When the flank Wanjiazhuang blocking battle was in full swing, the frontal battlefield of the new Second Division was still small, far from being bloody and cruel as imagined.

The latest news came back from the observation post: The Japanese landing force bypassed the coastal defense positions built by the New Second Division on the front line of Xujialang, Fujialang, and Majiawei, and landed on the salt trench beach four kilometers northeast of the entire defense line.

Wu Ming took a closer look at the map, filtered the entire plan in his head again, confirmed that there were no omissions, and issued the latest order:

"Order Zhou Juncheng to immediately reinforce the forward positions and stop the Japanese attack while retreating. At the same time, he ordered Lu Kuiyuan to lead a company of spies to wait for the opportunity to move, and while preserving himself, he cooperated with Zhou Juncheng's regiment to prepare for luring the enemy."

The communications staff officer immediately went out to convey the order.

Long Shaogang asked with some puzzlement: "Shizuo, if you send Zhou Juncheng to fight the attack, will you let the Japanese army shrink in Longhuqiao Town and wait for the follow-up reinforcements to arrive." If that's the case, it's going to be a tough battle."

Although the New Second Division had built three strong fortifications in front of and behind the Zhajia Line, Wu Ming did not intend to defend passively. After all, the line from Zhapu to Pinghu is close to the sea, and the artillery groups and carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese fleet can give strong fire support to the Japanese army at any time. Therefore, Wu Ming was ready to lure the enemy deeper, and then gather troops to eat the Japanese army in one bite.

There is a key point in this plan: if the Japanese army does not attack steadily, then there is no way to talk about the follow-up plan of encirclement and annihilation.

"Shaogang, you don't know much about the arrogant nature of the Japanese...... If we don't take the initiative to provoke, we won't be able to arouse the revenge of the devils at all, and the Japanese army will not obediently fall into our preset ambush circle."

Wu Ming waved his hand, looking confident.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the arrogance and arrogance of the Japanese army were notoriously known. In the North China battlefield, often a small group of forty or fifty Japanese soldiers dared to chase after a regiment of the Nationalist Army, and at the end of the day, they even captured several times more soldiers than their own. In Shanxi, half of the Banyuan Division managed to defeat more than 300,000 Chinese troops, and successively captured Pingxingguan, Ruyuekou, Yuanping, and Xinkou, causing casualties among more than 10 generals and more than 200,000 national troops.

It was the incompetence of the Nationalist army that fueled the arrogance of the Japanese, and now is the stage when the morale of the Japanese army is at its strongest after the landing operation in Hangzhou Bay.

Long Shaogang understood it after thinking about it. First use Zhou Juncheng's regiment to block the frontal attack, and Lu Kuiyuan will lead the spy company to flank the attack, which will definitely make the Japanese commander hot-headed and make wrong judgments, which will be more conducive to follow-up operations.

The order was conveyed to the 2nd Brigade and 3rd Regiment, and Zhou Juncheng left one battalion as a reserve, and with the officers and men of the other two battalions, he quickly rushed to the forward position. The officers and men bent their waists and kept moving forward in the communication trenches that extended in all directions. The artillery positions deployed on the anticline of Jiulong Mountain continued to pour shells on the attacking Japanese troops, and the area east of Dushantang was covered with artillery fire and gunsmoke.

By this time, the sky was already bright, and although the sky was still overcast, it did not affect the view in the slightest. Standing on the bridge of the battleship "Hiei", Yanagawa Heisuke and others could clearly see the movement of the Chinese defenders through high-powered telescopes, and a single head was rapidly advancing towards the forward position.

"Yaga"

Yanagawa Heisuke was furious, and judging from the reaction of the new 2nd Division's defensive positions, he had already made a preliminary judgment that the Chinese army had only deployed a small number of troops in the southern coastal defense fortifications, and that the previous large-caliber naval guns and aircraft might have bombed the fortifications with no people.

The Japanese officers on the bridge who observed the changes in the battlefield all gritted their teeth with hatred, and Yanagawa Heisuke's face was even more ugly: a completely ineffective artillery bombardment was like a loud slap in the face.

The Japanese are small and small, and most of the steel depends on imports, so they must be economical as much as possible during the battle, and the number and loss of shells must be accurately calculated for the firing of each main gun on the battleship, and the futile bombing is a great blow to Yanagawa Heisuke's confidence.

"The Shina army is too cunning, and its conscience is greatly bad," a lieutenant in the navy scolded with a cold face.

Yanagawa Heisuke quickly calmed down, and although the Chinese army had sent troops to reinforce the forward positions, he was confident that they would be defeated.

Although the 114th Division was formed by the 14th Division's left-behind Japanese troops, the 150th Wing was originally adapted from the 14th Division's left-behind main force.

The commander of the 150th Wing, Yamamoto Shigenomi Nakasa, jumped off his horse triumphantly, and in his eyes, he had four brigades of nearly 5,000 men in his hands, and there were planes in the sky and heavy artillery support at sea.

On the temporary position east of Longhuqiao Town, Yamamoto Shigetsu stood on a fortified mound, picked up a telescope and carefully observed, and soon found that Zhou Juncheng's troops were advancing to the front-line position, and without thinking, immediately assigned two squadrons to reinforce the front, preparing to take advantage of the fact that the opponent's reinforcements did not arrive, and preemptively occupy the fortifications east of Dushantang.

Under the personal leadership of Zhou Juncheng, the officers and men walking in the traffic trench advanced very quickly, and suddenly a earth-shattering explosion sounded

"Woohoo—"

"Boom-"

The Japanese fleet's artillery group opened fire again, and almost instantly, Zhou Juncheng was surrounded by flames and gunsmoke. Countless cannonballs slammed into the ground, and the ground shook violently as if a strong earthquake had occurred, and fireballs rose from the ground. In the light of the fire and the smoke, lumps of dirt were blown into large and small powders, flew into the sky, and fell in the distance.

The air was suddenly filled with the choking smell of gunsmoke, many trenches were blown to pieces, and those pillboxes standing on the surface became the main targets of the bombing, turning into piles of ruins and broken walls in the continuous sound of explosions. I don't know how many officers and soldiers in Lu Dao disappeared from the battlefield in the baptism of iron and fire.

A bomb fell into a traffic trench, and in the sound of the explosion, several soldiers were reduced to flesh and blood

The officers and men hid in the anti-artillery bunkers of the communication trenches, or lay down in the trenches on the spot, and from time to time the officers and men were directly hit by the shells and let out loud screams.

After three or four minutes, the sound of artillery gradually thinned out, and the artillery coverage of the Japanese ship group was declared over.

Zhou Juncheng hurriedly climbed out of the anti-artillery hole, patted the dirt on his body, and shouted at the officers and soldiers: "Quick, get up for Lao Tzu, hurry, hurry."

The brothers hurriedly jumped up and continued to run towards the front vigorously, Zhou Juncheng took a few glances and found that something was wrong, and hurriedly greeted: "All fucking bend over Lao Tzu, do you still want to suffer from the shells of the little devils?" ”

As the battalion and company commanders issued the regiment commander's request, the officers and soldiers subconsciously bowed down, but their steps were faster.

Zhou Juncheng looked up and looked around, just five or six meters on the left, there was a large crater with a diameter of four or five meters and a depth of two or three meters. The loud explosion almost deafened his ears.

Zhou Juncheng was envious of the Japanese artillery fire, and said in his heart that it would be good if we had this kind of cannon when we had it

On the battlefield, the four squadrons of the Japanese army advanced in a straggler formation to the defense line of the new 2nd Division, and the infantry guns deployed in the rear fired shells as if they were not paying for money, and at the same time, the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns set up at high places desperately squandered bullets to suppress the fire of the defenders.

Amid the shouting and scolding of the Japanese commanders, the Japanese troops advanced at a fast pace.

After a while, the officers and men of the reconnaissance company guarding the fortifications felt tremendous pressure, and a reconnaissance company of more than 100 people, distributed in nearly 100 bunkers, was seriously lacking in firepower.

The Thomson submachine gun used by his reconnaissance company was a melee firearm with a maximum firing range of only 200 meters, and in order to avoid startling the snake, no mortars and heavy machine guns were deployed in the front-line positions.

In this case, from the beginning of the Japanese attack, Yu Cheng and his reconnaissance company were pressed and beaten by the Japanese firepower, and even if they counterattacked, they could not hit anyone, which was really aggrieved.

The front repelled the tentative attack of a Japanese squad, and it was also because the sniper lost the leader of the devil's squad, and the soldiers just wanted to rush out of the gang to fight a counter-charge of the Japanese army, but they were immediately suppressed by the Japanese heavy machine gun fire and had to return to the fortifications.

"Company commander, the Japanese soldiers are coming"

Observing the top soldiers shouting to Fang Cheng in front, Fang Cheng stretched out his head to check the Japanese offensive. Driven by their commanders, the dense Japanese troops rushed towards their positions with a roar.

Fang Cheng turned his gaze, swept past most of the Japanese soldiers, and turned his gaze to the Japanese Shao Zuo who was sweeping at the back of the line, and without guessing, he could determine that this person was at least an officer at the level of squadron leader or above.

Fang Cheng stretched out his foot and gently kicked the correspondent next to him, and said to him: "Go, tell Ermaozi to see if he can give the devil Shaozuo away?" ”

After a while, the communicator hunched over and ran back from the trench, rushed into the pillbox and rushed to Yu Cheng, his voice was a little low: "Company commander"

"Say, what did the two cats say?"

Yu Cheng's tone was very dissatisfied, now the Japanese troops of the brigade had almost advanced to a distance of 300 meters in front of the position, and the soldiers began to shoot back sporadically with light machine guns, but the reconnaissance company had too few people, and the combined suppression of the Japanese heavy machine guns and infantry guns made the counterattack ineffective at all.

The correspondent gritted his teeth: "Company commander, after the second cat lost the Japanese squad leader, because he did not transfer in time, the Japanese infantry artillery quickly found him......"

The correspondent's words did not continue, Yu Cheng's eyes turned red, and he shook his fist hatefully.

Zhou Juncheng's purpose in forming a reconnaissance company was to have a trump card on the battlefield, just like the sharp knife company of Han Tiecheng's regiment. This time, he was ordered to come here to take on the task of stopping the Japanese army, which was the first battle after the formation of the reconnaissance company, but due to the gap in firepower and other aspects, he was pressed and beaten by the devils, which made Yu Cheng feel aggrieved.

300 meters, 250 meters, 200 meters...... The Japanese army was rapidly approaching, and the officers and soldiers could already see the hideous face of the devil and the black hole muzzle of the Type 38 rifle in his hand.

Suddenly, more than forty devils in the back squatted down and quickly propped up the grenadiers.

"Watch out for shelling," Yu Cheng shouted.

As soon as the voice fell, dozens of dark red bullet marks swept through the air and roared towards the position.

After the violent explosion, the whistle of the Japanese charge sounded.

More than 1,000 Japanese soldiers rushed towards the Chinese army's defensive line, completely ignoring the sporadic bullets.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters

The devil grenadiers stopped their fire support, and a devil officer pulled out his command knife and brandished: "Kill to give" The Japanese army wanted to use the fierce grenadier attack just now to tear apart the defense line of the Chinese army and crush the defenders in front of it in one fell swoop.

There was no time to observe the company's casualties, so Yu Cheng changed his Mauser rifle and put the crosshair of the gun on the head of the devil officer.

With a bang, the Japanese officer shook violently, his head cracked like a watermelon that had been hit, and a puddle of dirty blood came out, and he threw his head back and fell heavily to the ground.

"Bang bang—"

A fierce gunfire rang out on the position of the Chinese army, which had just been silent. All the submachine guns opened fire in unison, and in the dense gunfire, hundreds of devils fell unwillingly, and at the same time, more than 20 light machine guns roared, and one after another long and short bursts of fire knocked one devil after another to the ground.

The officers and men of the reconnaissance company immediately changed their magazines after firing their bullets and continued to shoot bullets at the enemy.

These devils are well-trained and quickly fight back.

It has to be said that the quality of the Japanese soldiers in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War was very high, and the Japanese army quickly gained an advantage in the shooting at a distance of 100 meters. The Type 38 rifle was in the hands of the devil, like a sniper rifle, and from time to time Chinese soldiers fell screaming, splashing blood all over the ground.

The death or life of the brothers who had no time to fall to the ground, and the fall of their comrades one by one did not make the soldiers afraid, and all the Chinese soldiers who could shoot shot desperately and tried to suppress the fire of the Japanese army.

At this moment, the grenadiers in the rear of the Japanese army rang out one after another, and for a while, the soldiers who did not have time to hide were quickly covered by the flames and smoke. Seeing that the fire of the defenders' positions had weakened, the Japanese soldiers jumped up sharply and rushed towards the front line of defense.

The firepower of the reconnaissance company was completely covered, the situation on the battlefield was one-sided, and Lu Kuiyuan's troops, who were hidden in the dense forests in the south, were in a hurry.

Lei Peng turned around and said: "Battalion commander, the Japanese army is very firepower, and now Yu Cheng, the company commander, they can only hide, and they can't shoot at all, and the Japanese army is about to capture our front-line position."

"Battalion commander, let's attack, just to catch the devil off guard"

"No, we can't strike now"

Lu Kuiyuan refused with a gloomy face, but he still carefully observed the situation on the front line, the Japanese army was advancing very fast, and it was less than fifty meters away from the various pillbox fortifications of our army.

The bullet grazed Yu Cheng's ear and flew over with a trace of blood, thanks to his quick reaction, otherwise Yu Cheng would have to go to see Hades.

There was a burst of pain in his ears, and Yu Cheng didn't have time to pay attention to it, and when he turned his head, he saw that the communicator was hit in the head by a bullet from a Japanese heavy machine gun, and he saw that there was no way to live.

Yu Cheng climbed to the entrance of another cave, and through the lookout of the fortifications, he saw more than a dozen Japanese soldiers attacking, and the first two Japanese soldiers had bayonets dazzling people's eyes and smiling cruelly......