At a distance of one hundred meters, a well-trained warrior charged with all his might, and it only took twelve or three seconds to complete. As soon as the shelling was over and before the Japanese troops on the positions could react, the officers and men of the two battalions launched an overwhelming charge against the Japanese positions. Halfway through the rush, only fifty meters away from the Japanese position, the Japanese soldiers on the position reacted, and rushed to the combat position with a ghost shout.

Looking at the Japanese position that was already close at hand, and the Japanese soldiers who hurriedly rushed to the position, the commander of the first battalion, Zhang Zong, shouted: "Drop the bomb!" took the lead in throwing a grenade and bullet in the direction of the trench, and with Zhang Zong's shout, the soldiers who rushed to the front also threw grenades and bullets one after another. Hundreds of grenades and bombs exploded inside and outside the trench one after another, and the Japanese soldiers who blew up cried wolves. The smoke and dust from the explosion also affected the sight of the Japanese soldiers and light and heavy machine gunners on the position.

When the Japanese machine guns fired, the soldiers who rushed in front had already jumped into the trench, but many of the soldiers who did not come behind and jumped off the trench were knocked down by the side of the trench, and the rest quickly lay down. Fortunately, there was gunsmoke and dust blocking the view, and the Japanese machine guns only fired blindly, otherwise the casualties would have been even greater. The soldiers who jumped into the trenches began to clear the Japanese troops in the trenches with their charging and frontal guns, which were far more practical than the Japanese Army's Type 38 rifles in such a small space.

Zhang Zong was also one of the first soldiers to jump into the trench, and after jumping into the trench, he calmly observed the form while directing the soldiers to clear the Japanese troops along the trench to both sides. This trench was only the outermost trench on the first line of Japanese positions, and there were still many bunkers and sandbag fortifications outside the trench that had escaped artillery fire, and now the Japanese were relying on these fortifications to block the attack of their troops with light and heavy weapons.

Only about half of the fighters who entered the trench were killed, and the other half were either sacrificed or pinned down by Japanese machine-gun fire points on the way to the attack. It was necessary to knock out the most dangerous Japanese machine-gun fire point as soon as possible, and Zhang Zong looked left and right and had an idea. Now the trench has been cleared of a few tens of meters, and the soldiers are attacking forward from both ends of the trench to clear the Japanese troops. Zhang Zong asked the soldiers to set up light machine guns on the trench and strafe at the Japanese machine gun fire, the purpose of which was to attract the Japanese machine gun fire.

Subsequently, Zhang Zong asked a few bazooka players to clear the Japanese machine gun fire point with * at a distance from the machine gun. The bazooka man aimed at the Japanese machine-gun fire point, loaded the * and opened fire. At a distance of one or twenty meters, there is no need to worry about not hitting at all, and the power of * can't even stop the bunker, let alone those sandbag fortifications.

With the sound of explosions, the Japanese machine gun fire points were cleared one by one, and without the threat of machine gun fire points, the soldiers who were suppressed jumped up one after another and rushed into the trench. At this time, the Japanese troops in the trench were basically cleared, and the remaining 2 or 300 Japanese troops on the first line of positions, seeing that they could no longer hold on, fled back to the second line of positions.

Guarding the position outside the east gate of Hanoi City is the 229th Infantry Wing of the 38th Division, and the wing commander is an infantry brigade and a heavy machine gun squadron arranged on the first position, and several attacks by the Chinese army yesterday were repulsed, although there were also many casualties among officers and men, but most of the bunker fortifications are still there, and the heavy machine gun losses are not large.

In the morning, the Chinese army began to intensify the artillery bombardment again, listening to the familiar sound of artillery, Katsunai Katsumi Daisa knew that the Chinese army was still using Japanese 75-caliber mountain artillery, and the Japanese 75-caliber mountain artillery was limited, although there were a lot of them, it was not easy to destroy the bunker fortifications on the position. Therefore, Katsunai Katsumi Daisa didn't care, but after ordering his subordinates to pay attention to observation, he paid attention to the direction of the north gate.

However, after just over an hour, some men reported that the Chinese army had rushed into the first trench and was engaged in a fierce battle with the soldiers stationed on the position. At this time, he was taken aback, and without saying more, he hurriedly stood in front of the observation hole of the command post, raised the high-powered telescope and observed it carefully. In the telescope of Tsunai Katsushi, an explosion sounded, and the bunkers and sandbag fortifications on the first line of positions were being destroyed one by one.

It didn't take long for the defenders on the first line of positions to hold out and retreated one after another. Seeing this, Dazuo couldn't help but scold: "Yaga! How did this stupid Inoue defend his position? Let him come to see me immediately!" After scolding, he sat down behind the desk angrily. After a while, the disgraced captain of the 1st Infantry Brigade, Inoue Kazuo, walked into the headquarters of Katsumi Osa in Tsunachi.

Inoue Kazumi Nakasa is a close confidant of Katsumi Daisa, and he is also a capable leader, so although Katsunai Katsumi Osa has a black face, he still doesn't scold it in person. "Inoue-kun, why did you lose your first line of positions in such a short period of time?" Inoue Kazuo replied with a bitter face: "Report to Your Excellency, the Chinese army attacking today is completely two troops compared to yesterday, today's Chinese army is extremely strong in combat and extremely fierce in firepower, and there are also individual artillery that can destroy bunker fortifications in one fell swoop, and the number is more than 2,000 people, although my brigade is also trying to resist, but the strength is a lot worse, so ......"

Katsunachi stood up in surprise and said, "What about it, are you saying that the Shina army has been replaced by a fairly elite force and launched an attack?" Inoue Ichio Nakasa nodded and said, "Report to Your Excellency Wing Commander, I am absolutely sure that the Shina army attacking today is much stronger than yesterday. It should be the most elite unit of the Chinese people. ”

After thinking for a while, he said, "Inoue-kun, I'll report this situation to His Excellency the division commander immediately, you go down first." Inoue Kamio bowed and stepped back, and Katsumi Daisa immediately grabbed the telephone and asked for a call from Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano. As soon as Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano picked up the phone, Katsumi Osa began to report.

After the report to Lieutenant General Tadashi Sano on 1510 was finished, he said: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, I request that the position at the East Gate be reinforced immediately, otherwise with the strength of my wing, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the attack of a large number of elite troops of the Shina people. "Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano has just received a report from Major General Shozo Hirano that the Chinese army's attack has been stopped, and a large number of Chinese soldiers and chariots have been eliminated.

Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano was happy about this, and the phone call from Katsumi Daisa Katsumi came over. This call made Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sanno break out in a cold sweat, and his first thought was whether the Chinese army would change the direction of the main attack last night. If the Chinese army still used heavy artillery and chariots to confuse itself in the direction of the north gate, but transferred its most elite infantry to attack in the direction of the east gate, it was very likely to succeed without warning. The more Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano thought about it, the more likely he felt that this would happen.

So Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano immediately reported the situation and his thoughts to Commander Jun Imamura by phone. Commander Jun Imamura heard the report and realized the seriousness of the problem, and after consulting with Chief of Staff Seisaburo Okazaki, he again ordered an infantry brigade from the direction of the West Gate to reinforce the direction of the East Gate, and sent two squadrons to the last reserve in his hand, the Headquarters Guard Brigade.

The 228th Wing, which was guarding the position outside the West Gate, was attacked once when rescuing the 2nd Division, and an infantry wing lost several hundred people. Last night, the headquarters had already transferred the infantry brigade directly under the West Gate to assist in the defense of the West Gate, and after a short fight today, another infantry brigade was transferred from the West Gate.

There were only two and a half infantry brigades left on the entire position at the west gate, two infantry brigades on the position outside the city, two infantry squadrons on the city wall, and only a dozen mortars left with heavy weapons. Fortunately, there is not much threat to the attack of the Chinese army outside the west gate, and there is no problem in blocking the attack of the Chinese army with the existing forces.

The Japanese army repeatedly drew troops from the West Gate position, the defensive force of the West Gate position suddenly weakened, and the number of troops on the city wall was also significantly reduced, and all these situations fell into the eyes of the reconnaissance group. The reconnaissance team immediately reported the situation of the Japanese army to Tang Longzai. Tang Longzai, who received the information, was overjoyed and slapped the table and shouted: "Okay!

When the opportunity came, Tang Longzai was about to grasp it tightly, so one after another orders were conveyed from Tang Longzai. The various troops that had already been prepared all took action after receiving the order issued by Tang Longzai. Ten minutes later, all the artillery guns opened fire one after another, this time using 18 152-caliber heavy howitzers and shells, 18 130-caliber heavy cannons, and all 50 105-caliber self-propelled howitzers and shells.

Countless artillery pieces and shells roared towards the Japanese position, and the defenseless Japanese troops on the position were suddenly bombed. The cannons and shells fired by these large-caliber guns were so powerful that all the fortifications on the position could not withstand their bombardment, and in a loud bang, the fortifications were turned into ruins, and the Japanese soldiers were swept away by the air waves.

After plowing the positions outside the city, the heavy artillery bombardment did not stop, but extended forward and bombarded directly at the west gate wall. After the artillery fire was extended, the armored unit with four Cheetah-type heavy tanks and 15 light tanks followed closely by the armored unit began the assault, and behind the armored unit were the officers and men of the 877th Regiment, who had been recuperating for two days.

The rumbling sound of artillery outside the west gate alarmed Commander Jun Imamura and Chief of Staff Seisaburo Okazaki in the headquarters, as well as Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano. Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano listened to the sound of heavy artillery bombardment, faintly realized that it was not good, and hurriedly grabbed the phone to call the commander of the 228th Wing, Yoshinao Toda, to inquire about the situation. On the phone, Toda Yoshinao shouted in a tearful voice: "Your Excellency the division commander, the Shina people have hidden a large number of heavy artillery at the west gate, and now they are bombarding our position, all the fortifications on the position have been destroyed, and the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, so I ask Your Excellency the division commander to send reinforcements immediately!"