The continuous shelling and war on the front line of Fenghuangzui, which is filled with gunsmoke, has destroyed all the villages and towns along the Jiujiang River to the Jinguan Bridge, and the villages and towns have been reduced to ruins, and the corpses that have not had time to be collected are spread all over the fields, and many of the corpses have begun to emit stench in the hot summer weather.

On August 6, the sun's rays had not yet emitted golden sunlight, and the sky had just revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly, and the brothers of the 159th, 3rd, and 15th Divisions, who had been prepared for bombing during the day, had already received their rations for the day, and were taking advantage of the last quiet time to sit in the trenches and gnaw......

"Buzz!"

As soon as the light of day was clear, the brothers who had eaten the multigrain cakes were still wiping their bayonets and guns in the trenches, and the roar of the planes of the devils came from the sky, and the roar of the huge motors attracted the attention of the brothers earlier than the fuselage......

"The devil plane is coming, all go into the bunker!" The officers ran and roared in the trenches, slapping the recruits in a daze......

The artillery fire of the field artillery wing of the 106th Division, which had drawn up the breakthrough plan, also began to prepare, and the high guns slowly turned to the front line of the Jinguan Bridge......

The Chinese army, which had studied war in the war, was no longer what it had been at the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, at least now the rank and file officers had learned to urge the soldiers to dig bunkers; Nor did the officers order the brothers to use rifles and machine guns to shoot at the devil's tank, and in the face of the overwhelming fleet of aircraft, there was no commander who dared to use Czech light machine guns to hit planes, and the national army's machine gun firepower was already small, and if they were blown up by devil planes in large numbers while fighting planes, it would not only be not conducive to defense, but would not cause any damage to the devil's planes moving at high speed......

At the request of He Jianye, the 16th Regiment of the 3rd Division regarded the fortifications as the most important defensive weapon from the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, and fought all the way down, and when the brother troops suffered heavy casualties, the 3rd Division still had the spare strength to launch a counterattack; This has long been known by the fraternal troops, and it has also indirectly promoted the brotherly troops' efforts to learn the ability to dig fortifications......

At least the area around the Jinguan Bridge, which is now defended by the 15th Regiment, is now crisscrossed by trenches, artillery fortifications are connected to communication trenches, covering the entire defense line in all directions, and machine gun fortresses covered with logs are hidden on both flanks of the battle line, just waiting for the devils to attack.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The bomber group of the devil slowly descended in altitude, and the aerial bombs hanging under the stomach fell one by one towards the Jinguan Bridge, and the terrifying power of the bomb explosion directly blew the trenches near the landing point into deep pits, and the air waves swept the mud and sand, accompanied by the wild impact of shrapnel, and everything around, with the exhaustion of kinetic energy, the shrapnel continued to hit the soil, making a "poof" sound......

The entire position on the front line of Jinguanqiao was shrouded in the explosive power of the devil's aerial bombs, and the bomber group of the devils from the Jinguanqiao to the Kongcun Heights, as well as the Fenghuang Village, Wujiawa, and Jinjiashan lines, within a radius of 4 square kilometers, were full of terrifying smoke and dust from the explosion of the bombshells, and the huge power of the explosion destroyed the trenches, and the logs and sandbags for building improvised machine gun fortifications were lifted into the air with a huge shock wave, and the logs were torn into several sections, and the sand in the sandbags flew all over the sky, slowly falling on the position. stir up a large amount of smoke and dust;

The explosion was deafening, and waves of air rolled in the trenches with mud and sand, impacting the improvised entrance shelter of the anti-artillery holes.

"Boom" "Puff"

The collapsed entrance shelter could no longer stop the influx of air, and the shrapnel in the air continued to pop against the dirt walls of the anti-artillery holes, making the faces of the brothers who were close at hand turn pale......

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

The scorching heat and the large amount of sediment made it difficult for the brothers in the bomb shelter to breathe, and the coughing sound kept coming, as if they were about to suffocate; There was a constant stream of blowing rubble, and blasted wood fell from the air and smashed into the position......

The defense line of the Jinguanqiao position, which had been silent for several days, was constantly torn apart in the earth-shattering explosion, and the green vegetation could no longer withstand the high temperature brought by the aerial bombs, and green smoke had already risen......

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the bombers are expected to return in 2 minutes, and the next wave of bombers will arrive in 10 minutes;" The chief of staff of the 106th Division, Yoshitaka Akiyama, reminded,

"Order the field artillery wing to carry out a covered artillery bombardment of the positions around the Confucian Temple, and telegraph to the mountain major general that the shelling will end in 30 minutes, please be ready to attack!" Junrokuro Matsuura ordered

The 113th Wing and the 145th Wing of the Japanese Army, which are one kilometer away from the Confucian Temple, have completed their assembly, and the devils of the two squadrons are ready to set off with a squad of tanks!

The devils in the assembly position looked at the Chinese defenders' positions covered by the artillery fire of the Imperial Japanese Army, with an unstoppable momentum on their proud faces, and the squadron leader who led the team thought that it would be a pleasant march, and they only needed to go up and take over the position after the artillery fire was over, even if the people of China were ground rats, it was impossible for anyone to hold out under this kind of continuous and powerful bombardment;

"Iino-kun, let's enjoy it more! Just a hill; The Imperial Japanese Army invested such heavy firepower that it was not always possible to have this opportunity. The brigade commander, Major General Shan Di Watar, proudly pointed to the area of the explosion in front,

"Hello! Your Excellency General; Anyone who dared to stop the advance of the Imperial Japanese Army would be reduced to powder under the cover of this ferocious artillery fire. The captain of the 113th Wing, Ken Iino and the ten of the wing, echoed loudly,

There is a dilapidated temple on the high ground of Confucius Village, and the nearby residents often come to offer incense, because most of the people living around this temple are surnamed Kong, so this place is named Confucius Temple. But this only temple did not escape the cover of artillery fire, under the bombardment of artillery fire, Guanyin shattered and the Jade Emperor did not protect this broken seedling,

Since the 159th Division, which lost Nanchangpu, took over the defense of the Confucian Temple, the brigade commander Lin Weitao went to the position shirtless, urging the brothers to build trenches and dig anti-artillery holes, and his own brigade headquarters was set up in front of the Confucian Temple

The bombardment, which lasted nearly an hour, had destroyed the trenches constructed by the 159th Division on the heights of Kongcun, and the scattered craters on the positions contained the stumps of the brothers who had been killed...... The position of the Confucian Temple was blown to shreds, the trenches were flattened, the fortifications were basically destroyed, and the craters several meters deep were everywhere, and the position became full of holes.

"Kill Gaigai!"

The thick smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, the devil's bomber group was still hovering overhead, the aftermath of the shell explosion was still roaring in the ears of the brothers of the 159th Division, and the squadron leader of the 113th Wing who led the attack had already let out a crazy roar;