After the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion and the 1st Company entered the position, some of the recruits were a little nervous in the face of the Japanese artillery fire and the soldiers who were getting closer and closer. The squad leader of the second platoon surnamed Liu, a veteran who participated in the Battle of Wuhan, the cannon roared on the position, and shrapnel flew indiscriminately, but he calmly hid in a safe place in the trenches, took out a cigarette from his jacket pocket, lit it with a wooden stick that was still burning next to him, and took a deep breath.

There were two seventeen or eighteen-year-old recruits beside him, and one of the recruits was obviously a little nervous, holding a semi-automatic rifle, and huddled beside squad leader Liu, because his fingers were a little white because he was holding the gun hard. Squad Leader Liu glanced at him and said, "Why is Erwa scared?" The soldier replied: "Squad leader, I'm not afraid, I'm just a little panicked." Squad leader Liu smiled and said, "Don't panic, when you go to the position, you can do what you usually practice." My first time on the battlefield, I was just like you, and I had experienced a second battle. ”

At this time, another soldier continued: "Erwa is timid, what are you afraid of? Isn't little Japan also a nose and two eyes? Isn't it the same way to finish playing with a gun? Squad leader Liu, why do you say that this little Japan hasn't come up yet?" Squad Leader Liu dragged him back, and at this moment, a string of machine-gun bullets screamed past the trench. Squad Leader Liu glared and scolded: "His grandmother's, you kid don't want to die?" The soldier who was dragged back said with an embarrassed smile: "Squad leader, I just want to see if Little Japan has come up." ”

Squad Leader Liu's face softened a little, and said, "What's the hurry? Little Japan is coming up, and the observation post will report, and the superiors will notify you to enter the position, and I estimate that it will take five minutes." Sure enough, five minutes later, the order to enter the position was conveyed by the superiors. Squad Leader Liu commanded his subordinates to enter the position, and explained to his subordinates: "Don't be nervous when you wait, don't worry, you will fight again if it is difficult." Also pay attention to concealment, little Japan's marksmanship is a thief!"

On almost every section of the battlefield, there is a scene of this veteran teaching the new soldier a lesson. When a Japanese infantry squadron came within 200 meters, two heavy machine guns began to fire cross-fire from the position. The Japanese dodged heavy machine-gun fire while cautiously moving on. At a hundred and fifty meters, the order to open all fire came, and then the recruits and veterans saw the difference.

The veteran calmly adjusted the weapon to a single shot, and only fired after aiming, not to mention that the gun hit, but it was also eight or nine and ten. Most of the recruits are adjusted into bursts, and some of them don't aim at all, but just ping pong to shoot the bullets, as for whether they can hit the target, it is only by luck.

The Japanese attack was only a tentative attack, and the firepower on the position was indeed very fierce, with several light and heavy machine guns alone, as well as numerous automatic weapons, and after losing dozens of soldiers, they quickly retreated. As soon as the Japanese retreated, the recruits on the position jumped excitedly, and the veterans scolded them, and they honestly hidden.

When it got dark, the commander of the 236th Wing of the Japanese Army, Yoshio Kamegawa, saw that there were not many people on the defenders' positions, so he was bent on quickly taking the defenders' positions. So the order was given to continue the attack, and the order was given, and the artillery in the wing began to bombard indiscriminately again, and at the same time an infantry brigade was ready to attack.

The sound of gunfire on the outer position alarmed Wei Huang, the commander of the 879th Regiment in Gongjing Town, and Wei Huang took his second battalion commander Chu Xifeng to climb the city wall of Tongjing Town and look at the place where the guns rang out. It was getting late, and I couldn't see anything on the wall except for the fire of the explosion of the cannonballs.

After looking at it for a while, Wei Huang said to the second battalion commander: "Old Chu, the Japanese army is only using a wing of small artillery now, and it seems that there is only a wing of the Japanese army on the opposite side, which should be the vanguard of the 40th Division." Chu Xifeng replied: "Tuanzao, this little Japan wants to take our Tongjing Town with just one wing, this is too arrogant, right?"

Wei Huang said: "The Japanese army is used to being arrogant, and the attack in the past few days has been smooth and has not encountered too strong resistance, and it is inevitable that there will be an idea of quickly taking Tongjing Town, but this time it is not so good!" Chu Xifeng continued: "Yes, if you don't give Little Japan a little bit of power, they don't say that Lord Ma has three eyes!"

Wei Huang nodded and asked: "Old Chu, the outer position is garrisoned by your second battalion, Brigade Commander Wei wants us to hold on for three days, and your peripheral position must be held for one day, against a small Japanese division, can your second battalion hold it?" Chu Xifeng replied: "Tuanzao, you can rest assured, our second battalion is in the position, I will immediately go to the front-line position to supervise the battle, as long as I don't fall, the position will not be lost." ”

At this time, the battle on the position of the first company was already quite fierce, the Japanese army relied on the strength of the outnumber, regardless of the casualties to rush forward, although the defenders on the position were well equipped, but first, there were many new soldiers, and second, after dark, the line of sight was affected, and the accuracy dropped greatly, only with the ferocious firepower of automatic weapons, it was barely able to block the Japanese army.

The commander of the first company saw that the situation was not very good, and he could not care about hiding his strength, so he ordered the four 60-caliber mortars of the fire platoon to open fire. The lethality of the four 60-caliber mortars was not great, but the deterrent effect on the Japanese army was great, and under the bombardment of the four mortars, the Japanese attacking team was in confusion, and the light and heavy machine guns on the position took the opportunity to desperately strafe the panicked Japanese troops.

The captain of the Japanese army saw that the casualties were not small, and the defenders had artillery, so he could only order a retreat. Then the Japanese army launched a second attack, all of which were beaten back in a company, and after a few rounds, the Japanese suffered hundreds of casualties, and more than 20 people were killed and more than 30 were wounded, but the good thing is that these recruits have passed the initial discomfort and are becoming more and more on par with the veterans.

At ten o'clock in the evening, all the men and horses of the 40th Division had arrived, and Yoshio Kamegawa Osaku also rushed to report the situation to the division commander, Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi. Considering that his troops were not good at night fighting, Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi ordered the offensive to be stopped, and the army camped on the spot until tomorrow.

The Japanese attack stopped, and the commander of a company on the position also breathed a sigh of relief, after all, he only had the strength of a company, and the Japanese army attacked several times, and there were dozens of dead and wounded in one company, and it was almost halfway through.

Now that the Japanese army had stopped attacking, the commander of the first company sent people to send the seriously wounded down while asking the soldiers to repair the fortifications. As soon as the wounded were sent down, the battalion commander Chu Xifeng came up with the second company and the battalion guard platoon, and also brought supplementary ammunition and food. The soldiers of the first company hurried to eat some food, and the commander of the first company came to Chu Xifeng to report on the battle just now.

Chu Xifeng and the two company commanders explained that they would hold on to the position until dark tomorrow, and in order to complete the task, Chu Xifeng except for leaving the third company as a reserve, all the forces were put on the position, including four Type 67 heavy machine guns and four 82 mm mortars of the heavy fire company. In this way, there are no less than ten light and heavy machine guns on the position, plus twelve mortars, and for a day of guarding, Chu Xifeng is still sure.

The 40th Division of the Japanese Army, in the attack in the past few days, the losses are not small, the 234th Wing and the 235th Wing have lost more than 1,000 soldiers, only the 236th Wing has not participated in the battle much, there are no losses, so the task of the main attack tomorrow will fall on the 236th Wing, for the 236th Wing's attack tomorrow will be smooth, Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi ordered the 40th Wing of the Tomorrow Mountain Artillery to cooperate with the actions of the 236th Wing.

The next morning, after a symbolic breakfast for the Japanese, thirty-six 75-caliber mountain guns of the 40th Mountain Artillery Wing began to bombard the defenders' positions. Chu Xifeng, who had been prepared for a long time, except for leaving observation posts in several bunkers, the rest of the soldiers hid in the repaired anti-artillery holes behind the position.

The mountain artillery is not very powerful, but it is much better than the Type 92 infantry gun, and there are a lot of them, so the momentum of the shells falling on the position is much stronger than yesterday. The veterans in the anti-artillery hole looked calm, but the faces of the recruits were shocked. In order to ease the tension of the recruits, the veterans talked about the scene when they participated in the battle.

The recruits listened attentively to the stories of the veterans, and the tension in their hearts couldn't help but ease a lot. After more than ten minutes of shelling, the artillery fire extended behind the position, and the experienced veteran immediately knew that the attack of the Japanese infantry had begun, and he was about to enter the position.

The officers and men of the first company were obviously much calmer after several hours of fighting yesterday, and the veterans of the second company were also seizing the last time to explain something to the recruits. Soon the order to the position came, and the soldiers drilled out of the anti-artillery holes in turn, followed the communication trenches, and rushed to the position.

As soon as they entered the position, an infantry brigade of the Japanese army was only less than 300 meters away from the position, and the artillery fire of the Japanese 75-caliber mountain artillery was extended backwards, but the artillery fire of the 92-caliber infantry guns and mortars of the wing was still bombarding the forward position. The bunkers were left undamaged, while the trenches and sandbag fortifications were more or less damaged.

At this time, the soldiers did not care about the damaged fortifications, and quickly crouched down in the trenches and available bunkers, and one by one the black muzzles of their guns were aimed at the Japanese soldiers who were attacking the position, waiting for the order from their superiors to open fire. At 250 meters and 200 meters, the order to open fire came, and the position was full of firepower, and more than 10 light and heavy machine guns fired cross-fire, sweeping down the attacking Japanese troops and suppressing the Japanese attack. The rest of the submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles also fired bullets at the Japanese troops.

Seeing that the firepower on the position was more fierce than yesterday, Kamegawa Yoshio Osaku hurriedly ordered the muzzle of the Type 92 infantry gun to strike at the machine gun fire point on the position, and hit the defender's machine gun fire point, and ordered the heavy machine gun squadron to suppress the fire on the ground.