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The Japanese army, which had confronted the Liaodong Army in Anshan for two days, not only did not retreat, but began to prepare for the attack.

As a permanent division of the Japanese army, the strength of the second division of the Japanese army must not be underestimated.

Four infantry wings consisted of twelve infantry battalions, each with four infantry squadrons and one machine gun squadron. In addition, the division headquarters also directly subordinate a cavalry brigade of more than 500 cavalry, a field artillery wing with 54 field guns, and a field heavy artillery brigade with 18 heavy guns.

Combined with the sappers, baggage and other directly subordinate troops, the total strength of the entire Second Division directly reached 16,000 people. It can be described as a strong army and well-equipped.

With such a large number of troops, after moving, the movement is not small.

Therefore, as soon as the Japanese army moved, the group that was engaged in a confrontation with the Japanese army sent the information to Li Zhilong.

Li Zhilong did not dare to slack off, and sent the news to the headquarters as soon as possible.

At the same time, a regiment of more than 1,100 people, which had not yet been replenished, quickly entered the position under Li Zhilong's order and prepared for battle.

Of course, nearly 1,000 recruits of the Anshan garrison regiment that cooperated with Li Zhilong also entered the position as soon as possible.

However, the purpose of their entry into the position was not to fight, but to help a regiment strengthen the trenches and build the anti-artillery holes invented by Yang Xingguo.

At this time, some people may ask, since the Japanese army had already opened here a few days ago, why didn't the first regiment take advantage of the confrontation for a few days to strengthen its position.

In fact, it was not that the regiment did not build a position, but that it was not so strong, and it could block the continuous shelling of the devil's field heavy artillery.

When Commander Yang Xingguo left here, he directly told Li Zhilong that the Japanese army would never launch a large-scale attack on the Liaodong Army.

Because, the number one enemy of the Japanese army now is Lao Maozi.

If the main force is used on the Liaodong Army, it is to give Lao Maozi a chance to counterattack and destroy them.

As long as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army was still sensible, he would not be stupid enough to draw heavy troops from the front line to encircle and suppress the Liaodong Army at the critical moment of the Russo-Japanese War.

In addition, Li Zhilong himself has the same idea. When building the position, Li Zhilong only thought of a military confrontation with the devils. It was not at all thought that the devils could attack themselves, the entire defensive position. It was repaired according to the standard of resisting the Japanese attack.

However, this time Yang Xingguo miscalculated.

With his arrival, the Russo-Japanese War has been advanced, and many things in between have deviated from the track of history.

One of the most important points is. The number of troops that the Japanese army committed to the Russo-Japanese War was tens of thousands more than in history.

Since there are so many troops, it will not have much impact if a division is drawn from the middle.

Of course, these are all things that Yang Xingguo has inadvertently overlooked.

The Japanese Second Division, with more than 16,000 people, only gave Li Zhilong half a day to prepare and began to attack.

Maybe he knew that there were not many Liaodong troops in front of him, and there was not much heavy equipment.

After the attack began, the devils only used one field artillery battalion and eighteen field guns.

However, even if there are only these field cannons, it is enough for Li Zhilong, who is light on the enemy, to drink a pot.

The shelling began. A single shell hit the ground less than thirty meters from the position.

After a fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose into the air, a crater with a depth of half a meter suddenly appeared in front of Li Zhilong, making Li Zhilong couldn't help but gasp.

The power of the cannon has been seen more than once by Li Zhilong in the battle with Lao Maozi.

However, those are mountain artillery.

Compared with mountain artillery, although the caliber of field artillery has not changed, its power has increased greatly due to the increase in range.

The Liaodong Army was also armed with field artillery of the same caliber, only. Because the equipment time is too short, everyone has not really seen the power of this kind of artillery on the battlefield.

Therefore, in the face of the devil field cannon in front of him, which far exceeded the power of the mountain artillery, Li Zhilong had a surprised expression.

Look at the huge crater in front of the position. Li Zhilong was sure that with the solidity of the trenches, it would definitely not be able to stop the continuous shelling of more than a dozen field artillery pieces of the devils.

Thinking of this, Li Zhilong hurriedly ordered: "Leave one platoon, and the others will withdraw from their positions immediately...... This is just a test shot of the devils.

In less than half a minute, a regiment of more than 1,000 people had not even withdrawn a battalion. The screeching of swarms of shells across the sky rang out over the battlefield.

This time, more than a dozen shells, at least half of which fell on the position.

The sound of explosions accompanied by the shaking of the ground sounded in the position, and several soldiers who relied too far on the shells could not react before they were torn to pieces by the exploding shells.

There were also a few soldiers who were a little more lucky, although they left a whole corpse, but their whole bodies were easily thrown into the sky like toys. And then, the dead could no longer be dead and fell to the ground.

Of course, more soldiers were blown to the ground by shells falling from the sky, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

In the face of the fierce shelling of the tigers around them, many of the retreating soldiers were shocked, standing in place, looking at the tragic picture caused by the explosion of the shells, unable to say a word for a long time.

The head of the regiment, Li Zhilong, although he was also shocked by the huge power of the field artillery, Li Zhilong did not lose his mind because of this.

As soon as the explosion stopped, he scolded his subordinates in a daze: "What are you still doing? Waiting to die! Retreat, immediately withdraw from the position. ”

After withstanding three rounds of shelling from the devils in a row, a group of more than 1,000 people finally withdrew.

However, there were still more than 100 people on the position, and they didn't even see the shadow of the devil, so they fell on the battlefield forever in the shelling.

Looking at the corpses of his subordinates who had been bombed over and over again on the battlefield, Li Zhilong was angry and heartbroken, but there was nothing he could do.

It took ten minutes before the violent shell explosions slowly stopped.

With the help of the telescope, Li Zhilong clearly saw that more than 300 meters in front of the formation, nearly 1,000 devils were carrying rifles and heavy machine guns, and slowly walked out of the position. Like locusts, they all over the mountains pressed down on the position.

Li Zhilong's brows furrowed, and he decisively ordered: "The devil has come up, enter the position immediately...... Bring all the light and heavy machine guns with ......"

It took only a minute for a regiment of 1,000 remaining soldiers to flood into the position.

The devils who launched the attack took advantage of this minute to directly advance the battle line to a position of one hundred and fifty meters in front of the formation.

A squadron of 16 heavy machine guns was placed in a row on a high ground two hundred meters in front of the formation, and had already fired a dense rain of suppressive fire at a group of positions.

Li Zhilong, who has seen the accurate marksmanship of the devil rifleman, knows that once the devil rushes into the 100-meter position in front of the formation, he has no matter how strong the firepower is, the devil rifleman can also bring great damage to his subordinates.

At that time, even if he repels the devil's attack, the heavy casualties of his subordinates will not be something he can bear. (To be continued.) )

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