Wataru Jiuxiong's face also became solemn, and he said, "Yo Xi! I want to see how powerful this first army is." I will immediately send a telegram to Commander Guzhuang Ganlang, telling him that Wang Haitao's unit, which is known as the First Army of China, is outside our Shaoguan City, and I want the commander to immediately send more troops to destroy this First Army of China under Shaoguan City. ”

At ten o'clock in the morning, under Tang Renxin's order, dozens of heavy artillery pieces of the heavy artillery brigade were fired at the same time, and the shells flew towards the city wall of Shaoguan and the various fortifications repaired by the Japanese army at the base of the wall. And countless mortars on the positions also launched artillery shelling of the Japanese troops from three directions. The fortifications and bunkers on the Japanese positions could withstand mortar shells, but they could not stop heavy artillery shells at all.

The only mountain artillery wing of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army guarding the city had been transferred to attack the county town of Yingde, and at this time, with those mortars and 92 infantry guns, it was impossible to confront the heavy artillery brigade of the 90th Army. The division commander, Lieutenant General Watarahisao, endured the heavy artillery bombardment of the 90th Army while sending a telegram to Commander Koro Furuzhuang of the 21st Army, requesting aircraft to support him.

The momentum of the artillery bombardment of the 90th Army was not only seen for the first time by the Cantonese Army, but also experienced for the first time by those recruits in the 90th Army. Heavy artillery can indeed greatly improve the morale of the party, and now the soldiers of the 90th Army and the 63rd Army all have excited smiles on their faces, eager to attack. The 90th Army is a little better, and they have seen these heavy artillery guns open fire during training and exercises in peacetime, while the officers and men of the 63rd Army are talking about it.

This cannot be blamed on the fact that these officers and men have made a fuss; since the Japanese invasion of China, almost all of them have been bombarded by the Japanese army with powerful artillery fire, and countless officers and men of the Chinese army have died under the fire of the Japanese artillery.

The heavy artillery fired for half an hour, and as soon as it stopped, the planes supporting the Japanese arrived. This time the Japanese dispatched a flying squadron, fifty-six bombers and twelve fighters. The 90 th Army was also well prepared, and a German-made self-propelled antiaircraft gun battalion on the position of the heavy artillery brigade was waiting for the arrival of Japanese planes, and on the attack position, heavy aircraft, antiaircraft guns mounted on armored trucks, and Type 74 37-mm twin antiaircraft guns that Wang Haitao had taken from the munitions depot were also ready for air combat.

The heavy artillery attack stopped, and the roar of airplanes was heard in the sky, which lifted the spirits of the demoralized Japanese soldiers who had been hit by the heavy artillery, and some soldiers shouted the slogan "Long live". But the next scene stunned the Japanese soldiers who were defending the city. Dozens of bombers, after discovering a large number of targets, dispersed to carry out dive bombing, but as soon as the pilots pressed down the nose of the plane, ground-to-air fire was opened.

A considerable part of these anti-aircraft guns are specialized antiaircraft guns, and German-made antiaircraft guns are advanced enough, and they will never be a problem when used to deal with small Japanese aircraft, and the Type 74 antiaircraft guns are even more advanced, whether it is a semi-automatic tracking and sighting system or a follow-up system, they are all scientific and technological products beyond this era, and it is very easy to deal with Japanese planes at this time.

As soon as the anti-aircraft fire was fired, the Japanese planes were shot one after another, either exploding into a fireball in the air or falling down in black smoke. The Japanese planes bombed in a dive, and the bombs did not drop much, but they themselves lost two-thirds. The rest of the planes did not dare to dive and bomb anymore, hurriedly dropped the bombs they had brought, and flew back.

As soon as the Japanese planes left, Tang Renxin ordered the armored brigade to attack. The west gate of Shaoguan is the main direction of attack, here is the 460th Brigade of the 210th Division is the main attack, and they are accompanied by the armored regiment and heavy artillery regiment of the 210th Division. The order to attack reached the armored brigade, Wu Jianzhou bullied the little Japanese did not have any artillery at all, except for light armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers with vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns for air defense, even heavy armored vehicles launched an attack on Shaoguan City.

At the forefront was the Type 59-1 heavy tank, followed by the German-made LT-38 tank. Behind the armored forces was an infantry regiment of the 460th Brigade that carried out infantry combat with the armored units. The steel torrent rolled towards Shaoguan City, the remnants of the Japanese troops guarding the fortifications outside the city, and the Japanese soldiers on the head of the city had not yet recovered from the shadow of the heavy losses of the planes, and what they saw in their eyes was the rolling steel chariots.

Under the multiple blows, the soldiers had no fighting spirit and no morale. The completely unequal strength made it hard for the Japanese officers and soldiers to believe that they were facing an "incompetent" Shina army. There was serious confusion among the Japanese soldiers, and even the officers could no longer maintain their composure. Some of these soldiers strapped to explosive bags and shouted, "Emperor Ita!" rushed to the chariot as a human bomb, some turned around and fled in all directions, and some soldiers simply blindly shot the bullets from their guns at the onrushing chariot.

Most of the soldiers who rushed up to use the bombs were killed by the armored vehicles or infantry covering the tanks, and the few who rushed to pull the explosives packs did not do much damage to the heavy tanks, except for the dead and dead themselves. When the tank rushed to a distance of 200 meters from the Shaoguan city wall, the vehicle-mounted artillery opened fire on the fortifications and the wall outside the city, and the vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns also opened fire.

The Japanese troops in the fortifications outside the city were completely defeated, and the Japanese troops on the city were also at a loss, pouring bullets on the chariots in vain. The news that the Chinese army had dispatched a large number of combat vehicles to the attack was immediately reported to the division commander, Lieutenant General Wataru Hisao. Lieutenant General Watarahisa had just woken up from the terrible news that the planes supporting him had suffered heavy losses instead of achieving results, and this situation made him stunned again.

Facing the chief of staff, Katamura 48 Dazuo, Wataru asked: "Katamura-kun, you fought against the 90th Army in China on the Songhu battlefield, and there is such a powerful army in China, how did Shanghai and Nanjing lose it?" Fortunately, there is only such a powerful army in China. If the army of China is the same as the 90th Army, even if it is only half of it, I am afraid that our Great Japanese Empire will not think about how to occupy China, but how to hold the mainland. ”

Lieutenant General Watahisao nodded, and then said in a heavy tone: "Katamura-kun, then what should our division do now?" Katamura Forty-eight Daisa replied with a wry smile: "Your Excellency the division commander, now the 22nd Brigade of our division is already in Yusha, Yingde County, and there is only the 10th Brigade and auxiliary troops in the city, and the strength is not comparable to the Chinese army. Now it can only rely on the city to hold on and wait for help. I hope that the reinforcements sent by His Excellency Commander Guzhuang Ganlang can rush to the city as soon as possible and take our division to Guangzhou. ”

Lieutenant General Watahisao sighed and said, "That's all, I'll send another telegram to His Excellency Commander Guzhuang Ganlang immediately, asking His Excellency the Commander to send more reinforcements and come over as soon as possible." "Wataru and Katamura Shihachi's ideas are good, but in reality, Tang Renxin will never give them a chance to stick to help.

The chariot advanced while firing, and came to a halt when it was only about a hundred meters away from the city wall. There were not many Japanese troops left in the city, and the rest were overwhelmed by tank guns and heavy machine guns, and the return fire stopped. The first few heavy tanks moved their guns and aimed their guns at the thick gates of Shaoguan City. Several shells flew towards the city gate at the same time, and in the continuous explosions, the heavy city gate fell in all parts.

Heavy tanks were not suitable for street fighting, and heavy tanks outside the city turned to both sides to make way into the city. Twenty German-made No. 2 light tanks and armored vehicles rumbled towards the city gate, surrounded by officers and soldiers of the two infantry regiments of the 460th Brigade and attacked the city of Shaoguan with them. Not long into the city, the attacking troops encountered the Japanese fortifications.

The Japanese fortifications were stacked with sandbags, a heavy machine gun and a mortar, and dozens of Japanese soldiers defended the fortifications. There are many such fortifications in the city, and most of them were built in a hurry after the soldiers arrived in the city. Probably the Japanese army did not expect the Chinese army to enter the city so quickly, so these fortifications are very rudimentary.

In the case of such fortifications, the assault of infantry is bound to cause casualties, and this is when armored vehicles and light tanks play to their advantage. Both light tanks and heavy armored vehicles ignored machine-gun bullets in fortifications, and even mortar shells could not seriously damage them. The 20 mm guns on tanks and heavy armoured vehicles could easily destroy these fortifications, and then use on-board machine guns against fleeing Japanese soldiers.

The vast majority of the Japanese soldiers who dared to charge the tanks with the type of human bombs fell under the guns of the infantry accompanying the vehicles. After taking a fortification, the chariot roared and continued to charge towards the center of the city. With the assistance of combat vehicles, the fighters of the two infantry regiments of the 460th Brigade advanced quickly in street battles and suffered very little losses.

Soon after the 460th Brigade rushed into the city at the West Gate, the 461st Brigade at the South Gate and the 278th Brigade at the East Gate also broke through the city and began to attack the city. At this time, there was no movement in the entire Shaoguan City except for the north gate, and there was gunfire everywhere. The Japanese army also had a lot of troops in the city, fighting in the streets, and desperately blocking the attack of the Chinese army with various buildings.

Even if the troops of the 90th Army were strong in combat, in the face of the desperate resistance of the Japanese army, it would take a price and time to capture the city. At two o'clock in the afternoon, half of Shaoguan City fell into the hands of the 90th Army. The remaining few thousand Japanese troops built a fortification in an area centered on the headquarters of the 11th Division.

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