Inside Datong City.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander."

"The communications staff officer of the headquarters of the Mongolian army just spoke to me."

"The 17th Tank Wing of the 3rd Tank Division of the Mongolian Army, and the Infantry Wing of the 3rd Tank Division, came around from the right flank of the defensive position of the Eighth Route Army."

"Prepare to go directly under the north city wall of Datong and pick up my 1st Division out of the city."

"Lieutenant General Gan Ji, commander of the Mongolian army, please ask our 1st Division to immediately counterattack the Eighth Route Army, and defeat the Eighth Route Army in conjunction with the outside world."

At the headquarters of the 1st Division, Chief of Staff Taro Eguchi reported to the division commander Mitsuo Nakazawa with an excited expression.

When the operational staff officers heard the news, they couldn't help but feel excited.

In the past few days, the 1st Division was surrounded by the 40,000 main forces of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the Eighth Route Army only fought street battles with the 1st Division on the first day, it did not continue to fight the 1st Division in the following days.

But this kind of knife on the neck, life and death in the hands of others, that is really uncomfortable.

After all.

As long as the Eighth Route Army is willing to fight street battles with the 1st Division, it is only a matter of time before the 1st Division is wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.

"Yo-shei, yo-hee..."

The commander of the division, Mitsuo Nakazawa, even called Yo Xi.

The battle plan agreed with Gansu Shigetaro was only for the 1st Division to break through from the northern city wall by itself, and then flank the Eighth Route Army with the main force of the Mongolian army.

And now, the main forces of the army stationed in Mongolia sent troops of an infantry company and a chariot company to attack the Eighth Route Army from outside the northern city walls.

This more than doubled the success rate of the 1st Division's counteroffensive victory.

After the 1st Division's signal corps contacted the signal corps stationed in Mongolia, the 1st Division also learned about the deployment of the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

That is, fortifications were built in the area of Gudian and Huayuantun.

Nakazawa Sanfu smiled coldly, Datong is surrounded by plain terrain, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a flat river, and the commander of the Eighth Route ordered to build this kind of fortification, which is simply extremely stupid.

Either the commander of the Eighth Route Army took the locust army for a fool.

Either the commander of the Eighth Route Army is a fool.

The chariot troops of the Mongolian army can bypass the defensive positions of the Eighth Route Army, attack the infantry and artillery positions in the rear of the Eighth Route Army, and even go directly to the city of Datong.

Nakazawa Mitsuo's right hand tightly grasped the hilt of the Heavenly Locust Imperial Saber:

"Herald!"

"The attacking force immediately launched an attack on the northern wall!"

"Hey!"

Taro Eguchi bowed his head suddenly, turned around and went to give the order.

Military orders are like mountains.

As the attack order of the 1st Division headquarters was issued, the devils of the 1st Division rushed out of the streets and alleys and approached the four walls of Datong along the streets and alleys.

The eastern, western, and southern city walls are all covering and feints, and the main direction of attack of the devils is the north city wall.

Ding Wei naturally knew the tactics of the devils very well, so he had already strengthened the firepower of the northern city wall, and even deployed some 20mm anti-aircraft guns on the city wall.

The 10 Type 89 150-mm cannons of the 6th Brigade of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Wing were pulled out by the devils and prepared to fire at the northern city wall.

The Japanese Army's Type 89 150mm field cannon, with a total weight of 10,422 kg, a maximum firing range of 18,100 meters, a muzzle velocity of 734.5 m/s, a firing rate of 1~2 rounds per minute, and a Type 93 grenade.

This kind of artillery began to be widely used in the Chinese battlefield after the 918 Incident, and played a huge role in destruction.

However, it takes a lot of time for the devil artillery to set up a cannon.

But as soon as the devil's cannon was pulled out, it was discovered by the artillery observers of the Eighth Route Army on the city wall.

Immediately, the artillery observers quickly calculated the firing elements at the location of the devil's cannon and reported it to the artillery positions in the rear.

The devil has a total of five cannon emplacements, and round sandbags are piled around each emplacement.

2 150-mm howitzers per gun emplacement, where several hundred artillerymen were busy, ready to fire on the northern walls.

Although in terms of power, the devil's 150mm cannon is not as good as the 150mm howitzer of the Eighth Route Army.

But after all, the caliber is here, and the 150-mm cannon used to bombard the masonry walls is tantamount to killing chickens with knives.

Of course, the 1st Division also had no choice, after all, the 1st Division no longer had 75-mm mountain guns and 105-mm howitzers.

Each artillery observer, responsible for one cannon emplacement, began to guide the shelling.

Since the target of the shelling was in Datong City, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army did not dare to cover it with unscrupulous artillery fire, and could only use precision methods to carry out precise shelling.

At a distance of five kilometers, it is very difficult for one artillery to accurately destroy another artillery, and it is still a matter of fighting cattle across the mountains.

The first is that the artillery installation must be in absolutely intact condition and not loosen in the slightest.

The second is that the level of artillery observers who calculate and shoot all elements must be high, otherwise they will miss by a fraction of a millimeter or a thousand miles.

Even a difference of a few tenths of a scale can deviate the impact point by tens of meters, or even farther.

The cannon is the king of war, a symbol of might, like a strong man who seems to have infinite strength, and serving it is as delicate as a woman's eyebrows and lips.

Coincidentally, on the Datong city wall, the artillery observer who was responsible for guiding the artillery bombardment was a member of the Sword Squadron.

Under the guidance of the members of the Sword Squadron, the 105-mm howitzer five kilometers away from the Eighth Route Army seemed to have eyes, and the landing point was extremely accurate.

After calibration, the third shell landed accurately on the devil's cannon position.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Accompanied by the explosion like a landslide, it was an explosion wave that swept across the entire devil's cannon position, and the devil's artillery was blown to pieces.

A shell hit the devil's ammunition truck, and a 150-mm high-explosive shell exploded, and fireballs and smoke rose like mushroom clouds.

It didn't take long for the devil's cannon to be destroyed.

In the headquarters, Taro Eguchi, a staff officer of the 1st Division who was watching this scene, couldn't help but gasp.

The artillery quality of the Eighth Route Army was so high that in just a few minutes, it destroyed a heavy artillery brigade of the 1st Division.

The heavy artillery fire was suppressed by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

In desperation, Taro Eguchi had no choice but to send infantry to attack the northern city wall.

Mortars, infantry guns and grenadiers fired curling fire at the northern wall occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, the battalions of the Eighth Route Army on the city wall belonged to artillery, 20-mm machine guns, and fired at the artillery of the devils.

In the roaring cannonball, the devil infantry of the 1st Division held 38-type rifles and shouted loudly to launch a pig-like attack on the city wall.

On the city walls, light and heavy machine guns and 20-mm machine guns poured tongues of fire, and a dense rain of bullets poured down on the devil infantry.

The battle at the northern wall soon came to a fever pitch.

The devils organized a sneak attack by a small force, which almost succeeded, but fell short.

Gunshots like popping beans were heard in the other three directions.

The devils fell one by one, and several echelons of the devil demolition team approached the city wall with explosives, and were soon shot 50 meters away, but the devils behind were still one after another.

……

Outside the North City.

The dense explosion exploded in the smoke field, and the faces of Tataro Kanji and Kazusaku Nishihara changed.

The battle situation did not develop as the two old devils thought, and the artillery of the Eighth Route Army fired heavy artillery fire into the smoke array area, and it was covered by heavy artillery fire in a large area!

This kind of heavy artillery fire is very strange.

It lasted only a dozen seconds, but the shells were very powerful and covered a wide area.

In areas covered by heavy artillery fire, it is difficult to have a live mouth.

At this time, Gansu Shigetaro and Nishihara Kazuce finally knew why the 1st Division reported to the North China Front Headquarters that the Eighth Route Army had the firepower of a heavy artillery division.

The 1st Division's bunch of junk didn't even understand the enemy's heavy artillery fire.

Is this more than the firepower of a heavy artillery division?

The firepower of at least two heavy artillery divisions can hit such a heavy artillery fire coverage effect.

But against the face-to-face Eighth Route Army, it was absolutely impossible to have two heavy artillery divisions.

The reason is very simple, the artillery of a heavy artillery division regiment, plus logistics personnel, has a total strength of at least tens of thousands.

The two heavy artillery divisions had to serve at least 20,000 people, and the total strength of the Eighth Route Army was only 40,000.

Suppressing the doubts in their hearts, Tataro Kazutaro and Kazusaku Nishihara hurriedly looked ahead through the vision of the telescope.

The smoke cleared as smoke grenades fired by devils and explosions of Katyusha rockets dissipated.

As far as the eye could see, there were dense shell craters, and the 12th Tank Wing, which rushed into the smoke array, and the anti-tank brigade lost most of them.

Tanks were bombed and scrapped, some tanks were even blown into parts, and the anti-tank infantry could not find even a single intact corpse.

Looking at this scene, Nishihara Kazuce's legs went limp, and after holding on to the handle of the ladder in front of him, his face was full of horror.

What kind of new weapon is this?

It's too powerful, too.

It was definitely the most powerful weapon he'd ever seen, not one of them.

There is such a fierce and powerful artillery fire weapon in the world.

This is the second time that this weapon has carried out heavy artillery fire on the Mongolian garrison.

If he had such artillery fire in his hands after the enemy released smoke bombs, he would definitely retreat as soon as possible and then call for artillery support.

Taking a deep breath, Nishihara Kazusei asked, "Your Excellency, the artillery firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too strong, do you withdraw the 13th Tank Wing and the 17th Tank Wing?" ”

From the time the Mongolian army arrived in Datong and started the war with the Eighth Route Army, it was only a few hours.

The 3rd Tank Division has already lost almost half of the tank crews and tanks of a tank brigade, and the losses are almost half of the 3rd Tank Division.

Such a loss made Nishihara Kazuce feel like his heart was dripping blood.

The development of the battle situation was completely different from what he thought.

In the imagination, all the tanks of the Eighth Route Army were destroyed, the steel torrent of the 3rd Chariot Division rolled forward, and the scene of defeating the Eighth Route Army did not appear.

The losses of the Eighth Route Army were not large, and at this rate, it was only a matter of time before the tanks of the 3rd Tank Division were completely wiped out.

Nishihara has already had the idea of retreating and wants to stop the loss in time.

However, Gansu Jutaro was unmoved, and his eyes were crazy: "Nishihara-kun doesn't need to be discouraged, it's just a loss of more than 100 tanks from two chariot wings, this battle can be won by the locust army!" ”

After paying such a big loss, how could Taro Ganji be willing to fail?

People with a gambler's mentality are like this, always feeling that they are in the next hand and can win back all the chips they have lost.