In the dark night, Xu Shijiu gestured to Ergua, Ergua understood, and quickly took out a flashlight from his satchel to cover it with his hand, and then leaked a little light from his fingers, Xu Shijiu took out his pocket watch and looked at this light, the hour hand could point to 0:50 in the morning, and in ten minutes it was the scheduled attack time.

The next moment, with a dull sound, tracer lights bloomed from a distance, and with a sharp roar, they crossed the sky overhead, and then fell forward, and immediately rose up in front of them Clusters of dazzling firelight, in the bloom of the firelight, the huge explosion sound had shattered the originally dead night.

Ten minutes before the attack was launched, the artillery battalion began to prepare for artillery fire, and 10 75mm caliber Bufus mountain guns poured rows of shells onto the heads of the Japanese troops in Luodian, and through the strong light generated by the explosion, the officers and men of the 19th Brigade could clearly see that the Japanese positions on the opposite side had been blown into a sea of fire.

From time to time, scorched earth like fireworks bloom all over the sky, and broken beams are shooting in the air, and even the broken bodies of Japanese soldiers are rolling in the sky, and you can faintly see Japanese soldiers scurrying, facing the flying steel shrapnel, and facing the threat of death, Japanese soldiers will also be afraid, no more brave than Chinese soldiers.

Soon, brighter and more dazzling tracer lights whistled from the other end of the night sky, and the sharp whistling sound could even pierce people's eardrums, and many soldiers of the 19th Brigade covered their ears one after another.

It was the Japanese large-caliber naval guns in retaliatory shelling.

Fortunately, the night covered the sight of the Japanese meteorological observers, so that they could not provide accurate shooting to the naval artillery group, otherwise the Japanese naval artillery only needed one round of artillery bombardment to easily wipe out the artillery battalion of the 58th Division, and yesterday during the day, the artillery battalion of the 51st Division engaged in an artillery battle with the Japanese in broad daylight, and the result quickly attracted a salvo from the naval artillery group, which was reimbursed on the spot.

Ten minutes later, the artillery battalion stopped shelling after firing two hundred shells.

Of course, the artillery preparation of the national army cannot be compared with that of the Japanese army, just as the Japanese army cannot be compared with the American army, because at that time, China's industrial base was almost zero, and the annual output of the most important war materials and steel was only a thousand tons! How many shells can be made even if a thousand tons of steel do nothing and are only used to make shells?

As soon as the sound of the artillery stopped, Gao Shenxing rushed out of the attack position with the commando's bayonet, and the national army like to roar when charging, one is to strengthen the courage, and the other is to deter the enemy, but this is at night, shouting will expose the target, so Xu Shijiu gave an order and asked twenty commandos to put bayonets in their mouths.

The use of commandos in the offensive minimizes casualties.

Although the more than 500 soldiers newly added to the 19th Brigade are also veterans, they are not familiar with the style of the 19th Brigade after all, and they are not familiar with Xu 19's command habits.

After the shelling ended, there was no shouting of the Nationalist troops, and there was no large group of Nationalist troops charging with bayonets, and the whole position returned to a deathly silence again, and the Japanese troops on the opposite side were obviously a little unaccustomed, but they still realized the danger and fired two flares into the sky in succession.

The bright light of the flares illuminated a two-kilometer radius as bright as day.

Gao Shenxing and the 20 commandos with bayonets in their mouths could no longer hide, and the Japanese troops on the other side of the stone bridge opened fire fiercely, and a Type 92 heavy machine gun and three crooked light machine guns were intertwined into a tight fire net, and the scorching bullets poured over like water, pressing Gao Shenxing and the 20 commandos into the shell crater, unable to lift their heads.

However, the Japanese machine-gun fire did not last long.

Soon, the mortar company that cooperated with the main force of the 19th Brigade to attack Luodian came up, and there were two mortar companies that cooperated with the 19th Brigade to fight, one was here, and the other followed the one hand to the Western Front Bridge to block the attack.

In a short time, the six mortars were already lined up, and then with the strong light of the flares, they quickly locked on to shoot Zhu Yuan with just one test shot, and then two rounds of artillery bombardment killed the bridgehead position west of Luodian Town, and the four light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were all stopped, and a small group of Japanese troops was also blown up.

Gao Shenxing jumped up from the crater, and with a wave of his hand, twenty commandos rushed onto the stone bridge with bayonets and flower traps.

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He Zhiying Er was awakened by the loud explosion from his sleep, and when he hurriedly got up and walked into the war room, he saw the communications staff officer standing by the telephone switchboard, shouting "Maxi" and "Maxi" into the microphone again and again.

Seeing Hezhiying Er, the communications staff officer hurriedly stood up and bowed his head to salute.

He Zhiying Er waved his hand, frowned and asked, "Is Luodian attacked?" ”

The communications staff officer said: "The deputy wing commander just called, saying that Luodian was shelled by the Chinese army, but the phone was quickly interrupted, and I suspect that the telephone line was blown up by the Chinese army." After a pause, the communications staff officer asked, "Wing Commander, do you want to immediately send a communications corps to repair the blown up telephone line?" ”

"No need, most of Luodian has been attacked, and these people have really become night owls?" He Zhiying Er waved his hand and said, "Order, Yoshino Squadron immediately rushed to the aid of Luodian." ”

The strength of the 44th Infantry Wing is limited, even if it has just been replenished, there are more than 3,300 people, after strengthening the forward forces, the strength of the remaining wing headquarters is only half an infantry brigade, so He Zhiying II can only send a squadron to rush to aid Luodian, but Zhiying II is not too worried about this, Luodian has two infantry squadrons, and a chariot squad was sent before midnight, and Kinoshita Hideyoshi is in command, and the Chinese army does not want to bargain for half a price.

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"Boom, boom!" Six shells fell into the Japanese bunker as if they had eyes, and exploded one after another, and a machine gun nest of the Japanese army in front of it disintegrated in an instant, several steel plates tumbled and flew into the air, and the three Japanese soldiers hiding in the machine gun nest were also torn into several large pieces by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the Japanese soldiers nearby also fell crookedly.

Before the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Ergua rushed into the Japanese position with a flower machine on his shoulder.

A Japanese soldier Cao Cao, who was knocked to the ground by the air wave, recovered from a brief shock, and saw that several Chinese soldiers with submachine guns had rushed into the position, so he instinctively unhooked a grenade, first bit off the safety ring with his teeth, and was about to knock the fuse on his steel helmet when a large hand fell from the sky and grabbed his wrist.

Ergua was quick with his eyes, and he didn't wait for the devil army Cao to touch the grenade and held his wrist, and then turned the flower mechanism with one hand to shoot at the face of the devil army Cao, and two blood flowers bloomed on the face of the devil army Cao, and the white head, red blood and bone fragments were smeared on the back of his head, bloody.

Gao Shenxing passed by with a bayonet and couldn't help but look sideways.

At this moment, there was a strange sound in the darkness ahead, as if a stone mill had been rolled over the ground, and this sound sounded somewhat familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere but I couldn't remember it at once.

When Ergua and Gao Shenxing were listening, the Japanese army in the town fired two more flares, and by the strong light of the flares, the two and more than a dozen veterans were extremely surprised to find that there were two more black and swarthy iron bumps in the cotton field in front of them, and they were slowly crushing forward, and they turned out to be small Japanese tanks!

"Iron King Eight!" Ergua screamed, and one of them threw himself on the ground.

Gao Shenxing's reaction was not slow, he lay down in the ditch at his feet on one side, saying that it was too late and that was fast, the Japanese tank's front-firing machine gun opened fierce fire, and more than a dozen veterans behind Ergua and Gao Shenxing hurriedly lay down, but two veterans were still shot, one veteran died directly, and the remaining one was seriously injured, and suddenly screamed miserably.

Ergua crawled over and tried to drag the wounded veteran into a crater, but the front-firing machine gun of the Japanese tank immediately chased over, and two eye-catching smoke and dust were dragged out of the bare ground.

Gao Shenxing was also a little dumbfounded, in the first half of the night, he and his only hand each led a reconnaissance team to touch the periphery of the Japanese army, and he even touched the town alone, even the Japanese command headquarters had a close reconnaissance, and made sure that no Japanese tanks were found, why did this suddenly appear again?

The assault team was pressed into the open ground and could not move, and the large force behind had to stop.

The one-eyed Totoro came to Xu Nineteen with his waist and said anxiously: "Captain, it is absolutely impossible to go on like this, after dawn, the Japanese bomber group will swarm in, and the large-caliber naval guns of the small Japanese will also come over like a sea of mountains, don't talk about recapturing Luodian at that time, all the hundreds of people in our Nineteenth Brigade will have to be explained here." ”

"What's the panic?" Xu Shijiu said unhurriedly, "The sky can't fall this day!" ”

"Uh......" The one-eyed dragon choked and was speechless, Xu Shijiu turned his head and instructed Shu Tongwen again, "Go, call Company Commander Hu over to me." ”

Shu Tongwen hurriedly went.

Soon, Hu Jie, the commander of the mortar company, came to Xu Shijiu.