The Battle of Antokumon was fought as scheduled at 10 a.m. on the 11th in accordance with Yanagawa Heisuke's plan.

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"Battalion commander, the devil is here, good guy, there are really a lot of people, this time it's really enough for us to kill."

In front of Ande Gate, behind the iron fence barrier, facing the black Japanese army, the first company commander Wu Kai's face did not show the slightest fear, but with a little excitement.

Lu Guangwei nodded, stretched out his tongue and licked his chapped lips, and said coldly: "There are so many good people, I'm afraid that there are few others, and it's not fun to kill Lao Tzu!"

Kaizi, let everyone be ready for battle, pay attention to dodging the devil's artillery attack, once the little devil is in range, let me go and hit hard. ”

"Yes!"

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Ande Gate, outside the iron fence, Yanagawa Heisuke led the army to press the border, and was standing outside the range of Lu Guangwei and others with a telescope to observe.

After a long time, Yanagawa Heisuke put down the binoculars, although he didn't want to admit it in his heart, he still sighed: "This battle is difficult to fight!"

The staff officer beside Yanagawa Heisuke also put down his binoculars at this time, and said with some concern: "Brigade commander, the enemy's city walls and field positions are equipped with countless strong pillboxes, and a large number of artillery and heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns can be faintly seen behind the fortifications.

The enemy clearly put on a posture of concentrating all his firepower to meet us, and although our soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army were extremely brave and fierce in combat, if they attacked simply as in the previous battles, the casualties would certainly be very heavy. ”

"Hmm!"

Yanagawa Heisuke nodded with some headaches, and added: "Your analysis is very reasonable, but you look at the front of the Andemen position, which is heavily guarded, and our people can't invade it at all, and there is no other way than to attack it head-on."

So I decided to use heavy artillery bombardment, plus all machine gun fire, to assist the infantry to charge and kill! Since we have an absolute advantage in artillery fire, we will completely magnify this advantage.

An artillery brigade plus five heavy guns, I think it should be enough. ”

"Haha......" Yanagawa Heisuke laughed pitifully, and was finally about to raise his eyebrows.

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At 10:10 a.m., the battle for Andermen really began.

At the end of the battle, hundreds or thousands of shells were fired from Yanagawa Heisuke's artillery brigade, and the shells crossed many obstacles, barbed wire, minefields, and pillboxes, and directly bombarded the military fortifications of Lu Guangwei and others, directly blasting the hard cement sacks into holes one by one.

Casualties were inevitable, although everyone had been prepared and lay dead under the fortifications, but after the little devil's crazy artillery bombardment for more than ten minutes, dozens of soldiers were directly killed, and as for the wounded soldiers, there were countless soldiers, as many as more than 200 people.

After all, this Andemen position is really not big, and the artillery of the little devil can cross the position and directly bombard Andemen.

The smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the fresh air in front of the entire Ander Gate seemed to be filled with a strong smell of gunsmoke.

The first company commander Wu Kai had red eyes, just now, there were too many familiar places, and the wartime who was laughing and laughing with him before was blown into minced meat.

But the little devil's artillery really has a suppressive advantage, and when the little devil's artillery is in full swing, they can't fight back at all.

Even in order to prevent his artillery from being bombarded by enemy artillery, Lü Guangwei had already ordered people to transfer all the heavy artillery fire to the dead corner.

"Kill, bloody shame!"

Yanagawa Heisuke waved the glorious katana that the Emperor of Japan had personally presented him, and roared loudly.

The hornet's nest of devils began to crowd and charge towards the Andermen.

After the Andemen fortifications, Lu Guangwei shook his head and shook off the thick dust buried on his head.

Seeing that the little devil had already launched a charge, he also said hysterically: "Fire!"

Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, artillery fire, and bullets from both sides beckoned to each other.

Several machine gun platoons of the little devils sprayed fire, thousands, tens of thousands of bullets rushed to the barbed wire, the rain-like bullets in front of the hard wire directly blasted open, the barbed wire was crumbling, and tens of thousands of bullets in the rear penetrated directly along the barbed wire, some hit the fortifications, and some directly hit the defenders inside, and the defending soldiers immediately fell on their backs, and a big hole was broken in their heads.

Of course, Lu Guangwei's side is not without achievements.

The side that has always chosen to charge has always suffered more casualties than the defending side at the beginning, although the little devil's artillery is too fierce, but this is no exception.

The soldiers of the third battalion, under the leadership of Lu Guangwei, frantically fired at the little devils, and the bullets penetrated the barbed wire, which also made the charging little devils fall continuously.

In the follow-up, Lu Guangwei sent people to transfer all the heavy artillery at the same time, and now the little devil also tasted the power of artillery bombardment.

The number of little devils was large, and the charge was intensive, and at this moment, Lu Guangwei could be said to have brought the artillery into full power.

Under the roar of the patches, every time the shell fell, seven or eight little devils were blown over, and the little devils who were charging were immediately killed and wounded.

"Cover, cover! Light and heavy machine guns all fired, covering the infantry charge! ”

Rushing to the front line, the leader of the devil squadron in charge of the charge roared loudly, and the sound fell, and the light and heavy machine guns of the little devils fired together towards the Andemen position, and the cold bullets swept through the sky like a rain curtain, so dense that even the flies in the sky could knock them out.

"Break through the barricade!"

The little devil who had approached the iron fence took out his iron tongs and began to cut the iron fence to clear the way for the infantry who would charge later.

Wu Kai got closer, saw that something was wrong, and shouted loudly: "Grenade group, throw, blow up these dogs for Lao Tzu."

Boom Boom!

There was a desperate sound, and the little devil who rushed to the iron fence and was cutting the iron fence was instantly killed and injured, and was blown back.

…… This battle was fought in the dark, bleeding and drifting, and the little devils organized six charges successively, all of which were desperately beaten back by Lu Guangwei and others.

The battle lasted until six o'clock in the afternoon, a full eight hours, and because most of the charging little devil soldiers were also exhausted, Yanagawa Heisuke saw that it was not good, and if it continued, it would only increase casualties, and finally stopped the attack in anger and helplessness.

As soon as the charge on the devil's side stopped, Lu Guangwei immediately ordered someone to stop the artillery fire, the battle still had to continue, and he needed to save every bullet.

At the same time, this is almost the worst battle that Lu Guangwei has ever commanded, and it is also the one with the greatest disparity.

The little devil charged six times, and on several occasions he almost broke through the position, and even Lu Guangwei himself made up his mind to die several times.

Fortunately, with everyone's sincerity, the warriors gritted their teeth and persevered, and the little devil's attack was temporarily repulsed.

Andermen, temporarily saved.

The tragedy of this battle is simply difficult to describe in writing.

By 8 o'clock in the evening, Lu Guangwei checked the number of casualties, 1,000 soldiers, and only more than 400 people remained.

One of the three company commanders was unfortunately hit by a shell and died directly; The other was hit by a stray bullet and had been pulled to the rear for rescue, leaving only Wu Kai, a company commander, with some minor injuries.

Also, if there is anything that best describes the tragedy of this battle, here is a string of terrifying statistics:

In just eight hours, the 388th Regiment's 3rd Battalion had exhausted more than 300 shells in storage, and the entire battalion had also lost two-thirds of its ammunition, firing more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition.

The statistics of the Japanese army were later clearer: in the first eight hours of contact in the first battle of Andemen, Yanagawa Heisuke, a large group of devils, directly consumed 35,672 bullets and more than 500 shells.

It may not seem like a feeling, but if you compare it, you can see it.

You must know that in the most tragic battle of Luodian in the Battle of Songhu, the 3rd Brigade of the 44th Wing of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army only knocked out more than 200,000 infantry bullets in one month.

In contrast, it can be seen that the battle of Andermen was fierce.

(To be continued)