The Japanese heavy artillery only used up all the shells after only ten minutes of bombardment, but these ten minutes of shelling had already left the gap in ruins. Standing on the offensive position, the commander of the 45th Wing of the Japanese Army, Hiraoka Ridaisa, was very satisfied with the effect of the artillery bombardment, and with a wave of his hand, the commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade beside him, Iwata Masao Nakasa, went down to command the 1st Infantry Brigade to attack the gap.

The Japanese artillery fire had not completely stopped, and Sun Linhai and Ouyang Tian led the three battalions of the third guard regiment to the gap. The officers and soldiers of the first battalion at the gap had already arrived, and except for some soldiers who were monitoring the movements of the Japanese army, most of the soldiers were cleaning up the rubble and treating the wounded. It turned out that only a dozen people from the second battalion and the first company left in the gap survived, and all of them were wounded.

Wu Dashan, the commander of the second battalion, was also at the scene, Wu Dashan looked at the dozen surviving subordinates and the corpses taken out of the ruins, his hands were red, his fists were clenched, and a blood stain flowed down his bitten eye. When he saw that the body of Wu Xiaoshan, the commander of the first company, had also been cleaned up, Wu Dashan pounced, grabbed Wu Xiaoshan's already cold hand tightly, and shouted continuously: "Xiaoshan, Xiaoshan, wake up!" The two lines of tears finally couldn't help but draw down.

When Sun Linhai and the others arrived, they saw such a scene. Sun Linhai knew that Wu Xiaoshan, the commander of the first company, was the younger brother of Wu Dashan, the commander of the second battalion, and the elder of the Wu family, although Wu Dashan was very strict with Wu Xiaoshan, but Wu Dashan was very angry in his bones, and his performance was quite good in all aspects. Now that Wu Xiaoshan is sacrificing here, how can Wu Dashan not be distressed.

As soon as the ruins were cleared, the soldier in charge of observing the enemy situation shouted: "Little Japan has come up!" When Wu Dashan heard this, he easily snatched a Type 56 light machine gun from the soldiers beside him, and without saying anything, he stepped forward and chose a position to set up the machine gun. The length of the gap is limited, and the strength of two companies here is already the limit, otherwise there are too many people and there are no complete fortifications, which will make it impossible for the soldiers to use it.

Zhou Sheng, the commander of the first battalion, originally wanted to persuade Wu Dashan, the commander of the second battalion, to go to the city wall to command the second battalion, but when he saw his eyes that seemed to be about to burst into flames, he held back his words. The two companies of the first battalion occupied the position here, and the three companies were only hidden under the base of the city wall as reserves. The third battalion had nowhere to stay. Sun Linhai inspected the terrain and asked Ouyang Tian to take the second and third companies as reserves, and he brought a company and a heavy firepower company to the intact city wall.

On the city wall, the sight suddenly improved, and the Japanese troops in the distance opened a straggler line, forming an attack formation and moving towards the city wall. Sun Linhai visually inspected that the Japanese army was still more than 300 meters away from the city wall, so he ordered the first company of the third battalion and the heavy fire company to find bunkers and fortifications and prepare to block the attack. In addition, the snipers in the regiment were free to choose their targets and could open fire within 300 meters of the Japanese army.

The Guard Brigade is a veteran of a hundred battles, the most elite unit of the entire 90th Army, and ordinary soldiers can strike targets from 300 meters away, not to mention these selected snipers equipped with professional sniper rifles (imitation of the former Soviet Union's SVD sniper rifles). The number of these snipers is small, and there are only a few dozen people in a regiment, but these snipers have undergone strict training and must accurately hit the target's head or heart from a distance of 600 meters before they can be considered preliminarily qualified.

As soon as the Japanese infantry entered within three hundred meters, gunfire rang out from everywhere. Sun Linhai could clearly see through the binoculars that the grenadiers, machine gunners and some officers in the army had fallen one after another. Such a blow was very morale-bearing, and the attacking Japanese troops were a little flustered, and the formation was also chaotic. This was a good opportunity, and Sun Linhai immediately ordered the machine guns on the city wall to open fire.

At a distance of 300 meters, it was again condescending, and dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the two walls of the gap opened fire at the same time. The Japanese soldiers who were in front were knocked to the ground. The road to the attack was also blocked by these dozens of machine guns. On the Japanese offensive position, Hiraoka Ritosaku was also startled by dozens of machine-gun fire points that suddenly appeared on the walls on both sides of the gap. With such dense firepower, it would be quite difficult for the infantry to attack.

Hiraoka Ridaisa hurriedly ordered the Type 92 infantry guns and mortars in the wing to fire at the walls on both sides of the city, and it was necessary to suppress the machine gun fire of the defenders. The 45th Wing originally had few small cannons left, so they all took out at this time. When the cannonball flew towards the city wall, it was discovered by the officers and soldiers on the city wall, and everyone hurriedly hid themselves.

Except for the more than 10 heavy machine guns in the fortifications that were not afraid of the Japanese small artillery shelling, the rest of the machine gunners were concealed, and the machine gun fire also stopped, and the smoke and dust from the shells also affected the line of sight, and the accuracy of the heavy machine guns was also much worse, and the attacking Japanese troops tended to advance a lot. Sun Linhai, who was dodging the Japanese shelling, scolded while shaking off the dust on his head: "Little Japan of dog X., do you think Lao Tzu has no artillery?" After scolding, he shouted to the guards around him: "Go and give the order to the heavy fire battalion, let them kill the small Japanese artillery!"

Although the guard brigade did not have a special artillery regiment, the heavy fire battalion of each regiment was equipped with 120 caliber heavy mortars, 12 100 caliber mortars, and 24 82 caliber mortars, and the firepower was far superior to that of the Japanese infantry wing. The heavy fire battalion was running out of strength, and the regimental commander's order to open fire was conveyed. Li Fugen, the commander of the heavy firepower battalion, who was depressed, jumped up and immediately asked the observer to take a walkie-talkie to the head of the city to observe the coordinates and orientation of the Japanese artillery.

The effort was not great, and the sound of the observer reporting the bearing coordinates came from the walkie-talkie, and Li Fugen immediately asked the gunner to fire a correction shell first, and after the observer corrected the bearing, the order for three rapid fire of all mortars was personally issued by Li Fugen. Dozens of mortar shells whizzed towards the target, followed by two more rounds. Three rounds of more than 100 shells landed on the artillery position of the 45th Wing of the Japanese Army in one minute, and more than a dozen small guns and dozens of artillery officers of the Japanese Army were put on the planes on the spot.

At this time, there was no threat of Japanese artillery fire, and the light and heavy machine guns on the city walls and in the gaps were in full swing, and even the veterans who used semi-automatic rifles began to strike accurately at the attacking Japanese infantry. Seeing the soldiers who were attacking forward keep falling, the commander of the 45th Wing, Ridaisa, Hiraoka, knew that this time he was afraid that he would hit a hard nail again.

Seeing that the casualties were too large, and in the face of such dense and ferocious firepower, he could not see any hope of capturing the target, so Hiraoka could only sigh and order a retreat, and at the same time asked the other two infantry brigades to suspend the attack, and then personally went to see the commander of the Kanda Shozene Division. Lieutenant General Kanda Masashi listened to the report of Ridaisa Hiraoka in the temporary headquarters, and did not say a word for a long time.

Lieutenant General Kanda Masaea knew that his Sixth Division had already suffered heavy losses, and now excluding the engineering units and baggage units, which lacked combat effectiveness, there were less than 5,000 soldiers who could really be put into battle, and in addition to the serious lack of artillery shells in the artillery wing, it seemed that it would be quite difficult to capture Yueyang City in one go. In addition, the commander of the 3rd Division in the rear, Lieutenant General Takahashi Taga, also sent a telegram, reporting that the troops of the Zhina people to reinforce Yueyang City were very strong, with a large number of chariots and heavy artillery, and it was difficult for the 14th Wing to stop the Chinese army, and the 29th Brigade of his own division had been sent to intercept it, and it was now in a fierce battle.

Based on several aspects of information, Lieutenant General Kanda Masasa had the idea of withdrawing to Wuhan to rest and recuperate, and then attacking again. Just as Lieutenant General Kanda Masasa was discussing the withdrawal of troops with Chief of Staff Kozaburo Ishikawa and others, his subordinates hurriedly came in and sent a telegram. The telegram was sent by Major General Tsutsuki, the commander of the 18th Independent Mixed Brigade, which had been withdrawn, and reported that the guard unit of the 18th Independent Mixed Brigade had discovered a small group of several Shina men operating near the station, which might be a reconnaissance unit of the Shina people, and asked Lieutenant General Kanda Masashi to be prepared to prevent the Shina from sneaking up from behind.

Lieutenant General Kanda was stunned for a moment when he received the telegram,

Tang Renxin said to the confidential officer: "Send a telegram to the armored brigade, let Li Yuanhong's armored brigade attack the east gate of Yueyang City, and launch an attack on the Japanese army outside the east gate of Yueyang City at six o'clock in the afternoon, and the primary target is the Japanese heavy artillery position." The confidential officer took down Tang Renxin's order and turned to go out, and Tang Shanbao couldn't stay in the house anymore, so he said hello to Tang Renxin and turned around and left here.

Tangshan Leopard came to the temporary regiment headquarters of the Third Regiment of the Guard, and the regiment commander Sun Linhai was scolding his mother in the regiment headquarters, and Tangshan Leopard saw Sun Linhai's face was ugly, and he was busy asking what was going on. Sun Linhai replied: "Brigade seat, the little Japan of Dog X. actually used heavy artillery, and I am afraid that there are not a few brothers left in the company. When Tangshan Leopard heard this, his face was also gloomy, and he stood in front of the window of the regiment headquarters, raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the east gate.

Of course, from here he couldn't see anything except the light of the fire and the smoke of gunpowder, but Tangshan Leopard seemed to see a famous subordinate fall under the muzzle of the Japanese gun. Tangshan Leopard couldn't help but scold: "X his grandmother's little Japan, wait for the armored brigade to come up, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up!" After scolding, he asked Sun Linhai: "Which battalion is at the front, and who is the reserve?"

Sun Linhai replied: "Report to the brigade seat, at the top of the gap at the front are a company of the first battalion and the second battalion, on the city wall are the second battalion and two other companies, and now at the gap are the second battalion and one company, and the third battalion is the reserve. Tangshan Leopard said: "Let the commander of the third battalion lead the three battalions to gather, and the little Japanese artillery will go up with me as soon as it stops." Little Japan used heavy artillery, and the troops besieging the city below must have been the main force of the Japanese army. ”