After Wang Haitao finished talking about Tang Longzai, he left Tang Longzai, who was silent and bowed his head, and strode outside. At this time, Su Zuxin couldn't look at it, speaking from his heart, Tang Longzai was in his twenties, serving as the commander of the first army, and his performance in all aspects was good enough, it is not an exaggeration to say that he was a young talent, but he couldn't compare with a genius like Wang Haitao.

Su Zuxin patted Tang Longzai's shoulder and said: "Longzai, I and the commander have seen your performance, to be honest, your performance has been good, but there is still a lack of experience in some aspects, and it is still a little unsophisticated enough to deal with things, as long as Ping pays more attention and accumulates more experience, it will be better." The commander said these words today for your own good, you must understand how much the commander wants you to mature a day earlier and take charge of your own affairs! I won't say anything else, cheer up, there is still a battle ahead. The commander and I will be waiting for you at the headquarters!"

Su Zuxin's words made Tang Longzai raise his head, and he didn't understand that Wang Haitao said that he was really good for him, but Wang Haitao's prestige in the army over the years still made him feel pressure. Although Su Zuxin's words did not completely get him out of the pressure, he felt a lot better. Tang Longzai said to Su Zuxin sincerely: "Chief of Staff Su, thank you!

Su Zuxin smiled and nodded, and then left Tang Longzai. After Su Zuxin left, Tang Longzai thought seriously for a while, took the guard company and left the command headquarters to go to the front. After the three brigade commanders returned to their respective brigade headquarters, they immediately suspended the attack, gathered all the officers above the battalion level under their command, first relayed Wang Haitao's request, and then asked everyone to discuss the method of attacking the Japanese army. The three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, not to mention, this time they really let them discuss a lot of good methods.

When Tang Longzai came to the nearest 462nd Brigade, the meeting of the 462nd Brigade had come to an end, and Tang Longzai found Li Changwu and said: "Old Li, have you come up with any solutions? You must know that as soon as you left, the commander gave me a severe beating, and if I didn't discuss a solution, it would be difficult for me to explain to the commander." Li Changwu replied with a smile: "Don't worry, I haven't discussed a way, how can I let them go back like this, you can just watch here!"

At the meeting of the 462nd Brigade, several methods were discussed: First, taking advantage of the strong mobility of the division's self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiments, the artillery regiment moved the position of the artillery regiment to the Japanese position, and used the artillery regiment's artillery to carry out precise strikes on the firing points on the Japanese positions; second, by taking advantage of the soldiers' strong ability in civil engineering and engineering, they dug vertical trenches from the trenches to the Japanese positions, so as to achieve the goal of covertly approaching the Japanese positions; and third, they brought a few more rocket launchers with them during the assault, and used the bazookas to knock out the Japanese firing points as soon as the remaining Japanese firepower points were fired.

These methods gave full play to their own advantages and were completely feasible, so Li Changwu ordered the troops to follow these three methods at the same time. The more time-consuming thing here is the excavation of the trenches, but the soldiers have a sapper shovel in their hands, and they take turns to do their work, and the excavation progress is still very fast. When digging only 80 meters away from the Japanese position, the intention of the 462nd Brigade was discovered by the Japanese army.

In a panic, the Japanese began to use grenadiers and the only remaining mortars to fire at the Chinese troops who were digging and working, but Li Changwu, who had been prepared for a long time, had already sent hundreds of sharpshooters and dozens of heavy mortars to stand by at any time.

The eight immortals crossed the sea on the three positions, each showing their magical powers, with only one purpose, to take the Japanese position as soon as possible at the minimum cost. The Japanese were horrified by the sudden change in tactics of the Chinese army, and as the Chinese army pressed closer, the commanders of the Japanese positions outside the city appealed to Lieutenant General Akakari for help. Lieutenant General Akakari first asked the defenders on the city walls to support the Japanese troops under the city with heavy weapons.

But not long after the Japanese troops on the city wall opened fire, they were suppressed by the heavy artillery of the Chinese army, and the casualties were not small, not to mention that even the city wall was blown to the ground. Impatient, Lieutenant General Akaka Ri could only order the field artillery wing to open fire and use artillery fire to support the Japanese troops on the positions outside the city. As soon as the Japanese field artillery fired, it surprised the attacking Chinese troops.

Although there is still a city wall, there are Japanese artillery observers on the city wall, and the artillery fire is quite accurate. If the various departments are not withdrawn quickly, I am afraid that they will suffer a lot of damage. As soon as the Japanese field artillery fired, the three brigade commanders were on fire, and they unanimously ordered the heavy artillery to return fire. But after all, across the city wall, although the artillery fire that returned fire was fierce, the effect was not good.

Tang Longzai also saw the Japanese artillery bombardment in the forward command post of the 462nd Brigade, and when he received a report from the artillery regiment, because the target was in the city, it was difficult to determine the azimuth coordinates, and the effect of the return fire was not good, he immediately remembered the heavy artillery position on Kuitouling. The battle in front was due to relatively smooth progress, and secondly, because the number of heavy artillery was sufficient, Tang Longzai did not expose the heavy artillery position on Kuitou Ridge, and now it was time for them to play their role.

An order flew up to the Kuitouling heavy artillery position, which made the anxious commander Zhang Xiaojiang, who was waiting, very happy. In the battle ahead, Zhang Xiaojiang watched other people's heavy artillery wield, and he had nothing to do all day. Now that he finally got the order to open the artillery, Zhang Xiaojiang rushed to the position in a few steps and shouted: "All pay attention, the target Japanese artillery position in the city is ready to open fire!"

The artillery observers were still very skilled, and in a short time they were able to calculate the azimuth coordinates of the positions of the Japanese army's three foreign artillery. Zhang Xiaojiang divided the 24 heavy guns into three and aimed them at the three artillery positions, and soon the shells were whistling towards the three artillery positions. This is a 240 mm caliber heavy howitzer and projectile, and one shell weighs 185 kilograms, and its power is naturally extraordinary.

When the heavy artillery shells roared down on the Japanese artillery position, the Japanese army was blown away by the sudden blow, and the huge power of the heavy artillery shells, coupled with the extremely high accuracy of the shooting, became a sea of fire near the Japanese artillery position. The sound of the explosion and the shaking made Lieutenant General Akalu Li in the headquarters of the 13th Division sit on the ground in shock.

In just 10 minutes, a field artillery wing of the Japanese army disappeared, and several hundred infantry were killed or wounded in the artillery fire. The heavy artillery return fire on Kuitouling made the three brigade commanders under the city applaud at the same time, and the attacking troops not only lost the threat of artillery, but also greatly boosted their morale, and attacked more resolutely.

The 462nd Brigade dug the trenches all the way to 50 meters in front of the Japanese position before stopping. At a distance of 50 meters, it took a few breaths to charge, and with artillery regiments, heavy mortars, and bazookas to clear the Japanese machine-gun points, the time had come to charge the Japanese positions. Li Changwu also went out this time, and sent four battalions of soldiers with full strength to charge.

The charge was personally led by Wei Ye, the commander of the 877th Regiment, and before rushing out of the trench, Wei Ye also ordered the soldiers to throw a round of grenades and bullets at the Japanese position. With the explosion of hundreds of grenades and bullets, Wei Ye took the lead in rushing out of the trench. This time, the blocking firepower on the Japanese position was very weak, and Wei Ye rushed to the Japanese position with four battalions of soldiers without much effort.

In the hand-to-hand combat that followed, although the Japanese army was also desperately resisting, the Chinese army had a huge advantage in strength and weapons, mainly because the Japanese army had suffered many successive blows, and its morale had fallen to the bottom.

Although the Japanese troops on the city wall were also firing, they were suppressed by dozens of heavy mortars and hundreds of machine guns, and the garrison of the city was a miscellaneous soldier, so the losses to the Chinese army were not large. After completely annihilating the Japanese troops on the position, the troops withdrew to their original positions again, and they were to face the city of Yongzhou directly. Looking at the sunset in the west, Tang Longzai's heart also fell to the ground, no matter what, the 462nd Brigade still took the Japanese army's position outside the city before dark.

Tang Longzai ordered Li Changwu to rest well for the night, prepare to attack Yongzhou City with all his strength tomorrow, and then returned to the headquarters. As soon as he entered the gate of the headquarters, the 461st Brigade sent a telegram saying that it had completely annihilated the Japanese troops outside the city and captured the Japanese position. Before dark, the same telegram was sent by the 463rd Brigade. While Tang Longzai breathed a sigh of relief, he immediately sent a report to Wang Haitao to report on Wang Haitao's battle situation today.

Looking at the telegram sent by Tang Longzai, Wang Haitao smiled and said to Su Zuxin: "This dragon boy, you still have to beat him well!" Su Zuxin also replied with a smile: "Commander, Long Zai's performance has been good, don't make too much of it." In addition, the casualties of the brigades today are not small, so tomorrow will we not rush to attack and rest for a day so that everyone can take a breath?"

Wang Haitao shook his head and replied: "No, we can't give the 13th Division a chance to breathe. Our casualties were not small, and the casualties of the 13th Division were even greater. Now the 13th Division only has more than 10,000 troops, but we still have more than 20,000 troops. Tomorrow, we will use heavy artillery to blast the Yongzhou city wall, as long as we break through Yongzhou City, it will be our strong point to fight street battles!"

Su Zuxin thought for a while, and nodded in agreement with Wang Haitao's opinion. After completing the task, the three brigades did their job of alerting the Japanese troops, and then the three brigade commanders began to reorganize the troops. In today's battle, the 461st Brigade suffered 569 casualties, and brigade commander Liu Mingde supplemented the soldiers of the 876th Regiment with the 874th Regiment and the 875th Regiment, so that he still had two fully established regiments and one unsatisfactory regiment available.

The casualties of the other two brigades were 895 casualties of the 462nd Brigade and 328 casualties of the 463rd Brigade. This is also done in order to maintain the maximum combat effectiveness in the following battles. The three brigades were resting, and Wang Haitao sent an engineer regiment to open a few roads out of the anti-tank trenches, because Wang Haitao knew that tanks and armored vehicles were indispensable in tomorrow's siege battle and the street battles behind.