After Chiang Kai-shek's expansion order was issued, the Armament Department of the Nationalist Army brought the newly arrived American-style 155-millimeter cannon to the station of Liu Hai's division, and Liu Hai reorganized all the infantry of the original Huang Kesheng regiment into Liu Xiaoshan's direct brigade, and then gave the newly transferred artillery to Huang Kesheng to form a new artillery regiment! Huang Kesheng actively arranged the new artillery regiment for training and running-in exercises, and then arranged the platoon commanders of each battalion and company, in order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Liu Hai arranged several company commanders and platoon commanders of the ghost artillery regiment to Huang Kesheng's artillery regiment, it took less than half a month, Huang Kesheng's artillery regiment has been formed, and the brigade directly under it is much simpler, after Liu Xiaoshan was ruthless, a new regiment was formed, Liu Xiaoshan arranged a new regiment commander, and also adjusted the officers at all levels, after the reorganization and expansion was completed, Liu Hai's Fourth Division was renamed the Fourth Army!

Just when Liu Hai was reorganizing the team with great fanfare, Han Xuan, the commander of the 73rd Army who was responsible for defending Wuyang, started the first shot of the Battle of Xiangxi. There is a small county town called Lantian next to Wuyang, which was suddenly attacked by the fierce attack of 4,000 people of the Japanese Guangtian detachment, Han Xuan was very surprised, Han Xuan judged that the Japanese army had not yet been assembled, and would launch a general attack in a few days. Han Xuan decided to give the Japanese army an unexpected blow, and the 73rd Army had not yet used the strength of two regiments in the Japanese army to attack the main force of the Japanese army first. The enemy's 47th Division was caught off guard and was beaten in disarray, and it took two successive increases of troops to resist the attack of the national army. This active attack seriously dealt a blow to the morale of the Japanese army, and also allowed Han Xuan to judge the hole cards of the 47th Division. The enemy's 47th Division began to force the crossing of Zishui, Han Xuan ordered the army to symbolically resist, and the Japanese forced crossing was unexpectedly smooth, and the division commander Watanabe was overjoyed. After the main force of the Japanese army had just crossed the river, the Chinese army bombarded it with heavy artillery, and at the same time dispatched its air force to strafe the Japanese troops who were still crossing the river. The Japanese boats and rafts that crossed the river sank one by one under the strafing fire of the Chinese Air Force, causing heavy casualties. The Japanese army fought fiercely for a day, but the troops were still unable to assemble, in fact, the distance between them was only a few thousand meters, and each unit was fighting its own way under the strong blow of the 73rd Army, only seeking self-protection, and the commander of the Watanabe Division could not command his own troops at all. It was not until the next day that the Japanese army took advantage of the darkness to complete the assembly of troops.

"The Battle of Xiangxi has begun, and the Liu Hai Department is ordered to quickly assemble to the intended combat area!" Wang Yaowu was very happy when he received Han Xuan's battle report, because this Han Xuan fought so beautifully that the 43rd Division of the Japanese Army suffered a big loss! But now that the Japanese army has completed its assembly, and a large-scale attack is about to begin, Wang Yaowu ordered Liu Hai's Fourth Army to enter the preset area immediately! "Order the troops to assemble, the artillery regiment assembles and marches according to the predetermined area, and the brigade directly under it assembles and defends at Yangxi Bridge! You have to get to the battle station in one day! After Liu Hai received the order, he immediately gave the order to assemble! Liu Hai's division headquarters had been upgraded to the corps headquarters, and the staff officers and guards had also doubled, and at the moment of the order, the staff officers rushed out and began to convey the order. At this time, the ghost cannon was wrestling with Wu Fatzi, and as soon as he heard the assembly order, the two of them immediately ran back to their regimental headquarters, and ordered the cannon to be put on the car, put the bombs on the shelf, and be ready to pull out at any time! Although Huang Kesheng's regiment has just been formed, it is not slow, and it has completed the assembly and is ready to start in the shortest possible time! "What the hell are you doing, get up and assemble for Lao Tzu!" Liu Xiaoshan got up and began to beckon his soldiers to assemble, and the soldiers of the two regiments completed the assembly amid Liu Xiaoshan's shouting! "Get out!" Liu Hai gave an order, and the Fourth Army set off! After Liu Hai watched all his troops set off, he rushed to Wang Yaowu's headquarters with his staff team, where he commanded the operation of the whole army!

"Now the 47th Division is attacking the 73rd Army, according to the deployment of your 2nd Artillery Regiment, it should be there!" Wang Yaowu said. "Yes! Commander! Liu Hai watched Wang Yaowu's fingers move across the map. Now the enemy's 47th Division has the posture of sneaking up on its flank, so now your 2nd Artillery Regiment should bombard and block this ditch, although it has no name, but go to the flank of the 73rd Army! Wang Yaowu said. Understood, please rest assured, Commander! After speaking, Bangs measured it on the map with a ruler. After a while, Chief of Staff Guo ran to say that the telephone line had been erected, and Liu Hai grabbed the phone and said, "Fat Wu, there is a ditch at a distance of 15 degrees and 10 kilometers to the right in front of you, you use ten cannons to start a salvo there, move 100 meters after an interval of two minutes, and shoot three rounds!" "Understood!" Wu Fatzi put down the phone and began to arrange artillery fire, when the shells accurately smashed into the ditch, a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army was advancing there, the beaten bullshit was not, and the captain was killed on the spot.

"Ghost artillery, your coverage is within a hundred meters of the front defense of Furong Mountain, with forty cannons, and the rest of the artillery fire is used for maneuvering!" Bangs continued to order. "Understood, I've started aiming!" The ghost cannon said while ordering people to adjust the coordinates to shoot! "Huang Kesheng keeps the right flank from being broken through by the Japanese, there are plenty of shells, you give me a good fight!" Bangs said. "Please rest assured, I will definitely beat him to the curly!" Huang Kesheng said. A few minutes later, more than 200 artillery pieces of Liu's naval regiment began to bombard, and the attacking Japanese troops were beaten on their backs, and even the soldiers of the national army on the front line began to applaud! The Japanese troops who rushed through the artillery fire were already at the end of their crossbows, and the national soldiers on the defensive line did not even finish a base number of ammunition, and the Japanese army retreated in disarray! "Hehe, it's so good, it's a magic cannon! Wang Yaowu was very happy. "The commander has won the award!" Liu Hai said modestly. "Don't be modest, playing well is playing well, if it goes on like this, I see how long the little devil can last!" Wang Yaowu said as he stared at the map viciously.

Although the casualties of the Japanese army were not small, the 116th Division, the frontal offensive force of the Japanese army, was really not a bad seed, and continued to attack, the divisional and regimental heavy artillery began to attack, and the Japanese troops on the ground desperately attacked, and the positions around Furong Mountain began to shake! "Concentrate your firepower on the enemy in front of Furong Mountain!" After Liu Hai finished ordering, he said to Wang Yaowu, "The other party still has divisional and regimental level heavy artillery, commander, I want to go to the front, look at the crater, judge where the devil's artillery is, and then kill him!" "Good! I'll send a battalion with you! Wang Yaowu said. After Liu Hai arrived at Furong Mountain, according to his own experience and technical means, Liu Hai knew the general location of the other party, but found that this place was outside the range of his artillery fire! "The ghost artillery regiment moves forward one kilometer! Attack the heavy artillery positions of the Japanese army! Bangs said. Got it! "The ghost cannon moved half of its artillery forward by a kilometer, reached the back of Furong Mountain, and began to attack according to the coordinates of Bang Hai!

"Yaga Yalu!" Takeshi Honda, the commander of the 166th Division of the Japanese Army, was so angry that he scolded: "It is simply a shame for the imperial soldiers that a wing did not even hit the enemy's position under the cover of heavy artillery!" "Please give me another chance, the division commander, I will definitely break through Furong Mountain!" Said the co-captain of the 16th Wing. "You said, give you an hour, and if you can't conquer it, don't come back to see me!" Wu Honda said. "Hayi!" The captain of the Japanese wing agreed and ran out. "Keep attacking!" The wing commander shouted and ran out shirtless, and more than a thousand Japanese soldiers followed closely! "Fire!" The national army on the position couldn't take care of the support of the garrison for a while because the ghost artillery was concentrating its firepower to destroy the heavy artillery of the Japanese army! "Fire!" Ghost artillery shells flew towards the Japanese positions. The ghost artillery was actually very depressed at this time, because he didn't have the strength to support the army anymore, and the opponent's artillery position didn't know where it was!

"Boom!" A shell smashed into the Japanese artillery position, and a huge explosion blew up two Japanese artillery pieces into the air! "Transfer!" The commander of the Japanese artillery regiment reacted very quickly, and as soon as he saw the shells exploding on his artillery position, he immediately ordered a retreat! This move made the staff of his artillery regiment very dissatisfied, thinking that it was just a stray bullet and there was no need to divert it! But a few minutes later, the staff officers of the Japanese artillery regiment immediately realized their stupidity, because the violent explosion had already blown up the artillery position just now, and the flames were blazing! "Hit so hard, so accurate! Could it be the Liu Shen Cannon of the Zhina Army? The commander of the Japanese artillery regiment thought. All artillery firing hundreds of meters behind Furong Mountain! "The Japanese running regiment commander was very angry when he saw his artillery position destroyed!

"Transfer!" The ghost cannon is not a fool, after firing a base number of shells, he immediately led his own artillery regiment to start transferring, and just after the transfer was out, there was a series of explosions behind him! "All the artillery fired and charged the Japanese army!" The ghost cannon diverted the direction of the attack. "Hehe, hit! The Japanese artillery observer said happily. "So what happened to our attacking troops," asked the artillery commander. "Our attacking forces are under fire from the opposing side!" The captain said. "Who is the other party, the reaction is so fast!" said the commander of the Japanese artillery regiment. "Boom!" There was another loud bang, and a cannonball came in. "Continuous coverage!" The ghost cannon said, and nearly a hundred cannons began to roar.

On the other hand, the Chinese army, when the ghost artillery was on par with the devil, the national army in the east decided to carry out a large-scale flank attack, so a division was sent to attack! The pinning forces of the Japanese army saw that the other side was coming, and hurriedly organized forces to resist, but it was too late, this Chinese division actually broke through several locations in a row, and counter-surrounded the 166th Division of the Japanese army attacking Phoenix Mountain! After the encirclement, the Chinese army began to attack, and the 166th Division of the Japanese army was surrounded!