In the afternoon, all regiments and battalions of the mechanized infantry division successfully reached Shangyu, and it took less than an hour to clear all the Japanese troops in the Shangyu area.

In the Shangyu area, there were not many troops stationed in small Japan, and the scattered and scattered added up to about one infantry brigade, and with such a small number of troops, the mechanized infantry division could be wiped out without much effort.

According to Ye Feng's order, the mechanized infantry division took root in this area after the recovery of Shangyu, with the purpose of cutting off the connection between Shaoxing and Ningbo.

Shangyu is located between Shaoxing and Ningbo, at the throat of the two places, once controlled by the mechanized infantry division, Shaoxing and Ningbo are completely separated.

In Shaoxing is the 114th Division of Little Japan, and in the area of Ningbo is the 18th Division and the 29th Division of Little Japan, Okamura Ningji did not expect that Ye Feng would actually be the first to strike, and the 18th Division and the 29th Division in the Ningbo area are still very scattered and are not ready to attack at all.

After the mechanized infantry division recovers Shangyu, it will take root in this area, and when the 18th and 29th divisions of small Japan are ready to attack, they will face these two divisions, and the pressure on the mechanized infantry division is actually very great.

Ye Feng is a risky move!

The mechanized infantry division moved quickly, and the two armies of the 3rd Infantry Division and the 5th Infantry Division, which attacked the Shaoxing area, were not slow, only in the afternoon. A huge encirclement has been formed, completely encircling the 114th Division with the Shaoxing area as the center.

In the process of the formation of the huge encirclement, it began in the morning. In the past few hours until the afternoon, the soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division and the 5th Infantry Division had engaged in many skirmishes with the imps of the 114th Division, and eliminated some of them.

The 114th Division has been shrinking its forces since noon, and has set up a defensive posture for the Shaoxing area as the center, obviously waiting for reinforcements from the little devils in the Ningbo area.

Shaoxing periphery. There are several large defensive positions in small Japan, each of which is at least a size of more than 1,000 people, and the largest defensive position has a whole infantry wing. More than 3,000 people.

In order to guard against the bombing of the planes of the new 6th Army, a certain number of anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and even several anti-aircraft guns were deployed on these positions.

It is about five or six kilometers north of Shaoxing City. It was one of the largest defensive positions of the 114th Division. The long trench stretched for two or three kilometers, and the position was defended several hundred meters deep, and on the position was the 114th Infantry Wing of the 115th Division of Little Japan. There are more than 3,000 little devils in total.

The commander of the 128th Infantry Brigade, Major General Obaof, personally commanded the construction of a large civil structure headquarters at the rear of the position, and Obaof and the commander of the 115th Wing, Setsuzo Yazaki, were among them.

Huge defensive positions, except for trenches. Bunkers, ring fortifications. In addition to the light and heavy machine-gun fortifications, in the rear position of the position, not far from the command headquarters, there was also an artillery position.

IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE BOMBARDMENT OF THE HEAVY ARTILLERY GROUP OF THE NEW 6TH ARMY, THE LITTLE DEVILS DEPLOYED 12 TYPE 38 75MM FIELD GUNS AND 6 TYPE 91 105MM FIELD GUNS THERE. Half of the field artillery equipped by the 114th Division was deployed here.

In front of the huge position, many little devils are still reinforcing the fortifications, and the front of the devil's position is very far away, and through the transformation of the telescope, you can see the figure of many soldiers, and the soldiers of the first regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division are already preparing for the attack in the distance.

Major General Obaof, commander of the Devil Brigade, on a hill a few meters high in front of his headquarters, led a group of devil officers, holding binoculars and looking at the soldiers of the regiment in the distance, and the commander of the first infantry regiment was also looking at this side with a telescope in the distance.

The head of the regiment saw such a huge devil position through the telescope, and was slightly excited, and through the telescope, the head of the regiment also saw that this position was built in a hurry by the little devils, and there were some little devils on the position reinforcing the fortifications.

"Tuanza, there are a lot of little devils on the other side, and I also saw that the little devils deployed some anti-aircraft machine guns and some anti-aircraft machine guns."

"Well, I also saw it, the little devil is obviously very afraid of our planes, according to intelligence, the various units of the little devil are equipped with a certain amount of anti-aircraft weapons." The head of the regiment said as he looked at the binoculars.

A major next to him skimmed his eyes and said with a smile: "Tuanzao, no matter how many anti-aircraft weapons the devil is equipped with, it is all for nothing, and without air supremacy, just wait to be bombed by our planes." ”

Several officers around him, when they heard this, everyone also laughed, and everyone knew that air supremacy was very important, and without air supremacy, it was obviously not possible to just defend passively.

Of course, Okamura Ninji also knew the importance of air supremacy in the province, but so many planes at the Shanghai airport were blown up, and there were not enough planes to compete with the 1st Air Division, so Okamura Ninji could only equip the troops with some air defense weapons to deal with the bombing and air strikes of the 1st Air Division.

Little Japan is a country with small resources, and its aircraft output is far inferior to that of Britain, the United States, Germany, the Soviet Union, and other powerful countries, and the output of these countries in World War II is tens of thousands, while small Japan has only two or three hundred planes in Central China.

Japan does not have many planes, and although the current Japanese navy claims to be the third largest in the world, it has only more than 1,000 planes, and the Japanese base camp will focus on equipping the navy with a limited number of planes, and Okamura Ninji can only wait a little longer if he wants to equip another batch of planes.

In the north of Shaoxing, both sides set up their positions, and in the sky, the roar of planes was faintly heard, and two or three reconnaissance planes were conducting aerial reconnaissance.

With the big war imminent, the 1st Air Division dispatched several reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the small Japanese troops, and the Shaoxing area was the focal point.

Behind the first regiment, if small Japan also dispatched reconnaissance planes to reconnoitre, it would have found two artillery positions, one in front and one behind. One big and one small, one left and one right.

The artillery of the artillery regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division was deployed behind the 1st Infantry Regiment, which had four artillery battalions under it. It is also a 3+1 formation, with 3 105mm howitzer battalions and 1 155mm artillery battalion.

SLIGHTLY IN FRONT OF THE POSITION ARE THREE 105MM HOWITZER BATTALIONS, EACH BATTALION IS EQUIPPED WITH 12 105MM HOWITZERS, AND THE THREE BATTALIONS ARE 36 GUNS. The fighters were basically ready for shelling.

Cannons one by one, neatly arranged, big trucks. The armored vehicles were also parked neatly, a large number of soldiers were in place, and everyone was calmly on standby.

A little further from this massive artillery position, several kilometers away. There was also an artillery position here. Although the size and number of people are slightly smaller, the caliber of the cannon is significantly larger.

This is a battalion of 155-mm howitzers, a total of 12 155-mm howitzers, and hundreds of fighters are also ready for shelling.

The aerial reconnaissance plane has already sent news that an artillery position has been deployed behind the position of the little devil in front, and the first goal of this 155-mm howitzer battalion is to first knock out the artillery position of this little devil, and then shell the huge defensive position of the little devil.

The commander of the artillery regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division personally commanded this artillery position. According to the information from the reconnaissance plane, the correct position. Adjust the parameters.

Japanese positions.

When the little devils saw the reconnaissance plane in the sky, they symbolically fired a few shots with antiaircraft machine guns, but because the plane was too high, it basically had no effect, and these two or three reconnaissance planes kept reconnoitring and carefully reconnoitred before leaving.

"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, the reconnaissance planes of the newly formed 6th Army are really hateful, and all the deployment of our troops has been known by the other side." A devil Nakasa, looked at the sky and said unwillingly.

Major General Devil's Brigade Commander Obaov looked helpless, he did not say anything, he had no air supremacy, and he could only let the reconnaissance planes of the 1st Air Division come and go freely.

IN THE REAR OF THE JAPANESE DEFENSIVE POSITION, AN ARTILLERY POSITION IS ALSO READY, A TOTAL OF 12 38-TYPE 75MM FIELD GUNS, 6 TYPE 91 105MM FIELD GUNS, ON THE ARTILLERY POSITION, NEARLY A THOUSAND LITTLE DEVILS, AND AT LEAST DOZENS OF LARGE TRUCKS, ALSO LOOK MORE SPECTACULAR.

There are artillery on both sides, these devils did not fire the artillery after they were ready, everyone knows that in the case of artillery on both sides, whoever shoots the cannon first will die first, and the artillery means that the position is exposed, once the position is exposed, it will be covered by the artillery fire of the other side, and there is no place to bury it.

Time passed minute by minute, and the soldiers opposite the devil did not seem to have any signs of attack, and even the commander of the devil brigade was puzzled.

It stands to reason that the entire Shaoxing area is surrounded by regiments, and the new 6th Army should attack Shaoxing as quickly as possible, because the troops in Shangyu are under great pressure, and once they cannot withstand the reinforcements of the Japanese army in the Ningbo area, the new 6th Army will be very passive, and once the 114th Division of small Japan and the 18th Division and the 29th Division of Ningbo are brought together, the situation will be very favorable to the Japanese army.

The Devil Major General Brigade obviously knew this, and the soldiers on the opposite side had not attacked, and the Devil Major General had always been puzzled.

Sharpen the knife and don't mistake the woodcutter!

In order to make the next attack go smoothly, Ye Feng knew that the first thing to do was to wipe out the artillery of the little devils, and these reconnaissance planes repeatedly reconnoitred in the Shaoxing area, one of the purposes was to find out the artillery position of the 114th Division.

When the time came to three o'clock in the afternoon, many little Japanese devils, including the commander of the Devil's Major General Brigade, heard a sharp whistling sound in the sky.

As soon as he heard this voice, the commander of the Devil Major General's brigade muttered: "The Chinese army actually fired the first artillery." ”

Many devil officers next to him immediately judged that the artillery unit of the newly formed 6th Army on the opposite side had opened fire.

These devil officers know that they have also deployed artillery, and there are heavy artillery, once the artillery of the newly formed 6th Army on the opposite side opens fire first, the position will be exposed, since everyone has artillery, then whoever fires first will be unlucky.

In the ecstatic looks of the little devil officers, more than a dozen shells whistled towards the side of the devil's position.

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Today's two watches, the first one is sent.

Something happened during the day today, and I came back in the evening, writing a chapter and sending a chapter, and the second chapter was after ten o'clock in the evening. (To be continued......)