"Report to the commander, the North Gate Gate Gate report: the attacking troops of the National Salvation Army dug trenches more than 100 meters outside the city and built an offensive position. The city defense troops suffered heavy casualties under their artillery fire, and the city gate was also blown up!" Before Major Sakuragi could understand the purpose of the National Salvation Army's attack on the county town, another telephone soldier hurried over to report.

"How many people have they lost!" Major Sakuragi asked immediately.

Although the North Gate garrison did not ask for help from the command center, as the captain of the garrison, he must know himself and his enemy, and always grasp the current situation of his own troops.

The telephone soldier hesitated for a moment and replied: "More than 120 people were killed in battle, and more than 30 people were seriously injured!"

"After the city gate was blown open, the National Salvation Army pushed the mountain cannons three hundred meters outside the city for direct aiming and shooting. As a result, the mountain cannon shells they fired actually passed through the city gate hole and hit the temporary defense line we built in the city."

"Only three mountain cannon shells caused casualties to the garrison in the north of the city."

Major Sakuragi was so angry that he almost jumped up from the ground and scolded loudly: "Bageya Road, the troops garrison in the north of the city actually suffered more losses than the east gate, so why not ask the command center for help?"

After hearing this, the adjutant next to him knew that Major Sakuragi was confused and quickly explained: "Sir, please calm down!"

"The garrisons we have arranged in the north of the city are nearly twice as many as other directions, and the density of soldiers on the city is higher than that of other directions. The number of imperial troops and imperial assistants killed by artillery shells is greater, and the overall casualties of the troops must be greater than those of the other three directions!"

"Because there are many troops stationed in the north of the city, even if the casualties are reduced, they still have nearly 600 people, and the total strength is twice that of other directions. Of course, there is no need to ask the command center for help!"

Major Sakuragi's reaction was quick, and he suddenly figured out a problem that he had not figured out yet: "I understand, it's not that we can't find the main attack direction of the National Savior Army, but that the National Savior Army attacking us has no main attack direction at all!"

"They first used the attack to shorten the attack distance, and then used artillery fire to kill our troops in large quantities."

"When the offensive troops repaired their positions more than 100 meters outside the city and prepared for the offensive, their strength was consumed by them. Then they launched a general attack from four directions and raided us at close range. They could easily make breakthroughs on the defense line and enter the county town."

Major Sakuragi's face sank after he said that.

Under normal circumstances, without absolute military strength and firepower advantages, the most commonly used tactic for the attacking party is to concentrate all firepower to break through one point, so as to fight to break through and increase your chances of winning.

Compared with the defending troops, the National Salvation Army that launched an attack outside the city did not have much advantage in military strength.

Logically speaking, concentrating firepower to break through a point should be the most suitable way of playing.

However, the National Salvation Army unexpectedly chose a comprehensive attack, regardless of main attack or back attack, and attack at the same time in four directions.

If my analysis just now is correct, facing the strange fighting style of the National Salvation Army, it is easy to solve and difficult to solve, and it is difficult to solve.

As long as they concentrate all artillery fire to destroy the artillery troops of the National Rescue Army, they will not be able to continue to use artillery to consume the strength of the defending troops.

The National Salvation Army, which is building an offensive position, will also have to retreat under artillery fire.

But in this way, his only few mortars will be exposed to the National Salvation Army first.

These mortars are their last trump card. If the National Salvation Army also hides the artillery troops, they will definitely suffer a devastating blow after being exposed, and they will become more passive in the subsequent battle.

Faced with this dilemma, Major Sakuragi hesitated.

"Sir, the garrison in the west of the city reported that they also lost more than 100 people in the attack of the National Salvation Army and requested reinforcements. It is best to provide them with several minutes of artillery fire support, knock down the artillery that the National Salvation Army was set up outside the city, and force them to retreat the attacking troops!" Another telephone soldier hurried over to report.

Major Sakuragi was hesitating and didn't know how to choose. After listening to the telephone report, he immediately made a decision: "You can't continue to be passive like this."

"We lost more than an hour after the National Salvation Army's attack. If we didn't fight back, we would have suffered more than half of the casualties until the early morning of this war, and we would definitely not last until dawn tomorrow!"

"I can only take a bet and order the artillery troops to fight back immediately, first destroy the artillery troops that the National Rescue Army poses the greatest threat to us, and then shell out their attacking troops and force them to retreat."

"The mobile troops dispatched 450 people and divided into three groups to reinforce the west, east and south of the city, ensuring that they have 400 defensive forces at all times!"

"There is another last order to the city defense force: before the National Salvation Army launches a general attack, the city defense force must not pull all the troops on the top of the city and be bombed, unless our artillery has killed the National Salvation Army's artillery force."

On the mound outside the south gate, the Xiyang garrison had a few remaining artillery pieces ready to fire.

Dong Fei kept guarding the side and staring at the battlefield, with the expression on his face very relaxed.

The attack here was very smooth, and more than 100 soldiers had dug more than 100 individual bunkers a half-meter deep outside the city.

The soldiers were squatting in the bunker, and with the pile of dirt they piled in front of them, it was difficult for the Japanese to threaten them.

So each soldier squatted inside and tried his best to dig out the soil, deepening and widening the cover under his feet.

The faster soldiers had begun to extend to both sides, preparing to connect the independent individual bunkers into a line to form a trench.

Look at the top of the city wall again. As long as there are shells hitting the city wall, there must be Japanese who are blown away in the splashing flames.

Calculate that one shell killed three Japanese and puppet troops, the shells fired just now caused more than 100 casualties to the Japanese and puppet troops in the south of the city, which is not the losses caused to the Japanese army by light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers.

If you continue to fight according to the situation in front of you, in about two or three hours, the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in the south of the city will be killed, with very few remaining!

"Boom boom boom..." At this moment, a series of explosions suddenly rang out in the east of the city.

The sound was dense and violent. You could tell at first that it was the movement caused by the explosion of several shells at the same time.

The attacking troops in the east of the city were only equipped with two artillery pieces, so they would definitely not be able to fire such dense artillery fire. The shells that had just exploded must have been fired by the Japanese.

"God helps me, the Japanese artillery troops finally fired!" Dong Fei was not surprised but happy, with an excited command on his face!

"Immediately contact the offensive troops in the east, north, and west of the city. The Japanese artillery troops were dispatched to make them ready for artillery prevention and counterattack."

"Order the artillery company to lock in the Japanese and puppet artillery positions immediately, be sure to hit me the starting lineup and knock it off in the shortest time!"

"Boom boom boom..."

A violent explosion kept ringing outside the city. In less than a minute, the two artillery pieces equipped by the National Salvation Army in the east of the city disappeared.

Another minute later, the artillery positions of the National Salvation Army in the north of the city were also hit by artillery fire.

Half a minute later, the two cannons equipped in the north of the city were no longer moving!

On the Japanese artillery position, dozens of gunners were quickly adjusting the shooting angle of the artillery, intending to aim all mortars at the artillery position of the National Salvation Army in the west of the city.

"Report to the commander, all the remaining six mortars are ready to shoot!" a Japanese lieutenant shouted from a distance.

"Each gun fires five extremely fast shots, fire immediately!" The squadron leader of the Japanese Artillery Squadron took an excited order.

When the artillery was hit just now, he had knocked off the artillery position in both directions of the National Salvation Army. Although he was also counterattacked by the opponent, only a few shells fell on the artillery position, losing one artillery and seven or eight gunners, but he killed four artillery pieces of the opponent.

The 1-to-4 loss ratio was a good result for him.

If you continue to fight like this, the artillery squadron will be able to wipe out all the artillery set up outside the city at the cost of another mortar.

So after giving the shelling order, the squadron leader waited for his subordinates to fire with a confident smile.

“Woo woo woo woo…”

At this moment, a string of harsh whistles suddenly rang above his head, and the sound became louder and louder.

The artillery squadron leader was a veteran artilleryman for four or five years and had a rich combat experience. He heard the voice above his head and smiled on his face, and shouted in shock: "It's mountain cannon shells, and there are mountain cannon shells flying towards us, and there are more than one, so everyone hides!"

After saying that, the squadron leader took the lead and lay on the ground. Two violent explosions followed closely in his ears. Because the explosion point was too close to him, the squadron leader's ears were buzzing, and a large amount of soil and dust that were blown into the sky hit him...

The squadron leader shook his head and threw away the dirt on his head. He was about to look up at the explosion point, "Boom..." a string of denser, but not as violent as before, reached his ears again.

The cautious squadron leader had to continue lying on the ground with his head in his arms.

"Boom..." As soon as the explosion ended, two more explosions came from the artillery positions not far away.

The squadron leader could hear clearly that the two explosions were caused by mountain cannon shells and mortar shells.

In just three or four seconds, the artillery position was hit by at least three mountain cannon shells and five mortar shells.

Because the time is too short, these shells are definitely not fired by several artillery guns.

This means that the National Salvation Army still has at least eight artillery pieces.

More importantly, these eight cannons are all facing him, and he doesn't know the specific location of the other party.

Now the National Salvation Army takes the initiative. If it reacts slowly and does not transfer in time, it is likely that it will not even have a chance to counterattack and will be directly eliminated by the other party here.

The squadron leader instantly figured out his current dangerous situation, and his face turned into a crushing defeat, and he shouted anxiously.

"Bageya Road, the National Salvation Army also hid the artillery troops. They were deceived and must be transferred immediately, otherwise everyone will be bombed to death here!"

"Everyone is transferred, bring artillery with you and evacuate the artillery position immediately!"

The squadron leader gave orders and got up from the ground, as if he was frightened and ran out of the artillery position with his command knife.

The Japanese who were still alive in the artillery position quickly dismantled the mortar beside them, carried the mortar parts on their shoulders and ran out, at a very fast speed!

"Boom..."

The mortars have faster firing rates. Before many Japanese devils have dismantled the mortars in front of them, the second round of five mortar shells have arrived one after another, as if they have eyes.

Five orange-red fireballs rose from the artillery positions. In the splashing flames, most of the Japanese gunners squatting on the ground were blown over, and a mortar was blown into parts.

The gunner, who was not hit by the shell, continued to dismantle the mortar. After that, he carried the parts and ran out of the artillery position...

Just then, three more violent explosions rang behind them.

The power of mountain cannon shells is much greater than that of mortar shells. Many Japanese retreating men were blown up with people and parts, and they fell to the ground and there was no movement.

The Japanese squadron leader retreated the fastest, listening to the continuous explosions behind him, as if someone was whipping him behind him with a whip, running fast.

I ran for more than 100 meters in one breath before I stopped. I quickly climbed up to the roof of the room beside me, and while panting, I observed the specific situation of the artillery position.

After reading it, he became anxious and his heart became colder.

During the fierce artillery fire, at least half of the gunners fell on the artillery positions and did not withdraw.

The retreating gunner does not mean that he is safe. The artillery bombardment of the National Salvation Army continues, and shells hit them from time to time, continuing to weaken the strength of the artillery squadron.

Among the dozens of subordinates who successfully withdrew, most of them had empty hands, and many of them lost their self-defense weapons.

Maybe it was to run faster, maybe it was because the National Salvation Army was too fierce and there was no time for them to dismantle the artillery, which caused most of the mortars to be left in the artillery positions.

The squadron leader took a rough look and thankfully, the mortar parts brought by his subordinates could assemble two mortars.

After the Japanese garrison command issued a counterattack order, Major Sakuragi was obviously not as panicked as before.

Standing next to the city defense map, analyzing whether there are any loopholes in the counterattack command just now.

After learning that the artillery that the National Salvation Army was built in the north and east of the city were destroyed by the mortar squadron, Major Sakuragi was happy for a while and felt that his counterattack order was correct, and the National Salvation Army did not hide its strength.

Just as he became more and more confident in the battle to come, a series of explosions from the center of the county town bombed him back to reality, and the confidence on his face disappeared without a trace at this moment.

He rushed out of the war room and looked in the direction where the explosion sounded, then his face turned into a disastrous defeat and shouted in dismay.

"Bageya Road, the explosion came from the artillery position!"

The subordinates who ran out together shouted: "Sir, there is fire in the artillery position, it must be that the artillery position was attacked by the enemy!"

Major Sakuragi cursed with a calm face: "I'm not blind and can see it. Contact the artillery squadron immediately to find out their situation. If they still have the strength to fight back, they must destroy it as quickly as possible."

"Contact the city defense force and find out immediately how many artillery weapons the National Salvation Army that attacked our attack should be equipped with, and the speed should be fast!"
Chapter completed!