On August 30, 1937, the calm on the shield position was stirred up by the first sound of cannons. The Japanese army began to launch a large-scale offensive on the Hudong defense line, and the 19th Division and the Yoshino Division were divided into three routes to the east ditch; A fierce offensive began at Jinqiao and the 'shield' positions in the center of the two places. The Yoshino Division was tasked with a frontal attack on the National Youth League, with hundreds of Japanese guns firing at the shield positions at the same time, and advancing to the first line of defense under the cover of aircraft and tanks.

Zhao Meng's 3rd Battalion and Zheng Xiaohu's 4th Battalion are both the main combat battalions of the National Youth League, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, plus the independent column has just gotten rid of Chen Zeen's shadow and is eager to prove its existence value.

The smell of scorched earth in the trenches was still permeating, and the soldiers were all watching the devils in front of them, another attack of the devils was pouring in, and the number of troops and tanks far exceeded the number of the previous attacks.

Su Li looked at Xiao Dongtian in the telescope and said, "Old Xiao, the devil is really playing this time, dozens of tanks have been dispatched." ”

Xiao Dongtian looked at the map for dozens of sides, threw the horsewhip in his hand on the map, and said: "It seems that there is nothing to study in this battle, one word 'guard'." Inform the artillery to give us maximum fire assistance. ”

"Good!" Su Li nodded, picked up the phone and said, "Artillery company, I am the No. 1 defense line, we need the greatest firepower assistance." ”

At this time, after Zhang Liang's artilleryman connected to the phone, he began to adjust the firing Zhu Yuan to reload and fire, only to hear the sharp sound of the shell shooting out of the barrel, and as the arc of the shell cut down the front of the No. 1 defense line, there was a roar.

"Energetic!" Shen Shaofan also saw the spectacular scene in the telescope and smiled.

The devils did not seem to be frightened off by the artillery attack, and the troops still advanced to the No. 1 defense line under the cover of tanks, and the guns on the position continued to be fired, and the independent column even used the Makqin heavy machine guns of the original 12th Division. There is no high ground in the shield position, there is no danger, what is needed is a barrier composed of trenches and firepower, the gunfire has never stopped on the position, and the chambers of the mortars are red, so they have to be put off to avoid exploding.

"Shaofan." Blocking Tianfang walked in and said: "The devils are about to attack the No. 1 line of defense, is it a hand-to-hand fight with them." ”

Shen Shaofan said: "No! The troops on the 1st line of defense were ordered to immediately withdraw to the 2nd line of defense, and the engineer company was ordered to lay mines. ”

"Yes!"

As soon as all the troops of the 1st line of defense received the order, they immediately and orderly retreated towards the 2nd line of defense, while the engineer company was nervously laying mines. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 2nd Line of Defense were also ready for battle, plus separate columns; 3 battalions; The firepower on the second line of defense of the 4th battalion suddenly doubled. The devil thought that the troops in front were vulnerable, so after breaking through the No. 1 defense line, he did not stop and immediately attacked the No. 2 defense line of the National Youth League. This is a good thing, most of the tanks in Shaofan's arms have hit mines and exploded, and they can't move, and those that can move are also smoking, plus the fire of the No. 2 position is fierce, and the devils are blinded and can't rush at once. What about withdrawal? At this time, it was also not possible for the artillery to block the back road of the devils, and several attempts to storm the position ended in heavy casualties.

Shen Shaofan looked at the regiment headquarters with a telescope and said, "Order all the headquarters of the No. 1 defense line to rush up and destroy all the devils and recapture the No. 1 defense line." ”

"Yes!"

Su Li took the lead and rushed forward with a Mauser rifle with a bayonet on it.3 The fighters of the 4th battalion and the separate column rushed towards the devils like a pack of hungry wolves on the steppe. The little devil had never seen such a desperate army since he landed on the land of China, and he was defeated again and again, and retreated to his own position. The devils had just occupied the No. 1 line of defense for twenty minutes, and before they arrived, they were crushed by the National Youth League, so that those arrogant devils could see what Chinese soldiers were.

Kitaoka Yoshino was angry and shouted angrily, and when he saw that it was already evening, he ordered his troops to stop the attack and wait until early tomorrow morning to attack again.

The National Youth Regiment played its greatest role in the morning battle by building fortifications at night, and Shaofan and the officers discussed tomorrow's plan to resist the enemy and today's combat experience overnight.

Su Li said: "The devil's use of tanks to open the way is too lethal, and many of our brothers died on the devil's tank in the morning." ”

Sun Zhiyu said: "Yes! With artillery alone, the coverage is not so wide, and it is difficult to wipe out all the tanks of the devils at the front line. ”

Shen Shaofan thought for a while and said: "I've already thought about us, we need to use antler piles and anti-tank trenches at the front line, but it seems that time does not allow it!" ”

Li Hairong, the commander of the engineer company, said: "We can look at the tanks that are laying mines at the front to stop the devils." ”

"No way!" Duan Louyun said: "The devil can sweep the minefield as long as it is covered by firepower once." ”

Sun Zhiyu said on the side: "I have a way, but in this way, we will be very risky." ”

"What's the solution?" Shen Shaofan asked.

Sun Zhiyu said: "We gave up the No. 1 line of defense, widened and deepened the main trench there overnight, spread a tarpaulin on it, and became a trap to hunt and kill tanks, and then poured gasoline into it, and when the tanks of the devils were transferred into the deep trenches, we ignited the gasoline in the deep trenches." It's just that once we adopt this method, it will be equivalent to actively abandoning the No. 1 line of defense, and the buffer zone between the No. 1 line and the No. 2 line will only be about twenty meters, so that the No. 2 position will have a lot of defensive pressure. ”

"It's a good idea to change the original trenches to anti-tank trenches. ”

Shen Shaofan said: "Okay! That's it. The officers and men of the regiment were ordered to hurry up the time to convert the No. 1 line of defense into an anti-tank trench. 1；2； 3;4 battalions and separate columns; Teach the column to defend the second line of defense together. ”

"Yes!"

Sleepless nights, all the officers and men of the National Youth League joined in the operation of digging anti-tank trenches, and overnight, the trenches on the No. 1 defensive line were cut off, isolated, deepened and widened, and then military tarpaulins were poured into the deep trenches, thousands of barrels of gasoline were poured on them, and then a layer of tarpaulin was covered with rare earths, which looked like a flat ground.

Before the sky could light up, Kitaoka Yoshino issued an attack on the shield position. This time, Kitaoka Yoshino used all his tanks and two-thirds of his troops, as well as planes and all artillery, and he was determined to take the shield position. However, Kitaoka Yoshino still did not learn the lesson of yesterday, he should know that the unit against him was not the unit he imagined, and unlike any squadron that had dealt with him, he was facing a national youth regiment with high fighting spirit and equipped with moral equipment - the Youth Independent Regiment of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army.

The Yoshino Division launched an attack on the shield position with a overwhelming momentum, and the fifty tanks lined up behind thousands of devils, who followed the tanks and deliberately prepared to fire, the shells exploded on the shield position, and the planes roared above them. Shen Shaofan didn't dare to take it lightly when he saw this kind of big battle, and hurriedly went to the No. 2 defense line to supervise the command, for fear that there would be a little mistake.

Zheng Xiaohu said: "Regiment leader, if the devil's tank is too slow, it will find our trap." ”

"Slow! Then we'll let them hurry. Artillery was ordered to open fire on the front line for four-base full-coverage firing. Sue "Shen Shaofan said.

"Yes!"

"Artillery—release!"

The sound of explosions on the front was in order, and the devils suddenly became chaotic, and the tanks drove at full speed to avoid the artillery bombardment, and the first few hours of artillery were fired, and both sides were using maximum firepower to suppress each other.

Shen Shaofan nervously watched as the Japanese tanks slowly approached their traps, and the only thing he could do at this time was to pray.

At this time, the Japanese tanks rushed towards the position of the National Youth League as if they were crazy, completely ignoring whether the front was safe or not, probably thinking that the front was safe and there would be no danger. But when they stormed the CYB No. 1 defensive line, the Japanese knew that they had underestimated the army in China, and all the tanks fell into the anti-tank trenches that the CYB had dug up in one night almost at the same time. The mortar artillery of the National Youth League fired dozens of incendiary bombs into the anti-tank trench, and suddenly the deep trench was like a purgatory, and the raging fire engulfed the devils' tank fire wall more than ten meters high, and the black smoke released by the fire spread out throughout the battlefield, and many devils could not withstand the choking smoke and retreated one after another.

Kitaoka Yoshino looked at the choking smoke in the telescope, and I don't know what happened? At this time, a young man ran over and said: "Your Excellency, an anti-tank trench suddenly appeared on the position of the Chinese army, all our tanks were not in a hurry, and all of our tanks were trapped in it, and there was a fire in the anti-tank trench, and the thick black smoke made our army suffer heavy casualties, and the troops were retreating. ”

"What?" Kitaoka Yoshino couldn't believe his ears, he froze, and in just two days, he destroyed all the tanks in his troops, but it was so completely ruined, and the pride of the moment scrapped all the tanks of his Yoshino division on the wilderness of eastern Hudong. Kitaoka Yoshino did not believe that the opponent in front of him could be so powerful, so that he himself thought that the army was not the army of the Shina people, and he could not accept that the best troops of his Great Japanese Empire had been defeated twice in a row by the Shina army, which had always been regarded as the sick man of East Asia, and he said angrily: "Order the infantry to continue to advance and not to retreat." ”

"Hey!"

After receiving the order, the devils on the battlefield once again organized their troops and started the next round of attacks, without the cover of tanks, only blindly charged, and this time the devils rushed up with a completely desperate mentality. Fighting a war does require a fearless spirit, but fearlessness does not mean to die, that is, Kitaoka Yoshino's arrogance sent more than 900 subordinates to hell, the infantry had no cover of tanks, so they had to quickly rush towards the second defense line of the National Youth League, and when they reached the edge of the anti-tank trench that was still spraying flames, the troops did not know how to cross the edge of the deep trench, and they were used as targets by the MG42 heavy machine gun. At this time, Kitaoka Yoshino realized that he was not facing a simple Shina army, and he gave the order to retreat.

Moreover, the battle at the Jinqiao position was also quite fierce, and the Japanese attacked three positions almost simultaneously, and the original heavy artillery fire network was too late for the enemy on their own positions, let alone other positions. The 31st Division of the Liu Feng Division fought extremely the position, and every time the devil charged, he needed to fight a white-edged battle to repel the devil, and every white-knuckle battle lost hundreds of brothers, the 9th of the 45th Army; The 43rd Division also suffered heavy casualties in yesterday's and today's battles, the 45th Division had already lost half of its losses, and several Japanese attacks on the positions of the 45th Division were repelled only with the fire support of the 412th Artillery Brigade. The battle situation in the Donggou position has also entered a critical white-hot situation, and the two sides are fighting for every inch of land, often fighting with bayonets. In order to alleviate the defensive pressure near Jinqiao and Donggou, Zhang Zhizhong also put the 131st Division of the Reserve Army into battle, and even his own garrison troops also went to the battlefield, but the battle situation became more and more anxious, and sometimes even the forward positions of the Japanese army were connected with the positions of the squadron, and there were often trench battles.

Zhang Zhizhongwan did not expect that the battle of the Hudong defense line would be so fierce and brutal at the beginning, and in just two days, the eight divisions on the Hudong defense line were all engaged in the battle, but the battle situation was still unclear, and 'anxiety' became the word that the troops of the Hudong defense line reported the battle situation the most. Then why did the Japanese 19th Division and Yoshino Division attack the Hudong defense line so recklessly about casualties? This has a lot to do with which Japanese troops occupied Nanjing first at that time, Shanghai is one of the gateways to southern China, and which army can occupy Shanghai first, which means that the army can drive straight into Nanjing, the capital of China, and become the first hero of the Japanese Empire. In the battle situation in Shanghai, the battle situation in the north and south has fallen into an awkward confrontation, and I don't know when I will be able to break free from this endless confrontation, and the east of Shanghai is completely different, the Hudong defense line laid out is actually the last lock to knock on the gate of Shanghai, Kono Sabei of the 19th Division understands, and Kitaoka Yoshino of the Yoshino Division also understands that they do not want to fight with the south; The two northern fronts entered the same battle against each other, and neither could they succeed in fighting, nor did they retreat, so although they knocked out their front teeth in the first two days, they still wanted to break through the Hudong defense line with the help of superior forces.