Chapter 790
"Boom..." The last aviation bomb hit the west end of the city and exploded, and the battlefield returned to peace again.
But in less than five seconds, the mortar troops not far from Major General Aso joined the battle. The roaring cannon sound once again covered the battlefield. More than 600 Japanese and puppet troops joined the battle at the same time, and rushed to the battlefield in a mighty way.
The fourth attack located west of the city began.
This time the attack went very smoothly, and the attacking troops rushed to the foot of the city wall without being attacked.
Seeing an infantry team climbing the city wall, there was still no gunfire sound on the top of the city. Major General Aso's clenched fist finally loosened, and his tense nerves also sootheed.
"General, the attacking troops have killed the city wall. We will definitely be able to enter the county town this time!" Colonel Hamano shouted excitedly.
"The follow-up troops immediately enter the battle. They must use the fastest speed to rush up the city wall, occupy the city head, expand the breakthrough, and then attack into the city!" The victory and defeat have not been truly decided, so Major General Aso was not as excited as his subordinates, with a very calm expression, looking at Colonel Hamano with a serious order.
"Please rest assured, General! I will give an order immediately!" Colonel Hamano rushed out of the war room after saying that!
During the process of issuing the order, Major General Aso's eyes never left the city.
At this time, the troops climbing to the city wall had increased from an infantry squadron to an infantry squadron, and many puppet troops also came to the city wall to assist the Imperial Army in expanding the occupied area.
In the blink of an eye, the west end of the city was completely occupied by the attacking troops, and the plaster flag was also standing on the top of the city.
Major General Aso completely relaxed. In his eyes, as long as the offensive troops successfully occupied the city, they would have one last step left to enter the county town and would hardly encounter any trouble.
The battle situation did develop in the direction he expected: the subsequent attacking troops rushed to the city head soon, and the city gate in the west of the city was also exploded at this moment, and many heavy weapons were sent to the city head together.
The attacking troops that first occupied the city began to attack the city one after another, and the quiet battlefield became lively again.
Because the battlefield was separated from the command center by a city wall, Major General Aso could only hear the sound of guns and cannons inside, but he didn't know what the situation was in the city.
"The artillery fires immediately and destroys the heavy machine guns that the Japanese army has set on the top of the city!" Fang Shanlin guarded behind the first temporary defense line in the west of the city, and looked at the National Salvation Army who were rushing closer and closer in front of me and was very anxious to order.
"Boom boom boom..." Because the shooting distance was too close, the three mortar shells were exactly like they had eyes, but they were not hit by the heavy machine gun.
"The artillery has been hit hard, readjust the shooting officers and continue firing!" Fang Shanlin punched the sandbag in front of him, and was very anxious to order.
The Japanese army put heavy machine guns on the top of the city and could fire at the blocking position from a high place. A heavy machine gun could suppress two infantry squads of the fifth company. If these heavy machine guns cannot be knocked out as soon as possible, the defensive pressure of the fifth company will definitely be very high, and casualties will increase sharply.
"Boom boom boom..."
Perhaps because Fang Shanlin's scolding came into effect, the second round of mortar shells finally hit the target, and the heavy machine gun was blown away together with four Japanese machine gunners.
"Well, the artillery continued to fire and knocked off all the heavy machine guns that the Japanese army had mounted on the top of the city!" Fang Shanlin was very happy to order.
When the Second Battalion artillery troops fired, the Japanese on the city were not vegetarian. In addition to heavy machine guns, the Japanese army also put a lot of mortars on the city.
Seeing that the artillery troops of the National Salvation Army finally exposed their targets, the Japanese gunners guarding the city were like hungry wolves who smelled blood. They immediately adjusted the mortar shooting officers and prepared to fight back.
However, they all underestimated the vigilance of the artillery units of the National Salvation Army.
In Zhou Cheng's words, street fighting and guerrilla warfare have not changed much, but only the battlefield has been transferred from outside the city to inside the city, and the mountains have become cities with interlaced streets.
The National Salvation Army is particularly good at fighting guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. Except for the Eighth Route Army, no one knows better the principle of changing places with one shot, and the same goes for artillery soldiers.
Before the war, the regiment headquarters issued a special order to death for them. During the battle, all participating artillery soldiers must immediately transfer their positions after firing artillery and are not allowed to fire more than five rounds of artillery shells in the same position.
When the Japanese army fired fire at the city wall, the three mortars that had just fired were transferred to the new artillery position.
For a moment, no artillery soldiers on both sides could do anything to each other and could only fight on their own and attack the opponent's infantry.
However, because the National Salvation Army hid in the dark, whether it was a machine gunner or a rifleman, they all fired one shot and changed the other place, making it difficult for the Japanese artillery to lock in the target.
On the other hand, the Japanese and puppet troops attacked the National Salvation Army were all exposed to the sight of the National Salvation Army. Not only would they be furiously attacked by the National Salvation Army's infancy guns, but they would also avoid shells falling from the sky at any time, with great casualties.
As they fought, the Japanese and puppet troops entered the city for 100 meters and could not retreat further.
The bad news soon reached Major General Aso's ears: "General, the attacking troops were blocked in the city. The National Salvation Army built a temporary defense line two hundred meters in the city. Their blocking firepower was very strong, and the attacking troops suffered a lot of losses!"
Major General Aso was very dissatisfied: "What are the artillery soldiers doing for? The National Salvation Army hid in the city. Our artillery soldiers guarded the city and attacked them with high altitude. They couldn't knock off their firepower points. What's the use of me asking them!"
The correspondent soldier quickly explained: "The National Salvation Army is too cunning. The firepower points on their artillery units and the blocking positions have been shifting. It is difficult for our artillery to lock them, let alone destroy them. Moreover, the National Salvation Army has also arranged a large number of mines and tricks in the city. The bombing makes our offensive troops unable to defend and have no way to attack forward quickly. One by one, the soldiers guard the offensive positions like live targets and are passively beaten!"
"Blast with shells!" Major General Aso's mind was running rapidly, and he quickly came up with a solution.
"Take all the remaining mortars from the two mortar squadrons to the top of the city, use shells to open the way, destroy all the mines and mines arranged by the National Rescue Army, and then concentrate the troops to assault forward, open a breakthrough, and rush straight to the center of the city!"
"Send the infantry artillery equipped by the two infantry brigades to the city and directly destroy the firepower point of the National Rescue Army!"
"Immediately notify the siege troops from the other three directions, let them strengthen their offensives, and delay the troops from defending the east, south and north of the city, and prevent them from reinforcementing the west of the city."
"The troops in the west of the city must strengthen their offensive, break through the temporary defense line of the National Rescue Army as soon as possible, and break into the city."
"Only in this way can we attack the remaining national-savior army inside and outside!"
The radio station sent commands much faster than the correspondents, so the Japanese and puppet troops in the three directions of the southeast, north and north were the first to be ordered to strengthen the offensive.
Huang Hu, the captain of the Shouyang garrison team, was very aggrieved.
In his plan, the twenty-five machine gun castles built in the city walls built by the regiment commander can kill at least 500 Japanese and puppet troops. If the tactics and tactics are used well, killing 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops will not be a problem.
But the opponents you face are too unsatisfactory.
If they were like the Japanese and puppet troops in the west of the city, they attacked the city regardless of everything, Huang Hu would definitely be able to realize his wish.
But when they attacked, they were like the old lady with little feet. Not only did they attack very slowly, but they also evacuated the battle as soon as they were attacked, and then used artillery fire and planes to attack the machine gun fire points and castles exposed on the city wall.
Except for the Japanese and puppet troops, they took a big advantage in the tentative attack, killing nearly a hundred Japanese and puppet troops. In the next two rounds of attacks, the defending troops only killed forty or fifty Japanese and puppet troops.
I won’t talk about the results of the battle at a young age. Because of the plane, I killed less than 100 Japanese and puppet troops and lost eight secret castles.
Fortunately, Huang Hu changed his combat plan at a critical moment to reduce the exposure speed of the castle. He changed the plan to use eight castles at one time to use four castles at one time, which reduced the loss speed of the castle. Otherwise, the number of castles available in his hand had been sharply reduced to less than ten.
But doing so did not change the deadlock that Huang Hu faced.
Although the loss rate of the castle has been reduced, the number of defending troops using the castle to destroy the Japanese and puppet troops has not increased.
If you continue to fight like this, all the remaining seventeen castles will be destroyed and even the four hundred Japanese and puppet troops will not be eliminated!
"Captain, the Japanese and puppet troops are starting to attack again!" The observation post guarding the shooting hole suddenly reported.
Huang Hu did not move after hearing the news. If this attack was the same as before, the Japanese and puppet troops sent only more than 200 people to do it, and there was no need to intervene by themselves, the battalion commander below could easily repel them.
"This time they sent more than 500 people, and the Japanese only had two infantry squadrons. Captain, the Japanese seemed to be trying to attack the city!" The sound of the observation whistle reached Huang Hu's ears again.
Hearing this, Huang Hu's expression of disappointment quickly turned into expectations, and he immediately ran to the shooting hole to observe the enemy situation.
"It is indeed more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops!"
"That's great. We finally have the opportunity to fight with the Japanese head-on and do a good job. We notify the troops to prepare for combat. This time we use eight secret castles at once, and use all the light and heavy machine guns I brought. Fight the Japanese first, then the puppet army, and fire when they rush to the outside of the city wall."
"We will also move after the Japanese and puppet troops retreat. The Japanese aircraft are too powerful. An aviation bomb can destroy one of our crams. After the retreat begins, no one can stand here and wait for death. They must move to a new crams immediately!"
After saying that, Huang Hu lifted up a crooked handle around him, steadily placed it in the shooting hole, loaded the bullets, and prepared for shooting.
When the Japanese and puppet troops rushed to 150 meters outside the city wall, Huang Hu could already see their blurred figures.
When there were still one hundred meters away from the city wall, Huang Hu had already put a Japanese officer in the sight.
"Dadadada..." Without hesitation, the moment the gunshot sounded in his ears, five bullets quickly flew out of the barrel and flew into a fan shape toward the Japanese officer he was targeting.
The shooting distance is not far or close. The moment the gunfire sounded, the bullets had already flown in front of the Japanese.
Before he could react, a bullet penetrated his chest, leaving a blood hole the size of a fist on the back of the Japanese.
Huang Hu didn't have the heart to check his own results.
After a long shot was shot, he quickly put a machine gun team next to him into the sight.
There were two deputy shooters next to the machine gunner, and three Japanese men walked together. In order to ensure that they were killed in the next shot, Huang Hu fired two long shots in a row and shot ten bullets.
When he turned his wounds again and was about to shoot and kill other Japanese devils, all the Japanese living nearby were lying on the ground.
But this did not delay the Huanghu shooting them.
The two Japanese who were on a slightly higher terrain were quickly targeted by him and shot wildly in the back.
Most of the bullets hit the ground, dust was flying, and a few bullets hit the target and drilled into their bodies from the back of the Japanese.
When Huang Hu was shooting, the remaining fifteen light and heavy machine guns also joined the battle at the same moment.
The dense bullets rushed towards the Japanese like it was raining.
At least forty Japanese devils were killed on the spot. Although the alive Japanese were lying on the ground at the first time, the National Salvation Army shot at them from a high point. Leaning down did not mean safety.
In just ten seconds, forty or fifty Japanese were killed.
Next is the machine gunner's free hunting time. Some people continue to stare at the Japanese and some are staring at the puppet troops in front of them.
The troops also have to go to the city to fight street battles with the Japanese and puppet troops. If you kill a few more Japanese and puppet troops here, the pressure on street battles will be much smaller.
Therefore, no warrior showed mercy because his opponent was a puppet army. As long as he had the chance, he would definitely kill the opponent as soon as possible.
The Japanese captain on the offensive position was surprised and happy.
He didn't expect that the National Salvation Army, which was guarding the city, had such powerful firepower.
During the previous attack, the National Salvation Army only dispatched four or five light and heavy machine guns at a time, which made the captain think that there were not many National Salvation Army on the city wall.
Fortunately, the brigade commander issued an order to attack the city, which immediately forced out all the hidden firepower and troops of the national rescue army.
Otherwise, these ambushers would definitely reinforce the west of the city and drive out the offensive troops that had finally entered the county town, which would be more than worth the loss.
Now the attacking troops have forced out all the hidden troops and firepower of the National Rescue Army. They must drag them here no matter what, so as to prevent them from splitting their troops to reinforce the west of the city.
In previous battles, the offensive troops retreated as soon as they encountered resistance, allowing the artillery to take over the battle and destroy the firepower points of the National Rescue Army.
In order to be able to hold the National Salvation Army, the captain did not choose to retreat this time.
While ordering the troops to continue to attack the city, the artillery troops and planes in the sky took the opportunity to destroy the firepower points of the national rescue army and kill a large number of their troops.
"Sir, all the firepower points of the National Salvation Army are hidden in the city walls, and it is difficult for the artillery troops to destroy them in a short period of time!" As they were fighting, the deputy captain realized that something was wrong.
Contact the adjutant of the aviation corps and reminded: "Although the aircraft can destroy the firepower points of the National Rescue Army, the speed is too slow, and there are not many bombs left on the aircraft. If you blow up three more castles, you have to evacuate the battle!"
The captain was not a blind man, and he saw the changes in the offensive troops.
When artillery and aircraft launched an attack on the city wall, more than ten light and heavy machine guns were finally fired on the city wall. The casualties of the offensive troops have been increasing sharply. At the beginning, nearly ten crooked players were fighting back on the spot, but now there are three left, and all other machine gun teams have been killed.
Chapter completed!