readx;? Wang Yanwu had previously participated in the night assault on the Japanese military camp with a company of the 3rd Battalion, and in the assault, the soldiers of the 3rd Company used their good individual skills and tacit teamwork ability to destroy the camp of a Japanese brigade without much loss. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info and re-established a line of defense after the fact. Therefore, Wang Yanwu is still relatively familiar with the situation of the front-line position.

The fortifications that had been built on the current front-line positions were once again bombed by the Japanese army, and the only thing that could be used was a trench near the bridgehead and a few sandbag forts. Wang Yanwu carefully looked at the ground type, and the ground type here was still very favorable to the defenders. The width of the bridgehead is only about ten meters, and no matter how many Japanese soldiers there are, it is impossible to rush up in a large area, and the bridge deck is still arched, as long as there are a few machine guns on the defenders' positions, the bridge deck can be completely blocked.

Seeing the ground shape clearly, Wang Yanwu decisively only let one platoon of soldiers enter the position, while the other two platoons withdrew into the anti-artillery hole behind. A platoon of two heavy machine guns was erected on top of the sandbag fort, plus four light machine guns, submachine guns, and semi-automatic rifles in the hands of the fighters were enough to completely block the bridge. As soon as the position was arranged, a squadron of Japanese infantry, escorted by light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers, rushed across the highest point of the bridge deck.

The 58th Infantry Wing of the 26th Brigade was tasked with the attack, and the commander of the wing, Kuramori Gongren Daisa, also realized that it was useless to launch an attack on this type of ground after seeing it clearly. No matter how many people there are, it is impossible to spread the formation on the bridge deck, which is only more than ten meters wide. Therefore, he sent only one squadron of infantry, but arranged all the mortars in the wing to cover at the east end of the bridge.

Before the Japanese infantry reached the high point of the bridge deck, the mortars of the wing began to shell the defenders' positions through the correction of the observation posts. As a result, a few minutes of shelling killed and wounded a platoon of fighters hidden in trenches and sandbags, and a heavy machine gun was destroyed. Fortunately, the weapons in the hands of a platoon of soldiers were good, submachine guns accounted for one-third, plus the remaining heavy machine guns and a few light machine guns, after Wang Yanwu ordered to fire, the bridge deck was sealed.

On the morning of 28 July, the 13th Division launched six attacks on the Qiaoxi position of the 2nd Battalion of the 543rd Regiment, and under the bombardment of the Japanese artillery fire at no cost, the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion without fixed cover also became seriously damaged; when the Japanese launched the sixth attack, Wang Yanwu brought up the soldiers of the 3rd platoon, and the 3rd Company was killed and wounded more than 160 officers and men in one morning, and Wang Yanwu was also gritting his teeth and fighting with the Japanese army.

At noon, when the battalion commander Tang Yishu came to the front-line position, Wang Yanwu said to Tang Yishu with red eyes: "Battalion commander, can you use our artillery to give little Japan a little bit? This little Japanese shelling is so hateful that even more than half of our soldiers fell under the small Japanese shelling." Tang Yishu returned to the command post and made a request to the regiment commander Tang Weimin.

Tang Weimin thought about it for a while, and then ordered the 75th Infantry Artillery Company of the Heavy Artillery Regiment behind to carry out artillery support on the frontline position. Lieutenant General Ogisu, the commander of the 13th Division, knew that the squadron on the opposite side had a large number of heavy artillery, so the positions of the artillery positions of several heavy artillery wings and brigades under his command were also frequently changed, and the 18 150 heavy guns of a heavy artillery brigade never moved, that is, after waiting for the artillery of the squadron to open fire, he could quickly strike at it.

When Tang Weimin gave the order for artillery support for the heavy artillery regiment, the company commander of the 75th Infantry Artillery Company also took into account the situation of the Japanese artillery counterattack. Therefore, the company commander only had 30 75 infantry guns for artillery support, and these 30 75 infantry guns were very scattered, and only 10 shells were stored next to the gun emplacements for each gun. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the shelling before the Japanese offensive began again.

The commander of this artillery company of the heavy artillery regiment took advantage of the fact that the position was covered in gunsmoke and launched an artillery bombardment in the direction of the Japanese artillery position. Although the Japanese army often changed the position of the heavy artillery position, the commander of the artillery company stood on a high place, looked at the fire of the Japanese heavy artillery when it was fired with a telescope, and after a while calculated the location coordinates of the Japanese heavy artillery position. The thirty seventy-five infantry guns in the company also had targets for attacking.

The Japanese troops who were shelling the positions of the defenders west of the bridge were unprepared when they were suddenly counterattacked by the artillery fire of the squadron, and they were in chaos, not only did the attack stop, but the artillery and auxiliary troops were scurrying everywhere in the explosion of shells.

Thirty 75 infantry guns quickly moved their positions after using up 10 shells in the shortest possible time. Fortunately, the counterattack did not last long, and when the shells of the Japanese retaliation fell on the position, only the last few 75 infantry guns were damaged, and more than 20 auxiliaries were killed and wounded. The 300 shells on the Japanese artillery positions caused the loss of more than a dozen heavy artillery pieces of the Japanese army, and nearly 100 casualties of artillery and auxiliary soldiers.

In the afternoon, the Japanese attacked five more times before the end of the day's attack, and the number of Japanese killed and wounded on this day was several hundred, and only a few dozen soldiers remained in the second battalion and three companies. At this point, the entire second battalion and the three combat companies together had less than 100 fighters, which could be regarded as completely losing their combat effectiveness. The regiment commander Tang Weimin withdrew the second battalion to Gucun to rest and recuperate, and the position west of the bridge was handed over to the third battalion of the 546th Regiment to defend it.

At this point in the battle, Wang Haitao used the strength of the new 90th Division and one division to deal with the all-out attack of several divisions of the Japanese army, and the disadvantage of insufficient numbers was undoubtedly exposed. After more than 20 days of hard fighting, the new 90th Division lost one-third of its troops, but almost all of the losses were the combat units of each regiment, but there were no major losses in the heavy firepower units and auxiliary units. Wang Haitao was thinking about the map.

The 1st Battalion of the 544th Regiment guarding the Wujingkou Fort was a former independent battalion and the largest battalion in the entire New 90th Division. After the 544th Regiment went up in Luodian, there was still Zhang Lingfu's 547th Regiment as a reserve in the town, plus the support of the armored battalion at any time, it could also be supported. There were only two battalions left in the 542nd Regiment in front of him, but with a few lines of defense, the 101st Division of the Japanese Army could still support it.

Only the defense line here in Chen Xiang, the first battalion of the 543rd Regiment could not move at Xie's house, and the scouts reported that the Japanese Third Division was moving in the direction of Xie's house, and the first battalion would exchange fire with the Japanese Third Division at any time. The 2nd Battalion had completely lost its combat effectiveness and withdrew, and the 3rd Battalion was deployed along the Dijing River to prevent Japanese troops from smuggling. Now after the three battalions of the 546th Regiment are on top, Zhao Zhongwu has no reserves except for a guard company. Wu Conglong's three battalions only had six hundred original defeated soldiers, although these people were not bad by Wu Conglong, but in the face of the cruel battlefield, how long could they hold on?

At this time, Wang Haitao had no extra reserves available except for the remaining company of the guard battalion. Now Wang Haitao only hopes that Zhao Fei can quickly rebuild the 545th Regiment and form a combat force as soon as possible so that he can breathe a sigh of relief, but Wang Haitao knows that it is by no means possible to make a group of ordinary people who can't even fire a gun into a combat-effective army.

In desperation, Wang Haitao could only ask the 2nd Battalion of the 546th Regiment Wu Conghu, which was building the second-line fortifications behind the 543rd Regiment, to hand over the work to the 545th Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion reported to Zhao Zhongwu, deputy division commander, to serve as a reserve. In this way, if any position is in danger, he will really have no troops available. Just as Wang Haitao's order was conveyed, the reconnaissance company sent someone to report the latest situation.

It turned out that the reconnaissance detachment of the reconnaissance company found that the 101st Division on the opposite side had launched a one-day attack on the Shapu River Bridge and was unable to move forward, so it split a brigade and turned to the direction of the Wujiazhai Highway Bridge where the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army was stationed, and might launch an attack on the Wujiazhai Highway Bridge. Wang Haitao had already prepared for this, and had already reminded the 26th Division.

It turned out that the 101st Division was still apprehensive about the Shapu River Bridge, and the attack of the 102nd Brigade was proceeding step by step. After the bombardment, a squadron of infantry was dispatched, and after a burst of casualties, twenty or thirty men were killed, and then retreated. Even after repeated attacks like this, he still couldn't move forward. Just when the head of the Ito Masakashi Division and the chief of staff of Nishiyama Fukutaro were at a loss, a scout came to report.

Two kilometres west of the Shapu River Bridge, another road bridge was discovered. The village where the road bridge is located is called Wu's house, and the bridge deck is only six meters wide, and there are still Chinese troops stationed in the fortifications on the opposite side. It's just that the Chinese army stationed at the Shapu River Bridge has different numbers, and most of the weapons are Japanese-style weapons.

Ito Masaki was like a drowning man who found a bundle of straw, and he was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the 101st Brigade and the 101st Artillery Wing to move towards Wu's house, striving to take the highway bridge of Wu's house as soon as possible. After receiving the order, Major General Masasburo Sato, the commander of the 101st Brigade, immediately gathered the 101st Brigade and the 101st Artillery Wing and rushed to Wu's house.

The 101st Brigade established a brigade headquarters in Wujiazhai Village and built an artillery position. And because it was already afternoon, he did not attack today, but stationed there. The Japanese army's movement was discovered by the guard post of the 26th Division, and the situation was immediately reported to the division commander Guo Rudong. Division Commander Guo Rudong immediately took the guards to a high place and used the German Zeiss telescope sent by Wang Haitao to observe the Japanese army.

After observation, Guo Rudong found that there were a lot of Japanese soldiers, and at a cursory glance, there were no less than 3,000 people. One of his own divisions was only 3,400 people, and if they had all died here before, they might not have been able to stop so many Japanese troops, but now the weapons and equipment of the whole division are very different from the original, and with the current weapons and equipment and complete fortifications, I am confident that I can stop all these Japanese troops here. Thinking of this, Guo Ruxuan couldn't help but feel more grateful to Wang Haitao.