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Fukaya City is only 25 kilometers away from Takasaki. The 9th and 10th Divisions of the Eighth Army captured it on 14 November to strengthen the threat to the Japanese forces assembled in Takasaki. The follow-up main force of the Eighth Army was in Kumagaya City, ten kilometers east of Fukaya City.

On November 15, the Japanese Minister of War Katsura Taro personally dropped 600,000 Japanese troops, and Jininggong Takasaki set out to attack Fukaya City. The 600,000 troops included elite units such as the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Japanese Army, as well as cannon fodder units composed of 300,000 soldiers in the countryside. Katsura Taro assured Aritomo Yamaprefecture that this time he would definitely be able to defeat the squadron and win.

On the afternoon of November 15, Japanese troops arrived in Fukaya City. Immediately, under the command of Katsura Taro, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Fukaya City. The 9th and 10th Divisions of the Eighth Army, immediately after capturing the city of Fukaya, began to build defensive positions. By the time the Japanese began their attack, improvised defensive positions had already been constructed. The artillery battalions of both divisions were ready for battle.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the fate of the Japanese Empire is in your hands. For the sake of the future of the Japanese Empire, please fight to the death! On the eve of the attack, the Japanese Minister of War Katsura Taro summoned all the officers of the Japanese army above the rank of wing commander to give a lecture, so that these officers, who were the first to take the lead, were ready to sacrifice for Japan.

"For the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, kill the people of Hirothichina!" The Japanese officers shouted one after another.

"Haha! Good! Come. Serve! "For everyone's table xiàn. Katsura Taro was very satisfied. In his opinion. As long as everyone unites and launches a fierce attack on the squadron, the final victory must belong to Japan.

Soon, some soldiers brought the Japanese light and tasteless sake, and each officer drank doubled, and then smashed the cup to show his determination to fight to the end with the squadron.

Two o'clock in the afternoon. The Japanese launched the first wave of attacks on Fukaya City, in which the Japanese army committed a total of six divisions and 110,000 men to attack from the west of Fukaya City.

The squadron ** team, outside of Fukaya City, has built three lines of defense. Among them, the first line of defense was garrisoned by the 9th Division and the 91st and 92nd Regiments. The second line of defense behind was garrisoned by the 101st and 102nd regiments of the 10th Division. The third line of defense was the 93rd Regiment of the 9th Division and the 103rd Regiment of the 10th Division. In Fukaya City, it is the direct subordinate troops of two divisions. Including artillery battalions, guard battalions, as well as reconnaissance battalions and other units. Three lines of defense, each separated by only one kilometer. The artillery position, which is located in the city of Fukatani, can provide strong fire support for all three lines of defense in front.

Although the Japanese army invested 110,000 troops in the first wave of attacks, among these six divisions, except for one 23rd division, which was fairly well equipped, the remaining five divisions were all composed of soldiers in the countryside. These soldiers in the township did not even have rifles, their weapons were only spears, bamboo knives, bamboo guns, and even hunting forks for hunters and hoes for farmers. It's just that these soldiers in the township are still howling, like wild wolves, and they are not afraid of death to attack the position of the squadron.

"Kill! Kill these damned Shina people and drive them out of Japan! The Japanese soldiers shouted and quickly rushed to the position of the squadron.

When the Japanese rushed to the position of the squadron for a kilometer, the artillery positions in the rear opened fire. Two artillery battalions, 72 105-mm light howitzers and 24 155-mm heavy howitzers, launched artillery strikes at the attacking Japanese troops according to the pre-marked firing elements. These soldiers in the township are not young, they have long forgotten the combat qualities they learned during their service, and they attacked the position of the squadron in a mess, which just gave the Chinese artillery the opportunity to inflict severe casualties on them.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "One shell after another exploded in the middle of the Japanese army, blowing up those Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death. The eruption of air waves threw these Japanese soldiers high into the sky, and then fell down fiercely. In this way, even if they were not killed, they were killed.

In particular, the 155-mm heavy howitzer, with shells weighing up to 42 kg, was extremely powerful. Every time a shell exploded, almost all the Japanese troops within a radius of 100 meters were killed, and no one could escape.

"Kill!" The Japanese soldiers, who were still howling loudly one second, have become a puddle of minced meat in the next moment, and they can't die anymore! However, even with such heavy casualties, these Japanese troops were still not frightened. As if ignoring the death of their comrades, they only knew how to charge forward desperately. And the artillery of the squadron, which played the role of the god of death, constantly harvested the humble lives of these Japanese.

The artillery fire was very fierce, but the number of attacking Japanese troops was too large, and after paying a heavy price, many Japanese troops still rushed into a place less than 500 meters away from the position of the squadron.

"Fire!" Brigadier General Liang Cheng, the deputy commander of the Ninth Division, commanded the battle on the first line of defense, and in the face of the black oppressive Japanese troops that attacked like a tide, he still gave the order to attack without changing his face.

"Da Da Da! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! "More than 200 light machine guns, 72 heavy machine guns, 120 mortars, and more than 10 infantry guns and heavy mortars deployed on the first line of defense opened fire. The dense firepower immediately contained the offensive posture of the Japanese army. In particular, the crossfire formed by light and heavy machine guns completely blocked the path of the Japanese advance. The Japanese troops who were charging were like cutting wheat, and they fell to the ground one by one.

Under such intensive firepower, the superiority of the Japanese army in strength almost completely lost its effect. No matter how many troops are invested, they will only be slaughtered. Despite the fact that these Japanese troops were completely desperate, they were able to rush to a position of less than a hundred meters at most, and then they could no longer go deeper. The corpses on the ground had already pounced on a thick layer, and even had a severe impact on the Japanese attack.

The Chinese soldiers, at first, were still enthusiastic, but gradually became numb. Because, this is not like a battle at all, but a massacre. In front of the squadron, the Japanese army had no power to counterattack at all. All the Chinese soldiers had to do was numbly pull the trigger and fire the bullets from their guns.

"Your Excellency, the firepower of the people of China is too strong, we have mobilized more than 100,000 people, and we can't break through their defenses!" Lieutenant General Kawamura Keiaki, commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, said with a shocked face. Such dense firepower was completely unthinkable in the eyes of the Japanese army. In order to save resources, the Japanese army did not even have many heavy machine guns, let alone the Chinese assigned machine guns to the squad level.

"I didn't expect to be able to break through the defense line of the China people in one go, the China people have a lot of firepower, but they also consume ammunition quickly. As long as you can consume as much ammunition as possible, the task of the warriors will be accomplished! Japanese War Minister Katsura Taro said coldly. The Japanese troops who are attacking the squadron are only useful for consuming the squadron's ammunition.

The battle lasted for more than an hour before it ended, because the attacking Japanese army had almost lost all casualties, except for the more than 10,000 people who fled back, the remaining 100,000 Japanese troops had all fallen on the attacking position.

It was discovered that there were deserters, which made Katsura Taro very dissatisfied. He immediately ordered all these deserters to be killed to deter the rest of the Japanese army. When a large number of deserters were executed, the remaining Japanese soldiers were also terrified. Since escaping is death, and attacking is also death, it is better to attack desperately, and maybe there is still a glimmer of life.

At half past three in the afternoon, the Japanese army once again mobilized six divisions and launched an attack on the position of the squadron. More than 100,000 people, chanting slogans, launched an attack without fear of death.

The fierce slaughter began again, and the squadron slaughtered these Japanese with intensive firepower. However, the intensive firepower also made the squadron's ammunition deplete very quickly. In particular, the barrel of light and heavy machine guns, because of the high-intensity shooting, was consumed very quickly, and in the course of the battle, the barrel had to be replaced, which caused a weakening of firepower, which gave the Japanese an opportunity. Several times they were almost attacked by the Japanese army.

The battle lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the 91st and 92nd regiments, which were guarding the first line of defense, were ordered to withdraw from the first line of defense and retreated to the city of Fukaya to rest.

After breaking through the first line of defense of the squadron, the morale of the Japanese army was greatly boosted, and then they launched an attack on the second line of defense of the squadron. In the face of the dense firepower of the second line of defense, the Japanese army was still bleeding. But even so, the Japanese army was still attacking regardless of casualties, and it seemed that they wanted to exchange huge casualties for the retreat of the squadron.

By the morning of November 16, when the squadron abandoned the third line of defense and retreated to Fukaya City, the Japanese had paid at least nearly 400,000 casualties. Among them, the more than 300,000 cannon fodder troops were all lost. The remaining divisions, armed with rifles, also suffered heavy losses.

"Everyone, victory is at hand. The 1st and 2nd Divisions immediately entered the battle, attacked Fukaya City, and killed all the people of Shina! Katsura Taro ordered excitedly. In his opinion, victory seemed to be in sight.

It's just that the Japanese army's attack on Fukaya City is still very unsmooth. Although the squadron withdrew to Fukaya City, it did not suffer any losses, and the firepower was still strong, so that the Japanese could not attack the city.

On November 17, the main force of the Eighth Army, which was in Kumagaya City, also took the opportunity to launch an attack on the Japanese army. The exhausted Japanese army was simply unable to resist the attack of the squadron, and was defeated again!