The officer of the Fifty-Second Army was a regimental commander, and the section of the section that their regiment was defending was at a crossing of the original New Wall River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although both the road they were defending and the ferry crossing on the other side of the river they were facing had been destroyed beyond recognition, it was presumably the focus of the Japanese attack.

For no other reason, all the military maps marked the road after crossing the river here, and presumably the same is true of the maps of the Japanese army.

The strange force that was able to swim across the Xinqiang River with a whole battalion of troops had been crossing the river for five days, but there had been no movement.

In the past five days, however, the movements of the Japanese troops on the other side of the river have become more and more intense, first Japanese reconnaissance planes have flown over from the other side of the river to conduct reconnaissance, and then there have been artillery test firings, presumably their infantry has already been in place.

It's just that the artillery bombardment is completely different from the intensity of the artillery fire they encountered in the original battle with the Japanese army.

Before the arrival of the Japanese army, he naturally had been to the other side, and naturally knew that the other side was also muddy, and it must be absolutely easy for the Japanese army's heavy artillery tanks to get over at this time.

The soldiers of the 52nd Army also discovered an interesting phenomenon, that is, the Japanese artillery fire was inaccurate.

For example, this shot hit their position, but the next shot went off the rails, and of course there were times when the first shot hit the ground and the second shot hit the position directly.

But, all in all, the threat of Japanese heavy artillery to their positions was much smaller.

But those veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time know what the reason for such an artillery bombardment is, it is because the opposite bank is full of mud, and although the Japanese army can barely transport the heavy artillery to a position where it can be fired, it is obvious that the artillery position is also muddy.

All cannons have recoil, but they all rely on one or two standing hoes behind the cannon body to slow down the recoil and keep the firing elements of the cannon unchanged.

However, the land on the other side was too muddy, and the Japanese could not find an ideal place to use as an artillery position, so they could only erect their cannons in the mud.

Therefore, every time a shell is fired, due to the effect of recoil, the cannon's hoe is deep in the mud and does not play the due role of shock absorption, so the shooting Zhuyuan has changed and has to be readjusted, so the next shot is crooked.

Finally, two days later, the defensive position of the regiment of the 52nd Army encountered the first decent salvo of Japanese heavy artillery after the Japanese came to the opposite bank, and the large dust and fog above the position were lifted into the air.

Presumably, the Japanese army finally spent two days and did not know what to get to cushion it, and solved the problem of the artillery stationing hoe deep in the mud.

Because the 52nd Army had been preparing for a long time and preparing for battle, it was natural to let where there was a mud pond, but their position was dry.

It's just that although the Japanese artillery fire was terrifying, it had no effect, because the 52nd Army had almost turned their positions into permanent fortifications.

Why did he let the people from Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion cut down trees by himself? It was because they knew that there were no trees around their shore, because they had already cut them down and used them for fortifications.

They dug a trench deep enough and wide enough, and then pressed the severed tree trunks on top of the trenches, and covered the dense rows of tree trunks with soil two or three meters deep.

Although the Japanese shells blew up a big crater after they fell, it was not enough to destroy the fortifications, and the soldiers of the 52nd Army were naturally mostly veterans, but they still talked and laughed every day eating the dust that fell from their heads under the shelling of the Japanese army.

If the Japanese army crossed the river by boat to attack, it would have reported from a distant observation post, so the men of the 52nd Army in this defensive position simply did not even come out of the trenches.

In their casual conversation, the soldiers naturally talked about the troops that had swam over a few days ago, and at this time, there were also soldiers who sent supplies or sent orders and communications from the rear to hear the name of Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion without knowing where.

So he told the story of this battalion directly under the Ninth Theater Theater Command by hearsay.

Talk about how they were in the Huaihe victory, how they were in the bloody battle of Taierzhuang, and how they were in the most pressing battle of Suijube.

Maybe Huo Xiaoshan's battle process is too legendary, or maybe after adding oil and vinegar from one to the other, Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion has become a legendary team that is difficult to find in the sky and on the ground in the mouth of the preacher.

The vast majority of the soldiers of the 52nd Army did not believe it at all, because they naturally knew from their own combat experience that their own troops were already the trump cards of the Central Army's descendants, how could there be such a team that surpassed them?

However, when some of the statements about the battalion under his command were finally known by the regiment commander, his heart moved, because he had indeed heard of such a unit, but he didn't expect that it was the one that crossed the river under his nose a few days ago, and it turned out that the slender major battalion commander was the legendary Huo Xiaoshan.

Others don't believe him, but most of them believe it, because the whole battalion is all water, not only can all the water be able to swim across the Xinqiang River in front of him without landing on the ground, but his own regiment does not have this ability.

So the regiment commander didn't know what the battalion was doing after crossing the river, and why there was no movement at all.

Although the other side of the river is also muddy, if this battalion does not know the times and carries out a sneak attack, I am afraid that it will not be able to escape the attack of the Japanese army at all, because the number of Japanese troops is too large.

While the regiment commander was thinking and waiting, the Japanese army finally launched an attack across the river on this day.

After the shelling before the routine Japanese attack, Japanese boats crossed the river, both wooden and motorboats, and more than 30 boats, large and small, came to this bank of the river under the cover of artillery fire.

As soon as the Japanese ships came into range, the soldiers of the 52nd Army in the defensive positions began to shoot at the ferryboats.

Five Japanese boats were pierced by heavy machine guns from the 52nd Army's defensive positions, and Japanese soldiers jumped into the river and were rescued by neighboring ships.

The situation of the battle became tighter, and the regimental commander no longer had time to think about the question of where the battalion under his command would go, and began to direct the battle on this side of the river to prevent the Japanese ships from crossing the river.

At this moment, the lens of a pair of binoculars also showed the scene of the Japanese ship being missed, and the soldiers were killed or abandoned and rescued.

"Boss, we've been watching devils for a week, when are we going to start fighting?" Xiao Shisuo asked Huo Xiaoshandao, who was holding a telescope to observe the enemy's situation.

"What's the hurry, it's easy to fight devils, where do we withdraw after the fight? There are more than 400 people," Huo Xiaoshan replied.

Huo Xiaoshan had already expected the situation of the directly subordinate battalion, he was not in a hurry to fight, he would have thrown his own people here if he had fought early, there were too many Japanese troops!

It's simple to fight devils, and what he is thinking about now is a way out, because once they cross the river, they will also have to face the difficulties faced by the Japanese army, there are three or four big rivers, and there are also small rivers and ditches!