Section 64

"Boom...... In the sound of the cannonball, a puff of smoke blocked the sky near the Sanyizhai Bridge, the sun was blocked, people could no longer feel the warm light, and the warm breeze was swept away by the shock wave of the explosion, leaving only the smoke of artillery fire in all directions.......

The Japanese artillery offensive was too fierce, and the previous aircraft bombardment was certainly terrifying, but no one thought that the next artillery fire cover was the real fatal blow, and its ferocity was three points stronger than before.

After the first few rounds of firing tests, the Japanese artillery wing finally mastered the accurate shooting of Zhuyuan, and carried out intensive strikes on the positions on the north bank in the form of advancing inch by inch.

Under this stormy artillery attack, the Japanese engineer units moved, and I don't know where they found the bamboo rafts and boats, after several people carried them to the river, they were connected side by side, and then the troops behind spread the long wooden planks that had been prepared on it, just a few simple steps, a pontoon bridge enough for several people to pass side by side appeared on the river out of thin air.

At the same time, not far from here, the other two pontoon bridges were also quickly erected, although the opposite bank was the defense line of the national army, but not a single bullet hindered their movement, under the cover of strong fire, these sappers appeared to be unusually safe.

The infantry of the Japanese army also began to advance without the slightest hesitation, and with the Sanyi Village Bridge, there are now four bridge decks on the long river surface of Lixu, which is enough to minimize the impact of the river.

And until the Japanese army passed the bridge deck and had landed on the north bank, the national army position that had become a scorched earth, there was still no movement, just like all the national soldiers who were ambushed here had been killed and covered with artillery fire, giving people a feeling that was not very real, but looking at the huge craters one after another, looking at the broken limbs and broken guns scattered around, the psychology of these Japanese soldiers had a faint expectation.

It is undoubtedly the happiest thing to be able to occupy the opponent's position without going through a bloody battle, after all, even the most brave soldiers dare not guarantee that they can survive from the battlefield, and the threat of death has been reduced to a very low level for them who are veterans of a hundred battles, but it does not mean that there is none.

However, this imagination disappeared in a very short time, and just as the Japanese were hesitating whether to speed up their advance or establish a defense at the edge of the riverbank, a sudden gunfire sounded like a long-stored fuse, completely detonating the * buried on the north bank.

In the sound of machine guns, one by one "mud figures" came out of the soil, and in this almost face-to-face situation, they gave them a fierce blow, and their storm-like bullets swept away the Japanese troops who rushed to the north shore almost in an instant.......

The previous luck disappeared under this dense fire attack, and the death of one companion after another gave great pressure to the impact of the Japanese army, they began to roar, and the fear of death made their attack speed suddenly speed up a lot, however, what made them almost desperate was that there were more and more "mud people", and the other party's firepower was getting stronger and stronger, and those guys who were wrapped in dirt and had a gray face, as soon as they appeared in front of them, they launched a fierce counterattack, Its dense firepower rained down like a huge net at the same time, so that they didn't even have time to dodge, and they were shot and killed one after another.

Wing Commander Ono Kamiru, who was watching the battle on the south bank, saw that the assault troops were almost completely annihilated, but he did not have the slightest expression, and his dark face even showed a cruel smile, only to see that under the wielding of his saber, the troops gathered around him on standby once again launched a charge along the pontoon bridge without hesitation, and its posture seemed to be as if they would not stop until they conquered the enemy's position.

The Japanese troops who charged this time were a little different from the previous ones, after they successfully passed the pontoon bridge, they did not rush to charge, but set up weapons along the river bank, and began to rely on this to establish positions and began to suppress firepower.

After a few moments, the gunfire on the opposite side was noticeably weaker, and after they launched precise strikes against the opponent's machine-gun positions with a dozen grenadiers, the sporadic firepower was no longer enough to block the wide frontal battlefield.

The Japanese officers in charge of the front-line command did not dare to hesitate at all, and after seizing this rare opportunity, they resolutely led their men to break through.

Just when these Japanese troops advanced to a distance of less than fifty paces in front of the position with great smoothness, small black dots immediately flew into the air, drawing a long arc and smashing down where they were.

* There are too many of them, there are more than 100 dense ones, although there is still a certain gap between their density and impermeability, but when they think of the killing radius after their explosion, they are colorless, however, at this moment, even if they want to dodge, it is too late, and the weakening of the opposite firepower does not seem to be because their strong suppression has an effect, but like the other party's trick to lure the enemy, which makes the Japanese officers scold in their hearts, but there is no way to do it.

"Boom...... The sound of continuous explosions ...... "boom" came, and the land, which had already been combed by shells several times, immediately made a * sound again, but this time in the explosion* people had changed into Japanese soldiers in earthy yellow military uniforms, and the assault team of dozens of people was almost no one spared in the dense explosion.

Ono Kamiru on the south shore saw that the second wave of attacks ended in annihilation, and finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and let out a piercing scolding.

After shouting "Kill the past, kill them all......" After shouting, he himself did not stay any longer, brandished his saber and rushed straight to the pontoon bridge, such a move immediately startled everyone around, but these Japanese officers did not dare to say anything, so they could only follow closely behind the wing commander and rushed towards the north bank.

The three battalions attacked the Japanese army in successive waves, however, their situation at the moment was really not good, the previous rounds of intensive bombardment by the Japanese army were too sharp and ferocious, and the shells one after another directly covered every inch of the position, so that the soldiers who were huddled in the trenches did not wait for the enemy to charge, or they sacrificed their lives one after another.

Some people were killed by the fragments of the shells, some people were suffocated by the trenches, and some people could not withstand the shock wave of the shell explosion and their internal organs were shattered and bleeding away, and the 3rd Battalion of the 302nd Regiment, which was originally the most intact in strength, had hundreds of brothers killed after this round of bombardment alone, and its battle loss rate was really appalling.

The number of casualties not only greatly damaged their strength, but more importantly, there was a gap in the originally well-defended defensive line in such a dense attack, which also allowed the Japanese army to find the direction of breakthrough.

After these two rounds of attacks, more Japanese troops rushed to the north bank through the pontoon bridge, and began to fight steadily, shortening the distance between each other little by little, taking advantage of the advantage in firepower, and encroaching on the space for activity little by little.

The commander of the third battalion, Qu Yuben, saw the devil's intentions, and looked at the more and more Japanese troops rushing over, he couldn't help shouting: "No, if you can't hold it like this, you must find a way to blow up the bridge and cut off the devil's reinforcements." ”

His words directly hit the vital point of the battlefield today, but there are so many enemies in front of them, and there is such dense firepower in front, if you want to blow up the pontoon bridge behind the enemy, the difficulty can be imagined, if you have the strength to kill the enemy in front of you, the threat of the pontoon bridge is not so great, which makes everyone immediately feel worried.

The stone poked his head out of the trench, and after seeing that the Japanese fire was so fierce, he frowned slightly, and then resolutely shouted to Liu Wenfeng and Gao Da Hammer beside him: "Go, speed up." ”

Listening to the stone's words, Liu Wenfeng and the others couldn't help but be suspicious one by one, because according to the original plan, they first cooperated with the three battalions to block the devil's attack, and then found an opportunity to fight back, and now they are withdrawing from the battlefield when the devil's attack is fierce? Leave the three battalions behind? All kinds of questions made them very puzzled, but in the face of the stone's orders, they still chose to obey, this kind of trust from countless tough battles, let them unconditionally believe in this regiment younger than them.

The withdrawal of the people in the first battalion obviously also alarmed the brothers of the third battalion, and they looked at them one by one in surprise, and then after discovering their actions, they began to make some commotion, and it is no wonder that the combat power of the first battalion is recognized as strong, and with such friendly troops, for them, their hearts must be a lot more steady, and now seeing that they are going to leave at this most relevant time, it is impossible not to panic.

But as soon as I thought that it was the regiment that commanded a battalion, the scolding that came to my mouth was swallowed hard, no matter how young the stone was, the rank of the regimental attachment would not change, compared to them, the regimental officers, that was already a high-ranking existence.

Almost at the same time as the operation of the first battalion, someone reported the situation here to the commander of the third battalion, Qu Yuben, as the battalion commander, Qu Yuben was obviously much calmer than the others, even in such an unfavorable situation, he still did not say anything, but immediately adjusted the deployment, and transferred a part of the reserve force to the original place where the first battalion was located, in case the Japanese army took this opportunity to kill in.

The Japanese troops in front of them obviously felt the changes here, but after suffering the previous big losses, they did not make any special moves, but just followed the orders of the commander and steadily moved forward.