"Tuanza, the Japanese sappers have begun to erect pontoon bridges again" Zhou Zhiping turned around and shouted at Luo Changling.

Luo Changling immediately stuffed the unfinished bread in his hand into a bag and gave it to the guards, and quickly came to the lookout post at the edge of the forest. In the binoculars, Japanese sappers carried pontoons and wooden planks and rushed towards Zhongshao Creek.

"Niang Xipi, here you go again...... Pass the order, open fire immediately, and blow up these unfathomable guys" Luo Changling decisively ordered.

After the herald left, Zhou Zhiping asked puzzledly: "Shouldn't we wait for the devil sappers to build the pontoon bridge before shelling?" ”

"The specific situation needs to be analyzed specifically, before letting the devils cross the bridge and then open fire, because our artillery positions were not exposed, and a sudden attack can maximize the effect of the strike, but now that we have been exposed, the Japanese army still dares to build a bridge under our noses, which means that the other side has a backhand, and we must not be careless."

Speaking of this, Luo Changling slapped his thigh violently: "It's not good, notify all positions, after a round of artillery, immediately hide"

"For what?" Zhou Zhiping blurted out.

Luo Changling was very anxious: "I estimate that the Japanese plane will come soon"

The order was given quickly.

After the artillery had completed a round at the fastest speed, the officers and men of the Maoliangwu militia rushed to the artillery position to help push the infantry artillery into the cave dug in advance, while the mortars dispersed into small detachments and scattered in all directions.

This round of bombing resulted in nearly 100 casualties among Japanese engineers, pontoons and planks scattered everywhere, and the efforts of the Japanese army were once again in vain.

Just then, there was a roar in the sky.

Luo Changling looked up, a few black spots appeared in the sky in the distance, and flew towards Hualingwu in a fan-shape, Luo Changling's heart was relieved, fortunately he was highly alert, otherwise the artillery would be dangerous.

The distance between the black dots became closer and clearer, and the ten fighters divided into multiple directions after a slight adjustment in the air, and swooped down halfway up the mountain in Hualingwu.

The aircraft machine gun on the plane spewed tongues of fire, and a row of bullets shot down, hitting the scattered leaves on the branches of the trees halfway up the mountainside, and the soldiers hiding under the trees fell to the ground, but there were still people who could not dodge, and their whole bodies were pierced by bullets, and blood was everywhere, staining the big trees red.

"Niang Xipi, Gui Tao, where did your grandson die, why didn't you fire the cannon?" Luo Changling turned his head to look at the top of the mountain, his eyes full of unwillingness.

Deployed in the anti-aircraft artillery position in the woods about four or five meters from the top of the mountain, the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion, Gui Tao, waved his hand vigorously: "Hurry up, give Lao Tzu a hard beating of these damn Japanese fighters."

"Knock-"

Tongues of fire shot out from the ground, and vengeful shells flew towards the devil fighters in the air, exploding black smoke clouds in the blue sky, and countless sharp shrapnel flew out of the clouds, swooping down in the direction of those Japanese bombers like clusters of arrows.

Countless tongues of fire shot out from the east and west ridges of Hualingwu, and vengeful bullets and shells flew into the sky, and bullet marks cut through the blue sky, intertwined into a beautiful pattern.

Suddenly, a Japanese fighter plane that was diving and strafing suddenly shook, billowing smoke billowed from the fuselage, and the plane made a strange scream and turned its head to the ground.

Soon after, the plane crashed to the ground and exploded into a huge fireball.

Immediately afterwards, another fighter plane that was diving and strafing was hit by a shell from a millimeter Erley anti-aircraft gun, the skin of the fuselage was torn open several holes, and the wounded Japanese fighter dragged the billowing black smoke and fled in the direction of Wuxing.

Seeing that two fighters were killed and one wounded, the remaining eight planes slammed up and fled towards the blue sky.

Due to the threat of ground antiaircraft guns, the Japanese fighters could only hover in the air and calmly observe the ground air defense positions to see if there was any chance to take advantage of them, but they found that the ground air defense guns were quite numerous, and that they were protected by light and heavy machine guns, and that the mountainous terrain was relatively complicated, so they gave up their plan to directly attack the air defense positions, hurriedly dropped bombs in the air, and flew away from the battlefield.

Okamura Ningji was dumbfounded, he never expected that the other party was so thoughtful, and even moved more than 300 kilograms of anti-aircraft artillery to the top of the mountain. Gangcun smashed the telescope in his hand to the ground, turned around and said loudly to the back: "Tanaka Xiaoei"

"Hail"

A sturdy man ran out from behind, took three steps into two, and came to Okamura Ninji and saluted solemnly.

Okamura Ninji pointed to the Nakashao River in the distance, and ordered loudly: "Take your wing immediately, swim across the river, and be sure to wipe out the Shina artillery."

Captain Tanaka didn't answer immediately, he glanced at the turbulent Zhongshaoxi, lowered his head and said: "General, according to the scout's report, the river in front is five or six meters deep, and the current is very fast, I am worried that my soldiers will be swept away by the torrent."

At this time, it is the middle of winter, the Zhongshao River that flows down from the high mountain, the water temperature is about three or four degrees, although the Japanese soldiers are strong, they can not care about the cold, but the water flow is so rapid, the body of swimming across the river must be stimulated by the severe cold to cause the hands and feet to be rigid, it is easy to lose control, and then be swept into the torrent, with the high drop of the downstream river, it will be the end of nine deaths and one life.

"Imperial officers and soldiers armed with the spirit of bushido will not be afraid of any difficulties"

Okamura Ninji waved his hand vigorously and said loudly: "Now is the time to test your wing, you personally lead the team, and you must destroy the artillery position of the Chinese people"

"Hay—"

Seeing that Okamura Ningji's attitude was extremely resolute, Tanaka Nakasa had the heart to resist but did not have the courage, and after saluting, he returned to his own wing unhappily, cheered up, and began to select soldiers with good water qualities from each brigade, and finally organized a brigade-sized death squad in half an hour.

Each of the devils of the death squad drank a bowl of rice wine looted from the countryside along the way, and after breaking the bowl, they shouted the slogan of allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor, and rushed towards Zhongshao Creek in a procession.

A burst of sparse shells exploded around the Japanese army, and many devil soldiers were blown apart, and those wounded soldiers who fell to the ground covered their wounds and groaned loudly, but they were secretly glad that they had escaped.

The Japanese sappers who accompanied the death squad charged threw the assault boat into the river, some of the daredevils jumped onto the boat, and the rest of the devil soldiers braved the cold to take off their coats and put them in their backpacks, raised their rifles above their heads, and rushed into the turbulent water.

It is not easy to cross a river thirty or forty meters wide.

Before the assault boat could reach the middle of the river, it deviated at least forty or fifty meters from the opposite bank, and as the shells around it continued to fall, the assault boat capsized, and the whole boat was buried underwater. And those armed Japanese soldiers who swam across the river were miserable, because of the turbulent current, people were like duckweed in it, very powerless, although the selected were all swimmers, there were still people who were carried by the current to float downstream, and some of the devils could not control their bodies due to leg cramps and sank to the bottom of the river.

Seeing that the Japanese army was crossing the river too slowly, Tanaka Nakasa brandished his saber on the north bank and shouted, "Quick, hurry up and cross the river"

Luo Changling, who was watching this scene from afar, was red-eyed, like a mad lion: "Full firepower, I want to let the little devils die in Zhongshao Creek"

The infantry guns that had been hidden in the cave had already been pushed out, and the mortars were also in place, and as the shelling intensified, huge columns of water exploded on the surface of the river from time to time, and the clear and cold water of the river suddenly poured Tanaka Nakasa on the shore into a soup chicken.

At this time, Tanaka Nakasa was like an outlaw, he was about to step forward to drive away the ghost soldiers who were blocking the river and cowering, when he saw that his clothes were caught by a recruit who fell to the ground to avoid the shells, Tanaka Osa did not hesitate, waved his saber and directly cut off the arm of the ghost soldier.

"Kill and give, cross the river"

Tanaka Nakasa jumped down from Zhongshao Creek regardless of his body, and the cold and biting river water wrapped him up at once, and he was a little suffocated for a while, but after a moment, he shouted left and right: "Hurry, speed up."

The explosions around the area became more intense, and one huge column of water rose into the sky after another, and the Japanese soldiers swimming forward in the river were swept away by the torrent one after another, leaving only a curling splash.

Despite this, the Japanese army was still not afraid of life and death, and swam forward one after another......

Zhou Zhiping was stunned, and after a long while, he shook his head and said to Luo Changling beside him: "Tuanzao, the little devil is too ruthless, it's just a matter of swimming in such a cold river, how many devils have been killed by continuous shelling, they are like crazy people, it's terrible."

"Yes, the Japanese who have been brainwashed by bushido are all guys who are not afraid of the sky and the earth," Luo Changling also sighed.

At this time, there were already devil soldiers coming ashore one after another, those devils who jumped off the assault boat were fine, and those devils who swam past were miserable, and they were soaking wet after the north wind blew and shivered.

However, the Japanese army was well-trained, and they did not care about getting wet, and their long and rigorous training made them instinctively look for cover and check the movement around them.

Under Tanaka Nakasa's reprimand, the Japanese soldiers who were crossing the river rowed or swam faster, but the falling shells were also more dense, and when Tanaka Nakasa landed on the shore, he looked at the ghost soldiers hiding behind the river beach and shivered, and then turned his head to look around, and his eyes were about to pop out.

Forcibly crossing this thirty or forty-meter-wide river, one brigade lost almost a third of its troops.

"Quick, ready to attack"

Tanaka Nakasa didn't plan to wait for the people behind him any longer, he commanded about three squadrons of Japanese troops to kill on the Hualingwu Heights. From time to time, devils stepped on mines along the way, but they were extremely brave, and they still gritted their teeth and assaulted forward - almost every Japanese soldier who crossed the river knew that with the exhaustion of physical energy, it was impossible to turn back, and now there was only a way to survive by taking the high ground ahead.

Seeing Tanaka Nakasa leading people towards the artillery position of the Chinese army halfway up the hill of Hualingwu, Okamura Ninji breathed a sigh of relief and said to Chief of Staff Tamura: "Tanaka has finally lived up to my expectations, as long as he takes the high ground on the opposite bank, I will personally ask the base camp for him to take credit."

"General, look"

Chief of Staff Tamura anxiously pointed across the river.

Okamura Ninji picked up the binoculars and took a closer look, and was dumbfounded, only to see that in the dense forest under Hualingwu Mountain, a troop suddenly came out, and their clothes were very fancy and perfectly integrated with the surrounding environment

The number of troops who blocked the attack was unknown, divided into three platoons, and more than 100 submachine guns were at the head, and a dense "da-da" sound sounded, and the submachine guns spat out furious tongues of fire, and the flying bullets knocked the Japanese soldiers to the ground one by one. When one of the magazines was finished, the gunner stepped aside, followed by more than thirty light machine guns, and there was another frenzy

In the third row were riflemen, who crouched on the ground, raised their guns to aim, and the junior officers and non-commissioned officers of the Japanese army fell to the ground.

Such a swift and efficient blow suddenly hit the waist and eye of the assault devil soldiers, and the devil soldiers, who were originally not very flexible in their hands and feet after freezing, had almost no power to fight back.

Tanaka Nakasa, who was left behind, glared angrily, brandished his saber, and loudly ordered the surrounding devil soldiers: "Quick, fight back, kill the people of China, quickly"

A fierce man like Tanaka has long been targeted, but he has a lot of combat experience, constantly changing his body and dodging falling shells and sniper bullets.

Suddenly, a gust of wind struck, and a black mass flew towards the field.

Tanaka couldn't dodge, and subconsciously reached out and tugged at it, just in time to grab the mass of things in his hand. Tanaka only glanced at it, and the cold sweat on his back oozed out, it was nothing else, it was the specialty of the new Second Division - the explosive package thrown by the flying thunder cannon, and the fuse of the explosive bag had burned to the fullest

"Boom-"

A violent explosion sounded one after another, accompanied by the covering shelling of more than a dozen flying thunder cannons, and the Japanese charging arrows disappeared in an instant. The Japanese attack was frustrated, and the blocking troops of the defenders on the opposite bank were divided into two groups, attacking forward from the left and right, and everywhere they went, the Japanese troops fell to the ground one after another.

Seeing the sudden change in the battle situation on the battlefield, Okamura Ningji weakly supported the big tree beside him, and gritted his teeth hatefully: "The new second division is really a devil's army"