Nakamura also quickly made troop adjustments, and all the machine gun companies on the front-line positions quickly concentrated on the main attack of the Qing army, and the squadron must not be allowed to gain a firm foothold in the first-line positions

However, his opponent also reacted quickly, Feng Zicai keenly calculated the interval of the Japanese artillery, and issued an order to retreat In the short time when the Japanese artillery cooled down the artillery, all the remaining soldiers of the 12th Regiment withdrew

Looking at the withered queue, Feng Zicai's face was so gloomy that everyone who withdrew was staggering, but they still tried to hold their chests up in front of their division commander

Chen Shanyuan, who had just come down from the line of fire, grabbed Feng Zicai with a Mauser rifle at this time, knelt on the ground and said: "Division commander, give me another battalion, I want to snatch back the corpses of those brothers, and I can't let them spoil the Japanese."

Feng Zicai's eyes flashed, he looked at the red-eyed soldiers around him, and suddenly nodded: "Okay, I'll give you three more battalions"

This time, even Chen Shanyuan was stunned, but he came to his senses in a blink of an eye, and he knelt on the ground and gave Feng Zicai a knock, turned around and limped away

Xu Bangdao, the commander of the Fourth Brigade next to him, couldn't help frowning and said: "Division commander, we can't be rash, the Japanese obviously guessed that we would attack them at night, so they arranged in advance, didn't we send sheep into the tiger's mouth?" ”

The 12th Regiment is the main regiment of his fourth brigade, and there is now less than half a regiment left in one charge, and it will be all gone if it rushes again

"Damn, Lao Tzu still needs you to teach me to fight?" Feng Zicai scolded angrily

But before he could speak, Song Fangzhong, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, already smiled and said: "Don't worry, I'll go and arrange to ensure that the Japanese devils will suffer a big loss this time."

Half an hour later, Chen Shanyuan sent a signal corpsman back to report that he had not only recovered all the corpses of the soldiers who had died in battle, but also occupied the front-line positions of the Japanese army

There was an uproar in the command headquarters, saying that Chen Shanyuan was really a lucky general, and some of the main regiments of the Fourth Brigade of Chen Zan were really amazing

However, strangely hearing the news, Feng Zicai and Song Fangzhong's faces became even more ugly

Xu Bangdao looked at the two of them and couldn't help but say, "Division Commander, Brigade Commander Song, what kind of dumb riddle are you fighting?" Tell us what's going on? ”

Song Fangzhong sighed secretly and then told the story that the division commander saw that the Japanese army had lined up all the machine guns in front, so he thought of a plan and sent Chen Shanyuan to lead a small number of soldiers to act as a decoy, and secretly asked him to mobilize a mortar team to secretly ambush behind him, once the Japanese army launched an attack on Chen Shanyuan, it would expose its firepower point, and he could use a mortar with a firing block and a large firing angle to give the Japanese a hard blow and knock out their machine guns

Although the Qing army occupied the front-line positions of the Japanese army, the goal of consuming the enemy's strength was not achieved, and they suffered heavy casualties

It was hard to imagine that the Japanese had such resourcefulness, and Feng Zicai felt a little tricky at this time

Since the Sino-British Burma War, the whole world has studied the mortars of the Qing Dynasty, and in the battle, they will consider how much damage the mortars possessed by the Qing army will bring to themselves, so the Japanese command has long seen that the second charge is completely a decoy, not only did the machine gun not even fire a shot, but even the infantry did not reveal their position

Nakamura also ordered his troops to rush to build a few more lines behind the second line of defense, and now all he had to do was to save as many troops as possible while stalling for time, even if it was a temporary retreat

As long as it is dawn, no matter how powerful the surprise attack is, he is not afraid that the accurate shooting of the infantry will deal a big blow to the Qing army

"Division commander, little Japan is dragging out time, if we don't attack them, we won't come down, we rush up, just get to the place where the grenade is enough, and open fire, these brutes" Chen Shanyuan said angrily

Feng Zi was just about to speak, when Feng Xianghua rushed in with his guard company

"Subordinates, see the general," everyone knelt down on one knee together

Feng Xianghua didn't speak, looked coldly at the main attack position of Mount Fuji, turned to Feng Zicai and said, "Father, why haven't you broken through the expected forward position after fighting for so long?" If you can't do it with the 2nd Division, I'm going to have to change people."

Feng Zicai saw that his son had trained Lao Tzu, and he felt embarrassed for a while, but he wanted to save some face for Lao Tzu in front of such an officer, otherwise how would he lead troops in the future

"General, the Japanese avoided clashes with our army and arranged a machine gun company in the forward position, and the brothers rushed several times and retreated, and their machine gun company was very flexible in its arrangement, and the mortars could not find the target, so they delayed," Feng Zicai explained

"I don't want to listen to your explanation, give you the last 1 hour, if you can't attack it, I'll be replaced," Feng Xianghua turned around and left

"Division commander, your son has such a big temper, I think he was still a general under me when he recovered Xinjiang......" Xu Bangdao said casually

"My son made a first-class meritorious service in the Sino-French War, and later went to Germany to study and got the highest A, look at our son, it's still like our old Feng hahahaha When others come back, they will be a division commander, and our son will at least be a group army general when he comes back" Feng Zicai saw his son, his face was full of happiness

"Division commander, don't be beautiful, your son's military order will have to be replaced if it can't be fought within an hour, you said that if you let the boys of the 15th Division fight down, then where will we put the signboard of the 2nd Division in the future?" Xu Bangdao said angrily

"Phew, I'm going to let that blind man take advantage of him? Lao Tzu's second division has never sat on a cold bench since it was formed, so let Cai Ning, the commander of the artillery battalion, come over to me," Feng Zicai said in high spirits

"Yes," one of the soldiers turned to leave

After a while, Cai Ning appeared in the headquarters

"Commander, you're looking for me"

"Well, isn't it a long time since you kid fought, and you can't fight, why don't you shoot where there is no one?" Feng Zicai scolded

"Division commander, the little devil's machine gun position is often shifted, and the target has just been locked on," Cai Ning said aggrievedly

"Don't give Lao Tzu nonsense, give you another chance, and in 15 minutes, I will bombard the second-line position of the devils and suppress their machine gun fire to Lao Tzu" Feng Zicai said non-negotiable

"Yes," Cai Ning turned to leave

The clock just pointed to 2 o'clock in the morning, and the artillery positions of the Qing Dynasty were once again fired in unison, except for the large-caliber heavy artillery, all the artillery was used more imposing than just now, and the Japanese army's second-line defensive positions were blown up in the mud in an instant

"Rush, ......"

This time it was Xu Bangdao's fourth brigade that was responsible for the charge, and all three regiments rushed to the enemy's second-line position......