The battle to defend Zhengding has also reached the most critical time.

Due to the burning of ammunition, the two heavy mortars were temporarily unusable, but the walls of Zhengding County had been broken and were enough for Kenji Dohihara.

Under the cover of the two heavy artillery brigades, they immediately launched a "pig assault charge", that is, a small number of hidden bunkers that were not destroyed often only started shooting, and they were also destroyed one by one by the Japanese army using artillery close shooting.

Seeing that the Japanese army launched a group charge, the officers and men of the 122nd Division were also anxious, they no longer cared about the safety of the artillery position, and immediately launched a covering artillery bombardment, which caused heavy losses to the Japanese troops in the pig burst, so the Japanese troops had to stop the charge immediately and hide on the spot.

The skills of the Japanese artillery were very good, and within seven or eight minutes after the artillery of our army launched the shelling, it was subjected to retaliatory covering shelling, resulting in the destruction of almost all 122-mm heavy artillery positions.

Due to the deterrence of artillery coverage, the Japanese infantry were somewhat unstoppable.

Ignoring the fatigue and timidity of the soldiers, Kenji Dohihara immediately ordered the front-line troops to launch another group charge after a rapid retaliatory artillery bombardment.

This time it was much smoother, although the Japanese army in the pig burst was also killed a lot by the defenders' G34 machine guns, in the end there were still more than 2,000 Japanese troops, completely rushed into the city of Zhengding County, and the Chinese defenders fought for every street and every building, although the casualties were larger, but gradually gained a firm foothold.

The 14th Division was up and down with cheers, and now there was no need for the division commander's supervision, they would also spontaneously organize follow-up reinforcements, surging along one breakthrough after another, and constantly devouring the Chinese soldiers and their positions.

Zhengding County is already very critical, a red line suddenly appeared in the sky, and there was a faint rumbling sound, this is more than 150 mm heavy artillery, experienced Japanese veterans, have long been frightened to tremble, hurriedly find a safer place, quietly hidden.

However, the two heavy mortar guns were the targets of the Chinese heavy artillery.

Tu Feiyuan's tight heart suddenly relaxed, because the city wall of Zhengding had been broken, and the shells of the two mortar cannons had basically been lost, in a sense, it didn't matter if he wanted to, let his soldiers rush into the city as soon as possible, and try to entangle with the Chinese defenders, but it was the safest way.

Because he did not believe that the heavy artillery clusters of Huaxia would shell their own defending units.

After receiving the order from Tu Feiyuan, the Japanese army no longer ignored the strafing fire of the G34 machine gun, and the follow-up thousands of infantry entered the city one after another.

After destroying the mortars, Liu Yun, who personally commanded the heavy artillery cluster, just wanted to continue shelling the Japanese heavy artillery positions when he received a telegram for help from the 122nd Division.

"In view of the extreme urgency of the situation, please ask the heavy artillery cluster on the south bank to fire at the core position in Zhengding City. Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division, October 26 of the Republic of China".

The "core position" is near the railway station in the city, where the division headquarters of the 122nd Division is located, and how long has it been, and the Japanese army has attacked this position, and everyone can't help but gasp, but there is no better way at the moment, so they have to do it one by one.

Thirty-six 152-mm howitzers, desperate and rapid shelling, thirty minutes later, from Zhengding Railway Station to the North Gate, about one-third of the city was completely turned into ruins, about 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and hundreds of Chinese soldiers, all turned into piles of cannon fodder.

However, Zhengding County is temporarily safe.

The timely heavy artillery coverage made the Japanese army's frantic offensive stalled.

At this time, it was getting late, and the Japanese troops who entered the city had to wait for reinforcements, and after the follow-up troops followed up in time, it was when they launched a night battle and close combat, and at this time, they didn't care about any casualties or casualties.

Of course, it would be best if the entire Zhengding County could be taken before dawn, and these Japanese troops who had already invaded the city would no longer want to be hit by heavy artillery.

When it was just getting dark, the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army was dispatching troops, and the only thing that was a little awkward was that many of the staff officers who came to gild had some small opinions, thinking that Tu Feiyuan's fighting style was too rough, and the casualties of the imperial soldiers were too great, and suggested that he adjust his strategy and tactics.

In response to the suggestions of the elites, Lieutenant General Tu Feiyuan smiled and nodded, that is, he didn't read any casualty reports at all, and killed the romantic idea of the staff officers in one sentence.

"Since 1931, no matter what the battle, our actual losses have not been low, you are the hope of the future of the empire, I hope that when you plan strategies and tactics, you must not be deceived by false figures, otherwise you are playing with the lives of soldiers."

"I, not only the casualty figures, but also the Zhengding county."

That night, nearly 10,000 Japanese troops poured out to fight a melee night battle with the defenders of Zhengding.

With the help of the heavy artillery unit, only more than 2,000 officers and men of the 122nd Division crossed the Hutuo River safely, while division commander Wang Mingzhang was already seriously injured and unconscious.

The intermittent gunfire did not gradually stop until the evening of 29 October.

On the same day, the county seat of Zhengding officially fell.

In order to seize the county seat of Zhengding, the Japanese army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, more than 100 fighters of all kinds were damaged, and more than half of the technical equipment such as heavy artillery and tanks were lost.

In the face of such a "glorious record", both Tufeiyuan himself and the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army felt speechless, but they didn't know how many casualties the Japanese Imperial Army would have to suffer in order to capture Shijiazhuang.

On the side of the Huaxia army, it is not much better.

The 122nd Division was completely defeated, and if it wanted to recover its combat strength, it had to be trained for more than half a year, plus other participating units, such as Lin Yiru's 375 Brigade and two artillery battalions in western Sichuan, the total casualties were as high as more than 12,000 people, and the ratio of enemy to enemy casualties reached 2:5.

Compared to 1:5 in another time and space, it seems to be a little better.

On October 30, the Japanese reinforcements arrived in Zhengding, which was none other than the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division, and the brigade commander Tokutaro Sakai.

Kenji Dohihara immediately switched positions between the 27th Brigade and the 28th Brigade, and let the heavily damaged 28th Brigade go to the vicinity of Xinle County to deploy defenses, focusing on guarding against enemy troops in Pingshan and Lingshou and other places to sneak attack down the mountain, while the 27th Brigade immediately stationed in the west of Zhengding County to prepare for the capture of Shijiazhuang.

Tufeiyuan's plan was to order the 27th Brigade to cross the Hutuo River from Quyang Bridge and head straight at Dahe Town in Shijiazhuang, and if it went well, it would take advantage of the situation to take Luxian and Luquan Mountain in a detour to cut off the retreat of the Chinese army.

As for the newly arrived Banjing Brigade, it will replace the original 28th Brigade and will be the vanguard unit that has captured Shijiazhuang, and will continue to advance southward along the Pinghan Railway, crossing the river from the railway bridge of the Hutuo River, focusing on seizing the Liulinbao position on the opposite bank and crossing the river with the main force of the 14th Division.

Due to the heavier tasks of the Sakai Brigade and the more generous nature of the Toshihara, most of the heavy artillery equipment was strengthened to the division.

In the early hours of October 31, the Japanese launched a tentative offensive.

After a period of heavy artillery bombardment, the Japanese troops on the north bank of the Hutuo River dispatched four reinforced squadrons to cross from the north to the south of the Hutuo River, with the aim of finding out the heavy artillery units in Shijiazhuang, and then using their own numerical superiority to consume the heavy firepower of the defenders one by one, and making preliminary preparations for the main force to cross the river.

It may be that the Japanese army's enthusiasm for attack was not enough, and the more than 2,000 Japanese troops spent a long time before they crossed the nearly 1,000-meter-wide river valley one by one, and before they could breathe a sigh of relief, they were beaten back by the forward troops of the 41st Army and the 47th Army.

Due to the insufficient intensity of the Japanese army's attack, the Chinese defenders did not need heavy artillery units at all, and only used mortars, Type 72 infantry guns, and a number of light and heavy machine guns, which caused the enemy to lose more than half.

The arrogant Japanese army was unwilling to suffer a loss, and immediately pulled out light and heavy artillery to counterattack one by one.

The Japanese artillery was well-trained, with a reasonable mix of light and heavy, and the ordinary artillery units of the Chinese were indeed no match for them.

However, the defenders' 152-mm howitzer group had already been re-settled on Luquan Mountain, and even if they fired ordinary types of shells, their effective range could threaten the north of the Hutuo River.

Tu Feiyuan and other Japanese generals were smiling, as if they had already won the battle.

That night, the deputy chief of staff of the 14th Division, Fujiwara Yoshihide Osa, led a death squad to sneak from the edge of Taihang Mountain to Huolu County, and the target was the howitzer group on Luquan Mountain.

These death squads are not death squads in the ordinary sense.

They are the secret military thorns of the Japanese army's intelligence headquarters, the sharpest "super" unit of the Japanese army, and the super special combat team secretly trained by Tu Feiyuan by taking advantage of his position to engage in intelligence, painstakingly recruited by Tu Feiyuan, and then referring to the methods of the German special forces.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, this special combat team will not appear on the battlefield at all.

The official members of this branch are basically cultivators in the late stage of refining, as for the three squad leaders, they are all in the early stage of refining gods, and the chief captain is in the middle stage of refining gods, for Kenji Dohihara, even if one is lost, it will be a huge blow.

However, the Japanese army had been stalemate in the Songhu battlefield for too long, and the North China battlefield could not open the situation for a long time, and the Japanese army base camp was too in need of news of victory.

In order to seize Shijiazhuang as soon as possible and change the current unfavorable situation of the Japanese army in North China, Kenji Dohihara had no choice but to make dangerous moves, so he threw out even the most precious super special combat team without hesitation.

Ordinary soldiers really have no power to fight back in the face of these martial arts masters, and a heavy artillery battalion of 800 people, and a garrison of more than 2,000 people, can't stop just a hundred or so special combat members, because these people have too many advantages in night combat and close combat.

It wasn't until the Chinese soldiers knew that the purpose of these people was to blow up all the 152mm heavy guns, that they were really red-eyed, and they all held the bombs and died with the enemy.

The most ruthless is still the western Sichuan artillery.

They simply scattered the 152 mm shells around the heavy artillery positions one by one, and as soon as the devil's special combat team entered the killing range, they immediately used manual methods to collectively detonate them.

The heroic sacrifice of these ordinary soldiers finally slowed down the speed of the devil.

However, compared to ordinary people, the attack speed of these masters is still too fast.

In just over 10 minutes, the Japanese devil's special combat team blew up nearly 20 heavy artillery, which was the last bit of heavy artillery in Shijiazhuang, and the two 122-mm heavy artillery battalions were completely lost in the Zhengding defense battle, and if these heavy guns were blown up again, the consequences can be imagined.

Fujiwara Yoshihide Osa is an ordinary soldier.

The reason why Kenji Dohihara sent him to participate in this operation was that he supervised the battle at a critical time and led the special combat team members to die.

Therefore, Fujiwara Osa had long been prepared for the jade shattering, and when he saw that a group of super masters were shocked by the explosion, he simply held the explosive bag himself and crawled towards the other heavy artillery positions, but before he could get closer, he was beaten into a sieve by the defenders' machine guns.

However, the death of Fujiwara Osa also inspired the last bit of blood of the Japanese devils.

As a result, the three team leaders in the God Refining Period no longer disregarded their own safety, and led their team members to launch a decisive charge.

When these martial arts masters are alert, they still want to blow them up, it is almost an impossible task, many soldiers just want to detonate the bomb, they are killed in time by a hidden weapon, even if one or two bombs are occasionally detonated, it fails to cause a chain explosion.

However, the sacrifice of the soldiers still caused heavy losses to the Japanese devils, and when the last position was destroyed, the Japanese special combat team only survived more than 20 people.

However, their end has also come.

Because Major General Liu, who was far away in Yunpan Mountain, had already flown over with a phantom mecha.

It is a pity that from the beginning to the end of the Japanese assault, it took only twenty or thirty minutes to destroy all 36 152-mm heavy guns and their six sub-positions.

When Major General Liu arrived, he happened to see the final explosion of the heavy artillery position.

These days, whether it is Wang Mingzhang's 122nd Division or Li Jiayu's army, there is no concept of the consumption of shells and bullets, and an average of seven or eight tons of ammunition is consumed every day, and for the war of the 21st century, even the tribal warfare in Africa is stronger than this.

But for the Republic of China in the 30s, it was an unbearable burden.

Even if the defenders of Shijiazhuang want to rely on Yan Xishan for supplies, it is a little unrealistic, Taiyuan is still too far away from Shijiazhuang, as the so-called "far water is difficult to save the thirst".

There was no way, Liu Yun had no choice but to do his old job, and opened a secret arsenal near the remote Yunpan Mountain, mainly to produce bullets and shells, and strive for a solution near the raw materials.

With the help of ant robots, the Yunpanshan Temporary Arsenal was quickly set up.