"Please rest assured, general, I promise to let these damned Chinese taste the power of imperial shells. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Akiyama bowed to Jiang Cheng and immediately turned back to prepare.

The artillery wing commanded by Akiyama was subordinate to the 22nd Division, and this time, in order to increase the firepower of Jiang Cheng's detachment, the commander of the Mijo Division asked him to take one-third of the mountain artillery of the artillery wing and follow Jiang Cheng's detachment.

After the Japanese army arrived at the foot of Longgu Ridge, they immediately stopped in the wilderness opposite the ridge, and then a part of the Japanese army advanced to the front of the ridge.

Shi Qiang and Chen Jian were guarding the temporary command post on the ridge, watching the devil's every move through the binoculars, until they found that the devil's artillery pulled out a mountain cannon and slowly moved to their estimated position, the two couldn't help but smile knowingly.

However, in order to stop the devils, the soldiers of the 68th and 72nd regiments were desperately busy on the positions, and after several hours of labor, the forward positions under the ridge had been built, and they had been connected with the second line of defense through curved communication trenches, and between the second line of defense and the main position on the ridge, important machine-gun fire points and the positions of grenadiers, mortars, and infantry guns had also been arranged one after another.

Of course, in order to prevent the devil's plane from blowing up the infantry guns of the temporary detachment, these infantry guns were all hidden, and they would not be set up on the position until the battle began.

As for the mortar positions, they were also camouflaged, hidden in specially dug anti-artillery holes, and only waited for the battle to start, and then pulled out to bombard the devils.

The New Fourth Army only has such a small family background, so it is naturally cautious in its use, after all, air supremacy is not on its side. Therefore, whether it is an infantry artillery position or a mortar position, several firing positions have been prepared in advance, and even the routes for transfer after firing have also been arranged in advance.

According to the words of the division commander, independent divisions do not fight unprepared battles, and all plans and plans are fully considered before the war, and at the same time, different plans will be chosen as the battlefield changes.

It can be said that as long as the battle starts, the commander knows when and what plan to take.

Of course, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and once an emergency occurs, it is up to the commander to make a decision on the spot.

After observing the situation of the Japanese troops on the opposite side one by one, Shi Qiang's face became very solemn.

He and Chen Jian already knew about the strength of the enemy on the opposite side, and the Jiang Cheng detachment had two infantry wings under its jurisdiction, plus Qiushan's mountain artillery troops, baggage troops, engineer troops, reconnaissance teams, and so on, with a total strength of nearly 10,000 people.

And its own temporary detachment had only two infantry regiments plus an artillery regiment and an infantry artillery battalion.

Another infantry artillery battalion of the artillery regiment had already withdrawn to Longguling, and then withdrew directly to Shitian, and then went north through Tianmu Mountain.

War was imminent in the north, and the division had to move an infantry artillery battalion to the north.

Shi Qiang and Chen Jian have less than 5,000 troops in their hands, and the enemy's strength ratio has reached 1 to 2, although they are defensive, but the devil can get the support of the aircraft, how dangerous this battle will be, the two of them are clear.

Fortunately, in another three hours, it will be dark.

According to the normal law, as long as you block a round of onslaught from the devils, the day will almost pass.

After reading the situation of the enemy at the bottom of the ridge, Shi Qiang turned around again and glanced at the soldiers of the temporary detachment who were busy on the ridge, and his eyes couldn't help but be slightly wet.

"Detachment leader, the division headquarters is in an emergency." Just when Shi Qiang was a little emotional, a staff officer ran over.

Shi Qiang took it and saw that it was sent by the division commander Liu Tianshu, and in the telegram, Liu Tianshu told Shi Qiang that a regiment of the New Seventh Brigade came from Wukang in a hurry, and asked him to block the devils in Longguling, and not let the devils pass through Longguling before three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day.

"Call back to the division commander and say that the temporary detachment guarantees to complete the task, and before 15 o'clock tomorrow, the devil will never be allowed to pass through Longguling." Shi Qiang said after a while.

The 71st Regiment of the New 7th Brigade rushed south, so that there was only one main regiment of the 70th Regiment on the Wukang side, and once the devil suddenly launched an attack in the direction of Wukang, the pressure on the brigade commander could be imagined.

Liu Tianshu asked Hao Mengxuan to urgently transfer the 71st Regiment to the south, which was also a last resort. The intention of Jiang Cheng's detachment was very obvious, that is, to capture Ishida, cut off the retreat of the independent division in Tianmu Mountain, and then divide and encircle.

If Jiang Cheng's detachment can be severely damaged, Wu Kangcheng can give up for the time being, and once Jiang Cheng's detachment is taught a lesson, it is not too late to go back and find an opportunity to clean up the 22nd Division.

In other words, the evacuation of Ishida Prefecture must be ensured no matter what. Besides, the terrain of Tianmu Mountain is dangerous, and once the Japanese Jiang Cheng detachment enters the mountain, it is very likely to create conditions for themselves to inflict heavy losses on this enemy.

Of course, the 71st Regiment went south and would not immediately participate in the battle of Longguling, it was only a living force, ready to join the ambush of Jiang Cheng's detachment at any time.

After calling back to the division headquarters, Shi Qiang and Chen Jian checked their positions again and saw that the 68th Regiment and the 72nd Regiment were all arranged according to the detachment, except for one battalion each to guard the front, the rest of the troops had withdrawn to the back of the ridge and hid.

Longgu Ridge is not suitable for putting too many troops, according to Shi Qiang and Chen Jian's ideas, this battle is to fight into a refueling tactic, grinding off the enemy little by little.

As soon as the position on the ridge was inspected, the roar of planes was heard in the distance, and the commander's shout immediately sounded throughout the position: "The enemy plane is coming, hide quickly." ”

The two battalions holding the position immediately quickly took refuge in the anti-artillery holes, and the main forces of the two regiments had withdrawn to the back of the ridge and hid.

The four devil planes soon came to the ridge, and the devil pilots saw that the entire Longgu Ridge had been dug into a ravine by the New Fourth Army, and they could also see a few machine gun bunkers, so they couldn't help but laugh arrogantly, and then pressed the nose of the plane and began to dive towards the mountain ridge, and the bullets hit the position like raindrops, splashing up clouds of dust and mist.

It's a pity that no trace of the New Fourth Army was found on the position, but the Japanese pilots knew that these damn New Fourth Army were hiding on the ridge.

After using the plane's heavy machine guns to indiscriminately strafe the positions of the New Fourth Army below, these devils immediately raised the nose of the plane, circled around and came back again, and the bombs fell from the sky and landed on the machine gun bunkers and trenches they found, and in the blink of an eye, Longguling was filled with gunsmoke.

Shi Qiang and Chen Jian hid in the bunker of the temporary command post, listening to the explosion rolling like spring thunder on the ridge, and couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly.

I don't know what kind of position the troops have worked so hard to build under this round of indiscriminate bombardment by the devils?

The strafing and bombing of the devil's plane did not slowly end until half an hour, and after the smoke cleared, the devil's mountain artillery came towards the ridge again, and countless shells fell on the ridge, splashing one wave after another.

Seeing the shells falling on the ridge, a cloud of dirt was immediately raised, and an anti-artillery hole was visible to the naked eye was hit, and several figures could be vaguely seen being taken out of the air. Seeing this, Shi Qiang couldn't help biting his steel teeth, and tears rolled out.

Just when he saw the tears flowing, suddenly, the devil's mountain artillery position in the distance suddenly sounded an earth-shattering explosion, and the smoke filled the sky in a blink of an eye, and the devil's mountain artillery position was all shrouded in smoke, and there were no more shells flying down on Longgu Ridge.

The soldiers who were braving the devil's shelling on the position to observe the enemy's situation, saw the smoke rising in the distance, as if it was the location of the devil's mountain artillery position, and couldn't help shouting excitedly: "Look, the devil's artillery position, the devil's artillery position." ”

These fighters only knew that there was a problem with the devil's artillery position, but they did not know that it was the fighters of the special service company.

Shi Qiang held the binoculars and looked at the place where the smoke rose in the distance, and couldn't help but feel excited. Looking at the posture of this explosion, the devil's mountain artillery position is over.

Without the fierce mountain artillery, see what the little devils will do to attack their positions.

However, in addition to being happy, Shi Qiang also took care of the safety of Lin Fuguang, who was responsible for the shelling of the Devil's Mountain Artillery, because the Devil's Mountain Artillery Position was bombed, and he would definitely send a large number of troops to pursue and kill the New Fourth Army who dared to attack his Mountain Artillery Position, and he didn't know if Lin Fuguang and they could withdraw smoothly.

Lin Fuguang and instructor Tang Song each led a combat team and hid in the bunkers dug in advance, both of which were close to the mountains and forests and were very hidden, but the mortars could just hit the place where the explosives were planted in advance.

In order to prevent the devils from detecting, they all hid in bunkers, which were covered with thick camouflage. According to the regulations in advance, except for the observers, the entire combat group can only take off its camouflage and attack when the devil's mountain artillery fires.

Because they were less than a kilometer away from the mountain artillery position of the devils, once they took off their camouflage and opened their artillery, they only had a chance to fire five shells at most, so once the artillery was fired, they had to complete the task of detonating the explosives in the shortest possible time, and then quickly retreat according to the predetermined route.

After Lin Fuguang withdrew the main force of the spy company, he commanded six crew members to squat in the bunker and quietly listen to the sound of time passing.

Long Haoran, who was in charge of observation, was full of camouflage on his head, even his face, and the color of the earth, if he hadn't seen those flashing eyes, he wouldn't have found that there was still a person hidden in the grass.

As an observation post for the spy company, it is a necessary skill to not move, and his head seems to be fixed there, but the palm placed below constantly reports the observed enemy situation to the company commander and team members in sign language.

Lin Fuguang couldn't help but be ecstatic when he learned that the little devil's mountain cannon was indeed arranged in the position that Deputy Detachment Leader Chen said.

You must know that the reason why the devil is rampant on the land of China is not only by relying on its so-called bushido spirit, but also by its artillery fire, which is stronger than the Chinese army.

Especially the devil's mountain artillery, once it bombards Longgu Ridge, what kind of threat it will bring to the comrades guarding the ridge, Lin Fuguang knows very well.

After confirming that the artillery position of the devil was at the position estimated by Deputy Detachment Leader Chen, Lin Fuguang immediately commanded the team members to set up the mortars in the bunker according to the pre-calculated parameters, and several team members were ready to fire rapidly.

The shells they fired were not aimed at blowing up the devil's mountain artillery, but to detonate the explosives buried in the ground, and their shelling parameters had long been calculated. (To be continued.) )