"That's nature, as the Chinese saying goes: kill chickens with a cattle knife." In the first battle of Beiguancun, the two cavalry squadrons were annihilated by the new regiment, and they were all annihilated, which is enough to show how difficult the troops under the command of Li Yunlong are! Taking advantage of the fact that Li Yunlong is arrogant now, he actually dares to confront the onslaught of the strength of one of my brigades and regiments, then let him not be arrogant, and all the brigades and regiments will press up and storm the Zhina army! ”

Itagaki Seishiro's short body was shocked, and he suddenly raised his right hand and raised it fiercely, pointing in the direction of the new blocking position on the periphery of Zhaojiayu in front of him.

Ueno was frowning and said, "Division commander, is it too extravagant to press all the troops to storm Zhaojiayu at one time?" What's more, the terrain conditions of Zhaojiayu can't allow us to launch a brigade to attack! ”。

When Seishiro Itagaki heard this, he picked up the binoculars again and observed the outer position of Zhaojiayu not far away.

"Yo Xi, I'm a little anxious. In this case, first order the 41st Wing to attack first and launch a multi-layered offensive formation. Let's first tentatively attack the outer positions of Zhaojiayu and feel the deployment of Li Yunlong. Itagaki Seishiro came back to his senses from the bloody scene, even if there were many troops in his hands, under the terrain conditions of Zhaojiayu, it was impossible to deploy all the strength of a brigade.

In fact, Itagaki Seishiro knew that when attacking the outer positions of Zhaojiayu, the two squadrons were up to the sky. Otherwise, too many troops are blocked together, and they will use other people's machine guns as targets.

Ueno Masashi breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "Hayi, Your Excellency the division commander, I will draw up an attack plan immediately. ”。

Itagaki Seishiro nodded, didn't say anything more, but continued to observe the fortifications built by the new regiment on the periphery of Zhaojiayu with a solemn expression.

At this time, when Seishiro Itagaki commanded the Japanese army to begin preparations for the attack, Li Yunlong and the others were also preparing.

Zhao Jiayu's defensive operation, Li Yunlong's plan was to withstand it for half an hour. After all, the two wings of Seishiro Itagaki combined into a brigade of strength to attack onslaught, even Zhang Dabiao's battalion was awesome, but the comparison of numbers and firepower was still very different.

Therefore, half an hour of blocking battle is already the limit. If you fight to the death for an hour, the casualties of a battalion will be very large.

Under the command of Li Yunlong, Zhang Dabiao used one company to guard Zhaojiayu South Village, one company to guard Zhaojiayu North Village, and the other company divided into two parts to hold the left and right flanks of the village to cover the flanks of the troops. The rest of the fighters, as reserves, are ready to launch a counter-charge at any time to support.

"Report to the Captain! The little devil is moving. In the temporary headquarters of Zhaojiayu North Village, a soldier reported to Li Yunlong Lizheng.

When Li Yunlong heard this, he walked to the roof of the headquarters in an instant and observed the south side covertly.

I saw through the binoculars that the headquarters of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, under the orders of Seishiro Itagaki and Masashi Ueno, launched an offensive formation of a wing.

However, even if the Japanese army launched an attack formation of a wing, in the small village of Zhaojiayu, it was obviously useless to have so many offensive troops. The devils can only concentrate two squadrons or so of soldiers to attack, otherwise, a swarm of attacks can only be used as targets for the guns in the hands of the soldiers of the new regiment and battalion in the outer positions.

"Special mother, tell Zhang Dabiao immediately, the first wave of the devil's attack has withstood me! Hit hard! Li Yunlong sneered, waved his hand and shouted to a herald behind him.

The heralds of the first battalion of the new regiment immediately saluted: "Yes, regimental commander!" Then he turned and ran away.

At this time, Zhang Dabiao, who soon received Li Yunlong's order, also came to the direction of Zhaojiayu Nancun in person, relying on the temporary headquarters bunker, and personally commanded the battle on the front line.

"Okay, I got it! Go back and tell the regiment commander to ensure that the task is completed. Commander Zhang Dabiao shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand lightly to the heralds who came to deliver the order.

"Yes, Battalion Commander!" After the herald saluted, he returned to Beicun to report to Li Yunlong.

At this time, the 41st Wing under the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Itagaki Division finally began to move.

I saw that Yamazaki, the commander of the 41st Wing of the Japanese Army, under the order of Ueno Masa, first excluded all three infantry squadrons under the command of the 1st Infantry Brigade under his command and pressed them up, and launched the first round of tentative attacks.

"Order the 1st Infantry Brigade, give it to me! Order the artillery squadron to bomb me hard and cover the infantry attack! Kill, fire! Offensive! Yamazaki stood in the rear of the wing in a murderous volley, drew the samurai saber he carried with him, and slashed down the peripheral blocking position built by the new regiment in the direction of Zhaojiayu South Village, and gave the combat order to attack.

"Hayi, Your Excellency Dazuo!" The Japanese herald, who was standing beside Yamazaki and was ready to listen to orders, paused heavily, and immediately rushed to the direction of the position of the artillery squadron directly under the wing in the rear.

A wing of the Japanese army was attached to an artillery squadron, and there were at least six Type 92 infantry guns, and the firepower was very powerful.

After the order was given, the Japanese artillery squadron of the 41st Wing immediately launched an artillery reconnaissance, and after determining the coordinates of the artillery bombardment, the little devil began the shelling.

The Devil's artillery unit was well-trained, and although there were no observation balloons to assist in the determination of the shelling coordinates, the Devils still used the primitive thumb ranging method to make preliminary observations of the Zhaojiayu outlying positions constructed by the new regiment and one battalion.

Then the devil fired a correction round, and then ordered a large-scale artillery bombardment.

"The target is the Zhaojiayu position of the Zhina Army, a distance of one hundred and eighty meters, zero and six to the left, plus two to the height, six rapid fire, ready, put!" The short body of Captain Saka Iippei, the commander of the Japanese artillery squadron, couldn't help but fight, and he raised the command flag in his hand with murderous spirit, and ordered the devil artillery under his command to open fire immediately.

With the sound of a piece of bang, a blazing cannonball with a long tail flame smashed into Zhao Jiayu with a scream.

The terrifying shells landed and exploded, and Zhao Jiayu was immediately plunged into a cloud of artillery smoke. Many of the houses of the common people in Zhaojiayu, as well as the positions built by the new regiment, were caught in the thick of artillery fire.

"Boom, boom, boom!!!"

The constant shelling weighed down the battalion so much that it couldn't raise its head.

In particular, the first battalion and the first company at the front, Sun Dehai's headquarters were taken care of by the devil's artillery fire, and the positions were loosened by the bombing.

In the trenches of the outlying positions of Zhaojiayu South Village, Sun Dehai, the commander of a company sent on the edge of the trenches, did not have time to count the losses of the troops at the end of the shelling, and soon found the infantry figure of the devil in the smoke of the artillery fire that was about to disperse! That's how the first head-to-head confrontation came!