The regiment commander's words made the people around him speechless, and after a long time, the battalion commander who asked came out with a sentence: "Grandma, it's good to be rich, don't be angry with those old men in the Military and Political Department." "After all, everyone understands that if you want to equip an army like this, you need to have a lot of financial resources, and such people themselves can only look up.

Li Chunshan didn't care what others said about him, he was inspecting every fortification in the rain. As members of the main regiment, these soldiers all know the principle of repairing fortifications for themselves, and every fortification will not be sloppy, and it doesn't matter whether Li Chunshan inspects it or not, but Li Chunshan still habitually does not let go of every fortification. In the heavy rain, the soldiers were in full swing, and they used every material they could use, just to make the fortifications stronger.

It was not until the east showed the white of the fish belly that the officers and men of the 568th Regiment basically completed the construction of the fortifications. At this time, the officers and men, who had been tired for a day and a night, were able to rest on the fortifications for a while. Their hard work was not in vain, and the position at this time was very different from when they first arrived, with several heavy machine-gun forts topped with sandbags, deep anti-artillery holes, individual bunkers and other fortifications appearing on the position.

In the early morning, the logistics department sent a steaming breakfast, porridge, meat buns, eggs, and everyone had a share. Li Chunshan also ate and drank on the battlefield with his officers and soldiers. The rain was much lighter, and after dawn, standing on the city wall, you could already see the situation on the Japanese offensive position, Li Chun and his three battalion commanders stood on the city wall together, raised binoculars to observe the situation of the Japanese army.

When Li Chunshan saw the chariots placed on the Japanese position, he said to Ma Xiaoyu, the commander of the first battalion beside him: "First battalion commander, your battalion is stationed in the broken wall position, and the small Japanese chariots will definitely attack your position, and it is difficult to prepare anti-chariot weapons." Ma Xiaoyu replied: "Don't worry, Tuanzao, the two 82 recoilless guns have already been prepared, as long as the little Japanese chariot dares to come up, it is guaranteed that it will not return." ”

At eight o'clock in the morning, the Japanese infantry began to assemble on the position, and Li Chunshan knew that the Japanese attack was about to begin, so he ordered all the soldiers on the front line to enter the anti-artillery hole, leaving only a guard post on the position. Twenty minutes later, the Japanese began shelling. Li Chunshan and the regimental headquarters of the 568th Regiment were located in the south of the city, only one kilometer away from the city wall.

The 1st Battalion of the 568th Regiment was the first batch of troops to take up the position, and Ma Xiaoyu and several company commanders under him were listening to the explosion of Japanese artillery shells in the anti-artillery hole. Liu Peng, the company commander of the firepower company, said to Ma Xiaoyu: "Battalion commander, listen to the sound of a 75-caliber mountain artillery, this kind of artillery is not very powerful, and it will not be too destructive to our fortifications, don't worry." Ma Xiaoyu replied: "Well, I heard it, Little Japan shouldn't know about the change of people on the position, wait a while to put the infantry of Little Japan closer and then fight, let Little Japan taste our strength." ”

After speaking, Ma Xiaoyu thought about it again, and said to Liu Peng: "Old Liu, the mortars of your fire company are responsible for suppressing the infantry artillery and mortars of the little Japanese, remember, just transfer the position after a few hits, don't patronize the hard fight, let the shells of the little Japanese counterattack bite, you can't cry!" Liu Peng replied: "Don't worry, battalion commander, it's not the first time that the mortar has hit the guerrillas, I guarantee it's okay." ”

After twenty minutes of shelling, the artillery fire began to weaken, and the walkie-talkie guard reported that the Japanese infantry had begun to move forward. Ma Xiaoyu gave an order, the soldiers rushed out of the anti-artillery hole, each entered the position, Ma Xiaoyu also drilled into a heavy machine gun fortress, raised the telescope through the shooting hole, and observed the attacking Japanese infantry.

Ma Xiaoyu knew at a glance that the Japanese army had come up with an infantry squadron, and it seemed that this was a tentative attack by the Japanese army. Ma Xiaoyu immediately asked the signal corps to give an order, only two heavy machine guns and two light machine guns were allowed to be used, and all the rifles and submachine guns in the hands of the soldiers were adjusted to a single order, so as not to let the Japanese army find out the reality of the position. After conveying the order, Ma Xiaoyu continued to observe the situation of the Japanese army.

In the past few days, the resistance of the defenders has become weaker and weaker, making the Japanese army a little contemptuous from top to bottom, and the brigade commander of the Taiwanese brigade, Major General Ikeda Shuren, is already fantasizing about the scenario of annihilating the Chinese troops in front of him and cutting the Yunnan-Burma road first. In his opinion, the Chinese army in front of him would be completely defeated in one to two days at most, and he only needed to take advantage of the victory to pursue and cut off the Yunnan-Burma road.

Under the cover of Type 92 infantry guns and more than 10 mortars, an infantry squadron of the Japanese army walked towards the city wall, and in the first two days of attack, they always encountered the counterattack of the defenders when they entered the front 200 meters of the city wall, so the Japanese soldiers marched in a queue 200 meters ago. After entering 200 meters, the Japanese turned into a skirmish attack formation, divided into many attack groups, and moved forward in concealment.

The Chinese defenders had terrible marksmanship, which often made the Japanese soldiers scoff, and now although they were scattered, not many of them were advancing in serious concealment. Until they were only one hundred and fifty meters away from the city wall, there was still no movement on the position, which made the Japanese soldiers puzzled, if they did not see the figure of the defenders on the position, they would have thought that the defenders had fled.

One hundred and twenty meters away, the Japanese army was preparing to charge in stride, and the defenders shouted from the position: "Hit!" Then the sound of machine guns and rifles rang out, and the Japanese soldiers who were about to charge fell down one by one. The Japanese charge was interrupted, and they had to find cover again to fire at the defenders. The Japanese squadron commander who commanded the attack showed that the defenders were different from the past when they were firing at each other.

Now the defenders' marksmanship has become very accurate, and there are soldiers around them who are constantly being shot and falling, and the defenders are not even machine guns, but rhythmic points, and in less than ten minutes, one of their squadrons has suffered more than one-third casualties, and the grenadiers and light machine gunners in the team have suffered heavy casualties. This surprised the Japanese squadron leader and hurriedly ordered a retreat.

Repelling a tentative attack by the Japanese army, the soldiers of the first battalion were quite calm, and Ma Xiaoyu gave an order, and the soldiers withdrew to the anti-artillery holes, and only a few guard posts were still left on the position. After a while, the Japanese artillery bombardment began again, this time the shelling was more targeted, and several machine gun forts were taken care of, but thanks to the limited power of the Japanese mountain artillery, the machine gun forts were not damaged too much.

Half an hour later, the shelling subsided, and a Japanese infantry brigade resumed the attack. After the officers and men of the first battalion entered the position, Ma Xiaoyu saw that the Japanese army had come up with an infantry brigade, and immediately ordered that this time, after the Japanese infantry entered 200 meters, they opened fire with all their power, and the fire company went all out to suppress the Japanese infantry artillery and mortars. This time, Ma Xiaoyu wants to show the Japanese army a little bit of power.

The Japanese army was close to 200 meters and was about to disperse into a skirmish formation, when Ma Xiaoyu gave the order to open fire. The first battalion was full of firepower, and the army was caught off guard. In particular, the dozen or so light and heavy machine guns on the city wall were condescending, which not only completely suppressed the heavy machine gun fire points of the Japanese army, but also caused a large number of casualties to the Japanese infantry. In just one or two minutes, before the Japanese army could wake up, nearly 100 people fell.

The sudden attack stunned the Japanese commanders who were watching the battle behind, and that's not all, several more mortar shells flew from the defenders' positions, and the target was their own wing artillery position. Is this still the same defender who was beaten yesterday and had no power to fight back? Overnight, the people of China changed so much that it was really difficult for these Japanese commanders to accept.

Half an hour later, an attacking infantry brigade had to retreat after losing nearly half of its strength, a casualty not seen since the attack. The Japanese suspended the attack, and the brigade commander, Major General Ikeda Shuto, called his two wing commanders over and asked them about the reason for the failure of the attack. After a few totals, I understood that the defenders should have been replaced, and the defenders on the current position were undoubtedly much stronger than the original defenders.

In the morning, the Japanese army did not attack again, and at noon Mu Suzhong led the remaining troops of the 277th Brigade to Danglao City. General Dai Anlan's heart was completely relieved when he saw the arrival of the 277th Brigade, which was strong and well-equipped. After receiving the order, the 200th Division and the 277th Brigade went through the procedures for changing guards, and General Dai Anlan officially handed over the defense of Danglao City to the 277th Brigade and withdrew to Nanlan City with the 200th Division for rest.

After Mu Suzhong took over the defense of Danglao City, he still focused on the south side, and let the first and second battalions of the 569th Regiment garrison the east and west walls respectively. The third battalion was ready to reinforce the 568th Regiment at any time. The 570th Regiment is the reserve of the whole brigade, and the north gate will be handed over to the guard battalion directly under the brigade. As soon as he finished these things, there was another cannon sound from the south gate.

This time, the Japanese army used twelve Type 96 15O caliber field howitzers of the Independent Heavy Artillery Squadron. The power of this 15o caliber field howitzer is not comparable to those 75 caliber mountain guns. A shell weighing more than thirty kilograms can almost finish off a machine gun fortress. Falling directly onto the anti-artillery hole, the top of the anti-artillery cave fell like a rainstorm of dust.

Twenty minutes later, when the shelling was over, and when the fighters of the 1st battalion came out of the anti-artillery holes, the position was unrecognizable. The machine-gun fortress was basically destroyed, and half of the city wall was only a few dozen centimeters of foundation, and the position was densely covered with craters several meters in diameter. The officers and men of the first battalion of such a position were already accustomed to it, and they did not have to think much about finding available cover separately and setting up their guns.

The Japanese army came up with four Type 95 chariots at once, and a large group of infantry followed behind the chariots and attacked together. The Japanese army's combat vehicles are undoubtedly a huge threat to other ** troops, and the ** squadron without anti-tank weapons is helpless in the face of the Japanese army's not powerful Type 95 tanks, and can only rely on soldiers to use human bombs at the cost of their lives.

However, in Wang Haitao's 90th Army, these Japanese tanks were not in danger, not to mention the professional anti-tank weapons such as the 82 recoilless gun and the Type 40 rocket launcher, even if the heavy machine gun was replaced with armor-piercing shells, it was enough to shoot through its armor only a few millimeters thick. Ma Xiaoyu saw the Japanese army's Type 95 chariot coming up, sneered, and ordered: "Go and prepare the 82 recoilless cannon, and you must let these Iron King 8 have no return!"