Just when the 23rd Regiment was approaching the Longshan area, Chen Daqing, the commander of the 4th Division, stood in the temporary bunker and observed the Japanese position opposite with a gun scope.

Longshan and Dangshan are the two key points occupied by the Japanese army, and it is much more difficult to capture them both than Hushan that Zhang Wei and they attacked. Chen Daqing has confidence, and now his morale is flourishing, because the news that the 23rd Regiment has taken Hushan has spread, and the capital in his hands is also sufficient, and the main force of the division has arrived, including the mountain artillery battalion under the division, and he plans to use all the 12th Brigade, including the 23rd Regiment and the 24th Regiment to participate in the counterattack, and the 10th Brigade, which has not yet been launched, will wait until the 12th Brigade is completed to counterattack Longshan, and the two brigades will join forces to attack the Japanese troops in the area of Dangshan and Luofeng Mountain.

It was now noon on the 16th, Chen Daqing glanced at his pocket watch, and after a while, the attack was about to begin, and he ordered Shi Jue, the commander of the 10th Brigade, to personally lead the team and swear to take this position.

On the forward positions of the 12th Brigade, the 24th Regiment, which had not experienced a major battle, had long since entered the position and waited for orders. On the other side, the 23rd Regiment had just arrived, the vanguard was entering the position, and the commander of the 12th Brigade was listening to Chen Chunyi's report on the battle situation at the temporary command post.

"Brigade seat, the battle situation is like this, we took Hushan, more than 500 casualties, and more than 200 Japanese were killed by us, and they all relied on the help of Company Commander Zhang."

Zhang Wei was listening on the side, Chen Chunyi, this kid was quite righteous and mentioned himself.

Shi Jue stood up and shook hands with Zhang Wei: "Thank you, you are worthy of us, thank you so much." "Zhang Wei is a member of the 200th Division, and the 200th Division doesn't even dare to offend Commander Tang, of course he has to say a few polite words.

"It's all the national army, what's polite."

Then Shi Jue discussed the attack plan with the commanders of the 23rd and 24th regiments, Zhang Wei listened to it and didn't interject, after all, they were all senior officers, and besides, a brigade-scale counterattack, Zhang Wei was not interested in it now, and he was not qualified to interject.

Longshan, the Japanese army on the position is stepping up the construction of fortifications, after the withdrawal of the 63rd Wing, only one of them is left with a complete brigade and the Chinese army on the opposite side to confront the Chinese army, according to the previous engagement, the Chinese army on the opposite side has only one infantry division at most, according to past experience, a brigade of the imperial army can hold a division of the Chinese army.

However, the Japanese were still very worried, and the two infantry squadrons, heavy machine gun squadrons, and infantry artillery squadrons of the Second Brigade were stationed in Yongsan, in other words, except for one infantry squadron left by the Second Brigade to meet at Dangshan, all other units were concentrated in Yongsan.

The plan of Chen Daqing, commander of the 4th Division, was as follows: to launch an attack with Shi Juezhi's 12th Brigade, first launch a tentative attack with the strength of a regiment, and then launch a general attack according to the situation.

Shi Jue received the order and decided to attack with the 24th Regiment that was not damaged, and the 23rd Regiment did not move for the time being, waiting for the order. As soon as the order was issued, the 24th Regiment was ready for the attack, and the infantry had their bayonets on and were ready for action.

Because it was a tentative attack, Chen Daqing did not let the mountain artillery battalion cover (another reason was that the shells were expensive), Shi Jue concentrated the 82mm mortar companies of the 24th and 23rd regiments, and Zhang Wei also wanted to help when he saw this situation, so he asked Dong Erli to take people there.

Shi Jue expressed his gratitude to Zhang Wei, even a mortar is a matter of affection, 13 mortars are lined up in the front line, ready to fire.

The first attack was a battalion of the 24 regiment, all three infantry companies in the battalion were dispatched, the heavy machine gun company was inconvenient to move, and after the infantry began to charge, it advanced 150 meters and took cover on the spot.

Shi Jue had just received an order from Chen Daqing to start the attack, and he passed the order to the commander of the 24th Regiment and the mortar group, and the 82 mortars lined up began to fire, and hundreds of mortar shells were fired at Longshan.

The Japanese troops in Yongsan were a little surprised, they were bombarded at the beginning, although they were mortar shells, but they couldn't stand it much, and after two rounds of shelling, the Japanese army had already suffered casualties.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the trumpeters of the 24th Regiment blew the trumpet of the charge, and the officers and men of the 24th Regiment, who had been fighting for a long time, rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards the predetermined target. As soon as the infantry rushed out, the officers and men of the heavy machine gun company slowly followed up with heavy machine guns and rifles.

As usual, the charging troops were not stopped at first, and the formation of the three infantry companies was slightly disorganized, and the officers formed a formation as they charged, spreading out as much as possible. Some soldiers who had never fought were very relaxed, and they rushed for so long without a bullet hitting them.

Da Da, the heavy machine gun company that stopped behind the infantry passed through the gap where there was no infantry on its own side, and fired suppressively at the Japanese position in the distance, and no one could be seen or the position clearly, so it was just suppressive shooting.

The bullets hit the Japanese positions, kicking up layers of smoke and floating earth, and the Japanese soldiers lay their weapons flat on the ground and cowered in the trenches to avoid bullets. Several screams were heard, several people were hit by heavy machine gun bullets, and one who was not dead rolled wildly on the ground, out of the cover of the cover, he was hit again, but this time there was no chance of survival.

The Chinese troops seemed to have rushed to a distance of 200 meters, and the Japanese soldiers, under the supervision of officers and non-commissioned officers, got up and operated the weapons in their hands, and in the flanks and rear of the position, two Type 92 infantry guns were ready.

The Chinese soldiers were still charging, and some officers, anticipating the coming fire, began to shout: "Bend down, be careful." ”

Boom, a shell exploded in the charging ranks, the 92 infantry guns fired, and then the firearms in the hands of the infantry began to fire, heavy machine guns and grenadiers repeatedly attacked, and the Chinese soldiers who were still rushing just now were knocked down in a large area, and the experienced veterans lay directly on the ground, shooting at the Japanese troops on the position with rifle machine guns.

"Steady, steady, don't mess up."

Shi Jue and Chen Daqing observed the battle situation in the headquarters respectively, the purpose of this attack was mainly to test, the Japanese army had artillery and heavy machine guns, and quite a number of grenadiers!

The front firing continued, and most of the soldiers chose to lie down and shoot slowly, at which point the Japanese infantry guns stopped firing and the grenadiers became the main artillery support.

There were constantly soldiers who did not want to die and stood up directly and tried to rush through the Japanese positions, but unfortunately, they were unsuccessful, the Czechs were erected on the ground, strafing the Japanese positions in the distance, many of the main shooters of the machine gun group were targeted by the Japanese rifles, coupled with the attack of grenadiers, the shooters were injured and killed.

The Japanese also suffered casualties in the attack, and the bullets from the Chinese army always carried out some unlucky ghosts.

The battalion commander who led the team fired a few shots with a barge gun, looked at the blocked troops, and thought of the order issued by the regiment commander.

It's time to withdraw!