Adachi Twenty-three only realized that something was wrong when he heard Colonel Uetake reporting the enemy's situation.

The person who called Adachi 23 was the staff officer of the 226th Regiment. At this time, Colonel Uetake was busy directing the battle and could not spare the time to make a call.

The problem with Shangzhu's 226th Regiment is that most of his troops are deployed outside the city... There are two passages outside the city, each with a brigade, and more than a thousand troops are indeed deployed inside the city.

, but most of them were wing artillery squadrons, infantry artillery squadrons, transport squadrons, etc., especially the muzzles of these guns were pointed at the passage outside the city, so as soon as the Eighth Route Army tanks rushed into the city gate, Shangzhu found that he had

There are almost no soldiers available.

It is impossible to mobilize an artillery squadron to fight tanks. The artillery equipment of the wing is mostly mountain cannons and 92 infantry cannons. Using them to deal with tanks is almost like asking for death.

So Shangzhu was so busy that he mobilized his own guards to fight at the top of the city. Even he himself stood at the top of the city with a pistol.

Shangzhu hoped to use the city wall's condescending advantage to slightly delay the Eighth Route Army's advance so that reinforcements could arrive. After all, the city wall was facing the back of the Eighth Route Army at this time, and the Eighth Route Army could only clear them out before they could continue to advance.

But it turns out that Colonel Kamizuke thought too much.

The Eighth Route Army's attack was divided into two sides, that is, it attacked the front and back of the city wall at the same time.

Wang Xuexin had already considered this: tanks poured in from the city gate, and the infantry followed behind the tanks. As soon as they passed the city gate, their backs would be exposed to the muzzles of the Japanese guns on the city wall.

Although there were not many Japs on the city wall, as long as the Japs set up a few machine guns or threw grenades from the wall to the city gate, they could cause considerable casualties to the soldiers.

On the other hand, the city gate is small and requires space for tanks to pass through first. If a swarm of swarms enters through the city gate, they are likely to be blocked at the city gate and unable to move.

Therefore, the reconnaissance company's mission is to attack from the front.

When the tank troops broke through the city gate and rushed into the city one after another, the reconnaissance company, led by the monk, "threw hoes" at the foot of the city wall.

The so-called "throwing a hoe" refers to throwing away an engineer's shovel.

The reconnaissance company is equipped with a multifunctional engineer shovel that can climb the city wall. Because the engineer shovel is a hoe in the dialect of the soldiers, the tactic of throwing the engineer shovel and hooking it to the city wall is called "hoe throwing".

The soldiers of the reconnaissance company often do this kind of training, and it has even become one of the entertainments for the soldiers of the reconnaissance company in their free time... When they have nothing to do, they play with hoes, hooking branches, hooking roofs, hooking city walls, it just depends on who they are.

The hook is accurate and fast, and the loser gets the cigarette.

Because they had played too much, the soldiers threw their "hoes" up one after another, and almost all of them hit the top of the city.

There were not many Japs at the top of the city. There were only two teams of more than a hundred people. In addition, it was in the dark and their attention was attracted by the tanks of the Eighth Route Army that broke into the city. Not many people found it possible to climb up the city wall.

Soldiers of the reconnaissance company.

In fact, even if it is discovered, it is useless.

Because after the tanks entered the city, they immediately followed the infantry to attack the top of the city along the stairs inside the city. The Japanese could only care about this side but not the other side.

Then, as soon as the monk and others climbed up the city wall, they announced that the battle was coming to an end. They fired their submachine guns at the Japs' backs, and the Japs fell to the ground screaming.

Monk still likes to use box cannon.

He likes it for a reason, because the monk only needs one hand to hold the rope and coordinate the movements of his feet to climb up, and the other hand to hold the box cannon and aim it at the city head.

This is what the monk said: "We are hanging on the city wall with no cover. What if the Japanese find our position and lean out to shoot? A submachine gun requires two hands to operate. I have a cannon in my hand, and I can shoot any one that comes along."

One, if there are two, take a pair!"

The monk's skills really came in handy on the battlefield. This time, he killed three Japanese who popped up in one go... The monk not only looked above him, but even if the Japanese appeared next to him, they couldn't escape him.

Eye.

After climbing to the top of the city, the monk was like a tiger among sheep. He held a box cannon in each hand and fired his bow from left to right. There was a loud "bah" sound and he knocked down five or six in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Colonel Kamizhu quickly retreated with his remaining soldiers to defend the tower.

When Colonel Uetake was organizing the defense, the staff asked for help from the headquarters without waiting for orders from the colonel... In fact, from the beginning, the staff should have reported the situation to the headquarters and requested support.

However, the Japanese had a sense of superiority in fighting the Eighth Route Army. It should be said that they had a sense of superiority towards the Chinese army. They believed that the Chinese combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the imperial army. The imperial army deserved victory, and defeat was an unforgivable shame.

This directly caused the pressure on both the Imperial Army and the Eighth Route Army: if they lost the battle, they would become the laughing stock of the entire army.

Therefore, when Colonel Uetake and his staff were attacked by the Eighth Route Army, their first thought was not to report to Adachi 23rd.

Because if you report it immediately, it means that the shame has become a fait accompli.

If you don't report it and rely on your own strength to block the Eighth Route Army's attack, then it is equivalent to not happening, so there will be no shame.

Therefore, there is still a situation in the Japanese army on the battlefield. After a defeat, they never report it, and they do not report it to their superiors until they gather their strength to regain the position again.

This has become the unspoken rule of the Japanese, or it can be said to be the "shame culture" of the Japanese.

It was only then that the staff realized that they could no longer hold on any longer and that if they did not report to the police for reinforcements, their lives would be lost, so they had no choice but to report.

Adachi 23, who was sitting at the headquarters, was just curious about why the sound of artillery and gunfire at the South Gate became more intense. He thought that what Colonel Uetake reported about being "violently bombarded by enemy bullets" was becoming a fact.

Just as I was about to call to inquire, the call from the 226th Regiment came.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General!" the staff reported anxiously on the phone: "The Eighth Route Army has entered the city! Tanks, their tanks have entered the city!"

"What?" Anda Twenty-san couldn't believe what he heard.

How is that possible?

The south gate was tightly guarded. How could the enemy tanks suddenly appear without warning and attack the city as soon as they appeared?

Anda Twenty-Three understood what the Chief of Staff said next.

"They came by boat from the Salt Lake!" the staff officer said: "As soon as they land, they will arrive at the city gate. Our army is unprepared and the city gate has been lost! Please send reinforcements as soon as possible, Lieutenant General!"
Chapter completed!