At the same time, the headquarters strictly ordered the Eastern Henan Corps to take Lanfeng again at all costs, encircle the 14th Division, and launch a general attack two days later to annihilate the 14th Division.

One move loses the whole game.

Now that the important strategic points have been lost, it is not easy to get them back, and the Japanese army is also well aware of the importance of the strategic location of this Lanfeng, and it must be heavily defended.

What is even more troublesome is that now the Japanese army on the north bank of the Yellow River is constantly transporting ammunition, and it is impossible to attack the 14th Division, which lacks guns and ammunition, as before.

But this is already the case, no matter how angry General Xue is, it will be useless, so he can only step up preparations according to the orders of the Supreme Command, and launch a strong attack two days later.

General Xue mobilized the 58th and 155th divisions to attack Luowang Station on the Longhai line west of Lanfeng, the 87th and 88th divisions of the 71st Army continued to attack Lanfeng in the east, and the 46th, 61st, and 106th divisions of the 27th Army attacked Sanyizhai and Dingzhai.

The 1st, 78th and 36th Divisions of the 1st Army, under the command of Hu Zhongnan, attacked Quxingji and Chenliukou on the outer line, and the 51st and 58th Divisions of the 74th Army continued to separate.

The 51st, 20th, and new 35th divisions, under the command of Commander Yu of the 74th Army, went around to the north of Sanyi Village and attacked Yang Qizhu and Lan Fengkou, which can be regarded as the sandwich layer of the inner and outer lines, or can also be called the central flowering.

At 4 a.m. on May 25, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Chinese army launched a general attack on the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in the Lanfeng area.

The mountain artillery battalions of more than a dozen divisions opened fire almost in unison, and almost hundreds of cannons of various types and calibers roared, which was regarded as taking out all the treasures at the bottom of the box for the Chinese army.

After half an hour of artillery support, at half past four, the 51st Division launched a rapid attack on the front line of Chailou, Cailou, Eighteenth Floor, Hezhai, Xuelou, and Baowangsi on the periphery of Sanyi Village, the main position of the Japanese army.

The three battalions of the 305th Regiment took the lead, and the Seventh Company was still used as an arrow, in order to reduce casualties, the Three Dogs and the Seventh Company had already begun to crawl forward to the 200-meter area of the position before the artillery was over.

This area is already close to the death zone, and the normal safe distance for shelling is 400 meters away, at most 300 meters, and if you enter 300 meters, you can easily be killed by shells by mistake.

Sangou has seriously violated battlefield discipline, and if his boss knows about it, he will be punished to death, but Liu Guangyu, the commander of the third battalion, is also a desperate Sanlang, he acquiesced to Sangou's life-fighting behavior, and he couldn't see it in front of him.

Sangou, who has always been relatively stable, why is he so aggressive this time? In addition to facing strong enemies, he also knows more about his mountain artillery.

On this matter, I also specially found the cannon idiot of three rows of long bamboo poles to discuss.

In the end, it was concluded that the lethality of our mountain artillery or other caliber artillery is generally about 300 meters, which has not yet reached the killing distance of more than 400 meters of the Japanese army's 150 field howitzers.

Therefore, Sangou dared to take this risk with the Seventh Company, facing the Japanese defenders of the opposite chailou, he had to take it very quickly and fight quickly, otherwise the longer it dragged on, the more dangerous it would be.

During yesterday's military reconnaissance, the Japanese army's positions on the opposite line, such as Chailou, Cailou, Hezhai, and Xuelou, were very solid and reasonable, with deep trenches dug on the periphery, surrounded by hidden forts, and crisscrossed by ravines.

If the first round of shelling could not smash a hole, relying on the infantry alone to charge, it was basically as many as they could die.

Even if you smash an opening, you have to race against the devil for time in order to occupy the opening, hold the bridgehead position, and infiltrate into both sides to have a chance to lay down this position.

Therefore, this time Sangou did not arrange the whole company to be used as an infantry charge, although the seventh company is a regular infantry company, but it is very different from the infantry company in the traditional sense.

The Seventh Company has its own exclusive four mortars, although the caliber is the smallest 50 guns, but in all the companies, only the Seven Companies have them, and the other companies are just for them, and it is estimated that they will not be able to find a gunner to serve them.

In addition to the rare mortars in infantry companies, the Three Dogs also paid special attention to the composition of grenadiers, and now it has developed to the point that almost every infantry squad has two grenadiers, equipped with a grenadier shooter and an ammunition man and a secondary shooter.

Originally, the machine gun company in the regiment had to follow the orders of the regiment headquarters and give the seventh company a door and a citizen two or four, but the three dogs did not ask for it, and this heavy machine gun was not very suitable for the seventh company, which was good at long-distance running.

Although the Seventh Company is a reinforced company, with a maximum number of about 180 people, the three dogs have never been equipped with heavy machine guns, and this thing is really troublesome to handle.

It's not that there is a shortage of heavy machine guns, but this thing needs at least half a squad or a squad to serve, shooters, sub-shooters, observers, etc., as well as ammunition men, transporters, and it is really a thing that many people take care of.

This weapon, as a conventional weapon in the machine gun company, is very good, especially in positional warfare, it is simply the nemesis of the infantry and the king of gunfire and bullet shooting.

However, the weight is really heavy, and it is not suitable for the seventh company of the mobile unit, so it is better to put it in the machine gun company, and the heavy machine guns of the machine gun company can also be divided into several at any time and go to each company to provide fire support.

Therefore, there is no need for Sangou to raise another heavy machine gun that is difficult to serve, if Da Tu is still here, it is estimated that Da Shu, a heavy machine gun fan, will strongly ask for one, which should meet his requirements.

But now Da Shu is following Niu Gu in the Loyal and Righteous National Salvation Army on the side of Baohua Mountain in Nanjing, and he no longer belongs to the field army, similar to the guerrillas, I don't know if there is a heavy machine gun for him to play with now.

In addition to heavy machine guns, light machine guns are still required, which is a very useful weapon as a fire support for infantry squads, especially imitation Czech light machine guns.

There has been a detailed introduction to this machine gun before, so I won't say much here, just those who have used it, and they all say that it is much better than the devil's crooked neck light machine gun.

Although the light machine gun is not as powerful as the heavy machine gun, it is very flexible when used, and can be picked up and left at any time, and transferred at any time, so as not to be as stupid as a heavy machine gun and become the target of mortars and grenadiers.

The squad can generally deal with the past with two or three people with light machine guns, and the shooter, the deputy shooter and ammunition soldier, with four or five base bullets, can add one or two ammunition soldiers.

The ammunition soldier is not full-time, and generally has a rifleman to serve as a part-time officer, and can also do the protection work of the machine gunner, using the rifle to fight the devils who come to sneak attack the machine gun and enter the dead corner of the machine gun shooting.

Now Sangou and the Seventh Company have touched the edge of the barrage, risking the flying fragments of shells, and even more at the risk of the artillerymen negligently hitting this area.

The bamboo poles of the three rows were mainly responsible for mortars, and as soon as the artillery fire was extended, more than 100 people from the seventh company, under the leadership of the three dogs, immediately rushed into the billowing smoke of gunpowder and flew towards the position of the devils.

There was no tsunami-like shouting and killing, no charge or slogan, as if in a silent movie, everyone rushed forward silently amid the rumbling cannons in the distance.