Qiao Youhua instructed Liu Yidao to prepare for an attack, and said: "First try to attack tentatively, try the reality of the devil, and then adapt according to the actual situation." ”

"Yes." Liu Yidao responded, and immediately turned around to make arrangements.

An infantry company attached to the 1st Division soon received orders to attack, and under the leadership of a captain, a company commander, launched a tentative assault on the silent Japanese lines.

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The railway station is located on the Fenhe Plain, the terrain is flat, within a thousand meters at a glance, more than 100 dragon tooth officers and soldiers lined up in a straggler formation, marched forward, and it didn't take long to enter the range of the devil's defense line in the east of the railway station.

In the trench of about 300 meters, hundreds of devil infantry, light and heavy machine gunners opened fire one after another, and for a time there was a loud burst of gunfire outside the train station.

In addition to these, the grenadiers that the devil is equipped with also advanced another hundred meters with the officers and soldiers of the dragon's teeth, and after entering the effective range of the grenadiers, they also opened fire one after another.

In the chaotic and dense gunfire, the small grenades fired from the grenadiers made a special whistling sound, and then flew towards the crowd of dragontooth officers and soldiers who were trying to attack.

Qiao Youhua, Liu Yidao and several other important officers quietly came to the front of the offensive position at this time, holding binoculars to observe the battlefield situation.

Seeing that the attacking troops were blocked by the powerful firepower of the devils, Qiao Youhua couldn't help frowning, Taiyuan can be said to be the most important and last strategic place for the Japanese army in Shanxi, and the resistance will definitely be fierce.

Although Qiao Youhua had been mentally prepared, when he really fought with the devil, after discovering the strength of the devil's firepower and resistance consciousness, he still couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the casualties of his own soldiers.

However, he also knew that in this battle of Taiyuan, casualties were inevitable, and if he could not break through the current Japanese defense line before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, then there would be a fierce battle next.

At the critical moment of life and death, the devil will definitely fight to the death, and if he wants to take this place, the difficulty can be imagined.

Therefore, Qiao Youhua resisted the urge to let the troops stop the tentative attack, only by letting more devils open fire, can his own artillery group better and effectively carry out artillery strikes on the devil's position.

On the battlefield, after the officers and soldiers of the dragon tooth were blocked by the devil's fire, they immediately dispersed in battle formation, while dodging the devil's artillery fire and heavy machine gun fire as much as possible, while using the submachine guns and machine guns in their hands to fire back at the devils tenaciously.

More than 100 officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth, fearless of death, rushed forward and one after another, and finally soon triggered some hidden firepower bunkers behind the depth of the devil's defensive position to fire one after another.

Although they suffered heavy casualties under the dense fire network composed of various firepower of the devils, they also successfully attracted the enemy's fire for their own artillery group and bought time for the gunners to observe.

After about 20 minutes or so, the officers and men who had sacrificed more than 50 or 60 men finally insisted on waiting for the signal to retreat, and their forces were not superior.

Every minute of persistence requires the price of blood.

After the retreat order was issued, Qiao Youhua, who had already returned to the command headquarters, instructed Liu Yidao, Zheng Yunshan, Zhao Youde and others who accompanied him: "Now I will arrange your respective tasks, the first division is responsible for the frontal main attack, and it will be after our artillery group carries out a fire strike."

Attack from the front and storm the Japanese positions.

The troops of the 2nd and 3rd Divisions immediately attacked the positions from our side and began to adopt the method of earthwork, advancing in the direction of the devil's position, and making preparations with both hands!

Once the strong attack fails, we will take the earthwork work step by step forward, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the devils, in short, in any case, our offensive can not be stopped, we must do our best to seize the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, break through the Japanese army, and recover Taiyuan. ”

Liu Yidao, Zhao Youde, and Zhou Dasheng stood up one after another, and said in unison: "Yes, I promise to complete the task." ”

Qiao Youhua instructed Zheng Yunshan again: "The guard regiment is responsible for guarding, especially the cavalry reconnaissance battalion of your department, and you must send it out immediately to closely monitor any disturbances on the Tongpu railway line, in case the arrival of Japanese reinforcements will be unfavorable to our attacking troops." ”

Zheng Yunshan also happily agreed and received the order.

Outside the command post, the rumbling of artillery units soon sounded, and in the sky, shells roared through the sky under the light of fire, and smashed towards the Japanese positions that had just exchanged fierce fire.

The shells fell from the sky and inevitably fell on the devil's position, followed by a violent explosion, and a cloud of fire rose to the ground, accompanied by thick smoke into the sky.

In the midst of the violent explosions, there were constantly devil soldiers who were hit by the explosion and killed on the spot, and some people were swept out by the blast wave, like a kite with a broken string, rolling and falling in the air and throwing it far away, and they could not die again.

As the shelling continued, hundreds of Japanese soldiers in the trenches of the devils lay down and hid in the fortifications until the end of the shelling, when some officers shouted and urged them to get up again, organize their weapons and ammunition, and enter their combat positions.

The shelling lasted for half an hour, and the artillery of the Dragon's Tooth Column poured thousands of shells on the Devil's position, blowing up several trenches and fortifications near the Devil's front like a plow, covering back and forth several times, and the soil became extremely soft.

Everywhere there are the corpses of devils who have been blown up, or the stumps and arms of devils who have been blown up.

As soon as the shelling stopped, an infantry regiment of the First Division, about 3,000 officers and soldiers of the First Division, who had long been ready for the attack, followed the orders of Liu Yidao and Scarface.

Immediately made a move forward, launched a charge.

More than 3,000 dragon-toothed soldiers, like a torrent, swept forward all over the mountains, the black pressed crowd, the gray-blue military uniforms merged into a blue ocean, the moving heads, and the sharp bayonets that hit the muzzle of the guns.

and the desperate shouts of the warriors as they charged, creating a suffocating aura of slaughter.

In the trenches of the Japanese army, almost all the devils, whether they were officers or ordinary soldiers, looked very solemn at the moment, because they knew that the real fierce battle was coming.

As for the strength of this dragon's tooth column, from the artillery bombardment just now, the devil soldiers have already preliminarily appreciated that in the face of weapons and equipment, the combat effectiveness is stronger than that of their own dragon's tooth column.

The devil soldiers were more or less frightened in their hearts, because they all knew that they were facing a notorious and successful anti-Japanese iron division.

And the great reputation of this unit for the Japanese army was forged with hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers' lives, which made people frightened and frightened!