The Japanese army was very efficient. Once military orders were issued, all departments quickly implemented them.
Twenty patrol teams with a total of 320 people from two squadrons drawn from the 108th and 109th divisions' baggage squadrons patrolled along their respective designated areas. All the Chinese who had gotten up early and went out for work without knowing why were brutally massacred on the street.
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Fortunately, Liu Lang launched his attack at 6:20 in the morning, and most of the people were still asleep. They were awakened by the violent gunfire and huddled at home, so the number of civilians implicated was very small.
An entire infantry squadron of security squadrons directly under the division headquarters began to reinforce fortifications and lay out defense lines around a compound requisitioned by the division headquarters. A total of eight light machine guns and two heavy machine guns were mounted on the fortifications that had already been built.
, there are even two Type 90 mortars standing in the courtyard of the division headquarters.
The garrison squadron, with a strength of 200 and equipment and firepower two levels higher than that of an ordinary infantry squadron, guarded the division headquarters like an iron barrel.
Seeing that the defense line gradually strengthened, Kawagishi Bunzaburo gradually let go of his thoughts. Not to mention the engineer regiment guarding the city gate and the two squadrons drawn from the 108th and 109th Division's baggage squadron, a total of 1,100 defenders, that is, the garrison.
With 200 troops under his command, even if the Chinese dispatched an infantry regiment, they would not be able to capture it in less than a day. Bunzaburo Kawagishi was so confident in the combat effectiveness of his soldiers.
Before that, the planes that were about to take off from Peiping had arrived long ago, and the Chinese, who lacked anti-aircraft firepower, would flee in panic under the attack of imperial officers and soldiers from the sky to the ground.
Fortunately, the Japanese Lieutenant General did not have the dream of counterattacking and annihilating the Chinese infantry division. After all, half of the 2,000 defenders in his hands were the second-line soldiers of the two scumbag divisions 108 and 109, and another three
Although one of them is his own son, he is a technical unit like the Engineer Regiment, and his combat effectiveness is also worrying. In other words, the garrison squadron directly under the division is a bit more powerful, but it only has more than 200 people. Let them compete with nearly 10,000 Chinese people.
Shopping, the Japanese lieutenant general's head is not always full of Xiang.
Of course, Kawagishi Bunzaburo is a lieutenant general after all, but his treatment is much better than that of Harada Shinichi. Not only can he extract 4 infantry guns from the baggage warehouse, but he also has a mortar in the engineer wing.
The small squadron has six Type 90 mortars, plus the four infantry guns, the total can reach 10 guns.
This was also one of Kawagishi Bunzaburo's confidence. According to his opinion, a Chinese infantry division may not necessarily have so many guns.
However, the Japanese lieutenant general still thought too much.
Although only one regiment, one battalion and one company came this time, in terms of firepower, not only other miscellaneous divisions, but also Zhao Shoushan's 17th Division might not be able to match them.
This time Liu Lang brought not only mountain artillery, infantry artillery and mortars, but also 20mm machine guns. No matter which kind of gun, it was enough for the Japanese army to have a good drink. The number of more than 20 guns was even more
Exceeding the Japanese army by twice as much.
A lieutenant general and a major general at the Japanese division headquarters were extremely anxious. In fact, Liu Tuanzuo was not feeling well either.
The 343rd Brigade ordered four infantry guns and four mortars to cover the attack for ten minutes with a total of eight guns. It was a great fight. The Japanese army was beaten without any resistance. The only thing that could resist was to strengthen the Japanese army's east gate.
The only Type 90 mortar owned by the 160-person engineer wing was, but the mortar team did not dare to fire at all.
The performance of the Type 90 mortar is actually very good, even better than the 82 mortar that is currently the most equipped in China. But now the Japanese army has noticed this situation. As long as it fires, it will be surrounded and beaten by at least 4 82 mortars.
Shooting cannons and sieges, the result will definitely not be much better.
But Liu Lang, based on the blueprints, used infantry artillery fire for three minutes at the site where he bought explosives two years ago. At least twenty rounds of artillery shells were fired, but there was no response. The city wall stood tall and tall, and the Japanese army fell.
He was so awesome that he took a 90mm mortar and opened fire on the infantry artillery area.
Does this bitch think that I am easy to bully because my artillery is inaccurate? Geng Dazhuang, the interim head of the artillery battalion who was accompanying the bayonet battalion, almost turned his eyes blue with anger. I am a bit stupid to build the city wall according to the order of the regiment.
, but I still have a cannon, right?
Following his order, the four Type 41 mountain guns parked a thousand meters away raised their muzzles and fired wildly at the Japanese cannons who dared to fire. The four mountain guns were used to surround a mortar.
I'm afraid only prodigals like the Independent Regiment can do it.
Moreover, the artillerymen of the Independent Regiment fire about twenty rounds of live ammunition every year. It is by no means that they can accurately hit the target by relying on the spirit of a fierce fuck. They rely on real training. One round
Maybe it was a test fire, but the second shot would definitely hit almost 100%. Even if the regular Japanese artillery came to shoot at it, they would probably be able to kneel down, let alone the second-line soldiers like the Engineer Regiment.
The Dumiao Type 90 mortar only fired three shells before being surrounded by four mountain artillery shells that followed. The artillery team was so frightened that their balls were swollen before they could even move their beloved cannons.
Run away, the ensuing second round of shells has already approached within a range of 20 meters. The 6.5 kg howitzer shells have a damage area of up to 300 square meters. Even if the four rounds overlap repeatedly, the damage area is still more than 800 meters.
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The Japanese army was not Sea-Man, and could not summon the power of a bear immediately nor the speed of a leopard. An artillery team of eight people and their 90 mortars that only fired three rounds were blown into parts flying in the sky.
It's better now. Although the Chinese cannons are still firing at the city wall stupidly, from this moment on, all the Japanese can only shrink their necks and wait to be beaten. Heavy machine guns don't dare to
Fire, what if the Chinese are woken up like just now and you stare at them?
So, while the Japanese were busy mobilizing troops in the city, and artillery fire continued outside the east gate, while the Japanese defenders were complaining, the Japanese were hiding tightly at the south gate and watching the Chinese infantry artillery and artillery fire.
The city walls compete.
It seems that if those infantry cannons didn't knock down the city wall that was several meters thick, then they were not infantry cannons.
Damn it, even if the Chinese were feigning an attack to contain their troops, they didn't have to bombard only the city walls and not the fortifications! Liu Lang's abnormal behavior left nothing but question marks in the mind of the Japanese lieutenant commander.
"You idiot, you're not kidding me!" Langtuanzuo, who had always been very confident, waited silently for several minutes, but couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
"There should be nothing wrong with Lao Yu. All of us have been hiding in the place he provided these days. He took the initiative to tell us about burying the explosives. If he didn't tell me, I wouldn't even know about it." Yu Xiancheng was also a little bit naive.
Embarrassing, the information was obtained by him.
"Of course there won't be any problems. If there were problems, even if you were prepared, Shimen would have been searching for you all over the city." Liu Lang shook his head, "I mean, they are still unprofessional with this explosive! They buried it so deep.
, the Japanese Immortal can really be used as city wall bricks."
"Old Geng, the little Jaap's infantry cannons are scum. Let me level the mountain cannons and the machine guns. Let me blast them all. I don't believe it today. I can't drink Lao Chen's wine." Lang Tuanzuo.
It's a little hairy.
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After spending a long time, I was still thinking about Brigadier Chen’s wine!
However, if the regimental commander has spoken, who dares not to listen?
So, the infantry artillery, mountain artillery, and 20mm machine guns were all leveled, and they fired fiercely at the city wall, and also at the base.
Fire and gunpowder smoke shrouded that section of the city wall, but the Japanese defenders were unscathed and seemed to be able to watch free fireworks.
The Chinese must be crazy! The Japanese lieutenant couldn't help but pop up a northern Chinese dialect in his mind. It seems that only this sentence can describe the ignorance of the Chinese commander. Baga and the like, in this incomprehensible madness
In front of me, he looked too pale and weak.
The Chinese people's madness continued for nearly another minute, and then, a sudden explosion directly destroyed the Japanese lieutenant's nerves, which had been weakened by Liu Lang.
"Baga, how did they do it?" When his head was still flying in the sky, I'm afraid this thought was still lingering in his mind.
Can cannonballs be accumulated together and cause an explosion? When did this new method of cannonball become popular?
There were a bunch of question marks again, until the complete darkness completely submerged this person.
The city wall of Shimen is not the city wall of Jingxing County. It is three to four meters thick and five to six meters high. All the fortifications of the Japanese army were built on the city wall. There are also caves for hiding soldiers under the city wall. Even if the enemy has artillery, they can still withstand a fire.
For a while.
The best way to deal with them is to dig tunnels, plant explosives, and blast the city walls into the sky, but that also takes time. The four Japanese defenders received orders from the division headquarters and persisted until 9 a.m.
Once the Imperial Army Air Force bombers arrived, all crises were resolved.
However, no one expected that someone would actually set up this ambush two years ago, and the explosives would explode without digging a tunnel.
100 kilograms of explosives suddenly exploded, directly blowing open a ten-meter-wide section of the city wall. The thirty- to forty-meter city wall collapsed due to the violent vibration. The blown-up section of the city wall, including the Japanese lieutenant, flew into the sky.
Moreover, like the wall bricks, they were all in pieces. The Japanese troops on the collapsed city wall were not much better. They fell directly with the collapsed bricks and were buried by the bricks and stones.
The saddest thing is that there were at least fifty people hiding in a soldier cave, and they were all buried under tons of bricks and stones. They even died of suffocation without even seeing the faces of the Chinese people on the other side.
The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to be within the explosion range and collapse range were also stunned by the sudden loud noise.
The three-hundred-meter-long city wall was completely covered in smoke and dust.
"First company, advance, second company, fire platoon, fire cover, all mortars cover both wings, machine guns cover." Liu Dazhu took out the cotton in his ears and issued the assault order immediately.
There was no charge, no signal flares, just a wave of the hands of commanders at all levels.
"Kill" Yilian hiding four hundred meters away rushed towards the gap in the city wall in the customary three-and-three formation.
The downpour of bullets covered by the two wings fell on the battlements of the city wall, leaving almost no gaps.