readx;? The 400 soldiers guarding the position in Caijiaqiao Town were a detachment of a detachment of a detachment of the New Fourth Army, and in the anti-artillery hole, some soldiers ran to report to the commander of the detachment: "Detachment leader, the detachment has sacrificed 14 soldiers, 12 are seriously wounded, and 21 are lightly wounded. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Listening to the casualty figures, the detachment leader couldn't help frowning, but quickly regained his composure.

Seeing that the soldiers had heavy expressions, the detachment commander said loudly: "Comrades, if you make a revolution, there will be bloodshed and sacrifice in resisting the invaders, and our comrades will not shed their blood in vain, although we have sacrificed 14 soldiers this time, and dozens of comrades have been wounded, but we have also eliminated dozens of Japanese invaders, and repelled the attack of the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese invaders will launch even more crazy attacks below, we must resolutely hold our positions and live up to the expectations of the party and military leaders." ”

The voice of the detachment leader resounded through the anti-artillery hole, and even the rumbling explosions outside the cave could not drown out his voice. Soon after he finished speaking, the explosion of the shells stopped, and the detachment leader was stunned for a moment and shouted: "Comrades, the Japanese invaders are coming up again, hurry up and enter the position." "With one experience, this time the fighters entered the position along the communication trench with much calmer.

The position has been blown up in a mess, many trenches have collapsed, sandbags have been flying everywhere, and although several bunkers have also been blown out of damage, the main body is still intact and can still be used. The Japanese army had already appeared in sight from a distance, and it was too late to repair the fortifications at this time, and the soldiers could only crouch down in the destroyed fortifications. When the Japanese entered a distance of two hundred meters and began to shoot at the positions, the fighters on the positions did not return fire.

Although from time to time wounded or sacrificed fighters fell, the rest of the fighters just clutched the steel guns in their hands and waited for the order of the detachment leader to fire. The Japanese approached a distance of 100 meters, and the order of the detachment commander to "fire!" came, and the light and heavy machine guns began to roar as they did last time, and the soldiers also calmed down and fired the bullets in the guns at the Japanese troops.

This squadron of the Japanese army held out for more than half an hour, and at one point attacked 40 or 50 meters in front of the position, but it was still smashed back by the fighters of the detachment with grenades. This time only a few dozen soldiers of this Japanese squadron escaped, and the rest of the more than a hundred soldiers, including their squadron leaders, remained in front of the position.

On this day, the Japanese army launched seven attacks on the position of Caijiaqiao Town, all of which were stubbornly repelled by a detachment, and the Japanese army lost more than 400 soldiers, and a detachment also lost nearly half. Chen Yi replaced the first detachment that had been fighting for a day with the second detachment in the evening. The soldiers of the first detachment grew up rapidly in this day's battle.

The loss of a few hundred men was nothing to the Japanese army, but the tenacity of the defenders on the position was a great headache for the Japanese army. In the evening, Wang Haitao, Ye Ting, Wu Jianzhou and others were in the headquarters to analyze the battle situation of the day today. It's not like I don't know, but after comparison, Ye Ting understands the gap between his New Fourth Army and Wang Haitao's independent brigade soldiers.

Today, his own troops also withstood several Japanese attacks in Caijiaqiao Town, and killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers, although they also killed and wounded more than 100 soldiers, but this was also a big victory in the past. However, look at the independent brigade withstood the Japanese attack in three directions, and each position was a company of more than 100 people. In this day's battle, the independent brigade not only killed more than 1,000 enemies, but most importantly, only 30 soldiers died of its own casualties, and only 50 or 60 casualties were seriously wounded.

This is a staggering casualty ratio, and it also shows that the soldiers of the Independent Brigade have a strong ability to fight individually and cooperate with a team. It seems that his fighters still have to learn more from the soldiers of the independent brigade. However, his own soldiers can play such a result as a recruit, and he is still satisfied, which is also due to the fact that the team uses all Japanese-style equipment, and the proportion of light and heavy machine guns is also very high, a detachment has four light and heavy machine guns, and there are as many as eight light machine guns.

After summarizing the battle situation in several places, Wang Haitao said to Ye Ting: "Commander Ye, judging from the battle situation everywhere today, the Japanese army is only a tentative attack today, and its real strength has not yet been shown. From tomorrow onwards, the Japanese offensive will be strengthened, and the true strength will be revealed, so you must be mentally prepared. ”

Ye Ting asked in surprise: "Commander Wang, do you mean that the Japanese army did not use all its strength in today's attack?" Wang Haitao nodded and said: "Judging from my experience in fighting with the Japanese army for more than half a year, this is indeed the case. Today's attack of the Japanese army basically uses the squadron as the offensive unit, and only the artillery belonging to the wing is used, and the real heavy artillery and the artillery of the artillery wing are not used. Moreover, during the Japanese attack, infantry artillery and mortars were not used as support artillery fire. So I can say with certainty that the Japanese did not exert their strength in today's attack. ”

While Wang Haitao was studying the enemy situation in the command headquarters, the Japanese army was also holding a combat meeting. In the headquarters of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army in front of Yangliu Town, Lieutenant General Masakashi Ito, commander of the division, Fukutaro Nishiyama, chief of staff, Major General Yoshio Kudo, commander of the 102nd Brigade, and two wing commanders of the 102nd Brigade and the 101st Field Artillery Wing, as well as several group commanders, were all seated in the conference room.

Ito Masakashi said: "Ladies and gentlemen, although the Chinese army on the opposite side of us is not numerous, but its combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and it is the most difficult opponent I have ever encountered, and the Chinese have built their positions very strongly, and our seven-five-caliber field artillery is helpless against them. I decided to use the Type 91 105 caliber howitzer brigade of the divisional field artillery wing tomorrow to strike at the position in China. After the shelling, you have to charge hard, and you must take the positions of the Chinese people. ”

All the people sitting in the headquarters stood up and replied: "Hey, Your Excellency the division commander, tomorrow we will fight to the end." Coming out of the headquarters, Major General Yoshio Kudo, the commander of the 102nd Brigade, called out to his subordinates who came out together, and the wing commander of the 157th Infantry Wing, Kotaro Fukuda, said: "Fukuda-kun, you also heard the order of His Excellency the division commander just now, and tomorrow we will strengthen the attack on the position of China." ”

Kotaro Fukuda replied: "Hey, Your Excellency Brigade Commander, tomorrow your subordinates will step up their offensive and will definitely take the position of the Chinese people." Kudo Yoshio nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then I'll ask Fukuda-kun tomorrow." "At this time, the Akiyama detachment and the Sato detachment were holding combat meetings with similar content.

The next morning, the defenders on several positions clearly felt that the Japanese shelling was different from yesterday's. On the Jiafa Town position and the Caijiaqiao position, they only felt that the bombardment density of the Japanese artillery was much larger, and the number of artillery should have increased, but the soldiers here in Yangliu Town felt that not only the density of the Japanese artillery was much larger, but also the power of the shells when they exploded was also a lot greater.

On the Yangliu Town position, after the Japanese artillery bombardment ended, as soon as the soldiers of the first battalion and the third company entered the position, the commander of the third company found that the attacking Japanese troops were no longer more than 100 people from one squadron yesterday, but at least several hundred people, and there should be two to three squadrons. At the same time, the Japanese army not only set up a heavy machine gun squadron at a distance of 600 meters, but also placed several 92 infantry guns and more than 10 mortars, which seemed to be assisted by artillery.

The commander of the third company immediately reported the situation by telephone to Li Chunshan, the battalion commander of the battalion command post in Yangliu Town. As soon as the phone was put down, the artillery fire of the Japanese covering the attack began. Fortunately, the soldiers of the third company are all veterans of a hundred battles, and they have experienced all kinds of offensive methods of the Japanese army, and they have considerable experience. When the Japanese shells fell, the soldiers in the fortifications and trenches were well concealed and did not suffer many casualties.

After receiving a call from the commander of the third company, Li Chunshan of the 1st Battalion hurriedly came to the wall of Yangliu Town with the commander of the 2nd Company and used a telescope to observe the position outside the town. After seeing the Japanese army's attack method, Li Chunshan said to the second company commander: "Little Japan didn't come up with any new tricks, just a few tricks over and over again, and I learned this attack method when I was in Shanghai, and it wasn't very good." However, the artillery fire of the Japanese cover attack will still cause casualties to the third company, and the artillery used by the Japanese army to cover must be knocked out.

I estimate that the artillery position from here to the cover of the Japanese army can be about 3,000 meters, and the 60 mortars are out of reach, but the eight 82 mortars in the battalion should be able to hit about it. You go and call the commander of the fire company and ask the fire company to bring over the eight 82 mortars. The second company commander agreed and ran down to give the order.

On the position, when the Japanese infantry advanced to a distance of more than 100 meters from the position, the covering artillery fire stopped bombardment, and at this time, the soldiers of the third company entered the blocking position from the hidden place and immediately prepared for battle. The commander of the third company secretly told the sharpshooters in the company and some soldiers with better marksmanship to focus on knocking out the grenadiers and light machine guns that were the most threatening in the Japanese army.

The commander of the third company saw that the soldiers were almost ready, so he gave the order to open fire, and immediately the position was full of fire. Although there are only more than 100 fighters in the third company, there are many automatic weapons such as light and heavy machine guns and submachine guns, plus the rate of fire of semi-automatic rifles, it can be said that the firepower of a company is only stronger than that of a squadron of the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese attacked a lot of people, it was very difficult to take a step forward under the blow of automatic fire, and the grenadiers and light machine guns used to suppress the light and heavy machine gun fire on the position were always quickly dumbed down by the opponent, which made the attack even more difficult. When the Japanese army desperately approached the defenders' positions with their numerical superiority, dozens of grenades suddenly flew out from the defenders' positions, and dozens of grenades exploded in front of the positions, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese troops rushing in front.

Under several heavy blows, the Japanese army could no longer support it, and after the commander ordered a retreat, these living Japanese soldiers quickly retreated. The attack lasted for an hour, and the Japanese killed and wounded more than 200 people, and the 3rd Company also suffered more than 30 casualties. Most of the soldiers killed were caused by artillery fire from the Japanese to cover the attack.