Predator Reborn

Chapter 223 Counter-encirclement and Suppression: Attacking Jinzhong City (4)

After a while, dozens of cadres from the rapid response brigade at battalion level or above sat in front of Liu Hua. Liu Hua looked at the dozens of energetic cadres in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

"Comrades, I won't say any more. Now our base area is in dire straits. Although, a few days ago, we wiped out thousands of security forces. However, the little devils will not withdraw their troops. In order to let the little devils

Withdraw our troops as soon as possible and withdraw from our base area. I decided to storm Jinzhong City, the enemy's material transfer station, and force the Japanese to return for reinforcements." Liu Hua glanced at the circle of cadres and said.

Although everyone seemed to have guessed that the target was Jinzhong City in the past few days, when the commander said it himself, everyone was extremely excited, and the quiet venue immediately became lively.

"Everyone calm down. Now I will arrange the combat mission. According to the investigation of the underground party and the special operations brigade, there is now a Japanese garrison brigade and a baggage brigade with a total of 1,600 troops in Jinzhong City. In addition, there are

A security corps has about a thousand troops, and there are only so many defenders. Captain Liu, take out the Japanese city defense map drawn by your special operations brigade and introduce it to everyone." Liu Hua looked at Liu Xiaogang and said.

"Yes, Commander, according to the investigation, there are two city gates in Jinzhong City. The city wall is 8 meters high and has very strong defenses. At the same time, in order to prevent the county from being attacked, the Japanese army built three gates at each city gate.

Each of the gun towers has a small team of Japanese troops stationed there, and fire support can be provided between the gun towers. In other words, if you want to attack the county town, you must first capture these six gun towers. In addition, I suspect that the Japanese army dug holes in the city walls.

There are a lot of shooting holes. The specific situation is unclear because no fire reconnaissance was conducted... Our special operations brigade only knows so much about the situation." Liu Xiaogang pointed to the hand-drawn city defense map.

"Well, very good, I think everyone is clear about the situation. Now the order is: the first regiment will be responsible for the rescue mission. The specific deployment is that the first battalion will be on guard in the direction of Taiyuan, and the second battalion will be on guard in the direction of base to prevent the nearest Sakai brigade from attacking our rear.

The road is blocked, and the third battalion, as a reserve team, is ready to reinforce two positions. In addition, the Jinzhong County Brigade is on guard duty in places other than the above two positions. If it discovers the enemy's situation, it will immediately report it to the first regiment commander Shen Qinghua."

Liu Hua ordered.

"Yes, Commander, the First Regiment promises to complete the mission..." "The County Brigade promises to complete the mission..." Shen Qinghua, the leader of the First Regiment, and Luo Political Commissar of the County Brigade responded successively.

"Okay, the specific siege layout is as follows: the second regiment attacks from the front, and the third regiment attacks from the back, each supported by an artillery battalion. In addition, the mortar battalions of the artillery regiment will be assigned to each company after the troops successfully enter the county.

Fire support, I will follow the second regiment to attack from the main entrance, is there any problem?" Liu Hua looked at the remaining two regiment commanders and asked.

"Report to Commander, resolutely complete the mission and capture Jinzhong City." The two regiment commanders and the artillery regiment commander stood up at the same time and replied.

"Okay, since there is no problem, let's split up and take action now. Check the clock now and start the attack on time at eight o'clock in the evening. We must enter the city before 12 o'clock in the evening. Each regiment will keep in touch with each other through the radio. Start taking action now." Liu

Hua nodded with satisfaction and watched everyone leave one by one.

"Boom" fired two more artillery shells, but the usually powerful 75mm mountain gun shells were like scratching an itch in front of the solid reinforced concrete turret. A whole ten shells were fired, but only the first one was fired.

The surface of the turret was blasted a little bit.

The commander of the first battalion of the second regiment who was in charge of the attack looked anxiously at the gun towers that were constantly spitting out tongues of fire. You know, half an hour had passed since the troops started to attack the city, but he still made no progress. The two battalions behind him looked at

Looking at myself, the regiment leader looks at me, the commander looks at me...

"Correspondent, tell Battalion Commander Zhou of the artillery battalion to send two mountain cannons over." The battalion commander clenched his fists and ordered.

"Yes, battalion commander..." the correspondent, whose face was full of smoke, shouted loudly, dodging bullets flying everywhere, and ran towards the artillery position in the rear.

"First battalion commander, tell me how to fight! I brought over the two best mountain cannons in the battalion, and I also brought twenty rounds of shells. Damn, I didn't expect the little devil's turret to be so strong."

At the meeting, Commander Zhou of the artillery battalion came to the side of the first battalion commander under the leadership of the correspondent.

"Old Zhou, the Japs' turrets are too strong. You have to use direct fire to hit the shells directly into the Japs' turrets. Only in this way will it work..." The battalion commander shouted loudly, fearing that he would be drowned by the constant sound of explosions.

the sound of.

"First Battalion Commander, you think the cannon is a sniper rifle. This is a cannon. How can you shoot it through such a small shooting hole from such a long distance? This method will not work!" Battalion Commander Zhou immediately objected.

"No, Battalion Commander Zhou, this is the only way now, otherwise the Japanese will occupy these three gun towers and the soldiers will not be able to attack at all. I asked the soldiers to send the two cannons 100 meters in front of the tower. Is it possible to carry out a direct attack?"

Aim and shoot." A battalion commander asked loudly.

"Okay, First Battalion Commander, I, Old Zhou, have worked hard to knock down these three gun towers. Let the soldiers send us up! I will also try to use cannons for sniping today." Old Zhou looked desperate.

said.

"Okay, first company commander, use earthen tanks to cover them and send these two mountain cannons to a place a hundred meters away from the Japanese gun towers. Remember, the safety of the artillery must be ensured."

"Yes, battalion commander, even if the whole company is killed, I still have to ensure the safety of the artillery and open the way for us to advance. The first row of the company will cover, the second row will help the artillery push the cannon, the third row will go to the front to block the bullets with earthen tanks, get on...

"

Suddenly, intensive gunfire rang out from the First Battalion's position, and flying bullets hit three artillery towers not far away. Under the cover of heavy firepower, a company with two cannons from the artillery battalion slowly walked out of the position and fired at

Pushing forward, almost every few meters away, a soldier fell to the enemy's precise fire.

Finally, after the company paid nearly two squads of casualties, the two mountain cannons finally advanced to the enemy's escape building.

"Damn it, what is the first battalion commander doing? Is there such a war? How many soldiers will be sacrificed? Correspondent, go quickly and order the first battalion commander to withdraw the two mountain cannons." Looking at the fallen soldiers, the second

Group leader Luo Zhihui couldn't help but get angry.

"Wait a minute, don't withdraw yet. If my estimate is correct, the commander of the first battalion wants to mount the bayonet on the cannon. Let him try it first." Liu Hua, who was beside him, watched every move on the first battalion's position and immediately stopped.

Signal soldiers preparing to leave.

Sure enough, just when Commander Luo Zhihui picked up the telescope again, he had already advanced to the front of the position. Under the cover of the earth tanks, the two mountain cannons slowly raised their muzzles and aimed at the not far away

The first turret.

"Boom..." Two huge explosions sounded. The turret was plunged into smoke. Unfortunately, the turret was still erected in front of the soldiers, but two huge pits appeared on the turret.

.

"Okay, good job. Keep firing. This artillery tower will be finished." Seeing the scene in front of him, Commander Luo Zhihui immediately forgot his order to retreat and shouted loudly.

The two cannons seemed to hear Luo Zhihui's cry. At this moment, there were two more huge explosions, and then there was another roar of collapse. The Japanese's first turret finally couldn't stand the two cannons.

After continuous direct fire, it collapsed, and as for a small group of Japanese soldiers in the blockhouse, they were all buried in the ruins of the blockhouse.

"Okay, well done. Staff Officer Wang, immediately send this bayonet-on-cannon strategy to the third regiment attacking behind the county town. I think they should have encountered the same method." Liu Hua was excited but kept his composure.

As calm as he should be, he ordered to Staff Wang behind him.

"Yes, Commander, with this strategy, we don't have to be afraid of enemy gun towers in the future." Staff Wang also replied with excitement on his face.

With the collapse of the first turret, the Japs in the remaining two turrets seemed to have discovered the artillery position of the Chinese army that posed the greatest threat to them. Therefore, all light and heavy weapons were aimed at the front end of the position.

artillery positions.

The bullets were fired densely, smashing an earthen tank blocking the front to pieces. "Ah..." with a cry of surprise, the two artillerymen fell under the Japanese machine guns.

"Comrades, even if you use your body to block it, you must also protect the artillery. As you just saw, if you want to destroy the two gun towers in front of you, you can only use artillery. Everyone, follow me, second row, hurry up, set up the earth tank, and use

Put your back up, and use the rest to provide fire cover... Battalion Commander Zhou, fire quickly, we can't hold back for long..."

"Comrades, hurry up, the soldiers of the first company are using their lives to buy us time, hurry up, fire..." Battalion Commander Zhou said with tears as he looked at the soldiers of the first company who kept falling.

"Fire..." Finally, the shelling of the Japanese army's second gun tower began. Maybe it was the luck of the soldiers, or maybe it was the soldiers sharing the same hatred of the enemy. In short, one of the two shells in the first round was fired directly from the shooting hole of the gun tower.

After entering, an explosion occurred inside the turret. The solid turret was suddenly blown to pieces by the shells flying into the turret...

"Okay, well done. When the battle is over, I will definitely give this company and the artillery a first-class credit. It's really great. They are worthy of the soldiers of the quick reaction brigade. Well done." Looking at the continuous falling, he continued.

Liu Hua clenched his fists and couldn't help but said to the soldiers who kept rushing forward to block bullets.

Two turrets were destroyed, and the last turret was easy to say. After two rounds of running and firing 4 shells in a row, all the Japs inside, including a small group of Japanese soldiers, were destroyed by the muzzles of the soldiers. When the soldiers blew the whistle

When the Charge rushed towards the Japanese position, there was no longer a living Japanese soldier in the entire Japanese position. Looking at the first company, there were 160 people in the whole company before the battle. Now only half of the company is left, and a whole platoon of 52 soldiers fell.

in front of the two cannons.