In Linfen City, the atmosphere at the headquarters not far from the city wall was very solemn.
Everyone underestimated the Japanese army's determination to capture Linfen City and underestimated the Japanese army's powerful assault capabilities.
"Xiong Changhe, how many people from the three battalions you have can continue to fight!" Zhong Chenggong asked with a stern face.
"Excluding the artillery, there are more than 900 combat troops left, and more than half of them have been killed or injured!" Xiong Changhe replied with a heartbroken look on his face.
Xiao Yunshan next to him reported without waiting for the chief of staff to speak: "I still have more than 1,100 people~"
Zhong Chenggong pointed to the city defense map in front of him and analyzed: "The gap opened by the Japanese in the city wall is here. In the next battle, the Japanese army will definitely attack this gap at all costs. What we have to do is to hold the gap at all costs.
There's still half an hour left, and the Japanese plane must return. As long as we hold on for another half hour, the artillery behind us can open fire and blow up those little devils!"
"Jingle Bell……"
The ringing of the phone broke the solemn atmosphere of the headquarters.
Zhong Chenggong just put the microphone to his ear, and before he could speak, his face darkened.
He put down the phone and ordered: "The Japs have begun to attack. Two infantry brigades are attacking the gap in the city wall. They are going to fight tooth and nail!"
"I will personally go to the battlefield and attack all the remaining troops. I don't believe they can withstand it!" Xiong Changhe ordered through gritted teeth.
Before the chief of staff could speak, he grabbed a submachine gun on the table and rushed out.
Xiao Yunshan added with a serious face: "Chief of Staff, the Japanese must also know that this is their last chance to take over our Linfen City, and they plan to fight us desperately."
"There is no point in keeping the reserve team at this time. I will leave a company here, and then take other troops to the gap to reinforce Lao Xiong!"
"In the past few hours, we have killed more than 2,000 Japs, which is enough. The worst we can do is exchange lives for lives, and we will die together with the Japs!"
Xiao Yunshan also left, but the solemn expression on Zhong Chenggong's face did not ease in any way.
One life is worth one life with the Japanese and they die together. There is no other way. Unless it is a last resort, we must not do this in Xinyi Regiment.
This is the rule personally formulated by the group leader Wang Ping. Zhong Chenggong doesn’t want this rule to be broken here!
He was thinking about what he would do if the group leader were here and faced with this situation!
"Artillery~"
These two words suddenly flashed through Zhong Chenggong's mind, and then he ordered.
"Get me through the artillery behind me right away, right now!"
In less than ten seconds, the combat staff officer handed over the microphone.
"Company Commander Yang? Now I order: all mortars in the artillery are deployed dispersedly. From now on, shell the Japanese troops attacking the gaps in the city wall to reduce the pressure on the defending troops!"
"Each mortar fires five rounds and the artillery position must be moved. The mortar firing position is small, the sound of the gun is small, the muzzle flame is small, and the thick smoke above the head is obscured, so it is difficult to be discovered by Japanese aircraft!
"All other artillery pieces are aimed at the outside of the gap. As soon as the Japanese plane leaves, fire immediately. I will kill all the Japanese troops attacking the gap!"
"Boom boom boom..."
The artillery shells fired by the Japanese army hit the gap like nothing. Xiong Changhe hid behind a brick wall and had no way to get close to the gap.
On the hollowed-out city wall, less than ten of the twenty fixed firepower points remained, all heavy machine guns, desperately shooting at the Japanese attacking troops...
"Batalion Commander, the Japanese offensive troops are about to rush forward, and the bombardment will stop!" the deputy battalion commander next to him reminded.
"Everyone is here, machine gunners, submachine gunners, loaded with bullets, ready for an assault!"
"Others prepare grenades and grenades!"
"The Japs must have rushed out of the gap, and an encounter is inevitable. We must use the shortest possible time to repel the little Japs who have rushed into the gap, keep a distance from them, and use bullets to deal with them!"
"Comrades, come with me~"
Xiong Changhe, who had not been on the battlefield for a long time, rushed towards the gap with a submachine gun in his arms.
The guard next to me was very anxious.
Rush forward with all your strength, catch up with Xiong Changhe, stand in front of him, and protect him!
"The gap is right in front of us, rush into the city and kill the Eighth Route Army inside...kill them!" Outside the gap, the Japanese squadron leader and battalion leader waved their command swords and shouted like crazy.
"Da da da……"
Xiong Changhe's judgment was correct. The two troops collided right at the gap in the city wall.
Then shoot at the opponent crazily.
At this time, human life seems particularly fragile.
Japanese soldiers and Eighth Route Army soldiers faced the dense rain of bullets, and any tactical movement was useless. They were swept to the ground in pieces.
But overall, Xiong Changhe still took a lot of advantages.
More than twenty light machine guns and the same number of submachine guns were arranged by him in the first echelon of the commando team.
The intensive assault firepower far exceeds that of the little Japs armed only with light machine guns and rifles.
Seeing that the Japanese forward's attack momentum had been suppressed and that the follow-up troops were still rushing toward the gap desperately, Xiong Changhe seized the opportunity and ordered.
"Throw the grenades and grenades out immediately and kill the remaining Japs in the gap~"
"Boom boom boom..."
As soon as he finished speaking, an explosion sounded among the group of Japanese outside the gap.
Xiong Changhe was stunned for a moment, then shouted with surprise: "Artillery, it's the artillery that's reinforcing us!"
"Throw the grenade immediately and kill the remaining Japs in the gap..."
Just when Xiong Changhe was about to take a breath, a screaming shell suddenly hit the gap.
"Hidden~ The little devil is firing again!"
As soon as he was thrown to the ground by the guard, the anxious voice of the deputy battalion commander rang in his ears.
"Battal Commander, the Japanese are crazy, all of them are crazy... rushing towards the gap despite their own bombardment, without any regard for accidental damage!"
Zhong Chenggong gritted his teeth and ordered: "The devils can fight tooth and nail, so can we!"
"Comrades, fight with the little devils, stick to the gap, and never retreat even one step, or you may lose your life for another!"
Suddenly, a communications soldier dodged left and right under the gunfire and rushed over, entering Xiong Changhe's field of vision.
"Captain Xiong, our battalion commander asked you to lead your people to retreat immediately, don't fight with the little devil!"
"We have prepared a pocket formation at the back, which can kill at least five hundred Japs. And with artillery to block the gap, it will definitely be able to block the Japs' subsequent attacking troops!"
"Do it!" Xiong Changhe replied with eyes brightening.
"Comrades, retreat, retreat immediately, let the little devils go into the city to deal with them!"
At the Japanese temporary headquarters outside Linfen City, Lieutenant General Kato's tense nerves relaxed at this moment.
With a smile on his face, he ordered: "Fight in, the troops are in!"
"Order the offensive troops to occupy the gap immediately and expand the breakthrough. The follow-up offensive troops will set off immediately and rush into the city. There must not be many Eighth Route Army troops in the city anymore!"
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