The next day, early in the morning.

After a night of heavy snowfall, the ground was already covered with a thick layer of snow white.

"Ready..."

On the position of the first heavy artillery brigade of the devils in the rear, the barrels of the 240 heavy guns were raised, and the muzzles of the guns pointed to the north of Shou County in the distance, and the captain of the devil's artillery brigade also raised the chess pieces in his hand:

"Target, north of Shou County, coordinates ·····"

As the command chess pieces in his hand fell, the huge 240 heavy cannon not far away opened fire.

Boom...

The fierce muzzle wind swept by, and a shell weighing more than 200 kilograms flew whistling towards the north of Shou County.

More than ten seconds later, in the north of Shou County, an explosion of gunpowder suddenly rose up, rolling up the overwhelming fragments of masonry.

"Good boy..."

Li Yunlong, Zhang Dabiao and others, who had long been hiding in the south, watched this scene and were dumbfounded, and Wang Gensheng's tongue was not good: "This is several times more powerful than the 150 heavy cannon." ”

"I guess it's five or six times as much."

Grand Master Li quickly estimated the power of this heavy artillery.

The smoke quickly dissipated, and everyone held up their binoculars to look, only to see a huge crater appear in front of everyone's eyes on the north side of the city, and all the surrounding tiled masonry houses were blown up.

"This power, if it is a hard dirt floor, it is estimated that the crater will be about three meters deep, and our tunnel is estimated to be unable to bear it."

Zhang Dabiao was speechless.

"It's a shame to set up a target for the little devil."

Grand Master Li was overjoyed.

If the little devil bombarded the tunnel with this kind of artillery when attacking, he would still have the confidence to hold it, but the casualties would definitely be large, and the tunnel structure would easily collapse in the face of shells of this scale, or the reserved exit would be blown up.

Boom...

Immediately after, the second and third shells fell again...

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About an hour later.

On the devil's artillery observation balloon, the observer saw that in the north of Shou County in the distance, a large cloud of dust suddenly appeared, and a huge crater appeared on the ground.

He quickly informed the captain of the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade below about the situation.

"Destroy the target."

After receiving the news, the captain of the artillery group reported it to Yoshio Shinozuka again, and then quickly stopped the shelling.

Although the superiors agreed to Yoshio Shinozuka's request and gave him heavy artillery, the artillery shells equipped were really not much, only a base number, and more than half of the shelling had been used up for just over an hour.

"Yo Si."

"Destroyed the ammunition depot of the Separate Regiment."

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly smiled:

"Order the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade to destroy the city wall of Shou County."

"The 33rd Wing and the 79th Wing are ready to launch an attack, completely take Shou County today, annihilate Li Yunlong's main force, and then continue to advance and clean up the surrounding base areas."

From then on, the Great War broke out.

The muzzle of the Japanese 240 heavy artillery turned around, and one by one the heavy artillery shells aimed at the city wall, and the shells weighing 200 kilograms directly collapsed the impenetrable city wall of Shou County, leaving a debris in one place.

Outside the city, the devils of the two brigades rushed to the city along the gap and rushed towards the north of Shou County, so that the independent regiment could not rescue the ammunition in the underground ammunition depot.

"Brethren, the opportunity for vengeance has come."

Seeing that the heavy artillery of the devil was powerful, it collapsed the ammunition depot of the independent regiment, blew up the city wall, and suffered heavy losses on the first day, Liu Hong, who was terrified, became fat again.

He looked around at the shrunken 'captains', and during yesterday's attack, two captains who had been hiding behind were directly killed by the mortars of the independent regiment. Liu Hong raised his tone:

"The Imperial Army has destroyed the ammunition depot of the Independent Regiment, the city wall has also been blown down, the power of the heavy artillery has also been seen, where it has been bombed, absolutely no one will survive, as long as we behave well this time, then..."

The eyes of the rest of the 'captains' also lit up.

The imperial army said that as long as they performed well in the battle to eliminate Li Yunlong, they would reward them with weapons and ammunition and give them the opportunity to expand their army. The weapons and ammunition of the captured Independence Regiment were also distributed to them.

In these years, as long as you have soldiers in your hands and strength in your hands, then you will have a lot of money.

"Charge me, kill an eight-way and give five oceans, if it's an officer, then double it."

Coming to the front line with the troops, Liu Hong waved the Wang Ba box in his hand and shouted for the brothers to go first.

Boom Boom...

With a group of devils and puppet troops pouring into the city, Li Yunlong saw the opportunity and ordered the artillery unit to bombard the north of the city intensively, although Yan Sheng took away a lot of 82 mortars, but now the independent regiment still has a number of twelve, under the full speed salvo, hundreds of densely falling 82 mortars caught the devil off guard and suffered a big loss.

"Nani?"

This situation made Yoshio Shinozuka, who went to the front line to watch the battle in person, change his face.

He did not expect that after the ammunition depot was blown up, the independent regiment would still have the strength to launch a large-scale artillery counterattack, and in his prediction, many troops should be annihilated by heavy artillery along with the ammunition depot.

"Immediately destroy the artillery positions of the Separate Regiment."

Although he was surprised, he was not slow to react and immediately ordered the artillery unit to counterattack.

Suddenly, the 105 heavy artillery of the divisional level, as well as the mountain artillery units, turned to the position of the artillery positions of the independent regiment and opened fire. But at this time, Wang Chengzhu, who led the team, was an old gunner, he had been fighting with the devil for so long, he was full of experience, and before the devil's shell fell, he had already slipped away with a highly mobile mortar unit, which made the devil feel lonely.

The devil's counterattack, although it failed to destroy the artillery of the Independent Regiment, also gave the devils in Beicheng a chance to breathe, and they quickly entered Beicheng District, intending to occupy the underground ammunition depot that was bombed down.

"Up."

Seeing that the devil entered Beicheng District, Zhang Dabiao and others led the troops and entered Beicheng District along the underground tunnel, and ambushed them in advance.

"Move quickly, move quickly with a shuttle, and don't get entangled with the enemy."

Before leaving, Zhang Dabiao reminded again:

"This time, our purpose is to kill the devil, and we don't need to drive the devil out immediately."

At this time, the northern city has been reduced to rubble.

In the face of continuous bombardment by 240 heavy artillery, almost all the low stone brick houses collapsed, and as far as the eye could see, there was a ruin, more than eighty percent of the houses were reduced to debris and rubble, and only a few broken walls remained.

But the undulating ruins, craters and rubble everywhere constitute the most complex terrain in the world, and the collapsed houses are natural bunkers, and the piled up rubble is also natural bunkers, and the craters are also natural bunkers.

As soon as the devil entered the city, he encountered obstacles.

They had just entered the Beicheng area, and before they could figure out the direction, suddenly, soldiers with submachine guns appeared from time to time under the rubble and by the broken wall, shooting at the devil with a slashing head and covering his face.

For this street battle, Grand Master Li equipped one-third of the soldiers of the regiment with submachine guns.

The devil was also prepared, and immediately launched a counterattack, but in the face of the fierce firepower of the independent regiment, the 38 big cover in the devil's hand could not fight at all, and was easily suppressed, and then a large area was thrown down, and had to retreat.

In street battles on complex terrain, the advantage of submachine guns is too great, not to mention that the independent regiment is also familiar with the terrain.

Although Grand Master Li had never experienced street fighting, he also understood that in the complex terrain of the city, he asked Zhang Dabiao to lead the assault team to attack in all directions, and even rushed out from behind the rubble in the tunnel to divide the devils, so that the devils could not stop a large-scale counterattack.

Only an hour later, the devils were forced to withdraw from the north of the city, leaving only more than a hundred corpses of the devils.

"Withdraw, withdraw..."

As soon as the devil left, Zhang Dabiao immediately took the troops to flash people.

"Yaga..."

Yoshio Shinozuka, who received the news, had red eyes and ordered his troops to attack again:

"Continue the attack, we can't let Li Yunlong recapture the ammunition depot in the north of the city."

According to the information provided by Zhu Ziming, there are dozens of tons of ammunition in the underground ammunition depot in the north of the city, which is nearly ten meters deep, and as long as the independent regiment does not have these ammunition, it will not last long.

This time the little devil also learned a lesson, after the artillery round of vertical ploughing, the infantry carefully advanced, the rear machine guns were ready to cover fire at any time, and even pushed the Type 92 infantry guns in.

But it still didn't work, and he was soon kicked out again.

And the devil still didn't let go, and launched an attack again, and the two sides launched a fierce battle around the north of the city.

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The battle lasted a whole day, and it was not until night that both sides stopped and went back to lick their wounds in preparation for the continuation of the morrow. At this time, the devils had already occupied the collapsed wall of Nadao in the north of the city, where they had built fortifications.

The two sides took out the collapsed ammunition depot Yaoyao yearned.

"There are quite a few casualties today."

After Zhang Dabiao counted the casualties, he reported to Li Yunlong:

"There are one hundred and seventy-seven soldiers who fell on the north side of the city, most of them are new recruits during the year, many of the soldiers are slow to move, and they have not had time to leave the position before the devil shells, and there are more than a hundred wounded soldiers, half of whom have lost their combat effectiveness."

In the past six months, the independent regiment has expanded its army in a big way, from 2,000 at the beginning to 5,000 now.

And street fighting, where narrow areas are fought in short quarters, is cruel to both sides, and those who fail to meet the requirements will be quickly eliminated.

"Hmm."

Li Yunlong nodded and did not speak.

Zhao Gang also looked calm, and his eyes did not have many waves.

Both of them knew very well that there would inevitably be casualties in the war, and although more than two hundred soldiers were attrition on the first day, as the battle progressed, those who survived were the elite, and the subsequent casualties would be smaller and smaller.

Only those who have experienced actual combat and survived are elite.

They can afford to spend it in separate regiments.

"In the afternoon, a small group of devil soldiers also appeared around the two mountains in the rear mountains, and I drove them out."

Wang Gensheng also reported on the situation.

"The little devil is planning to occupy the high ground on both flanks and put the cannon directly on the high ground to bombard us."

Grand Master Li sneered.

There were more than two hundred casualties on the first day on his side, and the devil must have been even more uncomfortable. The devil who has suffered a loss will naturally have to think of other ways.

"Commander, don't worry."

Shen Quan, the commander of the second battalion in charge of the defense here, said confidently: "The little devil will definitely not be able to take these two mountains." ”

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As Grand Master Li guessed, compared with the independent regiment, the devil's losses were even heavier.

The 9th Wing of the Imperial Allied Army, which had been arrogant and wanted to take revenge, had been crippled, with more than 1,000 men, and the 33rd Wing of the Ground, which was responsible for the attack, had also suffered heavy losses.

Even the 79th Wing, which coordinated the attack, suffered a squadron casualties.

It can be described as a heavy loss.

At night, Yoshio Shinozuka and Kazuki Yamamoto lay on the table, looking at the map of Shou County in front of them, their eyes solemn.

Today's situation, the strong combat effectiveness and resilience shown by the independent regiment made the two realize that it was probably impossible to solve Shou County in three days.

"The flanks are mountainous, the terrain is not suitable for large forces to deploy, and artillery fire cannot be used, so we can only attack from the front."

Kazuki Yamamoto pointed to the map and said:

"General."

"It is necessary to occupy these two heights and set up artillery units on the commanding heights in order to provide timely support to the attacking troops, but Li Yunlong must have deployed heavy troops here and built strong fortifications."

"Order the 97th Wing to speed up its build-up and set off tomorrow."

Yoshio Shinozuka's eyes flashed.

This time, in order to deal with Li Yunlong, he mobilized three infantry wings, and another wing was being assembled.

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It's also late at night.

Yan Sheng arrived in Taiyuan with a company of artillery.

Because there was no intelligence information provided by Boss Chen, this time, in order to conceal it, Yan Sheng marched very cautiously and slowly, but fortunately, after the devils launched a sweep, the rear was empty and was not discovered by the devils.

"Commander Iwa."

As soon as he arrived, a special squad soldier waiting here reported:

"There are a large number of troops on the devil's side, and they are currently stationed near the airport, and it should be an infantry wing depending on the size."

"Infantry wing? Assembling? ”

Iwamori frowned:

"Looks like we'll have to wait."

They didn't have a lot of troops this time. It is too dangerous to shell the airport in front of a wing of devils.