"Kill... Kill....kill! When a burst of earth-shattering shouts resounded throughout the canal, the devil soldiers who were stunned by the artillery fire of the Third Division only reacted at this time.

Some of the devils shook off the dirt and quickly stood up and prepared to fight, but not many of the light and heavy machine gunners stood up.

During the previous day's attack, the artillery of the Third Division had already figured out the specific location of the light and heavy machine gun firing points of the Japanese army, so in this round of shelling, the light and heavy machine guns of the devils became the object of key "attention."

More than eighty percent of the army's light and heavy machine gunners were killed, and more than sixty percent of their light and heavy machine guns were destroyed.

Seeing that [***] was about to rush up, the captain of the devil brigade in charge of supervising the battle shouted angrily: "Bagaya Road! Machine gun suppression! Fire suppression! Idiot! What to eat! ”

"Your Excellency Nakasa, our machine-gun position was hit by artillery fire from the Chinese Army, and we suffered heavy casualties, and we were unable to organize effective fire suppression." A captain bowed his head and said urgently.

"Yaga Tooth Road! Ask the Brigade Commander for additional machine gun reinforcements! ”

"Your Excellency Nakasa, it's too late, the Chinese army has already rushed up."

Hearing this, the lieutenant commander of the army picked up the telescope and stretched out his head, only to see that hundreds of Chinese [***] people had already rushed to a place less than two hundred meters away from their position, and it was obviously too late to wait for machine gun reinforcements sent by the brigade headquarters.

Seeing that the [***] person was getting closer and closer, the military Zhongzuo made a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life. I saw him pull out the command knife he saw, stand up and say sharply: "Warriors, kill Gaga!" ”

Hundreds of devils heard the sound, immediately jumped out of the trench with rifles and bayonets and rushed towards the opposite squadron, when it was almost close to a hundred meters, the devil soldiers who were charging rapidly pulled the bolt and pushed off the bullets, and then rushed up with a rifle "Ya Ya Ya" screaming.

In addition to the guard battalion, the commandos are equipped with all American-style submachine guns, and the top soldiers drawn from each regiment are all equipped with German-style submachine guns, although they are not as powerful as American-style submachine guns, but they are a hundred times stronger than the devil's bayonets.

Hundreds of submachine guns fired fiercely in an instant, and hundreds of scarlet and dazzling tongues of fire intertwined into a net of death fire, and a dense rain of bullets poured on the heads of the devil infantry, knocking the devil soldiers to the ground like cutting wheat.

Some devil soldiers didn't understand until they died, why they died like this, and when they arrived at Toei's hometown, they should still be crying to Amaterasu, "The people of Chi are cunning and dripping." ”

Hundreds of submachine guns fired at the same time At such a close distance, the assault ability was quite terrifying, and in about ten minutes, the four or five hundred devil soldiers who rushed out of the trench and prepared to fight with [***] bayonets had all been knocked to the ground by the dense submachine guns.

Lai Changqing took the lead, and the submachine gun in his hand "Da Da...", the fierce and non-stop strafing fire, knocked down the remnants of the devils one by one, and the commandos behind him followed closely, like a torrent, which instantly swept the first line of defense of the devils.

……… At the headquarters of the 24th Division, a young man ran into the headquarters covered in blood, and before he had time to retract his feet, he hurriedly said: "General, it's not good, the Zhina Army has broken through the first line of defense on my front, and all the jade of the Ono Brigade is broken!" At the moment the people of China are storming our second line of defense! ”

"What?" Lieutenant General Ichiro Ushida, commander of the 24th Division, suddenly got up and exclaimed, "What are you talking about?" In just ten minutes, the person has already broken through the defense line of Ono's brigade? Hundreds of imperial army warriors all jade shattered? ”

"Hay!" The devil Shao Zuo suddenly bowed his head and said, "Today's Zhina people are at least ten times more powerful than yesterday, and they are equipped with a large number of automatic weapons. ”

"Yaga! Order the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the 5th Infantry Brigade to immediately counterattack the Chinese people, repel the attack of the Chinese people, and recapture the forward position! Ushida Ichiro roared.

"Hay!" The devil Shaozuo suddenly lowered his head, and then turned around and strode away.

The second line of defense was garrisoned by its 5th Infantry Brigade, which immediately became the front line of fierce fighting after the loss of one front.

With the powerful assault fire of the assault team and the assistance of the tank regiment from behind, seeing that the devil soldiers suffered heavy casualties and were about to be unable to resist, suddenly at this moment, the sound of 38 big covers and crooked machine guns sounded from the rear of the army.

Lai Changqing scolded and said, "The reinforcements of the dog have arrived!" With that, he turned to the guards behind him and shouted, "Xiao Wang, go and inform the tank regiment and let them follow immediately and support us!" Be quick! ”

"Yes!" The guard replied loudly, turning around and running briskly towards the back.

Because the army dug anti-tank trenches in front of the position, the infantry rushed over with the help of wooden planks, but the tanks could only circle outside the anti-tank trenches, although they could provide artillery support for the assault team, but due to the long distance, the effect was not good.

At present, the engineer regiment directly under the jurisdiction of the Third Division is braving the artillery fire fired from time to time by devils to fill the anti-tank trench with soil and hastily collected branches and gravel......

Seeing that the trench more than three meters deep was about to be filled, a commando quickly ran over and shouted to Xiang Yang, the commander of the third tank regiment: "Sir! Devil reinforcements have arrived, and our brigade commander has sent me to ask for fire support! ”

"Got it! ~" Xiang Yang replied loudly, then turned to the herald and said, "Order all companies to go out immediately!" Fast! ”

"Yes!" The herald stood upright, and quickly ran away.

Soon, dozens of Tiger tanks of the three regiments started one after another, emitting a rumbling roar, and rolled over the already filled anti-tank trenches with green smoke and ran towards the front.

At this time, due to the arrival of the devil's reinforcements, the assault team's offensive had been contained, and they were forced to fight against the devil.

However, although the submachine gun has fierce firepower, it is only limited to the effective range, and if the distance is far away, it will not be accurate, and there is no good cover for the devil's 38 big cover, and within the effective range of the 38 big cover, the devil's marksmanship is not covered.

Seeing that the commandos were suffering more and more casualties, but they couldn't raise their heads because they were suppressed by the devil's light and heavy machine guns, Lai Changqing just wanted to scold his mother.

Suddenly, there was a "tom" artillery bombardment behind him, and I saw a fireball falling from the sky and accurately smashing on one of the devil's heavy machine gun fire points, and the shell exploded, and immediately lifted the four devil machine gunners into the sky together with the Type 92 heavy machine gun.

The heavy machine gun was blown up, and several devil machine gunners were already shattered to pieces when they were blown into the sky, and they were already dead of anger before they landed.

Hearing this familiar sound of artillery, Lai Changqing didn't have to look back to know that this was the arrival of the tank regiment, and immediately said with great joy: "Brothers, give me a hard beating!" ”

"Da-da-da... After receiving reinforcements, the commandos were obviously in good spirits, and the dense gunfire rang out again.

Under the key "care" of the tank gun, a very devil machine gun was killed, and the suppression of the machine gun was lost, and it was obviously impossible to suppress the commando with strong assault fire with the 38 cover in the hands of the devil!

Lai Changqing jumped up and shouted, "Brothers, rush! Avenge the dead brethren! Come on! ”

One by one, the commandos jumped up one after another, and rushed forward with Lai Changqing with the submachine guns in their hands.

With strong melee firepower, the assault team quickly defeated the devil soldiers of the second line of defense, and directly launched an attack on the devil's third line of defense with the devil rout all the way, and with the strong support of the tank regiment and the artillery regiment of the third division, the assault team and the follow-up main force took the devil's third line of defense together.

However, the casualties of the assault team were also extremely heavy, with 300 casualties among the 455 spearheads drawn from various regiments, and more than half of the 600 infantry of the three infantry companies of Lai San's guard battalion were also killed or wounded.

However, the results they achieved were also extremely rich, destroying at least more than 3,000 Japanese troops, breaking through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army, and almost driving the Western Front army out of Botou Town.

Headquarters of the 24th Division.

Ushida Ichiro jumped like thunder, slapped several wing captains in front of him dozens of times, and said in a slave manner: "Bagaya Road, a group of stupid pig-like commanders all over the body, actually lost three lines of defense in a row in half a day, it is simply a shame for the imperial army!" I command you to retake your positions before it gets dark! Otherwise, they will all die, die, die! ”

"Hay!" Several Dazuo covered the slightly swollen pig face that had been beaten, and suddenly bowed their heads.

However, the army organized more than a dozen counterattacks in a row, but they were all stubbornly resisted by the Third Division, and under the shelling of the tank regiments, the devil soldiers of the counterattack suffered heavy casualties; in the evening, not only did the positions not be recaptured, but two of the three field wings suffered more than 60 percent casualties, and they basically lost their combat effectiveness.

Three wing commanders, two killed and one wounded, the 24th Division was forced to withdraw to the rear to recuperate, and the 26th Division took over the defense of the 24th Division.

But in this way, the defense line of the 26th Division was stretched, and there was only less than one infantry wing that could really be stationed in Botou Town.

……… Cangzhou, Okamura Ningji just fought with Nanzao Yunzi for three hundred rounds, since that incident with Nanzao Yunzi, Okamura Ningji has been a little unstoppable, although the frontline battle situation is urgent, but, when I think of Nanzao Yunzi's devilish figure, bewitching eyes and skilled bed kung fu have made Okamura Ningji deeply fascinated.

Okamura Ninji reluctantly withdrew from Nanzo Yunzi's body, looking at Nanzao Yunzi's snow-like skin, seductive plump buttocks and towering twin peaks, and bright red surname jade lips, he just wanted to pick up the gun again and come again.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and immediately I heard the anxious report of Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe, Okamura Ninji was a little reluctant to knead twice on the strong twin peaks of Nanzo Yunzi, put on his clothes, and strode out of the inner bedroom of the office.

After walking to the desk and sitting down, Okamura Ninji pretended to be calm and said to the door, "Please come in, Tanabe-kun!" ”

Crunch, the door of the office was opened, and Tanabe Moritake said anxiously: "General, it's not good, the Chinese army on the west bank of the canal gathered tanks and heavy artillery this morning, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on our 24th Division at the Botou position.

After a day of fierce fighting, the 24th Division was finally forced to withdraw from the battle due to heavy casualties. ”

"Heavy casualties, what about the position?" Okamura asked.

"The 24th Division has deployed a total of three defensive positions, and three have been broken through by the Zhina, and now the forward wing of the 26th Division has taken over the fourth line of defense of the 24th Division."

"What? Losing three lines of defense in a row in one day? Okamura said in shock.

"Hay! Yes, all three lines of defense have been lost! ”

"What about the casualties of the 24th Division?" Okamura Ninji is most concerned about the loss of troops, as long as there are lost positions, they can still be recaptured.

"Three infantry wings suffered more than sixty percent casualties." Tanabe Moritake said gloomily.

"What? The casualties are more than sixty percent, which means that the 24th Division has basically lost its combat effectiveness? Okamura Ninji was shocked.

"Hay! Yes! Tanabe Moritake bowed his head again and said, "At present, the 24th Division is on its way to withdraw to Cangzhou. ”

"Yaga!" Okamura Ninji clenched his fists and gurgled with anger, but immediately suppressed his anger and said, "Order all divisions and regiments on the front line to immediately take turns to cover and evacuate." ”

"What did you say, General? Fall back? Tanabe Moritake was puzzled.

"Yes! We have lost the opportunity to win this battle! For the sake of the Empire's future counteroffensive, there is no need to bury the Empire's living forces. "Okamura Ninji" Do we just give up Cangzhou? Moritake Tanabe was a little unacceptable.

"It's not about giving up Cangzhou, maybe it's about giving up the entire Pingjin region and even the whole of North China." Okamura Ninji said meaningfully.

"Huh? General, even according to your strategic ambitions, are the military headquarters and His Majesty the Emperor willing to abandon such strategically important metropolises as Beiping and Tianjin so easily? Moritake Tanabe obviously couldn't believe it.

"Regardless of whether the base camp agrees or not, the empire must do this now, for the sake of the empire's future, even if I disobey the order, I will not hesitate to go to court-martial! As long as the empire can regain its strength, it will certainly be able to sweep through China again, completely eliminate China's resistance, and completely rule the entire China. Okamura Ninji said, his face showing yearning, as if he had seen the majestic scene of the flag of the Great Empire having been planted all over China.

"Hay! Humble and go and pass on the order! Tanabe Moritake bowed his head suddenly, and then quickly turned around and left.

……… Botou Town, night falls, the black curtain covers the whole land, there is no moonlight and stars in today's night sky, and you can't see your fingers in the dark night.

After receiving the order, the various units of the army began to retreat in turn, perhaps after a day of fierce fighting, all the departments were very tired, maybe the senior generals of the 42nd Group Army did not expect that the devil would take the initiative to retreat!

Therefore, it was not until the early morning of the next day that the troops on the front line discovered the clues, and the army on the opposite side did not move at all.

(To be continued)