Therefore, it is not too much to describe the offensive of the other units of the Dragon's Tooth Column with the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves and destroying the withering and decaying.

As a result, the base area expanded to the east, south, and northeast by at least 100 kilometers.

Under Hengshui City, the main forces of the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Regiment, and the 3rd Regiment of Longya, as well as the 3rd Brigade and 3rd Regiment, have surrounded the city.

Outside the four gates, there are traces of battles, craters of uneven size, and various fortifications blackened by gunsmoke.

These are all left by the battle when the soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column followed the Japanese puppet army around Hengshui to pursue them.

After encircling Hengshui City, Jiang Haidong, the commander in charge of directing the joint operations of all troops outside the city, immediately began to deploy his troops and launched a wave of tentative attacks against the Japanese puppet defenders at the west gate.

At noon, the scorching sun was shining, and the more than 180 dragon tooth infantry who participated in this tentative attack were sweating profusely under the sun, but they did not have any tiredness or dissatisfaction.

After recuperating for so long, I was finally able to fight the little devil again, and once again came to the outside of Hengshui City, which was gained and lost, and the soldiers were desperately eager to fight to the death with the Japanese army, besides, the heat was not unilateral to them.

The devils who are guarding the city, almost facing the sun, are even hotter.

With the order of a captain and company commander, more than 180 soldiers shouted in unison, and immediately swarmed in the direction of the city gate.

This attack was only a tentative attack, and most of the more than 100 fighters who entered the battle were veterans with rich combat experience, so although they made a lot of noise.

However, when the charge really started, the distance between people was very large, and the stragglers were very scattered.

When they rushed into a distance of 500 meters, the Japanese puppet army's heavy machine guns on the city wall of the West Gate took the lead in firing, and about a dozen Type 92 heavy machine guns roared one after another, and hot tongues of fire roared out, and dense bullets poured down from the city like raindrops.

The dragon tooth warriors, who were still charging with their guns straight at their waists, immediately lowered their heads and bent down to reduce their own bullet surface, and at the same time, they also accelerated their pace.

It can be seen that they are elite people who have been through battle.

Whizzing, a dense stream of bullets poured down from the city, and the warriors accelerated their charge, but also ran left and right from time to time to change their positions, charging forward in an S-shaped line.

There were always devilish machine gunners chasing some dragon-toothed warriors and firing them, and the dense bullets hit them with smoke and dust behind them.

Although the soldiers tried their best to dodge, as the distance continued to approach, the Japanese puppet riflemen, light machine guns and even mortars on the city also opened fire.

The blocking fire on the head of the city is getting denser and denser, and there are still some soldiers who are unfortunately hit by stray bullets and have suffered casualties.

Jiang Haidong instructed some of his military commanders and artillery observers to take the opportunity to observe and record the firepower of the devils in the city, while holding himself a telescope to observe the battle situation.

Seeing that the tentative attacking troops were blocked by the enemy's fierce fire and suffered casualties, he immediately ordered his subordinates behind him: "Pass my order, the artillery will immediately fire on the city, implement artillery suppression, and cover the charge of the 3rd Company!" ”

The order was conveyed to the artillery unit that was waiting for it, and as an artillery lieutenant colonel waved the flag, more than a dozen 75mm Krupp guns landed and fired one after another.

俅俅俅俅...... More than a dozen shells whistled down towards the city, enveloped in flames.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... One after another, explosions suddenly exploded near the top of the city, causing some devils and puppet soldiers to scream and fall, or be blown up and fall down the city.

The enemy's firepower at the head of the city was suddenly suppressed, and the officers and men of the 3rd Company who were charging obviously felt that the pressure had been greatly reduced, and while they began to shoot back at the head of the city, they accelerated the speed of the charge under their feet.

Seeing that he was about to rush to the vicinity of the West Gate and the moat, the task of retreating suddenly came from his own position.

Although the fighters were a little unwilling, they faithfully carried out the order.

They quickly retreated to their positions like a tide, and because of the cover of their own artillery fire, their retreat was very smooth, and they were not hit by the Japanese follow-up fire, and the casualties were very small and negligible.

The commander of the 3rd company who led the team ran to the front enemy headquarters with a 20-round box gun, and after saluting Jiang Haidong and several regiment commanders and deputy regiment commanders, he asked puzzledly: "Brigade seat, regimental seat, why did you retreat so quickly?" My 3 companies are about to rush to the city gate, and they can blast it. When I spoke, I was very sorry.

Jiang Haidong put down the binoculars in his hand and turned around, and said: "Third Company Commander, what you think is too simple, it is not so easy to take Hengshui, don't believe it, the devil should be increasing troops towards the city!" With the lessons learned last time, they shrank their forces in advance this time to stick to Hengshui,

There will definitely be a lot of preparation, and this battle will not end so lightly, so don't think about victory too simply. ”

As soon as Jiang Haidong's words fell, a deputy regiment commander who had been holding a telescope to observe the enemy situation at the head of the city suddenly said in surprise: "Regiment commander, brigade commander, look, the little devil seems to be really increasing troops to the city." ”

Jiang Haidong, several regiment commanders, deputy regiment commanders, including the commander of the third infantry company who had led the attack just now, all turned around and raised their binoculars.

Through the telescope, you can vaguely see that the head of the city surrounded by gunpowder is shaking from time to time, and it is obvious that after the West Gate was attacked, the devils are increasing their troops here.

The commander of the third company was convinced by Jiang Haidong and retreated convincingly.

In fact, Jiang Haidong's speculation was not wrong, with the lesson of Hengshui being captured by the Dragon Tooth Column last time, this time, the Japanese army did make a lot of preparations.

In addition to shrinking the force in advance, it also made great adjustments in the city defense and troop deployment, aiming at the last time the Dragon's Tooth Column repeatedly blew up the city gate and easily captured the city.

The Japanese army in Hengshui City, in addition to strengthening the defense forces of each gate, used residential buildings to build street battle fortifications in the area near the city gate wall.

An additional grenadier fire support team of experienced veterans has been deployed to each gate defender, which will be used to fight the Dragon's Tooth Demoman assault who want to blast close to the gates during the battle.

Moreover, in addition to the above preparations, after all the Japanese puppet troops outside the city retreated into the city, the Japanese commander in Hengshui had already begun to organize manpower to carry various defense materials and equipment while the two sides were still fighting fiercely in the city defense, and began to block the four city gates.

As long as the devils and the puppet army block the city gate, even if the dragon's tooth column can break through the Japanese army's layers of fire blockade and blast during the attack, it will be difficult to break through the city gate and enter the city.

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