However, more of the dead and wounded were puppet soldiers, and the casualties of the devils were relatively small.

As soon as the first wave of shelling and explosion ended, the Japanese commander Miao Mu Linqing immediately got up, and while running down the city, he said in a loud voice: "Pay attention to defense, once the shelling of the people is over, immediately prepare to block it." ”

Before the words had yet to disperse, the old devil had already taken the lead in a cat with a smoke, ran down the ramp, ran down the wall, entered the strong bunker passage in the gate, and quickly returned to his headquarters inside the castle at the south gate under the protection of the guards.

It's not that Miao Mu Linqing is afraid of death, but he knows that as the supreme commander of Niangzi Pass, his own safety is related to whether Niangzi Pass can be defended.

Until the last moment, naturally he could not risk his life and continue to stay on the wall to be bombed, so the first wave of shelling had just stopped, and he immediately fled back to the command post in the pass by taking advantage of the gap in the direction of the Longya artillery outside the pass to adjust the direction of fire.

Inside and outside the castle of the east gate of the Niangzi Guan, at this moment, the smoke and dust are filled, and there is constantly a fire burning, and inside the city, there are also a small number of Japanese puppet troops in a hurry, they are risking their lives, and they are carrying various war materials from the military warehouse to the wall.

Some sacks filled with dirt were also carried to the roads of Kannai and piled up into barricade fortifications to prepare for the loss of the East Gate Castle.

Outside the wall, after some intense adjustment, an artillery regiment of the artillery brigade of the Longya Column, plus an artillery battalion under the headquarters of Zhao Youde of the Third Division, a powerful artillery group composed of a total of four artillery battalions, finally let out a roar again.

All of a sudden, hundreds of high-explosive grenades dragged the scorching and dazzling scarlet flames, pierced the blue sky, and whistled towards the side of the wall.

At the head of the city, the Japanese puppet soldiers who had just not been hit by the explosion and were relieved were taken aback when they saw this, and they all fell down with their heads in their hands again, one by one.

And those devil soldiers and field doctors and nurses who were rescuing the wounded Japanese puppet army also hurriedly threw out the wounded who had just been lifted up and had not walked a few steps, and each looked for cover to hide.

Thundered! Thundered!!!

The earth-shattering explosion came again as scheduled, instantly enveloping the entire Niangzi Kanto Gate Castle, and thick smoke and fire entangled in clusters of skyrocketing.

There are broken flying stones everywhere, raging with countless shrapnel ****.

The shelling lasted for more than 20 minutes before it began to extend towards Niangzi Pass. On the ancient road 300 meters before the artillery position outside the Guanwai, more than 360 soldiers of the first batch of attacking troops of the guard regiment were already ready for an attack.

As his artillery fire began to extend, the regiment commander Zheng Yunshan stood near the temporary headquarters not far from the artillery position and asked Qiao Youhua for instructions: "Commander, can you start the attack?" ”

Qiao Youhua listened to the artillery fire that had begun to extend, nodded and said, "Well, let's attack." ”

After Zheng Yunshan received the order, he immediately said to a herald beside him: "If the order goes down, the commando team will charge immediately, and you must take the Niangzi Guandongmen Castle for me!" ”

"Yes!" Dressed in a gray-blue military uniform, wearing a military hat, neat leggings tied around his legs, and carrying a twenty-gun box cannon around his waist, the herald immediately stepped forward and immediately ran to lead the order to leave.

After receiving the order, more than 360 elite soldiers of the guard regiment immediately began to advance, due to the restrictions of the terrain, the attacker could only invest these three or four hundred troops at one time on the ancient road leading to Niangzi Pass.

If there are more, it will only increase the unnecessary casualties, because it will not be able to be carried out at all.

From the place where they attacked, it was nearly two and a half miles away from Niangziguan Castle, that is, more than 1,200 meters, because the ancient road outside the gate was not straight, but winding.

Therefore, the effective fire coverage of the Japanese army on the city wall was the distance from a bend of 300 meters from the castle to the city gate.

Therefore, it was not until the assault team advanced to that bend that it was really ready to attack.

The deputy battalion commander of the guard regiment who was in charge of leading the attack raised his hand to stop the commandos from continuing to advance, and more than 300 commandos stopped along the mountains and ditches on both sides of the ancient road.

The deputy battalion commander quietly showed his head along a boulder at the bend, raised his binoculars and looked at the Niangziguan Castle, a distance of three hundred meters, under the telescope, close at hand.

At this moment, because the artillery bombardment of his side had just stopped for a short time, the entire Dongmen Castle was still shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and the deputy battalion commander was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately said: "Up, quietly and quickly approach, take advantage of the obstruction of the view of the devil defenders, rush over!" ”

After speaking, he raised his pistol, and the first one to take the lead quietly walked out from behind the rocks, and the commando soldiers hidden on both sides of the road behind him, all with various weapons and equipment, rushed out with him, and ran in the direction of the city gate as silently as possible.

At a distance of three hundred meters, for a group of elite veterans who can be very good, it will not take them a minute at most, and they can rush over.

However, just half a minute later, when more than 360 commandos were still more than 100 meters away from the city gate, the devils on the city still found them.

A devil rifleman standing on the lookout was the first to raise his gun and shoot at the crowd of commandos.

This bullet, because of the close distance and the dense crowd of commandos, hit directly, and a dragon's tooth warrior fell down in response.

The sound of gunfire broke the temporary calm of the wall since the end of the shelling, and the deputy battalion commander who led the team and the soldiers behind him were stunned for a short time, and immediately reacted, raised their guns and fired at the head of the city again and again, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Brothers, give me a hard blow, suppress the fire." Demoman, get ready to blow up the gates! ”

The devils and puppet soldiers at the head of the city were also startled by the sudden gunshot, but as the devil rifleman shouted for an enemy attack, the Chinese army came.

They all reacted one after another, so the two sides opened fire almost simultaneously.

In order to strengthen the defense, the devils also deployed automatic firearms such as light and heavy machine guns on the city walls, which were far more equipped than the original formation. And this assault team, as a guard regiment directly under the Dragon's Tooth Column, a member of the most elite army unit, has a strong firepower.

Almost all MP38 submachine guns, plus MG34 general-purpose machine guns.

The devils have an advantage in the number of weapons, so the two sides are evenly matched in firepower, once the fire is exchanged, the guns inside and outside the city suddenly burst into flames, and the dense rain of bullets whistled back and forth.

The devils and puppet troops on the head of the city, as well as the dragon tooth commandos outside the city, were all shot in pieces and fell down, and the firepower in this situation was rapid at this distance, and casualties were almost inevitable.

Especially the Dragon's Tooth Commandos who are completely exposed outside the city.