readx;? Sun Yuanwu did not laugh with the soldiers, but stood at the door of the anti-artillery shelter with the commander of the second company and the commander of the fire company, waiting for the start of the Japanese shelling. www.biquge.info The commander of the firepower company first spoke: "Company Commander Sun, there are not only shells from the 75 field artillery, but also the shells of the 105 howitzers. ”

Sun Yuanwu responded: "Yes, the explosion of some shells is obviously bigger. When Jiujiang and the 22nd Division of the Japanese army were engaged, 12 105 howitzers were captured. ”

Traditionally, the Japanese artillery bombardment should last for fifteen to twenty minutes, and then the main artillery would stop shelling, and then the infantry artillery and mortars would cover the infantry attack, but this time the shelling had been going on for half an hour, and there was still no sign of stopping, which made the three company commanders frown. Eventually, the shelling lasted for an hour before it stopped.

The commander of the second company was about to enter the position with the soldiers, but Sun Yuanwu stopped the commander of the second company, and then called the observation post with a walkie-talkie to inquire about the situation of the Japanese infantry on the opposite side. The observation post replied to Sun Yuanwu with a walkie-talkie, and the Japanese infantry on the opposite side was still gathering in front of the position and did not attack forward.

Hearing the answer, Sun Yuanwu said: "Second Company Commander, the situation is not right, according to the usual practice, the Japanese army should use infantry artillery and mortars to cover the shelling, and the infantry should also act, but now there is neither covering shelling nor infantry attacking." Let's wait a little longer and see what happens!"

After speaking, Sun Yuanwu used a walkie-talkie to order the observation post to observe carefully, and the Japanese infantry immediately reported any movement. Twenty minutes later, the Japanese shells flew again, and the second shelling began. The commander of the second company and the soldiers all admired Sun Yuanwu's alertness, and if the soldiers were all on the battlefield now, they would inevitably suffer losses.

After another hour of shelling, the artillery fire stopped again, and when Sun Yuanwu was about to call the observation post with a walkie-talkie, another shell fell on the position, but this time the number of shells dropped was obviously much less, and strangely enough, many of them were large-caliber shells. At this time, there was a call from the walkie-talkie, and Sun Yuanwu picked up the walkie-talkie and replied, it turned out to be observing the elimination of the call.

Hearing Sun Yuanwu answering, the observation post shouted: "Report to the company commander, the infantry of Little Japan has moved, and about 200 Japanese troops are advancing towards our position." Sun Yuanwu frowned at this time, and said to the second company commander: "Second company commander, there are only about 200 people from Little Japan, don't go up to your second company, we will go up as soon as we go up, and you will be a reserve to prevent Little Japan from playing ghosts." ”

After speaking, he shouted into the anti-artillery hole: "First company, follow me!" Sun Yuanwu's order was also transmitted to several other anti-artillery holes through the walkie-talkie, and the soldiers of the first company drilled out of the anti-artillery hole one after another and entered the position along the traffic trench. The 568th Regiment, where the first company belongs, is the unit started by Wang Haitao, and the equipment in his hand is one of the best among all the troops.

In the first company alone, there were 10 Type 56 light machine guns, 4 Type 57 heavy machine guns, and 4 Type 67 heavy machine guns, half of which were Type 54 submachine guns in the hands of the soldiers, and the rest were all semi-automatic rifles. In addition, there is an 82 recoilless gun, 2 40 bazookas, 4 60 mortars, 2 82 mortars, and 2 100 heavy mortars. With such equipment, the firepower of a Japanese brigade is not comparable to theirs, so it is really a piece of cake to deal with more than 200 Japanese soldiers.

After two hours of artillery bombardment by the Japanese army, the fortifications were also destroyed, but the main damage was to sandbag bunkers and some trenches, and the light and dark bunkers were basically undamaged. The Japanese Fifth Division was also considered an elite division, and a machine gun position consisting of eight heavy machine guns had been set up 400 meters away, and two 37-mm guns had also been pushed to the side of the heavy machine gun position.

On the position, the Japanese artillery shells were still exploding, and the power of the shells of the 150 heavy mortars was still not small, and the power of the shells of the 75 Mountain artillery was still not small. On the ground of a shell was a large crater with a diameter of about five meters. The Japanese infantry was still far away, only the observation posts on the position were constantly reporting the distance of the Japanese from the position, and the other soldiers hid in the corners of the trenches to avoid the shrapnel flying indiscriminately.

The Japanese infantry entered within two hundred meters, the shelling stopped, and the Japanese soldiers also lined up in offensive formation, bending down and firing as they advanced. Eight heavy machine guns from the heavy machine gun position also began to strafe. The general unit was required to shoot when the Japanese infantry reached about 100 meters, but the officers and men of the 568th Regiment all had good marksmanship, so the Japanese could shoot within 200 meters.

Sun Yuanwu gave the order to shoot, and first the two Type 57 heavy machine guns in the bunker fired, and then the four light machine guns, submachine guns, and semi-automatic rifles on the position opened fire one after another. The Japanese attacked with few people, so the light and heavy machine guns in the bunker did not fire. In this way, the dense firepower on the position still caused the Japanese troops to fall continuously.

At this time, the Japanese heavy machine guns turned to the light machine gun positions on the position for suppressive fire, and two 37mm guns also opened fire on the bunkers with heavy machine guns in two places. The 37-mm gun fired armor-piercing blast shells, which could penetrate the walls of bunkers at a distance of four hundred meters. As soon as Sun Yuanwu saw that the Japanese firepower was quite fierce, he ordered the mortars in the company to fire three rapid shots, knocking out the heavy machine gun positions and two guns of the Japanese army.

The mortar positions were set up on the second line of defense and were commanded by a platoon commander of a company's artillery platoon. The order was given by walkie-talkie, two companies of sixteen mortars, one three-shot was enough to deal with the heavy machine-gun positions of small Japan and two guns. Sure enough, a burst of artillery fire restored the eight heavy machine guns and two guns of the Japanese army to a whole state, and dozens of machine gunners and artillerymen went to the west with them.

Without the heavy machine guns and artillery to support it, this tentative attack of the Japanese army naturally came to an end. After losing a third of the infantry of a squadron, they retreated in disarray. The fierce firepower of the defenders' positions and the marksmanship of the Shina soldiers who were not weaker than those of the Imperial Japanese Army surprised the wing commander Yuichiro Nagano Osa, who was supervising the battle on the position.

Yuichiro Nagano Osaku has just been transferred from the local Guards Division to the Fifth Division, and he has never fought with the squadron ** before, and in Yuichiro Nagano's cognition, the Shina army is vulnerable. They used very backward weapons and equipment, and not a single division had a few guns, let alone planes and combat vehicles.

Even though the brigade commander Major General Kunizaki Noboru said that he was facing the ace army that ranked first in the Shina army, Yuichiro Nagano still didn't take it to heart. Now seeing the strength of the Shina defenders on the position, Yuichiro Nagano was surprised. With so many automatic weapons, and a decent amount of artillery, there should have been at least one regiment of the Chinese army stationed on the opposite position.

Yuichiro Nagano returned to the tent, grabbed the military phone, and directly called the brigade commander, Major General Noboru Kunisaki, to report the situation to Major General Noboru Kunisaki, and requested that the artillery bombardment be strengthened to destroy the fortifications on the defenders' positions. When Major General Kunisaki learned that there was a regiment of the main force of the Shina garrison on the position outside Huaining City, he immediately agreed to intensify the artillery bombardment.

For the next three days, the Japanese attack was dominated by artillery bombardment, often firing for several hours before attacking with infantry, and after the infantry was repulsed, there were several hours of artillery bombardment. With such an attack, the various fortifications on the position were seriously damaged, and even the bunker could not withstand this intensity of artillery bombardment, and half of it collapsed. However, the losses of the fighters were small, the anti-artillery holes were dug deep enough, and the top was specially reinforced, so they would not collapse easily.

After three days of shelling, Major General Kunisaki Noboru once again stood on the wall of Jingong Town, using binoculars to observe the defenders' positions outside the city of Huaining County. The position in the telescope was already in ruins, and there were almost no intact fortifications, and in the face of this scene, Major General Kunisaki Noboru nodded with satisfaction. Then he gave the order to attack again to his subordinates.

It was still the 11th Wing that received the order, but this time Major General Noboru Kunisaki sent four tanks to the 11th Wing to help. In the offensive of the 11th Wing in the past few days, the losses were not serious, and together they only killed and wounded more than 300 soldiers, which is nothing for more than 3,000 people in a wing. After receiving the order to attack, Wing Commander Yuichiro Nagano Osa knew that this time it should be an official attack.

Yuichiro Nagano brought in an infantry brigade, and then led the way with four chariots that came up to support him, and the infantry followed closely behind. In addition, all the artillery of the wing was used as cover for the attack. The four tanks that came up this time were not the previous "bean tanks", but a new type of Type 97 medium tank equipped with a 57 mm caliber tank gun. The weight of this medium tank car reached fifteen tons, and the thickness of the armor on the front was also 3o mm.

If you haven't seen your own tank, this medium tank is definitely a steel monster, but it is nothing in front of the heavy tanks of the armored regiment, and even the light tank is much stronger than it. Four tanks rushed towards the defenders' positions in a majestic manner, firing at them with vehicle-mounted guns and heavy machine guns as they advanced, and behind them was a large group of Japanese infantry.

When Sun Yuanwu saw that the Japanese army had used chariots to attack, he sneered and said, "What tricks do I think little Japan can play? It turns out that a few chariots have been dispatched. Then he turned around and gave the order: "The bazookas and 82 recoilless guns of the 1st and 2nd companies are responsible for dealing with the small Japanese tanks, and the other fighters concentrate their fire on the infantry behind the tanks." ”