After Qiu Qingquan contacted Li Liangrong, commander of the 46th Division, and Gui Yongqing, commander of the 27th Army, he ordered the prepared battalion to be equipped with a platoon of artillery fighting vehicles (T26 type) to launch an attack in coordination with the 46th Division.

"Hurry up, get into position!" In order to cooperate with the regiment's attack, Zhang Wei took the preparatory battalion and quickly entered the forward position that had been dug long ago.

"All into position, don't scatter." Zhang Wei shouted, the whole battalion entered the forward position, the two wings were two battalions of the 276th Regiment, in order to defeat the enemy in front of them, the 276th Regiment only left one battalion as a reserve, and the other two battalions were all pulled up for the main attack.

The whole battalion made various combat preparations in the forward position, put on bayonets, opened grenade covers, etc., and the prepared soldiers quietly lay down in the position, together with the friendly troops on both wings, waiting for the order to attack, Zhang Wei raised the telescope, the path leading to the Japanese position is very easy to distinguish, as long as you follow the place where the corpses are most densely populated, it is the most ferocious place for the two armies, that is, the main position of the Japanese army.

"Battalion commander, I heard that the Japanese division headquarters on the other side is the regimental headquarters?" Mu Chao leaned beside Zhang Wei and asked softly.

"Otherwise, what do you think you mean by capturing the soil and fertilizer alive?"

"Don't think it's easy to fight, look at those corpses, let's rush over now, and we're only fighting the outer position outside the Sanyi Collection, and it's still far from the core position of the people."

The corpses in Zhang Wei's telescope are mostly the result of fierce battles in the past few days, fortunately, except for the most intense part of the battle, the density of the rest of the corpses is not very large, and the impact on the chariot and charge is not great, according to the battle plan, the 10th Artillery Regiment will shell the periphery and core positions of the Japanese Sanyiji for a while, plus the mortar fire of the 46th Division, will carry out artillery preparation for the Japanese army in a short period of time, and all the infantry in the preparatory battalion will charge, the heavy machine gun company and the 82 mortar platoon will be left in the rear, and the 82 mortars equipped by the preparatory battalion are too heavy, It was impossible to follow the infantry to attack all the way and provide fire cover, but fortunately, a company of six captured Type 89 heavy grenadiers could provide fire cover.

"Battalion commander, contact the friendly forces, stop the shelling, and follow the charge to attack."

In order to coordinate a common bombardment with friendly forces, Zhang Wei sent Qiu Wei to contact various matters, Qiu Wei was from the teaching corps, it was convenient to connect, and the whale was negotiated and coordinated, and the two armies basically determined the principle of attack, prepared the battalion to be in the center, guided the chariots to attack, and the two battalions of the 276th Regiment followed up the attack on both flanks.

In the rear of the 27th Army, a battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment 12 cannons were placed in sequence, ready for firing, this batch of artillery are all German-style SFH18 type, but due to the requirements of the national army for firing range, all artillery barrels are 32 times the diameter of the barrel, which is longer than the German standard artillery. It is customary to call this batch of guns "32 times 15 centimeters heavy howitzers", referred to as "32 times 15 grenades". Due to the increased diameter, the firing range is 2000 meters longer than that of the German-made 15-centimeter sFH18 heavy howitzer.

In the battle a few days ago, this battalion of the 10th Artillery Regiment had already fired a lot of shells, and it was very clear about the position of the Japanese troops in front of them and the firing of Zhu Yuan; due to the distance between the columns, except for the headquarters of the Sanyi Ji enemy division, which could not be completely covered, all its peripheral positions were within the range of 32 times the fifteen howitzers, and there was no need to fire at them.

The grenade had already been loaded, and the breech was filled with the shorter-range No. 1 grenade, and the gunners closed the bolt and adjusted.

"The whole camp is open!" The commander gave the order for the entire battalion to open fire over the phone, and the German artillery roared again.

Zhang Wei and the officers and men of the preparatory battalion could feel the tremor from the ground even if they were lying down in the trenches, and the firing of the 10th Artillery Regiment was almost uninterrupted, completely ignoring the number of shells, firing continuously, and the mountain artillery and mortars of the 46th Division followed closely after the heavy artillery fired, and joined the artillery bombardment, and puffs of thick black smoke rose from the Japanese positions on the opposite side.

The Japanese positions not far away were shelled, although the fierce fighting in the past few days also made them adapt to the rare fierce shelling of the Chinese army, but the heavy artillery of the fifteenth life still knocked open many Japanese fortifications, grenades fell to the ground and exploded, plus the explosive shrapnel of mountain shells and some mortar shells, there were many casualties on the Japanese positions, and many fortifications were blown up and then attacked by fragments.

After about ten minutes, the shelling finally stopped, and the smoke of gunfire was thick on the Japanese positions.

"Ready!" Zhang Wei waved his hand back, and the officers and men of the preparatory battalion were ready to crawl along the outside of the starting position, and the friendly officers and men on both flanks also slowly climbed out of the position at the same time.

Suddenly a high trumpet of the charge sounded from the position, and after the shelling ended, the trumpet was heard, and the attack immediately began.

The officers and men of the reserve battalion and friendly forces should immediately climb out of their positions and rush forward, and the three T26 tanks behind the positions of the reserve battalion will slowly accelerate forward, and when the infantry of the reserve battalion is fully deployed, these stations will overtake the infantry and attack in front.

"It's all in the camp! Charge! ”

Zhang Wei rushed in the middle of the ranks, and there was no lack of battalion and company commanders who personally led the attack among the friendly troops on both flanks, and the soldiers shouted and rushed forward with bayonets, and while rushing forward, they continued to disperse and spread out the formation, and some company platoon commanders shouted the slogan of "capturing Tufeiyuan alive" to lead the team to storm fiercely, and the morale of the entire attacking force was like a wild horse, and went straight to the Japanese position.

"Spread out the whole battalion, let the chariots go forward!"

Zhang Wei shouted, the middle company quickly dispersed, providing space for the three chariots to go forward, the three vehicles accelerated along the huge gap in the first company's team, T26 is a light tank, the speed of going up is also fast, soon overtook the infantry, began to play the real purpose of the chariot, three chariots lined up in a row, in front of the preparatory battalion, twenty meters behind, the main force of the preparatory battalion rushed forward in several skirmisher lines, and rushed forward side by side with the infantry of the preparatory battalion, one by one attacking the skirmisher line under the cover of the three chariots, Attacked the Japanese positions on the outskirts of Sanyiji.

After the shelling, the Japanese position was not a mess, but most of the fortifications that had been built were also destroyed by heavy artillery, and the Japanese army was disgraced and prepared for defense, and the Japanese artillery did not respond after the shelling of the Chinese army.

The Japanese infantry climbed out of the concealment department, set up the hidden light and heavy machine guns, and some civil and wooden temporary bunkers that were not hit by the shells also entered the combat troops, for the attack of the Chinese army, the Japanese army also had to take great precautions, the heavy artillery shelling of the Chinese army is not uncommon, but such a large-scale, long-term artillery bombardment is still the first time, the more fierce the bombing, it means that the intensity of the attack is more and more, not to mention, the earth-shattering shouts from the distance have explained everything.