Li Changde's artillery support? Even Lao Zhao's main position artillery is not enough, where is there artillery to support Li Changde's position? The support was given by Sun Tao. Under the condition of building bridges and paving roads, the artillery of the advance army was urgently transported all the way from Changdang Lake, which is full of water, and arrived in Changzhou.

As soon as the artillery arrived in Changzhou, some of them directly entered the artillery positions in Changzhou, and some of them continued to move, following the road that had been repaired in advance by an engineer battalion, and approached the positions along the line.

At the same time, Qu Jun had just left a brigade to clean up the battlefield, leading six divisions to rush wildly, at a speed of 15 kilometers an hour, to reinforce the most tight area.

The soldiers ran one by one, showing a speed beyond the camping training, rushing in the fields, in the mountains and forests, and on the streams, dividing their troops into several roads, and galloping to the aid of the sparks.

Sun Tao did not expect the Japanese attack to be so resolute. Originally, he estimated that Lao Zhao would withstand for five hours, and his side would use superior forces to eat the four divisions of Danyang, and then stabilize this defense line.

However, the speed and intensity of the Japanese attack greatly exceeded expectations. He had no reinforcements in his hand, and there was only one battalion in the entire Changzhou, and all the others were scattered. Those who escort artillery, those who have superior forces to annihilate the enemy from Wuxi, and those who hold all the key roads. When he learned that Lao Zhao was in an emergency, he quickly gave Qu Jungang an order to rush to help.

Twenty self-propelled artillery pieces retreated at a speed of one hour and thirty kilometers after the end of the battle, and as soon as they arrived at their original garrison positions, the task of shelling arrived.

The artillery quickly turned the head of the car and rushed to Lao Zhao's main position, and stopped advancing when the Qu army was just running wildly, when the Changzhou artillery was erected, and there were still three kilometers away from the main position. Then, when Zhu Yuan arrived, the artillery roared.

The battle between the 34th Division and Lao Zhao, which was in a stalemate, came and went, and when there was no cheapness in the slightest, there was a sudden rumbling scream in the sky. The piercing scream stunned the attacking Japanese troops, and made the old Zhao troops who were fighting nervously happy. Then, as the earth shook, clusters of flames exploded in the crowd of charging Japanese soldiers.

The huge shock wave swept a large area, and there was no one at a distance of 100 meters.

"Nani?"

Guan Guizhi, the commander of the 34th Division, was shocked when he saw the situation on the front line in the telescope, and he didn't know why the enemy's fire suddenly became fierce, and in a few seconds, the charging wing was disabled, and there were only four loud bangs.

"Heavy artillery!!"

Seeing the power, Guan Guizhi didn't know. Frightened, he shouted: "Destroy the opponent's artillery positions!! ”

At the moment when the shell exploded, Lao Zhao was overjoyed, and he knew that the main position of Ludao was worry-free, and hurriedly ordered that the main position should dispatch three regiments to rush to the tense position along the line to support.

But it's a bit too late.

The No. 6 position of the 3rd Division, that is, Zhu Quan, who was under the most fierce attack, was about to run out of ammunition at this time. There was no one to deliver supplies, and they were under heavy Japanese fire. Ammunition losses were greater. In particular, only four light machine guns are still intact, and the newly reinforced divisional guard battalion has also suffered more than half of the casualties at this time, and the combat strength of the entire position is less than 300.

It was learned that there was not enough ammunition. Zhu Quanqiang supported his weak body and ordered to pick in the soil, and also to find ammunition to hold on for five minutes.

But where will the Japanese army give him time? While the soldiers were looking for grenades and ammunition all over the ground, the Japanese charge arrived again.

Osamu Maeda had already seen that the firepower of the opposite position was getting weaker and weaker. Although the losses of the successive attacks were heavy, victory was imminent. As long as this position is taken, you can flank the opponent's main position with Guan Guizhi of the 34th Division, and then defeat the enemy, attack Changzhou, and attack the 32nd and 33rd Divisions on both sides to open up the lifeline.

"Attacking !! on all fronts"

Osamu Maeda gave the order to attack on all fronts in a gloomy manner.

Following his order, the Japanese army gathered the forces of two integrated wings, mixed with various arms, and launched a full-front attack on Position No. 6.

On the position, the soldiers had less than ten grenades and bullets in front of each person, and there were only a few dozen bullets, and in the face of the tide of Japanese troops, they did not have a trace of emotional fluctuations one by one, and the grenade safety of the Japanese army had been pulled off, and all the bullets were also installed in the 38 big cover. Seven or eight guns in front of each person.

The number of people was small, and at this time it was no longer possible to wait for the enemy to approach, and when the Japanese army was more than 100 meters away, the sound of rushing on the position sounded.

Although the gunfire was not dense, the Japanese troops below were quite dense, and the bullets flew by, and the luck was normal.

However, the Japanese army also saw that the firepower above was weak enough to be ignored, and the charge did not stop because of the fall of comrades along the way, but accelerated the pace of the charge.

"Grenades!!"

Zhu Quanpin, as much as he could, shouted.

On the position, when the Japanese troops were close to thirty or forty meters, grenades flew out like raindrops.

The roaring successive explosions held back the wave of the Japanese charge.

The outbreak of resistance made the Japanese army panic for a short time, and then, in the roar of light and heavy machine guns, the charging Japanese soldiers also snapped and pulled the trigger.

The ground was covered with mud and dirt on the dense bullets, and many of the soldiers who had a large range of movements were covered with blood.

But this did not affect much, as long as they could move, the soldiers threw the grenade out of the canopy with all their might, no matter how far away, they did their best to move forward.

Fighting, at this moment, broke out tragically. There were constantly soldiers who fell without support, and the Japanese army, under the intensive grenade bombardment, could not move an inch, and suffered countless casualties, often one explosion, that is, six or seven Japanese soldiers were blown up, shrapnel, even more flying all over the sky, and the blood mist from the blow was sprayed everywhere.

"Grenades!! Give me a grenade!!! ”

An intact soldier had already snatched all the grenades that his comrades next to him had not thrown, and lay there shouting.

"No more grenades!!"

A trace of clarity flashed in Zhu Quan's dizzy mind, and Zhilu Dao persevered to the most critical moment.

"Get on the bayonet!"

Wang Tie shot the bullets in the last gun, snapped the bullets of the barge gun, and roared.

With a click, all the soldiers who could still move put on their bayonets and lay down in the trenches, waiting for the Japanese troops thirty or forty meters away to rush in. They are ready for a white-knuckle battle.

At the moment when the Japanese soldiers were approaching 20 meters, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly sounded on the position, followed by the explosion of grenades. In the firelight, the Japanese army fell in pieces.

Are reinforcements coming?

Zhu Quan looked to the side in a trance.

"Commander, I'm here!!"

A voice rang in his ears the moment he turned his head.

The guards who were carrying the brigade commander Zhao Changgui rushed over with the only battalion of the command and blocked the footsteps of the Japanese troops who were about to climb to the top of the mountain with the greatest firepower.

"Why the hell did you throw the brigade commander down! Lao Tzu killed you! ”

Zhu Quan saw clearly that it was the moment when the brigade commander was a guard. With a clear look, the shell gun in his hand was raised, pointing at the guard's head and shouting.

"Regiment commander, the brigade commander hasn't woken up yet, and has already asked the correspondent Xiao Li to leave on horseback! You just save a bullet, Lao Tzu's life is to accompany his brothers! ”

The guard threw the grenade with all his might, hissing and yelling.

"Give me a bullet!!"

When Wang Tie saw that reinforcements were coming, he yelled, worse than a beggar who had been hungry for a few days. Reached under the guard's nose and shouted.

The guard threw out the grenade in his hand, and at the moment when Zhu Quan put down the gun, he took off the bag on his waist and threw it to Wang Tie.

"Three hundred bullets! Camp Commander Wang will deal with it for the time being!! ”

Roaring, another grenade was thrown.

Wang Tie didn't talk nonsense, grabbed a handful of bullets, quickly installed and reloaded, and followed. The trigger was pulled.

There was a new force, there was ammunition. The position came alive again. The flames flickered frequently, and grenades rained down the hill again.

The sudden and fierce firepower made the Japanese army, which was already in sight of victory, mercilessly blocked its footsteps and retreated again.

In just a few minutes, the Japanese army's victorious attack was crushed by the fresh blood that had just been added, and the position was still strong!

"How much ammunition is left......

Seeing that the Japanese army withdrew. Zhu Quan asked with a roar.

"Commander, it's not much......"

A deputy battalion commander said loudly with blood on his shoulders soaking his clothes.

"Collect!!"

Zhu Quan was half-squatting, using a shell gun to support his shaking body on the ground and shouted.

On the position, there was no excitement because the Japanese offensive was repulsed. A few minutes of fierce fighting. Rushing up, the brigade guard battalion with ammunition had already thrown the grenades empty in just a few minutes, leaving little left. Bullets, a point, and not much left. Another charge, they still couldn't stop the footsteps of the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army retreated, they were covered in blood, ragged clothes, and mud on their faces, and in the midst of shouting, they laboriously used their hands and helmets to pick the soil, build trenches, and look for ammunition.

Guan Kaoji had already seen the outcome of the battle in the distance, and at the moment when the charging Japanese troops retreated, he shouted: "Covered by a round of artillery fire, continue to charge!" They can't stand it!! ”

With his roar, dozens of cannons roared again, and then, the retreating Japanese troops turned over and rushed back in the flying shells.

The soldiers who were picking up ammunition heard the sound of whistling shells, put down their work one by one, and threw themselves into the broken trench that was only more than half a meter deep.

"Charge!!"

As soon as the explosion ended, the Japanese army had already rushed to a position of less than 100 meters, howled, and launched the most rear-end charge against the position.

"The devil is coming!"

The guards were the first to get out of the dirt, dragged Zhu Quan and shouted.

"Enter the combat position!!"

Wang Tie roared, slamming the trigger.

On the position, the sparse firelight flickered, and no more than 200 guns sprayed fire, resisting firmly.

They will not give up, they will shed the last drop of blood, and they will let the Japanese army step on their bodies and step on the battlefield.

But this kind of firepower obviously could not stop the charge of thousands of Japanese troops. The Japanese army, in the continuous fall, got closer and closer.

At this moment, the confidential officer crawled, dragged his right leg hit by shrapnel, and held the protected walkie-talkie in his arms, and came to Zhu Quan, who was lying on the position weakly, waiting for the enemy to approach, and shot with a shell gun, and shouted with difficulty: "Regiment commander, the headquarters is calling, asking us to report the coordinates of the Japanese army and give artillery support." ”

Zhu Quan heard the shout, turned around and grabbed the microphone handed by the confidential officer at a speed beyond his current physical condition, and shouted at the moment when the confidential officer's hand hung down and his eyes were closed: "I am Zhu Quan, and the No. 6 position is still in our hands!" ”

After shouting, he looked at the Japanese soldiers who were already less than fifty meters close, and shouted: "Shelling 183...... 497！！ Left and right corrections...... Shoot at me!! (To be continued......)