Commander, the silence in the city is a little scary, do you want to draw a platoon to test the attack first, find out what is going on inside, what conspiracy is hidden by the little devil? The instructor reminded, his face full of worry.

Huang Sheng thought for a moment and refused: "If the little devil arranges a pocket array in front of us and only kills one platoon, it is no different from a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger, we can't do this kind of stupid thing, and we can't risk dozens of lives." ”

"Contact the heavy artillery unit, cross the city and fire a two-minute artillery attack on the street in front of us, and use shells to knock out the plot of the little devils."

Artillery liaison officers and observation posts were in the middle of the ranks, and the news and firing coordinates were the first to report to the artillery positions.

Huang Sheng waited for less than five minutes, and the scream of "Woo Woo Woo ......" reached everyone's ears, getting closer and closer, and the sound became louder and louder.

"Boom ......"

The cannonballs whistled over everyone's heads, fell from the sky, and exploded in the courtyard more than 200 meters away from the city wall.

"The shell missed." Huang Sheng wrinkled his brows and shouted.

The artillery observation post did not panic, calmly stretched out his right hand, gave a thumbs up, and squinted his eyes to measure the distance between the impact point and the shelling target.

In less than half a minute, it was done, and I picked up the microphone and started to report.

"The firing distance remains the same, the direction is 200 meters to the left, each cannon shoots rapidly for two minutes, and the cannon is fired immediately......"

"Woo woo woo ......" The piercing scream of breaking through the air sounded again, this time it was obviously more piercing than just now, and a total of six heavy artillery shells smashed at the same time.

"Boom ......"

The explosion soon sounded in the city, because the impact point was too close, and the city walls under their feet trembled slightly in the explosion.

A total of sixty shells fell down, and the courtyards and houses on both sides of the street, which had been scattered just a moment ago, were now in ruins, and many houses were set on fire with wood and black smoke.

"The first company is attacking along the front of the street, the second company and the third company are covering the attack on the left and right flanks, and the three companies are advancing in unison to destroy the remaining little devils in the ruins." Huang Sheng seized the opportunity and ordered very decisively.

"Artillery, after the flying thunder artillery platoon, provide fire cover for the attacking troops at any time, and kill the firepower points of the Japanese puppet army that emerged on the offensive road."

The temporary command of the Japanese army, where panic has spread.

Of the more than 300 people, only more than 100 people escaped from the artillery fire, the staff officers of the headquarters, the communications corps, the telegraph operators...... Less than half of them escaped, and they were busy setting up temporary headquarters.

It was not easy to get in touch with several infantry brigades, but all they got was the bad news that more than half of the troops were killed or wounded.

Immediately after, the news that the four walls of Laiyuan City were continuously broken through also came.

The command gave the Imperial Alliance Army a death order, and the people were on the city wall. Without an order, no one could take a step back and buy time for the Imperial Army to enter the street fighting fortifications.

Now that the city is broken, there is only one possibility: the more than 2,000 imperial troops who held the city are finished.

Subtract the losses of four more infantry battalions in artillery raids.

The huge Laiyuan City lost more than 4,000 people at once, and only more than 2,000 people were left to continue fighting.

The garrison attacked and attacked with a burst of artillery fire, and in less than two hours, it killed more than 4,000 defenders of Laiyuan City.

Now that there are still seven or eight hours before dawn, can the remaining more than 2,000 people withstand their attack and hold out until dawn?

Everyone in the command had a big question mark in their heads, and they were not optimistic about this battle.

"Swear to live and die with Laiyuan City!" The brigade commander suddenly shouted with a calm face.

Then he ordered murderously: "Contact all the troops defending the city, we have no way out." ”

"Defend Laiyuan City, everyone has a way to live. If you can't hold it, everyone will die here, so everyone should be prepared to die for His Majesty the Emperor tonight. ”

"However, before dying in battle, everyone has to kill an Eighth Route Army to bury themselves."

"In the words of the Chinese themselves, kill one to preserve the capital, kill two to earn one."

"Even if we are a mixed brigade and the whole army is wiped out here tonight, we must pull in the garrison regiment and solve this big problem for the empire."

"Boom ......"

The brigade commander's words were interrupted by the sudden sound of artillery not far away, and after a while, an officer was seen panting and rushing over, reporting with a panicked face.

"Sir, the Eighth Route Army has begun to attack our troops in the city."

"And when they come up, they will bombard them with heavy artillery, first destroy the houses and fortifications where the warriors are hiding, and then launch an attack."

"Many warriors were buried in the rubble before they saw the shadow of the offensive troops of the Eighth Route Army, and they died too aggrieved."

It didn't take long for the east, west, and north of the city to hear violent explosions all over the city?

There is no doubt that the garrisons of these directions are attacking themselves in the same way......

The firm expression that just now was still looking at death as if it were home, and ending up with the enemy, has been replaced by a haze at this moment.

Heavy artillery opened the way, destroyed the street fortifications that the troops had worked so hard to build, and blew up the battlefield.

In this way, the street fight will turn into a scuffle.

The limited forces of the garrison regiment were concentrated in the attacking force, like a clenched fist.

However, the imperial army was scattered throughout Laiyuan City, everywhere.

In the four offensive directions of the garrison regiment, only a small part of the imperial army met it head-on each time.

Therefore, in the four local battlefields, the superiority in strength and firepower is on the side of the garrison regiment.

Before the street fighting fortifications were destroyed, the terrain advantage was still on the side of the imperial army, and the imperial army could use the terrain advantage to consume the strength of the attacking troops little by little, which was also a very important purpose of choosing to fight street battles with the garrison regiment.

Now that the fortifications have been destroyed and the street fighting has turned into chaos, this goal will certainly not be achieved.

Thinking of this, the brigade commander knew that his carefully planned street battle had been broken by the garrison, and his chances of surviving this evening must be even slimmer.

At this time, the brigade commander was not as nervous as before.

Maybe it was because he knew that he would die tonight, and the whole person directly became careless.

"Order all the imperial troops that have not yet been attacked to leave the street fighting fortifications, take the infantry squad as a unit, freely choose the battlefield to fight the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army, and fight the enemy to the death."

Not a single brigade or regiment commander remained, including me, and all of them went to the battlefield. ”

"Tell all the soldiers that I am with them, and as long as there is one person in the brigade alive, I will fight to the death."

By this time, everyone knew that the brigade commander was ready to die in battle.

Even the brigade commander is ready to die, and those subordinates under him have no chance of survival.

Everyone became murderous. Holding up his weapon, he shouted: "Fight to the death!" ”

"Fight to the death......"

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