After the Japanese army retreated into the block, the northwest was just a tentative impact, mainly to see if the other side maintained a certain strength of defense, after being attacked by intensive firepower, it took the initiative to retreat, urban combat, the most should be avoided, that's it, stuck in a relatively strong place, there are few passages, the buildings in the community, at most seven floors, but about 20 meters high, is enough for the Japanese to gain a condescending advantage.

The news was reported to Zhao Ruiying layer by layer, through the control of Wuxi City, the war in the entire Wuxi City has basically come to an end, most of the revolutionary army was captured, a small part was annihilated, and there may be hundreds of thousands of troops, some of them became deserters, scattered throughout the scope of Wuxi, and the possibility of continuing the war is very small, but it is not easy to find out these rats hiding in many corners of the city.

On the Japanese side, a wave of shelling in Shengquan Square directly reimbursed more than 7 percent of the Ninth Brigade, and after the rest were attacked again and again, there were less than two brigades left, small 2,000 personnel, concentrated in the cotton mill community, trapped beasts can not be oppressed too hard, compared with the revolutionary party, these Japanese troops, whether it is willpower, or combat effectiveness, are far exceeded, with the help of reinforced concrete houses, forming a trapped beast situation, to annihilate them, some difficulties, may suffer relatively large losses.

This is also the fundamental reason why the troops pursuing the remnants of the 9th Brigade withdrew from the attack after a little probing, and then reported layer by layer, attacking a fortified position, even if this side had a numerical advantage and an artillery advantage. There will also be casualties, just tentatively. Dozens of people were injured without a lethal impact at all. Not a single one died, but 3 were seriously wounded, which is probably the battle with the most casualties after the outbreak of the Battle of Wuxi.

Since there may be large casualties in the frontal fight, of course Zhao Ruiying refuses to fight so head-on, and after taking out the map and observing the shape of the community, he easily put down the pen.

Location of the complex. In the northeast of Wuxi City, the terrain is slightly low-lying, if it is not densely populated, it is almost similar to the previous Shengquan Square.

Of course, unlike the carefully selected squares before, the location is a little off, and less than 40% of the artillery in Wuxi, especially nearly 100 large-caliber guns of more than 150 mm, can hit here. The others have to be adjusted in order to hit here.

Adjustments, that's fine, now the dust is settled. Zhao Ruiying had this time to adjust, anyway, the Japanese were just more than enough to defend, under the blockade of layers of trenches and machine-gun positions outside. It's a dead land.

That's right, Zhao Ruiying's approach is already obvious. Since the Japanese chose to go to the death and hold on, it is impossible for him to risk huge casualties. To attack the neighborhood guarded by only the remnants of the Japanese, of course, only the remnants of the small two thousand remained, and after a little temptation, after exhausting the opponent's ammunition, it was the result of the turtle in the urn.

But the longer you wait, the more variables, the millions of people in Wuxi, at this moment, are in the west of the underground passage and air defense fortifications, this is not a long-term solution after all, just a community, this Wuxi can afford to lose.

More than 500 cannons, on average, to destroy a reinforced concrete community, even 2 bases will not be consumed, of course, the infantry anti-personnel shells that occupy the largest number of shells, not much used before, for these reinforced concrete fortifications, there is not much effect, fortunately, the fixed sent armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells are still in the warehouse, although there are only 7 bases, only a fraction of the infantry anti-personnel shells, it is enough, not to mention a community, ten communities are enough.

Surrounded in Weiwei, forming layers of encirclement, there was no attack, which made the conspiracy of the Japanese brigade commander bankrupt, and he was also ready to rely on this solid defense, the Northwest Army attracted it, and after a large number of casualties, choose a direction to break through, this is already the edge of the city, at most 2 kilometers, you can leave Wuxi, in his opinion, stay in Wuxi even if this structure is very strong, the defense is quite strong community, there is no way to continue to fight, after all, this is the base camp of the Northwest Army.

They encountered a sudden attack, they were able to carry, only a few supplies on hand, once the supplies were exhausted, it was the coming of death, the brigade commander repeatedly said that it was not allowed to shoot casually, to save firepower, rather than to break the jade than to be destroyed, and to take a bite when he was dying.

He didn't expect that the commander of the northwest side would be even more ruthless, 500 artillery pieces of more than 100 mm, 5 base number of armor-piercing shells and the same number of high-explosive shells, directly use artillery battles to destroy this community, including dozens of giant guns with a caliber of more than 200 mm, to level this community with 42 6-story buildings, and annihilating them is only a secondary matter.

When all the artillery was adjusted and the firing range was cleared, under Zhao Ruiying's order, the cannon began to roar. If there is only about 100 mm artillery, which is not a big threat to the result of reinforced concrete, even if it is an armor-piercing shell and a high-explosive shell, a direct hit, will only pierce a big hole in the building, and it may take dozens, or even hundreds, to shake the structure of the entire building.

However, when there are more than 200 mm and even 350 mm guns, at a distance of no more than 5 kilometers, the results of close bombardment are amazing.

The 350 mm armor-piercing projectile, with a dead weight of nearly 700 kilograms, will pass through an area of several kilometers within a few seconds at a muzzle velocity of 950 meters per second, with huge kinetic energy, when it hits the building accurately, it will be fired down, and the civilian reinforced concrete structure cannot be said to be all paper-paste, but it is almost the same as paper-paste, and the large-caliber armor-piercing projectile is enough to destroy, as for the high-explosive shell, it is even more of a surface killing.

When a scream hits a building that is not too high, the big picture is decided.

In the middle of the dwellings, backed by solid reinforced concrete, the brigade commander of the 9th Brigade settled down, it can be said that this time the blow was too great, the entire brigade, almost in front of him suffered a heavy blow, has fallen into the brink of destruction, the loss of personnel is more than ninety, even if escape, the possibility is not great.

In the room not far away, black smoke rose up, and under the premise that it was uncertain whether they could run out smoothly, the destruction of the wing flag, the brigade flag, and even all kinds of other necessary materials and documents became an inevitable choice.

In fact, the time given by the place is a little longer, more than 200 mm artillery, to adjust the firing range, not so easy, this small location, do not need to move more than 200 mm artillery, only need to adjust the position, with the help of various lifting machinery, it took more than half an hour, to adjust, at this time, the Japanese have destroyed all the things that should be destroyed, is preparing to test the surrounding defense.

The scream suddenly sounded, and the faces of almost all the Japanese soldiers changed, such a scream was familiar to them, and the other seventy percent of the robes were buried before, this was this, as the screams became louder and louder, more and more urgent, familiar artillery knew that this was facing their attack.

The brigade commander climbed down for the first time, felt that the house and the earth were shaking, when it was easy to regain calm, he looked around, the community completely changed its appearance, the building he was in, it seemed that it was not directly attacked by the other party, and it remained intact, but a few buildings not far away, the whole became ruins, he was familiar with the power of artillery, and he knew very well that only armor-piercing shells or high-explosive shells of more than 300 mm accurately hit the core of this building, there would be such a scene.

The Northwest Army has 300 mm artillery, which he knew about when he was in Shengquan Square before, but he didn't expect that the other party would be so ruthless, not only attacking an open area like the square, but also a residential area.

He was originally under the rules, looking for directions, who knew that the other party didn't even want a chessboard, the table was lifted, what else could he do, not to mention other artillery, just say that 300 mm armor-piercing shells were eliminated at a fixed point, and the whole community could be hit by a few shots.

Despair appeared on the face of the brigade commander, there was still a glimmer of hope, he no longer had any sense of being spared, took out a pistol from his arms, aimed it at his temple, and after a gunshot, the body fell weakly.

The suicide of the brigade commander opened the footsteps of the destruction of this brigade, the Japanese soldiers of this era have not been completely bound by the spirit of bushido, and the spirit of desperate death in a desperate situation has not been completely filled, at best, they are stronger than the willpower of the revolutionary party, facing the large-caliber naval guns, facing the surrounding copper walls, they are isolated and helpless, they have only one choice, surrender, rush to surrender, almost 1,000 people surrendered, and the rest were basically wiped out and died in a pile of rubble.

A battle, just like that, was settled, and it took less than 2 hours to carry out the 90,000 people who attacked Wuxi, all of which were filled in, more than 70,000 were taken prisoner, more than 20,000 were killed or wounded, and almost none of them ran away.

The lag of the revolutionary party, here, is also undoubtedly obvious, after the end of the battle of Wuxi 1 and a half hours, the battle of Zhenjiang began, they also according to the battle of Wuxi, sent heads and prisoners to the Northwest Army, 180,000 people, including the Japanese army of 2 brigades, basically filled in these two node cities, the results obtained, but let these node cities damage a small part, incidentally, to the northwest caused a certain amount of economic losses and casualties, the two places combined, Of the less than 180 casualties, 9 percent of them are bruises, sprains, and other minor injuries that can be healed with a little rest, and the damage is almost minimal. (To be continued......)