The hour-long preparation of artillery fire carried out by 22 cannons of various calibers was undoubtedly a bitter experience for the small number of Chinese defense officers and men who were bombarded, and the platoon commander of the 4th Company of the 20th Battalion of the 6th Regiment was now holding his head in his hands, his body curled up in a ball, lying at the bottom of a trench of a circular fortification, trembling, and still chanting words in his mouth, as if he was saying something like "Bodhisattva blessed"! This is the first time that Senior General Zhang Lingfu, who became the chief of the general staff of the Chinese National Defense Forces, was bombed by artillery for the first time

The platoon under his command was now left behind the circular fortification defended by the 20th Battalion, and behind this fortification there was a convenient road for two trucks to pass side by side to Guò, and all of this became the top priority of the Japanese artillery bombardment! The shells with a piercing scream, falling like raindrops, and occasionally whistling like a train passing by, it was the sound of a 240mm caliber giant shell cutting through the air, followed by a deafening loud noise and a violent tremor of the earth, the shock wave of the explosion was accompanied by the flying metal shrapnel swept across the position of the squadron, and threw the fragments of the civil fortifications, the parts of the weapons, the stumps and broken arms of the human body, and of course, the most was the dirt thrown into the air. Then it rained down like rain, almost burying the Chinese officers and soldiers hiding at the bottom of the trench alive

The hour-long artillery preparation was a matter of the blink of an eye for the Japanese artillerymen who fired the artillery, at most it was a stinky sweat, and it was enjoyable, but for the Chinese officers and soldiers who were bombarded, the hour was probably a long one, as if it would never come to an end, until everyone had this thought in their hearts: "We must have been killed by terrible artillery fire, right?" This must be the eighteenth layer of hell! ”

"No one will survive such a dense artillery bombardment!" Most of the officers and men of the 2nd Wing and the 30th Wing on the starting position of the Japanese army on the other side of the Ussuri River were also shocked by this scene in front of them, both of which belonged to the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, which suffered extremely heavy losses in the Xianbeilian Intervention and the Battle of Manchuria more than three years ago, and almost reached the point of total annihilation! So now most of the officers and soldiers in this second division have never seen what a really fierce artillery battle is like, and they are so excited that they are out of breath, and there are bursts of cheers, until the Chinese artillery begins to counterattack and fire back against the 2nd artillery battalion of the 2nd Artillery Regiment of the Chinese Defense Forces (attached to the 2nd Division) The 2 05mm howitzers of the 6th Artillery Battalion are compared to the dense rain of shells fired by more than 200 artillery guns of the Japanese army. The counterattack of the two cannons looked so weak, but the forward positions of the Japanese army were crowded with officers and soldiers who were ready to launch a forced crossing! Every shell that fell into the trench could bring a piece of blood, and then the heart-rending screams also made the Japanese officers and soldiers in the position realize that they were also insignificant cannon fodder, "the fastest chapter update" point, the Japanese shelling finally came to an abrupt halt According to the plan drawn up in advance, after an hour of artillery preparation, the six Japanese artillery wings had to immediately move their positions to avoid encountering a counterattack by a powerful Chinese artillery group, and the first phase of the Japanese artillery work was almost finished, The next step is to see what happened to their infantry

Two red signal flares rose into the sky from the rear and slowly fell in the air, on the east bank of the Ussuri River, the long-awaited young Japanese officers jumped into the trenches, drew their command knives, and shouted loudly to give the order: "Forward!" Advance! Move forward! The 75mm mountain guns and mortars mounted on the trenches roared almost at the same time, and turned the positions of the ** squadron on the opposite side into a sea of fire, and then I saw waves of yellow people, dragging assault boats, pouring out of the trenches, rushing towards the banks of the Ussuri River, and the attack of the Japanese infantry finally began!

This was an assault that used 2 infantry brigades, of which 6 infantry battalions were diversion attacks to attract the firepower and attention of the squadron, and the 6 infantry battalions belonging to the second division were the main attack force to cover their 2 75mm mountain guns and more than 50 mortars were firing frantically, and the Japanese infantry let out a burst of terrifying shouts: "Onboard!" Onboard! "Then the officers rushed to the edge of the riverbank, and then hurriedly pushed the assault boat into the water, and then climbed onto these small boats made of thin planks, and paddled desperately with the wooden oars, rifle butts, and even hands in their hands, but the process was not as fast as it sounded, and nearly 5,000 Japanese infantry of six brigades were crowded on the beach of more than ten kilometers in a short period of time

"East Coast! Hit the East Coast! Damn, little Japan is crowded there, let's fight, let's fight! "The scene of the Japanese troops crowded on the river beach and preparing to board the boat has been clearly understood by Second Lieutenant Zhang Zhonglin in the circular fortification on the other side of the river, he picked up the telephone on the position, shook it a few times, connected to the regimental headquarters, and shouted artillery fire to support the effort in the blink of an eye, the fire of the 4 75mm mountain guns and 6 20mm heavy mortars belonging to the 6th regiment exploded in the crowded Japanese ranks, but the more powerful 2 05 howitzers did not keep up, so although this firepower caused a certain amount of damage to the Japanese army, But it was completely unable to stop the pace of their attack, and more and more assault boats were pushed into the water, and the Japanese infantrymen in yellow uniforms on them slowly rowed towards the other side of the river

At this time, the main force of the 6th Regiment, which was avoiding artillery in the reserve position, had already arrived at the front line, and the firing points of the three battalion-level ring fortifications, as well as some isolated machine-gun firing points, began to spit out tongues of fire! At present, the squadron is not equipped with light machine guns or general-purpose machine guns, but all civilian 7-year-old water-cooled heavy machine guns, which are fed by a chain of bullets, using 65mm rifle cartridges, each infantry battalion has a heavy machine gun company equipped with 2 heavy machine guns, and each infantry company has a fire squad equipped with 2 heavy machine guns, in addition, there is an anti-aircraft machine gun company modified with a civilian 7 type heavy machine gun at the regimental level, which is also equipped with 2 heavy machine guns, and the entire 6 regiments have 66 water-cooled machine guns at full strength, There were 4 or 5 guns per kilometer of the 5 kilometers of defense they defended, and even taking into account the rotation of fire, such a density of machine guns was enough to turn the Ussuri River into a water slaughterhouse

The crossfire formed by more than 30 heavy machine guns and the crisp roar of nearly 2,000 rifles killed and wounded the Japanese officers and soldiers crowded on the assault boats! The dying wails of the wounded almost drowned out the sound of gunfire, and the blood that flowed down almost stained the entire surface of the river! This burst of impact has simply become a stupid act of sending people to death!

However, the situation of the squadron on the opposite bank was not much better, and the ammunition of the Japanese light artillery and mortars deployed on the positions on the east bank of the Ussuri River was shot out as if they did not need money, and they fell one after another around the exposed firepower points of the Wehrmacht, and in a short time, they were dumbed down a dozen heavy machine guns, and the remaining machine guns had to move their positions more frequently, and the firepower on the Wehrmacht positions suddenly became sparse, and the Japanese troops crossing the river took advantage of this opportunity to paddle desperately, and finally there were boats approaching the land on the opposite bank! Of course, the speed of this charge was still quite slow because of the resistance of the river, and the Wehrmacht on the shore could not care about hitting the small boats crossing the river, and they all concentrated on the river beach, knocking down the Japanese infantry who had just come off the boat! But there are many more who shout "Onboard!" Onboard! The slogan is to charge forward, go forward and follow, and see death as home!

The machine gun shooters of the Chinese on the shore were also red-eyed, and they did not care to shift their positions, desperately firing at the Japanese troops who were surging on the river beach, and the copper shells of the bullets were laid on the ground layer after layer in a blink of an eye! In the end, after paying the price of nearly forty percent of the heavy machine guns destroyed, the first wave of the Japanese charge was suppressed, but the tenacious Cheng Dù of these Japanese ghosts was also beyond imagination, after paying heavy casualties, they still occupied a small area on the east bank of the Ussuri River and refused to retreat, and the surviving Japanese infantry piled up the corpses of their comrades and the assault boats made of thin planks to form fortifications, and barely maintained a bridgehead under the suppression of various firepower of the squadron, and refused to take half a step back no matter what! And the 6th Regiment had no strength left for a counteroffensive, and their entire regiment was less than 000 casualties in the first wave of the Japanese offensive, with more than 500 casualties! It can be regarded as extremely tragic, so in the first hour after the start of the Japanese general offensive, the guns on the battlefield gradually thinned out, and all the kinetic energy of the first wave of the Japanese offensive was exhausted here

On the roof of a farm in the rear of the Japanese front, Hanzo Yamanashi, commander of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, and Ken Nagasaka, commander of the Second Division, "Iron-blooded Third Cannon Fodder III," were holding binoculars and staring at the scene of the front line being killed and wounded

Hanzo Yamanashi put down the binoculars and whispered, "Finally up"

Kensuke Nagasaka also put down his binoculars and sighed softly: "The progress of the Chinese army in recent years is really fast, their shooting level is already about the same as that of the imperial army, and the shelling just now does not seem to have much damage to them, and the European instructors who came to them taught them a lot of ways to fight positional warfare, and the organizational level of the troops in wartime is also very good, and there is not much panic...... This should be the result of regular live-fire exercises...... Your Excellency, the real hard battle has just begun......"

Yamanashi smiled slightly: "No" He pointed to the Japanese army position built with corpses on the other side of the river: "The defense of the imperial army is such a single explosion, but the Chinese army does not have the slightest attack, ** Nagasaka-kun, this is the biggest weakness of the Chinese army!" Even if such an enemy has strong firepower and strict training, there is no way to compare with the imperial army! Because they don't have an offensive spirit! As he spoke, he strengthened his tone and said loudly: "The second wave of the offensive will start in an hour, and I will eliminate the second and final wave of the offensive!" ”

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Mudanjiang, in the war room of the headquarters of the Fifth Group Army of the Chinese National Defense Forces, there is a busy scene of people coming and going, this group army is newly formed in order to carry out the Battle of Suifenhe Twin Cities proposed by General Maxim Weigang, and the troops under its jurisdiction are all drawn from the other four group armies, including the Second Army, the Third Army, the Fourth Army, the Fifth Army, the Sixth Army, the Seventh Army, the Eleventh Army, the Thirteenth Fortress Brigade, and eight independent artillery regiments, an air force division, with a total strength of up to 400,000, with more than 500 cannons and more than 200 aircraft! The Fifth Army, the main force of the entire Northeast Front, was basically concentrated

The headquarters had just arrived at Mudanjiang a week ago, and most of the troops under its jurisdiction had not yet arrived, and the forward positions along the Suifenhe River were still being built by the troops that had arrived in advance

The commander of the 400,000-strong army, General Wu Shi, commander of the Fifth Group Army, had only arrived at Mudanjiang this afternoon, and before he had time to take a breath and settle down, Major General Qian Dajun, chief of staff of the group army, hurriedly walked up to him with a telegram

"Chief Wu, I just received an urgent telegram from the front army headquarters, and the Japanese army began to launch a fierce attack on the headquarters of the First Army on the front line of the Tiger Head Fortress at 7 o'clock tonight! The Japanese army invested in the troops and firepower were extremely strong, and regardless of the casualties, they launched a fierce attack, and the first wave of the offensive succeeded in forcibly crossing the Ussuri River, and the beachhead that has been established on the west bank of the Ussuri River is still the "iron-blooded Republic of China" Although it has fought hard, the "iron-blooded Republic of China" is unable to drive it back, and the front army headquarters estimates that the main force of the Japanese army may be on the front line of this tiger head and Xin'an land."

Wu Shi listened to Qian Dajun's report with a calm face, there was no expression on his face, only the fingers that kept tapping on the armrest of the chair revealed the anxiety in his heart at the moment, although he is now the commander of the 400,000 army, but the actual experience of leading troops is very limited, he has never organized a real large-scale battle, this time he has the heavy responsibility of iodine, and he is also beating the drum in his heart, fortunately, Chang Ruiqing also knows that he is inexperienced, He sent a large military advisory group to follow him north, led by a German lieutenant general named Max Hoffmann, who had served as an observer in the Russian ** team in the Russo-Japanese War, and had a certain understanding of the Japanese army, and throughout the First World War, he commanded the army on the Eastern Front to fight against the Russian army, and the battle plans of the famous Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of Lake Mashorley were written by this Max Hoffmann

He was now in the war room of the Fifth Army, and when Qian Dajun was reporting to Wu Shi, an interpreter also told him about the information he had just received, and when Max Hoffmann, a German general known for his cunning, heard the news, he just smiled indifferently and said to Wu Shi in German: "General Wu, the Japanese army's military operations in the Hutou Fortress are very beneficial to us, and I will let the main force of the Japanese army go through the Ussuri River and attract it to the north of the Hutou Fortress...... It is best to achieve this state of affairs before 7 July, and at the same time, one of the Seventh Army and the Eleventh Army of the Fifth Army, which is in reserve, should be deployed in Jixi, and the other army should be placed in Mudanjiang, and as soon as the two armies break through the front line of the two cities, they will immediately go north to join the Eighth Army and launch a counterattack within a day."

After listening to the translator's relay, Wu Shi walked to the front of the sand table, stared for a while, turned his head and asked Hoffman: "General Hoffman, do you mean to take the Japanese army on the front line of Hutou Xin'an as the next target, and strike at the front line of Hutou Xin'antu?" ”

Then the translator translated his words into German, and after listening to it, Hoffman quickly and urgently said a large paragraph in German, to the effect that based on his observation in the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army's combat style is biased towards brute bravery, especially in offensive operations, it often uses all its strength, and the pursuit of victory is overwhelming, and when the war is unfavorable, it often makes irrational behaviors, if the Japanese army on the front line of Hutou Xin'antu learns that the two cities have been lost under such circumstances, it is very likely that they will not return to the division to rescue Vladivostok, but will desperately storm it! With the strength of the Eighth Army, it is very likely that it will be destroyed by it, so it is necessary to send reinforcements in time

"Brother Mu Yin (Qian Dajun), you know the day, what do you think the Japanese commander will do after the loss of Shuangcheng?" Wu Shi thought for a while, and asked Qian Dajun again, "Qian Dajun is also in the sixth phase of Baoding, but he did not graduate, but was sent to Japan halfway to study non-commissioned officer Xuexing, and when he returned to China after graduation, it was already May 99, although he was staying in Japan, but he was also a native of Baoding and Jiangsu, and it was easy to enter Chang Ruiqing's inner circle as an artillery instructor at the Central Military Academy, until he was the principal of the artillery branch, and this time he followed his old boss Wu Shi to the north and became the chief of staff of the Fifth Army, and he was also Wu Shi's cronies

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