After learning about the situation on the West Gate position through the phone, Lieutenant General Sano Tadayoshi broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't expect that the Chinese army was hiding such a strong heavy artillery unit outside the West Gate, and now he understood what kind of strength the Chinese army outside the city had. On the phone, Toda Yoshinao's anxious voice came again: "Your Excellency the division commander, the people of China have used heavy chariots to cover the infantry and begin to charge my position, please send reinforcements immediately!"

Lieutenant General Sano Tadayoshi pulled back from his sluggishness, and Lieutenant General Sano Tadayoshi shouted into the phone: "Hold your position!" Toda Daisa, I order you to resolutely hold your position, and I will send you reinforcements immediately!" Putting down the phone, Lieutenant General Sano Tadayoshi was about to transfer troops from the 35th Brigade to reinforce the direction of the West Gate, but at this moment, the gunfire in the direction of the North Gate and the East Gate suddenly became intense.

It turned out that after the heavy artillery in the direction of Ximen began to wield, the rumbling sound of the cannon reached the ears of Mu Suzhong and Wei Erxi, and the two immediately understood that this was Ximen's move. As soon as the West Gate begins to exert force, the Japanese army will inevitably draw troops from the North Gate or the East Gate to rescue, so it will become the primary task to hold back the Japanese army in front of them and buy time for the attack of the West Gate.

So Mu Suzhong and Wei Erxi coincidentally strengthened the offensive. In the direction of the north gate, Mu Suzhong sent two more battalions at once, and carried dozens of mortars, and armored vehicles were also sent out again, but this time the armored vehicles were shooting while swimming. The troops attacking on the position were already four battalions of nearly 2,000 people, and they were equipped with more than 100 mortars of large and small calibers.

The situation at the east gate was similar, Wei Erxi also put the five battalions of the 880 Regiment into the attack at once, and the attack of the two battalions allowed the Japanese army to barely block it with all their might, this time the five battalions attacked together, and under the overwhelming offensive, the Japanese army soon lost the second position, leaving only the last position under the city wall to support.

The sound of the cannon at the West Gate also stunned Commander Jun Imamura and Chief of Staff Kiyozaburo Okazaki in the headquarters, and at this time, Commander Jun Imamura also understood that the Chinese army was playing a strategy to attack the west, but now it is not anyone's business to blame, what is to do now is to immediately transfer troops to reinforce the position of the West Gate. Commander Jun Imamura immediately grabbed the phone and ordered the infantry brigade directly under the north gate and the infantry brigade that had not yet reached the east gate to immediately return to the west gate position.

Outside the west gate, the attacking troops with tanks as the lead have broken through the first line of Japanese positions with great momentum, and there are no weapons on the Japanese positions that can stop the advance of tanks, and more than ten mortars have just fired a few rounds of shells, and they are drowned in the fire of heavy artillery.

Under such circumstances, the Japanese troops on the positions outside the city could only retreat except for the battle death, but as soon as they withdrew to the second position, the tanks followed closely and chased after them, and the machine-gun fire points that counterattacked were helpless against this group of steel behemoths, but were eliminated by the vehicle-mounted artillery one or one point. When the tanks rushed to the second line, a section of the city wall of the West Gate finally could not withstand the continuous bombardment of heavy artillery and collapsed a section of several tens of meters.

At this time, if the city has sufficient troops, he can still use manpower to plug this gap, but he only has a half-infantry squadron in his hands, less than 500 people, and there are no heavy weapons, so how can he defend the city? Thinking of the division commander's order to resolutely hold on, Toda Yoshinao Osa could only sigh, gathered all the soldiers, and rushed to the gap.

At this time, Toda Yoshinao Osa could only hope that reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible. The tank stopped after rushing to the third line of Japanese positions, because in front of it was the moat of Hanoi City, and as long as it crossed the moat, it was the city wall. The remaining hundreds of soldiers on the Japanese position fled the moat and fled through the gap into the city, but they were all stopped by Toda Yoshinao Osa, who ordered them to defend the city walls.

The tank car was parked by the moat and became a mobile battery, and the vehicle-mounted artillery and vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns kept firing at the Japanese troops defending at the gap, and it was difficult for the suppressed Japanese troops to raise their heads. The width of the moat is not large, only about fifteen meters, and the 460th Brigade made a lot of ladders before the attack, which was originally intended to be used to attack the city, but now it is just erected on the moat after it is flattened.

The 871st Regiment withstood the Japanese fire at the gap, and after setting up the ladder, the regiment commander Wei Shaofeng ordered heavy machine guns to cover it, and the soldiers forcibly crossed the river from the ladder. Wei Shaofeng knew that it was time to fight now, and he must break into the city before the Japanese army had time to reinforce the West Gate, otherwise as soon as the Japanese reinforcements arrived, it would take a lot of effort to break into the city, and the casualties of the soldiers would increase a lot.

Dozens of heavy machine guns lined up, and there were artillery and heavy machine guns on tank vehicles, the ferocious fire completely suppressed the Japanese troops on the opposite side, the soldiers of the 871st Regiment rushed across the moat after paying some price, a group of fighters rushed to the city gate, put down the drawbridge, and more fighters rushed to the gap, charging towards the gap while strafing with weapons.

Seeing that the troops had rushed across the moat, Tang Longzai gave an order, and the 872nd Regiment covered a self-propelled howitzer and artillery battalion to reinforce it. With the help of these eighteen self-propelled grenades and artillery guns, it was even more difficult for the Japanese troops at the gap to hold on, and after the drawbridge was lowered, the four light tanks turned to the direction of the city gate and easily smashed the city gate with vehicle-mounted artillery.

By this time, Toda Yoshinao Osa knew that he could no longer hold on, so he picked up the phone, reported the situation to Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano, and led the last of more than 300 soldiers to launch a counter-charge against the attacking Chinese army. But before they could get close to the Chinese troops, they fell under the fire of dozens of heavy machine guns.

The 887th Regiment and the 878th Regiment rushed into Hanoi City successively, and at the same time, 10 light tanks and a battalion of self-propelled howitzers and artillery also rushed into the city with the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment. Tang Longzai saw the troops rushing into Hanoi City, and excitedly shouted twice: "Good fight!" and then wanted to call Wang Haitao's phone and report to Wang Haitao in person.