After the 45th Division took the outer defense of Fukuoka, it rested outside the castle for two days, and the Japanese troops inside the castle also used these two days to deploy defenses.

The commander of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army in the city is Jiro Otami, this guy previously served as a marshal adjutant for Aritomo Yama Prefecture, and served as the deputy chief of staff of the 3rd Army during the Russo-Japanese War, commanding the Lushun Raid. Chief of Staff of the 2nd Reserve Division, Commander of the 2nd Guards Infantry Wing, Principal of the Army Toyama School. In 1910, he was promoted to major general. Later, he served as the principal of the Army Infantry School, and also served as the commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, attached to the General Staff Headquarters, the commander of the 3rd Division, the military counselor, and the commander of the Korean Army.

Although the Japanese army was quickly broken through by the Chinese in the battle of the outer defense line outside Fukuoka Castle, Jiro Oniwa did not show a worried look, and he now had more than 15,000 men in his hands plus the more than 2,000 people who had escaped from the coastal defense line, and he deployed more than half of these 15,000 men inside the city, and the other small part was arranged outside the city in the northeast direction to defend this retreat.

In these two days, Erro Oniwa deployed troops throughout Fukuoka Castle, and the streets and alleys were defended by Japanese troops, some Japanese soldiers hid in residential houses, some Japanese soldiers hid in street shops, some Japanese soldiers hid in high places to control the commanding heights, and some people hid in the sewers to endure the stench, in addition, the Japanese army also set up fortifications at various traffic intersections in the city to block the advance of the Chinese army.

On November 5, the 45th Division launched an attack on Fukuoka Castle, and as soon as the battle began in the morning, the Japanese troops completely abandoned the city defenses, and they retreated to the castle buildings to prepare for street battles with the Chinese army, and the Chinese army immediately followed into the city.

The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 45th Division received the task of attacking the city, and the Chinese army had never fought street fighting before. There was no training in this area, and of course the Japanese did not have training in this area. Both sides can basically be said to be rookies in street fighting.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 45th Division broke into the city. Under the cover of armored vehicles, soldiers with rifles followed behind armored vehicles and carefully observed the situation on the side of the street and ahead.

There was no sound other than the roar of tank engines and the footsteps of soldiers, and the Japanese residents were probably hiding in their houses or having left with their families.

There were two Japanese fortifications at the junction in front, each with a heavy machine gun and some soldiers. After seeing the group of Chinese troops coming, the Japanese troops in the two fortifications immediately opened fire, two heavy machine guns sprayed terrifying tongues of fire, countless bullets hit the armored vehicles and made a clanging sound, but they could not stop the advance of the Chinese army, this is the intersection of two three-story buildings also opened fire, some Japanese soldiers under the command of the armored car and the Chinese soldiers behind the armored car opened fire, the Chinese soldiers were frightened and hid under the eaves of the street shop and began to return fire.

The machine guns on the armored vehicles of the Chinese army immediately opened fire, and the fire of the two Japanese fortifications at the intersection was immediately suppressed. The improvised fortifications piled up with sandbags quickly disintegrated under the terrifying machine-gun fire of the armored vehicles, and for a while the sand and dirt flew wildly, and several Chinese soldiers hiding behind the armored vehicles threw a few grenades over there.

Four successive explosions destroyed the two fortifications, and some Japanese soldiers were overturned by the explosion. Some Japanese soldiers were killed and their bodies lay on sandbags.

Two explosions occurred in succession on the two three-story buildings at the "boom" and "boom" intersections, and all the Japanese soldiers who were hiding and shooting on them were killed, and it turned out that someone from the rear of the Chinese army fired several shells at the two three-story buildings with mortars.

And yet at this moment. The situation changed suddenly, and many gun barrels suddenly protruded from the windows of the shops on both sides of the street. One of the guns rang out, followed by many barrels that erupted fire.

"Bang"

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang" ??????

For a time, a large number of gunshots were heard on both sides of the street. The Chinese soldiers, who were all in the front, were defenseless and suffered heavy casualties under the surprise attack, because they were attacked on both the left and right, so many Chinese soldiers had nowhere to dodge, dodging the bullets fired from the left, but could not dodge the bullets fired from the right.

At the same time as the gunfire was loud, it was also mixed with the screams of a large number of Chinese soldiers, and a company commander shouted mournfully: "Everyone be careful, they are hiding in the shops on both sides, the front stops advancing, stop advancing, the soldiers are all back to back to give me a counterattack, counterattack, machine guns suppress the opponent's fire."

In this case, even such a well-trained army of the Chinese army was taken by surprise, but the Chinese army was worthy of being well-trained, and quickly stopped, a large number of Chinese soldiers gathered in the middle of the street back to back, covering each other to shoot, only in this way can the casualties be reduced, even if you find cover to dodge, you can't avoid being shot from the other direction, and only by shooting back to back to the opposite street shop can you suppress the enemy's firepower.

After all, the Chinese army had strong firepower, not only heavy machine guns, but also light machine guns and armored vehicles, and under the fire of a large number of machine guns, the Japanese firepower hiding in the street shops was suppressed, which gave the Chinese army officers time to command and dispatch.

In just a few minutes, the Chinese army suffered more than 80 casualties on this street, and the Chinese army saved the defeat with powerful firepower, cool heads, and strong military qualities.

"Armored car machine gun fire, suppress me!" A company commander shouted loudly in front of an instant walkie-talkie while hiding behind a company of armored vehicles.

The machine gun on the armored car can be turned at will, and there are bulletproof baffles in the front and rear, which is undoubtedly the best weapon for suppressing the fire of the Japanese army.

"Da da da ???????".

Several armored machine gunners turned their guns and fired wildly at the doors and windows of the shops on both sides of the street, and the effect was very obvious, and a large number of screams were heard from the shops on both sides of the street. A large number of Japanese soldiers who had taken refuge in the shop were killed by machine-gun fire.

After suppressing the Japanese firepower, the company commander of the Chinese army immediately issued an order for each platoon and squad to take the group as the combat unit to search and clean up the shops on the street, and a squad can be divided into four combat groups, one fire support group, and the squad leader is responsible for command and coordination, and each group has three people, covering each other and cooperating in battle.

There was a sound of "bump", a Chinese soldier kicked open the door of a shop, and then a gunshot suddenly rang out from inside the shop, "bang", the soldier who kicked the door was shot and fell, and the foreheads of the two companions hiding on both sides were covered with beads of sweat, one of them gave the other a look and immediately put the gun into the shop pù and fired, and the other soldier quickly dragged the hit soldier to the wall.

The light inside the shop was too dim for the first time to see the situation inside the shop from the outside, and there was no way to find out where the Japanese soldiers were hiding, let alone how many Japanese soldiers were inside.

After treating the wounds of the soldier who had been shot, the two soldiers each fired two more shots at the shop, both without exposing their bodies, and if they did, the chances of being hit would be very high, because perhaps the Japanese soldiers hiding in the shop were aiming.

The soldier on the left finally thought of a solution, he took out a grenade and signaled to his companion on the opposite side, the companion nodded in understanding, and then the soldier on the left pulled the lead, the grenade began to smoke, and was quickly thrown into the shop, with a loud "boom", a large amount of sawdust, dust and dirt were blown out of the gate of the shop, and after two seconds, the soldier on the right immediately rushed into the shop with a rifle.

"Bang!" After rushing in, the soldier saw three Japanese soldiers lying on the ground, and another Japanese soldier was sitting on the ground shaking his head, and he immediately shot and killed the other man.

At this time, the soldier who threw the grenade also rushed in, and when he saw the alarm, he immediately used a bayonet to reward each of the three Japanese soldiers lying on the ground, and two of them were not completely dead, but died after being stabbed with a bayonet.

After solving the four Japanese soldiers, the two began to search in the shop again, this shop is not small, it is not easy to say whether there are any Japanese soldiers hiding in other places, the two cover each other and quickly search the shop.

The tactics of the two soldiers using grenades to clear the Japanese soldiers in the shop were quickly discovered by the squad leader, who immediately passed on this tactic to several other groups, which in turn was passed on by the platoon commander to other squads, and later to the entire company and other companies, and the entire battalion quickly learned this tactic.

In addition to this company being attacked by the Japanese on this street, the other two infantry companies were also ambushed and attacked by the Japanese on the other two streets, and they were both suffered losses in different ways, after all, no one thought that the Japanese soldiers would use the residents' shops and houses as strongholds to ambush, and the Chinese battalion commander was extremely remorseful for this matter, thinking that he was still too kind, and thought of the Japanese too well, in fact, he could do everything in the war, as long as he could win the victory.

Although the first battalion of the second regiment of the 45th division that entered the city was ambushed by the Japanese army in the city in the first battle and suffered a great loss, the Chinese army still used its extremely high tactical literacy and strong firepower to stabilize the position and counterattack the Japanese troops in the ambush area, and then cleaned up all the shops and houses on both sides of the three streets, and cleared all the Japanese troops in this area, and this time took a whole day, until about five o'clock in the afternoon, all the Japanese troops hiding in this area were cleared, And the Chinese army also completely occupied this area.

The 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment set up fortifications at the outskirts of this area, controlled the commanding heights around the area, held them with machine guns, and also sent patrols to patrol the streets and alleys of the occupied areas. (To be continued......)