The Shiguling is covered with some soft red soil, and the plants are also very luxuriant, and they are miscellaneous trees, bamboos, and shrubs. When the 32nd Army held on to Shiguling, it also made a good mountain into a cliff here, a cliff there, which increased the difficulty of the attack.

At this time, the little devils also used it, making it very difficult for the attacking troops to climb up the mountain.

Under the leadership of the battalion commander, the battalion still bravely climbed up the mountain. When he climbed halfway up the mountain, he did not move, and according to the tactical arrangement, he was waiting for artillery support.

Three Type 92 infantry guns were blazing towards the top of the hill. It was only blown up that the mountains were full of earth and trees, thick smoke was everywhere, and all kinds of miscellaneous trees were blown off by the waist, some had already been blown off, and the lush branches were blown everywhere.

After the artillery fire, the attacking soldiers began to charge, and they rushed towards the hill with shouts, "Kill-" "Rush-" "Kill the devil-"

The soldiers who rushed to the front were only fifty or sixty meters away from the top of the mountain.

At this moment, a flash of fire suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain, and a fierce gunfire rang out. The explosion of 70-mm shells, the sound of crooked machine guns, the sound of gunfire from 38 large covers, mixed with the sound of heavy machine guns, grenades were thrown in pieces.

Nearly half of the attacking battalion fell in an instant, which was a heavy loss. Not to mention attacking, it's nice to be able to retreat.

By the time it was withdrawn, there would be at most one company.

On this side of the Jinjiang River, all the staff officers had already been observing the front line, and the pen and paper had already been prepared, and they were quickly writing down the number of troops, firepower, and various weapons of the devils.

Han Xing observed through visual inspection that the strength of the Japanese army at Shiguling was about one brigade. A brigade with a full staff of 1,100 people is really heavily guarded!

In this brigade headquarters alone, there was a 174-man machine gun squadron with 4 heavy machine guns per platoon, for a total of 12 machines. There was also a 55-man gun platoon with 2 70mm Type 92 infantry guns. In addition, in the grassroots units of the Japanese army, each squad had a crooked machine gun, and each squad was equipped with a grenadier squad consisting of three grenadiers.

The devils not only have high quality fighters, but their firepower is also quite fierce!

Seeing that the devil's firepower was so intense, Shang Zhen's face became ugly.

Seeing that the devil's firepower was so fierce and the troops were so dense, Han Xing also changed his plan, and he was still counting on an artillery battle, but it seemed that it would not work, it must be an air attack. He immediately shouted to Zhang Xiaosan: "Company Commander Zhang, go and call Director Zhang Zuogan." ”

In fact, Director Zhang Zuogan was not far away, and he immediately ran over. Han Xing said to him: "This is an opportunity, quickly call Commander Xu for an air strike." ”

Zhang Zuogan quickly contacted Xu Da to launch an air attack.

After a while, Xu Da's Yun-8 transport plane came to the sky above Gao'an County. They had already prepared, just waiting for Han Xing's order. Since the Y-8 transport plane was unloaded from the troops, it was immediately loaded on the aerial bomb assembly line designed by Han Xing, and the 25-kilogram and 50-kilogram aerial bombs were loaded onto the plane.

The plane flew over Shiguling, the county seat of Gao'an, and the aerial bombs fell one by one.

It was a brigade of the 106th Brigade of the 102nd Division guarding Shigu Ridge, and the captain of the brigade was Captain Nakano.

Captain Nakano was quite upset for a while. The original 106th Division was just a reserve division of the Japanese army, and although it was a reserve division, its weapons were no worse than those of regular divisions, and its establishment was basically the same. But since the Battle of Wanjialing in the Battle of Wuhan, the 106th Division was surrounded by several times stronger Chinese troops in Wanjialing, and almost all the troops were annihilated.

From then on, the division went downhill, and after the end of the Nanchang counterattack in May 1939, Junrokuro Matsuura withdrew from the position of commander in disgrace, and the new commander was Lieutenant General Ryotaro Nakai.

Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura was regarded as the most humiliating general by the Japanese Army because he was almost captured alive by the Nationalist Army in the Battle of Wuhan and the division was basically wiped out.

The Japanese General Staff transferred a large number of recruits from the Japanese mainland, and some officers and men from the old units, and reluctantly restored the establishment of the 106th Division.

After Nakai Ryotaro took office, he reorganized the 106th Division with great fanfare, and he wanted the 106th Division to shine, so in the Battle of Changsha, his troops led into the right flank of the Chinese army, and then boldly interspersed the interior of the Chinese army, intending to take the lead and wash away the shame of the past.

But Captain Nakano thinks that his soldiers are far inferior to the original ones. There are still too many new recruits and too few veterans, which greatly affects the combat effectiveness of the troops. If the combat effectiveness is insufficient, then it will have to be filled with wisdom.

Just now, the artillery of the Chinese army on the west side of the Jinjiang River came, and his staff officer was a little breathless, and said to Nakano: "Nakano Daisa, we must kill the Chinese artillery." If we can't get rid of China's artillery, then we will only be controlled by others. ”

Nakano Osa smiled and said, "Yours is still too young to understand tactics." This is a test of fire by the Chinese army, they want to expose all our firepower, and then use the rest of the artillery to annihilate us. Tell the troops to hide well, and if anyone exposes the target, military law will do it. ”

Just on the back side of Shigu Ridge, the Nakano Brigade was well hidden, some soldiers were lying in trenches, and some soldiers were hiding in dug air-raid shelters. The artillery fire of the Chinese army could not hit them at all.

An air battle also made Nakano's heart cold, and he said loudly to his staff officers: "Withdraw all the troops to the bomb shelter." The Chinese troops are still very powerful, they have such a powerful air force, we have to guard against their air raids. ”

Just when a battalion of the 417th Regiment attacked Shiguling, the Nakano Brigade had to go all out and beat a battalion of the Chinese army to the ground.

But their bad luck also came.

The modified bombers of the Y-8 transport plane were aimed at Shiguling, and almost 30 meters of aerial bombs were dropped one after another. If you are on the plain, an aerial bomb of 80 to 100 meters can sweep away the little devils. But this is a hill heavily guarded by the enemy, so you have to focus on it.

A 25-kilogram aerial bomb can easily penetrate underground bunkers up to a depth of 2 meters. As for a 50-kilogram aerial bomb, an underground bunker at a depth of 3 meters can also be drilled into it and exploded.

So the trenches, bomb shelters, underground bunkers, all of them don't matter. The Type 92 infantry guns, heavy machine gun squadrons, and more than 1,000 infantry of the Nakano Brigade were all wiped out.

"Boom, boom, boom-" The huge flames were shining, and the pillars of smoke that rushed into the sky rose into the air, and the parts of infantry guns, heavy machine guns, as well as those light machine guns, rifles, and the broken arms and legs of the little devils all flew into the sky.

After the air raid, there was a deathly silence on Shigu Ridge, unlike the last time, that time it was camouflaged, and this time, it really became a dead mountain. The soft red soil on the mountain was turned over several times, the Japanese soldiers died, those who did not die were buried alive, of course, there were lucky ones who did not die, and after a while, one came out of here, and after a while, another one came out of there.

Their faces were covered with dust and terrified, either on their bodies or on their faces covered with blood, and they did not know whether they were seriously or lightly injured, whether they were bloody or the blood of other soldiers.

The main force of the 139th Regiment of the 417th Division of the Chinese Army began to attack, this time under the personal command of Li Zhaoying, the commander of the 139th Division. The first battalion was mutilated because it was used as a meat bullet in the first feint, but the second and third battalions were taken by the whole battalion. The soldiers held rifles in their hands and climbed up, and when they encountered the place of the cliff, they simply tied the rope, and the soldiers below grabbed the rope and climbed up.

It took a while for Nakano to emerge from the red soil. His head was bloody, his body was soaked with blood, and he couldn't figure out where he was wounded. His spirit was extremely sluggish, and he had just come back from a circle from Lord Yama, but Lord Yama did not accept him, he was Japanese, and he had done too much evil, and he had to go through another period of suffering in the world.

Nakano Osa looked at the soldiers on the battlefield, only a few dozen remnants were defeated, most of them were still hanging flowers, and the weapons had just been pulled out of the soil. The soldiers only had rifles, not even many grenades, and they were all buried in the red earth. Important weapons, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and 92 infantry guns, I really can't find any of them.

It seems that Shiguling is really in a desperate situation!

Nakano Osa pulled the red clay for a while, but fortunately, the telephone was exposed. Nakano Osa hurriedly reported the situation on Shigu Ridge to Wing Captain Suzuki weakly: "Report to Wing Captain Suzuki, Shigu Ridge was attacked by the Chinese Air Force, and the whole army was basically wiped out. A regiment of the Chinese army has attacked again, asking for reinforcements! Request support! ”

"Yaga!" Suzuki over there scolded, "You understand, Shiguling is the commanding heights of Gao'an." If Shiguling is lost, Gao'an County will not be able to be saved. You have to persevere to the last soldier and swear to live and die with the position. ”

Nakano Osa said: "I swear to live and die with the position, but the current situation of the stone drum bell is very dangerous, we only have 10 people left, and there are basically no soldiers left. At the very least, you have to give me artillery support, and suppress the artillery fire. ”

"Okay!" When Suzuki heard it, the situation was also quite serious, 10 people guarded Shiguling, how to defend it, and the gods couldn't hold it!? I had to agree to Nakano's request.

After a while, the wing's 12 75mm mountain guns began to wield. Strings of shells bombarded the Chinese troops on Shigu Ridge.

Captain Nakano directly acted as a sentry observer, indicating the direction of the shelling: "Deviate to the left, 100 meters to the right, okay, great, too accurate." Rapid Fire—"

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