The scream of artillery shells streaking across the sky suddenly sounded, breaking the tranquility of the battlefield!
Four mountain cannons and two infantry cannons outside the south gate fired first, starting the siege!
"Boom boom boom..."
After a short flight, the cannonball hit the gap in the city wall that the plane had blown open!
The bricks covering the city wall have been blown apart by aerial bombs, revealing the gray-brown rammed earth inside!
No matter how strong the rammed earth is, it is not as strong as the fired red bricks. When the artillery shells hit it, the thick rammed earth was blown into several gaps at the moment of the explosion. The rammed earth was blown to pieces on the spot, just like a goddess scattering flowers, flying everywhere!
A fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose into the sky. The gap in the city wall that was originally only two or three meters wide was expanded by one meter, and the gap also became deeper!
Lingqiu City is not big, the city wall was originally only three or four meters high!
After such an explosion, the gap was only less than two meters high from the ground!
The soil blasted by the shells piled up on both sides of the gap to form gentle slopes, which meant that the Japanese did not need a ladder when attacking. They could climb up the gap with a sprint and then enter Lingqiu City!
The first round of shells fired by the mountain artillery had just exploded, and the mortars also started firing!
Relying on his fast rate of fire, the cannonballs fell from the sky, like rain, constantly hitting the city!
Soon the city head was shrouded in intense artillery fire, and the gap in the city wall continued to expand and deepen during the explosion!
The Japanese are determined to capture Lingqiu City before dark, and their offensive is unprecedentedly fierce!
The four city walls were shelled at the same time, and each side was hit by shells for ten minutes before it stopped. Then a squadron of Japs began to attack!
Hearing the warning sent from the city wall, the four company commanders hiding in the corners of the city wall shouted one after another!
"Everyone goes up to the city wall, the Japanese are starting to attack!"
He Jun, commander of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company, rushed to the front. As soon as he climbed to the top of the city, he was shocked by the scene in front of him!
Before the shelling, the three gaps in the city wall were only two or three meters wide. Now each gap has turned into a large gap at least five meters wide. The blasted rammed earth formed gentle slopes on both sides of the city wall. The original appearance of the city wall cannot be seen at all.
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The other parts of the city wall were not much better. Almost one-third of the city walls were blown up. The originally flat city head was filled with dense craters!
The wall bricks covering the surface were blown away without a trace, exposing the rammed earth inside!
Of course, that’s all!
The troops can rely on the remaining citadel on the city wall and the bomb craters on the city head to find a hiding place!
The key is that as soon as the troops rushed up, the Japanese troops outside the city gave themselves a showdown!
Twelve heavy machine guns were aimed at the city head and fired at the same time. Some bullets flew close to the city head and flew over the city head, giving no chance for the defenders to show their faces!
Some bullets flew directly to the top of the city from the blown-up gap in the city. The bullets flew close to the ground at the top of the city, forcibly dividing the several hundred meters long city wall into several sections with heavy machine gun bullets, which were not connected to each other!
Several soldiers followed closely behind, and as soon as they rushed to the top of the city, they were shot because of their carelessness!
Heavy machine gun bullets are not ordinary rifle bullets. They are large in caliber and powerful. As long as they are hit, 80% of them will die on the spot!
Those who are lucky enough to survive may lose arms and legs and completely lose their fighting ability!
Seeing several soldiers groaning and falling in front of him, He Jun knew at a glance that they were hopeless, and immediately ordered: "Lower your heads. The enemy's attack firepower is too fierce. If you show your head, you will die!"
After more than a dozen soldiers rushed to the top of the city and hid behind the city stamps unharmed, He Jun's tense heart was relieved!
At this time, the instructor shouted: "Company Commander, the Japanese attack firepower is too fierce! Bullets flew up to the city from the gap in the blown-up city gate, directly dividing the city wall into several sections. Except for the section of the city wall at our feet, we can't attack other places.
past!"
He Jun frowned and thought for a few seconds before making a decision: "If you can't rush through, don't rush. We will only guard this section of the city wall. We will use guns and grenades to push the little Japanese who attack us towards the gap in the city wall and put up a slight resistance."
Just retreat and abandon the city wall!"
"The enemy's offensive firepower is too fierce. Now they only use heavy machine guns to crush us. When they fire grenades, light machine guns, and mortars at us, not only will they have no chance to fight back, they will also
Heavy casualties!"
"Yes, company commander!"
The instructor shouted at the top of his lungs!
A series of meager counterattacks was like scratching an itch for the Japanese attacking troops, and it was impossible to pose a threat to them!
The three infantry squads marched towards the city head with overwhelming momentum.
"Smash grenades outside the city and force them into the gap in the city wall!"
Seeing the Japanese charging closer and closer, He Jun gave a decisive order and then threw the grenade in his hand!
In fact, he doesn't have to do anything, the Japanese will take the initiative to rush to the gap!
They didn't bring a ladder, so apart from blasting, there was no way they could climb up to the top of the city with their hands!
But blasting is too troublesome. The troops need to dig holes in the corners of the city wall with grenades constantly hitting their heads, then place explosives, and finally light the fire to blow open the city wall!
Not only does it take time, but you also have to suffer huge casualties. It is better to use the existing gaps in the city wall!
But the grenades thrown out one after another are not useless!
This further strengthened the Japanese's determination to attack from the gap and also made their offensive formation denser!
"Fire with grenades and kill the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the gap!"
The Jaap squad leader has rich combat experience. When faced with the gap, he did not let his subordinates rush up. Instead, he raised his command knife and gave orders calmly!
After more than a dozen consecutive grenades almost completely blew up the gap, he continued the order!
"Machine gun cover, infantry assault!"
A dozen Japanese riflemen quickly climbed up the gap without any attack!
Seeing his men quickly occupying the commanding heights on both sides of the gap, the team leader did not expect that the attack would go so smoothly!
He also thought that this might be a conspiracy, but after seeing that the commanding heights on both sides of the gap were occupied by his own people, the last concern in his heart disappeared instantly!
The moment a smile flashed across his face, he shouted excitedly: "The Eighth Route Army on top of the city must have retreated. Everyone rushes in to completely occupy the gap, open a breakthrough for the main force, and prevent the Eighth Route Army from counterattacking!"
More than thirty Japanese soldiers scrambled to climb up the gap, then rushed into Lingqiu City, trying to occupy the houses near the gap!
In the ruins fifty meters away, a camouflaged heavy machine gun was placed on top, with the muzzle pointed directly at the gap!
There are two crooked handles on both sides of the heavy machine gun. The two crooked handles are aimed at the gap together with the heavy machine gun, and the two are aimed at the little Japs on the commanding heights on both sides of the gap!
More than thirty soldiers were hiding in the surrounding ruins. With rifles in their hands, they aimed at the gap and formed a semi-encirclement to completely cover the gap!
The soldier closest to the gap is less than thirty meters away and can easily throw a grenade into the gap that is already filled with little Japs!
And that’s exactly what he did!
Hold the grenade tightly in your hand and wait for the heavy machine gun behind you to throw it out!
But his target is not the little Japs in the gap, but the Japs who have not climbed into the gap yet and are still outside the gap!
There are three soldiers on the same mission as him, all of whom have the strongest arms in the platoon. Each of them carries five grenades and is quietly lurking in the ruins!
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