In the area of Shizhong Mountain, including the lake outside Shizhong Mountain, the artillery door of the 12th Division had already measured the shooting of Zhuyuan. When Meng Kailan's order was issued, on the artillery position about 10 kilometers away from Shizhong Mountain, the sound of "empty air" sounded, and the next moment, dozens of huge fireballs rose into the sky, and then there was the whistling sound of running and tearing the air, and in just five minutes, nearly 200 bombs smashed into the Japanese army in the shallow well.

Before the cannon sounded, Takashi Asai Kura listened to the gunfire from the direction of Yanlie Mountain, and his face was relieved. The division commander finally got his senses, and he knew that he had changed his basket, if he had done this earlier, how could he be under so much pressure here-no, what kind of sound?! "Not good!" He shouted suddenly, followed by a loud shout: "Withdraw, withdraw!" Lie down! ”

Thousands of little devils are digging fortifications on the beach at the moment. Fearing the next offensive of the Cadet Army, Asai strengthened the fortifications and excavated. And what he never expected was that the artillery of the Chinese people would dare to launch an indiscriminate shelling at this time! There were many experienced veterans in the Japanese army, and after hearing the sound of shells breaking through the air, many devil officers were stunned, and then immediately scolded: "The people of China are crazy, do they want to die with us?" ”

"Your Excellency, what should I do?" An officer went to ask Takashi Asai Kura. The so-called river beach fortifications in the shallow well department are all made of sand, so the defensive effect is really not very good, let alone resist 150 mm heavy bombs, even 75 mm mountain artillery shells can't resist it. Although they could not understand why the artillerymen of the Cadet Corps dared to carry out such indiscriminate shelling, they were not afraid of hurting their own people, but when the shells whistled and fell on their heads, most of them temporarily lost their thinking ability and instinctively asked their superiors for help.

Asai Kura is in a hurry, where is there any way. The old devil has a lot of combat experience, or maybe the Japanese nature determines that he likes to do things that harm others and himself. He thought for a moment and shouted: "Rush out of the city and attack, anyway, you will die, then you will die heroically!" ”

Heroic death? Then you have to have an enemy to fulfill you! The middle and low-level officers of the devils who came to their senses immediately commanded the devils under their respective commands to launch a decisive charge to the position of the Scholar Army. No one expected that the defenders on the opposite side had already withdrawn, and they first bombarded the defenders' positions with mortars and grenadiers, and then rushed to the defenders' positions in the midst of fierce explosions and fire. Some devils are ready to die together, and what they are holding in their arms is not a 38 big cover, but a cluster grenade, or a bag of explosives. And the most exaggerated dozen devils, they rushed forward with crooked machine guns, and they rushed forward while strafing, and they actually learned the trick that Wu had just begun to target them - machine gunners attacked in formation.

The theory that artillery is the king of infantry warfare was still true at least in World War II. The decisive charge launched by more than 3,000 devils is naturally very large, and the momentum is very majestic, and if someone takes a bird's-eye view from the air at this moment, they will definitely be shocked by this scene. Of course, because there is no enemy on the other side (at this moment, the surviving cadets of the 34th Brigade are sitting on the eastern slope of Shizhong Mountain, about two kilometers away from here, panting), so the performance of the Japanese army is actually **-style, no matter how wonderful they sing, it is just a one-man show.

"Die!" "Kill!" …… Several devils were standing on the edge of a trench that had made them suffer so much before, and were shooting fiercely into it, and a young man ran over, and he saw the empty scene inside, and his face suddenly turned the color of pig's liver—"Eight squares! He cursed and was about to stop his men from shooting. Rumble! A cannonball exploded around him, and the flames engulfed him and the devils completely.

The artillery bombardment by the Cadet Army lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and after a quarter of an hour had passed, there was less than one brigade of more than 3,000 devils in the Asai unit who could still stand. More than two large groups of devils fell into the artillery fire, and many devils were directly blown to pieces, and what they couldn't understand when they were dying was, what about the enemy? Where did the enemy go?

The artillery regiment of the 12th Division, fearing retaliatory shelling by the Japanese, quickly withdrew from the battlefield after firing for a quarter of an hour. As soon as the sound of artillery stopped, Meng Kailan immediately led the team to Hukou County, without a trace of hesitation.

In this round of shelling, because there were always people around him who volunteered to help him block the shells, Takashi Asai Kurura just wiped his face a little. And what made him angry was that the decisive charge he personally launched did not even touch the shadow of an enemy. The fact that the defenders had quietly disappeared from under his nose was not a mistake that a good commander should make. When it was confirmed that the shelling had stopped and that there was no trace of the enemy in the surrounding area, Takashi Asai Kurura sat on the scorched ground with a very ungraceful pat, looking at the embers of the explosion that were still burning around him, and then at the lost Imperial soldiers on the edge of the fire, his eyes showed a confused look for the first time - he couldn't help but think: Is the student army really the nemesis of the empire? Ouyang Yun, this person, what kind of existence is he?

The reason why Meng Kailan wanted to launch an artillery bombardment was not only to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, but also to let Ma Changchun on Yanlie Mountain see that they had abandoned Shizhong Mountain. Since Shi Zhongshan has given up, there is no point in them sticking to Yanlie Mountain. There is a clear difference between the concept of governing the army of the student army and that of the Central Army. One of the most prominent of these is that the lives of soldiers are above all else, and even sometimes, as long as fewer people can die, a defeat can be forgiven.

The soldiers around him, Meng Kailan knew Ma Changchun's temperament, and knew that they would definitely resist to the death for the safety of Shizhongshan's army. And in his eyes, instead of letting the ambiguity die in vain, it is better to keep it and continue to kill the enemy later.

The artillery bombardment of Shizhongshan position by the artillery of the Cadet Army not only attracted Ma Changchun's attention, but also made Haneda secretly frightened. Ma Changchun may not be smart enough to comprehend the brigade commander's kindness, he persistently led the soldiers to carry out an impossible sniper battle, and after the twelve people ran out of bullets, they used big knives to fight to the death with the devils who rushed up. In the end, eleven of the twelve people were killed on the spot, and only Zhang Haonai was captured alive by the Japanese because his left hand was cut off and he suffered from excessive blood loss and shock.

Including the soldier who died in the previous battle, the twelve martyrs of the second squad lay in a strange posture in the second line of defense they were holding onto, among them, Ma Changchun died the worst, his abdomen was pricked open by a gun, his intestines flowed out, and in his mouth, he was biting the ear of a devil until death.

After the battle, Haneda did not have the slightest joy. The shelling of Shizhongshan made him realize that Asai must have suffered heavy losses, so the significance of his capture of Yanlie Mountain was much less significant. And if the entire Asai army is destroyed, his sneak attack on Yanlie Mountain this time will become a joke. Because it can be seen from the scale of the indiscriminate shelling just now, the Scholar Army has definitely given up on Shizhong Mountain. In other words, after the shelling just now, Shizhongshan was already undefended for the 106th Division. At the beginning of the battle, he thought that there was at least one company of defenders on Yanlie Mountain, but only now did he realize that the defenders were actually only thirteen people. But how many imperial soldiers did they kill? Tempted to avoid the question, Haneda eventually asked, "How many of us died?" ”

"One hundred and seven killed, thirty-two seriously wounded......"

"Enough!" Haneda stumbled on his feet, and although he was already prepared in his heart, the loss would not be too low this time, but the number was still beyond his expectations. "Eight grids, a bunch of rice buckets! The opponent is only the size of a squad, but, look, you look at how many of us died? He scolded loudly, cursed and cursed, but his voice was lowered. He's the commander of this battle, and he should take the most responsibility.

Looking at the students lying quietly in the afterglow of the explosion, all the devils couldn't help but maintain a solemn demeanor. The Japanese advocate heroes and bravery, and although these scholars are from China, the bravery and martial arts they show are incomparable to them. Some devils even thought: If all the student soldiers are like here, then there is still any hope for success in the great cause of Greater East Asia under His Majesty the Emperor?

"Your Excellency, what shall we do next?" A squadron leader plucked up the courage to ask Haneda.

"Make every effort to rescue the captured soldiers, and bury these people alive, they, they are all heroes!"

"Hay!"

Haneda took two steps between the corpses of the cadets, feeling the oppressive atmosphere around him, he felt that he should say a few words, thought about it, eased his face, and said, "These people are very heroic, they are all out-and-out warriors. But should we be afraid? No, we Yamato have always been the best people to learn. Today, the people of China have taught us a vivid lesson with their bravery, and we should not be discouraged in this regard, but should learn from it with an open mind. As you all remember, our Empire of Japan is far weaker than China in terms of population and territory, so if we want to do so, we can only behave stronger and braver than the people of China. Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is the loss of fighting spirit. Warriors under His Majesty the Emperor, in any case, we are now victorious, so please raise your heads, remember the lesson of today, bury the bravery of the people of Shina in your hearts, and tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, behave more bravely than them! Victory will always be with the Yamato nation! ”

"Hay!"

No matter what he thought in his heart, for the teachings of the commander of the Major General's brigade, the nearby devil soldiers still responded respectfully, and then, the morale of the whole army seemed to be a little higher.