Wing Commander of the 13th Infantry Wing, Okamoto Hoyuki Osa, is a standard iron-blooded soldier, and in his opinion, all soldiers should fight for the will of His Majesty the Emperor, for which his father, three younger brothers and two sons all served in the army, and five nephews attended military schools at the Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy and the Army University.

Unlike the arrogant and arrogant minds of the army officers, Okamoto Hoyuyuki Osa had a clear understanding of the Sino-Japanese War, and he knew that although the Imperial Army had now achieved brilliant results, occupying one-third of the territory of China in just ten months, and even the capital of China, Okamoto Hoyuyuki Osa knew that this was still too far from the complete destruction of China, because both the nominal political axe of China and the armed forces led by various local warlord parties had a stubborn will to resist. Moreover, the domestic economy and resources simply did not allow the empire to conduct a large-scale war for a long time, otherwise the empire's economy would have the possibility of collapse.

After receiving the order, Okamoto Hoyuki Osa immediately rushed by car to the place where the Shina troops appeared with three infantry brigades and an artillery brigade.

Okamoto Hoyuki Osa carefully observed the Shina position not far away and the nearby terrain with a telescope, and he found that the position of this Shina army was very cleverly located, and it was just in front of the only way to Jining, and there was no place to detour nearby. Moreover, the position and fortifications of the opposing Zhina troops were very exquisitely built, and the horizontal and vertical trenches were very cleverly matched, and even he, a veteran of the battle, had to admire.

Okamoto Hoyuki Osa first had the 12 75mm field guns of the Field Artillery Brigade test fire at the position of the Shina Army, and then fired another 10 rapid fires, while the artillery fired while the infantry of a brigade quickly charged the Shina position.

The 99th Regiment was defending the frontal position, and because most of the devil's cavalry was annihilated by surprise, Han Yunhua canceled the original combat mission of the fire support regiment and allocated the three battalions of the fire support regiment to the three lines of defense.

Wang Jian is very experienced in fighting with devils, and the devil's battle mode of first shelling and then charging infantry, and then shelling infantry and then charging has long been understood by Wang Jian. Therefore, after the position was built, Wang Jian did not let the soldiers enter immediately, but asked the soldiers to hide in the temporary air-raid shelter first, and a few forward observation posts were stranded on the position.

After the devil's artillery test firing, Wang Jian knew that the devil's shelling was about to begin. Sure enough, five minutes later, crackling shells hit the position like hail, making a violent explosion. Fortunately, there were only a few observation posts on the position, otherwise a single artillery bombardment would have reimbursed a company of the 99th Regiment.

After the shelling, a sharp whistle sounded from the position. Wang Jian knew that it was the devil's infantry who came up, and immediately organized the soldiers to quickly enter the position.

The captain of the devil infantry brigade commanded a large group of infantry under the cover of the artillery brigade and quickly approached the frontal position of the 99th regiment, but what puzzled the captain of the devil brigade was that it was less than a hundred meters away from the position, but the Zhina troops on the opposite position still did not move.

Thinking of this, the captain of the devil brigade pointed to the opposite Zhina position with the adjutant knife in his hand, and ordered loudly: "Quickly occupy the position, quickly, kill." ”

At this moment, a bullet hit the head of the devil captain, and the head of the devil captain was removed at once. At the same time, fierce gunfire suddenly sounded on the position of China, which had not moved, and three infantry battalions and one fire support battalion of the 99th Regiment resting on the first line to block the enemy opened fire at the same time, and the devils who rushed to the front were knocked to the ground row by row like wheat. In just a few minutes, the first attack of the devils was repelled by the 99th regiment, leaving more than 200 corpses of devils and more than a dozen wounded devils on the battlefield.

Okamoto Hoyuki Osa, who was watching the battle through the binoculars, said in surprise to the officers beside him: "How is this possible, how can there be snipers in the Shina troops?" Miyamoto-kun, you go down and check, which side of the army on the opposite side belongs to, and what is the specific number? ”

Miyamoto Ichiro Shaozo said: "Report to the wing commander, the troops on the opposite side should belong to the 77th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, but we don't know which regiment it is. ”

Okamoto Baoyuki Daisa said angrily: "Yaga, what are you doing with Tegaoke, a group of rice buckets." Then he ordered: "Order the first squadron leader, Captain Yuan Xian, to temporarily take the position of captain, let him organize the troops to continue the attack, and order the artillery brigade to open fire for fire support." ”

"Hail"

After a while, Ichiro Miyamoto came over and reported: "Report to the co-captain, there is news from the front that all the officers above the captain of the first brigade have broken jade, and now the highest officer of the first brigade is only a second lieutenant squad leader who has just graduated from the military academy." ”

This secret loss made Okamoto Hoyuki Osa a little unbearable, and he threw all the officers of a brigade into the first attack, and the lesson was not insignificant. Okamoto Hoyuki Osa thought for a while and said: "Miyamoto-kun, you will go to the position of temporary acting captain of the first brigade now, I will only give you three captains, you have to give me a quick reply to the combat effectiveness of the first brigade, and launch a powerful attack on the position of the first brigade, and you also have to be careful of the snipers in the Shina troops, please." After finishing speaking, Okamoto Hoyuki Osa bowed to Miyamoto Ichiro Shaosa.

Miyamoto Ichiro Shaozo said excitedly as if he had been beaten with chicken blood: "Please rest assured, if you can't attack the position, Miyamoto will never see Your Excellency the Wing Captain." After saying that, he walked out of the temporary headquarters with a few officers.

It was another artillery bombardment, because this time the devils did not retreat too far, so Wang Jian did not dare to withdraw all the troops, so there was also a battalion left on the position in case the devils suddenly rushed into the position. What Wang Jian didn't expect was that because they killed most of the officers of the First Devil Brigade, the First Brigade temporarily lost its combat effectiveness, so the Devils shelled the position for ten minutes, but the Devil infantry did not follow up.

After the shelling, the commander of the third battalion of the 99th Regiment who remained on the position was heartbroken to find that there were less than 400 people left in his reinforced battalion of 684 people, that is, nearly half of the soldiers died under the shelling of the devils.

As soon as the artillery stopped, the devil infantry stepped on the unique pace of the army and launched a wave attack on the position of the 99th regiment. Yang Shujie, the commander of the third battalion, hurriedly blew the whistle in his mouth and quickly organized the troops for defense.

The fighters of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, who heard the whistle, quickly got out of the underground bomb shelters, entered their respective positions, and set up light and heavy machine guns and waited for the devils to come to the door.

Miyamoto Ichiro's tactical literacy is very superb, in order to prevent the snipers of the 99th Regiment, he made all the officers wear the clothes of ordinary soldiers, and also took the 38 big cover, and even the command knife that is a symbol of the status of the commander of the army is not allowed to carry.

At this moment, the snipers of the 99th Regiment were dumbfounded, and they couldn't tell which one was an officer and which one was a soldier. In desperation, he had no choice but to turn his attention to the technical arms of the army, and for a time the machine gunners, standard-bearers, and grenadiers of the devils became the key objects of snipers' care.

The devil stopped a hundred meters in front of the 99th regiment's position, and the whole army crawled forward on the ground, and suddenly destroyed Wang Jian's idea of getting closer and fighting again. Wang Jian had no choice but to order the troops to open fire immediately, and let the artillery battalion, which had been concealed, immediately open fire.

In order to prevent the devils from retaliating against the shelling, the artillery battalion immediately shifted its position after 10 rapid fires. The artillery battalion shelling caused heavy losses to Ichiro Miyamoto, and unlike the 99th Regiment, both Okamoto Hoyuki Daisa and Miyamoto Ichiro Shaosa had orders to break the position of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible and open the road to Jining. Therefore, from the beginning, the army adopted a desperate style of fighting, and it was not common for the group to be a charging devil. The concentrated offensive formation gave the artillery battalion of the 99th Regiment a big advantage, and the second attack of the devils was quickly defeated.

However, five minutes later, Miyamoto Ichiro again organized his troops to attack, and in order to repeat the mistake of the past, he had his soldiers walk in a skirmish line and lay down to fire at the defenders in the trenches at a distance of 150 meters from the position of the 99th Regiment.

The Devil Soldier's shooting skills are notoriously superb, and there are many more first-class marksmen than the sharpshooters in the 99th Regiment. The defenders suffered a large number of casualties at once, but fortunately, the 99th Regiment was equipped with more automatic fire than the Japanese army, and a large amount of automatic fire firmly suppressed Miyamoto Ichiro's troops under the hillside. After half an hour of firing, Wang Jian was a little unable to hold on, and in just half an hour, the three battalions of the 99th Regiment guarding the position suffered more than 400 casualties, and his troops were reimbursed for one and a half battalions in less than two hours after the battle.

However, Miyamoto Ichiro's side was not comfortable, he did not expect that there were so many automatic weapons in the Eighth Route Army, his complete brigade was only equipped with 30 light machine guns and 14 heavy machine guns, while the opposite China Army was equipped with more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, which was equivalent to the automatic firepower of one of their brigades. Miyamoto Ichiro looked at the remaining 400 or so soldiers, and then at the nearby Shina position, with a crazy look in his eyes, he was ready to launch a suicide attack on the position of the Shina army with the remaining 400 remnants. Just as Ichiro Miyamoto gave the order to charge, the temporary command gave him the order to retreat.