The officers and men of the 16th Regiment who were building fortifications near the city wall mountain were frightened by the Japanese planes roaring overhead, and from time to time there were explosions of "boom, boom ......" that sounded in the distance......

"Regiment commander, the division headquarters telegraphed!" The telegraph operator handed over a telegram,

"Since the Japanese occupied Hukou on June 29, the Japanese Botian Detachment and the 106th Division, with the assistance of the Japanese Navy, are looking for a new landing site from the banks of the Yangtze River and Panyang Lake. Zhao Xitian. ”

"Call back, the 16th Regiment has arrived in the area of Chengqiang Mountain, and is now in the process of building a defensive line, requesting the division headquarters to carry out logistics supplies, our department's logistics supplies are seriously insufficient, and the remaining food can only support the needs of the soldiers for three days at most." He Jianye said,

"Yes," the telegraph operator quickly recorded and returned to the temporary regimental headquarters that had already been built......

On July 10, the position had gradually taken shape, and the soldiers used various resources in the surrounding area to strengthen the trenches and artillery holes, and the stones hidden in the soil were dug out by the soldiers and used to build strong artillery holes......

On July 11, He Jianye arrived at the front line of Huashan and Tianhuajing with the guard company and reconnaissance company, and ordered the second battalion of Zengjialong to move forward, and the position was defended by the first part of the third battalion, the second battalion built a defensive position on the first line of Huashan and Tianhuajing, and the first artillery battalion also went to the first line of Huashan and Tianhuajing.

Since then, the Eighth Army has completed the deployment of defenses along the lake shore from Gutang to Kipji (not included......

The logistics sent to the 16th Regiment by the headquarters of the 3rd Division in the rear became a hard pile of multigrain cakes and some rice, white flour and bran, but the ammunition was replenished a lot......

In the early morning of July 23, the heavy rain in the area south of the Yangtze River in summer poured down, and most of the brothers of the 11th Division of the Reserve Army, which had built fortifications along the lake in Gutang, hid in the trenches and sheltered from the rain under the temporary passage built of wooden planks.

The torrential rain poured on the lake and the ground, and in the eyes of the sentinel who was tasked with checking the surface of the lake, it was gray less than 20 meters away......

"Damn the weather, I can't see anything." The whistle cursed the heavy rain......

And the Hatada detachment, which boarded the ship at the mouth of the lake, under the cover of the 11th Naval Squadron, had already sneaked into the vicinity of the shoe mountain in Poyang Lake in the light rain in the first half of the night.

"Yo Xi, such weather, Amaterasu bless! Order: The 1st Infantry Wing of Taiwan, under the cover of warships, landed from Gutang and quickly occupied the beachhead of the Chinese Army to cover the landing of our detachment's heavy equipment. Shigeichi Hata watched the rain outside the bridge get heavier and heavier, and gave the order.

The Taiwanese soldiers of the 1st Wing of Taiwan, under the leadership of the Japanese officers, sorted out their equipment and quickly boarded the landing dinghy, and under the cover of the storm, the sound of the dinghy sailing on the lake was perfectly muffled......

The sound of a heavy object landing came from the rain and fog ahead, and although he couldn't see what was ahead, the sentry nervously picked up his rifle and aimed in the direction from which the sound came...... A Japanese soldier wearing a steel helmet emerges from the rain and fog.

"Bang! The devil is coming. The sentry shot at the figure, and after firing the shot, he shouted to the rear, but unfortunately the sentry who had just shot was about to turn around and run back to the trench, and the devil's accurate shot was terrifyingly scary at a distance of less than 50 meters, although his vision was blurred......

"Bang Bang Bang" continuous machine guns, bullets pierced several large holes in the sentry's chest, and the sentry's body fell limply in the muddy rain......

"Fuck, the devil has touched it, give me the trench, the communication soldier, and ask the division headquarters for help." Zhang Wenmei knew that with one of her own battalions, she couldn't hold it, and the devils had already landed.

"Machine gun fire on me, strafe!" Zhang Wenmei shouted loudly in the trenches, there was no way, the movement of the raindrops hitting the ground was too loud, and only the shouts that tore their throats could stabilize these recruits......

"Dada...... Dadada......"

The veteran machine gunner quickly set up the Czech light machine gun, and opened fire on the blurred figure in front of him with his shoulder, and the ghost soldiers who rushed over were immediately knocked down and fell into the rain.

"What about heavy machine guns? Fire at me, don't save bullets, and take this wave of devils down. Zhang Wenmei didn't care, I didn't know how many devils came behind the rain curtain opposite, so I had to give full play to my maximum firepower......

"Knock knock...... Knock knock knock ......"

The intoxicating roar of the heavy machine gun sounded, and the bullets whizzed into the rain curtain, and the devil soldiers who shouted the earth-shattering slogan to rush forward bore the brunt, and they were immediately torn apart and knocked over a dozen, and the blood mist in the sky fell into the mud with raindrops......

"Open the artillery and destroy the fire points of the positions of the China." The commander of the brigade commanding in the rear watched the attack of the tentative squadron blocked by the machine guns of the in the trenches, and the brave fighters fell in pieces in the mud, and immediately ordered the mortars and infantry guns that followed to open fire......

"Tom, tom, tom,"

"Boom, boom, boom"

.......

The Japanese artillery continued to roar, and the overwhelming shells crossed the rain curtain and accurately smashed on the Gutang defenders' positions.

In the rain curtain and the roaring machine gun sound, the long muzzle flame became the best artillery coordinate point for the Japanese army at this time......

The guns of the Japanese warships on Panyang Lake began to fire salvos to suppress the ......

"Boom, boom, boom"

One after another, explosions exploded on the Gutang defenders' positions, and the flames soared into the sky, and the bodies that were blown up flew in a radial shape in all directions, knocking out several holes in the raindrops falling from the sky, and then a hazy blood rain fell in the sky......

"Why did the machine gun stop? Go and a few people take over. Seeing that the machine gun fire point stopped roaring in the sound of the Japanese artillery, Zhang Wenmei yelled anxiously, now the only thing that can be relied on is a few machine guns, don't be damaged by the devil's shells, Zhang Wenmei kept praying in her heart.

"Da Da Da ......"

The defenders' machine-gun fire was sprayed again with a series of tongues of fire, and the water-splashed bullets flew at great speed, puffing through the rain curtain and penetrating the chests of the Japanese.

"Battalion commander, two Czechs were blown up. I don't need it anymore. One of the brothers cried out in a loud voice,

"Hold on! All resist! I have sent my brothers to the division headquarters to ask for reinforcements, and reinforcements will arrive soon. ”

In the heavy rain, Zhang Wenmei, who was drenched all over, was screaming as hard as she could, but was soon drowned out by the sound of explosions at close range.

"Battalion commander?" A platoon leader next to him shouted,

"Sanlaizi, what's wrong with the battalion commander?" The company commander asked in a roar,

"It's a dead ball, and the mortar shrapnel has wiped off the brain." One of the brothers next to him shouted,

"The battalion commander is dead, and now I command; Brothers, little devils! "A company commander shouted,

The Japanese attack was sharp and ferocious, the casualties of the defenders continued to rise, and with the help of the artillery, the defenders on the beachhead became fewer and fewer, and in less than 15 minutes of the exchange of fire with the Japanese, all the machine guns of the defenders stopped roaring......

"Brothers, the machine guns are gone, listen to my commands, fire with all your might, and prepare grenades!" The only remaining company commander on the position dragged his left arm, which was pierced by a bullet, and lay on the trench and shouted,

There were more and more Japanese soldiers passing through the rain curtain, and watching the Japanese troops gradually approach the position, it was only less than 20 meters.

"Throw all the grenades and put on the bayonets." The remaining company commanders are still struggling and roaring,

After 10 minutes, a battalion of the beachhead was completely annihilated by the devils, who occupied the beachhead and began to unload heavy equipment from the warships.