Chapter 597: Break through the frost city and prepare for a new battle
"Boom! Boom!"
With Li Yunlong's order, six artillery outside the West Gate opened fire and bombarded the shells at the West Gate wall.
At the same time, the first and second battalions on the north and south sides also began to attack and fire after receiving the signals.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The shells fell down fiercely, and the Ximen City Wall suddenly became a sea of fire.
In the fire, countless bricks and stone tiles flew everywhere.
On the city tower, many Japanese devils were affected before they could react, and all the casualties were injured.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Yunlong yelled: "Stop the shelling and blow the charge!"
"kill!"
The moment the charge horn sounded, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment roared towards the gate of Frost City like a tide, roaring with strong murderous aura.
Swinging off the dust on his head, Xiaoji Guozhao was pulling out his command knife and roaring: "Baga! Damn Li Yunlong, he bombarded him as soon as he came up, and then charged forward. Does he think he is the commander and fighter of our empire?"
"Architecture, fight back immediately!"
The number of Japanese soldiers stationed in Shuangcheng is not as large as that of Li Yunlong, but with the city wall as a cover, the advantages and disadvantages of both sides are actually not different.
Even if they attack from one direction, the Japanese can gain a little advantage with the terrain.
It was precisely because of this that Li Yunlong chose to attack from three sides and disperse the Japanese, which made the Japanese, who had no advantage in numbers, suddenly fell into a passive position.
The maximum range of the Japanese Type 92 infantry cannon is only about 2,800 meters, but the maximum range of the IG18 infantry cannon is nearly 4,000 meters.
Therefore, when Li Yunlong saw the first Japanese shell landing on the position, he immediately came to an IG18 infantry artillery money.
"Get out of the way, let me do it!"
Li Yunlong withdrew the two soldiers and personally adjusted the shooting elements according to the trajectory of the Japanese shells.
"Cast!"
"yes!"
The soldiers beside him had already been ready. When he heard the order, he immediately picked up a heavy shell and handed it over.
Li Yunlong took the shell and pushed it into the cannon door, then closed it, and then pulled down the firing rope heavily.
With a dull sound, a cannonball came out.
About a few seconds later, the shells landed accurately on the artillery positions on the city tower.
With a "boom!", the shell exploded. Suddenly, a fire rose directly from the ground.
The shells exploded at a corner of the city tower. In the flames, more than a dozen Japanese gunners and several artillery were affected, and the raging shock waves generated by the explosion flew out.
Especially the artillery and several Japanese artillery soldiers at the center of the shell landing point were blown into pieces almost the moment the shell exploded, and the artillery also collapsed.
Li Yunlong looked at the collapsed city tower with a serious look on his face, turned around and said, "Did you see clearly? Just hit it like that, aim at the cannons on the city tower and shoot them all down for me!"
"Yes!" The two soldiers responded.
Soon, the Japanese artillery position on the Ximen Tower was taken off by two IG18 infantry cannons.
Without the cover of artillery, the Japanese on the city tower could only use machine gun strafing to stop Li Yunlong's troops from attacking.
Although Li Yunlong's troops also suffered certain casualties, they were basically negligible compared to the Japanese.
Xiaoji Guozhao seemed to have already realized the situation and left the city tower one step ahead of time. Otherwise, the old Japanese would have to turn into a dead soul under the cannon.
On the city wall, after Li Yunlong's several rounds of artillery attacks, the Japanese left on it were almost killed.
Due to the situation, the remaining Japanese retreated along the city tower.
It’s not that they are preparing to give up Frost City, but that the Independence Group has come to the Dao City Tower at this time, and it doesn’t make much sense to stick to the City Tower.
Instead of fighting to the death on the city tower, it is better to retreat from the city tower and stick to the city gate.
This time, Li Yunlong wanted to attack Xiashuang City as fast as possible, so he had no intention of slowly breaking the city.
"Xiao Zhou, drive out the Douding tank we seized and bang him to raise it!"
Zhou Weiguo, who was covering a long distance, immediately left.
Not long after, the Douding tank arrived and rushed directly into the city under the order of Li Yunlong.
As early as after Zhou Weiguo left, Li Yunlong ordered people to bombard the city gate with cannons. At this time, the tanks had almost no resistance and easily rushed into the city along the city gate.
When the Japanese inside the city gate saw that it was a tank coming in, everyone was stunned.
After they got off the city tower, they immediately set up machine guns on the inside of the city gate, hoping to use the crossfire of the machine gun to stop Li Yunlong's troops outside, and no matter how bad they were, they could kill most of Li Yunlong's troops.
However, they had made great calculations but still failed to calculate that Li Yunlong would have a tank.
"Baga! Open fire, kill them!" Xiaoji Guozhao was pulling out his command knife and shouting heart-wrenchingly.
"Da da da da!"
"Da da da da!"
The Japanese two heavy machine guns kept spitting out flames and firing at the tank, but the bullets hit the iron sheet of the tank and burst out sparks of Mars.
On the contrary, many Japanese were penetrated or directly crushed to death under the firepower of the Douding Tank.
"Hurry up, organize the suicide squad immediately and blow up this tank!" Xiaoji Guozhao roared.
He was forced to do nothing. If the city gate was blown up, it was destined that Frost City could not be defended. What he had to do now was to kill as many Li Yunlong's troops as possible so that the troops that would support him could retake Frost City back.
But now with the cover of the tank, his idea was destined to fail, so he needed to blow up the tank.
Seeing this, Li Yunlong snorted coldly: "The Japanese want to blow up the tank. Monk, bring people up. Don't let the Japanese get close to the tank!"
"Yes!" The monk roared, then held a machine gun and rushed towards the city, with other special forces members following behind.
The theory of "Butan" and "Tan" in cooperation with each other was learned by the special forces members in northwest Shanxi, so the Japanese in the city could not get close to the tanks at all.
Under the cover of the tank, the special forces team shot wildly at the rushing Japanese suicide squad, and also assigned some people to deal with the Japanese machine gunners.
After all, although the Douding tank is strong, it will still be penetrated when facing the strafing of the Japanese machine gun.
Zhou Weiguo, who was in the tank, obviously knew this and quickly turned the gun and aimed it at the Japanese machine gun position.
"Long live His Majesty the Heavenly Locust!" The Japanese in the position were already conscious of the situation when they saw the gun aimed at them. After shouting this slogan, they were not surprised to be blown into a scum.
The commander of the Japanese Brigade Xiaoji Guozhaozheng was naturally among them.
The moment the explosion sounded, it also indicates that the west gate of Frost City was completely breached.
"Quick, speed up the construction of city defense, and others will support the two city gates in the north and south!" Li Yunlong shouted.
The breaking of the west gate of the city was just the beginning. Li Yunlong knew that the Japanese reinforcements were probably already on the road at this time, so it was easy to capture the city, but it was different for them to defend or not. He had to prepare in advance!
Chapter completed!