The 46th Division, which was attached to the assault column preparation battalion, attacked for almost half a day, and repelled a counterattack by the Japanese 59th Wing, so it can be said that the battle in the direction of the 27th Army weakened, and both sides needed a short rest, and in the direction of the eastern suburbs of Sanyiji, the offensive of the 74th Army reached its fiercest in the afternoon.

The main force of the 74th Army's attack was the 51st Division, which launched the offensive later than the 27th Army's headquarters, in order to strengthen the attack, after consultation, Qiu Qingquan assigned a light tank platoon under the assault column to the 51st Division for the attack, and the target of the 51st Division was the Japanese defensive position east of Sanyiji, with Chailou as the core, and the troops participating in the attack were the 302nd Regiment of the 151st Brigade under the 51st Division.

After the three light combat vehicles attached to it were in place, the 302 regiment launched an attack on the position of the chailou, before the attack was rare to use mountain artillery to bombard the Japanese position, the regiment commander Ji Hongru personally came to the front line to command, the attack force belonging to the 302 regiment soon took the chariot as the vanguard, launched a charge on the firewood building position, the terrain near the firewood building was low, the Japanese army occupied the place on one side, and at the same time deployed in the commanding heights, the defense can be said to be quite tight, the charging 302 regiment was led by the company platoon commander, and rushed over.

The three chariots were the vanguard, and the infantry followed behind, and like the vast majority of the Nationalist army, the 51st Division lacked the experience of infantry and tank coordination, and the distance between the infantry and the chariots during the charge was too long, and the troops were mostly newly replenished.

The 51st Division suffered heavy casualties after the defense of Nanjing, replenished a large number of recruits, and the gap in weapons was even greater, and the formal and imported rifles were not enough to replenish, so they could only supplement the Hanyang-made, some of the soldiers held the Chinese-made rifles, some held the Belgian-made rifles, and some held the Hanyang-made rifles that fired seven or nine round bullets, and the formation of the infantry charge was somewhat chaotic in the rear of the chariot.

The three CV35 tanks of the assault column rushed to the front of the team, the three tanks ran over the ground, stirring up a burst of smoke and dust, and the engine made a very ugly sound, the assault column was equipped with this batch of Italian-made CV35 tanks, which were purchased by Italy before the Anti-Japanese War, and the performance was quite average, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was poor, the armor was weak, and the Japanese army's Type 94 light armored vehicles were about the same, the main firepower was two eight-millimeter caliber vehicle-mounted machine guns, the power was limited, and the angle of fire was also limited, The assault column equipped this batch of tanks was really a helpless move due to lack of equipment, and a whole platoon of combat vehicles, guiding the infantry, rushed to the Japanese defensive position near the Chai Tower.

Chailou position, the Japanese army in the low-lying place with the main infantry defense, after a strengthened infantry brigade of more than 1,000 people stationed here, in the face of the attacking Chinese army, the Japanese army, as usual, waiting for the Chinese army to enter the firing distance, in the center of the Japanese position, also deployed two 94 type 37 mm battle defense guns, the speed of the Chinese army's charge is getting faster and faster, the tank is closer to the Japanese position, under normal circumstances, the Japanese anti-tank guns fire at a distance of 200 meters, the lethality of the 94 type is weak, In order to increase the lethal effect, the Japanese commander deliberately ordered a delayed firing.

The tank walked a few dozen meters and entered a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, the command flag of the Japanese anti-tank gun group fell rapidly, orange flames erupted from the muzzles of the two anti-tank guns, and the anti-tank shells of the 37 caliber shot towards the same tank and hit one of the tanks, and the weak armor of the CV35 could not withstand the shells, and the short tank was destroyed on the spot.

"Rush forward!" The officers of the 302nd Regiment who followed up saw the destruction of the combat vehicle, and immediately ordered the infantry to speed up the charge, nearly 300 infantry accelerated to the Chailou position, after the anti-tank guns fired, the Japanese began to attack the follow-up national infantry with heavy firepower, light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers fired one after another, the national soldiers were attacked, and the officers and soldiers who rushed to the front fell down, including many company and platoon commanders who led the attack.

"Spread out!" The officers in the team organized the soldiers to disperse and move forward, and the remaining two tanks were still fearlessly advancing, and the twin eight-millimeter machine guns on the vehicles fired at the Japanese positions, and the bullets fired from the vehicle-mounted machine guns hit several infantry on the Japanese positions, and continued to charge along the road leading to the Chailou position.

The infantry of the 302nd Regiment, who had restored order, followed behind the chariot, hoping to advance under the cover of the chariot, and the light machine guns in the hands of the veterans in the ranks stopped, set up machine guns, and fired at the Japanese positions, and the Czech light machine guns and the eight-mm light machine guns on the chariots were intertwined, mixed with sporadic rifle sounds, constituting the covering fire of the 302nd Regiment.

The infantry of the 302nd Regiment spread out in formation under the organization of the company platoon commander, and advanced with difficulty under the cover of machine gun fire, and paid casualties for every step forward.

"Capture the soil and fertilizer alive!"

A company commander in the ranks of the 302nd Regiment shouted, the attacking troops gradually approached the main position of the Japanese army, and the low-lying firewood building position of the Japanese army in front of them was in front of them, and the inspired soldiers rushed through the wreckage of the chariot and rushed to the low-lying main position of the Japanese army.

The main position of the Japanese army is relatively low-lying, but in the relatively high area on the two wings, the Japanese army cunningly arranged two heavy machine gun squadrons and two infantry guns here, and has not fired, seeing the Chinese army rushed to the main position in the low-lying place, the heavy firearms arranged in the high-lying area suddenly opened fire, nearly half of the charging Chinese troops were exposed to the muzzle of the heavy machine guns, and for a time the guns were fired in unison, and the soldiers of the 302nd Regiment were about to rush into the position, but they were attacked by guns from the flanks.

Nearly one-third of the people fell under the heavy fire of the Japanese army who suddenly opened fire, only some of the veterans risked their lives to throw grenades at the Japanese position, the grenades caused small casualties to the Japanese army, under the ambush fire of the Japanese army, the infantry of the attacking 302nd Regiment suffered heavy casualties, under the shelling of the infantry artillery, from time to time there were stumps and broken arms flying in all directions, and the company platoon commanders in the 302nd Regiment attack unit personally led the Japanese positions several times, but unfortunately all failed to work, and they were defeated in front of the Japanese army's firepower network.

The officers of the 302nd Regiment worked hard to control the troops, and did not let the retreating troops turn into a large-scale rout, and finally withdrew from the effective range of the Japanese troops in a relatively orderly manner.

The first attack failed, the 302 regiment left nearly a hundred corpses and three burning tank wreckage in front of the Japanese army, the attacking troops stayed near the main position of the Japanese army for no more than ten minutes, Ji Hongru, the commander of the 302 regiment in the front line command, sighed, put down the telescope in his hand, the first attack failed, according to the firepower of the Japanese army, Ji Hongru can also guess the approximate strength of the Japanese army, the strength of a brigade, there are heavy machine guns, there are barrel guns, and rapid-fire guns that fight tanks, It's no wonder that more than 200 people from his 302nd regiment can take it down.

"Report to the brigade headquarters on the battle situation and reorganize the attack!"