readx;? After observing the enemy's situation, Guo Rudong returned to the headquarters and called the three regiment commanders and his cousin Guo Ruhuai together. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After the info people arrived, Guo Rudong said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I just observed that the number of people coming from Little Japan this time is quite large, and it is estimated that there are more than 3,000 people. Tomorrow will be a fierce battle, so you need to be prepared. Guo Ruhuai said loudly: "Big brother, you can rest assured that you are in command here, just with so many good things in our hands, the little Japanese devil can't please him." ”

Guo Ruhuai's words made the three heads of the regiment also nod yes. Guo Rudong said: "Okay! The main target of little Japan should be the highway bridge in front, and you are the regiment that our division can fight the most, so I arranged for your regiment to guard the bridgehead, and tomorrow your regiment commander will personally supervise the battle in the front, and those who do not order the retreat will be killed!" The commander of the regiment stood up and replied: "Yes! ”

Guo Rudong said to Guo Ruhuai again: "Ruhuai, your guard battalion is the reserve of a regiment, and if a regiment can't withstand it, it will depend on your battalion to go up." Your battalion is not under the same regiment in terms of equipment or ability, don't disgrace me. Guo Ruhuai patted his chest and said, "Big brother, if I embarrass you, I won't come back to see you." Guo Rudong nodded.

Early the next morning, 300 fighters of a regiment and a battalion first entered the position under the leadership of the battalion commander. This position may not have been on the opposite side of the Japanese army, and in the bombing of the planes, it was not bombed much, and only a few fell on the position. As a result, the fortifications were not damaged. The commander of the first battalion placed four heavy machines in four bunkers, of which only one was a 57-type heavy machine, and the other three were Japanese-style 92 heavy machines.

In the trenches, the soldiers basically have 38 styles in their hands, and a squad has two 56 styles. Of the four light machines in the battalion, one is of the fifth or sixth type, and the others are Japanese-style crooked handles. The commander of a battalion was in a bunker, holding a telescope and looking at the opposite side, with an original German box gun just installed in his waist. At eight o'clock, 36 75 infantry guns and 12 105 howitzers of the Japanese field artillery wing opened fire at the same time, and the shelling before the attack began.

The power of dozens of artillery guns firing at the same time is indeed not small, the Sichuan army has never experienced this intensity of artillery bombardment, when fighting a civil war, there are a few mortars that are a strong army, where there will be such a degree of shelling, when the shells are like sprinkling soybeans as densely exploding on the position, the Sichuan army in the fortifications all have a discolored face, and occasionally there are shells falling into the trenches, which brings up a bloody rain.

At this time, the commander of the first battalion regretted that he did not listen to the words of the new 90th Division, did not use the anti-artillery hole, but let the soldiers enter the position too early. There were also a lot of shells on the bunker, but this bunker was all a reinforced concrete structure, and this small-caliber cannonball did little damage to it, that is, the soldiers in the bunker were injured a lot by the air wave after the shell exploded, and many soldiers had blood flowing out of their ears, noses, and middles.

Finally, the Sichuan army survived the 20-minute shelling by the Japanese army, and before the soldiers could recover from the shelling, the Japanese army appeared on the bridge deck. The soldiers lay on the edge of the trench one after another, and the support in their hands was also aimed at the Japanese troops on the bridge deck. When the Japanese army launched an offensive formation and passed through the middle of the bridge deck and approached the southern end of the bridge, the commander of the first battalion shouted: "Fight!" The box cannon in his hand flew out.

The heavy planes in the bunker and the light planes behind the sandbags roared almost simultaneously, raining down on the Japanese troops on the bridge. After the second platoon of Japanese soldiers in the front was defeated, the Japanese soldiers in the back lay on the ground, set up their weapons and launched a confrontation with the defenders. Machine positions and mortar positions north of the bridge also began to suppress the defenders on the positions.

When the two armies fired at each other, it could be seen that the Japanese army's law and individual skills were obviously above the Sichuan army, and from time to time in the trenches, the soldiers of the Sichuan army fell after being hit, and the Japanese army did not have much loss except for being suppressed on the bridge deck, when the Japanese army fired with grenadiers and mortars, the Japanese troops who were suppressed on the bridge deck took advantage of the opportunity to raise smoke in front of the position, and launched a charge.

When the smoke dissipated, the Japanese army was less than 50 meters away from the position, and the Sichuan army on the position hurriedly threw at the Japanese army, and the heavy machines in the four bunkers desperately used crossfire to block the Japanese attack. Finally, one of the soldiers of the Japanese squadron that launched the attack withdrew due to heavy casualties, leaving dozens of Japanese corpses in front of the position and on the bridge deck.

The commander of the first battalion breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the Japanese army had gone back, and hurriedly came to the position to count the number of people, and the first attack of the Japanese army killed and wounded more than half of the first battalion, and not even the minor wounded. The lightly wounded soldiers treated their wounds with the first-aid kits in their backpacks, and then continued to hold their positions, and the first-aid kits of the seriously wounded soldiers were not of much use, and the battalion commander hurriedly asked people to carry these dozens of seriously wounded people down.

Before the soldiers of the first battalion had just finished their work, the Japanese shelling began again. With the experience of an artillery bombardment, these soldiers looked much more natural this time, and many soldiers took out cigarettes from their bodies and smoked them in the trenches. The commander of the first battalion naturally returned to the bunker, and the 57-type heavy machine beside him was the most important and ferocious firepower point in the entire battalion, and only the commander of the first battalion could rest assured that he personally commanded the first battalion commander.

After the artillery bombardment, the Japanese infantry attacked again, although the routine was the same, but this time the Sichuan army had experience, and second, the soldiers in the trenches were sparse a lot, so the casualties were not as big as the first time. The four heavy planes were intact, which gave great encouragement to the soldiers in the trenches, and seeing that several heavy planes completely blocked the bridgehead with crossfire, the charging Japanese troops fell under the mouth one after another, and the soldiers in the trenches were determined to use platoons to strike at the attacking Japanese troops.

This time, the Japanese army found that the bridgehead blocked by the heavy machine could not rush through it at all, so it was used, and the defender's heavy machine also blocked the way to the bridgehead with dense ones, and the charging soldiers fell on the way to attack one after another. The attack was in vain after dozens more soldiers were killed and wounded. On the contrary, the Sichuan army on the position repelled the Japanese attack with only more than 20 casualties, and the confidence of the soldiers also rose.

The commander of the first battalion was also happy to repel the attack of small Japan at a slight price, but he was also worried about the consumption of ammunition, but the heavy machine brought by the second attack was consumed by one-third, and he had been a soldier for more than ten years, which was the most painful and painful this time.

By noon, the Japanese launched four attacks, all of which were blocked by the first battalion, but there were only more than a hundred fighters left in the first battalion. At noon, the commander of the first regiment personally went to the front-line position with the logistics soldiers who delivered the meal, and when the commander of the first regiment asked the commander of the first battalion about the situation, the commander of the first battalion said: "Report to the regimental seat, my first battalion repelled four attacks by the little Japanese in one morning, although more than half of the brothers were glorious, but the little Japanese did not please them, and they also left hundreds of corpses. The first battalion has no requirements, but the ammunition consumption is a bit too much, can you give us some ammunition, as if it is a light and heavy machine?"

The commander of the regiment replied: "As long as you hold a battalion until dark, I will send someone to bring it to you at once." The commander of the first battalion replied, "The first battalion is guaranteed to complete its tasks!" Sure enough, not long after, it was sent to the position of the first battalion. After the first battalion commander distributed it, he said to several company and platoon commanders: "We have never fought such a rich battle, and if we can't complete our tasks, then we won't have the face to go back to see the regimental seat, and we have to keep it until dark no matter what, you know?"

Several company and platoon commanders also pledged to complete their duties even if they died. The commander of the first battalion then asked them to return to their positions to prepare for the Japanese attack in the afternoon. In the afternoon, the Japanese army continued to shell, attack, shell, and attack again. By dark, there were four more attacks without an inch. Eight attacks were made in one day, and although the casualties of the soldiers were not serious, the lack of progress in the eight attacks made the brigade commander, Major General Shozaburo Sato, very dissatisfied.

According to the reports of his subordinates, the heavy machines in the several bunkers on the Central China position were very annoying, and the artillery fire of these bunkers did not have much effect on it, and several heavy machines completely blocked the road of the bridgehead attack, so in order to make progress, the only way to make progress was to knock out several bunkers on the positions of the defenders of China. To this end, the brigade commander, Major General Masasaburo Sato, asked the division commander, Lieutenant General Masakaki Ito, to send planes to assist in the battle.

On the morning of 30 September, the Japanese bombardment began again, and this time the Japanese planes divided into a squadron of eight bombers and came to the position of the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army. The commander of the 1st Regiment of the 26th Division today replaced the 1st Battalion, which had suffered heavy casualties yesterday, with the 2nd Battalion to defend his position, and was about to order the 2nd Battalion to enter the position, when the 1st Battalion Commander stopped the 1st Regiment Commander and told the 1st Regiment Commander that his 1st Battalion had been bombed when it entered the position, and that there were many casualties at once.

Only then did the commander of the 1st regiment let all the 2nd battalion enter the anti-artillery hole, and only a few observation posts were sent to hide in the bunker to observe the enemy's situation. Fortunately, when the Japanese aviation fell on the positions one after another, the soldiers of the second battalion escaped and basically lost nothing. It was only when the planes flew away and the second battalion entered the position that it found that only two of the four bunkers were left, and two of them had their skylights opened.

This is stronger than the trenches, which are one big crater after another, and the sandbags don't know where to fly. The commander of the second battalion did not care about repairing the fortifications, so he first let the heavy aircraft into the bunker, and then let the soldiers lie in the crater to prepare for the Japanese attack. The Japanese attacked under the cover of heavy aircraft and mortars, and the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion braved the Japanese artillery fire and carried out a stubborn counterattack on the position.

Major General Shozaburo Sato, the commander of the 101st Brigade, was desperate to make a breakthrough today, and he let the 101st Wing launch six attacks in the morning, although under the stubborn resistance of the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, all the six attacks were repulsed, but in just one morning, the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion were completely lost, and the commander of the 1st Regiment had to withdraw the 2nd Battalion at noon and replace them with the fighters of the 3rd Battalion.