Chapter 116

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

Zhou Weiguo was extremely excited right now; the little devils had handed their backs over to him without any reservation.

As tank commander and gunner, Zhou Weiguo instructed the machine gunner to seize the opportunity while urging the loader to load quickly.

"Hurry up! The little devils are about to run!"

"Loaded right away!"

"Already loaded!"

Zhou Weiguo immediately fired the shell; the shell left the barrel, but no explosion firelight came.

"Regiment Commander... didn't hit?"

"Seems like it missed?"

Zhou Weiguo was also dumbfounded, "No, look carefully, the shell went into the little devils' command headquarters; there's a gap in the northwest corner! Our shell exploded inside the devils' command headquarters!

Calling Command, this is Lightning, northwest gap has been opened, repeat, northwest gap has been opened!"

At this moment, the Youth Army First Division First Brigade's soldiers were launching a siege against the Hongkou Command.

Upon hearing Zhou Weiguo's report that a gap had appeared in the northwest corner, Qiu Qingquan immediately ordered all units to converge on the northwest corner and launch a fierce assault.

Night had now fallen; the Youth Army organized its forces and launched a fierce assault on the northwest gap.

Inside the command headquarters, Japanese Land Warfare Commander Major General Okawa Shichiden came out of the basement again, roughly counted heads, and still had over eight hundred men; not a single one of the dispatched armored vehicles and rapid-fire guns had returned, and the infantry blocking outside were of unknown fate.

"Commander Sir, a gap has appeared in the northwest conference room!" Staff Officer Oshima stepped forward to report.

"Nani! Quickly go block it, hold the firepower points on each floor, don't let the Chinese army approach!"

The northwest gap was expanded from the conference room window; hit by a 155mm howitzer shell, the anti-theft iron bars on the window were long blown away, and the opening was expanded by a ring.

The little devils swarmed toward the northwest conference room, carrying machine guns and sandbags to plug the gap.

Unexpectedly, the sandbags had just been placed on the gap when *boom*—the sandbags were directly blown away, and nearby devils were blown to bloody pulp.

In the distance, Zhou Weiguo sat on the tank, hidden behind a broken wall, using the tank cannon to fire a shot into the northwest breach from time to time.

As long as the little devils dared approach to plug the gap, Zhou Weiguo's tank could reap an unexpected bonus.

Lv Ziqing led his Reconnaissance Company, still charging ahead, rushing and firing fiercely toward the northwest corner.

The company's M2 heavy machine guns and 37mm anti-tank guns were left in the rear to cover; once automatic fire was detected from any window of the devils' building, the heavy machine guns and anti-tank guns would suppress from the rear.

Other companies also converged one after another; seeing the Reconnaissance Company had already begun charging, they also left machine guns and anti-tank guns behind to cover.

The merit of storming into the little devils' command headquarters was not small; the warriors vied to be first.

Zhou Weiguo's tank company was at this moment behind using machine guns and tank cannon to cover; seeing firelight from any window of the building, they fired at that window.

Especially the first floor northwest gap, they had to fire a shell into it from time to time to prevent any little devils from hiding inside.

"Has the northwest gap been plugged!" Major General Okawa Shichiden asked anxiously.

"Not yet, the enemy's firepower is too fierce! ~"

"What's going on?" Major General Okawa Shichiden walked quickly through the long corridor, arriving at the northwest conference room.

He saw at the conference room entrance, over twenty devils carrying sandbags and machine guns standing there dumbly, just not daring to go in.

"Bakayaro! What are you standing there for? Go in and plug the gap!" Major General Okawa Shichiden was furious.

But the little devils remained unmoved, "Sir... can't get in..."

*Bang—*

Okawa Shichiden immediately shot dead the little devil who had spoken back, "Anyone else disobeys orders, military law disposal!"

The little devils had no choice but to brace themselves and enter the conference room, to plug the breach in the conference room's northwest corner.

*Boom—*

A shell flew in from the breach; the devils who had entered the conference room fell to the ground one after another.

Some were wounded by shrapnel, some shocked by the shock wave.

Okawa Shichiden stood outside the conference room door, uninjured by the shell; only then did he realize the enemy kept firing shells into this breach, no wonder after so long the breach in the conference room still hadn't been plugged.

"Commander Sir, can't plug it, the enemy's artillery fire is too fierce, I've never seen such an army." Chief of Staff Oshima said in despair.

Major General Okawa Shichiden was also shaken: "If the enemy opposite weren't yellow-skinned, I'd have thought I was at war with Hans State......"

"General, watch out! ~" A devil tackled Okawa Shichiden, then the sound of bullets tearing through air was heard.

"Enemy has crawled in through the breach! Everyone to the northwest corner!"

Devil soldiers began shouting loudly, calling for support.

Chief of Staff Oshima supported Major General Okawa Shichiden and hurriedly jogged toward the stairwell, heading to the second floor to take cover.

The Reconnaissance Company had already approached the northwest breach; crawling through the breach led into a devil conference room.

Zhou Weiguo had already received Reconnaissance Company Lv Ziqing's radio report, learning friendlies had reached near the breach, so he stopped firing at the breach to avoid friendly fire.

At the breach, Lv Ziqing did not rush to let men crawl into the conference room, but through the breach kept firing at the conference room entrance.

The little devils at the entrance poked their heads out to shoot from time to time; neither side dared easily enter the conference room.

"Company Commander! What to do? The little devils are waiting for us inside!" A subordinate platoon leader asked anxiously.

Lv Ziqing did not hesitate, ordering preparation of explosive packs and hand grenades.

"In a moment throw hand grenades at the entrance, all count two beats then throw, give the little devils an instant burst; after the explosion, two men go in to place explosives, blow down the wall to the next room!"

The little devils' Marine Corps Command Headquarters in Hongkou had very thick outer walls, but the walls between rooms were normal thickness.

*Boom boom* two sounds, two instant burst grenades were thrown to the conference room entrance, the little devils at the entrance were blown down in a swath.

Taking advantage of the rising smoke, two soldiers immediately hugged the explosives and burrowed through the breach, entered the Conference Room, placed the explosives at the base of the Wall, and immediately exited through the breach again.

Another two thunderous Bangs sounded, and the Wall between the Conference Room and another Room on the first floor was blasted open with a large hole.

"Charge inside!" Lv Ziqing gave an Order Down.

The soldiers rushed into the breach one after another, and then passed through the large hole in the Wall to enter the other Room.