The artillery battle between the two sides finally died down near the evening, and such a large-scale artillery consumption may put more pressure on the Japanese army.

At present, the supply of ammunition and materials for the Japanese army is far from being compared with that in the early stage of the war, and the lack of materials has now become the biggest constraint on their continued aggression and expansion.

In order to eliminate the impact of these unfavorable factors, the Japanese army captured the whole of Southeast Asia and parts of India in just half a year, and they wantonly plundered war materials including ore, oil, and grain to supplement the logistics supply of the invading Japanese army.

This is also the most important reason why the Japanese army launched the Pacific War when it could not fully control the situation on the Chinese battlefield! There is only one reason, supplies! Material! Or materiel!

The military commanders were baffled by the fact that the Japanese army had suddenly launched such a large-scale artillery battle today, and they could not find the reason, and in the end they had to attribute it to the nature of the Japanese army's attack.

It was only after a long time that the intelligence services saw a news in Japanese newspapers that "Wing Commander Fujiwara Masatoshi was killed in a sniper attack in western Yunnan, China."

Fujiwara Masagang is a famous family, the surname Fujiwara is a noble surname in Japan, and the Fujiwara family is either rich or expensive. Fujiwara Masaoshi himself, who was also born in the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, is only 26 years old, and is the youngest Dazuo in the Japanese military circles! The future is bright. On that day, Fujiwara Masatsushi had just been transferred from Japan to inspect the position, and it is said that he was in a hurry to inspect the position without even drinking a sip of water, but he did not expect to be lifted off the Tianling cover by a cold gun and killed on the spot.

We had no way of knowing these things when the news was not good at the time, I just guessed that Ani might have killed a high-ranking officer, but at most I only guessed Shaozuo's rank, and I never thought it would be such a high-level officer.

The crazy retaliation of the Japanese army also made us understand one thing, never fantasize about peace in the face of the enemy, because when your enemy turns his face, he will never warn you in advance, and the first thing they will show you is a bright bayonet!

"The Japanese artillery bombardment is also a good thing, at least it has tested the anti-artillery ability of our position for us, you say, Tuanza." Huang Wenlie and I inspected the positions after the shelling.

"How's the casualty?" Huang Wenlie ignored me, but went to ask a company commander who had just run over.

The company commander replied: "Fifty-three have been killed in battle, and the number and list of wounded soldiers are still being counted, and I am afraid it will not be too small......

The Longwan position was the target of heavy bombardment by Japanese artillery fire, and the casualties were the largest of all the positions, and the extent of the damage to the fortifications was also so severe that it was almost equivalent to rebuilding the position.

In the next few days, under my "good persuasion", Huang Wenlie began to go to the military headquarters one by one, to grind more materials to strengthen our fortifications. Although there was a shortage of supplies, the crying children had milk to eat, and under my frequent stalking tactics, more of these materials were transported to the Jianlong Bay position.

Needless to say, the anti-artillery hole does not need to be supervised at all, and after this shelling, the Qiu Ba people attached more importance to the anti-artillery hole than anything else.

Logs were also laid on the trenches at intervals, and the logs were covered with clay, which was covered with stone sheets, and although the reinforcement method did not reach the thickness of the command post, it was the same process. The purpose of this is to have relatively safe bunkers to hide in, even if it is too late to drill a bomb hole.

We were patching up on the east bank, but the Japanese troops on the west bank at Moyunling showed no signs of being in a hurry, and it was said that their positions had also been shelled, and they should make up for the leaks everywhere.

A few days later, Allied aircraft reconnaissance brought back information that the Japanese were now building a large number of pillboxes.

This kind of information is extremely reasonable from the analysis of the actual situation, and the Japanese army has little confidence in continuing to dig underground, because the hard and iron-like soil of Moyunling has made them suffer enough, so they simply go the opposite way and choose to develop upwards and build pillboxes to make up for the lack of depth in the bunkers.

A month later, the accuracy of Allied aircraft intelligence was also proven, and the unfinished pillboxes on the west bank gradually emerged, arranged in sequence on the Moyunling position.

We tried to use the 20 mm caliber Madsen machine gun to hit it, but it only gnawed off the cement on the surface of the pillbox, which was very surprising to us, you must know that this 20 mm machine gun can even penetrate some light tanks, which also objectively shows the defensive ability of these Japanese pillboxes.

Huang Wenlie expressed concern about such a strong bunker: "If we want to attack, with the existing firepower, it will be too difficult to break through these bunkers. ”

"This is the most standard permanent fortification that the Japanese army has always used...... But what I can't understand is, why are their bunkers built so densely? Too dense will affect the shooting range of the bunkers...... However, maybe they should arrange another defense on the periphery to form a deep protection of the bunker, so as to ...... "Although I don't believe that we will take the initiative to attack, I still dutifully analyze the military situation with Huang Wenlie."

Huang Wenlie looked at me deeply: "Battalion Commander An, if you could have cleaned up your cynical attitude, you could have become a more talented commander!" ”

I smiled: "Tuanza, don't be confused by my cloud mountain fog cover, these things I knew it the day I first went to the battlefield, they belong to the category of paper talk, and now they are basically shaken clean...... The officer training regiment run by Chief Feng still taught some useful things. ”

When I mentioned Chief Feng, I aroused Huang Wenlie's indignation: "The Gui Army, the Sichuan Army, the Northeast Army, and the Northwest Army...... is already weak, and he has to form a gang and be willing to do a plate of loose sand! If it weren't for the constant infighting among our factions and the excessive consumption of ourselves, how could we let the Japanese invaders occupy half of the country so easily, if we can truly unite as one, how can we ......"

Wang Tingyue's voice came from outside: "Wen Lie, is this going to recite Manjianghong next?" ”

Huang Wenlie and I, along with several other company commanders, stood up and saluted: "Commissioner Wang." ”

Wang Tingyue walked in with a smile, and stopped Huang Wenlie's intention to blame the herald: "I didn't let them report it, no matter how much fanfare they came, there was no need for that!" I'm not the commander of the war zone, so how can there be so much pomp. ”

After the humility was over, Wang Tingyue said to the company commanders again: "Everyone go and get busy first, I have a few words with Commander Huang and Battalion Commander An, and I have to explain." ”

Everyone can understand this, and this is military information that is more confidential, and it is not appropriate for more people to know about it, so as to avoid leaking secrets.