More than an hour later, the Japanese army crashed all the way in front of the Fifth Division. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Seeing the position of the Fifth Division, which was in full swing, the chief of staff of the Japanese army did not say a word and immediately ordered the troops to prepare for battle.

In particular, the remaining three heavy artillery wings of the heavy artillery brigade, with the help of the infantry, quickly built up positions.

In less than half an hour, shells with a screeching sound smashed down on the position.

Compared with the positions that the Second Division hastily repaired, the positions that the Fifth Division built over a longer period of time were obviously stronger.

Although the pure civil trenches still could not withstand the heavy artillery bombardment, the reinforced anti-artillery holes were obviously more able to withstand the shelling.

Before the screams sounded, most of the officers and men of the Fifth Division hid in the anti-artillery holes.

After the screams sounded, the few remaining soldiers also hid in the anti-artillery holes.

Soon, the positions of the Fifth Division were enveloped by the sound of violent explosions. Thick gunpowder smoke also filled the entire position at the first time.

A heavy artillery wing shelled for half an hour before stopping.

Before the thick smoke of gunpowder dissipated, a wing of Japanese troops appeared three hundred meters in front of the formation.

Some of them were holding rifles, some were holding light machine guns, and under the cover of nearly 100 heavy machine guns behind them, they rushed towards the position with a roar.

"The Japanese army rushed up, immediately entered the position, and prepared for battle!" The platoon commander of the company guarding the entrance of the anti-artillery hole was the first to rush out of the anti-artillery hole.

The positions that had been razed to the ground, although expected by these company platoon commanders, were far beyond the imagination of most of the recruits in the troops. After rushing out of the anti-artillery hole, many people looked at the position at a loss.

The platoon commander of the company scattered on the position was in a hurry, and ordered loudly: "What are you doing with it, the craters can also be used as covers, and all the craters on the position can be used!" ”

Seeing that the troops finally entered the position after a short period of confusion and were ready for battle, Yuan Lei's flushed face immediately calmed down.

After taking a deep breath, he decisively ordered: "Inform the 1st Mountain Artillery Battalion that as soon as the Japanese army enters the preset position, fire the artillery immediately!" The defenders of the position are free to counterattack, and the battalion and company commanders must control the casualties of the troops! ”

In the face of the same counterattack tactics of the Liaodong Army, the wing commander, who had decided to continue fighting, had no choice but to persist and endure.

After two mountain artillery battalions were destroyed by the Japanese in a row, the attacking unit of a wing of the Japanese army also lost more than a thousand people.

Faced with the powerful counter-fire that the defenders followed, the chief of staff had to order the troops to retreat with a face full of reluctance.

Even so, in the course of a few minutes of retreat, they continued to be killed and wounded by hundreds of people.

"Draw another wing and continue the attack! Heavy artillery brigades, get ready for a counterattack! Looking at the remnants of the soldiers who had retreated from the battlefield, the chief of staff, who had a gloomy face, did not consult anyone this time, and quickly gave the order to continue the attack.

In the face of the menacing Japanese army, Yuan Lei no longer retained, and directly counterattacked with a mountain artillery battalion and a field artillery battalion.

When it was over, the infantry counterattacked under the increasingly heavy suppressive fire of the Japanese army. After killing and wounding three or four hundred Japanese troops again, he was very neat and repelled the second round of Japanese attacks.

At this time, more than 3,000 Japanese troops died at the hands of the Third Division, but the division commander Yuan Lei was not happy at all.

Recruits and veterans, as soon as they go on the battlefield, you can see the huge difference between them.

Veterans on the battlefield, no matter what time of the day, will be very cautious, shoot a shot to change places, and will never expose themselves to the enemy, even if victory is already close to them.

But those recruits are different, they forget their usual training and forget the repeated explanations given to them by the battalion and company commander before the war.

As they fought, these recruits forgot the law of changing positions with one shot at a time on the battlefield.

And these recruits, who stayed in one place in a row and fired, undoubtedly became the target of the Japanese heavy machine gunners.

Another is that the Japanese army began to retreat, and the recruits, who were still very cautious in the battle, directly believed that the danger was far away from them.

Excited and arrogant, they watched the Japanese army in front of the battle start to retreat in such a mess, and immediately thought of the sentence of beating the water dogs.

In order to increase the hit rate and leave more Japanese troops on the battlefield, many recruits were so arrogant that they stood up from their positions, exposed half of their bodies in front of the Japanese troops, and counterattacked condescendingly with rifles.

They forgot that the heavy machine guns covering their retreat did not stop firing, despite the fact that the Japanese were retreating.

The Japanese heavy machine gunners, who were worried that they could not avenge the dead soldiers, immediately aimed at these recruits and shot them on the spot.

As a result, in the two battles in which the Japanese attack was repulsed, the casualties caused by the Japanese attack to the Fifth Division were not as large as those caused by the retreat of the Japanese army.

Seeing that Yuan Lei had a calm face and didn't say a word for a long time, Yang Xingguo immediately showed a thoughtful expression on his face, and asked Yuan Lei: "Is it that the casualties of the troops are too great!" ”

Yuan Lei nodded and replied: "We have lost nearly 2,000 people before we have really made contact with the Japanese army, and if we continue to fight like this, we will lose more than half of our lives before we have real contact with the Japanese army!" “

Yang Xingguo took the battle report and replied: "This is battlefield elimination, a very cruel elimination." Only through this elimination will the recruits become veterans, and your fifth division will truly have combat effectiveness! ”

After finishing, Yang Xingguo continued: "Also, it is the first time for the troops to participate in such a large-scale battle, and it is already good to be able to fight like this!" You see, the first time the Japanese attack was repulsed, more than 1,100 casualties, and the second time the Japanese attack was repulsed, more than 800 casualties, and the casualties are getting smaller and smaller, which directly proves that the recruits in the army have slowly adapted to the battlefield after being eliminated and know how to save their lives! ”

"I'm sure that if the third round of Japanese attacks is repelled next, the loss of the troops will not exceed 700 people!"

After Yuan Lei used the last two field artillery battalions of the Fifth Division to repel the third round of Japanese attacks, as soon as the casualty report was delivered to Yuan Lei, Yuan Lei's heavy expression changed. said excitedly to Yang Xingguo.

"Commander, your analysis is too right, this time the casualties of the troops really did not exceed seven hundred, no, not even six hundred!"

Yang Xingguo was also very happy, and replied with a serious face: "This casualty figure shows that most of the officers and men of your fifth division have passed this elimination and have grown from recruits to veterans!" “

Seeing that the battlefield was once again covered by artillery fire, Yang Xingguo followed and asked: "Your artillery has been completely destroyed, and now you have two choices!" Continue to hold the position, let the Japanese troops in to fight, and then eat or severely damage them by a wing. There is also an option to retreat, you are the division commander, you choose for yourself! “

"Hit!" Zhou Qiangsheng replied without thinking about it.

"Commander, you're right, it's a brutal elimination. The battle just now just made everyone get used to the battlefield. Only after experiencing close combat can they become real veterans. Even if the whole division loses one or two thousand men in the end, it will continue to fight. “

Yang Xingguo replied with an appreciative face: "Okay, I support you." I immediately asked Zhou Qiangsheng to transfer all the reconnaissance troops of the Second Division equipped with pistols to cooperate with you. (To be continued.) )