With the interlude of the fire of the heavy howitzers of the Yue Army, the artillery fire of the Chinese defenders of Niushou Mountain began to pour violently towards the Yue Army attacking the forward position, and the 16th Field Artillery Wing of the Yue Army was also shooting frantically at Niushou Mountain, trying to suppress the artillery fire of the defenders.

In the wanton flying shrapnel, the soldiers of the Yue army kept falling to the ground, and some of the soldiers of the Yue army, who had had one of their arms blown off, were looking for their broken arms in a daze, and in the face of the blazing fire net of the Chinese defenders, the soldiers of the Yue army were driven by the officers in vain to pounce on the circular position at the foot of the fortress of Niushou Mountain.

Under the scorching artillery fire of the two armies, on the outer line of Niushou Mountain, the 33rd Infantry Wing of the Chinese Army, Fukuda Shinji, commanded the remnants of the three infantry brigades to launch a fierce attack regardless of some of them, and the 33rd Infantry Wing commanded by Fukuda Shinji was the main wing of the 30th Infantry Brigade and the main force of the 16th Division, so it had five infantry brigades, and the 38th Wing, which was in the same infantry brigade, had only four infantry brigades. Following the 33rd Infantry Wing, the four infantry battalions of the 38th Infantry Wing also divided into four attack waves and began to slowly enter the position, ready to stand by and begin to attack.

It can be said that from Sasaki, the brigade commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade, to Major General Nobunji Fukuda of the 33rd Infantry Wing, the army is really red-eyed at this moment and has begun to play with his life! This kind of wave attack formation is generally suitable for use under the condition that the battlefield capacity is very limited, and Niushoushan is precisely such an environment, so the tactics of multi-wave assault and field artillery fire attack are still quite useful.

When the army broke through to within 50 meters of the outer position, the 100-millimeter howitzer group on Jiangjun Mountain had stopped its fire support in order to prevent accidental damage, and instead began to bombard the headquarters of the 11th Division of the Yue Army, which was attacking the fortress of Jiangjun Mountain.

The 75-millimeter field artillery group on Niushou Mountain began to use the lowest scale of low elevation angle to start shelling to the preset area of the front line, and in the dense artillery fire, the soldiers of the army continued to leap forward and lie down, or charge quickly, and the officers and men knew very well that as long as they rushed into the defense line of the middle [***], their artillery would lose its effect, and they wanted to minimize the casualties? Then there must be no fear of casualties.

For the honor of the 33rd Infantry Wing, Shinji Fukuda brandished his family heirloom katana and shouted to meet the dense fire of the Chinese defenders' positions, and in the scattering of tracer bullets fired by the defenders' positions, from time to time officers and soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, and the 7.92 mm caliber 51 four-fifths of the heavy machine gun bullets fired by the Maxine heavy machine gun were all broken bones and tendons, and flesh and blood were flying.

A military officer who was shot in the knee hugged the knee part that was hit and only a trace of it was connected, howling and rolling on the ground, and the only thing left in the hit part was white bone stubble and broken rotten flesh, as well as flowing blood, and soon because of the massive blood loss, the military officer convulsed and fell to the ground.

In the face of the fierce bullet rain of the defenders, they can still insist on counterattacking, and they can also move the Type 92 heavy machine gun forward continuously, implement fire support, and cooperate with grenadiers to effectively form a small-scale assault and counterattack against the Chinese defenders at the front.

The quality of the Chinese army is indeed commendable, using a small range of firepower to counterattack and cooperate with the continuous assault of individual soldiers, the army finally broke into the position of the Chinese defenders on the outer line of Niushou Mountain as they wished, and the continuous artillery bombardment of the two armies has also caused heavy casualties to the first battalion of the ninth regiment of the fifth brigade of the defenders, but Luo Tianming, the commander of the first battalion, promptly put into the battalion reserve and the third company to fight back.

In a typical Sidro trench, the soldiers armed with Type 38 rifles and bright bayonets encountered an unprecedented crisis, because the Sidro trench was a special trench invented by German infantry Colonel Sidro B. Beckon during the Battle of the Marne on the Western Front during World War I.

This kind of trench often has a turn, and when passing through shallow places, you need to crawl on your knees, because the front section of the trench is a gentle slope that gradually forms, and when you are not careful, the troops moving quickly along the trench will be completely exposed, and many sections of the trench are often only allowed to pass by one person.

More importantly, the Sidro trenches need to be extremely familiar with the terrain, and even the defenders need to practice and cooperate frequently, so the Sidro trenches are simply a nightmare for the army holding a Type 38 rifle and a bayonet, but for the Chinese defenders who use a lot of automatic weapons, the Sidro trench is the grave of the army, and the submachine gun and grenade can be described as the second treasure of the Sidro trench.

Especially in many narrow corners, it is even more difficult to open, the swarming officers and soldiers along the trenches to prepare for a rapid invasion of the gradual realization of the strangeness and difference of the Chinese defenders' trenches, Fukuda Shinji saw his soldiers as if they had been slaughtered one by one fell in a pool of blood, and suddenly became angry, even holding a katana high and jumping on the trench, commanding the soldiers to throw grenades, taking advantage of the smoke of the explosion to climb over the trench and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese defenders.

Fukuda Shinji's arrogant behavior attracted the attention of the two Czech ZB-26 light machine gun crews at the same time, through the flash of the shell explosion, wearing a tweed military uniform, wearing brown cowhide boots, and carrying a southern pistol with white gloves Fukuda Shinji was undoubtedly exposed, and suddenly a few short shots knocked Fukuda Shinji into dust, and the slightly stunned Fukuda Shinji did not wait for the transfer, and the two Czech ZB-26 light machine gun crews fired several long point shots in a row.

Fukuda Shinji's body suddenly sprayed a blood mist, Fukuda Shinji rolled and fell into the trench, and the two staff officers of the army on the side pounced on the wing captain one after another, but at this moment, Fukuda Shinji had already been breathless, and Fukuda Shinji, who was beaten into a hornet's nest in his chest, became the first wing captain to die after the general attack on Nanjing, if Fukuda Shinji was killed by a gun, maybe the military department would not have promoted him to a major general, because the promotion of the deceased adjutant had strict evaluation criteria.

Just like Major General Tokuta Sakai of the 11th Infantry Brigade who died in battle, he was declared according to the death of a major general, and not all officers who died in battle could be promoted, especially for the promotion of lieutenants to majors, and the promotion of colonels to generals was even more strict, one was the issue of pensions, and the other was that the death of a general would have a huge impact on the morale of the front-line combat troops.

With the death of Shinji Fukuda, the Yue army that attacked the outer line position of the Chinese defenders on Niushou Mountain was gradually compressed and annihilated, a large number of corpses of the Yue army were piled up in the trenches, and the Chinese soldiers who counterattacked in front of the battle desperately advanced against the bullets of the Yue army, and the death squad of the first battalion of the ninth regiment of the defenders carried the improved P-18D submachine gun of the Baotou Military Factory in the West Delo trench to carry out a counterattack on the Yue army's breakthrough troops.

Blood gushing! Consumed in vain in the flash of life in the flames of war! Just as the 1st Battalion of the 5th Brigade and 9th Regiment of the Chinese defenders was about to wipe out all the Yue troops who had invaded the trenches, another wave of the Yue Army infantry of the 38th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army who had attacked later broke into the trenches.

The Japanese army, which had received the support of the fresh army, used the corpses to pile up bunkers and fortifications in the trenches, and used the gaps between the corpses to cover for repeated assaults, and for a time the battle situation entered a stalemate.

Sun Guiming called the phone directly to the command post of the Ninth Regiment and yelled into the microphone: "Cheng Cannon!" Lao Tzu gave you two hours to fully restore the outer position to Lao Tzu, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless in military law. ”

Cheng Zhiwei, commander of the Fifth Brigade and the Ninth Regiment, hesitated on the other end of the phone and said: "Brigade seat, I think that the position will be fully restored, it is better to let the army invade and occupy a part of the position, so that the enemy's artillery fire will not be able to suppress our army, while our army's artillery fire can carry out artillery bombardment of the enemy, so that the effective consumption of the army's vital forces can be faster and more in line with the principle of giving the army maximum damage to the army put forward by the corps commander." ”

Sun Guiming was slightly stunned, when the officers of the Rehe Legion mentioned the corps commander, they actually said that it was Zhang Xuewu, but on the first day of the battle, he was rushed into his position by the army? Isn't this a fucking light?

Sun Guiming glared and roared: "Cheng Zhiwei, Lao Tzu can warn you, if the position is lost, you have to come to see it, if you let Lao Tzu lose the outer position of Niushou Mountain on the first day, Lao Tzu will want your head." ”

Cheng Zhiwei took a deep breath and said: "Please rest assured, the lowly position will definitely take advantage of the favorable situation to quickly consume a large number of the army's vital forces." ”

The 11th Division of the Yue Army, which attacked Jiangjun Mountain, also calmly repelled the frantic attack of the Yue Army with the assistance of the 1st and 2nd Teaching Regiments, as well as the 5th Brigade of the Provisional Reading Force.

Under the guidance of Ye Zhao's headquarters of the 160th Division, the Qixiashan Fortress of Gui Yongqing's headquarters was responsible for the defense, and withstood the onslaught of Taiwan's Shigeto detachment and the 13th division of the Zhou Libu Division, while the 18th Division of the 18th Division, Nakajima Sadao, and the 114th Division, Sumatsu Shigeru, began to attack the positions of Yu Jishi's headquarters of the 74th Army in front of the south of the city under the cover of artillery fire and chariots, and the 51st and 57th divisions of the 74th Army headquarters took the front-line positions of Gujiaying, Yangjiazhuang, Dashishan, and Liuzhuang.

The 51st Division and the 57th Division formed horns to cover each other, and used the artillery groups at the division and army levels to continuously cover the area with dense firepower.

(To be continued)