my bright sword career

Chapter 574 Much faster
"Jiro... Koyama Jiro!"

This time there was no response, not at all.

Suddenly, the light from several flares flashed across the air, and Sergeant Koyama Changxing knew that another Japanese defensive position was about to be broken by the Chinese.

"Damn Chinese people!" Masao Koyama cursed in a low voice.

As a veteran who has served for five years, Koyama Masashi knew that if he wanted to survive, the best way was to turn around and run back, but he couldn't do this because his beloved brother was still in danger.

Moreover, when he left home last year, he promised his mother that he would bring his brother home safely.

Footsteps suddenly sounded in the rice field, Masayuki Koyama in the crater clenched the Nanbu pistol in his hand, the sound got closer and closer, and his mood became more and more nervous.

When he realized that the sound had come near him, he suddenly poked his head out and took out his pistol to pull the trigger, but found that a familiar figure appeared in front of him, so frightened that he quickly raised his wrist to the sky, accompanied by With a clear gunshot, a bullet grazed the man's head.

The person who escaped from the dead was also taken aback. Just as he was trembling and about to raise the [-]-type rifle in his hand, a familiar voice sounded in his ear: "Jiro, is that you?"

"elder brother!"

The person who came was Koyama Masashi who had been looking for his younger brother Koyama Jiro for a long time.

Seeing his brother, Koyama Jiro was so excited that he shed tears, but before he could speak, Koyama Masayuki grabbed his collar and dragged him into a bomb crater.

"elder brother……"

As soon as Koyama Jiro spoke, he was interrupted by Koyama Masayuki again, "Shut up, the Chinese are coming soon, hurry up and run away!"

After finishing speaking, Koyama Masayuki was about to crawl back, but he was grabbed by Koyama Jiro behind him before he had climbed two steps, and he smiled desperately and said: "Brother, we can't go! At least one company The Chinese surrounded us, and just now the last few members of our squadron were all killed."

"idiot!"

Koyama Masashi was lying in the muddy rice field, his face was full of unwillingness and struggle. You must know that his and Jiro's two sons were the only ones in their family. If Quan died here in the battle, the old mother in the family would cry to death.

"Quick... right in front, surround them."

"Prepare the grenades!"

The shouts of Huaxia soldiers came from the side.

Masayuki Koyama, who finally made up his mind, threw the pistol to the ground, slowly raised his hands, and then stood up from the crater.

At this time, Xiao Shan Changxing didn't know that the two brothers were already the last soldiers to surrender on the outskirts of Jinzhong City.

Just two days ago, Yan Xishan, on behalf of the World War II zone, announced to the whole country the launch of the battle to recover Taiyuan. The 42nd and 43rd Divisions and the
The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce attack on Jinzhong under the cover of three artillery battalions of the Jinsui Army, two artillery battalions of the Liantai Militia, and more than 60 aircraft.

Under the cover of aircraft and cannons, tens of thousands of troops attacked the mixed 86th Brigade and 115th Division of the Japanese army stationed in Jinzhong from east to west.

And Lieutenant General Ogura Chuichi, the head of the 115th Division of the Japanese Army who was in charge of the defense of Jinzhong, made a mistake. He actually let the mixed 86th brigade who had just fled to Jinzhong be responsible for the peripheral defense of Jinzhong.

The reason is that the mixed 86th brigade was newly defeated. If they were allowed to enter Jinzhong City, the decadent atmosphere of defeat would be transmitted to the 115th division.

As soon as an order came out, the entire mixed 86th brigade was in an uproar. They managed to escape to Jinzhong. They thought it could be corrected for a while, but they were ordered to garrison the outer line of defense. Isn't this being used as cannon fodder for the 115th division?

The head of the brigade, Major General Kojima Dodo, immediately sent a telegram to Neiji Okura, denouncing Ogura Chuichi's bad behavior.

Okamura Neiji was shocked after receiving the telegram from Kojima Channel, and immediately ordered Ogura Chuichi to revise his defense plan, but it was a pity that Okamura Neiji's order was too late.

Facing the overwhelming air and ground firepower of the Huaxia Army, the mixed 86th Brigade, which had long been hopeless, quickly collapsed.

The outlying positions soon fell apart, and in less than two days, they were lost. In the end, Kojima Channel sent a supervisory team to shoot and kill more than 100 retreating Japanese troops, which stopped the decline.

To say that the 42nd and 43rd divisions of the Jinsui Army, which is in charge of attacking the right wing this time, are quite effective. After the Jinsui Army's charge was blocked by the dying Japanese army with a dense rain of bullets, they immediately changed their tactics. They first called The aircraft bombarded the remaining positions of the Japanese army indiscriminately, and then mobilized three artillery battalions to carry out supplementary fire. .

In the situation where the mixed 86th brigade was half helpless and half angry, the two divisions of the Jinsui Army took advantage of the situation to recover the outer positions in Jinzhong, and the Japanese army on the left was not much better, although there are still sporadic gunfire. sounded, but it was only a matter of time before the left flank was fully taken over.

At 17:43 on the third day, the temporarily organized [-]rd Division of the Jinsui Army reminded the Japanese defenders who were entrenched on the hill outside Jinzhong City, and asked them to highlight their moves. Don’t be named by our artillery. If you die at the hands of your own people, you will not complain about your injustice.

In order to occupy this small hill, the Jinsui Army sent two infantry battalions to launch an attack. The battle was fierce for a time, and even a hand-to-hand battle broke out.The two battalion commanders of the Jinsui Army were killed one after another in the fierce battle, and it was not until nightfall that the Huaxia Army occupied all the outer positions.

Subsequently, the Joint Command ordered the temporary formation of the 42nd Division, 43rd Division and the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Jin to immediately launch a full-scale attack on Jinzhong City. The Japanese 115th Division relied on the terrain in the city to resist tenaciously. After a day and night of fighting, the offensive of the coalition forces slowed down.

At this time, the battle lines in Jinzhong City were criss-crossed, and there was a scuffle.

In view of the casualties of the siege troops, Yang Aiyuan, who was in charge of the command, was very distressed, and immediately ordered the use of artillery to clear the strongholds held by the Japanese army.

But then the problem came. The Japanese army built a large number of fortifications and bunkers in Jinzhong City, and these bunker fortifications were all made of cement. They were so strong that the most powerful Liao-style 105 mountain guns equipped by the Jinsui Army directly fired They couldn't do anything about them. In order to deal with those bunkers, Yang Aiyuan had to second the Fifth Artillery Battalion to Gao Hongming.

Yes, this battalion is an artillery battalion newly established by Gao Hongming for this battle. It is equipped with a B4 203mm siege heavy artillery known as Stalin's Hammer.

The overall weight of the gun reaches more than 15 tons, the rifled barrel is 5 meters long and weighs 5 tons.The shells of this gun actually weighed more than 100 kilograms, and they could not be carried by manpower at all, so they could only be loaded with a special crane.

With the support of these heavy artillery, Jinzhong City's attack speed became much faster.

(End of this chapter)