Under Zhu Niang Ridge, the 373rd Regiment of the 63rd Division defended the position.

As mentioned above, the commander of the 63rd Division, Yan Jingguo, relied on the echelon arrangement of the three main regiments of the highway to build a total of three lines of defense, of which the 373rd Regiment was the last line of defense of the whole division.

At this moment, this last line of defense is about to collapse.

But it was at least an hour before it got dark.

At the moment of life and death, Yan Jingguo decided to personally lead the death squad to counterattack!

In the attack position, more than 200 death squads have been assembled, more than 200 death squads, each with a steel helmet, a Bergman submachine gun, and eight grenades!

"Brethren!" Yan Jingguo's gaze swept over the faces of more than two hundred death squads, and he said in a deep voice, "The 28th Army has surrounded a wing of devils in Xinchang, whether they can destroy this wing of little devils depends on how long we can block the devil's reinforcements in Zhuniangling!" ”

"Division Commander Tao sent a telegram saying that as long as our 63rd Division holds out until dawn tomorrow, they will be confident that they will take out the 54th Infantry Wing of Dog Day!"

"How is it, do you have the confidence to hold out until dawn tomorrow?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! More than 200 Sanxiang disciples responded violently.

"Okay, there's momentum!" Yan Jingguo clicked open the submachine gun and shouted, "Then follow Lao Tzu to take back the lost position and drive the little devil back!" ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" The team roared wildly.

With one more move, more than 200 daredevils rushed towards the front like a flood that broke the embankment, and then quickly overflowed the friendly defensive positions and launched a counter-assault on the Japanese army.

As the division commander, Yan Jingguo is also the first soldier and braves the arrow.

The Japanese army obviously did not expect that the national army would launch such a counter-assault at this time, and it was stunned.

After a moment of firefighting, the Japanese army was defeated, and the Nationalist death squad successfully restored the third line of defense, but before the brothers of the Death Squad could catch their breath, the screech of shells came from overhead.

Immediately afterward, rows of shells rained down.

"Boom!" Then there were continuous violent explosions, and the earth shook.

The retaliatory shelling of the Japanese lasted more than a quarter of an hour, and after the shelling was over, the defensive positions of the 373rd Regiment were completely covered in gunsmoke.

Yan Jingguo was also almost buried alive.

When the guards dug Yan Jingguo out of the mound, they were already out of breath.

The medics did several minutes of artificial respiration, and Yan Jingguo finally recovered from his breath-holding state, first taking a deep breath greedily, and then his breathing finally returned to the same as before.

"!" The first thing Yan Jingguo said after waking up was to curse, "If you don't have a gun, you will suffer!" It would be nice if we had an artillery regiment, even if it was just an artillery battalion! ”

The medic and a few guards looked at each other and smiled bitterly, artilleryman?

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Two kilometers west of Teapot Pass, there is a mound.

Because it was already dark, the Japanese troops on the opposite side did not notice that there were people on the mound.

At this moment, the people lying on the mound, in addition to Tao Liu, the commander of the 60th Division, and Zhong Guangren, the deputy commander of the division, also included Bao Dafu, the commander of the artillery regiment directly under the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps, and an observer of the artillery regiment.

The observer set up the artillery mirror and began to determine the bearing and distance of the Japanese position on the opposite side.

Zhong Guangren waited a little impatiently and asked, "Captain Bao, how is it?" Is the measurement ready? ”

"Deputy Division Commander Zhong, don't worry." Bao Dafu frowned and said, "Measuring Zhuyuan is a technical job, and there must be no mistakes, otherwise wasting artillery shells is a small matter, and it will harm the brothers of the 62nd Division!" ”

"Yes, yes, we're not in a hurry." Tao Liu hurriedly said, "Captain Bao, you measure slowly." ”

After finishing speaking, Tao Liu turned around and glared at Zhong Guangren, and Zhong Guangren could only close his mouth.

After almost a quarter of an hour, it was already dark, and the observer finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Bao Dafu said to Tao Liu: "Master Tao, the shooting Zhuyuan has been calibrated, but before the large-scale artillery bombardment begins, a single test shot will be conducted. ”

Tao Liu nodded and said in a deep voice: "Then let's start the test firing." ”

"Yes!" Bao Dafu responded, immediately grabbed the telephone microphone, and whispered into the telephone microphone, "Attention to all gun positions, pay attention to all gun positions, now calibrate Zhu Yuan, now calibrate Zhu Yuan!" ”

"Ruler, three thousand two hundred meters! Repeat, the ruler is 3,200 meters! ”

"Directions, one degree east-southeast! Repeat, one scale east-southeast of the azimuth! ”

With Bao Dav's command, the artillerymen of forty-eight mortars, scattered within a kilometer behind the mound, began to intensely calibrate the artillery to fire at Zhu Yuan.

By the way, the artillery regiment arrived at Xinchang at about five o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as he arrived in Xinchang, Tao Liu asked the artillery regiment to rush to the teapot pass non-stop.

When they arrived at Teapot Pass, they quickly selected the back of the mound as the artillery position, because the terrain here is relatively hidden, and there is a mound to cover it when the shelling is carried out, and it is difficult for the devil artillery on the opposite side to determine their position, and they cannot determine their position.

After a while, reports of various gun positions came from the telephone one after another.

"Report to the regimental headquarters, the first gun position is ready!"

"Report to the regimental headquarters, the second gun position is ready!"

……

"Report to the regimental headquarters, the forty-eighth gun position is ready!"

After two minutes, all the mortars of the artillery regiment were ready.

Bao Dafu shouted into the microphone: "No. 1 gun position, one test shot!" ”

The next moment, there was a "tom" sound behind the mound.

Tao Liu and Zhong Guangren hurriedly looked back, and saw a faint red light rising from under a mound, followed by a piercing scream passing overhead.

Hearing the screaming, Tao Liu and Zhong Guangren looked back in the direction of the teapot pass.

After a few seconds, a cloud of red light rose from the Japanese position in Teapot Pass.

Seeing this sudden blooming red light, Tao Liu and Zhong Guangren couldn't help but shout hello!

His grandmother is a bear, and she has suffered so many cannons from the little devils, and it is time for the little devils to take our cannons!

The observer hand lying on the earthen soldier looked through the artillery mirror to observe the landing point of the shell, and then recalculated, and after a while, the calculated parameters were reported to Bao Daf.

Bao Dafu re-reported the corrected firing yuan to the various gun emplacements.

Each artillery bombardment corrected the shooting elements, that is, prepared for cluster shelling.

Bao Dafu turned his head to Tao Liu and said, "Master Tao, we are ready!" ”

"Ready?" Tao Liu said, "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and start your performance!" Let the little devils of the dog day also understand the power of Chinese artillery! ”