readx;? On the outskirts of Luodian Town, although the 544th Regiment had rebuilt four lines of defense, it was certainly not as solid as the original fortifications, and the Japanese planes were taking care of Luodian Town and the outer defense line this time, and they actually mobilized nearly 100 bombers to bomb indiscriminately. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Japanese bombers carried heavy aerial bombs of several hundred pounds. After this kind of bomb falls, it explodes into a crater several meters deep and tens of meters in diameter, and no fortification can resist the direct hit of this bomb.

The soldiers of the 544th Regiment were placed outside Luodian Town, and these soldiers were basically hiding in the anti-artillery holes. The whole regiment lost nearly 100 officers and men in the bombing. The Japanese planes flew away, the shelling stopped, and when a battalion and a company entered the front-line position under the leadership of the company commander, only 119 of the 160 officers and men who were fully loaded could enter the position.

There were not many intact fortifications left on the front-line positions, only two bunkers were still intact, and one half-collapsed bunker was still functional. The first company commander put the three heavy machine guns in the company, and the rest of the soldiers set up their guns using all available terrain such as craters as fortifications. Major General Chiaki Shigeto, the head of the Shigeto detachment, observed the defenders' positions through a telescope, and was satisfied with the results of the bombing, so he ordered the 1st Infantry Wing of Taiwan to attack.

Taiwan's Shigetō detachment has never fought with the squadron, but in the guidance of the commander, it is always said that the equipment of the Chinese army is inferior, how low the quality is, how vulnerable the Chinese army is, and how the ** team will only flee when it encounters God, etc. In addition, the platoon of defenders guarding the Pujing River retreated after a little resistance, which also fueled the arrogance of the Shigeto detachment.

After receiving the order to attack, the commander of the 1st Infantry Wing of Taiwan, Sato Yao Daisa, did not even set up the mountain artillery position of the wing, so he asked a brigade of soldiers to attack the defenders' position. Under the command of the brigade commander, more than 1,000 Japanese troops in this brigade lined up in an offensive formation, armed with guns, and swaggered towards the defenders' positions, only erecting a few heavy machine guns as cover in accordance with the regulations.

The fact that the Japanese army did not pay attention to the soldiers of the company holding the position made the commander of the company, who was holding a telescope to observe the Japanese army, excited. The commander of the first company observed the movements of the Japanese army, and said to himself: "Damn little Japan, I don't take my grandfather too seriously, so I swaggered up." That's fine, I'll make you suffer a big loss, and then I will know how powerful Grandpa is!"

The commander of the first company saw that the Japanese army had entered 200 meters, but no Japanese soldiers had fired a shot, so he simply put the Japanese army closer. One hundred and eighty meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters. The commander of the first company shouted: "Hit! Hit Lao Tzu hard!" Suddenly, the sound of light and heavy machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, and submachine guns on the position rang out, and the bullets rushed towards the Japanese troops like a raging storm.

The Japanese offensive formation was so dense that the soldiers of the first company did not need to aim, as long as they kept firing, and a single bullet from the heavy machine gun often penetrated two or three Japanese soldiers before it was finished. The Japanese did not react at all when the guns rang out on the defenders' positions, and when they reacted and fell down to counterattack, the hundreds of soldiers who were walking in front had already fallen down screaming.

The Japanese soldiers lying on the ground found that the firepower of the defenders on the opposite side was too fierce, there were several heavy machine guns alone, and almost all of them were automatic weapons, and they couldn't even lift their heads when they were pressed on their side, so there were soldiers lying on their stomachs who were constantly being hit, and people kept screaming. Sato, the commander of the 1st Infantry Wing, almost jumped in surprise when he looked at the firepower on the opposite position.

With such dense and ferocious firepower, so many automatic weapons, and a dozen light and heavy machine guns, how many troops were there in this small position opposite? This firepower was stronger than one of his own brigades. Sato hurriedly ordered the mountain artillery squadron of the wing to carry out artillery bombardment of the positions of the defenders of China in order to cover the withdrawal of the troops. The mountain artillery squadron quickly set up four mountain guns and ten mortars and began shelling the defenders' positions.

Under the cover of the smoke from the explosion of the shells, the captain of the attacking Japanese brigade led the living Japanese troops to withdraw. Sato had to see that a brigade had withdrawn from less than six hundred people, and there were dozens of lightly wounded. The Chinese defenders' resistance surprised the detachment leader Shigeto Chiaki, who was observing the situation, and then he somewhat understood why the Ninth Division had fallen to such a point, thinking of this Shigedo Chiaki also gasped, he understood that he had kicked the iron plate this time.

However, even so, the offensive still had to continue, and this time Shigeto Chiaki ordered the detachment's mountain artillery wing to deploy 36 75 mountain guns to cover the attacking Japanese army. Sato would not dare to see no one again this time, and a new brigade set up eight heavy machine guns 600 meters from the defenders' positions. The Japanese mountain artillery began to shell the defenders' positions, and unlike other wings, a Japanese brigade began to cautiously line up in stragglers to attack the defenders' positions before the shelling stopped.

As soon as the observation post saw that the Japanese artillery bombardment had not stopped, a large group of infantry began to attack, and they hurriedly reported to the company commander by walkie-talkie. As soon as the company commander heard the report, he hurriedly led the soldiers to rush to the position along the communication trench under Japanese artillery fire. By this time, the Japanese infantry had been less than 300 meters from the position. The Japanese shelling finally stopped, while several heavy machine guns began to suppress fire.

On the position, except for the three heavy machine guns in the bunker, which could fire at the Japanese heavy machine guns, the soldiers were pressed into the fortifications and could not raise their heads. The attacking Japanese soldiers began to fire at the defenders on the position with light machine guns, rifles, and grenadiers, and the casualties of the first company increased at once. As soon as the company commander saw the situation, he ordered the four mortars of the mortar platoon of the company to fire three rapid shots to knock out the Japanese heavy machine guns.

The order was transmitted to the artillery position behind by walkie-talkie, and the anxious artillerymen who had been waiting for a long time suddenly became energetic when they heard the order from the company commander. The landmarks had already been marked, and the platoon commander visually surveyed the target and reported the azimuth coordinates. The artillerymen sent shells into the chamber one after another. The three shells were fired and were not used for even a minute, and as soon as they were finished, the platoon commander quickly moved with the artillery platoon fighters and four mortars.

Although the power of the 60 mortar shells was a little smaller, the lethality and destructive power of the 12 shells exploding on a heavy machine gun position almost at the same time also wiped out the Japanese machine gun squadron. The sudden shelling of the Chinese defenders surprised Chiaki Shigeto, the head of the Shigeto detachment, and the captain of the 1st Infantry Wing, Sato.

Without the suppression of artillery bombardment and heavy machine guns, a company of soldiers on the position stretched out the muzzle of the gun from the fortifications, aiming at the attacking Japanese army, the Japanese army was only 150 meters away from the position at this time, I have to say that the Japanese army's marksmanship is really accurate, at a distance of 150 meters, as long as the soldiers of the company raised their bodies a little higher, they would be hit by the Japanese army, and the commander of a company decisively gave the order to shoot.

The position was full of light and heavy firepower, and only a dozen light and heavy machine guns blocked the way for the Japanese army to advance, and the soldiers also showed fire at the Japanese army lying down. This means that the officers and men of the new 90th Division can shoot at the Japanese army at a distance of 150 meters, and they are not inferior in terms of guns and marksmanship, and the submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles are absolutely superior to the Japanese in terms of firepower.

Replace it with other ** troops, not to mention those broken rifles in the hands of the miscellaneous army, even if the German armor division of the Central Army, although the guns are good, the marksmanship is too far behind. As soon as the Japanese army saw that it could not attack, and it could not take advantage of the counter-shooting, the captain commanded the Japanese army to retreat. Dozens of Japanese corpses were left in front. This attack couldn't help but make Chiaki Shigeto begin to re-evaluate the Chinese defenders in front of him.

The same frenzied attack as the Shigeto detachment was the Japanese 13th Division. Lieutenant General Ogisu, the commander of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, was an extremely conceited Japanese general, and he looked down on the squadron at all, but the small bridge over the Dijing River in front of him made his 13th Division lose its troops and lose its troops, which was enough to block his time for almost ten days, but he couldn't make an inch. This made the extremely conceited Lieutenant General Ogisu Riken unbearable at all.

When the Japanese dispatched more than a dozen bombers to bomb the defenders' positions west of the bridge, Lieutenant General Ogisu mobilized all the heavy artillery he could muster and simultaneously shelled the Chinese defenders' positions. It was only during the shelling that the Japanese deliberately avoided the bridge deck and the bridgehead, and the artillery fire extended to a deeper point. After the shelling ended, Lieutenant General Ogisu was transferred to the 26th Infantry Brigade to take charge of the main attack.

The 103rd Infantry Brigade, which had suffered considerable losses in the previous attack, was sent to the rear to replenish with some auxiliaries to restore its combat effectiveness. The scouts reported that the fortifications on the opposite side of the Shina garrison were largely destroyed, except for four bunkers that were still there. In a hurry to make a contribution, Major General Numata Toshige, commander of the 26th Brigade of the Puppet Infantry, sent the 58th Infantry Wing to carry out a strong attack.

And Tang Yishu, the commander of the second battalion on the position west of the bridge, also withdrew the first company to the rear and sent the soldiers of the second company, which was relatively complete. The commander of the second company was Wang Yanwu, the leader of the Dadu Mountain bandits in Longzhou County, who defected to Wang Haitao at the same time as Yuan Zhongzhong. This Wang Yanwu had already been promoted to deputy commander of the second battalion, and his military rank was also promoted to major. As a result, when he got carried away with the wine, he drank too much, and after drinking, he forcibly took possession of a folk girl. After the incident, although Wang Yanwu was marrying this woman, he was also punished by demotion. So until now he is still a captain company commander.

Although Wang Yanwu is a little lascivious, he has nothing to say whether it is leading troops or popularity, and the 2nd Company, 543rd Regiment and even the former Independent Brigade he led are among the best. In the past, in the brigade-wide competition held once every six months, there would definitely be soldiers from the second company in the top three in individual skills, and there would never be soldiers in the group outside the top three. At this point, even Wang Haitao was impressed by him. It is as if the 180 people in Dadu Mountain, who came with him at the beginning, are the backbone of the 543rd Regiment, and the platoon commander and squad leader in the second company are also old men under Wang Yanwu, so Wang Yanwu commanded the second company with ease, like an arm.