In the area of Dingzhai, the 61st Division has just finished an attack, and they have launched several surprise attacks on the Japanese army in the direction of Sanyiji, and the attack has not made much progress, but the Japanese army has not been beaten well, 61

The 61st Division is the original 19th Route Army, participated in the 128th Anti-Japanese War, after the Fujian Incident, the 19th Route Army was disintegrated, the subordinate 61st Division, the 60th Division and the 78th Division were gradually centralized, these three divisions are very strong in combat effectiveness, the 61st Division also had a good performance during the Battle of Shanghai on August 13, when the Japanese army landed in Jinshanwei, it was because of the stubborn resistance of the 61st Division that the first batch of landing troops of the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, and after the Battle of Songhu, the division was supplemented by the troops drawn from other departments, and the combat effectiveness was restored to a certain extent. Subsequently, under the leadership of the division commander Zhong Song, he went to eastern Henan.

In front of the position were the corpses of the two armies, devastated by artillery fire and shrapnel, and there were still wounded who had not yet died in the pile of corpses, but at this time, no one would care about them.

The soldiers who retreated from the 61st Division were hiding in the trenches, replenishing ammunition, and one round of attacks was unfavorable, so the next round was next, and the combat style of the 19th Route Army period still remained in the blood of this army.

In the Sanyi set, the commander of the 14th Division, Tu Feiyuan, summoned the senior officers of the division headquarters and two wing commanders to discuss the next countermeasures.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this division has repelled the continuous attacks of the enemy, and now in Quxingji, the attack in the area of Dingzhai is the most violent, from the marks on the enemy's corpses, it can be known that it is the headquarters of the 27th Army of the enemy's central department, and on other fronts, it was found that the Chinese army used a small number of chariots in the attack, and the enemy almost directly besieged us with the strength of two armies. A staff officer of a division or regiment routinely gave an explanation of the overall situation before the meeting, although the participants were basically clear about these situations.

Kenji Dohihara stood up, the urgency of the battle situation forced him to take new countermeasures, looking at the disgraced officers below, he could also imagine the fierceness of the front-line battle, yesterday, even his division headquarters was directly hit by artillery shells, the intensity of the Chinese army's attack can be seen.

"Gentlemen, now that the war is tight, on all fronts outside the division headquarters, the men of our division are fighting very bravely, worthy of His Majesty the Emperor, and at the same time, we also have many warriors who sacrificed their lives for His Majesty the Emperor, Gentlemen, I plan to carry out a counterattack against the Chinese army, what do you think?" Tu Feiyuan said at a very fast pace.

To say that it is to ask for advice, in fact, is to give an order. The other officers were okay, but the two infantry wings below had a bitter look on their faces, they were already very hard, and they had to launch a counterattack, and the two looked at each other, thinking that they didn't know which wing was going to do this work.

Tu Feiyuan picked up the wooden pole and pointed in the direction south of Quxingji.

"According to the summary of the past few days, the enemy's forces in this direction are relatively thin, and the defense of the enemy's defender's left flank is empty, I order, the 50th Infantry Wing, to launch an attack on the enemy's left flank, and the heavy artillery brigade will provide fire cover, and the attack operation will begin immediately after the meeting!"

"Yes!"

The long-term defense made Tu Feiyuan depressed, and the morale of the troops would also be reduced with the enemy's attacks again and again, and a certain tactical counterattack was adopted, which was very useful now, and the 50th Infantry Wing was dispatched to suffer the greatest degree of attack in the previous battle, and there were no extremely heavy casualties, plus it was between Luowangzhai and Quxingji, and it was convenient to have a favorable location, so the task of attacking naturally fell into their hands.

After the order was issued, the first to move was not the infantry wing, but the second heavy artillery brigade located near the division headquarters, and the second heavy artillery brigade participated in the battle with the 14th division, and the whole brigade was not fully organized, but participated in the battle without a wing, and even so, there were more than 30 heavy artillery pieces carried, all of which were 89 and 92 heavy artillery.

Under the command of a junior officer, the Japanese artillery re-rotated the artillery, adjusted the firing angle, buried the artillery in the hoe, prepared the medicine bag and warhead, and the Japanese gunners who were ready to fire loaded the shells into the barrels, and adjusted the high and low levels of the artillery and the direction machine according to the data of the surveyors and observers.

Most of the artillery positions are Type 92 105 mm cannons, and there are a few Type 89 150 mm heavy cannons, Type 92 105 mm cannons, caliber 105 mm, the total combat weight is 3730 kg, the shells weigh 15.8 kg, the muzzle velocity of the shells is 760 meters per second, the firing range is 18.2 km, and the rate of fire is 6-8 rounds per minute. There were only 12 guns of more than 100 mm, and the total number of large-caliber heavy guns on these positions was even more than the number of 100-mm guns possessed by the entire Chinese army combined.

"Base artillery, ready to fire!"

The Japanese artillery commander ordered that the base artillery be ready for firing for test firing and calibration, and in the middle and rear of the artillery position, the artillery observation balloon used to observe the effect of long-distance shooting has been raised into the air, and the Japanese observation group in the balloon will transmit the effect of the shelling and the corrected data to the artillery position below after the first shell lands.

"Fire!" With a loud bang, a huge orange smoke appeared in the muzzle of the artillery, and the shells reached the 61st Division of the Nationalist Army, which was located between Quxingji and Xinglongji, and the shells landed on the ground, kicking up a huge smoke, and the Japanese observers quickly estimated the deviation of the artillery, which was transmitted to the artillery positions below by telephone and radio.

The artillery commander notified the various artillery squadrons by telephone, and the artillery squadrons sent communication personnel to disperse to the positions, and dozens of artillery pieces corrected the artillery according to the transmitted artillery data.

"Fire!" The Japanese artillery commander and commander gave the order to open fire at the same time with a red flag and a telephone.

The muzzles of one artillery gun lit up with muzzle flames, and dozens of heavy artillery shells flew along the curved trajectory towards the positions of the 61st Division......

The position of the 61st Division in the distance has become a sea of fire, the Japanese army not only used grenades, but also used some arson bombs, the originally simple concealed fortifications were burning everywhere, the soldiers of the 61st Division who were not killed and burned to death in the front-line positions were saving people while cleaning up their positions, and the recruits in the troops were even frightened and sluggish, and the shelling of mountain artillery and heavy artillery was completely two orders of magnitude.

"Hurry up and save people, save the living first, and throw the dead there."

"Get out of the machine gun buried underneath!"

"Take the weapons from the dead for me."

After the front-line positions of the 61st Division were in disarray, and after such artillery bombardment, the officers on the front line hurriedly rushed to save people, and some officers and soldiers were ready for battle and ready to meet the enemy troops attacking head-on.

On their left flank, the mountain artillery and infantry artillery of the 50th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army had already completed the aiming of the 61st Division's position, and the attacking infantry also rushed out of the trench......