The Ogishu soldiers were making various preparations for the next day's attack, and Xu Ming was not idle, and the first thing he did after the Japanese army stopped attacking was to visit the wounded.

Although the wounded have lost their combat effectiveness, they must not be regarded as a burden, and the handling and care of the wounded has a bearing on the morale of the troops. Not only did dozens of doctors and assistants in the division all participate, but Bengbu City also urgently mobilized a large number of medical personnel to participate in the rescue of the wounded.

Xu Ming personally cared for gauze for a wounded, an ordinary machine gunner, and in the fierce battle, a bullet pierced his body, and he still did not stop shooting until he lost too much blood and collapsed.

Xu Ming did this, it was by no means a show, he was full of admiration for every soldier who was injured or sacrificed for the country, not to mention his brothers in the 107th Division, the soldiers were grateful to have such a division commander who could take care of them in many ways, and Xu Ming was proud to have such a lovely and respectable soldier.

This was followed by a funeral ceremony for the soldiers, and over the course of three days, more than 500 soldiers were killed. The Chinese pay attention to entering the soil for safety, unlike the devil who burned down the matter, Xu Ming managed to transport back the bodies of all the sacrificed soldiers, and each person covered himself with a national flag, and held a simple but solemn ceremony for them at the end.

“… I can't wait to be one of them, to sleep with them under the bright green hills, and now, everyone stands. Xu Ming stood in front of the altar built by the sappers and said solemnly.

"One Bow"

"Two Bows"

……

The ceremony was attended not only by military personnel, but also by local celebrities and many journalists, one American journalist wrote: "What a sacred and solemn ceremony, here I realized that China will never surrender, they have the most valuable and brave soldiers, and there is no doubt that they will shed their last drop of blood for the independence and freedom of their country......"

When we bury the fallen soldiers, the Japanese army will obviously do the same, because the cultures of China and Japan are originally of the same roots, and to be precise, Japan is deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Since the Japanese army had this plan, Xu Ming would never let them get their way, and he arranged a night battle unit to prevent the Japanese army from stealing back the corpses.

Sure enough, at 4 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army quietly organized a corpse collection brigade, but as a result, the corpses were not received, and dozens of corpses were added.

Ogisu was furious, and the behavior of the Shina army in front of him was too bad, and he didn't take the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Army in his eyes at all. Early the next morning, he personally issued a combat instruction to the attacking Japanese army: "All units of the Mirror Division will work hard to annihilate the Mingguang defenders!" ”

Dozens of artillery shelled the positions of the squadron, and the general attack of the Japanese army the next day began.

More than 30 Japanese fighters flew in from Nanjing, circled over the defenders' positions, and when they saw that the target was exposed, they were strafed and bombed, causing heavy casualties. The battalion commander had to order smoke to be set off on the position, but this was a double-edged sword, and the firing range of his own troops would also be greatly affected.

Countless Japanese battle groups, supported by close-range artillery, ignored the blazing fire of the squadron, and frantically advanced. Some of the first attackers did not wear steel helmets, but wrapped a white cloth around their heads, which were death squads organized by the Japanese army.

In the valley defense line of the squadron, the Japanese army invested armored troops, and behind more than 20 tanks, followed by hundreds of infantry, they rushed towards the ** position.

In the southwest, the Japanese army not only used artillery units, but also released a large number of "red bullets" and "green bullets". The "red bullet" is asphyxiating gas, and the "green bullet" is tear gas, mixed with various colored chimneys, and the defenders' position is already a colorful smoke, and a rat knows that a catastrophe is coming, and before he can run a few steps from the smoke, he foams at the mouth and falls to the ground.

Some of the mountains were in flames, which were incendiary* bombs dropped by the Japanese army, and in the binoculars of the Ogisu soldiers, the air was distorted, and it seemed that the burning was right in front of them.

The Japanese generals and colonels were very satisfied, and a wing commander complimented: "The Chinese army on the opposite side does not know whether they are alive or dead, and dares to challenge the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Army, and now is the time for them to completely recognize the strength of the Imperial Army!" ”

Ogizhou Libing is still a little reserved, and the disobedience of these days has made him restrain a lot, but he still said confidently: "I admit that the opponent is quite tenacious, but this tenacity is just used to set off the martial might of the imperial army, and the biggest mistake of the people of China is to choose us as their opponents!" ”

The commander of the division said so, how could he dare to speak out without opening his eyes, and when he landed, the headquarters of the 13th Division was shrouded in a sea of sycophants.

As if in order to confirm the point of view of the Ogisu Libing, the position of the squadron seems to have fallen silent, and there are only a few individual fire points in the skirmish trenches for blocking and shooting, although this kind of shooting is quite accurate, and the Japanese army is constantly being knocked down, but the Miyashita Brigade, which put in 3 infantry squadrons at one time, did not hesitate and ordered the troops to speed up the assault.

If it was the last moment of the old year, there was silence, then now is the beginning of the new year, and at the moment when the Japanese army approached, the gunfire of the defenders rang out as densely as firecrackers for the New Year. In the fire, the heavy machine guns of the squadron formed a crossfire, enveloping the Japanese troops in five waves in the net of fire; Straight fire, the light machine gun hit the barrel hot, and the Japanese had no room to dodge; Point fire, the infantry named the remnants of the enemy one by one, and one devil after another was killed in front of the defenders' fortifications.

The mortars were mighty, and the mortars had already measured all kinds of data in the dead corners where the guns could not be shot, and the Japanese could not find a safe place in the entire forward position.

A squadron of the first squadron of the bunker violently spewed tongues of fire, at least 3 machine guns were firing in all directions, for such a conspicuous and arrogant target, the leader of the Japanese mountain artillery squadron under the order, more than 4 kilograms of projectiles flew out, 500 meters away, the accuracy of the mountain artillery is obviously not a problem.

"Yeh Xi," Miyashita Yuxi and the leader of the mountain artillery squadron both breathed a sigh of relief, 3 machine guns, at least one squad of soldiers in it, should all be wiped out, the imperial army that was slaughtered like chickens and ducks just now can't die in vain.

But as soon as Miyashita's words fell, the sound of machine guns rang out again, there were still three, and there was no less than one, and he still proudly made a unique "da-da" sound of two or four styles, which seemed to satirize Miyashita's ignorance.

**The setting standard of the heavy machine gun position was set by the German consultant according to the strength of the Japanese artillery, which could withstand the close fire of the 75 mm mountain artillery commonly used by the Japanese army.

The first attack of the palace was a crushing failure, and the three infantry squads, engineer and artillery squads of the first attack were almost completely wiped out, and only a few dozen remnants fled back with missing arms and legs.

A small hill next to Koyokoyama, less than 50 meters high, was occupied by the Japanese army and supported the troops attacking Takekoko.

This small hill is so unnoticeable that a squadron leader of the Japanese army is not in his eyes at all, he has captured many hills, which is not higher than this, more dangerous, and the mountain in front of him is not a mountain at all, only a dirt slope.

One charge will solve the problem.

But when more than 100 devils rushed to this small hill, they first stepped on a circle of mines preset by the defenders, and the first few devil soldiers or part of the devils flew in the air, and then hand * grenades and mortar * shells hit like raindrops, and the devils still had to hold on, and the heavy machine guns on the left and right sides of the positions had formed mutual firepower, and only one of the Japanese troops in a whole squadron fled back!

A charge can indeed solve the problem, but it is the Japanese army that can solve it. This position is a death trap set by the defenders for the Japanese devils.

The attack on the heights of Mashan was carried out by a squadron of Japanese troops, who attacked with poison gas.

In the past, there were difficulties in the attack, but when the poison gas was fired, even the most tenacious Chinese soldiers could not withstand it. Although this violated the international convention, the Japanese army, which greatly benefited from it, was happy to use this weapon, which was prohibited by the Hague Convention, even though they had signed their dog name to the convention.

Rats can't live, is the China man more tenacious than the vitality of mice?

Humans can never have the vitality of mice, but rats can never have human intelligence!

Long before the Japanese attack, Xu Ming speculated that the Japanese might have used poison gas. He vaguely remembered that in the Battle of Nanchang in history, the Japanese army used more than 40,000 poison gas bombs at one time on the banks of the Xiushui River, causing heavy losses to the squadron and breaking through the defense line painstakingly operated by Luo Zhuoying in one fell swoop. In the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army's poison gas was also used in large quantities, and as long as the Japanese army did not attack well, it was very likely to use such despicable means.

However, the use of poison gas is very different from smoke * bombs, it requires extremely harsh meteorological conditions, especially wind, which must be guaranteed to be between 2.5 m/s and 3.5 m/s, the wind is too small for the poison gas to drift, and the wind is too strong for the poison gas to be easily blown away.

This is very easy to do, to be able to have this condition of the defender position, Xu Ming has already arranged the gas mask in advance. More fortunately, the Japanese army has not yet used erosive "yellow bullets".

The Japanese soldiers dressed like divers were advancing one by one, and the squadron leader who was about to arrive had imagined that the defenders in the fortifications were struggling in pain with their faces covered and throats clutched, and all they had to do was simply stab them all to death with bayonets.

By the way, the squadron leader remembered the commander's Chunchun teachings, after occupying the position, the evidence must be destroyed, the Zhina soldiers must not leave a single living mouth, and all the poison gas bombs that have not exploded must be found.

It's a bit difficult to find these special bombs everywhere, and it seems to be much more difficult than killing poisoned defenders who have no ability to resist.

But he was too worried, he didn't need to think about it, the dead were not troubled.

On the position, all rifle bullets had been loaded, the machine gunner's trigger had been pulled, and the mortar fins had been placed in the barrel. They were greeted by a massacre with machine guns as means, rifles as supplements, mortars and grenades as decorations.

"What, there is Japanese poison gas in Mashan, what are the casualties of our army, and is the position held?" When Xu Ming heard that the Japanese army used poison gas, he was also a little unstable. Although his troops had been trained separately for this purpose, and the pre-war arrangements were very detailed, the environment on the battlefield could not be compared with what it was on paper after all.

"Report to the division, the devils are all wiped out, and our army has suffered minor casualties!" The correspondent's report was joyful and powerful.

"Okay." Xu Ming trembled with excitement, this was definitely not just a victory in a battle!

"Get Mark reporters and them, forget it, I'll go myself." As soon as Xu Ming finished speaking, he changed his mind again, and there was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him to exert political influence on the devil. He wants to expand this and publicize it in the world media, which will add to Japan's already bad reputation.

Mingguang and Taierzhuang, one south and one north, became the focus of the Sino-Japanese war, and here, in addition to China's own reporters, there were four or five foreign reporters from Britain, France, and the United States.

"General Xu Ming, is the situation true?" Associated Press reporter Mark Brown. I don't believe it, Japan is a signatory to the Hague International Treaty, how could it risk the world to do such a thing!

"Everyone, if you are not afraid of danger, you can come with me to the site of Mashan Heights to inspect the site."

"Of course we are going, but General Xu Ming, you mean that you are not afraid of danger and go with us." Chicago News. George said respectfully.

"No, as a commander, it is right for me to go to the front to inspect, if you go, you are really not afraid of danger." Xu Ming also has great respect for these daring journalists.