Seeing that Xiao Shuyun had given the order, the first company commander also became serious and replied, "Yes, battalion commander." 81 Chinese Network ? (1) (1) (1) 8 Wait for the Japanese troops to reach the barbed wire fence before opening fire. After speaking, he turned around and left the bunker, and after a while, a company commander's shout sounded on the battlefield: "Brothers, the battalion commander has an order, wait for little Japan to reach the barbed wire fence and then open fire!" Xiao Shuyun finished assigning the task to the company commander, and then turned his head to look out from the shooting hole.

Several barbed wire fences with a width of 40 to 50 meters were arranged in front of the position, and the Japanese artillery fire blew up the barbed wire, but the power of the artillery fire was a little worse, and although the barbed wire was destroyed, it was still piled up in a disorderly manner on the road of attack, and only a few gaps were exposed. The barbed wire fences were littered with sharp iron thorns, and Xiao Shuyun expected the Japanese army to attack through these gaps.

Sure enough, the Japanese army gradually concentrated in a few gaps, and Xiao Shuyun said to the heavy machine gun shooters beside him: "Aim at the small Japan in the gap, and prepare to fire." The heavy machine gun shooter answered, flicked the bolt, and loaded the bullet. When two-thirds of the Japanese troops had passed through the gap, Xiao Shuyun shouted: "Fire!" Then the heavy machine gunner pulled the trigger, and in the roar of the heavy machine gun, a bullet flew towards the Japanese army.

As soon as Xiao Shuyun's heavy machine gun here fired, the weapons on the position were fired. Bullets rained down on the Japanese troops. If it was somewhere else, the Japanese army could still lie down or find cover to hide, but this was in the barbed wire, the ground was full of barbed wire, looking at the sharp iron thorns on the barbed wire, the Japanese soldiers couldn't help but pause, and in this time, the bullet was shot into the body mercilessly.

In two minutes, more than 100 Japanese soldiers fell down screaming, and some of them fell down desperately, and they were also pierced by the spikes of barbed wire. This tentative attack, without even the barbed wire, retreated after losing half of the men. Watching the commander of the Ninth Wing attacking under his command, Takeyoshi Imanaka couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

If you want to attack, you must first solve the dozens of meters wide barbed wire in front of the position. In desperation, Jinzhong Wuyi could only request repeated bombardment of this barbed wire fence with artillery fire.

The Japanese artillery bombardment began again, and Zheng Daodong, who was hiding in the anti-artillery hole, did not fall on the position, and after asking the guard post, he understood that the Japanese army was fighting with the barbed wire with the shells. Zheng Daodong shook his head contemptuously and muttered: "Little Japan has a lot of shells, so you can throw them hard." After muttering, he ignored the rumbling cannon.

The Japanese army fought for half an hour before finally blowing up the barbed wire, and when Imachu Takeyoshi saw that the barbed wire was almost cleared, he nodded, called a captain, and ordered him to prepare for the attack. Soon an infantry brigade was assembled, and heavy machine guns, various small-caliber artillery and mortars of the company were also discharged.

Japanese artillery fire began to extend to the positions, and infantry brigades began to attack. Zheng Daodong, who was in the anti-artillery hole, heard a report from the guard post that an infantry brigade had come up from the Japanese army, and two battalions had been sent to the position, as well as a heavy machine gun company of the heavy fire battalion. One battalion was left as a reserve to continue to rest and stand by in the anti-artillery holes. The battle on the position was handed over to Xiao Shuyun, the commander of the first battalion, who was solely responsible for command.

The Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, but it was limited to insufficient power, and the damage to the fortifications such as the bunkers on the position was not great, that is, the trenches and sandbag fortifications were damaged to a certain extent. Two battalions plus a heavy machine gun company were distributed to a 1,000-meter frontal position, with an average of one person per meter, and with a large number of automatic weapons in the hands of the fighters, the firepower was absolutely sufficient.

The Japanese army was still the same old-fashioned, and at a distance of 200 meters from the position, they opened up a straggler formation, divided into battle groups, and alternately covered the forward attack. Xiao Shuyun saw that most of the Japanese troops had entered within 200 meters and ordered to open fire. On the 1,000-meter-wide position, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns spat out tongues of fire at the same time, and bullets flew towards the Japanese troops like a rainstorm.

Dozens of soldiers walking in front screamed and fell, and the soldiers behind hurriedly fell down. Seeing that fire was being fired on the position, Takeyoshi Imachu also ordered the artillery and heavy machine gun squadrons of the wing to cover the infantry attack with fire. The squadron leader of the artillery squadron was a little dumbfounded at this time looking at the fire points on the positions of the defenders. His small-caliber artillery and mortars are generally used to hit the defenders' machine-gun fire points, but hundreds of machine-gun fire points popped up on the defenders' positions at once, so how could he, an artillery squadron with only a dozen guns, strike?

However, the Wing Commander's order was unquestionable, and the squadron leader could only let a dozen guns in his hand open fire on the defenders' heavy machine gun fire. This squadron leader made a mistake, the heavy machine guns of the 571st Regiment were basically placed in bunkers and bunkers, and even the artillery of the artillery wing had no way to take these bunker fortifications and bunkers.

If these dozen or so small guns had been aimed at light machine gun fire points in sandbag fortifications or trenches, they might have suppressed the fire on the position, and now they did not do much damage to the defenders except for the smoke and dust of the explosions. Seeing that the artillery squadron had been under fire for a long time, the firepower on the defenders' positions did not seem to have decreased, and he couldn't help but breathe. At this time, more than a dozen heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squadron were also completely suppressed by the heavy machine guns of the defenders.

At this time, the attacking infantry brigade could only crawl forward to attack, and as long as the range of movement was larger, they would not be able to be shot. Even so, when they advanced to a distance of only about 100 meters from the position, the infantry could no longer move forward, and the defenders on the position were so precise that even the light machine guns were using point fire to name the exposed Japanese troops.

The Japanese could not even raise their heads a little, let alone return fire, and the grenadiers farther back were often named by the defenders' sharpshooters after firing a few grenades, as did the light machine gunners. The captain of the Japanese army who commanded the attack could not only fail to attack, but also his own soldiers suffered heavy casualties, so he could only order a retreat.

The failure of this attack made Imachu Takeyoshi Osa dare not attack again, and he trotted all the way to the temporary division headquarters of the division commander, Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa. Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa did not blame Imachu Takeyoshi too much, and he also understood that with this or second attack of the 9th Infantry Wing, he could rush to the defenders' positions, and the defenders would not be the famous 90th Army.

Lieutenant General Morioka asked his men not to rush to attack first, while he himself called Commander Yamashita again to ask for aircraft support. The supporting planes belonged to the naval aviation force, and the Japanese navy and the Sixth Army had never dealt with each other, but now it was because General Shoichi Terauchi was in command that the naval air force was able to provide air support to the Sixth Army. But after losing so many planes on the battlefield in Burma, and the navy didn't do it anymore, this time even Admiral Terauchi Shouichi didn't have a good face.

Admiral Terauchi discussed with the navy many times before the navy replied that in order to support the aircraft, the 6th Army must remove the anti-aircraft weapons from the defenders' positions, otherwise not a single aircraft would go out to support. This reply was conveyed to Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa, who almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood. If we can clear these anti-aircraft weapons behind the position, will we still need your air support?

There was no air support, and the artillery of the field artillery wing of the division was not powerful enough, and for a while Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa also knew how to attack, and before he had an idea, the troops could only stop the attack. The Japanese army did not move, and it was in the hands of Wang Haitao, who would complete the task in Chongqing as long as he held on for fifteen days anyway, and if the little Japan did not attack, his soldiers would have fewer casualties.

Suddenly, the city of Lashio fell silent, except for the occasional cold gunshot, there was no sound of gunfire in the city. There was a temporary calm in Lashio, while the country was moving troops on a large scale. The Dian army took the brunt and gathered two armies and six divisions of more than 50,000 troops on the Sino-Burmese border here in Tengchong.

The Chongqing side even transferred the Sixth Army and the 71st Army, plus the 36th Division in Ruili, to form the 11th Group Army and set for the Sino-Burmese border in Yunnan. The commander of the 11th Group Army was Chen Cheng's descendant general Song Xilian, and the 71st Army, the main force of the 11th Group Army, was the strongest army in Chen Cheng's civil engineering department except for the 90th Army.

The 71st Army has three new German armament divisions, the 28th, 87th, and 88th Divisions, and a heavy artillery brigade, which is equipped with 24 German-made 15O-caliber heavy howitzers and 36 German-made 1O5-caliber field guns given to Chen Cheng by Wang Haitao. The headquarters of the 11th Group Army was set up in Baoshan City, and at the urging of Chongqing, Song Xilian and the headquarters of the Group Army had reached Baoshan, and the 87th Division, which had the fastest movement, had also reached Luxi County.

The calm of Lashio lasted only two days, and on the fourth day of the arrival of the Japanese army, Morioka Hayabusa could not resist the repeated orders of Commander Yamashita Bongbun, and finally attacked Lashio again. In order to support the attack of the 33rd Division, Lieutenant General Morioka Hayabusa not only asked the 22nd Field Artillery Wing to provide artillery support, but also handed over the tank squadron to the commander of Sakurai Province.

After a Japanese artillery bombardment, the commander of the 213th Wing, Ichiro Miyawaki, sent an infantry squadron to make a tentative attack. The 571st Regiment was still stationed on the defensive position, and after resting for two days, the 571st Regiment finally waited for the Japanese army to attack again. After a tentative attack by a Japanese infantry squadron was easily repulsed by the defenders, Miyawaki Ichiro Osa began to move in earnest.

After another artillery bombardment, Miyawaki Ichiro Osa sent an infantry brigade to attack the defenders' positions under the cover of only a dozen mountain guns and two dozen small guns. Zheng Daodong still sent the first battalion, the second battalion and a heavy machine gun company, but the difference is that this time Zheng Daodong asked the regimental field artillery battalion to prepare for battle, and he wanted to give little Japan a little bit of power.