"Boom, boom, boom" was another burst of dense shell explosions sounding in the ears, and the little devils who had just escaped the first round of artillery fire and survived. Before reacting from the shock, it was once again covered by dense artillery fire.

After a few rounds of artillery fire, those clever little devils had already dropped the grenadiers in their hands and fled from the position that had fallen into a sea of fire. Only a small number of soldiers, with grenadiers, withdrew from the range of mortar fire. As for the rest of the devil soldiers, they followed the grenadiers in their hands and became victims of the intensive artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

"How could Baga be like this, where did the Eighth Route Army get so much artillery fire, fast. The heavy artillery brigade, immediately returning fire, must destroy the enemy's artillery positions. "I saw that the Eighth Route Army actually used such intensive artillery fire to return fire. Wing Captain Yuichiro Nagano Osa, in addition to surprise or surprise. Facing the captain of the heavy artillery brigade who was also in shock, he ordered loudly.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander. I immediately ordered the heavy artillery brigade to return fire, and to destroy the enemy's artillery positions and give them a taste of the might of our heavy artillery brigade. The captain of the brigade, Ichiro Shomura, who reacted from the shock, quickly replied, and rushed towards his heavy artillery position in a puff of smoke.

But he didn't know that it would take at least a few minutes for his heavy artillery group to get the order to open fire, to turn the heavy cannon to the final launch. And in just a few minutes, enough time for the fighters to fire five rounds of shells to retreat in one stage. After five rounds of artillery fire, the artillerymen did not hesitate and immediately took up their mortars and retreated to the rear of the position. Only a smoke-filled and empty artillery position was left for the heavy artillery of the Japanese army to carry out the shelling

"Woo woo" was in less than a minute when the fighters could not withdraw from the artillery position. There was a piercing whistling sound in the sky. A heavy artillery shell, with a loud whistling sound, smashed directly into the artillery position just now.

A deafening explosion sounded, and the soldiers lying a few hundred meters behind the artillery position felt the ground tremble slightly. And with the explosion of the shells, the artillery position, which had just been leveled, immediately appeared a huge crater under the tremendous power of the shell explosion.

"Oh my god, this 150mm howitzer is really powerful. No wonder the division commander repeatedly demanded that these heavy guns and all the shells must be kept as much as possible. After appreciating the power of the explosion of the first shell of the heavy artillery of the Yue Army, Sun Xingbang, the commander lying on the position, couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

At this time, it was indeed another scene on the military position. Seeing that the shells of his heavy artillery brigade hit the target for the first time, almost every little devil began to cheer. Even Yuichiro Nagano, the captain of the army, couldn't help but admire.

"Yo Sai Shaomura-kun is really an excellent artillery commander. Such a powerful howitzer turned out to be in his hands and reached the first hit. Yo Xi, order the heavy artillery brigade to immediately carry out an artillery fire cover on the enemy's artillery position, and be sure to completely destroy the enemy's artillery. Yuichiro Nagano smiled and nodded, ordering.

Immediately, under the order of the wing commander, the heavy artillery brigade of the Yue army fired five rounds of artillery fire before stopping. A full 60 heavy artillery shells all fell on the cramped artillery positions. When the smoke cleared, the artillery position, which had just been leveled, was like a wounded patient after the baptism of the army's heavy artillery, and its whole body was full of one-meter-deep craters

"Yo Xi, the shelling effect is very good. Now the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army are completely in ruins. Chief of Staff, what about the losses of our army in the shelling just now. Through the binoculars, seeing the artillery positions full of craters, Wing Commander Yuichiro Noichiro Osa nodded with satisfaction and asked the chief of staff beside him.

"Hi, Your Excellency Wing Commander, the situation is very bad, the troop losses are very serious," replied the Chief of Staff, bowing his head.

"Nani, I want a specific casualty figure, now we have less than 1,800 heroic Imperial soldiers left, and we can't afford to lose any more." Yuichiro Nagano asked with a frown.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander. In the shelling just now, a total of 84 Imperial soldiers were shattered, and 24 were seriously wounded and incapacitated. In addition, now only 15 of all the grenadiers in the wing can continue to be used, and the remaining grenades can only average ten rounds per grenadier" Chief of Staff, with his head down, did not dare to raise his head.

"The cunning Eighth Route Army of the Eight Grid Tooth Road. Fortunately, our heavy artillery group had already destroyed the enemy's artillery positions during the shelling just now. That is, in the next battle, we will not be hit by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army. The co-captain quickly reacted from his anger. The thought of the fierce artillery counterattack just now was a burst of excitement, and the confidence I had regained once again.

However, he didn't know that it was in the counterattack just now. His heavy artillery brigade carried out a series of indiscriminate bombardments on the empty artillery positions, and did not inflict any damage on the artillery of the 1st Division. It's just that two of the heavy artillery shells missed by mistake and caused dozens of casualties to the first division.

And just after the shelling, the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding. There was no next move, and he began to remain silent. However, the fighters, who had just escaped the enemy's shelling, did not give up this favorable time. Immediately after the artillery bombardment, he crawled out of the bunkers and trenches where he was hiding and began to dig the trenches.

As the width of the trenches increased, so did the number of fighters who joined the trenches. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, and after thousands of people desperately dug up, the entire trench was finally dug before dawn. A mountain cannon and field artillery were pushed by the artillerymen through a wide communication trench into a trench less than 50 meters away from the defensive position of the Japanese army. Mortars were placed directly at the forefront of the entire position. Groups of fighters who served as sorties, led by their respective commanders, held rifles with bayonets already loaded, and lay in ambush in the trenches.

In short, at this moment, all the soldiers of the entire 1st Division were quietly standing in their combat positions, waiting for the attack order from Commander Sun Xingbang.

"Commander, the sky is about to dawn, and in two hours, the army will be supported by aircraft. We have to get involved with these little devils before the planes arrive, so that their planes can't play any role. Standing beside Sun Xingbang, Wang Degui, who served as the temporary chief of staff, looked at the brighter and brighter sky, and reminded Sun Xingbang, who was silent beside him.

"Order all the artillery on the front to carry out a ten-minute artillery bombardment of the enemy's defensive positions. Ten minutes later, all the troops began to attack, and after occupying the current position, hold on to the spot," Sun Xingbang ordered loudly to the messenger beside him. Immediately, the order was transmitted to the ears of more than a dozen commanders by telephone.

At the moment of "boom, boom, boom", the Gongcun battlefield, which had just been silent for less than four hours, immediately sounded the earth-shattering sound of artillery bombardment. Countless mortars and grenadiers, with Sun Xingbang's order, immediately began to pour shells into the positions of the Yue army not far away. In particular, the 12 mountain and field guns of the artillery battalion faced the positions of the Japanese army that were close at hand. The barrels of each cannon were almost completely leveled under the blows of the various gunners. At this point, the use of bayonets on cannons was the right thing to do.

In the face of the position of the Japanese army, which was only a stone's throw away, almost every shell fired would set off a rain of blood on the position of the Japanese army. Under the heavy artillery fire of the soldiers, those little devils who stuck to their fortifications. Except for waiting for death, almost all of the remaining soldiers knelt in their trenches, begging for Amaterasu's protection.

This was because the attack was only to occupy part of the positions of the Japanese army. Therefore, Sun Xingbang, as the commander, did not waste the few shells in his hand, and only stopped shelling for less than ten minutes. This was followed by the sound of strafing from dozens of heavy machine guns moving to the forefront of the position.

Under the suppression of the soldiers' dense bullet rain, those who survived from the artillery fire just now. In the face of the dense rain of bullets, he looked at the heavy machine gun that had been blown into a pile of parts around him, and his face once again showed a look of fear. Although the roar of his commander was constantly heard in his ears, not many soldiers dared to stick out their heads and shoot.

The dense strafing sound of heavy machine guns and the screams of soldiers after being shot constantly hit the little confidence that the army had left. And the wing captain Yuichiro Nagano Osa, who returned to the headquarters, saw the scene of the telescope, although he was also extremely anxious, but he was really helpless.

Because in the shelling just now, their own grenadiers were almost completely lost. What he didn't expect was that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side still had so much artillery fire to see their fortifications, and under the intensive artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, they fell into a sea of fire, and they were really powerless.

"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, let the heavy artillery brigade fight back, otherwise our position will be self-defeating without the Eighth Route Army attacking." Watching the Eighth Route Army's heavy machine guns under the dense rain of bullets, the imperial soldiers in the fortifications were constantly shot and fell to the ground in the absence of fire suppression. The chief of staff anxiously suggested.

"Chief of Staff Baga, didn't you see the power of our heavy artillery just now? The shelling of the positions of the Eighth Route Army will not affect even our own positions. No, by all means, we can't kill our own soldiers with our own fire. Order the Imperial warriors on the front line, as the most elite soldiers of the Empire, to show their courage and fight to the end with the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side and hold their positions. Listening to the words of the chief of staff, the wing commander immediately objected.

"Hi, Your Excellency Wing Commander" the Chief of Staff turned to deliver the order.

Just when the chief of staff had just left the headquarters, the unique sound of the Eighth Route Army's charge horn came from the front-line position, followed by the earth-shattering shouts of killing. Countless soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, holding up their rifles with bayonets in their hands, rushed out of their positions under the cover of heavy machine gun fire, and rushed towards their own positions that were in danger.

"The Eighth Route Army of Baga Bageya Road launched a charge and ordered all the soldiers to start a counterattack immediately, quickly, counterattack" Looking at the group of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, the wing commander also began to get anxious, and roared loudly at the staff officers behind him.

"Kill to give" Finally, under the threat of the command knife of the wing commander and the various squadron leaders and squad leaders. The little devil finally stuck out his head and poked out his rifle. At the risk of being hit by a bullet at any time, start making limited return fire.

"Bang bang da" With the chaotic sound of rifles on the Japanese army's position, the intermittent sound of machine gun fire rang out. The soldiers who were charging began to suffer casualties one after another. However, this situation occurred in less than half a minute, and after paying the price of some of the soldiers' casualties, the soldiers had already rushed to the range of grenade throwing less than 30 meters from the Japanese army's position.

"Comrades, Grenade Boom Boom" Under the command of the commander of the Eighth Route Army, groups of grenades began to fall in the ring fortifications of the army, setting off patches of bloody rain. Suddenly, under the blow of dense grenades, the gunfire of the counterattack of the Yue army suddenly became much smaller. And at this moment, the fighters once again increased the speed of the charge. The last 30 meters of distance, under the rapid charge of the fighters, took less than half a minute to rush.

In the blink of an eye, the soldiers rushed to the edge of the ring fortifications of the Yue army. Amidst the shouts of killing, the warriors raised their rifles in their hands, jumped into the ring fortifications, and began to engage in the final hand-to-hand combat with the few remaining little devils.

Soon, as a steady stream of soldiers from the Eighth Route Army joined the battle group, the few dozen little devils left in the fortifications were quickly drowned in the wave of soldiers. Similarly, the same scenario occurred at several other charging locations. The entire offensive, from the beginning to the capture of the enemy's position, took less than 40 minutes to end smoothly.

As the battlefield slowly quieted down, the dividing line between the positions held by the two sides gradually began to become clear. In the 2-kilometer radius of the ring fortifications, the first division occupies a total of almost 800 meters of distance, and this 800 meters of distance is divided into 6 different positions. The army, on the other hand, was completely separated by the six fortifications occupied by the Eighth Route Army, not connected to each other, and became a lone army.

"Report to Your Excellency, Wing Commander, after the Eighth Route Army occupied a part of our army's position, it did not continue the offensive. Rather, they stuck to the fortifications that occupied our army. Judging by their movements, it seems that they want to wipe out the remaining troops of our army holding on to the fortifications one by one. The chief of staff introduced.

"Yo Xi, notify all the troops that can be reached. Let them hold on to the spot and fight to the death, and the reinforcements of our main division will arrive in two days. Order all the remaining reserves to build a fortification again 50 meters from the position occupied by the Eighth Route Army. We must hold on until the arrival of reinforcements from the division. Wing Commander Yuichiro No, Osa ordered loudly.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander. Wing Commander, do you want to send a request for help to His Excellency the Division Commander immediately?" replied with a nod from the Chief of Staff.

"Yo Xi, Chief of Staff, send a telegram to the division commander immediately. Your Excellency, Division Commander, our unit began at 12 o'clock last night and was besieged by the main force of the Reading Division of the Eighth Route Army. After about a day and night of bloody fighting, our 11th Infantry Wing, with the assistance of a heavy artillery brigade, inflicted a large number of casualties on the enemy. However, due to the lack of strength of our army, at 8 o'clock this morning, our army's positions were broken through in many places by the Eighth Route Army. Now, the two armies are in disarray. Since the total strength of the Eighth Route Army exceeded 10,000 troops, and with the support of a large amount of artillery fire, our 11th Infantry Wing could only hold out for two days. Chief of Staff, send the telegram at once, and soon "The Wing Commander, who had finished dictating the telegram, signed his name on the telegram, and ordered.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Wing Commander," the Chief of Staff turned and walked towards the radio station next to him.

Compared with the chaotic command headquarters, the atmosphere in the temporary headquarters of the 1st subdivision was noticeably better. At this time, Commander Sun Xingbang, Interim Chief of Staff Wang Degui. The two of them were standing at the lookout, holding up the binoculars in their hands, carefully observing the chaotic positions of the enemy and the enemy.

"Haha, Staff Officer Wang, now the forces of the enemy and us are completely mixed. Later, even if the military plane came, it would not have any effect on us. Sun Xingbang looked at the fierce battlefield and said excitedly.

"Yes, Commander, our immediate priority now is to control the pace of the troops' attack. At the same time, withdraw all the artillery units of the front line, leaving the shells for a final general assault on the enemy. Staff Officer Wang Degui suggested.

"Yes, what Counselor Wang said is very correct. The operational staff officer immediately conveyed Staff Officer Wang's words to the ears of every commander on the front line as they were, and it should be fast. Sun Xingbang nodded thoughtfully, and ordered to the busy combat staff officer behind him.

"Yes, Commander, Commander, this is the losses just reported by the various units and the number of enemies destroyed," the combat staff officer immediately agreed. At the same time, he handed a piece of paper full of lists to Counselor Wang's hand.

(To be continued)