There are three roads to Kiev from the west, one in Bucha, the second in Irpin, and the third in Visneve, the first two roads pass in front of the mountains and mountains, and the terrain is relatively dangerous.

And the third road is the road leading to Guò Visnieve, Visneseve is plain on the east and west, but the north is the mountains of Irpin, and the south is also a mountain that winds all the way to the Dnieper River, the terrain is steep, and the mountain is also defended by Wang Zhanyuan deployed a lot of troops, on the one hand, to prevent the Germans from crossing the defensive line from here, on the other hand, artillery positions and machine gun positions are erected on the top of the mountain, and artillery positions and machine gun positions are also erected on the hill of Irpin in the north. These two vantage points can be used to attack enemy forces within range.

On the morning of July 23, the German army launched an attack to conduct fire reconnaissance on the Visnev position defended by the Japanese Corps of the Second Army Corps of China, and the battle ended with the German retreat after two hours.

What made Wang Zhanyuan more gratified was that although these Japanese soldiers were surrendered, they were really unambiguous in the war, and the officers among the Japanese soldiers wanted to show themselves better in front of Wang Zhanyuan, hoping to arouse Wang Zhanyuan's attention and favor, and they were very desperate in battle, and they wanted to prove their value in this way.

The tactical literacy of the Japanese is still good. Although these are surrendered soldiers, they are all soldiers who have undergone a long period of formal training. They listened to the sound to dodge when the Germans were carrying out artillery support and cover, in marksmanship. The marksmanship of these Japanese soldiers was also good, and the Germans suffered considerable losses in this attack.

In Zhytomyr's command, the German veteran August? Feng? Mackenson frowned after listening to his officers' reports on this tentative attack, and said: "This Chinese commander has some ability, we can't even test his firepower deployment, by the way, what is the name of this Chinese commander?" ”

The German officer who reported immediately said: "Oh, do you mean the commander of the Second Army of China or the commander of this line of defense!" ”

Mackensen said: "The commander of the Second Army is Zhang Xiaozhun, who is a classmate of Jiang Fangzhen, the general staff of Huaguo. I had met both of them when I was in Berlin, and I asked who the commander of the first line of defense was! ”

"This commander is called Wang Zhanyuan, who used to be Yuan Shikai's old general in Beiyang, who surrendered the current Chinese army in a war, and he led the surrendered troops of Japan, as well as the troops conscripted from Nepal and Bhutan, as far as we know, in addition to the Japanese military qualifications, those Bhutanese and Nepalese were sent to the battlefield after only one month of training!"

Mackenson listened too confused. He didn't know much about Huaguo's affairs, and he didn't know who Beiyang and Yuan Shikai were, so he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, no matter who this Wang Zhanyuan is." This time we didn't test each other's depths, presumably the other party had already seen through our thoughts, since the temptation was useless. Then we will storm head-on and give my orders. Tomorrow morning launch a frontal assault on the positions of the Chinese army in Visneve! ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

In fact, Mackensen was very helpless. His forte was mobile warfare, and it was the first time he had seen the whole of Kyiv like a hedgehog like the Second Army of China, and it was undoubtedly a little too difficult for him to attack a fortified fortress covered with thorns in the way he was least good at.

On the morning of July 24, the Germans continued to attack, this time the Germans were real, before the attack, large-scale artillery bombardment ravaged the Chinese positions in Visnieve, the Japanese soldiers under the command of the officers were hiding in the anti-artillery holes, only some observation posts were left on the positions, although the Japanese hated, but the Chinese officers who commanded them also needed them to defend their positions, but they did not want them to be reimbursed under the German artillery fire.

Overwhelming artillery fire fell on the positions, splashing a cloud of dust and gravel, mixed with blood, minced flesh and bones, or thighs and arms, and even heads.

This is the first time that the officers of the Chinese army have experienced the powerful artillery bombardment of the European battlefield, and it is also the first time that the Japanese have tasted the power of the powerful artillery fire of the German army, this time the German army used more than 1,000 guns of large and small calibers to carry out carpet shelling of the positions of the Japanese troops defended by Vesneve, the caliber of these guns ranged from 75 mm mountain guns to 150 mm heavy field howitzers, although the Japanese hid well in the anti-artillery holes, but not all the anti-artillery holes were built very strongly, There were still some anti-artillery holes that were blown up by powerful shells, and all the Japanese soldiers in the entire anti-artillery holes were buried alive in them.

Cannonballs kept falling from the sky, and you could see the flight trajectory of many shells from a distance, and after the shells hit the ground, the shells exploded, and the ground was blown out of large craters, and green smoke was rising from the pits, and the earth and gravel were blown away, and some of them went straight to the sky.

"The Germans touched it!" The position observer poked his head out and saw that the smoke had partially cleared in front of the position, and then faintly saw a figure rushing towards this side with a rifle in his hand, and immediately shouted, at this time the German artillery fire did not stop, but began to show signs of extending to the rear position.

Xia Gu is the squadron leader here, and the Japanese squadron he led is responsible for this section of the two-hundred-meter-long defense line, and the Japanese squadron itself has a squadron leader, but due to the surrender of the Chinese army, the Chinese army will send down an officer as the squadron leader in order to strengthen its control force, and the original Japanese squadron leader will be reduced to a deputy squadron leader, and there is a translator between the Chinese army officer and the Japanese squadron leader, if the Japanese officer understands Chinese, there is no interpreter, which is more conducive to communication, of course, the Chinese army cannot only send an officer over, The officer also brought a platoon of regular Chinese troops, which on the one hand served as a deterrent and on the other hand as a military policeman. With this platoon of regular Chinese soldiers staring behind, these Japanese soldiers did not dare to flee or rebel.

Natsutani crawled out of the anti-artillery hole with the deputy squadron leader Saburo Kobayashi and poked his head out to observe the German soldiers who were rushing towards him on the opposite side, and he had to admit that the German infantry and artillery coordination tactics were very skillful, and the German troops in the front were already a hundred meters away from this defensive line, and the German artillery fire had just begun to move to the rear position.

Without further ado, the soldiers must be immediately allowed to enter the position to start defense, he turned to Kobayashi Saburo and said: "Kobayashi-kun, order the troops to enter the position immediately and fire, first come, first served!" ”

"Hey!" Saburo Kobayashi muttered loudly as soon as he agreed, and the Japanese soldiers who heard the order rushed out of the anti-artillery hole with their rifles, returned to the position of the defensive position, and aimed their rifles at the German soldiers who were rushing towards them.

With a face full of gunsmoke, Xia Gu was lying on the wall of the trench with a pistol and staring at the German troops rushing in front of him, and he shouted loudly: "Machine gun, machine gun ready?" Fire on me, fire quickly! ”

The Germans were already too close, and if it weren't for the fact that the positions in front were not very flat, the Germans would have rushed faster, even if the ground in front was not very flat, but the Germans were still rushing fast.

As the Japanese soldiers entered the position, gunshots began to sound on the position, and after Xia Gu finished shouting, the heavy machine gun also sounded, and the two machine guns were fired together to form two powerful and firepower networks, and the German soldiers who rushed to the front were only fifty meters away from the defensive position, some German soldiers fell down after being shot, but there were still many German soldiers behind who rushed over desperately, and with the strafing of the machine guns, more German soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.

"Bang"

"Bang"

After two gunshots, the two machine guns on the Japanese defensive position were dumbfounded, and the machine gunner was killed, which made Xia Tani's heart suddenly fall into an ice cellar, and he immediately yelled in a hurry: "Kobayashi-kun, immediately order everyone to prepare grenades, you come and give the order!" ”

Kobayashi Saburo also knew that when he was polite from time to time at this time, he immediately shouted: "Everyone listen to the order, prepare the grenade, pull the line, and throw!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom??????"

A large number of grenades were thrown from the trenches, just in the middle of the charging German soldiers, although the Germans were scattered relatively widely, but in the case of a large number of grenade explosions, it was almost a carpet explosion, the charging German soldiers suffered heavy casualties, even the German soldiers who were not blown up also reacted and crawled on the ground as fast as possible to avoid being blown up by the grenades.

"Fire, fire!" Xia Gu used a pistol to shoot at the German soldiers who had just gotten up, while shouting, Kobayashi Saburo immediately conveyed the order, the Japanese soldiers opened fire again, those German soldiers who had just gotten up were still a little dizzy, their movements were much slower, and the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, they couldn't tell the direction, they were shot one after another, and the German officers who led the team found that their casualties were too heavy, and it was hopeless to attack the enemy position and had to lead the remaining few soldiers to retreat, but the Japanese soldiers did not stop shooting, However, those German soldiers did not blindly leave their backs to the Japanese when retreating, they covered each other's retreat, and although the Japanese shot achieved some results, the results were not large.

After the Germans retreated, Xia Gu called Kobayashi Saburo over and ordered: "Kobayashi-kun, rearrange the machine gunners, tell the machine gunners, after firing for a period of time, you must change your position, there are sharpshooters in the German army, if we don't have machine guns to provide fire support, we will be very passive, and the defensive fire will be greatly weakened, in addition, let the machine gunners set up the machine guns on both flanks of the position, if the Germans attack, shoot at the German side, and then find a few soldiers with accurate marksmanship, equipped to deal with the German sharpshooters, Once you find out that there are sharpshooters in the German army, you have to shoot them as soon as possible, understand? ”

"Hey!" (To be continued......)