It was already half past ten in the morning, and the last trace of fog had dissipated without a trace, and the sun emitted a trace of heat, and the warm feeling was a bit like spring in March.

Chiba Kotaro had already transferred two regiments of the First Brigade of the puppet Manchurian Jing'an Army, which were temporarily under his command, to the front, and then a regiment from Taiwan, and the last was the Japanese soldiers with 38 guns.

The Japanese fleet artillery group continued to cover the fire for ten minutes as usual, and the original tattered Chinese defense line was like scorched earth, and all the plants were destroyed by artillery fire.

When the artillery fire rang out, all the officers and men of the New Second Division, whether in the front or rear, withdrew into the anti-artillery holes, and the remaining observation posts all shrank their heads and tried to put their bodies against the bottom of the trenches, silently waiting for the artillery fire to pass.

The shelling stopped, and the officers and men on the front line quickly drilled out of the anti-artillery holes, and by this time the Japanese had already begun to attack.

In the forward command post, Han Tiecheng took a closer look at the front of the position and was a little dumbfounded. The main force of the first wave of attack was the puppet army wearing pan hats, shouting Northeast dialect and Taiwanese dialect, holding guns, and rushing forward desperately

Prior to this, the Japanese officers offered heavy rewards to all the puppet troops who went to war, telling them that the first to break through the defense line of the Chinese army would be rewarded with 5,000 pieces of ocean, which at once stimulated these troops composed of ruffians, hooligans, and scoundrels.

The puppet soldiers watched the soldiers of the new second division shrink their heads in the trenches, and they were even happier, thinking that the defenders in front were timid, after all, looking at the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield and the deep pits left by heavy bombs, everyone would be afraid.

In fact, Han Tiecheng was really afraid, but he was not afraid of these puppet troops, but he was afraid of the infantry guns on the Japanese position and the heavy machine guns that kept strafing back and forth.

The puppet army fought with the new second division for the first time, and the speed of moving forward was very fast, and when it rushed to the front of the position 300 meters, gunfire rang out, and several puppet army officers who rushed in front fell to the ground, and then fifty or sixty puppet soldiers were killed, and the other puppet soldiers hurriedly lay down.

At this time, the shouts of "kill to give" came from the rear, and the Japanese troops pressing in the rear threatened to be bombarded indiscriminately by artillery if they did not attack.

Come on, I originally thought I was here to pick up benefits, but when I got to the battlefield, I realized that Lu Dao was here to be cannon fodder.

Most of the puppet troops turned a deaf ear to the threat of the Japanese army, and as a result, after a piece of artillery shells fell and killed twenty or thirty puppet soldiers, the two devils finally understood that the Japanese artillery fire could not only hit the enemy, but also slaughter their own people.

The puppet army, which had no way to retreat, had to grit its teeth, get up and continue to charge forward under the shouts of the officers and Japanese soldiers behind.

When the front man jumped into the water of the Tang River in Shanghai, less than a hundred meters away from the defensive line, he suddenly stretched out a string of heads from the trenches in front, revealing hideous faces, holding submachine guns and rifles in their hands, and grenades that fell like hail flew in the sky.

With the sound of violent explosions, a large number of puppet soldiers were blown to pieces, and the puppet soldiers at the center of the explosion were blown to pieces.

Subsequently, the dense bullets comparable to the pouring rain, like the sickle of death, wielded wantonly, and the puppet army fell to the ground in pieces, and the puppet army behind turned around and wanted to escape, but was overturned to the ground by the dense machine gun bullet rain from the rear.

At this time, the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment and the 1st Battalion, which had replaced the 1st Regiment and held their positions, were extremely excited, and these puppet troops were scattered and weak in attack, especially the will to fight was very weak, and most of them were killed without knowing how to dodge bullets, which was no different from sending them to death at all.

The situation on the battlefield was almost one-sided, and those puppet armies fell one by one like wheat harvesting.

There was a tumult on the battlefield, with gunshots, explosions, and screams ringing in the ears, and then a slight shouting was heard again in the southeastern sky.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the entire line of defense was in a sea of flames, and the sound of bombshells shook the sky one after another

The officers and men of the new 2nd Division are seizing the time to fight the puppet army, where can they notice dodging the shells? Before he could react, he was annihilated by a dense explosion

On the rear position, Han Tiecheng, who was stunned by the Japanese artillery fire, was dragged into the anti-artillery hole, and Fan Daoquan listened to the increasingly fierce shelling sound, and his heart was dripping blood......

Chiba Kotaro, who was standing in the command post at the front of the Japanese army in the west of Guangchen Town, was full of smiles and said to the officer next to him: "In this way, let the people of China die in Yu Jingjing."

That's right, in this round of artillery bombardment without warning, the officers and soldiers on the front-line positions of the new Second Division were certainly suffering heavy casualties, but the puppet army without the protection of the trenches was also bombed to the point that it was not miserable to cry and cry for mother. However, in Chiba Kotaro's view, the troops from Manchuria and Taiwan did not belong to the subjects of the Japanese Empire in the first place, and it is appropriate to summarize them as Shina people.

Chiba Kotaro turned his head and instructed his chief of staff: "When the Imperial Alliance Army retreats, you will organize them to attack, and if you come several times in a row, the Chinese army will not be able to withstand it, understand?" ”

Also enjoying the same treatment were two regiments of the Second Brigade defending the line from Pinghu to Zhapu.

Since the naval guns could not fire directly, the Japanese artillery on this line suppressed the 0th Field Artillery Wing and the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, which belonged to the strategic level.

The 6th Brigade of the Japanese Field Heavy Artillery was transferred to the North China Front three months ago and was subordinate to the Second Army, with Major General Sumita Soshiro under its command, under the jurisdiction of the 13th Field Heavy Artillery Wing and the 14th Field Heavy Artillery Wing, which had 24 150-mm howitzers and 16 100-mm cannons.

The brave and combative officers and soldiers were buried in the sea of fire in vain, Zhou Juncheng's whole face was tangled, he threw off his crutches, and his hands pounded the wall of the anti-artillery hole, and his teeth bit his lips. Although about two regiments of the Korean puppet army attacking on the opposite side also suffered heavy losses, how could their lives be compared with their own brethren who had been tempered for thousands of years?

Lieutenant Colonel Chi Yuming, the deputy head of the regiment, supported him at once: "Tuanzao, you have to hold on, Shizao is still watching us."

"Damn little devil, I'm not done with you"

After Zhou Juncheng finished speaking, he sat down on the ground weakly and continued to listen to the seemingly endless sound of shell explosions outside

Wu Ming received an urgent report from the front line, and his eyes were about to pop out.

"Shizao, the devil is so despicable, he even bombed his own people this time, the first and second regiments suffered heavy casualties, and the third and fourth regiments were almost the same"

After reading the telegram, Dai Ziran exclaimed at Wu Ming and begged bitterly: "Master, if you fight like this again, our new second division will be wiped out or retreat."

Wu Mingtie blushed, glanced at Dai Ziran coldly, and said, "Ziran, do you remember, I told you before what it means to be a qualified soldier...... Your heart will harden."

"Does it have anything to do with the current state of the war?" Dai Ziran was a little annoyed, and his face was flushed.

Wu Ming exhaled heavily, and then said: "In fact, hard-heartedness is not only for the enemy, but also for one's own people, and the most important thing is to be oneself until the enemy collapses first, then if we win, on the contrary, once defeated, now we must be hard-hearted, so hard that we are not afraid of life and death, honor and disgrace, and the Japanese army will no longer be terrible......"

Dai Ziran looked confused at first, and then thought thoughtfully.

Wu Ming's hand clutched the pen in his hand tightly, his joints were unusually pale due to excessive force, and cold sweat was dripping down his forehead.

As a soldier, especially a commander-in-chief, you must be as hard-hearted as iron. As a commander-in-chief, you have to harden your heart and try to deceive your subordinates who are blocking the enemy, so that they think that they can wait for reinforcements, and that their efforts and sacrifices are worthwhile—because you have to save the lives of most officers and soldiers; Facing the sweaty reinforcements that have just arrived, you have to harden your heart and order them to go into battle immediately, because you have to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop before the enemy reinforcements arrive.

For the sake of the overall victory, a qualified coach must make reasonable trade-offs, and he must fight for consumption. At this time, in order to save the fate of the 700,000 troops on the Songhu front, Wu Ming must be as hard as iron in order to preserve the main force of the Anti-Japanese War.

"Alas"

Dai Ziran sighed heavily, finally made a compromise, and said to Wu Ming: "Then hurry up and transfer the supplementary brigade to reinforce the front line."

"No, I have a lot of use for supplementing the four regiments of the brigade, now is not the time to let them go" Wu Ming categorically rejected Dai Ziran's proposal.

Compared with the four regiments of the first brigade and the second brigade and the four regiments, most of them are recruits who have not experienced the battlefield, although the training is very hard, they can fight a smooth battle, if it is such a difficult resistance battle, it is likely to cause heavy losses due to panic, and may even cause the collapse of the defense line, which Wu Ming cannot tolerate.

Dai Ziran sat down angrily, looked at Wu Ming, and asked a little discouragedly, "Master, then what should we do?" ”

"Ziran, just when you see the casualties of our army, don't you see the casualties of the Japanese army?" Wu Ming sat next to Dai Ziran and calmly counted the casualties of the Japanese army with his fingers:

"After continuous hard fighting, the 102nd Wing and the 115th Wing of the Japanese Army were basically disabled, so they let the puppet army come forward as cannon fodder, and the 150th Wing of the Japanese Army was annihilated by our army early, and at the same time, the 66th Wing was defeated by our army once before, and most of them have been lost. Now the only truly complete units at hand are the 114th Engineer Wing and the 114th Wing of the Heavy Soldiers, but does such a unit have combat effectiveness? Victory is imminent, and we must grit our teeth and persevere. ”

Wu Ming very much hopes that Dai Ziran can grow up quickly, after all, they are relatives with each other, and they are his own direct cronies, if they are ordinary people, Wu Ming does not have such a good temper.

Dai Ziran was stunned for a while, and pondered carefully, Wu Ming's words were reasonable, and now the opponent is gritting his teeth and insisting

Wu Ming knew that at this time, Suematsu Shigeji was already a gambler who had lost red-eyed, just judging from the current battle situation, Suematsu Shigeji no longer had much chance of winning, but he was still fighting to the death, so he guessed that Suematsu Shigeji might still have some conspiracy and tricks that he hadn't come up with.

Wu Ming has been thinking about what Shigeji Suematsu's hole cards are, so he is very jealous and does not dare to give it a fight with all his strength.