In order to defeat the defense of Huoqiu County in one fell swoop, the joint bombing of the Japanese ground and air continued for more than half an hour.

In a trance, Li Erwa didn't know how long it had been. In his feeling, it seemed that it had only been a moment, and it seemed that it had been a hundred years.

Finally, Li Erwa discovered that the city wall below was no longer shaking violently like before.

"Is the Japanese's joint ground-space bombing finally over?"

Li Erwa stood up in a daze. When he entered his eyes, the smoke of gunpowder blocked the sky and the sun not only blocked his sight, but the pungent smell made him almost breathless!

After a while, the smoke that enveloped the city gradually dissipated a little.

Li Erwa was finally able to barely see the scene within two or three hundred meters around her.

But I saw that a wall less than 50 meters away from his right had been blown up to a gap of more than 10 meters long.

The city wall made of rammed earth and bricks have collapsed, forming a huge gentle slope inside and outside the city wall.

Looking back, Li Erwa could no longer see a complete building. Wherever he looked, there were ruins, hidden in the thin smoke of gunpowder.

On the street, various building wrecks can be seen almost everywhere.

However, although the Japanese's joint ground-air bombing seemed to be huge, the Hu Ben Group and the Independent Group dug up air defense fortifications in the private buildings in the city in advance.

Except for some soldiers who were injured in shock, no major casualties were caused.

As soon as the bombing was over, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben and the Independent Ben Ben were like marmots, rushing to emerge from the air defense fortifications.

At this time, the smoke covering the earth had become very faint, so Li Erwa's gaze could also be seen further and further.

But I saw that about 2,000 meters outside the city, teams of Japanese infantry were already carrying bayonet-38 rifles, and under the guidance of rows of tanks and chariots, they ran towards the south gate.

The Japanese's intention was very obvious, that was to concentrate their troops and attack the city in one go.

In addition to the South Gate, in the wilderness outside the other three gates, a large number of Japanese soldiers also rushed to flock to the city in order to win the first merit of breaking the city.

It is worth mentioning that although the chariot brigade of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army was taken over by Yang Jing in the first line of the gorge.

However, the 6th Division and the 106th Division maintained a complete system.

At this time, the two brigades were divided into two, which led to the coordinated promotion of some tanks and vehicles outside the South Gate.

"Bang!"

After seeing the Japanese launch an attack, Li Erwa didn't think too much, so he raised his gun and pulled the trigger, and fired the gun to warn him.

He immediately shouted loudly: "The Japanese are here! The Japanese are here!"

Hearing the sound, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion who rushed out of the air defense fortifications accelerated and rushed up along the horse road of the city and the buffer zone of the city wall that had been blown up.

And at the orders of their respective company commanders, they quickly built machine gun positions and grenade launchers positions.

Looking around, in the wilderness outside the city, the Japanese, under the guidance of tanks and chariots, were like waves, densely packed with countless Japanese.

This time I was trapped in the lonely city and had no way to retreat. It was completely different from the favorable terrain in the first line of gorge and confronting the Japanese.

In the first line of gorge, due to the limitation of the terrain, the Japanese can invest only in one go. However, now there is no such constraint at all.

Many soldiers were a little scared and nervous when they saw the ghosts' great momentum.

Especially now, most of the soldiers of the Hu Ben Regiment are recruiting new recruits in Jinzhai County.

Fortunately, there were still many veterans in the Hu Ben Regiment, and these veterans became backbone and grassroots officers of each battalion company.

With veterans leading and encouraging, the recruits were a little nervous and scared, but they did not collapse.

The Huben Regiment Command is also the Joint Command of the Guards.

After Yang Jing received the report, he immediately turned his head and shouted to Ma Tong on the side: "Ma Tong, tell Rake immediately to prepare for artillery fire support!"

"yes!"

Rake's ears responded with a loud promise, and then picked up the phone and quickly moved it.

Soon, the phone was answered, and Ma Tong immediately relayed the order of Yang Jing, the leader of the group.

After receiving the order, Rae'er immediately ordered the 1st to 4th companies, each with more than 50 unconsciences to go to the four gates.

As for the 5th Company, it stayed in the city and operated the 30-meter-type 150mm caliber heavy artillery that it carried over to take advantage of the situation.

After receiving the support of the unconscience-free cannon, Bi Yuntao, Fan Tietou, Yu Zongping and Zhou Zichen were all overjoyed.

They cooperated with the Hu Ben Cannon Battalion and immediately deployed these heartless cannons on the city wall.

Because the Japanese had the coordinated cover of tanks and armored vehicles, they seemed unscrupulous and charged very quickly.

Almost as soon as the defense line was deployed, the Japanese entered their range.

"Open fire! Hit! Brothers, beat me hard!"

Under the command of their respective frontier commanders, the defenders from the four gates opened fire fiercely.

In an instant, gunfire sounded over the entire Huoqiu County. The dense rain of bullets intertwined each other to form huge nets of death, covering the Japanese rushing towards the oncoming Japanese.

"ah!"

"Ahhhhh!~~~"

Caught off guard, the Japanese suddenly screamed and fell down a large area.

"Baga! Counterattack, counterattack!"

The Japanese who were charging forward immediately turned their feet and moved closer to the nearby tanks and armored vehicles.

And under the command of the front-line commanders, they immediately opened fire and fought back.

The two sides quickly launched fierce firefighting.

The Japanese tanks also adjusted their shooting angles one after another and decisively fired the cannon.

"boom!"

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Tank shells with a caliber of 37mm dragged the scorching tail flames and hit the city one after another.

Suddenly, dazzling red lights bloomed above the city wall, and many defenders, even their guns, were blown away.

At this moment, Huoqiu's four gates, a total of more than 200 conscience-free cannons, plus some 60mm-caliber mortars and 50mm-caliber grenade launchers, fired almost at the same time.

"Bang!"

"Bangbangbang!"——"

More than 200 special TNT explosive packs weighing up to 15 kilograms, as well as high-explosive surge bombs with a caliber of 60mm and 50mm, flew towards the Japanese attacking crowd with loud noises.

After landing, a violent explosion occurred.

"boom!"

"Boom boom boom boom!"

I saw a bunch of dazzling red lights suddenly rising up and soaring into the sky, and then a deafening explosion sounded.

Huge fire and thick smoke immediately spread among the Japanese crowd.

Countless Japanese soldiers were directly swallowed by the scorching shock wave.

All the explosive packs landed within a radius of 50 meters. All the Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces and their broken limbs and arms flew everywhere.

Some Japanese tanks and armored vehicles also happened to be bombarded by unconscience-free cannons. The violent explosion shock wave immediately blew up the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles. The tank soldiers inside, as well as the surrounding Japanese infantry, could not escape, and they were killed one after another, without any of them.

Various tank parts were also accompanied by huge explosion shock waves, causing secondary damage to the Japanese infantry farther away.

Immediately afterwards, the artillery soldiers of the Tiger Ben regiment fired the second, third, and even the fourth and fifth rounds of artillery shells.

Because the artillery position is placed on a city wall more than two meters high above the ground, it is condescending, and the range is much larger than the position being set on a flat ground.

So much so that the range of the Conscience-free Cannon this time exceeded 350 meters, and some even reached a terrifying 400 meters.

"boom!"

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom!"——"

The violent explosions came one after another, as if they were about to tear apart the entire supreme sky.

The blasting explosion shock wave immediately caused huge casualties to the Japanese attacking troops.

After five rounds of artillery attacks, the four infantry regiments of the 101st, 6th and 106th Divisions, plus two tank and tank chariot brigades, suffered more than one-third of the casualties.

Looking around, this area within 400 meters of the county wall is almost everywhere with Japanese corpses and various broken limbs and broken arms.

In addition, there are also huge terrifying bomb craters.

Especially the Japanese tanks and chariots were blown up by nearly half because of their charge at the front of the team.

If the surviving Japanese tank soldiers saw that the situation was wrong, they turned around and fled backward in time, and they would probably have to be reimbursed!

Among them, many of the casualties of the Japanese offensive troops were caused by the firepower of the light and heavy weapons of the defenders of the Tiger Ben Regiment and the Independent Regiment.

However, most of the casualties were actually caused by the lack of conscience.

The sound of the Explosion of the Conscience-free Cannon is huge and powerful. Almost every time the cannon falls, it will explode a huge bomb crater with a depth of nearly one meter and a diameter of more than 10 meters on the ground.

The shell landed within 50 meters in radius, not to mention leaving a living mouth, even a complete body could not be found.
To be continued...