"Yes, sir!"

The devil staff officer came back to his senses and immediately replied, and then hurriedly asked the devil signal soldier in charge of communication and liaison at the headquarters to immediately send an urgent telegram to Nakamura Zhenxiong's front-line headquarters.

Haneda Jiro drove out all the devil personnel in the headquarters except for a staff officer and a devil communication soldier, and picked up a gun to resist the first battalion of the independent regiment that came in from outside the north gate.

But even if all the Japanese forces in the city were concentrated, they could not withstand it.

At this time, Liu Ziming, a company commander under Zhang Dabiao's command, had already commanded his company of more than 200 soldiers to kill less than 100 meters north of the Japanese army garrison headquarters in the city.

"Da Da Da! Da Da!! ”

On the street less than 100 meters north of the headquarters in the city of Devil Shuo City, Liu Ziming soon encountered the machine gun fire of the defenders assembled at the headquarters in the city by the Japanese troops who reacted and hastily deployed to block the attack.

I saw that on the streets of Beicheng at this distance, on the roofs of the streets on the east and west sides of the streets, two Type 92 heavy machine guns crossed over and strafed more than 200 soldiers of the first battalion and one company of the independent regiment that had been killed from the north.

Several soldiers of the first battalion and one company rushed to the front, but they did not have time to hide, and they were killed on the spot in the crossfire of the devil's heavy machine guns.

"Concealment, devil heavy machine gun!"

Liu Ziming, who commanded the charge, immediately shouted with red eyes.

Actually, no, more than 200 soldiers of the first battalion and one company of the independent regiment that saw the devil heavy machine gun in front of them immediately hid in the buildings on both sides of the street, leaning against the wall from time to time to fight back with rifles, submachine guns and light machine gun fire.

However, the two heavy machine guns of the devil were on the rooftops on the east and west sides of the street, and they were deployed into crossfire, which immediately covered the line of sight of the soldiers of the independent regiment killed in the north.

"Grenades, smash!"

Liu Ziming shouted.

Soon, several fighters cleverly smashed the grenade, relying on the smoke and smoke generated by the grenade explosion to obscure the gunner's shooting vision.

"Quick, bring me the mortars in the back!"

Liu Ziming said to a soldier beside him.

"Yes, company commander."

The warrior immediately responded, and then nimbly dodged the devil's bullet rain and ran wildly behind.

In less than a minute, a mortar artillery soldier ran to Liu Ziming's side with his waist on his back.

"Company commander!"

The artillery soldier shouted loudly.

"See?"

Seeing the artillery soldiers coming up, Liu Ziming pointed to the devil machine gunners who were violently strafing the rooftops on the east and west sides of the street less than 20 meters from the street in front of him, and said, "Devil machine gunners, bomb them for me." ”。

"Knock it on, company commander!"

The artillery soldier smiled, and then immediately ran to the back.

Soon, the artillery soldier commanded two fighters to set up two 82-mm mortars and adjust the coordinates of the shelling.

"Target enemy heavy machine gun fire point, put!!"

At the sound of an order, the mortar shell filled into the barrel of the cannon, fell by inertia, and then touched the bottom fire and ignited to produce a powerful firing force.

"Tom!!"

Immediately, the shells smashed out of the barrel of the mortar, and soon roared and smashed into the position of the fire point of the devil's Type 92 heavy machine gun.

"Boom!!"

After two loud bangs, the devil's two heavy machine guns were blown up and flipped into the sky along with the machine gunner, and then smashed down.

"Well done! Brothers, keep rushing for me! ”

Liu Ziming was overjoyed, and continued to attack southward.

At this time, Haneda Jiro hastily gathered more than 130 devil soldiers around the headquarters in the city at the north gate of the headquarters, first blocking the first battalion of the independent regiment attacking from the north gate.

"Boom, boom!!"

At this time, Zhang Dabiao, who followed up, had already ordered the artillery team to concentrate artillery fire to bombard the headquarters in the Devil's City, and it was already possible.

I saw that after Haneda Jiro heard the sound of the explosion, he ran out of the gate of the headquarters and saw that at least three mortar shells had fallen into several courtyards of the garrison headquarters, and the explosion caused clouds of gunpowder smoke to rise into the sky.

At this time, it was still broad daylight, and Jiro Haneda, who watched that scene, was very ashamed!

"Baga, this is the first time that Shuocheng has been bombarded by the Eighth Route Army!"

Haneda Jiro said through gritted teeth.

"Sir, sir!!"

At this time, the staff officer who rushed out of the headquarters hurriedly reported to Haneda Jiro: "There is also the west gate and the east gate, and the Imperial Alliance army at the south gate is entangled by the enemy army that has divided its troops after attacking from the north gate, and cannot return to the city. ”。

"Nani?"

When Haneda Jiro heard this, he couldn't help but change his face slightly.

Although I know that there are more than 1,000 Imperial Cooperative troops who assist in defending the city, the combat effectiveness of these Imperial Cooperative Army is really rubbish, and it is basically impossible to count on it.

It's just that I didn't expect it, and I really can't count on it.

"The call ordered them, desperately, to withdraw to the city reinforcement headquarters."

Jiro Haneda shouted with a gloomy face as a dead horse doctor.

"Yes, sir!"

The devil's staff officer answered, and then hurried back to the headquarters.

But Jiro Haneda knew that he couldn't count on it.

At this time, Liu Ziming had already made peace with Zhang Dabiao, who led the main force to follow.

The two joined forces, and more than 1,200 soldiers of the first battalion of the independent regiment fought all the way south along the main street of Beicheng.

At 2:37 p.m., the two had joined forces and fought together to the north of the Japanese garrison headquarters in the city where Haneda Jiro was staying.

"Surround the Devil Command!"

Zhang Dabiao waved his hand, and then said to Liu Ziming, the commander of the first company, Xu Jiayou, the commander of the second company, who had already divided his troops to capture the west gate, east gate and south gate of Shuocheng, and Lin Yuxuan, the commander of the third company who would come over: "All units immediately launched an attack, and before 2:45, take the Japanese garrison headquarters of Shuocheng." ”。

"Understood, battalion commander!"

Liu Ziming and the others immediately said.

The trio then returned to their command positions and immediately began a siege.

In an instant, the Japanese garrison headquarters in Shuocheng City was immediately besieged by more than 1,200 soldiers of the first battalion of independent regiments.

At this time, there were less than 80 Japanese troops left in the hands of Haneda Jiro.

Surrounded by so many independent regimental commanders, there are not many men left.

"Sir, the imperial army outside is almost overwhelmed, and the enemy army has too many troops."

Soon, when the battle reached 2:40, a ghost soldier ran into the headquarters and reported to Jiro Haneda, his face pale.

"Tell all the Imperial soldiers, hold on!"

Haneda Jiro just let out a bitter sigh, then gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Hai, sir!"

The devil soldier replied with a sad face, then turned and ran out.

Haneda Jiro didn't care about the sad face of the devil soldier who reported the situation, turned his head and ordered the devil signal soldier in the headquarters: "Send a farewell message to General Nakamura Zhenxiong, telling Your Excellency the general that the headquarters of our imperial army defending the city in Shuocheng City is about to be lost, and it is a foregone conclusion that Shuocheng will be captured by the enemy. ”。

"Send the report!"

Finally, Jiro Haneda waved his hand in a bitter tone.

"Yes, sir!"

The devil signal soldier replied immediately, and then hurriedly sent a farewell message to Nakamura Zhenxiong before Zhang Dabiao led his troops to attack the headquarters!

(End of chapter)

Lewen