The Japanese army was overconfident in the suppressive power of its concealed artillery positions on key areas along the Yalu River, so it did not arrange observation posts and other facilities for corrective firing. www.biquge.info their shelling along the coast was carried out entirely according to the pre-determined mapping target, so they were very accurate at first, and then they became scattered and blind because they lost more and more positions.

The collapse of the 17th Division was too great a loss for the Japanese army, not only did they lose the forward position to contain the Ming army crossing the river, but also made these pre-arranged concealed artillery lose more than eighty percent of their role. The artillery, which was originally insufficient in numbers, lost its suppressive power, which made the resistance in front of the Ming army suddenly reduce a lot.

Therefore, the artillery of the Japanese army, which was hidden in the shadows, could only helplessly fire at the preset positions near the Yalu River in accordance with the original coordinate parameters at this time, squandering the ample shell reserves in their hands. They hoped that they could destroy the Ming army's pontoon bridges or arsenals and other facilities by luck like a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, so as to block the Ming army's river crossing.

However, these shells had already fallen far behind the actual defense line of the Ming army, and at this time it sounded a little far away, and there was no sound except for the distant vague sound of artillery around the night. Some of the Ming soldiers had already fallen asleep from the day's work, while others had woken up and eaten the dry rations they had carried.

The Ming soldiers who stood guard yawned against foxholes or improvised trenches, after all, they had been fighting the enemy all day in positions where Japanese shells often fell, and they were inevitably a little tired and sleepy at this time. It's just that the discipline of the new army requires them to persevere, and their daily training also gives these soldiers the ability to persevere.

On the opposite side of these Ming positions, in the endless darkness, the Japanese soldiers were preparing for their attack behind the woods and behind the slopes of the mounds. The soldiers attached long bayonets to their rifles, and the commanders in the middle drew their slightly curved katanas from their waists.

"Stealth Rush! Be careful not to alarm the opposing sentinels! Please work together, everyone must kill at least ten Ming dogs and die...... Please......" Every soldier Cao lowered his voice and instructed the Japanese soldiers around him, these elite infantry from the 8th Division were also full of fierce light at this time, ready to fight to the death with the opponents of the Ming Empire.

"Action!" As an order was given layer by layer, groups of Japanese soldiers began to walk through the woods, over the low mounds, and began to slowly move towards the small town of Weiyuan occupied by the Ming army. They walked cautiously, as if they were afraid of arousing some sound that would arouse the vigilance of the Ming army.

As time passed, the distance between the soldiers on both sides was shortened little by little, and many Japanese troops were only a few hundred meters away from the Ming army on the opposite side, and the Ming soldiers on the opposite side obviously did not find these ill-intentioned approachers in the dark night.

It seems that these Ming troops seemed to be carried away by the victory of the day, and they did not vigilantly set up sentry posts around them, and they were also not prepared for a sudden Japanese assault. The thought flashed through his mind, and one of the Japanese squadron leaders who led his men to attack smirked triumphantly.

Before the smugness in his mind had drifted away, there was a loud sound in the distance that seemed as if the sky had been exploded, and the fire spread out, alarming almost all the people around at once—although it was only a treacherous thunder that exploded when someone stepped on it, but in this relatively quiet environment, the sudden explosion was absolutely deafening and distinct.

"Boom!" With this explosion, the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun and shouting for his companions immediately resounded in the position of the Ming army. The commander of the Japanese army also knew that his troops had stepped on the thunder used by the other side for warning and had exposed themselves, so he also shouted loudly, urging his soldiers to run forward, rush into the defense line of the Ming army as soon as possible, and start hand-to-hand combat.

"Rush! Take back Weiyuan and kill the Bright Dog! Loyal to the Japanese Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! The Japanese officer standing in the crowd slashed the command knife in his hand forward, pointed the tip of the knife in the direction of the Ming army's position, and shouted loudly to the soldiers around him. His voice encouraged the frenzied Japanese infantry, who ran forward with their weapons in hand.

At this time, when the Japanese soldiers were running forward frantically, hoping to cross the last few hundred meters at the fastest speed, and the Ming army was in a melee at this time, on the position of the Ming army, after a short command, two flares suddenly rose, and the miserable white artificial light source suddenly illuminated the surrounding sky.

These two flares, which were burning and slowly descending because of the parachute being towed, instantly exposed the Japanese soldiers charging the entire position to the open flat ground. And the sky suddenly brightened so that these Japanese soldiers suddenly couldn't open their eyes.

It takes time for the human eye to adapt to the light in the dark, but the Ming army that fired the flare saved the precious process of adapting to the light because of the password reminder in advance - when the Japanese army was still squinting their eyes to block the light, the soldiers of the Ming army had already pulled the trigger of the weapon in their hands against the blurred black shadow.

"Suddenly! Dodo! "Phew! Bang! "The sound of machine guns and submachine guns firing in a completely different series of fires was mixed with the slightly sharper and louder crisp sound of bolt rifles. The tracer bullets of the Ming army flew everywhere on the battlefield, accompanied by flares in the sky, like fireworks and colorful.

But these deadly beauties were a nightmare for the Japanese attacking troops, who had just become accustomed to the glow of the flares when they were sieveed by the oncoming bullets. The density of the Ming army's firepower was much higher than that of the Japanese army, and it was just the Weiyuan 2 machine gun that fired fiercely on both wings, like a lawnmower, swept down the Japanese crowd one by one.

"Attack! Offensive! Those who retreat are put to death! The Japanese officer stood in the crowd, watching his twitching subordinates yelling angrily, but his voice was so weak and weak under the fierce strafing sound of the Ming army.

The Japanese soldiers fell one after another, but as the main division of the Japanese army, the soldiers of the 8th Division immediately showed their fierce and brave fighting qualities. Although the loss was very sudden for a while, they quickly recovered from the shock and began to spread out their formation and launched a frantic assault on the Ming position.

After all, the distance between the two sides was only two or three hundred meters, and at this time, some Japanese soldiers lay on the ground and began to shoot to cover their companions, while some Japanese soldiers formed a group, shouting and trying to approach the Ming army's position, hoping to open a breakthrough as soon as possible and disintegrate the Ming army's defense system.

The elite soldiers of the Japanese army were very systematically trained, so their combat quality was also high, they were proficient in shooting and quite accurate, and soon caused casualties to the defenders of the Ming Empire in front of them. And those charging Japanese troops have also shortened the distance between the two sides to a very dangerous degree under the cover of friendly forces, and even locally the two sides have begun to use grenades to attack each other.

"Ahh A Japanese soldier bumped a grenade with a striking fuse on his steel helmet, and then threw it out of his palm, and the grenade crossed a beautiful line in the sky and rolled into a ballade pit where the Ming army was stationed, and then the grenade exploded, and the three Ming soldiers inside were blown into a blur of flesh and blood.

Immediately after that, the frontal firepower of the Japanese troops in this vicinity suddenly decreased, and several Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death got up from the ground, wanting to take the opportunity to occupy the foxhole where there were only three corpses of the Ming army left. But when they got up, behind the ruins in the distance, a machine gun aimed at it spewed out a dazzling tongue of fire.

"Suddenly! Dodo! The tracer bullet drew a long straight line and hit the surroundings of these Japanese soldiers, and then these Japanese soldiers who got up and tried to attack the Ming army's position fell to the ground with their skin and flesh open, and they no longer had the ability to move.

The Japanese soldiers immediately organized more fire on the collapsed building, and the dense bullets hit the house, which was already half a wall, and carved rows of small craters in the wall. Some bullets also flew into the window on the wall, from which the bullets of the Ming army flew just now.

However, the bullets that flew into the window did not hit the Ming soldiers, they hit the hard metal, and after ejecting a spark, they did not know where they fell. Because the machine gun that fired behind this window was a coaxial machine gun mounted on the heavy turret of tank No. 1.

Seeing that their bullets hit the steel plate, these Japanese soldiers immediately realized that something was wrong, and sure enough, before these Japanese soldiers who fired back could react, the 20 mm cannon on the opposite tank turret spat out a larger and longer tongue of fire.

The 20-millimeter cannon shells strafed and hit the ground and splashed sand and rocks, causing the Japanese soldiers nearby to pay a heavy price in an instant. Instead of being able to break through to the Ming army's defensive positions, they left nearly a hundred fragmented corpses here.

Because of the darkness of the night, only the sound of gunfire and muffled shouts could be heard, so the Japanese could not judge how much damage they had suffered. This is the main reason why the attacking Japanese forces have not yet collapsed, because they have lost at least 300 brave soldiers in this short exchange of fire alone. (To be continued.) )