Shells continued to fall on the Japanese positions, and the violent explosions shook the ground deeply, and the broken fortifications splashed stones and stumps and broken arms flew high and scattered in all directions. Because the squadron pushed the artillery to a distance of less than 500 meters from the Japanese position, the accuracy of the shooting was greatly improved, and it could even accurately fall into the trenches of the Japanese army.

At the same time that the artillery began to extend and fire at the enemy position, countless assault groups jumped up from the trenches and charged towards the Japanese positions, while the Japanese soldiers who had not seen it just now crawled out of nowhere and fired frantically at the Chinese soldiers.

Xu Ming watched in the scissor-shaped mirror, the Chinese soldiers had rushed up the hill, and the remaining Japanese soldiers rushed out of the position with bayonets and began the final white-knuckle battle.

Xu Ming shook his head, as if he was not optimistic about this attack, and sure enough, half an hour later, the Japanese army counterattacked and recaptured the hill that the squadron had just captured, and the plaster flag was erected on the position.

Xu Ming sighed, this is the fifth attack today, a mountain that may not be very important, but it can never be taken. After the success of the first day, yesterday's and today's attacks were very unsatisfactory, and often a small dirt slope had to go through brutal fighting and repeated battles.

Hu Lian saw that Xu Ming was worried, and suggested: "Junzao, it's better for us to organize more brave teams and strengthen the attack." ”

Xu Ming shook his head, "Actually, the brothers have worked hard, and for the past three days, the brothers have been attacking day and night. Now it's not that we don't have enough troops, but that we don't have enough firepower, and the devils are desperate to defend it. There must be no urgency in the offensive battle, otherwise the casualties will only increase. ”

Hu Lian said: "What the commander-in-chief said is that now I am afraid that the Jinguan Bridge will not be able to hold it." ”

According to his original plan, the main force of the Japanese army should be in Jiujiang and Miaozhi Town in the south, and the devils here are at most three or four thousand, and they have concentrated 6 divisions at once, of which the 4 divisions attacking are all elite, ready to annihilate them in one fell swoop with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai. I didn't expect that there was not a single devil in Jiujiang City, all the devils came here, and it was quite difficult to kill tens of thousands of devils in a short time

Of course, the Japanese also made mistakes, and their mistake was to underestimate the opponent, resulting in insufficient preparation. Since the Anti-Japanese War, most of the squadrons have been using refueling tactics in waves, but I didn't expect Xu Ming to be so fierce, concentrating more than 40,000 elite troops at one time, and the Japanese army has not yet deployed, and it was found that the peripheral positions have been lost, which greatly compresses the living space of the Japanese army.

Seeing that Hu Lian was worried about Jinguanqiao, Xu Ming completely agreed, and said: "Boyu, you are right, now it depends on the time, if our army defeats or even annihilates the Botian detachment before the loss of Jinguanqiao, it will be a victory, if the 64th Army and the 70th Army can't hold it, we will be in trouble, even if the troops can be withdrawn, the heavy weapons will have to be lost." ”

"Commander-in-Chief!" A thin figure came from the headquarters.

Xu Ming sent him to Jinguanqiao to be responsible for the contact between the north and south troops, in fact, Xu Ming was not at ease there, so he sent someone to supervise it. He came today to report on the battle situation, and many things were not clear by telegram, and Xu Ming had to know the real battle situation there as soon as possible.

"How is the battle situation at Jinguanqiao, can you withstand it?"

Zhang Shaofang ran all the way, but he didn't drink any water, he took the kettle handed to him by Xu Ming, moistened his chapped lips, and said worriedly: "Commander-in-chief, it's not good there, the devils are attacking fiercely, and the two troops have suffered great casualties." ”

"There are no reserves."

"The reserve has already been used, and now the logistics unit is organized into a reserve, but it is estimated that it will be used again in the next two days, and at that time, it can only be drawn from the combat unit."

Once withdrawn from the combat units, the combat effectiveness of the army will be further weakened.

Zhang Shaofang picked up a pair of operational maps and talked about the specific battle situation on the front line of Jinguanqiao in the past few days, "Commander-in-Chief Li (in order to facilitate the command of Jinguanqiao Mahuiling operation, he has just been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the first road of the First Corps) defended the front of Jinguanqiao with the 64th Army, defended the first line of Shazhou with the 155th Division, and the 187th Division was on the first line of Matsu Mountain on the left, since three days ago, the Japanese army began a tentative offensive, on September 4, the Japanese concentrated more than 20 planes, and bombed Matsu Mountain into a sea of fire, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, and the regiment commander was killed and 1 was injured; On the same day, more than 2,000 Japanese troops, with more than 30 guns, with the cooperation of aircraft, stormed Shazhou and Caodao Valley... In three days, the 64th Army suffered more than 5,000 casualties. ”

"Commander Li Jue defended the right side of the Jinguan Bridge, set up the main position at the west foot of Lushan Di'an, and occupied Guling to the west to prevent the enemy from attacking the flank, since September 3, the Japanese army concentrated aircraft artillery to continue to bombard, and with a small force to disturb the feint, on September 4, the Japanese army of about 3,000 people under the cover of aircraft artillery, a large attack, the defenders were mostly destroyed, the commander of the 57th Brigade Zhuang Wenshu was wounded, the commander of the 113th Regiment Wang Daochun was killed... As of yesterday, the 70th Army had suffered more than 3,000 casualties. ”

Zhang Shaofang said it personally, Xu Ming felt that the situation was serious, and Li Hansoul, the commander-in-chief, had more than 30,000 people in his hands, and there were more than 8,000 casualties in three days, so I am afraid that it would not last long.

"Then how long can Commander-in-Chief Li hold out."

"Even if the reserves are used, it is estimated that they can only hold for 5 days, but Commander-in-Chief Li told me before I came that he was ready to fight out the troops until he ran out, and he would never retreat without your order."

Li Hansoul listened to his Xu Ming's order, of course this is impossible, Xu Ming knows the reason, Li Hansoul is pinned down by the political factor of Jiujiang, Jiujiang is the first big city recovered by the squadron, if Li Hansoul loses the Jinguan Bridge, Xu Ming's troops are copied, and they will definitely not be able to hold Jiujiang, this political responsibility and even international influence even Li Hansoul can't afford it, so Li Hansoul can only hold on.

Zhang Shaofang knew Xu Ming's dilemma, and said, "Commander-in-chief, can you transfer one of Commander Li Yutang's two divisions in Meishan to help defend Jinguan Bridge." ”

After hearing this, Xu Ming said categorically, "No, although the 8th Army has not been put into battle, his current position is on the waist of the Japanese army, as long as we have 2 divisions there, it is impossible for the Japanese army to ignore the back road, fully devote themselves to Jinguanqiao, and transfer the 8th Army is to cut the flesh and mend the sores, not to mention, it is unknown how much combat power can be left of the troops transferred back and forth." ”

"I'm afraid that we won't be able to encircle and annihilate the Botian detachment in 5 days." Zhang Shaofang's tone was indescribably worried.

A strong offensive force, the defensive capability is by no means weak, Xu Ming remembered the battle of Iwo Jima in the later generations, the air superiority and naval artillery firepower of the Americans are not a joke, but they have been fighting for more than a month, once the devil is determined to defend, it is really difficult to eat it easily. The fundamental reason why the Battle of Anqing was able to be fought into an encirclement and annihilation battle was not how powerful the squadron was, but the lack of food, medicine and ammunition for the Japanese army. And the current heavy troops of the Japanese army near Yaque Mountain, who have just been surrounded for three days, cannot be so embarrassed.

If Xu Ming had known that there were tens of thousands of devils here, I am afraid he would never have taken such a big risk.

Xu Ming tried his best to suppress this thought of regret, the war itself is extremely risky, and the focus now is on how to solve the problem, not regret and complain.

Xu Ming picked up the paper and pen and sacrificed his "brainstorming**", now even Hu Lian knew Xu Ming's unique way of thinking, and motioned to others to whisper, not to interfere with Xu Ming's thinking.

Xu Ming tried to simplify the complex situation in front of him, now the first is to strengthen the intensity of the attack here, here in Yaque Mountain, the biggest problem is the lack of artillery, not that the number of artillery is not enough, the number of more than 30 artillery pieces is also a lot, but the number of shells is insufficient, now only 1000 shells can be fired every day, although the Japanese army is compressed into a small piece, our army's artillery can bombard any Japanese position at will, but the lack of shells undoubtedly greatly weakens the advantage.

It's not that there are no shells, but because of transportation restrictions, more than a dozen divisions of troops are fighting, and the transportation of food and ammunition is astronomical.

Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the 9th Theater and Wuhan Garrison, simply ordered Ruichang's 2nd Army to dispatch a whole division of troops to help Xu Ming transport artillery shells, so that Xu Ming's artillery could fire 3,000 shells a day.

The second was the idea of weakening the besieged Japanese army, first of all, to weaken the supply of the Hatada detachment.

"How's the supply of the devils now?" Xu Ming asked the adjutant.

After hearing this, the adjutant hurriedly ran to a corner and dragged out a package, "Since yesterday, the devil's plane has been airdropped every day, mainly medicine, ammunition and food, and many of them have fallen on our position, but a small half has been taken by the devil." ”

Xu Ming opened the package and couldn't help but feel funny, it was actually military instant noodles inside, of course, not produced by Yuming Group, but produced in Japan. The process of instant noodles itself is very simple, Xu Mingyi "created", and the British, American and Japanese armies have followed suit, and it has proved that it is very convenient in military affairs, which can not only meet the basic nutritional needs of soldiers, but also be applied in all battlefield conditions.

Of course, compressed biscuits are also widely used in this era, but compressed biscuits can basically only be emergency, the main reason is the lack of nutrition, don't ignore this nutrition, the cause of the Japanese army's war illness is dystrophy in order Malaria beriberi, and according to the records of the Japanese army's war history, the number of war deaths is often twice as many as the combat deaths!

"Instant noodles?" Xu Ming picked up a pack of Japanese instant noodles, which was produced by Ando Company, and when he opened it, he basically followed the model of Yuming Group from taste to packaging, and he was really a nation good at imitating