At the same time, Heyuan County.
As the sky dawned, a new regiment of soldiers stepped on the siege ladder and attacked the city head of Heyuan County.
The top of the city and the ruins of the city were covered with the remains of the Japanese.
These Japanese minced meats were all smashed into pieces by machine cannons.
Although Ishikawa used some cement and steel bars to strengthen the city wall during flood control, he forgot to reinforce the crenels, which resulted in the Japanese machine gunners at the crenels being hit by machine guns and suffering heavy losses.
This is not to blame for Ishikawa's flood control, because the 36th Division has been fighting in southern Shanxi.
After the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Iwamatsu, took office, he transferred the 36th Division directly from southern Shanxi to northwestern Shanxi.
Ishikawa Shuizhi had no idea what happened in the Battle of Taiyuan.
Moreover, in the Battle of Taiyuan, the Eighth Route Army used machine guns to fire machine gun firepower points behind the crenellations, and all the Japs had been smashed.
However, Yoshio Iwamatsu, Kazuki Yamamoto and others saw some clues from the traces of the Taiyuan city wall after the war.
So I prepared to reinforce the crenellations of the city wall with cement and steel bars. When Li Yunlong led his troops to attack Taiyuan next time, this method of leveling the anti-aircraft guns would no longer work.
However, that is all a story for later.
At this time, among the city walls and ruins of Heyuan County, looking at the piles of minced meat mixed with shrapnel and gravel, the veteran remained calm as usual.
But it was the first time for many recruits to see this hellish bloody scene, and they couldn't help but vomited on the spot.
After the recruits finished vomiting, they continued to attack under the calm and normal supervision of the squad leader and platoon leader.
It was already dawn, and if you continued to stay on the city wall, you would probably be attacked by Japanese planes. This was all accumulated from the combat experience of veterans who attacked the city.
At this moment.
As the sharp knife of the army, you have to fight a bloody path for the large army, so that the main force can enter the city and start street battles with the Japanese.
However, the thickened bunker built by the Japanese at the street entrance blocked the soldiers' way.
This kind of bunker is a simplified version of the thickened bunker and turret. It is only about 4 meters high and 2 meters thick. The top is oval. The whole is made of reinforced concrete and has strong defensive power.
The Japanese set up machine guns in the bunker and fired at the city walls and ruins.
Once a new group of soldiers appears, the enemy's machine gun bullets will pour in.
And it's not just a bunker, there is also a fortress at the commanding heights of the house, forming a crossfire and causing great trouble to the soldiers.
Taking advantage of the cover of fire, some soldiers carried rocket launchers and fired several rockets from the city wall at the Japanese bunker, but still failed to destroy the bunker.
Li Yunlong held up his telescope and watched as soldiers climbed up the ladder to the city wall.
However, the battle still took place at the city wall, and the sound of gunfire and gunfire continued to sound like exploding beans, indicating that the battle was fierce.
Li Yunlong suddenly felt that something was wrong. When attacking the city in the past, once the soldiers captured the city wall, they could immediately enter the city and start street fighting with the Japanese.
But now the soldiers have been struggling with the Japanese on the city wall for nearly 10 minutes, but they have not yet been able to enter the city.
"How is this going?"
"The advancement speed is too slow. It doesn't match our new regiment's fighting style."
Political Commissar Zhao, who was observing with a telescope on the side, also keenly sensed that something was wrong.
Li Yunlong turned to look at Wang Dehou and said: "Chief of Staff Wang, ask what's going on with the attacking troops and why they are entangled with the Japanese at the top of the city."
"Yes!" Wang Dehou picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and called, "Hey, the headquarters is calling the first battalion. If you hear me, please answer..."
"First battalion commander."
"What's the situation over there? Why haven't the troops entered the city yet?"
"What did you say?"
"Okay, I will report to the group leader."
Wang Dehou called the Second and Third Battalions again and received the same reply.
After a while, Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong: "Commander, the Japanese have built a thickened fortress at the street entrance. The machine gun firepower is very strong, and our bazooka rocket launcher failed to destroy it."
Only then did Li Yunlong remember that the intelligence personnel he had deployed in the city reported that the Japanese had built many bunkers in the city.
However, the intelligence personnel have lost contact with the regiment headquarters. Once the county is captured, we must carefully investigate how the Japanese found the intelligence personnel.
Li Yunlong thought for a while and then said: "It's still the old method. Use a 60mm mortar to fire smoke bombs at the Japanese bunkers, and then use a flamethrower to burn the Japanese into roast pigs. The Japanese plane is probably coming soon, so you have to rush in and fight with the Japanese in the street."
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"Yes!" Wang Dehou immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and ordered.
Before the regimental headquarters gives the order.
Zhang Dabiao was already using a low-power walkie-talkie to convey orders to a battalion of artillery batteries.
After all, it was Zhang Dabiao who came up with the idea of ​​using smoke bombs to obscure the sight of machine gunners in Japanese bunkers and gun towers.
The artillery company commander received the order and personally led a squad of artillerymen. The artillerymen carried three 60mm mortars and shell boxes containing smoke grenades onto the city wall.
One-tenth of the mortar bombs given by Chen Feng were smoke bombs.
Smoke grenades were rarely used in battles in the past, so the new regiment stored a lot of smoke grenades, plus they had the logistical support of truck transportation.
Even though a lot of smoke bombs were used when attacking the Japanese thickened bunkers and gun towers, they were quickly replenished through trucks.
The artillerymen of the first battalion artillery company took a look at the thickened bunkers on the street, and then quickly set up the 60mm mortar.
With a muffled sound of tom tom, the muzzle of the gun was swept by strong wind.
Three artillery shells were fired at the Japanese bunker in the city.
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In the distance, Colonel Matsuyama Soemon, the captain of the Japanese 224th Regiment, standing on the commanding heights of the division headquarters building, sneered.
He suddenly saw the Eighth Route Army mortar mounts passing by on the city wall, and said in a sarcastic tone:
"Don't these Tubal Road people think that they can blow up the street forts carefully built by the imperial army with mortars?"
Beside him, Iseki Ren and Ishikawa Harishui were also holding telescopes to observe the battle situation.
"Mortar? Where?"
Ishikawa Shuiji hurriedly asked after hearing this.
"Division Commander, Chief of Staff, please look, it's over there!"
Matsuyama Soemon pointed to the break of the west wall, and Iseki Ren and Ishikawa Harimi quickly raised their telescopes and looked over here.
The crenels facing the city were not destroyed. Jingguan Ren and Ishikawa were unable to see the mortars, but they could see Eighth Route Army soldiers running back and forth carrying shell boxes.
Ishikawa Harishui's face darkened: "Isn't the Eighth Route Army trying to bombard the division headquarters?"
"Baga!" Jingguan Ren's face changed slightly: "Hurry up and hide."
Then, Iseki Ren, Matsuyama Soemon and Ishikawa Harimi quickly climbed down the ladder and entered a thickened bunker to hide.
When the New Regiment attacked the city and occupied the city wall, the tactical habit of using artillery to decapitate the headquarters had spread among the Japanese army.
After all, no matter how awesome the tactics are, they won't be so effective if used too often.
Therefore, once the Eighth Route Army occupied the city wall, Jingguan Ren, Ishikawa Zhi Shui and others would immediately transfer their command location.
However, this kind of thickened bunker can withstand the continuous bombardment of howitzers, let alone mortars.
Jingguan Ren looked at Ishikawa Water Control: "The aviation force of the North China Front will arrive in about half an hour."
"It is estimated that the street fort can block the Eighth Route Army's attack for half an hour."
"I see that there are quite a few Eighth Route Army soldiers gathered at the city wall. Mr. Ishikawa, please immediately communicate with the pilots and ask them to send out some bombers and fighter jets to attack the Eighth Route Army soldiers at the city wall."
Because Li Yunlong fired nearly 10,000 artillery shells in half an hour.
Not only did the gun emplacements dug in the city wall by Ishikawa flood control not play their due role, but the artillery and mountain artillery also suffered heavy losses.
Jingguan Ren hoped that this wave of air support would bring a wave of heavy damage to the infantry of the new regiment.
More than 2,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers have gathered on the three city walls in the west, north and south.
"Hi!"
Ishikawa Harimi responded immediately. In order to prevent being monitored, he planned to wait until the plane was approaching before notifying him.
To be continued...