Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The Japanese were stunned by the bombing, and the puppet soldiers were screaming in pain! This made the Japanese guarding the city feel that things were not going well! Then, the radio station kept sending telegrams to request tactical guidance from the superiors.

There are a lot of restorations given by my superiors, but the main idea is just one - just bear with it and wait!

The Japanese had no choice. The Japanese in Taiyuan didn't have many troops to mobilize. All the troops that could be mobilized had been mobilized. The new Kwantung Army was brought in because the troops here were not strong enough. Puppet troops? There were many puppet troops, but were they useful? The key point was that when the telegram from Yangquan was sent to the military headquarters and the front army headquarters, the telegrams from Shouyang, Yuci, and Jingxing were also forwarded here.

If Jingxing asks for help, Shimen City’s troops will naturally go there, but since Yuci and Shouyang have been attacked, Taiyuan will be responsible! Therefore, the Japanese in Taiyuan need to solve the crisis in Shouyang and Yuci first before they can have time and troops to send to Yangquan. As for the bombers? If there are any, they have to go to Jingxing first, because that is the resource point controlled by the Mitsui Group...

The Japanese in Yangquan didn't know what to do, but there was still a lot to do. They needed to defend the city and wait for reinforcements, otherwise they would die. Of course, they could abandon the city, but the Japanese also knew that the surrounding areas were blocked by the Eighth Route Army. Breaking out would mean fighting a guerrilla war with the Eighth Route Army... It would be better to stay in the city and fight the Eighth Route Army in street battles!

As for the fortifications outside the city? The Japanese didn't even count on them! Because the artillery of the Eighth Route Army had fired 5 rounds of artillery fire and hadn't stopped yet!

That's right, Xing Weiguo didn't plan to fight in a gentle way this time! It would be stupid not to use the artillery! I have been saving artillery shells for more than a year, but they can't produce offspring if I keep them, so I might as well use them to bomb the devils!
So, after all the Japanese fortifications above the ground were destroyed, regardless of whether the 82 mortars were replaced with conventional ammunition, the 120 heavy mortars also adjusted their direction and bombed the trench fortifications one by one. As for the long gun grenades, they were directly aimed at the southeast corner of the newly built city wall, bombarding this side one after another, trying to make a hole.

Moreover, under Zhao Danian's order, the artillerymen did not adopt the operation of rapid firing, but instead kept an interval of more than a minute between two rounds of bombardment, allowing the artillerymen to fully adjust the parameters and confirm them again before launching the next round of bombardment. This method has high accuracy and good effect, and has a psychological deterrent effect on the surviving devils and puppet troops!
Immediate death and waiting for death, and slowly waiting for death... Whether it was the puppet army or the Japanese, they were all under increasing pressure until they were killed by artillery shells.

Finally, some puppet soldiers could no longer hold on, howling as they crawled out of the trench's anti-gun hole and ran towards the city gate. Then, they were swept into the sky by the whistling shock wave.

"Stop the shelling..." Seeing that the trenches in the east and south of the city were razed to the ground and a hole of several dozen meters was blown open in the city wall in the southeast direction, Xing Weiguo ordered to stop the shelling.

"Orders, the first regiment will launch a feint attack to create some noise; the second regiment, all the spearhead squads, go ahead! The armored platoon will follow suit!" Xing Weiguo's second order followed immediately.

The order was passed on. After receiving the order, the whole regiment pressed forward, crossed the railway line and came to the bank of Tao River. During this time, 60 mortars kept bombarding the city wall to cover the attack of the infantry. In the forward team, some people carried a fishing boat reasonably, put it into the water when they reached the river, and then four soldiers jumped on the boat.

The rowing soldiers paddled hard, and the soldiers in the boat, one of them raised his gun to protect, and the other two also held the oars and paddled hard to make the boat go faster. "Hurry up, hurry up, the damn sharp knife squad has crossed the bridge..." The rowing soldiers rowed while watching the comrades who walked across the stone bridge and quickly approached the city wall.

At this time, with the creaking sound of tracks and the roar of engines, the tanks that were captured and later converted into plows appeared on the stone bridge again, and then rumbled over. Although the small tanks did not have strong firepower, they could still ram the city gates and establish solid firepower points in the city.

Facing the full-scale attack of the Eighth Route Army, the devils would naturally not give up the city defense! The fortifications outside the city could not be relied upon. The puppet troops and devils who had already reached the city wall hid behind the battlements and fired at the attacking team, despite the 60 mortars that kept exploding around them.

However, the Eighth Route Army had too many artillery, and even the 82 mortars and 120 heavy mortars were involved in the battle to bombard the city wall, which caused countless casualties to the Japanese puppet soldiers on the city wall, and they had to add lives to the damage. Because the team that was crossing the river had already crossed the river, the rowing soldiers had gone back to pick up people, and the three boatmen had also formed a three-by-three formation.

The key point is that each of these groups that crossed the river by boat carried a huge bag of explosives, and their intention was to blow up the city walls and gates!
As expected, under the cover of tanks, under the suppression of light and heavy machine guns in the back, and under the insistence of snipers and precision shooters who would kill anyone who dared to show his head, these comrades carrying explosive packs reached the city gate and the southwest corner of the city. At the same time, there were also commandos who reached the destroyed city wall in the southeast of the city, entered the city directly, and built a firing point.

Chi chi chi… the long fuse was pulled, and the six explosive packs piled up at the city gate were all smoking. No one knew which one would explode first! Of course, on the outside of the southwest part of the city wall, there were dozens of explosive packs piled together, and long fuses were also burning. Even the soldiers hid far away, and some even found some bomb craters to hide in…

Boom... After the explosion, the thick city gate that had been built for more than a year, as well as the sandbags and bricks and stones piled behind the city gate, were blown up. Even the several-meter-long city gate hole was shaken by the explosion. Of course, this side did not collapse, but the road ahead was open!

Boom... A louder explosion sounded in the southeast of the city, and even a big mushroom cloud appeared in the sky. Following the explosion, a gap appeared in the newly built wall of the Japanese. Although the gap was only ten meters wide and more than two meters high from the ground, it did not hinder the infantry.

"Hurry, hurry, attack quickly, attack hard and quickly expand the results of the battle!" Seeing that three passages had been opened in the south direction of the city, the company commanders in charge of the battle command gave orders one after another, asking their comrades to quickly enter the city and fight street battles with the Japanese and puppet troops!

Under their command, the soldiers either continued to cross the river by boat or swarmed across the stone bridge. In just over ten minutes, all nine companies of soldiers entered the city. These people even included the artillery and cooking teams of each company... (End of this chapter)