readx;? After Li Chunshan paid attention to the Japanese artillery position, he called the company commander of the heavy fire company in the battalion over and asked: "Have you seen the Japanese artillery position? Can you calculate whether our mortars can hit there?" The company commander looked at it with a telescope for a while and said to Li Chunshan: "Battalion commander, the Japanese artillery position is about 2,300 meters away from our city wall, and only heavy mortars can reach it, and the 60 mortars and 82 mortars are a little worse. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Chunshan said: "Okay! You go and prepare, and use our heavy mortars to give little Japan a look." The company commander agreed, and went down to prepare. At the beginning of the Japanese shelling, the soldiers of the battalion and company had already hidden in the dug anti-artillery holes, listening to the continuous explosion of shells on the position, the new soldiers were nervous, and the veterans did not take it seriously at all.

A squad leader said while smoking a cigarette: "This is the shell of the small-caliber mountain artillery, the power is not much, in the Shanghai battlefield, the heavy artillery shell of the little Japanese is called a fierce ah, the explosion shakes the mountain, we sit in the anti-artillery hole, the heart of the shock is about to jump out, this shell and that one, far worse, rest assured, it's okay." ”

The squad leader's words made several new soldiers also relax, and one of the new soldiers came to the squad leader to hand over a cigarette and said, "Squad leader, tell us about your situation on the battlefield in Shanghai." The squad leader lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and then spit out a puff of smoke and said: "Okay, let's just say that when we were deployed outside Songjiang County, Shanghai, the little Japanese used all 150 mm caliber cannons, and as soon as the shell exploded, there was a 30-meter-wide crater on the ground.

Several shells fell on the anti-artillery hole of the company, which had been blown up, and when the Japanese shelled it, the soldiers of our company could only lie on the bottom of the trench tightly, and if they were unlucky, the shells exploded next to them, and even the corpses could not be recovered. At this time, no matter how scared you are, don't get up and run around, because the person who runs around dies faster, and the shrapnel that flies is enough to cut you in half. The only way to do that is to lie there and gamble on your luck. ”

As soon as the squad leader said this, the sound of the artillery outside stopped, and the squad leader stopped talking and shouted: "The artillery of the little Japanese has stopped, and it is ready to enter the position!" At the same time, the voice of the platoon commander also sounded at the entrance of the hole: "Quick, enter the position, the little Japan is coming!" The soldiers in the anti-artillery hole drilled out of the anti-artillery hole one after another, bent down and entered the position along the communication trench.

While the soldiers were erecting their guns in the fortifications and trenches, the soldiers of a squadron of Japanese troops had already advanced in a skirmish line to 200 meters in front of the position. At this point, you can see the gap between the veterans and the new recruits on the battlefield. The veterans calmly hid themselves, and then the muzzles of their guns began to aim at the moving Japanese soldiers, while the recruits nervously clutched their rifles, either not daring to show their heads, or exposing half of their bodies.

After the Japanese entered a distance of 200 meters, heavy machine guns and mortars, and 92 infantry guns began to shoot in cover, and the bullets of the heavy machine guns made the fortifications and trenches dusty, and from time to time there were no well-concealed soldiers who fell backwards after being hit. The shells of mortars and 92 infantry guns blew up the position. A shell that fell exactly into the trench took the lives of several fighters.

The Japanese entered 150 meters, and the attacking infantry also fired as they advanced, and the light machine guns were also mounted on the ground and fired bullets at the position. The new warriors all looked anxiously at the commander, waiting for the commander's order to shoot. The veterans stared at the Japanese soldiers who were getting closer and closer, and the muzzles of their guns were already aimed at the grenadiers and machine gunners in the Japanese ranks.

After entering a distance of 100 meters, the command of the commander of the company: "Fight me!" sounded from the position, and the two heavy machine guns in the bunker, several light machine guns in the fortifications and trenches fired one after another, and at the same time the weapons in the hands of other soldiers also opened fire. When a company equipped with new weapons is at full firepower, it is enough to match the firepower of a battalion of other troops.

In addition, these veterans had good marksmanship, and several grenadiers, light machine gunners and several commanders in the Japanese army fell under the guns at the first time. At this time, the Japanese army was in disarray, and the formation could no longer be maintained, and they fell one after another under the crossfire of several light and heavy machine guns. The attack lasted only ten minutes before the Japanese squadron had to leave behind nearly 100 corpses and retreat.

When the Japanese retreated, the commander of the first company also ordered only a few observation posts to be left on the position, and the rest of the fighters to withdraw to the anti-artillery holes. Sure enough, as soon as the fighters hid in the anti-artillery hole, the Japanese shells fell on the position. It's just that this time the Japanese artillery has not fired a few rounds, and the sound of counterattack artillery sounded on the city wall.

Eight heavy mortars fired three rapid shots each, and the shells flew straight to the Japanese artillery position, which was a field artillery brigade of 12 75 caliber mountain guns, and a wing of artillery squadron 6 75 field guns. While the artillery was bombarding the defenders' positions, shells from the defenders flew into the air. Dozens of shells exploded one after another on the Japanese artillery positions, taking the Japanese by surprise.

When the Japanese hurriedly transferred the artillery on the position, only four of the 18 artillery pieces were transferred, and the rest were destroyed in the explosion. When Kameiichiro Nagano got the report, he stood up in surprise and asked, "Nani's artillery fire destroyed most of our artillery?"

After being surprised, what Nagano Kameiichiro had to think about was how to capture the county seat of Jing County without artillery support. The nightmare of the Japanese army was not over, and the artillery fire on the city destroyed the Japanese artillery positions, and then destroyed the Japanese mortar positions and heavy machine gun positions. This burst of shelling caused heavy losses to the Japanese army's heavy weapons, and at the same time there was no idea of attacking.

The Japanese army stopped the attack, but it relieved the soldiers of the first company, and in the attack of the Japanese army in front, fourteen soldiers of the first company were killed, eight were seriously wounded, and more than twenty were slightly injured. Most of the soldiers who died and were seriously wounded were new recruits, while the veterans were largely fine. On this day, the Japanese tried to attack twice with infantry, but under the combined attack of mortars and strong fire from the position, they all returned in vain, and dozens of corpses were left behind.

Kameiichiro Nagano asked how the wing in the direction of Jingde County was doing, and on the other hand, he asked for help from the 62nd Brigade stationed in Huzhou. Major General Takeo Morinaga, commander of the 62nd Brigade, was also taken aback when he received a report from Kameiichiro Nagano asking for help, and he thought that with the Nagano detachment going to recapture the county seat of Jing County, it would not be a problem at all to wipe out the Shina army in Jing County, but according to Nagano Kameiichiro, the Shina army in Jing County was not only very powerful in firepower, but also equipped with a large number of artillery, which was by no means a small motley army.

In order to verify what kind of troops the Shina troops in Jing County were, Takeo Morinaga directly verified them with the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters through the division commander of the 21st Division. The result was that the Chinese army was likely to be a very strong Chinese army that had broken through from the city of Nanjing. If we want to destroy this branch by force, we need to use a large number of troops, but it is impossible to draw a large number of troops from Central China in a short period of time.

Therefore, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya, issued an order to trap this army in the mountains of southern Anhui and destroy it when they were exhausted. When this order reached Takeo Morinaga's hands, Takeo Morinaga could only sigh and convey the order to Kameiichiro Nagano, and asked Nagano Detachment to withdraw to Xuancheng and then garrison Xuancheng.

When Nagano Kameiichiro received this order, he had been outside the town of Kotokei for three days, and for three days the Nagano detachment launched two or three attacks a day on the positions of the defenders of Kotokei, but these attacks only increased casualties. As long as the guns on the position rang out, the attacking Japanese army would lie on the ground, and then shoot at the defenders for a while before withdrawing, so the casualties of such an attack were not large, and the soldiers of the company on the position had no casualties.

After Wang Haitao learned that the first battalion of the Independent Regiment took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Yongye detachment and defeated the artillery of the Yongye detachment, he decided to eat the Yongye detachment, and in order to eat the Yongye detachment, Wang Haitao sent the first battalion of the guard regiment out. The reconnaissance regiment had already selected an ambush site in front of Yangliu Town, in the middle of Xuancheng and Jing County, and the first battalion and the guard battalion of the reconnaissance regiment had come here to set up an ambush position.

When Su Yu learned that Wang Haitao was going to completely annihilate this Yongye detachment, he couldn't help but be taken aback, but then expressed his willingness to participate in the war. Wang Haitao thought about it for a while and asked Su Yu's detachment to occupy Yangliu Town and block the Yongye detachment that escaped from the ambush position. During the three days that Kameiichiro Nagano stayed outside Qinxi Town, he had already laid a net for him outside Yangliu Town.

After receiving the order, Nagano Kameiichiro began to organize the Nagano detachment to retreat in the direction of Xuancheng. Li Chunshan, the commander of the first battalion he had withdrawn from Qinxi Town, quit, and Li Chunshan thought to himself, how can you come and leave as soon as you say? Don't you want to withdraw? I will chase after you and beat you.

So Li Chunshan asked the first company to continue to hold the position, leaving only one platoon of soldiers in the town to garrison, and the rest of the second and third companies, as well as the heavy fire company that came to support it, as well as two armored vehicles and two light tanks, all dispatched to pursue the Japanese Nagano detachment. As soon as the Yongye detachment left on the front foot, Li Chunshan led the troops out of the gate of Qinxi Town on the back foot.

When Kameiichiro Nagano learned that the Shina army dared to pursue him later, he was annoyed and a little excited at the same time. In Nagano Kameiichiro's view, the fact that the Shina army left its defensive position and fought in the field with the Imperial Japanese Army was undoubtedly a good opportunity to destroy this Shina army. Nagano Kameiichiro was not in a hurry to retreat, and he had a large group of Japanese troops fortified on the spot to block the oncoming Shina army, while the rest of the troops prepared for a counterattack.

Li Chunshan prepared for the Japanese army to block the pursuit when he was pursuing, he let two light tanks and two armored vehicles take the lead, the soldiers of one company followed and protected, and the soldiers of the other company protected the heavy fire company and the mortars in the battalion in the middle and chased them all the way.