With the help of snipers, the company suddenly lifted its spirits, and a bullet flew out, eliminating half of the attacking devil squad, and the remaining twenty or so devils neither advanced nor retreated. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the devils attacking the right flank were blocked by the first company of the 68th Regiment, the devils attacking the left flank were also strongly blocked by the second company of the 3rd battalion of the 72nd regiment, leaving behind more than 30 corpses, but they still failed to break through the position of the New Fourth Army.

Miki's face turned black when he saw that his attack had been repulsed, and he was about to order the third squadron that had been left in reserve to enter the battle when he received an order from the wing commander to retreat.

Miki's expression darkened, and he could only order his troops to withdraw from the battle.

In this charge, his two squadrons lost fifty or sixty men each, and almost two squads were reimbursed in this way.

When he withdrew a thousand meters with his troops, he was surprised to learn that the mountain artillery positions arranged in the back had been attacked by the New Fourth Army and had been fully reimbursed.

You must know that Akiyama Daisa's mountain artillery unit is the key object of protection for the entire detachment, whether it is on the march or during the battle, it is under the protection of the entire detachment, and the New Fourth Army has no air superiority, and there is no long-range heavy artillery, how can the mountain artillery position be destroyed.

When he learned from other officers that the New Fourth Army had planted explosives under the mountain artillery positions in advance, and then used mortars hidden nearby to detonate the explosives, thus destroying the mountain artillery positions in one fell swoop.

You know, this is easy to say, but the difficulty of actually implementing it is not ordinarily small. First of all, it is necessary to determine the location of the mountain artillery position, and secondly, it is necessary to bury the explosives in advance so that no one can find out. Finally, the mortar, which detonated the explosives, had to evade the search of the Imperial soldiers.

Unexpectedly, these damned Chinese actually hid in the defensive circle of the imperial army, and took advantage of the opportunity for the mountain artillery to open fire, and suddenly opened fire and detonated the explosives.

Wing Captain Matsushita saw Miki coming back dejectedly, sighed in his heart, patted Miki's shoulder, and said heavily, "Miki-kun, hard work." ”

Although the Miki Brigade suffered large losses after the battle of Chengjiapo and the attack just now, it can be said that it could not be smaller than the loss of the mountain artillery position.

Jiang Cheng heard the frustrated report of his subordinates, saying that he failed to catch those damn New Fourth Army, he couldn't help but be angry, raised his palm and slapped the Japanese officer standing in front of him more than ten times, and the anger in his heart dissipated slightly.

After finally calming down, Jiang Cheng had to use the radio to report the situation to the commander of the Sancheng Division.

This time to attack the New Fourth Army, Jiang Cheng's detachment was temporarily under the command of the commander of the 22nd Division, and thinking that before he captured Longguling, he had lost one-third of the mountain artillery wing of the 22nd Division.

Lieutenant General Sancheng received Jiang Cheng's radio, and his whole body froze all of a sudden, thinking of his twelve mountain cannons, if Jiang Cheng stood in front of him, he really didn't know if he would control the idea of slashing Jiang Cheng alive with a saber.

That's twelve mountain artillery, and his own mountain artillery wing captain Akiyama.

After a few furious laps around the office, Lieutenant General Mitsunari had no choice but to suppress his anger and reproach Jiang Cheng's detachment for having to enter and occupy Ishida at all costs according to the predetermined plan.

At this time, the 22nd Division had drawn the strength of two wings and was viciously approaching the Wukang line.

In order to completely eliminate the independent division of the New Fourth Army, it can be said that the 22nd Division has evacuated its strength to the limit.

Liu Tianshu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he learned that the mountain artillery of Jiang Cheng's detachment had been destroyed by Shi Qiang and Chen Jian, and he praised the temporary detachment in a telegram, and at the same time told them to be careful of the crazy attack of the devils.

After reminding Shi Qiang and Chen Jian, Liu Tianshu's attention had turned to the movements of the surrounding enemies.

After some discussion, Liu Tianshu and Jiang Jinyong decided to let Hao Mengxuan personally command the 70th Regiment to abandon Wukang County, not to retreat but to advance, avoid the sharp edge of the devils, and approach in the direction of Hangzhou, and at the same time order the independent regiment of Simingshan to fully cooperate with the actions of the 70th Regiment.

The devil's troops attacking Siming Mountain quietly retreated before they reached Siming Mountain, which disappointed Gao Weiheng, who wanted to have a good fight with the devil.

After receiving the order of the division headquarters to fully cooperate with the 70th Regiment to carry out external operations, and cooperate with the main force of the independent division to smash the devil's several ways to encircle, Gao Weiheng was suddenly excited in his heart, and at the same time worried about the safety of the division headquarters.

Shi Qiang and Chen Jian were in the command post, watching the movements of the devils on the opposite side, and they were worried about the soldiers of the special service company.

At this moment, a staff officer pointed to the opposite side and shouted: "Detachment leader, look, the devils are starting to assemble." ”

When Shi Qiang and Chen Jian heard this, they immediately held up the binoculars and looked, and saw that the black devils in the distance began to assemble, and at the same time, they could also see that the infantry artillery was constantly moving.

"Captain Shi, it seems that the devil wants to launch another round of attacks on us before dark." As soon as Jian Chen saw his posture, he knew that the devil was unwilling to be destroyed by the mountain artillery, and wanted to capture Longguling in one fell swoop before dark.

"You're right, look at the devil's frame, this time it's bloody, so order the troops behind the mountain to be ready to go to the position at any time. It's only two hours away from the black now, and even if the devil's plane comes to help, it won't last long. As long as we repel this wave of attacks from the devils, it is time for us to teach the devils a lesson. Shi Qiang had a smile on his face.

Sure enough, twenty minutes later, the devil planes appeared in the sky again, and the three devil planes continued to dive and shoot and bomb on the ridge, and after tossing for ten minutes, they flew up in a big way.

As soon as they saw the devil's plane leave, the soldiers hurriedly ran out of the anti-artillery hole, rescued the wounded and repaired their positions, and at the same time beware of the bombardment of the devil's infantry artillery.

When the smoke of the devil's infantry artillery on the Longgu Ridge has not completely dissipated, it roared towards the ridge, and the shells rained down on the ridge, blowing up clouds of dust and mist.

The entire position was covered by gunsmoke, and it was impossible to see the scene in the distance, but unfortunately the devil's infantry guns were all arranged two thousand meters away, and the infantry guns arranged behind the mountain by themselves could not reach it at all.

In the constantly fluttering gunsmoke, Shi Qiang suddenly found a few bright lights, and couldn't help but feel nervous, and after a closer look, it was actually the reflection of the devil's steel helmet in the sunset.

"Oh no, the devil is rushing up with the cannonball." Shi Qiang shouted, and immediately ordered the infantry artillery placed behind the mountain to carry out artillery bombardment in the area in front of the position.

At this time, call the troops in the forward positions. I'm afraid it's too late, and the only way is to use infantry artillery to cover the area in front of the forward position, suppress the attack of the devils, and buy time for the troops holding the forward position.

The infantry artillery unit arranged in the rear, after receiving Shi Qiang's order, immediately adjusted the parameters according to the area mentioned by the commander of the Shi detachment, and then quickly carried out artillery bombardment towards the open field opposite the forward position.

The devils who quietly rushed up with the shells saw that they were less than 200 meters away from the forward position of the New Fourth Army, and the New Fourth Army on the opposite side was crushed by the artillery of the empire, and they couldn't help but be ecstatic in their hearts.

As long as you rush to the position of the New Fourth Army and destroy these damned New Fourth Army, it is naturally a very simple matter.

It's a pity that at this moment, the whistling sound of cannonballs suddenly sounded in the sky, which was a little different from the whistling of cannonballs from the artillery behind them.

Those recruits who had just come from Japan could not distinguish the difference between the sound of the shells fired by the New Fourth Army and the shells fired by their own troops, and when they saw the veterans around them lying down, they could not understand for a while, and at this moment, the shells fired by the artillery of the independent division flew down, splashing countless waves in the dense devil attack formation, taking away the lives of one devil after another.

The devils who were attacking were beaten bitterly by the sudden artillery bombardment, after all, they were all in the open ground in front of the position, unobstructed, even if they were lying on the ground, they could only hope that the impact point of the shells would leave them.

The New Fourth Army, which was guarding the forward position, heard the whistling of artillery shells overhead, and some experienced troops immediately heard their own artillery firing, and immediately realized that something was wrong with the situation.

The face of the commander of the first company of the second battalion of the 68th Regiment changed, and he braved the constant sound of explosions on the position, grabbed out of the anti-artillery hole in a few steps, and slowly looked at it, and saw that the front of the position was blown up by the infantry artillery battalion behind, and in the smoke raised by the explosion, you could see the devils dancing wildly in the air.

"The devil is coming, get on the battlefield." The commander of the first company suddenly ran and shouted on the position in desperation.

Fortunately, at this time, the devil's infantry artillery began to extend forward, and the shells that fell on the positions of a company were already very sparse.

The fighters hiding in the trenches and anti-artillery holes heard the shouts of the company commander and immediately rushed to their combat positions under the leadership of the squad and platoon commander.

However, in the round of artillery fire just now, the company suffered fifteen more casualties.

The support of the infantry artillery battalion frustrated the idea of the devil quietly approaching Longguling, and at the same time, a squadron of the Matsuoka Brigade that was attacking in front was blown up to only 31 people.

Matsuoka, who was directing the attack in the back, did not expect that his full squadron, under a sudden blow from the artillery fire of the New Fourth Army, would be directly reimbursed, and he was immediately furious in his heart, thinking of the order of the wing commander, he could only grit his teeth and order the second and third squadrons to quickly enter the battle.

The 2nd and 3rd Squadrons of the Matsuoka Brigade overpassed the 1st Squadron, which had been blown to pieces, and rushed to the forward position held by the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 68th Regiment regardless of casualties.

Behind these two squadrons, the artillery of the Matsuoka Brigade quickly pressed forward to provide artillery support for the attacking troops, while heavy machine guns, mortar grenadiers, etc., all followed the 2nd and 3rd squadrons. (To be continued.) )