Already when the Japanese transferred their artillery positions, the first line of defense occupied by the Chinese troops had already stopped shelling. Shaking the dirt off his body, Xu Zhisong pinched the cigarette butt and scolded and got up, blaming the Japanese for soiling his military uniform.

The soldiers also crawled out of their hiding places, patting the dirt on their bodies one by one, and some even took off their steel helmets to let their heads breathe.

"Bang!" Suddenly, a gunshot rang out.

The soldiers reacted quickly and all lay on the back wall of the trench, and no one appeared on the second line of defense of the Japanese army on the opposite side, what was going on, Xu Zhisong shouted: "What's going on? Who shoots? ”

One of the soldiers shouted: "Squad leader, the Japanese have come from the communication trench!" As he spoke, he fired another shot at the other side.

Xu Zhisong immediately shouted: "One group and two groups of guards, the others come with me!" ”

Coming to the entrance of the traffic trench with a few soldiers, Xu Zhisong really saw some Japanese rushing over quickly with bright bayonets, and immediately scolded: "I'm rubbing, the Japanese are bold enough to dare to launch a counterattack against us, what are you waiting for, brothers, give me a fight, the machine gun team will come over, put the machine gun at the entrance and sweep Lao Tzu, sweep them to death!" ”

The machine gunner immediately came over with a light machine gun, lay on the ground, set up the machine gun, aimed it at the large group of Japanese soldiers who came over, and opened fire: "Da da da ?????? ".

At this time, gunshots were also heard from other trenches, and apparently the other platoons also checked the traffic trench where they were after discovering the situation here, and sure enough, they found that Japanese troops were rushing over, so they opened fire.

After one magazine was exhausted, all the Japanese soldiers of the squad that rushed into the trench were killed in the trench, and the Japanese army obviously did not expect that the Chinese squad platoon would have machine guns. A long section of the trench was dug in a straight line, and this small group of Japanese soldiers just rushed into this straight line of trench. Moreover, the traffic trench is not very spacious, and only two people can pass through the guò. A machine gun was mounted at the entrance, and a single bullet could kill several Japanese soldiers, which was nothing short of a massacre.

When all the Japanese soldiers in the communication trench fell, Xu Zhisong made a gesture to a group of two soldiers, and the two immediately bowed over with rifles, one of them advanced along the communication trench, the other responded outside the trench, and the second group of three soldiers climbed out of the trench to cover in the rear.

A group of two soldiers examined the bodies of the Japanese soldiers in the trench, and all of them died. The two will soon make gestures to this side, Xu Zhisong thought about it and gestured to them a few more times, asking them to touch the bend of the traffic trench to investigate, and the two gave a thumbs up and continued to move forward.

At this time, the fighting in the communication trenches in other positions was basically over, and the Japanese plot to use this opportunity to carry out a sneak attack was officially declared bankrupt.

"Squad leader, the Japanese are rushing over!" A soldier in the second group shouted.

This time, the Japanese were officially counterattacking from the front from the front from the second line of defense, Xu Zhisong observed and found that the scale of the Japanese army's use this time was not small, just the trench they defended. The Japanese used a small detachment, three times as many troops.

"Ha, if the sneak attack fails, start a frontal counterattack, okay, good. The Japanese are really tough, brothers, armed! Xu Zhisong shouted loudly. The soldiers immediately found their firing positions in the trenches, and the machine gunners mounted their machine guns on the flanks. This made it possible to fire machine gun flanks at the Japanese, even if the Japanese were scattered. Heavy casualties were also suffered in the face of machine gun side fire.

"Fire!" However, when the Japanese counterattack troops advanced to a distance of more than 200 meters, Xu Zhisong gave the order to open fire.

"Bang"

"Bang bang bang".

"Dadada??????" For a while, there were bursts of gunfire on the position, and some of the Japanese soldiers who were rushing over kept falling.

"Tom ??????"

"Boom, boom, boom??????" At this time, the heavy machine gun squad and mortar platoon began to fire at the front, and large swaths of the Japanese troops fell, and three or five Japanese soldiers were constantly blown away by the shells.

The momentum of the Japanese attack was suppressed, and the Japanese soldiers had to lie on the ground to dodge bullets and shells, and then at this time, the heavy artillery company directly under the battalion headquarters and the mountain artillery battalion of the regimental headquarters began to shell the Japanese troops who launched the attack, and the artillery fire was so fierce and dense that most of them could not be spared even if they were lying on the ground.

Half an hour after the massive shelling, the Japanese finally got terrified, and some Japanese soldiers were so frightened that they got up and turned to run. There was neither sea and air superiority, nor artillery support, and under such circumstances, the Japanese actually launched a counterattack, and Xu Zhisong had to admire the courage of the Japanese.

At this time, the remnants of the Japanese army turned around and fled to the second line of defense of the Japanese army, which was 300 meters away. The artillery fire on the Chinese side has not stopped, at this time the platoon commander came over and shouted: "Xu Zhisong, there is an order from above, take this opportunity for our army to fight a defensive counterattack, and if the Japanese army turns around and flees, our army will take advantage of the situation to follow and attack the second line of defense of the Japanese army, and when the enemy escapes, our army's artillery fire begins to extend, and each squad is ready to attack and attack, the goal of your squad is still the Japanese position of 40 meters opposite, is it clear?" ”

"Understood!"

Two minutes later, the Japanese really began to flee, and our artillery fire began to extend, Xu Zhisong immediately shouted: "Brothers, attack and attack!" ”

Under the organization of Xu Zhisong, a group of tactics attacked from the communication trenches, and the others attacked head-on with him, because there were Japanese deserters in front of them blocking the view of the Japanese troops in the second line of defense, they followed the pursuit in the rear, and there was no risk of being bullets at all.

The Japanese still reacted, and in the second trench, there were Japanese officers yelling at the Japanese soldiers who were fleeing back, telling them to run from both flanks, but at this time, the artillery fire was continuous, the machine guns were ringing non-stop, and the sound of explosions and gunfire muffled the voices of the Japanese officers.

Seeing that the Chinese army was getting closer and closer, the Japanese commander was worried that the Chinese army would rush into the second trench with those Japanese routs, so he ruthlessly ordered an indiscriminate attack, and after the order was issued, the Japanese began to fire and strafe the Japanese rout soldiers who were fleeing.

At this time, the artillery fire of the Chinese army has entered the second line of defense of the Japanese army, and a large number of shells fell into the Japanese position, without dodging the shells, the Japanese casualties were extremely heavy, but the Japanese women did not retreat, they withstood great casualties, braved the fierce artillery fire to withstand the attack of the Chinese army, and the Chinese attacking troops were once blocked.

At this time, the five fighters that had bombed the artillery positions of the Japanese army in the city returned, and when they saw that the battle was in full swing here, they immediately joined the battle group. The Japanese trenches were dug very straight, at this time the study of trench warfare in various countries was not deep, and it was a disaster to not know that the trenches were dug too straight, and the two fighters pressed down the nose and began to strafe at low altitudes along the straight trenches of the Japanese army, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed in the trenches by machine guns, and then three bombers dropped bombs on the Japanese positions, and the bombs exploded out of huge deep pits.

With the support of a large amount of fire from fighters and artillery, the Japanese defenders suffered heavy casualties, and the entire position was full of stumps and broken arms of Japanese soldiers, and the two Japanese brigades deployed on the second line of defense suffered more than 1,500 casualties in less than an hour, losing more than half.

After the fighters left, the Chinese infantry re-attacked, this time the Japanese defenders' firepower was greatly weakened, and the Chinese army attacked the second line of defense of the Japanese army, and then the battle to clear the trenches continued.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the second trench of the Japanese army was fully occupied by the Chinese army, no one in the Japanese army fled into the third line of defense behind them, and the last remaining Japanese troops did not retreat until the last Japanese soldier died, no one took the initiative to surrender, the Japanese this stubborn spirit deeply shook the whole Chinese army, due to the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army, the first battalion of the third regiment of the 45th division suffered heavy casualties when attacking the first two lines of defense, and the ammunition also needed to be replenished urgently, so the task of attacking the third line of defense outside the city of the Japanese army was handed over to the second battalionThe 1st Battalion was tasked with collecting the remains of officers and soldiers killed in battle, then withdrawing to the rear to rest and recuperate, while replenishing ammunition, sending the wounded to the rear field hospital for treatment, and the second line of defense to be handed over to the 3rd Battalion to take over and consolidate.

The task of consolidating the position is not very easy, and the combat structure of the squad unit must respond quickly under the command of the squad leader, and the squad leader must quickly dispatch vigilance and observation, promptly clarify the task, adjust the deployment, organize firepower, help rescue the wounded, receive ammunition, build or repair fortifications, set up obstacles, carry out camouflage, guard against the enemy's fire retaliation, and make good preparations to resist the enemy's impact.

Xu Zhisong's squad at this time among the remaining people, including him, there were only 12, six of them were wounded, and three people were killed directly, that is to say, the casualties reached 60%, from this point, it can be seen that the casualties of the entire first battalion responsible for the attack also exceeded 60%, and the total strength of the infantry battalion was more than 900 people, which was about equivalent to a large brigade of the Japanese army at this time, but the Japanese army deployed troops on the first two lines of defense reached an infantry wing, and the Chinese army attacked an infantry wing of the Japanese army with a battalion, and completely annihilated. Despite the large number of artillery and fighter support, even if the Germans could not fight this kind of record, it is not surprising that the casualties of the first battalion exceeded sixty percent.

After the first battalion withdrew to the rear, the attack on the front did not stop, the third battalion took over the task of consolidating the position of the second line of defense, and the second battalion was responsible for attacking the third line of defense of the Japanese army, the Japanese army was defeated too quickly, which made the senior generals of the Japanese division in the city shocked, according to the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, I was afraid that Fukuoka would not be able to stand it for a few days and would be captured by the Chinese army, the Japanese in the city began to panic, and there were Japanese fleeing to the rear everywhere, and every family dragged a family to push a wheelbarrow, Some fled to the northeast island of Shikoku with their belongings in donkey carts and carriages. (To be continued......)