After losing almost 70 percent of its medium and large-caliber artillery and almost all of its field reserve shells, the Sixth Division of the Chinese Army was like a bald-tailed dog that had been thoroughly enraged, and a frenzied revenge was brewing.

The next day, the originally planned offensive began, and in the first wave of the offensive, the army sent 45 wings and a reinforced brigade, the total number of which was more than the three regiments after counting the supporting artillery and other auxiliary troops.

Although this time the army did not have ironclad vehicles to open the way, nor did they have earth-shattering medium and long-range artillery support, they used a large number of aircraft. Nearly 40 planes frantically flew over the 3rd Regiment in a desperate struggle between air force and ground anti-aircraft artillery fire, which is rarely seen in modern air combat.

The planes almost desperately dived and bombed and strafed the ring of fortifications, inflicting heavy losses on the artillery battalions of the three regiments, while the Japanese army left the wreckage of 14 fighters.

The defeated Yue army finally uprooted the air defense positions on the central [***] position and began to launch an unscrupulous attack.

In addition to the lack of medium and long-range artillery support, a number of firepower squads attacked in a skirmish line during the attack, and the wing had an artillery team under its jurisdiction, four infantry guns, and four mountain guns.

Each squad had a machine-gun fire team carrying two light machine guns, and a grenadier group carrying two grenadiers to fill the gap in heavy fire at the range of 200 between mortars and grenades.

On the battle line several miles long, you can see the Yue army rushing from the opposite side, and the pressure of the battle line is like a taut string in an instant.

The army was said to be the same old ones, infantry guns, machine guns, grenadiers, rifles, which were also suppressed by the soldiers of the three regiments in all directions after they went into battle.

Although the new antiaircraft artillery suffered considerable losses, the infantry artillery of the Southwest Army's hunting gear escaped disaster because of its small size and easy to hide in the hidden artillery holes, and with the heavy fire support of the infantry artillery almost directly aimed at the distance of 1,000 meters, the mountain artillery and infantry artillery of the army were almost suppressed to death. The use of this 31-year-old infantry gun against the machine gun team and grenadier team of the Japanese army is even more effective, and often the whole group flies after one shot.

This is not fiction, if Zhang Shusheng is here, he will remember how huge losses the Chinese army caused to the squadron [***] by relying on infantry artillery + grenadiers in the original history. At that time, the squadron did not have the heavy firepower of heavy machine guns, but it often blew up into the sky within a short time of firing the guns.

Today, however, the battlefield is reversed, and often the light and heavy machine guns of the army supporting the attack of the squad have just fired, and a shell or the heavy machine gun of the Ripper greets them, whether it is the density of fire, the power or the range, the weapons of the army happen to be suppressed to death.

"Da Da Da ......"

"Hiss ......"

"Tom ......"

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The whole battlefield was filled with gunfire, and when the army rushed into a distance of several hundred meters, the infantry on both sides finally arrived.

It was still an all-round victory for the semi-automatic rifle against the bolt rifle.

After Dianlanga sent two companies to support the position, everything looked good, except for one problem.

"Report, we're running out of ammunition stockpiles."

Pu Renyi, the logistics officer of the regiment headquarters, ran to report this unhappy incident to Dai Anlan, who was holding a telescope to pay attention to the offensive and defensive battles on the line of fire, and when he heard the news, he couldn't help but slam his fist on the wall of the bunker.

"How long can it be used, according to the current combat intensity."

"At most, it can only last until dark."

In the logistics supply of the three regiments, the shells of antiaircraft artillery accounted for a considerable proportion, and the ammunition consumption rate of semi-automatic rifles was relatively fast.

After all, the Air Force had to transport the main force of the Third Division and was also responsible for transporting the necessary equipment needed for the construction of the Daxing Airport. Although the north airfield in Taiyuan can be used by the Southwest Air Force, because of its small scale and further emergency expansion, logistics are struggling.

Dai Anlan thought about it carefully, the current offensive momentum of the army is very strong, and the third regiment must hold out until dark, because the two divisions of the Kuomintang are about to arrive on the battlefield, and these two divisions are a first-class division and a second-class division, although they cannot play a role in turning the situation on the battlefield, but they can make the third regiment and the two divisions of the 18th Route Army take a breath.

It can be said that the combat strength of the three regiments has not yet been fully deployed, and Dai Anlan does not want to fight the army when the firepower is not strong and the troops are insufficient, so it is necessary to change tactics appropriately.

"I will ask the division headquarters about the weapons that the various companies have collected from cleaning up the battlefield and sending them for emergency use."

Dai Anlan immediately called the military headquarters of the 19th Army, which was stationed in Beiping with the 18th Route Army.

"Division commander, the troops are running out of ammunition reserves."

"Hold on a little longer, a batch of ammunition supplies will be sent in the evening, I heard that the artillery bombardment of the army has caused a certain loss of anti-aircraft fire? It's okay, there are twenty anti-aircraft guns in the supply this time, and the military department is afraid that you will suffer a loss without fighter support, but you are very willing. ”

Dai Anlan finally got a good news from Chen Jun, Yue Jun definitely didn't expect that the three regiments would replenish anti-aircraft guns overnight, and when it came to tomorrow, he would definitely give Yue himself a good look.

On 13 May, when the attack on the first day was easily repulsed by the 3rd Regiment, the fully overhauled carrier-based aircraft unit took off again to support the 3rd Regiment in the southwest of the 6th Division's attack.

In yesterday's battle, the two sides fought fierce offensive and defensive battles on their positions in three directions, and the two divisions of the Kuomintang did not replenish the left flank position in the end, not because they were too selfish, but because the frontal and right flank positions of the 18th and 19th divisions were broken twice by the Chinese army, and in the end, the two newly reinforced divisions urgently supplemented the position and held it.

After a day of fighting, the Yue army left more than 2,000 corpses in the front position and the right flank position, and the wounded were even heavier, however, the losses were even more heavy, in the case of the concentrated use of medium and long-range artillery by the two divisions, the Kuomintang army was helpless in the face of the offensive tactics of the Yue army, and some of the advanced weapons that were originally there were also suppressed, and even the 105mm heavy artillery of the two divisions was partially blown up by the planes of the Yue army. The well-trained Kuomintang divisions, which can only be called well-trained, lagged behind in all respects in all respects, but this backwardness was intensively magnified in offensive and defensive battles.

The army suffered huge losses in front of the position of the three regiments, and the entire left flank position alone caused nearly 2,000 casualties of the army, and the 45th Wing was completely disabled. The remnants of the 45th Infantry Wing were incorporated into two full wings of the 6th Division.

The situation of the third regiment was much better, although there were also casualties, but the ratio of battle losses was satisfactory. It's not that Dai Anlan is cold-blooded, but that war is meant to kill people, and how to destroy the most enemies at the lowest cost is the natural duty of a commander.

On 13 May, when the carrier-based aircraft formation of the Chinese army flew over Langfang to prepare for an unscrupulous bombing, it was stopped by fighters from two Kuomintang squadrons that suddenly rushed to the battlefield.

Although the fighters of the Kuomintang Air Force were even more backward than those of the Yue army, the fighters still beat the Yue army to the death of the bombers, and seven or eight old bombers were shot down on the spot. Originally, according to the information obtained by the army, it would take at least three or four days for the Chinese air force to be put into battle, but unexpectedly, these two squadrons, under the leadership of deputy captain Gao Zhihang, caught the army by surprise.

The position on the left flank was even more lively, and when the planes of the army, believing that they had completely destroyed the anti-aircraft fire of the southwestern regiment, swaggered and prepared to dive and bomb and strafe at a low altitude, they were stopped by the concentrated fire of the antiaircraft guns that had been moved into the trenches overnight.

The tragic situation suddenly appeared, the planes of the Japanese army were shot down like dumplings, and the artillery battalion, which had long been holding back its fire, performed beyond its normal performance, and nearly half of the dozen or so bombers that were about to commit crimes were shot down. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other planes indiscriminately threw bombs and turned around and ran.

In this day's battle, the two wings of the Chinese army once launched a divisional and regimental charge that was not afraid of death, and Kazuo Hamada personally ordered the 'glorious charge'.

However, it was only then that they realized what a mistake they had made.

Bringing them the light of death was none other than the Ripper machine gun from the Southwest.

In previous operations, the new machine gun did not play its maximum role, because the attack of the Japanese army was not as fierce as it was today.

In the face of a dense onslaught of attacking troops, the Ripper heavy machine gun finally opened fire with a roar.

I saw that a tearer, which had only been urgently replenished last night, was moved to the position, and the shooter who was originally in charge of the light machine gun turned to this heavy machine gun. On an average of 100 meters of position, one was erected.

In an instant, the battlefield resounded with the sound of dense tearing cloths, and the rate of fire, which had been controlled at about 500 rounds per minute in the previous few days of operation, began to fire on this day, regardless of the loss of the barrel. With a terrifying rate of fire of up to 1,500 rounds per minute, it swept down the attacking Japanese army in pieces in just one minute.

The frenzied army had long forgotten how many people were killed by the crossfire of heavy machine guns in the European theater of Britain, France and other countries in World War I, which was a terrifying record of killing tens of thousands of people in one day. The army forgot, they thought that the Chinese [***] team was not the Russian [***] team, and it would definitely collapse in the face of an attack of seven or eight thousand people.

The third regiment replenished a lot of ammunition this time, although Dai Anlan didn't know why, but he could guess that the air force's capacity had suddenly increased. After mobilizing nearly 2,000 peasant masses to help carry the ammunition, the firepower of the three regiments reached a very frightening point that night, especially the artillery of various calibers, light and heavy machine guns. If nothing else, the emergency replenishment of submachine guns and bullets alone reached a terrifying level.

Dozens of Ripper heavy machine guns recreated the myth of the German army on the battlefield of the European War, and the two wings suffered heavy losses, and the Yue army had never seen the Chinese have such a high intensity of heavy machine gun fire, and the aircraft air attack was ineffective, and the attacking troops that escaped by the Yue army finally began to retreat.

Dai Anlan, who judged the situation and sizing up the situation, ordered the whole army to pursue, and eliminated more than 400 people, and finally the commander of the 6th Division fled back with less than 4,000 people, and a considerable number of them were wounded.

When Shirakawa Yoshinori was almost idiot with a gun to trouble Kazuo Hamada, the staff officer told him that Kazuo Hamada had been broken in two by heavy machine gun bullets from the Chinese, and he had not even had time to snatch the body back.

The entire Sixth Division was annihilated by more than 5,000 people in just a week, and the whole army could not accept this fact for a while, and according to reliable information, the Third Regiment of the [***] squadron suffered only about 1,000 casualties. Although they had trenches to use as cover, although their weapons were more advanced, although the troops of both wings were almost always killed by heavy machine-gun fire in the path of the decisive charge...... The army was still intimidated.

A regiment of the Chinese can actually block the attack of an infantry unit of a division. (The infantry of the commander of the 6th Division did not have 20,000 troops, and a considerable part of them were baggage troops, such as artillery, etc.) They were able to hold off three times as many enemy attacks.

Although, 70% of the overall losses of the Yue army were generated during the 'glorious offensive' on the day of May 13, encountering the almost perverted heavy machine gun fire configuration of the Chinese. The Chinese actually disregarded logistics and the way of fighting in the war-torn areas, which brought a painful lesson to the Yue army.

In fact, if the attack of the Yue army had been more rational, slowing down the tempo, and launching repeated tidal attacks, the position of the three regiments would have been likely to show flaws and be broken by the Yue army, after all, the Yue army was too dominant in terms of strength.

It is said that when the offensive of one division is deadlocked, only more troops need to be brought in to rescue, and the losses are still controllable, however, the two reinforced divisions are still at sea, and the other two divisions are repeatedly fighting for positions with the Kuomintang troops of four divisions, and they are fighting together, and there are simply not enough troops to support.

Shirakawa Yoshinori urgently dispatched an infantry wing as a reserve, but he did not catch up with the rescue, and only waited for the officers and men of the 6th Division who had been defeated.

Kazuo Hamada wanted to wash away the shame, but he didn't expect to fall short, and even he was killed, becoming the highest-ranking military officer killed on the battlefield in China.

Beiping, Daxing Airport was originally barren, but now there is an airport guarded by barbed wire, and many bunkers and fortifications have been built around to guard the airport layer by layer.

There are already two runways throughout the airfield, the first of which is already capable of low-intensity aircraft take-off and landing. The large amount of baggage and supplies that the Third Regiment received last night was brought by transport planes from the Taiyuan North Airport.

After personally observing the battle of the Third Regiment at the front, Chen Jun arrived at the airport with a group of wounded soldiers, who will be immediately returned to the southwest by plane, where they will receive the most advanced medical treatment in the world today, and they will use the best medicines, some special medicines that cannot be bought in the West.

"Report to the army commander, the military department level secret telegram."

At the airport command center, the communications staff officer walked up to Chen Jun's side, saluted, and handed him a copy of the secret telegram he had just received from the military headquarters.

Chen Jun took it and looked at it, and was immediately overjoyed, because the first batch of combat planes was finally about to be transferred from Taiyuan North Airport to Daxing Airport, which was half-completed.

"Great, the Air Force is here, and the army should also suffer some hardships."

Although he did not know what the military department's operational plan for the air force was, he knew that the 3rd Regiment and the main force of the 3rd Division, which would arrive tomorrow, would no longer have to fight against air raids by carrier-based aircraft.

(To be continued)