After three days of recruitment, the division again recruited more than 2,000 new recruits and more than 1,000 student soldiers, and Zhang Mingyu added these 2,000 to the Second Brigade, which suffered the greatest losses, and transferred some veterans from the First Brigade to help the Second Brigade strengthen training and balance the combat effectiveness of the Second Brigade.

The 1,000 student soldiers were all sent by Zhang Mingyu to the No. 1 and No. 2 arsenals as apprentices, and these student soldiers and those soldiers who were sent abroad later grew up to become the backbone of Zhang Mingyu's arsenal and military academy, and brought immeasurable contributions to the development of the later iron army.

A month passed quickly, and the three brigades of the Reading Division basically returned to their peak combat effectiveness, when Zhang Mingyu received a report from the cavalry scouts that the 14th Division of the Army was coming from Baotou and was attacking in the direction of Ordos.

Zhang Mingyu immediately arranged the battle plan, the 1st Brigade set up positions along the river in Tiangai Village, the 3rd Brigade stayed in Ordos to act as a reserve, and the 3rd Brigade arranged positions along the right side of the road, and Zhang Mingyu deployed the three brigades in an upside-down zigzag shape. Prepare to meet the Yue army.

The anti-aircraft regiment was deployed at the end! Ready to support the 1st and 2nd brigades with fire at any time.

After receiving the order, the officers and men of the whole division began to dig trenches and repair positions in full swing shirtless! Ordinary people in the vicinity helped to transport wood, stones, and other materials to help build positions, and the military planes tried to strafe at low altitudes several times, but they were beaten away by dense anti-aircraft fire, and after losing one plane, they fled.

With the help of the local people, it took only four days for the positions of the First Brigade and the Third Brigade to be completed, and they were carried out in full accordance with Zhang Mingyu's standards.

On the fifth day, the 2nd Infantry Wing of the 27th Brigade of the Army's vanguard had arrived at the outlying positions, and under the leadership of the Wing Commander Kurosadazo Daisa, it launched several tentative attacks on the positions of the 1st Brigade.

However, it was stubbornly resisted by the soldiers of the 1st Brigade, and soon the army retreated.

That night, a company of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade carried out a night attack on the Yue army, destroying a Yue army truck and killing more than 20 Yue soldiers.

After the commander of the division, Kenji Dohihara, arrived with the main force of the division, he heard that the second wing had been attacked at night, so he scolded Hei Zhenzang and strictly ordered all departments to strictly prevent the night attack of the Zhina.

At this time, the layout of the 14th Division was as follows: the division headquarters was arranged in the Dalat Banner, the 27th Brigade was the left flank, the 28th Brigade was the right flank, the 18th Cavalry Wing supported the operation on the left and right, and the two brigades attacked the 1st and 3rd Brigades respectively.

Early the next morning, the 2nd Wing of the 27th Brigade Regiment, which was the main attacker, after the shelling of the Heavy Artillery Wing, with the Wing Commander Hei Zhenzang pulling out his command knife: "Kill Gaga!" "The two squadrons that were responsible for the first wave of the attack attacked the 1st Brigade with rifles and screaming.

The smoke from the heavy artillery shells has not yet dissipated, the devils of the two squadrons lined up in a skirmisher formation, and began to charge rapidly under the cover of grenadiers and heavy machine guns, when they rushed to a distance of less than a hundred meters from the position, a company commander pulled out the clean face box in his hand is a shot, and suddenly countless steel guns were immediately exposed in the trench where there was no one just now, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and the soldiers immediately pulled the bolt after firing a shot, and fired again, and several light machine guns also began to spit out tongues of fire.

The soldiers who were running fast were knocked to the ground one after another, and several light machine guns formed a crossfire network, sweeping the devils to the ground in pieces, and two grenadiers also threw grenades, and the grenades fell and exploded in the crowd of devils, killing and injuring a large number of devils.

By the time the devil's grenadiers began to counterattack, the two grenadiers had already moved their positions with the grenadiers. The marksmanship of the devil infantry is still good, and from time to time the fighters who lie down in the trenches and shoot have soldiers who are hit by missiles and fall backwards. But soon there were fighters who picked up the weapons of their dead comrades and continued to shoot, knocking the devils to the ground one by one.

When the devils paid heavy casualties and rushed into a distance of about 100 meters, the two Makqin heavy machine guns deployed in the dark bunker in the second trench roared at the same time, and at this time, an artillery battalion attached to the first brigade (the artillery companies of the original regiments were all transferred by Zhang Biao to form an artillery battalion except for the grenadiers. The four field cannons began to spit out clusters of scarlet fireballs, and the cannonballs fell into the crowd of devils, blasting them to pieces.

Hei Zhen hid in the binoculars and saw that his troops' attack had been frustrated, and he scolded: "Baga! Chinese artillery! Our artillerymen are idiots, and they didn't even destroy them! ”

Soon the devils of the two squadrons left more than a hundred corpses behind and retreated in ashes. Kuro Sadazo said to the herald: "Send a telegram to the heavy artillery wing, ask for artillery support, and be sure to destroy the artillery of the Chinese people." ”

Soon, the heavy artillery wing of the 14th Wing began to bombard the positions of the 1st Brigade! Balls of fire burst through the sky. Some veterans who were familiar with the tactics of the Japanese army, after the devils retreated, informed all platoons and squads that if the devils failed to attack, they would definitely carry out artillery bombardment. Except for a few observation posts left in the trenches, the rest of the fighters took refuge in anti-artillery holes or tunnels.

Probably because of the lack of resources, the artillery of the army had to consider that the shells were extremely precious, especially most of the funds in the whole country were divided by the huge gold-swallowing beast of the navy, and the funds allocated to the army were pitifully small, so the shells were very precious to the devils.

After the shelling stopped, the army invested a large group of troops to attack this time, trying to break through the position of the first brigade in one fell swoop. Warriors rush! ”

More than a dozen Type 92 heavy machine guns of the devils opened fire with the intention of covering the infantry charge.

A large group of devils screamed and wanted to rush forward, this time they were still hit more violently, the second and third trenches also came out of a lot of machine-gun fire at the same time, this time a devil brigade of the attack, lost at least more than 400 soldiers, and finally returned with a feather.

The furious jump of the black sadazo is like thunder! Scolded the artillery for its incompetence and inability to destroy the machine-gun bunkers and "moving" artillery of the China. The 1st Brigade here fought smoothly and killed at least 500 Chinese soldiers in one day.

Lai San's Third Brigade is also impressive! According to Zhang Mingyu's deployment, the 15th Infantry Wing of the 28th Brigade of the Yue Army, which was in charge of the attack, also suffered heavy losses, losing at least more than 400 imperial "warriors".

For the defeat of his subordinates on the first day of the attack, Kenji Dohihara held a summary meeting.

At the meeting, Kurosadazo said: "The people we met in China are very cunning, and they are very different from the previous China army. ”

"Hei Zhen-kun! What are the differences between them? Bandit Kenji Hara said.

"Hay!" Kuro Sadazo Osa stood up and said: "This Chinese army is well-equipped and well-trained, and their troop configuration is perfect, the configuration of foxholes and machine guns is quite reasonable, and the commander of the Chinese people is also very skilled in tactical command, their light and heavy machine guns did not fire immediately after our warriors entered the firing range, but waited for our warriors to rush to close range before firing, so that our artillery could not provide effective fire support." They are very clever and seem to know our tactics very well, which is very different from the previous Chinese army that we have encountered, which leaked their light and heavy machine guns at the beginning, and our grenadiers and mortars can destroy them with only one shell, and then our warriors can rush up and destroy the Chinese with superb white-knuckle combat. ”

"I agree with Hei Zhenjun, this Chinese army is absolutely very cunning, our warriors were first hit by traps they planted, and then by their mines, causing heavy casualties to our troops, and the artillery of the Chinese people is like a ghost, our artillery cannot destroy them at all." This was stated by the commander of the 28th Infantry Wing of the 15th Brigade Regiment Morita Fan Zhengdasa.

Kenji Dohihara stood up and said, "I say that the warriors of this empire are the best soldiers in the world, and we are invincible!" I order you to break through the positions of the Chinese army before the evening of tomorrow. I'll send the 18th Cavalry Wing to meet your attacks! ”

All the officers stood up at the same time and said, "Hai! ”

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