During the siege yesterday afternoon, the Japanese army had made a fierce assault on the city gate hole, but under the pressure of the heavy machine guns placed in the door hole by the first battalion of the 391st regiment, and the bombardment of the city gate tower, the Japanese army finally returned in vain.

From a tactical point of view, the Castle Gate Cave is undoubtedly the most convenient way to the city, so after a series of setbacks, Kosuke Otsuka chose today's breakthrough in the Castle Gate Cave, and made a dangerous move, taking a huge risk to succeed!

The defenders had no idea that the Japanese artillery would dare to strike at the gates when their infantry was already close to the walls, and after blowing them up, they destroyed the heavy machine gun bunkers in the doorways. And just when they were still hurriedly trying to restore the bunker, the Japanese infantry, who had crawled to the city regardless of casualties, suddenly began to speed up the city, and the distance of dozens of meters, not even half a minute, the five or six devils in the front rushed into the doorway! They shot in a row, knocked down several people of the 391st Regiment who remained near the heavy machine gun bunker, and then leaned on the bunker in the opposite direction and shot the Chinese soldiers who kept rushing to the door.

Qin Zhongxiao, who was on the tower of the city gate, was lying on the battlement of the city wall, and saw with his own eyes the scene of the Japanese army rushing into the city gate hole directly below, and his spine couldn't help but feel a chill: he yelled and ordered the soldiers around him to fight with all his might against the Japanese troops who were still following up, and he also grabbed * and smashed down continuously.

The colonel of the Central Army knew very well that if only a few Japanese strikers poured into the city gate hole, the defenders still had a chance to recover, and as long as they quickly organized death squads to launch a counter-charge, they would have a great chance of regaining control of the city gate hole; But once the devil formation of the follow-up irrigation city cannot be broken, the Japanese army may enter the inner city from the city gate hole!

Qin Zhongxiao couldn't contact the spy company commander and the deputy battalion commander of the third battalion who had rushed down at this moment, he hesitated for a moment, feeling that he should still stay on the city gate tower to command the attack on the charging Japanese troops below, he believed that Zhao Mutou could realize the importance of recapturing the city gate cave and was organizing the implementation.

"Go to the walls on both sides and get some machine guns!" Qin Zhongxiao gave an order to the two soldiers beside him, and then took the rifle in the hand of one of the soldiers, which was a captured 38 big cover, Qin Zhongxiao picked up the gun, aimed at the devil infantry who were constantly rushing over under the city, shot and knocked down one, and shouted loudly while pulling the bolt: "Throw *, blow up at the city gate!" ”

At this moment, there are still no less than twenty soldiers at the battlements on the city gate tower, many of them heard the order of the regiment commander and began to drop bombs, they bravely poked their bodies out of the battlements, so that they could clearly see the city gate below, and then pulled the * on fire, almost vertically to the door opening, one by one* exploded in the Japanese charging queue, blowing up the devils who were constantly approaching the doorway. The rest of the soldiers followed Qin Zhongxiao's example and shot the devil soldiers who rushed up behind them with their rifles.

The Japanese rear team of the charge, apparently found a strong resistance from the city gate tower above the gatehouse, a small team leader immediately organized the team, all of them raised their heads to shoot at the city gatehouse, the Japanese soldiers' marksmanship was good, coupled with the long range of the 38 rifle, soon, those soldiers of the 391st regiment who leaned out of the battlements of the city wall and threw bombs downward, several people were shot; The dense rain of bullets overwhelmed the rest of the soldiers and did not dare to show their heads easily.

Qin Zhongxiao squatted under the battlement, pulled open a * lead, and threw the outer edge of the * against the battlement, while calling on the remaining soldiers to follow suit; He eagerly hoped that the two men would quickly bring up the light machine guns, but at this moment, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the air, and then a shell smashed into the city, which was the Japanese field artillery position in the rear, raised the muzzle, and began to fire on the city gatehouse.

Suddenly, the bricks and stones at the head of the city flew sideways, the rafters were broken, and the fire and smoke were everywhere. A splash of broken bricks hit Qin Zhongxiao's forehead impartially, and the blood flowed down instantly, blurring half of his face, and the colonel of the Central Army felt a violent dizziness and fell to the ground. Seeing this, one of the soldiers closest to him hurriedly pulled him up, carried him on his back, and staggered to the outside of the city gatehouse, shouting: "The regiment has been shot, help quickly!" ”

Another soldier heard this, and also crawled over to support the regiment commander's leg from behind, and the two helped Qin Zhongxiao out of the city gate.

Qin Zhongxiao, who was lying on the back of others, realized that his subordinates were withdrawing from the city gate tower, and suddenly became anxious: the only defensive position that could prevent the Japanese army from pouring into the gate hole at the moment was the city gate tower, if this place was not guarded, more little devils would soon drive straight in! However, the pain and dizziness had made the colonel speechless, and he had to let his subordinates carry it out. Two words flashed in Qin Zhongxiao's heart: It's over!

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After giving the order to attack, Kosuke Otsuka came out of the field tent, rode on his military horse and scanned the Toyodian in the distance with a telescope, and he was very satisfied to see the moment when the warriors of the Aikawa Brigade were storming: it was almost the act of sacrificing their lives with shrapnel on their heads. It was this desperate fight that made a thrilling success.

Without doing anything, Otsuka simply ordered the field artillery brigade to bombard the gate tower and completely destroy the defense of the Shina army there. He saw that the bricks and stones that flew up from the bombardment of the city gate tower knocked down many imperial soldiers who were trying to enter the city gate below, but it was also worth it: the city gate tower had almost completely collapsed under the artillery fire, and there was no resistance or resistance there!

Now, at least two squads of warriors have poured into the city gate hole one after another. Otsuka knows that Fengdian City is basically open. He looked at the Chinese pocket watch: it had been less than twenty minutes since the attack had been launched.

"Mizuno-kun," Otsuka ordered a staff officer beside him: "The attack on the gap in the city wall will be stopped immediately, leave a team to contain it, and the rest will all advance towards the city gate!" ”

The Japanese army, who was full of confidence, then ordered the field artillery brigade to open the distance between the artillery positions, swing out in a line, and bombard the city to prevent the defenders from going down to the city to attack the Xiangchuan brigade that had broken through into the inner city.

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When Zhao Mutou ran down the stairs to the city wall, he was just in time for the heavy machine gun position to be blown away by a shell that entered the doorway. About a dozen soldiers ran down with him, and Zhao Mutou immediately commanded the dozen or so people to rush to the sandbag bunker. But almost at the same time, at the end of the city gate hole, the figure of the Japanese army flashed, a row of 38 bullets came over, knocking down a few soldiers of the 391 regiment, followed by two * thrown on the bunker, the Japanese army used the 97 type, the destructive power is very strong, the explosion of these two * plus the previous platoon guns, in just a few seconds, more than a dozen soldiers of the 391 regiment were killed and wounded. Several Japanese soldiers quickly pounced behind the sandbags and began to shoot from the bunkers.

Zhao Mutou's Bergman* fired, but the fire of a gun was useless, and the spy company commander who did not have any cover had no choice but to retreat into a sheep soup restaurant behind him, which was the first store after entering the north gate of Fengdian, about twenty meters away from the city gate hole, he hid behind the restaurant door and continued to strafe the bunker of the city gate hole. Zhao Mutou knew very well that since the city gate cave had been attacked, he must organize forces to recapture it in the shortest possible time.

Finally, the deputy commander of the third battalion ran down the city with dozens of people, and they immediately launched a counter-charge towards the city gate hole with a clear goal, while the tenacious Japanese troops used the incomplete sandbag bunkers to resist desperately. Zhao Mutou rushed out of the sheep soup hall, hunched over and shot at the city gate, he saw that there were Japanese soldiers being knocked down behind the bunker, but there were also soldiers who kept replenishing and rushing to the bunker to shoot at the Chinese soldiers outside the gate.

There was a time when the gunfire in the door hole weakened, and that was because Qin Zhongxiao organized the firepower on the city gate, which effectively blocked the continuous flooding of the Japanese rear team. Zhao Mutou and the deputy commander of the third battalion saw the situation, and immediately commanded all efforts to grab the bunker, they were almost about to succeed, there were already a few soldiers rushed to the bunker, and the remnants of the devils in the door hole looked like they were about to be completely wiped out, but at this moment, a group of Japanese soldiers suddenly entered the outer end of the door hole, and the dense bullet rain knocked down the soldiers of the 391st Regiment who had just occupied the bunker in a blink of an eye, and the bunker became the support of the Japanese army again, and Zhao Mutou and others were once again suppressed by the enemy's fire and returned to the houses near the left and right.

After more than a minute, the Japanese troops in the shelter of the gate hole actually rushed out, and they rushed out in a steady stream, there is no doubt that the Japanese army has controlled the line of Guan City, and the rear team is continuing to enter the city gate hole!

Zhao Mutou saw that the city gate tower was collapsed by artillery fire, and he thought desperately: The north gate can't be saved, and he doesn't know whether the regiment commander is alive or dead. At present, the only way to do this is to hold the houses near the north gate, try not to let the devils who enter the city expand the support surface, and strive to press them back, otherwise, the complete loss of Fengdian will only be within one or two hours!

Where are the brethren of the Secret Service Company?! Where are the people from the 1st and 2nd battalions ?!

In the harsh winter wind, Zhao Mutou was so anxious that hot sweat broke out on his back!