Just when the 277th Brigade's first attack on Wendeng County failed, and nearly half of its heavy mortars were lost, a battalion of light armored vehicles sent by the armored brigade rushed to the city of Wendeng. This battalion had eighteen German-made four-wheeled light armored vehicles. This kind of armored vehicle has thin armor, and is used to cover tanks and heavy armored vehicles in peacetime, and its armor is not enough to withstand the bombardment of Japanese mountain artillery, but the Japanese heavy machine guns are not afraid.

Mu Suzhong told the commander of the light armored battalion that the first attack on Wendeng City had failed because of the bombardment of more than a dozen Japanese mountain guns, and now preparations were being made for the second attack. He also asked if the armored battalion could cover the infantry's attack? Mu Suzhong's words made the commander of the armored battalion a little embarrassed; from the perspective of obedience, he should have obeyed Brigade Commander Mu's arrangement, but his light armored vehicles could not stop the bombardment of the Japanese mountain artillery at all, and the losses were too great for him to explain to the brigade seat.

The battalion commander's hesitant expression was clear to Mu Suzhong, and he also understood that the heavy artillery brigade and the armored brigade were the most valued units of the military seat, and the military seat had said many times that these heavy equipment must be protected, and there was no way to replenish them if they were lost. Although Mu Suzhong is a brigade commander, he must not be an old man who has followed Wang Haitao from the beginning, and he always feels worse than those who started with Wang Haitao.

Therefore, Mu Suzhong did not order the armored battalion to assist in the attack, but said to the battalion commander: "In this way, whether you can assist the infantry to attack together, you decide for yourself, I know that the military seat attaches great importance to these tanks of the armored brigade, and it is difficult for me to explain to the military seat if the losses are large." Mu Suzhong's words made the battalion commander's face flush, and the battalion commander asked cautiously: "Brigade Commander Mu, can I please report to the brigade?"

Mu Suzhong naturally didn't care, and after the battalion commander left, he called Li Chunshan and the three regiment commanders to discuss the plan for the next attack. Besides, after the commander of the armored battalion reported the situation to Wu Jianzhou, Wu Jianzhou came to fire at that time, and immediately telegraphed back to reprimand the battalion commander, and told the battalion commander that the tank could be replenished after it was destroyed, and people would not survive if they died. The armored vehicle battalion was dispatched to attack together with the infantry of the 277th Brigade, and as long as it was effective, even if the combat vehicles were completely destroyed, they were not afraid.

Halfway through their discussion, the battalion commander ran over and reported to Mu Suzhong: "Brigade Commander Mu, our brigade commander instructs the armored battalion to fully cooperate with your infantry attack, please instruct if there are any tasks!" Mu Suzhong had a smile on his face, and pulled the battalion commander to discuss together. With the cooperation of the armored battalion, the attack was much easier, and now everyone discussed how the infantry and chariots would cooperate to open the city gates.

Soon the plan was decided, this attack was carried out by the 569th Regiment, assisted by the 570th Regiment, and the armored vehicles were separated from each other, one was to cover the infantry close to the city wall, and the other was to suppress the Japanese fire points on the city wall with vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns. Wei Yongshou returned to the 569th Regiment, called the three battalion commanders, and said: "The brigade seat has decided that this attack will be led by our regiment, assisted by the 570th Regiment, and there will be 18 light armored vehicles of the armored battalion to assist us. ”

Listening to Wei Yongshou's words, the three battalion commanders became excited. Wei Yongshou glanced at the three battalion commanders and continued: "You have all done the training of Butan coordination, and the best training is the second battalion, and the task of attacking together with armored vehicles this time will be handed over to the second battalion." Battalion Commander Liu, you have to pay attention to the fact that the volume of light armored vehicles is not as large as tank vehicles, so there are not too many soldiers who follow armored vehicles. ”

Wei Yongshou and the other two battalion commanders quickly went to prepare, and the eighteen armored vehicles of the light armored vehicle battalion also drove to the front of the position. Mu Suzhong once again asked Chen Kong to command the remaining thirty or so heavy artillery guns to launch an artillery attack on the city wall. A few minutes after the shelling began, eighteen tanks pulled away from each other and rushed towards the walls, behind each of which was a squad of infantry.

The speed and agility of the light armored vehicles were very good, and they rushed forward very quickly, and the Japanese troops on the city wall found the armored vehicles rushing up and fired at these armored vehicles, and the few remaining Type 92 infantry guns and mortars on the city wall also fired at the city. The clanging of bullets on the armored vehicles was ignored by the armored vehicles, and even the bombardment guns did not have much threat to it. But the shells of the Type 92 infantry guns were able to penetrate the armor of light armored vehicles.

Two armored vehicles were hit by the Type 92 infantry artillery on the city wall, one was wounded and could not move again, the other was completely blown up, and all the crew members of the armored vehicles were killed. Seeing this, Mu Suzhong ran to the heavy mortar position and asked Chen Kong to concentrate artillery fire to knock out the small cannons on the city wall. Chen Kong adjusted the muzzle of the cannon, and three rounds of shells in a row eliminated all the small cannons on the city wall.

Mu Suzhong shouted happily: "Good job, Chen Kong, your kid is playing well!" Before the words could be finished, the mountain artillery shells in the city flew over screaming. Chen Kong threw Mu Suzhong down under him and shouted, "Brigade seat, danger!" The shells exploded on the mortar position, but fortunately there were not many shells flying, and only four mortars were destroyed. Chen Kong and Mu Suzhong are fine.

Mu Suzhong got up from the ground, and saw that some of the shells of the Japanese mountain artillery were going towards the armored vehicles and infantry, and hurriedly said to Chen Kong: "Chen Kong, you immediately calculate the coordinates of the Japanese mountain artillery position, and shell the Japanese artillery ground, even if these artillery guns are destroyed here, you must attract the artillery fire of the little Japanese people, and you can't let the little Japanese artillery bombard those armored vehicles and infantry." ”

Chen Kong responded: "Understand, Brigade! I'll leave it to me here, it's too dangerous here, Brigade's seat will leave here first." Mu Suzhong glared and said, "I'm dangerous, aren't you dangerous?" I won't leave, if you want me to be safe, you will give me the little Japanese mountain artillery position!" Chen Kong had no choice but to resist the Japanese artillery shells and calculate the coordinates of the Japanese mountain artillery position.

At this time, the attacking armored vehicles continued to move forward while dodging the Japanese shells, and at the same time the heavy machine guns on the board kept firing bullets at the Japanese troops on the city wall. In just a few minutes, four more armored vehicles were hit by bullets and caught fire. In Mu Suzhong's anxious eyes, Chen Kong finally calculated the azimuth coordinates of the Japanese mountain artillery position, and his heavy artillery could still hit this position.

Under Chen Kong's command, the artillerymen adjusted the muzzle, gave up shooting at the city wall, and fired the shells at the position determined by Chen Kong. The shells crossed the city walls and exploded somewhere in the city, and the Japanese abandoned their shelling of the besieging troops and fired all the shells at the heavy mortar positions. The armored vehicles were deprived of artillery fire and rushed towards the city wall with all their might.

Soon the armored car came to a stop three hundred meters below the city wall, and the vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun better suppressed the fire points on the city wall. Behind the armor, three squads of fighters rushed out of the cover of the armored car, carrying a dozen explosives and medicine bags, and rushed towards the city gate. After losing a third of their men, the remaining warriors rushed to the city gates, quickly piled up explosives and powder packets, and set them on fire*.

With a loud bang, the gates were blown to pieces, and the warriors cheered and rushed over the gates to the city. But when the smoke cleared a little, the warriors stopped and stared at the city gate. It turned out that the city gate had already been tightly blocked by countless sandbags, and there was no possibility of entering the city at all. The soldiers who reacted smashed and hit the sandbags, but the sandbags did not move.

The Japanese soldiers on the city wall heard the explosion at the city gate, and threw dozens of * from the city wall, and all the soldiers who were dealing with the sandbags fell into the explosion. Mu Suzhong was also excited when he blew up the city gate, and after seeing the sandbags blocked in the city gate through the telescope, he knew that it was not good, and this attack was afraid that it would be in vain, and after all the soldiers who blew up the gate were sacrificed under the city gate, Mu Suzhong had to order a retreat.

The fighters retreated under the cover of armored vehicles, and the artillery battle ended, and the 277th Brigade again paid the price of twenty-two heavy mortars in exchange for the dumb fire of the Japanese mountain artillery. After the attacking teams were withdrawn, Mu Suzhong reported the situation to the division commander Li Yuanhong as soon as possible. Li Yuanhong looked at the telegram sent by Mu Suzhong, and also frowned.

Fortunately, the troops behind had slowly passed the mountain road, Li Yuanhong asked the location of the Shuai Heavy Artillery Regiment, and learned that the Heavy Artillery Regiment had passed the mountain road and would arrive outside Wendeng City in two hours to join the 277th Brigade. Li Yuanhong called Mu Suzhong back and asked Mu Suzhong to suspend the offensive and wait for the division's heavy artillery regiment to arrive before launching an attack.

Two hours passed, and the heavy artillery regiment finally arrived outside Wendeng City, and the regiment commander Tang Weiren immediately ordered the three artillery battalions to choose a suitable location, deploy on the spot, prepare and wait for orders. Then come and see Brigadier Mu Suzhong himself. As soon as Tang Weiren saw Mu Suzhong, Mu Suzhong greeted him happily. There was no cold noise, Mu Suzhong directly introduced the situation to Tang Weiren.

Tang Weiren listened carefully and said: "Brigade Commander Mu, don't worry, I promise to blast out a road into the city for you, you let your people prepare, once my heavy artillery blasts out of the road, your people will rush into the city." Mu Suzhong responded: "Commander Tang, as long as you can blast out a way for our brigade to enter the city, don't worry about anything else, take Wendeng City, and I will go to the division seat to ask you for a first credit." ”

Tang Weiren excitedly returned to the regiment and said to the two battalion commanders of the 150 heavy howitzer and artillery battalion and the 122 howitzer and artillery battalion: "You command the artillery fire to bombard the wall of Wendeng City, and you must blow a gap in the city wall, only in this way can the infantry rush into the city." The two battalion commanders agreed and ran back to the camp to prepare, and the commander of the 75th Field Artillery Battalion asked: "Tuanza, what is the task of our battalion?"

Tang Weiren replied: "Your battalion's 75 field guns are not powerful, and it takes too many shells to bombard the city wall, and the task of your battalion is to suppress the remaining Japanese troops on the city wall with artillery fire when the infantry brothers charge, and make sure that the Japanese fire points on the city wall are dangerous to the infantry brothers who cannot charge." The battalion commander also responded: "Rest assured, our battalion will ensure that the task will be completed." ”