Chen Chunyi got the information fed back by Zhang Wei and made an attack plan.
According to Chen Daqing's order, the attack time in the three areas was roughly the same.
Chen Chunyi ordered Zhang Wei to kill the Japanese troops near the city gate and clear the inside and outside of the city.
The key tasks of the Japanese army were handed over to other troops of the 23rd Regiment.
The reason for doing this was based on the fact that there were many recruits in other troops, and it was crucial to capture the city gate.
Chen Chunyi did not want the panicked recruits to defeat the troops.
Chen Chunyi equipped Zhang Wei with a heavy machine gun company to cover them from behind.
Zhang Wei led the independent company crawling forward in the grass, with two heavy machine guns hidden in the bushes behind the grass.
Zhang Wei's arrangement: Qiu Wei's people are responsible for knocking out the heavy machine guns on the city wall, Hao Zhong's people are responsible for killing the defenders on the city wall with grenades, He Kun's people follow him and Xu Yi's people are responsible for covering the rear.
There was no cover in the distance to the city gate, so Zhang Wei had to rush forward when Qiu Wei and Hao Zhong's guns fired.
Qiu Wei selected five veterans of the teaching corps who had been fighting until now, and Hao Zhong's men loaded their grenade launchers and prepared.
Zhang Wei nodded and Qiu Wei understood.
Five Zhongzheng rifles were aimed at the heavy machine guns on the city wall in the distance, waiting for the opportunity to fire.
When the people near the city gate gathered together, they could create chaos first and secondly.
This can minimize civilian casualties.
The Japanese troops guarding the city gate consisted of two detachments, led by a noncommissioned officer.
He was sitting on the crenels of the city gate, looking at the situation around him.
Recently, the Chinese army had been fighting fiercely with the imperial army, and the imperial army defeated them.
However, the imperial army also suffered heavy losses in many battles.
Some squadrons One team remained.
A scream came, and a burst of loose soil was knocked out of the city wall.
The machine gun group of the No. 92 heavy machine gun was hit.
The two shooters were knocked down and fell off the city wall.
"There are enemy troops."
Qiu Wei's shooting was followed by Hao Zhong's grenade shooting.
Several grenades hit the city wall.
The Japanese troops on the wall were blinded, and the crooked machine gun crew also suffered casualties.
When Zhang Wei saw Qiu Wei and Hao Zhong succeed, he immediately rushed forward with his men.
"kill" Zhang Wei led He Kun's men and rushed forward.
The Japanese troops near the city gate had not yet reacted.
Zhang Wei asked He Kun's men to concentrate on the left side, leaving the right side for heavy machine gun fire.
At the level of the national army, the heavy machine gun overshoot shooting was If you can't play with me, you can only leave an open space.
The Type 24 heavy machine gun was covering and firing at the city gate.
Before the Japanese army could escape from the panic, they were fired upon by the Type 24 heavy machine gun.
Four or five people were killed on the spot, and others were hit by volleys from the heavy machine gun.
He was so panicked that he began to look for fortifications to hide.
The Japanese army's fighting qualities were indeed good and they fought back quickly.
Click, click, click.
The remaining crooked machine guns on the city wall began to shoot at Zhang Wei.
Two of He Kun's men were killed.
Upon seeing this, Hao Zhong immediately organized grenade launchers to suppress it again.
The crooked machine gun team was unable to The organization fought back and could only barely crouch under the city wall to avoid the bullets.
Zhang Wei ignored the crooked handles on the city wall, rushed forward, and fired a shot in front of him.
The soldiers also shot as they marched.
The machine gunners beat them in the Czech style.
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The Japanese soldiers who had hidden themselves in the fortifications were beaten so hard that they could not raise their heads.
They only fought back sporadicly and knocked down two or three charging soldiers.
In an instant, Zhang Wei rushed to the city gate.
He took out a grenade and threw it out with all his strength.
The soldiers behind him also threw grenades.
More than a dozen grenades exploded on the city gate and fortifications.
The troops took advantage of the chaos and rushed into the fortifications. , start a melee fight.
Zhang Wei took out his shell gun and started shooting into the smoke.
A Japanese soldier, whose eyes were squinted by the smoke, walked out crookedly with a rifle in his hand, waving the rifle in all directions, as if he could get safe by doing so.
Zhang Wei left He came close, blew his head off with a gun, and then used the shell gun adjusted to continuous fire to hit the front, only to hear bursts of screams.
From the smoke came bursts of shouts of death and the sound of swords clashing with each other.
After that, only the gasps and curses of Chinese soldiers were left.
After a surprise attack, the Japanese troops who ambushed the city gate were basically wiped out.
Now, in addition to the crooked handles on the city wall, there are still a few who have not been killed, who are stubbornly resisting behind the sandbag fortification in the middle of the city gate.
Zhang Wei did not dare to charge rashly, and led his troops to use the Japanese fortifications to shoot at them.
Upon seeing this, Hao Zhong quickly organized a grenade to shoot at the crooked handle on the city wall.
If the crooked handle opened fire on Zhang Wei and the others, there would be a big fuss.
Zhang Wei picked up the Zhongzheng rifle.
The Japanese army probably had The sound of explosions on the city wall came from the grenade launchers of Hao Zhong's platoon, firing a salvo at a wide angle at the city wall.
The target was the crooked-handle machine gun group.
Three grenades were fired at it, leaving only one crooked-handle machine gun.
Zi was also killed by Hao Zhong.
Zhang Wei's men killed the Japanese troops near the city gate and took control of the city gate.
He Kun's men were searching for the wounded and checking that there were no living people in the pile of corpses.
Zhang Wei called He Kun.
"He Kun, send the signal and ask Xu Yi to come up in line and send the signal to Commander Chen."
"Yes, company commander."
Two soldiers under He Kun raised a large red flag and waved it constantly.
When Xu Yi saw the signal, he immediately ordered the signal troops to notify the main force of the 23rd Regiment behind him, and he rushed forward with his own platoon.
Behind Xu Yi and the others was the main force of the 23rd Regiment.
After Chen Chunyi received the news of the successful attack, he immediately ordered the main force of the regiment to advance.
At the same time, the attacks from the other two aspects had also been effective.
The 4th Division's plan to besiege Zaozhuang So far everything has been going smoothly.
Chen Daqing ordered the army to attack the village and eliminate the Japanese troops.
"The troops are approaching the city, with the second battalion taking the lead.
I personally lead the troops directly under the regiment to follow up.
The third battalion is behind, and the first battalion is on guard outside the city."
Chen Chunyi also knew that there would be a bloody battle in the city, and vigilance was also needed outside the city.
Sentry, so he threw the battalion with the heaviest losses outside the city.
"Let's go, stand in line and move forward."
"Hurry up, align your front and back."
The troops of the 23rd Regiment have just added a lot of new recruits, and training and coordination in all aspects are still lacking.
Veterans and officers in the army organize and direct the troops to move forward.
Fortunately, with these veterans as the backbone, the troops will not collapse.
There will be a certain degree of chaos during the attack, defense, advance and retreat.
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There is no way, these recruits have been trained at least, and their quality is not good, but they are better than those strong men who were directly captured without training.
After a slightly chaotic march, the 23rd Regiment marched to the city gate.
"Zhang Wei, how are you?"
Chen Chunyi asked "The Japanese troops at the city gates and walls have been cleared, and the city gates have been controlled.
The situation inside is still unclear."
"Thanks for your hard work."
When Chen Chun saw that he had successfully captured the city gate, his confidence increased greatly.
Now it was time to clear out the Japanese troops in the city.
He ordered the vanguard of the second battalion to enter the city, search and advance.
The troops of the second battalion entered Zaozhuang in company units.
The area inside the village was still very large.
As soon as the troops of the second battalion entered Zaozhuang halfway, shots were fired inside.
The pace of the team's advance slowed down.
Chen Chunyi and Zhang Wei heard the shots.
He heard the sound and immediately ran into the city.
The officers and soldiers of the independent company followed closely behind.
After entering the city and arriving at the place where the gunshots were fired, Zhang Wei and Chen Chunyi saw two Japanese corpses on the ground and asked the company commander who led the team.
Only then did they know that the battle was over.
Two Japanese soldiers belonging to the city gate guarding unit, Because of the correspondence, we did not catch up with the battle at the city gate.
Both lucky and unlucky, they were lucky not to be killed together with the two comrades from the city gate unit, but they were unlucky to catch up with the large national army entering the city, so these two Japanese soldiers ambush at the corner of the street and used the blind spot to attack the company.
Launched the attack, the company spent half a squad throwing grenades from the roof to kill the two Japanese soldiers.
"The boat capsized in the gutter."
Chen Chunyi cursed.
Zhang Wei also felt very uncomfortable, not only because of the ambush, but also because of the arrogance and tenacity of the two Japanese soldiers.
They ambushed them arrogantly and stubbornly refused to escape in the face of the enemy's superior strength.
"This little devil's fighting will is really good."
Zhang Wei had to sigh in his heart Chen Chunyi ordered the troops to speed up, and Zhang Wei consciously fell behind.
He also wanted to tidy up the troops.
He would leave the work of clearing up and planning ahead to other troops.
Zhang Wei stopped the independent company, ordered each platoon to move out of the road, form teams on both sides, and report the number of casualties.
"In one row, five people were killed and three were injured."
"Second Platoon, six people were killed and five were injured."
"Third row, two people died and one person was injured."
"Fourth Platoon, no casualties."
It is still an acceptable figure.
After the independent company added new recruits, it achieved this kind of exchange ratio in the raid.
Zhang Wei thought it was still acceptable.
He killed nearly a detachment of Japanese troops.
Of course, there were also grenades and sneak attacks.
Opportunity factors.
Qiu Wei came over: "Company commander, what should we do next?"
The remaining three people also looked at Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei did not answer immediately.
Looking at the troops advancing continuously into the city, he could still hear the sound of gunfire in the distance.
It was the sound of other troops of the 4th Division who were attacking the city or fighting the Japanese troops in the city.
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In fact, before and after the battle at the city gate, the troops of the 4th Division besieging Zaozhuang began offensive operations.
The troops from the three directions of Mashan, Huangshan and Zhuoshan acted almost at the same time, especially the troops of the 10th Brigade. mortar bombardment.
In the battles at the outer city gates in all directions, the 4th Division's offensive operations were relatively smooth, and the small group of defenders were basically annihilated.
However, the officers all knew that the focus of the Japanese army's defense must be within the city.
Under the disadvantage of military strength, the outer perimeter was light but the interior was heavy, and the best strength was concentrated in the core.
This is common sense among military strategists.
Even Chinese officers who lack military education are aware of this, and they should lead from behind.
Zhang Wei could guess without using his brain that the next step would be either a brutal city attack or difficult street and neighborhood battles.
It would be too much for his small force to bear.
Zhang Wei did not want to participate in the next battle in the city.
He had no selfish motives.
Although he was an outsider, Zhang Wei's previous battle performance was not bad.
It can be said that he really assisted the 23rd Regiment.
The people of the 23rd Regiment also keep this in mind.
The independent company is now more like a capable force assigned to the 23rd Regiment, playing a key role.
If you let your troops fight this kind of battle, even if they all win, the troops will probably be exhausted.
"Don't be impatient, move slowly, organize your troops, and be on standby
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