Outside the east gate, Kong Jie looked through his telescope and saw the soldiers of the first battalion attacking the city wall under the leadership of the first battalion commander Guan Dashan, with a smile on his face.
"Well done!"
Wang Yingcai, political commissar of the Independence League, felt like Zhao Gang that something was strange.
"Captain, did this battle go a little too smoothly?" Wang Yingcai said.
"Isn't it just that the Japanese and the puppet soldiers exchanged clothes?"
"Don't worry, if you follow Captain Li's style of play, there won't be any problems."
"This kid has more tricks up his sleeve than we thought."
In fact, Kong Jie had already noticed something was wrong, but he didn't pay much attention.
Since the Japanese army abandoned the city wall and allowed the Eighth Route Army to enter and engage in street fighting, it was only a matter of time before they captured Shouyang City.
According to Li Yunlong's style of play, unless the Japs captured all the houses in the city, the Eighth Route Army would have 5,000 against the Japs 700, and Kong Jie wouldn't even know how to lose.
Even if the Japs set fire to the house, they would still be burned to death inside. The Japs would probably not do that.
Even if the battle loss ratio is 1:1 and divided among three regiments, each regiment will suffer at most more than 200 casualties.
Therefore, Kong Jie did not panic at all.
When Kong Jie turned his head, he saw the artillerymen of the new regiment and the soldiers of the machine artillery battery packing up and preparing to withdraw.
He quickly ran over and asked, "What are you doing? Who asked you to leave?"
"Captain Kong." Hu Yongqiang, commander of the Second Company of the Shanpao Battalion, turned around and saluted with a military salute and said, "This is the order of our regiment commander."
"Isn't this wrong?" Kong Jie said, "Your regiment leader has made an agreement with me not to return it until the battle against the county town is over. The battle against the county town has just begun."
These mountain cannons are such good treasures. Even if they are returned to Li Yunlong in the end, they still taste good if held in his hands for a while. Kong Jie did not want to return them so early.
Hu Yongqiang said: "Our regiment leader said that the mission of our Second Mountain Artillery Company is to help the brothers of the Independent Regiment knock down the city wall."
"Now that the city wall has been knocked open, we have completed our mission. After that, we have other missions."
"The city walls have been opened." Kong Jie asked, "What other tasks do you have, other than staying in the independent regiment to provide some artillery support?"
Hu Yongqiang added: "Our mountain artillery battalion must gather together to carry out beheading operations against the Japanese headquarters in the city."
"I'm sorry, Commander Kong, but we won't be able to provide you with artillery support from now on."
Kong Jie was a little dumbfounded. Li Yunlong had a valid reason and he couldn't refute it.
Looking at the 3 mountain cannons and 10 machine guns, Kong Jie swallowed his saliva, and in the end his reason overcame his impulse.
Kong Jie said: "Since you have a mission, then hurry back to the new regiment and don't delay the mission."
At that moment, the second company commander Hu Yongqiang organized the team of mountain artillery and machine gun to move towards the south of the city.
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In the city of Shouyang County.
After Zheng Yu led the second battalion to occupy the city wall and the barbican city, he continued to attack.
Follow the stairs of the city wall to the street.
At the corner of the street, there are two machine gun positions built with sandbags.
The Japanese set up two Taisho 13-style light machine guns with crooked handles on the sandbags. Behind the sandbags, the Japanese in puppet army uniforms opened fire fiercely toward the end of the street.
However, one of the crooked-handled machine guns jammed soon, and the bullets fired from the other crooked-handled machine gun swept over in a fan-shaped pattern.
The soldiers of the Second Battalion hid behind pillars at the end of the street and shot at each other with the Japanese.
At this time, the window above the soldier's head suddenly opened, a head poked out, and shouted down.
"Don't come here, there are landmines on the street! There are Japanese ambush!"
The soldier looked up and saw a middle-aged woman waving to the soldier and shouting loudly.
"Go back quickly, don't come out!"
A young soldier waved to the middle-aged woman to move back.
But the middle-aged woman had been discovered by the Japanese who were ambushing her diagonally across the street.
A Japanese soldier aimed his rifle at her and pulled the trigger.
With a crisp sound, the middle-aged woman was hit in the chest by a bullet. Since half of her body was outside the window, she fell out of the window after being shot.
It fell firmly to the ground and made a dull sound.
"What a stupid little devil!"
Out of grief and anger, the young soldier leaned half out of the bunker and pulled the trigger of his submachine gun at the spot where the Japanese had just fired.
Although this soldier is young, he has been a veteran of the army for more than half a year and is a squad leader of the second battalion.
Machine gun bullets were sprayed over, and the Japanese who had just fired was beaten into a sieve in an instant.
The machine gun across the street aimed at the squad leader, but a second before the Japanese machine gunner fired, the squad leader was pulled back by a big hand.
The Japanese machine gun hit the stone bunker in front of the soldiers and sparks flew everywhere.
The person who pulled the squad leader was none other than Second Battalion Commander Zheng Yu.
Logically speaking, a veteran squad leader should not make such a mistake, but Zheng Yu did not blame him at this time.
The squad leader reported: "Batalion Commander, thirty meters in front of the Japanese machine gun firepower point, there are Japanese ambushes on the second floor on both sides."
"That aunt just wanted to remind me that she was killed by the Japanese."
Zheng Yu nodded. Since the Japanese were ambushing them, they would definitely drive away the people who had cleared the area.
The aunt must have hidden herself away from the enemy, but she discovered that the enemy had planted landmines on the street.
He took out a small rectangular mirror, tied a rope to his bayonet and carefully stretched it out, then looked into the mirror again.
The second-floor houses on both sides were tightly closed, and nothing could be seen. Looking down again, there was only one Japanese machine gun spitting flames, and the other was in a misfire state.
At that moment, Zheng Yu put away his bayonet and mirror and shouted loudly: "The submachine gun fire is suppressing, the bazooka is ready to kill the Japanese firepower!"
Several squad leaders carrying submachine guns came over one after another, and the two groups of grenadier soldiers also shouted that they were ready.
Several squad leaders and grenadier soldiers nodded to each other. First, the squad leader who had just fired took out his submachine gun and fired a shot in the direction of the enemy's machine gun firepower according to his feeling.
Show off a wave of casual shooting skills.
Taking advantage of the brief pause in the Japanese machine gun fire, several squad leaders jumped out of their bunkers and opened fire at the Japanese machine gun positions.
Machine gun bullets were fired like raindrops, and the Japanese machine gunner had to lower his head to avoid the incoming bullets.
After the Japanese firepower was suppressed, the bazooka soldier loaded the rocket launcher, knelt down on one knee and pulled the trigger towards the Japanese machine gun position built with sandbags.
Two rockets that could be seen clearly with the naked eye were filled with gunpowder smoke, sliding in mid-air, and quickly hitting the Japanese machine gun position on the opposite side.
Boom boom!
Accompanied by two thunderous explosions on the ground, rockets blasted the machine guns and Japanese behind the two positions behind the sandbags into the sky.
"Signal soldier, go notify the soldiers outside and bring in all the siege ladders!"
Zheng Yu looked up at the second floor, and then said to the communications soldier.
The enemy's firepower point behind the sandbags was facing the main gate of Wengcheng. Entering through the gate, you would be exposed to the firepower of the enemy's machine guns.
If you want the follow-up troops to bring the ladder in, you must first clear out the Japanese machine gunners on the street corner.
"Yes!" The Communications Department ran towards the outside of the city.
Afterwards, Zheng Yu looked at the street carefully and found that there were signs of being turned over on the street.
Although it is a stone street, it is obvious that the street has been in disrepair for a long time. Some of the stone slabs have gone to unknown places. Under the stone slabs is the mud, where the Japanese buried mines.
Without the aunt's reminder, their first battalion would have definitely attacked along the houses, but the subsequent troops attacking along the streets might have suffered heavy losses.
Because he didn't know that there were landmines buried under the stone slab, Zheng Yu asked the communications troops to inform Chen Dugu not to advance along the street.
For Zheng Yu, conducting is an art, and it needs to be thorough and ensure nothing goes wrong.
Not long after, some soldiers carried four or five ladders in from the gate of Wengcheng.
"Put the ladder up on the house!"
Soon these four or five ladders were set up by the soldiers on the side of the house where there were windows.
"Commando, go to the room!"
He took the submachine gun from the guard next to him, opened the safety of the submachine gun, let out a low shout, and then stepped on the ladder to climb up.
The fact that the aunt who risked her life to remind them just now is in this room means that there are no ghosts here.
Soon the soldiers entered the house on the ladder and began to advance slowly.
The rocket launcher soldiers were not idle either. According to the squad leader's instructions, they fired several rockets at the houses on both sides where the Japs were suspected of ambushing them.
In the violent explosion, the second floor of the house hit by the rocket collapsed in an instant, and all the Japanese inside were killed and injured.
The soldiers of the second battalion blew up the wall in the house and moved forward. They soon encountered the Japanese ambushing in the house. A fight broke out between the two sides and began to fight from house to house.
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Takahashi Daisuke's headquarters is located in the center of the county.
This was originally a middle school in Shouyang County. After the Japanese army occupied Shouyang County, they saw that the building of the middle school looked new and there were enough classrooms, so they seized it and used it as the Japanese headquarters.
The teacher's office became the place where the Japanese worked, and the classrooms became the dormitories of the Japanese soldiers.
At this time, Takahashi Daisuke and his adjutant Karazawa Bano were squatting on the top of the classroom on the third floor to observe the fighting at the south gate.
The Eighth Route Army did not attack along the street. Instead, they set up ladders to enter the house and started a house-to-house battle with the Japanese army.
Seeing this scene, Daisuke Takahashi couldn't hold back any longer, his face instantly turned black, and he secretly exclaimed that something bad had happened.
The landmines he ordered had no effect at all, because the Eighth Route Army did not take to the streets at all.
Hirazawa Panfu sounded panicked: "Captain, please quickly order the imperial troops to evacuate the house. If this continues, our troops will be exhausted in a short time."
"After all, we only have 700 people, while the Eighth Route Army has 5,000 people."
"There was a shelling on the 8th Route just now. The troops hiding in the house lost at least half of their squad."
"Baga!" Takahashi Daisuke scolded, "It is easy for the infantry to withdraw, but our artillery is all in the house, and there is no way we can withdraw in a short time."
In addition to placing all light and heavy machine gun firepower on the second floors on both sides of the street.
The old devil also used a dirty trick. He dug shooting holes in the wall of the first floor of the house and blocked them, and then placed infantry guns and mountain field guns on the first floor.
When you want to wait for the Eighth Route Army to attack and advance on the street, you only need to quietly push the cannon forward and aim directly at the Eighth Route Army on the street.
However, the Eighth Route Army did not attack along the streets, so many of its arrangements became mere decorations, and they even fell into an embarrassing dilemma.
