readx;? The Japanese planes reached the Yuhuatai position, the fighters circled at high altitude, and the bombers formed a formation of four planes to carry out dive bombing. When the first formation had just dived to an altitude www.biquge.info of only two or three hundred meters, the anti-aircraft guns on the position opened fire in the air at the same time, and twenty anti-aircraft guns were distributed in several places in the position, and the shells created a fire net in the high school.

Four Japanese bombers were caught defenseless and plunged headlong into this fire net, and when the pilots realized that they were not good, the shells had exploded around them, and four planes were also hit at the same time, two of them fell headlong in black smoke, and the other two exploded into fireballs in the air. The second formation, which was preparing to dive behind them, was startled when they saw this scene and hurriedly pulled the plane up.

However, the effective range of these anti-aircraft guns was 2,200 meters, and when the guns turned to the Japanese planes of this formation, only two of the four planes escaped, and the other two were also hit and fell. At this time, the Japanese bombers were in chaos and climbed high into the air. By the time they climbed to the high altitude to regroup, eight aircraft had already been lost.

The remaining dozen or so planes stopped bombing their positions, but turned their targets to anti-aircraft artillery positions and pounced on several anti-aircraft artillery positions. The anti-aircraft artillery desperately spewed shells into the air, but the prepared Japanese planes were not so easy to fight. As the aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese continued to explode, the anti-aircraft artillery positions were also shrouded in gunsmoke and fire.

At this time, the light and heavy machine guns on the position also joined the attack on the Japanese planes, although these machine gun shooters could only help, but the large number of light and heavy machine guns also made the Japanese planes have more scruples. After a fierce battle between the two sides for half an hour, the Japanese planes emptied all their bombs and began to return home, and only 15 of the 27 bombers that came when they returned, and 12 of them were lost here at once.

Eight of the 20 anti-aircraft guns of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion were also blown up by Japanese aircraft, and dozens of soldiers were killed. Although it was the result of both defeats, because of the existence of anti-aircraft artillery positions, the Japanese planes were no longer unscrupulous on a rampage, and the subsequent bombing became more cautious, and the pressure on the positions was much less.

The 3rd Wing of the 3rd Division's field artillery erected 54 75 field guns at the maximum firing range, and the effective firing range of the Japanese 75 field guns was 8,300 meters, while the effective firing range of the German-made 75 field guns on the position was 9,400 meters.

Yuhuatai is actually not big, that is, an elevation of 100 meters, a radius of several kilometers of mountains, the slope is not large, on the top of the mountain there is an area of two square kilometers of flat land, the main position is located on this flat land, the 92nd Division put a brigade in the Yuhuatai position, the other brigade is divided into Zhonghua Gate and Yuhua Gate, Wang Haitao ordered a regiment to go to Gaoqiao Gate, the guards of Yuhua Gate will be drawn from the regiment guarding Zhonghua Gate to defend.

The hilltop position of Yuhuatai was divided into a peripheral position and a core position, and the outer position was a system of fortifications such as bunkers, bunkers, and trenches built along a circle of flat land, and was garrisoned by the 565th Regiment of the 275th Brigade. After the 50th Division joined the 90th Army, not only did the whole division change its equipment, but Wang Haitao also added a lot of heavy weapons to them. The current 92nd Division is no longer the 50th Division when it first came out of Hunan Province, and the heavy weapons in the hands of only one regiment are worth the original division.

The core position is even more complete with fortifications, bunkers and bunkers are dense, and the anti-artillery holes are all one meter and a half underground, and after the reinforcement at the top, even the aerial bombs of the Japanese aircraft cannot be damaged. And the thirty-six 75 field guns of the artillery battalion were also on the core position, but in a little further back, the gun positions were protected by bunkers, and unless the Japanese artillery shells directly covered the entire artillery position, the artillery would not suffer much loss.

These changes in the troops were the confidence of Peng Gui, the commander of the 275th Brigade, so as soon as the Japanese army shelled the Yuhuatai position, Peng Gui ordered a counterattack. The artillery battalion is a unit directly under the army's heavy artillery brigade, and the commander of the artillery battalion, Ding Xijun, has just been promoted from the company commander, and now that the artillery battalion is under the command of the 92nd Division, Ding Xijun naturally obeys the orders of Peng Gui, the commander of the 275th Brigade.

The artillery positions of the two sides are eight or nine kilometers apart, and each other only judges an approximate position, the defenders occupy the top of the hill, the line of sight is better than that of the Japanese, plus condescending, the artillery battle has some advantages, the artillery battle on both sides lasted for half an hour, the artillery battalion on the top of the hill has almost no losses, and some shells fell on the artillery positions of the Japanese army, but the landing point is not accurate, only a few guns were destroyed, and the losses are not large.

There were a lot of shells falling on the defenders' outer positions, but the defenders were all in the anti-artillery holes, and there was no damage to the personnel. The 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army was the main attack, and the 6th Wing marched in front of Yuhuatai, and a large group of Japanese troops began to attack the mountain along the road up the mountain. It's not even halfway up the mountain. The attacking Japanese troops stepped on the mines, and dozens of Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded by several mines, and the rest did not dare to take the mountain road again, but attacked the mountain from both sides of the mountain road.

There were also mines on both sides of the mountain road, so the Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded in the continuous explosion of mines. After halfway up the mountain, the trees were sparse, and the bunkers and bunkers in front of the position could already be seen, so the Japanese set up more than a dozen mortars and heavy machine guns and opened fire on the hilltop position, while the infantry continued to fire upwards and advance.

The fighters on the position did not rush to return fire, and more than a dozen 82 mortars on the mortar positions at the back of the position began to counterattack first. The 82 mortars were aimed at the Japanese mortars and heavy machine guns, and after a few rounds of shelling, the Japanese mortars and heavy machine guns were all destroyed, at which point the mortars turned to the infantry, and the light and heavy machine guns in the bunkers and bunkers also opened fire.

The Japanese infantry suffered heavy casualties under several blows, and the captain hurriedly ordered a retreat, and the brigade fled down the mountain after leaving behind hundreds of corpses. The captain of the group came to the wing commander Kura Yong Chenzhi Dazuo, and said after standing upright: "Report to Dazuo, the people of China have laid a large number of mines on the mountain road and on both sides of the mountain road, and the fire on the position is very fierce, the number of artillery is not under our army, and the subordinates have no choice but to withdraw first." ”

In the process of attacking, Kuronaga Tatsuji Osa also understood a little bit with a telescope at the foot of the mountain, and this failure really can't be blamed on this captain, so Kuranaga Chenji Osa didn't blame this captain, but after a few words of relief, he asked him to prepare to continue the attack. Kuranaga Chenji asked the mountain artillery squadron of the wing to push out the eight 75 mountain guns, bombarded the hilltop position with the mountain guns, and at the same time sent infantry to continue the attack.

The artillery battalion on the top of the mountain wanted to shell the Japanese troops below the mountain, but when they saw that the Japanese troops below the mountain had fired first, they did not hesitate to bombard the Japanese troops below the mountain. Dozens of field guns bombarded at the same time, destroying not only the mountain artillery squadron of the Sixth Wing, but also the infantry next to it, and Kuraga Chenji saw that the artillery on the position launched an artillery bombardment on himself, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat, and the Japanese army did not attack, and the Sixth Wing withdrew several kilometers back.

Lieutenant General Fujita received a report from his subordinates, and he also had a headache, and if he wanted to capture the Yuhuatai position, he had to destroy the Shina artillery on the position, but it was difficult to accomplish this task with one of his own field artillery wings, and it seemed that if he wanted to destroy the Shina artillery, he had to rely on the help of aircraft. As a result, Lieutenant General Fujita once again sent a telegram to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, requesting that the bombing of the Yuhuatai position be intensified.

In the last bombing, 12 planes were lost at once, which was a defeat that the Japanese flight units could not tolerate, and they wanted to retaliate, but the 3rd Division called again to request more bombing. This is exactly what the flying unit is doing. In the afternoon, the Japanese dispatched a bomber flying wing, a total of three bomber squadrons and one fighter squadron.

More than 80 bombers and more than 20 fighters covered half of the sky, and after hearing the buzzing of the planes, the position made preparations for air defense, and most of the officers and men took refuge in the anti-artillery holes, and the artillery also took refuge in the bunkers in the woods, and there were only a dozen or so antiaircraft guns left in the antiaircraft artillery battalion and light and heavy machine guns in the bunkers on the position.

When the Japanese planes reached the sky above Yuhuatai, the bombers began to dive down to the position, and the anti-aircraft guns and light and heavy machine guns on the position also used shells and bullets to form a fire net to meet the enemy planes. The Japanese planes changed their movements and routes, pierced through the fire nets, and dropped bombs after reaching a certain height, and from time to time there were planes that were hit by bombs and planted them in black smoke, but more planes flew over the positions after completing the bomb drops.

With the explosion of the bombs, the position was once again shrouded in gunpowder smoke and firelight, and there were too many Japanese planes, and only a few were hit, but the dense bombs dropped destroyed the anti-aircraft guns one by one, and half an hour later, the last anti-aircraft guns were also destroyed, and the light and heavy machine guns also lost a lot, and the anti-aircraft shooting was also sparse.

Seeing that there were almost no anti-aircraft weapons on the ground, the Japanese planes did not hesitate to dive and bomb one after another, and after dropping all the bombs, they also used their airborne machine guns to strafe suspicious targets on the position, until there were really no targets, and then they began to return home. In this engagement, the anti-aircraft artillery battalion was completely wiped out, and most of the light and heavy machine guns left on the position were destroyed, and only nine Japanese planes were shot.

The fortifications on the position were also damaged a lot by the bombardment of Japanese aircraft, but most of the damage was to the trenches and some bunkers, and the bunkers and anti-artillery holes were basically not damaged. After the Japanese planes flew away, the artillery battalion first moved into the artillery position, and the fighters of the artillery battalion were busy repairing the bunkers on the bombed-out positions and filling in the bombed craters. When other soldiers entered the position, they were busy repairing the destroyed bunkers and trenches.

Fujita watched the whole process of the Yuhuatai position being bombed by planes with a telescope, and when he saw the smoke and fire on the position, Fujita nodded and said: "Ryonishi, I want to see how many people can survive under the bombardment of our Imperial Japanese Army planes?" Order Riichiro Katayama's Fifth Brigade to prepare for the attack, and the artillery wing to prepare artillery support. ”