Within one night, the Japanese army did not launch a surprise attack, and the Chinese and Japanese armies rarely slept well, and as soon as the day dawned, the soldiers of the preparatory battalion woke up from their sleep and began to step up their defenses. A platoon of combat defense artillery reinforced by X Qiu Qingquan also arrived, and a platoon of two Soviet-style 37 combat defense guns, together with all personnel and a large amount of ammunition, were arranged by Zhang Wei behind the side of the second line of defense, and the soldiers of the artillery platoon and the soldiers of the preparation battalion were stepping up the construction of artillery firing fortifications.

These two war defense guns belong to the Soviet-style M1930 type, the type is basically the same as the German war defense gun, after the Versailles Treaty, Germany's weapons production has been greatly restricted, that is, in this context, Germany and the Soviet Union have launched secret and private military cooperation, the German army needs to manufacture weapons licensing and update the trend of equipment, the Soviet army lacks experience in the development and production of equipment, the two armies hit it off and carried out cooperation, the motorcycles in the Soviet troops, the war defense artillery are the products of that period, and the Soviet army is also based on the German 37 war defense gun, The M1937 45 anti-aircraft gun was developed and improved, and this larger caliber artillery was also in the Soviet-aided equipment and equipped in the first independent artillery regiment.

There is no big difference between the Soviet-style 37 anti-aircraft guns and the German-style artillery, but the artillery is slightly outdated, there are traces of use, and the Soviet-aided anti-aircraft artillery is mostly the equipment drawn from the active troops of the Soviet Army, not a new weapon, but for the squadron that is seriously lacking in equipment, this is a matter of indifference, the wear and tear is not heavy, and it is a good thing to use.

The artillery position was arranged in the second line of defense, that is, next to the position of the third company, the artillery platoon soldiers dug up the artillery firing fortifications, piled sandbags outside as a cover, and dug out a small trench behind the reserve of war defense shells, the artillery platoon leader was an artillery student of the 12th phase of Huangpu, graduated in January of the 27th year of the Republic of China, and was assigned to the 52nd Artillery Regiment belonging to the 200th Division as a platoon commander, one period later than Zhang Wei and their 11th phase, and the enrollment time and graduation time were one year later.

"Brother, how many shells did you bring, how many grenades did you bring?" Zhang Wei asked

"Sir, each cannon brought a hundred rounds, thirty armor-piercing rounds, and seventy grenades." The platoon commander of the artillery platoon replied respectfully.

"That's good, listen to my order for a while and then fire, don't fire without an order." Zhang Wei was very satisfied.

"Yes"

It's good to bring grenades, I'm afraid to bring a bunch of armor-piercing shells, and there is no way to deal with the infantry at that time, so I arranged the battle defense artillery platoon, Zhang Wei went to the position of the first company, and the officers and soldiers of the company on the position ran out of breakfast and entered the state of alert early, last night, except for the small episode of the Japanese night attack, the rest of the time was very quiet, the officers and soldiers of the first company rested very well, and the second and third companies were in the rear, so they naturally slept quietly all night.

On the opposite side of the Japanese position, the same Japanese army who had breakfast, the failure of last night's night attack did not destroy much morale, all the Japanese officers and soldiers who died in the night attack were packaged as warriors who sacrificed their lives to test the night firepower and defense of the squadron under the instruction of the brigade commander, and a failed night attack was packaged as an incomparably noble "dedication." ”

The Japanese officers and men of the two squadrons stood neatly in front of the captain of the second brigade, and many of the soldiers had white banners wrapped around their heads before putting on their steel helmets, which meant that they were fighting to the death, and their guns were all loaded with bayonets, which was completely a desperate battle.

"Warriors, yesterday, we did not take the enemy's position, it is really a great shame for our brigade, last night, ten warriors in order to test the enemy, heroically sacrificed their lives, gentlemen, my brigade and my own team of pioneers, you and other two squadrons for the pioneer of our brigade, if you can't attack the enemy's position today, the situation of this team will be very miserable, so, I hope you will fight bravely, don't lose the glory of the past in North China, firmly believe that long live the emperor, the imperial army is undefeated, and the imperial army will win!"

The soldiers frantically raised their weapons and roared under the inspiration of the captain.

"Hooray! Banzai! Banzai! ”

Then behind the captain, a brigade adjutant came out, holding in his hand the battle order that was supposed to be kept secret.

"Order, the first squadron as a reserve, the second squadron, the third squadron, all sortie, with the second squadron all of the front of the squadron position, the first squadron of the third squadron to the left flank of the squadron position in a roundabout way, the second and third squadrons with the second squadron frontal attack, support the first squadron of the detour, the two squads of the heavy machine guns of the brigade all advance with the attacking troops, after the infantry artillery shelling, immediately advance forward, direct artillery hit the position of the ** squadron."

"Hooray! Banzai! Banzai! "The frenzied slogans again covered the starting positions of the 2nd Brigade. As soon as the Japanese army's combat order was issued, the Japanese troops who had been standing in formation quickly entered the starting position and waited for the 92nd infantry gun, which was temporarily used as a suppression artillery, to open fire.

"Fire!" After roughly calibrating, as many as eight 92 infantry guns fired shells at the same time, the 92 infantry guns had a large horizontal and high ground firing angles, at this time relying on a large number as suppression artillery, the 92 infantry guns were equipped with two in each brigade of the Japanese army, plus the Japanese wing had an infantry artillery squadron, equipped with six, and the 15th wing strengthened the infantry artillery squadron to the second brigade, so the second brigade had a total of eight artillery pieces.

The shells streaked through the air and gave out a long whistling sound, and the experienced veterans of the preparatory battalion guessed at once that it was the sound of shelling.

"Shelling!" Before the shells landed, the veterans shouted loudly, waking everyone up and hurried into the fortifications.

Zhang Wei hid in the defense line of the second company, about ten meters away from the position of the anti-aircraft artillery, and saw that there were falling shells, and the soldiers of the artillery platoon hurriedly dragged the anti-aircraft artillery from the firing position and hid it in the concealment of the artillery.

The infantry was not so lucky, when the infantry shells fell, the two soldiers who were reinforcing the position on the position of the second company had no time to dodge, the shells exploded, and the gray-black sandbags were stained red by two streams of red blood, after a round of shelling, another round came, this is the damage of this round of shelling is not great, most of the soldiers of the prepared battalion are hidden in the concealment prepared in advance, and the infantry shells are not powerful enough, as long as they hide in the anti-artillery holes and concealment departments, there is basically no major matter.

"Count casualties and prepare for battle." Zhang Wei drilled out of the position of the second company, shouted at the top of his voice, and then walked to the center of the position of the second company, and the three guards behind him followed Zhang Wei closely, fighting to this day, Zhang Wei is different from being a company commander and a platoon commander, he needs to be hard against the gun, and when he arrives at the position of the battalion commander, he is more about commanding the overall situation, rather than being a combat officer like a platoon commander to fight in person.

"Guards, go to the first company and ask about the casualties, and the situation in front of the position?"

"Go to one more person, go to the third line of defense and the concealment department of the reserve at the rear, and tell the second company commander not to move, let his soldiers stay honestly." The two guards and signal corps sent by Zhang Wei had not yet returned, and the sound of discovering enemy troops came from the position of the second company.

"The little devil is coming, go around to the left!" r