Originally, Wang Haitao was ready to lead his troops to continue to attack in the direction of Shaoguan, but now the Japanese army wants to attack himself in turn, so Wang Haitao is ready to annihilate the 22nd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese army under the city of Yingde. With this goal, Wang Haitao began to transfer troops around this goal, Yingde County is too small, and it is definitely not possible to put too many troops in the city, Wang Haitao only put the 272nd Brigade in the city.

In the face of the fortifications outside the city in the direction of Qingyuan County, Wang Haitao only asked the 62nd Army to arrange a regiment to garrison. The 271st Brigade and the rest of the 62nd Army left the city and were placed in the surrounding mountains to hide and stand by. In the end, even the Guards Brigade was sent out, and their task was to attack the rear of the Japanese army at the right time, mainly to knock out the Japanese mountain artillery wing.

Tangshan Leopard wanted to stay by Wang Haitao's side, but the task assigned by Wang Haitao to the guard brigade was very important, and others could not rest assured that Tangshan Leopard was commanded, so he could only leave a guard battalion for Wang Haitao, and he personally took the guard brigade out of the city to ambush. As soon as the troops left Yingde County, Wang Haitao and Zhang Lingfu arranged the city fortifications.

The 547th Regiment of the 272nd Brigade stayed in Qingyuan County to block the Japanese army, and at this time only the 545th Regiment and the 546th Regiment remained in the city. Due to the urgency of time, the two regiments and a part of the engineering units all repaired the fortifications outside the city and on the city wall, and repaired the second fortifications outside the city, and used sandbags instead of concrete fortifications when there was no time to do concrete fortifications.

The divisional artillery regiment of the 90th Division in the city also chose several good positions as artillery positions. The artillery regiment of the 90th Division consisted mainly of twenty-four German-made 75-caliber field guns and eighteen 85-mm cannons. After leaving twelve German-made field guns of 75 mm caliber in Qingyuan County, the artillery regiment still had thirty artillery pieces. The four rocket launchers of the guard brigade were also left, and this big killer weapon was Wang Haitao's most important hole card, and Wang Haitao would not use it until the critical moment.

Another important link is air defense. After the plane sent by the Japanese army suffered a loss last time, it already knew that the Chinese army it was going to attack had a lot of anti-aircraft weapons, so it would definitely be more careful when it came to bomb again. Wang Haitao arranged 15 Type 67 heavy machine guns on the city wall in the direction of Guangzhou, which were specially used as the first interception firepower, and then in the city, single-barreled anti-aircraft guns and double-barreled self-propelled anti-aircraft guns became several follow-up firepower networks.

On the city wall in the direction of Shaoguan, ten Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns were arranged, which could not only defend the air, but also support the positions outside the city. The 10 dual-purpose twin machine guns were dismantled from trucks and transported to the city walls, and each machine gun was deliberately placed in a bunker that could protect against small-caliber artillery, but the angle of the air was limited to some extent.

The 22nd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army was in no hurry to launch an attack on Yingde County because it had to wait for the arrival of the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing in Shaoguan, which gave Wang Haitao some time to prepare. By the time the 11th Wing of the Mountain Artillery also arrived at Yunling Town, three days had passed. Major General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, the commander of the 22nd Brigade, finally led more than 10,000 soldiers under his command to Yingde Town.

In the attack on Qingyuan on the third day, the Japanese army used chariots to participate in the attack, and as a result, the first attack, four chariots were fireballed by the defenders with 82 recoilless guns. Goto Juro could only ask the headquarters to send planes to help in the battle.

Seeing that the Japanese planes were helping in the battle, Du Haifeng also mobilized dozens of Type 67 heavy machine guns to shoot at the air. With these dozens of heavy machine guns firing into the air, the Japanese planes also flew very carefully, and the results of the bombing were discounted; although the Japanese planes flew many sorties in one day, the bombing effect was not very good.

At the beginning of the attack on the third day, the Japanese artillery bombardment was different from the previous ones, and this time the Japanese used 150 field howitzers of the heavy artillery brigade. The shells of this howitzer weigh 31 kilograms, and the power is naturally not small. Fortifications and bunkers on positions outside the city were destroyed as long as they were directly hit by shells. The Japanese army's 10-minute artillery bombardment made the fortifications outside the city unrecognizable, and many officers and men hiding in the anti-artillery shelters were killed and wounded as a result of the collapse of the anti-artillery holes.

When an infantry brigade of the Japanese army launched an attack on the position outside the city, the Japanese planes came to help the battle, and the heavy machine guns on the city wall were busy firing at the air, and the support for the position outside the city could not be taken into account. The officers and men on the position outside the city were desperately blocking the Japanese troops with a few light machine guns and automatic weapons in the hands of the fighters when the heavy machine guns were basically blown up, and finally they relied on grenades to push back the Japanese troops who were about to attack the position.

This time the Japanese attack was repulsed, and there were only more than 60 soldiers left in the two companies of the positions outside the city. Du Haifeng could only send two companies from the first battalion to replace the two companies with serious losses in the second battalion. At this time, Du Haifeng's heart was a little more anxious, and now he only had two companies of reserves left, including the guard company, and he was afraid that Qingyuan County would not be able to defend it for a long time.

The key issue now is to knock out the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, and without the attack of these heavy artillery, it will be much easier to defend. In order to defeat the Japanese heavy artillery, it is necessary to find out the location of the Japanese heavy artillery position. Du Haifeng immediately found Tang Jianqiang, the commander of the heavy firepower battalion, and Tang Yunshan, the commander of the artillery battalion of the division's artillery regiment who stayed in Qingyuan County.

When Du Haifeng asked if the two could calculate the location of the Japanese artillery position through the shells fired by the Japanese army, Tang Yunshan directly told Du Haifeng that he had learned this calculation method, and there might be a little error, but the error would not be too large. Du Haifeng was overjoyed and immediately asked Tang Yunshan to go to the city wall to measure the location of the Japanese heavy artillery position.

After a new round of Japanese artillery bombardment, Tang Yunshan returned to Du Haifeng's headquarters with the data, and when Tang Yunshan told Du Haifeng the location of the Japanese army's heavy artillery position, Du Haifeng said: "I don't understand the numbers you said, I only ask you how far away is this heavy artillery position? Can your artillery hit this heavy artillery position." ”

Tang Yunshan replied: "Commander Du, the distance between the Japanese army's heavy artillery position and my artillery position is 8.5 kilometers, that is, 8,500 meters. The maximum firing range of our artillery is 9,400 meters, and it is completely capable of hitting the Japanese heavy artillery positions. Du Haifeng smashed his fist in his palm excitedly and said: "Great, Battalion Commander Tang will ask your artillery company to strike at the Japanese heavy artillery position, and strive to destroy the Japanese heavy artillery." ”

Because the artillery battalion belongs to the artillery regiment directly under the division, and this time it only assisted the 547th Regiment to defend the city, so Du Haifeng was so polite to Tang Yunshan, but Tang Yunshan did not dare to hold it up, Du Haifeng was the colonel and regiment commander, and he was on an equal footing with his own regiment. Tang Yunshan replied after standing upright: "It's Regiment Commander Du, I will immediately arrange artillery fire to strike at the Japanese heavy artillery position." ”

Half an hour later, the 12 German-made 75-caliber field guns of the artillery battalion adjusted their azimuth coordinates, and after Tang Yunshan gave an order, they simultaneously launched an artillery bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery positions. In the past few days, the 547th Regiment has at most used mortars to return fire on the Japanese army, so the Japanese army did not expect the defenders to have so many field guns, so it was not until the shells fell on the heavy artillery position that the Japanese army reacted.

That is, the error in the calculation was a bit large, and the first round of artillery shelling of the 547th Regiment only destroyed one heavy artillery of the Japanese army. The Japanese heavy artillery was so heavy that it was impossible to move too quickly. The captain of the brigade in charge of commanding the heavy artillery understood that it was too late to transfer the heavy artillery at this time, so he quickly calculated the position of the defenders' artillery positions according to the trajectory of the incoming shells, and ordered to return fire.

However, in just a few minutes, three more heavy guns were blown up, and the remaining eight heavy guns desperately adjusted their muzzles and began to return fire. The Japanese calculations were carried out under artillery fire, and the error was even greater, and none of the shells fired back in the first round hit, and the buildings next to the artillery positions in the city became victims. As soon as Tang Yunshan saw that the Japanese artillery shells were entering the city, he knew that the Japanese heavy artillery was returning fire, and ordered his artillery to fine-tune the coordinates and speed up the artillery attack.

This time the fine-tuning worked, and this time the shells of the defenders' artillery landed right on the Japanese heavy artillery positions. Not only did it destroy the three Japanese heavy guns again, but it also caused the detonation of the shells placed by the Japanese soldiers next to the heavy artillery. All of a sudden, the Japanese heavy artillery positions were caught in a sea of fire. The Japanese commander and a group of men in charge of the heavy artillery flew into the air with the sound of the explosion of the dead shells, and then the mutilated corpses fell.

The Japanese heavy artillery brigade was completely wiped out, which dealt a great blow to the morale of the Japanese army. Besides, without the assistance of heavy artillery, the threat to the defenders was reduced a lot by relying on the artillery of the field artillery wing, and the defenders on the positions outside the city were the new force of the two companies, and the next few attacks of the Japanese army were all in vain.

A brigade of more than 10,000 people, supported by tanks and heavy artillery, has been unable to take a small Qingyuan county town for a long time, which makes Goto Juro, the brigade commander, really disgraced. After Goto Juro scolded his subordinates, he replaced himself with the 161st Infantry Wing, which had not yet entered the battle, and ordered the commander of the wing, Qian Zhongfu Dazuo, to take Qingyuan County within two days.

Qianzhongfu Dazuo also has a hard time, he has seen all the attacks in the past few days, the attack of the 137th Wing is dutiful, but the group of people guarding Qingyuan County is not only well-armed and equipped, but also not inferior to the troops of the imperial army in terms of individual soldier quality and fighting willpower, making it difficult for him to believe that he is facing the Zhina army.

Now that His Excellency the Brigade Commander has ordered himself to take Qingyuan County within two days, his 161st Wing is no stronger than the 137th Wing, so how can he complete the task given by His Excellency the Brigade Commander? Therefore, after continuing the shelling with field artillery for half an hour, the Japanese army used a brigade to launch an attack on the position outside Qingyuan County.

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