Li Yunlong looked coldly at the puppet army at the north gate of Ping'an County and the circular trench position outside the city, and after a snort, he waved his hand and shouted.

"Yes!!"

The herald immediately conveyed the order, and Wang Chenghai, commander of the artillery company of the Independent Regiment, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately concentrated on the captured three Devil's Type 92 infantry guns and nine mortars, focusing on shelling the enemy troops at the north gate.

"The target is the position of the Imperial Association Army outside the north gate of Ping'an, there is no base number of continuous shots, reloading, preparation, and !!"

The Type 92 infantry guns and mortars captured from the Kato Brigade and the Sato Brigade were concentrated and concentrated enough to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of the devils at the head of the city and the positions of the puppet army outside the city.

"Tom !!"

With the sound of cannonballs smashing out of the barrels at high speed, the tail flames of the cannonballs whistled in the dazzling sunlight, and smashed heavily into the enemy positions at the north gate of Ping'an County and outside the city.

"Boom, boom!!"

Dense and rapid shells rained down, and in an instant, they exploded in clouds of dazzling red light and soot.

At this time, it was the morning, and the shelling bombardment one after another was a sea of fire outside the north gate of Ping'an County and at the head of the city.

The puppet army and devil soldiers who had no time to hide were bombed screamed again and again, and the other puppet soldiers and devil soldiers who had already taken refuge were also shaken by the explosion, and their hearts trembled.

The fierce artillery bombardment was first carried out at the north gate, and then outside the remaining three gates, the first battalion, the second battalion, and the third battalion, which had already led their troops to arrive, also used mortars and a few stunned standing guns of devils that had been captured in the previous battle, and all kinds of artillery to carry out fierce artillery bombardment on the remaining west gates, east gates, and south gates of Ping'an County.

It's just that the degree of artillery bombardment can't compare to the artillery and mortar fire concentrated by Wang Chenghai.

The rumbling sound of the shelling reached the Sakata United team headquarters in the castle!

"Captain, Li Yunlong has begun to attack the city!"

Kazuo Hachihashi listened to the deafening explosion, especially the loud explosion from the direction of the north gate.

But the shelling of the other three was not weak, but looking at the north gate seemed to be the main direction of attack of the other side.

"When the artillery bombardment of the independent regiment is over, it will be time for our defending fire to counterattack. Hold steady, order the defenders of each gate, and hold your ground! After Li Yunlong's infantry came up, they concentrated their firepower and hit hard. ”

Shinjiro Sakata is also an old devil with rich combat experience, so this is the beginning, and he will talk about stabilizing his position.

"Yes!!"

Seeing that Sakata Shinjiro was so stable, Kazuo Hachihashi couldn't help but be full of confidence, not to mention that the five fighters sent by the aviation unit directly under the headquarters should soon fly to the sky over Ping'an County to support the imperial army defending the city with air firepower.

In this way, holding the city for three hours and waiting for reinforcements to arrive should not be a problem.

At this time, Li Yunlong held a telescope and leaned against a tree on the hill in front of the headquarters to watch the shelling.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Countless cannonballs, with a squeaky squeak, smashed into the north gate.

The remaining three outside the city were responsible for the encirclement of the second battalion, and the third battalion also concentrated mortars and several previously captured devil artillery for artillery bombardment.

For a moment, the scene was spectacular.

In addition, it was daytime again, and the effect of the shelling was clearly seen in Li Yunlong's telescope.

"Lao Zhao, take a look!!"

Li Yunlong smiled at Zhao Gang, the political commissar of the Independent Regiment who rushed to the outside of Ping'an County with the third battalion and other troops.

Zhao Gang nodded, took the telescope from Li Yunlong's hand and observed the effect of the shelling.

"Lao Li, I didn't expect your kid to take Heyuan County before dawn, and eat more than 1,000 reinforcements from the devil defenders in Heyuan County, okay!"

Zhao Gang handed the telescope back to Li Yunlong, and then smiled.

"Fluke, fluke!! Hahaha!! ”

Li Yunlong smiled and said: "However, our independent regiment now has a lot of actual strength in each battalion, hehe, this time to fight Ping'an County, the time is right." ”。

"How? The shelling is okay now! ”

Zhao Gang nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay!" ”。

"However, the devil soldiers who looked at the head of the city estimated that they had withdrawn from the city, and I am afraid that the casualties caused by the shelling should not be large."

Li Yunlong said: "The devil guarding the city is the devil soldier of the Sakata Wing, and this devil wing is an independent brigade under the command of the First Army of the Devil under the control of Shinozuka Yoshinan, and the combat effectiveness is still okay. ”。

"Combat experience is not something to be taken lightly, and it will not wait for us to be beaten by shelling."

Zhao Gang bowed his head and said, "Lao Li, how much time do you plan to take Ping'an County?" ”。

"Within an hour, no matter how many people there are, the devil strongholds in the towns around Ping'an County must have received reinforcement orders and are on their way to reinforcements."

When Li Yunlong heard this, he listened to the loud sound of the artillery bombardment in his ears, and continued: "The regimental headquarters of the Japanese Fourth Brigade in Jialin City must have received an urgent telegram from Shinjiro Sakata asking for help, and will definitely send reinforcements. ”。

"Although Jialin City is a full thirty kilometers away from the county seat of Ping'an, it will take three hours for the rapid march to arrive. But we can't play for three hours, one hour is the most. The sooner the better, the county seat of Ping'an was laid, and the county was withdrawn as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Gang bowed his head and agreed, "It should be so!" ”

"Herald!!"

As he spoke, Li Yunlong called the herald and ordered: "Pass my order, after five minutes of shelling, the artillery fire will extend to suppress the enemy army at the head of the city." ”。

"All the attacking forces launched a siege at the same time, and first solved the Imperial Alliance army defending outside the city. After that, the troops continued to attack the city according to the plan. ”

The herald stood up and saluted, "Yes, Commander." He immediately rushed away to give the order.

Soon, Wang Chenghai and other artillery commanders who had received Li Yunlong's order immediately accelerated the shelling.

"Boom, boom!!"

The head of the four gates of Ping'an County and the obvious defensive positions of the enemy defending the city outside the city were fiercely taken care of by artillery fire and were fiercely bombed.

Especially at the head of the North Gate City, the artillery and mortars of Wang Chenghai's artillery company were bombarded intensively, and the bombardment was a splash of bricks and stones, jumping in all directions, killing and injuring the devil soldiers who had no time to avoid the shelling.

Screams, accompanied by non-stop shelling, continued to come out.

The devils in the city, at this time, there were only two Type 92 infantry guns left, and there were quite a lot of mortars, but under the artillery fire of the artillery of the independent regiment besieging the city, they did not dare to pull it out for artillery counterattack at the first time.

After the five-minute artillery bombardment arrived, the artillery fire was concentrated and extended to mainly suppress the city, and with Li Yunlong's order, the infantry of the besieging units began to attack the puppet army in the defensive position around the city outside the city under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire.