"Boom!"

"Boom! Boom, boom! -"

After this period of development, the 386 Brigade has more than 150 various mortars, infantry guns, field guns, and mountain guns combined.

It also includes two 105mm caliber howitzers and a 150mm caliber heavy artillery piece.

At this time, the firepower was fully activated, and hundreds of artillery shells exploded one after another. The continuous explosions were as terrifying as the earth falling apart. Countless shrapnel flew wildly along with the shock wave, destroying all objects including the city gates and buildings.

In the light of the fire, due to being bombarded by 150mm-caliber heavy artillery, the entire city gate building was immediately blown to pieces, collapsed, disintegrated in an instant, and turned into ruins in the light of the fire.

The hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were waiting on the city wall didn't even have a chance to scream for help or escape, and were blown to pieces on the spot.

More cannonballs also landed in the open space inside the city and outside the city gate. For a moment, huge scarlet fires rose up one after another, illuminating the darkening night sky like daylight.

One salvo ended, and then the 386th Brigade launched a second and third salvo.

Shouyang is a small county town. The city walls are not entirely made of bricks and stones. In some places, they are made of glutinous rice, rammed earth and straw.

Under the fierce bombardment of the 386th Brigade, the entire east city gate was riddled with holes and crumbling, and some places even collapsed directly, leaving gaps.

At that time, most of the Japanese and puppet troops in the city had just woken up and were preparing to have dinner. They were all frightened by the explosion in the east of the city.

A few minutes later, as soon as Yoshida Hiroshi returned to the wing headquarters, Chief of Staff Akita Makoto came out with an eager look: "Captain, you are finally back! I just received a call from Dongchengmen, saying that Tubal Road has launched a fierce attack. Just

One round of shelling killed all the hundreds of imperial troops defending the city wall."

"Currently, contact with the East City Gate has been lost!"

Yoshida Yan said with a dark face: "I just came back from the East City Gate! The Tuba Road is indeed very fierce. No wonder we can capture Jinzhong County where the brigade commander is personally in charge!"

"It is meaningless for us to continue to hold on to the city wall defense line. We order all troops to immediately rush to various urban areas, build barricades street by lane, and start street battles with Tubal Road!"

"Let the imperial troops on the west, north, and south city gates also withdraw!"

"Although the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire is fierce, it is limited to the city wall area. There are many Chinese civilians in Shouyang City. The Eighth Route Army will definitely not dare to launch extended bombing in the city!"

It has to be said that Yoshida Hiroshi is indeed a battle-hardened commander with great strategic vision and tactical guidance capabilities.

With just one glance, he found the Eighth Route Army's weakness.

"Hiyi!"

Akita nodded seriously, and then went to deliver the order in person.

A few minutes later, Akita Zhen returned and suggested to Yoshida Yan: "Captain, without the solid defense of the city wall, with the strength of our troops in the city, we may not be able to withstand the crazy attack of China Tubal Road."

"So, should we ask Commander Yoshio Shinozuka for tactical guidance?"

Yoshida said: "The 8th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Imperial Army and the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Imperial Army were severely damaged at Fenghuangling and Wusu Airport. Now Taiyuan City has no troops to deploy, and the 41st Infantry Division of the Imperial Army and other

The ministry has not arrived yet.

Even if we ask Commander Yoshio Shinozuka for reinforcements, he will not be able to mobilize reinforcements at all."

"Moreover, these damn Chinese chose the time of attack at night, so the aviation force could not take off to fight.

So, we can only rely on ourselves!"

Akita Makoto: "Even so, shouldn't we report the matter and at least let Commander Yoshio Shinozuka know about it?"

Yoshida Yan nodded, acquiescing to Akita's proposal.

Immediately, Akita sent a telegram to Taiyuan.

Telegrams went back and forth, and the situation turned out to be as expected by Yoshida Yan. Taiyuan City had no troops to send, and they could only rely on themselves next.

However, Shinozuka Yoshio promised in the message that as long as they persisted for one night, aviation troops would be dispatched to provide them with tactical guidance early tomorrow morning.

Moreover, at noon tomorrow at the latest, the 41st Division, the 77th Infantry Regiment and the 96th Infantry Regiment will arrive in Taiyuan.

At that time, these troops will immediately go to southeastern Shanxi and launch a sweep against the Eighth Route Army in the southeastern Shanxi area.

After receiving the call back, instead of boosting his confidence, Yoshida became a little desperate because he didn't know whether his 33rd Infantry Regiment could sustain it for one night.

Even with thousands of reinforcements coming from those 6 large strongholds.

…

At this moment, the Japanese and puppet troops in the entire Shouyang City were already busy.

Following the instructions of the former enemy commander-in-chief Hiroshi Yoshida, they immediately built barricades at the entrances and streets of major streets as quickly as possible. At the same time, they also seized some high points in the city in advance to serve as machine gun positions.

As for the puppet troops, although they are also helping, their efficiency is much lower than that of the Japanese.

While they were cursing the Japanese and the Eighth Route Army in their hearts, they were scolding the Eighth Route Army for being such a bastard. They actually launched an attack at a meal point, leaving them without food and having to make do with hard food.

As for the people in the city, their faces were miserable. In order to avoid the war, those who had cellars hid in cellars, while those who did not have cellars hid in the corners of their homes with their families.

…

Outside the city, the 386th Brigade forward headquarters.

Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Xiazi were fighting fiercely for the main attack. No one was convinced by the other, so they barely rolled up their sleeves to fight.

Xu Shengji and Sun Yuliang actually wanted to argue about the main attack, but they couldn't get a word in.

"Well, well..." Wang Chengzhu cleared his throat and said, "Everyone, could you please let me, a former enemy commander, say a few words first?"

As soon as Wang Chengzhu opened his mouth, everyone fell silent and turned their attention to him.

Li Yunlong: "Zhuzhu, tell me."

Wang Chengzhu: "The railway crossing and the four city gates have been bombed by us. If nothing else happens, Yoshida Yan will definitely make the same choice as Naoomi Hattori, giving up city wall defense and instead building barricades to fight with us in street battles.

."

"So, we don't have a main attack this time, every unit is a main attack! They are all open to attack!"

"Among them, our independent second regiment launched an attack from the east city gate."

"The New Regiment launched an attack from the West City Gate, the Independent Regiment launched an attack from the North City Gate, the 772 Regiment launched an attack from the South City Gate, and the New Second Regiment launched an attack from the railway entrance."

"The 771st Regiment and the 4th Mixed Brigade serve as reserves and will take action at their own discretion."

Now everyone had no objections, although Xu Shengji wanted to say: Isn't this bullying an honest person?

Of course, although Xu Shengji doesn't like to compete, it doesn't mean that he has poor command skills.

If there was nothing, how could he have defeated Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and others to become the commander of the 771st Regiment when the Eighth Route Army was first reorganized.

As for Sun Yuliang, as a surrendered general, he doesn't have much say now. Of course, he can do whatever the commander says...
Chapter completed!