The Chinese army is actively preparing in three directions, not only is there a meeting here in Mu Suzhong, but Wei Erxi also called his subordinates together. After Wei Erxi saw that everyone had arrived, he glanced around and said, "Everyone, today the direction of the North Gate has broken through and captured the first line of defense of the Japanese army. ”

After a while, Liu Yuzhu, the commander of the 570th Regiment, said: "Brigade Commander Wei, when the military seat assigned the task, everyone understood that the direction of our east gate was only a feint, and as long as we could attract Japanese troops, the task would be completed, and the north gate should only be to attract more Japanese troops, so we would attack so fiercely, right? Besides, we have no heavy artillery and no armored troops, so should we let the soldiers use their flesh and blood to attack and sacrifice in vain?"

Most people agree with Liu Yuzhu's words, but Wei Erxi has different ideas. Wei Erxi glanced at his subordinates and said: "Commander Liu is right, our task in the direction of the east gate is to use feints to attract Japanese troops, and there are no heavy artillery and armored troops, but without heavy artillery and armored troops, everyone will not or dare not fight?"

Wei Erxi's words obviously aroused the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, Wei Erxi glanced at everyone's expressions, and then continued: "Think about it, if the Japanese army thinks that we have no strength and is not to be afraid, then will it be possible to draw troops from the direction of the east gate to reinforce the other two directions?

When Wei Erxi said this, these people under his command were all pondering. Wei Lixuan, the commander of the 880th Regiment, was originally from the 211th Division, and this time the 211th Division took on the main attack mission, and Wei Lixuan was also excited. I thought that although I couldn't personally take charge of the main attack, the feint attack at the east gate was also an order from the military seat, and the 211th Division broke through Hanoi City in an attack, and I couldn't run away from my own credit. But now Wei Erxi's words made Wei Lixuan have a different idea.

Wei Lixuan stood up and said: "What the brigade is right, only by putting more pressure on the Japanese army in the direction of our east gate, will the Japanese army pay more attention to the direction of the east gate, so that they will not draw troops from the east gate, and maybe increase the number of troops, so that the west gate direction will find opportunities faster." Our regiment is a reinforced regiment, with five battalions of troops, and I ask the brigade to send our regiment to attack tomorrow!"

As soon as Wei Lixuan finished speaking, everyone agreed again, and Liu Jianjian, the commander of the artillery regiment, stood up and said that all the artillery of the artillery regiment would cooperate with the infantry attack tomorrow. The next topic became how to attack the Japanese positions without the cover of armored troops. In fact, both the 880th Regiment and the 570th Regiment were veterans of a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness was by no means bad, which can be reflected in the fact that many Japanese troops were wiped out in today's attack with small casualties.

As Tang Longzai's subordinates, the 880th Regiment is even stronger than the 570th Regiment, and the best equipment in the 90th Army is the 90th Division, followed by the 211th Division. As soon as everyone discussed this, they already had a plan for how to attack tomorrow. Ximen is now the worst performer, which is also the result that Tang Longzai wants, but Tang Longzai didn't dare to be careless, and still called Li Changwu and Tang Yishi, Wu Jianzhou and others together.

Tang Longzai understands that both the North Gate and the East Gate are creating opportunities for their West Gate directions, and the opportunity will come at any time, and whether he can seize the opportunity at once depends on himself. Therefore, Tang Longzai repeatedly told everyone that no matter when, once the opportunity arises, we must seize it without hesitation, and start from launching a feint tomorrow, whether it is a heavy artillery brigade or an armored brigade, we must be ready to attack at any time. The heavy artillery should all be calibrated and adjusted to the target position, and the armored units should be able to rush to the Japanese positions at any time.

The officers and men of the 90th Army were in full swing to arrange the offensive tasks, and the Japanese army was not idle, and the troops in the city were mobilizing, fully strengthening the troops in the direction of the north gate, and the commander of the 35th Brigade outside the north gate, Major General Hirano Shozo, also received three infantry brigades composed of some soldiers from the cavalry brigade and the engineer wing, with a total of 4,000 troops, and at the same time there was also a heavy machine gun squadron, a 37-caliber rapid-fire gun squadron, and a 75-caliber mountain artillery squadron.

With the addition of these troops, Major General Hirano Shozo was confident again, so the second line of Japanese positions was increased from one infantry brigade to two infantry brigades, and heavy machine gun squadrons and rapid-fire artillery squadrons were also dispatched. At the same time, the Japanese army dug up a lot of anti-artillery holes and bunkers to hide from the shelling overnight. In this way, in the various actions of both sides, the night passed slowly.

Early the next morning, the Chinese troops in three directions outside the city of Hanoi had moved, and one artillery gun after another had been adjusted, and boxes of shells were also sent to the gun emplacements. On the offensive position, the soldiers entered the position in high spirits, quietly waiting for the order to attack. In the direction of the north gate, on the first line of positions occupied by the Japanese army, ten heavy armored vehicles and ten light armored vehicles were lined up, and these combat vehicles did not have the task of covering the attack, but used as a fire point to cover the attacking troops.

In the direction of the east gate, the two battalions of the 880th Regiment also entered the attack position, and this time Wei Lixuan was going to take a real action against the Japanese army, not only equipped the troops with more than ten 40 rocket launchers to deal with the bunker fortifications on the Japanese position, but also sent a large number of sharpshooters to snipe and kill important targets on the Japanese position. Wei Lixuan believed that his troops would definitely put the Japanese army under tremendous pressure.

In the direction of the West Gate, although the attack force on the surface was the same as yesterday, in fact, dozens of heavy artillery pieces of the heavy artillery brigade and the self-propelled howitzers and artillery of the remaining two battalions of the division's heavy artillery regiment were ready to open fire. The light and heavy tanks of the armored brigade are also ready, and they can all attack at the first order. Tang Longzai was even in command, and sent several reconnaissance teams to closely watch the movements in the direction of the west gate of the Japanese army.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the north gate direction was the first to open fire, and hundreds of artillery concentrated artillery fire covered the second line of Japanese positions, although the Japanese army was also prepared and dug a lot of anti-artillery holes, but under the intensive artillery fire, especially under the bombardment of 150-caliber howites and shells, there were still quite a few casualties. As soon as the half-hour shelling ended, dozens of heavy machine guns, including the vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles, spat out tongues of fire and suppressed the Japanese troops on the positions with dense bullets.

Under the cover of heavy machine guns, Feng Lisan, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 568th Regiment, gave the order to attack, and nearly 1,000 soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions rushed ferociously towards the Japanese positions like tigers. The distance between the two Japanese positions was about 200 meters, and the distance of 200 meters was full of large and small craters, as well as many bombed-out fortifications and trenches dug by the Japanese army.

As soon as the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions started to charge, the Japanese troops who had already entered the position opened fire, and more than 20 heavy machine guns roared. The attacking warriors took advantage of the complex formations between the positions to advance covertly, but the attack speed slowed down. Feng Lisan, who was observing the attack, immediately commanded heavy machine gun fire to suppress the Japanese heavy machine gun fire point, and at the same time, the vehicle-mounted artillery on the armored vehicles and the 20 mortars brought up overnight also began to shell the Japanese position.

The fire points on the Japanese positions were destroyed in several places at once, and the rest were suppressed. But after a while, the sound of artillery sounded on the Japanese position, and eight 75-caliber mountain guns and more than a dozen mortars smashed shells at the mortar positions and heavy machine gun fire points of the 568th Regiment, and eight rapid-fire guns were pushed out, and one by one* fired at the armored vehicles parked there.

The Japanese army caught Feng Lisan off guard at this time, but in a blink of an eye, more than ten mortars and six heavy machine gun fire points were destroyed under the Japanese artillery fire, and what was more serious was that the armored vehicles parked there had no time to dodge, and three heavy armored vehicles and four light armored vehicles were shot at once, and one of the heavy armored vehicles and two light armored vehicles caused ammunition to explode after the fire, and they were destroyed on the spot, and all the crew members were killed.

Frightened, Feng Lisan, who reacted, asked the remaining mortars to counterattack the Japanese rapid-fire guns, and called for artillery support from the artillery positions behind. However, by the time the artillery of the artillery positions behind them fired, the Japanese artillery had stopped shelling and shifted their positions. The effect of artillery bombardment was not great. This made Feng Lisan and Mu Suzhong resentful.

In desperation, Mu Suzhong ordered the armored vehicles to be withdrawn first, and the number of armored vehicles was limited, so they could not be consumed in this way. In order to be able to suppress the Japanese army, Mu Suzhong mobilized another fifty mortars and sent them to Feng Lisan. He also ordered the 50 75-caliber field guns of the artillery regiment to press forward to the front of the offensive position, and be ready for artillery counterattack at any time.

The artillery battle between the two sides did not have a great impact on the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions attacking, and the soldiers obviously felt that the firepower on the Japanese positions today was stronger, and the light and heavy machine guns had more firepower, and the attack was not as easy as yesterday. Soldiers were often pinned down in a crater or trench and unable to raise their heads, and could be shot if they were not careful.

The two sides were separated by about 100 meters, and the army could not repel the attacking Chinese troops, and it was difficult for the two battalions of the 568th Regiment to attack the front of the Japanese position. Compared with the direction of the north gate, good progress has been made at the beginning of the attack on the east gate direction today. Before the start of the attack, the 72 Japanese mountain guns of the artillery regiment concentrated their fire on the first line of Japanese positions, focusing on the remaining bunker fortifications.

The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 880th Regiment, under the leadership of Zhang Zong, the commander of the 1st Battalion, did not wait for the end of the artillery bombardment to touch the Japanese position. The Japanese troops on the position were dodging the artillery and shells that fell from the sky, and they did not expect that the Chinese troops would risk accidental injuries and touch the front of the position while shelling. By the time the shelling was over, the officers and men of the two battalions had already reached a position only about 100 meters from the front of the Japanese formation.