Therefore, Wei Dayong did not participate in the charge at the beginning.荺
Instead, they waited for the commando team to rush into the city and then led the second echelon of troops into the city to fight with the Japanese in street battles.
After all, the regiment party committee's order prohibited battalion-level commanders from participating in hand-to-hand combat and charges.
But there is no saying that battalion commanders are not allowed to engage in street fighting.
If the regiment leader and political commissar criticized him after the war, then he would say that he learned it from the regiment leader. Why did the regiment leader sometimes secretly participate in hand-to-hand combat to satisfy his addiction?
In the field of view of the telescope, Wei Dayong saw three companies of the first echelon approaching Soldier No. 600, rushing towards the city wall.
Wei Dayong's combat style is somewhat similar to his character. He never tries to attack, but attacks first.
Of course, it is definitely not a brainless attack.荺
In a situation like this, 31 tank guns opened a gap for the attacking force.
There are only a thousand or so Japs in the city, and these thousands of Japs have to defend the city walls on all sides. There are only more than 300 Japs who can defend the north gate and engage in street fighting.
The shelling just now, such a large formation, already caused heavy casualties to the Japanese on the city wall.
As for the small number of puppet troops?
Wei Dayong never paid attention to the puppet army at all.
Datong City originally had a moat, but due to disrepair, the moat has long since dried up.
During the infantry charge, for the sake of accidental injury.荺
Tank guns, 75mm mountain guns, 105mm howitzers and 150mm howitzers all stopped firing.
However, the mortar companies of each battalion of the New Regiment continued their shelling to provide artillery cover for the infantry.
Since there are enough artillery shells, the new regiment also feeds a lot of artillerymen, who can hit almost anywhere. As long as they are within the range, two shells will definitely hit the target.
Although the tank guns and mortars just now had already killed and wounded the Japanese on the city wall.
But it's impossible to kill all the Japs on the wall.
During the charge of the Eighth Route Army infantry, there were still some Japanese on the city wall, setting up machine guns to shoot at the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
The Japanese were shooting from a high position, and almost all the Eighth Route Army soldiers were exposed to the range of machine gun fire.荺
so.
Once the artillery fire stops at this time, the Japanese machine gunners can unscrupulously harvest the lives of the new group of soldiers.
At the same time, the six 20mm machine guns and M2 heavy machine guns of the second battalion artillery company of the division were also set up to cover the soldiers' attack with firepower.
Bullets were flying everywhere, and the machine gunners on both sides fired at each other, sending smoke and dust everywhere.
Under the fixed-point clearing of the artillerymen and the firing of machine guns, the exposed machine gun fire points set up by the Japanese on the city wall were cleared one by one.
Although there were Japanese mortars and infantry artillery shooting outside the city, the density of firepower was not at the same level as the artillery fire of the New Regiment.
The charging warriors quickly rushed to the gap in the city wall.荺
Immediately, a ladder was quickly set up, and the soldier with a submachine gun on his chest stepped on the ladder first and rushed to the gap.
A soldier with a submachine gun quickly climbed up the gap on a ladder, but the soldier was not in a hurry to come forward.
Instead, he bowed on the ladder and waited for the ladder next to him to be set up. The two ladders on the left and right were quickly set up, and two soldiers holding submachine guns arrived at almost the same height.
The soldier took a wooden stick from the hands of his comrades below, then took off the helmet on his head, nodded to his comrades on the left and right, and then slowly pushed up the helmet with the wooden stick.
As expected by the soldiers.
As soon as the helmet passed the gap, a barrage of machine gun bullets was fired towards the helmet.
Moreover, the soldiers quickly determined that this was a crooked-handled light machine gun. In addition to the crooked-handled light machine gun, there were about four or five 38-guns at a distance of about 50 meters.荺
This is the experience summed up by the veterans of the new regiment who have attacked the city many times and spent their blood and lives.
When the cannon blasted a gap in the city wall and the soldiers entered through the gap, there must be a Japanese machine gun behind the gap, either a Type 92 heavy machine gun or a crooked gun.
The Japanese's machine gun fire and rifle fire poured towards the helmet, sending it flying away.
If it weren't for the experience summarized by veterans, this soldier would have fallen off the ladder just now.
It's too late, but it's soon.
The soldiers on the left and right, who also had M3 submachine guns hanging on their chests, suddenly stood up and shot at the Japanese with their submachine guns.
"Da da da..."
Two submachine guns fired at the same time, and intensive submachine gun fire poured towards the Japanese.
Several of the Japanese who were shooting behind the sandbags fell down immediately.
The remaining Japs quickly bent down to avoid the oncoming submachine gun bullets.
The soldiers on the left and right finished a round of shooting, and when they were changing their ammunition, the Japanese stood up from behind the sandbags and prepared to fight back.
But at this time, the soldier in the middle had already raised the submachine gun in his hand.
"Da da da da da da da da..."
A dense barrage of bullets was fired immediately.荺
Two more Japanese soldiers fell in a pool of blood behind the sandbag position.
"superior!"
Seeing that the machine gun firepower of the Japanese sandbag positions was suppressed, the soldiers on the left and right changed their magazines and jumped into the city.
Subsequently.
From the ladder, more and more Division Two fighters poured into the city.
The soldiers cooperated with each other and just cleared the Japanese machine gun position behind the gap.
A few artillery shells flew over and exploded from the city, and a group of soldiers hurriedly took cover.荺
However, there was no explosion, but a boom-boom-boom sound.
"It's a gas bomb, put on your gas mask!"
"Move quickly!"
A veteran squad leader with rich combat experience instantly noticed something was wrong. While shouting loudly, he quickly took off the gas mask from his waist and put it on.
"Monitor!"
"My gas mask is leaking air!"
One of the soldiers shouted in horror.荺
"Wear mine!" The veteran squad leader forced the gas mask into the soldier's hand.
Looking around, he saw that the poisonous gas had dispersed, and there was a steady stream of poisonous gas bombs being hit here.
As the squad leader of the sharp knife squad, his reaction was also very fast. After putting the gas mask on the soldier, the veteran squad leader quickly crawled to the side of a sacrificial soldier, took off the gas mask of the sacrificial soldier, and then put it on his face.
Then he picked up an M1 semi-automatic rifle and shouted loudly: "Continue the attack!"
Behind the sharp knife squad, a company of soldiers poured into the city wearing gas masks.
At the same time, several Leopard tanks and Joffre tanks slowly drove into the city to cooperate with the street fighting of the second battalion of the division.
The reason is to wait for the infantry to enter before the tanks enter the city.荺
Rather than putting the tanks in front, the reason is that the infantry must first clear the remaining Japanese soldiers on the city wall, otherwise the Japanese on the wall will throw explosives down and the tank soldiers in the tanks will not be able to carry them.
There are only 1,000 Japs in total, and half of them will be reimbursed on the city wall.
The Japs in the 3rd Brigade in Datong City actually had little experience in street fighting.
The Japanese did not fight with the new group house-to-house. Instead, they set up some positions built with sandbags on the street.
Then, some machine gunners and riflemen were ambushed on the second floors of the houses on both sides of the position. They wanted to wait until the new regiment of soldiers came forward. The soldiers on the high buildings on the left and right opened the windows and shot down.
In order to achieve the purpose of killing a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers.
But what is the new regiment?荺
The new regiment has fought in street fights not ten times, but five, six, seven or eight times.
Street fighting experience can be said to be very rich.
Among the daily training subjects, street fighting training is also a subject with a large proportion of training for soldiers.
What's more, in this street battle, the second battalion of the division also had tanks to help.
In the North City of Datong, two tanks were attacking forward on every street. Behind the tanks were soldiers from the New Second Regiment carrying rifles.
Wei Dayong holds an M1 semi-automatic rifle and follows a Panther tank.
He put the shoulder stock of the rifle on his shoulder, put his finger on the trigger, and looked at the houses on both sides warily.荺
In this case, street fighting is left to the tanks, and the infantry's duty is to protect the tanks.
With a muffled sound, a 75mm high-explosive artillery shell instantly hit the enemy's sandbag position on the opposite side.
A Type 92 heavy machine gun and three Japanese machine gunners were blown into the sky in an instant.
The Panther tanks continued to move forward.
Just as the Panther tank arrived downstairs of a hotel, suddenly the window on the left was pushed open, and a Japs appeared in the window holding a Molotov cocktail.
All of a sudden.
Wei Dayong's eyes were sharp, he turned around and fired a shot at the Japanese.荺
With a crisp bang, the shot exploded the Molotov cocktail in the devil's hand and the devil's palm.
The gasoline in the bottle was instantly ignited, and the Japanese screamed miserably.
Then, more windows were pushed open, and first a few melon grenades were thrown out, and then the Japanese gun barrels stuck out.
Although the Japanese were condescending, the new group of soldiers followed the tank without worrying about the front. The muzzles were pointed at the windows on both sides at all times.
The moment the Japanese gun barrel stretched out, the soldiers from the second division of the new regiment on the street opened fire almost simultaneously.
The firepower of the new regiment is not comparable to the firepower of the Japanese in the 3rd Brigade.
After a while, there was no movement on the second floor.荺
The soldiers from the second division kicked open the door and rushed into the hotel, preparing to clear out the remaining enemies.
But the next moment, there was a "boom" in the hotel, and several soldiers who had just rushed in fell in a pool of blood.
The Japanese hung booby traps on the door.
But this is all a minor episode. After all, the strength of the 3rd Brigade is too different from that of the New Regiment.
In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is in vain.
Led by tanks, the soldiers of the second division were almost invincible and occupied three streets in a row.
The Second Division and tanks soon attacked the headquarters of the Japanese 3rd Brigade.荺
This place was originally a school, but after the Japanese army occupied it, it was used as a headquarters, and the surrounding defenses were strengthened.
When Wei Dayong saw this, he couldn't help but feel slightly happy.
Judging from the sound of gunfire, the nearest battalion was at least two blocks away from the Japanese headquarters.
"The second battalion of our division has decided on this achievement!"
"Let me blast the mortars and tank guns!"
As Wei Dayong's order was issued, six tanks approached, and the gunner slowly turned the barrel and pointed it at the Japanese command post.
Mortars were also quickly set up.荺
Behind the tank, the soldiers, including battalion commander Wei Dayong, put their guns behind their backs and covered their ears with their hands.
