The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 210 The Battle of Peace Grad

On the dilapidated city wall of Ping'an County, a group of puppet troops are patrolling along the city wall.

One of the puppet soldiers inadvertently glanced outside the city, and suddenly turned pale with shock and panicked.

"Brother! It's not good! Eight roads are calling!"

"Quick! Go report to Taijun!"

In fact, there is no need for the puppet soldiers to report at all. The ghost nursery rhyme discovered the eight roads that were slowly approaching the city wall.

In the Garrison Command.

Before dawn, Hiroshin Ichiro stayed in the office, staring at the map in a daze.

The war was severe, and he couldn't sleep well for days and nights, and he always had nightmares, fearing that one day he would wake up and the Eighth Route Army would come into the city.

The former captain of the Heyuan County Garrison Brigade, now the captain of the Second Brigade of the Pingan County Garrison Wing, Lieutenant Shunta Jiyama, ran into the headquarters anxiously.

"Your Excellency, captain, a large number of eight roads have been found outside the city, and there are no less than 5000 people by visual inspection."

"Order the imperial army and the imperial association army to enter the predetermined battle position and prepare to fight!"

For some reason, when he finally heard the news of the eight-way attack, Hiroshin Ichiro breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

What should come will come after all, and all he can do now is to defend step by step, hold back the eight roads, and ask for tactical guidance.

"Send a report to Taiyuan. In the early morning of August [-]st, Ping'an County was suddenly besieged by a large number of Eight Routes. The battle was fierce and the imperial army suffered heavy casualties. Currently, the Eight Routes have not yet entered the city. Request tactical guidance."

Even though the fight had not yet started, Hiroshin Ichiro still ordered the communications soldiers to report this way. He played tricks and made the situation more serious so that the reinforcements could leave earlier.

outside the city.

In four directions, 600 meters away from the city wall, soldiers began to pile sandbags and dig bunkers.

Attacking a county protected by city walls, towers and bunkers is definitely not a swarm of bees rushing up, as that can only become the target of the enemy's light and heavy machine guns.

It is necessary to suppress or destroy the enemy's bunker group with artillery fire, and light and heavy machine guns form a firepower net to suppress the enemy and cover yourself, so that you can disperse the charge, approach the city gate, and attack the city.

This is why the Eighth Route Army would not easily attack the gun towers of the Japanese invaders.

No guns!No matter how powerful individual soldier quality is, it is useless.

But this is not a problem for the independent group.

Eight hundred rockets and three 107 rocket launchers are on a hillside four and a half kilometers away from the West Gate.

According to the news sent by the insiders in the puppet army, the devils in Ping'an County have no heavy artillery with a caliber above 100, and only 12 Type 92 infantry artillery.

Therefore, Li Yunlong specially ordered that the artillery positions be set up 500 meters away.

Because the maximum range of the 92 infantry artillery is less than three kilometers, even if the devils moved the artillery to the gate tower and fired it, it would not be able to reach Wang Chengzhu, who was 500 meters away.

As the main force in the plan to attack the county, Wang Chengzhu, the commander of the Artillery Battalion of the Independent Regiment, was extraordinarily arrogant today. After the arrival of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment, he seemed full of vigor, walking with wind.

For no other reason, three guns, eight hundred shells!

Among them, a hundred are still extremely destructive phosphorus-aluminum incendiary bombs.

This is not the devil's 75-caliber firecracker, but a 107-caliber big one!

One volley, 36 rockets, can be reloaded and fired again in less than 2 minutes. At this time, Wang Chengzhu even felt that even if the opposite side was a brigade of little devils, he would dare to just go up.

The Liangshan Special Forces, who usually look at the monks, have become arrogant. Today, it's Lao Tzu's turn!
Since the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment each sent a battalion of troops to participate in the battle, the attack on the county seat this time reached a scale of twelve battalions.

Outside the southeast, north and south walls, there are two battalions preparing to attack each; outside the west gate, there are the first and third battalions of the independent regiment that can fight the most.

There are also two battalion reserves, and the troops of the two battalions are deployed, and the company is scattered on the road leading to Ping'an County in several surrounding towns.

There are not many devils in the surrounding towns, but if they can easily rush to Ping'an County and attack from behind the independent group, it will be troublesome.

Although the focus of the attack was on the west city gate, Li Yunlong's order was to attack from all sides at the same time, regardless of priority.

The Independence Regiment was preparing to attack in full swing, and the Japanese and puppet troops in the city were not idle, stationed in various combat positions, and the 12 Type 92 infantry guns of the Artillery Brigade were also dragged out and placed behind the west city wall.

Hiroshin Ichiro had already discovered the artillery position of the independent regiment outside the west gate, and the direction of the west gate was clearly the main attack direction of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the infantry artillery on your own side cannot hit the artillery on the opposite side because of the lack of range, it is still possible to hit the infantry who are attacking the city.

The atmosphere on the battlefield was dignified, and the two sides seemed to have reached a rare tacit understanding, and they didn't open fire for a while.

Hiroshin Ichiro did not launch the attack first. The longer the delay, the better for himself. Just now the signaler came to report that the two regiments stationed in Shuiquan had received support orders. Taiyuan also took off six light-explosive aircraft Come to support.

However, this rare peace did not last long.

At [-] o'clock in the morning, as the time for the attack arrived, a signal bomb rose into the sky next to the semi-underground bunker two kilometers outside the west gate, and fierce gunshots suddenly erupted from all sides in Ping'an County.

The screeching sound of mortar shells, the explosion of grenade grenades, the continuous sound of machine gun fire and the random sound of rifle fire all merged into one piece, and amidst the smoke, the devil's firepower points were exposed one by one.

On artillery positions.

Wang Chengzhu put his hat on backwards and stuffed his pocket watch into his pocket.

"Each gun position, one shot, correct shooting!"

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Three "Sky-Scrolling Monkeys" flew into the sky with their tail flames. After flying for a few seconds, they landed among the bunkers outside the west city gate. The strips are like a rain of flowers, falling down to the world.

The devil in the bunker looked at this spectacle from the shooting hole suspiciously, guessing in his heart what kind of trick Tubalu was playing, the next second, with a bang, a hot and bright flame suddenly ignited.

Wang Chengzhu held a telescope and looked at the effect of the shelling.

The density adjustment was not bad. After preparing for such a long time, the first shot hit, and three phosphorus-aluminum incendiary bombs penetrated into the bunkers around the city gate.

Yes, according to the needs of the battlefield, Li Yunlong ordered the artillery to fire incendiary bombs as soon as they came up.

The devils are set up on the city wall, and the trenches and bunkers around the city gate are easy to deal with, but the eight and a half embedded underground bunkers on both sides of the city gate are difficult.

The devils had known for a long time that the Independent Regiment had heavy artillery. In order to defend against the heavy artillery, these blockhouses were all made of concrete structures up to a foot thick.

If these bunkers are not pulled out, the heavy machine guns in the bunkers will continue to fire uninterruptedly, and this battle will be impossible to fight.

But incendiary bombs are different. Thermite can produce a high temperature of [-] degrees, enough to melt steel. Although it may not be able to directly hit the devils in the bunker, the deadly high temperature formed on a local battlefield in a short period of time is also small. The devil couldn't bear it.

More importantly, the burning of white phosphorus will release toxic fumes. These irritating fumes can irritate people's mouth, eyes and nose, and can achieve an effect similar to tear gas.

"Shoot! Shoot!"

With a wave of Wang Chengzhu's hand, on the artillery position, rockets began to fly into the sky without interruption.

Two kilometers outside the west gate, inside the command post of the Independence Regiment.

Although this place is especially within the range of the devil's artillery, the independent regiment has already done a good job of security protection.

The command post is half embedded in the ground, with loess up to three feet thick above it, and a blast hole is dug inside the command post.

Kong Jie squatted at the door, half-raised his head, watching the rockets flying past above his head, with a particularly excited expression on his face.

"Excellent! Exciting!"

"There are 36 shells at once. I have never fought such an enjoyable battle!"

The task of the New Second Regiment in the north is not heavy, just leave it to a few battalion commanders. This is a rare "decisive battle" here in Ping'an City. How could Kong Jie miss it?
As soon as Kong Jie’s words fell, the incendiary bomb fired first had disintegrated above the devil’s camp, and the phosphorous aluminum incendiary was thrown down, covering the sky and covering the city walls. physically……

boom!
The devil's position around the west city gate, about two football fields in size, was immediately engulfed in a sea of ​​flames.

The dazzling white glare is accompanied by smoke, and all combustible and non-combustible objects are burning.

People were howling in the fire, the incendiary agent was like tarsal maggots, which could not be extinguished no matter how much they rolled, the barrel was deformed in the high temperature, and slumped limply...

Phosphorus aluminum incendiary bombs have high temperature and high lethality, but the burning time is not long. After 1 minutes, the fire will gradually weaken.

However, a second batch of 1 incendiary bombs arrived less than a minute after the fire started to decline.

Wang Chengzhu also adjusted the angle a little bit, and 12 incendiary bombs happened to cross the city wall, and dropped incendiary agent over the devil's artillery position not far behind the western city wall...

After two consecutive bombardments, the rolling heat wave could be felt even in the positions of the [-]st Battalion and [-]rd Battalion of the Independent Regiment hundreds of meters away.

"Get down on the ground, everyone who doesn't want to be choked, cover your mouth and nose with the prepared wet cloth, if you don't have it, tear off a piece of cloth and pee now!"

Zhang Dabiao roared loudly, not far away, Guan Dashan also issued the same order.

"Battalion Commander, just shoot like this, what do you want us to do! Go up and collect the corpse of the little devil?" A soldier with a scar on his face poked his head out to glance at the sea of ​​flames in purgatory, and muttered unwillingly One mouth: "The artillery battalion took all this work!"

"Stop talking nonsense, get ready for battle!" Li Yu, who was in charge of tactical command at the forward position, happened to pass by with a cat, and when he heard this sentence, he stopped, squatted down, and smiled: "Take a fart corpse, little Most of the devils have been burned to ashes! Do you think we are here to attack the city gate? Wrong! Get ready, the real hard battle will be when you enter the city later! The artillery camp is not good for street fighting! "

The third round of rockets tore through the sky, and the artillery fire began to extend. The target was the Japanese and puppet troops outside the range of the sea of ​​fire on the city wall.

Independent Regiment Command Post.

Gudong!

Kong Jie's eyes widened, and he swallowed hard.

"This is fucking! It's really fucking! It makes people greedy!"

"What's the hurry! Old Kong, I heard that the military factory in the headquarters has successfully manufactured this rocket. Although the power is not good, the accuracy is not good, and the range is not good, but it is a good plaster that can pull pus!" Li Yunlong Smiling, he came over and patted Kong Jie on the shoulder, took the binoculars, and observed the situation on the battlefield.

"The fire is about to go out! Correspondent!"

"To!"

"Pass my order and tell the chief of staff, one battalion and three battalions, special operations team, don't let the little devil slow down! Go up, blow open the city gate, rush into the city and kill the little devil for me!"

"Send a signal to keep firing on the battlefield in the other three directions, and stop the little devil!"

As he spoke, Li Yunlong straightened his clothes, carried a machete on his back, and called out to his guard, Hu Zi, obviously intending to participate in the battle.

Zhao Gang, who was the only one who could prevent the head of the regiment from participating in the battle, was not here. He organized militiamen and civilians in the rear to wait for the transfer of seized supplies.

"Old Li! Wait for me!" Kong Jie obviously planned to participate.

The communications soldier left the command post and waved the signal flag in his hand. Half a minute later, the familiar charge horn blew on the forward position outside the west gate.

The monk rushed out of the bunker first, and behind him, Wang Gensheng ran forward with his waist bent, holding a dynamite bag weighing twenty catties.

Zhang Dabiao slammed his hat, pulled out the machete behind his back, and swung it around.

"Brothers! Charge with me! Blow open the city gate and chop up the little devil!"

Da Biao is a good comrade. He is brave and unambiguous in battle, but he is a bit of a hater.

Li Yu silently helped pick up Zhang Dabiao's hat that fell on the ground, and jumped out of the bunker unhurriedly. After a few ups and downs, he surpassed many charging soldiers and rushed to the front.

From the forward position to the west city gate, the soldiers did not encounter any decent resistance at all. On the north and south walls of the city walls, there were occasional sporadic gunshots, but they were quickly killed by Wang Xikui.

The incendiary bombs just covered an area as large as two football fields. The Japanese and puppet troops around the west gate were either burned to charcoal or scalded to death in the bunker. Occasionally, those who were extremely lucky to survive were also smoked by poisonous smoke. He had to curl up like a shrimp, and was stabbed by the soldiers passing by.

The explosive pack was attached to the city gate, and with an explosion, a large hole was opened in the city gate.

Dozens of grenades were thrown in along the blasted hole, clearing out the remnants of the enemy inside the city gate.

Several soldiers drilled through the big hole to open the city gate, and the soldiers were about to rush in in a panic, wanting to be the first to rush into the devil's headquarters and capture Hiroshin Ichiro alive.

At this time, Li Yu held two guns and ordered loudly: "Don't rush! Follow me! Monk! Take your people and lead the battle with Lao Tzu!"

Street fighting is extremely dangerous. The streets in the city are complicated, and there are still many people living there. It is impossible to use heavy weapons on a large scale. Moreover, the devils have already arranged dozens of firepower nets on several streets. It is obvious that they are ready for street fighting.

In order to reduce casualties, Li Yu chose to take the lead in the charge. Fortunately, the Liangshan team carried submachine guns suitable for street fighting, and Li Yu also specially prepared a lot of surprises for the little devils who tried to fight street fighting.

……

In the headquarters of the 23rd Defense Regiment, Hiroshin Ichiro just sat down and took a breath.

He inspected the gates on all sides of the city just now, and he was very satisfied with the layout of the imperial army, especially the eight concrete blockhouses at the gates of each city, which were enough to make Balu suffer.

Lin Zimin, Lin Sangke, the head of the Royal Association Army who proposed to build the bunker, is really a talent!While thinking, Hiroshin Ichiro raised his hand and glanced at his watch.

It was exactly eight o'clock at this time, and suddenly there was the sound of rumbling guns outside.

Hiroshin Ichiro's heart trembled slightly, and then quickly calmed down.

nothing!I have already made complete preparations, and I can't take down Ping'an City with shelling alone!
Sure enough, not long after, the eighth-route shelling began intermittently, only once every few minutes, and Hiroshin Ichiro couldn't help but smile.

After all, it is Tubalu, even if they have heavy artillery, will they use it?I only need to stick to it for a day, and when the reinforcements from the imperial army arrive, I will attack the Eight Route Army from inside and outside...

Hiroshin Ichiro looked at the rank on his collar, Colonel, it seems to be a little too small.

Just as Hiroshin Ichiro was thinking confidently, the wooden door of his office was suddenly knocked open.

"Baga!" Hiroshin Ichiro cursed angrily, looking at the person coming.

The person who came was Lin Zimin Lin Sang, the head of the Imperial Association Army that he had just talked about, but he saw Lin Zimin flustered and sweating profusely.

When Lin Zimin saw Hongxin Ichiro, it was as if he had seen a life-saving straw, and immediately panted anxiously and reported: "Tai...Taijun! It's not good! The eighth... The eighth roads are coming into the city! West, west city The door was lost! Ba Lu didn’t know what kind of weapon he used, and set a big fire! Chuan Gu Taijun and artillery Taijun were all burned to death!”

"Nah, Nani?"

(End of this chapter)