After receiving the order, Yao Shangwu immediately conveyed the order to the artillery.

A moment later, smoke bombs soared into the sky and hit the city wall.

Smoke bombs landed under the city wall, on the city wall, and some even flew over the city wall.

Bang bang bang exploded everywhere, and the entire city wall was covered in gray.

Then Li Yunlong issued an attack order to the infantry.

Fierce and rapid charges sounded everywhere. In addition to the 3rd Battalion of the Independent Regiment as a reserve, soldiers from the other 4 infantry battalions jumped out of the trenches at almost the same time.

Amidst the loud shouts of killing, the soldiers held their rifles and rushed towards the gap opened by the heavy artillery.

It takes at least 4 minutes to run quickly over a distance of one thousand meters.

But the smoke bomb will dissipate in less than a minute.

During this time, the artillery must fire smoke bombs at the city wall every half minute to continue to block the sight of the Japanese and puppet troops.

Although the Japs and puppet troops on the city wall could not be seen, the shouts of killing could be heard all over the sky, as well as various light and heavy machine gun fires and mortar grenades firing volleys downwards.

However, due to the loss of vision, although many Eighth Route Army soldiers were killed, more Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment soldiers poured into the city through the gap.

A brutal battle unfolded at the gap, during which the Japanese and puppet troops who managed to escape from the artillery fire and hail of bullets and entered the city established temporary defensive positions behind the gap.

The first soldiers to pour into the city were the soldiers from the first battalion. Under the heavy and light machine gun fire of the Japanese, a large number of them fell immediately.

More soldiers at the back were brave and fearless. They braved the hail of grenades and bullets and rushed in one after another.

Taking advantage of the enemy's air attack as the enemy's machine guns and puppet troops were reloading, a soldier threw two melon grenades at the enemy's machine gun position.

After two explosions, the Japanese lay on the machine gun and sandbags behind the sandbag position, their flesh and blood mangled.

"Kill!" Zhang Dabiao shouted suddenly when he saw this.

The soldiers rushed into the city with one charge.

The soldiers who entered the city did not rush to fight with the Japs in the streets first. Some of them blocked the Japs' attacks on the streets, while others attacked the city walls along the stone stairs.

A heavy machine gun was placed above the stone staircase, firing fiercely at the approaching eight-passenger group.

A dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers were immediately shot and rolled down the stone stairs.

Zhang Dabiao spat heavily on the ground: "Second Company Commander, shoot down the heavy machine gun on the city wall for me!"

"Grenade!" The commander of the second company, holding a shell gun in his hand, turned his head and shouted back.

Two Eighth Route Army grenadier soldiers brought a grenade and squatted behind the second company commander.

Zhang Dabiao shouted: "Suppressive fire!"

The submachine guns and light machine guns opened fire at the same time. The Japanese machine gunners above the stone stairs suddenly did not dare to fire. The bullets hit the sandbags and stone stairs, and sparks flew everywhere.

After a muffled thud, the Japanese machine gunner behind the sandbag was killed.

"rush!"

The soldier with the submachine gun rushed in front, and the one with the rifle was behind.

Two puppet soldiers were holding rifles and were about to fire downwards. In the next moment, they were beaten into bloody sieves by submachine guns and fell from the city wall screaming.

He was not killed by bullets, but was also thrown to death.

Most of the city walls were filled with puppet troops and only a small number of Japanese soldiers.

The puppet army's little morale was reduced by the heavy artillery bombardment. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army had rushed to the city wall, they completely lost the courage to resist and squatted down with their rifles above their heads and surrendered.

Only the Japanese resisted stubbornly, but in the end they were the mantis trying to defeat the enemy.

Soon only one combat officer, An Teng Shangzhi, was left among the Japs on the city wall.

Eighth Route Army soldiers who came up from two stone stairs surrounded him, with more than a dozen guns pointed at him.

Looking at the Eighth Route Army around him, An Teng Shangzhi showed a look of determination on his face and put the pistol against his neck.

He shouted "Long Live His Majesty the Emperor" and then pulled the trigger. The bullet brought out a bloody arrow from the back of his head, and then he fell completely to the ground.

With the Japanese dead and the puppet troops surrendering, the southern city wall was occupied by the independent regiment.

The red flag of the Taihang Mountain Heroes Group rose from the south city wall.

But the battle was not over yet. The Japanese and puppet troops reorganized their forces to counterattack, hoping to retake the occupied city wall.

Instead, he was shot down by the Eighth Route Army from the city wall and the Eighth Route Army below the city, and suffered heavy casualties.

According to the plan, Zhang Dabiao pretended to attack Xicheng. Under the leadership of a puppet soldier, he turned from an alley and went straight to the Victory Street Arsenal.

Yoshio Shinozuka returned to the headquarters by car. Before he could sit down, the phone rang.

"Moses Moses, I am Yoshio Shinozuka."

The phone receiver rang in his ears.

"General!"

"The Eighth Route Army used heavy artillery to destroy the city wall!"

"The southern city wall has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and they are receiving attacks from the north!"

"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka had a look of disbelief on his face and raised his voice at the same time, "Where is Lieutenant Colonel Iteng?"

"Lieutenant Colonel An Teng...may have been shattered!"

After pondering for a moment, Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Call the military police captain, Captain Takahashi, and ask him to lead troops to retake the south wall immediately, or else commit suicide in gratitude to the emperor!"

"Hi!"

After hanging up the phone, Yoshio Shinozuka's face had turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Originally, the script had already been written.

When Prince Akamoto personally leads the armored train to come for support, he should first defeat the Eighth Route Army in the south of the city through external cooperation.

Then the Chinese troops from other directions will definitely come to support, and then they will be defeated by the fierce firepower of the armored trains, and the cavalry will then rush forward to harvest.

But the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny.

The armored vehicles are here, but they are not here to provide fire support to the imperial army.

But they came to fire at the imperial army.

Before this, Yoshio Shinozuka had never thought about Akimoto Aki's treason or the hijacking of the armored train.

Never thought about it.

Because this is so incredible.

The enemy has heavy artillery, and Taiyuan is empty of troops. I'm afraid it won't be able to hold it.

Listening to the roaring sound of cannons, Yoshio Shinozuka paced back and forth, feeling restless while standing.

The flames of war seemed to have reached the city.

"Hurry up and invite Lieutenant Commander Kasutani to come here!" Yoshio Shinozuka said to the guard outside the door.

In less than 2 minutes, Rukichi Kasutani hurriedly walked in and said, "Commander, are you looking for me?!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Shinozuka Yoshio said: "Hurry up and send a report to Commander Okamura and Lieutenant General Tada that the Kamikaze armored train has been hijacked by the Chinese Army, and the Chinese Army has used heavy artillery

The wall of Taiyuan South City has been demolished, Taiyuan City is in danger, please send troops to reinforce immediately!"

"Hi!" Rukichi Kasutani nodded, then walked quickly to the communications office.

…

I saw the flag of the Independent Regiment flying on the south city wall.

Although the fighting continued, the brigade commander, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang all breathed a sigh of relief.

This first step in attacking the city has been taken.

Outside the West City.

The entire 5,000 men of the 358th Regiment heard the sound of heavy artillery bombarding the city wall.

Fang Ligong looked shocked: "Listen, regiment, this doesn't seem to be a sound that can be made by mountain artillery and field artillery. It is at least a sound that can only be made by heavy artillery with a caliber of 105mm or above, and there are more than one. It's strange, Tubal Road

Where did you get the large-caliber heavy artillery?”

Chu Yunfei was looking south of the city with a telescope.

The fight was in full swing over there, but there was silence on their side.

"Wei Dayong should have arrived." Chu Yunfei said, "He brought large-caliber heavy artillery."

"Wei Dayong?" Fang Ligong said in shock, "This man has three heads and six arms, but he actually got a large-caliber heavy artillery?"

"I used to underestimate Wei Dayong." Chu Yunfei said, "This battle really opened Chu's eyes!"

Fang Ligong's expression changed and he asked hurriedly: "Tuanzuo, what did you find?"

"We'll talk about this later." Chu Yunfei asked, "Brother Ligong, how many siege ladders do we have now?"

"We built a batch temporarily and requisitioned a batch from the common people." Fang Ligong said, "Now there are 32 siege ladders in total."
To be continued...