342. The Battle on the Tower
The devils under the city tower were in a hurry to send a group of people to rush to the fire, and in the face of the raging fire that burned as high as a mountain, the devils were also desperate.
Throwing out a few grenades will only increase the fire, and it may also blow up the people inside.
With such a big fire, even if the water of the moat is close at hand, there is no way for the devil to get so much water to extinguish it.
In the end, the best and last moment of rescue was missed, and the devil could only retreat helplessly, because, if he didn't retreat, there would be casualties.
The three dogs had already ordered the brothers of the Seventh Company to throw stones and bricks into the distance of the cave below, in order to prevent the devils from rushing to the fire, even if it was a few seconds to stop, it would be a fatal few seconds.
The defenders' ammunition had not yet arrived, and when they heard that it was still on their way, the three dogs prayed not to be intercepted by other higher-level troops.
Because the guns of the Seventh Company are almost running out of burning sticks, there are only a few bullets left per person, and only the last grenade is left, so the glorious bullet can only be used in embarrassment, and now it can only be used in embarrassment in the era of cold weapons or even the stones of the primitive era.
If the Japanese army attacked again, I really didn't know if the position could be defended, and it just so happened that the devils were waiting to dig holes in the wall to blow them up, and they didn't attack again, and everyone took a breath.
Now under the city walls, until the fire slowly extinguished, the bricks and stones were burned red, and they slowly turned gray, and no sappers were seen coming out.
I never saw the sappers inside throwing out the wall bricks and shovels again, and with this, the three dogs had already expected that all the devils in the cave would be smoked to death and suffocated.
The devil also sent a few people to rush to the entrance of the cave and shouted the names of the people inside, but no one answered for a long time, which verified Sangou's guess.
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Seeing that his engineering unit was burned alive in the hole, the Japanese wing commander was furious and called on the artillery in the rear to strike in retaliation.
The position of the entire city tower was shrouded in a sea of fire and smoke again, and even if the brothers of the Seventh Company hid in the hiding hole on the anti-slope, a few brothers still walked slowly and were killed.
The devil's artillery continued to bombard, not as simple as before, bombarding the defenders' positions on the towers, but also bombarding the city walls.
The city wall is so thick, just bombarded like this, how long will it take to blast it open?
The three dogs thought too much, and the devils didn't want to blast through the city walls, even if it was feasible, but that would be too time-consuming, and the devils who were eager to grab the merit were not willing to attack so slowly and methodically.
After many confirmations and repeated observations at the observation posts, the three dogs and the old Hu Niu finally came to a conclusion that the cunning devils were using cannons as tools to dig the wall, and they wanted to dig a series of holes in the wall to climb upward, and finally they must have been climbed in and hid by the infantry one by one.
In this way, the devil climbs up hole by hole, dodging, the defenders above must not be able to fight, not to bomb, let alone burn, once the devil is close to the top of the city tower, you can seize the right to guard the city.
That's right, the Japanese artillery was like a big shovel, gradually digging holes out of the city wall, and the first batch of Japanese death squads couldn't wait to rush over and hide in.
The devil who was hiding in was picking out bricks with his hands, little by little, digging out a hole to hide, and then climbing up to the next rough hole in the wall, and continuing to pick out the bricks.
In the face of brutal war, human beings have brought their ingenuity and wisdom to one height after another, and after every large-scale battle, the development of the art of war and weapons will be promoted.
Most of the modern means of transportation for people's livelihood such as airplanes, automobiles, ships, etc., have accelerated their development in wars to create higher heights, including medicine and health, and the most representative is the cutting-edge technology of aerospace.
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In the face of the Japanese army's method of gradually moving up the way of hiding the bricks at the half-waist of the city wall, Sangou and Lao Hu were really at a loss, so they could only wait for the battle and fight a decisive battle on the city tower.
The only consolation is that the replenished ammunition has finally arrived, the family has food for the New Year, the pocket is rich, the waist is stiff, and with guns and bullets, especially grenades, the three dogs feel that they can still fight the enemy.
Under the cover of machine guns, the devil who cut out the wall bricks gradually approached the top edge of the city wall, and then put the wall bricks on the city wall to build a small simple bunker.
The devil's idea is very good, he wants to slowly cut and widen the city tower to form a large semi-pit position, so that he can confront the defenders, and once the troops below are gradually transported up, he can launch a charge and seize the position on the city tower in one fell swoop.
But this is a fool of the defenders, or the defenders have no weapons and can't stop them, in fact, there are still ways to stop them, and the most effective one is grenades.
The width of the castle tower was less than twenty meters, and it was very easy to throw grenades at this distance, so both sides began to frantically throw grenades and grenades.
People were constantly being killed and wounded, but the backs of both sides were empty, and grenades were often thrown and dropped under the walls behind.
In order to avoid this situation, the three dogs called the master, took out all the long bamboo poles before, tied the grenade to one end of the bamboo pole, pulled the rope, and stabbed the bamboo pole to the top of the devil's head.
This trick is very poisonous, the devil lying on the edge of the top of the city tower can't hide the precise grenade on the top of his head, and he wants to take off the grenade with his hands, and it is not so easy to take it off at once, after all, he is tied to death by the strap.
Even if you cut with a bayonet, you have to have a little time, and this time is the fatal time, and the explosion of a grenade on the top of the head is more lethal than an explosion on the ground.
A grenade-like mid-air explosion with fragments flying in all directions, leaving the enemy with little to no blind spot to hide.
Therefore, the first batch of devils who came up were either blown down the tower by the shock wave of the grenade explosion, or were killed and injured by fragments.
Some devils saw the grenade snorting white smoke above their heads, and they were so frightened that they jumped off the city wall, which was more than 20 meters high, and they were basically hopeless when they jumped down.
Some simply fought to the death, turning over from the piled bunker to the city tower, although such an action, although they could avoid the explosion of the grenade, but it was equivalent to exposing themselves to the guns of the defenders.
The brothers of the 7th Company and even the 3rd Battalion to the regiment naturally did not let go of the fat that was sent to their mouths, and the machine gun fired at any point, and killed the devils who rolled up the city tower.
The devil's grenade was only a little on each person, not so much, and the grenade throwing quickly came out of the disadvantage, so he hurriedly put on the machine gun and began to shoot at each other.
At this time, it is the time for them to show their skills with bamboo poles, which carry mortars and grenadiers, and at such a close distance, they can shoot grenades with very high accuracy.
Without firing a mortar, a few grenade grenades blew up the machine guns that the devils had worked so hard to bring up into the sky and flew into the sky.
After a few back and forth, all the devils who climbed to the top edge of the city wall were wiped out, and the devils below were so frightened that they didn't dare to climb up for a while, and shrank in the hole to be the king.