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Chapter 345 Precise bombardment!

Hirata Kenkichi was immediately stopped by Ishida Kinzo.

To help or not to help, this is a question worth thinking about.

Most of the puppet troops were used as cannon fodder by Hirata Kenkichi outside the city and on the city wall fortifications.

In addition to the puppet troops outside the city and on the walls, there was also a squadron of Japanese troops.

Hirata Kenkichi has a total of 13 infantry squadrons in his hands.

It seems that there are many troops, but to defend the fortifications on the four sides of the city and the city wall, Hirata Kenkichi feels that the strength of the troops is greatly insufficient.

Put 4 squadrons outside the city and on the city wall, 2 squadrons are for mobile troops to reinforce at any time, and the other 7 infantry squadrons and artillery squadrons are prepared to fight street battles with the Eight Route Army.

However, the idea was good. Less than an hour before the shelling of the Eighth Route began, the four city walls were attacked at the same time. At least four infantry squadrons must be sent for reinforcements.

If 4 infantry squadrons are sent for reinforcements, there will only be 5 infantry squadrons fighting in the street.

In the case of a siege on all sides after entering the city on the eighth route, there is at most one squadron plus one squadron in each direction, and it is certain that the reinforcements will not arrive.

Ishida Kinzo said with a gloomy face: "Division commander, it is better not to reinforce, and give up the city wall fortifications to the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army can use cannons to attack the city wall fortifications, and the imperial army can also use cannons to attack the city wall fortifications. After a round of shelling, order the troops Go up and take back the walls!"

Hirata Kenkichi asked back: "Ishida-kun, if you were Eighth Road, after occupying the city wall, would you not be able to stand on the city wall?"

Ishida Jinzang suddenly said: "That's right, after the Eight Routes occupy the city wall, they will definitely enter the city to fight street battles with the imperial army, not on the city wall."

"The city wall must not easily fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army!" Division Chief Hirata Kenkichi said coldly.

The most important thing facing Hirata Kenkichi now is to delay time. Only by delaying the arrival of reinforcements can the disadvantage be turned into an advantage.

The city wall was captured so quickly, and the two sides would definitely not be able to last a day in street fighting.

Because street fighting has its own rules and is very cruel, the battle loss ratio of the two sides is basically 1:1, and the number of people used by the Eight Routes can also pile up the Japanese army to death.

After a pause, Hirata Kenkichi said again: "Ishida-kun, immediately dispatch 4 squadrons to reinforce each city wall!"

"Division commander." Ishida Kinzo hesitated, "If all four squadrons are wiped out, what if we fight in the street, we only have five infantry squadrons."

Hirata Kenkichi said coldly: "Open the spare weapon arsenal of the division headquarters, select 1000 artillerymen from the artillery wing to issue weapons, and change them to infantry to join the street fighting. In this way, we have another 1000 infantrymen."

The spare weapons and spare ammunition of the 37th Division are stored in the three counties of Changzhi, Xiangyuan and Licheng.

When the Japanese army's ammunition and supplies to be used to support the raids in the Eighth Route base area were about to run out, the Engineering Wing and the Supplies Wing were responsible for the logistical transportation.

Ishida Kinzo said: "The supply corps in Licheng and the engineering corps in Xiangyuan County can also pick up weapons and go into battle. In this way, the Eight Route Army wants to eat my 37th division. It's just a dream. "

Although the combat effectiveness of artillery and logistics personnel is not as good as that of infantry, they are definitely much stronger than that of the Royal Association Army.

Hirata Kenkichi nodded and said, "Convey the order immediately, and then urge Commander Shinozuka to ask for reinforcements to speed up!"

"Hi!" Ishida Kinzo bowed his head, then turned and walked to the telephone. First, he dialed and called to mobilize the troops of 4 squadrons to rush to help immediately, and then sent 1000 artillerymen to the warehouse of the division headquarters to collect weapons and ammunition, and then drew up a telegram. Report the situation here in detail, and at the same time request reinforcements to quickly reinforce.

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Outside the north of the city, the Eighth Route Army's forward headquarters.

Kong Jie and Zhao Gang each held a telescope to observe the battle on the north city wall.

In front of Li Yunlong is a pair of artillery mirrors, which can see farther and more clearly than a telescope.

The northern city wall has been riddled with holes from the shells, and even the bullet holes on the city wall are very clear in the field of vision of the artillery team mirror.

Through the field of vision of the telescope and the artillery team mirror, it can be clearly seen that the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion and 4th Company of the Independent Regiment put more than a dozen ladders on the city wall and the city wall that was bombed by the bombs.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the 4th company were divided into three parts. Dozens of elite veterans climbed up the ladder.

The dozen or so elite veterans who were the first to climb the ladder pulled the string of the grenade with their mouths almost at the same time when they were about to reach the top, and threw the grenade onto the city wall.

The red light and smoke from the grenade explosion immediately appeared on the city wall.

After a few seconds, the sound of the explosion rumbled to the headquarters.

Taking advantage of the grenades fatally wounding the devils and puppet troops on the city wall, more than a dozen elite veterans jumped onto the city wall with submachine guns in their hands and fired at the remaining devils and puppet troops on the city wall.

Under the dense bullets, the devils and puppet troops on the city wall were quickly wiped out.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers who were about to enter from the bombed place were suppressed by the firepower of the devils.

The devils set up a sandbag position on the street, a 1-type heavy machine gun and a crooked machine gun continued to fire, and several soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

However, the soldiers occupying the city wall quickly discovered the devil's firepower point, took up their submachine guns and shot down.

The seven or eight devils in the two firepower points were immediately beaten into a honeycomb, and the soldiers swarmed in from the collapsed position.

Under the cover of the crossfire of comrades-in-arms, a steady stream of soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ladder.

But the devils quickly assembled their forces to counterattack, and the firepower of grenadiers, infantry artillery and mountain artillery smashed into the city wall.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on and under the city fought to the death, and the Eighth Route Army and the devils fought repeatedly over the fortifications of the city wall, and the battle suddenly became fierce again.

Then, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie couldn't see the specific battle situation, only heard the dense gunfire, and the battle was extremely fierce.

"Old Kong, ask about the situation of the other three regiments." Li Yunlong said.

"Yes!" Kong Jie immediately grabbed the high-power walkie-talkie and asked.

After a while, Kong Jie reported to Li Yunlong with a solemn expression: "The other three regiments are similar to ours. They have already rushed to the city wall. The devils counterattacked under the cover of artillery fire. The fighting was extremely fierce. Some regiments have already suffered 1 casualties. a company."

Zhao Gang said: "We can't fight like this anymore, we have to find a way."

"Yes!" Kong Jie nodded and said, "When the devils are on the city wall, we take advantage, and when we occupy the city wall, the devils take advantage."

"So, our soldiers can't entangle with the devils at the city wall. We have to go into the city early and fight street fighting with the devils."

Listening to what Kong Jie and Zhao Gang said, Li Yunlong thought about it in silence.

After a while, Li Yunlong said: "Order the Swordsmen to go up the city wall, use high-power walkie-talkies to guide the mountain artillery and howitzers, and kill the devil headquarters and artillery positions in the city!"

Before Kong Jie suggested to cover the city with artillery fire, the reason why Li Yunlong didn't agree was that he didn't know the location of the devil's headquarters and the artillery positions.

If you don't know the location, you can't choose to shoot Zhu Yuan, so you can only bombard indiscriminately, and you have to turn Changzhi County into a sea of ​​​​flames.

Although it can greatly reduce the casualties of the soldiers, the common people in Changzhi City will suffer.

Li Yunlong couldn't do that kind of thing.

However, the Devils Command and the Devils Cannon position must be seen on the city wall.

Even if the Devil Artillery puts cannons on the street, the Devil Artillery will definitely clear the Chinese people in the residential buildings on both sides of the street for safety.

Use the precision method to call the cannon precision strike and you will no longer have any worries.

Once the devils in the city were no longer covered by artillery fire, it wouldn't take long for Eighth Route Army soldiers to break into the city and fight street battles with the devils.

Kong Jie grabbed the high-powered walkie-talkie and immediately conveyed the order.

After hanging up the call, Kong Jie couldn't help but sigh again in his heart: the walkie-talkie is really a good thing, and it's fast to send orders with this thing. It seems that after the battle, I need to ask Lao Li for a few walkie-talkies.

Outside the city walls on the east, west, north, and south sides, the swordsmen ran towards the city walls with high-powered walkie-talkies on their backs.

Running towards the north city wall of Changzhi was Duan Peng and a guard company soldier. The guard company soldier was responsible for carrying a high-power walkie-talkie, and Duan Peng was responsible for calculating the shooting and calling for shelling.

Soon, the two arrived at the foot of the city wall, and shells fell outside the city from time to time.

The two climbed up the city wall along the ladder, and soon came to the city wall.

The entire city wall was already covered with corpses and broken limbs, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army faced the artillery fire of the devils and shot down at the crenel with their weapons.

Duan Peng bowed his waist and came to a crenel where there was no shooting, and poked out half of his head to look into the city.

The devils piled up a lot of sandbags on the street and shot at the city wall and below the city. There were also Eighth Route Army soldiers shooting at the devils on the city wall and below the city.

It's just that the devils have more artillery support, and the Eighth Route Army is in a situation of being suppressed.

According to this style of play, the devils will be able to take back the city wall within ten minutes at most.

Duan Peng pulled his eyes away, and at a distance of about 1 kilometer, he saw the devil's mountain artillery and field artillery positions.

The devil's mountain artillery and field artillery are placed on the street, but it looks like they are understaffed.

"Damn it, I found you!"

Duan Peng took out the precise method map from his body, and calculated the shooting parameters based on the position and distance of the devil's running position.

In order to fight this battle, Li Yunlong not only prepaid 50 high-power walkie-talkies from Chen Feng, but also prepaid 100 accurate maps.

To ensure that each member of the Sword Squadron has a map.

Soon Duan Peng calculated the shooting parameters, and he immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie: "Call the 1st Battalion, call the 1st Battalion."

"Cannon 1 received!"

Duan Peng: "Six hundred and 75 on the scale, zero 64 to the right, 1 battery with 2 shots, one shot!"

After Duan Peng's voice fell, about ten seconds later, a sharp whistling sound sounded from behind him, falling into the city from far to near.

The shell landed on another street and exploded, leaving a large crater in the street, and the impact point was more than 30 meters away from the target to the right.

Duan Peng immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie: "The scale remains the same, turn left to zero and three, let it go!"

Ten seconds later, another sharp sound sounded from the sky behind him, roaring and crashing into the city.

This shell hit the position of the Devil Artillery and the Mountain Cannon, blowing the Devil Artillery and the Mountain Cannon into the air.

Duan Peng said again: "The whole battalion, shoot two volleys, let them go!"

And put an emphasis on the last word.

Ten seconds later, more than a dozen shells whizzed and smashed into the devil's artillery position. The devil's artillery heard the whistling sound of the shells and hurriedly abandoned their guns and fled.

But it is obviously too late.

The shells had already fallen, and the blast blasted the cannons into the air, and the wanton flying metal bullets harvested the lives of the devil artillerymen.

Duan Peng said again: "The whole battalion, two volleys, Xu Jin barrage, let go!"

(End of this chapter)