Chapter 1061: Overnight Onslaught

Ma Biao and Zhou Dasheng ordered a postponement of the attack and made a decision in their favor. But Ishihara's side has a bad convocation, after all, they can hide the matter of their large-scale increase in troops for a while, but they can't hide it for a lifetime.

Sooner or later, the intelligence organization of the Chinese army will find out, and by that time, it is uncertain whether their ambush plan can be carried out.

However, Ishihara Guaner could not order the defenders of Linyi to take the initiative to attack, in case the defenders of Linyi were defeated by the powerful Dragon's Tooth Column in the field battle, then the entire Linyi battle situation would immediately undergo drastic changes, and the Zhina army could pursue with only infantry, which would disrupt its previous deployment.

Therefore, Ishihara can only be anxious, but he can't think of any good way in his eagerness.

On the side of the Third Division, after the third attack failed because of the attack of the Japanese Air Force, that night, Wu Ming, Li Wen and others decided to launch another attack at night, and to take the outer positions of the Japanese army at any cost, otherwise they would not know where to put their faces.

"It is impossible for the planes of the devils to rise into the air at night, so for us, we don't have to worry about air defense, we can go all out on the offensive." Wu Ming decided.

"However, there is one thing we also need to pay attention to, and that is that our artillery cannot provide accurate artillery support at night!" Chief of Staff Li Wen reminded.

Wu Mingsenran smiled and said: "Chief of Staff, you think too much, we have now received reinforcements from the heavy artillery brigade, the artillery firepower has been greatly strengthened, and we can carry out large-scale covering artillery bombardment of the Japanese position, and we all know the approximate direction, so where do you care if he is accurate or inaccurate!" Just bomb him and raise it! ”

"That's right." Li Wen nodded suddenly.

"There is no objection, then attack, this time the task of the main attack will be handed over to a regiment, the tank regiment will still provide cover, and the infantry will advance in coordination, but before the attack is launched, let the artillery regiment and the heavy artillery brigade carry out an hour-long artillery bombardment of the Japanese position, and I will turn the position of the little devil into a sea of fire!" Wu Ming waved his big hand and said in a dignified voice.

"Yes!" Li Wen, Zhao Youde and others hurriedly saluted and promised loudly.

The next moment, the heavy artillery brigade that had just arrived at the front line of the Third Division, together with all the artillery of the Third Division of more than 60 millimeters, concentrated at least 300 large and small caliber guns and began to launch a fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese outlying positions for an hour.

In this hour, the Japanese position was ploughed back and forth several times by the shells of the Longya artillery, and everywhere there was scarlet fire and choking gunsmoke, and all the fortifications of the entire Japanese position were blown down by at least 20 centimeters, almost razed to the ground.

After an hour of heavy artillery bombardment, more than 3,000 infantry of the 3rd Division and 1st Regiment were dispatched to launch a swift charge against the Japanese positions under the cover of the tank regiment.

At this time, the Japanese position had already turned into a sea of fire, and many devil soldiers and puppet soldiers were either killed or stunned by the continuous huge shock waves. Although the Japanese major generals in Weixian County had the heart to support, they were always afraid of the fierce artillery fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and they were worried that if they rushed to send reinforcements, they would be sent to death.

Therefore, it was not until the artillery fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column began to extend that there were devil reinforcements in the city in a hurry, but it was too late to support the first line of defense, because the soldiers of the Third Division and the First Regiment and the Tank Regiment were faster than them.

What's more, they also had to brave the suppression of the extended artillery fire of the dragon's tooth column, so the first line of defense of the devils was easily broken through and occupied by a regiment and a tank regiment.

In the end, the devil reinforcements had to enter the second and third lines of defense, which were almost completely blown up, relying on the incomplete fortifications to block the attacking troops of the third division.

The two sides soon started a fierce battle, but the three divisions and one regiment had not been engaged in the battle for a long time, and it can be said that they had been recuperating for a long time, and as soon as they came up, under the cover of the artillery fire of the tank regiment, they launched a large-scale cluster onslaught towards the devil's position.

More than 3,000 officers and men of the three divisions and one regiment took advantage of the situation to rush and fight fiercely, using light machine guns and submachine guns to form assault fire groups, tank guns, and grenadiers to suppress artillery fire from far and near.

The Japanese reinforcements were quickly defeated, and the second line of defense of the Japanese army was broken through and occupied. When the devil commander learned that the Dragon's Tooth Column had broken through the two outer defense lines they had finally recaptured, he was anxious and angry, and hurriedly sent four or five thousand days of puppet troops out of the city for reinforcements.

At this time, the tank regiment pressed up in time, and with the help of vehicle-mounted machine guns and tank guns, it formed a dense intersecting fire network with the light and heavy machine guns of the infantry of the first regiment, pouring a large number of bullets on the heads of the Japanese troops like splashing water.

Although the Japanese puppet army has many reinforcements, it does not have an advantage in weapons and equipment, especially the lack of anti-tank weapons, in the face of those relying on the tank fighting vehicles to constantly approach the dragon's tooth infantry, they risk death to counterattack the bullets, most of them missed, or were blocked by the heavy armor of the No. 4 tank.

Therefore, they could only watch as the attacking troops of the Third Division continued to approach their third line of defense at a small cost of casualties.

At the critical moment, the frenzied devil commander ordered his artillery unit to fire poison gas, and at this time, most of the devils and puppet troops who went out of the city to reinforce did not carry gas masks.

Unexpectedly, the gas masks of each regiment of the Third Division had become standard equipment, so after discovering that the devil had a poison gas bomb, the front-line commander had no intention of panicking and ordered all the troops to wear gas masks and continue to attack.

At this time, Wu Ming sent the 2nd Regiment to flank the Japanese flank positions in a roundabout way, which caused great pressure on other directions of the Japanese defense line.

On the front line of the devil's defense, the Japanese puppet army's blocking troops, which were not yet equipped with gas masks, were shrouded in diffuse gas bombs, and soon there were a large number of casualties.

The attack troops of the 3rd Division took advantage of the situation to break through the Japanese positions in one fell swoop, and without stopping, under the cover of the tank regiment, they attacked the west gate of Weixian again.

The Japanese puppet army, which was killed and injured by a large number of poison gas bombs, was fleeing back to the west gate in a panic at this moment, and was rushed by the attack force of the dragon's tooth column, and suddenly one by one was frightened and scattered, and they all accelerated their pace and fled for their lives, only hating their parents for missing two legs, not only had no resistance, but also rushed the original defensive troops of the west gate into chaos.

The tank regiment arrived in time, and a dense artillery bombardment caused a large number of casualties to the crowded and chaotic Japanese puppet army.

At the same time, the second regiment also successfully broke through the positions of the two flanks of the Japanese army, echoing the first regiment from afar, respectively towards the city gates in the north and south directions of Weixian, Wu Ming saw that it was going well, and immediately invested the regular army of the 30,000 Eighth Route Army, as the second echelon to join the attack camp, intending to take Weixian in one go, in order to wash away the shame of several attacks during the day.