The Japanese attack finally retreated in the anticipation of Tangcheng, and the Guanghuamen, which had been fighting fiercely for nearly three hours, began to be dead silent again, and the soldiers who were still alive were quietly lying behind their respective bunkers, because they did not know whether the Japanese army would immediately organize a new attack like the previous ones. Tang Cheng opened his mouth but didn't spit out anything, so he had to slowly move his body so that he could be a little farther away from the corpse next to him, which was missing half a head.

The Japanese army retreated, but Guanghuamen was still full of smoke, and the strong smell of blood and choking gunsmoke reminded the soldiers in the position that this was a battlefield of life and death. Repelled the frenzied attack of the Japanese army for three consecutive hours, the first thing the defenders had to do was to count the casualties and supply ammunition, the losses of the second company were not too great, in the three-hour battle, the new supplementary faction that was added to the second company suffered only 7 casualties, three killed and four wounded.

The biggest casualties on the battlefield were the machine gunners under Xie Chengrui, almost all the light and heavy machine guns had been replaced by machine gunners, and now the people who control these light and heavy machine guns are all veterans, but they were not machine gunners in the first place. Sure that the Japanese army had really retreated, Tang Cheng slowly knelt straight up from behind the bunker and looked left and right, looking for Liu Goat and the three of them where. Fortunately, Liu Goat and the three of them were also fine, Liu Goat was patrolling the defensive position of the second company back and forth, the mill was fiddling with a Czech light machine gun that he got out of nowhere, and Jiujin was holding half a large cake and gnawing on Huanshi.

When Tang Cheng got up from the bunker, there were a lot of wounded people lying beside him, and he didn't care too much and walked directly to Jiujin, and he didn't ask so much when he was hungry, so he killed the cake he snatched from Jiujin by dividing it by two. Outside the city gate, there was still the rumbling of cannonballs, and every time the Japanese shells hit the city wall, there would be a burst of vibration, and it would bring a feeling of ear blocking, but everyone on the city wall had long been used to it, whether they were lying down or busy carrying supplies.

Artillery fire was naturally a sharp weapon for the Japanese to rely on, and their infantry was repulsed by the defenders, and the artillery immediately began to resume the bombardment of Guanghuamen, but the scale of the bombardment was much smaller. The continuous explosion has made people feel unstable, and the firelight will suddenly flash into the eyes, when Tang Cheng turned the pile of bricks and rubble to make it convenient, the key area that was shelled by the Japanese army suddenly appeared in front of Tang Cheng's eyes, and the city wall to the west of the city gate has been blown up in many gaps, and the places that were not eye-catching can now be shot out through these gaps.

The air was full of dust, every soldier was disgraced, many were carrying sacks full of sand and gravel to plug the holes in the walls that had been blasted by the cannons, and the regiment commander Xie Chengrui yelled and instructed his soldiers to repair the gaps and prepare for a counterattack. Before the next attack of the Japanese army came, the position was already very tense by Xie Chengrui, and the shock wave of the explosion was rushing back and forth, making people always feel their ears buzzing, and they couldn't even stand on their feet.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and another cannon hit the city wall, and the Japanese army's cannon hit very accurately, countless broken bricks were smashed around by the explosion, and some debris splashed on the face of Tang Cheng, who was shocked to the ground, bringing a hot pain. He reached out and touched it and found that it was really bleeding, but fortunately he had already done it, otherwise when he was hit by Qi Lang, this new military uniform would be useless. Tang Cheng, who was scolding like Liu Goat, straightened his pants, carried a Mauser rifle and walked around the rubble to his cover.

The blurred vision in the dust, the choking smoke in the air, the ringing in the ears that can make people lose their balance, the hoarse roars of the officers and soldiers, and the bloody comrades, everything on the battlefield made Tang Cheng a little foggy when he returned to the bunker. Outside the city walls, the dust in the sun could not obscure the vision, and the defenders on the city walls could vaguely see the bloodstained earthy yellow figures lying on the ground. The corpses in that place represented the same heavy casualties of the Japanese soldiers, but the soldiers in the defending positions did not cheer, because their robes were also killed and wounded, and perhaps they themselves would have died in the next Japanese attack.

Every few minutes, a Japanese shell would hit the walls, and the violent shaking could sometimes throw the entire soldiers on the ground from their firing positions. The poor visibility and the constant earthquakes, the pain of the wounds even when the soldiers who were only wounded were enduring the threat of death, it was not so much that the Japanese were shelling Gwanghwamen, but that the Japanese were only using artillery fire to harass Gwanghwamen.

"The Japanese army came up, ready to fight, ready to fight, the little devils came up." The roars of the officers rang out again over the city. In the smoke outside the city, several Japanese tanks loomed, followed by a group of Japanese soldiers. Just like the soldiers in the training team in Shanghai, these Japanese soldiers who followed the tanks all the way would brave the grenades thrown from the top floor to leave a pile of corpses, and then rushed directly to the shooting corner downstairs, so that neither the grenades nor bullets on the upper floors could hit them.

"Shoot when you see it, first hit those little devils who are running fast, there are anti-tank trenches outside the city, and the tanks of the little devils can't pass." The hoarse shouts of the officers resounded on the city walls, and the city's artillery finally began to use their weapons to bombard the Japanese tanks. Although the defenders dug anti-tank trenches outside the city, so that these Japanese tanks could not get close to the city gate, the tanks were not afraid of bullets, and if they got closer, the tanks' artillery and machine guns would still pose a certain threat to the defenders, so the city's artillery was ready to knock out these iron-shelled things first.

The artillery of the training team used heavy mortars imported from Germany, although these heavy mortars may not be able to directly destroy the Japanese tanks, but they can be hit by shells, and the Japanese soldiers in the cockpit will also be injured and killed. Using heavy mortars to hit Japanese tanks and armored vehicles was a new trick discovered by the teaching team when they were fighting the Japanese army in Shanghai.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, Tang Cheng on the city tower felt a violent shock to his body, and the dust on the city wall made everyone not even raise their heads like an old monk in a fixed place, the Japanese tank fired, and secretly looked at the Japanese tank that fired just now, Tang Cheng was thinking about whether to use the death squad to fight to the death with the Japanese tank. "It's not good, the devil's tank is trying to blow up the city gates." Tang Cheng was still lying behind the bunker and thinking nonsense, but Liu Goat had already guessed the thoughts of the Japanese army.

The 36th Wing fought so fiercely in the first three hours that the blood that could not seep outside the Guanghua Gate almost painted the ground red, and I don't know how many times they charged, but their charging team was desperately blocked by the defenders every time, and almost every time they charged, the Japanese would leave a varying number of corpses. So the 36th Wing directly used the only few tanks to participate in the attack, and their idea was to use the tank armor to quickly approach the city gate, and then use the tank's rapid-fire guns to destroy the city gate, so that the infantry who entered the shooting blind spot could rush into the city.

"Fire all of them, don't save bullets, and suppress the little devil's firepower!" With Xie Chengrui's order, the gunfire on the city wall, which was still sparse, instantly became dense, and after the heavy mortars of the artillery were really unable to intercept the advance of the Japanese tanks, Xie Chengrui had to use strong firepower to intercept the Japanese infantry who were advancing with the tanks. Infantry is used to cover tanks, and tanks without infantry cover will face the danger of vehicle destruction and death, Xie Chengrui does not want to use death squads to deal with Japanese tanks, but reality forces him to do so.

The stubble of the Japanese army was knocked down, but the Japanese army behind was still pouring in like a tide, and it was obvious that the Japanese army was also playing with their lives, and they were completely out of permanence by this defender. The attacking Japanese soon discovered the Chinese army's intentions, and after being intercepted by the enemy's artillery fire continuously, the Japanese tanks slowed down and covered the infantry slowly approaching the city gate.

"5 in the third battalion, 5 in the second company, go out of the city to kill the little devil's tank." The Japanese tanks covered the infantry getting closer and closer, and the defenders on the city wall immediately increased the intensity of their fire, but the actual effect was very small, and the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the tanks continued to advance towards the city gate. The strength and ambition of the Japanese army forced Xie Chengrui to send a death squad to compete with the Japanese tanks, and the second company, which had just replenished a platoon of soldiers, could not escape this mortal mission.

"I'll go, I've blown up Japanese tanks in Shanghai." It's not just the courage that came from there, the hot-headed Tang Cheng pulled out one of the five people who were pointed out from the second company, but he went up to fill the gap. Maybe it's because the current scene is very similar to the street crossing position that day, or maybe it's to atone for his crimes, Tang Cheng didn't say that he was afraid of death and hid on the side that day, but swore that he had blown up the Japanese tank.

"You're the soldier who Liu Goat said could speak Japanese?" Xie Chengrui's voice suddenly appeared beside Tang Cheng, and when he turned his head to look, it was Xie Chengrui with a black face who appeared in Tang Cheng's sight, "If you kid can complete the task and come back alive, Lao Tzu will give you a sergeant." Maybe it was to appease Liu Goat, Xie Chengrui finally spat out, maybe he just didn't want Tang Cheng to have regrets in his heart when he died in battle.

"Be careful, and come back as soon as you're done." Liu Goat personally helped Tang Cheng check the bundle of grenades, and also stuffed two full magazines into the leather bullet bag on Tang Cheng's waist, Liu Goat didn't know why Tang Cheng would take the initiative to stand up, but Xie Chengrui was here, and he couldn't stop Tang Cheng's recklessness.