On October 1, the second day of the Japanese attack on Jiujiang, similar to the first day, it was still the rhythm of artillery bombardment, infantry rushing, and artillery bombardment after the infantry rushed.

The difference is that the Japanese army has adopted the method of focusing on the attack, and the artillery fire is not in full bloom as yesterday, but concentrating firepower to carry out a concentrated attack on the Mopanshan position, and at the same time, the main force of the Japanese army has also assembled on the southeast and southeast sides of Mopanshan in accordance with the deployment discussed last night.

The 147th Wing of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army is equipped with a mountain artillery brigade and a mortar brigade, as the left flank attack force, located on both sides of the railway line, and the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Brigade is deployed in Luojia Village, Zhangshuling, to guard against the 25th Army of Wang Jingjiu of China in Minshan, to ensure the safety of the flank of the entire Japanese army; The 3rd Brigade and the 4th Brigade carried out a diversionary attack on Luojiawu Panjia Village, east of Mopan Mountain.

The 123rd Wing is equipped with two field artillery brigades, one brigade of combat vehicles, and two squadrons of engineers as the middle attack force, and the four infantry brigades under its jurisdiction are lined up and put into the attack on the line from Xilin to Bianshan, which is the main attack force of the Japanese army today. The commander of the 123rd Wing is Kijima Kasao Osa, this Osaku is an extremely fanatical militarist, born in Nagano, Honshu, the birthplace of Japanese militarism, he is not a graduate of Lu University, only the 23rd non-commissioned officer of the army, and he can be promoted to the position of wing captain in the Japanese army, which is naturally "unusual".

During his military position in the Northeast, he engraved several glittering gilded characters on the door of his unit, which won the favor of Junrokuro Matsuura, the commander of the 106th Division.

Early in the morning of October 1, Kijima gathered all the soldiers of the 123rd Wing together, the military flag fluttered, the bayonets were dazzling, and thousands of soldiers were lined up in a neat formation, with straight backpacks, shiny steel helmets, bulging ammunition packs, and many Japanese soldiers holding Type 38 rifles taller than their height, all of whom were fully armed. There is a group of devils who are different, they do not wear steel helmets on their heads, but are tied with white cloths, which are the well-organized siege troops of the Japanese army.

Standing on a well-made platform, waving his saber and under the good view of the Japanese military reporters, Kijima Kao Kao posed in all kinds of powerful poses to give a speech to the attacking troops who were about to enter the battle.

Naturally, the content of the precept was not to mention that "severely punish the tyrannical support and show the courage of the armed forces...", and the rhetoric was gorgeous and the tone of the voice was fierce enough to be included in the textbooks of Japanese militaristic schools. Kijima Kao spoke for 2 hours, and if someone hadn't reminded him, he would have talked until dark, and at that time, the day's attack would have ended...

Reminded him of an ordinary military cao, this old man since he joined the battle in the trailer river in July, because of malnutrition, his physical condition has been poor, at the moment he is carrying more than 30 kilograms of load, listening to the constant nonsense of their co-captain, coupled with the sun exposure, finally can't hold it anymore, and fell headlong into the ground.

On October 2, the first soldier of the 123rd Wing was born. (Doesn't seem to be counted as killed?) Junrokuro Matsuura also fought today, his four wings, the 113th Wing and the 145th Wing, were finished, and only the 123rd Wing and the 147th Wing still had strong combat effectiveness, and they were all going to be thrown into battle today, and he set up the division headquarters on the right side of the division's heavy artillery position not far from the forward position.

On the right side of the 123rd Wing is the 3rd Wing of the 27th Division Regimental Zhina Garrison Army (owed to the 2nd Infantry Brigade), with a mountain artillery brigade, attacking Chashan in Zhoujia Village, east of Mopan Mountain, of which the 1st Brigade is responsible for the attack, and the 3rd Brigade is on alert from the squadron ** in the direction of Miaozhi Town.

The 2nd Wing of the 27th Division served as the reserve for the entire main offensive force.

At the same time that the 106th and 27th Divisions launched the main attack on Mopan Mountain, the Japanese 101st Division and the 9th Division each sent one to carry out a feint attack on Miaozhi Town and Jiujiang together with the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet.

The Japanese infantry was ready to go, but it was not the infantry who exchanged fire first, but the artillery.

From 6 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese concentrated more than 250 artillery pieces of various types and carried out intensive bombardment of obstacles, fortifications and artillery positions in various parts of Mopan Mountain, and shells poured like raindrops towards the ** position.

The artillery of the squadron was not to be outdone, and in addition to the dozens of artillery pieces of the 26th Army, Xu Ming also included an artillery regiment of the Jiang Defense Army and the 10th Heavy Artillery Regiment under the jurisdiction of Peng Mengji, in addition to the 12 150 heavy guns that participated in the battle yesterday, the 6 guns that had just arrived today also joined the battle.

The two sides went back and forth and began to bombard.

The 10th Squadron Artillery Regiment uses the German-made FH-18 heavy howitzer, because it is an extra-long barrel of 32 times the caliber and a caliber of 15 cm, commonly known as 32 times the 15 grenades. The gun had an effective range of more than 15 kilometers and was so accurate that the Germans nicknamed it "Evergreen". In the artillery battle on October 2, the 32 times 15 grenades shone brightly, taking advantage of the advantages of range and accuracy, and frequently fired artillery at a distance of 12 kilometers from the Japanese army, effectively suppressing the Japanese heavy artillery, and the shells accurately hit the Japanese heavy artillery position in Huashan like eyes. Although the Japanese Type 89 heavy howitzer was not bad in terms of power, its effective range was insufficient, and after the hit, the Japanese gunners did not dare to enter the gun position, and the artillery positions were forced to change positions continuously. After one day, in addition to the loss of 6 heavy guns caused by the breakdown, the squadron of 7 Type 89 15 cm heavy howitzers was destroyed, and 17 105 mm Type 38 cannons and Type 91 howitzers were lost, while the squadron, due to the construction of strong artillery bunkers, only lost 3 guns in one day's artillery battle.

While the artillery was fighting each other, the air forces of the two sides also engaged in a fierce struggle, and the American-made Hawker 35 Hawker 75 Soviet-made I-152 and I-16, and the Japanese 96 ship-attack Type 97 fighter planes met in a narrow way and became a group. In the skies over Jiujiang, the Chinese and Japanese air forces launched the largest air battle since the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army was in an advantageous position in technology, but its tactics were relatively backward, and the Japanese army's air combat theory at the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had not yet been systematic, including bomber sorties without fighter cover, fighter planes often attacked alone, and there were no mature tactics.

Of course, the first tactics in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War were also very ordinary, but after Chennault served as the chief adviser of the ** Air Force, he used a targeted tactic, using three planes to form a combat group, covering each other and cooperating with each other. This tactic was denounced by the old guard of the US Air Force when Chennault proposed it in 1929, but in the Chinese battlefield, the nascent Chinese Air Force was able to practice this tactic because of its short establishment and the mentality of worshiping the West.

Japanese planes often attack with a single plane by virtue of their skillful movements, while the Chinese air force is in groups of two, in groups of three, with long wingmen cooperating with each other to fight more and less in some areas.

Many soldiers risked their lives to get out of their bunkers and watch this air battle, and even the army commanders Xu Ming, division commanders Xie Jinyuan and Hu Lian, all looked for a telescope one by one, and looked at the air without blinking.

In an hour, there were 28 cheers and only 15 sighs from the position.

The defeat of the Japanese artillery and aviation units did not extinguish the Japanese army's will to fight, and the 106th Division and the 27th Division under the command of Junrokuro Matsuura, plus the subordinate engineering and artillery units, a total of more than 15,000 people, launched a strong attack on the Mopan Mountain of the squadron with overwhelming momentum.

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