When the light armored regiment attacked, it had already considered that the Japanese artillery fire would be attracted to it, so the regiment commander Yang Yishan only ordered light tanks and heavy armor to attack forward, both of which were not afraid of the bombardment of Japanese small artillery. Although light armored vehicles also have armor protection, shells will still be damaged or even destroyed if they fall directly on vital parts, and armored vehicles will not be able to do so, and shrapnel flying around may destroy the engine in the front of the car.

The Japanese artillery bombarded the attacking Chinese tanks, and the front of the Japanese positions was filled with gunsmoke and dust, and the advancing tanks could still be seen faintly in the smoke and dust. The Japanese officers who commanded the artillery were already a little panicked, and loudly scolded their artillery and ordered them to speed up the rate of fire. Seeing that the small artillery on the Japanese artillery position was still spitting out shells, Tang Weizhong, the commander of the self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiment, was not happy. On the on-board radio, Tang Weizhong shouted loudly: "Attention all gunners, the target Japanese artillery position, three rapid fires, open fire!"

In Tang Weizhong's roar, fifty self-propelled howitzers and artillery guns moved their muzzles and aimed at the target. Immediately, the 50 self-propelled howitzers and artillery opened fire one after another, and the shells flew towards the Japanese artillery positions with a scream. This 105-caliber German-made self-propelled howitzer and projectile cannon is not as powerful as a large-caliber heavy artillery, but it is only slightly stronger than a German-made 75-caliber field gun, but it is also much more powerful than the Japanese-style 75-caliber mountain gun.

In the explosion, gunsmoke, and firelight, dozens of small artillery pieces of the Japanese army were completely destroyed, and even the infantry next to them were also implicated. When the smoke cleared, the Japanese artillery positions were in a mess, and there were hardly a few small guns that could still be used, and the artillery was lying on the ground, most of them had not even left a complete corpse, and the blood had already dyed the ground red, and in some craters, the blood and water had become a patch.

After the Japanese artillery played, the most excited were Sun Linhai and Yang Yishan, who immediately ordered all light armored vehicles and armored vehicles to move to cover the infantry assault. Sun Linhai also ordered the whole regiment to assault. Qi Xuan, the commander of the 878th Regiment, also found Sun Linhai and asked the 878th Regiment to also participate in the attack. Sun Linhai considered that although the number of Japanese troops was still quite large, they were not heavy enough and had the cover of the armored regiment, so the casualties would not be too great, so he asked Qi Xuan to leave one battalion as a reserve and the other two battalions to join the attacking team.

The few light and heavy machine guns on the Japanese positions were desperately spitting tongues of fire in an attempt to stop the Chinese attack. Unfortunately, most of the rained bullets were blocked by the chariots, and the armor of the chariots clanged, but they did little damage to the infantry following behind the chariots. The only thing that has lethality is the grenadier, but the grenadier is under the heavy care of the Chinese sharpshooter and light mortars, and if he can't shoot two grenades or shells, it will attract sniping or artillery bombardment.

Under his command, dozens of heavy machine guns on the light mortar and heavy machine gun positions effectively suppressed the various firing points on the Japanese positions, thus covering the troops' continuous advance assaults. Under the desperate resistance of the Japanese army, the assault team also continued to have officers and men who were shot and fell, but the momentum of the assault did not weaken, and the number of casualties was also within the bearable range.

The Chinese army continued to advance forward, and the Japanese army's position, who was commanding the battle on the front line, was a little panicked. His wing was originally only two infantry brigades that were not fully staffed, and the two infantry brigades on the top line of the blocking position were already very difficult to stop in the face of the attack of dozens of combat vehicles and the black pressure of the Chinese army, and coupled with the suppression of the Chinese heavy weapons, it was even more impossible to stop the advance of the Chinese army.

Noh Shi Jun Sansa hurriedly asked the commander of the Ojodo Sanji Division, who was pressing the formation behind, for reinforcements. Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji saw all the situation in front of him, and when his artillery position was devastated, his heart sank to the bottom. Now seeing that the Chinese army in front, under the cover of dozens of combat vehicles, launched a tidal attack on their positions, a feeling of despair was born.

But Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji still wanted to take a gamble, and he gambled that Major General Takeshi Kono in the town of Xingan would arrive in time to launch an attack on the rear of the Chinese army. With this idea, Lieutenant General Oshiroto Sanji did not hesitate to immediately send Koga Ryuichi Ichisa to lead the 86th Infantry Wing to reinforce it. The 86th Infantry Wing suffered the fewest losses of the three wings, and now there were two full-fledged infantry brigades and a machine-gun squadron numbering nearly three thousand people.

Koga Ryuichi had already sent out a machine gun squadron to occupy a hillside, and after receiving the order of the division commander, he first selected dozens of soldiers to serve as death squads. Koga Ryuichi saw very clearly that if he couldn't block the Chinese army's chariots, then even if his own 3,000 people went up, they would not be able to block the attack of the Chinese army.

In the absence of artillery to attack combat vehicles, using death squads as "people, flesh, and bombs" is the only option. After organizing dozens of daredevils, Koga Ryuichi ordered a heavy machine gun to shoot cover, and then ordered the daredevils to attack. Seeing that the chariot was getting closer and closer to the trench, dozens of daredevils rushed out of the trench shouting slogans.

Wang Haitao's troops often practiced the infantry and tank coordination tactics, the purpose of which was to cover each other between the chariot and the infantry, and they had also encountered the Japanese army's "man, flesh, and bomb" attacks many times on the battlefield, so dozens of Japanese daredevils had just rushed out of the trench, and the chariots and the infantry behind them discovered the Japanese army's attempt.

Almost all the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the dozens of daredevils who rushed out of the trench, and in the rainstorm of bullets, these dozens of daredevils were shot and fell down before they could rush a few steps forward, and the explosives and medicine bags on their bodies were blown up, and the whole body was gone. In the blink of an eye, dozens of daredevils were killed and wounded, and only one or two people rushed to the vicinity of the tank and pulled off the explosives and medicine bags on their bodies. The explosion of one or two explosives and powder packs did not matter to the tank at all, and dozens of combat vehicles continued to rush towards the Japanese positions.

Seeing that the chariot was about to break through the Japanese position, fierce gunfire suddenly came from the direction of Xingan County. The sound of gunfire not only alarmed Wang Haitao and others in the command headquarters, but also gave Lieutenant General Oshiroto Sanji and the Japanese army a shot in the arm. Under the personal leadership of Major General Kono Yi, the three infantry brigades of the Kono Brigade rushed straight to Wang Haitao's troops.

However, the Kono Brigade rushed out of the city less than five kilometers before it was blocked by the 877th Regiment and the 1st Mixed Armored Battalion, and in a hurry, the 877th Regiment did not build any solid fortifications, that is, they dug a trench that was not too deep and built some sandbag fortifications, but the 1st Mixed Armored Battalion still had more than a dozen combat vehicles, and the tanks and heavy armored vehicles were parked behind the trenches and used as fixed fire points, while the light armored vehicles were walking next to the trenches and became mobile fire points.

Although the Kono Brigade, which had hurriedly pursued out of the city, had more than 3,000 troops, the Keshan Artillery Brigade did not follow the action, so there was no heavy firepower in the team except for a dozen Type 92 infantry guns and more than 30 mortars. And Major General Takeshi Kono did not expect that the Chinese army would start to block him a few kilometers away, so when he heard the report of his subordinates that there was a Chinese army's blocking position ahead, he was stunned for a moment.

Major General Takeshi Kono thought that he could pursue the retreating Chinese army all the way to the back of the retreating Chinese army and flank the Chinese army with the 22nd Division. Unexpectedly, the Chinese army had set up a defensive position here, and listening to the gunfire of the 22nd Division in the distance, it should still be several kilometers away.

Major General Takeshi Kono hurriedly asked how many defenders were on the blocking position, and when he heard the answer that there were only more than 1,000 people, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and ordered the 1st Infantry Brigade to attack the blocking position. The commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, Mitsuoka Junshaosa, received an order to have his men set up crane guns and have the artillery also open fire to cover the attack.

However, as soon as the small artillery on this side fired, there were shells far exceeding the number of their own small guns flying over the blocking position on the opposite side. The 877th Regiment's own heavy fire battalion had 24 heavy mortars, plus three battalions of light mortars and vehicle-mounted artillery on combat vehicles, which indeed surpassed the Japanese army by a lot in number. When the regiment commander Wu Zhijun saw that the Japanese wanted to cover the attack with small artillery and heavy machine guns, he immediately ordered an artillery counterattack.

Both sides were small artillery, with limited power, and they shelled each other for more than ten minutes, and they also suffered mutual damage, but the Japanese suffered a numerical loss, and the losses were even greater. Seeing that the artillery battle could not gain the upper hand, Mitsuoka Jun Shaozo immediately ordered the infantry brigade to attack. More than 1,000 officers and men of the infantry brigade began to attack the position of the 877th Regiment after opening the skirmish line.

In the trenches were the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 877th Regiment, and the 3rd Battalion remained behind the position as a reserve. Jiang Jiashan, the commander of the first battalion, looked at the attacking Japanese troops and calmly ordered: "The heavy machine gun is responsible for suppressing the Japanese machine gun fire point, the sharpshooter targets the Japanese grenadier and light machine gunner to fire freely, and the rest of the soldiers wait for the Japanese army to enter the range of 200 meters before firing." "His orders are passed on by his own signal corps.

After receiving the order, the heavy machine gun team and dozens of sharpshooters opened fire, and the sound of "da-da-da" machine guns was mixed with the crisp sound of rifles, and several heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were the opponents of more than 20 heavy machine guns of the Chinese side, and there was not much movement when they were directly suppressed, and there were still a few heavy machine guns separated to specifically suppress the attacking infantry, while the sharpshooters focused on hitting important targets nearly 400 meters away.

Before reaching the range of 200 meters, the Japanese infantry was suppressed and difficult to move forward, not to mention the deadly sharpshooters and heavy machine guns blocking the advance with crossfire, just the vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns on the combat vehicles made it difficult for the Japanese to parry. The tank is equipped with a 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun and two 7.62 caliber side-by-side heavy machine guns, and the heavy machine guns that can be used for air defense are flattened and fired, even the armor of the Japanese light combat vehicles cannot stop it, let alone just these infantry.