Suffered repeated blows from the Japanese army, causing heavy losses to the defending 174th Division.

When he had just come into contact with the Japanese army, he was bombed by a burst of Japanese charges and artillery bombardment, and even the only four mortars in the division were knocked out.

The artillery bombardment of the little devils continued, and the Japanese infantry was still attacking, obviously wanting to take the Chihe position directly without giving the defenders time to breathe.

Faced with this situation, Wang Zanbin gritted his teeth, but he was helpless against the Japanese artillery.

The four mortars in his division were only small-caliber artillery, and the effective killing distance was only two kilometers, but the Japanese artillery positions were at least three kilometers away from them!

To deal with the artillery positions of the Japanese army, the distance is simply not enough!

What's more, even if he can reach it, just with these half-baked artillerymen in his division, he can't aim at such a long distance!

As a last resort, it can only be used to fight the opponent's infantry!

But in this way, it exposes your own mortar to the other party's sight!

This is simply the suppression of the Japanese army in terms of equipment! This is the gap between the Japanese army and the defenders of the 174th Division!

This gap cannot be made up at all, except for the use of human lives to pile up!

In fact, when the Battle of Songhu was at the beginning, the Republic of China mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to block the Japanese army, but it was defeated, why?

Is it because the soldiers don't have to fight devils with their lives?

No!

When the soldiers fought in Songhu, they fought with their lives, but why were they still defeated?

Hundreds of thousands of troops, against the Japanese army's little strength, even if one person spits at it, can drown the Japanese army!

But in fact, in order to eliminate a soldier of the Japanese army, the defenders often have to pay three or five times, or even ten times the price!

In the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese naval artillery kept shelling the defenders' positions, and the soldiers on the defenders' side often died one by one under the bombardment of the naval guns!

Often just put a battalion in, within ten minutes, it has already been completely wiped out under the bombardment of Japanese naval guns!

The gap in this kind of equipment is like the difference between cloud and mud!

And what Wang Zanbin is encountering now is such a situation!

The soldiers of his 174th Division desperately resisted the Japanese army, but because of the gap in equipment, they still couldn't resist, and the soldiers died one after another, and under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, there was no room to fight back.

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"Kill, give!" The Japanese army once again gathered the strength of a brigade and, under the command of the Japanese captain, once again rushed towards the position.

Once the little devil's charge is repulsed, the next wave of attacks will continue to rush up, like a wave, endlessly, and constantly slapping the defenders' positions over and over again.

This tactic used by the Japanese army is their wave tactic, which is what we call the 'pig burst tactic'.

This tactic is completely using soldiers, attacking wave after wave, to put it bluntly, it is a crowd tactic!

It stands to reason that when attacking the enemy's fortified positions, the use of crowds is the most labor-draining tactic and the most inferior tactic.

However, they could not withstand the Japanese army's good equipment, and they used this kind of crowd tactics, and when facing the defenders of the Republic of China who were far inferior in equipment to them, they could often receive miraculous results.

In the past battles of the Japanese army, they often only needed to bombard a wave with artillery, and then send a force to charge, and constantly attack the position, without giving the enemy a respite, and quickly attack the position.

The little devils used this tactic to run rampant on various battlefields, and the army of the Republic of China was bitter and did not talk about it.

The Japanese army completely took advantage of their equipment advantage and forced the defenders to fight them head-on, but in a frontal battle, the poorly equipped Republic of China was completely unable to resist!

At this time, in the Japanese army's pig attack tactics, the 174th Division led by Wang Zanbin resisted the Japanese attack with difficulty, and the soldiers all risked their lives to fight the little devils.

The sound of crooked machine guns resounded on the battlefield, and bullets poured down on the Japanese offensive road, knocking many little devils to the ground.

However, if one is killed, two little devils rush up, and when two are killed, three rush up!

The attacking soldiers of the Japanese army seemed to be endless, and they were endless!

During these Japanese attacks, the forward positions held by the 174th Division were captured by the Japanese after only one day.

Division commander Wang Zanbin immediately led his troops to the second line of defense and continued to hold on to resist the attack of the Japanese Fifth Brigade.

In the Battle of Chihe, the 174th Division built three defensive positions here, in addition to their 174th Division stationed here, there were some miscellaneous troops stationed, although it did not play a role, but it was able to slightly block the pace of the Japanese attack.

At least it can effectively ease the rhythm of the Japanese army's offensive.

The 174th Division surrounded the three lines of defense of the Chihe position, and the Japanese army continued to see-saw, the two sides continued to see each other in the second line of defense and the third line of defense, often the Japanese army occupied the second line of defense, and the defenders of the 174th Division recklessly attacked and snatched the second line of defense back.

In the midst of such a constant see-saw stalemate, the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army attacked Chihe for six days and 6 nights, but still failed to defeat the Chihe position.

In view of this situation, Fujita Shin, commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, personally called and ordered the commander of the 5th Brigade to take the Ikekawa position within one day, otherwise it would be dealt with by military law.

"Hey! Your Excellency, Division Commander, please rest assured! Riichiro Katayama took the phone and bowed slightly and said: "At present, the Chinese army has suffered heavy losses, and it is almost impossible to hold on, and my fifth brigade will definitely be able to take the Chihe position in one day!" ”

"Hey! Hi yes! I understand that if I can't take the Chihe position in one day, and I don't have the face to see Your Excellency the division commander, I will definitely commit suicide to be loyal to the empire! ”

"Hey! Hi yes! I don't know what Fujita Susumu said on the phone, Riichiro Katayama kept nodding his head.

Finally made a military order, and then the division commander was stabilized, listening to the blind voice from the other end of the phone, Ichiro Katayama put down the phone and wiped the sweat on his head.

"Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, what did the Division Commander say?" After hanging up the phone, the chief of staff next to him asked aloud.

"The division commander expressed his dissatisfaction that our Fifth Brigade had not taken the Chihe position for so long, and ordered us to take this position within one day, otherwise I will commit suicide and be loyal to the emperor!"

Ichiro Katayama said in a deep voice.

"In one day?" Hearing this, the chief of staff said a little anxiously: "I'm afraid I won't be able to take this position on the opposite side in one day!" ”

"The determination of the Chinese army to hold their positions is very strong, and although they have suffered heavy losses at the moment, it is really difficult to take their positions in one day!" The chief of staff frowned and said with some concern.

"No matter how hard it is, you have to fight! I have already made a military order to His Excellency the division commander, if I can't complete it, not only will I commit suicide, but I'm afraid the division commander will also be disappointed in our Fifth Brigade! ”

Riichiro Katayama wiped the sweat from his head again and said in a deep voice.