Wuqing Town, the headquarters of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

At the beginning of the battle, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan both sat in the headquarters and patiently waited for the battle situation in front of them to come, it was not the first time that they had commanded this kind of large corps in a general battle, so they did not show too much nervousness, but more excitement from the heart.

Suddenly, a rush of footsteps sounded, Liu Ruhan had already walked in quickly, Qiao Youhua and the others were all attracted to attention, only to see her come straight to Qiao Youhua, and saluted with a snap: "Commander, news came from the 2nd Division that its 3rd Infantry Regiment, under the cover of the artillery regiment and tank regiment directly under the division headquarters, had broken through the Japanese defense line five minutes ago and attacked Tianjin City from the south gate.

However, the devils built another line of defense in the residential area near the city wall, relying on various residential buildings to build countless light and heavy firepower points, and the soldiers who attacked the city were killed by the enemy's fierce fire, and suffered great losses. ”

Qiao Youhua was slightly surprised after hearing this, turned around and glanced at Zuo Quan and the others, and said: "This battle has been fought so far, both the enemy and us have paid a lot of casualties, plus the enemy's reinforcements have also arrived one after another, the devil will obviously not give up Tianjin easily, and it is expected to continue to resist stubbornly in the city."

Tell Ma Biao to organize artillery fire to cover the residential areas near the city wall, and then send sappers to clear the road for tank vehicles, with tanks and armored vehicles as the lead, and the infantry to follow, and the infantry to coordinate and gradually advance into the city.

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In the battle of Tianjin, street fighting is inevitable, and all our commanders and fighters must be mentally prepared to fight a protracted war and a war of attrition! As long as we have a firm determination not to be afraid of sacrifice and serve the country and the people, and rely on the support of 40,000 compatriots across the country, we will definitely be able to achieve the final victory! ”

Zheng Yunshan opened his mouth and said: "Commander, will the rash artillery attack on the city cause innocent deaths and injuries to our people?" ”

Before Qiao Youhua could speak, Zuo Quan said: "Don't worry about this, just imagine, if the devil wants to requisition the residential buildings near the city wall, how can he still leave the owner of these buildings?" They must have either been evicted or killed.

Even if there are a few leftovers, there is nothing to be done, because this is war, war is to shed blood and sacrifice, we want to recover the lost land, how can it be just that soldiers are not afraid of life and death? Some sacrifices are unavoidable.

In order for more compatriots and elders to no longer be enslaved and bullied by the Japanese invaders and traitors, we can only attack with all our strength and prevent those compatriots who fell under the butcher's knife of the Japanese invaders from shedding blood and sacrifice in vain. ”

"The chief of staff is reasonable, when casualties are inevitable, all we can do is to kill more enemies, recover the lost ground as soon as possible, and not let them die in vain." Qiao Youhua nodded in agreement: "Street fighting, our Dragon Tooth Column is not afraid of any army in the world, besides, we also have the excellent internal response of Long Yingwei and thousands of Tianjin citizens in Tianjin City, our army will win this battle!" ”

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After receiving the latest instructions from Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan, the 2nd Division immediately complied, temporarily halted the attack, and used all the artillery fire of the division to give the enemy's second line of defense in the city a devastating covering blow.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the 2nd Division sent sappers and demolitions to clean up the collapsed walls and gates, and soon cleared several wide enough roads into the city for its own attacking troops.

The heavy artillery fire continued for more than half an hour, until the entire area in the south of the city, near the city walls and gates, was shrouded in fire and smoke.

In the past half hour, Ma Biao and Zhou Dasheng withdrew the 3rd Infantry Regiment, which had successfully attacked but suffered heavy losses, to rest, and the attack force led by Zhou Dasheng, deputy division commander and commander of the 1st Regiment, led by the 1st Infantry Regiment and supplemented by the Tank Regiment, launched another attack on the city.

At the same time, the battle in the west of the city was also in full swing, and the 4th Division was responsible for the main attack in the direction of the West Gate, and the specific battle was under the full command of Deputy Division Commander Li Yunlong.

The 4th Division was uniquely supported by the 105th Howitzer Brigade directly under the column, so its firepower far exceeded that of the 1st Division in the north of the city and the 2nd Division in the south of the city.

And the Japanese may have also sensed that the dragon's tooth attack force outside the West Gate was the most threatening, so Okamura Ninji also deployed his most powerful combat power to the West Gate.

The killing of both sides is inextricable and extremely tragic.

This is also the reason why the 4th Division had superior artillery fire, but failed to break through the Japanese city defense in front of the 2nd Division, because the devils continued to increase their troops to the west gate during the battle.

However, after the 2nd Division launched the second attack, the 4th Division finally made a breakthrough, and after paying a very heavy price in casualties, hundreds of commandos of the 4th Division finally attacked the city wall from the gap in the section of the city wall that had been blown up long ago.

At this time, the city wall was up and down, and the inside and outside were almost covered with the corpses of soldiers on both sides, and it was really a river of blood, which was unbearable.

The two sides launched an unprecedented bloody battle around the city wall, not giving up an inch of land, and the soldiers of the 4th Division of the Dragon's Tooth Column had to pay a lot of casualties every time they took a step forward, even though the Japanese army on the defensive side suffered no fewer casualties than them.

Now, hundreds of red-eyed dragon tooth warriors have gone through a lot of hardships, stepped on the corpses of countless companions, rushed to the head of the West Gate, and swept away with machine guns and submachine guns, knocking down the last wave of stubborn Japanese puppet troops on the city wall.

Then the soldiers rushed over in two ways, and the devil plaster flag that had been standing on the city wall was finally taken off by the dragon tooth soldiers and thrown down, and the blue sky and white sun flag and the five-star red flag were replaced, fluttering in the wind on the head of the West Gate City, which was particularly eye-catching.

Da Da Da ...... Sudden ...... Puff puff...... However, the fierce battle continued, and the devils in the city were unwilling to lose, and organized men to counterattack the lost city wall again.

At the critical moment, the follow-up troops of the 4th Division poured into the city, and poured into the city from the gap in the city gate and city wall, and met the devils who tried to counterattack head-on.

The gunfire became dense again, and all kinds of eye-catching tongues of fire kept spewing out from the muzzles of the guns, shuttling back and forth, and human lives were like mustard at this moment.

The offensive in the north of the city also made good progress, the 1st Division and the tank armored brigade joined forces to form a powerful assault force, fighting devils and puppet troops with casualties everywhere, and soon advanced the battle line to the city walls.

With the dragon tooth tanks under the cover of the infantry, from the city gate, the city wall broke into the city, the devil's carefully constructed defense line fire points were full of firepower, and the sparks of those dragon tooth tanks were scattered.

At the same time, their respective positions were also exposed to the sight of the gunners of the Dragon's Tooth tank.