"Commander..." A radio operator suddenly stood up from the ammunition box.
He turned around and sent a message he had just received to Kong Jie, and then reported: "Deputy Chief of Staff Huang has an urgent message."
"The reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops going south have begun to attack Xiong County."
"The deputy chief of staff hopes that we will start taking action after dark, use battalions and companies as units to secretly lurk behind the Japanese and puppet troops, launch attacks from multiple points at the same time, directly use our close combat advantages, and use the heavy artillery and tanks equipped by the Japanese and puppet troops to
The troops are ineffective."
"It's best if we can eliminate them in one battle. If we can't eliminate them, we should inflict heavy losses on them. We should trap the remaining Japanese and puppet troops outside Xiongxian City and wait for the heavy artillery regiment and the special forces regiment to return to the battlefield before engaging in a decisive battle."
Hearing this, Kong Jie became even more anxious than before.
In order to avoid the troops being exposed in advance and alerting the Japanese and puppet troops going south to reinforce the troops, the attack on Xiong County was abandoned.
Kong Jie deliberately placed the assembly point of the three regiments fifteen kilometers away from Xiong County.
This means that after the three main regiments he secretly brought from the base area are assembled, they will still need to march secretly for three or four hours to reach the outside of Xiongxian City.
Although there are still several hours before dark, as long as the reinforcements are not assembled for one minute, the possibility of not being able to launch an attack on the Japanese and puppet troops on time will increase...
After reading the telegram, I turned my attention to the remaining two operators again, hoping that they could quickly contact the two independent regiments and the guard regiment.
"Contacted..." At the critical moment, the long-lost exclamation finally came out of the operator's mouth.
"Commander..."
"We have contacted the security group and are receiving messages..."
As soon as the operator finished speaking, another operator also made some noise. The radio signal light flashed significantly faster than before. The operator also became nervous at this moment, recording the telegram code while answering the message.
Five minutes later, a telegram from the guard regiment appeared in Kong Jie's hand, and the operator simultaneously spoke: "Commander..."
"Guard Corps Report..."
"In order to prevent the enemy from listening to the location of the guard regiment through radio signals, they did not dare to turn on the radio in advance, so they waited until the appointed time to turn it on and contact us."
Kong Jie waved his hand and replied: "It doesn't matter. As long as both parties are in contact, there will be no problem."
"Except for one company, the remaining nine main companies of the guards have all been assembled and can participate in the battle at any time. With this good news, I won't worry anymore."
"Call the security team back immediately."
"Let them take the time to rest, check their equipment and ammunition, and prepare for battle."
"We set off on time at three o'clock in the afternoon, secretly rushed to Xiongxian as a battalion and company unit, launched a surprise attack from behind the Japanese and puppet troops attacking Xiongxian, directly fought with them, and eliminated the enemy with close combat."
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"Boom boom boom..."
All kinds of artillery shells fired by the Japanese and puppet troops rained down on Xiongxian City.
The city head in the south of the city, which was heavily attacked by the Japanese and puppet troops, was completely covered by artillery fire.
Looking around, there were fireballs and billowing black smoke everywhere.
In the splashing fire, sandbags were constantly blown away in the explosion. More than half of the sandbags blocked by the Eighth Route Army at the gaps in the city wall had been blown up by the artillery fire. It would take at most five minutes for all the gaps to be blown out.
Major General Biancheng was very satisfied with the effect of the bombardment in front of him, and ordered with a smile on his face: "The attacking troops can go up..."
"Get as close to the city as possible under the cover of artillery fire."
"As soon as our artillery fire preparations stopped, the offensive troops immediately launched an attack. The heavy machine guns suppressed the Eighth Route Army's blocking firepower on the top of the city, trying to break through the Eighth Route Army's city defenses and advance into Xiong County in one attack."
"The Eighth Route Army concentrated their main force on the city head. As long as we break through the city head and severely damage the Eighth Route Army defending the city head, we will not be far from conquering Xiongxian County."
"The mortar squadron and the heavy machine gun squadron all went into battle to cover the attacking troops to attack the city head while consuming the Eighth Route Army's strength at the city head."
The chief of staff who was standing by immediately took the order: "I will make arrangements now..."
Ten minutes later, the artillery fire preparations that the Japanese army had placed high hopes on finally stopped.
The entire city was shrouded in smoke from the explosion of artillery shells, making it impossible to see even one's fingers.
Just as the major general expected, all four gaps in the city wall in the south were blown out by artillery fire. The sandbags piled in the gaps were useless. They were all blown down in the artillery fire and fell in the gaps. Instead, they formed a line that was conducive to the attack.
The slope of the troops.
The attacking troops would have needed to use ladders to enter the county through the gap.
With the slopes created by these sandbags, the Japs' attacking troops now don't even need ladders.
The troops reached the foot of the city wall, and the assault speed was fast enough. The troops could charge into the city with just one charge.
The attacking troops did not disappoint the Major General of the Border City, and under the cover of artillery fire, they successfully approached a position 60 to 70 meters outside the city.
If you are fast, it only takes more than ten seconds to reach the foot of the city wall and follow the gap in the wall all the way into the city.
All this seems to be developing according to the ideas in the mind of Major General Biancheng.
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
The sound of gunfire like exploding beans was soon heard from the top of the city, including the sound of light and heavy machine gun fire, the sound of rifle shooting, and several artillery shells falling from the sky, hitting the attacking troops.
In the splashing firelight, a dozen soldiers were overturned on the spot, and many little Japs at the front of the team were hit by the hail of bullets and fell on the attack path.
Seeing the attacking troops that were constantly suffering casualties in front of him, Major General Biancheng had a calm expression on his face.
Because everything he saw was within his expectations.
If the Eighth Route Army in the city cannot even sustain its own round of artillery fire preparations, then they are no longer the Eighth Route Army.
Precisely because they were difficult to fight, they repeatedly failed to defeat the North China Front Army's large-scale raids against them, and also caused the North China Front Army to lose troops and generals on the battlefield, losing face.
While observing the battle situation at the top of the city, he ordered: "Heavy machine gun cover, the mortar squadron will shoot at the top of the city immediately."
"Use artillery fire to destroy the firepower points set up by the Eighth Route Army on the top of the city to reduce the casualties and pressure on the attacking troops. Quickly..."
"Boom boom boom..."
The sound of machine gun fire on the city's head was quickly replaced by the sound of shell explosions.
The smoke that had begun to dissipate became thicker again as the shells exploded.
As the mortar squadron began to participate in the battle, the number of light and heavy machine guns that could continue to counterattack at the city head was significantly reduced.
But it still caused a large number of casualties to the attacking troops.
Major General Biancheng was not a novice on the battlefield. After a little analysis, he realized that Xiong County could not be won by the attack in front of him. It was meaningless for the troops to continue the attack except for increasing casualties.
Decisive order: "The artillery unit immediately locked the firepower point just exposed by the exposed army."
"The attacking troops retreated after half a minute, and the artillery immediately launched artillery fire on the city head, destroying all the newly exposed fire points on the city head."
