readx;? After suffering a big loss, Jiu Na Chengyi knew that the defenders had so many artillery, and it was a little impossible to take Jinzhai County as soon as possible with the strength of one of his brigades. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Therefore, Seiichi Kuna immediately sent a telegram to Admiral Okamura Ninji, asking Admiral Okamura Ninji to send a plane to help in the battle. Okamura Ninji was directly promoted from the commander of a division to the commander of the 11th Army this time, which was the time when he was complacent, and this operation against Wuhan was also determined to be successful.

In Okamura Ningji's eyes, the 18th Division, the 27th Division, and the 106th Division are only the B Division, and the combat effectiveness is not very strong, and he is still waiting for the arrival of the Fifth Division and the 101st Division. Originally, the task of the 11th Army was to attack Wuhan along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, but now Tongling and Guichi on the south bank of the Yangtze River were occupied by the Chinese army one after another, and Anqing, an important city, was also in the hands of the Chinese people, so Okamura Ningji could only abandon the south bank of the Yangtze River. And the troops were divided into two routes, one from Jiangbei along Jiangxi to attack Anqing, Jiujiang and then to Wuhan, the other is to capture Lu'an, Jinzhai to open up Dabie Mountain, from the Henan side to attack Wuhan.

In Okamura's opinion, even if it was three B divisions, against the vulnerable Shina army, it would be an easy victory. At this time, Okamura Ningji didn't know that Anqing's defenders were not Yang Sen's Twentieth Army, but Wang Haitao's Twentieth Army, otherwise he would not be so big. The 18th Division should be the relatively strong combat effectiveness among the three divisions, so Okamura Ningji sent them to attack the Lu'an and Jinzhai lines independently.

A few days later, Lieutenant General Na Na Chengichi of the 18th Division actually called and claimed that he had encountered the main force of China, which was equipped with a large number of artillery, and asked him to send planes to help in the battle. This took the proud General Okamura Ninji by surprise, and while contacting Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the Nanjing Air Corps, about sending planes to support, Okamura Ninji sent people to reconnoiter which army he was facing.

The 18th Division's attack did not go well, and the 106th Division also encountered hard stubble, and the 111th Brigade came to Tongcheng County after a day's march. Only one regiment of the 571st Regiment of the 278th Brigade was stationed in Tongcheng County. The 571st Regiment was all children of Sichuan, and when they left Sichuan, they were ready to fight with Little Japan with the heart of death, and later came under the name of Wang Haitao's 93rd Division, and there was a different war of resistance.

The regiment commander Zheng Daodong took over the defense of Tongcheng for a relatively short time, but only strengthened the fortifications left by the previous defenders, and before they had time to increase the fortifications, the Japanese army began to attack. Now Zheng Daodong put the second battalion in the fortifications outside the city, the first and third battalions were in the fortifications at the head of the city, and after the firepower battalion was handed over to a company of the second battalion, the rest of the people were also arranged on the head of the city.

Li Erniu is the company commander of the first company of the second battalion, and although he is only 26 years old, he is a veteran with ten years of military experience. When he first came out of Sichuan, he wore the military uniform sewn by his mother, carried the thirty copper plates that his old father had scraped together in his arms, and the advice of never returning to his hometown until he finished fighting Little Japan. In his hand is a Hanyang-made rifle that has been used for six years and has been rifled flat.

As soon as it came out of Sichuan, the whole brigade was sent to Jiangnan and incorporated into the 93rd Division. Li Erniu clearly remembered the feeling when he received the ten yuan of white flowers from the quartermaster when he was paid for the first time, and he had never had so much money all of a sudden. That's not all, there is also a military uniform from the inside out, and for the first time, a brand new pair of rubber shoes is also worn.

At that time, I thought I was in a dream, and I heard that he had died in battle, and the army had given him a pension of 100 yuan, so when did his life become so valuable? 100 yuan, and he couldn't save so much money in his whole life at home! Later, he heard Shangfeng say that these military salaries and pensions, as well as clothes and even weapons, were all paid by the military seat himself, and Li Erniu was very glad that he could follow such a military seat.

This is not over, after a few days of training, new weapons were issued, he was the company commander, he had a German-made box gun, his company was also replaced with Japanese-style equipment, and four light machine guns were added. With such a peak and such weapons, who would be afraid of those little Japan? Unfortunately, the last time I was in Jing County, I didn't fight much with little Japan, and little Japan was beaten away. However, for the brothers who died in the battle in Lianli, Shangfeng received a pension of 100 yuan each, and a lot of them were sent back to their homes.

Now his own troops are stationed in this place called Tongcheng, and the regiment said that this will be a vicious battle, and Shangfeng has an order to defend Tongcheng to the death. His second battalion was on the position outside the city, with the city wall behind it, and his company was placed in front of the position, which would be the direction of the main attack of Little Japan. I and more than 100 brothers in the company have already made plans to fight for their lives, so I will let Little Japan see what a real middle-aged person is.

Li Erniu personally snatched a light machine gun, and even the four heavy machine guns in the bunker were also placed. Little Japan had already reached the bottom of the city, and it was already possible to see that Little Japan was assembling from the position. According to Shangfeng's explanation, before the small Japanese attacked, they must have to fire artillery first, so only a few people were left in the bunker to monitor the Japanese army on the position, and everyone else had to hide in the anti-artillery hole.

Li Erniu immediately led his men into the anti-artillery hole, and sure enough, after a while, the Japanese shells exploded on the position. Listening to the sound of the explosion, a platoon commander under his command came over, handed Li Erniu a cigarette, and then said: "Company commander, I heard that there are a lot of people in Little Japan this time, there are tens of thousands, do you think that our regiment can hold on to a thousand people?"

Li Erniu took a puff of cigarette, squinted at the long line of people, and asked, "What? You turtle son coaxed you?" Tell you that no matter how many people come from Little Japan, as long as the peak is here to stay, I will not retreat a step." Even if you die, you will die on the battlefield. Li Erniu's words rang out in the anti-artillery hole, and the soldiers in the cave nodded one after another.

The platoon commander's face was a little ugly, and he shouted: "Company commander, don't you underestimate people, isn't it just a life? Today, I will accompany the company commander on the battlefield with more than 100 catties, and even if I am killed in battle, there will be a pension of 100 yuan, which is enough for my family to buy a few acres of land and a cow." Li Erniu replied: "This is my man in Sichuan, we don't have a soft egg in Sichuan, everyone listen, there are survivors to give a message to the brothers' families, we are all in the fight against small Japan, died on the battlefield, we did not disgrace the father and elder in Sichuan!"

When Li Erniu said this, the explosion of the shells outside the anti-artillery hole was quiet, and at the same time, the shouts of the soldiers who were monitoring also came: "Company commander, company commander, little Japan is coming up!" Li Erniu shouted: "Quick, all enter the position!" After shouting, he took the lead and rushed out of the anti-artillery hole. The mortar shells of the Japanese army and the shells of the 92nd infantry guns on the position were still exploding, but fortunately, there were communication trenches connecting the anti-artillery holes and the front trenches, and those who were not too old would not be bombed.

The fighters entered the position, and Li Erniu also set up a light machine gun on the sandbag, and then looked at the opposite side with a telescope. On the opposite side, about 300 meters away, the yellow pressure was full of Japanese troops, these Japanese troops lined up in an offensive formation, and were advancing towards their positions, and the heavy machine guns had been set up, and there were more than a dozen of them.

Li Erniu took a general look, and there were hundreds of people in Little Japan, and he couldn't help but scold: "There are a lot of turtle sons here!" and then shouted to the soldiers on the position: "Brothers, wait until Little Japan is close before fighting, and you must beat Lao Tzu on time and ruthlessly! Do you understand?" The soldiers on the position replied one after another: "Don't worry, company commander, it will definitely not please Little Japan!"

The Japanese were still the same, and when they advanced to two hundred meters in front of the position, the shelling stopped, and the heavy machine guns and weapons in the hands of the soldiers began to fire, and for a time countless bullets whistled and flew over the position. The Japanese army's marksmanship is indeed good, and from time to time there are no well-concealed soldiers who fall down screaming. When the Japanese army advanced to a distance of only 100 meters from the position, Li Erniu shouted: "Hit! Hit Lao Tzu hard!"

After shouting, Li Erniu pulled the trigger of the light machine gun in his hand with all his might, and with the brisk cry of the machine gun, the bullets flew towards the advancing ranks of the Japanese army. At the same time as Li Erniu's machine gun fired, four heavy machine guns and more than a dozen light machine guns on the position, together with the Type 38 rifles in the hands of the soldiers, opened fire at the same time, and the bullets rained down on the Japanese troops.

Unsuspecting, the Japanese troops in the second platoon in front fell one after another, and the Japanese troops behind set up light machine guns and grenadiers on the spot and fired at the defenders on the position. The other soldiers lowered their bodies on their sides and continued to move forward as they fired. Thirty to fifty meters in front of the position were 20 meters of barbed wire and barricades, although many were destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, many of them were still intact, and the Japanese advancing team encountered barbed wire and roadblocks and had to slow down.

This just gave the defenders a chance, four heavy machine guns used crossfire, desperately suppressed the advancing Japanese troops, and the light machine guns were the main force to kill and injure the Japanese troops, as for the rifles, they could only win by numbers, and rows of bullets were shot out, which could always be encountered in the dense crowd of Japanese troops. The Japanese army was faced with bullets flying like raindrops, and the casualties continued to increase, and finally after heavy casualties, the Japanese retreated.

Matsushita, the commander of the 111th Brigade of the Japanese army in the first attack, learned the strength of the defenders' firepower. In the face of such dense and ferocious firepower of the defenders, Matsushiro couldn't think of any good way to break through the defenders' positions for a while, so he could only increase the intensity of the artillery bombardment and prepare to destroy the positions of the defenders of China with powerful artillery fire.

Repelled the first attack of the Japanese army, Li Erniu and his men withdrew to the anti-artillery hole, this time the first company also had eleven brothers killed, more than 20 wounded, six of them seriously wounded. Fortunately, there are special doctors and medicines from the military seats, so that the lives of these wounded can be saved. In the anti-artillery hole, the veterans were smoking and bragging, and the dozen or so recruits who had just been replenished were a little nervous and a little excited.