Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...
Every beat of the watch hands touches people's heartstrings.
Miyamoto Kujiumu rejected the only escape door opened by Xie Tian for the Japanese, and also pushed the field infantry artillery onto the city, in a fight to the death posture.
Chief He, Stilwell and other members of the Allied inspection team witnessed with their own eyes the soldiers of the 49th Army lining up into tents and then disappearing. After questioning, they learned that the tunnels hidden in the tents had been dug into Yangquan City, and they had been dug into Yangquan City since yesterday. In the evening, the leading troops of the 49th Army had already begun to secretly sneak into the city through tunnels.
There are now almost two regiments of troops in Yangquan City.
Commander He and the members of the Allied inspection team knew that the Miyamoto division was dead.
The strength of the two regiments can easily knock on a city gate, and waiting for Miyamoto's division will be a large force of the 49th Army swarming in.
Now they finally understand the role of the 49th Army's earthen city wall. This wall is basically built with the soil of digging tunnels. It not only gives the Japanese siege troops in the city the illusion of preparing for a protracted war, but also can cover the tunneling operations. At the same time, it plays a certain protective role.
Digging tunnels may seem like a stupid idea, but it is one of the most effective means of siege. By transporting troops through tunnels to attack the enemy's rear, you can definitely catch the enemy off guard.
The troops of the two regiments were secretly transported into the city. The Miyamoto Division in the city was not aware of it. So many tunnels and troops were not exposed. It can be imagined that the people in the city must be very cooperative with the People's Liberation Army's actions.
Therefore, Xie Tian once said that as long as we are on Chinese soil, I will fight my own battle.
As the sun sets, Yangquan City is enveloped in a tense atmosphere before the war.
Xie Tian personally drove a Type 97 tank and led the tank troops to approach Yangquan. 17 Type 97s, 21 Type 94s, and 12 armored infantry vehicles formed an eye-catching offensive formation, causing strong oppression on the Japanese on the city wall. .
As the distance got closer, Xie Tian could hear the cries of the people on the city wall who were being coerced by the Japanese: "Xie Baoqing, kill. Xie Baoqing, kill."
At first, when the people shouted like this, the little devil stopped him and even killed people. Later, more and more people shouted, and the little devil couldn't stop him anymore. Miyamoto Kujugi believed that the people's voices shouting to kill would be shaken. Thanks to Baoqing's military spirit, he also ordered his men not to stop him.
If you don't care about these common people, then just go ahead and fire. At worst, we will all die together.
The glorious achievements in the past made Miyamoto Kujimu unable to accept the shame of defeat. Being trapped in the city without fighting, surrender, retreat and discord was already his bottom line. He would never accept Xie Tian's proposal to get out of Yangquan from the east gate. He was given an ultimatum to leave Shanxi, but the delay in waiting for reinforcements from North China also made him feel desperate.
After being trapped for fourteen days, the 27th Division stationed in Jingxing and the 9th Division stationed in Shijiazhuang should have climbed to Yangquan even if they had to.
In the past fourteen days, Miyamoto Kujiumu only saw the 22nd Army Aviation Battalion occasionally sending a few planes to airdrop some supplies to Yangquan, but they also came and went in a hurry.
Miyamoto Kujiuki also gradually understood that his 20th Division was probably an abandoned child.
Miyamoto Kujugi has received some news from the commander of the 27th Division. The commander-in-chief of the North China Army, Okamura Neiji, has gone to Tokyo. Now the person taking over the command of Okamura Neiji is the chief of general staff, Okabe Naosaburo.
The commander of the 27th Division did not explain clearly what Okamura Neji was doing when he returned to Tokyo at this critical moment, but Miyamoto Kukugi knew that Naosaburo Okabe might not send troops to rescue him, and the two had a feud that had not yet been resolved.
Not to mention this, since Miyamoto Kujiumi had rejected Xie Tian's ultimatum, he put on the determination and posture of a fight to the death. He went to the city in person and ordered the artillery regiment to move dozens of mountain artillery field infantry guns onto the city wall, almost All the ammunition reserves were also moved to the top of the city. He sat on a grand master's chair with a pestle in his hand and commanded a large golden sword. He told the soldiers with actions that when people are in the city, people will die when the city is broken.
The rumbling tank stopped at the edge of the range. Xie Tian opened the cockpit cover and stood up to raise the telescope. Miyamoto Kujiuki also stood up and raised the telescope. The two people looked at each other, with the same expressionless face and the same expression. Calm as iron.
Xie Tian curled his lips coldly. All the Japs' attention had been attracted by his tank troops. This was the best time to attack, but he didn't know how many people on the city walls could survive the battle.
Xie Tian raised the flare gun in his hand and pulled the trigger at the sky.
With a bang, the red signal flare flew into the sky with a sharp tail sound, drawing a perfect curve in the red sky at dusk.
"Da da da da..." The fierce sound of gunfire rang out at the same time as the signal flare was raised, but it did not come from outside the city.
Miyamoto turned around in panic and saw a large, dark mass of People's Liberation Army soldiers in camouflage uniforms rushing towards the city from all directions, all automatic weapons in their hands ruthlessly killing those Japanese soldiers who had not yet reacted.
Violent gunshots and explosions were heard almost simultaneously from several strategic locations in the city, including the Miyamoto division headquarters, which received a hail of mortar shells.
Qin Fen deliberately concentrated all the automatic weapons and equipment of the 94th Army and gave them to the attacking troops. The firepower of light machine guns, B guns and F guns formed a one-sided fire suppression on the Japanese on the city. Those little Japanese almost Without the slightest strength to fight back, they were shot and fell to the ground like chickens and dogs under the offensive of the People's Liberation Army's offensive troops.
Totally out of proportion.
You have just fired one bullet, and the other party has already fired more than ten bullets. You don't even have a chance to pull the bolt and fire the second bullet.
The saddest thing is the artillerymen who were dispatched to the city wall by Miyamoto Kujugi. The infantrymen still have a 38-meter cap in their hands, and there is still some chance of resistance. However, only seven or eight artillerymen are assigned a rifle and a pistol. There was no effective way to fight back against the menacing PLA soldiers. They bravely rushed forward with bare hands and cowardly turned around and ran backwards.
Regardless of whether they are rushing forward or running behind, PLA soldiers will use bullets to name their names.
Iron discipline, never use fists if you can kill enemies with bullets.
Seeing the soldiers falling under the guns of the People's Liberation Army, the Chief of Staff of the Massachusetts Regiment suddenly made a surprising move. He took out his cherished Mauser pistol from the holster, pointed it at his temple and pulled the trigger without hesitation. trigger.
There was a crisp gunshot, and the Massachusetts regiment fell limply at Miyamoto Kujiumu's feet.
Looking at the fallen bodies of the Massachusetts regiment, Miyamoto Kujugi suddenly regretted it.
If they had listened to the advice of the Massachusetts Regiment, they had now left Yangquan through the east gate in accordance with Xie Baoqing's ultimatum, and they might have been able to retain half of the division's strength for the empire.
But it's too late to say anything now.
Miyamoto Kujiumu pushed away the guard in front of him, raised his command sword with both hands and pointed at the oncoming PLA soldiers who were fighting all the way and shouted: "Where is Xie Baoqing? I want to duel with him."
"Funny!" Dong Shangwu, who led his team to the top of the city, raised the MP-40 in his hand and aimed it at Miyamoto Kujiumi. He walked over and spat at Miyamoto Kujiumi's kneeling body. In one breath, he cursed Xie Tian's words that have been passed down as classics by the soldiers: "I have guns and cannons. If you are playing with a knife with me, are you being careless or am I being careless?"
