Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Looking at Li Yunlong's serious expression.

"Captain, don't worry. Before, we were holding back and giving in to the Japs in order to reduce casualties. Now, let them see how powerful we are!"

Seeing this, Zhang Dabiao immediately spoke to Li Yunlong.

Several other battalion commanders also promised Li Yunlong that they would eliminate the Japanese stronghold outside the city before 12 o'clock.

As Li Yunlong's order was issued, outside the South Gate, the independent detachment began to adjust its attack methods and intensity.

At this time, the troops responsible for attacking the Japanese fortress stronghold outside the South Gate were the first and second battalions of the independent detachment.

The first battalion commander Zhang Dabiao and the second battalion commander Shen Quan looked at the turtle shells of the Japanese army not far in front of them, their faces full of solemnity.

After the independent detachment surrounded the South Gate and engaged in a battle with the Japanese army, its main task at that time was to consume the Japanese army's manpower. At the same time, in order to reduce casualties of the troops, it did not immediately pull out the turtle shells of these Japanese troops.

But now with the change in command from the headquarters, the independent detachment needs to quickly eliminate the Japanese fire points outside the city before 12 o'clock tonight.

Looking at the position in front of us, the Japanese army had built densely packed firepower points in an area one kilometer away from the city wall.

At this time, most of the firing points in front of this area had been destroyed by their flying thunder cannons, which had thrown explosive packs near the Japanese fortress, shocking many Japanese soldiers to death inside.

However, there are still a large number of fortresses behind within the protection range of the Japanese city walls.

Soon, the artillery positions in the rear will provide artillery support to their two battalions to suppress the firepower of the Japanese troops on the city wall.

However, their two battalions needed to start clearing this Japanese fire zone. After all, the 75mm artillery shells had little killing power against these fortresses.

After observation, the two immediately organized the rocket launcher platoon that had been assigned to the battalion and began to eliminate these strongholds under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire.

At the same time, in the rear, the soldiers began to load explosive packs into flying thunder cannons made from collected gasoline barrels, then ignited the fuses and threw them towards the Japanese defensive positions.

For a moment, huge waves of air suddenly rose up in the entire South Gate position.

At an offensive position, a soldier carrying a rocket launcher on his shoulder, under the cover of a heavy machine gun not far away, aimed at a bunker less than 30 meters in front of him and pulled the trigger.

As the armor-piercing shells were fired towards the Japanese bunker that was continuously firing, a large hole was soon blown in the Japanese bunker.

A platoon of soldiers who had been waiting on the side immediately organized their forces to seize the Japanese positions after seeing that the Japanese bunkers had been destroyed, and then built their own defensive positions.

The entire battlefield on the South Gate front began to repeat the scene that had just happened.

The fighting continued until eleven o'clock in the evening.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Li Yunlong and Political Commissar Zhong Zhicheng looked at the front line position of the South Gate with binoculars.

At this time, the 4th and 5th Battalions were fighting with the Japanese troops on the South Gate Tower. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions, which had previously cleared the Japanese defensive strongholds outside the South Gate, had withdrawn to the rear to rest and wait for the general attack.

By this time, the order given by the deputy division commander to Li Yunlong's independent detachment had been completed an hour ahead of schedule. Now, they just had to wait for the support of the special operations brigade in the city and then prepare to launch a general attack.

As time reached eleven o'clock.

At this time in the city, the special operations brigade led by Zhou Weiguo began to prepare to create chaos in the city in batches.

Zhou Weiguo personally led a squadron and rushed towards the headquarters in Shijiazhuang City.

After a long period of lurking and reconnaissance, the soldiers of the special operations brigade have figured out the various passwords and times of the Japanese patrols in the city.