No one on the side of the Xuebing Army knew how many Japanese troops were dispatched in the Battle of Fuding in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the reason why Liu Yuqing put on such a vicious artillery array depended on two factors. One is his understanding of his opponent Gu Shoufu, and the other is the reconnaissance of the scouts on the mountains on both sides.

Gu Shoufu is crazy and cruel, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.

The scouts rubbed their eyes and couldn't figure out how many devils there were, so they could only keep sending back messages like this: there are still alive, and there are still many alive; Keep the angle you just had and do another round; The devils in the back rushed up again, and there was another round......

The shelling lasted for twenty-seven minutes, until the 403rd and 406th regiments ran out of shells, and the Lehi regiment could no longer blockade the entire battlefield.

Liu Yuqing was the last to conclude the specific number of Japanese soldiers killed in this battle - the shells were dense and powerful, and I don't know how many devils were near the bombing point or were repeatedly bombarded, and even the bones were gone; And the Japanese army has always had the habit of covering up the truth. The only reference is that less than 2,000 Japanese soldiers escaped from the city. In addition, Major General Katsuji Imamura has since disappeared from the Japanese military circles.

Liu Yuqing's division arrived at the battlefield the next morning, and by this time, the Chinese positions on the Guanmei front had been cleaned, and there were more than 400 corpses of devils carried out from the first trench alone. As for the devils who fell in front of the trenches, in addition to those who were repeatedly crushed by three tanks and turned into pulp, there are still nearly 2,000 bodies that can be clearly distinguished.

Three tanks, 409 actually escaped. When the artillery battle ended, Feng Minghai, Yu Tailong, and Miao Hongyun appeared in front of Ding Renhe and others carrying Zhang Yishui's body, and all the scholars couldn't help but exclaim "miracle".

The victory was hard-won, and the 28th Brigade paid a terrible price for it - only 134 men remained in the two infantry regiments, including a dozen seriously wounded. Among the officers, only two regiment commanders, a battalion commander and three platoon commanders survived, among which Fan Neng, the commander of the 401st Regiment, was seriously wounded.

Dai Rao originally complained about the artillery bombardment of the elite machine gun company under his command, but after learning about the casualties of the 22nd Brigade, he took Zhang Zhengxi and others to the first trench for a turn, and after collectively saluting the military salute, he ordered no one to mention the matter after returning.

Upper Eagle Battlefield. The 101st, 18th, and 114th divisions of the Japanese army launched a surprise attack at the same time, and the 10th, 13th, and 15th brigades of the Xuebing Army stationed in these three places stubbornly sniped, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than two hours, and there were huge casualties.

Shangying is different from Fuding, because Fuding has a guerrilla base to buffer the Japanese offensive, so although the South China Front is on the offensive, when it arrives at the front line of Fuding, it is actually a tired army.

What about the Upper Eagle area? Since the offensive of the South China Front has never stopped, and Jingdezhen is also an important stronghold of the Japanese army, the guerrilla tactics of the Xuebing Army have not been carried out. In order to resist the attack of the Japanese army and ensure that the southeast of Fujian can maintain the two springboards for the counteroffensive, after Ye Zhao led the Fourth Army to enter Shangying, he changed the tug-of-war to hold on, and gradually formed the three defensive strongholds of Leping, Dexing and Hufeng.

Among the three defense strongholds, because the terrain of Yushan is relatively flat, it is conducive to the battle of large armies, so it is natural to be regarded as the focus of defense. After a year and a half of construction, the former Hufeng Primary School in the east of Hufeng Town was gradually formed as the command center, facing the solid defense line of Yushan County. There are a total of 11 trenches in this defensive line, and there are more than 30 bunkers mixed between the trenches, and the defensive capability can be described as strong. Even the 114th Division only dared to launch a tentative attack at the beginning, and it had never launched such a large-scale offensive as tonight.

Eleven trenches, the first three of which had been completely flattened by the bombardment and shelling of the past few days, and sixteen of the bunkers in front of the trenches had been destroyed. Now, the 15th Brigade is defending the fourth line of trenches. The two sides are now fighting most fiercely over the four bunkers in front of the third trench.

This defensive type of trench equipped with bunkers was conceived by Li Hansoul. Eleven trenches, each about 160 meters apart, are connected by two communication trenches. Each trench is equipped with four bunkers. The trenches are connected by communication trenches and bunkers, and the distance is about thirty meters.

If it is a pure infantry battle, this form of defense is very powerful. The four bunkers, each equipped with a battle gun and two Makqin water-cooled heavy machine guns, as well as a number of light machine guns and other weapons, meant that the Japanese had to destroy the four bunkers first if they wanted to capture the trenches. But is the bunker so easy to destroy? The previous achievements of the Japanese army almost all relied on artillery and aviation. Now, when Saburo Miura began to dispatch pure infantry, he quickly got a taste of power.

The offensive of the 114th Division was traditional at first. Artillery fire was prepared, then three tanks opened the way, and a brigade of soldiers followed. In this regard, Du Linzi did not have any psychological pressure. You ** I go into the anti-artillery hole, you come to the tank, I use the anti-aircraft artillery. And as soon as the three tanks are destroyed, the next devil brigade will be a live target.

Saburo Miura personally commanded the battle in Wencheng Town, four kilometers outside the west gate of Yushan, and the 65th Wing under his command took the lead in the attack. The battle lasted for an hour, and two brigades were filled in successively, destroying only two bunkers. Saburo Miura was furious and called the commander of the 120th Field Artillery Wing, Noboru Otsuka, over to give him a lecture and asked him to fire a gas bomb.

After the Learner Army bombed Nagoya and dropped the plague, the Japanese were cautious about the use of poison gas bombs because they did not have the weapons to counterbalance the Aerial Fortress and feared retaliation from the Cadet Army. When Otsuka received this notice, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive, so he asked tentatively: "Your Excellency, the military department once issued a document——"

Miura Saburo naturally knew about this document, and he waved his hand to interrupt Otsuka's words, and said, "This time and that time." This time, we're definitely going to wipe out the Cadet Army. Don't worry about it, I'll take care of the problem. ”

As soon as Saburo Miura said this, Otsuka naturally did not dare to have any objections. A quarter of an hour later, Otsuka personally commanded an artillery brigade and fired at least one hundred and fifty poison gas bombs at the positions of the Cadet Corps.

This time, the 120th Field Artillery Regiment used mustard gas gas bombs, which can be infected through capillary blood holes, and the protective effect of gas masks is very poor. The 15th Brigade suffered huge casualties, and the 207th Regiment was almost wiped out.

The Japanese attacked from three directions, and there was definitely some emphasis. Because the Japanese army has never really launched an attack in the direction of Yushan, after Ye Zhao's analysis, he believes that this time the Japanese army will definitely attack Yushan. This is also the reason why he will rush to the front line of Hufeng as soon as possible. When a report came from the front line that the Japanese army had used poison gas bombs. While he was resentful, he also became more and more convinced that Yushan was the main direction of attack of the Japanese army.