Chapter 274 Heavy Artillery Siege
The Dongguan City Wall is filled with smoke.
The position of the 741st Regiment is under heavy shelling.
Whoosh!
Rumble, rumble!
Balls of bright red fire exploded on the city wall.
One after another, Sichuan soldiers were blown upside down.
Several new recruits were so frightened that they ran around.
Cheng Xiang shouted at the top of his voice: "Damn it, stop running around, just hide where I am!"
While he was talking, Cheng Xiang saw three new recruits running around being hit by artillery fire and dying.
Cheng Xiang sighed heavily. New recruits are new recruits. After a sudden attack, everyone panicked!
The artillery attack lasted for a full 30 minutes, and soon the Japanese second group began to attack the Dongguan City Wall.
Staring at the Japs 800 meters away, Cheng Xiang shouted at the top of his voice: "Every battalion listen to my order! Get into position and prepare to attack!"
Hearing this, the Sichuan soldiers who survived the artillery fire pointed their weapons at the little Japanese in the distance.
At this time, a battalion commander ran toward Cheng Xiang with his waist bent.
The first battalion commander lowered his voice and shouted: "Team leader, the grenades are in place!"
With a slight nod, Cheng Xiang shouted: "Okay, distribute the grenades to the brothers at Duokou, and tell them to go down. Once the kid approaches the base of the city wall, throw it at me as hard as you can and kill these sons of bitches!"
A battalion commander responded: "Yes!"
Later, a battalion commander distributed more than a dozen boxes of grenades to the Sichuan soldiers at the crenellation.
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At this time, the Japanese soldiers had reached a combat distance of 400 meters.
Suddenly pointing his sword forward, the captain of the Second Battalion shouted at the top of his voice: "Warriors of the Empire, idiots with dicks! idiots with dicks!"
Upon hearing the captain's order, the Japanese weapons began to fire at the city wall.
Da da da!
Bang bang bang!
Rub rub rub!
Countless bullets flew towards the Sichuan troops on the city wall.
However, due to the good resistance of the city wall, the damage of these bullet rains is extremely limited!
Japanese soldiers fired while marching.
Some Japanese soldiers followed with long bamboo ladders. Their goal was to transport the bamboo ladders to the base of the wall.
Soon, the Sichuan troops on the tower discovered these ladders.
The next moment, the mortars deployed on the tower began to take care of the ladder.
As long as these bamboo ladders are destroyed, the difficulty for the Japanese to climb into the city will be increased by a level!
Mortars kept roaring and flying over.
In an instant, three ladders were blown apart.
The Japanese soldiers transporting the ladders were also killed and wounded in the explosion.
The second captain saw all this with gritted teeth and his heart was bleeding.
With an angry look on his face, the captain of the second battalion waved his saber and shouted: "Where is the mortar team?"
A squad leader hurried over.
The captain of the second battalion shouted: "Order the mortar gunner to bring me the Chinese mortar! Quick!"
In agreement, the team leader quickly directed the mortar team to conduct target observation.
The next moment, the house on the tower was hit by a volley of mortars.
The Chinese mortars on the tower were blown to pieces before they had time to move.
In this way, the remaining bamboo ladder finally reached the root of the wall smoothly.
The crooked light machine gun kept firing at the city head.
Type 89 grenades also poured grenades at the Sichuan soldiers at the crenel.
The Japanese soldiers who were transporting the ladder quickly erected the ladder under cover of fire.
Near the ladders were gathering little devils waiting to climb the city wall.
With ferocious faces, the little devils started to climb the city wall holding Type 38 rifles in one hand.
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The head of Dongguan City Wall.
The soldiers of the 741st Regiment are fighting bloody battles.
The two Maxim heavy machine guns opened fire wildly, engaging in a fierce confrontation with the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun.
At the same time, each Sichuan Army soldier kept pulling the bolts of Hanyang-made rifles and shooting at the Japs below the city.
Da da da!
Bang bang bang!
The enemy and we were fighting fiercely.
Due to the condescending height advantage, the Sichuan soldiers took advantage of fighting at the top of the city, and the little Japanese below the city were almost suppressed.
Even so, the Japanese's grenade launchers were not insignificant, and grenades kept flying up to the top of the city.
Sichuan soldiers who were fighting desperately were constantly knocked down by sudden grenades.
Raising a Type 79 rifle and knocking down a Japanese superior soldier, Cheng Xiang shouted at the top of his voice: "Brothers, hold on, we must guard the Dongguan City Wall!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the second battalion commander on the side shouted in alarm: "Tuanzuo, it's not good, the little devil started to climb the city wall!"
At that moment, Cheng Xiang shouted: "Everyone is here, throw grenades under the city! Quick!"
Hearing this, the Sichuan troops on the top of the city threw a large number of grenades at the Japanese in the city.
Between the electric light and flint, patches of fire broke out at the base of the Dongguan City Wall.
At the same time, the firelight was also mixed with the screams of the Japanese soldiers.
After several waves of grenades came down, the base of the city was filled with corpses of little Japanese.
A smoky grenade was thrown at the city again, and a battalion commander shouted excitedly: "It's so damn good to blow up, regiment, at least half of the squadron must be laid down by these waves of grenades!"
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Before Cheng Xiang had time to answer, a pumpkin grenade was suddenly thrown up from under the city wall.
Without saying a word, Sui threw the battalion commander to the ground.
Boom!
The pumpkin grenade exploded loudly, sending fragments flying and killing two Sichuan soldiers nearby.
Shaking the dust off his helmet, he quickly ran to a horse's side to observe.
Damn it, the little devils are still climbing the ladder, and some of them are almost reaching the top of the city!
The grenade just now was thrown up by the kid climbing the ladder.
These little devils are so samurai-minded that they can't even be killed by throwing so many grenades.
This is too unscientific!
The crenel is a blind spot for the Sichuan army's shooting. It is difficult to kill the little Japanese climbing the ladder by shooting at the crenel.
After pondering for a moment, Cheng Xiang immediately ordered the machine gunners to move to a few horses' sides and fire from the flanks at the Japanese who were climbing the ladder.
The function of the horse face is to flank the enemies who are ascending the city, which still has military defense value in the era of hot weapons.
Da da da!
The Czech light machine gun on the horse's horse kept greeting the little devils who were climbing the stairs.
One by one, the little devils fell from the ladder.
The Japanese invasion of the city was a complete failure!
There was a thick layer of corpses piled under the city walls, and they were all from the 10th Regiment.
Since ancient times, the defender has always been in an advantageous position in siege operations. Even in modern warfare, without the support of heavy artillery, the success probability of ordinary infantry sieges is still almost the same as in the cold weapon era.
In order to break the defensive advantage of the city wall, the best way is to use large-caliber heavy artillery to focus on a certain point of the city wall.
As long as there is a gap in the city wall, the balance of power between the offensive and defensive sides will change.
The defender no longer has the advantage, and the attacker can talk directly to the defender!
Seeing the defeat of the second team, Akashiba Yaezo's face couldn't help but fall.
Shaking his head heavily, Akashiba Yaezo shouted in a deep voice: "It seems that siege operations still require large-caliber heavy artillery. Chief of Staff, please ask the second captain to withdraw first!"
The chief of staff on the side responded: "Yes!"
At this time, an artillery squadron leader ran over: "Reporting to your Excellency, the company commander, the heavy artillery has been prepared! The artillery bombardment can begin!"
The color on his face suddenly lit up, and Akashiba Yaezo shouted: "Yoshi! In three minutes, the bombardment will begin! I must blast a gap to come out!"
Chapter completed!