Yoshizumi Ryosuke wiped a handful of sweat on his head, in the early morning of late September, it was already a cool breeze, but the heart of the head of the Yoshizumi division was hot, the night that had just ended, he and the night battle unit of the squadron had a big fight, although the scale of the opponent's dispatch was not large, but it was well-trained, mobile and flexible, and it was really difficult.

The most obvious feature of the opponent in front of him is that he has a strong ability to fight at night, and his Maruyama Brigade fought with Xu Ming's 107th Division for several days and nights in the trailer river, barely gaining some advantage during the day and being passive at night. But now he could not retreat, and Okamura Ninji asked him to hold the enemy forces in Jiujiang in order to ensure the smooth offensive of the De'an line.

He put on an offensive posture, hoping to frighten the opponent to retreat near Jiujiang and defend it, but he always remembered Okamura Ninji's earnest admonition to him: "Commander of the Yoshizumi Division, Xu Ming is not an ordinary Shina general, he has an arrogant personality, and he has not suffered a single defeat, and it is very likely that he will counterattack your troops in a big way, please be careful." ”

A permanent division of the Japanese army, facing the branch army, still have to find a way to defend, if this was more than a year ago, it would definitely be laughed out of people in Japan, but the current China army is no longer the army that did not resist before, or only knows how to fight to the death, the Chinese have learned to fight, and the 26th Army in front of them is a strong force even if it is placed in the ranks of the Japanese army. On the contrary, the 9th Division, which is known as the elite, is no longer the 9th Division of a year ago, a year ago, this division numbered as many as 27,000 people, almost full, and now after months of hard fighting and harsh environment torture, his troops are less than 20,000. Just these 20,000 people, there is also a wing left in the Hukou garrison, thousands of baggage troops in the vicinity of Meishan to defend, and there are thousands of people in front of him to scare the "Zhina gambler" (the nickname given to Xu Ming by some Japanese generals), who is more daring than the sky, and his heart is really unsound.

Although his heart was beating a drum, Yoshizumi Ryosuke still calmly said to a herald: "Pass my order, all troops are ready to attack, and be sure to put the Shina army under strong pressure." ”

As soon as the herald left, Yoshizumi Ryosuke suddenly saw a glow coming from the northwest, not a glow, but a barely perceptible firelight coming to his face, followed by a loud bang, and countless shells fell on the Japanese positions that were preparing to attack.

The artillery of the squadron had already entered the firing position, concentrating more than 50 artillery pieces, including 8 32 times 15 howitzers purchased from Germany.

The Japanese army is here to attack, but they will not dig many field fortifications, only a few shallow communication trenches and skirmish trenches, and even a Japanese brigade is making a speech on the battlefield, the captain is standing on the mountain bag and said vigorously, a 105 mm grenade fell into the dense crowd, and more than 50 people were killed and wounded immediately, but fortunately it was 105 mm, if it was a 150 mm heavy grenade, I don't know how many would be killed!

After panicking for a while at first, the Japanese mountain artillery began to counterattack, but before a few shots, it was suppressed by the squadron artillery, especially the 32 times 15 howitzer heavy gun, which was the main suppression artillery of the German army, with an effective firing range of more than 15 kilometers and extremely high accuracy. The 50-kilogram projectile fell around the Japanese artillery position like an eye, and every shot that landed was like an earthquake, and the Japanese artillery was constantly destroyed.

"Boom", a monstrous loud sound, the sound even Yoshizumi Ryosuke, who was supervising the battle in front of him several kilometers away, could hear it clearly, and he could even feel the trembling brought by the earth.

"What the hell is going on?" Yoshizumi Ryosuke asked angrily, due to the fierce shelling of the squadron, the communication lines of the Japanese army in various parts of the country were completely destroyed, and he still can't figure out what happened to the artillery positions behind?

After a long while, the herald ran over to report the reason, "Your Excellency the division commander, it was the artillery shell that fell into the artillery position of our army. ”

"Nonsense, I know it's the man's artillery shooting, why is it so loud?" Ryosuke Yoshizumi took a few steps forward and said with a glare.

The soldier looked at the face of his division commander, and still had the courage to tell the reason, after all, he was just a herald, and there was no need to cover it up for others.

"The commander of the division, the little nugget Kura Dazuo just said that the ammunition vehicle of the mountain artillery has just been attacked..."

For the sake of today's offensive convenience, the commander of the 9th Mountain Artillery Wing, Konugis Zang Daisa, concentrated the ammunition trucks transporting shells in a forest, but he did not expect to be attacked by the enemy, and thousands of shells were detonated, with more than 100 casualties.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke naturally didn't know that the squadron had already dug several hidden underground bunkers around the possible artillery positions of the Japanese army, and this kind of device applied in the Battle of Mingguang had not been discovered by the Japanese army except for a very small number of high-level officials.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke could not criticize the small nuggets, because the artillery fire of the squadron began to extend to the rear of the Japanese positions, which was the signal for a large-scale attack by the enemy's infantry.

As soon as some of the remnants of the Japanese army entered the firing position, and the rest were still running on the position, the attack of the squadron began, and Yoshizumi Ryosuke saw a shocking scene, and in less than 5 minutes, the squadron rushed into the forward position of the Japanese army.

"Division commander, the squadron must have lurked around our army's position last night, otherwise, it would never have been possible to rush to our army's position in such a short time." Chief of Staff Takashi Yasube.

Yoshizumi Ryosuke wiped a handful of sweat on his head again, and the opponent in front of him could really "surprise" him constantly.

The attack of the squadron completely caught him by surprise, and he had no choice but to order all the troops to switch to a defensive posture.

But after all, the 9th Division is the elite of the Japanese army, after the initial panic, the Japanese army reacted, the officer with a strong tactical literacy led the soldiers to choose the key points for defense, and continued to counterattack, even if some positions were captured by the squadron, there were remnants of the Japanese army hiding in the dark or in dangerous areas desperately resisted, greatly delaying the breakthrough speed of the squadron.

At the same time that Xie Jinyuan's 107th Division was attacking head-on, the two divisions of the 25th Army, under the leadership of corps commander and army commander Wang Jingjiu, made separate detours to the flank and rear of the Japanese army.

Along the way, he constantly encountered small units of Japanese troops, Wang Jingjiu did not entangle with them at all, and asked the 190th Division to outflank the rear of the Japanese army as planned, and he personally led the 52nd Division to a surprise attack 5 kilometers to the northeast. In that place, there was just a loud noise, and Wang Jingjiu immediately judged that it was the Japanese army's ammunition depot that had been detonated, so this was the main point of the devil, and he must not let it go.

What happened next confirmed Wang Jingjiu's judgment, and the assault force was facing more and more resistance, and even appeared to be blocked by Japanese troops at the squadron level, who were not afraid of the thousands of Chinese soldiers rushing up, and ignored the desperate situation of being surrounded, but desperately slowed down the opponent's pace on the hastily occupied hill.

"Legion Commander, I found thousands of devils in front, climbing up the mountain at the door!" A soldier had just come running from the front and reported loudly.

Wang Jingjiu hurriedly found a high ground and looked through his binoculars to see that the dense Japanese army of 1,000 was climbing up the mountain at the gate, and some troops were moving near the mountain, trying to establish a blocking line.

Wang Jingjiu pointed to the front with his finger and said loudly to the people next to him: "The Japanese invaders seem to be desperate, there must be a devil's sore foot in front, maybe it is the devil's headquarters, now I order..."

Of course, it was not Yoshisumi Ryosuke's headquarters, but the artillery position of the 9th Division, and the Japanese army put an infantry brigade to protect it, and this infantry brigade was deployed in front of the artillery, but I didn't expect a large army to come from behind, and I had no choice but to let this brigade leave the position built in front and go to the gate mountain behind to block it.

If it can't be blocked, the consequences will suffer, mountain artillery is not so easy to transfer, and artillery is not like infantry, you can participate in the war with some peasant training, an excellent artillery observer needs several years of training, like China, an artillery observer is like a baby.

The only good thing was that all the mountain guns turned their muzzles and fired at full speed at the offensive positions of the squadron.

Wing Commander Xiao Nuggets' heart settled down a little, there was an infantry brigade to block the attack, according to the calculation formula of the staff headquarters, it should be able to block the attack of that division, and there were more than 20 mountain guns...

Little Nuggets had not yet been comforted by his frightened heart, when suddenly a burst of gunfire came from the front of his artillery (and now it should have been the rear).

A Japanese soldier who was sweating profusely and had no time to pick up his hat ran but didn't have time to pick it up, "Your Highness Wing Commander, northwest... Thousands of Na armies were found in the northwest. ”