I am helping

at the same time.

Outside the east city gate and west city wall, the No. [-] and No. [-] Pao Battalions of the Xinyi Regiment also set up artillery positions, aiming directly at the city wall.

Although the artillery positions of the two artillery battalions are only about 1 kilometer away from the city wall.

However, every artillery position was well concealed and a camouflage net was pulled up.

In order to prevent the devil's planes from bombing the artillery positions, Li Yunlong also deployed a large number of machine guns and anti-aircraft guns in each artillery position.

"Boom boom boom..."

The sound of explosions like landslides and ground cracks rang out on the city walls.

Fireballs and gunpowder smoke rose, and gravel flew randomly, as if the end of the world had come.

Even when the Japanese army attacked Datong a few years ago, they did not have such a large force.

The new regiment has 150 31mm howitzers, and the first and second artillery battalions have about 75 cannons above 40mm.

In addition, 32 tank guns were added, and a total of more than 140 cannons over 75 mm were aimed at the city wall of Datong.

Such a powerful artillery firepower can only be compared with the most elite First Division of the Japanese army.

"Tom tom tom..."

The muzzle fireworks of each artillery group in the new regiment flickered non-stop, and the shells flew across the sky and hit the city wall.

Although the artillery position is within the range of the Devil's Type [-] infantry artillery and mortars.

However, on the one hand, the devils don't have many guns.

On the other hand, in order to maximize efficiency and try not to let shells fall into the city, injuring the common people and blowing up their houses.

Because the artillery group shoots from a long distance, there is no way to ensure that all the shells fall on the city wall.

There will definitely be a lot of shells falling into the city, the power of 105mm high-explosive grenade and 150mm high-explosive grenade.

Like the wooden houses in the city, a high-explosive shell can destroy a house, and if there are ordinary people in the house, it is absolutely impossible to survive the shelling.

Even if the command headquarters wanted to shell the devils, after the attacking troops entered the city, observers from the Sword Squadron would climb up the city wall to guide the shelling from the rear artillery positions.

In order to prevent the shells from hitting the houses of ordinary people, even if the precision method is used to shoot, a pre-test firing must be carried out.

and so.

Li Yunlong ordered the artillery groups to set up the artillery positions under the eyes of the devils, and aimed directly at the city wall.

Not long after each artillery group fired, the artillery companies of each infantry battalion began to shell rapidly on the tower with 60mm mortars and 82mm mortars.

The purpose of each artillery group is to blast the city wall, and the purpose of each infantry battalion mortar company is to kill and injure the devils and puppet troops on the city wall.

In order to prevent the infantry from suffering huge casualties in the process of capturing the city wall.

at this time.

Almost all the commanders and fighters of the new regiment stared straight at the city wall of Datong with shock in their eyes.

Except for the four 4mm heavy howitzers, almost all the cannons above 203mm in the new regiment were dispatched.

Coupled with dozens of mortars firing directly at the city, this scene can be described as a large-scale fireworks show.

Even the veterans of the new regiment can hardly see the scene of nearly 200 cannons shooting at the city wall.

The last time there was such a big scene was when the Xinyi Regiment attacked Taiyuan, but at that time the Eighth Route Army's largest caliber was only 105 mm, and there was not even a 150 mm howitzer.

Now, the Xinyi regiment directly bombarded the city walls of Datong with 31 150mm howitzers.

Of course, this configuration is enough to fight the original Taiyuan.

But in Taiyuan now, the Japanese army built a large number of permanent bunkers and artillery fortifications around Taiyuan, so they had to use 203mm howitzers, that is, use the father's hammer to knock down the devil's permanent fortifications one by one.

However, Datong is an important military town, so it is no problem to use this configuration to attack Datong.

As soon as the Japanese army launched a big raid on Northwest Shanxi, Li Yunlong attacked Datong, the important military town of the Japanese army.

Just tell the Japanese army, tell Yoshio Iwamatsu and Ningji Okamura.

I, Li Yunlong, am not so easy to mess with.

At this time, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo, and Wang Dehou in the headquarters of the new regiment were all looking in the direction of the city wall with binoculars.

Through the field of vision through the telescope, we can only see the southern city wall of Datong. Under the bombardment of 31 150mm howitzers, several gaps were punched in only two rounds.

The corners of everyone's mouths were also slightly upturned.

In the battle sequence of the new regiment, the most shocking expression on the face is the commanders and fighters of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion adapted from the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment.

"This artillery fire."

Battalion Commander Ma Renxing stared wide-eyed: "Excellent!"

Beside him, Ma Chengfeng and trainer Wang Nairong were also full of disbelief.

Although I have seen the artillery unit of the new regiment for a long time, but when these giant steel beasts roared at the devils, everyone really realized what it means to be so terrifying!
In order to see farther and more clearly, everyone stood on the horseback of the army horse, watching the explosion of fireballs and the smoke that covered the sky and the sun.

This was the first time they had seen such a scene in their life.

In their eyes, hundreds of cannons bombarded the city wall heavily defended by the devils at the same time, which was impossible for the Eighth Route Army.

And now, I can really see it.

Through the thin gunpowder smoke, everyone could see that the east city wall had been blasted into three large gaps and four small gaps.

However, the position of the gap is still relatively high, so the gunner began to turn the muzzle and blast at those gaps.

The mortars continued to fire at the head of the city, and the city walls of Datong were immediately engulfed in flames.

……

at the same time.

In Datong City, the 3rd Brigade Headquarters.

Listening to the rumbling and thunderous cannons from all directions, the brigade commander's face became more and more ugly when he saw Yin Sanxiong and Chief of Staff Toda Yoshihime again.

"In order to attack Datong, Li Yunlong actually... even used the 150mm weight!"

There was a hint of tremor in Toda Yoshige's voice.

He, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, can naturally hear that the number of artillery used by the Eighth Route Army is extremely large.

Although he didn't know the model of the 150mm heavy artillery used by the Xinyi Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, he could hear the number of the opponent's 150mm heavy artillery from the sound of the guns, no less than 30!
According to the establishment of the Japanese army, the artillery firepower of a heavy artillery regiment is crazily outputting against the city wall.

And the facts were just as Yoshihito Toda expected, the observers on the city wall reported that there was artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army Heavy Artillery Regiment outside the southern city wall.

"In order to attack Datong, with our 3rd Brigade's strength, what is Li Yunlong doing?"

Toda Yoshihime's ears were almost deafened by the sound of huge continuous shell explosions, and a trace of fear rose in his heart.

Although this trace of fear was quickly suppressed.

But Yoshihito Toda knew very well in his heart that he was just terrified, and he was afraid that the firepower of the Eight Route Shinichi regiment was too powerful.

In the past, the firepower of the locust army suppressed the Eighth Route Army.

The firepower of a squadron of the locust army is dozens of times that of a company of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army dare not fight the locust army head-on, and can only resort to despicable sneak attacks and harassment operations.

But now, the firepower of this new regiment and company is at least several times that of a squadron of the Locust Army.

Their artillery firepower is at least many times that of a second-line division of the Locust Army, and it is far inferior to the general Class A division.

Even the staff officers of the devils were a little pale.

"Li Yunlong is taking revenge on the locust army!"

Seeing Yin Sanxiong again said in a deep voice.

The old devil is very clear.

To fight Datong, which is defended by the remnants of the 3rd Brigade, Li Yunlong only needs to dispatch an artillery wing, which is enough.

But Li Yunlong dispatched all his artillery units, even the heavy artillery battalion and tank battalion.

In addition, observers reported that there were no less than 1 troops in the Eighth Route New First Regiment around Datong City.

outrageous.

Seeing Yin Sanxiong again now showed deep regret in his heart.

If it had been known that the First Army Command agreed to evacuate so quickly, when the Eighth Route Cavalry was found around Datong City, the 3rd Brigade would have evacuated Datong City as soon as possible.

Even if the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army catches up, they can send troops to stop them, so at least the brigade headquarters still have a chance to turn north.

In addition, I know that Li Yunlong is likely to focus on the combat supplies at Datong Station.

But he still had a fluke mentality, thinking that the Eighth Route New Regiment had just gone through a big battle and needed a long rest.

Of course, the main reason was that Li Yunlong's actions were too fast. As soon as he sent out scouts, Li Yunlong led his troops to the city the next day.

And most of the scouts he sent out have been broken.

"If you miss a move, you will lose the whole game!"

Seeing Yin Sanxiong again, he let out a long sigh.

Next month, he will be transferred to the South China Front Army, and he will be far away from Shanxi, a place of right and wrong, away from Li Yunlong and Xinyituan.

It never occurred to him that at this juncture, Li Yunlong led his troops to attack Datong.

But it's too late to say that now.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army's shelling that lasted for nearly 20 minutes had ended, and the infantry of the Eighth Route Army was about to attack as expected.

"Masters, follow me to fight!"

Seeing Yin Sanxiong's serious expression again, he looked around, drew out the major general's command saber with a swipe, and walked outside.

A group of devil staff officers, including Toda Yoshihime, took up their weapons and followed behind.

As a soldier of the Empire of Japan, you must shed your last drop of blood for His Majesty Tianlocust and the Empire of Japan.

at the same time.

The northern city wall has been bombarded by 31 tanks and opened four large gaps.

Although the 75mm tank gun is not as powerful as the 105mm howitzer and 150mm howitzer.

It is no problem at all to bombard the city wall.

It's just that the gap in the city wall is not as big as in other directions of the city wall.

The gate of the north city wall, that is, Wuding Gate, was bombarded by tanks and turned into slag. Later, the tanks would enter the city from the gate and cooperate with the second battalion of the division to start a street battle with the devils.

"attack!"

As the tank gun stopped firing, Wei Dayong's long howl rose into the sky.

"kill!"

The soldiers of the three infantry companies held weapons in their hands and carried ladders, and rushed towards the gap in the city wall that was bombarded by tanks like a tide.

The Xinyi regiment party committee decided after research that all battalion-level commanders are strictly prohibited from participating in hand-to-hand combat and charges.

Although the Xinyi Regiment is only the battalion commander, they are all in charge of 2000 people, living the life of the head of the reinforced regiment.

Bullets and cannonballs don't have eyes. During hand-to-hand combat and charge, if one is lost, it will be a huge loss to the Xinyi regiment.

After all, it is not easy to train a battalion commander who can lead more than 2000 people.