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Chapter 392 Siege ([-])!
"Target the gap in the city wall in the northeast direction, scale 66 29, elevation angle 32, right [-], let it go!"

Following the shout of a sword special team member on the high-power walkie-talkie channel, it fell.

On the artillery position five kilometers away from the city wall of Taiyuan, as the gunner pulled the string back, the barrels of the two howitzers shook suddenly.

Suddenly, two balls of orange-red flames and gunpowder smoke burst out from the muzzle of the gun, accompanied by two bangs, the scorching air wave swept past, and a cloud of dust rose around the gun mount.

About 10 seconds later, the shells flew down to the gap in the northeast city wall with a sharp whistling sound.

Boom!

The fireball and gunpowder smoke shrouded it, and the shock wave flew across with shrapnel.

Both shells hit the gap, billowing gunpowder smoke and dust rose from the gap, and the puppet soldiers and sandbags who were repairing the gap were instantly torn to pieces.

Moreover, the gap hit by the two shells was a bit larger than before.

"The second gap is also blocked and repaired by devils and puppet troops."

Zhao Gang reminded in time.

"Give me an order to send out two howitzers to blast the devils and puppet troops that block and repair the gap. Labor and management will have to see whether there are more devils and puppet troops, or labor and capital have more shells."

Li Datuan didn't panic at all.

There is enough stock in the pocket, and Li Datuan also let the artillery completely let go of the shelling, without saving shells.

所以炮兵部队的炮弹储备是3个基数，每门75毫米山炮是300发炮弹，每门105榴弹炮的炮弹是240发。

In addition to ammunition reimbursement, if the ammunition is insufficient for the attack on Taiyuan this time, Li Yunlong can use the radio to call Chen Feng for an airdrop.

Coupled with the logistical support of 2 militiamen and civilian husbands, besides the spare weapons and ammunition they carried, Li Yunlong didn't have to worry about running out of ammunition at all.

Soon, the devils and puppet troops who tried to seal and repair the second gap were blown to pieces.

After shelling for almost half an hour, the special team members of the Sword Squadron were already familiar with the shooting methods of each artillery position shelling the city wall.

Really achieved where to hit.

Li Yunlong was slightly relieved to see that the devils and puppet troops who blocked and repaired the gap were eliminated.

The combination of special forces and artillery made the battle comfortable.

Even if there are ghosts and puppet troops trying to repair the gap, the howitzers will send the ghosts and puppet troops to the west. Li Yunlong immediately stopped paying attention to the situation of the gap, but raised his binoculars to look at the sky above Taiyuan.

As time went by, the devil's balloon rose higher and higher, and when it was more than 2000 meters above the ground, the devil's balloon began to move northward.

Not long after, the devil's balloon floated over the northern city wall of Taiyuan.

The shrewd head Li Datuan had long guessed that the devil's balloon was looking for the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, and then guided the artillerymen in the city to fire.

However, as his order was issued, the artillery positions of various organs were ready.

On the frontal battlefield, the national army had studied the method of cracking the Japanese army's balloons to guide the artillery to attack, but it was really difficult to do this with the firepower of the national army at that time.

The few remaining planes are unlikely to be dispatched to shoot a balloon, and they are very likely to be shot down by Japanese planes before approaching the target.

At that time, the anti-aircraft guns that the national army could move and deploy had a maximum range of only 2000 meters.

However, the Oerlikon cannon in Li Yunlong's hand has very advanced performance. Although the effective range is less than 1000 meters, when fired at 45 degrees, the maximum range can exceed 4000 meters.

Shooting high-altitude targets more than 2000 meters, the accuracy is very poor.

But it is still the same sentence, the precision is not enough, the quantity comes together.

Not long after the devil's balloon passed over the northern city wall of Taiyuan, the artillery positions of various agencies fired.

Tom tom tom tom tom…

In the continuous dense muffled sound, more than 100 cannons fired at the same time, and tracer ballistics instantly covered the entire sky.

If you are poor, you can shoot accurately, and if you are rich, you can cover firepower.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, Li Yunlong saw that the devil balloon that had just floated upward was torn into pieces in less than 2000 seconds, and two devil observers fell from a height of more than [-] meters.

Killed on the spot.

……

"idiot!"

At the head of the inner city wall of Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka also saw the scene of two devil observers falling from a high altitude, and cursed angrily.

This made Yoshio Shinozuka sound. During the Battle of Nomenkan, the Japanese army used observation balloons to enter actual combat and was torn to pieces by Soviet aircraft, and the observer fell from a high altitude.

Although Balu does not have excellent fighters, Balu has a large number of cannons.

The range of this cannon far exceeded Yoshio Shinozuka's expectations.

It stands to reason that the straight-line height between the observation balloon and the ground is more than 2000 meters, so the distance between the Eighth Route Army's cannon position and the observation balloon should be more than 3000 meters.

But the observation balloon was still shot down by the Eighth Route machine gun, which shows that the Eighth Route Army equipped with this machine gun has excellent performance.

It's all that damned Chen Feng.

However, at a distance of more than 2000 meters, although the eight-way cannon can easily shoot down balloons, it is not easy to shoot down aircraft.

Two Type III liaison planes and two reconnaissance planes are guiding the artillery to attack the Eighth Route Artillery position outside Nancheng District.

In Taiyuan City, there are not many Japanese 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery, only more than 20, but there are many mortars and Type [-] infantry artillery.

As for the cannons in the fortresses on the city walls, they are all Jinshan cannons left by the Jinsui Army.

The devils have always looked down on Jin-made equipment, so the devils arranged these cannons on the city walls.

But basically the cannons in the fortress were reimbursed under the first wave of shelling by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

Yoshio Shinozuka walked along the city wall to the south of the inner city wall, and raised his binoculars to look.

The two reconnaissance planes have already flown away, leaving only two liaison planes buzzing at high altitude.

More than 20 75mm mountain field artillery not far from the south wall of the outer city, under the guidance of the Type [-] contact machine, continued to fire at the eight-way artillery position.

The artillery shells fired by the Eighth Route Artillery towards the southern city wall were much less than before. It seems that the Eighth Route Artillery positions outside the South City have been suppressed.

But... the city walls in the east, west and north directions were still heavily bombarded by eight artillery fires.

Just now, Shinozuka Yoshio saw that the artillery of the Eighth Route had blasted three gaps outside the north city wall, and even the engineers who tried to block and repair the gap suffered heavy damage.

At this time, the number of Japanese artillery in Taiyuan City was still too small, and they could only suppress and destroy the eight-way artillery positions in one direction and one direction.

But looking at this situation, after suppressing or even destroying the eight-way artillery positions outside the southern city wall, the eight-way artillery from the other three directions had blasted the city wall with gaps everywhere.

"Order, the 32nd Kwantung Army Flying Squadron is temporarily resting."

Shinozuka Yoshio returned to the headquarters, called Kasai Toshimatsu immediately, and ordered:

"The 83rd Flying Team of the Kwantung Army, the 3st Flying Regiment of the 1rd Flying Group rushed to Taiyuan!"

"Hi!" Kasai Toshimatsu was startled suddenly.

In 1939, the headquarters of the Japanese army rectified the system within the pass, and the aviation unit formed the 3rd Flying Group.

下辖第1、第3飞行团和第21独立飞行队，包括7个侦察机中队、4个战斗机中队、4个轻轰炸机中队、3个重轰炸机中队，飞机一共183架。

This time the Japanese army used more than 3 main aircraft of the 150rd Aviation Group for the Battle of the Central Plains.

The 83rd Squadron plus the 1st Flying Regiment, that is more than 80 aircraft.

It seems that the commander was really in a hurry, and actually transferred all the main fleet of the Central Plains battle to reinforce Taiyuan...

Kasai Toshimatsu thought to himself, bowed his head, paused, then turned around and walked quickly to the communication room.

Staring at the direction outside the city, Shinozuka Yoshio's eyes were gloomy.

Li Yunlong led his troops to attack Taiyuan in this way, and the battle in the Central Plains would also be greatly affected.

First of all, the materials needed for the front line could not be transported, and secondly, at least half of the planes were used to deal with the Eighth Route Army, so the Japanese offensive in Zhongtiao Mountain would also be greatly affected.

It's all that damned Li Yunlong, who always jumps out at critical moments to make troubles, just like a shit stick.

……

It didn't take long.

In the north of the city, two gaps were blasted by the artillery group, and a total of 5 gaps were blasted in the north city wall.

In addition, in the direction of the east city wall and west city wall, several gaps were also made by shells.

Li Yunlong ordered the troops to launch a wave of probing attacks on the city wall.

1.5 kilometers away from the north city wall, more than 50 60mm mortars and Type [-] infantry guns of the Xinyi Regiment lined up and were ready.

As the commanders of each artillery company received unified orders in the walkie-talkie.

"Launch at full speed, 2 minutes!"

Following the orders of the company commanders, more than 50 guns fired at the same time.

After a muffled sound of bang bang bang, the shooting players who had already been calibrated let the shells fall into the positions of the devils and puppet troops outside the city.

Boom boom boom boom boom...

Amidst the continuous rapid explosions, the positions of the devils and puppet troops that had been plowed by mountain artillery and howitzers were instantly shrouded in flames and gunpowder smoke.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, soldiers from the 1st Battalion and 2 Companies held weapons and ladders, and launched a tentative attack towards the city wall.

The main infantry battalion of the new regiment is a four-four system. One company has about 1 people, and two companies have 300 people. They have excellent weapons and high individual combat literacy.

Soldiers No. 600 were divided into 5 teams, and under the leadership of the platoon leaders of each company, they formed a skirmish line and attacked the 5 gaps.

Almost at the same time that the soldiers attacked from the attack position, the devil observers on the city wall discovered the movements of the Eighth Route infantry.

Under the order of the devil officer, the devils and the puppet soldiers came out of the caves of the Tibetan soldiers that had not been destroyed, and set up grenades, light and heavy machine guns.

At a distance of 800 meters, the machine gunners of the Devils and Puppet Army began to shoot one after another, and the dense bullets poured towards the new attacking group of soldiers as if they didn't need money.

There are 1.5 divisions in Taiyuan City with battle supplies, enough for the devils and puppet troops to fight continuously for 2 months.

Although the bullets fired by the light and heavy machine guns at this distance were very scattered, stray bullets still hit the soldiers, and some soldiers fell one after another during the march.

"All artillerymen fire at the enemy's walls at once!"

In the headquarters, Li Yunlong kept an eye on the battle situation, his eyes calmly giving orders.

The staff immediately communicated the order by walkie-talkie.

Artillery support must be provided to the attacking infantry, otherwise none of the soldiers in this wave of tentative attacks would be able to survive such intensive firepower.

As the command was issued, the artillery fire from the mortar and infantry artillery positions in front began to extend, and groups of shells smashed into the city wall.

The artillery position a few kilometers behind the headquarters also fired under the guidance of special forces.

More than 70 artillery pieces of various calibers smashed shells at the city wall.

The long-range artillery group and the short-range artillery group began to shoot rapidly at the same time, densely packed, shells of different calibers swept across the sky, and dense shells hit the city wall.

The city tower had been hit by two shells before, and it was blown to pieces in an instant after being hit by two more shells.

The devils and puppet troops and light and heavy machine guns were thrown high up, and the city walls were completely shrouded in flames and gunpowder smoke.

Although there were still devils and puppet troops shooting against the artillery fire, the density of the bullets was much lower, and the soldiers immediately ran wildly, heading towards the devil's position.

If you want to capture the city wall, you must first solve the enemy positions outside the city.

The gun towers and bunkers outside the city have basically been smashed to pieces by the precision bombardment guided by the Sword Squadron.

However, there are still many enemies left in the trenches and other fortifications built by the devils and puppet troops.

The artillery fire was suppressing the city walls, and the puppet troops in the trenches and foxholes, under the supervision of the devils, got out of the trenches one after another, set up their guns and shot at the Eighth Route Army.

However, the soldiers of the new regiment fired continuously while sprinting, and the offensive of the devils and puppet army was beaten into dust under the dense rain of bullets.

There was no charging horn, no charging shouts, and soon, the soldiers rushed to the front of the devils and puppet military fortifications, and came out with a batch of grenades.

After a burst of rapid explosions, the soldiers jumped into the trenches with rifles and submachine guns.

The surviving devils tried to launch a counter charge, but were quickly beaten into a sieve.

There were relatively few devils outside the city, and most of them were puppet soldiers who were used as cannon fodder. As the devils were all killed, the puppet soldiers either pretended to be dead or surrendered.

After occupying the Japanese military fortifications outside the city, the soldiers took a rest before continuing to attack the city wall.

After approaching the city wall, the artillery groups stopped shelling one after another, and if they fired again, they would accidentally injure their own people.

Without the suppression of artillery fire, the devils and puppet soldiers on the city wall fired crazily with light and heavy machine guns, and dense bullets poured down.

After approaching the city, densely packed grenades and grenades were thrown down again, and the soldiers of the new regiment kept falling. The battle was extremely fierce, and the casualties were heavy for a while.

The firepower of the devils and puppet troops was too strong, and the soldiers could not get close to the city wall, so they had to temporarily retreat to the fortifications dug by the devils and puppet troops outside the city.

"This Taiyuan City is really hard to beat."

Zhao Gang put down the binoculars and said solemnly: "Let's attack the county seat. After such shelling, the infantry can occupy the city wall with a single attack."

Li Yunlong snorted coldly with both eyes: "If it was so easy to fight, it wouldn't be Taiyuan, and the headquarters of the Devil's First Army wouldn't be located here."

"What now?"

"You said that refueling tactics are a big taboo in military strategists, how to fight next?"

Zhao Gang frowned, and his tone was solemn.

"Staff Wang, ask the other attacking groups how the attack is going?"

Li Yunlong did not answer, but looked at Chief of Staff Wang Dehou.

"Yes!" Wang Dehou immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and asked.

While the new group was probing the attack, the three attacking groups were also attacking the city wall in their respective directions.

Two minutes later, Wang Dehou put down his high-power walkie-talkie and reported to Li Yunlonghui: "The three attacking groups are similar to ours. They all occupied the positions of the devils and puppet troops outside the city, and encountered setbacks when they attacked the city wall."

Li Yunlong frowned slightly upon hearing this.

From the tentative attack, it can be seen that there are some tricks. If you continue to send troops to attack the city wall, it is just a tactic to add fuel.

Without casualties of hundreds or thousands of people, I'm afraid they won't even be able to touch the city walls. It is estimated that thousands of people will be killed or injured if they occupy the four walls in this way.

While he was thinking, there was a buzzing sound in the sky.

The room leak happened to rain overnight, and the devil's plane has arrived again!
Li Yunlong hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked towards the sky south of Taiyuan City. After a while, densely packed devil planes got out of the clouds and flew towards Taiyuan at a low altitude.

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(I'm really sorry, I was blocked for more than half a month, and I stayed up late every day to grab food online, and my body and mind were exhausted, but fortunately, I finally stocked up on food for half a month, and I can finally go to bed early today, and I will return to normal tomorrow renew.)
(End of this chapter)