After receiving a request from his subordinates for artillery support, the wing commander of the 41st Wing, Tetsujiro Yamada, looked at the more than 20 large and small guns on the artillery position. If the defenders on the opposite position were other Chinese armies, these 20 or so artillery pieces would be enough to deal with it, but the defenders on the opposite position were the trump card army known as the First Chinese Army.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yamada Tetsujiro Osa still decided to ask the brigade commander, Major General Noboru Kunisaki, for artillery support. Major General Noboru Kunisaki was at this time happy that he had captured the first line of defense of the defenders of China, and after so many days of attacking, with the assistance of an elite brigade and the artillery wing of the division, there was no progress for many days, which had already greatly dissatisfied His Excellency Toshiyoshi Koyado, and now he was finally able to give an explanation.

At this time, Tetsujiro Yamada offered artillery support, and Kunisaki Noboru readily agreed. Twenty minutes later, shells from the 5th Artillery Wing fell on the positions of the second line of defense. And more than twenty artillery pieces of the 41st Wing also joined the ranks of the shelling. For a time, on the position of the second line of defense, the sound of explosions continued one after another, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the flames appeared everywhere.

Zhou Yuchun, the commander of the second battalion, was personally sitting on this second line of defense, and at this time, he and his soldiers were in the anti-artillery hole, easily making preparations before the battle. Although the artillery wing of the Fifth Division has been replaced with a new type of artillery, and its power has increased a lot, compared with the heavy artillery bombardment on the Shanghai battlefield and the heavy aerial bombs dropped by the planes, this is a piece of cake, so none of these veterans in the anti-artillery hole are nervous.

After half an hour of shelling, the shells were thinned, and with the example of the first line of defense, Zhou Yuchun did not let the fighters enter the position, but waited for the report of the observation post on the position. The captain of the Japanese brigade on the first line saw that the shelling of the artillery wing had stopped, and only the artillery of his own wing was still shelling, and knew that the time had come to attack.

The captain left only one overseer on the position, and then a large group of soldiers attacked. As soon as the Japanese infantry moved, the observation post on the position immediately became alert and immediately reported to the battalion commander Zhou Yuchun by walkie-talkie. At this time, Zhou Yuchun led the soldiers to rush to the position in the face of artillery fire.

Three hundred meters in front of the position, the line of sight was very good, and every move of the Japanese army fell in the eyes of Zhou Yuchun and the soldiers. The Japanese offensive was still the same as before, unchanged. Even Zhou Yuchun couldn't help muttering: "This little Japan is always the same when attacking, and I don't know how to change tricks." The commander of the company next to him replied: "In addition to the advantage of airplanes and artillery, what else does little Japan have? If the military seat could also get some planes, this little Japan would have been driven back to his hometown by Lao Tzu a long time ago!"

Zhou Yuchun glanced at the company commander and said: "What's wrong with the planes and artillery? Great? Wouldn't it be the same as destroying Little Japan with one division and one division without an airplane? As he spoke, the Japanese army was already approaching the 200-meter cordon, and Zhou Yuchun observed it with a telescope and said, "Little Japan has come up and is ready to fire." ”

The Japanese got closer, and heavy machine guns began to fire at the positions. Zhou Yuchun said to the first company commander: "First company commander, immediately you will command the heavy machine gun to suppress the heavy machine gun of Little Japan." The commander of the first company turned around and left after receiving the order, and Zhou Yuchun's order to open fire also shouted. The position was full of firepower, and countless bullets flew towards the attacking Japanese troops.

The Type 67 heavy machine gun is fed by a chain of 250 rounds of bullets, and uses 7.62*54 mm bullets, which are stable against the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun in terms of both durability and bullet power. In addition, the heavy machine guns of the second battalion were more numerous than the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, so the heavy machine guns on the position easily suppressed the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army.

Without the threat of heavy machine guns, the dozen or so light machine guns on the position were more calmly fired, coupled with the assault planes and semi-automatic rifles, and the excellent marksmanship of the soldiers, a Japanese infantry brigade suffered heavy casualties at a distance of more than 100 meters, and could not advance an inch. The Japanese captain who was supervising the battle in the back was anxious and ordered the mortars in the back to come forward and deal with the heavy machine guns on the position together with two 37 rapid-fire guns.

After the mortar and the two 37 rapid-fire guns came up, they did play a role, the smoke from the mortar shells in front of the bunker affected the sight of the heavy machine gunners, and the strong penetration of the armor-piercing shells of the two 37 rapid-fire guns also shot through the walls of the bunker, causing damage to the machine gun shooters in the bunker. As soon as the heavy machine gun fire on the position was weakened, the Japanese heavy machine guns took the opportunity to suppress the bunkers of the light machine guns on the position.

Zhou Yuchun took a look at it and said: "That little Japan, even the artillery has been put in front, bullied me for not having artillery?" Give the order to the commander of the fire company and ask him to knock out the artillery in front of the Japanese position with mortars. After receiving the order, the commander of the fire company had an extra mind, and he didn't need to use all the mortars at all to knock out the dozen or so artillery pieces of Little Japan, so the company commander of the fire company only took out ten 60 mortars to use, and the rest of the 82 mortars and 100 heavy mortars were changed to another place, ready to be used to deal with the Japanese army's artillery to retaliate against these 10 60 mortars.

Sure enough, as soon as these ten mortars rang out, the mortars and 37 rapid-fire guns in front of the Japanese positions were silent, but it didn't take long, and the retaliatory shells also fell in the middle of these ten mortars. Fortunately, the 60 mortars were relatively easy to transfer, and after the loss of four, the remaining six quickly left the place.

Through the trajectory of the shells from the Japanese army, the company commander of the fire company calculated the position of the rest of the Japanese artillery, and there were still more than a dozen mortars waiting here, so ten minutes later, after an artillery battle, all the artillery of the Japanese 41st Wing was destroyed, and the artillery who was still not satisfied hit the attacking Japanese infantry.

Yamada Tetsujiro, the wing commander, never expected that the firepower of the defenders on the opposite side would be so fierce, and it seemed that the firepower was stronger than that of one of his own brigades, and under such fierce firepower, all the artillery of his own wing was destroyed, so how could this attack be carried out? With this kind of thinking, Yamada Tetsujiro gave the attacking troops an order to retreat.

With the strength of a brigade and an artillery wing, the Fifth Division attacked the county seat of Huaining for more than ten days, and only took the first defensive position outside the city.

The 5th Division was only thwarted here, while the 27th Division was in serious trouble. The 27th Division is a field division organized by the Japanese army in the third wing not long ago, and its predecessor was the North China Garrison Tun Mixed Brigade, which was sent to Hefei shortly after being changed into a field division, and was subordinate to Okamura Ningji's 11th Army and joined the Wuhan battlefield.

The 27th Division was invincible on the battlefield in North China before, and no squadron could block the attack of a mixed brigade of him, so since the division commander Honma Masaharu, he never took the squadron in his eyes. This time, Honma Xiaoqing, the commander of the lieutenant general's division, even requested that a division of the 27th Division go straight to Yuexi County through Shucheng and Wanfo Lake, and after taking Yuexi County, he would then capture Qianshan County to cut off the retreat of the Anqing defenders in the direction of Jiujiang.

Originally, Okamura Ninji didn't know that the defenders here in Anqing would be Wang Haitao and his 90th Group Army, so he agreed to Honma's somewhat risky approach. The commander of the Honma Masaharu Division led the 27th Division, which was 18,000 men and horses, set out from Feixi, and after easily taking Shucheng County, he continued to advance towards Yuexi County.

After the 27th Division captured Shucheng County, their situation was reported by the reconnaissance unit of the 90th Army to the military headquarters of the 90th Army and the headquarters of the 90th, 91st, and 92nd Divisions. The 91st Division was guarding Jinzhai County and Dabie Mountain, and it was beyond the reach of the whip commander of the 27th Division, but the 90th Division and the 92nd Division were different.

After reaching Wanfo Lake, the 27th Division could attack Huoshan County in the west or Yuexi County in the south. These two counties are the defense areas of the 92nd Division, but the value of Huoshan County is not great, here is the depth of Dabie Mountain to the west, and usually only hunting and medicine collection enter the mountain, and caravans will not enter the mountain from here.

But Yuexi is different, there is an easy road that can pass through the Dabie Mountain, through Yingshan and Luotian to Huanggang County in Hubei Province. When they arrived in Huanggang County, it was only more than 100 kilometers away from Wuhan, and Qianshan County could be directly reached from Yuexi, so Wang Haitao and Su Zuxin concluded that the target of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army would be Yuexi County. After reading the map, Wang Haitao decided on the spot to teach the Japanese 27th Division a lesson near Yuexi County, and if not to completely annihilate him, he would be severely damaged.

It turned out that the 92nd Division only put a regiment stationed in Huoshan County, and the main force of the division headquarters was here in Yuexi County, and after Su Zuxin and Wang Haitao discussed, they were ready to use the reserve of the 272nd Brigade of the 90th Division, and Wang Haitao also agreed. After some deliberation, a battle plan for the 27th Division of the Japanese Army was formulated.

With the battle plan, one after another orders and battle plans were sent to the headquarters of the 90th and 92nd Divisions. Tang Renxin, the commander of the 90th Division, received an order to garrison Qianshan County with the 271st Brigade and reinforce Yuexi County with the 272nd Brigade. Cheng Guangyao, commander of the 92nd Division, also received all the operational plans and orders. The order was for the 92nd Division to go to Huoshan County with one brigade, and when the Japanese 27th Division advanced from Wanfohu to Yuexi County, it would attack from Huoshan County and choose a suitable location between Yuexi County and Wanfohu to cut off the retreat of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army.

The headquarters of the 90th Division in Qianshan County first received an order from the military headquarters, and the division commander Tang Shouxin immediately found Tang Longzai, the commander of the 272nd Brigade. Tang Longzai has grown from a young man who does not understand the world to a qualified officer in the past few years with Wang Haitao, because after he left Nanjing, he was not by Wang Haitao's side, he grew up faster, and he was already a general who could take charge of himself.

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