While the 1st and 4th Companies of the Artillery Battalion were carrying out artillery counterattacks on the Japanese artillery positions, the 5th Company also began to shell the 18th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army above the river.

On the forward position, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment who were full of anger were also firing and strafing all the time.

"Tubu!"

"Da Da Da! ——”

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom! ——”

The guns and cannons on the river continued, and the little devils on the boat were beaten and had no power to fight back.

A row of shells smashed into the river and exploded violently, and the shock wave set off a large wave, and the water column splashed more than 10 meters high, and the battle scene was like a stormy sea.

More than 10 wooden boats and rubber boats were devastated by the cannonballs, shattered by the huge blast wave, and a pile of wood fragments and the corpses of devils floated on the water.

Clusters of flames burned on the hull of the ship, billowing green smoke.

There were also some boats that were directly overturned by the huge shock waves and waves, and hundreds of devil soldiers rolled from the boats into the river.

Some of them were even crushed directly under the overturned ship.

"Ya Butterfly!"

"Help, help me! ……”

Countless devil soldiers struggled in the icy river, some were killed by shells, some were killed by the oncoming rain of bullets, and some were knocked unconscious and drowned in the river.

Then it rushed downstream along the rushing river.

"Baga Ya Road! Don't be afraid, warriors of the Empire, rush over! Beat them! Wipe out all these damn Chinese troops! ”

"Kill the chicken!"

"Kill the chicken and give it! ——”

The fanatical devil commander held the command knife in his hand, waved it forward vigorously, and constantly roared and scolded his subordinates to continue to force the crossing of the Huai River.

However, to continue crossing the river in this situation is simply asking for a dead end!

The devil soldiers were continuously hit by the artillery fire and bullets of the Tiger Regiment, and suffered heavy casualties. As soon as the 5th Artillery Company fired a few waves of rapid fire, more than half of the devil boats crossing the river were destroyed.

Some devils managed to land on the river beach on the north bank with great difficulty, but they were blocked by strong machine-gun fire, and it was difficult to advance an inch at all.

They could only find a suitable position on the spot and lie down, and in the face of the powerful offensive of the Tiger Ben Regiment, they could only shrink their heads and turtles, and they didn't even have a chance to fight back.

But even so, there are still people who are shot through the head by stray bullets that are coming at them.

The rest of the ships were parked on the river, and under the impact of the huge waves of water caused by the explosion of the shells, it became extremely difficult to even maneuver, let alone continue to charge forward in the face of the rain of bullets and bullets of the Tiger Regiment.

Slaughter!

From the moment the Devil Air Force began to return and the Devil Artillery position was countered by the artillery fire of the Tiger Regiment, the situation became a one-sided massacre!

The river is full of struggling devil heads, they are screaming, and from time to time they are poured into their mouths and noses by the waves that hit, and they can't stop coughing!

Thousands of corpses followed, many of them with severed limbs.

A large area of crimson blood flowed into the river, turning the Huai River into a "blood river"!

Taketaro Kawakami, the wing commander of the 18th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, who was supervising the battle on the south bank of the Huai River, saw that his troops were beaten so badly by the Tiger Bun Regiment, and he couldn't help but angrily scold: "Baga Ya Road! Damn it! Damn it! ”

The Tiger Regiment had a strong defensive position, far more firepower than its own, and was supported by heavy artillery.

Taketaro Kawakami knew that if he continued to forcibly cross the river, the 18th Infantry Wing would have only one end, and that was the annihilation of the entire army!

However, before receiving the order, even if his troops were wiped out, he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

Fortunately, at this moment, a signal corpsman suddenly hurriedly rode his horse and brought the order of the division commander Fujita Shin.

After receiving the order to transfer, Taketaro Kawakami was overjoyed, and without the slightest hesitation, he immediately turned his head and shouted to the flag soldier next to him: "Turn in, quickly!" Order the troops crossing the river to move in immediately! Hurry up and drop! ”

"Go in, quick! Order the troops crossing the river to move in immediately! Hurry up and drop! ”

At this time, the sound of guns and cannons on the battlefield can almost break people's eardrums, not to mention the distance of hundreds of meters, even if they are facing each other and shouting by their necks, the other party may not be able to hear it clearly.

Therefore, on the fierce battlefield, it is generally the flag soldiers who give orders instead of the commander to provide tactical guidance to the attacking troops.

Command the attacking troops to change formations to attack, or retreat.

When the devil attack troops on the river received the order to retreat, they immediately turned their boats around as if they had been pardoned, rowed their boats back towards the south bank, and fled from the river in embarrassment!

"Ge Laozi, want to run? It's not that easy! ”

After Yang Jing found out that the devil was about to evacuate, he immediately turned his head and shouted to Ma Tong next to him: "Ma Tong! Immediately pass my order and let the artillery battalion temporarily stop countering the Japanese artillery positions!

Concentrate your firepower on me and take out this devil river-crossing force! Leave it in the Huai River and feed it to Wang Ba! They must not be allowed to escape back! ”

"Yes!"

Ma Tong straightened up, suddenly received the order, and immediately ran quickly towards the telephone not far away.

After receiving the order, the artillery battalion immediately turned its guns and launched a concentrated bombardment of the devils of the 18th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army on the river.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom! ——”

More dense shells fell, and the entire river seemed to be overturned.

In the process of evacuating, countless devils were either directly blown up, or swept away by huge shock waves and water waves.

The casualties of the Japanese army immediately skyrocketed!

The devils finally returned to the South Shore, but the nightmare did not end there.

The cannonballs fired by the Tiger Regiment continued to chase them as if they were longer.

Frightened, a group of devil soldiers continued to flee in embarrassment, like a group of lost dogs.

In the end, more than two-thirds of the more than 3,000 devils of the 18th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army were killed or wounded, and only nearly 1,000 devils escaped alive.

……

On the north bank of the Huai River, Yang Jing saw the Japanese army's river-crossing troops retreating in defeat, and his telescope looked to other places to observe.

While observing, he is also thinking far-reachingly.

With his understanding of the Japanese, these guys will never give up after suffering such a big loss!

In general, they would immediately launch a retaliatory bombardment. Therefore, Yang Jing asked the artillery battalion to prepare for anti-artillery, and once the Japanese army retaliated, it would immediately carry out artillery countermeasures against the Japanese artillery.

Just waited for a few minutes, and the Japanese troops on the south bank did not make any movement, which couldn't help but make Yang Jing a little surprised.

……

The picture pulls to the south bank of the Huai River.

When he learned from the mouth of Chief of Staff Taren Toshio that the 18th Infantry Wing had suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties in the battle across the river, Fujita Susumu couldn't help but be so angry that his facial muscles trembled violently.

In just one day, two of the four field infantry wings under the command of his 3rd Division were completely annihilated and one was severely damaged.

Today, only the 29th Wing under the command of the 34th Infantry Brigade is still combative.

With this amount of troops, not to mention whether it can tear through the defense line of the Huai River and land on the north bank.

Even if they can land, they may not be able to defeat the Tiger Bun.

The chief of staff, Tian Yuan Li Xiong Dasa, continued to report hard: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, there is very unfortunate news, and I must report to you for my humble duties!" ”

And another piece of unfortunate news?

Fujita's heart tightened, and he subconsciously asked in a deep voice, "What news?" ”

Tian Yuan Li Xiong said: "In this battle, in addition to the heavy casualties of the 18th Infantry Wing of the Imperial Army, the boats used to cross the river lost more than 90%.

Unless they are replenished, the remaining ships may not be able to support the next river-crossing attack of the Imperial Army! ”

It turned out that Fujita Susuru, who had calmed down, had already planned to stop the attack, and at this time, Tayuan Toshio's words just gave him a step.

However, he still said with a gloomy face: "If there are not enough boats, then build a pontoon bridge!" ”

Tian Yuan Lixiong hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, the division commander, can't!" Now it has been raining for several days, and the water potential of the Huai River has risen, which has added a lot of difficulty to building a pontoon bridge.

Of course, it is not that the pontoon bridge cannot be built, but before the firepower of the Chinese army is completely suppressed, if the imperial army forcibly builds a pontoon bridge, it is very likely to be attacked and harassed by the Chinese army.

In particular, the Tiger Regiments of the Chinese Army are equipped with a large number of artillery, and we may be able to use aviation to suppress them, but it is absolutely impossible to destroy them all! ”

After a pause, Tian Yuan Toshio continued: "The construction of pontoon bridges is not essentially for combat troops to cross the river, but for the use of logistics baggage troops.

Therefore, even if we want to build a pontoon bridge, we must do so after the attacking troops land on the opposite bank and suppress the Chinese army!

Otherwise, forcibly building a pontoon bridge will only make the imperial army suffer greater losses! ”

Fujita Jin gritted his back molars and said, "Even if we can't continue to launch the battle of crossing the river for the time being, we will definitely not let this hateful tiger group have a good time!"

Pass my order, the 3rd Wing of the Field Artillery and the 1st Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery are ready to attack!

As soon as the Imperial Army Aviation Unit flies over the Huai River and suppresses the artillery of the Tiger Regiment of the Chinese Army, we will immediately bombard it! ”

"Hello!"

Hearing that the division commander Fujita Susumu had given up his plan to continue the battle across the river, Chief of Staff Taren Toshio finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then paused heavily and turned around and ran towards the artillery position.

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The north bank of the Huai River.

There must be demons in the impermanence of the world, and the little devil did not immediately launch a retaliatory bombing, and must be brewing a bigger conspiracy.

Yang Jing estimated that the little devils might be afraid that they would be countered by their own artillery fire when they were firing.

Therefore, they are waiting for their air force to return to the battlefield and then launch a three-dimensional ground-air joint bombing of their own positions.

With the little devil's hatred for him, I am afraid that the next bombing will be more violent than the previous one.

It is worth mentioning that Hefei was already occupied by the Japanese army at this time.

If the devil air force takes off from Hefei, a round trip, even if it includes replenishment of ammunition and fuel, will not take more than two hours.

If the devil air force had taken off in batches, it would have been faster.

Thinking about this, Yang Jing immediately ordered the officers and men of the 3rd and 4th battalions to evacuate the front-line positions, and at the same time asked the artillery battalion to pay attention to transfer and conceal.

And inform the ministries that they are ready to release smoke bombs at any time.

Then Yang Jing sent sappers to start a large area of minelaying along the river beach, in place of the forward troops to block the Japanese army from crossing the river.

Sure enough!

Half an hour later, the sappers of the battalions of the Tiger Regiment had just finished laying mines, and the roar of the rapid fighter engines came from the south bank of the Huai River.

Then, under the cover of the suppression of aviation, the ground artillery of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army also began to shell the Tiger Regiment.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom! ——”

The sound of explosions one after another suddenly resounded in the sky, and the entire Tiger Ben regiment's position, especially the forward position, was almost blown into a sea of fire.

The combined ground-air bombardment of the Japanese army lasted for nearly two hours, and it was not until the air force ran out of fuel and stopped suppressing the threat to the Huben regiment that the ground artillery cluster of the 3rd Division gradually stopped bombing the Huben regiment.

Smoke grenades can block the view of the devil's air force, but they cannot resist the devil's dive-strafing and bombing.

When the smoke cleared, and then looked at the forward position of the Tiger Regiment, it had already been blown up and devastated, and the huge craters were densely packed, one after another.

The sand and mud kicked up by the shock wave filled in the entire forward trench.

It is conceivable that even if the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment were not killed, they would have to be buried alive in the sand and mud.

Some of these aerial bombs and artillery shells were also dropped on the river beach, and at the same time as the explosion detonated a number of mines.

I have to say that this can be regarded as an unexpected joy under the joint bombing of the ground and air of the devils.

Fujita Jin shot angrily, and this wave of bombing was very powerful.

Although Yang Jing had taken precautions in advance, hundreds of soldiers of the Tiger Ben Regiment were still killed and injured by the explosion.

As soon as the bombing ended, the soldiers of the battalions immediately joined forces with the doctors and nurses of the field hospital and began to intensively rescue the wounded.

10 minutes later, the phone in the command suddenly remembered.

The call was made by Wei Shidong, the commander of the 31st Army, who inquired about the battle just now and learned that the Japanese army had been defeated by the Tiger Ben Regiment again, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

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