On January 1, the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), Zhang Xinghan and Li Du divided their troops from Tieling.

Li Du and Feng Zhanhai led a total of more than 15,000 people to advance in the direction of Shenyang along the South Manchurian Railway.

Zhang Xinghan led his armored troops from Tieling to the southeast and quietly rushed forward.

At the same time, the 1st and 5th Divisions of the Chinese Army had already arrived at Qinglongshan in Tongliao, and the 11th Division, which had replaced the 9th Division, had also rushed to the rear banner of the left flank of Horqin.

The 9th Division remained on the line from Zhangwu to Xinmin, the 14th Division was stationed in Shenyang, and the 12th Division from Panjin to the north was deployed in Anshan, Liaoyang, Dengta and other important towns of the South Manchurian Railway.

Huang Xiansheng, deputy division commander, learned that the attacking troops of the Yue Army had arrived, and rushed to Qinglong Mountain by car overnight to prepare to command the defense.

At a secret observation post at the front of the 702nd Regiment's position at the western end of Qinglong Mountain, Mr. Huang, accompanied by Wang Yicai, commander of the 702nd Regiment, was holding a telescope to observe the movements of the army.

Through the telescope, Huang Xiansheng could clearly see that the army was building a sortie position.

"Vice-seater, did you let the artillerymen give him a few dog calls?" Wang Yicai put down the telescope and said angrily.

"The artillery should not be exposed for the time being, so let's call the air force to bomb and give the little devils a greeting gift, and they can't be too peaceful to repair the offensive position." Huang Xiansheng put down the binoculars and turned his head.

"Yes!" Wang Yicai stepped forward and immediately turned to leave.

Captain Motoshima was in a good mood, and along the way, under the leadership of the puppet army, his squadron slaughtered several villages of the China.

He himself also found a few young flower girls with good looks, and his animal desires were well vented.

At this moment, his squadron was being ordered to build fortifications, and as the squadron leader, he naturally did not have to work himself.

He was sitting on the sidelines supervising his subordinates' digging, while Captain Motoshima was drinking the sake that his subordinates had warmed for him, while reminiscing about the wonderful taste of those flower girls last night.

Suddenly, a deafening roar of engines sounded from the front, and Captain Motojima stood up in shock, only to see about a dozen Chinese fighters flying over the hill in front of them, whistling towards them.

The captain's pupils dilated for a while, he threw away the wine bag suddenly, and shouted at the top of his throat: "It's not good, the air raid of the Chinese army, quickly, quickly conceal!" ”

The plane was extremely fast, and almost as soon as the words of the captain of the main island fell, more than a dozen HE111 bombers roared in.

In a shrill and piercing scream, a carpet bombardment began.

"Boom, boom...... Boom, boom, boom, boom ......" A series of violent explosions sounded one after another, and several forward squadrons, including the squadron on the main island, were all shrouded in flames and gunsmoke.

Under the huge shock wave, some of the devil soldiers disappeared in a blink of an eye.

At the observation post of the 702nd Regiment in Qinglong Mountain, Huang Xiansheng and Wang Yicai were both holding binoculars to watch the bombing of the Air Force.

Seeing huge clouds of smoke rising from the position of the army along with the light of fire, the entire position of the army became a sea of fire.

Wang Yicai slammed the knot with excitement: "Great, blow up these deflated calves." ”

Inside the Provisional Field Command of the 5th Division.

The current commander of the 5th Division, Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi, had a solemn face and was also holding a telescope to watch everything that was happening at the forward position.

As the bombing of the Chinese Air Force progressed, Terauchi Shouichi's face gradually turned iron-blue, and his hands holding the telescope clenched involuntarily, and the green tendons on his arms burst out.

"Bagaya Road, the hateful Zhina people, have bombarded my Imperial Army so unscrupulously." Terauchi Shouichi couldn't help but be angry, the dignified Imperial Army of the Empire had lost air supremacy, and could only be passively bombed, which was really not a taste in his heart.

"Your Excellency the division commander, please calm down, the loss of air supremacy by the imperial army has become an established fact, and then we still have to make air defense preparations and study how to launch an attack on the Qinglongshan defense line of the Chinese army." The current chief of staff, Toshiyoshi Ando, hurriedly persuaded.

Terauchi Shouichi was able to serve as the commander of the North China Front Army of the invasion of China six years later and was promoted to general, and ten years later he was promoted to marshal, which is enough to prove that this person is not an ordinary person.

The anger that had just come from was quickly calmed down by him, and he regained his composure, and after a moment of silence, Terauchi Shouichi said sharply: "Whether or not we can successfully break through the Qinglongshan defense line of the Chinese army, the key lies in whether the artillery units of the imperial army can survive the air raids of the Chinese army, otherwise once the cover of artillery fire is lost, it is tantamount to a difficult situation for the imperial army to forcibly break through the defense line that the Chinese army has operated for a long time." ”

"Of course, the most critical point is that the logistics supply must keep up, and the attack on Qinglong Mountain must be a tragic and hard-fought war of attrition, and the supply of bullets, shells and other supplies must be kept continuous."

"Your Excellency the Division Commander is reasonable, and he suggests that all the air defense forces of the division and regiment be assigned to the 5th Artillery Wing, so as to strengthen the survival rate of the artillery wing and ensure that the artillery cover of the attacking troops of the Imperial Army can be continued." Toshikichi Ando said respectfully.

"Well, this matter should be dealt with quickly, and the commander of the 5th Artillery Wing is ordered to do a good job in the concealment and emptying of the troops, and must not slack off!" Terauchi Shou nodded in agreement.

"Hai, let's arrange it." Ando Toshikichi put his respectful feet together, and suddenly bowed his head in response, and then turned around and took the order.

As a division chief of staff, there is a reason why Ando Toshikichi has such respect for Terauchi Shouichi, after Terauchi Shouichi was born into a famous family, his father Terauchi Masashi was the founder of the Meiji period and the hereditary nobles of the Yamato nation.

In a hierarchical country like Saimoto, how could Toshikichi Ando, who was from an ordinary background, dare to be disrespectful in the slightest?

Compared with the cautiousness and calmness of Shouichi Terauchi, the current division commander of the 1st Division, Lin Xianzhong, is even more cunning and spicy.

He not only concentrated the division's empty weapons, such as 20mm rapid-fire guns and 12,7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, but also deployed them for air defense around the artillery positions.

He also ordered the troops to seize the time to repair and dig air-raid shelters and other fortifications at any cost.

You must know that the temperature in the northeast of Layue in the cold winter is minus thirty or forty degrees, especially in the Horqin grassland, which is even colder.

The ground covered in snow and water was so hard that bullets could not penetrate the slightest centimeter, leaving only a faint mark at the point of impact, which could be excavated with a shovel.

However, Lin Xianzhi, an old devil, ordered the logistics baggage wing to adopt the method of lighting fire and breaking the ice to assist the sappers and field troops in digging fortifications.

Lin Xianzhi's old devil's persistence was not in vain, and in the following battle, the 1st Division avoided the scene of heavy casualties due to the large-scale bombardment of the Reading Division.

It was not until the evening of the same day that the 11th Division also arrived one after another, and the 1st and 5th Divisions took advantage of the cover of night to launch an attack on the Qinglongshan defense line of the 702nd and 704th Regiments respectively.

In the darkness of the night, the artillery wing of the Japanese army was the first to fire, and one shell after another landed on the positions of the 702nd and 704th regiments, setting off clusters of dazzling fire.

The weather was cold, so that the fortifications and bunkers that the reading division had built a long time ago were much harder and stronger than in the past, and the army was mostly bombarded by 75 and 70 caliber artillery, which was completely unable to shake the fortifications of the battalions and companies of the 702 and 704 regiments.

After the firelight, the machine-gun bunkers and bunkers were still standing intact.

After about 20 minutes of artillery bombardment, the 1st and 5th Divisions each sent an infantry brigade to charge the positions of the two regiments of the Reading Division.

At this moment, the artillery companies directly under the two regiments, which had been silent, opened fire one after another with Huang Xiansheng's order.

More than a dozen artillery pieces opened fire one after another, and one shell after another fell into the crowd of charging soldiers with a screeching sound.

Rao is army's straggler line was very open, and they were also blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, with heavy casualties.

Seeing this scene, both the 5th Division Commander Terauchi Shouichi and the 1st Division Commander Lin Xianzhi couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths.

However, the artillery bombardment failed to break up the attack of the Yue army, and the two devil commanders drew their command knives and slashed forward:

"Kill Quack!"

Hundreds of mutinies accelerated in vain, and launched a rapid charge in a silent wavy line.

The first to fire were several machine gun firing points in the front of the 702nd Regiment, and the dense bullets in the dark night sprayed out from the muzzles of the machine guns like tongues of fire, which was particularly dazzling.

The dense bullets immediately knocked the few devils who rushed to the front to the ground, but more devils rushed forward one after another.

Immediately after that, the 702nd Regiment also opened fire one after another at all the in-depth fire points, and was suddenly suppressed by fierce firepower, and the attacking infantry of the Yue Army fell down one after another, and under the cover of their own light and heavy machine gun fire, they began to crawl forward and shoot back at the same time.

The grenadiers of the Yue Army, which were charging with the infantry squad, were in an awkward situation at the moment, and the grenadiers they were equipped with were Taisho 11 type grenadiers, and the effective distance of this grenadier was only 250 meters.

Before they could reach this distance, the dense machine-gun fire of the defenders of the Reading Division had already suppressed them and prevented them from raising their heads, so they could not provide effective fire support to the infantry in time to clear the obstacles and help the infantry achieve an offensive breakthrough.

Fortunately, at this time, the Type 89 grenadier that was commonly equipped by the invading army had not yet come out and been installed, otherwise with the effective range of 500 meters of the Type 89 grenadier, the machine gun fire point of the reader would be dangerous.

In the dark night, the gunfire was loud under Qinglong Mountain, and from the regimental headquarters halfway up the mountain, looking down, the entire battlefield situation was in full view, and the dense bullets shuttled back and forth like meteors.

Explosions from grenades, mortar shells, one after another, burst from time to time like small fireworks.

"Order the troops, fire flares, and beat him up as a son of a bitch." Huang Xiansheng turned his head and instructed Wang Yicai.

"Yes!" Wang Yicai immediately picked up the phone and quickly conveyed the order to the commanders of each battalion and company.

Not long after, a large number of flares were fired from the position of the 702nd regiment, and the 704th regiment on the left also followed suit.

In an instant, the bright flares dispelled the thick night, illuminating the entire Qinglong Mountain battlefield as if it were day, and the Yue army that was crawling forward and attacking suddenly had nothing to hide.

(To be continued)