Night color is the best protective color.

Especially when the sky is about to light up, at four or five o'clock, it is actually the time when people are the sleepiest and the sky is the darkest.

Some people say that the hardest time for people to see the road is not the darkest time, but the time when the sky is about to get dark, and every moment when the darkness is about to become bright.

The former is the environment deceiving the eyeballs, while the latter is fatigue covering the eyes.

In the dusk before dawn, Wuxiang County was surrounded by people, but no one boldly stepped forward to attack.

Instead, they communicated with each other, and while it was still dark, trenches were dug to surround the entire city.

When the Japanese and puppet troops at the top of the city heard the noise and looked out with binoculars, they discovered that from near to far were enemy positions.

The highland guard post far outside the county seat has long been occupied by the enemy.

In the boundary of Shanxi, Pingyao County is already considered a relatively large county, about 1.5 kilometers wide and 2 kilometers long. It is neither big nor small.

However, Wuxiang County is much smaller than Pingyao County. The width is less than 1.5 kilometers, and the length is less than 2 kilometers. It is quite a small county.

They were surrounded by 4 regiments, and they were surrounded but not attacked. Because they entered the position prematurely and dug deep trenches in time.

The enemy inside the city wall could only see in the distance, trenches deeper than a human being, criss-crossing each other, and the trenches had even been dug to 100 meters.

Is this to bully the Imperial Japanese Army's grenade inaccuracy?

At the top of the city, a roar sounded.

One grenade after another was accurately thrown by the grenade into the trenches one or two hundred meters away. Shrapnel flew in the explosion, but still no results were achieved.

The trenches outside the city were dug very carefully and deeply, and were very winding. Even if a grenade occasionally hit the trench, its combat effectiveness would be reduced by the twists and turns of the trench.

The city gates were opened wide, but what rushed out of the city were not Japanese troops, but a large number of puppet troops.

The heavy machine guns on the top of the city had sprayed a large amount of bullets covering the entire trench area, making the soldiers in the trench unable to raise their heads.

This is the Japanese army on the top of the city using a large number of heavy machine guns to cover the puppet troops rushing out. In fact, there is an artillery squadron and an infantry brigade in the city, and the rest is a brigade of puppet troops.

That's right, in Wuxiang County.

There are more puppet troops than devils.

And because of spying on the Eighth Route Army base areas and preparing to attack at any time, there are many more standing troops stationed in counties and towns here than in other places.

In other places, a county can station at most one squadron, but here, there is not only an infantry brigade, but also an artillery squadron and a brigade of security troops.

In fact, the original Wuxiang County did not have four city gates, but only three. Later, I don't know who opened another city gate, causing this city gate to appear thinner than other city gates.

There is not even a small urn city.

But it was really just a city gate, and it opened wider than other city gates, so more puppet troops rushed out, with a battalion of more than 400 troops.

This is very rare!

There is actually a battalion commander of the puppet army who refuses to take free pay.

Some people, whenever they go out to fight in the city, must assemble at the city gate, either in a long snake formation, or in a skirmish formation, or in a pig rush formation. All of these must be organized before fighting after leaving the city gate.

In ancient times, the place where a bow and arrow could be shot at the city gate was a safe zone.

in the present.

At the city gate, the area covered by the heavy machine guns on the city head is the safe zone, so these puppet troops quickly formed their own impact formation very familiarly after leaving the city.

They were planning to charge towards the place full of trenches outside, because the heavy machine guns were on the top of the wall. When they charged, the heavy machine guns on the top of the city were helping them cover.

But if they disobey orders and don't charge, then the heavy machine guns on top of the city will send them to the west.

The coverage range of the heavy machine gun is that if it has a scope, it can maintain accuracy within 600 meters. If there is no scope, it can maintain suppression within 600 meters.

The criss-crossing trenches outside the city are only more than 100 meters away from the city head.

The commander of the puppet army camp who left the city was quite fat. He actually gained weight in this day and age?

It can be seen that even if he is very strong, he cannot run.

So he could only reluctantly wave the horse card player in his hand and shouted to the brothers under his hand: "Brothers, rush for me!"

Rush to the position and kill all the enemies in the trenches. I will be heavily rewarded when you come back!"

No one would dare to use troops like this in a real war. Wouldn't this mean people will die?

But just from his obese appearance, it can be seen that this man doesn't seem to know much about warfare.

Otherwise, he would choose to make arrangements in the city, which company will be in which direction after leaving the city, and launch a skirmish charge as soon as they leave the city, instead of forming a team at the city gate.

With the attack of this battalion, all the artillery barrels on the city head came to join in the fun, and one shell after another hit the position filled with trenches.

It only took more than two hours of excavation, and the trenches outside the city were actually protected from artillery fire.

This is outrageous!

But if you think of this group of people who are even better at digging tunnels, you will think that mere trenches mean nothing?

All experience has been mined.

Faced with the Japanese bombardment, and the bombardment was so intensive, everyone squatted in the artillery pit, waiting for the bombardment to stop.

But.

When the puppet battalion commander, who had already left the city and had organized his troops within the range of the heavy machine guns at the city gate, was preparing to charge, he looked desperately at the huge black dots in the sky that were coming towards them.

There were more than 20 explosive packets, which hit the city gate, the city wall, and even inside the city wall.

A minute later, more than 20 explosive packages were launched into the air.

Then each explosive package made a deafening, earth-shattering sound. A 10 kilogram explosive package has a killing radius of 20 meters.

Even if you hide in a house, you can still be shocked to death. This is the explosion power of a 10 kilogram explosive bag.

Therefore, the pseudo-legion that was preparing for war at the gate of the city was wiped out by the regiment. There were more than 400 people. There were probably not many who could survive. They were probably all fools!

The earth-shattering explosion almost wiped out the battalion assembled at the city gate.

The men and horses of this battalion were actually just thrown out by Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Takayama Kimura in the city to test firepower. Now his goal was achieved.

He concluded that the enemy's firepower at the West City Gate was extremely powerful. He didn't know what kind of weapon it was, but it was very powerful.

A battalion of security forces was wiped out with just a burst of bombing.

"Your Majesty Lieutenant Colonel, I suspect this is a heavy artillery!"

A Japanese major said this in front of Takayama Kimura.

"I can see it, but I don't know what kind of heavy artillery it is, but its lethality is amazing!

Although the combat effectiveness of a battalion of the security army was not very good, under a violent bombing, almost no one survived!

Even a 75mm caliber mountain gun cannot achieve such a powerful lethality!

Just now, the sacrifice of the security forces also allowed us to see the approximate number of the opponent's heavy artillery. There were actually more than 20!

This is terrible!

But fortunately, from the perspective of range, this range is very short!

And if this is heavy artillery, the opponent's number may be very small. Since there are enemies attacking outside the four walls, I estimate that the other three sides are all feigning attacks. Only one side has specially strengthened this weird heavy artillery. This is the enemy's main attack direction.

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Judging from the enemy's military uniforms, this is Tubal Road, but how did Tubal Road, which has always been poor, acquire so many heavy artillery?"

Gao Shan Mucun believed that since the Eighth Route Army's main attack direction was on the west gate wall, the positions outside the other three city gates should be just a bluff.

As a result, he immediately sent an order to focus on the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which had more than 20 heavy artillery pieces, at the gate of the West City.

But he guessed wrong!

Because the gates of other city walls also began to be bombarded indiscriminately, and the deafening sound and power of the explosions were the same as before.

Soldiers rushed over to report.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel, the other three city gates are being bombarded by enemy heavy artillery. Although we have taken precautions, we still suffered heavy losses!"

Yes, when the other three city walls were suddenly bombarded by heartless artillery, even though the Japanese army had taken precautions, they still suffered heavy losses.

Because this thing is unreasonable and the damage range is too large. Think of a 10 kilogram explosive bag!

This unexpected attack made Japanese Lieutenant Commander Takayama Kimura, who was still confident, finally realize that something serious was going on.

An observation balloon was quickly raised in the city. Observation balloons are generally only equipped by artillery squadrons and above.

There happened to be an artillery squadron in the county town, so someone climbed up and lifted the balloon into the air.

It was only when the artillery observer reached a high altitude that he saw that Wuxiang County had indeed been surrounded.

The enemy's trenches are simply criss-crossing.

Moreover, the figures in the trenches were so bright that they looked young and old. A rough calculation under the telescope showed that there were still several thousand people.

More importantly, they saw the opponent's position and the huge gun tubes in the deep trenches.

Looking down through the telescope on the balloon, they saw those strange gun barrels half-buried in the soil, with at least a 500 mm caliber.

hiss……
To be continued...