Yuan Zheng followed the orders from above and led his platoon to search and advance like the front.
Entering the old city this time, these Hunan troops were more cautious than before. They formed a skirmish formation, holding Type 56 semi-automatic rifles in their hands, and alternately covered each other.
Suddenly, on the left side of Yuan Zheng and others, a gunshot rang out. Yuan Zheng and his platoon collectively lay down on the ground as a conditioned reflex, and then looked for traces of the other party.
However, although they searched for a long time along the place where the gunshots were fired, they still found no one on the other side.
Yuan Zheng was scratching his head about this situation. It was the same way a few days ago. Although the quality of the opponent's guns was too poor and the accuracy was not good, he could not withstand their constant attacks. He not only lost several team members, but also advanced.
The speed has also been slowed down.
Now it's like this again. If this continues, if we still want to completely control this city, we don't know how long it will take.
When Yuan Zheng was worried, a squad leader next to him spoke.
"Boss, didn't the superiors give them new weapons? Now is the time to use them to see if he is really as powerful as the superiors said."
Yuan Zheng's eyes lit up after hearing this. This is a solution.
"Let the fire squad prepare, give them a shot now."
Yuan Zheng gave the order, and a man from the fire squad following the army immediately came up and took out an individual cloud explosive bomb from behind.
Following the method taught above, the soldier aimed the cloud bomb at a building in front, and then pressed the trigger.
"call out."
This cloud bomb dragged a long tongue of flame and flew quickly towards the target.
"boom."
After the cloud bomb hit the target, it exploded immediately, forming a small mushroom cloud, and then the shock wave spread to the outside. The building was soon shattered by the shock wave.
Yuan Zheng looked at the power of the cloud bomb from behind and frowned. It was not as powerful as mentioned above. Even the entire building of the house was not completely destroyed by one shell.
Yuan Zheng frowned and waited behind for a while. Seeing that there was no movement among the ruins, he could only order the soldiers to go check.
After a while, he saw his inspecting soldier in the ruins, waving to this side constantly.
When Yuan Zheng saw this scene, he knew that the enemies lurking in the ruins had probably been eliminated, so he led them to the ruins.
As soon as Yuan Zheng came over, the soldier hurriedly came to him: "Platoon leader, come with me and have a look."
After the soldier said this, he shuddered, as if he had encountered something terrible.
Yuan Zheng frowned, this soldier had also been on the battlefield, why was he so timid?
But now was not the time to scold him. Yuanzheng followed the soldiers into the ruins, and then entered a room that had not completely collapsed.
As soon as Yuan Zheng entered the door, he took a quick look and saw three or four corpses lying in the room. These corpses were old and young, the youngest was seven or eight years old.
Yuan Zheng didn't show any expression after reading it. He had seen this kind of thing a lot during this time.
"What do you want me to see? Just these dead bodies?"
"Platoon leader, there is something strange about these corpses. There are no wounds on their bodies."
After hearing this, Yuan Zhen was shocked. Then she came to these corpses, turned them over with her feet and inspected them carefully. Sure enough, there was no trace of wounds on their bodies.
However, each of these people covered their throats with their hands, opened their mouths wide, and their eyes protruded, as if they were trying to breathe desperately.
When Yuan Zheng saw this situation, his heart trembled, and then he thought of the cloud bomb that he thought was not very powerful.
"Search the house again and see if we can find the shooter."
Yuan Zheng wanted to verify again. If the gunman was also found and died in the same manner as these people, it would prove that the cloud explosive bomb sent to them was indeed a sharp weapon.
Yuan Zheng gave an order, and his platoon searched everywhere in the ruins, and finally found the gunman near a wall that was about to collapse.
Sure enough, this gunman was just as Yuan Zheng imagined. There were no wounds on his body. He died like the ordinary people in the room, with his eyes protruding, his mouth wide open, and his hands tightly holding his throat.
After carefully inspecting the bodies of these people, Yuan Zheng nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that this time the superiors had given them a sharp weapon for street fighting.
Yuan Zheng and the others then moved forward very quickly, but there was a building in front of them that they thought was dangerous, so they immediately fired a cloud bomb over it, and then the only thing left was to go up and search the ruins.
In just one day, Yuan Zheng and his platoon cleared two streets in the old capital. This was something they would have never dared to think about before.
As for the Japanese side, they were unlucky today. In this day, I don’t know what weapons the Qing army used. The death squads they sent over have lost more than 10,000 people.
Moreover, half of the entire old capital had been quickly occupied by the Qing army.
Kawakami Yunji, who was in charge of the command in the old capital, was very afraid of today's war. He already knew from the report below that the Qing army used a new type of weapon today.
This weapon doesn't seem to be very powerful, but once fired, all creatures within a dozen meters will die.
The cause of death was confirmed by doctors to be suffocation.
Kawakami Yunji was completely helpless against this kind of weapon. The barricades and some defensive facilities he sent to set up were of no use against this kind of weapon.
But the old capital is their symbol and must not be lost anymore. Otherwise, the three most prosperous cities in Japan, Jingdong, Osaka, and the old capital, will fall into the hands of the Qing people, and the connection between the east and the west will be cut off.
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Therefore, when Kawakami Yunji was unable to crack the opponent's weapons, he could only send extra manpower to launch a night attack and compete with the opponent's new weapons at the cost of human lives.
At this time, Liu Hai had already leisurely arrived at a relatively complete building on the edge of the old capital.
That night, Liu Hai summoned all the generals in this building to discuss the progress of the army during the day.
As army generals, Ye Faguang and Lu Chun, the two commanders, were very satisfied with the progress of the Hunan Army during the day, but they were also shocked.
They did not expect that after a new weapon was put into use, it would produce such great results. In the past, it could occupy up to one block in one day, but now in just one day, half of the entire old capital was under the control of the Hunan Army.
Liu Hai sat on the main seat, listening to the discussion of the lieutenant general below, and showed a satisfied smile.
Finally, Liu Hai coughed and said to the people below: "Okay, let's stop the discussion here. Let's talk about today's progress and tomorrow's combat strategy."
As soon as Liu Hai spoke, the generals below immediately shut up, and the entire conference room became silent.
"Lu Chun, today is your unit's main attack. Please tell us about the situation."
When Lu Chun heard Liu Hai's roll call, he immediately stood up and saluted Liu Hai first, and then said: "Since the commander asked me to introduce him, I will tell everyone."
"I think everyone is aware of today's progress. Half of the old capital is now under our control."
"Moreover, we inflicted a lot of casualties on the enemy during the day. Within the range that can be counted, more than 10,000 enemy corpses have been found."
"I think that as long as we work harder tomorrow and attack the other side of the old capital from two directions so that the other side cannot see each other, we should be able to resolve most of the battles tomorrow."
After listening to Lu Chun's introduction, Liu Hai was already very satisfied with tomorrow's strategic deployment. Lu Chun indeed lived up to his hopes. In today's battle, his army attacked very quickly and left no trace for the opponent.
Any respite.
When Liu Hai heard this and was about to issue an order for tomorrow's battle, Ye Faguang next to him suddenly stood up and said: "Commander, colleagues, I have a few more words to say."
When Liu Hai heard Ye Faguang's speech, his face became a little ugly. This man was becoming increasingly blind. He dared to speak in front of him, and he didn't understand the rules.
However, Ye Faguang was still with his old team for many years, and had a record of military exploits, so he couldn't give him any face.
So Liu Haiming calmed down the anger in his heart, and then said with a forced smile on his face: "Then let's talk. It's a meeting now, so you have to speak freely."
"Thank you so much, Marshal. I'll just spit out what's in my heart in front of everyone."
After Ye Faguang said this, he looked at the generals present with his deep eyes, and then said: "We made good progress during the day today, and almost no soldiers were lost. This is worth celebrating."
"But have you noticed that at least tens of thousands of Japanese women and children were killed or injured in the old capital during the day?"
The generals in the conference room all looked at Ye Faguang with strange eyes, wondering what he meant by these words.
Ye Faguang looked at the generals in the conference room and didn't understand what he meant. He could only continue: "I hope that the generals will only target those enemy troops in the next battle and be open to ordinary people."
After hearing this, the generals sitting there immediately started talking.
"How is this possible? These enemy troops are hidden in ordinary people's homes. How can we tell them apart?"
"That is, the common people are very supportive of these enemy troops. If they are innocent, only God believes it."
"General Ye's request is really overwhelming. We can't tell whether there are ordinary people in the building at all. Doesn't it mean that if there are ordinary people, we have no way to fight back?"