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In the battle on the position in front of the old mountain, Wang Haitao and Wu Youbao stood on the boulder mountain, and they saw clearly through the telescope. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 When he saw that the Japanese army began to bombard the defenders' positions with dozens of artillery, Wu Youbao was a little breathless, and asked Wang Haitao: "Military seat, little Japan has begun to shell, should we open fire?"

Wang Haitao didn't take his eyes off the binoculars, and replied without looking back: "Don't worry, it's not time yet." Wu Youbao said a little anxiously: "Military seat, if you don't open artillery, the troops below will suffer!" Wu Youbao said Wang Haitao didn't know about it, but the 572nd Regiment and the Guard Regiment had not yet sent back the telegram that they were already in place, and the reconnaissance regiment did not know whether it had occupied Zongyang County, and it was possible to destroy part of the Japanese army by launching an artillery bombardment now, but the Botian detachment, which had been hit by heavy artillery, would definitely retreat quickly. In that case, it would not be possible to completely annihilate this Botian detachment, which was inconsistent with Wang Haitao's purpose, so Wang Haitao could only let the troops defending under the mountain support for a while longer.

The Japanese artillery bombardment lasted for 20 minutes, and the position was filled with gunsmoke and chaos. After seeing all this in the binoculars, the co-captain of the 1st Wing, Sato Kasuosa nodded with satisfaction, and said to his subordinate Tanaka Toshitomo: "Tanaka-kun, the position of the Shina people has been destroyed by the artillery fire of our imperial army, and it is time for the warriors of your brigade to make contributions to the empire." I order you to lead your brigade in the attack, and you must take the positions of the Chinese people. ”

Toshitomo Tanaka bowed down and replied, "Hey, Your Excellency Captain, please rest assured, I will definitely take the position of the Chinese people." With that, he turned and left. Toshitomo Tanaka, who returned to the first brigade, immediately ordered all the remaining soldiers of the entire brigade to attack, and he led a team of guards to supervise the battle team at the end.

The brigade took out all its artillery to support the infantry attack, and the remaining more than 1,000 Japanese troops lined up in a long line on this not wide road. After the Japanese mountain artillery stopped shelling, a company of soldiers gradually appeared from the smoke of gunpowder on the position. Although the trenches could block some of the shell shrapnel, they were certainly not as effective as the anti-artillery holes, and after this shelling, only a little more than 100 officers and men of the first company could still be put into battle, and two of the four heavy machine guns were also damaged.

Fortunately, there were no losses from the light machine guns, otherwise this position would have been really difficult to defend. The commander of the first company saw through the smoke of gunpowder that the small Japanese of the brigade had begun to attack, and shouted loudly: "The little Japanese have attacked, enter the position quickly!" Most of the soldiers of the first company had not yet recovered from the bombardment just now, and their ears were still buzzing after the explosion, so few people of the first company commander's shouting had no reaction.

The commander of the first company looked a little anxious, and he walked up a few feet to the few people around him who could move. These few kicks reacted to the kicking of these people, and hurriedly rushed to the edge of the trench with the company commander. The commander of the first company took the light machine gun from the arms of a sacrificed machine gunner, checked it, and saw that it was not damaged, and put it on the sandbag by the trench, and muttered: "Little Japan, you turtle sons come on, let you taste the machine gun in Grandpa's hand." ”

When a company of more than 100 people entered the position, the Japanese troops who were walking in the front were only 200 meters away from the position. At this distance, the Japanese bullets could already bring casualties to the soldiers on the position, plus the mortars, 92 infantry guns, heavy machine guns and grenadiers that assisted, the soldiers of the company on the position could not lift their heads when they were suppressed.

If it is an open terrain, the attack of a large Japanese brigade cannot be held at all with a company of soldiers and this kind of weaponry. The current terrain greatly hindered the Japanese attack, and there were more than ten Japanese soldiers in a row in the advance. On the second line of defense behind the position of the first company, Chen Guangliang, commander of the first battalion, led the second company, the third company, and half of the firepower company to anxiously pay attention to the position of the first company.

Chen Guangliang, the commander of the first battalion, saw that the first company had been completely suppressed by the Japanese firepower, so he hurriedly called the company commander of the fire company, and then said: "Your fire company should quickly use mortars to support the position of the first company, remember to aim at the heavy machine gun of the little Japanese and fire three rapid fires, and move immediately after the battle." "The commander of the fire company received an order to turn and leave.

After a while, more than a dozen mortars of the first battalion opened fire on the Japanese heavy machine gun and mortar positions, and the sudden shelling disrupted the rhythm of the Japanese army's attack, and the pressure on the positions of the company was greatly reduced. The commander of the first company seized the opportunity and shouted, "Hit me, hit me hard!" and then pulled the trigger of the light machine gun in his hand.

The bullets that counterattacked on the position caused the Japanese troops to fall down in a row, but the Japanese soldiers were too numerous, and the people in front fell, and the people in the back bent down and stepped on the corpses of the people in front, still charging forward. The supporting mortars stopped after only three rounds, and the Japanese troops, who had been in chaos for a while, recovered after the shelling stopped, and all kinds of heavy weapons continued to fire at the company on the position.

The soldiers of the first company suffered huge casualties while killing and wounding a large number of Japanese soldiers. Finally, the Japanese advanced to less than 50 meters from the position, and the commander of the company shouted again: "Drop the bomb!" With the shouting, dozens of grenades flew out of the position. The grenade exploded in the crowd of Japanese soldiers, causing the Japanese soldiers to fall one by one.

However, the Japanese army still launched a charge desperately, and the men of the first company became less and less, and when the Japanese army was about to rush to the position, only a company commander and a dozen soldiers continued to fight with the Japanese army on the position of the first company. The intersection had already been exited, and the Japanese troops swarmed up, drowning a company commander and a dozen fighters in a sea of people. After a series of more than a dozen explosions, the position of the first company finally fell silent.

The commander of the first battalion and the rest of the soldiers of the first battalion had tears in their eyes, and the Japanese began to clean up the battlefield, and these Japanese soldiers were all stabbed with bayonets against the wounded Chinese officers and soldiers on the ground, leaving not a single mouth alive. The first battalion commander's fists had already smashed into the mud soldiers on the edge of the trench, and he shouted in a trembling voice: "All of them, enter the position, and our battalion swears to live and die with the position!" "Swear to live and die with the position!

Wang Haitao stood on the mountain and saw it really with a telescope. Wang Haitao's hands were already white from exertion. After putting down the binoculars, Wang Haitao turned his head to Wu Youbao and said, "Let the telegraph operator send a telegram to Tangshan Leopard, and ask the two regiments to enter the designated position before 2 o'clock this afternoon and prepare to go out." Then send a telegram to Tang Xiaoshan, and ask the reconnaissance regiment to occupy Zongyang County before 3 o'clock this afternoon to cut off the Japanese army's retreat. Wu Youbao replied loudly: "Yes, military seat!"

The Japanese captured the first line of positions, but the first brigade also lost half of its strength, so the Japanese troops were still resting on the positions for the time being, and did not rush to attack the second line. After hearing Toshitomo Tanaka's report that he had taken the first position of the Shina people, Wing Captain Sato asked Osato to say happily twice: "Yo West, Yo West." ”

Most of the troops of the 1st Wing left the intersection and came to the position where the 1st Company had been stationed. After standing in the trench and observing the second line of positions with a telescope, Sato ordered the second brigade to attack forward. The 2nd Brigade launched three more attacks on the positions of the 1st Battalion, but all of them were stubbornly repulsed by the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, on the boulder mountain, the telegraph operator ran to Wang Haitao's side, stood up and saluted and said: "Report to the military seat, the head of the guard regiment Tangshan Leopard and the head of the reconnaissance regiment Tang Xiaoshan have called. Wang Haitao turned around and took the two telegrams and looked at them. Tangshan Leopard's telegram reported that the Guard Regiment and the 572nd Regiment had arrived at Yangqiao Town and were ready to attack. Tang Xiaoshan's telegram reported that the reconnaissance regiment had captured Zongyang County, and had completely annihilated an infantry squadron, a baggage brigade, and a cavalry squadron of the Japanese army in the county, cutting off the Japanese army's retreat.

After reading the two telegrams, Wang Haitao shouted excitedly: "Good job!" and then said to Wu Youbao, who was excited next to him: "Battalion Commander Wu, it's up to you to see the heavy artillery battalion below." The first goal is to knock out the Japanese artillery positions for me, remember to use the killing and explosive grenades, and I want the little Japanese artillery!" Wu Youbao replied excitedly: "Military seat, you just look at it, it's ready!"

Wang Haitao looked at his watch and said, "It's 1:15 a.m., I'll give you 15 minutes to prepare, and launch an artillery bombardment on time at 1:30 p.m." Wu Youbao replied, "Yes, military seat!" and then turned and ran towards the gun position. The gun position has been calibrated many times, and the command to shell is waiting.

At 1:30 p.m., Wu Youbao stared at the pocket watch in his hand, and as soon as the time came, the order to open fire was immediately shouted. Twenty 130 cannons fired one after another, and twenty anti-explosive grenades, which were beyond the technology of this era, roared straight towards the artillery position of the Potian detachment.

The effective range of an anti-detonation grenade is about 100 square meters, and this kind of anti-detonation grenade does not rely on shock waves or shrapnel to kill and injure the enemy, but through the deflagration in the air to deplete the oxygen in the range, so that the oxygen vacuum in the range is generated for 15 minutes, causing all living things to die due to suffocation. After the use of deflagration bombs, all the equipment at the detonation point is good, but the personnel and creatures are dead, and some of the costumes are neatly dressed, and the effect is very different from that of incendiary bombs. 15 minutes after the detonation of the deflagration bomb, the air at the explosion point will slowly regain equilibrium, and personnel can enter normally.

Although this kind of anti-detonation grenade has strict requirements for climate, ground type and other use conditions, it is also far beyond the scientific and technological level of this era. So the result of the use of this anti-detonation grenade brought great panic to the Japanese army. Almost all the Japanese soldiers forgot about the battle, but chanted: "The devil, the devil is coming, and it has taken the lives of these people." ”

When Hakada Shigeichi heard the report of his subordinates, he did not believe it, but when he led his men to the artillery position, he was also stunned by the scene in front of him. It was a dead silence, and not a single person dared to enter the area, and all the soldiers in the position fell to the ground, their tongues out, apparently suffocating.