March 17, 1938, 7:30 AM.

Lieutenant General Yamashita Daiki, commander of the 106th Brigade of the Japanese army, directed his troops to launch an attack on the west of the city.

Seventy heavy machine guns were aimed at the city walls and the bunkers built around six tanks below the city.

At the same time, twenty Type 92 battalion guns were concentrated to bombard the top of the city.

A dense rain of bullets struck the city walls.

No one dared to show their head.

This reassured Captain Kamikata Akiharu, who was leading the entire infantry battalion in the charge.

At least these devils wouldn't be attacked while charging.

He thought that all the defending troops on the city walls must have fled.

More than a thousand Japanese soldiers cautiously held their guns and charged towards the city walls along the airport runway.

The airport runway was straight and flat, which made the soldiers of Kamikata Akiharu's battalion particularly nervous.

There was nothing on it that could be used as cover.

If the defending troops on the city walls started to fight back, they would be the best targets.

There was nowhere to hide!

Fortunately, fifteen tanks were parked near the moat, but they were not moving.

Captain Kamikata Akiharu pointed at the tanks and ordered, "Charge!

Use those tanks as cover."

As long as they reached those tanks and used them as cover.

They would be able to calmly plan their siege.

It was a good plan.

When Captain Kamikata Akiharu's battalion had charged halfway.

The attack from inside the city finally came.

However, these attacks were all aimed at the heavy machine gun positions and artillery positions behind them.

At the same time, the six cannons in the six bunkers also opened fire.

The row of soldiers hidden in the six bunkers used these six cannons to fire directly at the charging Japanese soldiers.

Every shell hit the Japanese infantry formation three hundred meters away.

Immediately, the Japanese soldiers wailed and howled.

Captain Kamikata Akiharu shouted, "Scatter! Scatter!"

The direct fire from the six tank guns made his infantry battalion very uncomfortable.

Being bombed on such a flat, open ground, all the Japanese soldiers had nowhere to escape.

Captain Kamikata Akiharu drew his command saber and waved it forward, "Charge! Charge!"

He had realized that at this point, there was no way to avoid the defenders' bombing.

So the entire battalion would just charge directly!

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Kamikata Akiharu battalion, who had luckily escaped the first round of bombing.

Received the captain's order.

They immediately felt like they had a backbone and followed Captain Kamikata Akiharu's order.

And continued to charge forward.

Captain Kamikata Akiharu's heroic image of drawing his command saber and waving it forward on the open ground encouraged the morale of the Japanese soldiers in the entire battalion.

Lieutenant General Yamashita Daiki, who was observing the situation on the front line from the rear, was very satisfied with his performance.

Gu Xiuming, the company commander of the first company of the first regiment of the Special Forces on the city wall, also noticed this Japanese soldier holding a command saber and pointing at him.

Three hundred meters away!

A bit risky!

Although Gu Xiuming's marksmanship was already that of an excellent shooter, he was not confident.

He ordered several soldiers beside him, "Aim at that Japanese soldier with the command saber and fire at the same time."

Five soldiers simultaneously aimed at Captain Yamashita Daiki, who felt very good about himself.

"Fire!" Company Commander Gu Xiuming issued the order.

The Japanese soldiers of the Maeda platoon had just been bombed by artillery shells at such close range.

Half of the soldiers in the entire platoon had fallen.

They were panicking and running around like headless flies.

Some of the soldiers in this platoon ran to the left and some to the right.

They just wanted to escape this cursed place.

They didn't want to be bombed again!

Captain Yamashita Daiki's order came.

These Japanese soldiers, like robots, immediately put away their various thoughts.

And obediently continued to charge towards the city wall.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire platoon charged less than ten meters.

Captain Yamashita Daiki, who had been pointing his command saber forward, suddenly fell.

Sharp-eyed Japanese soldiers clearly saw a bullet coming out of the captain's back.

Blood immediately flowed from the spot where Yamashita Daiki fell.

The Japanese soldiers of the Maeda platoon immediately rushed forward.

They lifted Yamashita Daiki and ran to the rear: now they had a legitimate reason to withdraw from the battlefield.

Captain Yamashita Daiki fell, and Captain Ishite Gojusan immediately took over command.

He did not perform like the captain just now, but just shouted, "Charge! Charge forward!"

The twenty-five mortars of the first company behind the city wall bombarded the Japanese heavy machine gun positions.

Lin Fan also used the Type 92 infantry gun to bombard the artillery positions of Yamashita Daiki's brigade further away.

In fact, it would have been better to use 88mm anti-aircraft guns to attack these targets.

It's just that there was no supply of 88mm anti-aircraft gun shells here, and Lin Fan had to use them sparingly.

The supply of Type 92 infantry gun shells was much easier.

There were also fourteen infantry guns on the city wall.

Everyone in the entire first company became gunners.

These guns were all captured from the Japanese yesterday and the day before.

Although the tanks captured yesterday were blown up by the Japanese.

But these guns were still there.

In terms of the number of artillery pieces, the Special Forces were not as good as Yamashita Daiki's brigade.

But artillery bombardment was not only about quantity, but also about quality.

Although most of the officers and soldiers of the entire Special Forces were moonlighting as gunners.

But with Lin Fan, a god-level gunner, supporting them.

In terms of accuracy, ten Yamashita Daiki brigades could not compare.

The artillery counterattack from the west of Teng County stunned Yamashita Daiki's brigade.

Was this still the Sichuan Army?

Was this still the Sichuan Army with extremely poor weapons and equipment?

Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki began to doubt his life.

It made him even more doubt whether this world was real and whether these things were really happening.

Despite the bombing of six tank guns.

Captain Ishite Gojusan still led a battalion of Japanese soldiers into the six bunkers.

The firing range of the bunkers was limited.

Captain Ishite Gojusan took full advantage of this.

Leading the remaining six hundred Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion, they charged past the blind spots of the bunkers.

When they were only thirty meters away from the nearest bunker.

The ground suddenly vibrated.

Several consecutive explosions rang out in front of these hundreds of Japanese soldiers.

Countless iron pellets flew all over the sky.

This was even denser than a hail of bullets.

It was more like a downpour.

Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki, who was still in a daze in the distance, watched as the charging infantry battalion suddenly stepped on a landmine.

Then the entire battalion was enveloped in hazy smoke and dust.

Captain Ishite Gojusan, unwilling to give up, stood stubbornly and did not fall.

Then he saw a scene that angered all the Japanese soldiers.

The targets they were supposed to attack clearly had no firing holes in this direction.

Suddenly, two firing holes appeared, and not only that.

The Special Forces even used heavy machine guns to strafe the Japanese soldiers who had luckily survived.

Captain Ishite Gojusan fell after being hit by several more machine gun bullets.

As he fell, his heart was filled with anger: "These people are too cunning.

They actually deliberately used blind spots to lure me into their trap."

They really didn't have any *wude* (martial morality).

In the hazy smoke, several tongues of fire were reaping the lives of the Japanese soldiers.

The successive blows were too much for Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki to accept.

He had eight infantry battalions under his command.

The first infantry battalion had completely failed to complete its mission.

He immediately sent out the second infantry battalion.

Although the Japanese soldiers of the Iyoda Daito battalion were not clear about what exactly happened to the Kamikata Akiharu battalion.

But Captain Iyoda Daito was clear about it.

He led the Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion and carefully advanced to the heavy machine gun positions.

He established his command post here.

Although Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki had ordered his entire battalion to attack.

But attacking to this position could also be considered an attack, right?

Captain Iyoda Daito reorganized the eight hundred surviving Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion.

And assigned four infantry companies.

Arranging them in the order of the first and fourth companies.

The first company immediately began to attack.

The situation on the east side of Teng County was already precarious.

The Japanese 40th Regiment and 39th Regiment, at this time, sent out their tanks again.

The infantry squads they had sent out to attack the gap had already charged up like waves for the eighth time.

These Japanese soldiers were still being suppressed at the gap and could not charge in at all.

These Japanese soldiers had not been without results.

They had widened the gap to nearly twenty meters.

A large gap appeared in the east city wall.

This gave the Japanese tanks an opportunity to charge.

Twenty tanks charged towards this gap.

The officers and soldiers of Yi Hongbao's company had withstood the eighth Japanese attack.

The entire company was left with less than thirty people.

Even the guard company that Division Commander Wang Mingzhang had sent to reinforce them was left with less than fifty people.

The Japanese infantry did not retreat and continued to charge up wave after wave.

The Japanese tanks had also entered.

Company Commander Yi watched as the Japanese tanks poked their heads out at the gap.

The Sichuan Army had no weapons to deal with the Japanese tanks at all.

Company Commander Yi could only look at his brothers and say, "Who will go and blow them up?"

Gu Deyuan and Ran Hongfang shouted loudly, "Company Commander! I'll go!"

"I'll go!"

Two soldiers, one holding a bundle of grenades that had been supported by the guard company.

Quietly touched from the edge of the gap.

Their bodies crawled past the remains of their own brothers.

Waiting on the road for the Japanese tanks to advance.

The Japanese tanks rumbled over.

Gu Deyuan and Ran Hongfang pretended to be dead soldiers, lying motionless on the road where the tanks were advancing.

The places where their tracks rolled over.

Left two bloody roads.

When the tank tracks were right in front of him, Gu Deyuan rolled over and burrowed into the bottom of the tank.

He hung the bundle of grenades he was holding in his arms on the bottom of the tank.

Without any hesitation, he immediately pulled the pin.

At this time, he didn't even think about whether he would be able to escape after pulling the pin like this.

Ran Hongfang's movements were the same.

When they accepted this mission, they had never thought that they would be able to survive.

Company Commander Yi Hongbao watched nervously as his two brothers burrowed under the bottom of the tank.

Then there were two loud noises, and the two tanks in the front jumped violently.

They slowly stopped and stopped moving.

The tanks following behind, seeing this situation, were frightened and quickly turned around and fled back out of the city.

Although the two tanks at the gap were destroyed.

But these two iron lumps immediately provided two bunkers for the Japanese infantry charging to the gap.

The Japanese infantry who rushed up later hid behind the tanks.

And established bunkers here.

Immediately, Yi Hongbao's company was suppressed.

More and more Japanese soldiers rushed up.

Company Commander Yi had to grab his broadsword: "Charge! Drive the Japanese soldiers away."

All sixty Sichuan soldiers remaining in this section stood up.

They waved their broadswords and charged into the Japanese ranks.

Those Japanese soldiers who had just been hiding behind the tanks had to jump out.

The two sides launched a bayonet charge at the gap in the southeast corner.

This kind of close combat, where every blow meant flesh, finally frightened the Japanese soldiers who were charging.

The Japanese soldiers who charged up later stepped on the corpses that had piled up several layers at the gap and fled backwards.

The Sichuan soldiers guarding the gap did not continue to pursue.

It wasn't that they didn't want to, but they were really too weak.

When Company Commander Yi Hongbao led everyone out, there were sixty-seven Sichuan soldiers here.

Now the Japanese soldiers had finally retreated.

Only fourteen Sichuan soldiers remained.

They were the soldiers from Yi Hongbao's company and the guard company of the division headquarters, and the two companies had a total of only fourteen people left.

Company Commander Yi called Division Commander Wang Mingzhang for help: "Division Commander, I only have fourteen people here.

Please, send a reinforcement over here!

Division Commander! It's okay to send just one platoon!"

Although the Japanese soldiers outside the city had temporarily stopped attacking, their next attack would definitely be even stronger.

Looking at these brothers around him, Company Commander Yi Hongbao felt bitter in his heart.

Since they left Sichuan, none of these people had thought about returning alive.

Before he could say anything.

Li Youcai said, "Company Commander! It's nothing.

If we die, we die!

The brothers have killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers this time.

The brothers have exchanged one life for at least three Japanese lives.

This business is worth it.

No one blames the company commander and division commander.

Even if the brothers become ghosts, they will continue to kill Japanese soldiers with the company commander."

Liu Dazhi also said with a smile: "Company Commander! We exchanged one life for three Japanese lives, it's not a loss.

Wait a while, when the Japanese soldiers charge up again.

We can earn more, and our brothers will make a big profit today."

Company Commander Yi Hongbao looked at these brothers, but in the end, he didn't say anything.

Finally, he smiled: "Yes! We have already earned enough capital.

The Japanese soldiers we kill next are all bonuses.

Brothers!

Look around and collect bullets, grenades, and everything that can be used.

When the Japanese soldiers attack again.

Let them know that the pot is made of iron, and the Sichuan Army is not to be trifled with!"

Thirteen Sichuan soldiers shouted together: "The Sichuan Army is not to be trifled with!"

The intelligence from the front line was flowing like water to Lieutenant General Isoya Koshiro's command post.

Today's siege battle started at six o'clock in the morning and it was already twelve o'clock now.

And they still hadn't successfully captured Teng County.

This made Lieutenant General Isoya Koshiro extremely angry, and he roared in the command post:

"Tell all the commanders on the front line who are directing the attack,

If you are so useless, do you want me to personally go to the front line to command?"

The division commander's anger was directly transmitted to these regimental commanders who were commanding on the front line.

The two regimental commanders who were attacking the south of the city looked at the defending troops who had been fighting back on the city walls.

They had to make a dangerous decision:

To pull the heavy artillery to the front line and do direct aiming and shooting.

This would be an effective way to attack the city walls.

The disadvantage was: it would be very easy for the heavy artillery position to be destroyed by the defending troops who were still fighting back on the city.

But at this time, they couldn't care about anything else.

Twelve 122mm howitzers were adjusted by the two regimental commanders and placed less than two thousand meters away from the city walls.

From six o'clock in the morning to noon, the Japanese soldiers attacking Teng County finally stopped.

They had tried everything, but still no team was able to stay in Teng County.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang carefully listened to the intelligence feedback from the defending troops in all directions.

Of the defenses in the four directions of Teng County, southeast, northwest.

So far, only the west of the city, the direction guarded by the Special Forces, had not made any requests to him.

The other three directions were all asking the division headquarters for help: some were asking for reinforcements, and some were asking for ammunition.

He didn't have either of these two things now.

At this time, he didn't know whether Commander Sun Zhen of Linyi had sent reinforcements over.

If Commander Wang Zhonglian's army could suddenly appear on the outskirts of Teng County.

The thirty thousand Japanese soldiers surrounding Teng County would become turtles in a jar.

Unfortunately, his division headquarters had lost contact with the Fifth War Zone.

But the Special Forces had a radio station and could still contact the Fifth War Zone.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang verbally drafted a telegram over the phone and entrusted Lin Fan to forward it:

"The entire 122nd Division of the 22nd Army Group reports to Director Li of the Fifth War Zone:

The entire division of more than 3,000 officers and soldiers is trapped in Teng County and has been fighting for two days.

They have repelled hundreds of Japanese attacks in recent days.

Teng County has been bombarded by tens of thousands of Japanese artillery shells.

The entire county is full of collapsed walls and houses, and the roads are full of bomb craters.

Our division is determined to defend Teng County to the death, and will never retreat until the last soldier.

Now the entire division has less than a thousand combatants and less than ten thousand usable bullets.

Please Director Li provide support with guns and ammunition and supplement troop resources as soon as possible."

Upon receiving the telegram from Teng County, Li Zongren was puzzled:

"They are still holding on?"

On the evening of the 16th, troops from the outskirts of Teng County had withdrawn to Linyi.

The command post had lost contact with Teng County, and although Chiang Kai-shek had ordered Teng County to hold on for three days.

But how many teams in the entire National Revolutionary Army could successfully complete the orders issued by Chiang Kai-shek?

During the Battle of the Xicheng Defense Line, Chiang Kai-shek's order was to defend for two years.

As a result, it was lost in seven days.

Slogans were just for show!

At this time, Li Zongren couldn't convey the truth in the telegram.

He could only encourage the 122nd Division in the telegram.

Then he immediately called Commander Wang Zhonglian and urged him to set off immediately and go to Teng County.

Originally, Wang Zhonglian's army was going to Teng County to defend.

But he had been using the reason that the entire army group had not yet assembled and could not go north.

Now that Teng County had become an isolated city, Commander Wang had even less reason to go to Teng County.

In fact, Li Zongren also knew that Commander Wang would definitely not go at this time.

He just wanted to feel at ease.

Several times he wanted to issue an order for Division Commander Wang Mingzhang to abandon Teng County.

Because he knew that more than 30,000 Japanese soldiers were attacking Teng County, which was defended by only 1,000 Sichuan soldiers.

The fall was imminent.

And he had not sent reinforcements, and the entire 122nd Division of Teng County had become a completely isolated force.

And this isolated force had run out of ammunition!

Of course, Lin Fan knew the dangerous situation that Teng County was facing.

He tried to change this outcome, but even if he participated,

He still couldn't change the behavior of the Tang Enbo Corps.

Without a strong foreign aid coming to relieve the siege, just relying on the 200 people of the Special Forces here.

It was impossible to stop the Japanese soldiers from occupying Teng County.

If only he had his own reconnaissance plane in the air.

At this time, Lin Fan thought of Mao Wenxing again.

Gu Xiuming also said:

"Mao Wenxing, next time I see this kid, I will definitely beat him until he can't find his teeth.

When we need him the most, he has disappeared."

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Maybe he encountered some situation!

I hope he was just tied up by some situation."

If this was the case, it was better to have someone than no one!

Company Commander Gu Xiuming asked: "Brigade Commander! Will the reinforcements come?"

Lin Fan said seriously: "It is impossible for them to come."

"Then can Teng County still be defended?"

"It can't be defended, it can't be defended today." Lin Fan said calmly.

Gu Xiuming didn't seem surprised.

He just sighed: "So many Sichuan brothers, what a pity."

Lin Fan was silent for a while:

"Their blood will not be shed in vain, and their deeds of fighting to the last moment will not be buried."

Gu Xiuming didn't ask when the Special Forces would break through.

Lin Fan didn't say anything either.

But Gu Xiuming knew: "When the Special Forces want to leave, the Japanese soldiers can't stop them.

Even though the Japanese soldiers have already surrounded Teng County."

Today's siege, which started at six o'clock in the morning, rarely stopped for two hours at noon.

At 2:00 PM, the independent field artillery unit of Fujiwara Taichi finally moved its artillery position to a position 1,500 meters away from the south of the city.

Twelve heavy artillery pieces were lined up and began to aim directly at the city walls.

They quickly blasted a gap in the city wall.

Yan Yu's battalion had already suffered heavy casualties in the morning's defense battle.

At this time, after being bombarded by the Japanese heavy artillery, the casualties were even greater.

Lv Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade of the 124th Division of the Sichuan Army, and Deputy Brigade Commander Wang Chaolian personally went to the scene to command.

The Japanese 40th Regiment Commander No Yoshio immediately ordered the last complete battalion in his hand to attack the gap.

Captain Kato Shichiro immediately commanded the entire battalion of more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to launch a general attack.

The tank company of Funabiki Kotaro, which failed in the attack on the southeast corner in the morning.

At this time, it charged towards the gap in the south of the city again.

Battalion Commander Yan Yu commanded the last 70 soldiers of the entire battalion to fire at the charging Kato Shichiro battalion of Japanese soldiers.

And ordered the mortars to bombard the Japanese tank brigade.

At the gap, which was more than ten meters wide, the tank company of Funabiki Kotaro finally rushed in.

The guards beside Brigade Commander Lv Kang also rushed to the front with their guns and fired at the Japanese soldiers.

Bundles of grenades were thrown at the tanks that rushed in through the gap.

Finally, the two tanks that rushed in the front were destroyed.

This stopped the Japanese tanks behind.

The Japanese soldiers of the Kato Shichiro battalion continued to rush in from the gap.

They braved the bombing of grenades thrown by Battalion Commander Yan Yu and the others.

And continued to squeeze in from the gap.

Just when the south of the city was in danger.

The Japanese 63rd Regiment, which was temporarily strengthened to attack the south of the city, arrived at the battlefield.

Regiment Commander Fukuyoshi Shinpei saw that the south of the city could be captured immediately.

He immediately ordered: "The battalion of Nakashiro Rintaro, attack immediately.

Attack the city walls!"

He had seen that the defending troops in the south of the city were insufficient.

And they were now focusing all their efforts on defending the gap.

He wanted to take an unusual route and ordered the Nakashiro Rintaro battalion to scale the city walls.

Receiving the order, the Japanese soldiers of the Nakashiro Rintaro battalion immediately set off with the siege ladders.

In less than five minutes, these Japanese soldiers had arrived at the city in a distance of one kilometer.

Lv Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade, and Wang Chaolian, deputy commander, personally rushed to the city walls.

And fired at the Japanese soldiers who were rushing up the city walls.

Two battalions of Japanese soldiers launched a joint attack and finally broke through the south of the city.

Battalion Commander Yan Yu's entire battalion of officers and soldiers, without exception, died in battle.

They all sacrificed in battle.

Brigade Commander Lv Kang and Brigade Commander Wang Chaolian were seriously injured but did not retreat, and eventually fell in the south of the city.

At 3:30 PM, the Japanese soldiers occupied the south city wall.

They quickly moved away the sandbags blocking the city gates.

And let the tanks outside the city in.

Relying on the south city wall, they attacked the east and west city walls.

The Japanese 63rd Regiment quickly rushed in from the city gates.

Then, under the cover of heavy artillery and tanks, they broke into the east city.

Wang Lin, commander of the 740th Regiment of the 124th Brigade, was seriously injured but did not leave the front line.

He continued to insist on commanding and eventually fell on the east city wall.

Just as the Japanese soldiers rushed into the east city, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang personally went to the intersection to command.

At 5:00 PM, the Japanese soldiers occupied the east city gate tower.

They immediately organized a machine gun brigade to go to the high ground of the city tower and strafe the intersection.

Division Commander Wang and his party had nowhere to hide at the intersection.

And prepared to move to the west railway station to continue commanding the defense of the city.

The guard company beside him had long been sent to assist Company Commander Yi Hongbao in defending the city walls.

Now there was only one platoon left.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang ordered the soldiers of the last platoon to seize the west city gate tower.

The Japanese machine gun positions on the gate tower could strike the entire Teng County.

The Japanese machine gun positions had to be taken down!

Platoon Commander Guan Feiyang led twenty-three soldiers and quietly touched the Japanese machine gun positions.

These people knew that the life and death of the entire Teng County defense battle command post was in their hands.

Behind them was the leadership of the entire 122nd Division headquarters and the 124th Division headquarters.

These twenty-four soldiers quietly touched the Japanese machine gun positions on the city gate tower.

The commander of the 10th Regiment, Akachai Yaezo, who was attacking the east city, had sent all his forces.

Captain Awa Rintaro had just rushed to the east city gate tower.

And immediately discovered Guan Platoon Leader and his party who were rushing towards them.

The Japanese soldiers of the Awa Rintaro battalion immediately fired at this team.

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers fired at these twenty soldiers.

Guan Platoon Leader and the twenty-three soldiers constantly counterattacked.

It was just that they were originally at a low position and were attacked by the Japanese soldiers from a high position.

The Japanese soldiers had the advantage of the terrain and their firepower was extremely powerful.

These twenty-four officers were eventually shot down by the Japanese heavy machine guns.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers on the east city gate tower also discovered Division Commander Wang Mingzhang and his party.

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers had just shot down Guan Platoon Leader and his party.

They immediately organized more than a dozen heavy machine guns and kept strafing.

At the same time, hundreds of Japanese infantry soldiers shouted and rushed towards Division Commander Wang and the others.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang and his chief of staff Zhao Weixian, Deputy Division Commander Luo Jiaxin, Chief of Staff Xie Dayong, and Chief of Staff of the 124th Division Zou Mutao and others, a total of about ten people.

All sacrificed.

At the same time, the Japanese army used armor-piercing rounds from flat-firing cannons to bombard the west city gate, and the city tower caught fire.

Lieutenant General Yamashita Daiki, commander of the 106th Brigade, had already sent out the third infantry battalion to launch a charge towards the west of the city.

The Japanese soldiers of the Iyoda Daisho Infantry Battalion had already rushed into the position of the sixteen tanks destroyed by the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Iyoda Daisho Battalion had been almost completely lost.

But they were still persevering.

The Funabiki Kotaro battalion sent out by Lieutenant General Yamashita Daiki had also rushed up.

Now the west city gate had been blown open by the Japanese direct-aiming artillery.

Although Lin Fan immediately destroyed the two artillery pieces.

But these Japanese soldiers had already begun to rush towards the city gate.

The platoon that had been building bunkers based on six tanks outside the city to snipe at the Japanese soldiers.

At this time, they were also facing the risk of being surrounded by the Japanese soldiers.

The city tower was on fire.

Lin Fan had to order the first company to resist while putting out the fire.

They now had to resist the Japanese soldiers attacking from outside the city, as well as the Japanese soldiers rushing over from the south of the city.

There were even Japanese soldiers who had detoured from the south of the city to the west of the city and were attacking the Special Forces in this direction from inside the city.

Lin Fan ordered the second platoon leader to lead two squads, rush out, and meet the first platoon and bring them back into the city.

The Special Forces soldiers on the city walls constantly bombarded the Japanese soldiers outside the city with mortars.

They used artillery shells to bombard the Japanese soldiers in the distance, and grenades to deal with the Japanese soldiers near the moat.

Today, the Japanese soldiers relied on their large numbers and fought to the death without retreating.

Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki looked at the several layers of Japanese corpses piled up on the runway.

It would be a lie to say that he didn't feel pain.

But now that the battle had reached this point, it was a battle of who could hold out to the end.

He still had five infantry battalions that he could send up.

Therefore, although Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki felt pain, he didn't hesitate to order the Japanese soldiers to charge up.

These Japanese soldiers also knew clearly in their hearts: perhaps in the next minute, the defending troops on the city walls would collapse.

The Japanese soldiers' momentum of attack was even fiercer.

Qian Tianyou led thirty soldiers and rushed out of the west city gate.

Pushing two heavy machine guns in front to clear the way.

They immediately stopped the Japanese soldiers in the Funabiki Kotaro battalion who were desperately rushing towards the city.

Even under the strafing of the heavy machine guns, these Japanese soldiers were unwilling to retreat.

Platoon Leader Qian Tianyou ordered: "Set up directional mines!"

The power of a directional mine can create indiscriminate attacks from the blast point to a range of one hundred meters in front.

Although the effective range is not as good as that of a heavy machine gun, the effect in the range of one hundred meters is much stronger than that of a heavy machine gun.

After setting up two directional mines, the second platoon retreated instead of advancing.

Captain Funabiki Kotaro, who was organizing the Japanese soldiers to charge into the city, became excited:

"Charge!"

He thought that this was a team preparing to break through the city.

When the break-through failed, they could only retreat into the city.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Funabiki Kotaro battalion were excited.

At least two companies of Japanese soldiers rushed onto the bridge and rushed into the city gate.

Qian Tianyou watched the Japanese soldiers rush in.

And waited until some of the Japanese soldiers rushed past the position of the directional mine.

Only then did he order: "Detonate!"

Two directional mines detonated at the same time.

Lin Fan, who was on the city wall, felt the city wall tremble.

"How much explosive did this Qian Tianyou use?"

The shock waves of the two directional mines that exploded in the city gate reverberated in the city gate.

The Japanese soldiers who rushed in, as well as those who had just rushed onto the bridge.

Were all hit by dense iron pellets.

Those Japanese soldiers who rushed the fastest, although they were not directly hit by the directional mines.

But they were also shaken by the explosion and couldn't stand steadily.

Strike while the iron is hot!

Qian Tianyou did not give these Japanese soldiers a chance to catch their breath.

He ordered the soldiers of the two squads: "Charge!"

The heavy machine guns strafed in front.

The soldiers followed closely behind.

Those Japanese soldiers who had survived the explosion this time would never survive again.

One Japanese soldier after another fell.

After a wave of clearing, the number of Japanese soldiers in the Funabiki Kotaro battalion was immediately reduced by half.

Finally, no more Japanese soldiers charged into the city.

Then it was Qian Tianyou's turn to lead the soldiers of the two squads out.

Two heavy machine guns were in the city gate and fired at the Japanese soldiers who were surrounding the first platoon.

Platoon Leader Feng Ruili was also fighting this kind of battle for the first time.

There were really too many Japanese soldiers this time, they couldn't be killed or blown up!

The brigade commander ordered them to abandon their current position and retreat back to the city.

Lin Fan was now preparing to retreat into the city.

The side of the west of the city near the south of the city had been occupied by the Japanese soldiers.

The 63rd Regiment, which had captured the south city wall, was now attacking the north of Teng County with its main force.

There was an American church in the north of the city, and the Sichuan Army had put the most effort here.

And deployed the most troops.

Regiment Commander Akachai Yaezo of the 10th Regiment, who had rushed into the east city, also sent out all the surviving infantry of the entire regiment.

This time he even sent out his reserve team.

In the past few days, the 10th Regiment had lost 70% of its infantry in succession.

Regiment Commander Akachai Yaezo had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

They also concentrated all their forces and attacked the north of the city.

The Japanese soldiers of the 40th Regiment were also attacking the north of the city. All four regiments of Lieutenant General Isoya Koshiro's division were now rushing towards the north of the city.

The Sichuan soldiers and officers in the south and east of the city fought bravely and valiantly, but in the end, due to the exhaustion of ammunition and the lack of reinforcements, they were unable to counterattack the enemy troops who were pouring in like a tide.

They defended until dusk and retreated to the northeast corner of the city and the north city walls.

At this time, the commander of the entire Teng County defense battle, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang, had already sacrificed.

Teng County Defense Commander Zhang Xuanwu was still resisting in the north of the city.

Faced with the strength of a full division of Japanese soldiers, the Sichuan soldiers defending the north of the city were still persisting.

Brigade Commander Wang Zhiyuan of the 364th Brigade watched as more and more Japanese soldiers rushed up.

The soldiers on the front line were constantly being wounded and killed, and there were only less than ten people left in the brigade headquarters.

Brigade Commander Wang Zhiyuan organized the cooks and grooms.

And personally led this last reserve force of the entire brigade into the battlefield.

Although the Japanese 10th Division had suffered heavy casualties, there were as many as 10,000 Japanese soldiers attacking the north of the city.

They attacked non-stop, and Brigade Commander Wang Zhiyuan fell on the front line of the battlefield.

City Defense Commander Zhang Xuanwu had lost contact with other parts of the city at this time.

Like Brigade Commander Wang Zhiyuan, he also brought the last of his troops to the front line.

And personally fought!

At 7:00 PM, it was already dark.

The sky above Teng County was constantly being lit up by flares.

The Japanese soldiers had occupied most of Teng County.

The Special Forces, who had been defending the west of the city, after the second platoon leader Qian Tianyou met the first platoon and brought them back to the city.

Listening to the sound of gunfire from the east and south of the city had become sparse.

And they could still see the figures of the Japanese soldiers.

Only the gunfire from the north of the city was fierce.

Lin Fan ordered: the first platoon to clear the way in front, and retreat towards the north of the city.

The second platoon was in the middle, protecting fifty large carts as they moved towards the north of the city together.

Zhu Shaoyuan, Wen Chao, and the other fifty coolies were still