Kosuke Otsuka personally designed this public slaughter of the prisoners of the Shina soldiers in the morning.

After the soldiers came to Fengdian, the wing captain took a few bad breaths one after another, and now he vented these bad breaths through brutal beheading and killing prisoners, and at the same time, he also wanted to destroy the will of the defenders on the opposite side of the city, and also to boost the spirit of his officers and soldiers.

Therefore, before the blood of the captive head was dripped, Otsuka gave the order to attack the city.

The besieging soldiers were still divided into two lines, and on the face of it, the number of attacking routes remained unchanged from yesterday afternoon. The attack on the gap in the city wall was carried out by two squadrons of the Fukuda Brigade, while the three squadrons of the Aikawa Brigade were divided into three echelons, the front, the middle and the rear, and rushed towards the city gate.

There was no artillery preparation for any artillery fire, and the nine field guns of the newly constructed artillery positions of the Japanese army were as silent as death.

At the head of the north city of Fengdian, the officers and soldiers of the 391st Regiment had not yet come out of the grief and indignation of the devil slashing their comrades, and found that the enemy's charging formation had spread forward; People called out to each other, and the sound of bolts pulling guns rang out.

I just received a call from the commander of the third battalion, Zhao Mutou came to recognize people alone, and the soldiers of the special service company were still resting at the moment because they participated in the night attack; The commander of the spy company did not expect the Japanese army to launch an offensive so early, and yesterday afternoon, when the two armies were fighting to the death around the gap in the city wall, Zhao Mutou was leading his men to suppress the fleeing Jin army in Nancheng, so he failed to catch up, but he listened to the regiment commander tell about the battle situation at that time; At this moment, seeing that the Japanese were rushing to this big gap again, he hurriedly asked the commander of the third battalion to command the battle, and he picked up the phone and called the regiment headquarters.

The people at the regimental headquarters had also just had breakfast, and Qin Zhongxiao heard that the enemy had immediately started a large-scale attack after killing the prisoners, and knew that this might be a decisive battle - whether it was for the setback of yesterday's daytime or for the attack last night, the Japanese would carry out a retaliatory general attack today.

Qin Zhongxiao put down the phone, grabbed the belt of the pistol holster and walked out, he asked the adjutant to stay at the regiment headquarters, and notified the city defense on the east, west and south sides to increase the vigilance. On the phone, Zhao Mutou had already asked the regiment commander to order his spies to be brought up, but Qin Zhongxiao did not say anything at the time: the spy company attacked in the middle of the night and suffered heavy losses, and he was a little unbearable to continue to use them. But when he was about to walk to the gate of the courtyard, the colonel of the Central Army gritted his teeth, turned around and shouted to the adjutant:

"Inform the special service company in Dongcheng to rush to Beicheng to fight immediately!"

This should be a decisive battle, a battle that will decide the life and death of Fengdian; There is no need to save strength anymore, the victory or defeat is here!

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The soldiers of the two squadrons of the Futian Brigade, babbling and shouting, rushed to the gap in the collapse of the northern city with the bayonet on the 38 big cover. Since the captain Fukudaoka was injured yesterday, Kosuke Otsuka has already transferred him to sit on the defense line on the right flank, and it is the deputy captain who is leading the charge at this moment.

Before Qin Zhongxiao ran to the head of the city, the third battalion had already opened fire.

The defenders tried to repair the big gap that was collapsed by the Japanese field artillery last night, but because it collapsed badly, and it collapsed into a slope, covered with broken masonry and stones, there was almost no way to repair it, and finally had to give up. After the third battalion took over from the first battalion after the bloody battle, they piled up temporary bunkers with sandbags at the top of the two gaps in the city wall. In view of the fact that the Japanese army did not have a ladder to build the city, Qin Zhongxiao judged that its attack on the gap would still be the main means, so he ordered the third battalion to also concentrate most of the light machine guns and * behind the bunkers of the two gaps.

It is these automatic firearms that are firing at this moment.

As soon as Qin Zhongxiao came up, he found that Zhao Mutou personally set up a Czech style to strafe behind the temporary bunker; And the bullets fired from the city to the city are also very dense. Qin Zhongxiao cautiously crouched at a battlement, and saw clearly the devils rushing forward under the black pressure, there were about four or five hundred people, they were charging and shooting, holding their rifles flat, the range of bolt action after firing was very small, and the frequency of shooting was fast, showing a very high combat quality.

But the colonel of the Central Army immediately discovered that something was wrong: the enemy charging under the city, although shouting and shooting, did not desperately attack the gap in the city wall one after another, as he did yesterday afternoon, but let the forward rush up in waves, and then retreat in waves, and the closest rushed to about 30 meters outside the city wall, and its main formation was always controlled 100 meters away from the city wall.

Qin Zhongxiao only thought for a few seconds, and a concept popped up in his mind: feint!

This is a standard feint, the action of the charge is thunderous and rainy, and it is designed to attract the fire of the city. But what is the purpose of this? Fire?! Sniper the defenders with artillery like yesterday afternoon?!

Qin Zhongxiao was almost about to give the order to hide, and at that moment he felt that the Japanese bombardment was imminent. But nothing happened, no whistling of shells! Qin Zhongxiao, who was in a false alarm, subconsciously raised his binoculars to look at the enemy artillery position that had been reconstructed, and the row of field artillery was not moving; But just like that, the colonel of the Central Army found that directly in front of the field artillery position, another group of Japanese infantry had begun to charge, and judging from the line, it was heading towards the city gate.

Qin Zhongxiao jumped up and ran towards the city gate tower, and when he passed the gap bunker on the way, he patted Zhao Mutou on the shoulder who was firing with a machine gun.

The spy company commander was startled, and a soldier next to him hurriedly pointed out to him the figure of the regiment commander who had just run past, Zhao Mutou understood, dropped the machine gun, pulled out the shell gun and chased after him.

The defenders of the three battalions in the gate tower also spotted the Japanese army rushing towards them, it was about the size of a squadron, and strangely enough, this group of devils was not so much charging as running: all of them with rifles in one hand, cats on their waists, and running forward as fast as they could, neither firing nor shouting.

Seeing this scene, he didn't have time to think about the reason, seeing that the Japanese army had almost entered the firing range, the deputy battalion commander shouted, and the more than 20 shots in the city gate tower suddenly burst into gunfire, and soon, a Makqin heavy machine gun also spewed out tongues of fire downward. It was the only Makqin of the three battalions, which was carried into the city gate tower yesterday when it was taken over the defense.

Qin Zhongxiao and Zhao Mutou ran into the city gate tower one after the other, and the deputy commander of the third battalion immediately pointed to the city and shouted to them:

"Look, these devils are really evil!"

Under the city, the Japanese infantry who were still flying away just now turned to lie down, and then crawled forward quickly, in order to avoid the bullets flying down from the city, they even kept making serpentine changes.

The commander of the special agent company, who has been trained in explosives, exclaimed: "The little devil wants to blast the city gate!" ”

Qin Zhongxiao kept holding the binoculars, carefully staring at the Japanese soldiers crawling at the front, and after a while, he shook his head and said, "No, they don't have anything like a bag except for a rifle in their hands." ”

"That doesn't allow them to come up either!" Zhao Mutou yelled at the deputy commander of the third battalion: "Quick, let your people prepare*, within thirty meters, smash down!" They must not be allowed to approach the city gates! ”

Before the words fell, a row of cannonballs bombarded over, exploding below the city gate tower, the smoke and dust instantly filled the sky, and the vision on the city gate tower suddenly became extremely blurred, and the people in the city tower, including Qin Zhongxiao, were all choking coughing and crying.

The cannonballs continued to explode under the city gate tower, and in the sound of the cannons, Qin Zhongxiao suddenly woke up, he grabbed Zhao Mutou beside him in the smoke screen, and shouted loudly in his ear: "City gate!" Devil artillery is bombarding the city gates! Go to the bunker in the doorway below! ”

Zhao Mutou was also shocked, turned around and ran towards the staircase at the head of the city, cursing loudly as he ran. Qin Zhongxiao ordered the deputy commander of the third battalion: "Leave it to me here, you immediately organize a platoon to go down the city and reinforce the city gate!" Don't let the devil infantry in! ”

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It was a well-choreographed assault, just like the one that had been planned in the morning.

Kosuke Otsuka first asked the Fukuda brigade to use prisoners and feints to attract the attention of the defenders at the head of the castle to the gap in the city wall; At the same time, the Xiangchuan brigade on the other side began to rush to the city gate, and when the infantry of the Xiangchuan brigade crawled forward to a distance of forty or fifty meters from the city gate, the nine heavy guns of the field artillery brigade suddenly bombarded the city gate in a flat firing attitude. The shells flew almost above the heads of the soldiers of the Aikawa brigade, and at least three shells hit the city gates, and the two tall and heavy iron and wood gates were completely blasted off, revealing the machine-gun bunkers in the doorway; The field artillery continued to fire shells at the open doorway, most of them hitting the city wall, and one of them literally hit the doorway, hitting the bunker made of sandbags!

Half of the bunker was blown away, and the Maxim heavy machine gun, which played an important role yesterday, flew into the sky along with sandbags.

Dozens of people in the front row of the infantry of the Xiangchuan brigade who were prostrate on the ground were killed and wounded by their own shrapnel and flying masonry, but as the shell exploded violently in the door hole, the rest of the infantry jumped up and desperately charged towards the city gate dozens of meters away.

In the smoke of artillery fire, they shouted and poured into the city gate hole!