Chapter 10: The Devil Enters the City
It's not just the mountains. Another machine gun shooter on the tower was also shot in the neck by a bullet from outside the city, and the wound torn by the bullet like a child's mouth kept splattering thick plasma, and the machine gun in front of him and the battlements of the city wall were sprayed with hot plasma. The main shooter was hit by a bullet, and naturally the sub-shooter made up for it, but before the sub-shooter who took over the machine gun could fire a few bullets, he was knocked down by a bullet fired from outside the city.
The machine guns on the city wall stopped, and the dense bullets outside the city were also thinned out a lot, and gradually, the Japanese puppet army guarding the city tower found that as long as they did not lean out and shoot outside from the battlement, the dirt road outside the city would not take the initiative to shoot at them. Takeshi Okamoto, who heard the gunshots and rushed to the castle tower with two mortars to support, was also a little confused, looking at this posture outside the city, this was a joke with himself, why don't you stop shooting for a while, and stop shooting a grenade for a while?
Takeshi Okamoto quietly took advantage of the cover of the battlement and looked out of the city with a telescope, according to his experience, those mounds of dirt next to the avenue outside the city should be the hiding place of the dirt eight roads, otherwise the bullets would not have hit the city gate tower. "Mortar attack" Takeshi Okamoto gritted his teeth and ordered the artillery to open fire immediately, the target of the shelling was the mound of dirt outside the city, although he couldn't see the traces of those dirt roads from the telescope, but he couldn't let these guys tease the imperial soldiers like this.
The shells from the city gate tower "boomed" and "boomed" incessantly, bulldozing almost all the mounds of earth outside the city. "Concentrate your firepower and kill the mortars on the city tower for me" Chekov, who was lying in the dry ditch, was a little worried and used a telescope to observe the snipers lurking in front of him, and the snipers who were pressed by the shells from the Japanese army from the city tower couldn't raise their heads at all, although Chekov knew that the snipers had dug anti-artillery holes in the bunker, but he was still a little worried in his heart, for fear that these guys would be injured by shells, these guys were his own husband's baby bumps.
The artillerymen under Chekov locked onto the positions of the Japanese mortars on the city wall, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen grenades were fired. The grenades were not as lethal as mortar shells, but they couldn't stand the number of grenades they fired, and the shrapnel that kept hitting the city wall after the explosion swept like a hurricane through the section of the city wall where the Japanese puppet army was staying, and the explosion made the Japanese puppet soldiers who had nowhere to hide fall like scarecrows.
"Keep fighting, don't stop, get half of our grenades out" Chekov looked back at the Japanese grenades in the ditch, at least enough for him to fire a few more rounds. In the battles commanded by Zhao Zhi, there were very few times when the mercenaries threw grenades directly at the enemy, so these captured Japanese grenades generally became the warp fire ammunition of the grenadiers, and the grenadiers in Chekov's hands were not short of ammunition.
Chekov's sudden burst of firepower made the Japanese puppet army on the city wall dumb, and the artillery under his command were all trained by at least hundreds of grenades with grenadiers in the Geyue Mountain training camp, and when Chekov trained them, he consciously added the subject of hitting moving targets with grenadiers, so after Chekov's order to ignore the consumption of ammunition was issued, the gunners fought more happily, if it weren't for their task of feints to attract the attention of the Japanese puppet army in the city, I'm afraid they want to use those grenadiers to take down Zhangwu County.
Long before the battle began at the city gate, the more than 100 submachine gunners on Zhao Zhi's side were ready, and they only carried two grenades on their bodies in addition to one submachine gun and six spare magazines. The exit of the tunnel is in the military camp in the west of the city, and Zhao Zhi's attack plan focuses on speed, so the mercenaries can no longer carry a full set of equipment to fight. This tunnel is not very long, Zhao Zhi, who was the first to get in, has already touched the end of the tunnel, but there are still half of the mercenaries on this side of the tunnel who have not entered the tunnel.
Chekov's firepower on the side of the city gate was too fierce, attracting most of the defenders, and there were not many people left in the barracks west of the city, except for a dozen Japanese soldiers guarding the headquarters, Takeshi Okamoto only left some Imperial Allied troops to guard the barracks. When the city gate was first opened, the Japanese puppet soldiers who stayed in the barracks began to panic, and with the sparse sound of gunfire, the Japanese puppet soldiers left behind in the barracks quieted down, they thought that as usual, those dirt roads had been driven away by the guns on the city gate. But what they never dreamed of was that just below their county barracks, hundreds of armed mercenaries were lurking.
The tunnel built by Zhao Zhi in the barracks, the exit is in the westernmost flowerbed of the barracks, and the flowerbed in the barracks was repaired by the vassals of the previous commander of the Japanese army in Zhangwu County. After Zhao Zhi took the mercenaries to occupy this barracks, he forced those prisoners of the Imperial Association Army to dig a tunnel along this flower bed leading to the outside of the city. In order to cover up the tunnel under this flower bed, Zhao Zhi set up a wooden stake and a wooden board as a support frame under the exit of the tunnel, and covered the top of the wooden board with a one-meter-thick covering soil.
Niu Si, who was doing chores in the barracks, was a veteran ruffian, at first when the city gate building was shooting, the always timid Niu Si was still scared to hide behind the water tank in the room, and after the sound of guns and cannons softened out, Niu Si returned to his former laziness and didn't care, pulling the two cooks in the room to smoke and chat on the edge of the flower bed. Before they could talk for a long time, they heard shouts in the streets and alleys of the county town, saying that the national army had entered the city.
"It's all nonsense, can the Japanese soldiers in the city eat idle food? This Zhangwu County is not so easy to fight, just the few machine guns and small cannons on the city gate building, the national army does not have hundreds of lives, don't even think about touching the city wall" Niu Si, who was wearing a military hat, was holding a cigarette roll and the two cooks were still blowing nonsense, when they heard a muffled sound of "plopping", a large piece of the flower bed around them had collapsed, and the boss pounced out of the collapsed pit.
"Ghosts, there are ghosts" The dust raised in the pit has not yet dissipated, and several people covered in dust with steel helmets on their heads turned out of the pit, if they only wear steel helmets on their heads, forget it, but these people also have a black mask on their faces, and only a pair of murderous eyes are revealed on their whole faces. Niu Si, who looked frightened, screamed in fright, and the two cooks who were chatting with him had already collapsed to the ground in fright, and a large piece of wet crotch was already in the middle of his pants.