"It should be the mines laid in front of the position that have been triggered" Dai Ziran quickly judged from the direction where the explosion sounded that something was wrong.

Wu Ming nodded. Since the setback of the Japanese offensive, the situation has been relatively stable, although the reconnaissance units of the two sides have clashed in some areas.

The Japanese army has behaved tepidly for the past three days, how can it suddenly attack now? Moreover, the Japanese fleet artillery group did not cover the fire in advance, which was really a bit incomprehensible to Wu Ming.

However, Wu Ming still quickly issued an order, asking the front-line officers and soldiers to strictly hold their positions and beware of a sneak attack by the Japanese army.

In contrast to Wu Ming's confusion, when he learned that Shigeharu Suematsu led the 114th Division to attack the new 2nd Division without authorization, Yanagawa Heisuke was so angry that he threw his beloved tea set to the ground and smashed it.

Coming to the bridge, I saw through the telescope the continuous burst of fire over the position of the new 2nd Division, heard the dull sound of explosions, and slammed my fist on the railing in front of me.

Yanagawa Heisuke returned to the headquarters, looked at the messenger sent by Shigeharu Suematsu, and said gloomily: "Yaga, Shigeharu Suematsu has already launched an attack, and you came to deliver the letter at this time?" Well? ”

The messenger was a lieutenant who humbled down and held the book above his head with both hands: "General Suematsu is for the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army...... For this reason, the staff departments of the division and regiment have drawn up a detailed operational plan, and the probability of success is very high, but it is only ......"

"It's just what, I'm afraid I won't agree, so let's have a prelude? Hmph, he has no commander, if everyone learns from him, what do you want me to be the commander? Yanagawa Heisuke cursed hoarsely, and the officials next to him shouted to punish Shigeji Suematsu, and for a while the noise made Yanagawa Heisuke's head big, and he shouted violently: "Shut up for me"

The headquarters was quiet all of a sudden, and everyone was a little angry in their hearts - it was Shigeharu Suematsu who caused the trouble, why are you angry with us?

Yanagawa Heisuke looked around, although the people around him advocated severely punishing Shigeji Suematsu, but even if he wanted to take measures against Shigeji Suematsu, he would have to wait until the end of this battle to say it, after all, there were still more than 10,000 soldiers in the 114th Division, so he couldn't let so many people accompany Shigeji Suematsu to be buried together

Yanagawa Heisuke took the letter, opened it, and scanned it carefully.

I have to admit that the feasibility of the success of the plan is quite high, although it is not very satisfactory, but at this time, Yanagawa Heisuke has no other way but to accompany Suematsu Shigeru to go crazy.

After calming down, Yanagawa Heisuke quickly issued an order that the task force cruising in Hangzhou Bay should return to the sea off Jinshan again, and after adjusting the shooting of Zhu Yuan, it would shell the defense line of the New Second Division, and at the same time, order the naval aviation to be ready to support the attack of the 114th Division as soon as it was dark.

It was now 4:50 in the morning, the dawn was beginning to appear, and a faint mist rose over the beach and land from Jinshanwei to Jiulong Mountain.

Han Tiecheng raised his binoculars, only to see that the Japanese troops who had been blown up by mines had retreated, and there were crowds of people in the distance, obviously the Japanese army was accumulating strength to prepare for the next wave of attacks.

Han Tiecheng turned his head and saw Fang Shengde, the commander of the Sharp Knife Company, pouting his ass in front of another lookout, and immediately kicked Fang Shengde and asked, "What's the situation now?" ”

Fang Shengde glanced back at the regiment commander, sat down and leaned his back against the bunker wall, took out a cigarette from his pocket, threw one to the regiment commander, nodded it comfortably, took a puff before saying:

"This time, the little devils took advantage of the night to prepare to sneak up, if it weren't for the large number of mines planted at the front of the position, maybe they would have been overshadowed."

Han Tiecheng angrily stretched out his leg to kick Fang Shengde: "Tell Lao Tzu the point, what are you kid inking."

Fang Shengde twisted his waist to dodge Han Tiecheng's legs, and then a carp stood up: "The strength of the Japanese army's sneak attack on us is about a brigade, and after stepping on the mine, we beat it back and retreated. Now that the Japanese army has begun to increase its troops, it is unlikely that the size of a wing will follow, and there must be a bloody battle next. ”

Han Tiecheng turned his head to look, and now that the front of the position was foggy, he could only vaguely see the figure of the devil in front, and it was difficult to get an accurate number of how many were behind.

"Okay, continue to monitor the movements of the Japanese army"

Han Tiecheng gave an order, rushed out of the bunker, and began to check the preparations for battle.

After walking in the trench for more than ten minutes, Han Tiecheng suddenly had a feeling of palpitations, as if something was wrong, but he couldn't say why.

"Quick, everyone into the anti-artillery hole"

Han Tiecheng stopped and groaned slightly, seeing that the officers and soldiers were lazily leaning against the trench wall, either closing their eyes to recuperate, or chatting with each other, their faces changed, and they suddenly roared.

At this moment, there was a muffled sound in the distance, and Han Tiecheng looked at the place where the sound came from in the distance, which was over Hangzhou Bay.

The Japanese fleet opened fire

Before he could react, the ground shook violently, Han Tiecheng's body was crooked, and he stumbled and fell to the ground, hitting his head on the wall of the trench, dizzy for a while.

A heavy shell with a caliber of more than 300 mm exploded in front of the position, and a huge shock wave set off a wave of air that spread wildly in all directions.

Immediately after, a succession of shells exploded on the defensive line.

Han Tiecheng didn't expect that the Japanese naval guns would fire in the foggy early morning, and he was a little confused for a while, in fact, he didn't know what to do, the Japanese scouts had already figured out all the coordinates of each section of the battle line of the new Second Division, and after receiving Yanagawa Heisuke's order, the artillerymen only needed to determine the shooting of Zhu Yuan before they could fire.

Although most of the officers and men hid in the anti-artillery holes, they were still so powerless in the face of the heavy shells of the Japanese army of more than 300 mm, as long as they hit directly, the anti-artillery holes immediately collapsed, and those officers and soldiers who did not have time to hide shrank their bodies into the trenches, and every shell that exploded set off a piece of flesh and blood.

The group of shells repeatedly covered the trenches, and each round of shells fell to the ground, exploding a windy wind as sharp as an invisible steel knife, and then set off a height of about five or six meters, just like an astronomical tide, and the surging tide of earth and stone burst out of shrapnel, stone clusters, adobe, and grass roots, forming an impermeable curtain that swept the entire position.

"Boom-"

In a series of loud noises that were as dense as rain and sounded like thunder, waves of invisible sounds were stacked from far and near, and from near to far like a hammer, smashing into the ears of the officers and men

Except for some of the officers and men who withdrew into the anti-artillery holes in time, the other officers and men who were lying dead in the trenches, whether they were veterans or recruits, all opened their mouths wide and trembled unconsciously, the only difference was that the degree of trembling was different, and the officers and men were bearing the endless bombardment with the greatest courage

The earth trembled violently, and with every explosion, the defensive line was left with craters like lunar craters. From time to time, a shell fell in the trench, and in the fireball of large-caliber grenades, four or five soldiers flew into the sky screaming like pieces of paper, instantly becoming the most brilliant fireworks in the world, annihilated in the flying earth and concrete slab lumps that exploded

Some of the shells landed on the carefully constructed machine gun bunkers and exploded, only to see a flash of fire, and the entire fortification, along with men and guns, flew into the air, turning into a sky full of flesh and parts

In the roar of fierce artillery, the entire defense line was plunged into a sea of fire, and when the ten minutes of shelling had passed, the choking smell of gunpowder mixed with the bloody smell enveloped every corner of the position.

When Han Tiecheng was helped up by Fang Shengde, he was very dizzy, his eyes swept away, and the position was filled with gunsmoke, a mess, and broken hands and feet were scattered all over the position.

As far as the eye could see, there was not a single person standing. If it weren't for Han Tiecheng's good luck and no cannonball directly hitting the trench he was in, he would have to go to see King Yama.

Han Tiecheng patted his head heavily, and when he was a little sober, he shouted loudly: "Hurry, hurry up and enter the position, as soon as the cannon stops, the devil is about to attack"

As the loud whistle sounded, the officers and men who had withdrawn into the anti-artillery holes also quickly climbed out and entered the position.

After the baptism of the artillery group, the morning dew was gone, and the scorching heat wave even dispelled a lot of fog, and Han Tiecheng gradually saw the situation on the position clearly. In the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army just now, the officers and soldiers of the battalion and the sharp knife company stationed in the front-line position, together with at least more than one platoon, died on the position forever, and even Han Tiecheng's guards were killed in the artillery fire, and their bodies were blown to pieces by the bombs, and only a fountain pen given to him before was left in the corner of the trench

"The little devil of the dog day will carry out a surprise attack"

Han Tiecheng wiped his face in pain. Since the beginning of the war, the continuous fighting has caused him to lose more than 800 outstanding officers and soldiers, and several companies have almost changed from beginning to end, and the huge sacrifice is as uncomfortable as digging out his heart

Han Tiecheng endured his grief and rushed into a well-kept bunker, Fang Sheng dragged him to the lookout and pointed at the devil in the distance.

Han Tiecheng took a closer look, it turned out that this round of shelling on the Japanese side was also bombed by mistake, the offensive formation was chaotic, and many devil soldiers gathered together to scold their mothers hatefully, but it didn't take long for the riot to be suppressed by the Japanese officers, and then the sound of tanks and armored vehicles driving came......

"Beware that the Japanese devils are coming, everyone is ready"

Han Tiecheng calmly gave the order, and soon the officers and soldiers in the trench got up, crouched on the trench and raised their guns to wait.

At this time, Wei Gang, the commander of the first battalion, rushed into the bunker and shouted at Han Tiecheng: "Regiment commander, your task now is to return to the regiment headquarters and command the whole regiment to fight, instead of staying in the front-line position to disturb me."

"You-"

Han Tiecheng pointed at Wei Gang and wanted to scold, but he waved his hand when he thought about it: "Okay, remember, give Lao Tzu a hard beating, if the situation is not right, Lao Tzu will send reinforcements, you must kill more devils"

"Yes"

Wei Gang solemnly saluted.

Han Tiecheng withdrew to the third-line position with the sharp knife company, and the Japanese army had gone crazy at this time. Due to the fire preparation of the fleet artillery group, the Japanese field artillery wing did not waste shells on the defensive line of a regiment, and the infantry artillery that cooperated with the infantry attack began to destroy the pillboxes and bunkers where the Chinese troops were still standing.

Japanese heavy machine guns sprayed bullets frantically, and for a time the defense line was surrounded by the explosion of shells and the afterimage of tracer bullets.

Weygand beckoned his soldiers to retreat into their trenches and hide in the recessed individual bunkers to prevent the sputtering damage from the shells. In front of the position, Japanese tanks and armored vehicles moved forward in an orderly manner, and the devils behind followed very closely, and the infantry and tanks coordinated very well.

While the Japanese army was attacking head-on, Yoshino Shaosa, who led the surprise attack team, opened the stealthy bushes and looked into the distance. Although there was morning fog and he couldn't see the situation in the northeast of East Lake, he couldn't help but want to see it with his own eyes. Behind him were densely packed with people, and a reinforced group of Japanese troops were all hidden in the vast forest by the lake.

Before dawn these devils entered a reed swing on the west shore of the East Lake, in order to hide the raft, they jumped directly from the shallows, waded from the half-height lake to this dense forest, their pants and shoes were all wet, in the early morning cold wind, the bones were cold, but no one made a sound, at this time they sat or lay down, silently wiping the weapons in their hands, their eyes full of determination.

Thanks to the cover of this morning fog and the attack launched on the frontal battlefield, otherwise, more than 1,600 people of this reinforced brigade hiding on the shore of East Lake would have been discovered by the patrol posts of the new Second Division.

Yoshino Shaosa looked at his watch, it was already six o'clock in the morning, and he took his subordinates to hide in this forest for two hours, if he didn't move, it would be easy to be discovered by the patrol troops of the new second division after the sky was completely bright.

In the mist, there was a bird's cry - cooing

Yoshino Shaoza was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the soldiers around him to respond with bird calls, and soon three figures appeared in the morning mist.

Yoshino Shaosa led someone to greet him.

Walking closer, Yoshino found that the person in the middle was an ordinary-looking woman in her twenties, with short ear-length hair and sharp eyes that made her look shrewd, and she was wearing a white nurse outfit, looking extremely slim. Yoshino Shaosa: "Miss Yezi, hello, General Shigeharu Suematsu asked me to obey your dispatch"

Yoshino Shaosa is a rather conceited person, but Shigeharu Suematsu has explained before that everything when he comes here must follow Chiaki Yezi's orders, and he even mentioned that whether or not he can wash away the shame of the 114th Division depends on her as a guide, so he can't be careless

"Not much to gossip"

Qianqiu Yezi smiled slightly: "I have a good plan, I can send it to the door ⊥ Wu Ming, the commander of the new Second Division, and you can take advantage of the chaos to kill him when the time comes......"