"Lao Shen is so awesome?"

Wang Huaibao, the commander of the third battalion, was surprised: "This guy actually plays so well? ”。

"Lao Shen fought well, he was unexpected, he took the initiative to attack from the mountains and mountains east of Liujia Town, the north and south flanks of Zhenkou, and flanked the devil troops who attacked the defensive position of the second battalion of our independent regiment at the entrance of Zhenkou east of Liujia Town, and received miraculous results."

Li Yunlong laughed and said: "Shen Quan's family is no worse than your old Shen, and now he has destroyed more than 2,000 enemies." ”。

"Hey, Captain."

Wang Huaibao smiled and said, "Isn't this a little jealous!" ”。

"Old Shen, this guy is still very smart!"

Li Yunlong smiled: "You kid." ”。

"By the way, the second battalion is playing well, there should be no big problems in the direction of Liujia Town, the political commissar is also in Ping'an County, and the fourth battalion is also in Ping'an County."

"On the contrary, the devil commanded by Zhenxiong Nakamura, the next attack will definitely be very fierce, and you kid will fight in the next battle."

"Don't worry, Commander!"

Wang Huaibao, the commander of the third battalion, said happily: "Looking at the battle at the East Gate, we ate two more squadrons of devils and annihilated five or six hundred enemies. ”。

"The little devils have suspended the siege now, if it is at this rate, the regiment commander, if I don't blow it, our three battalions will hold Qingzhou City for a few hours, it will not be a problem."

Li Yunlong leaned against the wall on the roof, looked at the situation outside the East Gate, and said, "Don't be careless. ”。

"Look!!"

As he spoke, Li Yunlong pointed to Wang Huaibao at the devil troops that were still outside the East Gate and said, "The little devils only retreated temporarily, and did not attack the city. ”。

"However, on the starting position of the devil's attack, most of the devils have no intention of retreating to the rear to rest. It is estimated that the attack will be launched soon, so that the brothers outside the gates and at the head of the city will strengthen the battle and be ready to fight at any time. ”

When Wang Huaibao heard this, he also put away his smiling face, his expression became serious, and he said in a condensed voice: "Yes, head of the regiment." ”。

"Hmm!!"

Li Yunlong nodded, and then continued to pick up the binoculars to observe the movements of the temporarily retreating devils outside the East Gate.

At this time, Zhenxiong Nakamura, who had already descended from the hillside in front of the military tent headquarters and returned to the military tent headquarters, had a gloomy face.

Major General Haruo Sato, commander of the 9th Brigade, and Kenjiro Kawaguchi, chief of staff of his brigade, had already rushed to the military tent headquarters of Nakamura Zhenxiong.

In addition, in the military tent headquarters, and Nakamura Zhenxiong, who had returned to the military tent headquarters, seven or eight devil officers gathered together, staring at the map of Qingzhou City, and none of them spoke.

After Nakamura Zhenxiong looked at the map of Qingzhou City for a long time, then Major General Sato Jio, the commander of the 9th Brigade, said: "Sato-kun, under the cover of the artillery cluster of two 105 howitzers of the howitzer squad and more than a dozen Type 92 infantry guns of the two artillery squadrons, how many casualties did you suffer in attacking the east gate?" ”。

"Your Excellency General Qiyu, it's almost close to six hundred."

Sighing secretly, Haruo Sato then said in a solemn tone: "Your Excellency, the position built by the enemy army defending the east gate on the periphery of the moat outside the city, although the artillery bombardment of the imperial army has cleared most of the mines and explosives buried by the defenders outside the city. ”。

However, there are still a small number of people who were not destroyed by artillery fire and detonated, which is one of the reasons for the casualties of some Imperial soldiers. Most of the other siege troops suffered casualties due to the large number of light and heavy machine guns of the enemy troops guarding the east gate, and the fact that our soldiers waited twenty meters before the first line of attack before they suddenly opened fire. ”

After a pause, Sato said again, "At that time, it will be too late to hide or retreat. Most of the casualties of the Imperial soldiers were caused at this distance. ”

Nakamura Zhenxiong frowned and said, "I've already observed!" ”

"Li Yunlong's independent regiment, the cooperation of the city's defense tactics is indeed beyond our expectations."

Kenjiro Kawaguchi, chief of staff of the 9th Brigade on the side, interjected, "What Your Excellency General said is that the enemy army is different from the Jin Sui Army and Chang Kaishen's Guijun troops. The defensive positions of the city are different from the defense of the Jin Sui army and the Wei army, and the firepower of the defending city is well organized. ”

"I saw that most of the defensive positions built by the enemy army outside the moat outside the East Gate were wavy defensive trenches, and there were some barbed wire."

Kido Taijiro, who was standing on the other side of Nakamura Zhenxiong, also nodded to Nakamura Zhenxiong and said, "Kawaguchi-kun is right. ”。

"Division commander, I think it will be impossible to take Qingzhou City within an hour."

Although Nakamura Zhenxiong was unwilling, he understood that Kita Taijiro's words were right.

"That must be within two hours, take Qingzhou City."

Nakamura Zhenxiong then said to Sato Jio and the others: "This is the time given by the commander to capture Qingzhou City, gentlemen, we must capture Qingzhou City in the next hour and a half." ”。

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

"Yes, Division Commander!!"

Kita Taijiro and others paused one after another.

Subsequently, Nakamura Zhenxiong ordered Haruo Sato to return to the troops, prepare to storm the east gate again after the rest was over.

In order to ensure the breakthrough of the east gate, the smooth attack into the city.

Nakamura Zhenxiong took out all the artillery and mortars that attacked Qingzhou City, as well as the grenadiers used by the front-line devil infantry, and used them all.

Prepare to concentrate artillery fire that can be concentrated to cover the infantry siege.

And a 10-minute break, in fact, is not that long.

At 10:48 in the morning, after the commander of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Jio Sato, reorganized the siege forces, after a loud gunshot, the artillery position of the devil began to carry out a fierce artillery attack.

"Tom tom!!"

On the artillery position not far from the East Gate of the Devil's City, and on the artillery position of the Devil's howitzer squad four kilometers away from the East Gate of Qingzhou City, all the Type 92 infantry guns and howitzers launched shelling at the same time.

In an instant, there was still a defender's position outside the east gate and the head of the city, and it suddenly fell into a sea of explosion.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Although the tail flame of the cannonballs could not be seen in broad daylight, after the dense shells fell and exploded, the clouds of smoke and dust that exploded obscured the sight of the defenders on the position all the time.

Accompanied by artillery fire, the devil infantry only concentrated 2,000 troops to attack with the bombardment of artillery fire this time.

Under the coordinated attack of infantry and artillery, the devil infantry quickly hit the defender position of the third battalion and one company of the independent regiment under the cover of artillery fire.

"Da-da-da, da-da!!"

The dense machine-gun rain of the defenders' positions immediately began to strafe, but they were quickly noticed by the devil's artillery fire and carried out a fierce shelling.

Soon, the machine gunners of the 3rd Battalion and 1st Company of the Independent Regiment began to suffer heavy casualties.

(End of chapter)

Lewen