The Japanese shelling began, and the positions of the 29th Regiment were engulfed in smoke and fire.

The shelling lasted for an hour before it weakened, but at this time, eight Japanese bombers arrived.

So the smoke and dust that rose up had not yet fallen, and new smoke and dust rose again, and everyone's field of vision in the explosion was only twenty or thirty meters, and there was choking black smoke and dust everywhere, and they could no longer see the distance clearly.

Under the orders and initiatives of General Tiger Tsai, the Hunan army and civilians completely destroyed the road, and the Japanese heavy artillery and tanks had been thrown on the new wall Hebei, so although the Japanese artillery fire was terrifying, it was still bearable for the defenders' strong fortifications.

But the aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese bombers were different, and finally the pillboxes that had been protruding from the ground were hit, so the national soldiers in the bunkers were blown to pieces along with the bricks and cement.

Fortunately, the Japanese planes had a limited number of sorties and bombs they carried, otherwise there would have been no need to fight this asymmetrical war.

When the plane bombing was over, the Japanese ground offensive began.

Through the dust that had not yet fallen, the light and heavy machine guns in the defenders' semicircular bunkers rang out.

The 10th Pre-10th Division also used its brains when building pillboxes, and all their bunkers were based on the Xiangjiang River in the west, and they were semicircular in all other directions, which naturally had the advantage of making the defensive army's shooting range extremely open.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from going up the river, the Nationalist army was full of mines at both ends of the Xiangjiang River to prevent the Japanese army from attacking from the waterway to outflank them.

The Japanese planes did not leave after dropping the bombs, but they were still hovering and diving over the positions of the Nationalist troops, and the airborne machine guns and heavy machine guns were firing wildly at the positions below, and the casualties of the Nationalist soldiers in the trenches without bunkers were still heavy.

After the Japanese planes dropped bombs, Huo Xiaoshan led his cold gun team into the position against the strafing fire of the Japanese planes, and then they all scattered in the entire position.

A Nationalist soldier was shooting at the Japanese soldiers 100 meters away in the open trench, he aimed at his shoulder, unfortunately his shot did not hit his target, he stared at a Japanese officer holding a command knife.

So he hurriedly lowered his gun and pushed and pulled the bolt to aim against his shoulder again, but before he could pull the trigger, there was a gunshot next to him, and he saw that the Japanese officer he was about to hit had fallen down with a wave of his hand, and the command knife he had thrown away drew a shining arc in the sunlight due to the change in angle.

The soldier turned his head to look at his side, and saw that he didn't know when a small soldier lying next to him had already taken aim forward again.

As a veteran of the Central Army, he knew that this kind of gun was called a sniper rifle, and the body of the gun was wrapped with strips of rags, which was to prevent the reflection of the gun body from being discovered by the enemy on the opposite side.

However, this kind of gun is not available in the national army, and the fact that this soldier can have it only shows one problem, his gun was snatched from the Japanese.

The soldier of the 29th Regiment was curious about the appearance of such a soldier with a sniper rifle, but he immediately remembered that shortly before the battle began, it was said that someone in the position had seen someone carrying a sniper rifle in another unit that had withdrawn from the front.

I heard that the unit was called a battalion directly under the theater, and at that time, as a veteran, he laughed at that statement, he had only heard that the theater headquarters would have a special service regiment and a guard battalion, but he had never heard of the statement that there was a battalion directly under Raushzi.

At this time, the soldier had already fired another shot, but the soldier of the 29th Regiment looked at the point of the soldier's rifle and could no longer see any Japanese soldiers, it was just a collapsed civilian house.

He didn't think it was the soldier who shot the gun blindly, it was obvious that no matter how good his eyesight was, it was impossible for the small telescope on the gun to see far and clearly.

After the soldier finished the shot, he had already put away his gun and got up to change the firing position, so the soldier of the 29th regiment blurted out: "Why don't you fight?" ”

The little soldier listened to him and was stunned for a moment, so the old soldier saw that the immature little face stained with mud turned red.

The little soldier didn't expect him to ask himself, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Because the leader said that a cold gunner with accurate marksmanship and a sniper rifle cannot always shoot in one place, otherwise it is easy to be targeted by the other party.

He knew that the answer would be long-winded and the battle was still going on, so he could only smile with a smile on his face and shift his position with his gun on his waist.

"Which unit are you in?" The soldier of the 29th regiment asked again when he saw that the other party was about to leave.

"Directly under the battalion!" The little soldier's body had already turned around, but he still answered his question, because he felt that this question was easy to answer, and there were only three words that did not delay the battle.

"There really is a direct battalion!" The soldier of the 29th Regiment muttered to himself, then pushed and pulled down the bolt of the gun and aimed at the Japanese again.

This little soldier was naturally a small man, and he really couldn't answer the soldier's question about why he wanted to change his position.

In the daily cold gun shooting training, the leader told them to fight separately and find their own targets after taking up the position, but no matter how good the sniper position they chose, they could not shoot more than three shots, nor could they shoot next to light and heavy machine gun fire.

The former was easy to attract the attention of the Japanese army, and the latter was the focus of the Japanese artillery grenadiers.

The battle continued, and the Chinese officers were facing the frenzied strafing of Japanese planes, and they were firing at the Japanese troops who were getting closer and closer.

Huo Xiaoshan brought more than 30 cold gunners with good marksmanship to join the battle, and they changed places after firing one or two shots, which was inconspicuous.

The Japanese attacking team just felt that the opponent's marksmanship was particularly accurate and ruthless, and their own soldiers kept falling, even if they were doing standard forward tactical movements, they would be knocked down by the opponent.

It was not until some officers in the rear were knocked down that they realized that there were also snipers in the Chinese army, and at this time, there were only more than 30 Japanese troops left in the more than 100 Japanese troops who attacked this time.

At this time, the more than 30 Japanese soldiers had already attacked a place only more than 40 meters away from the position of the 29th Regiment, so a Japanese soldier Cao waved his command knife and shouted "charge".

At this time, he was the only officer who rushed to a distance of several tens of meters, and he did not know that the two squad leaders of his squadron had been killed by the other party.

It's just that because he inevitably moved heavily when he raised his knife, he exposed his upper body behind a pile of bricks and rubble, so at this moment he actually attracted two shots.

A shot hit him in the center of the eyebrow, but a shot hit his wrist with a gun, and the Japanese soldier Cao staggered forward and lay motionless on the pile of bricks.

And those Japanese soldiers had already risen and rushed forward under the order of "charge", how could they notice that the person who commanded them to charge had died in the midst of this rain of bullets?

This Japanese army was the 6th Division of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, that is, the one that captured Nanjing, the capital of China.

Their soldiers were veterans of war, and there was only about forty meters in front of them, so they naturally understood that it would only be a few seconds to run this distance, and the defenders would only have a chance to shoot with their rifles, and then they could rush into the enemy line and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Immediately after that, the follow-up troops will attack, and this line of defense of the Chinese army will be overcome.

It's just that they didn't expect that at the moment when they got up to charge, dozens of rifles on the opposite side rang out at the same time.

This shot was fired by the soldiers of the 29th Regiment, but more of them were fired by the cold gunners of the directly subordinate battalions scattered along the entire defensive line, who had long been aiming at the moment of the Japanese attack.

So at this moment, more than 20 of these 30 Japanese soldiers fell, and only two Japanese soldiers rushed into the Chinese position alone.

Then their hysterical howls came to an abrupt end under the piercing of six or seven medium rifle bayonets that the defenders handed forward at the same time!