The overwhelming artillery salvo lasted for nearly an hour, and countless shells flew through the air dragging out the usual white tails, like a fast-flying meteor shower, these glowing shells lit up the battlefield and exploded on the ground, and the light went out again. The light emitted by the friction of the cannonballs flying in the sky is white and colorful, and all kinds of colorful lights are constantly shining in the air, making the sky very beautiful, but no one appreciates these wonderful night scenes, because the next second this beauty appears, the earth trembles, flesh and blood fly, and life is gone!

In the front-line command post of the offensive position of the Fourth Division, division commander Chen Yu stood in front of the vertical position telescope to observe the situation of the Japanese position on the opposite side, the two mirror barrels of the vertical position telescope stretched out, but the observer did not have to expose his head outside, just like the periscope of the submarine, this kind of telescope and the submarine periscope are the same principle, the enemy cannot see any part of the observer's body, and the observer's body can see the situation of the enemy position on the opposite side through this telescope below the observation port.

Liu Liwen, the chief of staff next to him, asked, "How is it, division?" Is it possible to stop shelling sorties of infantry? ”

Chen Yu's body was too high, he needed to bend down to bring his eyes to the observation glass of the telescope, seeing the chief of staff Liu Liwen asking, he straightened up and thought about it and raised his hand and said: "Don't worry, in this way, let them shoot a few flares over the Japanese position, and wait until they can see the situation of the opposite position clearly!" ”

"Good!" Liu Liwen agreed, and hurriedly turned to the staff officers behind him and ordered, "Did you hear the words of the division?" Go get them to flare! ”

"Yes, Chief of Staff!" A staff officer said yes, walked over to a telephone, picked it up and gave an order.

Two minutes later, a flare hit the sky above the Japanese position, illuminating the Japanese position. After a few seconds, another flare glowed over the nearby position, through the strong light emitted by the guò flare. Chen Yutong's telescope clearly saw that the Japanese positions were already in vain, and that there were raging fires everywhere. The sandbags and mounds in front of the trenches were almost leveled, the soil in many places was scorched by the high temperature caused by the explosion of the shells, and the corpses of many Japanese soldiers, bandits, and horsemen and cavalry were scattered around the positions in tatters.

After observing for two minutes, Chen Yu finally straightened up and gave an order: "Order, first send sappers to take the squad as a unit, carry tools to cut the barbed wire fence in each section, send a machine gun team to provide fire support to them, and order the infantry of the 024th Regiment to prepare and let them use the squad as a combat unit." After the sappers cut the barbed wire, they immediately launched an attack on the Japanese position, and then interspersed with an assault on the depth of the Japanese position! ”

Speaking of this, Chen Yu took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and said: "It's now two past five o'clock, I hope that I can rush to the north bank of the Anzi River at half past three in the morning to see the boats collected by the Japanese army by the river!" ”

"Yes, Master!"

After the order was given, the shelling did not stop, and one by one, the engineer squads in squads ran quickly towards the barbed wire wall 100 meters in front of the Japanese position, with shields on their shoulders and waists. In the dark. The observation post on the Japanese position, which was under artillery fire, spotted the figure of the running sappers and immediately greeted: "The people of China are rushing over!" ”

The remaining Japanese soldiers heard the greeting and crawled out of the gun holes to open fire on the sappers, but the light was not very good because it was night. Hence the hit rate is low.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers on the Japanese position, the machine gun team responsible for providing fire cover immediately opened fire on the flashing guns.

Many Japanese troops appeared on the positions one after another, but they were killed by machine gun fire from the opposite side. The intensity of the fire strike made the Japanese soldiers frightened. Some timid Japanese soldiers did not dare to expose their bodies outside the trenches at all.

In the process of firing, the sappers suffered casualties, although. But the casualties were not large, and the sappers were very skillful, apparently having been trained for this situation for a long time, and in a short time the sappers everywhere cut large holes in the barbed wire walls, and also cut off the current in the barbed wire.

Seeing that the sappers had cut through the barbed wire, the infantry that had already been prepared began to attack the Japanese position quickly in a straggler formation in squads, and their speed was very high, just to take advantage of the cover of the night to enter the Japanese trench as quickly as possible and in the shortest possible time.

"Roll, roll, ???????" The Chinese infantry who were attacking rapidly suddenly heard a burst of gunfire from the Japanese position, and the squad leader shouted: "Get down!" ”

The soldiers lay on the ground one after another, and heard the squad leader shouting: "Machine gunner, fire suppression!" ”

The squad machine gunner set up a light machine gun on the back side and fired three consecutive shots at the place where the fire was constantly flashing on the Japanese position in front of him, and soon the Japanese firepower on this section of the position became smaller, and the squad leader picked up his rifle again and shouted: "Charge!" ”

The soldiers in front of them ran more than ten meters and stopped squatting to shoot at the Japanese position, while the people behind them quickly passed them forward and continued to rush forward after they shot, and soon these soldiers also stopped and shot in a squatting position.

Just as the soldiers were rapidly attacking the barbed wire fence erected by the Japanese army, a string of tongues of fire suddenly appeared from the Japanese position, "Da Da?????? Da da ??????".

Several soldiers who rushed to the front could not react to be swept by the bullets, and with a sound of "lying down", the soldiers fell down one after another, and returned fire with rifles one by one, and for a while the gunfire was loud, and the Japanese positions on the opposite side also eased up at this time, and the density of the gunfire was also increasing, and it seemed that more and more remnants of the Japanese army woke up from the anti-artillery hole or from the shelling just now and joined the battle.

"Call for artillery support!"

The order was quickly conveyed, and the mortar squad quickly opened fire on the Japanese positions behind the offensive positions, "tom, tom, tom, ??????" Mortar shells flew out of the muzzles, and as the screams echoed in the sky, there were soon large-scale explosions and fires in the Japanese positions.

In trench warfare, the power of the mortar has indeed been brought into full play, and its curved firing performance can make the shell fall in the trench or behind the obstacle body and explode to destroy the enemy's firepower, which is a function that self-aiming artillery does not have.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese position was bombarded by mortar at this time, and the Japanese troops on the position were bombed to the ground, suffered heavy casualties, and could not form an effective blockade, the attacking infantry picked up their rifles again and got up and rushed forward as fast as they could. Soon soldiers cut through the barbed wire fence and rushed towards the Japanese positions a hundred meters ahead.

At this time, the Japanese position has been bombarded by mortar in a mess, although the mortar weapon was first invented and used in the Russo-Japanese War, but the mortar at that time was extremely simple, and the power is also limited, it can not be compared with the mortar with mature technology used by the Chinese National Defense Force, the power is not the same, and so many years have passed on the plane, the Japanese soldiers have not fought, no one has ever seen this kind of individual artillery, let alone know that it has the ability to shoot curved, When the screaming sound of the shells piercing the air barrier in the sky was heard by the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were still a little curious, but the results that came at any time were not so fun, and they accurately landed in or near the trenches one by one, almost eliminating all the Japanese troops in a section of the defensive line.

But when the attacking infantry charged to less than 50 meters from the Japanese position, under the leadership of the squad leader or platoon leader, they collectively shouted: "Rush, kill!" ”

When this voice reached the mortar position behind, the officer commanding the mortar position knew that his infantry was not far from the Japanese position, and immediately raised his palm and shouted: "Stop shelling!" ”

If it is daytime, perhaps the attack can be clearly seen from the mortar position, and the artillery commander can judge with the naked eye whether his infantry has rushed to the enemy's position, and then calmly order to stop the shelling, but not at night, the night is affected by the light, the artillery commander can not judge with the naked eye, can only judge by the shouts of his own infantry when they charge, once the charge shouts sound, the artillery commander hears this sound and orders to stop the shelling.

When the last round of shells fell into or around the enemy's position trench and exploded, within a few seconds the attacking infantry just rushed into the Japanese trench, the soldiers held rifles one by one, holding rifles, seeing that there were Japanese soldiers nearby immediately rushed up with a gun and stabbed, the sound of "poof" bayonet piercing into the body sounded, this sound made people feel cold in their hearts.

When they saw Japanese soldiers in the distance, they opened fire with their rifles, but when they rushed around the corner and saw Japanese soldiers on the other side, they took out a grenade from their waists, pulled off the safety bolt, delayed for a few seconds, and threw it next to the corner.

There was a "boom", but the explosion was excessive, and the fighters quickly rushed out from around the corner, pointing their rifles ahead, and did not move on until there were no living enemies in sight.

In less than half an hour, a long section of the Japanese position was cleared by the soldiers, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the trenches lay horizontally, and there were more stumps and broken arms.

Subsequently, the attacking troops regrouped and set off, interspersed with assaults from the communication trenches to the Japanese positions in the direction of depth, and when the communication trenches encountered Japanese troops blocking on the opposite side, a grenade threw over to solve the problem, but when many Japanese soldiers were blocking the trenches with rifles, the light machine gunners dispatched a shuttle of bullets to spray over to solve the problem. (To be continued......)