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In the city of Datong.

"Your Excellency, Commander."

"The communications staff officer of the Mongolian Army Command just talked to me."

"The 3th Chariot Regiment of the 17rd Chariot Division of the Mongolian Army and the infantry regiment of the 3rd Chariot Division came around from the right flank of the Eighth Route Army's defensive position."

"Prepare to go directly to the north wall of Datong, and take my 1st division out of the city."

"Lieutenant General Amaka, the commander of the Garrison in Mongolia, ask our 1st Division to immediately counterattack the Eighth Route Army and defeat the Eighth Route Army with internal and external cooperation."

At the headquarters of the 1st Division, Taro Changjiangguchi, the staff officer, reported to the division commander Mitsuo Nakazawa with an excited expression.

When all the combat staff heard the news, they couldn't help but feel excited.

In the past few days, the 1st Division was surrounded by [-] main forces of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the Eighth Route Army only fought street battles with the 1st Division on the first day, they did not continue to fight the 1st Division in the next few days.

But this feeling of having a knife resting on your neck and life and death in someone else's hands is really uncomfortable.

after all.

As long as the Eighth Route Army is willing to fight street battles with the 1st Division, it is only a matter of time before the 1st Division is wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.

"Yoshi, yoshi..."

The head of the division, Mitsuo Nakazawa, even called Yoshi directly.

The battle plan agreed with Amakasu Shigetaro was just to let the 1st Division break through the north wall by itself, and then attack the Eighth Route Army with the main force of the Mongolian Army.

But now, the main force of the Mongolian army sent an infantry regiment and a chariot regiment to attack the Eighth Route Army from outside the northern city wall.

This more than doubled the success rate of the 1st Division's counterattack victory.

After the communications troops of the 1st Division contacted the communications troops of the Mongolian Army, the 1st Division also knew about the deployment of the Eighth Route Army outside the city.

That is to say, fortifications were built around Gudian and Huayuantun.

Sanfu Zhongze sneered, Datong is surrounded by plain terrain, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is flat and flat, the commander of the Eighth Route ordered the construction of such fortifications, it is simply extremely stupid.

Either the commander of the Eighth Route Army will take the locust army as a fool.

Either the commander of the Eighth Route Army is a fool.

The chariot units of the Mongolian Army can bypass the defensive positions of the Eighth Route Army, attack the infantry and artillery positions behind the Eighth Route Army, and even go directly to the city of Datong.

Mitsuo Nakazawa's right hand tightly held the hilt of the locust imperial saber:
"The order!"

"The attacking troops immediately attack the north city wall!"

"Hi!"

Eguchi Taro suddenly lowered his head, turned around and went to deliver the order.

Military orders are like mountains.

As the attack order from the headquarters of the 1st Division was issued, the devils of the 1st Division rushed out from the streets and alleys, and approached the four walls of Datong along the streets and alleys.

The east, west, and south walls were used as cover and feint attacks, and the devil's main attack direction was the north wall.

Ding Wei naturally knew the devil's tactics very well, so he had already increased the firepower of the north city wall, and even deployed some 20mm anti-aircraft guns on the city wall.

Ten 6-type 2mm cannons from the 10nd Battalion of the 150th Heavy Artillery Regiment were pulled out by the devils, ready to fire at the north city wall.

The 150-type 10422mm field cannon of the Japanese army has a total weight of 18100 kilograms, a maximum range of 734.5 meters, a muzzle velocity of 1 meters per second, and a firing rate of 2 to 93 rounds per minute. It uses Type [-] grenades.

This kind of artillery began to be widely used in the Chinese battlefield after the September 918th Incident, and played a huge role in damage.

However, it takes a lot of time for the Devil Artillery to set up a cannon.

But as soon as the devil's cannon was pulled out, it was discovered by the artillery observers of the Eighth Route Army on the city wall.

Immediately afterwards, the artillery observers quickly calculated the shooting elements at the position of the Devil's cannon, and reported to the artillery positions behind.

The Devils set up a total of five cannon emplacements, and round sandbags were piled up around each emplacement.

There are two 2mm howitzers in each gun position, and hundreds of artillerymen are busy there, preparing to fire at the north city wall.

Although in terms of power, the devil's 150mm cannon is not as good as the Eighth Route Army's 150mm howitzer.

But after all, the caliber is here, and the 150mm cannon is used to bomb the masonry wall, which is tantamount to killing chickens with a knife.

Of course, there is no way for the 1st Division. After all, the 1st Division no longer has 75mm mountain guns and 105mm howitzers.

Each artillery observer, in charge of a cannon position, begins to direct the shelling.

Since the target of the bombardment was in Datong City, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army did not dare to cover it with unscrupulous artillery fire, so they could only use precision methods to carry out precise bombardment.

At a distance of five kilometers, it is very difficult for one artillery to accurately destroy another artillery, and it is still difficult to fight cattle across mountains.

First of all, the artillery device must be in an absolutely intact state, without the slightest looseness.

The second is that the artillery observers who calculate and shoot the elements must have a high level, otherwise they will miss by a tiny bit, and the difference will be a thousand miles.

Even a difference of a few tenths of a ruler may cause the impact point to deviate from tens of meters, or even farther.

The cannon is the king of war, a symbol of mighty power, like a strong man with infinite strength, but serving it is a delicate job like a woman's eyebrows and lips.

Coincidentally, on the Datong City Wall, the artillery observer responsible for guiding the shelling was a member of the Sword Squadron.

Under the guidance of the members of the Sword Squadron, the Eighth Route Army's 105mm howitzer, which was five kilometers away, landed extremely accurately as if it had eyes.

After calibration, the third shell landed precisely on the devil's cannon position.

Boom boom boom...

Accompanied by the explosion sound like landslides and ground cracks, it was an explosion wave that swept across the entire devil's cannon position, and the devil's artillery was blown to pieces.

A shell hit the devil's ammunition vehicle, and a 150mm high-explosive shell exploded, causing fireballs and gunpowder smoke to rise like a mushroom cloud.

Before long, all the devil's cannons were destroyed.

In the headquarters, Eguchi Taro, the staff officer of the 1st Division, who watched this scene, couldn't help taking a breath.

The artillery quality of the Eighth Route Army is so high that without using artillery fire coverage, it destroyed a heavy artillery brigade of the 1st Division in just a few minutes.

The heavy artillery firepower was suppressed by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army, and it was powerless to parry.

In desperation, Eguchi Taro had no choice but to send infantry to attack the northern city wall.

Mortars, infantry guns, and grenadiers fired curved fire and shelled the northern city wall occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, each battalion of the Eighth Route Army on the city wall belonged to artillery, with 20mm machine guns, firing at the devil's artillery.

Amidst the rumbling cannons, the devil infantrymen of the 1st Division held Type [-] rifles and shouted loudly, launching a pig-like attack on the city wall.

On the city wall, light and heavy machine guns and 20mm machine guns swallowed flames, and a dense rain of bullets poured down on the devil infantry.

The battle at the northern city wall soon became intense.

The devil organized a sneak attack with a small force, which almost succeeded, but fell short.

Bean-popping gunshots also came from the other three directions.

The devils fell one by one, and several echelons of devils' blasting team approached the city wall with explosives, and were quickly shot to death 50 meters away, but the devils behind continued to rush forward.

……

Outside the North City.

Intensive explosions exploded in the area of ​​the smoke formation, and the expressions of Amakasu Shigetaro and Nishihara Issaku changed.

The battle situation did not develop as the two old devils thought. The artillery of the Eighth Route Army fired heavy artillery fire into the smoke formation area, and it covered a large area with heavy artillery fire!

The firepower of this heavy artillery is very strange.

It lasted only a dozen seconds, but the shells were very powerful and covered a wide area.

In the area covered by heavy artillery fire, it is difficult to have a living.

At this time, Amakasu Shigetaro and Nishihara Issaku finally knew why the 1st Division reported to the North China Front Army Command that the Eighth Route Army had the firepower of a heavy artillery division.

Those trash from the 1st Division couldn't even report the enemy's heavy artillery firepower.

Isn't this just the firepower of a heavy artillery division?

Only the firepower of at least two heavy artillery divisions can produce such a heavy artillery fire coverage effect.

But facing the Eighth Route Army face to face, it is absolutely impossible to have two heavy artillery divisions.

The reason is very simple. The artillery of a heavy artillery division, plus logistics personnel, has a total strength of at least tens of thousands.

The two heavy artillery divisions required at least 2 people to serve, and the total strength of the Eighth Route Army was only 4.

Suppressing the doubts in their hearts, Amakasu Shigetaro and Nishihara Issaku quickly looked forward through the field of vision of the telescope.

With the smoke bombs fired by the devils and the smoke from the explosion of Katyusha rockets, the smoke cleared.

The eyes are full of dense shell craters, and the 12th Tank Regiment and the anti-tank brigade that rushed into the smoke array lost most of them.

The tanks were bombed and scrapped, and some tanks were even blown into parts. The anti-tank infantry could not even find a complete body.

Seeing this scene, Nishihara Issei's legs went limp, and after holding onto the handle of the ladder in front of him, his face was full of horror.

What kind of new weapon is this?
The power is too great.

This is definitely the most powerful weapon he has ever seen, bar none.

There are such fierce and powerful artillery fire weapons in the world.

This is the second time that this weapon has carried out heavy artillery fire against the Mongolian Army.

If he were the tank commander of the Eighth Route Army, after the enemy released smoke bombs, with such artillery firepower in his hands, he would definitely retreat immediately and call for artillery support.

Taking a deep breath, Issaku Nishihara asked: "Your Excellency, Commander, the Eighth Route Army's artillery firepower is too strong. Should we withdraw the 13th and 17th Tank Regiment?"

It has only been a few hours since the Mongolian Army arrived in Datong and started fighting with the Eighth Route Army.

The 3rd Tank Division has already lost almost half of the tank soldiers and tanks of the 3rd Tank Division.

Such a loss made Issei Nishihara feel his heart bleeding.

The development of the battle situation is completely different from what he thought.

In the imagination, all the tanks of the Eighth Route Army were destroyed, and the steel torrent of the 3rd Chariot Division rolled forward, and the scene of defeating the Eighth Route Army did not appear.

The losses of the Eighth Route Army were not large. At this rate, it may only be a matter of time before the tanks of the 3rd Chariot Division are wiped out.

Issei Nishihara has already started to retreat, and wants to stop the loss in time.

However, Amakasu Shigetaro was unmoved, and his eyes looked crazy: "Nishihara-kun, don't be discouraged. It's just the loss of more than 100 tanks from two chariot regiments. The locust army can win this battle!"

After paying such a big loss, how could Shigetaro Amakasu be willing to fail?

People with a gambler's mentality are like this. They always feel that they are in the next game and can win back all the chips they lost.