To the north of Qixia Town, there is a low hill.

After the little devils occupied Qixia Town, in order to prevent the guerrillas and the Eighth Road from sneak attacking, they deliberately had people cut down all the woods and shrubs on the hills, revealing the bare ground.

But shrubs and weeds, "wildfires can't be burned inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and grow", and now here is a lush green patch.

Now, among these shrubs and weeds, there are quietly criss-crossing trenches.

In the trench, there were nearly a thousand soldiers squatting - most of them, of course, were militiamen temporarily led by Xia Dayi.

This trench was naturally dug by Han Yang with all his strength last night, and at this moment, this trench was only six or seven hundred meters away from the turret north of Qixia Town.

In addition to the trenches, Han Yang also ordered the soldiers of the artillery platoon and the machine gun platoon to set up artillery and heavy machine gun positions on the two hillocks on the right side, and covered them with weeds to prevent them from being discovered by the little devils in the turret.

When the sun was quietly rising in the east, and the hands of Han Yang's watch pointed to 7 o'clock, he categorically ordered:

"Artillery, open the artillery, blow up the turrets and bunkers of the little devils first!"

"Heavy machine guns, use three first, suppress the little devil's firepower point, and cover the militia to continue to dig!"

"Soldiers with good marksmanship in each platoon, wait for the trench to dig to a position of about 500 meters, start firing freely, don't waste bullets, shoot slowly, we still have to fight this battle!"

With his order, the two Type 92 infantry guns of the first company immediately opened fire.

As for shooting Zhu Yuan, they had already adjusted it half an hour ago!

"Bang...... Shout...... Rumble! ”

"Bang...... Shout...... Rumble! ”

The bombardment of shells, like the roar of death.

And the heavy machine guns also began to "aggressively" strafe towards the firing point of the little devils.

The militiamen led by Xia Dayi immediately waved their shovels and continued to dig along the trenches.

This is what Han Yang figured out, not only to let the little devil ask for help, but also to reduce casualties, and not to capture Qixia Town too quickly.

- Artillery fire knocks out the fire point of the little devil, and then the infantry earthwork, slowly threatening the little devil.

……

As soon as the company made a move here, the little devils at the entrance of the town immediately became chaotic.

A little devil lieutenant officer emerged from under the wall at the entrance of the town and shouted in terror:

"Enemy attack!"

"Shelling!"

"Dodge the cannon!"

This person is Lieutenant Akihiko Maeda, the squad leader in charge of the defense of the northern side of Qixia Town.

……

However, before he could finish speaking, two Type 92 infantry guns weighing 3.8 kilograms of high-explosive shells smashed down, and smashed with great precision on the turret at the entrance of the town, which was suppressed within a radius of several hundred meters.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

There were two loud bangs in succession, and the heavy machine gun and several shooters and observers on the turret were directly blown into the sky.

In order to achieve this effect, the gunners of the artillery platoon of the first company repeatedly calculated the firing costs for one hour, and now they have really made a contribution.

However, although the little devil did not have a turret, the heavy machine guns erected in the bunker also rang out, and swept towards the artillery position of the first company.

It's a pity that Han Yang asked the artillery platoon to arrange the artillery position about 1,200 meters away from the artillery tower, which has exceeded the effective range of the little devil's heavy machine gun.

So now although the heavy machine gun in the little devil's bunker is aimed at the artillery position and is firing wildly, it is still difficult for the bullets to accurately hit the target they are aiming at, except for a few stray bullets, which injured the two ammunition men who could not dodge, there is no great result.

At this time, the three heavy machine guns of the first company fired almost at the same time, and the bullets drilled through the firing hole of the bunker, directly killing the machine gunner of the little devil, and immediately made the heavy machine guns of the bunker dumb.

But soon the little devil's second-in-command stood up and continued to operate the heavy machine gun fire.

At the entrance of the town, Lieutenant Maeda Akihiko, the leader of the little devil squad, stood quietly hiding on the wall, observing the offensive of the Eighth Route outside with a telescope, and immediately understood that it would be difficult for his team to block the attack of the Eighth Route of the Dirt Road alone.

Especially now that the turret he is relying on has been blown up by two cannons on the Eighth Road, and the defenders have been killed.

He hurriedly shouted to his herald:

"Hurry up, go and report to Your Excellency the Squadron Leader, at least one regiment is coming from Tubalu, carrying two Type 92 infantry guns to attack us, ask for tactical guidance!"

Seeing the herald running towards the town, his heart calmed down a little, and then he ordered:

"Fukui-kun, quickly take your people and enter the turret to check the heavy machine gun, without this heavy machine gun, Dohachi Road will rush up soon!"

When the squad leader Tatsuo Fukui heard this, he couldn't help but look bitter.

Heart: Baga! Didn't you see that the offensive of the Dirt Eight Road was so fierce?

But the military order could not be disobeyed, and he could only honestly take his 12 soldiers out of the town, braving the shrapnel flying outside and the heavy machine guns flying around, and rushed towards the silent artillery tower outside the town.

……

The luck of the Fukui squad was actually not bad, they risked their lives to rush into the turret, and they actually lost only one soldier.

After some inspection, they found that the locust warriors in the turret were all killed and injured by the shells of the Eighth Road, but the heavy machine gun was only bent by the barrel, and it could still be used with a new barrel.

Tatsuo Fukui was overjoyed, and while directing his men to replace the barrels of heavy machine guns, he commanded four light machine gunners to condescendingly shoot at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were frantically digging trenches a few hundred meters away.

A few shuttle bullets flew out, and they killed three or four militiamen who were not well hidden, so that Xia Dayi hurriedly shouted:

"Crouch down, hide!

The little devil machine gun is vicious! ”

With his shout, Han Yang in the trenches behind also saw the movement in the little devil's turret, and immediately ordered:

"Artillery, two more shells for that dog's turret!"

On the artillery position, after the artillerymen saw Han Yang's flag order, they immediately turned around the gun port towards the bunker and aimed at the gun tower again.

"Bang...... Shout...... Rumble! ”

"Bang...... Shout...... Rumble! ”

After two loud bangs, the little devil's turret stopped moving again.

The Fukui squad was directly wiped out, and they had already replaced the spare barrels, and the heavy machine guns that were about to be refired were completely scrapped, and the gods couldn't repair them.

"Good! Good job! ”

Han Yang saw it with a telescope, and immediately shouted loudly.

……

After the turret, the infantry guns re-aimed at the reinforced concrete bunker and continued to fire unhurriedly.

According to Han Yang's order, they must ensure that every shell must be within the range of the bunker's firing hole, so that even if the bunker cannot be blown up, maybe the flying shrapnel can also cause casualties to the little devil machine gunner.

But in doing so, their shooting speed will naturally not be fast.

However, the little devil didn't know what they thought, and thought that they were like this because of the limited number of shells, and he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

All of a sudden, the battle was deadlocked.

There were a lot of casualties on the little devil's side, and even on this side, there were occasional militiamen who were killed and injured by the little devils.

Han Yang saw that the shells of the infantry cannon smashed on the top of the bunker several times, but he couldn't help the little devils in the bunker, and couldn't help but sigh with disgust:

"Alas, the power of this Type 92 infantry cannon is still almost there, if it were replaced by two mountain guns, this bunker would have been lifted a long time ago!"

Hearing his words, Zhao Shihong next to him couldn't help but reply:

"Old Han, what you said is too much!

Do you know that these two cannons are sent to the division headquarters, and the division commander has to invite you to drink?

How many of our main regiments don't have even a single infantry gun! ”

(End of chapter)