Otherwise, follow good people to be good people and become fairies with foxes!

This is too true, at least, it is very suitable for Liu Bing, deputy commander of the assault regiment and first battalion commander.

Originally, Liu Bing, a top student, was proud of himself. Although he was just a good fight, he was also the one who dared to fight. However, since he became Zhang Qingshan's subordinate, his arrogance has been restrained, but he has seen the other side. To put it nicely, he has become cunning; to put it badly, his skin has increased rapidly.

Generally speaking, blocking the city gate itself is a kind of intention to show the ambition of the survival of the city, and most of the sandbags used are filled with soil. But he is better, the bluestone on the nearby bluestone road is used to block the city gate. Moreover, in order to strengthen the strength of the blocking the city gate, he also asked people to boil glutinous rice overnight, plus excess lime, just used as cement, which really blocked the city gate... This only shows that he is shameless, and he is cunning, but he did not completely block the city gate, but left five pipe-shaped holes the size of a small finger, from the inside to the outside, from the high to the low. He also made a bowl-sized groove on both sides: one can increase the speed of pouring kerosene, and the lower outer side can speed up the oil output.

In Liu Bing's proud words at the time, doing so not only prevented the Japanese from using * to fill these five holes, but also allowed people to pour kerosene out of it, and then a Martian can burn a large piece to death.

Not to mention, although this is a bit unauthorized, it is really useful for blocking the city gate.

Especially when facing such a big lump as hard as iron blocking the door, the Japanese even have to despair even if they bombard them with cannons!

But everyone's eyes looked at Liu Bing a little strange, especially those veterans who had been following Liu Bing, who looked at Liu Bing with a very painful and complicated look: Why did a noble white swan become a black swan after being with the regiment commander for more than half a year? This black one is too thorough, right? It's just to win, without violating the party's discipline and military rules, and use any means.

However, Liu Bing's pride is based on his ability.

In terms of military theory level, the entire assault regiment is probably only the chief of staff of the regiment, Tian Guozhong, can defeat him a little bit. The rest, like Zhang Qingshan, who became a monk who became a monk halfway through, will definitely be left eight streets.

When formulating the entire combat plan, Liu Bing immediately proposed to demolish all three city gate buildings, east, west and south of the four city gate buildings in Sanqiao County.

At that time, the audience was shocked, but Tian Guozhong thought for a while and gave Liu Bing a thumbs up.

Zhang Qingshan deliberately asked for advice humbly, but as a result, under Liu Bing's arrogant gaze, Zhang Qingshan obediently presented a pack of good cigarettes, and Liu Bing gave the reason.

From ancient times to the present, the main functions of the city tower are two: one is to climb high and look far away; the other is to be spiritual symbol.

The former is easy to understand, but the latter is ignored by many people.

If the city tower is captured or blown up, it will definitely be a huge mental blow to the soldiers guarding the city, because its loss means a sign of failure of the city tower. Therefore, everyone will see it in various film and television works. Once the city tower fails, the commander guarding the city will generally take it back at all costs.

In modern warfare, the city tower will basically not fail, but will be directly blown up by shells. In this way, it means that the city defender has no chance to take it back. Once the city tower is blown up, it will also cause a major blow to the spiritual morale of the side of the city defense... Not to mention, the deterrent force generated by the moment the city tower is blown up will make many soldiers frightened, thus affecting the morale of the entire city defense force.

Although many people have not noticed this, it exists.

Therefore, Liu Bing immediately proposed to blew up three city towers, just because he didn't want the Japanese to have any traces in this regard... but the only way to leave the North City Tower is the main advantage of the geographical location of the North City Tower, so that the Japanese cannot easily blow it up. At the same time, they can also use the North City Tower to climb high and look far.

So, when the commander of the Japanese army on the right came outside the south of the city and saw the bombed South City Tower, he was stunned: Where is the South City Tower? I am still waiting to kill it with one shot.

Of course, although this little episode made the highest commander of the Japanese right army very regretful, it did not affect his determination and decision to attack immediately. However, it made him consciously narrow the scope of the attack. In his eyes, he had tanks and cannons on his side. As long as he hit one point and broke them, the battle would basically end. The rest was to attack the city and carry out a unilateral massacre.

For this, a very meaningful moment for him personally, and to add such a thing to his military career, the highest commander of the right army came to the forefront in person. He felt that he had to see with his own eyes how the invincible steel force quickly entered the city.

Since you are proud and have an overwhelming advantage, you naturally don’t have to think about anything else, just set up a formation to attack.

However, he was not too arrogant. At least, he led his troops directly to the open ground outside the south gate... The place that reflected his arrogance and confidence was not that he ordered tribute directly regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, nor that he let the soldiers go to war on hunger, nor that he ignored the defense in the city. Instead, he did not even build the simplest rest camp, and directly let the soldiers behind him enter the forest with weapons and ammunition, not that he was afraid of the assault regiment sending people to disturb or sneak attacks.

To put it bluntly, he didn't even read the most basic sand table of modern warfare, although the people below had done it. But he believed that all the information was already in his mind. For such an opponent, he had to rely on sand table drills to deal with it, that was that he looked down on the opponent and was too insulting his soldiers.

If you are too confident, you will become stupid! In layman's terms, he underestimated his enemy at this time.

On the hillside, nearly five hundred meters away from the south city gate, a relatively flat place, the cannons lined up and were ready... He temporarily put the tanks and small steel cannons aside because he thought it was unnecessary, and it was enough to have these cannons.

With his order, twenty cannons opened fire one after another.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

The fire was shining, the smoke rose, the earth was shaking, but the city walls remained unfolded.

But it was not fruitless, because each shell left scars about ten centimeters deep and about eighteen centimeters wide on the walls of the city wall.

Although the highest commander of the Japanese right army was arrogant, he was still capable. At least, he did not ask each cannon to send a base shell to the city wall as soon as he came up. Instead, he only fired the first round of shells, which was a test wall - use the first round of shells to test the defense strength of the city wall.

The result naturally made him a little angry: This is a mountain cannon, not a small steel cannon. How could such a little blow out under such a big noise?

But the cruel reality made him understand: if he continues to build this way, he may only blow up a piece of the city wall... This was beyond his expectations. Because in his plan, the Chinese city walls could basically not withstand a base of mountain cannons, and the remaining ammunition was to deal with the bunkers in the city. If all of them were used, then what should we do if the bunkers in the city? Send the precious tanks on it?

However, he still has a lot of command experience. After a change of mind, he immediately made tactical adjustments to the artillery: hit the firepower and attack it.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

The Japanese artillery artillery skills are very good, at least, these twenty mountain cannons attacked the city wall section within a five-meter range of thirty meters to the right of the Nancheng Gate.

And the effect of this shelling is very obvious.

In the center of this five-meter city wall is a crater about twenty centimeters deep and one meter wide, and around it, there are craters of varying sizes.

Seeing that there is any effect, the artillery will continue naturally.

So, after half the base of shells, I finally stopped - see the results!

The result was that all the Japanese had a cold face: in general, there were still progress.

The crater that was blown out of about twenty centimeters in depth has now been pushed into it about ten centimeters, which is exactly the depth of the stone bricks used to build the city wall.

The sharp-eyed man saw this clearly through the telescope after the smoke dissipated, and even clearly saw stones sticking to the city wall.

However, it is precisely because of seeing this that the Japanese despair even more about artillery attacks: Generally speaking, the ancient Chinese city walls are basically stone-soil structures, that is, the city walls are filled with solid soil, and there is a layer of hard objects such as bluestone. As long as the hard objects outside are removed, the soil inside will be exposed. Then, if you bombard it for a few more shots, it will be not far from the collapse of the city.

However, the construction of Sanqiao County is too expensive. After blowing off the layer of bluestone outside, a layer of bluestone was exposed inside, which makes people feel desperate about the collapse of the city wall, because no one knows whether even if the second layer of bluestone is blown off, there will be a third layer, and even the entire city wall is made of bluestone.

Such a solid city wall later appeared once in Tengchong, Yunnan, China.

According to records, at that time, the Chinese Expeditionary Force returned to Tengchong County. As a result, whether it was US aircraft bombing or ground artillery bombing, the shells were almost inclined at the same angle, and all of them were bounced open by the surface wall paved with bluestone.

In the end, the expeditionary army had no choice but to rely on people to forcibly attack the city. After thousands of casualties, it occupied the entire Tengchong County, which had long been bombed into scorched earth. Thousands of people were lost to siege alone.

In modern siege battles, what I fear most is that under the dense firepower of the enemy, I have to rely solely on manpower to attack the city wall like a forceful climb.
Chapter completed!