After the cannonball flew out of the barrel, it hit the Japanese artillery tower with a screaming sound.
Zhang Bing is indeed an experienced artilleryman. Even though it was his first time to fire a mortar like this, he still hit the target accurately.
The roaring mortar directly hit the outer wall of the second floor of the blockhouse.
After a ball of orange-red fireball exploded along with the explosion on the outer wall, although the turret still stood as stable as Mount Tai in the middle of the stronghold. But with the help of the telescope, Wang Ping clearly saw that several cracks had been blown out of the outer wall of the turret, and many bricks and stones had been blasted.
It was also blown off the outer wall.
Although the turret is a masonry structure and is very strong, it is not a concrete structure after all. As long as several artillery shells fall together and explode at the same time, a large hole will definitely be blown out of the outer wall of the masonry turret.
After coming to this conclusion, Wang Ping immediately ordered: "Platoon leader Zhang, continue to fire in the same way. Use all the shells to shoot at the second floor of the blockhouse. I don't believe that so many shells can't blow up the blockhouse."
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Zhang Bing first had a wry smile on his face, and then he took the order and said: "Battalion Commander, your method of firing is not something ordinary people would use. If you react slowly, the shell will get stuck in the barrel and explode, or it will directly hit the person who stabbed the shell.
On your body!"
"For safety's sake, I'd better come in person, and let others learn first!"
After fine-tuning the mortar that was fired just now, Zhang Bing directly stuffed the shell into the muzzle, and then fired the shell out in the same way.
"Boom!" The shell accurately hit the outer wall of the turret and exploded, but the impact point was slightly farther than the previous shell.
But even so, the violent explosion still caused considerable damage to the outer wall of the turret.
While a lot of bricks and stones in the outer wall were blown away, the cracks just exploded now became even bigger.
"Blow it up there and keep firing!" Wang Ping, who became more and more excited as he watched, ordered loudly.
"Baga, what's going on? Why does the enemy have horizontal artillery?" Looking at the turret in front of him that had begun to appear cracks, Captain Nakata panicked and asked his subordinates.
"Captain, the Eighth Route Army is attacking us outside. I don't know why they have horizontal artillery! However, their artillery position is not far from our gun tower and is within the range of our machine guns!" the squad leader quickly replied.
"Then why are you still standing there? Let the warriors counterattack immediately and destroy the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions, immediately!" Captain Nakata shouted loudly.
As soon as the team leader left, Nakata continued to scold: "Where is the messenger? Haven't you contacted the headquarters of Laiyuan City yet? The Eighth Route Army is equipped with horizontal artillery, so the Eighth Route Army attacking us must be the main force. The headquarters must send reinforcements immediately
Us, otherwise we won’t be able to hold on for too long! Bagya Road!”
The orderly soldier who was ready to welcome Nakata's anger ran over and lowered his head and replied: "Captain, the telephone line connecting the headquarters must have been cut off by the Eighth Route Army outside. I can't contact the headquarters at all!"
"Baga, the Eighth Route Army must want to annihilate us... Boom!" Before the curse could be finished, a violent explosion sounded on the outer wall of the gun tower. Nakata clearly felt that the gun tower was shaken by the explosion.
Then I heard the sound of a large number of bricks hitting the ground from the outer wall.
Not to mention, a hole the size of a bowl appeared in the outer wall of the turret where the shell hit. Through the hole, one could clearly see the firepower point of the Eighth Route Army that was constantly firing at the turret.
Nakata was even more panicked at this time, fearing that he would die here before actually taking the position of squadron leader.
The whole person was like an angry lion, roaring and ordering at the equally panicked subordinates in the artillery tower: "Baga, don't panic, counterattack immediately, blockade the Eighth Route Army's artillery position with firepower, and fire back immediately!"
What Nakata didn't see was that under the overwhelming machine gun firepower of the independent battalion, despite the Japanese's strong combat effectiveness, they showed an attitude of not fearing death. In the counterattack commanded by the team leader just now, seven or eight more people were hit by bullets flying into the gun tower.
into a corpse.
At this time, there were less than twenty Japs left in the gun tower, and everyone was panicked and frightened. Although Captain Nakata personally went into battle, holding a command knife and forcing them to fight back against the fierce offensive firepower of the independent battalion. However, there was still not much
Great effect. A few seconds later, another explosion sounded on the outer wall of the turret.
The hole the size of the mouth of a bowl now becomes the size of a washbasin.
Not only that, the flying shell fragments flew along the hole into the gun tower, killing the two riflemen.
"Baga, we can't let the Eighth Route Army fire any more artillery!" Captain Nakata said anxiously.
Then he subconsciously ordered: "The troops outside the gun tower, immediately counterattack, capture the Eighth Route Army artillery position, and destroy the artillery, otherwise everyone will die here today."
A team leader who was in charge of more than thirty Japanese soldiers outside, after receiving the order, subconsciously thought of the puppet soldiers staying with him, and then prepared to order the puppet soldiers to rush to the front and serve as cannon fodder for the imperial army.
But just when they were about to give the order, several puppet army officers around them seemed to have agreed upon it, and at the same time they pushed back a few steps and stood directly with their subordinates.
The squad leader knew without thinking that the puppet soldiers who showed their loyalty to him and the squadron leader every day were afraid of them even before they even went to the battlefield.
However, in order to reduce the casualties of the troops, he still issued an order for the puppet troops to cooperate in the attack.
However, after the order was issued, the puppet troops did not move, including the puppet company commander who was loyal to the imperial army. At this time, he also huddled behind his subordinates, lowering his head, as if he had not heard the order.
The squad leader frowned, took out his pistol and asked, "Wang Sang, didn't you hear my order just now?"
Under the orders of the squad leader, the thirty or so Japanese soldiers looked like they were happy to have a discussion, and at the same time they raised their rifles and pointed at the puppet soldiers.
Given the fierceness shown by the Japanese army, if the puppet troops did not move, these devils would definitely shoot without mercy.
"Taijun, please calm down, I will let my subordinates start the attack immediately!" The puppet company commander, who was afraid of the Japanese army to his core, could only stand up and said with a flattering face.
"Yoshi! I'll give you half a minute, and you must launch an attack within half a minute." The team leader immediately showed a proud expression, and then ordered with a calm face.
Seven or eight of his henchmen brandished pistols and shouted curses from time to time.
Not long after, more than a hundred puppet troops were forced by them and reluctantly rushed towards the artillery position of the Independence Battalion with rifles in hand.
Wang Ping, whose eyes never left the Japanese artillery tower, saw the Japanese and puppet troops rushing over at a glance.
Then he pulled out two crooked sticks to stop them.
At this time, a shocking scene appeared.
After two crooked guns fired at them, they had just killed and wounded five or six puppet soldiers. The other puppet soldiers in front of the Japanese, as if they had agreed upon it, all lay on the ground, motionless.
Wang Ping didn't know what the purpose of the puppet troops was, but as soon as they lay down, the Japanese behind them were exposed to machine guns.
"Quickly, hit the Japanese behind the puppet troops and kill them all!" Wang Ping ordered excitedly.
"Ta-ta-ta..." The two crooked guns immediately fired at the Japs, and many riflemen joined in at this time. The Japs, who also did not expect this scene, were caught off guard, and seven or eight of them were killed and wounded in one fell swoop.
