Captain Yongchuan is the garrison officer of the Middle Gate of Shanxi Province.
Although the main force of the Jinzhong garrison has been transferred away, there are still more than 600 Japs stationed in the city, including two Japs from one regiment.
Captain Yongchuan is in charge of two reinforcement teams and two companies of the Imperial Alliance Army.
After the big sweep began, although Jinzhong County was much tighter than usual and the city gates were closed every day before dawn, the Japanese and puppet troops who stayed in the city did not increase their vigilance.
Jinzhong is located in the hinterland of the occupied area, next to Taiyuan City, and there are no hostile forces around it.
Neither the Eighth Route Army nor the Shanxi-Sui Army could cross the occupied area of more than 200 kilometers and appear quietly outside Jinzhong City.
Other places in the occupied area may be attacked, but Taiyuan and Jinzhong are not possible.
But in order to cope with the inspections from above, Captain Yongchuan arranged for a combat detachment and a platoon of Imperial Army soldiers to keep vigil every night...
At one o'clock in the morning, Jinzhong County, shrouded in darkness, was completely asleep. Except for some firelights on the top of the city, everything else was dark.
Captain Yongchuan also fell asleep early, and there were only about forty Japanese and puppet troops patrolling and guarding the huge east gate.
It was already late at night, and many Japanese and puppet soldiers who were on alert began to fight with their eyelids because they were too sleepy and tired, yawning all the time, and their vigilance was greatly reduced.
One battalion and one company of the Independent Regiment suddenly appeared two hundred meters outside the city...
Some people were lying on the ground, some were squatting... They were all on guard with guns, staring at the city wall in front of them with vigilance.
Thirty to forty meters behind, dozens of gunners are building artillery positions for two mountain cannons. Behind them are more than a hundred mortar gunners. Eight mortars raise their black muzzles to the top of the city...
The same thing is happening in the west, south, and north of Jinzhong City. The arrogant little devil does not know that Jinzhong has been quietly surrounded by the independent group.
The assault company launched an attack from the back mountain of Xiluo and captured the Xiluo stronghold in one fell swoop.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Kong Jie directly handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield and taking in the prisoners to the chief of staff, and led the main force of the regiment to march towards Jinzhong.
We rushed outside the city in the early morning and immediately divided our troops into four groups to surround Jinzhong. Regardless of the main attack and the assist, we launched the attack at 1:10 in the morning and tried to break through the Jinzhong city defenses within an hour! "
The first battalion strengthened two mountain guns to storm the east gate. Kong Jie originally wanted the assault company to join in.
The assault company's tank platoon is equipped with three armored vehicles. If they are covered, the siege troops will definitely be able to enter Jinzhong easily!
But this idea was rejected by Huang Yu as soon as it was proposed.
Then Kong Jie was called to the side by Huang Yu, discussing something in a low voice.
Ten minutes later, except that the previous siege order remained unchanged, the first and second companies of the guard battalion, the baggage company, and the cavalry company as reserves... were all transferred to Huang Yu's command and obeyed Huang Yu's command... No one knew the specific tasks.
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"Rumble..."
At 1:10 in the morning, more than 30 mortars, ten mountain guns and infantry guns equipped by the independent regiment... roared at the same time, and the sound of the artillery rumbled, instantly breaking the quiet atmosphere in Jinzhong...
"Boom boom boom..."
The explosion was more violent than the sound of artillery and louder than thunder. The whole town of Nuoda Jinzhong County trembled twice in the explosion.
More than a dozen fireballs shot up from the four walls at the same time, which looked particularly dazzling under the cover of night, dyeing half of the sky in Jinzhong red.
The east gate defended by Captain Dongchuan received two mountain artillery shells and eight mortar shells...
The two mountain cannons fired directly and fired the shells into the city gate hole, hitting the city gate.
Jinzhong City Gate is very thick and covered with a layer of iron, making it particularly strong.
Two mountain cannon shells hit them and they didn't move at all...
But this does not mean that the two city gates are indestructible.
During the explosion, the heavy city gate visibly shook several times and became loose.
As long as the cannonballs continue to hit the city gate, five or six more cannonballs will definitely destroy it.
Most of the mortar shells that hit the city head failed to achieve any results, but they shocked Captain Yongchuan who was resting in the city gate tower.
I jumped up from the bed and rushed out without putting on any clothes.
"Boom boom boom..."
In the second round, a cannonball hit the city gate tower. In the splashing fire, a corner of the city gate tower was instantly blown to pieces...
This scene made Captain Yongchuan tremble with fear.
If he had come out more than ten seconds later, he would have been buried in the collapsed city gate tower.
"Comrades, rush... all... all..."
Before Captain Yongchuan could recover, a loud charge bug sounded outside the city.
More than a hundred Eighth Route Army troops appeared out of nowhere, formed a skirmish line, and charged towards the city wall, roaring.
There were only about forty soldiers on guard at the top of the city. More than half of them were killed and wounded in the artillery raid. Less than twenty people were left huddled in the corner of the city wall. Almost all of them were Imperial Army soldiers with little fighting power. They didn't even have the courage to stand up.
No, let alone fight back.
Captain Yongchuan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. Faced with the Eighth Route Army who acted out of common sense and launched a general attack, he could only bite the bullet and order the defenders in the east of the city to immediately go up the city wall and defend the city with the shells constantly hitting their heads.
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"Boom, boom, boom..." The explosions in Captain Yongchuan's ears continued without any intention of stopping.
The Eighth Route Army attacking the city outside the city ran faster and faster, reaching a hundred meters away in the blink of an eye...
If the defenders in the east of the city don't go up to the city wall to block their attack, the city in the east will be over in just ten or twenty seconds.
"Captain, we are here!" a second lieutenant shouted as he rushed to the top of the city.
"Everyone enter the position, shoot immediately, and stop the Eighth Route Army outside the city at all costs!" Captain Yongchuan ordered with a relieved breath.
Nearly ten light and heavy machine guns brought by the reinforcements suddenly joined the battle, and the intensive firepower instantly killed a company and a platoon of troops.
The remaining troops retreated back to the offensive position like a tide, retreating as quickly as they came.
But throughout the process, the independent regiment's siege artillery fire never stopped...
The Japanese and puppet troops were exposed to fight on the bare city top. As long as a shell hit them, it would explode into a large area...
In comparison, the Japanese and puppet troops at Chengtou suffered more casualties than the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops.
But no matter what, the Eighth Route Army's first round of attacks was repelled by itself. The garrison in the east of the city finally had time to adjust its deployment.
Captain Yongchuan was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when another bad news came to him: "Captain, the city gate was blown to pieces by the Eighth Route Army's mountain artillery..."
"Immediately send people to block the city gate with sandbags, and deploy a combat unit and a platoon of Imperial Army soldiers to guard the city gate. We must not let the Eighth Route Army burst in through the city gate... hurry up!" Captain Yongchuan made the immediate decision.
The response is very fast...
"Sir, a new round of the Eighth Route Army's attack has begun!" Another piece of bad news reached Captain Yongchuan's ears.
"Bageya Road, why are they so fast...Are they trying to force us to death and not give us time to rest?" Captain Yongchuan immediately looked outside the city, cursing as he looked.
"The troops immediately prepared for battle...stop them at all costs..."
"The troops guarding the city gate should prepare for battle immediately. The Eighth Route Army must not be allowed to break into the city gate..."
"Boom boom boom..."
The independent regiment's shells on the city didn't stop for a moment.
The Japanese and puppet troops originally wanted to evacuate the city, avoid artillery fire, and wait for the second round of the independent group's attack to begin before fighting on the city.
As a result, the independent regiment gave them no chance to evacuate the city.
Before they could retreat, the second round of attacks began, forcing them to defend the city under artillery fire. A large number of Japanese and puppet troops were killed and wounded every minute...
"Rumble..."
Two mountain cannon shells roared into the city gate.
The Japanese finally built a one-meter-long sandbag wall with sandbags. When the two shells exploded, the sandbag wall was instantly razed to the ground. Even the Japanese and puppet troops hiding behind the sandbag wall suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat.
Arrange the temporary defense line twenty or thirty meters behind the city gate opening.
"Dududu...dudu...dududu...dongdongdong..."
The loud sound of the charge horn once again sounded the battlefield...but this time it was also accompanied by the sound of heavy machine gun fire.
Eight heavy machine guns were set up 200 to 300 meters outside the city, spitting out tongues of fire and pouring bullets towards the city head.
As soon as a few Japanese machine gunners fired back, the battlement where he was was hit with rubble flying and bullets flying everywhere...
There were also a few unlucky machine gunners who were shot in the head and fell in a pool of blood!
"The light and heavy machine guns are about to fire... The Eighth Route Army is about to rush over. Don't stop them at all costs, just shoot!" Captain Yongchuan's face was filled with pain, but he was more nervous and anxious.
The Eighth Route Army's offensive firepower became more and more powerful, far beyond my imagination.
The attacking troops were getting closer and closer. If the blocking troops did not open fire to stop them, the city wall under their feet would definitely not be able to hold. This was the order given just now to block the Eighth Route Army's attack at all costs.
But he had too few Japanese soldiers.
The continuous shelling and the last round of attack by the company had killed and injured more than fifty Japanese soldiers. Just now, more than ten Japanese soldiers were assigned to guard the city gate. There were less than thirty Japanese soldiers left on the city wall that stretched for several hundred meters.
No matter how hard he tried, he could only operate four or five light and heavy machine guns and more than twenty rifles.
This little firepower can't stop the attacking troops at all.
As for the puppet troops on the top of the city, under the crazy suppression of eight heavy machine guns and more than 20 light machine guns, they did not even dare to show their heads from the battlements, let alone shoot outside the city.
Really, there were Japs forcing them to shoot, so they just tried to trick the Japs and shoot with their eyes closed.
As for whether the bullet can hit the target, only God knows.
"Shoot, all stand up and shoot... We must stop the Eighth Route Army, otherwise all of us will die on the city walls..." Captain Yongchuan became more and more anxious as he watched. At the same time, he also saw that the puppet army had no intention of fighting back. He drew his pistol while giving the order.
He fired at the two puppet soldiers who were shooting with their eyes closed...
"This is what will happen if you don't focus on fighting and fool me..."
"I aimed and shot them all... If anyone fails to aim and shoots outside the city, all of them will be shot..."
"Dongdongdong..." The offensive firepower of the independent regiment became more and more fierce. Although Captain Yongchuan's painful killing shocked many puppet troops, their blocking firepower was still vulnerable to more than 20 light and heavy machine guns.
