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Chapter 398 Occupy the City Wall!

"almost."

At the headquarters, Li Yunlong looked at the watch in his hand, and ordered loudly: "Order the artillery group to stop shelling, the second battalion presses up, and the mortar and infantry artillery cover."

In order to facilitate observation of the battlefield situation, the headquarters has moved forward to within 1200 meters from the city wall.

It was already half past three, and an hour had passed since the firing.

During this hour, the artillery kept shifting positions, aiming at the city wall with cannons, and blasting more than ten gaps.

The gap that was blasted open during the day and then blocked by the devils and puppet engineers was blasted open again by shells.

The north city wall has already been blasted with more than a dozen gaps, and the entire north city wall is densely covered with craters blown out by shells, which looks terrifying.

It will be dawn in more than 2 hours, and the city wall must be occupied within more than 2 hours.

Otherwise, the devil's plane can come to provide air support at dawn.

Although more than half of the Japanese aircraft were lost in daytime engagements, the Japanese still had close to 100 aircraft.

Nearly 100 fighter jets and bombers attacked at the same time. Even though the Eighth Route Army supplemented the anti-aircraft guns, the anti-aircraft firepower was still very strong.

However, the aerial bombs dropped by Japanese aircraft could still cause massive damage to the infantry of the Eighth Route Army.

If you want the infantry to avoid being bombed by devil planes, the only way is to occupy the city wall before dawn, enter the city and start street fighting with the devils and puppet troops.

If the city wall cannot be taken down tonight, tomorrow there will be another ground-to-air battle as in the daytime:

Japanese planes came to bomb the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army again. After bombing the artillery positions, Li Yunlong made another big profit. At night, he called for airdrops of supplies and bombarded the city walls with artillery.

If there is enough time, Li Yunlong will definitely do this.

After all, every time you shoot down a Japanese aircraft, you can earn 1 mountain cannons, 3 howitzer, a radio station and 1 tons of food.

Opportunities to make a fortune like this don't come often.

However, what is most lacking right now is time, the reinforcements of the Japanese army are coming non-stop, and the troops led by him must capture Taiyuan in the shortest possible time.

Following Li Yunlong's order, the mountain artillery company and howitzer battalion stopped firing.

They were replaced by mortars and Type [-] infantry guns.

"put!"

Following the orders of the platoon leaders of each company, the artillery shells in the hands of the gunners fell into the barrels on the artillery positions.

Tom tom tom...

There was a continuous and rapid muffled sound, the muzzle fireworks bloomed, and dozens of mortar shells drew a beautiful arc in the air, roaring and smashing towards the devil's city wall.

Regardless of whether it hit the target at all, the gunner took the shells from the ammunition hand behind him and stuffed them directly into the barrel.

The movements are skilled and neat, without sloppy at all.

Although mortar shells are far less powerful than mountain artillery shells and howitzer shells, mortars also have their advantages.

It is easy to carry and has a fast rate of fire.

The rate of fire of mountain cannons and howitzers is generally 5 rounds per minute, while excellent gunners can do 2 round of mortars every 1 seconds.

Each mortar has 1 rounds per minute, and dozens of mortars, that is more than 30 rounds per minute.

Taking advantage of the cover of artillery fire, the soldiers of the Second Battalion jumped up from the attacking position, without charging horns or shouts, and rushed towards the city wall.

Shouting and blowing the charge horn at this time is tantamount to telling the devils and the puppet army that the Eighth Route Army is coming to attack the city.

However, the leader of the devil squadron who was in charge of guarding the city wall also figured out some rules for the Eighth Route Army to attack the city.

The mountain cannons and howitzers stopped working and were replaced by mortars and infantry artillery, most of which was the rhythm of the infantry attacking the city.

The leader of the Devil Squadron ordered his subordinates to stand up to the artillery fire and fired a flare with a grenade, and the whole city wall was illuminated like daylight.

Through the observation hole, the leader of the Devil Squadron saw figures of people under the city wall, and the Eighth Route infantry pressing up.

"idiot!"

"Kill it!"

The leader of the Devil Squadron ordered the Devils and puppet soldiers to get out of the hole where the soldiers were hiding, and under artillery fire, they fired at the Eighth Route Army under the city with light and heavy machine guns.

Dozens of hundreds of tongues of flame appeared in the shooting holes under the crenels of the city wall, and dense raindrops of bullets whizzed across the night sky, pouring down on the soldiers of the second battalion of the new regiment.

Fortunately, at this time, the soldiers of the Second Battalion of the New First Regiment had touched the trenches built by the devils and puppet troops outside the city, and jumped into the trenches and bomb craters one after another to avoid the condescending rain of bullets.

In the field of vision of the telescope, watching the soldiers of the Second Battalion being suppressed by the firepower of the devils and puppet troops on the city wall, Li Yunlong couldn't help but cursed: "Damn it!"

This is also impossible, the devils and puppet troops not only commandeer, but also rely on a solid city wall.

Even if a dozen gaps were blasted, it would be very difficult to take down the city wall.

The devils and puppet troops could hide in the caves to defend against artillery fire, but dozens of mortars and infantry guns could not completely suppress the firepower of the devils and puppet troops on the 3-kilometer city wall.

Although the puppet army's combat effectiveness is stretched and its fighting will is low, the puppet army can still display some strength in a defensive battle like this.

Unless the entire 3-kilometer city wall is collapsed, this disadvantage cannot be changed.

However, it takes a lot of time and shells to knock down the entire 3-kilometer city wall.

Chief of Staff Wang Dehou put down the high-power walkie-talkie, turned around and reported to Li Yunlonghui: "Report to the commander-in-chief, Wang Chengzhu applied for firing. He said that howitzers and mountain cannons can be aimed at the devil's firepower point directly, and at least a dozen firepower points can be killed in one go."

Li Yunlong shook his head, narrowing his eyes slightly: "It's not enough to kill more than a dozen firepower points at once."

According to the current distribution of firepower points of the Devils and Puppet Army, there is probably a light and heavy machine gun firepower point every 30 meters.

On the 3-kilometer city wall, there are almost 100 firepower points of light and heavy machine guns.

Although, howitzers and mountain cannons plus Type 20 infantry guns can kill almost [-] firepower points with direct aiming.

But the machine gunners of the Devils and Puppet Army are not fools. After the first wave of shelling, they will definitely shoot a shuttle to change places, and will not give you time to fire the second and third shots.

The mountain artillery, howitzer, and infantry artillery have a slow rate of fire, and after firing a shot, you have to readjust the shooting elements. When you adjust the shooting elements, the Devil's machine gunner has changed positions.

"What should I do?"

Zhao Gang raised his wrist and looked at his watch, feeling a little anxious: "It will be dawn in 2 hours, time will not wait."

"There is a way!"

Suddenly, he shouted loudly: "Give me an order to pull up all the machine guns. The artillerymen don't fire yet. They will fire together after all the machine gun positions are ready."

Zhao Gang reacted quickly and asked, "Lao Li, what do you mean, aim the machine gun at the devil's point of fire?"

"That's right!" Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Our 20mm machine guns are extremely armor-piercing, and can even penetrate the devil's gun towers and blockhouses, let alone the crenels of the city walls."

If these firepower points are not eliminated, the attacking troops will definitely not be able to occupy the city wall without paying a huge price.

The shooting holes under the crenels of the ancient city wall were originally used as observation holes and archery holes in the cold war, but they were used as shooting holes for machine guns in modern warfare.

Therefore, the crenels of the city wall are not thick at all, and in terms of thickness, they are not as thick as the masonry bunkers and gun towers built by the devils.

Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou's eyes lit up when they heard the words.

Zhao Gang immediately said: "This method is very good. I suggest that it be promoted to the brothers of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd attack groups immediately."

Li Yunlong turned his head and said to Wang Dehou: "Chief of Staff Wang, pass down the order immediately and convey this method to Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa."

"Yes!" Wang Dehou straightened his body, turned and walked towards the high-powered walkie-talkie.

Following the order from the headquarters, all the cannons of the entire Taihang 3rd column, the soldiers were pulled outside the city wall under the cover of the night.

More than 200 cannons of the new regiment were placed about 800 meters away from the city wall.

On the main width of 3000 meters, a machine gun is placed almost every 15 meters, and every two machine guns form a crossfire, which is responsible for shooting a firepower point of the devils and puppet troops.

Each mountain artillery, howitzer, and infantry artillery was also aimed at a firepower point of the devils and puppet troops.

另外，第1、第2和第3各攻击集团虽然没有新一团这么多的机关炮，但也各有100门机关炮，都能保证1门机关炮射击1个鬼子伪军火力点。

Two 10 minutes later.

The attacking force still made no progress.

Eighth Route Army Taihang 3rd Column, General Headquarters.

Wang Dehou covered the microphone of the high-power walkie-talkie and reported to Li Yunlong: "Report to the commander-in-chief, all the cannons of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd attack groups are ready!"

The best way to use this method is for four attacking troops to fire at the devil's firepower point at the same time.

Otherwise, when the devils and the puppet army react, it will be very bad if they come up with any countermeasures.

Li Yunlong nodded, and his tone was firm: "Fire!"

Then, Wang Dehou picked up the walkie-talkie and said loudly: "Command from the headquarters, fire!"

About 5 seconds after Wang Dehou's voice fell, Li Yunlong moved his eyes to the periscope of the artillery team's mirror to see.

Accompanied by the dense and rapid continuous firing of machine guns, countless 20mm machine guns' chains of fire were entwined towards the flames under the crenels of the north city wall of Taiyuan in an instant.

Mountain guns, howitzers, and infantry guns also fired almost simultaneously.

The explosion fireball and gunpowder smoke suddenly rose, accompanied by the sound of an explosion like landslides and ground cracks.

Under the sudden blow, the devils and the puppet army's machine gunner followers had no time to react, and were smashed into piles of pieces of meat by the sudden 20mm machine shells that passed through the crenel.

Almost all of the devil's more than 100 firepower points failed to fire in less than 10 seconds.

"kill!"

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Second Battalion in the trench jumped up, and rushed towards the city wall amidst overwhelming shouts of killing.

The machine guns on the city wall roared wildly, pouring firepower at the attacking troops.

But the next moment, several ammunition chains wound towards the Devil's machine gun at the same time, and the firepower points on the city wall soon misfired again.

The soldiers put the siege ladder on the city wall and the gap, and climbed along the ladder and the gap to the city wall.

The devils and puppet troops lost the suppression of the machine gun firepower, and the 2nd Battalion, led by Zheng Yu, occupied the north city wall with a wave of attacks.

Xing Zhiguo happily shouted: "Go up!"

"Pretty!"

In the column headquarters, Li Yunlong also saw this scene through the artillery mirror, and his tone was satisfied.

Zhao Gang showed a smile on his face, glanced at Li Yunlong, and couldn't help feeling in his heart: Li Yunlong is really a bit of a genius in war.

The northern city wall, which was originally expected to be occupied by at least two to three thousand soldiers, was defeated at a cost of less than 300 casualties.

(End of this chapter)