Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The four squads that were trapped on the street and couldn't get out knew that the kitchen squad had made a detour, so they were waiting for the signal! When the gunfire from the bunker stopped, a squad leader took out a small periscope commonly used in trenches from behind and stuck it to the corner of the wall to observe. Not long after, they saw a plaster flag with the white edge removed dangling in the firing hole.

"Okay, this place has been resolved, let's move on!" Seeing this situation, several squad leaders continued to move forward without paying attention to the situation in the kitchen squad.

The comrades in the kitchen squad did not stay long after dealing with the enemy's barracks. They handed the captured prisoners to the platoon leader and restocked several full magazines and rockets before continuing on their way. They walked behind several infantry squads and soon caught up.

There was nothing much to say about the following battles. After all, there were only so many devils, and they were scattered around the city. More than 200 of them were killed. The rest of the battle was mainly to eliminate the puppet troops and traitors! Of course, there were also some devil barracks, and there were also devil bunkers inside, but they were quickly eliminated.

As the battle continued, the attacking team kept compressing from south to north. On the streets running north and south, sometimes one squad would advance alternately, and sometimes two squads would attack forward. The artillery and heavy machine gun squads following these infantry squads built barricades on the spot at some occupied street corners, and carried out defensive deterrence on the streets.

It's very chaotic at this time, and there will be some opportunists in the south who want to take advantage of the chaos to cause trouble. But with the heavy machine gun squad to hold the line and the mortars to assist, there will be no chaos. Even if you are not afraid of death, whoever causes chaos will die!

There were infantrymen advancing, artillerymen providing support, a regiment of auxiliary arms treating the wounded, and political commissars and instructors leading the soldiers to receive prisoners... everything was in order.

At this time, the infantry company of the 1st Regiment, which was still in the wild fields east of the city, also received a new order - to penetrate to the north and cut off the possibility of the Japanese retreating to the north.

The Japanese had some defensive measures outside the north gate. The comrades in the first regiment were not stupid. They decisively made a circle and waited far away in a place where the fortifications could not reach, thus forming a confrontation with the Japanese.

At this time, the meaning of fighting and confrontation is almost the same! Fighting is to contain the enemy, and confrontation is also to contain the enemy. There may even be casualties in fighting, but confrontation is better!
This is not because the comrades of the First Regiment are not proactive, but it is better to fight from inside the city to outside than from outside the city to inside! At this time, the main force of the Second Regiment has entered the city in an all-round way and is rapidly expanding the results of the battle. Just wait!
Zheng Changfeng even sent out a company of troops to quietly detour to the railway line in the west of the city and completely surround the city.

As it turned out, Zheng Changfeng's order was somewhat unnecessary because the Japanese had no chance to escape to the west.

Soon, the comrades of the Second Regiment went from the south of the city to the north and soon passed the positions of the east and west gates. When the Japanese and puppet soldiers outside the west gate found that the Eighth Route Army was standing on the wall behind them, some puppet soldiers took the initiative to turn against the enemy, raised their guns and killed the Japanese soldiers around them, and then shouted loudly to surrender.

The role of taking the lead is huge! Maybe the propaganda work is in place, or maybe there are our own people mixed in here. Anyway, the bunkers here were thrown into a lot of grenades by the nearby puppet army, and smoke came out after a burst of explosions. And those Japanese soldiers who dared to stay with the puppet army were also besieged by many puppet soldiers, and finally died in pieces... So, the comrades who were happy to go up to the city gate tower and prepare to fight a big battle and make great contributions went down again to receive prisoners in a sullen manner. The key is that even if you are unhappy, you can't do anything to these prisoners, and you have to treat them well. However, considering that these prisoners also killed the Japanese and made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, which can be regarded as an uprising, they were still arranged separately.

The Japanese devils and puppet troops at the South Gate were reduced to scum; the puppet troops at the East Gate were reduced to scum, and the Japanese devils left peacefully; the Japanese devils at the West Gate became the contribution value of the puppet troops' uprising... Now only the North Gate is left!

Of course, the Japanese at the north gate received reinforcements! The Japanese puppet troops who were chased and beaten by the soldiers of the second regiment and evacuated to the north gate added a lot of troops here! At this time, the Japanese still occupied the gate, wall, and gate tower of the north gate. The second regiment was in the city, the main force of the first regiment was outside the city, and two companies also went around from the east and west walls to the north gate.

So the next step is to attack from both sides and take it by force? Wrong! Because the artillerymen of the two regiments had microphones in their hands, headphones on their ears, and radios beside them, and they were talking.

After some discussion, all the 60mm mortars on both sides found their respective positions, and then calmly measured the distance and calculated the parameters... After an agreed signal flare was launched, the 60mm mortars of the two regiments also started together, bombarding the North Gate, including the fortifications outside the North Gate!

No more, no less, two regiments' 72 60mm mortars were fired together, with each salvo containing 72 shells, which were high-explosive shells. The effect made all the citizens in the city see what a continuous artillery fire was!
Chirp, chirp, chirp... Boom, boom, boom... The shells fired from the city blasted the city walls, blowing up the Japanese puppet soldiers on the walls and dropping them directly under the walls. Even the wooden city gate tower that the Japanese had just built was set on fire by the artillery fire, turning into a huge torch.

Outside the city, mortar shells kept falling into the trenches and bombarding the bunkers, causing earth and rocks to fly everywhere and shrapnel to sweep across the city. To deal with those sturdy bunkers, the artillerymen even used some modified 60mm mortars! Yes, those improved 60mm mortars that could be laid flat to fire!
These mortar gunners measured the angle, leveled the barrel, stuffed the mortar shell into the barrel, and then pulled the trigger to let the ejected bottom firing pin hit the tail tube of the mortar shell...

Boom, boom, boom... The mortar shells no longer had to be thrown high in a parabola. They simply flew along the angle given by the barrel, whistling towards the bunker in front... These were mortar shells with No. 4 charge. The speed, the impact force, the power after the explosion... directly created round holes in the brick and stone bunkers.

As for those devils or puppet soldiers inside? Who knows where they died...

The siege began with an artillery bombardment and was completed with a comprehensive artillery bombardment. Finally, the commandos of the two regiments went forward to check the battlefield (finishing off the enemies one by one), thus completing the siege.

"Huh... We prepared for three days, but it took less than three and a half hours from start to finish! I heard that the Kwantung Army was stationed in the city, and they even built a turtle shell as a bunker... Isn't that great!" Comrade Xing Weiguo sighed as he looked at the north gate where smoke was still rising. (End of this chapter)