Several battalion and company commanders of the guard regiment were elite veterans brought out by Qiao Youhua, and the failure of the two consecutive strong attacks this time made them feel very aggrieved in their hearts, and there was a wave of anger burning.

Therefore, they all stood up and saluted Qiao Youhua and said: "Please rest assured, commander, this time, if we don't take the Japanese position, even if we fight to the last soldier, we will never retreat!" ”

"Okay, I'll help you in person in the back! Let's all go down and get ready! Qiao Youhua waved his hand.

"Yes!" Several people turned around and left.

A moment later, the artillerymen of the Dragon's Tooth Column, who had already aimed at the positions of the devil's artillery positions in the city, suddenly opened fire on the city under the order of Ma Yunlong.

Hundreds of artillery pieces of various calibers opened fire one after another, and hundreds of shells whistled out of the **** and flew towards a large area within the south gate.

On a Japanese artillery position near the south gate, a group of devil artillery was guarding near the two Type 92 infantry guns, waiting for the order to open fire at any time.

There was a sudden and palpitating abnormal scream outside the city, and before the devil artillerymen could stand up and discuss what it was, they saw several cannonballs wrapped in scarlet fire fly over the city wall at great speed, and fall rapidly towards them.

Several devil artillerymen were taken aback, and screamed with horror on their faces: "Yaga, it's the artillery attack of the Zhina, damn it......"

Before their whining and angry voices fell, they were enveloped in a violent explosion.

Three grenades fired from Krupp guns of 75mm caliber fell around them, and there were three violent explosions on the spot.

The raging blast wave of the explosion instantly blew up their men and artillery and flew in all directions, killing them on the spot, and the artillery was also torn apart and destroyed on the spot.

Such a situation was staged one after another in the south gate of Cangzhou, and from time to time the shells suddenly fell, blowing up the devils screaming again and again, and the dead and wounded were all filmed.

Of course, the devils and the officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column outside the city could not see this scene, but could only see that from time to time in the city, there were dazzling fires wrapped in pitch-black smoke rising into the air and soaring into the sky.

Zheng Yunshan came to Qiao Youhua and asked, "Commander, the shelling has begun, can we attack?" ”

Qiao Youhua put down the binoculars and said: "Don't worry, first give the devil artillery in the city a round of fierce artillery fire, and then our artillery group will be divided into two, in addition to being responsible for suppressing the Japanese artillery in the city that may have slipped through the net, we must continue to shell the devil positions outside the city, so as to remove obstacles for your attack to the greatest extent." ”

After speaking, Qiao Youhua waved his hand and motioned to Zheng Yunshan to wait patiently for the time being.

Zheng Yunshan nodded and stepped aside, at this time, Wu Ming, the commander of the third brigade, also rushed over with a few of his subordinates, and after entering the command post, he saluted Qiao Youhua and said, "Dragon King, what are you doing here?" Such a big move? With such fierce artillery fire, I was alarmed at the east gate, thinking that you were going to demolish the southern city wall of Cangzhou. ”

Qiao Youhua said: "You came just in time, immediately give your troops an order, let them immediately organize their troops and launch an attack on the Japanese position outside the east gate, and the south gate is ready for a general attack."

Your help is needed to disperse the Japanese forces. ”

Wu Ming hurriedly stepped forward and said, "No problem." After saying that, he waved his hand and gave an order to one of the guards who came with him, and the guard saluted and hurriedly took the order to leave.

Soon, a dense stream of gunfire, explosions, and shouts of killing came from the direction of the east gate.

Qiao Youhua gave an order to Ma Biao in the area of the West Gate and the North Gate to attack immediately, and the Japanese troops in the city were forced to meet the enemy on all sides, so naturally, they could not send too many reinforcements to the South Gate, which was being heavily shelled.

After the fierce bombardment of the Dragon's Tooth Artillery Group, a large area near the city wall and the city gate in the south gate was lit up with raging black smoke.

The artillery wing directly under the 14th Division suffered heavy losses in the artillery deployed on the inside of the south gate, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

Subsequently, Ma Yunlong commanded the anti-aircraft artillery unit and part of the howitzer unit to aim the guns at the field defensive positions of the devils outside the city and continue to shell, while other artillery still carried out point-fire shelling from time to time on the areas inside the city where the Japanese artillery might be hiding.

Twenty-eight anti-aircraft guns and dozens of 75mm howitzers fired at the positions outside the city of the devils at the same time, and for a time the shells rained down.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... A series of violent explosions rang out one after another, and the devil's position was soon enveloped in smoke and fire.

Some of the shells fell directly into the trench fortifications of the devils, and the devils hiding inside were suddenly blown up in twos and threes and flew out screaming, killing them on the spot.

Under the fierce artillery fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column, the casualties of the Japanese troops outside the city also increased sharply, and after half an hour, the artillery fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column finally gradually stopped.

Some of the devil soldiers had just crawled out of the almost ruined fortifications, and they had not yet had time to stand up and observe the situation outside the lower position.

There was a sudden burst of shouts in front of the position, and these devil soldiers hurriedly stood up from the trench in panic, showing their heads and looking out.

I saw countless dragon's tooth warriors rushing towards them with guns in their hands and roaring loudly.

"Tubalu is attacking again, hurry, hurry up and prepare to block it!" Some of the surviving devil rank and file officers ran and shouted in the trenches with a disgraced face.

Soon, the soldiers of the Dragon Tooth Guard Regiment with a strong vengeful anger rushed within the range of the Japanese fire, and the two sides immediately launched fierce fire.

However, after being shelled by the Dragon's Tooth Column, some of the Devil's firepower points and fortifications were destroyed, so the firepower that was not advantageous was greatly weakened, and the Dragon's Tooth Artillery suppressed the artillery from time to time.

Soon, they were beaten by the Dragon's Tooth Guard Regiment with fierce firepower and a fearless attack of death, and they saw that the Dragon's Tooth Column was about to attack their position.

The devil in charge of the command, Dazuo, was anxious and shouted angrily for the artillery in the city to provide fire support, but the adjutant said with a sad face: "Your Excellency Dazuo, our artillery suffered heavy losses in the bombardment of the people just now, and they are unable to support us at all!" Otherwise, let's give up our positions outside the city, quickly withdraw to the city, and rely on the city defense to hold on. ”

"Yaga!" The angry Japanese army Dazuo slapped him, knocked the adjutant to the ground on the spot, and angrily reprimanded: "You idiot, once you let the people of China directly attack the city wall, our death will not be far off!" ”

The devil adjutant hurriedly covered his swollen face and got up, bowed his head tremblingly, and said, "Hai, what the chief taught me is, what do you say we should do?" ”

The devil Dazuo pulled out his command knife with a hideous face, and shouted: "Order the guard squadron to assemble immediately, meet the dragon tooth column with me, and fight their jade crushed to the end!" ”