War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 396 The plan cannot keep up with the changes

In the early autumn of 1935, the roads outside the Tong County wall were lined with crops, and the corn in the fields grew withered, just like the people of that era.

Chacha.

The sound of corn branches and leaves rubbing against people made a soldier suddenly look up at the city wall in front of him. They were still far away from the county town, at least more than 300 meters in a straight line. At this distance, the people responsible for guarding the city on the city wall could not hear it at all, but the soldier still looked up at the top of the city wall in the distance.

If the view angle could be raised at this time, deep trenches would be seen extending forward along with the soldiers' progress in the cornfield. The traces were extremely clear...

There was no way around it. The corn in those days was not as strong and tall as it was in Xu Chaoyang's era. At that time, the corn was not even as tall as a human being. Some of the corn could only reach the height of a human chest. If one wanted to use the cover of the crops to get through, one could only squat and slowly move forward. Naturally, one would lead the farmers on both sides astray in the process of walking, leading to the current situation.

In TV dramas, those people who move forward through the dealer's door without being discovered by the searchlights of the stronghold are actually just a filming technique, and are by no means realistic.

At this time, all the soldiers could hope for was that the enemy would discover them later, as the full-scale war of resistance had not yet begun and the Japanese had not yet popularized the searchlights that had just been promoted in the Northeast to the puppet army troops in North China.

When the soldier saw nothing on the top of the city wall, he lowered his head and moved forward again. At that time, the degree of nervousness in his heart was probably only known to himself, and outsiders could never understand.

Two hundred and eighty meters, two hundred and fifty meters...

According to the order, we can lay smoke screens if we advance another fifty meters. In this case, it seems that the smoke that cannot stop bullets is just psychological comfort for the soldiers. This is the real siege.

"Hey!"

On the top of the city wall, a man dressed in the uniform of a government officer walked up the stairs. As soon as he reached the top of the tower, he said to two soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder: "What are you doing? What are you two doing?"

"Commander Yin said that we need to keep a close eye on him recently. Don't you understand what he said?"

"The 217th Regiment will arrive at the city in the next two days. Only if we win this battle can we get the support of the Japanese and wait for reinforcements. Don't you understand?"

The two warriors nodded and bowed quickly and replied to the man: "Yes, Captain Wen, hehe..."

"It's gone."

He waved his hand, and the two soldiers who had just gathered together immediately turned around, one to the south and the other to the north. One of the soldiers muttered with his mouth but did not make any sound: "I conquered the world, but you won't let me be the emperor!"

If Xu Chaoyang could see this scene, he would find that the old movie was not deliberately discrediting these puppet soldiers. These people were really like that at that time.

But why are they like this?

it's actually really easy.

They could have a good life as puppet soldiers, and their crime was not serious. Under the circumstances at that time, it was usually the officials who would be convicted and dismissed these people or directly incorporated into the regular army. So... how could no one choose to be a puppet soldier? If these people became puppet soldiers, what kind of moral character could you expect from them?
Captain Wen is completely different. He is the squad leader of the security team. Today he is in charge of the night duty at the East Gate. With his level of rank, if the 29th Army breaks in, he will be held accountable. How can he not take it seriously?

The more Captain Wen looked at this group of puppet troops, the more worried he became. Who could expect such a team to defend against the attack of the 29th and 38nd Divisions of the 132th Army's elite troops? What a joke!
Captain Wen turned around and looked at the fields under the tower. He saw ditches from a bird's-eye view...

"Hey!"

Captain Wen shouted out loudly, pointed anxiously at the ditch in the cornfield in the distance and shouted: "Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!!!"

"Shoot!" On the city wall, the puppet soldiers at the machine gun position heard the word 'shoot' and they only lowered their heads, tilted their heads and spit out the cigarette in their mouths, raised the butt of their rifles and pointed them at the cornfield and pulled the trigger - da da da da da da!
The moment the bullet was fired, his shoulders were shaking, his face was tense with clenched teeth and his fierce eyes complemented each other in the picture, and the hand holding the gun was not soft at all, and he directly opened fire at the front of the "ditch" below that continued to extend forward.

Puff puff!
A soldier who was squatting in the cornfield and walking forward with his head down raised his head when he heard the shouting from the city wall. The moment he looked up at the city wall, he saw the gunfire, followed by the beam of light formed by the bullets coming down.

He saw...

I felt as if my body was hit hard by something and I couldn't help sitting back with my butt touching the ground. Then I saw that the corn ears in front of me were cut off and fell, and the corn leaves in front of me were cut into pieces by bullets.

Uh.

At that moment, it seemed as if something was surging up inside his body. Just as he felt liquid flowing out of his mouth uncontrollably, his eyes blurred and he fell down with his head tilted.

At least it's not painful.

"fire!!!"

boom!
In the woods, only half of the platoon led by Man Guangzhi was left operating four French M1897 field guns. When he saw the gunfire in the distant shadowy Tong County in the dark night, he gave the order arbitrarily without waiting to hear the gunshots or for Xu Chaoyang's order to be given.

tom!
The towed 8500mm field gun with a range of 75 meters suddenly shrank its neck. Amid the huge noise, Man Guangzhi didn't even cover his ears and let a puff of blue smoke rise from his side. This is also the reason why many artillerymen became deaf after the war.

Boom, boom, boom!

Four guns exploded at the same time. As for why the Soviet-made M1930 anti-tank gun and IG18 small cannon were not placed in the same position as the French M1897, it was because of the range problem.

法制M1897射程是8500米，自然得往后；苏制M1930反坦克炮射程是5700米；IG18小炮射程是3800米，如果不是防御战，这些东西能摆在一个地方么？

boom!
At the same time, behind a small mound in the large field ahead, the sound of artillery fire also rang out, and the 1930mm shells of the M37 anti-tank gun also erupted. The sound of artillery fire seemed to be responding to the orders given by Mancangzi with the M1897.

tom!
Further ahead, the IG18 on the plain echoed with two artillery positions. This was also the lesson Xu Chaoyang learned after the Battle of Baitaizi, that is, artillery positions must never be arranged in the same place.

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boom! boom! boom!
The area around Tong County's city wall was bombarded by artillery fire amidst the numerous cannon shots. The shells that exploded at the base of the city wall climbed upward like growing vines, and finally turned into a puff of black smoke rising from the top of the city wall. The shells that exploded on the wall seemed to shake the earth, so that the people on the city wall could feel the shaking. The shells that passed over the city wall and exploded inside the city completely blew up the houses, and the sounds of breaking wood and collapsing walls were heard incessantly.

Unfortunately, not a single shell hit the wall in the first round of shelling.

"damn it!"

Although this was a normal error, Xu Chaoyang, standing on the slope in the distance, still cursed angrily.

"Come here, have the men from the first battalion go up to provide fire coverage. No matter what, the incendiary grenade launchers must be fired!"

"Yes!"

This was Xu Chaoyang's plan. He planned to take advantage of Yin Rugeng's unpreparedness and quietly send a group of people to sneak under the city wall and fire incendiary bombs on the wall. As long as the fire started on the top of the city, the next thing would be simple. Under the raging fire, how could you talk about defense if you couldn't stand on the top of the city?
But can this incendiary bomb be launched so easily?

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(End of this chapter)