Chapter 74: The Conquest of Lishui
While building a position in the artillery battalion, the first, second and third infantry battalions also quietly moved to the grass or woods less than 500 meters outside Lishui County and hid it. After the artillery battalion carried out artillery fire, it could launch an attack on Lishui County.
The range of 105mm howitzer is as high as 11 kilometers. Qiao Anbang asked the artillery battalion to build an artillery position 2.5 kilometers away from Lishui County, which is completely within the effective range of the artillery battalion. It is no exaggeration to say that the artillery battalion can cover the entire Lishui County.
On the artillery position, the officers and soldiers were busy. American 105mm howitzers entered the predetermined position under the traction vehicle. The artillery immediately moved forward. Under the control of the gunners, one artillery slowly raised the huge black hole muzzle.
Then the deputy gunners around the artillery quickly opened the ammunition box, took out brand new shells, loaded them into the barrel.
"One door is filled!"
"The second door is filled!"
"Three doors are filled!"
"Four doors are refilled..."
"The 30th door is loaded!" As the artillery members reported one by one, Wang Shuanzhu, the artillery battalion commander who had been commanding the side, nodded with satisfaction, then turned around and walked towards a tractor, took out the intercom in the cab and said in a deep voice: "Room seat, all the artillery has been prepared, can you fire the artillery?"
"Fire the cannon immediately and aim at the city wall and give me a fierce blow!" Qiao Anbang, who was sitting in the armored command vehicle, ordered to the intercom.
"Yes!" Wang Shuanzhu took the order happily. After dropping the walkie-talkie, he suddenly turned around and said in a cold voice: "Fire the artillery immediately and shoot at the Japanese city defense fortifications fortifications for ten minutes!"
With Wang Shuanzhu's order, the gunners who had already prepared fired one after another, "光光..." 30 105mm howitzers fired one after another.
Dozens of shells dragged long tail flames across the dark night sky like meteors and flew towards the city of Lishui County, 2.5 kilometers away.
The three Japanese sentries standing guard on the top of the city looked at the dazzling fire ball in the night sky in horror, and couldn't help but scream in horror: "Night attack..."
"Boom! Boom!" Before the Japanese sentry finished speaking, the "fire balls" in the sky fell down fiercely, and their voices were immediately submerged by a earth-shaking loud noise.
Since it was the first round of shooting, most of the shells either fell into the city or outside the city, and only two shells fell on the top of the city by chance.
Although only two shells hit the target, it was enough. After the red light flashed, the three Japanese soldiers were blown into pieces, and the city wall, which had been disrepaired for a long time, collapsed by about two or three meters in diameter.
As many artillery shells fell into the city and outside the city, it caused a fire to soar into the sky. From a distance, it was very spectacular. Some artillery shells fell into the city and happened to fall into a Japanese barracks in the city. Dozens of Japanese sleeping sounded screams before they could even send out their screams.
As soon as the cannon sounded, the Japanese in other directions were immediately in anger. Many Japanese were barely rushing out of the barracks with 38 rifles without having time to put on their clothes.
"Bangbangbang..." Through the first round of test fire, the artillery battalion adjusted its shooting and fired again.
"Boom...boom...boom...boom...boom..." Almost most of the shells hit the target in the second round of artillery bombings, and the city walls were blown down one after another with the violent explosions.
The officers and soldiers of the Tiger Ben regiment, lying hundreds of meters away from the violent city wall, looked at the flames rising from the sky in the distance, and were all excited and clenched the steel guns in their hands.
At the Japanese garrison squadron headquarters in the city center, the squadron leader Ozawano ran out of the bedroom in a hurry. Seeing the fire rising from the sky in the south of the city and the rumbling and explosions coming from time to time, Ozawano said in horror: "Baga, what's going on?"
At this moment, a Japanese soldier hurriedly ran over from a distance, and before he could hold his feet at the sight of his feet, the Japanese soldier said in horror: "Captain, no...no, the south of the city was violently bombarded by the Chinese army, and the barracks of the third team were also bombarded. Now the entire third team is broken."
"What?" Ozawano looked shocked and immediately made a quick arrangement: "Immediately sending power to General Kurosaki for help, and I say we were attacked by the Chinese army fiercely. Please send reinforcements to the rescue quickly. In addition, the first and second teams immediately gathered urgently to prepare for the battle!"
"Hayi!" The Japanese soldier suddenly lowered his head and responded, then turned around and took the order and left.
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Outside the city, Qiao Anbang sat calmly on the armored vehicle and smoked. Listening to the rumbling cannons outside the car, a smug sneer appeared on the corner of Qiao Anbang's mouth. Under such fierce artillery fire, no one could resist it. At this time, he could imagine how the Japanese would run in a panic, at a loss, and despair under such fierce artillery fire.
Time passed by minute by minute. After smoking several cigarettes in a row, the sound of cannons outside finally stopped. Finally, he took a sip. Qiao Anbang spitted out the cigarette butts at the corner of his mouth, picked up the intercom and said coldly: "Please pay attention to each battalion, attack immediately, and the first to attack the city to enjoy the ocean fifty yuan!"
"Run!"
"Kill!"
"Brothers! Go!" Qiao Anbang had just put down the walkie-talkie, and the officers and soldiers of the Tiger Ben who had been waiting for a long time jumped up one after another, and made a roar of shouts and roars towards the already fragmented South Gate.
"Kill Gaga!" After the cunning Ozawano Miyako ended the shelling outside the castle, he immediately led his subordinates to escape from the houses in the city, drew out his command knife and howled and ordered the attack.
However, when Ozawano led his subordinates to the gap in the broken city wall, he was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him. The soldiers of the Chinese army outside the city swarmed in the mountains like a tide, and there were only two infantry teams behind Ozawano.
Despair, total despair, Ozawano could not understand why so many soldiers suddenly appeared here.
After despair, Ozawano made his heart stand up, raised his command knife and ordered: "Shoot! Shoot!"
Just as Ozawano finished speaking, a whistling sound of shells suddenly sounded across the street. Ozawano raised his head and found that about a dozen scarlet balls of fire were quickly falling towards the city.
Before Ozawano could react, more than a dozen 75 American mountain cannons fired shells to cover the infantry charge and landed violently on the already broken city wall.
Ozawano was unfortunately hit by an explosion wave from a 75mm shell. He didn't even scream and was immediately torn into pieces.
As soon as the explosion ended, thousands of officers and soldiers of the Tiger Ben regiment rushed to the city wall and rushed into the city along the collapsed wall gap. The dozens of Japanese soldiers who survived the artillery fire just now were flooded by the swarming crowded soldiers before they could resist.
The soldiers roared and swarmed into the city like thunder, and soon captured the entire city. Some of the Japanese soldiers in the city were all swept into sieves by the soldiers with submachine guns.
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