Duanwu was ready to attack, but before attacking, he still had to reconfirm the enemy's firepower points.
Just when Endo ordered to shoot the Akasaka brigade in retreat, Dragon Boat Festival had roughly determined the firepower points of all the Japanese.
The Japanese had at least eight heavy machine gun positions outside the city, which together with the Japanese machine gunners on the city walls formed a three-dimensional defensive fire network.
And if there are no tanks, such a firepower network can swallow tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of lives.
But the most dangerous thing was the Japanese in the trenches.
During Dragon Boat Festival's visual inspection, there were definitely no less than two squads of Japanese in the position, hiding in trenches about two meters deep.
And in this way, ordinary artillery has almost no effect on them.
So this battle will probably cost a lot of ammunition.
As for the Xicheng Gate that Qiu Ming was asked to attack during the Dragon Boat Festival, the Japanese were relatively weak.
But this is only a superficial phenomenon, because the trenches outside the east, west, south, and north of the city are all connected. Once the main force of the Dragon Boat Festival moves to the west gate, the main force of the Japanese will also move to the west gate.
It's like a cat-and-mouse game, but the Japs move shorter distances and faster, so if they continue to move like this, the Dragon Boat Festival will be the first to collapse from exhaustion.
Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival's tactic is to feign a frontal attack to create conditions for Commander Qiu's main attack.
When everything was ready, Dragon Boat Festival looked at the sky. It was already about three o'clock in the afternoon.
He was carrying a Type 38 rifle and stood on the top of a mountain more than 300 meters away from the Japanese position.
The Japanese scouts were the first to see the Dragon Boat Festival and quickly reported to their commander.
The Japanese sergeant looked through the binoculars and saw a young Chinese officer holding a Type 38 rifle, overlooking their position as if no one else was around.
"Baga, is this man looking down on us? Let the machine gunner kill him for me!"
The sergeant ordered, and the machine gunner on the side raised his machine gun and prepared to shoot at the Dragon Boat Festival.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Duanwu, who was still carrying the gun, suddenly pulled the trigger of the gun, and in the next second, the Japanese machine gunner who raised the machine gun and was about to shoot was shot and his head was blown off.
The Japanese sergeant was shocked, but at this moment, Duanwu quickly ejected the cartridge case, pushed another bullet into the gun chamber, and fired another shot.
A Japanese sentry hit him in the chest and he hated the northwest.
But it was not over yet. Dragon Boat Festival shot one by one, killing four Japanese in a row, and then shot and broke the Japanese flagpole on the wall more than 400 meters away from him.
The Japanese war flag fell from the city wall, and all the Japanese were shocked. The enemy was nearly five hundred meters away from them, and the flagpole was broken with one shot. Such shooting skills shocked all the Japanese.
And this is exactly the effect that Duanwu needs to see. He just wants to let the little devils know how powerful his enemy is and make them hide in the trenches and tremble. Because as long as they show their heads, a fatal bullet will be waiting for them in the next second.
What's even more shocking is that while the Dragon Boat Festival was frightening the Japanese, a 150mm heavy artillery was pushed to the forefront of the Japanese's frontal position.
The Japanese officer was instantly frightened. The 150mm heavy artillery came to the city wall of An County and collapsed it with one shot.
"Order the artillery to shoot, shoot, knock out that cannon!"
The Japanese soldier howled loudly, but it was already too late.
I have said before that this battle will consume a lot of artillery shells.
Just when the Japanese artillerymen in the position outside the city were about to adjust their muzzles and fire the 150mm heavy artillery, densely packed hail-like shells were already falling overwhelmingly.
Boom!
The Japanese position instantly felt as if it was hit by countless boulders. In addition to the loud noise and shaking of the ground, countless sand and stones instantly flew into the air.
For this battle, Duanwu invested all its artillery, grenade launchers, mortars, mountain artillery, howitzers, etc.
So in just a moment, the little Japanese's position seemed to have collectively sunk ten centimeters.
Six of the eight Japanese heavy machine gun positions were destroyed, and the Japanese who had not had time to hide in the trenches were blown away one by one.
The surviving Japs covered their heads and their whole heads were buzzing. Perhaps they have never fought such a battle in their lives.
The enemy's artillery fire was so fierce that it covered almost the entire position in just a few seconds. Grandma, could it be that the other party's life was over? This was the first time they had seen such a prodigal enemy.
But little did they know that this was just the beginning.
The Dragon Boat Festival war will never give the enemy a chance to breathe. The artillery's rapid fire has not ended yet. The 150mm howitzer has accurately shot the city wall above the city gate.
This is the weakest point in the entire city gate. After being hit by a 43-kilogram heavy shell, it exploded and disintegrated, and then collapsed suddenly.
The Japanese who were waiting in formation on the city wall fell together with the broken city wall and were killed under countless blue bricks before they could react.
At the Dragon Boat Festival, with a wave of his hand while carrying the Type 38 rifle, his tank squadron appeared, covering the infantry and rushing towards the Japanese position.
Of course, the little Japs would not sit still and wait for death. The Japs who were lucky enough to escape organized people to resist, including the terrified Japs on the city wall.
However, Dragon Boat Festival had already made arrangements. In addition to some artillery units continuing to clear the Japanese machine gun positions at designated locations, the 150mm howitzers cleaned the Japanese walls.
Each of the seven artillery shells hit accurately, because the person holding the cannon was none other than Sun Shiyu, the strongest gunner of the independent regiment.
Sun Shiyu has always played the role of the ace gunner of the independent regiment. No matter what kind of artillery is in his hands, he can hit almost wherever he points.
So it was precisely because of this that Dragon Boat Festival whispered to Sun Shiyu for a while before the war started.
And Sun Shiyu did not disappoint Duanwu. After seven rounds of artillery shells, seven gaps were opened in the entire city wall of Lai'an County, and no less than thirty or forty Japanese were killed or injured.
The Japanese's three-dimensional defense was broken, and the Japanese in positions outside the city suffered heavy losses. Moreover, when facing the tanks, their bullets had no effect at all.
The original Japanese defenders on the city wall were enough to pose a threat to the Chinese soldiers hiding behind the tanks, but it was a pity that the Japanese soldiers on the city wall suffered more casualties than them.
The Japanese commander picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted for help: "Your Excellency Endo, Your Excellency Endo, we have encountered a serious attack. More than half of the imperial troops on the position were killed, and most of the southern city wall was destroyed. We need reinforcements, we need reinforcements!"
"Nani?"
Endo was shocked, because he had personally directed and arranged the entire defense of Lai'an County, but he did not expect that within ten minutes of the start of the war, the commander at the front told him that they could no longer withstand it.
"Baga, hold on, I'll send people to reinforce you right away, do you understand?"
Endo roared angrily! .....
