On August 28, after the 13th Division broke through the position of the Chinese 77th Army to capture Huoshan, it advanced to Henan Mall, and on September 2, after the 13th Division captured Yejiaji, it launched an attack on Shihe without even resting.

The 13th Division was a notorious Division A of the Japanese Army, which participated in the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre, and was commanded by Lieutenant General Ogisu. It has the 103rd Infantry Brigade and the 26th Brigade, a total of 4 infantry wings, 1 cavalry brigade, 1 mountain artillery wing, 1 engineer wing, a baggage wing, plus a signal team and a health team, with a total of about 28,200 people.

The commander of this division, Ogisu Libing, is also the so-called professional soldier, who has been trained as a soldier since elementary school. Ogisu entered the Nagoya Army Regional Infant School when he was in elementary school, and later entered the Chuo Infant School, and after graduation, he entered the Army Non-commissioned Officer School of the Japanese Army, which trained junior officers.

In March 1905, he graduated from the 17th class of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and after 10 years of military service, Ogisu entered the Army University to train senior officers, and in November 1916, he graduated from the 28th class of the Army University. In other words, in the 54 years since he was in elementary school, he has been a soldier and has undergone military training for more than 40 years, and he is an excellent soldier.

More importantly, the Ogizhou Libing has been commanding the 13th Division since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and has been commanding for one year during the Battle of Wuhan, so he is very familiar with the 13th Division and is also handy in commanding. Therefore, the 13th Division is a formidable force that has been tested by war for a long time, and its combat effectiveness is amazing, and it must not be underestimated.

Song Xilian's 71st Army has three divisions, 36, 87, and 88, as well as a non-descendant 61st division. The 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions are the model all-German armament divisions in the national army, which can be described as iron-blooded tigers, and it is Gu Baoyu's regiment of the 212th Regiment of the 36th Division who guards Shihe.

What is going on with the German mechanic, many spectators still don't understand, and it is necessary to explain it here.

After the first full-scale breakdown of the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation in 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government quickly expelled Soviet military advisers and began to seek military assistance from Germany.

The first German military advisers to China were Max? Colonel Bauer (Max?) Although Bauer was not well known, he served in the German General Staff, and his outstanding military skills were deeply appreciated by the Chief of the General Staff, Ludendorff), Lieutenant Stuzner, and Second Lieutenant Holmer, thus opening the honeymoon journey of Sino-German military cooperation.

As a result, Sino-German military cooperation gradually reached a climax, not only did the two sides sign the "Five-Year Military Industry Development Plan", Germany also began to help China build a military industry, and provided military equipment to China before China's military industry was built. Feng? In terms of assisting China in reorganizing and building up the army, Admiral Seckert submitted the "Army Reform and Construction Document," proposing that with limited material and financial resources, first establish a well-equipped and well-trained small core demonstration armed force, and then complete the reorganization of the country's 60 divisions in batches and phases; he believed that China's elite standing army with 60 divisions would be sufficient to cope with various situations, and this was the source of the 60 integrated divisions program of the national army in the 30s.

Until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in July 1937, the army reorganization plan had been carried out in two phases, totaling 20 divisions, and the third phase of 10 divisions was in progress. In fact, among the 20 divisions that have completed the reorganization of the army, the training procedures for German equipment and German advisers are also different, and the only units that have actually received training and guidance from the German adviser system are the following divisions: the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th, and teaching corps, as well as the tax police corps that does not belong to the regular army system.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, it was these German-style divisions that had been reorganized that played the role of the mainstay, played a huge role, and of course paid huge sacrifices. Many military historians believe that if the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression breaks out a year later, more Chinese troops will receive advanced German-style equipment and German-style tactical thinking training, and the situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression can at least be said to be much more optimistic.

The main individual weapon of the German-style division is the Chinese-made 7.92mm mid-formal or German-made 1924 standard Mauser series rifle, which is the predecessor of the K98k. Of course, for various reasons, there are other models of rifles in the German division, such as Hanyang-made.

Most of the light machine guns equipped by the German-style division are Chinese-made imitations of the Czech ZB26, and there are also a small number of Belgian and French light machine guns. The number of light machine guns can basically reach the standard of one per squad.

The pistol equipped by the German-style division is naturally a well-known barge gun, also known as a box gun, a fast and slow machine or twenty shots, and its real name should be the 7.63mm Mauser M1932 automatic pistol, which is mostly called the C96 hand gun in Europe.

The heavy machine gun mostly uses the imitation of the Maxim type 24 water-cooled heavy machine gun, which is produced according to the complete set of manufacturing drawings of the Maxim heavy machine gun provided to China free of charge by the German Ordnance Industry Agency in 1934, and the 24 type Maxim heavy machine gun is slightly different from the 1908 type heavy machine gun equipped by the German army, to be precise, it should be the 1909 type export model, and the 250 rounds of canvas cartridge belt are used to feed the ammunition.

Under normal circumstances, the number of heavy machine guns is one heavy machine gun company in each infantry battalion, with a total of 6 heavy machine guns in 3 platoons. This standard of configuration is only half that of the standard infantry battalion of the German Army.

In terms of communications, the German-style division set up a radio communication platoon equipped with 15 watt radio stations, and set up a radio communication squad equipped with 5 watt radio stations at the headquarters of each infantry regiment, forming a radio communication system at the division and regiment levels.

In terms of personal equipment, there are three types of military uniforms in the German division, yellow-green camel hair jackets in spring and autumn, grass-green khaki shirts (two types of trousers and shorts) in summer, and cotton cloth in winter. During the battle, they wore German-made M-35 steel helmets, which were also the most obvious clothing features of the German-style divisions, and the steel helmets were also inlaid with a blue sky and white sun national emblem.

The standard personal equipment of each soldier consists of a cartridge belt, a water bottle, a bag of dry food, and a gas mask, the cartridge belt is a canvas strip, which is different from the German leather cartridge bag, which is usually a long cartridge belt that is wrapped diagonally around the shoulder to the waist and then circled, and finally tied tightly with a strip of cloth, which can carry 20 cartridges.

The division has 2 infantry brigades, 1 artillery battalion, 3 howitzer batteries (12 75-mm mountain guns), 1 anti-aircraft artillery company (4 37-mm anti-aircraft guns), 1 anti-aircraft artillery company (4 20-mm anti-aircraft guns), 1 engineer battalion, 1 communications battalion (2 wired communications companies, 1 wireless communications platoon), 1 baggage battalion, 1 special service battalion, and 1 health team.

The brigade has 2 infantry regiments, and the units directly under the regiment have 1 mortar company (6 83 mm mortars), 1 small artillery company (6 20 mm machine guns), 1 communications company, and 1 special service company.

The regiment has 3 infantry battalions, and the infantry battalion has 1 machine gun company (6 heavy machine guns, 2 82 mm mortars). The battalion has 3 infantry companies, 3 infantry platoons, and 3 squads (3 light machine guns and 30 rifles per platoon).

In addition, the division has two supplementary regiments, using old equipment that was eliminated when replacing German-style equipment.

The total strength of the division is about 14,000.

Han Xing took Director Zhang of the General Staff Department and Zhang Xiaosan of the Special Operations Battalion to the Shihe Bridge. Coincidentally, Chen Ruihe, the commander of the 36th Division, was also there.

Chen Ruihe, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, was 344 or 5 years old, wearing a German-made M-35 steel helmet and a 20-round shell gun across his waist, and also came to the headquarters of the 212th Regiment.

The so-called regimental headquarters, that is, a little behind the most forward position, built a relatively strong circular fortification, from which several square windows were dug, which could be used as pillboxes to shoot outward, and also to observe the movement of the Japanese attack.

At this time, the head of Gu Baoyu was holding a telescope in his hand, observing the movements of the Japanese army.

Han Xing saw that the 212th Regiment had arranged a defensive line along the Shi River, and 1 mortar company and 1 small artillery company were deployed near the Shi River Bridge to firmly control the Shi River Bridge. And along the bridge of the Shi River, three battalions opened their shelves and guarded a few miles of land on the Shi River.

Han Xing did not rush into the headquarters of the 212th Regiment, but carefully observed the Shi River along the traffic trench, looked at it, and suddenly found a problem, that is, there are several places on the Shi River that are particularly narrow, and the river is more than 10 meters wide.

Han Xing really gasped at this time, that is to say, except for the Shihe Bridge, in these few miles of land, at least three or four places can quickly build a temporary bridge and form a new attack point, he didn't think of these things before, did Gu Baoyu think of this!

Thinking of this, Han Xing hurriedly walked towards the command post of the 212th Regiment.

It was at this time that the Japanese air raids began.

Twelve Japanese 96-1 monoplane fighters flew from the direction of Hefei in the east, and after hovering in the air for a while, they then strafed and dropped bombs one after another from north to south, along the defensive direction of the Chinese army.

"Da ......", "Da ......", "Bang-" "Bang-", 7.7-mm machine gun bullets cut the lives of Chinese soldiers, and 25-kilogram bombs were also dropped, exploding on the positions of the 212th Regiment, forming huge craters one after another. One bomb was dropped on the position of the mortar company, and three or four mortars were blown up at that moment, and the bodies of the fighters flew into the air at once.

The firelight, the shock wave, the shrunnel flying everywhere, and the huge smoke all at once stirred up the positions of the Chinese army. What was a quiet and peaceful scene before the battle just now was torn apart in an instant.

The 6 20-mm machine guns of the 212th Regiment, some heavy machine guns, and light machine guns also roared into the sky, spitting strings of fire in the direction of enemy planes.

One of the enemy planes shook off, apparently hit in the wings, and flew off crookedly into the distance. But another enemy plane flew in, and towards the position of the machine guns were two 50-kilogram bombs. "Boom-" "Boom-"

One bomb was dropped in the center of the machine-gun position, and another bomb was dropped on the edge of the machine-gun position.

In the huge firelight, in the sky-high smoke, in the suffocating scorching air, the six machine guns were silent, and the light and heavy machine guns seemed to have weakened a lot.

With the heavy loss of anti-aircraft weapons, which made the air forces of small Japan arrogant and arrogant, it seemed to have become their world. One plane after another swooped down, dropping bombs and strafing at the positions of the Chinese troops, and then another round of dives down, continuing to drop bombs and strafe until all their bombs were dropped, and all the bullets were gone.

On the banks of the Shi River, the positions of the Chinese army became a sea of fire, full of flames, choking smoke, and the remains of the soldiers, who were lucky enough not to die, could only passively hide in the fortifications, hoping not to be hit by the bullets of the 96-1 fighters......

was so angry that Han Xing scolded: "What about our J-20 fighter, why hasn't it arrived yet?" How did it take so long. These little devils' planes don't come sooner or later, so they see that this gap is coming, fuck, where is our plane...... What about airplanes......"