At ten o'clock in the morning, a huge roar of motives was heard over the city of Amarabra. Bayi Chinese ≠≈≥.≠8=1≤Z≥≥.=C≤O≥M The Japanese army dispatched a huge fleet of 72 bombers and 18 fighters, including 12 Type 1 large bombers. This huge fleet of aircraft was directed at the Chinese defenders of the city of Amarabra. On the position, the 461st Brigade was ready to shoot at the air.

Except for the fighters who fought against the air, all the officers and men on the positions took refuge in bomb shelters. The Japanese planes already knew that the Chinese defenders had certain anti-aircraft weapons, and the first to attack were more than a dozen Zero fighters. In the face of the nimble and fast Zero fighters, the air defense positions only used sporadic anti-aircraft machine guns to whisk at them, and did not use all their firepower.

The Japanese Zero fighters did not carry aerial bombs, and could only use airborne machine guns to attack the ground, and their purpose was also to draw out the defenders' anti-aircraft weapons, and then use medium bombers to destroy them. The small number of anti-aircraft machine guns on the positions made the Japanese pilots ecstatic.

After the fighters pulled up, the first wave of eight Type 97 medium bombers, with these anti-aircraft machine guns as the Japanese standard, swooped down. Just when the eight planes were halfway down, the MG34 heavy machine gun on the first two anti-aircraft fire nets roared, and the 34 machine gun can be used as an anti-aircraft machine gun, and it has an anti-aircraft aiming ring specially aimed at the air.

The 20 MG34 machine guns opened up two dense firepower nets against the air, and the extremely high fire and strong anti-air combat capabilities of the 34 machine guns made the Type 97 bombers, which had very poor defense capabilities, suffer. Four planes did not have time to drop bombs and wart exploded into fireballs in the air, and the other four dropped bombs in a panic, and one was shot down and one was wounded as it was pulled up.

The encounter of the eight bombers made the other Japanese pilots red-eyed, and this time they dived down twelve Type 97 bombers. Twelve Japanese planes dived down in two waves, and the twenty MG34 machine guns were not enough, and although three planes were also killed, the planes also managed to drop bombs on the air defense positions. Twenty MG34 machine guns were blown up in one fell swoop.

As the 12 planes swooped down, more Type 97 medium bombers also dived down, the first two anti-aircraft fire networks had to be fired at full power, and 20 twin self-propelled anti-aircraft guns also joined the operation against the Japanese planes. Nearly an hour passed, and all the Japanese Type 97 medium bombers dived and bombed, and 20 of the 60 Type 97 medium bombers were destroyed, 20 were shot down, and 8 were damaged. However, on the ground, not only was the anti-aircraft fire on the second line of anti-aircraft fire basically bombed, but also a lot of fortifications were also blown up.

The last twelve large bombers finally appeared, and when they lowered the altitude to a thousand meters, they opened the bomb bay. Just as they were about to drop their bombs, the twenty twin self-propelled anti-aircraft guns on the last two anti-aircraft fire nets, together with twenty MG34 machine guns, opened fire at the same time, which caught the Japanese planes off guard.

Under the fire of anti-aircraft guns and MG34 heavy machine guns, these large bombers were shot one after another, and if they were lucky, they hurriedly threw down their bombs and flew back with black smoke, and those who were unlucky were planted on the ground with fire and black smoke. Two of the most unlucky ones were hit directly by anti-aircraft shells, and the bombs that did not arrive and were thrown out, exploded into fragments directly in the air.

Of the twelve large bombers, only two missed, four flew back wounded, and the remaining six were destroyed over their positions. On the position, at the cost of losing 18 twin self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and 26 MG34 machine guns, 89 casualties and 76 wounded, three Japanese Zero fighters, 28 Type 97 medium bombers, and 10 Type 1 large bombers were destroyed and damaged. It made the Japanese army feel heartache too.

The officers and men on the air battle position could not see it, but Tang Hongming, the commander of the 210th Division, the two brigade commanders, and the officers and men defending on the city wall, could see it clearly, and he was excited for every Japanese soldier he flew, and he was heartbroken for every loss of a machine gun, an antiaircraft gun, and a soldier. After the Japanese plane left, Tang Hongming said to Liu Mingde, the commander of the 461st Brigade: "Brigade Commander Liu, immediately let the wounded officers and soldiers on the position be sent down for rescue, they are all doing well!"

When the officers and men of the 461st Brigade came out of the air-raid shelter, most of the fortifications on the ground were still intact, and some were only partially damaged and still functional. Only two of the machine-gun forts at the forefront were damaged, and six were intact.

Under the long-term training of German instructors, the combat style of the 210 is also similar to that of the German ** team, which mainly uses machine gun fire in defensive warfare, and other rifles and assault aircraft belong to auxiliary firepower. Therefore, although there was only one company of troops on the front-line position, there were fifteen MG34 machine guns. Judging from the fact that the MG34 machine gun fired twice as much as the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun, these fifteen MG34 machine guns were enough to suppress the heavy machine guns of an infantry brigade of the Japanese army.

Knowing that the aerial bombardment had little effect, the 5th and 6th Divisions of the Japanese army could only attack hard. Fortunately, Tanaka Shinichi also ordered the mountain artillery wing of the 18th Division to provide artillery support to the 56th Division. After more than an hour of bombardment, the officers and men on the position were numb to the Japanese shelling again, and as long as the Japanese infantry did not come up, these officers and men were tightly hidden in the fortifications. There were also unlucky fighters who were killed by direct hits from Japanese flying shells, but that was only an isolated case.

The 18th Division of the Japanese Army is a veteran division regiment in the end, and its mountain artillery wing has been strengthened, with not only 24 Type 94 75 caliber mountain guns, but also 24 latest Type 99 1O5 caliber mountain guns. This latest mountain artillery not only has a long range, but also weighs a 12.34-kilogram warhead, which is not small, and compared with the German-made 75-caliber field guns of the 210th Division, it is slightly inferior in range, but its power is more than double.

The 56th Division of the Japanese Army attacked the 113th Wing, and for the first attack, the wing commander Shizuo Slope sent an infantry brigade. Instead of waiting for the artillery bombardment to end, the infantry brigade formed an attack formation and attacked the defenders' positions at the same time as the shelling. When the Japanese army advanced to a distance of 400 meters from the front-line position, the observation post on the position showed the movement of the Japanese army.

The first battalion and a company of the 874th Regiment were defending on the front-line position, and the observation post reported to the company commander that the Japanese army had attacked, and the company commander was still a little unconvinced, and after he came to the fortifications in person, he observed the Japanese army with a telescope for a while, and then scolded: "These damn little Japan, they rushed to death before the artillery stopped!"

After scolding, he shouted to his men in the fortifications: "Little Japan has come up, brothers have entered the position, ready to fight!" With his shout, the soldiers of the first company braved the artillery fire and entered the position. The machine gunners in the bunker did not have to worry about the Japanese artillery fire, and at this time, they also pulled the bolt with a "bang" and pressed the bullet into the chamber. In three minutes, the fighters of the first company were ready for battle.

The 50-meter road 200 meters before the front-line position was densely covered with barbed wire, which was damaged by the Japanese bombardment, but it was not serious, and this became a difficult problem for the Japanese army to face first. Just as the Japanese army had just advanced in front of the barbed wire, ready to deal with them, a company commander gave an order, and the machine guns in the bunker opened fire.

More than a dozen MG34 machine guns fired their characteristic anti-aircraft fire, sending out a storm of metal, and countless bullets flew towards the Japanese ranks. By the time the Japanese soldiers lay down, dozens of soldiers in front of them had already collapsed in a pool of blood screaming. Only then did the Japanese begin to return fire with their weapons, rifles, light machine guns, and grenadiers, but they had no effect on the machine gun forts.

Behind the attacking Japanese troops, the heavy machine gun position composed of eight Type 92 heavy machine guns was also full fire, but it was soon completely suppressed by the MG34 machine gun. Seeing that the attack was blocked, Wing Commander Shizuo Slope hurriedly ordered the wing's four Type 92 infantry guns and twelve mortars to aim at the machine-gun fort on the position and open fire. Because the Japanese artillery bombardment has not stopped, only a dozen machine guns in the bunker were fired at the Japanese army, and the machine gun fortress could not even withstand the mountain artillery of the artillery wing.

The shelling of the Japanese artillery wing ended, and the soldiers in the trenches on the position also stretched out their muzzles, submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles were fired at the same time, and more than a dozen sharpshooters in the company also began to use their sniper rifles to name the light machine gunners and grenadiers in the Japanese brigade. The number of Japanese casualties in this attack increased rapidly, and after a third of the casualties, the captain could only give the order to retreat, and the infantry brigade dropped hundreds of corpses and withdrew.

Subsequently, the Japanese army launched several more attacks, but they were all beaten back by the officers and men of the company with strong firepower. After a day's fighting, the Japanese lost more than half of the infantry brigade, and the soldiers of the first company on the position also lost more than 20 men and wounded more than 30 people. After dark, the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Company took the place of the 1st Company to defend. And the morale of the Japanese army was low, and they completely lost the appearance they had at the beginning.

In the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army, the commander of the 56th Division, Bian Pifu, was reporting the daytime battle situation to the commander of the 18th Division, Shinichi Tanaka, and Shinichi Tanaka was also frowning after hearing this. After a while, Tanaka Shinichi asked: "Dubian-kun, do the people of China really have so many heavy machine guns?" Dubianpuff replied: "Tanaka-kun, the people of China not only have a large number of heavy machine guns, but also these heavy machine guns, judging from the appearance, are not the Mark type heavy machine guns commonly used in the Chinese army in the past, they should be German-style heavy machine guns. ”