After launching an attack on the positions on the left flank of the road, the attacking first brigade was in full swing, and fierce fighting was engulfed on both the left and right sides of the road.

On the left flank, the main force of the attacking force and the main force of the teaching brigade attacked, and on the right side of the road, the Japanese army, equipped with two infantry guns, attacked Mu Chao's second squadron with a relatively small number of troops.

Not long after the Japanese troops who attacked the main force of the teaching brigade entered the combat state, they felt unprecedented pressure, and their attacking troops rushed into 100 meters, but it was very difficult to advance, and it was almost impossible to make rapid progress under dense firepower, and the terrain was extremely inferior.

The path of the Japanese attack in front of the left flank position was almost entirely open land, except for a few natural ditches that were not deep, and the river was flat.

Zhang Wei observed the situation in the command post, and without giving a command order, the devils in front of the village had already paid a lot of casualties.

The first squadron occupies the entrance of the village and the houses, and can shoot calmly, not only light machine guns and heavy machine guns, but also ordinary infantry with rifles, can fire relatively calmly.

Organize rifle platoon shooting, because the fortifications of the civilian houses just give the soldiers a stable and relatively safe shooting environment, and the pressure of the Japanese army can be imagined.

"Ready! Put! ”

The side of Zheng Yiqun, the leader of the third squadron, burst out four faint smokes, four five-zero grenadiers, gathered together to fire a salvo, and four grenades flew out of the grenadiers, flew out of more than 70 meters, and landed at the end of the formation of the Japanese infantry detachment.

Next to a Type 92 heavy machine gun crew, the explosion of four 50 mm grenades knocked out the heavy machine gun, attacking the Japanese troops on the left flank of the road, there was no artillery to accompany them, only heavy machine guns could provide them with fire support.

Four grenades were thrown in exchange for the dumb fire of this machine gun, killing two Japanese soldiers in the machine gun crew, and the 92 heavy machine gun was also overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the spare machine gun ammunition exploded into a mess, and the personnel of the machine gun crew were either killed or injured.

"Fight beautifully, go on!" Zheng Yiqun shouted excitedly.

As soon as the machine gun fire was less, the pace of the Japanese troops attacking the position of the third squadron slowed down significantly, and the position held by the third squadron of Zheng Yiqun was connected with the village position where the main force of the brigade was located, but there was no innate advantage of the first squadron's civilian houses, and the trenches were dug out by the soldiers little by little, which was similar to the position of the second squadron, and was far less solid than the first squadron, so the difficulty of the battle was much greater than that of the first squadron.

The Japanese also knew that trench field battles were easier to fight than village fortifications, so the attacking forces were also tilted towards the positions of the 3rd Squadron.

"Squadron leader, no, if you continue to fight, this grenadier will be wasted." The squad leader of the small artillery squad directly under the third squadron pointed to the grenadier in his hand and said, these four grenadiers are all smoking, and there are two boxes of grenade ammunition boxes near the shooters, which shows the great intensity of the firing, just now each grenadier has fired more than 20 grenades, and the attacking Japanese army is not lightly bombed.

Of course, grenade throwing was not fought in vain, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers twisted in front of the position of the 3rd Squadron are the best proof of this.

Attacking all the first brigades of the teaching brigade, the battle did not go well, and Takeda Masayuki, who was leading the reserves in the back, understood that this was a fight with the elite main force of the Chinese army, and the firepower was not as fierce, and the combat quality was also very high.

Now that the whole line is being fired, or the Japanese army is moving forward with difficulty, Takeda put the reserves in his hands to reinforce the positions on both sides of the road, and ordered the 92nd Infantry Artillery Squad that bombarded the position of the 2nd Squadron to adjust the direction of attack, and concentrate on bombarding the villages on the left flank of the road and the positions of the 3rd Squadron of the defenders!

Now that the Japanese army is making slow progress, if we have to compare, Takeda believes that the direction of the third squadron can be slightly easier to break through, and there is also a lack of artillery cover, and it is difficult to open the breakthrough with heavy machine guns alone, as for the position of the second squadron, Takeda simply ordered the attacking troops to maintain the status quo and maintain contact.

In doing so, in essence, Takeda had already judged the center of gravity of the defense, and the Chinese army had a larger defensive force on the left side of the road than on the right, and transferred the infantry artillery squad to increase a certain number of attack forces.

Takeda still wanted to break through in one fell swoop and destroy the main position of the Chinese army, and pursued a quick victory, so he adopted a negative attitude towards Mu Chao's second squadron and turned to attack the stronger right position.

Takeda's behavior of attacking the strong and abandoning the weak was still affected by the urgent need for reinforcements from the defenders at Kunlun Pass.

The gunners of the 92nd Infantry Artillery Squad pushed the artillery, bent over, and risked being hit by stray bullets and machine guns of the Teaching Brigade, crossed the road, changed the firing position, and immediately began to attack the position on the left side of the road.

After four rumbling cannon shots, two seventy-millimeter infantry artillery shells flew towards the positions of the defenders of the left position.

The first round of artillery was the first squadron guarding the village, two shells smashed into the houses, and half of the squad that opened fire in the houses at the entrance of the village was hit by the shells, and only one of them came out, and the rest were all dead, and the explosion blew up the building materials and mounds of the houses into the sky, causing the officers and men of the surrounding squadron to eat a mouthful of soil.

Two other shells hit the positions of the 3rd Squadron, one killed several soldiers, and the other destroyed a Czech light machine gun crew of the 3rd Squadron.

Zhang Wei was in the village, and after this round of artillery came down, he felt that the situation was wrong, and the attack intensity of the devils had increased significantly, so Zhang Wei walked out of the command post with the signal corps and Li Shaoyan, the platoon leader of the heavy firepower platoon.

"Give He Jinhai an order and prepare for battle." The signal corpsman received the order and immediately went to the engineer platoon to give the order.

The Japanese artillery came up, and the command post was not safe, maybe the next round of artillery could bombard the house of the command post, Zhang Wei and a group of people walked out of the command post, and the village was bombarded, but the troops were not in chaos.

I saw He Kun, the platoon commander of the baggage platoon, carrying a shell gun, looking at his soldiers in the trenches in the village, not letting them run around, and the baggage soldiers were waiting in the traffic ditch with rifles and bayonets.

Zhang Wei nodded at He Kun, jumped into the traffic ditch, trotted forward with his body low, the signal corps and Li Shaoyan followed, before the battle, the positions of the first squadron and the third squadron were connected with the traffic ditch and the village, Zhang Wei walked along the traffic ditch, and he could run to the front.

"Stop, it's here." Zhang Wei stopped in a position close to the front line and easy to hide, and could see the first squadron and the entire battlefield attacking Japanese troops.

As soon as Li Shaoyan stopped, he said eagerly: "Captain, the situation on Captain Zhengzhong's side is not very good!" ”

Zhang Wei looked in the direction of the position of the 3rd Squadron, and the smoke from the artillery bombardment rose from the position, and the Japanese infantry attacked more and more fiercely.

At this time, the artillery bombardment of the village where the 1st Squadron and Zhang Wei was located gradually decreased, and the position of the 3rd Squadron became the main attack area of the Japanese army.