Itamoto Masaemon in a straight military uniform can be said to be ambitious at the moment, but unlike most generals of the Yue Army, Itamoto Masaemon was unusually relaxed before the war, and the double artillery fire compound advance suppression tactics he used before hit the Chinese defenders hard, if it weren't for waiting for the troops of the Eighth Division to enter the attack and launch position, he would have launched a fierce attack in advance, maybe now he has stood in Zhang Xuewu's headquarters? Can a [***] person be considered a soldier? They were an army of sand, and at the moment Masaemon Itamoto was humming the fisherman's boat song and carefully trimming his already unusually smooth beard with a pair of small scissors.

Prior to this, he had already communicated with the commander of the 10th Division, Hirose Shousuke, coordinated the attack time of the two sides, and he also took the initiative to promise to support the attack of the 10th Division with the field heavy artillery wing assigned to him, Itamoto Masaemon had his own little abacus, in order to show his cooperation, he proposed to let the field heavy artillery wing support the 10th Division with not particularly sufficient shells, but what he never expected was that Hirose Shousuke would see his kindness as a disguised humiliation.

Everyone knows that the field artillery wing of the 10th Division has long been blown up into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron by Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Air Force, compared to the air raid suffered by the 10th Division, it is almost powerless to fight, and the 14th Division was destroyed by the opponent's battlefield troops.

Compared with the Sixth Division's Itamoto Masaemon, the division commander of the Eighth Division, Nishi Yoshiichi, was very cautious, the terrain of the Monk Crown Peak was easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the first few waves of onslaught worked, when the Monk Crown Peak could be captured in one fell swoop, if once a tug-of-war was formed, then the battle situation may be beyond his expectations.

Zhang Xuewu reviewed his operational deployment for the last time, saying that the 6th Division and the 16th Division of the army were both the culprits of the Nanjing tragedy, and this could be said to be a narrow road for the enemy to gather under the city of Chengde.

However, speaking from the heart, Zhang Xuewu knows very well that he is not very pig-headed many times, if the army is a group of pigs, then why do we have to fight for 14 years? If it weren't for the Americans' atomic bomb to end the war ahead of schedule, it is likely that it would have been fought for 10 or even 20 years, and Zhang Xuewu would not have the slightest doubt that we would be able to achieve the final victory, but I am afraid that the price of victory would have been even more high, to the point that the Chinese nation could not bear it.

Recalling his self-confidence and rapid rise after the war, Zhang Xuewu believes that he is indeed proud of the world, that is, he has suffered the atomic bomb, a real weapon of mass destruction that was made by human beings but did not dare to use it easily! In this regard, I can proudly claim to the whole world that we have suffered atomic bombs, and the other is authentic originals, one at least two, without discounts!

At three o'clock in the morning, the dark winter night and the bone-piercing cold wind made people hardly feel the existence of their bodies, and there were half-mile-long flues in the large bunkers in the trenches, so the Chinese soldiers dared to light a bunch of bonfires inside, taking turns to roast the fire, and more importantly, roasting their own weapons, under the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, if the rifle was exposed to the severe cold of nearly 30 degrees below zero for a long time, it might not even be able to pull the bolt.

Bending over, carrying bayonets and rifles, overcoats and fur hats, the soldiers of the Yue army all wore wind and snow goggles, which had just been dispensed with new equipment, and the soldiers of the Yue army formed a dense straggler formation and cautiously struggled forward in the snow forty centimeters deep.

The bayonet on the rifle will affect the accuracy of the rifle shooting, and this problem is very clear to me, and it can be said that I intended to break through the Chinese defenders' positions in one go from the beginning, so the army was on the cold and shining bayonets at the beginning of the attack.

However, at this moment, the cold light of the bayonet also made the soldiers of the Yue army particularly worried, the shining bayonet is extremely easy to find on a moonlit and snowy night, if it is discovered by the Chinese defenders in advance, then the remaining 100 meters will become the death journey of the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division Infantry!

When the front advanced to a distance of 300 meters, the mortar squads of the Yue army began to look for positions to assume the mortars, and when the front advanced to a distance of 100 meters, the light and heavy machine gunners of the Yue army began to set up their guns and prepare for fire support at any time, and when the infantry advanced to a place less than 50 meters away from the Chinese defenders' positions, the soldiers of the Yue army began to lie down slowly in rows, and their guns were on alert.

With several red signal flares in the air, the first roaring artillery sound came from the direction of Seng Guanfeng, followed by the rumbling of artillery in the direction of Seng Guanfeng, and the flashes of explosions continued one after another, a field heavy artillery brigade of the army generally had 36 field heavy guns, and an artillery brigade with 12 75 mountain field artillery, but the additional field artillery brigade assigned to the Kwantung Army was a temporary establishment, and it only had 24 150 mm field heavy howitzers, so it could strengthen its 12 75 mm field guns before the war.

However, these twenty-four field guns were all assigned to the Sixth Division by Okamura Ningji, because Okamura Ningji thought that if the Sixth Division succeeded in attacking, it would enter the Chengde city area and engage in street battles with Zhong [***], and the role of Taisho 14 Type 75 field artillery was quite obvious, so Nishi Yoshiichi almost did not give Okamura Ningji any good face.

Okamura Ninji is not as optimistic as the staff officers below, the so-called breakthrough of the city wall after the middle [***] team is to break up and surrender, for an army that is besieged and dares to attack frequently, the word surrender seems too ridiculous.

However, it is clear that Itamoto Masaemon failed to understand Okamura Ninji's intention of arrangement, and these two artillery field artillery brigades were used by Itamoto Masaemon to suppress firepower in front of the battle, and the accuracy of the 38-type 150 mm field heavy howitzer with a caliber of 12 times the body tube is extremely limited, and if it is expected to carry out accurate fire cover suppression, I am afraid that its casualties will far exceed that of the enemy.

When the two field artillery brigades of the Yue Army respectively carried out an extremely short artillery bombardment on the Majiagou Side Ridge, the soldiers of the Yue Army on the left and right flanks of the Majiagou Side Ridge immediately swarmed up, and under the light of the miserable white flares, they shouted loudly to form an offensive formation that could hardly distinguish the flow of people.

For a while, there were surging soldiers everywhere in front of the Chinese defenders' positions, and Zhao Xinyu decisively gave the order to detonate!

Boom! Boom! Boom! A series of muffled and violent explosions made Zhang Xuewu, who was in the command headquarters, almost fall to the ground without standing firmly? Zhang Xuewu looked at the direction of the side ridge of Majiagou in surprise, such a violent explosion was the ammunition depot hit? Impossible, the ammunition depot will not explode so frequently, is it the fortress artillery of the army? It seems that a fortress gun with a caliber of more than three hundred mm can also achieve such an explosive effect! But didn't you hear the loud firing and the sharp and piercing sound of the fortress cannon shells breaking through the air? What the hell is going on?

"Hey! Majiagou side ridge position? I'm Zhang Xuewu, let Zhao Xinyu answer the phone immediately! Zhang Xuewu didn't pay attention to it, and for a while, his hands trembled slightly!