Chapter 37: The Bloody Battle of Luodian (9)

It is said that after the defeat in Luodian, Kanichiro Ueno, the commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, retreated to Yuepu and couldn't sleep for many days.

On the morning of 11 October, he received news that the Sixth Division, which had been drawn from the North China Battlefield, had landed at Xiaochuansha. Kanichiro Ueno was suddenly in a state of shock, and immediately sent a report to the division commander Fujita Shin.

Fujita Susumu received the report and consulted with Matsui Ishone, the commander of the front army, and finally transferred 5,000 men from the 6th Division and the 9th Division in the name of Matsui Ishone to attack from the north and south respectively, and the 3rd Division was in the center to form a situation of besieging Luodian on three sides.

After receiving the order, the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division, which was the vanguard of the 6th Division, was under the jurisdiction of the 45th and 47th Wings, as well as the 6th Artillery Wing, under the leadership of the brigade commander Mitsuru Ushijima, to bring the troops to the vicinity of Shenjialou, and then ordered the artillery to target the Chinese positions in Luodian and carry out an hour-long covering bombardment.

After the bombardment, Ushijima immediately ordered two brigades of the 45th Infantry Wing, a total of 2,000 people, to come towards the northeast defense line of Luoyue. After the artillery bombardment ended, Li Shuyang ordered the troops to go out of the anti-artillery hole and prepare for battle.

Deputy company commander Lin Lao Er walked over from the trench with his waist and said: "Lianza, just now the shelling of our five brothers was killed and 9 were injured, and we have already let the injured brothers be carried down." ”

Li Shuyang nodded expressionlessly.

At this time, most of the Japanese strikers of the Sixth Division had already entered the firing range, and Lin Lao Er said: "Lianza, do you want to fire?" ”

Li Shuyang shook his head and said: "Don't worry, looking at the dense formation of the devils, obviously I don't know much about our firepower." Inform the brothers, give me a cover, and no one should fire until I give the order to fire. Bring the Japanese closer, I'm going to give them a hard blow. ”

Moreover, the former enemy commander of the Sixth Division, Ushijima Man, was indeed a little proud at this time, he fought positional battles with the Chinese army in the North China battlefield, and often after the shells passed, the defending Chinese army had almost collapsed, and then sent infantry to destroy the withering and decaying and clean up the mess.

Although the advance war report had given a general introduction to the situation of the Protector Army, Ushijima did not take it to heart, but looked down on the Third Division in his heart, thinking that it was their incompetence that led to the fiasco. Therefore, Ushijima did not wait for the friendly forces in the other two directions to cooperate in the battle, and continued his old three chapters as soon as he came up, confidently planning to completely expose the incompetence of the Third Division through this victory, and shape the status of the Sixth Division as the uncrowned king of the Japanese infantry division.

Although Ushijima was arrogant, through the binoculars, he saw that his forward troops in front of him had approached the Chinese army's position about 100 meters, but the Chinese soldiers on the position could not see even a single one, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart: Could it be that all the Chinese soldiers were killed? Probably not! He quickly overturned his speculation, even if there were heavy casualties, there were always some soldiers who did not die, so why not see anyone? Did they all run away? Luodian has become an empty city, or is there some other conspiracy?

Just when Ushijima was full of suspicion, the forward commander of the 6th Division suddenly gave the order to charge, and the Japanese troops of the two brigades immediately became crazy, shouting "onboard" and "onboard" in their mouths, and quickly rushed towards the Chinese position.

However, at this moment, hundreds of grenades suddenly flew out of the trench on the north side of Luodian, and the grenades were extremely powerful, once they fell into the crowd, no one was spared within a radius of more than ten meters.

The dense grenades allowed the souls of more than 400 Japanese soldiers who were running at the forefront to return to the underworld in an instant. Ushijima's heart was tight, and before he could react, he suddenly saw a few strange things appear on the Chinese army's position. Ushijima had never seen it and didn't know what kind of weapon it was, but the soldier's keen instincts still made him think it was dangerous. So he immediately gave the herald the order to retreat.

But before the herald could run out of the tent, the five Gatlings on the second company's position had already erupted into flames. The dense bullets immediately cleared the empty area in front of the position for nearly a kilometer, and all the devils within the range were all blown up by the metal storm, and their limbs were scattered. All of a sudden, the front of the position on the north side of Luodian was like an Asura hell, with bullets shattering flesh and stumps splashed everywhere, and the Japanese casualties and fallen were unknown. In the face of the metal storm, the Japanese army was not much better than the paper paste, almost dying next to each other when they touched it, and the 2,000 men in the front were almost wiped out in a short time. A few clever devils dodged Gatling's bullets by lying on the ground in the middle of the battlefield due to their early sighting, but they were quickly killed by snipers or RPG-armed Protector soldiers.

On the other side of the battlefield, Ushijima, who had witnessed this tragedy, was full of tears, and in anger he immediately ordered the artillery to shell the Chinese positions again, threatening to blow them up and avenge the death of the 2,000 imperial warriors.

But Li Shuyang didn't give him a chance, as soon as the cannon sounded, he immediately organized personnel to go into the anti-artillery hole to take refuge, and at the same time asked two Gatling to be arranged into the two permanent fortifications on the north side of the position, so as to prevent the Japanese from attacking while the artillery was being bombarded.

Let's say that Ushijima lost 2,000 people because of carelessness, and suffered a big loss. Annoyed and angry, Ushijima Mitsuru ordered the artillery to carry out another artillery bombardment of the northern position, and for a time the artillery roared, and the fighting was very lively.

Of course, the positions in the north were lively, and the positions in the east and south were not idle.

Kanichiro Ueno has suffered a big loss from the Protector Army, and he is not as impulsive as Ushimanjima. After arriving at the predetermined location, he met with Jing Shuxuanshi, the commander of the 9th Division who came to help in the battle---- the commander of the 18th Brigade, and after exchanging views between the two sides, it was finally agreed that Jing Shuxuanshi would provide artillery support, and the two sides would cooperate with the infantry artillery to coordinate the operation.

Soon, more than 1,000 Japanese troops on each side of the southeast and southeast formed a scattered formation and moved towards the Luodian position. In charge of the eastern battlefield is Wang Weiguo's first company, and in the south is Xu Changsheng's third company, both of them are old men who are used to fighting devils, and they have a good command, they have the same mind as Li Shuyang, and they plan to put the devils closer and fight again.

Unexpectedly, when the Japanese army touched the position of about 100 meters, a few shells suddenly fell from the sky, and fell directly on the positions defended by Wang Weiguo and Xu Changsheng, and the bones of more than 20 soldiers of the Protector Army were suddenly blown up. Seeing that the situation was not right, the two immediately commanded the troops to retreat into the anti-artillery shelter to take refuge, and at the same time used the permanent fortifications to resist the incoming Japanese army.

Bai Fei, who was commanding in the center at the rear of the position, saw this scene, and immediately connected to Wu Cannon and asked him to find a way to destroy the local artillery, Wu Cannon said: "Tuanzao, I have already observed just now, the Japanese artillery position is too far away from us, and the reason why they hit so accurately is because there is an air observation post. We don't have observation posts, so we can't be completely sure we can destroy them. ”

Bai Fei picked up the telescope and looked south, and sure enough, he found a hot air balloon in mid-air.

He immediately asked the mute to shoot down the Japanese hot air balloon with a Starlight missile. The dumb man took the equipment and led people out, and a minute later, there was an explosion in the air, the Japanese hot air balloon was knocked off, and the devil in charge of the hope fell from mid-air, and he could not die again.

Then he connected to the Wu cannon and said: "The Japanese lookout post has been knocked out, now you aim the 24 cannons at that side, give me three rapid fire, and immediately transfer the position after the battle." ”

"It's a group!"