And at the same time that Chen Hanzhang was fine-tuning the strength of the entire northern Jin battlefield according to the changes in the shape. Xiong Botao under the mountain also began the final attack on Xin Guangwu according to the order. Xiong Botao did not put all the troops at hand, all at once.

Although he now has only seven companies left in his hands, two of them are temporarily formed after several companies have been reduced to strength. However, Xiong Botao still insisted that under the situation of limited frontal attack, the price paid for investing too many troops at one time was still too high.

Moreover, the front of the attack was too narrow, which was not conducive to the deployment of the attacking force. Now, although the price paid by the troops is somewhat large, they have taken most of the strongholds in the front of Xinguangwu. The Japanese army has retreated to the city of Xinguangwu and the Great Wall more than 100 meters on both flanks.

Under the bombardment of heavy artillery under the mountain, the entire Xinguangwu and the two wings of the Great Wall have mostly collapsed. Most of the hastily built field fortifications by the Japanese army have been destroyed. Xinguangwu City was already half like an egg peeled open, directly exposed to the guns of the attacking troops. At this time, it is already a bit too wasteful to invest too many troops.

Moreover, the small area of the new Guangwu City cannot accommodate too many troops. Therefore, according to the changes in the shape, Xiong Botao changed the method of fighting point by point in the past, and instead adopted the black tiger to dig out his heart, concentrate one company under the cover of all artillery fire, and ignore the two flanks of the Japanese army and directly penetrate the core location of the Japanese army, Xinguangwu City.

On the flanks, two companies and platoons are formed, and the method of alternate cover and jump attack is adopted. On both flanks of Xinguangwu City, the last remaining strongholds built by the Japanese army along the Great Wall, launched a general attack. After seizing the hills on both flanks of Xinguangwu, the two companies marched from east to west, cooperating with the frontal attacking forces to carry out a final general attack on Guangwu City.

Xiong Botao transferred all the flamethrowers in his hands to the attack troops of these three companies. And each company was reinforced with an engineer squad, equipped with a large amount of explosives. All anti-aircraft machine guns and double-two-three anti-aircraft guns were temporarily suspended from anti-aircraft alert, and all of them participated in the front line to provide fire resources for the attacking troops.

And a double 23 anti-aircraft guns and three 12-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, pulled to the left flank of Xinguangwu, he once paid a heavy price, almost a company in exchange, a commanding heights that can overlook the highway from Xinguangwu to Yanmen Pass, and implement two fire blockades in the direction of Yanmen Pass. Cut off the Japanese army's road to Guò and reinforce the route of Xinguangwu. and suppressed the firing points of the two flanks of the Japanese army from the flanks, creating conditions for the interspersed operations of the attack forces on both flanks.

In terms of artillery support, Xiong Botao did not adopt the barrage-style shooting method of the past. Instead, a 76-mm cannon battery was formed with artillery and all dispersed. Take the bayonet on the cannon and shoot as far as possible. In particular, the 92nd infantry artillery position attached to the front line of the Japanese army was used as a key fire suppression target.

And all the 82 mortars were concentrated, plus only one 120 mm heavy mortar company, as a mortar group, specifically to suppress the Japanese anti-slope position, as much as possible to slow down and delay, the Japanese deployed in the anti-slope position, the speed of the counterattack against the frontal attack troops.

In fact, to undertake this task, mountain artillery is the most suitable. But his troops, now without a single mountain cannon. Several newly replenished mountain guns at the headquarters are still being airlifted. In desperation, Xiong Botao could only use a mortar group to undertake this task. Fortunately, the 120-mm mortar of the anti-joint system is quite good in power and performance.

After Xiong Botao's offensive was launched, although there were minor setbacks, the progress was generally acceptable. It can be said that the tactic of the frontal attacking troops to get out of the way and go straight into the new Guangwu can be said to be quite successful. The real battle for Xinguangwu City, although the battle was also fierce, but the progress was relatively fast.

In the first wave of attack, the attacking troops, under the cover of direct-aim artillery behind them, as well as reinforced recoilless guns and rocket launchers, entered Xinguangwu City and stood their ground at the first time. Although the Japanese resistance was still stubborn, the Japanese army, which was weak in succession, no longer had the momentum of fighting for every inch of land before.

In the attack on the two flanks, the first wave of the offensive of the attacking troops was directly aimed at the Japanese artillery positions on both flanks of Xinguangwu, as well as the Japanese army's 13-mm anti-aircraft machine gun positions that brought great threats to the anti-Japanese coalition in the previous battles, even when the outlying strongholds had been basically eliminated, and the frontal attacking troops were still threatened.

The three Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun positions were arranged in a cross arrangement, and the firing range was not only quite open, but also covered almost the entire front of Xinguangwu. Moreover, the setting is also quite reversed, and the mountain structure in front of Xinguangwu is cleverly used. It is covered with stones and bricks from the surrounding Great Wall, as well as wood from demolished houses in the city, and is built very strongly.

These three firing points, which caused heavy casualties to the anti-United Nations attack forces, could not be hit by direct fire, and could not be penetrated by mortars. Even a 150-millimeter grenade could not be completely destroyed. In order to build these several firepower points, as well as the entire new and old Guangwu city fortifications and artillery positions. The Japanese army basically dismantled the stones and bricks of the Great Wall within a distance of 150 meters on both sides of Xinguangwu.

It must be said that when the Great Wall was built, there was no so-called tofu slag project. These stones and bricks are of excellent quality. In particular, although those city bricks have experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain, the quality is still quite excellent. One 82 mortar shell fell on it, and basically it could not do any damage. A 150-millimeter grenade hit directly, but only partially exploded. Nor can it cause fundamental damage to the overall structure.

If the city bricks imitated by later generations were of really poor quality, it is estimated that Xiong Botao would not have had a headache for these machine gun fortifications and the artillery positions deployed by the Japanese army on both sides of the Great Wall on both sides of Xinguangwu in the previous battle. It was also these machine gun fortifications, together with the Japanese infantry guns on the hill and the heavy machine guns with crossfire, that brought considerable casualties to the early attack of the Anti-United Nations.

Nearly half of the recoilless gunners and bazooka crews who were killed and wounded in the battle fell under the fire of these three machine guns, which fired extremely accurately. And these three large-caliber machine guns of the Japanese army, although their performance is not comparable to the 14-mm anti-aircraft machine guns equipped by the Anti-United Nations. But after all, it is a large-caliber machine gun, and at a distance of a thousand meters, the lethality is still quite strong.

If it hits the human body, it will directly break the person in two. If these three machine-gun fortifications are not destroyed, not only will the flank of the troops attacking the front be greatly threatened, but it will also be difficult for the follow-up troops to respond and cooperate in the first place. There was even a danger that the frontal attack troops would be suppressed by these three machine guns on the mountain in front of Xinguangwu.

This time, after pulling out the other strongholds on both flanks and knocking out the Japanese artillery positions, Xiong Botao made a great determination to pull out the three machine-gun fortifications. In order to solve these three machine gun fortifications, Xiong Botao even equipped the frontal attack troops; Two flamethrowers, while the attack units on both flanks were equipped with three.

There is no way, these three tricky machine gun bunkers, unless they hit the firing hole directly, are recoilless guns and bazookas, which cannot be destroyed by firing at the closest distance. Against such bunkers, flamethrowers are the best weapon. The flamethrowers of the Anti-Union are all napalm used, which is much more powerful than that used in ordinary countries.

As long as the Pyro can be sent to within 40 meters of its maximum range, even if it does not accurately hit the shooting hole, the 1,000-degree heat it emits, and the duration of the 12-second high temperature flame during a long point shot, is enough to keep the Japanese troops in the fortifications out of the fortifications.

Xiong Botao told the two company commanders led by Sù that even if all their troops were exhausted, they must completely solve the three machine gun fortifications. In a word, every effort should be made to ensure the safety of the flanks of the frontal attacking troops. Ensuring the connection between the frontal assault troops, and the follow-up troops. Considering some aspects of the problem, Xiong Botao equipped each of the two companies with three snipers.

The two company commanders, having received the order, slightly combined, handed over the rest of the battle to the instructor and the deputy company commander, while each with a platoon, reinforced with a recoilless gun and a flamethrower, was used to deal with the three damned firing points, as well as the supporting fortifications around him.

This time they used machine-gun fire to suppress the covering fire points on both flanks. He directly led two squads, under the cover of accurate shooting by snipers armed with Soviet-made Mosin Nagant rifles, and directly killed three firing points with flamethrowers. At the cost of two squads, including two company commanders, all fell on the charging path, and successfully sent the flamethrowers to suitable positions for firing.

As the three Japanese machine-gun fire points, which had brought huge casualties to the anti-United Nations attack forces, were completely surrounded by flames, a large number of 13-millimeter bullets stored inside were violently detonated. These three Japanese machine-gun fortifications, which coordinated and coordinated with the peripheral fire points, were finally completely solved. The first success of the frontal attack played a crucial role.

And Xiong Botao's general attack on Xinguangwu, from the sound of gunfire to the complete end of the battle, the Japanese army at Yanmen Pass had no reinforcements except for two squads. Even the remnants of the Japanese army in other directions, after the launch of the final general attack of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, gradually began to retreat to the front line of Yanmen Pass.

Chen Hanzhang's original judgment was not wrong, under his tactics of combining frontal attack and artillery interception, the strength of the 21st Division at Yanmen Pass had gradually consumed the embers. When his final general attack was launched, Miyoshi Okada, the commander of the 82nd Infantry Wing of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army, who was sitting at Yanmen Pass, had only one and a half squadrons left around him at this moment.

As for the strength of the three infantry brigades under him, plus three squadrons of engineers. Except for two infantry squadrons and an engineer squadron in front, which were already incomplete, the rest were either wiped out on the front line of the old and new Guangwu, or lay on the route of reinforcements from Yanmen Pass to the new Guangwu.

In the short distance of three kilometers from Yanmen Pass to Xinguangwu, the two anti-union fire blockade areas in the middle were full of bombed corpses of Japanese soldiers. From Yanmen Pass to the back of the mountain in Xinguangwu City, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers killed in battle have become the most conspicuous road signs. Along the way, there were groans of pain from the seriously wounded who had not withdrawn.

The ridge in front of Xinguangwuguan has been dyed a large area of red by the blood flowing from both sides. This battlefield, because of the accumulation of too much gunpowder and explosives, almost no grass has grown for more than ten years. In front of Xinguangwu, the battlefield within a radius of several square kilometers was also full of corpses of those killed on both sides of the battle.

Everywhere there was broken equipment and weapons that were no longer in use. The villagers who were mobilized to bury the bodies of the war dead on both sides did not dare to come forward for a long time. At the same time, after the old Guangwu was in ruins, the new Guangwu, a strategic place with a history of more than 600 years in front of Yanmen Pass, together with the two wings of the Great Wall, was also completely in ruins.