April 8th, dawn.

With the rumbling of artillery, the Japanese launched the first large-scale attack on the main position of the squadron.

The 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 104th Wing of the Japanese Army, which was responsible for the attack on the Koyokoyama position, was led by Miyashita Yuxi, a fanatical Japanese officer, who led his troops to hold a pre-battle sortie ceremony less than 2 kilometers from the Chinese forward position, brandishing his saber to lecture the attacking soldiers.

“…… Mingguang is an anti-Japanese tumor, and my third brigade is the sharpest scalpel to cut off this tumor......"

In front of Xiaohengshan, the Japanese army invested more than 30 artillery pieces of various types in the first attack, and the entire mountain was shrouded in artillery fire.

In front of a cannon, the Japanese gunner pulled the rope, and the soldiers next to him quickly covered their ears, and the projectile weighing more than 40 kilograms flew to the ** position with a sharp sound, and the huge sound produced was unbearable even for the Japanese artillery who fired.

The ammunition transport vehicle is busy loading and unloading, this is a special artillery cart for loading shells, can load 50 cannon shells or 140 grenades at a time, pulled by 6 military horses, and the shells temporarily transported from the Three Realms are continuously transported.

The observation troops loudly reported various data on the correction of ammunition, and in order to improve the observation effect, the Japanese army raised two observation balloons 5 kilometers away from the position of the squadron.

Around the artillery position, there were anti-aircraft artillery units of the Japanese army, whose muzzles had turned to the sky, ready to respond to the air attack of the squadron aircraft at any time.

After half an hour of artillery fire, an infantry squadron under the palace made a tentative assault on the defenders' positions.

The Japanese army successfully passed through the blockade line composed of the first trench, mines and barbed wire of the defenders, and the Japanese artillery had already destroyed the mines and barbed wire, and the trench was also erected by the Japanese sappers as a path.

But the Japanese on the second blockade line were in trouble, and here was already within the range of the rifles. The top marksmen composed of excellent Chinese soldiers accurately blocked the exposed devils, and one after another the Japanese soldiers were shot in front of the barbed wire.

With a loud bang, two devils stepped on a mine, and were blown over, one was not dead, his face was covered with blood, and he ran towards the hill of the squadron's position without knowing the direction, and he didn't run a few steps, only to hear a scream, and fell into a deep trench.

The purpose of the tentative attack was to shoot out the enemy's firepower, but the squadron on the opposite side was obviously very calm, using rifles, light machine guns and mortars, but not heavy machine guns.

The Chinese have learned to war, and half a year ago, even China's most elite German mechanics had no experience in dodging shells, but now many local troops can come up with a reasonable response.

The first Japanese attack was easily repulsed, leaving nothing but a large body behind.

Miyashita knew that it would not be possible to lose blood, and in the second attack, the Japanese army used 2 infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron and an engineer squadron, which was no longer a simple tentative attack, this was a strong attack, and the Japanese army had to put huge pressure on the defenders.

The heavy machine guns of the squadron began to roar, and the mortars also fired fiercely at the heavy machine gun positions of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army's heavy machine guns, curved guns and infantry guns suppressed the squadron, and also released 150 smoke canisters.

But **'s heavy machine guns never seem to stop, and every 4 minutes, the heavy machine guns change positions, so that the Devil's infantry support artillery has no time to measure and lock. There were also places where there was a constant burst of fire, but after a single shell, the fire did not seem to be affected.

Miyashita Yuxi frowned, he knew what was going on, the ** squadron had already adopted this tactic in the "Mei Heights", what was shining was a luminous device, and from a distance, it was like the fire emitted by a heavy machine gun, this device was very small, only the size of a cigarette case, but it was very strong, and the shells were not broken.

Braving heavy machine gun fire to charge, Miyashita could not make up his mind. Eventually, he contacted the divisional heavy artillery, and once again began to bombard the defenders' positions.

The Japanese division headquarters did not expect that the consumption of shells was so large, the Japanese army prepared 90 shells for each howitzer, and 50 cannons, but after half a day, less than a third of all the shells remained, fortunately a temporary military station was set up in the Three Realms, otherwise, the shells were transported from Quanjiao, which is more than 100 kilometers away, and I don't know what would happen.

Koyokoyama was once again enveloped in artillery fire, and the Japanese artillery no longer carried out precision strikes, but covered them with artillery fire. The trenches on the hills, the official business, the barbed wire, the trenches were covered by puffs of smoke.

Xu Ming was in the headquarters of Dahengshan, and the sound of explosions from the front line was clearly visible here, and just now a shell hit the periphery of the headquarters, and the shock wave shook the teacup on the table.

I knew that the devil's artillery was powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful, he always thought that the Japanese army's artillery technology should be good, but the power may not be great. It turned out that he was wrong, the Japanese Army was criticized for its armored forces in later generations, but Japan attached great importance to artillery, whether it was range or power, they had completely caught up with the developed countries of the West, and even had their own advantages.

The only drawback is the number of artillery, but it is also significantly exceeded compared to China. In Mingguang, the Japanese army's mountain artillery brigade had 12 75-mm caliber 38-type mountain guns, and the field heavy artillery wing had 48 artillery pieces of various types, including 12 38-type 120-mm howitzers, plus four 150-mm heavy howitzers and 8 cannons, and the total number of Japanese artillery pieces reached more than 70. And Xu Ming took out 12 75-mm mountain guns, and so far he has not fired a single shot, and he does not dare to fight against the Japanese army at all.

The well-arranged mine arrays and barbed wire fences had been bombarded to a pulp, even the trenches had been flattened in many places, and a staff officer of the division headquarters was seriously wounded by shrapnel while conveying orders from the position.

"Send a telegram to the theater command and the military commission at the same time: The Japanese army has about 5,000 people, more than 100 artillery pieces of various types, and under the cover of more than 20 aircraft, they have launched a fierce attack on our main positions in Hengshan and Magang since dawn.

This was Xu Ming's first request for help, and soon, the war zone sent a call back, asking Xu Ming to continue to defend strictly, and promised that reinforcements would arrive in 3 days.

The call from the Military Commission was not clear whether it was good or bad, and agreed to send the air force to the war, but reminded Xu Ming that it was impossible to carry out ground support.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Air Force undertook too many tasks that could not be undertaken, resulting in rapid attrition and a situation where there was no organic use. After Chennault took over the command of the Air Force, he explicitly ordered all air force units not to attack on the ground in order to reduce their own losses.

The Air Force can only do this, whether it is Sun Lianzhong of Taierzhuang or Xu Ming of Mingguang, the Air Force must maintain their determination to stick to it on the one hand, and on the other hand, it must not give them unrealistic expectations.

Another large-scale offensive of the Japanese army began, and under the cover of smoke * shells, the Japanese troops carried out a surprise attack in front of the position of the squadron ** in small teams or detachments. Obstacles such as barbed wire and minefields have been completely swept away, and the devil is holding a bright bayonet and breaking through to the second blockade line of **.

A small group of Japanese troops had the audacity to try to insert between the two main positions of Xiaohengshan and Dahengshan, where the communication trenches between the main positions of the defenders were densely packed, which was the lifeline of the squadron's reinforcements and the transfer of materials for the wounded.

The second blockade was broken through, and the Japanese, with the help of sappers and artillery, approached the foot of the mountain.

But when I got closer to the foot of the mountain, I found that many places were cut into 90-degree overhangs, and it was impossible to climb at all.

In some places, there were no hanging walls, but instead there were trenches more than one zhang deep and one zhang wide, and the Japanese soldiers could only hear a sound when they fell.

The sappers laid the bridge here, but the defenders did not agree, and the machine gunners of the squadron beat the barrels of their guns red, and all those who approached the trench were shot.

The squadron did not attack with direct fire, but ordered all the heavy machine guns to be used for flank shooting, which increased the difficulty of the Japanese army's heavy machine gun position and greatly enhanced the lethality. On one side of the day trench,

The corpses of devils are as dense as tombstones in a cemetery.

A large nest of devils hid under a hanging wall, which was a dead end of the defenders' firepower, but before they could be happy, a grenade* bomb smashed into the hill like eyes.

How do they know that there are no dead ends on the position, and wherever the guns can't be shot, there are corresponding grenade * trenches to ensure that all the devils can enjoy the shrapnel feast carefully prepared by the squadron, and this group of devils will be full in a moment.

The roundabout squad encountered cross-fire from the two main positions, and after a rain of bullets, more than 50 Japanese soldiers became real "devils".

Dusk has arrived, and a red sunset has slipped towards the sky at a speed that can be seen with the naked eye, as if trying to escape this hell on earth.

On the position, the smoke gradually dissipated, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the position could not be cleaned up and were scattered everywhere; A commander, pestle with a saber, the part above the shoulder has been shaved off.

There is only one flagpole left in a plaster flag, and there seem to be a few strands of cloth floating on the flagpole, and it is no longer possible to distinguish what the cloth once recorded, and the owner of the flagpole, it should be said that half of the owner, is lying around the flagpole.

A Japanese soldier with wide eyes and hands clutching a photograph of his new wife's. Before coming to China, the recruiter told him that in a month, no more than three months, he would be the victor and return to the country with honor, but now, it has been nine months. He, along with his countrymen, and countless Japanese soldiers who had come to China to carry out savage killings, were destined to stink on the land.

The Japanese army did not use the usual twilight offensive, their casualties were too great, so big that the hearts of the Ogizhou soldiers were trembling, this is Mingguang, or Lushun 203 Heights! In just one day's general attack, the Japanese lost more than 1,000 soldiers, and all the officers who were very arrogant or very optimistic before the war bowed their heads and accepted the lecture of their division commander.

"I admit that the divisions, especially the intelligence services, did not expect that the positions of the Chinese army would be so strong." As soon as he finished speaking, the intelligence staff officer Shigegen Takeyama blushed even more and his neck was thick, and he stood upright, and said "Haiyi" to admit the accusation of the division commander.

"The firepower points of the people of China are very hidden, all the fortifications can cooperate and echo each other, and the soldiers of China are not inferior to the bravery of the emperor."

"For the next day's attack, I want all the mountain artillery to advance to the first line of infantry for support; Armored forces carried out assaults on the valleys of the Chinese people; All heavy artillery units were fired to the nearest distance for bombardment. ”

"The 2nd Brigade, which is attacking in the southwest, is equipped with 350 'red bullets', 200 'green bullets', and 200 chimneys."

"Tomorrow evening, I hope to see the Empire's Rising Sun Flag fluttering high in the Mei Highlands (Xiaohengshan)!"

"Hay!" All the Japanese officers bowed their heads and let out wild shouts.