Sword of Death Camp

Chapter 190 Please Reinforce Quickly

Night is the best protective color.

Especially when the sky will be bright or not, at four or five o'clock, it is actually the time when people are most sleepy, and it is also the time when the sky is the most dim.

Some people say that the most difficult time for people to see the road is not the darkest time, but the time when the sky is about to be dark, and every moment when the darkness is about to be bright.

The former is the deception of the eyeball by the environment, and the latter is the eyelid covered by fatigue.

In the twilight before dawn, Wuxiang County was already surrounded, but no one stepped forward to attack rashly.

Instead, they ventilated with each other, but dug trenches to surround the whole city while the night was still dark.

When the devils and puppet soldiers at the head of the city heard the sound and looked out with binoculars, they found that they were all enemy positions from near to far.

And the highland guard post in the distance outside the county seat has long been occupied by the enemy.

In the boundary of Shanxi, Pingyao County is already a relatively large county, about 1.5 kilometers wide and 2 kilometers long, neither big nor small.

However, Wuxiang County is much smaller than Pingyao County. The width is probably less than 1.5 kilometers, and the length is probably less than 2 kilometers. It is quite a small county.

Surrounded by 4 regiments, and they were besieged but not attacked, because they entered the position prematurely and dug deep trenches in time.

The enemy inside the city wall could only see trenches deeper than people in the distance, criss-crossing, and the trenches had even been dug to 100 meters.

Is this the inaccuracy of the grenadier that bullied the Imperial Japanese Army?
At the head of the city, whistling sounded.

A grenade was accurately thrown by the grenade to a place 200 meters away from the trenches. Shrapnel flew in the sound of the explosion, but there was still no result.

The trenches outside the city were dug very carefully and deeply, and they were very tortuous. Even if a grenade occasionally fell into the trench, the tortuous trench would cut off the combat effectiveness.

The city gate was wide open, but it was not the Japanese army that rushed out of the city, but a large number of puppet troops.

The heavy machine gun on the top of the city has already spread a large number of bullets covering the entire trench area, making the soldiers in the trench unable to lift their heads.

This is the Japanese army on the top of the city using a large number of heavy machine guns to cover and shoot to cover the puppet troops rushing out. In fact, there is an artillery squadron and an infantry brigade in the city, and the rest is a brigade of puppet troops.

That's right, in Wuxiang County.

There are more puppet troops than devils.

And because of spying on the bases of the Eighth Route Army and preparing to attack at any time, there are many more permanent garrisons in counties and towns here than in other places.

In other places, there is at most one squadron stationed in a county, but here, there is not only an infantry brigade, but also an artillery squadron and a brigade of security forces.

In fact, the original Wuxiang County did not have four city gates, but only three. Later, someone opened another city gate, which made this city gate appear thinner than other city gates.

There is not even a small urn city.

But it is really a city gate, and it is opened bigger than other city gates, so there are more puppet troops rushing out, with a battalion strength of more than 400 people.

This is very rare!
There is actually a battalion commander of the puppet army who doesn't pay for nothing.

Some people, whenever they go out of the city to fight, they must gather at the gate of the city, or a line of long snakes, or a formation of skirmishers, or a formation of pigs, and these must be assembled after leaving the gate of the city.

In ancient times, the place with a bow and arrow at the gate of the city was the safe zone.

right now.

At the gate of the city, as far as the heavy machine guns on the top of the city can cover is the safe zone, so these puppet troops quickly formed their own shock formation very familiarly after they left the city.

They were planning to charge towards the trenches outside, because the heavy machine guns were on the top of the wall. When they charged, the heavy machine guns on the top of the city were to help them cover.

But if they disobey the order and don't charge, then the heavy machine guns on the top of the city will send them to the west.

The coverage range of heavy machine guns, if there is a scope, can maintain accuracy within 600 meters, if there is no scope, it can maintain suppression within 600 meters.

And these criss-cross trenches outside the city are only more than 100 meters away from the city head.

The puppet battalion commander who came out of the city was quite fat, and he actually got fat in this year and month?

It can be seen from this that even if he has great strength, he can't run.

So he could only reluctantly wave the horse brand in his hand, and shouted at the brothers under him: "Brothers, charge me!

Rush to the battlefield, kill all the enemies in the trenches, and I will reward you heavily when you come back! "

No one dares to use troops like this in a real war. Isn't this sending people to death?
But from his obese appearance, it can be seen that this person doesn't seem to know much about soldiers.

Otherwise, he would choose to arrange it in the city, which company will be in which position after leaving the city, and immediately launch a skirmish charge as soon as he leaves the city, instead of forming a team at the gate of the city.

With the attack of this battalion, all the gun barrels on the top of the city came to join in the fun, and one shell after another hit the position full of trenches.

After just over two hours of excavation, the trenches outside the city were actually protected from artillery.

This is outrageous!
But if you think of this group of people who are good at digging tunnels, you will think that what is a mere trench?
All dig out the experience.

For the shelling of the devils, and such intensive shelling, everyone squatted in the anti-battery pit, waiting for the shelling to stop.

but.

When the puppet battalion commander, who had already left the city and assembled the army within the distance covered by the heavy machine gun at the city gate, was about to charge, he looked desperately at the huge black spots in the sky that were hitting them.

It was more than 20 explosive packages, which were smashed at the gate of the city, on the city wall, and even inside the city wall.

One minute later, more than 1 explosive packages were lifted into the air.

Then each explosive pack makes a deafening, earth-shattering sound, and the 10 kg explosive pack can kill within a radius of 20 meters.

Even if you hide in a house, you can still be shocked to death. This is the explosive power of a 10 kg explosive package.

Therefore, the puppet army that was preparing for the attack at the gate of the city was wiped out. There are more than 400 people who can survive.

The earth-shattering explosion almost wiped out the battalion assembled at the gate of the city.

The men and horses in this battalion were actually just thrown out by a Japanese soldier in the city, Satakayama Kimura, to test the firepower, and now his goal has been achieved.

He concluded that the enemy's firepower at the west city gate was extremely powerful. He didn't know what kind of weapon it was, but it was extremely powerful.

A battalion of security forces was wiped out with just a burst of bombing.

"Your Excellency, I suspect that this is a heavy artillery!"

A Japanese army major said so in front of Takayama Kimura.

"I can see it, but I don't know what kind of heavy artillery it is, but the lethality is amazing!
A battalion of the Security Army, although its combat effectiveness was not very good, almost no one survived the heavy bombing!
Even a 75mm caliber mountain gun cannot achieve such a powerful lethality!

Just now, the sacrifice of the Security Army also let us see the approximate number of the opponent's heavy artillery, there are actually more than 20 pieces!

It's scary!
But fortunately, from the perspective of range, this range is very short!

And if this is a heavy artillery, the number of opponents may be very small. Since there are enemies attacking outside the four walls, I guess the other three sides are feigning attacks. Only one side has specially strengthened this weird heavy artillery. This is the main direction of the enemy's attack. .

Judging from the enemy's military uniform, this is the Tuba Road, but how did the always poor Tuba Road get so many heavy artillery? "

Gaoshan Kimura believed that since the main attack direction of the Eighth Route Army was on the west gate wall, the positions outside the other three city gates should be just a bluff.

In this way, he immediately issued an order to take precautions against the main force of the Eighth Route Army with more than 20 heavy artillery pieces at the gate of the west city.

But he guessed wrong!

Because the gates of the city walls on other sides also began to be bombarded wildly, and it was still the deafening sound and power of the explosion just now.

Some soldiers rushed to report.

"Your Excellency Zhong Zuo, the other three city gates are being bombarded by the enemy's heavy artillery. Although they have taken precautions, they still suffered heavy losses!"

Yes, when the other three walls were suddenly bombed by unscrupulous artillery, even though the Japanese army had already taken precautions, they still suffered a lot of losses.

Because this thing is unreasonable, and the killing range is too large, think about a 10 kg explosive bag!
This unexpected attack made Satakayama Kimura, who was still confident in the Japanese army, finally know what was going on.

An observation balloon was quickly raised in the city. Generally speaking, observation balloons are only equipped with artillery squadrons and above.

And there happened to be an artillery squadron in the county, so someone climbed up and lifted the balloon into the air.

Artillery observers did not see until they reached a high altitude that Wuxiang County was indeed surrounded.

The enemy's trenches are simply criss-crossing.

Moreover, the figures in the trenches were glowing, and they looked young and old. After a rough calculation under the telescope, there were still several thousand people.

More importantly, they saw the opponent's position, and also saw the huge gun barrels in those deep trenches.

Looking down through the telescope on the balloon, they could see strange barrels half buried in the soil, at least 500mm in diameter.

hiss……

What is this tnd?
The artillery observer hurriedly wrote down the situation, and then slid down the information tube along the rope worn by the observation balloon.

After the people below caught it, they quickly sent it to the command post and handed it over to the supreme commander of Wuxiang County, Lieutenant Takayama Kimura.

But the observation results written in the observation information made him feel that this is absolutely impossible. What do you think of a 500mm caliber cannon?

When the artillery observer in mid-air was asked again with the semaphore, the artillery observer wrote a report again and put it down.

To be sure, the opponent's heavy artillery is indeed a 500mm caliber, or even larger.

This made Takayama Kimura feel that the world is too crazy.

According to the observed situation, there were at least 6000 people outside, and the county was surrounded on all sides, and each wall had to face at least 20 heavy artillery pieces.

20 weird but powerful heavy artillery!

However, in Wuxiang County, there is only one brigade.The infantry also has a squadron of artillery, and in the end there was only one brigade of security forces, and now there is still a battalion missing.

Sudden.

Alpine Kimura, who was thinking about it, heard a scream. It was the shell of the 94-type [-]-caliber mountain artillery. Of course, Alpine Kimura, who was born as an artilleryman, could hear it.

With the screaming sound of the shells, and then the explosion of the shells sounded immediately, right in front of him, right in front of his eyes.

What frightened him even more was that the other party's cannonball blew up the rope of the artillery observation balloon.

So terrifying.

Unexpectedly, a cannon was used to blow up a rope, and it was so accurate.

Takayama Kimura would not comfort himself by saying that it was just a coincidence, there is no such thing as such a coincidence in this world.

He rushed into the telegraph room and ordered: "Call General Yoshio Shinozuka of the Taiyuan Command, there is a large number of Eighth Route Army besieging outside Wuxiang County, the number of these Eighth Route Army is more than 6000, and they have about 100 large-caliber heavy artillery!

The large-caliber heavy artillery has exceeded 200 mm caliber, and its power is astonishing. Please reinforce it as soon as possible!
Otherwise, Wuxiang County may be in danger of falling! "

After speaking, he picked up the phone himself and dialed Qin County, which is no more than 25 kilometers away from Wuxiang County. He remembered that there was an infantry regiment that was not full.

Although the Taiyuan Command may send powerful reinforcements immediately, the journey is a bit far away. According to the large-caliber heavy artillery outside the city, I am afraid that after the reinforcements from Taiyuan arrive, they will have to collect his body for him.

The distance can't quench the near thirst, so he can only look for reinforcements nearby.

For example, Qin County, which is not too far away from his place, only 25 kilometers away, is his life-saving straw.

The bombardment outside the city became more and more intense. In addition to the weird heavy artillery, he also heard the explosion of Type 92 infantry artillery and mortars and Type 94 Qiwushan artillery.

When he dialed the phone, he could only pray that the phone line was not damaged by the enemy, but he used a hidden line, not the kind hung on a telephone pole.

So, he was lucky to get through to Qin County.

"Your Excellency, Captain, I'm looking for Your Excellency, Captain!

I am Zhongzuo Gaoshan Kimura, the highest officer of the garrison in Wuxiang County. The situation is urgent. My Wuxiang County is being besieged by a large number of troops from the Eighth Route Army. I need the support of your Excellency, Captain!
be quick! "

Fortunately, the captain of Qin County, Your Excellency, appeared on the microphone very quickly.

"Mr. Gaoshan, your Wuxiang County has been attacked?
How many enemies are there?
What weapons and equipment? "

Hearing the appearance of the Japanese army commander stationed in Qin County, Takayama Kimura eagerly reported to the other party: "Your Excellency, the commander, my county is now under siege by 6000 to 8000 people from the Eighth Route Army. The enemy has at least 100 heavy artillery, mortars, and bombs Barrel, Type 92 infantry artillery and mountain artillery!

Your Excellency, Captain, please send reinforcements as soon as possible. If it is too late, Wuxiang County, which was recently occupied by the Empire of Japan, will fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army!
You can't do this on the territory occupied by the Great Japanese Empire!

Your Excellency, Captain, please!
Please help quickly! "

Hearing the urgent request from Takayama Kimura here.

The other side also became serious: "Okay! Mr. Gaoshan, I will send troops immediately!

Just be sure to keep going! "

They don't know that with a telephone line like theirs, if you connect a line and a telephone, you can hear what they are saying.

(End of this chapter)