"Woo-"

The dense group of planes flew above the position, and the bombers painted with dazzling plaster flags, one after another, let out a sharp roar, swooped down from a high altitude, and one after another huge aerial bombs with the breath of death smashed down towards the defense line of the Chinese army on the ground.

Dust and smoke rose from the position, and hot shrapnel flew freely in the tumbling heat, mercilessly strangling all exposed targets.

The three battalions of the artillery regiment directly under the new 2nd Division were under its jurisdiction, and each battalion had an antiaircraft artillery company under its jurisdiction, which was equipped with 12 antiaircraft guns.

Twelve anti-aircraft guns and more than 20 light and heavy machine guns formed a powerful anti-aircraft firepower, and a Japanese carrier-based fighter plane passed back and forth in the dense anti-aircraft fire network, trying to dodge the bombs that kept exploding around it, but it was unsuccessful, several armor-piercing incendiary bombs hit the 96 ship attack, and the Japanese fighter set up a raging fire, dragging a long black smoke ribbon behind its buttocks.

Faced with the temptation to shoot down the Japanese fighters, the anti-aircraft fire on the ground suddenly became much denser, and a series of tongues of fire followed closely behind the Japanese fighters dragging billowing black smoke in an attempt to flee into the southeast sky.

"Boom-"

A loud bang came, and the Japanese 96 ships burst into a fireball in the air, and the flying wreckage shot out of the flames and fell to the ground one after another.

It is a pity that the Japanese army has too many fighters, and in order to cooperate with the attack, the Japanese army has used more than 40 fighters, and the ground anti-aircraft fire is very flawed, although three Japanese planes have been shot down since then, but it has also attracted more frenzied retaliation from the Japanese aircraft group, and the air defense positions have been covered by aerial bombs that have been smashed down all over the sky, and the sea of fire has annihilated those warriors who are shooting at the air.

A millimeter Erly anti-aircraft gun, which had not had time to be transferred, was blown to pieces, the slender barrel flew into the sky, two wheels flew out of the gun carriage, several gunners on the gun position were immediately shattered, and the officers and men who were loading and transporting around were also blown away, and they were immediately torn to pieces by sharp shrapnel.

As the anti-aircraft guns on the anti-aircraft positions either fell apart or moved to concealment, the Japanese 96 warships, which had lost the threat, began to bombard the ground positions with impunity, and the positions were once again surrounded by churning flames.

From beginning to end, the artillery group of the new 2nd Division did not dare to show its face - the Japanese had too much air superiority, and at this time, as long as they lost their minds a little, no matter how much artillery was invested, they would be blown into parts by the little devil's fighters and turned into piles of scrap steel and rotten iron.

As the Japanese planes finished bombing and went away, the Japanese ground troops, led by four tanks and six armored vehicles, rushed violently towards the Haitang River, which was only 40 to 50 meters wide.

Shanghai Tang is the name of a section of the river from the East Lake District of Pinghu Lake to Xuputang in Zhujing Town, with a total length of about 30 kilometers, through which Haiyan, Pinghu, Zhapu, Jinshan, Zhujing and other towns are connected, and there is absolutely no problem with one or two hundred tons of tugboats in later generations. But now it is the troubled era of the Republic of China, due to disrepair, Zhapu pond is piled up with sediment, and in winter, as the water level drops, many sections of the river become a shallow, which can be waded through.

The breakthrough position chosen by the Japanese army was such a shoal.

The Japanese army soon rushed to the embankment, and the Japanese Type 95 light tanks could not cross the river, so they stopped on the river ridge as a temporary battery, and a large number of Japanese troops crossed the tanks and armored vehicles, rushed into the river where the water level was only to the calf, and rushed to the opposite bank. The other part of the Japanese army belonged to the sappers, who carried the door panels dismantled from nearby villages and prepared to erect pontoon bridges.

"Fire"

Lieutenant Zheng Kui, the commander of the first company, had already led his troops out of the anti-artillery hole and entered the firing position when the Japanese artillery fire had stopped. When the Japanese approached the front of the position 50 meters, the commander of the Zheng Company roared, and the Czech light machine gun in his hand spat out hot flames, and then the other 12 Czech light machine guns of the company also sang happily.

One after another, the fire whips swept towards the scattered Japanese troops, and the many devil soldiers who were trying to trudge through the mud became live targets, only to see the blood of the devil's front splashed, and a large number of Japanese soldiers screamed and fell into the river.

With the crisp sound of more than 20 Thomson submachine guns and 70 or 80 Mauser Nl4 rifles, dozens more convulsive corpses were added to the river, and the blood immediately stained the surface of the river red.

I didn't expect that the front position would still have defenders after the continuous blows of the naval guns and bombers, and the devils were caught off guard for a while, and in just twenty or thirty seconds of firepower, two or three hundred devil soldiers fell into the icy river.

The reacting Devil front commander on the opposite bank of the river was a Shao Zuo, and the moment the shots rang out, he flashed behind the tank and watched in amazement as his soldiers danced a dance of death in the Chinese army's firepower.

"Kill and give—"

Annoyed and angry, the devil Shaozuo brandished his command knife, and in his extremely ugly howl, the devil who was squatting in the river and lying on the river ridge immediately organized a counterattack on the spot with the 38 guns and crooked machine guns in his hands, and at the same time, the machine gun squadron and grenadiers behind also began to deploy.

At a distance of 100 meters, the advantages of the devil soldiers' good marksmanship were fully displayed, and one by one, the officers and men of the company who nodded a little more to shoot were all shot and fell without exception.

Company Commander Zheng was angry and anxious when he saw it, and pressed the correspondent next to him who was shooting indiscriminately with his head up: "You don't want to die on a dog day?" With that, he dropped the Czech light machine gun with empty magazines, grabbed the Mauser Nl4 rifle from the guard's hand with his hand, pulled the bolt, and with a little aiming, knocked a devil machine gunner who was pouring bullets madly at the position to the handle.

"Why are you stunned? Why don't you help me load the bullet quickly" buried his head to avoid the retaliation of the devil's machine gun bullet rain, and Company Commander Zheng yelled at the communicator who was in a daze.

Then, Zheng Lian Changxiao cautiously raised his head, firmly lassoed the crosshair of a devil's marksman, and a "whoosh" bullet whistling from the scalp did not make the tenacious Zheng Kui's eyes blink, he gently pulled the trigger with his index finger, and the bullet that came out of the disembowel almost instantly swept a distance of dozens of meters and hit the target directly.

The main function of the steel helmet on the battlefield is to prevent artillery shell fragments, and it can also prevent long-distance bullets, but at a distance of 100 meters, even if the bullet cannot penetrate the helmet, the huge momentum can break the cervical vertebrae. Therefore, the devil machine gunner wearing a steel helmet who was shooting frantically only heard a loud bang overhead, and then the huge pain that followed made him involuntarily let out a frightened and terrible scream, and then he lowered his head and fell on the handle of the crooked machine gun, and the red and white mixture shot out like a spring of water from the bullet hole in front of the steel helmet on his head.

The devil's sub-shooter let out a scream of fright, shrunk his head and was stunned for a while before he came to his senses, pushed away the main shooter whose body was still twitching, grabbed the sticky handle of the gun and continued to shoot wildly.

At the same time, the Japanese Type 95 light tanks on the embankment began to turn their turrets, preparing to clear the machine gun fire on the opposite bank one by one.

It was too late to say that it was too fast, and several rockets shot out of the shooting holes of several pillboxes, flying low in the air with flame tails, and just hit the body of the devil's "bean chariot", and an explosion rang out, and the jet of the rocket pierced through the devil's light tank, and the crew inside was instantly killed by the fragments that burst open.

In just a minute, the four devil tanks had turned into burning coffins, and the rest of the armored vehicles saw that the situation was not good, and they retreated to a place of 300 meters one after another to act as a machine gun fire point.

The continuous explosion of the tank startled the devil Shaozo, who had just come to the shallow ditch under the embankment to check the situation on the battlefield, but the current situation, he could not hesitate, waved his hand, and ordered to continue to strengthen the attack.

With the continuous arrival of the follow-up troops of the devils, an absolute superiority in strength was soon formed.

On the Chinese army's defensive line, a company of machine gunners and submachine gunners distributed at various points fired with all their might regardless of the danger, and a dense rain of bullets swept towards the Japanese army.

The devils in the river were cleared, and the rest of the devils had to hide behind the embankment on the opposite bank and shoot at the defenders. Due to the need to dodge bullets, many devils can only stick their heads to the ground and shoot blindly, and their accuracy is greatly affected.

The devil's machine guns have been firing desperately, a small number of crooked handles are used to suppress the riflemen of the Chinese defenders on the opposite shore position, and the rest have launched a suppression and counter-suppression competition with a company of light machine guns and submachine guns. Both sides desperately tried to suppress the opponent's machine gunners, endured a terrible rain of bullets like flying locusts, and after the flaming tongues staggered in the air, they each pounced on the other's flaming tongues of fire where they were most happy.

In a crumbling bunker, Company Commander Zheng, who had changed his firing position, took the magazine handed by the communicator, loaded it, took a slight aim, and then shot at the target. In order to suppress the Japanese sharpshooters, he constantly shifted the direction of his shots, and at most one magazine in one place had to rush to the next.

"Da-da-"

Another accurate short burst shot turned a devil sharpshooter who raised his head and aimed into a bloody gourd, and there was almost no pause, and Company Commander Zheng took the Czech light machine gun and flashed to the side. The moment he moved away, a dense stream of machine-gun bullets pierced through the firing hole.

"Lian...... Company commander, this is ...... You're the eighteenth devil you're fighting," the communications soldier cried out in surprise, looking at the company commander who was gasping for air, his face full of respect.

"It's not like I thought about it at the beginning, when Lao Tzu was in the spy company......"

Speaking of this, Company Commander Zheng took a few breaths again, adjusted his breathing, and did not continue to boast, but shouted "go", and rushed through the trench with a machine gun to another pillbox.

"Bagaya Road Shooting"

Seeing that he had no advantage in the cross-fire, the devil Shaozuo kept urging the Type 92 heavy machine gun group and grenadier group that were still being erected.

More than a dozen Type 92 heavy machine guns were the first to roar, and one after another flaming whips were fiercely drawn towards the positions of the Chinese defenders on the opposite bank, focusing on "taking care" of those light machine guns.

The three machine gunners who were shooting desperately did not even snort, and fell headlong into the position, and the three sub-shooters did not hesitate at all, grabbed the butt stained red by blood, and the dumb machine gun roared again.

With the addition of the devil's heavy machine gun to the battle group, the Japanese quickly gained the upper hand in this duel, and one machine gun shooter after another fell in a pool of blood on the position of the company.

Immediately afterwards, the grenadiers assembled by the devils also shrouded the melon grenades towards the positions on the opposite bank at a maximum speed of 30 rounds per minute amid the sound of "clanging" shots.

Successive explosions rang out, the machine gunners of the company that had been bombarded with heavy bombardment screamed one after another, and one after another officers and men rose into the air in the light of the fire, and the sky seemed to rain blood, and the fragments and internal organs of the human body fell like raindrops.

The machine-gun fire of the first company was completely muted in a short time, and the voice of the devil commander, like the howl of a wolf, sounded again.

"Kill and give—"

The devils lying under the embankment, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, rushed into the river with a roar of thirty-eight guns with bayonets on them, ready to break into the defenders' positions in one fell swoop.

"Grenade"

Company Commander Zheng, who was gray-faced and gray-faced, staggered out of the pile of corpses, pulled the lead of the grenade in his hand, and threw it out after a slight pause. Thirty or forty grenades smashed densely into the devil formation in the impact.

"Boom-"

Explosions came one after another, and a large number of devils who had become slow after wading through the water were pierced into blood-spraying gourds by the shrapnel of the grenades that exploded in the air.

However, the red-eyed devil who had already killed him didn't care about the shrapnel flying in the sky, nor did he look at the robe that fell in the red-dyed river, and continued to rush forward with his head down.

The angry devil Shaozo did not care about the soldiers who had rushed to the front of the defenders' position more than ten meters away, and ordered the grenadiers to shoot immediately.

Dark clouds of grenades roared towards the defenders' positions, and the grenades that rained down exploded in the air continuously, no weaker than the explosion of a large-caliber naval artillery shell. A wave of air swept through the sky, destroying everything at the center of the explosion.

Under the continuous bombardment of the devil's grenadiers, the officers and men of the first company were quickly killed and wounded, and seeing that the devils were about to break through to the position, a fierce rain of bullets shot from the rear, and one by one the devils fell five meters in front of the trench with a mournful wail

Company Commander Zheng, who was already preparing to die with the devil, hurriedly looked back, and there were crowds of people in the traffic trenches, and it turned out that the regiment commander Han Tiecheng had arrived with reinforcements.

"Captain"

Zheng Kui couldn't hold on any longer, his body suddenly slumped to the ground, the red blood on his thighs almost stained his pants red, and there were also a lot of wounds on his head, and half of his face was covered with blood.

Seeing Zheng Kui, the most courageous company commander under his command, in such a tragic situation, Han Tiecheng felt a sour feeling in his heart, patted Company Commander Zheng on the shoulder vigorously, and then rushed towards a pillbox - the Japanese army was close at hand, and this was not the time to comfort.

Without waiting for Han Tiecheng's orders, the unconscionable artillery positions were quickly erected, and the reinforced officers and soldiers drilled into the firing positions of the pillboxes, fortifications and trenches, raised the guns in their hands and shot hard at the Japanese troops.

For a while, there was a lot of gunfire on the defenders' position, and two minutes later, with the firing of the unscrupulous cannon, the devils one hundred and fifty meters in front of the position were quickly emptied.

At this time, the eight Bayi mortars of the rear machine gun company also joined the battle group, and the dense shells fell into the ranks of the Japanese troops, setting off a wave of blood. At the same time, the heavy machine guns reinforced in the rear positions began to sweep wildly, sweeping down the rows of devil soldiers behind the embankment.

"Boom—"

Five tanks reinforced by the Japanese rushed towards the embankment, two of which were Type 97 medium tanks. This medium tank has strong mobility, high reliability, and great development potential, and was called a proud work by the Japanese army. The devils are ready to use these two incomparably hard behemoths to top the river bank as fixed batteries and destroy the Chinese army's defense line in one fell swoop.

The Japanese army had tanks in front, infantry guns and mortars behind to support, and grenadiers rushed to the nearest place to accurately strike at the Chinese army's firepower points. The Han Tiecheng regiment had relatively strong fortifications and pillboxes for defense, and there were mortars in the rear to help the battle, and the firepower of the two sides was basically equal.

"Boom-"

As soon as the cannon rang out, the Japanese Type 97 medium tank drove to the river bank and stopped, and immediately opened fire on a machine-gun fortification with a 57-mm tank gun, where a piece of flesh and blood quickly flew up.

Suddenly, a red light shot out from a semi-hidden pillbox, and ran towards the Japanese tank with a blazing flame tail. Hearing only a "boom", the millimeter-thick forged alloy armor on the front of this Type 97 medium tank was instantly penetrated, and bursts of white smoke rose from the cracks in the body.

Another red light shot towards the other tank, and there was another loud bang, and another bravado Type 97 medium tank was also pierced. Due to the ignition of ammunition in the car, the inside of the tank exploded, and in the "ping pong", the body of the tank continued to be shaken, and then it burst into flames.

The devil infantry hiding behind the tank never thought that the 15-ton behemoth would also sink in front of the bazooka equipped by the Chinese army, and more than a dozen devils were killed by the smashed rivets and steel fragments.

The devil artillery discovered the location of a group of bazooka players, quickly lowered the infantry guns for flat fire, and fired more than ten shells at the pillbox where the exposed bazooka team was located, but the continuous shelling only collapsed one side of the pillbox, revealing a large bundle of steel bars in the shape of twisted flowers.

Although there were not many of these bunkers, which were only half a meter above ground level, they were specially reinforced by the engineering regiment for the bazooka group, but because the top and outer walls were wrapped with two layers of steel bars and cement up to half a meter thick, and the target was not large, they still stood majestically under the bombardment of the Japanese army's large-caliber heavy artillery.

But it was such a sturdy bunker, and one of the bazooka men hiding in it was still killed.

The devil also had red eyes at this time, and the three bean chariots that followed behind the Type 97 medium tank did not retreat, they were still firing fiercely, of course, no one would refuse such a gift sent to the door, and red light was continuously shot out of the bunkers, and four of the six rockets were hit, and the hood of one of the burning bean chariots was opened, and a burst of smoke rushed out, and the two devil tankmen and monkeys hurriedly climbed out, but the rain of machine gun bullets that kept shooting turned them into a blood sieve, and the blood suddenly smeared the surface of the tank.

The battle gradually entered the white heat.

"Old Han"

A hard voice sounded from behind, and Han Tiecheng turned his head to see that it was Fan Daoquan who had arrived with reinforcements.

At this time, the bazooka group had destroyed all the Japanese tanks, and the Japanese armored vehicles had to be evacuated because they ran out of ammunition.

Han Tiecheng didn't care about greeting his friends, and thought about it in his heart, the morale of the devils was about to fall to the bottom, but the morale of the group was bursting because of the reinforcements, when would it be better not to fight back at this time? Immediately give an order to the trumpeter next to him: "Prepare to blow the trumpet"

Then, Han Tiecheng rushed out of the bunker with a light machine gun, and shouted to the surrounding soldiers: "Reinforcements are coming, hurry, rush."

The loud trumpet of the charge sounded, and the officers and men jumped out of the trenches like fierce tigers, gathered all the Fan Dao who came to help, rushed out of the position like a tide, and launched a counter-charge against the Japanese army.

At the same time, the artillery of the 1st and 2nd regiments began to chase the light and heavy machine guns of the devils and suppress the fire of the Japanese troops.

This sudden change made the Japanese army stunned. Almost in the blink of an eye, on the embankment on the east bank of Shanghai Tang, two torrents violently collided together, and the jagged offensive formation of the Japanese army was quickly crushed by the brave officers and men of the new 2nd Division.

The new 2nd Division had the advantage in light weapons, and under the close range of strikes, the devils fell to the ground one by one. The two sides were entangled, the Devil's heavy machine guns were completely useless, and the infantry artillery and mortars, although they tried to stop the shelling and hit the rear of the attacking Chinese army, were soon suppressed by the artillery of the 1st and 2nd regiments.

The firepower superiority of the new 2nd Division was fully displayed, and on the vast battlefield, hundreds of submachine guns were fired at the head and rampage towards the Japanese attacking line. The submachine gunner in front immediately retreated to the side after firing a magazine, and the light machine gunner who followed closely behind swept again, and the devil's attack queue was chiseled through layer by layer.

The melee firepower of the new 2nd Division was too fierce, and the devils who saw that they were hopeless with bayonets retreated to the rear, and the momentum of the rout could no longer be stopped.

The devil captain who supervised the battle in the rear of the left flank was a fierce man, he roared, slashed two deserters to death with his saber, and then led the retreating devil soldiers to launch a counter-charge with his own guards. A row of submachine gun bullets swept by, and the devil captain in front of him was beaten into a bloody hole, and his body rolled into a small ditch at the edge of the field in a strange posture.

The surrounding Japanese soldiers fell to the ground, turned their heads and saw the tragic situation of their commander, and screamed in fright, got up and retreated to the rear.

The young man who supervised the battle on the right flank was much smarter, and when he saw that the defeat was decided, he had no choice but to take the guards and run back. He ran fast, and the Chinese officers and soldiers who were pursuing behind him were even more fierce, Han Tiecheng and Fan Daoquan each held a light machine gun, and swooped towards the starting position of the Japanese soldiers like a tiger in the mountains......