In Li Honghui's eyes, since he joined the National Salvation Army, the regiment commander's judgment seems to have not missed.

Immediately reminded Zhou Cheng: "Since Ximen is the main attack direction of the Japanese and puppet troops, should we ask the Second Battalion to increase its troops in Ximen City to send more troops to defend Ximen!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "The Japanese have arranged heavy artillery at the Ximen. The more troops we deployed at the Ximen, the greater the casualties we face. Therefore, we cannot let the Second Battalion increase its troops at the city wall, but also remind them to give up the city defense fortifications as soon as possible and retreat to the city to fight street battles with the Japanese and puppet troops. Don't fight hard with the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall to avoid unnecessary casualties."

Li Honghui still didn't understand Zhou Cheng's idea and frowned and analyzed: "If the Japanese and puppet troops opened a breakthrough at the West Gate, they would definitely concentrate their forces to expand the breakthrough at the West Gate and enter the county town from the West Gate. Then they divided their troops to attack the other three city gates and cooperated with the siege troops to attack the other three city defense troops in front and back. Then they would be in danger, and they would not be able to continue to kill the Japanese and puppet troops through the machine gun castle in the city wall!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "In normal siege battles, if a city wall is broken through, the situation of the battle will indeed appear as you were worried about."

"But what we are going to fight next is not an ordinary city defense battle."

"In this battle, defending the city wall only accounts for a small part of the entire battle, and the real big head is fighting street battles with the Japanese."

"Even if the Japanese and puppet troops entered the county town from the west gate, they would be dragged by the Second Battalion in the quagmire of street fighting. They would not be able to reach the other three city gates in a short time, and it would be even more impossible to attack our city guards from the front and back."

"Not only that, after Ximen is broken through, it will also force the Japanese and puppet troops from the other three directions to strengthen the offensive."

The more Li Honghui heard, the more confused he became, and frowned and asked, "How is this possible?"

"If I were the commander of the Japanese and puppet army, I would definitely concentrate all my troops at the Ximen, and enter Jinzhong County from the breakthrough that the Ximen has opened to expand the results of the battle!"

Zhou Cheng smiled: "You think of the battle too simply!"

"If the Japanese and puppet troops really ignore the other three directions and concentrate their superior forces into the county town from the breakthrough point that has been opened by the west gate, then we can also concentrate troops from the other three directions to the west gate and use favorable terrain to drive out the Japanese and puppet troops entering the city. Maybe we can fight an annihilation battle at the west gate and eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops entering the city."

"I have already said the reason why the Japanese have arranged more than 3,000 people in each city gate: they want to disperse our troops through a comprehensive attack, and then attack from Ximen under the cover of heavy artillery to open a breakthrough."

"If the offensive in the other three directions slows down, we can send troops to reinforce the west of the city from the other three directions. Then the Japanese's purpose of dispersing our troops will not be achieved. Maybe the breakthrough they have finally opened will be reblocked by our reinforcements in the battle."

"So the Japanese will definitely not make such low-level mistakes, but will continue to attack the other three directions, so that we cannot mobilize troops from the other three directions to reinforce the west of the city, expand the breakthrough for their siege troops in the west, and create opportunities for controlling an occupied area in the city!"

Li Honghui finally understood and suddenly realized his mind and shouted: "If the Japanese really did this, the Japanese and puppet troops in the other three directions would not have heavy artillery support. It would be difficult to destroy our castle immediately with only ordinary mountain artillery and aircraft support. Then they would definitely suffer heavy casualties in the next siege battle. We can easily achieve the goal of using the city wall castle to kill more than 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops, but I think that when we want to achieve this goal, we must meet a prerequisite!"

Zhou Cheng didn't expect that Li Honghui could react so quickly and ask new questions according to his own ideas. He immediately showed an interesting expression and encouraged him: "What conditions are you going to tell me!"

Li Honghui replied nervously: "If the Japanese and puppet troops want to strengthen their offensive against the other three city gates, they must encounter some trouble for the Japanese and puppet troops attacking the west of the city to block their offensive. It is best to block them at the breakthrough point and ambush them, so that they can not see the hope of breaking through the west of the city, but they cannot kill them."

"In this way, the Japanese will attack the other three city gates in order to create a breakthrough opportunity for the attacking troops in the west of the city, prevent us from dispatching troops from reinforcements from other directions, and block the breakthrough they finally opened!"

"Not bad!" Zhou Cheng was very satisfied with Li Honghui's analysis.

The expression on his face suddenly became serious, and then he began to give orders: "Immediately give orders to the Second Battalion, and let them establish a temporary defense line two hundred meters and three hundred meters behind the city wall."

"After the Japanese and puppet troops entered the county town from the west gate, the troops relied on these two defense lines to block for an hour, and then let the Japanese and puppet troops go deep into the city to fight street battles with them!"

"Order the three mortar platoons under the Third Battalion to reinforce the Second Battalion immediately, and add their own three mortar platoons to form three mortar attack teams, divide them into three different artillery positions, and use artillery artillery bombardment to attack the Japanese and puppet troops entering the county town, covering the Second Battalion to block the Japanese and puppet troops for an hour."

"In this way, there will be at least an hour for the other three directions to severely damage the Japanese and puppet troops!"

On a high ground two kilometers west of the city, the Japanese engineer troops built an underground command center in just over three hours.

The brigade commander Major General Aso stood at the observation port for almost twenty minutes, but the black and black on the top of the city could see a few blurred figures except when his subordinates were shooting flares, and nothing could be seen at the other time.

The adjutant walked to him carefully: "Sir, all the officers above the brigade have arrived. Should the combat meeting begin immediately?"

Major General Aso, who had no success in observing, had to put down his telescope and ordered helplessly: "Go to the meeting first, stay here and continue to keep an eye on the city. Report to me immediately if there is any situation."

"Before sending troops, I learned about the National Salvation Army. They are too cunning. They are not like the troops guarding the city and being beaten passively. I always feel that the current Jinzhong County Town is like a hungry wolf with a bloody mouth, waiting for us to drill into our mouths!"

The adjutant felt that the brigade commander was a little too cautious and hesitated for a moment to analyze: "Please rest assured, we know the strength and equipment of the National Salvation Army. Moreover, the county town of Jinzhong is so big. We will also support aircraft and heavy artillery in tomorrow's attack. No matter how cunning the National Salvation Army is, it is still a grasshopper in the autumn and cannot make any big waves!"

"As long as we advance steadily when attacking, we do not advance alone, use heavy artillery and aircraft on the battlefield to fully utilize our firepower advantages and use artillery shells and aviation bombs to kill the enemy, the national-savior army in the city will definitely not be our opponent!"

The adjutant's analysis has relieved Major General Aso's nervousness a lot.

After thinking for a while, I agreed and said: "We are indeed in our hands, including military strength, equipment advantages, and ammunition advantages. Maybe I am too worried. There will be no danger in the next battle!"

After saying that, he walked towards a tent next to him!

The combat meeting was very smooth.

Except for him who was worried about the next siege, everyone else held the same thoughts as an adjutant, thinking that the Imperial Army would win this battle and there would be no accidents.

Under the stimulation of his subordinates, Major General Aso also became more motivated.

The order was issued on the spot: "The First Infantry Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade serve as reserves to block the possible national rescue troops behind the siege troops at any time."

"The cavalry brigade continues to move around the county town, searching for the national rescue army to support the troops, and buying time for the infantry brigade to establish a blocking position."

"The three infantry brigades under the Kato Regiment attacked the other three city gates except the west of the city. Each infantry brigade added two battalions of the Imperial Army to assist in the attack, and then strengthened a mountain artillery brigade or a field artillery brigade for each brigade. The two infantry brigades of the Hamaye Regiment and the Imperial Army of the Imperial Army of the Heavy Artillery brigade and the Heavy Mortar brigade cooperated to fight."

"All troops launched a tentative attack on time at 8:30. After the aviation troops arrived at the battlefield at 9:00, they mainly reinforced the siege troops in the west of the city, and covered the second and third brigades of the Binye Regiment to send the breakthrough as fast as possible and entered the Jinzhong County!"

Time flies, and at 8 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese and puppet troops began to assemble outside the city.

One heavy machine gun after another was like a lot of money, one by one, three hundred meters outside the city, preparing to use powerful firepower to suppress the city defense forces and provide fire cover for the siege troops.

Two or three kilometers away from the city wall, all the mountain cannons were raising their black barrels. The gunner squatted beside the cannon and stood on standby, ready to shoot at the top of the city at any time.

At seven or eight hundred meters, more than a dozen mortars were mounted behind heavy machine guns and attacking troops, responsible for providing close-range artillery cover to attacking troops...

At half past eight, more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops appeared at the same time in four directions outside the city.

This is obviously a tentative force to test the firepower of the National Rescue Army and act as cannon fodder. Therefore, there were only a dozen Japanese soldiers walking at the end of the team to supervise the battle in each direction. About a company of the Imperial Army was walking in front, and while advancing, he prayed that he would not be targeted by the National Rescue Army.

Major General Aso stood at the observation port again, holding the telescope and staring at the city wall.

The captain of the Hamano United, the two captains, stared at the city heads, but they were guarding the offensive position, with less than four hundred meters above the city wall.

Fang Shanlin, the battalion commander of the second battalion, personally guarded the city top, and had a crooked handle that was convenient to transfer beside him, looking out of the city through the shooting hole.

As soon as more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops came out, he couldn't help but complain: "The Japanese are so cowardly. Every time they let the puppet troops rush to the front to be cannon fodder."

"I passed the order that except for a row of three crooked handles equipped with can fire at more than a dozen Japanese, all other light machine guns cannot move. The rifleman prepared grenades, and the power of the grenades was great. When the puppet army approached, he hid behind the battlements and threw grenades out, and blew them hard. One person and one grenade were enough to blow all the puppet soldiers outside the city into the sky!"

The temptation troops rushed to more than a hundred meters outside the city, and there was no movement at the end of the city, so quiet that it was as if no one was moving.

Major General Aso's brows immediately frowned, feeling that the attacking troops had encountered a tough problem today.

But he didn't say anything, and held up his telescope and continued to observe the city.

Even if the national-savior army on the city wall really hides any conspiracy, the attack will continue.

Only in this way can the temptation troops develop the real purpose of the National Rescue Army, otherwise they will always be blind, and they will not even understand the real purpose and military strength of their opponents, and they will fight in a mess.

One hundred meters, when the test troops were less than one hundred meters away from the city, there was still no movement at the city, and Major General Aso's brows were frowning deeper and deeper.

At this time, a very bad premonition appeared in his mind!

The national-savior army on the city may be waiting for the test troops to continue rushing forward and then attack them all in one fell swoop.

Major General Aso's sixth sense was very good, but even though he guessed the purpose of the National Salvation Army, the temptation troops would continue to attack and hit the gun of the National Salvation Army. Only in this way could he see the strength and conspiracy of the National Salvation Army on the city wall, and then confront the tit for tit and fight against tooth.

Of course, he could not watch the temptation troops be destroyed under his nose.

Although they are ready to be eaten, it is still more meaningful to make them die.

Just as he was about to take his life, the attacking troops in front had already started to move.

The mortar troops and heavy machine gun troops suddenly became nervous and were all ready for combat. The gunner held the shells and placed them in the muzzle to ensure that the attack order was sent and the cannon fired, and the shells were hit to the top of the city as soon as possible.

Major General Aso knew at a glance that Colonel Hamano and him were about to go there.

Although the Imperial Army in the temptation army is all cannon fodder, cannon fodder is valuable to die.

Hamano's arrangement was obviously to wait for the temptation troops to launch an attack on the city wall as soon as they were attacked. While the National Salvation Army eliminated the temptation troops, the mortar squadron and heavy machine gun squadron also had to make the National Salvation Army on the city wall pay the price.

He nodded with satisfaction and raised his telescope again to look at the city wall.

"Dadadada..." The familiar sound of crooked hands storming sounds finally sounded from the city wall.

At this time, the puppet army in front was still more than 30 meters away from the city wall, and the dozen Japanese soldiers supervising the battle were still more than 50 meters away from the city wall. The National Salvation Army threw grenades at the Japanese and puppet troops, which could easily cover all more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops outside the city.

Three tongues of fire suddenly rushed out of the city, and the flying rain of bullets hit the Japanese. In a flash, five Japanese were beaten into sieves. The remaining eight Japanese immediately hugged their heads and lay on the ground, and then were suppressed by the rain of bullets, and they didn't even have the chance to raise their heads.

"Dongdongdongdong..."

At the same time, the heavy machine guns on the offensive position fired, and three 92-types fired a rain of counterattack bullets together. The thick bullets hit the battlements accurately, causing the battlements to splash gravel and dust, which looked particularly scary.

I don’t know if there was a bullet drilling into the city through the shooting hole. As soon as the three heavy machine guns fired, the three crooked handles were silent.

Major General Aso was so happy that he almost applauded.

Although three more imperial troops lying on the ground were killed during this process, the opponent's blocking firepower was also suppressed by heavy machine guns.

If the National Salvation Army wants to continue to block the tentative forces, it must use more machine gun fire points.

The offensive troops under their command also have nine heavy machine guns on standby. As long as the National Salvation Army dares to expose the firepower points, they will immediately be attacked by these heavy machine guns.

Not only that, four mortars from the mortar squadron had already begun to fire, and four shells flew towards the city with beautiful arcs.

But this was the first round of shooting by the Japanese army, and the accuracy was obviously much worse. Only one of the four shells hit the city. In the splashing flames, a sandbag was thrown to the sky and finally hit outside the city...

Major General Aso became more and more excited the more he watched.

Where there are sandbags, the National Salvation Army must have been hiding. The Sandbags were blown away, and the National Salvation Army hiding behind the sandbags must have been blown up.

He felt that Colonel Hamano's arrangement had just worked, and continued to stare at the city wall, waiting for the National Rescue Army to expose more machine gun firepower points.
Chapter completed!