The Lunan war situation has developed in the direction of favoring the Chinese army, the attacks of the 4th Division and the 52nd Army have been quite effective, unlike history, the 4th Division was not taken away by Tang Enbo as a reserve, but all of them were put into a counterattack, Zhang Wei's persistence in Yixian County indirectly affected today's counteroffensive.

On the position, after the independent company transferred the wounded, the soldiers regained their positions, and the second battalion position on the other side had the third battalion troops that had just arrived to take over the defense, and after the third battalion troops, Chen Chunyi's regimental headquarters also began to move forward, directly opposite them, was the main position of the Japanese 21st Wing, the strength of the opposite side was probably more than one brigade, and another brigade was responsible for the attack by the 52nd Army, and now the attacking troops have all entered the position, waiting for the order to attack.

All of the three battalions, plus one part of the first battalion, Chen Chunyi and all the people from the regimental headquarters rushed to Zhang Wei's position, and there was no time to set up wired communications, Chen Chunyi could only rely on shouting and communication troops to issue and accept combat orders, Zhang Wei got the following order from the mouth of the communication squad: Take the attack of the 52nd Army as a signal, wait until the mountain artillery battalion of the 4th Division opens fire, and then launch an attack. The order was not complicated, Zhang Wei passed the verbal order to the ears of the four platoon commanders, and these platoon commanders ventilated the squad leaders below, and for a while, almost all of them knew the timing of the attack. In the Japanese position opposite, located behind the positions of the two brigades is the wing headquarters of the 21st Wing, Katano Tasumi took the two brigades as the backbone, and all the engineers, baggage and miscellaneous personnel were sent into the combat units and assigned to fight on the positions, and the necessary troops such as artillery and signal troops were all on standby at any time, and on the artillery positions in the distance, only two of the four 38 field guns were left, and the remaining two were already put on horse-drawn carriages.

The mountain artillery squadrons directly under the wing were all ready to fire, because the ammunition of the mountain artillery was not much left in the battles of the past few days, and now on average, each cannon had less than 20 shells, while the field artillery had 30 rounds, so the mountain artillery had to be the backbone of fire support, and when the shells were finished, it was also the time when these 41 mountain guns were destroyed.

The Japanese troops on the position, with two brigades as a unit, divided the position into two parts, one to deal with the 23rd Regiment, that is, the troops of the 4th Division, and the other side to deal with the 52nd Army. The Japanese soldiers kept complaining about the officers and the people in charge of logistics, each person got only four or five rows of bullets, and the light machine guns were slightly better, with seven or eight rows, but compared to the consumption, these were indeed a little stretched, and near the wing headquarters, Katano had already walked out, and the surrounding soldiers and people from the wing headquarters were packing up their things, and it seemed that they were ready to retreat.

Katano asked the artillery commander about the mountain artillery, and the artillery commander answered him helplessly.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, according to the normal rate of fire, the four wing guns can only fight for less than twenty minutes!"

"Then don't hit according to the normal rate of fire, delay shooting, big delay!" The artillery commander accepted the order and immediately ordered the signal corps to return to the artillery position, convey the order to delay the firing interval, and to fight as sparingly as possible for each gun.

The Japanese artillery had to revise the interval and cancel the salvo fire at the same time, and the four mountain guns and the two field guns all adopted the free-fire method, only the original benchmark guns were retained, and the rest of the work had to be fought slowly by the artillerymen themselves.

As a result, the mood of the Japanese troops in the artillery positions was even lower, and the lack of shells was already very bad, and now such an order would only make morale worse. The main defensive area of the Japanese army is called Honglukou, which is different from the Japanese army near Honglukou, the Chinese army on the opposite side is sharpening its knives, especially on the artillery positions in the rear, the infantry in front has gone through a fierce struggle, and the morale may change, but the artillery in the rear can not care about these, they only know that after the artillery is blown up, the infantry will capture the position of Little Japan!

Since the beginning of the war, it has been a devil bomb, and now that I have blown up the devil, can I not be happy? The field artillery battalion of the 52nd Army and the mountain artillery battalion of the 4th Division all advanced 100 meters, and the artillerymen pushed the artillery by hand, advanced the 75-caliber guns and shells for more than 100 meters, and then reloaded, measured the range, and were ready to fire those revenge shells at any time.

The artillery of the counteroffensive was fired first by the field artillery battalion of the 52nd Army, followed by the mountain artillery battalion of the 4th Division, and this time the ammunition supply was very generous, with at least 20 shells fired from each gun.

Zhang Wei and the officers and soldiers of the independent company were in the position, looking at the Japanese position in the distance, and many of them showed a "knowing smile." ”

The flying shrenchnel caused a lot of damage to the Japanese army, but the number was actually very limited, the Japanese army's concealment and fortifications dug quite well, a few rounds of artillery down, but more than 20 people were killed and wounded, light and heavy machine guns were hidden under the bunkers and sandbags, and there were some temporary firepower points and pillboxes built with wood, which were not spared under the destruction of the shells.

After the artillery bombardment, the infantry rushed, this is an iron law, and the order of attack of the artillery is different, the infantry of the 4th Division first launched a charge, this time, Chen Chunyi personally supervised the battle, the soldiers of the third battalion roared and rushed out of the position, the independent company was not to be outdone, launched an attack on the far right, Zhang Wei was in the middle, low posture rush.

As usual, when they rushed to a distance of more than 150 meters, the Japanese opened fire, and the firepower of the main force of the Japanese army was really not weak.

"Company commander, the devil's firepower is too fierce!" He Kun shouted on the side. Zhang Wei looked at the position and fired roughly at the Japanese machine-gun fire point, but as for whether he hit or not, he didn't know.

The bullets that came knocked down seven or eight soldiers of the separate company.

"Organize grenadiers, hit me, and hit me if you can't hit me." Zhang Wei saw the density of the firepower of a brigade, the officers and soldiers of the independent company immediately turned to a lying position to shoot, constantly crawling forward, the grenadier group roughly aimed, began to fire, of course, the current situation did not allow them to aim carefully, the grenade hit the Japanese position, and some hit the front of the position, the explosion made the Japanese shooting and firepower temporarily stagnant, shrapnel hit several Japanese soldiers, in order to fill the defensive line, the Japanese troops behind immediately came up to replace the dead, and the firepower vacancy was created.

"Up!" The officers and men of the independent company hurriedly seized the opportunity to rush forward, and the light machine gunners simply lowered the light machine gun bipods to shoot in order to reduce the height of the line of fire.

Zhang Wei was shaken into a mouthful of dirt by the shock wave of the explosion, and he couldn't see anything clearly in front of him, relying entirely on the suppressive fire of light machine guns and grenadiers to kill and injure the enemy troops.

The sound was heard, and the fire of the Japanese troops in front of the independent company was reorganized, and the two soldiers who did not have time to lie down were hit by machine gun bullets and fell heavily to the ground. Zhang Wei put down the rifle, at this time, he could only rely on the grenadier, only the determination to die and the suppression of the grenadier could be beaten!