullet shooting, and then sat down on the ground and leaned against the battlements.

"Bageya Road, what about our artillery wing, why don't you fire to suppress the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army. So many valiant Imperial soldiers, all of whom were killed under enemy fire, and when the war is over, I must go to the military court to complain to the chief of staff of the artillery wing, immediately check the losses of each unit, and pay attention to guarding against the shelling of the Eighth Route Army, quickly" Wing Commander Matsui ordered to the chief of staff beside him.

"Woo woo woo" Before Wing Captain Matsui could finish his words, a whistling sound of cannonballs reached his ears, fulfilling his order just now.

"Baga quickly conceals the shelling of the Eighth Route Army" Hearing the familiar whistling sound of shells, Matsui quickly stood up and shouted loudly. However, after the first few blocking battles, the little devil is obviously very good at dodging the shelling. After hearing the whistling sound of the cannonballs, he immediately lay on the ground, or put the corpses of the dead soldiers next to him on his body.

However, Liu Hua, as the commander-in-chief of the battle, did not think about killing and injuring the Yue army with these shells, but just wanted to hit their morale. At the same time, destroy the heavy weapons on the ramparts. Therefore, the whole artillery fire lasted less than five minutes before it ended.

"Da Da Da" Just after the five-minute artillery fire was over, the heavy machine gun acting as cover rang out. Another battalion of soldiers, armed with guns, bent over, slowly crawled out of the trenches and rushed towards the city walls. However, just as everyone approached the range of the light machine guns on the city walls. Under the command of one of the commanders, all the fighters quickly dispersed and lay down together. With the sapper shovel he carried with him, he dug out a mound of earth that could just hide his body, and began to shoot at the soldiers on the city wall.

"Baga, quick, machine gun, shoot immediately, suppress the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, quickly" Seeing a battalion of Eighth Route Army troops lying on the ground, Wing Captain Matsui shouted loudly to the Imperial soldiers beside him. However, he did not know that in the only five minutes of shelling, several machine guns on the city wall had been blown up again. Now, there are less than 10 heavy machine guns on the entire city wall. More importantly, with less than ten heavy machine guns scattered on the city wall hundreds of meters long, how dense can such a density of heavy machine guns be suppressed by firepower?

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, Rifleman, Quick, Shoot Immediately, Shoot Quickly" Seeing a battalion of troops of the Eighth Route Army outside the city, under the cover of dense fire, slowly crawling towards the city wall, Wing Commander Matsui ordered anxiously. As a result, in the absence of heavy firepower such as heavy machine guns, those riflemen had to poke their heads out and begin to suppress and kill with limited fire with the rifles in their hands.

Of course, this is the time for a battalion of troops of the Eighth Route Army outside the city to exert their might. You know, a battalion lying on the ground is not an ordinary battalion, but a mixed battalion consisting of two infantry companies plus three regiments of all sharpshooters and dozens of mortars.

I saw that the little devils showed their heads one after another. Lying on the ground, nearly half a company of sharpshooters began to wield their might. Suddenly, under the precise blows of dozens of sharpshooters outside the city, the casualties of the soldiers on the city wall began to increase dramatically. As long as someone shows their head, then what awaits him must be a bullet. In less than five minutes of free fire, at least 200 people fell under the guns of these sharpshooters.

Of course, the little devils on the city walls are not without fighting back. In the face of a large number of sharpshooters outside the city, they also organized a large number of sharpshooters to start firing. However, under the desperate cover of the two infantry companies, it did not cause much damage to the sharpshooters, but the two infantry companies covering paid the price of more than half of the casualties.

"All of them" was in the process of shooting at the sharpshooters and the army, and the dozens of gunners caught at the back of the charging team were not idle. Using the sapper shovel he carried with him, he quickly dug out a one-man bunker half a meter deep in front of him, placed the mortar he carried in it, and began to bombard the fire points on the city wall

So there was "boom boom boom", and six mortar shells accurately landed on the city wall, causing huge casualties to the army again.

"Ahbaga," followed by a scream from the city walls. Seeing the results of the first shell of their mortars, the fighters were extremely happy and began to aim and fire more accurately.

"Isn't the Eighth Route Army afraid of bombing its own people from the shelling from Baga?" Hearing the sound of shell explosions behind him and the wailing of soldiers, Wing Commander Matsui Daisa shouted loudly.

"Report to Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army are just below our city walls, right in their stormtrooper formation," the chief of staff hastened to reply.

"Baga, what are you still doing? Immediately organize machine gunners and sharpshooters to shoot and destroy these artillery units of the Eighth Route Army, quickly" Seeing that the soldiers behind him were drowned out by artillery fire one by one, Wing Commander Matsui Daisa said angrily.

However, he didn't know that all the mortars of the Eighth Route Army were installed in bunkers, how could they be hit with light and heavy machine guns and sharpshooters in the hands of little devils? Although the little devils specially mobilized two heavy machine guns to strafe the artillery position, the artillerymen still fired shells at the city wall one after another

In this way, under the double blow of rifle sniping and artillery sniping by the soldiers, the little devil on the city wall felt fear for the first time. Until the end, no one showed their heads again. You can only stick out your rifle and shoot blindly.

"Commander, it's almost, the little devils on the city wall are almost suppressed by the soldiers, and Kaiyi has launched the final attack," Li Qing, the chief of staff next to him, reminded.

"Okay, order the first demolition team to set off, all heavy machine guns to fire for cover," Liu Hua ordered to the two regiment commanders behind him.

"Yes, Commander, on the first demolition group" As the voice of Shen Qinghua, the commander of the first regiment, sounded, more than a dozen soldiers carrying explosives bags quickly jumped up from their positions and rushed towards the detonation point.

Of course, although more than half of the little devils on the city wall have lost, the remaining more than 500 people are not vegetarians, and as the demolition team gets closer and closer to the city wall, the little devils on the city wall still found that this is a few different Eighth Route Army.

"Baga, Your Excellency Wing Commander. The Eighth Route Army wanted to blast the city wall, but they had already rushed over," a squad leader quickly ran to Matsui Daisa's front to report after discovering the situation.

"Nani Demoman, Eight Grids, order the soldiers to throw grenades at the city immediately, quickly," Matsui Daisa ordered loudly. At the same time, he pulled a grenade from the uniform of a fallen soldier beside him, pulled out the safe, touched it the city wall, and threw it into the city in the form of a parabola.

In an instant, under the leadership of the co-captain, hundreds of grenades flew towards the city with a whistling sound

"Boom, boom, boom" A dense explosion sounded under the city wall, and more than a dozen demomen were all drowned in the explosion of the little devil's grenade at this moment.

"Damn, order the rest of the demolition team to give it to me together, attack from multiple directions, quickly" Seeing that more than a dozen soldiers were sacrificed in vain in the artillery fire of the little devils, Liu Hua squeezed his fists and said fiercely.

"Yes, Commander" Immediately, the remaining demolition teams rushed out of the bunker and divided into four roads, and rushed towards the wall of the army. Finally, under the cover of three demolition teams, one of them finally approached the city walls. Under the cover of the soldiers' bodies, the explosives were quickly stacked in the corner of the wall and the fuse was lit

"Boom" Finally, a violent explosion sounded, and under the impact of more than 500 catties of strong explosives, the already not very strong city wall collapsed all at once. Just now, when the city wall was still tall, a huge gap suddenly appeared, and the gate of the attack was officially opened to the warriors.

As the city wall was blown open, a loud charge sounded on the position. Countless fighters rushed out of cover with rifles with bayonets in their hands and rushed towards the gap. At the same time, dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the position immediately turned their muzzles almost at the same time and fired an impenetrable rain of bullets into the gap.

"Baga hurry, immediately reinforce the gap, and we must block the breakthrough. Quickly, the time has come to kill the warriors, for the empire, and for the emperor, kill "Seeing that the city wall was suddenly blown up by the Eighth Route Army, a ten-meter-wide gap, as the supreme commander on the city wall, Matsui Daisa was stunned, and quickly ordered the soldiers around him to reinforce the gap, and must block the siege troops of the Eighth Route Army.

However, before those little devils with bayonets approached the gap, they ushered in the impermeable bullet rain of the Eighth Route Army. The little devils in front were knocked down, and the ones in the back continued to make up for them, facing these little devils who didn't want to die. Of course, the soldiers will not be polite, and in less than a minute, at least nearly a hundred little devils fell on both sides of the gap.

However, despite their heavy casualties, none of the soldiers could come close to the gap.

"Comrades, rush" Finally, the charging Eighth Route Army rushed to the gap. In particular, the machine gunners who charged at the front, in the face of the little devils who wanted to rush towards themselves, no one was afraid, and they fired a dense number of bullets at the army. The machine gunners in the front fell, and the rifle hand-held ones in the back were replaced. In a word, the machine-gun fire of the Eighth Route Army's assault unit has never been interrupted.

Finally, after the machine gunners in front had paid the price of almost total annihilation, a company of assault teams finally captured the breach in the wall. Soon, the two companies that arrived climbed the city wall separately and attacked along the wall to both ends. As for the rest of the troops, there is only one task, and that is to break through the gap into the county as much as possible

Finally, after a company that held on to the breakthrough and paid the price of more than half of the casualties, more than one regiment broke through into the county seat. At the same time, the two companies attacking on both flanks of the gap also cleared the remnants of the enemy on the city wall in the shortest possible time. Matsui Daisa, the supreme commander of the city wall army, with his remaining more than 200 people, retreated from the city wall in disarray, trying to rely on the barricades to continue to stop the attack of our army, waiting for his own reinforcements to arrive, and then launching a counter-charge.

And he didn't know that at this time, more than 100 members of the special operations brigade were slowly surrounding the headquarters of the Yue Army under the leadership of Liu Xiaogang, waiting for the opportunity to launch an attack on the headquarters of the Yue Army and carry out his beheading mission.

"Where did the explosion come from in Baga, contact Matsui Daisa immediately, quickly" Major General Kitamura Katsuzo, who suddenly heard a huge explosion near the city gate, was suddenly startled and asked the staff officers around him.

"Your Excellency Commander, I think we should immediately mobilize the reserves, order the baggage wing, and reinforce Matsui Daisa as quickly as possible" The chief of staff, who also heard the explosion, suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, so he immediately suggested to Kitamura Katsuzo, who was also anxious next to him.

"Baga hurry, immediately order the baggage wing to reinforce Matsui Daisa, hurry" Hearing the words of the chief of staff, the commander immediately woke up and roared loudly.

"Hi" Immediately, one of the operational staff officers was ordered to leave the headquarters. And just as this combat staff officer had just passed the order to the baggage wing, just as the captain of the baggage wing was reinforcing the city gate with his soldiers, the special operations team began to move.

"Sniper, immediately occupy favorable terrain and snipe the enemy's heavy fireman. Mortar gunners, set up artillery positions on the spot, and after the battle began, clear the enemy's fire points one by one. Commandos, check weapons and ammunition, prepare for battle, assault the headquarters of the little devils. Liu Xiaogang ordered to the several squadron leaders and squad leaders around him.

"Yes Captain"

"Okay, two minutes of preparation time, and the attack will be launched immediately in two minutes" Two minutes of preparation time is enough for these special combat personnel. Soon, the squad leaders and squadron leaders made a well-prepared gesture to Liu Xiaogang.

"The commando team is ready to attack" Seeing that the time had come in two minutes, Liu Xiaogang ordered loudly to the commandos of a squad behind him. Immediately, more than a dozen special combat personnel armed with light machine guns immediately rushed out of the compound where they were hiding, and opened fire on the headquarters of the Japanese army 50 meters away. The dense rain of bullets killed several sentries at the door, along with several machine gunners in the machine gun position, in an instant.

More than a dozen people charged and opened fire, and soon rushed to the door of the headquarters. However, just as the two special operators were about to storm the compound. An accident happened, and a dense burst of bullets swept out of the compound, and the two special combat team members were caught off guard and immediately knocked to the ground.

"Boom, boom, boom" was just when two special operators were attacked. A dozen fighters who followed behind immediately took out the grenades they carried with them and threw them into the compound. With the explosion of the grenade, two more special operators rushed towards the gate of the compound. However, to everyone's surprise, the two team members were still hit by a dense rain of bullets.

"Damn, order the commandos to stick to the spot and the artillery immediately carry out indiscriminate shelling of the front yard of the little devils, I don't believe how hard the skin of these little devils is." Seeing that he had not yet rushed into the compound of the army headquarters, he had lost four team members, and the captain Liu Xiaogang ordered in distress.

"All of them" Immediately, the sound of six mortar discharges sounded behind him. In an instant, there were bursts of explosions and the wailing of soldiers from the front yard of the little devil headquarters. The three rounds of shelling soon ended, and under the cover of the smoke of gunfire, the remaining eight members of the 1st Commando immediately jumped up and fired a dense rain of bullets into the compound full of gunsmoke. Then he quickly rushed into the compound.

Finally, eight special combat personnel rushed into the front yard of the military headquarters. However, just as they were about to continue their new attack, they were once again confronted with a denser net of fire. In the end, under the suppression of the dense fire network of the little devils, it stopped in the front yard of the headquarters.

It turned out that just a few minutes before the special operations group attacked the front yard of the headquarters, Major General Kitamura had already ordered all the personnel of the headquarters to take up arms. And sandbags were piled up at the entrance to the backyard where the headquarters was located, and two solid machine-gun emplacements were built. Together with the guard squadron of the brigade headquarters, the little devils who are now gathered in the backyard of the headquarters have reached a staggering 300 people, and they are well-armed.

However, more than 300 little devils will take a long time for the ordinary Eighth Route Army. However, he didn't know that he was facing a special brigade of the Reading Division, and a special brigade equipped with 8 mortars. Just when the army guard squadron was reinforcing its position under the personal command of the brigade commander, Major General Kitamura Katsuzo. All six mortars carried by the special operations brigade have been moved to the front yard of the headquarters.

"Shoot up all the shells you brought, and I'm suffocating my little devils alive in turtle shells. After the shells were gone, all the commandos charged together and completely destroyed the headquarters of the little devils. Liu Xiaogang looked at the six mortars and boxes of shells behind him, and confidently ordered.

(To be continued)