Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

Although Huiting was defeated, Chu Yunfei did not feel relaxed at all.

The wounded must be treated immediately and defenses must be deployed immediately.

At this time, the soldiers had not slept for nearly a day and night, and they did not even have a good meal.

The troops participating in the attack on Huiting had not yet replenished their ammunition.

Especially heavy weapons were severely damaged.

The artillery regiment can only be dispersed to each battalion to fire mortars.

There are still three original mountain cannons left, and all the shells have been fired.

The number of enemies on the opposite side has increased from more than [-] to more than [-], and may even reach more than [-] soon.

Chu Yunfei was determined to ask for help from the Independent Brigade, even if he could get some long-range artillery support.

However, one cannot count on Li Yunlong's long-range artillery to fully support him. After all, his purpose is to attack Xiangyuan.

In this case, it can only solve the urgent need and rely on long-range artillery fire to slow down the Japanese attack.

Moreover, it seemed too early to call for help. It feels like it doesn't help much.

This is not over yet. The situation reported by Hukou Village is:

The 2nd Battalion and 5th Company captured Hukou Village before the local villagers evacuated.

The common people looked at it and said, "Oh, my troops don't want to escape into the mountains."

Commander Chu's army has a good reputation and is called the Seventh Route and a Half Army.

There are several Seventh Route and Half Army in China, such as General Sun's men, also known as the Seventh Route and Half Army.

It almost means the Eighth Route Army.

Not only the common people said this, but also some of the Jinsui Army said so.

Although the company commander sent people to persuade them, the common people thought that the Japanese could not come so early, so they moved slower.

Unexpectedly, the Japs' vanguard troops arrived soon, captured the villagers, and asked them to transport supplies.

Use the villagers as shields when charging.

The villagers were filled with regret.

Later, the villagers realized that they would eventually die if they followed the Japanese, so they refused to listen to the Japanese.

Under the leadership of an old man, they rushed towards the Japanese, but they all fell under the Japanese's butcher's knife.

If it hadn't been for this reason, the casualties of the 5th company would not have been so heavy.

It is expected that other Japanese soldiers may also use methods to coerce the Chinese people to reduce their own casualties.

In this case, the independent brigade's long-range artillery fire would not dare to be used.

Chu Yunfei couldn't help but wonder: "Is it too impulsive for me to ask to beat Huiting this time?"

The Independent Brigade had completed the encirclement of Xiangyuan at this time.

The 5th Regiment has taken over the special operations group.

The special operations group had fought several blocking battles before, causing more than [-] casualties and killing more than [-] enemies.

This includes about one-third of the Yellow Shoe Army.

They were all sent by the 36th Division to support the 224th Regiment.

After the 5th Regiment took over from the special operations group, casualties dropped.

Because the 5th Regiment has enough infantry fighting vehicles, they can be arranged in a row and used as fixed firepower points.

The Japanese have no particularly effective weapons that can deal with our infantry fighting vehicles.

Using rapid-fire guns and newly developed recoilless guns, hitting a few more rounds will also cause damage to the infantry fighting vehicle.

But first of all, the recoilless rifle doesn't have that many shells;

Secondly, it is difficult to have the opportunity to shoot calmly, and the operator's risk is high.

If you want to effectively hit our infantry fighting vehicle, you need to get close to our position to a distance of no more than 300 meters.

Therefore, after testing several times, the Japanese gave up.

The plan was to wait for other reinforcements to arrive before launching an attack at the same time.

That would be possible to fish in troubled waters and destroy a few infantry fighting vehicles.

If you're lucky, you might be able to seize a few and send them back home for research.

The 5th Regiment also has an artillery battalion equipped with 120mm self-propelled howitzers.

Each platoon has two 60mm mortars.

If at this time Tetsuki Matsushi uses the tactics used to deal with the special forces group against the 5th regiment, then the 5th regiment will be able to achieve almost no casualties.

Moreover, they don't even need long-range artillery, their own artillery battalions are enough.

Fighting positional warfare is not the strength of the special operations group.

Their strength lies in special operations, such as reconnaissance, infiltration, sneaking, sabotage, beheading, sniping, etc.

This time, the special forces were used as a last resort to fight positional warfare.

Because they are the only ones who march the fastest.

Only with them can the 224th Wing be blocked.

As soon as the large force arrived, the artillery regiment began to rush for the next batch of supplies - the artillery shells were consumed too quickly!

Li Yunlong thought to himself: We can't let the artillery waste such a waste of shells in the future!

Once there are any changes in your system, such as a sudden price increase, or it no longer serves you.

This artillery regiment's strategy is too expensive!

Unlike bullets, the cost of bullets has been reduced to less than one dollar at the 21st century price level after adopting technologies such as copper plating on steel casings.

The soldiers had dinner while marching. After each regiment arrived in Xiangyuan, they used the autumn wind to sweep away the fallen leaves, sweeping away the security groups in each village and town.

The Japanese did not leave many troops on the outside. They knew that it would be useless if they did.

Only by withdrawing most of the troops into Xiangyuan County and relying on city defense fortifications can we be able to fight.

After each regiment set up their defensive positions, Li Yunlong ordered a temporary rest and standby.

For one thing, it's nighttime. Fighting at night is often more advantageous for the inferior side;

On the other hand, the soldiers have not rested for nearly a day and a night, and some troops have not rested for nearly two days and two nights.

Although Japanese reinforcements from all sides were on the way, Li Yunlong decided to take a rest and start the attack again at dawn.

At this time, I received news from Chu Yunfei:

The Huiting stronghold has been captured, and the leading troops of the Japanese 238th Regiment have arrived.

The 238th Regiment seems to have lost its direction. To reinforce Huiting, it is more appropriate to go to Fengyan.

This alliance is called Gaoqi Alliance. Maybe those with "Qi" in the name are prone to go astray.

The Yamazaki brigade also took the wrong path last time and accidentally broke into the Shuiyaozi Arsenal.

Now that we have reached Hukou Village, if we want to reinforce Huiting, we must either bypass half of Baofeng Lake; or risk being exposed to the firepower of the 358th Regiment and cross Baofeng Lake from the lake.

After learning that they had taken the wrong route and that Huiting had been lost, this squadron and the 238th Wing behind them decided to make the mistake and go to Xiangyuan instead of Huiting.

The task of retaking Huiting was handed over to the 37th Regiment of the 225th Division.

In this way, the vanguard squadron arrived at Tiehan Village.

The defenders of Tiehan Village had already received the news and were fully prepared. Including about 20 people from the Hukou Village garrison.

Originally, there were more than 30 people left in Hukou Village, but a dozen were separated to transport the seriously injured.

The personnel here are also relatively sufficient, giving the advance team of the Japanese 238th Wing a head-on blow.

Beat it back to Hukou Village.

There are 100 Japs left.

After the negotiation between Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei, this company also withdrew.

Transfer back to strengthen Huiting's defense force. As long as Huiting is not lost, the Japanese from the west will not dare to attack Xiangyuan without any worries.

It's just that the pressure on Chu Yunfei is increasing.

In order to prevent the 238th Regiment from bypassing Baofeng Lake and attacking Huiting from the southeast, Li Yunlong sent a battalion to the Houwan area.

This is a battalion known for its defense, the 1nd Battalion of the 2st Regiment.

At the same time, a company from the 6th Regiment was transferred to carry mortars and recoilless rifles to support Chu Yunfei's troops, whose heavy firepower had been exhausted.

If this company could have arrived earlier, Chu Yunfei would not have suffered such heavy casualties and consumption.

After all, even permanent bunkers cannot withstand armor-piercing projectiles fired by recoilless rifle guns.

Moreover, it can also use a delayed fuse, and the shells can penetrate into the bunker and explode.

Not to mention temporary bunkers.

Although the temporary bunker can protect against bullets and mortars, even the 75mm mountain cannon can destroy it!

At 16:6 a.m. on the 50th, the artillery regiment began to fly drones and prepare for launch.

The vehicle-mounted howitzers produced by the system are extremely advanced and can be accurately guided as long as there is a drone, regardless of whether there are satellites or not.

If I had to give it a model, it would be the PCL40A model.

P means gun; C means vehicle; L means wheeled; 40 means 40 years; Type A means the first model.

It should be noted that cannons often shoot in a straight direction; howitzers shoot in a curved trajectory, similar to mortars.

Regardless of whether we are talking about howitzers or howitzers, these 155mm guns are all howitzers.

That is to say, it can be used as both a cannon and a howitzer.

Some countries call it a howitzer; some call it a howitzer.

Each vehicle-mounted howitzer reported its status one after another.

This time, only vehicle-mounted howitzers will be used, and self-propelled howitzers must also be prepared in case of emergency.

The reason why a vehicle-mounted howitzer is used is that it is cheaper and lighter, with a total combat weight of 25 tons;

The self-propelled howitzer weighs 40 tons.

During long-distance transportation, the vehicle-mounted howitzer can run by itself; while the self-propelled howitzer needs to find a giant truck to transport it.

The vehicle-mounted howitzers produced by the system have the same level of automation as self-propelled howitzers.

It's just that the protection is not as good as a self-propelled howitzer.

Apart from the lack of parallel machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-tank missiles, self-propelled howitzers are not much different from tanks in other aspects.

When necessary, you can fight with Japanese tanks. Not only will you not suffer any loss, you will also have the upper hand in every aspect.

Note that what we are talking about here is the self-propelled howitzer produced by the system.

After all 2 battalions and 36 vehicle-mounted howitzers are confirmed to be in good condition.

Based on the data returned by the drone, the fire control computer automatically determines parameters such as direction and angle.

An automatic loading system loads concave rounds into the breech.

Thanks to the automatic loading system, otherwise a 90-pound warhead would have to be moved by someone. Considering the intensity of yesterday's shelling, they would have collapsed from exhaustion.

The launcher connected the rope and was ready to fire the first shell as soon as he heard the command.

It is said that you have to pull the rope to fire the first cannonball, but you will not need to pull it in the future. I don’t know whether it is true or not.

The battle to capture Xiangyuan started at 7 o'clock.

As three red signal flares rose into the sky, each regiment immediately issued an attack order.

The first person to speak was the 36 vehicle-mounted howitzers.

They are neatly arranged in a row.

"emission!"

When the firing order was given, 36 guns opened fire in sequence.

The scene of firing from the artillery position can be described as "shocking".

Everyone wore noise-canceling earplugs.

It can filter the sound of gunfire, but it does not filter the sound of people shouting.

Therefore, when firing, you can also use the intercom system to talk.

Just have to be able to bear a mouthful of dirt.

After each gun fired three shots, the position was filled with smoke and dust.

They can barely see each other.

Look at the Xiangyuan City Wall again.

The middle section of the northern city wall that was bombarded by concentrated artillery fire, together with a city gate, could no longer be seen as a city wall, and became a masonry field.

Even a 155mm howitzer is not that easy to use to demolish city walls.

It's not as imagined: one shot hits, and ten meters becomes flat.

Because the city wall is different from ordinary walls, it is extremely thick, and carriages can run on the city wall.

Therefore, when attacking a city at that time, most of them did not use cannons to collapse the city walls, but instead bombarded the city gates.

Only troops like the Independent Brigade, whose artillery shells are cheap enough, are willing to use them like this.

No matter the city gate or the city wall, they are all treated equally!

Even if the city wall cannot be destroyed, just destroying the enemy defenders above is still a big gain.

However, there were not many Japanese on the city wall, and they also knew that our army had many heavy artillery.

The Japs on the wall were just observers.

If they are lucky enough to survive when our army attacks the city, they can direct the cannons in the city to bombard our infantry.

It's just that this wish is too idealistic.

On average, a cannonball falls less than one meter away. At such a density, it is obviously not enough to emit smoke from ancestral graves;

Even if the ancestral grave is bombed by a nuclear bomb!

It only took 20 minutes. Not only infantry could pass through the place where the city wall was blown down, but infantry fighting vehicles could also pass through.

However, the shelling has not stopped, and suppressive shelling is still being carried out.

At the same time, the infantry fighting vehicles also passed through the opened gap and used machine guns to bombard the enemy's exposed firepower points.

This is done to give our army a certain amount of time for demining.

The Japanese laid a large number of mines outside the city.

There are also a certain number of anti-tank mines among them.

Even if the Japanese want to escape in the future, they will not run in this direction, so they can lay mines as much as they want without worrying about being blown up when they escape.

The Independent Brigade was also well prepared, not only for landmines, but also for poison gas, raids, etc.

We have even made certain preparations for germ warfare.

Still the same sentence: Are the Japanese easy to kill?

Even with advanced weapons and equipment that are nearly a hundred years ahead of the Japanese, they are not that easy to kill.

Because they can do it without any bottom line.

Our army had many heavy artillery, so the Japanese hid in private houses and shot at our army.

Our army was not sure whether there were civilians here and did not dare to use heavy artillery.

If our army comes to attack the city, they will lay mines without limit, even if they themselves forget where they buried these mines in the future;

Even if it may be stepped on by ordinary people.

They can even use poison gas bombs and bacterial bombs.

You can also use civilians as shields.

The devils have done all these immoral things!

Therefore, although our equipment was obviously ahead of the Japanese, there were also a lot of casualties.

But these casualties are inevitable unless efficient demining methods are now available, such as hundreds of demining robots.

It would be nice to get a minesweeper truck for the last time!

However, none of these.

This is already very good!

If there is no artillery fire suppression or infantry fighting vehicle fire suppression, our army often fails to take care of mine clearance.

Just hire someone to come over!

At this time, the main risks for the engineers were bullets from the front and accidentally missed mines.

After sacrificing more than ten people, the Independence Brigade finally completely cleared the landmines in front of them.

After rushing into the city, the battle became stalemate again.

Here, there are civilian houses everywhere, and heavy weapons are almost useless.

To put it simply, it was a street fight with the Japanese.

But this is no ordinary street fight.

In ordinary street fighting, neither side wants to hurt civilians;

As for this kind of street fighting, only our army does not want to hurt civilians.

You can still use the Japs' heavy weapons if you want.

They are even prepared to use chemical weapons if necessary.

In the future, urban offensive operations can be colloquially referred to as "street fighting."

There is no situation where breaking through the city wall and entering the city means capturing a city.

The focus of the fight is no longer at the city gate.

The city gates can be blasted open with heavy artillery.

But this is only the first step in siege.

Street fighting is a comprehensive test of the army's overall combat capabilities, intelligence accuracy, command capabilities and logistical support levels.

The Japanese were smart enough to predict that the city walls alone could not stop the independent brigade with its heavy firepower.

So the focus shifted to the city's offensive and defensive battles after the city was broken, and hard work was made on street fighting.

First, they built some strong defenses, such as trenches, bunkers, etc.

Although there was not much time left for them to build permanent bunkers.

But even digging a few trenches can provide better protection and cover for the Japanese, reduce the firepower threat of our infantry, and at the same time increase the difficulty and risk of our army's advance.

Secondly, they also lay mines within the city, in addition to setting up traps and obstacles, such as barbed wire.

These mines and obstacles increase the exposure opportunities and exposure time of our soldiers, and increase our casualties.

Moreover, landmines themselves can also cause casualties to our troops.

Fortunately, the Japanese had not thought about tunnel warfare at this time. If they dug a series of tunnels, it would be even more difficult to fight.

This point will be encountered when Taiyuan is liberated in the future.

At this time, our army felt that its grenades and mortars had too much firepower.

It is easy to hurt civilians or your own people.

To use an idiom to describe it, it is called a rat-throwing weapon.

Compared to yesterday's positional battle in which the special operations group fought relatively poorly, the snipers who came out of the special operations group today had a chance to feel proud:

In this urban offensive and defensive battle, the number of Japanese killed by snipers exceeded the record of heavy infantry fighting vehicles, the record of ordinary infantry, and the record of 155 howitzers;

It also exceeds the sum of these three!

This is the effect achieved by placing the right troops in the right place.

What a sniper is good at is not being used as an excellent marksman on the battlefield;

Instead, hide in a place where the enemy is hard to find, use high-precision weapons, and kill with one hit.

Moreover, even after firing, the Japanese still couldn't find the location of our snipers.

After paying the price of hundreds of casualties, our army figured out a set of tactics suitable for our current weapons and equipment:

The infantry fighting vehicle rushed to the front and fired randomly with machine guns. The purpose was not to kill the Japanese, but to attract firepower.

When the Japanese's recoilless rifles, rapid-fire guns, demolition teams, etc. were exposed, the snipers shot them dead.

It was also after this battle that the Japanese began to pay attention to the training of snipers.

And our army has even more discovered the value of snipers. They are not just as simple as killing several gunners and machine gunners of the opponent in positional battles.

That's just a simplified version of them.

In urban offensive and defensive battles, snipers once became the core force, whether on the defensive or offensive side.

It was not until the widespread use of anti-sniper equipment such as sonic detection devices and sniper grenades that the role of snipers began to decline.

At this time, the sniper must run immediately after firing a shot, otherwise he will be covered by various guns.

After all, training a sniper is too difficult.

No one wants to use snipers to trade one-for-one with the opponent's ordinary infantry.

When a gap opened in the direction of the north gate, our independent brigade showed its fearless spirit of sacrifice and used infantry fighting vehicles to rush towards the other three city gates.

Attacked from inside and outside, the other three city gates were opened.

The most brutal street fighting officially started.

And Zhang Dabiao finally had the opportunity to play with a machete.