Quietly, the Aikawa Brigade of the Otsuka United launched an attack on Toyoden Castle. More than a thousand infantrymen, running forward in a skirmish line in silence, without shouting, without any fire support.

It wasn't until the Japanese army had run out of more than 100 meters and Fengdian City that someone exclaimed: "The devil is coming up again!" The officers and men of the 391st Regiment, who were resting, heard the call and went up to the battlements of the city wall to watch, only to see the Japanese bayonets shining in the afternoon sun, brightly connected together, and rushed to this side from afar.

Qin Zhongxiao and the chief of staff had just come to the head of Beicheng at this moment, and they caught up with this scene. Qin Zhongxiao held the binoculars, and the faces of the charging Japanese soldiers in the lens were clear. He asked a company commander of a battalion beside him:

"Before the devil charged, why didn't he shoot?"

The company commander couldn't tell clearly, in the morning attack, not only did the Japanese have artillery fire, but the infantry also shouted and charged, but now everything has become silent.

The colonel of the Central Army vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out in his eagerness. The first battalion had all been put on the battlements, and the Maxim heavy machine guns, which had survived the morning, were quietly transferred to the camouflaged battlements on the other side.

The Japanese charge line is getting closer and closer, and the sound of heavy suede shoes running on the frozen ground is getting more and more intense.

The first battalion commander ran to Qin Zhongxiao's side: "Tuanzuo, give the order to fight!" ”

Qin Zhongxiao glanced at the first battalion commander with dissatisfaction: "What order do I give?" Here you are the commander! ”

When the battalion commander heard this, he immediately waved the shell gun in his hand and shouted: "Hit me!" ”

The timing of the 391st Regiment's firing was still about the same as the one in the morning, and the moment when the stormtroopers that were basically stuck in front of the Japanese entered the best firing range; But this time, the Japanese army was obviously prepared, when the rain of bullets at the head of the city just poured, the entire Aikawa brigade quickly lay down at the first time, and the people at the front turned around and ran backwards in order to get out of the range of the defenders' fire as quickly as possible, while the people behind began to shoot at the head of the city.

Just when the defenders felt that this would be a reproduction of the confrontation in the morning, suddenly, the Japanese field artillery opened fire violently, and the shells were whistling and pouring over, due to the adjustment of the firing range, almost all the impact points were on the battlements of the city wall, and the officers and men of the 391st Regiment had just jumped on the battlements to shoot at the city, and at this moment they were accurately killed by the Japanese artillery fire. Suddenly, flesh and blood flew from the top of the city.

Relying on the desperate protection of the company commander next to him, Qin Zhongxiao was not affected by a shell that exploded nearby, but the back of the company commander was already covered with blood, and the chief of staff was shocked and fainted. The commander of the first battalion grabbed the belt around Qin Zhongxiao's waist and tried to drag him away from the city, but Qin Zhongxiao raised his hand and gave him a slap:

"What the fuck are you dragging me for? Lao Tzu is not dead yet! Let your people hide quickly, the devil is using infantry as bait and sniping us with artillery! What about Makqin? Check it out! ”

The commander of a battalion ran away, and at the sound of his howl, the surviving officers and soldiers retreated from the battlements and sought cover nearby.

The only Makqin heavy machine gun on the head of the city, before it had finished firing a * just now, was hit by the Japanese field artillery at the firing point where it was, the body of the gun was damaged, and all three shooters were blown away.

Qin Zhongxiao judged quite accurately, this was exactly the fact that Otsuka Kosuke was using the scattered line of the infantry brigade to charge, inducing the defenders at the head of the city to open fire, so as to provide a strike direction for his field artillery brigade. In the morning wave of field artillery fire, the officers and soldiers defending the city only suffered dozens of casualties due to their concealment in advance; After this round of shelling, nearly 200 people were shot. The lethality is enormous.

Curled up under a battlement that had not been damaged, Qin Zhongxiao was secretly frightened: the little devil's infantry and artillery could not do better than this.

What was even more unexpected to the colonel of the Central Army was that after the Japanese infantry finished serving as bait, they quickly launched a continuous charge on the spot, and this charge really came to the gap in the city wall and the city gate!

The defenders, who had just been hit hard by the shells and were in a hurry to hide, did not leave anyone to guard the city for a while, until someone heard the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers approaching, and suddenly realized that the people were shouting and rushing back to the broken battlements of the city wall, and at this time they were only less than thirty meters away from the advance of the Aikawa brigade.

The tragic offensive and defensive battle at the head of the city broke out in an instant.

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Xia Lily snuggled up in her husband's arms, a warm and comfortable satin quilt wrapped around their bodies. After a fish-in-the-water experience, the couple is enjoying a rare quiet afternoon nap. Suddenly, the cannon began to roar again, and the two of them woke up at the same time, and before they could understand, the four-year-old ran from the courtyard to the door of the bedroom crying, knocking vigorously on the closed door, shouting for his father and mother.

The couple hurriedly lifted the quilt and got dressed naked. During the bombardment in the morning, the child was playing in the house, and the old servant coaxed him that someone was setting off artillery. And this time, the little guy in the courtyard clearly felt the explosion of the shells not far away—it was the Japanese field artillery that deliberately fired a few shells into the city to cause panic among the people—and immediately cried out in fright and ran to his father's house to seek refuge.

Xia Lily was trembling in her clothes and pants, and while comforting the crying child through the door, she asked her husband tremblingly: "Little devil...... Wasn't it repulsed? Why are you still fighting? ”

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When the cannon sounded, Zhao Mutou was furious at the regimental headquarters of the 570th Regiment of the Jin Army, and at this time, the 570th regimental headquarters was already in a mess, and most of the main military equipment such as telephones, maps, and sand tables were gone, and the layman could also see that this was an obvious sign of withdrawal. The regiment commander Tian Mingda was not here, he had already gone to the south gate to join the two main battalions, and only a few people who looked like orderly soldiers were hurriedly packing up the remnants that needed to be taken away.

Zhao Mutou grabbed one of them and asked viciously, "What about your head Tian?" The 391st Regiment is desperately fighting the Japanese in Beicheng, where the fuck do you want to run to the 12th Brigade?! ”

The soldier ignored Zhao Mutou's questioning, and tried his best to break free, Zhao Mutou was furious, pulled out the shell gun, and fired a "bang" shot at the roof, and the soldiers of several spy companies accompanying him also pulled the bolt of the gun with a bang. At this moment, the people of the Jin army were all shocked, stopped what they were doing, and looked nervously at the fierce gods of the central army.

"Take me to your leader! Fast! Zhao Mutou used the barrel of the barge gun to hold the little soldier's chin and shouted: "Otherwise, I will shoot you!" “

The soldier was frightened and stammered and pleaded, "Sir...... No...... It's none of my business, I'm just carrying out the order......"

Zhao Mutou's eyes were almost bloodshot: "What order to execute?!" ”

"The regimental commander ordered...... The whole group ...... The whole regiment withdrew to the Wencheng Brigade Headquarters...... Now assemble at the South Gate! ”

Zhao Mutou roared angrily, raised his leg and kicked the Jin army soldier who was holding it in his hand, and then shouted to one of his subordinates:

"Hurry up and report to the group! For the rest, follow me to the South Gate! ”