Toshio Miyake thought about starting from Qingyuan County to attack Yingde County, but he didn't know that Qingyuan County had fallen into the hands of the Ninety Division. Major General Goto Juro led the 132nd Infantry Brigade, the 104th Field Artillery Wing, the 11th Independent Tank Brigade and a Heavy Artillery Brigade to set out, with a cavalry brigade in front of it as a mobile reconnaissance post.

As soon as Goto Juro's troops left Guangzhou City, the reconnaissance detachment received the news, and this information was quickly transmitted to the defenders of Qingyuan County, and then continued to be transmitted to Wang Haitao. Garrisoned in Qingyuan County is the 547th Regiment of the 272nd Brigade, which is a unit brought out by Zhang Lingfu, and the current regiment commander Du Haifeng heard that the Japanese army dispatched a brigade of more than 10,000 people from Guangzhou, and rushed straight to himself, not nervous, but only excited.

Since the establishment of the 547th Regiment in Shanghai, it has fought countless vicious battles, and has fought with several of the most ferocious standing divisions of the Japanese army, when a brigade of the 104th Division pounced, and Du Haifeng really didn't take them seriously. However, you can not take them seriously, but everything that should be prepared is indispensable, Du Haifeng knows that he must not make a mistake in this Qingyuan County, otherwise Zhang Lingfu will definitely not be able to spare himself.

Because of the fear of premature exposure, the 547th Regiment did not overhaul the anti-dumping fortifications outside the city, that is, built a fortification at the base of the wall outside the city, which relied on the city wall. The time was too short, and there was no time to build such solid fortifications as bunkers, so they could only dig two trenches and pile sandbags as fortifications. The sandbag is made of trees, and although it can't prevent direct fire from heavy artillery, a few mortars and shrapnel can still block it. The trenches were dug deep enough and zigzag-shaped, and the earthen walls of the trenches had individual bunkers to prevent shelling.

This position was the best and most complete fortification that could have been completed in such a short time, and of course several barbed wire fences in front of the position were necessary. The fortifications were defended by two companies of the second battalion and a platoon of the firepower battalion. On the city wall was the remaining company of the second battalion, the third battalion and a company of the fire battalion defended together, and the artillery battalion and the first battalion were all in the city.

The 132nd Brigade of the Japanese Army was 50 kilometers away from the county seat of Qingyuan, and the brigade commander, Major General Goto Juro, learned from the reconnaissance cavalry that the county town of Qingyuan had been occupied by the Chinese army. Surprised and angry, Goto Juro ordered his troops to speed up. When he arrived outside Qingyuan County, Goto Juro looked at the blue sky and white sun flag fluttering on the castle tower, was furious, and couldn't take a break, so he ordered his field artillery wing to set up an artillery position, and then ordered the 137th Wing to prepare for the attack.

The field artillery wing has 24 75-mm field guns and 12 105-mm field guns, all of which are the latest field guns, and their power and range are much stronger than those of the old field guns. After the field artillery wing set up a position about 5,000 meters away from the city wall, the wing commander Shigeji Yuya gave an order, dozens of field guns were fired at the same time, and dozens of shells flew towards the city wall of Qingyuan County and the defenders' positions under the city wall.

At this time, under the command of Wing Commander Shiro Kawazaki, an infantry brigade of the 137th Wing of the Japanese Army had assembled 500 meters in front of the defenders' position, and the 12 92nd infantry guns and more than 20 mortars in the wing were also placed in the designated positions. More than a dozen heavy machine guns also set up cover positions behind the assembled soldiers.

When the Japanese artillery shells flew over, there were few soldiers on the positions under the city wall or on the city wall, and some of these soldiers were also left as observation posts. When the shells exploded on the position, Li Shouquan, deputy commander of the second battalion and commander of the first company, who was responsible for commanding the guards, said to Liu Mingyuan, the commander of the second company: "No matter how the attacks of this little Japanese are the same, they are all like this. It's changed from Shanghai to Shanghai!"

Liu Mingyuan replied: "Didn't you hear what the division and the brigade had said? The officers in this small Japanese army are all from the same officer school, and the master taught them like this, so naturally the apprentices will do the same, so they will not change their ways." Li Shouquan continued: "Abide by the rules!" Liu Mingyuan was about to speak, when a shell exploded not far from their bunker, and the sound of the explosion and the air wave hit together, so that Liu Mingyuan did not speak for a long time.

After a while, Liu Mingyuan relieved himself and said: "Deputy battalion commander, the power of this shell is not small, our bunker is not strong, I'm afraid there will be a bunker that will collapse!" Li Shouquan replied with a gloomy face: "The shelling outside is so fierce, I can't get out, I can only wait for this shelling to pass, I hope the soldiers will be fine!" Twenty minutes later, the Japanese shelling stopped, and Li Shouquan and Liu Mingyuan rushed out of the bunker at once.

The Japanese shelling blew up several individual bunkers, and Li Shouquan commanded the soldiers to save them, but eight soldiers still died. As soon as the fighters entered the position, the Japanese 92 infantry guns and mortars began to shoot coveringly, and at the same time, an infantry brigade also discharged an offensive formation and pressed over the defenders' positions.

More than a dozen 92 infantry guns and dozens of mortars pressed the soldiers on the position crawled tightly in the trenches, and there were shells that happened to fall into the trenches that took the lives of several soldiers. This situation made Wang Tianming, the commander of the second battalion on the city wall, unable to bear it, and Wang Tianming ordered more than 20 mortars on the city wall to counterattack the Japanese army's 90 infantry guns and mortar positions.

The artillery fire of the 547th Regiment was not weak, the 2nd Battalion alone had 24 60 mortars and 18 82 mortars, and the regiment also had 18 100 heavy mortars and 18 120 heavy mortars. When Wang Haitao left Qingyuan, he also supported the 547th Regiment with 12 German-made 75 field artillery. There were more than 100 mortars of various calibers in one regiment alone, which was unique among the ranks of the national army.

The artillery at the head of the city had Wang Tianming's order, and they fired the shells out as soon as possible. The old rule is that one cannon fires three rapid fires, and it will be transferred after the fight. These more than 100 shells also destroyed more than half of the 12 92 infantry guns and dozens of mortars of the Japanese army. In the face of the defenders' sudden artillery counterattack, the wing commander of the 137th Wing, Kawazaki Shiro Osa, did not react for a long time.

The Japanese attack on Canton went so smoothly that they encountered no decent resistance, let alone an artillery counterattack. So there was no ideological preparation at all for the artillery counterattack of the defenders. When the Japanese tried to destroy the defenders' artillery, the defenders' mortars had already been diverted. More than half of the artillery was destroyed, and the remaining few guns could no longer suppress the defenders on the position, and when the Japanese infantry brigade advanced to 200 meters in front of the position, the defenders had all entered the position and were ready for battle.

The Japanese heavy machine guns began to shoot in cover, and the bullets of the heavy machine guns screeched over the heads of the defenders, and the sound of the whistle made people's scalps tingle. And the attacking Japanese infantry also began to shoot at the position. The officers and men of the 90th Division were able to fire at the Japanese soldiers at a distance of 200 meters, so as soon as the Japanese troops entered the range of 200 meters, Li Shouquan ordered machine gun fire.

First a few heavy machine guns in the sandbag fortifications, then a dozen light machine guns began to roar, and the cross-machine gun fire knocked the second and third rows of soldiers in front of the attacking Japanese army to the ground, and the rest of the soldiers lay on the ground. Seeing that there were so many machine guns on the position, the captain of the Japanese army commanded the grenade hurriedly ordered the grenadiers in the team to fire grenades at the light and heavy machine gun fire points on the position. The light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese also changed direction, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed at the light and heavy machine gun fire points on the position at the same time.

In the face of the concentrated firepower of the Japanese troops, the heavy machine guns in the sandbag fortifications were better, and the light machine gunners sacrificed several at once, and as soon as the machine gun fire was weak, the Japanese began to get up and attack again. Although the barbed wire fence in front of the position was blown away by Japanese artillery fire, many of it was still intact, and 150 meters in front of the position, the attacking Japanese troops gradually converged to the gap where the barbed wire was blown open.

There were more than 20 sharpshooters from the two companies on the position, and these sharpshooters seized the opportunity to specifically attack those grenadiers and machine gunners. The captain of the command was also shocked when he saw so many automatic weapons appearing on the defenders' positions, and saw that his brigade had suffered more than 200 casualties, so he hurriedly ordered a retreat.

The first attack of the Japanese dropped more than a hundred corpses and retreated, while the defenders also lost more than thirty soldiers and a dozen wounded. After the captain withdrew, he came to the front of the co-captain Shiro Kawazaki and asked Kawazaki Shiro to take the blame. Kawazaki Shiro Osa had been watching the attack, and he had seen the ferocity of the defenders' firepower with his own eyes, so he did not blame the captain.

When Major General Goto Juro listened to Kawazaki Shiro Daisa's report, he was also surprised that the defenders had a large number of automatic weapons and a large number of artillery. At this time, the troops had already driven for most of the day, and there was another failed attack, so Major General Goto Juro decided not to attack today, and let the troops camp on the spot and launch another attack tomorrow.

Goto Juro's brigade was blocked here in the county seat of Qingyuan. The 11th Division, on the other hand, concentrated the 22nd Infantry Brigade and an independent heavy mortar brigade and assembled in Yunling Town, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Yingde County, preparing to flank the Chinese army in Yingde County together with the 132nd Brigade of the 104th Division.

Wang Haitao had already learned in Yingde County that the 104th Division had sent a brigade to launch an attack on Qingyuan County, and now another reconnaissance detachment had reported that the 22nd Infantry Brigade of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army had assembled in Yunling Town, and there were traces of an attack on Yingde County. Wang Haitao already understood what the Japanese army was fighting and couldn't help but sneer.

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