After Wei Bin left Tang Hongming, he immediately found Dongfang Li, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, and conveyed the order of the division commander. Dongfang Li immediately ordered all his heavy artillery to prepare for fire. The 210th Division is an all-German armament division, and his heavy artillery regiment is also a German-made artillery purchased by Wang Haitao through the German Krupp Company, and during the sortie, Wang Haitao returned the 30 105-caliber self-propelled howitzers of his division to the 210th Division, so the 30 self-propelled howitzers, 30 150-caliber heavy howitzers, and 50 75-caliber field guns of the heavy artillery regiment were all aimed at the Japanese positions.

Wei Bin, who returned to the 460th Brigade, also conveyed the division commander's order to the commander of the armored regiment, Lu Renqing, who was already responsible for the vanguard of the whole division. The regiment's five Cheetah heavy tanks, fifteen German-made LT-38 medium tanks, and twenty German-made No. 2 light tanks lined up in attack formation behind the offensive position.

Behind the tank body were three infantry battalions of the 871st Regiment and several dozen armored vehicles. The task of the Panzer Regiment and the 871st Regiment was clear, that is, to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese positions after the shelling, and they had to tear a gap in the Japanese position, and then the 872nd and 873rd Regiments followed up to widen the gap.

Wei Bin said to the three regiment commanders under him: "Brothers, this time the division seat has given us the important task of the first battle of the brigade, the 461st Brigade and the division seat are watching us from behind, whether it is a mule or a horse depends on how this assault is, you must not drop the chain to Lao Tzu, who has a problem, let the 461st Brigade see the joke, don't complain about Lao Tzu for not asking for mercy!"

The three regiment commanders under him repeatedly assured that there would be no problems, so Wei Bin let them take their places. After the three regiment commanders left, Wei Bin said to Meng Liangxin, the commander of the guard battalion beside him: "Conscience, your guard battalion is ready, if there is anything, you will give me a top, this time you must not miss the matter of the division's seat." Meng Liangxin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Master, our camp has gone up, how can you do it if there is no one around you to protect you?"

Wei Bin said angrily: "What danger will I have here? Don't talk about you at the critical moment, even I will rush forward!" Meng Conscience went down to prepare, just this Meng Conscience still left a platoon elite, and the platoon commander who wanted to lead the team would not leave the brigade seat an inch, even if the whole platoon was dead, he would also keep the brigade safe. Half an hour passed, and the entire division of the 210th Division was ready to go, just waiting for the brigade commander Wei Bin to give the order to attack.

On the Japanese blocking position, Major General Jun Nakayama, commander of the 14th Independent Mixed Brigade, was accompanying Major General Hanaya Masa, commander of the 29th Brigade of the 3rd Division, to inspect the front-line position. In the past few days of fighting, the 14th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade has lost nearly 2,000 men and horses of two infantry brigades, and the remaining three infantry brigades are also demoralized.

The Japanese army set up three lines of defense in one go, but each line only had trenches and sandbag fortifications, and artillery fire was even more scarce, with only a few Type 92 infantry guns and a few mortars on each line. Of the entire interception force, there was only one mountain artillery brigade, and the twenty-four 75-caliber mountain guns of the battalion were considered support artillery. After several blocking battles of the 14th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, he already knew that the pursuing Chinese troops had dozens of 105 caliber howitzers, and Major General Jun Nakayama told Major General Hanaya Masa, and the Chinese people also had a lot of artillery, but Major General Hanaya Masa, relying on the numerical superiority, did not pay too much attention to the pursuing Chinese troops.

Now Major General Hanaya is looking at Major General Nakayama Jun with contempt, and in the eyes of Major General Hanaya, an independent mixed brigade group can't stop the attack of a division of the Zhina, which is simply a disgrace to the imperial army. However, Major General Jun Nakayama couldn't say what he was suffering from, because in his opinion, this division of the people of China had artillery and chariots, and the soldiers had many automatic weapons in their hands and fierce firepower. The strength is really much stronger than his own independent mixed brigade.

But I really can't say this, and if I say this, the face of the emperor samurai will be completely over. Therefore, Major General Jun Nakayama could only grit his teeth and admit the fault of a careless and underestimated enemy. Major General Hanaya Masa, the brigade commander of the Standing Division A of the First Division, originally looked down on a second-rate unit like the Independent Mixed Brigade, and at this time, an incompetent evaluation of Major General Jun Nakayama in his heart was naturally formed.

Major General Hanaya said to Major General Zhongshan Chun: "Zhongshan Jun, you don't have to worry, behind your brigade are the warriors of my 29th Brigade, as long as there are warriors of our 29th Brigade, the people of China will not want to reinforce Yueyang City through here." When we recapture Yueyang City, we must attack Changsha City again, and we will be ashamed of Xue's defeat today. ”

Major General Nakayama Jun scolded his mother in his heart, but he still had to pretend to have a smile on his face and complimented Major General Hanaya Masa. Major General Hanaya Masa said with a compliment, and the sound of heavy artillery came from the opposite side. Major General Nakayama's face changed, and he hurriedly pulled Major General Hanayamasa to hide in a bunker. As soon as they dodged, the shells rained down.

As soon as the shell exploded, Major General Jun Nakayama and Major General Masashi Hanaya changed color at the same time, how could they not hear the exploding shells after a long time on the battlefield, not only 75 rear artillery shells and 105 caliber howitzer shells, but also 150 caliber heavy artillery shells. These heavy artillery shells are not only powerful, but also quite numerous. Major General Hanaya asked Major General Jun Nakayama in a loud voice, "Nakayama-kun, why didn't you say that the people of China actually have so many large-caliber heavy artillery?"

Major General Nakayama Jun said with a pale face: "Hanaya-kun, I don't know, the people of China have never used heavy artillery in the previous attack, maybe these heavy artillery pieces have just been transferred by the people of China?" As the two talked, the shells fell one after another. The shelling lasted twenty minutes before it weakened, and Major General Hanaya's concealed bunker was fortunately not directly hit by heavy artillery shells.

The two of them listened to the sound of explosions outside, and then they carefully and resolutely got out of the bunker, and the front-line position was already unrecognizable. Craters were densely packed everywhere, the torn corpses of the soldiers were lying all over the ground, the wounded soldiers were screaming, and the soldiers who had narrowly escaped the shelling were also hiding in a corner with their eyes straight.

Major General Hanaya said hurriedly to Major General Nakayama Jun: "Nakayama-kun, I'll let the troops come up to defend, and you let your soldiers take it first." After speaking, he ran to the rear position with a few guards, leaving behind Major General Jun Nakayama, whose eyes were straight. After Major General Jun Nakayama reflected, Major General Hanaya and the others had already run away. Major General Jun Nakayama could only organize those soldiers who could still fight on the front line to supplement the front line.

The 20-minute artillery bombardment of the heavy artillery regiment repeatedly plowed the first line of Japanese positions several times, and Wei Bin was also very satisfied with the results of this shelling. As soon as the shelling of the heavy artillery regiment stopped, Wei Bin gave the order to attack. The armored regiment was led by heavy tanks, and dozens of tanks roared towards the corps positions. Behind them were the soldiers of the Panzer Regiment and the 871st Regiment who were working together to cover the battle.

The sudden appearance of a large number of tanks on the positions of the Chinese army made the Japanese soldiers who had just been organized to supplement the forefront by Major General Jun Nakayama lose their fighting spirit, and although the only few machine guns fired, the machine gun bullets hit the body of the tank, which was useless except for the clanging sound. On the contrary, the exposed machine-gun fire was given a little name by the on-board artillery on the tank car.

Losing machine gun fire, the Japanese troops holding the position were even more panicked, and Major General Jun Nakayama saw that the position could not be held, so he could only order a retreat. The Panzer Regiment and the 871st Regiment did not take much effort to take the first line of Japanese positions. After taking the first line of Japanese positions, the armored regiment did not stop, but continued to launch an assault on the second line of Japanese troops in formation.

Major General Jun Nakayama hurriedly retreated to the second line of positions to take a look, the second line of positions suffered little losses in the artillery fire, but the soldiers on the position had frightened expressions on their faces. The first line of Japanese positions was lost too quickly, and the more than 20 mountain artillery pieces behind him were not used at all.

The Japanese artillery shells fell in the ranks of the armored regiment that was assaulting, and these mountain artillery shells were only dangerous to light tanks, causing damage to armored vehicles and infantry, and they did not have much effect on heavy and medium tanks, but the shells that kept falling in the tank group still made Wei Bin, who was watching the battle, break out in a cold sweat. Wei Bin immediately called the heavy artillery regiment and asked the heavy artillery regiment to give the Japanese artillery immediately!

Since Dongfang Li, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, discovered that the Japanese artillery was firing, he sent observers to ask them to measure the azimuth coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions as soon as possible, so as to destroy the dozens of Japanese artillery. But before the observer could report, Wei Bin's call arrived. Dongfang Li could only explain to Wei Bin for a while, and then Wei Bin put down the phone.

The effort was not great, the observers measured the azimuth coordinates of the Japanese artillery position, and it would be easy to do it with the azimuth coordinates, Dongfang Li immediately ordered the 150 heavy howitzer battalion to immediately destroy the Japanese artillery position according to the azimuth coordinates. Thirty 150 heavy howitzers only used a few rounds of salvo fire to completely silence the more than 20 Japanese mountain guns, and at this time, the heavy tanks rushing in front had already approached the Japanese army's second position.

The Japanese army deployed the last two infantry brigades of the 14th Brigade, the 61st and 65th, on this position. When the Japanese artillery opened fire, the morale of the soldiers of the two infantry brigades increased somewhat, but as the Japanese artillery was dumb and the chariots of the Chinese army rushed out of the smoke and rushed towards the position intact, the little morale that had just been raised was completely gone.

Under the strict orders of the officers, the Japanese troops in the front line fired fiercely at the tanks that rushed up, but how could the heavy tanks, which did not even care about shells, care about the bullets that were fired? Knowing that the armored vehicles and infantry behind did not keep up because of the Japanese artillery fire, these tanks were not in a hurry to rush to the Japanese position, but stopped 100 meters in front of the position and slowly attacked the Japanese troops on the position with heavy machine guns and vehicle-mounted artillery.