The next morning, Lieutenant General Nishimura Takuma, the commander of the Japanese Guards Division, led three wings of the Guards Division to the position south of the city of Abramara. 八?一?Chinese (一)?? (8) 8 1 (8) Z (8) .COM While the soldiers were busy setting up offensive positions, Lieutenant General Nishimura Takuma and the three wing commanders stood on a high ground and held binoculars to observe the defenders' positions.

After observing for a while, the wing commander of the second wing, Yuosa Inoue, said to Lieutenant General Takuma Nishimura: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, it seems that the positions of the people of China are well repaired, and it will be a little difficult to attack. It seems that it will have to be destroyed with our powerful artillery fire before the infantry can attack. Lieutenant General Nishimura Takuma nodded and said, "Yo Sai! Inoue-kun is right, he should let the people on the other side suffer under the powerful artillery fire of our Imperial Japanese Army." The order was given, and as soon as the artillery wing had set up an artillery position, it opened fire on the positions of the Chinese people. ”

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Japanese artillery bombardment began, first the forty-eight 96 Type 15O field guns of the field artillery wing of the Guards Division began to shell. The shells began to explode from the barbed wire fence several tens of meters long outside the position, and gradually extended towards the front-line position. The power of the 15O field artillery is much greater than that of those 75 mm caliber mountain guns and field artillery, and if the barbed wire fence with a width of several tens of meters is blown up by 75 mountain guns or field artillery, it will not be too bad to cause much damage.

However, the bombardment of the 15o field artillery directly uprooted these barbed wire fences and blew them out all the way. This barbed wire fence with a width of several tens of meters was originally an important barrier to stop the Japanese infantry, but now the Japanese army only used ten minutes of artillery bombardment to clear this barrier. The defenders did not know about this, and the officers and men of the first battalion and the first company of the gravity battalion on the front-line positions were still hiding in the anti-artillery holes, hiding from the Japanese shelling.

The anti-artillery holes of the 545th Regiment were still relatively solid, and although the Japanese army's 15o field guns were not small, the anti-artillery holes were also carried down, and they did not collapse in this shelling. But most of the fortifications on the ground, whether they were trenches or sandbag bunkers, were destroyed, and the few guards who remained in the bunkers were both killed and wounded.

As the shelling continued, an infantry brigade began to assemble, and heavy machine guns, mortars, 92 infantry guns, and 37-mm guns lined up in rows on the offensive positions. Soon after, the assembled infantry brigade began to advance towards the defenders' positions, and these infantry looked well-trained, and at a distance of three hundred meters from the position, they formed a straggler's formation.

As soon as the Japanese infantry brigade attacked, a slightly wounded guard sentry on the position used a walkie-talkie to report to Yuan Zhongzhong, the commander of the first battalion in the anti-artillery hole. Yuan Zhongzhong, the commander of the first battalion who was in charge of the command of the front-line position, heard that an infantry brigade of the Japanese army had begun to attack, and he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to enter the position.

The Japanese artillery shells on the position were still exploding, the air was filled with gunpowder smoke and dust, and the ground was constantly shaking with the sound of explosions. After the soldiers bent down and drilled out of the anti-artillery hole, they rushed to the front-line position along the communication trench. For a while, most of the fortifications were destroyed, and the fighters had to look for usable cover to hide.

Yuan Zhongzhong also got into a relatively intact bunker, and a company commander was by his side to direct the soldiers to set up the heavy machine guns, while Yuan Zhongzhong raised his binoculars to observe the attacking Japanese infantry through the shooting hole. After only observing for a while, Yuan Zhongzhong's brows furrowed, in the telescope, these Japanese soldiers had a high tactical literacy, and they were divided into battle groups, alternately covering the forward attack.

The Japanese troops at the forefront were less than 200 meters away from the position, and Yuan Zhongzhong gave the order to shoot. As soon as the guns on the positions rang out, the Japanese advanced more carefully, and behind them, the heavy machine guns on the heavy machine gun positions also began to suppress the fire on the defenders' positions. The 92 infantry guns and mortars were specially aimed at the machine-gun fire points on the positions.

In just a few minutes, several light and heavy machine guns were destroyed under Japanese fire. As soon as the machine-gun fire weakened, the pace of the Japanese attack immediately accelerated. These Japanese battle groups had a clear division of labor, with those who were advancing to advance, those who were covering, and those who were supporting, and who used all available cover to quickly approach their positions. Fortunately, the soldiers on the position were all veterans of a hundred battles, and their marksmanship and individual quality were very strong, as well as the firepower of submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles was also very fierce, which suppressed the attacking Japanese troops about 100 meters away from the position.

Yuan Zhongzhong observed the attacking Japanese army, this was the most difficult group of Japanese soldiers he had encountered, and the company commander next to him also widened his eyes in surprise and asked: "Battalion commander, why are these little Japan so difficult to deal with?" Yuan Zhongzhong didn't reply, and replied: "Maybe this group of small Japan is some kind of guard division, that's the Japanese Shoja Emperor's Praetorian Guard, can you do it without two brushes?"

The commander of the first company suddenly realized: "This is the Guards Division of Little Japan? No wonder it is so difficult to deal with, but no matter what, if we encounter our 90th Division, we have to beat him down." After saying that, the company commander walked to the heavy machine gun, pushed away the machine gun shooter, and personally operated the heavy machine gun. The Japanese attack was thwarted, but during the half-hour attack, the casualties of this infantry brigade were not large, and the two sides were deadlocked there firing at each other.

The Japanese artillery stopped, and now it was the artillery of the 2nd Wing that supported the infantry attack. The artillery of these guns was very accurate, and the power of the 15o caliber heavy mortars was by no means inferior to the 75 caliber field guns, and the penetration of those 37 caliber guns was so strong that even the walls of the bunker could not withstand its continuous fire. Yuan Zhongzhong saw that the form was not very good, and ordered the mortars of the first battalion to return fire, even if they could not eliminate these small guns of the Japanese army, they could attract Japanese artillery fire and reduce the pressure on the front-line positions.

The first battalion was equipped with 16 82 mortars and 24 60 light mortars, and its strength was not weak. The Japanese troops, who reacted, quickly counterattacked, and the artillery of both sides engaged in an artillery battle against the artillery. The Japanese army's small artillery was still superior in power, and the artillery battle lasted for ten minutes, and both sides suffered losses, and no one could bear anyone.

As soon as the Japanese artillery fire shifted, the pressure on the front-line positions was reduced a lot, and now in the counterfire, the defenders' advantage in firepower was waved, and the sharpshooters dared to swim to attack the Japanese army. The casualties of the Japanese army increased a lot, and the captain of the Japanese infantry brigade in charge of the command saw that he could not move forward, and the soldiers around him were constantly suffering casualties, so he could only order a retreat.

The first attack of the Japanese army was repulsed, and the first battalion also showed all its strength, and in this first battle, half of the troops on the front-line positions were reduced, which was the first time in the many years of fighting of the first battalion. As soon as the Japanese army withdrew, Yuan Zhongzhong commanded the soldiers to hide in the anti-artillery hole, and he knew that soon the Japanese artillery bombardment would start again. It's just that what he didn't expect was that this time the Japanese army used the heavy artillery of the Fourth Heavy Artillery Brigade.

The Japanese attack was unsuccessful, much to the annoyance of Nishimura Takumaki, the division commander, who also saw the tenacity of the defenders and the strong firepower of the defenders. Nishimura Takuma understood that the artillery of his division's artillery wing did little damage to the defenders who were hiding, and in order to strengthen the lethality of the artillery fire, Nishimura asked Commander Yamashita Fumifumi to ask the heavy artillery brigade to use heavy artillery to carry out a covering attack on the defenders' positions.

It was difficult for Yamashita to prepare for the attack of the Guards Division with heavy artillery, but he did not use heavy artillery as soon as he came up, so Nishimura Takuma's request was in the hands of Nakamashita Fumi, so Yamashita Fumimi immediately ordered the 4th Heavy Artillery Brigade to shell the positions of the Shina people with heavy artillery. As soon as the 4th Heavy Brigade, which had been prepared for a long time, received an order from Commander Yamashita Fubun, it immediately began shelling the positions of the defenders.

This shelling is different from the previous ones, just the bombardment of the Type 96 15O caliber heavy cannon is not something that the anti-artillery hole can withstand, not to mention the existence of such a big killer weapon as the Type 96 24o mm caliber heavy howitzer that is several times more powerful. The Japanese army used covered artillery shelling, and 48 heavy artillery shells fell in every part of the front-line positions, not even sparing corners.

Under such intensive artillery bombardment, the defenders on the front-line position, including the commander of the first battalion, Yuan Zhongzhong, all the people were stewed in more than a dozen anti-artillery holes, and after the Japanese army's 20-minute artillery bombardment, the front-line position was full of craters, and even the surface was concave several feet, and all the defenders on the first-line position were martyred, and not even a single survivor.

After the shelling, the Japanese infantry rushed to the front line and met no resistance. Excited, the Japanese army immediately prepared to attack the second line of positions. Before noon, the first line of positions was lost, and the first battalion commander Yuan Zhongzhong and the soldiers of the two companies were all wiped out, and the news reached the regiment commander Zhao Fei, which surprised Zhao Fei.

Zhao Fei listened to the explosion of Japanese artillery shells at the command post, and knew that the Japanese army's shelling this time was different from the past, and the power was much greater, so he should have used heavy artillery. He hurriedly led the guards up to the city wall to observe, but as soon as he arrived at the city wall, he received the bad news. Zhao Fei looked at the craters on the first line of positions in the distance with a telescope, and his eyes couldn't help but be hot.

On the one hand, Zhao Fei ordered all troops to hide from the Japanese artillery bombardment on the ground and not to enter the anti-artillery holes, and on the other hand, he sent signal troops to report the situation to the brigade commander Zhang Lingfu. Zhang Lingfu was also taken aback when he received Zhao Fei's report, considering that his 75 field guns were really not the opponents of the Japanese heavy artillery, he had to ask the division commander Tang Yikuan for artillery support.

Tang Yikuan happened to be here with Wang Haitao, and immediately reported to Wang Haitao after receiving the request. When Wang Haitao heard that the battalion commander Yuan Zhongzhong was martyred along with the soldiers of the two companies, the anger in his heart suddenly rose. Yuan Zhongzhong is a bandit adapted from his own mountain bandits in Longzhou County, this person is straightforward and fast-talking, although he is a good hand at fighting, but he offends too many people, so he has made a lot of meritorious contributions but is still a battalion commander, when Wang Haitao was ready to expand the army after returning to China, he was appointed to serve as a regiment commander in the new army, but he did not expect to fold in Burma. Wang Haitao was determined to avenge the death of his comrades-in-arms, so he immediately ordered the heavy artillery brigade of the army to prepare them for battle.