"Ahh When he heard the news, he was very surprised, and he said to Chief of Staff of Osui, "Just one Southern Expeditionary Army has given us a lot of headaches, and with the 79th Army and the 20th Army of the Chinese Army, we really can't cope with it." ”

The chief of staff of Dashui said: "The situation is indeed dangerous, we are the closest to the 13th Division, should we contact the 13th Division and ask them to come to support us again." ”

Gansu Jutaro shook his head and said: "The 6th Division and the 13th Division, their pressure is also very great, and the strength of the Chinese army in front of them is too strong, and they have been entangled to death. The 13th Division has already saved us once, and then we will go to them for help, where will our 33rd Division put its face. I still have to read my own scriptures, and I don't believe it, and I can't fight this battle with our strength. ”

The two of them are urgently planning how to fight this battle.

Let's talk about the deployment of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

Just north of Changsha, it was defended by the main force of the national army, and to the east of Changsha, Han Xing's troops had long been staring at the 33rd Division, and when they saw the 33rd Division attacking from the east, they blocked this opening and prevented the 33rd Division from taking advantage of it.

The place chosen by Han Xing is in the Yong'an area, this place, there is the arch guard of the Laodao River on the left, and a large stretch of mountains on the right, you 33rd Division have to pass here, if you want to make a detour from here, it will be farther, and the road will be even more difficult to walk.

Han Xing changed his formation this time, and the main position was defended by Liu Zhiyuan's direct regiment, and trenches were dug out one by one. Behind the regiment directly under it, artillery positions were arranged, and on the positions of the regiments directly under it, there were also horse roads for the tank battalions swimming forward to enter and exit conveniently.

Han Xing's headquarters was set up not far from the main position, and he watched how little Japan attacked.

If Shigetaro had been smart, he would have seen that the situation of his 33rd Division was already quite dangerous. Not to mention attacking, there is always the possibility of being surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese army. However, this Gansu Jutaro was too confident, and he didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, so he wanted to advance and retreat, and took the initiative to attack the position of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

What else is there for Ganji Jutaro today, the artillery wing did not follow, the armored wing was almost completely wiped out, and only the infantry wing remained. Kanji Shigetaro had to use an infantry wing against Han Xing's mechanized troops.

In the first attack, Shigetaro used a wing of infantry. Tataro's tactical thinking is that once he attacks, he must go all out, and he will never fight those tactics of adding fuel to the fire, and he will use up his limited forces little by little in the extremely dangerous trap.

An infantry wing of the Japanese army is also quite strong, and the full strength of the entire Japanese army wing is 3,800 people.

They had a crooked machine gun in a squad, a grenadier squad with three grenadiers, and a squad with a machine gun squadron and an artillery platoon. The machine gun squadron had 3 machine gun platoons with 4 heavy machine guns in each platoon. There were 2 Type 92 infantry guns in the platoon.

An infantry wing, in addition to three infantry brigades, also has an artillery squadron and an anti-tank squadron. The artillery squadron is armed with 6 Type 92 infantry guns, and the anti-tank squadron is armed with 6 37mm anti-tank guns.

In order to make up for the lack of artillery, Gansu Shigetaro temporarily gathered all the artillery of the infantry wing together, and gathered dozens of cannons to cover the infantry attack.

Before the offensive began, the 33rd Division first carried out artillery shelling of the positions of the southern expeditionary army. They also had no way out, the air force could not be contacted for the time being, and the artillery wing was not there, so they could only use the artillery at the grassroots level.

Under normal circumstances, these grassroots artillery should not be taken out, and the task of grassroots artillery is to deal with individual points of fire, and not to carpet bombard enemy positions.

"Boom--" "Boom-" The Japanese artillery shells were one in the east and one in the west, and it was obvious that the strength was a little weaker when they bombarded the positions of such a huge regiment directly under them.

In the headquarters, Han Xing and Liu Zhiyuan were both observing the enemy's movements. Seeing the enemy shelling, Han Xing smiled and said to Liu Zhiyuan: "Just wait for him to shoot the cannonball, this is good, exposed." Beat him—"

Liu Zhiyuan also smiled lightly, shook the phone of the heavy artillery regiment, and said to Hou Dashan: "It's your turn, their fox tails are exposed first." Find a way to beat them up! ”

Hou Dashan shouted and said, "Just wait for them to show their heads, it's good now, it's out." Let's just fight—"

Immediately, several 75-mm grenades made an arc in the air and fell far in front of the enemy's artillery positions, followed by several more shells behind the enemy's artillery positions. After a few seconds of stopping, strings of shells whizzed, tearing through the air, and smashed on the enemy's artillery positions.

The enemy's artillery positions were filled with fire, cannon rumbling, and huge smoke slowly rising into the sky, all wrapped in thick black smoke and shrapnel.

The shelling lasted for five minutes, and the enemy's artillery position was mute, and there was no more artillery.

There was still a dispute between Shigetaro and Chief of Staff Omizu over the question of whether to shell first. According to the textbooks, before attacking the enemy, fire suppression is necessary. Although the artillery wing did not come up, Gan Jutaro concentrated all the artillery of the infantry wing and shelled the positions of the main attack.

The opinion of the chief of staff of Dashui is that good steel should be used on the blade, and it is necessary to protect this bit of artillery, so that it can be used at the most critical time.

Well, the artillery of the infantry wing suffered a catastrophe. Ganji Jutaro's face drooped suddenly, and his face was very gloomy. The chief of staff of Osui knew that Ganji Shigetaro regretted it, and at this time, he was not embarrassed to talk about him again.

However, the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he confessed his actions: "Without shelling, we will not be able to raise the courage of our attacking soldiers, and we will not be able to combat the arrogance of the enemy's defensive soldiers." I have no choice but to do this! ”

It's okay not to say it, as soon as Ganji Jutaro said it, Chief of Staff Osui felt very angry. He sarcastically said to his superiors: "In order to improve morale worthlessly, all the artillery of our infantry wing has been lost!" ”

Tataro finally grasped the words of the chief of staff of Osui, and he said sonorously: "How can it be said that it is worthless! When the attacking soldiers hear the sound of our artillery, they will be more courageous and will greatly increase our combat effectiveness. ”

"But the artillery of our only infantry wing is gone. Next, whether our infantry will attack or not. ”

"Why not," said Kanji Shigetaro, holding his breath, "tell the Infantry Wing Commander Kazuo Daegu that not only will he attack, but he will also fight hard-"

The infantry wing of the Japanese army, under the command of Kazuo Daegu, began to attack.

Although the Japanese wing attacked one group after another, although it was one wing, but in terms of specific tactics, they were divided into several small groups and attacked forward.

During the attack, the Japanese army's crooked squad machine guns and grenadiers were covering the squad attack. The Japanese machine-gun squadron was again covering the attack of the brigade. And the anti-tank squadron of the Japanese army, having learned the lessons of the past, kept an eye on the tank units of the Southern Expeditionary Army at all times, so as not to attack the entire wing by Chinese tanks.

Han Xing was in the command headquarters, and he had already seen the Japanese army's attacking troops, so it was not surprising. He said to Liu Zhiyuan: "Chief of Staff, are our artillery idle again!" ”

Liu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Yes, they have rested enough now, it's time to do some work." He dialed Hou Dashan's phone and said to Hou Dashan: "Commander Hou, don't fall asleep. Now here's a chance, smash it hard! ”

On the phone, Hou Dashan said: "Don't say it, I'm really waiting to fall asleep!" I thought that this 33rd Division would shoot artillery here, but what about their artillery, why didn't they shoot artillery! What about the ability, can you get it, where did it go? Okay, if they don't make it, don't blame me Hou Dashan for being unkind. Attention of all the artillerymen, the infantry wing attacking the enemy, 8 rounds per cannon, firing - "

As soon as the words stopped, I saw nearly 100 shells flying towards the enemy's infantry wing. After the first batch of shells flew, the second and third shells, nearly a thousand shells, fell into the ranks of the devils......

In Han Xing's command room, he picked up a telescope and observed the effect of the shelling.

I saw that the enemy attacked the team, and the shells were almost all covered. Patches of firelight, clouds of smoke, broken limbs of devils, weapons and ammunition carrying, all flew into the sky together. The sky above the infantry team soon shrouded in a black cloud of smoke, wrapping the little devil team neatly together.

With such a dense cannonball and such a powerful artillery fire, where can the little devil hide, it is really fatal to be able to escape this catastrophe.

The 105 mm howitzer shell can reach more than 70 meters, and the Japanese Type 94 75mm mountain artillery and the Soviet-made ZIS-3 76 mm field artillery shell can also reach 50 meters.

In addition to shrapnel, the killing of artillery shells also has a shock wave, which can quickly push a person down and fall to death, and it can blow a person up and break the heart and lungs. Some of the dead bodies looked at the outside, although they were not injured, but the injuries were all inside, and they were shocked to death.

There is another damage that is even more terrible from the shells, that is, the blazing flames, which instantly consume the air, and the blazing flames burn the human respiratory system, and there is no room for air, and the soldiers are suffocated to death.

Nearly 1,000 rounds of artillery shells were fired, and there was a deathly silence in the attacking ranks of the Japanese infantry wing. It took a long time for Kazuo Daegu to slowly get up, and when he was shelled just now, it was his guards who suddenly pushed him down and crushed him under his body.

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