Wei Yongshou has been by Wang Haitao's side for many years, and he has learned to be smart when he fights, knowing that the bombing of Japanese planes is the most difficult to prevent, and the artillery has been pushed and destroyed, so he takes air defense as the first priority. As long as the Japanese planes came, the soldiers hid in the individual bunkers, and there were no targets on the ground, and the Japanese planes could only throw air bombs, so that the losses could be minimized.

The officers and men of the 569th Regiment worked hard for most of the night, but they did not expect that the next day the Japanese army only sent one infantry wing in front of the position to attract the defenders, and the remaining three wings all came to the west of the ancient city. Although the railway station was outside the city, the station buildings and some buildings were close to the city walls, and the defenders could only rely on the railway station and a high ground on the side to build fortifications.

If the railway station is lost, then it can only be defended by the city wall, and with the fragility of the ancient city wall, the Japanese army will definitely be able to break through this wall soon and attack the ancient city. Therefore, the 278th Brigade placed the strength of the two regiments outside the city, with the 571st Regiment guarding the railway station and the 572nd Regiment guarding the high ground on the side of the railway station. Because the terrain in the west of the city was complex and there were too many buildings to wield the power of artillery, division commander Li Yuanhong transferred 36 75 field guns from the two field artillery battalions of the 571st Regiment and the 572nd Regiment to the front, leaving only 120 heavy mortars for them.

The two division commanders of the Japanese army led their men to the west of Tonggu, stood on a high place and observed the defenders' positions with binoculars for a long time, there were a lot of trenches and sand-mounted fortifications here at the railway station, but the soldiers did not see much, and on the high ground on the side of the railway station were a series of several defense lines, and a large number of defenders and the muzzles of the black holes behind the defense line could be seen.

Seeing that the defenders had already prepared, both Takeuchi Kuan and Dubian Pifu frowned. The 113th Wing of the 56th Division stayed in the south of the city to separate the defenders, and to the west of the city came the two wings of the 55th Division and the 146th Wing of the 56th Division. Now the two division commanders are also difficult to ride tigers, and Tonggu must attack, and he must take it as quickly as possible. What I didn't expect was that the Chinese army guarding Tonggu still had an advantage in firepower in the face of its own two divisions.

The two division commanders discussed and decided that the 143rd Wing of the 55th Division would attack the railway station, and the 146th Wing of the 56th Division would attack the high ground on the side of the railway station, and the 144th Wing would be used as a reserve to support at any time. After a while, the Japanese attack began. The 143rd Wing and the 146th Wing were assembled in front of the attack position.

The intelligence that the Japanese attack was turned to the west of the city was quickly reported to the headquarters of the 93rd Division, and Li Yuanhong understood as soon as he heard it why the Japanese army was only assembled in the south of the city and could not attack. Li Yuanhong said to Huang Gang, the commander of the 278th Brigade who was in the command headquarters: "Brigade Commander Huang, little Japan has hit a hard nail in the south of the city, and now I am afraid that I want to turn to the west of the city to pick up a soft persimmon." ”

Huang Gang smiled and replied: "Shizuo, I was afraid that Little Japan would not come, and now I want to let Little Japan know that there is a harder stone here in the west of the city, and I have to stumble over their legs! Shizuo, I will go to the front and keep an eye now, with my two regiments here, Little Japan will not want to step into the same ancient city in one step!" Li Yuanhong was also very confident in these two regiments of the 278th Brigade, and only told Huanggang to pay attention to safety and let Huanggang go.

Huang Gang came to the command post of the 571st Regiment on the west city wall, raised his binoculars and looked at the railway station. Standing on the city wall, the Japanese army here can see every move clearly. The Japanese army had no artillery wing, and only a dozen mortars and a few Type 92 infantry guns were placed on the attack positions. The number of artillery was insufficient, and the Japanese simply abandoned the routine artillery bombardment before the attack and directly sent an infantry brigade to attack the railway station.

With the lesson of the previous few days, these Japanese soldiers no longer had the arrogance of their usual days, and began to bend down 400 meters away, holding the Type 38 rifles and cautiously walking towards the position. The Japanese troops walked to a distance of two hundred meters from the position, and the order to open fire was heard from the position, and at the same time the gunfire rang out.

More than a dozen Japanese soldiers in front of them were shot and fell, and the people behind them all crawled on the ground, and the light machine gunners set up crooked machine guns and began to return fire, while other soldiers were also using their rifles to return fire. These veterans in Wang Haitao's troops are all marksmanship piled up with bullets in combat and training, and the accuracy is enough to compare with the veterans of the elite divisions of the Japanese army, and they are much stronger than the soldiers who have just been recruited by these B divisions.

As soon as the enemy opened fire, the Japanese machine gunners, grenadiers, and commanders became targets for the sharpshooters on the position. Now these first-class sharpshooters are equipped with scoped Mauser 98K sniper rifles, which is even more powerful. Japanese light machine guns often hit for a while, and the machine gunners were killed by sharpshooters. The grenadier was the same, and he only had time to shoot a few grenades before he went down to the gunner's gun to see Aunt Amaterasu.

When most of the commanders such as soldiers and squad leaders were also sniped, the Japanese infantry brigade was in disarray, and the captain had no choice but to order a retreat. In this attack, it seems that the Japanese army lost only a few dozen men, but most of the losses were junior officers and technical units such as machine gunners and grenadiers, and the loss of these people in a combat team would greatly reduce the attack power.

The wing commander of the 143rd Wing did not expect the defenders on the opposite side to be so difficult to deal with, and hurriedly trotted to the division commander Takeuchi Kuan to report. Takeuchi was shocked when he heard the report, he was not as good as the Shina people in terms of firepower, and now there are so many sharpshooters among the Shina people, and this battle is even more difficult to fight.

According to the previous method, the most effective way to deal with the enemy's machine-gun fire points and sharpshooters was to wipe out the opponent with artillery fire, but now there is no artillery wing, and only those small guns in the infantry wing must not attract counterattack artillery fire from the Chinese army. But I can't help but attack, Takeuchi sighed in his heart, and on the surface he still encouraged the co-captain. He was asked to cover the attack with the artillery and heavy machine guns of the infantry wing.

The wing commander of the 143rd Wing returned to the wing and organized another attack, this time he used the artillery in the wing to cover the attack, but as soon as the cannon was fired, it attracted a counterattack from the defenders' artillery, and after losing half of the artillery, he did not dare to use artillery fire to cover easily. But a simple infantry attack can't be attacked at all, and it can only be slowly consumed like this.

On the high ground on the side of the railway station is the 572nd Regiment, and the 572nd Regiment Commander Li Jieli and the 571st Regiment Commander Zheng Daodong stationed at the railway station have completely different personalities. Zheng Daodong has an introverted personality and does not like to be public. But Li Jieli has a fiery personality, like a powder keg. What kind of soldiers will be brought, the 571st Regiment is very tenacious in the battle, and the fight is tepid, as long as you can ensure that you can complete the task, no matter how you fight, I can continue.

Like Li Jieli's character, the 572nd Regiment has one word when it starts fighting: crazy. From the perspective of combat style, the 571st Regiment is suitable for defense, while the 572nd Regiment is suitable for attack. As soon as the 146th Wing of the Japanese army assembled on the attack position, Li Jieli, who was observing the Japanese army through a telescope, said to Wu Yuan, the commander of the first battalion under his command: "There are quite a few people from Little Japan, and we can have a good time fighting this time! It is a pity that the division has transferred all the field artillery of our regiment, otherwise Lao Tzu would have to let Little Japan taste the taste of Lao Tzu's shells." ”

Wu Yuan replied beside him: "Tuanzao, the field artillery has been transferred, don't we still have 120 heavy mortars? That guy's power is not small, enough for little Japan to drink a pot." Li Jieli's eyes lit up and said: "Yes, yes, quickly you go and inform the artillery battalion to prepare, as long as the little Japanese dare to come up, let the artillery battalion beat these turtle sons to Lao Tzu!"

With such a commander, the 146th Wing is doomed to bad luck. When the 146th Wing sent an infantry brigade under the cover of the company's guns and heavy machine guns, all the large and small caliber mortars on the defenders' positions came in a salvo. The 120 heavy mortars were aimed at the Japanese wing gun positions, the 100 heavy mortars were aimed at the Japanese heavy machine gun positions, and the 82 mortars and 60 mortars were aimed at the attacking infantry.

In the past few days of attack, the Japanese army has never encountered such a use of mortars, and nearly 100 mortars of large and small calibers fired a salvo, which made the eyelids of the commander of the Dubian Piff Division who were watching the battle jump. The power of mortars is not as good as artillery, but it can't hold up a large number, and there are also powerful 120 heavy mortars in it.

This artillery bombardment made the Japanese 146th Wing jump for a while, and the infantry brigade suffered a lot of losses under artillery fire before it could attack far, and the artillery of the wing was completely finished. The sound of artillery on the high ground on the side attracted the attention of the brigade commander Huang Gang, and seeing that there was a lot of movement there, Zheng Daodong, the commander of the 571st Regiment who was accompanying Huang Gang, muttered: "I am not afraid of attracting Japanese planes in such a fight." ”

Huang Gang was also worried about this, and immediately called the herald and asked him to run to the position of the 272nd Regiment, and informed the regiment commander Li Jieli to immediately arrange for the artillery to transfer the position, and ordered that the artillery should not be used in this way. The herald rushed to the position of the 572nd Regiment and conveyed the order of the brigade commander of Huanggang to Li Jieli, which made Li Jieli very unhappy, but the order must be carried out, and Li Jieli had no choice but to do so.

The Japanese army spent a day grinding against the west of the ancient city, but there was no progress, but on the contrary, they lost a lot of troops. The two division commanders sat together again, both frowning. Takeuchi couldn't help but sigh: "Dubian-kun, when did the Shina army become so strong? Nearly 40,000 people in our two divisions can't deal with a single division of Shina?"

Dubian Pifu replied: "Takeuchi-kun, as far as I know, this division guarding Tonggu is a division under the Ninety Army, which is known as the First Army of China. Ninety Army Takeuchi-kun wouldn't know about it, right? That was the army that shattered several permanent divisions of the Empire. How could such a Chinese army be so easy to deal with? If it weren't for this army, my division would have been able to defeat three divisions of the Chinese people!"