Thick smoke billowed and the sound of killing shook the sky.
Fierce gunshots and explosions rang out from all sides of Yuncheng, including the south side where Chu Yunfei was responsible.
Chu Yunfei was different from other Jin-Sui troops. Although he fought openly and covertly with Li Yunlong, in his opinion, it was a matter of his own position. He had always been bound to fight in the war of resistance.
This is also the reason why Yan Laoxi did not explain the "problem" clearly at the conference but wanted to talk to Zhou Zhen privately.
Chu Yunfei put a lot of thought into the attack to the south.
He believed that it was almost impossible to break through the city wall due to the terrain in the south, so he could only do his best to contain the Japanese troops and firepower and coordinate operations in other directions.
But if you want to achieve this effect, you must expand the offensive surface.
Otherwise, if the 358th Regiment only attacked along the east and west passages on both sides of the Salt Lake, the Japanese would only need to set up a few machine guns and a few grenades at the top of the city.
Therefore, Chu Yunfei believed that the 358th Regiment still needed to attack from the direction of Salt Lake.
The difficulty of attacking from the Salt Lake direction is that there are not so many ships, and there is no focus or cover on the ship, which will cause a large number of casualties under Japanese firepower.
Chu Yunfei thought of two ways to deal with these difficulties:
If there are not enough ships, people's door panels will be requisitioned along the way, and then a simple raft can be quickly made by nailing a few pieces of logs under the door panels.
The people were initially not happy to see that the Jinsui Army came to ask for the door panels, but when they heard that they were borrowing the door panels to fight off the Japs in Yuncheng, they all voluntarily removed the door panels and brought them up.
Even when the battle started, many people kept carrying door panels, and some even volunteered to stay and help the Jinsui Army make rafts.
This made Chu Yunfei sigh, this is probably what the Eighth Route Army calls "the power of the masses". Those who win the hearts of the people win the world. If the Eighth Route Army has always been so supported by the people, how can the Jinsui Army do anything with it in the future?
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However, this thought only passed by for a moment. Chu Yunfei knew that this was not the time to think about it, and immediately concentrated on commanding the troops to attack.
When the battle started, the Jinsui army was divided into several parts, rushing toward the southern city wall from the salt lake through the passage and on rafts.
In response to such an attack, the Japanese could only increase their troops in the south... How could they dare to underestimate the enemy when they were so dark in front of them? They could only mobilize troops to make up for this weak point in the south.
Chu Yunfei's other method was to use rafts to tie up many straw men in military uniforms.
Although it was daytime, the straw men were wearing military uniforms and there was a lot of smoke in the sky. There were real people and dummies mixed inside, so it was hard to tell them apart.
Most of the bullets fired by the Japanese were empty. On several occasions, the Jinsui Army was able to attack the shore and hit the city gate. The Japanese were so frightened that they hurriedly threw grenades at the city gate and finally drove the Jinsui Army back.
Kenkichi Ikegami has always been in command at the north gate.
Ikegami Xianji could see that the North Gate was the focus of the Eighth Route Army's attack. There were particularly many tanks on this side, and the Eighth Route Army's attack was particularly fierce. In other directions, it had only advanced a few dozen meters, while the North Gate had already advanced more than a hundred meters.
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Chishang Xianji was a little confused. If the Eighth Route Army cleared the bunkers and gun towers outside the city, how they would attack the city wall.
Climb up the wall with a ladder under cover of chariot fire?
This seems too primitive. In this fight, the Imperial soldiers only need to throw grenades and explosive charges below to stop them.
Attack the city gate?
This may be a solution.
After all, the city gate is just a wooden gate covered with iron, and the Eighth Route Army's tank cannon can easily blast it open.
However, the city gate is narrow and can easily be blocked by fire and easily blocked.
If the Eighth Route Army hoped to use chariots to storm the city gate, they were wrong.
Ikegami Kenkichi was already prepared for this.
Ikegami Kenkichi arranged three 75m-caliber Type 90 field guns at each city gate, which were deployed in the left, middle and right directions, so that the city gate could be blocked from all angles.
The Type 90 field gun can easily destroy bunkers more than ten kilometers away. Now it is no problem to destroy the T26 of the Eighth Route Army at close range.
Kenji Chigami's mind almost flashed into the scene of tanks being destroyed one after another and then blocked at the city gate, making the follow-up troops of the Eighth Route Army unable to move.
Thinking about it, the corners of Chigami Kenji's mouth unconsciously raised slightly.
After this battle, it’s time for the Ninth Mixed Brigade to avenge its shame and regain its respect!
The Eighth Route Army's attack was really timely.
Speaking of which, I should thank them!
Just when Ikegami Kenji was feeling complacent, he faintly heard a familiar "click-click" sound and felt a strange vibration under his feet.
"What..." Chishang Xianji looked in the direction of the sound in confusion, and then saw a huge chimney emitting thick smoke from far to near.
Chishang Xianji hesitated for a moment. There were smoke bombs fired by the Eighth Route Army everywhere, and he couldn't see them clearly.
Then, there was a loud and piercing whistle that continued continuously.
Chishang Xianji immediately opened his mouth: "Oh, that's... that's a train! How could the Eighth Route Army have a train?"
In the next second, Chishang Xianji understood that it was the train captured by the Eighth Route Army, and it was crashing into the city wall at the fastest speed...
No, to be precise, they hit the city gate.
Because the railway is built all the way into the city along the small north gate, the high-speed train will of course knock the city gate open along the railway.
Type 90 field guns may be able to stop tanks, but they certainly can't stop a train rushing in at high speed.
Thinking of this, Ikegami Kenji quickly shouted: "Fire, give the order to fire!"
But it was too late to react.
On the one hand, it was because the train continued to whistle, and the harsh sound combined with the artillery fire and gunfire on the battlefield made it impossible for Kenkichi Ikegami’s shout to be heard. His subordinates only saw his mouth moving but heard nothing.
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On the other hand, the train reached a speed of eighty or ninety kilometers per hour, and it only took about twenty seconds to run at full speed and break into the city from a few hundred meters away.
Even if Kenkichi Ikegami immediately conveyed the order, and the correspondent notified the artillery by phone, and the artillery had pre-tested and adjusted the artillery, Zhu Yuan aimed the artillery at the railway...it would still be impossible to fire the shells in such a short period of time to stop the train from moving forward.
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As expected, a few seconds later the locomotive slammed into the city gate with a loud "boom".
Ikegami Kenji only felt a violent tremor under his feet. He hurriedly ran to the other side of the city wall, held on to the wall and looked toward the small north gate. He saw the locomotive turning sideways after derailing and sweeping towards the many artillery units deployed at the other end.
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The artillerymen were hiding and shouting everywhere, but they never got there in time. A large area was swept down in a few blows, and there was immediately a sea of blood and wailing under the city wall.
What frightened Kenkichi Ikegami even more was not the locomotive that broke through the city gate and knocked down the artillery and a large number of imperial soldiers, but the three train carriages that followed the locomotive and entered the city gate by inertia.
In the middle of these three carriages, there is a chariot parked each.
Kenkichi Sadaharu Ikegami took a look and saw that they were actually imperial tanks... two Type 97s and one Type 95.