Anda 23 found out that something was wrong when he heard Colonel Shangzhu report the enemy situation.

The person who called Anda 23 was the staff officer of the 226th Regiment. At this time, Colonel Shangzhu was busy commanding the battle and could not get out of the way to call.

The problem with Shangzhu's 226th Regiment is that most of his troops are located outside the city... Two passages outside the city, each passage is equipped with a battalion, and more than a thousand men are indeed located in the city, but most of them are gang artillery squadrons, infantry artillery squadrons, transportation squadrons, etc. In particular, the muzzles of these guns are still aimed at the passage outside the city. So as soon as the Eighth Route Army tanks rushed into the city gate, Shangzhu found that he had almost no soldiers available.

It is impossible to transfer the artillery squadron to fight the tanks. The wing artillery is equipped with mountain cannons and 92 infantry cannons. Using them to deal with tanks is almost like seeking death.

So Shangzhu was so busy that he transferred his guards to the city wall to fight, and even he stood at the city wall with a pistol.

Shangzhu hopes to take advantage of the city wall's condescending advantage and delay the Eighth Route Army's advance speed slightly and wait for reinforcements to arrive. After all, the city wall is facing the back of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army can only clear them and then continue to advance.

But it turns out that Colonel Zhu was thinking too much.

The Eighth Route Army's attack was divided into two sides, that is, the front and back of the city wall attacked simultaneously.

Wang Xuexin had long considered this: tanks poured in from the city gate and followed the infantry to advance behind the tank. As soon as he passed the city gate, he would light up his back under the gun of the Japanese on the city wall.

Although there are not many Japanese on the city wall, as long as the Japanese set up a few machine guns or throw grenades from the city wall to hit grenades from the city wall, they can cause considerable casualties to the soldiers.

On the other hand, the city gate is small and requires space for tanks to pass first. If all the people are rushing into the city gate, they may become blocked and unable to move at the city gate.

Therefore, anything in the reconnaissance company is attacking from the front.

When the tank troops broke through the city gate and rushed into the city one after another, the reconnaissance company "swinged the hoe" at the foot of the city wall under the leadership of the monk.

The so-called "swinging hoe" refers to throwing the engineer's shovel.

The reconnaissance company is equipped with multi-functional engineer shovels that can climb city walls. Because engineer shovels are hoes in the local vernacular of soldiers, the tactic of throwing engineer shovels to hook the city head is called "swinging hoes".

The soldiers of the reconnaissance company often do such training, which has even become one of the entertainments for the reconnaissance company soldiers in their spare time... When they have nothing to do, they play hoes, hook branches, hook roofs, and hook city walls. It depends on who hooks accurately and quickly, and those who lose will get cigarettes.

Because of playing a lot, the soldiers threw their "hoes" up, and almost all of them hit the top of the city.

There were not many Japanese soldiers on the city wall, with only two teams of more than 100 people. In addition, they were in the dark and were attracted by the tanks that broke into the city by the Eighth Route Army. Not many people found the reconnaissance company soldiers climbing up the city wall.

In fact, it's useless even if you find it.

After the tanks attacked the city, they followed the infantry and immediately attacked the city along the stairs inside the city. The Japanese could not care about this side but there.

Then, as soon as the monk and others climbed up the city wall, the battle was coming to an end. They swept the Japanese back with charge machine guns, and the Japanese fell to the ground screaming.

Monks still like to use box cannons.

He likes it, because the monk only needs one hand to grab the rope and move the feet to climb up, and the other hand can aim the box cannon at the top of the city.

The monk said: "We are hanging on the city wall without any cover. What if the Japanese find out our location and stick out to shoot a gun? The charge machine gun must be operated with two hands. I have a box gun in my hand, and I will hit one if one, and a pair if two more times!"

The monk's skill was really useful on the battlefield. This time, he knocked out three Japanese who were emerging in one breath... The monk not only cared about his own top, but he could not escape his eyes as if the Japanese were emerging next to him.

After climbing up to the top of the city, the monk was even more like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. He held a box cannon in each hand and fired his bow left and right. With a crisp "bang" sound, he knocked down five or six of them in a blink of an eye.

When Colonel Shangzhu saw that the situation was not good, he hurriedly led the remaining troops to retreat to the city tower to defend.

When Colonel Shangzhu organized the defense, the staff officer asked the command center for help without waiting for the colonel's order... In fact, from the very beginning, the staff officer should have reported the situation to the command center and requested support.

However, the Japanese had a sense of superiority in fighting with the Eighth Route Army, which should be said to be a sense of superiority towards the Chinese army. They believed that China's combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Imperial army. The imperial army should defeat it, and defeat was an unforgivable shame.

This directly caused such pressure to fight between the Imperial Army and the Eighth Route Army: If the war is defeated, it will become a laughing stock for the entire army.

Therefore, when Colonel Shangzhu and his staff were attacked by the Eighth Route Army, they were not thinking about reporting to Anda Twenty-three at the first time.

Because if reported immediately, it means that shame becomes a fait accompli.

If you do not report and use your own strength to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army, then this matter will not happen, and there will be no shame.

Therefore, there is still such a situation on the battlefield. After the defeat, it will not report it until it gathers strength to regain the position again. It will not report it to the superiors.

This has become the unspoken rule of the Japanese, or it can also be said to be the "shaming culture" of the Japanese.

Until now, the staff officer saw that he could no longer hold on and did not report to request reinforcements and had no life, so he had to report it.

Anda Twenty-three was in charge of the command center and was just curious about why the cannons and gunshots of the South Gate became fierce. He thought that the report of Colonel Sutra "was violently bombed by the enemy injected bombs" was becoming a fact.

Just as I was about to call to inquire, the 226th United phone number came.

"Lieutenant General!" The staff officer reported anxiously on the phone: "The Eighth Route Army has attacked the city! Tanks, their tanks have attacked the city!"

"What?" Anda Twenty-three couldn't believe what she heard.

How is that possible?

The south gate was blocked from being guarded. How could the enemy tank suddenly appear without warning? As soon as it appeared, it had already attacked the city!

The Chief of Staff's next words made Anda Twenty-three understand.

"They came by boat from the salt lake!" said the staff officer: "As soon as we landed, we arrived at the city gate. Our army was not prepared and the city gate was lost! Please send reinforcements as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!