At the same time, the county seat of Heyuan.

The sky was dark, and the soldiers of the new regiment stepped on the siege ladder and attacked the head of the county seat of Heyuan.

The castle and the ruins were covered with the flesh of devils.

The minced flesh of these devils was all broken by machine guns.

Although Ishikawa used some cement and steel to strengthen the city wall, he forgot to reinforce the battlements, which led to the devil machine gunners at the battlements being hit by machine guns and suffering heavy losses.

This is not to blame Ishikawa for controlling the water, since the 36th Division has been fighting in Jinnan.

After the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu, took office, he transferred the 36th Division directly from southern Jin to northwest Jin.

Ishikawa didn't know what was happening in the Battle of Taiyuan.

Moreover, in the Battle of Taiyuan, the devils at the machine-gun fire point behind the battlements of the Eighth Route Army machine guns have been shattered.

Iwamatsu Yoshio and Yamamoto Kazuki and others saw some clues from the traces of the Taiyuan city wall after the war.

So he prepared to reinforce the battlements of the city wall with cement and steel bars, and waited for the next time Li Yunlong led his troops to attack Taiyuan, this method of flattening the anti-aircraft artillery would not work.

But that's all for later.

At this time, between the city walls and the ruins of Heyuan County, looking at a lump of shrapnel and gravel of minced meat, the veterans were all calm as usual.

But many recruits saw this hellish bloody scene for the first time, and they couldn't help but vomit on the spot.

After the recruits vomited, under the usual supervision of the squad leader and platoon commander, they continued to attack and advance.

The sky is already dawning, and if you continue to stay on the city wall, you are likely to be attacked by devil planes, which are all the combat experience summed up by the veterans in attacking the city.

At this time.

As the sharp knife of the army, it has to fight a bloody way for the large army, so that the main force can enter the city to start a street battle with the devils.

However, the thickened bunkers built by the devils at the entrance of the street blocked the way of the soldiers.

This kind of pillbox is a simplified version of the thickened pillbox and turret, the height is only about 4 meters, the thickness is 2 meters, the top is oval, the whole is built of reinforced concrete, and the defense is very strong.

The devils set up machine guns in the bunkers and fired at the walls and ruins.

As soon as a new group of fighters came up, the devil's machine-gun bullets poured in.

And not just a pillbox, there was also a fortress at the commanding heights of the house, forming a crossfire and causing great trouble for the soldiers.

Taking advantage of the cover of fire, some soldiers carried bazookas and fired several rockets from the city wall at the devil's bunker, but they still failed to destroy the bunker.

Li Yunlong held up the binoculars and watched as the soldiers continued to go up the city wall along the ladder.

However, the battle still took place at the city walls, and the sound of gunfire like popping beans continued to be heard, indicating that the battle was fierce.

Li Yunlong suddenly felt that something was wrong, when attacking the city in the past, once the soldiers captured the city wall, they could immediately enter the city and start a street battle with the devils.

But now the warriors have been entangled with the devils on the city wall for nearly 10 minutes, and they have not been able to enter the city.

"What's going on?"

"The advance speed is too slow, not like the combat style of our new regiment."

Political Commissar Zhao, who was holding a telescope to observe, was also keenly aware that something was wrong.

Li Yunlong turned his head to look at Wang Dehou and said, "Chief of Staff Wang, ask what is going on with the attacking troops, and what are you entangled with the devils in the city." ”

"Yes!" Wang Dehou picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and called, "Hey, the command headquarters calls the first battalion, please answer when you hear it..."

"First battalion commander."

"What's the situation on your side, why haven't the troops entered the city yet?"

"What did you say?"

"Okay, I'll report to the regimental commander."

Wang Dehou called the second and third battalions again and received the same reply.

After a while, Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong: "Regiment commander, the devils have built a thickened fortress at the entrance of the street, and the machine gun fire is very strong, and our Bazooka bazooka has not been able to destroy it. ”

Only then did Li Yunlong remember that the intelligence officers he had arranged in the city reported that the devils had built a number of bunkers in the city.

However, the intelligence personnel have lost contact with the regiment headquarters, and when the county seat is defeated, they must check how the devil found out the intelligence personnel.

Li Yunlong thought for a moment and said: "It's still the old way, use a 60mm mortar to shoot smoke bombs at the devil's bunker, and then use a flamethrower to burn the devil into a roast pig. ”

"Yes!" Wang Dehou immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and ordered.

Before the order of the regimental headquarters.

Zhang Dabiao was already using a low-power walkie-talkie to give orders to the first battalion artillery company.

After all, it was Zhang Dabiao who came up with the idea of using smoke grenades to cover the view of the machine gunners in the devil's bunker and the turret.

The commander of the artillery company received an order to personally take a squad of artillerymen, and the artillerymen carried 3 60-mm mortars and shell boxes with smoke grenades to the city wall.

One out of 10 of the mortar shells Chen Feng gave were smoke bombs.

In the past, smoke grenades were rarely used in battles, so the new group had a lot of smoke grenades in stock, plus the logistics of trucking.

Even though a lot of smoke grenades were used up in the attack on the devil's thickened bunkers and turrets, they were quickly replenished by trucks.

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The artillerymen of the 1st battalion battery glanced at the thickened pillboxes in the streets, and then quickly set up the 60-mm mortars.

With a muffled sound, the muzzle of the cannon swept by.

Three cannonballs were fired at the devil's bunker in the city.

……

In the distance, the commander of the 224th Wing of the Japanese Army, Matsuyama Soemon Ozuo, who was standing at the commanding heights of the division headquarters, sneered.

He coldly saw the Eighth Route Army flashing the mortar mount on the city wall, and his tone was sarcastic:

"This group of dirt roads, don't think that they can blow up the street forts carefully built by the imperial army with mortars, right?"

Beside him, Iseki and Ishikawa were also holding binoculars to observe the battle.

"Mortars? Where is it? ”

Ishikawa asked hurriedly when he heard this.

"Division commanders and chiefs of staff, please look, there they are!"

Matsuyama Soemon pointed to the location of the break in the western city wall, and Iseki and Ishikawa hurriedly raised their binoculars to look this way.

The battlements facing the city were not destroyed, and the mortars could not be seen by Iseki and Ishikawa Jisui, but soldiers of the Eighth Route Army could be seen running back and forth with shell boxes.

Ishikawa Zhishui's face sank: "The Eighth Route doesn't want to shell the division headquarters, right?" ”

"Yaga!" Jing Guanyan's face changed slightly: "Hurry up and hide." ”

Then, Iseki Tatsu, Matsuyama Soemon and Ishikawa Jisui hurriedly stepped on the ladder to get out of the room and entered a thickened bunker to hide.

When the new regiment was besieging the city and occupying the city wall, the tactical habit of beheading the headquarters with artillery had already spread among the Japanese army.

After all, no matter how much the tactics of bull breaking are used, they will not be so effective.

Therefore, once the Eighth Route Army occupied the city wall, Izuki and Ishikawa Zhishui and others would immediately transfer their command locations.

However, this thickened pillbox can withstand the continuous bombardment of howitzers, not to mention mortars.

Jing Guan looked at Ishikawa Zhishui: "The air force of the North China Front will arrive in about half an hour. ”

"It is estimated that the street fort will be able to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army for half an hour."

"I see that there are a lot of eight roads gathered at the city wall, Ishikawa-kun, you immediately communicate with the pilot, and let the pilot divide some bombers and fighters to attack the eight roads at the city wall."

Because Li Yunlong threw nearly 10,000 shells in half an hour.

Not only did the gun emplacements dug out by Ishikawa control water in the city wall not play their due role, but the artillery and mountain artillery also suffered heavy losses.

Jing Guanqian pinned his hopes on this wave of air support to bring a wave of heavy casualties to the infantry of the new regiment.

At the western, northern, and southern city walls, more than 2,000 soldiers from the Eighth Route have gathered.

"Hey!"

Ishikawa immediately responded, in order to prevent being spied on, he planned to wait for the plane to arrive before notifying.

After a while, there was no sharp whistling overhead, and there was no explosion of mortar shells in the extreme surroundings of the divisional headquarters.

A few old devils were puzzled.

Guarded by the guards, he climbed to the commanding heights of the house again and raised his binoculars to look in the direction of the western city wall.

"Division commander, chief of staff, there are smoke bombs on the eighth road!"

Holding the binoculars, Matsuyama Soemon Ozuo shouted, his voice filled with surprise and incredulity, which was very different from the previous ridicule.

"Nani? Smoke grenades? ”

Iseki and Ishikawa stood firm, holding binoculars and looking at the bunker at the entrance of the street.

I saw that the street entrance was completely shrouded in gray-white smoke, and the entire street entrance, including the bunkers and houses, was shrouded in smoke, and the smoke was extremely thick, and the vision was completely impenetrable.

Jing Guanyan's face sank suddenly: "Immediately order reinforcements to the street fort, and definitely not let the Eighth Route Infantry approach!" ”

Although the machine gunners of the devils kept firing at the front.

But the machine gunner's vision has been completely obscured, and he doesn't know where the Eighth Route Army has rushed to, even if he can shoot some of the Eighth Routes, but sooner or later he will be touched close by the Eighth Route.

At that time, the Eighth Route Infantry would simply throw some grenades into the shooting hole or stuff a bundle of explosives into the bunker to finish off the bunker.

At this time, infantry is needed to protect the perimeter.

Ishikawa Zhishui's face suddenly turned into a bitter melon: "Division commander, it's too late." ”

Jing Guan hurriedly raised his binoculars to look, and at this time the smoke had turned into a surge, and he saw the fire burst out at the street fort, and after a while, the fire became larger, and the flames floated out of the shooting hole.

A Japanese soldier covered in flames pushed open the door and ran out of the bunker, screaming and rolling on the ground.

Hundreds of meters away, it seemed that the hoarse and painful wails of the Japanese soldiers could be heard.

The faces of Jing Guan Yan and the others who saw this scene suddenly became extremely ugly.

"It's not good, I'm afraid it's..."

Jing Guan looked back at the direction of the North City Gate and the South City Gate successively, and suddenly Tong Kong shrank.

I saw the same thing happen at the north and south gates.

"Yaga!" Jing Guan ordered with a hideous face, "The Eighth Route is likely to shell the headquarters, leave the headquarters immediately!" ”

The three of them quickly descended from the commanding heights of the house, and then quickly evacuated with a cadre of the command center.

After the soldiers of the new regiment occupied the city wall, the sword team members climbed the city wall and began to search for the location of the devil's headquarters.

It's just that the sky was only slightly bright at the beginning, and the vision was very bad, and after a little brightening, the members of the Sword Squadron saw the headquarters of the devil.

Then immediately calculate the firing parameters, and use a high-power walkie-talkie to convey to the artillery position, guiding the cannon to fire at the devil headquarters in the city.

Almost as soon as the devils left on the front foot, a new mass of 105-mm test-fired shells on the back foot fired.

After the test firing of two 105-mm shells, 12 105-mm howitzers fired three rounds of shells at the regimental headquarters of the Devil's Division, and the shells landed very accurately, blowing up the regimental headquarters of the Devil's Division into a pile of rubble.

Near the city walls, the soldiers of the new regiment stepped over the bodies of their comrades who had been shot, replenished the guns of the burning devils, and then continued to attack and advance.

In a small area, even with smoke grenades, there were still some casualties.

Among them were veterans and recruits, all of whom fell on the way to the charge, and none of the fighters were shot in the back.