The small exploratory offensive ended, followed by another Japanese artillery bombardment.

However, this shelling was very targeted, and it was no longer a covering shelling of the entire Hankou city, but a concentrated firepower to bombard the left and right flanks of the Hankou city!

The bombing lasted a full half hour!

Immediately afterwards, two squads of infantry pounced on them again.

As a result, there was no suspense, and he was attacked head-on by the guard brigade and the special service brigade, and none of the two squads of more than a hundred devils who attacked could escape back alive!

……

On the Fenghe Mountain, the observation post.

Seeing that two more infantry squads were completely wiped out, Di Bugui's face darkened in an instant.

Yoshio Shinozuka still had no expression on his face, and said indifferently: "Tsuki does not clamp Jun, I just said, don't care too much about casualties, there is a very famous old saying in China, mercy is not in charge of troops, which is to the effect that if you are too merciful, you can't be a good commander, you have to learn to be ruthless!" ”

"Hello!" Di Bu Gui nodded and said, "I have been taught." ”

Yoshio Shinozuka said again: "Although three infantry squads and more than 150 soldiers of the Imperial Army were sacrificed, their sacrifices were not worthless, at least, they helped us find out the fact that at the railway station on the middle road, and on the left and right flanks of this butterfly-shaped urban area, the Shina Army built a strong bunker fortification group!" ”

"Hello!" Di Bujia nodded again, and said with a worried face, "At present, it seems that the Chinese army is ready, and the preparations they have made in Wuhan are far more adequate than those in Shanghai, Nanjing and Xuzhou before!" It is foreseeable that this time in Wuhan, there will be an unprecedentedly cruel large-scale vicious battle! ”

"Yo Xi!" Yoshio Shinozuka said happily, "That's right. ”

After a pause, Yoshio Shinozuka continued: "The Chinese army has built bunkers in the middle and on both wings, so now there are only two waists left, and I don't believe that they can build bunker fortifications in the north of the entire Hankow!" On my order, the 10th Infantry Wing immediately launched an attack on the waist and ribs on both sides! ”

"Hello!" The embankment is not sandwiched.

……

Hanyang Guishan Fortress, Yuwang Palace Observation Post.

Stilwell panted and went up to the top floor, and complained to Zhong Yi in English: "General Zhong, you are so uninteresting, you throw me at the headquarters every time you go out!" ”

Zhong Yi smiled bitterly: "Colonel, it's too dangerous here!" ”

"Dangerous?" Stilwell said, "You Chinese soldiers are not afraid of danger, can we American soldiers be afraid?" Don't forget that I'm just one of your operational staff officers now! ”

Zhong Yi sneered, who the would dare to use you as a staff officer?

However, on the surface, Zhong Yi apologized with a smile: "Sao Rui, it's me who is wrong!" ”

Stilwell stretched out his hands, walked up to Zhong Yi, and asked, "How is the situation now?" ”

Sun Liren replied: "The Japanese army has just launched two tentative attacks on Hankow, both of which were easily thwarted by our army, but they are not without gain, at least they already know that the railway station in the middle and the two wingtips have strong pillbox fortifications, so if nothing else, they should attack the two waists next!" ”

As soon as the words ended, the Japanese army again shelled Hankow.

As mentioned earlier, the shape of the urban area of Hankou is like a butterfly, the butterfly's head faces north, which is the railway station, and the shape of the entire urban area is like wings that open diagonally to the left and right, and the tail is facing the Sanjiangkou!

Now the position of the Japanese shelling is the middle of the leading edge of the two wings!

Looking at the puffs of smoke rising from the urban area of Hankou, Stilwell also raised his binoculars and asked while observing the Japanese artillery positions: "Why don't you fight back when the Japanese artillery bombards?" ”

Sun Liren replied helplessly: "It's out of range!" ”

"Out of range?" Stilwell said in surprise, "No, although the M1918 155mm howitzer has only 15 times the diameter, the firing range still reaches 12 kilometers, and the Japanese artillery position is at least 20 kilometers away, but their sortie position is at most nine kilometers away from here, and it can be covered by artillery fire!" ”

Sun Liren spread his hands and said: "To reach the maximum firing range, we have to have an elevation angle of 45 degrees, but our artillery can only hide in the fortress in order to avoid the bombing of the Japanese bombers, so the elevation angle is greatly limited, and it can only hit eight kilometers away at most!" However, as long as the Japanese troops come out of the sortie positions, our large-caliber heavy artillery will be enough! ”

"Really?" Stilwell said, "It seems that the Japanese commander on the other side is also an old and spicy commander!" Have a clear understanding of the long-range artillery fire of both sides! ”

Zhong Yi said: "Yoshio Shinozuka is indeed an extremely difficult opponent! ”

"Yoshio Shinozuka?" Stilwell held up his telescope again.

As he spoke, the Japanese shelling ended, and this shelling lasted less than a quarter of an hour!

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army again dispatched two infantry squads to launch a tentative attack on the two waist ribs on the north side of Hankou City.

The Japanese attack position was ten kilometers from the fortress of Guishan, but only two kilometers from the edge of the city of Hankou.

In a short time, the two Japanese squads approached the edge of the city of Hankou, the northern edge of which had a wall left by the Qing Dynasty, but which had now been almost demolished by the Nationalist army.

The bricks were taken down to repair the forts and strengthen the houses.

"God!" Stilwell's telescope field of view swept over the scattered city walls, and he couldn't help but ask, "General Zhong, the strong city walls are excellent fortifications, why did you want to tear them down?" ”

"If the Japanese army did not have large-caliber heavy artillery or tanks, the city wall was indeed an excellent fortification!" Zhong Yi nodded, and said, "But if the Japanese army has heavy artillery or tanks, the city wall is not to be ashamed!" The Japanese can knock down the walls with a single shell, and our soldiers will be buried alive! ”

Sun Liren continued: "What's even more disadvantageous is that deploying troops and firepower on the head of the city is easy to be eliminated by Japanese flat-fire artillery or tanks, which is simply a suicide act!" ”

When Stilwell heard this, a layer of fine cold sweat suddenly oozed from his forehead.

While the three of them were talking, the attacking Japanese army had already rushed to the front of the city wall, and then easily crossed the gaps in the city wall and successfully broke into the city of Hankou!

This was also the first time that the Japanese army broke through to Hankow!

The devil lieutenant who led the team was excited, and immediately took out a Japanese chapter flag from his shoulder bag, and then found a bamboo pole to pick up the Japanese chapter flag, and then climbed along the broken city wall to the top of the city more than ten meters high.

"Great Japanese Empire onboard!" The devil lieutenant waved the Japanese flag in his hand vigorously, and the hysterical roar filled the entire city wall inside and outside, and the more than fifty devils below also followed the hysterical shout.

(End of chapter)