With the bombing by bombers and several rounds of strafing by fighter jets on the Japanese positions, the last few defensive positions of the Japanese army outside Wuchang City were also wiped out in the intensive bombing.
The Japanese soldiers on the city wall could see how their positions on the periphery were wiped out one by one under the fierce firepower of the enemy.
Now these Japanese soldiers all have a feeling of sadness and depression.
It¡¯s just the Japanese commanders who are still shouting on the city wall, encouraging the Japanese soldiers to fight for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Emperor of Japan.
It¡¯s just that these slogans, which they repeated countless times, obviously can no longer inspire the courage of these Japanese soldiers. They still look at the defensive positions in front of them with a sense of loss after being bombed.
Now, those positions have been occupied by the enemy on the opposite side.
After capturing this place, the soldiers of the Fourth Army began to deploy a large number of mortars, light and heavy machine guns and other firepower on these Japanese defensive positions. 强牺 7huan.com 读牺
It is used to provide sufficient fire support for the troops charging forward when launching an attack on the Japanese city wall.
In the rear of the Japanese army, they placed a large number of weapons and ammunition on the opposite side of the city wall as a basis for their bloody battle with the opposing Fourth Army troops.
At this moment, the soldiers of the Fourth Army who were advancing frontally had received orders to launch an attack on the Japanese city wall. This time 7 h*ua*n.c*om Zhang Si
Before the attack began, their flat-fire artillery, rocket launchers and other direct-fire weapons at the back began to violently bombard the city wall where the Japanese troops were stationed.
Wuchang City is not that big of a city to begin with, and the city walls here are not that strong and tall.
Many of the flat-fire artillery used by the Fourth Army have very large calibers. When bombarding the Japanese city walls, armor-piercing projectiles with better power and penetration were used on a large scale.
In addition to these, their heavy machine guns at the back also began to suppress fire against the city wall where the Japanese army was located.
Under the double firepower, the city wall where the Japanese army was located soon began to be riddled with holes under the fierce bombardment of flat-fire artillery.
Several artillery shells hit the battlements directly, blowing away the Japanese soldiers who were close to them from the city wall.
They used this method to kill and injure the city walls stationed by the Japanese troops, hoping to cause some damage to the city walls here before the infantry attack began, or even to have part of the city wall collapsed.
In this way, the soldiers they advance will suffer a large number of casualties.
Naturally, the Japanese army was not to be outdone. They moved some of their only mortars and flat-fire cannons to the top of the city wall, and then began to fight back at the Fourth Army from a high position.
It¡¯s just that the number of their artillery is too small, and it is almost impossible to pose any effective threat to the soldiers of the Fourth Army who attack them head-on.
It¡¯s just that occasionally a few mortar shells fall, which will cause certain casualties to the fire support troops in the rear of the Fourth Army.
But such casualties obviously cannot stop the Fourth Army¡¯s airborne division from launching an attack here.
At this time, the soldiers of the Fourth Army on the front began to attack the city wall where the Japanese army was located under the cover of fierce firepower.
Although the Japanese soldiers stationed on the city wall were suppressed by fierce firepower at this moment, amid the roar of their commanders, they began to fire through the shooting holes on the city wall at the soldiers of the Fourth Army advancing forward.
When the soldiers of the Fourth Army charged, they gave full play to the advantages of their battle formation and dispersed on the front of the battlefield, so that the Japanese machine gun firepower could not carry out large-scale destruction of their soldiers.
A large number of Fourth Army soldiers, when covered by Japanese machine gun fire, will immediately look for a place to hide, or crawl on the ground to avoid bullets fired by the Japanese army from the opposite side as much as possible.
Behind them, there are more soldiers of the Fourth Army, supported by their own firepower, advancing little by little against the city wall where the Japanese army is located.
At the same time, the Fourth Army mortars behind them began to fire a large number of smoke bombs at this time, in front of the Japanese city wall, and even on the city wall where the Japanese army was located, thus covering theirThe sight made it impossible for them to clearly see the movements of the Fourth Army at the moment, let alone use the machine guns or rifles in their hands to kill the soldiers of the Fourth Army relatively accurately.
Many Japanese machine gunners could only keep pulling the triggers in a general direction, while praying that the bullets fired could cause a certain degree of damage to the charging enemies.
But in this way, the damage caused by Japanese machine gun fire to the Fourth Army was greatly reduced.
The machine guns they originally deployed on the city wall did not have that much firepower, and the number of Japanese soldiers stationed on the city wall was also relatively limited.
What's more, this time the attack of the four armies was launched from all four walls at the same time, and every direction was the direction of the main attack.
And at this moment, the soldiers of the Fourth Army in the frontal assault showed their excellent combat tactics and excellent cooperative combat capabilities.
After they rushed into the smoke screen in front, they immediately began to cover their own engineers and rushed towards the city wall where the Japanese army was located.
They need to cover these engineers, get close to the Japanese city wall, and then bury the explosive package directly inside the city wall to blow down the entire city wall here.
In this way, even if they don't pass through the city gate, they can climb directly from the collapsed city wall to their city wall. Zhida z.com Zhixiao
At this time, the Japanese soldiers also realized that the enemy on the opposite side was quickly approaching their city wall.
They started to throw grenades forward.
However, their garrison strength on each city wall is very limited, and the grenades they throw are more like some kind of intimidation and deterrence. They cannot cause much harm to the soldiers of the Fourth Army, let alone stop them at this moment. charge.
Under the cover of the firepower of the infantry troops, the engineers of the Fourth Army quickly reached the bottom of the city wall