The captain's face suddenly turned pale. Before he could recover, the chariot parked more than a hundred meters outside the city started moving again.
Roaring and rushing towards the city wall, it was very fast.
Subconsciously shouting: "The artillerymen continue to fire, let me stop them."
"Light and heavy machine gun shooting..."
"Cross the chariot and hit the infantry behind..."
The order was issued, but not many subordinates responded.
Turning his head and looking around, the captain's heart suddenly went cold.
At least five explosive charges had just hit the top of the city, each one blowing up a large area.
Many of his subordinates lost their lives in the explosion. Even if they were not killed, they were so disoriented that they could not react for a long time.
The Eighth Route Army who attacked the city wall didn't care that there were so many. They seized the opportunity and rushed forward at a very fast speed.
"Captain... the Eighth Route Army has reached the foot of the city wall..." a subordinate reminded loudly.
"Use grenades to blow up the Eighth Route Army who want to get close to the city wall. Quickly..." the captain ordered hurriedly.
Then he bent down and ran behind a nearby battlement.
There lay two corpses of his subordinates.
I don't have grenades on me, they do.
After finding the grenade, quickly unplug the safety, knock it against the battlement, and throw it over the battlement outside the city.
After throwing one grenade, he was still worried, so he took out the second grenade from the corpse and continued to throw it out.
"Boom boom boom..."
Soon there was a violent explosion and the screams of the Eighth Route Army at the foot of the city wall.
However, the Japanese and puppet troops suffered too many casualties on the city wall, especially those sections of the city wall that were hit by explosive packets. There was not even a single little Japanese alive alive.
The dozens of soldiers who attacked here were not attacked by grenades and were intact.
An explosion of "Boom..." suddenly sounded at the foot of the city wall, and a large hole was instantly blown out of the solid outer bricks of the city wall.
Several soldiers nearby took action immediately.
Take out the explosive packages from the armored vehicle and pile them into the hole.
After stuffing more than twenty explosive packets, they decided to light them and retreat, running faster than rabbits, for fear of being injured by the shock wave generated by the explosion and affecting the fish pond.
"Rumble..."
The scene that the Japanese captain least wanted to see occurred.
The city wall underfoot trembled twice in the explosion, and a plume of black smoke rose from the explosion point, forming a huge mushroom cloud over the city.
Countless pieces of soil and wall bricks were blown away, and smoke and dust quickly spread to the surroundings.
In the blink of an eye, the 20 to 30-meter-long city walls on both sides of the center of the explosion were shrouded in gunpowder smoke.
The nearly ten-meter-high city wall was directly blown out, creating a three- to four-meter-wide gap.
The blasted soil piled up in the gap, forming a huge gentle slope.
You don't need a ladder, you can rush up to the gap with just your feet.
The captain's face turned paler.
He picked up a machine gun and rushed towards the gap. As he rushed, he ordered: "Quick, follow me and block the gap..."
"The Eighth Route Army must be attacking Taiyuan from there, and they must be stopped."
Dozens of nearby Japanese and puppet troops heard the news and rushed towards the gap with various weapons.
The Eighth Route Army, which was blocked outside the city, also began to concentrate towards the gap, preparing to advance into Taiyuan from there.
"Boom boom boom..."
The sound of thunder cannon firing sounded again.
More than a dozen explosive packets rolled towards the city, most of which were gathered near the gap in the city wall.
The captain was defeated by the Eighth Route Army's actions.
I just rushed to the gap and set up the machine gun, preparing to face the Eighth Route Army siege troops face to face and block them in the gap.
As a result, before he could fire a single bullet, seven or eight explosive packets fell from the sky at speeds visible to the naked eye and landed next to him.
"Baga... boom..."
As soon as he shouted two words, an explosion sounded in his ears, a ball of white light flashed in front of his eyes, and then he lost consciousness.
More than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops who fought toward the gap with the battalion leader were bombed and suffered more than half of their casualties before they even encountered the Eighth Route Army.
The gap in the city wall was also widened by more than one meter during the explosion, which was more conducive to the Eighth Route Army's attack.
"Rumble..."
The roar of tanks finally sounded outside the gap.
Three tanks and three armored vehicles rushed towards the gap from several directions.
The tanks fired shells at the gap while charging, and the vehicle-mounted machine guns seemed to have free bullets, creating a dense firepower net at the gap, so that the little Japanese didn't even have a chance to raise their heads.
More than a hundred soldiers from the attacking force suddenly crossed over the chariots and rushed toward the gap with roars.
"The Eighth Route Army is coming, grab them quickly and stop them..." a surviving little Japanese squadron leader gritted his teeth and ordered.
As a result, as soon as his head came out of the bunker, a string of bullets roared from the front, killing half of his head in an instant, with red and white brains flying everywhere.
The few little Japs were not frightened. They mounted their rifles and shot at the attacking troops whenever they had the chance.
The puppet troops scattered in the ruins did not have the courage.
They were all scared to death, hiding behind the ruins and shivering. Even if a kid pointed a gun at their head and forced them to take action, these people did not have the courage to raise their heads and rob.
"Dong dong dong..."
More than a dozen truck-mounted heavy machine guns continued to fire at the gap, suppressing the surviving Japs.
In a blink of an eye, seven or eight soldiers had reached the foot of the gap.
Take out the grenade, pull the string, hold it in your hand for three seconds, and then throw it out with force.
"Boom boom boom..."
The grenade exploded in the air, and fragments fell from the sky and penetrated into the backs of the Japanese and puppet troops like rain.
The little devils who already suffered heavy casualties were even worse.
"Follow me in the first row, cover with the second and third rows... rush..."
The company commander leading the team, holding a box cannon in his hand, took the lead and crawled towards the gap.
The bullets fired from the vehicle-mounted machine gun passed them and continued to suppress the Japanese and puppet troops in the gap, reducing their assault pressure...
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Behind a mound less than 500 meters away from the west of the city, Huang Yu was observing the commando's every move with a telescope.
He could clearly see the figure of the company commander climbing up the gap in the city wall.
The other hand had long been clenched into a fist, and I was very nervous.
In the attack just now, the troops stationed at the city head suffered heavy casualties.
As long as the commandos successfully capture the gap, capture it.
The current strength of the troops stationed at the city head certainly cannot threaten their safety.
The troops can take the opportunity to expand the breakthrough point, allowing more troops to attack the city and enter Taiyuan City.
"Captain, it's taken down, the commando team has taken down the gap..." Wei Dayong's excited voice suddenly sounded in Huang Yu's ears.
The commander of the assault company was the first to climb up the gap and fired several shots with the box cannon in his hand, killing the three Japanese who wanted to fight.
At this moment, several more soldiers rushed into the gap.
Several people cooperated with each other, and in a short time they killed the only four or five Japanese who were left in the gap.
The second and third platoons then rushed to the gap, quickly separated on the left and right, climbed to the top of the city under the cover of their respective machine guns, and assaulted both sides of the gap in an attempt to expand the breach.
Some soldiers also placed explosives in the gap in an attempt to flatten the slope of the gap so that tanks could rush up.
