Chapter 69: The Trap
Looking at the tanks and armored vehicles that were safely withdrawn to the city from afar, Takeda Dingzo did not speak with a bitter face, the 225th Wing at this time was in a dilemma, and the loss of heavy weapons in the 225th Wing at Stone Beach was not only the heavy weapons of the 225th Wing, but also the confidence of Takeda Dingzo to defeat this group of troops. Sure enough, from the beginning of the attack on Stone Beach, the bad luck of the 225th Wing began, first the search team was attacked, although the search team did not suffer, but the non-stop cold gun attacks along the way caused the 225th Wing to suffer heavy casualties, if there was no bullet pressure from the officers, the soldiers below may have already had the heart of fear.
Looking at the tank still smoking in the open space outside the city, Takeda Dingzo didn't know why the people of China, who had a sufficient number of tanks and armored vehicles and mortar cover, suddenly retreated into the county town. Takeda Dingsan subconsciously raised the telescope to observe the situation on the city wall, and sure enough, as he thought, the corners of Takeda Dingsan's mouth curled, the people of China are not enough ammunition, the machine guns on the city wall have long stopped shooting, and now the defenders are using rifles, and the 38 rifles captured from the imperial army.
"Hit all the ammunition, give priority to the siege troops, and transfer the remaining machine guns and grenadiers to the front team to provide cover for the siege troops" After thinking about it again and again, Takeda Dingzo finally made up his mind, he wanted to take advantage of the lack of ammunition for the troops stationed in the county town to launch an attack, and only by taking Zhangwu County could the 225th Wing wash away the shame of the unfavorable initial battle. Only in this way will the soldiers under him not lose the will to fight, and the division commander who is far away in Yuncheng will not lose confidence in himself.
According to the order of Wing Commander Takeda Daizo, the Japanese troops outside the city began to redeploy in order, all machine guns and grenadiers were concentrated in the front line, and the Japanese soldiers who were ready to attack were also lined up, ready to deploy their famous pig assault formation. The movements of the Japanese army outside the city were naturally hidden from the eyes of the mercenaries on the city wall, Chekov received the mercenary's report as soon as possible, but he did not react, obviously these actions of the Japanese army had long been expected by him.
"Hidden, hidden" The whistling of mortar shells sounded in mid-air, and Chekov beckoned the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who remained on the city walls to hide in the brick and stone bunkers. Before the war, Sun Jin, who stayed in the county seat, recruited the people in the county town to build a bunker on the city wall with bluestone strips, and the inner and outer two layers of bunkers could withstand the mortar bombardment, but the Japanese army outside the city did not know that the defenders on the city wall had bunkers. The explosion of "boom" and "boom" sounded, and the city wall was filled with gunsmoke, and the counterattack that Takeda Dingzo was expecting did not appear, and the shadow of the person who was not seen on the city wall at all.
"Let's start" Takeda Dingzo just gave a faint order, the Japanese army like a tide began to charge, and the wave-shaped formation rushed to Zhangwu County in waves, there was no shouting and no gunshots, and the Japanese soldiers in the formation ran straight to the city wall. With the long shout of the leading soldier Cao, a team of sappers carrying explosives bags rushed to the city gate, and the trees temporarily cut down by the Japanese army only made a dozen ladders, which was not enough for the Japanese army to attack the city, so the Japanese army still put their hopes on the plan to use the explosives bag to blast open the city gate.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" When the dozen or so Japanese sappers were less than 100 meters away from the city wall, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out on the city wall, and then the Japanese sappers who were carrying explosives on their backs suddenly exploded. The shot was fired by a sniper hidden on the city wall, and the bullet fired from the sniper rifle hit the explosive bag on the sappers, and the explosive bag on the sappers at a distance of 100 meters was nothing to the snipers, but for the Japanese soldiers, it was really home.
The sappers carrying explosive bags exploded one by one, and even the Japanese troops who were besieging the city were also affected, at least the Japanese attack slowed down, and they were no longer as active as they were at the beginning. The snipers on the city wall are well hidden, at least for the time being, their location has not been discovered by the Japanese grenadiers and machine gunners, the number of Japanese sappers in the shock formation outside the city is drastically decreasing, under the cover of the Japanese soldiers' supply casualties, only three sappers rushed to a distance of 30 meters from the city gate, hiding in the bunker built with Japanese corpses.
Japanese mortars and grenadiers kept firing shells at the city walls, and the Japanese machine gunners were also looking for the cold gunners hidden in the city walls, Chekov and they could only obediently hide in the bunkers and watch the Japanese attack, but they could do nothing. Fortunately, the snipers were still there, and the sniper rifles were used to temporarily suppress the three Japanese sappers, otherwise the city gate would have been lost. The masonry on the city wall was riddled with holes hit by bullets, especially those battlements were the main targets of the Japanese army's shooting, and the snipers on the city wall did not dare to shoot and hide, and the battle situation had begun to tilt towards the Japanese army.
There was a loud "boom", Chekov who was hiding on the city wall and they all felt a violent shock, the Japanese sappers had blown open the city gate, and the county town of Zhangwu at this time opened its arms to the Japanese army, and the Japanese soldiers outside the city cheered and rushed to the city gate that had not yet dispersed the smoke of gunpowder. With a chaotic sound of footsteps, the tide of Japanese soldiers poured into the city of Zhangwu County along the city gate, "Nani? The first Japanese soldier to rush into the county town was stunned, originally thinking that the straight street did not exist at all, what he saw was a fortress built of bricks and earth, the circular fortress connected the two sides of the city gate, just formed a small urn city, and directly opposite them were the armored vehicles that had just withdrawn into the county seat.
"There is an ambush, withdraw quickly, there is an ambush" The frightened soldiers shouted loudly and wanted to turn around and escape from the county, but were pushed into the urn city by the Japanese soldiers who then rushed into the county, and as more Japanese soldiers rushed into the city gate, the urn city was crowded with Japanese soldiers like sardines. "Fire, fire" suddenly shouted from the armored vehicles facing the Japanese troops holding the exit of the urn city, and the machine guns equipped with the armored vehicles opened fire almost simultaneously, and they fired at the same time as those Japanese soldiers who were crowded in the urn city.
At this time, the light machine gun had already played the effect of Zhang Jinquan, often a bullet would penetrate the bodies of several Japanese soldiers in a row, and with the movement of gunfire, the Japanese soldiers crowded in the urn city and the city gate hole were like peeling onions, and they were stripped out by bullets layer by layer. "Boom" "Boom" The mercenaries who had not moved at the city gate suddenly threw more than a dozen grenades in the open space outside the city gate, and the smoke after the grenade burst once again covered Takeda Dingzo's vision, so that they could not see everything that happened inside the city gate at all, and the fierce gunfire in the city made Takeda Dingzo think that his soldiers were clearing the recalcitrant Chinese troops.
Also like Takeda Dingzo, who didn't know what was going on, were the Japanese soldiers who attacked the rear of the formation, and these Japanese soldiers rushed in with the gunfire in the city, rushing into the city along the city gate hole full of gunsmoke, and only the Japanese soldiers who rushed into the county town along the city gate hole would know what was going on. It was only after they saw the bloody scene in the urn city that they understood what kind of trap they had stepped into, the machine guns on the armored vehicles did not stop firing, and the submachine gunners lying on the ring fortress also kept shooting at the Japanese troops who rushed into the urn city, and every minute and every second, the Japanese soldiers screamed and fell to the guns.
"Something is wrong, tell them to withdraw, withdraw" Takeda Dingzo, who stayed outside the city, suddenly listened to the gunfire in the city, how could it be the continuous shooting sound of machine guns, the machine guns of his own troops had not yet entered the city, and the soldiers who rushed into the city could not use machine guns, and the only explanation was that they were being ambushed by the Chinese people. Takeda Dingzo's reaction was fast enough, but he was still too late, and the mortar shells fired from the county town had already fallen into the Japanese army's attack formation, directly intercepting the Japanese troops besieging the city, and dividing them into two.
"Boom" "Boom" According to the established coordinates, the mercenaries operating the mortars in the city began to extend their artillery fire, and after the mortar shells that hit the city plowed the mortar positions and machine gun positions of the Japanese army, they were transferred back to the Japanese troops outside the city. "Retreat, retreat" The Japanese officers who received the order to retreat began to direct their troops to retreat, but only half of them were able to withdraw smoothly, and the front team cut off by artillery fire was already shrouded in dense artillery fire. More than a dozen machine-gun firing points that suddenly emerged from the city wall were not far behind, and they opened fire on the chaotic Japanese troops outside the city, with the meaning of beating the water dogs.
"It's over, the Sasaki Brigade is over" Takeda Dingzo covered his heart with a blue face, first the Sato Brigade lost half of the soldiers in the stone beach, and now it is the Sasaki Brigade again, as the wing captain Takeda Dingzo really can't accept such casualties. The Sasaki Brigade that was nagged by Takeda Dingsan was the main attacking force of this siege, and the more than one squadron that died in the urn city was the soldiers of the Sasaki Brigade, and the troops who were intercepted by artillery fire and machine guns at the city gate and could not withdraw were still the soldiers of the Sasaki Brigade, and it seemed that the Sasaki Brigade was going to end up with the same fate as the Sato Brigade.
"Your Excellency, Sato Guards have returned, they were routed by the Shina people, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and there were less than 200 people who followed Sato back" Takeda Dingzo's personal adjutant whispered a few words in his ear, making Takeda Dingzo's already ugly face even more ugly. This is really not good news, when the 225th Wing came out of Yuncheng, it was strong and confident, with a total number of more than 3,300 people, but now his men counted those wounded soldiers, there were only 2,000 people, and the search team with more than 300 people was also missing, and Takeda Dingsan's heart suddenly had the idea of retreating back to the transfer city.