readx;? After consideration, Wang Haitao gave the 2nd Battalion an order to abandon Yangliu Town, and the 1st Company, 2nd Company, and Fire Company of the 2nd Battalion were all withdrawn to the county seat of Jingxian County for rest. Qinxi Town is the last line www.biquge.info of defense outside Jingxian County, and complete fortifications have been completed here, Yu Haitao let the second battalion and three companies defend the position, and Qinxi Town let the first company, the second company and the fire company of the fourth battalion be armed.

After more than ten days of hard fighting, the Japanese army finally captured Yangliu Town, which was also a victory, and Lieutenant General Ito Masakaki was very excited, and he didn't care about resting, and directly commanded the troops to pounce on Qinxi Town. Qinxi Town is only ten kilometers away from the county seat of Jing County, and as long as Qinxi Town is captured again, it can launch an attack on the county seat of Jing County.

When the Japanese army came to the outside of Qinxi Town, they found that the fortifications on the position here were more complete than those on the position outside Yangliu Town. In this case, these fortifications can only be solved by relying on aircraft to help them fight. It's just that Masaki Ito didn't know that because of continuous losses, the Japanese flying team had already lost half of its bombers.

Major General Tadaharu Saga, the commander of the 3rd Flying Division, deliberately sought out the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakamiya. Despite Saga Tadaji's opposition, Lieutenant General Hatohiko decided that he must exterminate the Shina army in the area of Jing County, and for this reason he ordered Saga Tadaji to transfer another flying team to fight in Jing County.

At this time, the Japanese army had built two airfields in Nanjing, and the planes of the Third Flying Division were basically used in the war in Xuzhou, but the orders of the commander of the Hatohiko King of the Asakanomiya could not disobey the orders of Saga Tadaji, so he had to transfer another flying team to Jingxian to help in the war. An antiaircraft artillery battery in Qinxi Town, Jing County, and more than 20 light and heavy machine guns on the wall were also ready to deal with Japanese planes.

In addition to arranging light and heavy machine guns on the wall, two antiaircraft artillery companies also made air defense preparations in the city, and armored vehicles were also dispatched, and the antiaircraft machine guns on armored vehicles were also sharp weapons for air defense. The Japanese were faced with the defenders' strong defensive positions, and there was nothing they could do but use aircraft to help in the battle.

In Jing County, Ito Masaki made a breakthrough, but the Japanese army did not make the slightest progress on several other battlefields. More than 20 artillery pieces of the Japanese army here in Yijiang Town were only 10 pieces left in a mortar counterattack by the defenders, and they were even more unable to launch an attack on Yijiang Town. That is, the number of defenders here in Yijiang Town is a little smaller, otherwise they can repel the Japanese army of this wing.

The Sato detachment here in Jiafa Town, after more than ten days of hard fighting, paid a lot of price to capture the defender positions on the periphery of Jiafa Town, the first company of the third battalion, the second company of the first battalion and most of the heavy firepower battalion all retreated into Jiafa Town, using the wall of the town to hold on, the Sato detachment seems to have made some progress, but Major General Sato Shozaburo does not know that the 130 cannon battalion of the heavy artillery regiment has been eyeing his detachment.

The 130 Cannon Battalion of the Heavy Artillery Regiment was originally designed to deal with the Japanese troops attacking Yijiang Town, but only one wing of Japanese troops came in the direction of Yijiang Town, and they did not carry many artillery, and even the troops guarding Yijiang Town could deal with them with battalion mortars, and they did not need the support of the Heavy Artillery Regiment at all, so Wang Haitao turned the 130 Cannon Battalion to the direction of Jiafa Town.

The 130 Cannon Battalion originally set up a position in Changqiao Township, and with the maximum firing range of 27.4 kilometers of the 130 cannon, there was no problem in hitting Yijiang Town, but it was not enough to reach Jiafa Town, so after the target was transferred, the 130 Cannon Battalion was also moved to the selected site of Gelin Township, 10 kilometers away from Nanling County, to rebuild its position.

The power of these 20 130-caliber cannons from later generations surpassed that of German-made 150-caliber heavy artillery, and when they used anti-explosive grenades, they were even more effective against group targets such as assembled infantry and barracks. At this time, Wang Haitao didn't want to be entangled with the 101st Division of the Japanese army anymore, and he would definitely destroy his own territory.

While the 130 Cannon Battalion was preparing for the attack, Wang Haitao ordered the other two German-made 150 Heavy Artillery Battalions to also prepare for the attack, targeting the Japanese Akiyama Detachment outside Caijiaqiao Town and the main force of Ito Masaki outside Qinxi Town. At the same time, in addition to the three tank detachments preparing to attack, Wang Haitao also sent two companies of the first battalion of the guard regiment to the direction of Caijiaqiao Town to make a coordinated attack. And the armored regiment in the city, in addition to heavy tanks, was also ready to attack.

Everything was ready, and on the morning of the third day when Ito Masaki led his troops to the town of Qinxi, dozens of Japanese planes were dispatched to bomb the inside and outside of Qinxi Town, and under the resistance of anti-aircraft artillery batteries and light and heavy machine guns, the Japanese planes could only hurriedly drop the bombs they were carrying, and then hurriedly returned home.

When Wang Haitao learned that the Japanese planes had returned, he picked up the phone and ordered all three battalions of the heavy artillery regiment to open fire, while the fighters in several positions were ready to attack after the shelling. Three battalions of the heavy artillery regiment, having received the order, began shelling of targets almost simultaneously. The Japanese had already experienced a shelling in Caijiaqiao Town, this time with a longer and more intensive artillery bombardment that fell on the infantry. Under the guidance of the observers, the shells continued to explode in the Japanese barracks, the places where military supplies were stored, and the crowds of infantry.

Twenty minutes later, the artillery fire began to extend, and out of Caijiaqiao Town, the tank detachment of the armored regiment led by two light tanks rushed to the front of the Japanese position, and while constantly strafing the Japanese with vehicle-mounted machine guns, they attacked the Japanese position at full speed. Behind them were two companies of soldiers from the Guards Regiment and a battalion of soldiers following up and protecting them. Then the fighters of the detachment of the New Fourth Army and the special service battalion rushed up with shouts.

Major General Yonichiro Akiyama knew that it was not good at the moment when he received the shelling, the last time the artillery bombardment of the Chinese army only lasted a few minutes, and the entire jade of a field artillery wing in his hand was shattered, and this time the shelling was aimed at his own infantry unit, in order not to suffer too many losses, Major General Yoichiro Akiyama hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

It's just that the Japanese army, which was originally on the attack, will change to a full-scale retreat at once, and even if the Japanese army is well-trained, there will inevitably be chaos, as if it is still under artillery bombardment. When the Japanese discovered that the artillery fire was beginning to extend to the rear, they were preparing to retreat, so they killed the defenders' tank detachment from the town of Caijiaqiao. At this time, the Japanese army turned from retreat to rout, and some Japanese troops still wanted to block the Chinese army, but in front of the fighters of the tank detachment and the guard regiment, this kind of blocking was tantamount to a praying mantis blocking the car.

Akiyama Yonichiro led the troops all the way to the rout, and wanted to enter Jingde County to rest and recuperate, but he didn't expect to arrive at Jingde County when he was about to meet the remnants of the Japanese army left behind in Jingde County, Akiyama Yunichiro was shocked, and hurriedly asked the Japanese squadron leader who stayed in Jingde County, the squadron leader reported that in the morning Jingde County was suddenly attacked by the Chinese army, these Chinese troops were extremely strong in combat and the firepower was also very fierce, and one of their squadrons only lasted for more than an hour, and most of the jade was broken, and they could only take the remaining more than 30 people to rush out of Jingde County to ask for help from the brigade。

Yonichiro Akiyama slapped the squadron leader a few times in a row, intending to recapture Jingde County, but behind him there was the pursuit of a large force of troops. In desperation, Yonichiro Akiyama could only take the remaining troops to bypass the county seat of Jingde and turn to the direction of Hangzhou to flee. It turned out that when Wang Haitao was preparing to counterattack, he sent a telegram to Tang Xiaoshan on the outskirts of Jing County, and Tang Xiaoshan naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and sent the second battalion to seize the county seat of Jingde at a good time. He led the first and third battalions to the outside of Xuancheng County.

Akiyama Yonichiro retreated to Lin'an County before stopping, and the Japanese army who fled back with him was only more than 1,000 people, barely enough for a brigade, but the military supplies and baggage were basically gone, which made Akiyama Yonichiro very frustrated. The Akiyama detachment broke and fled, and the tank detachment pursued it outside Jingde County and stopped pursuing, while the New Fourth Army detachment pursued it for more than ten kilometers before stopping the pursuit.

The Sato detachment outside the town of Gyafa was even worse than the Akiyama detachment, and when the 130 cannon battalion shelled the Sato detachment, it used a large number of anti-explosive grenades. This kind of detonation grenade uses the principle of secondary deflagration to evacuate oxygen within a certain range in an instant, so that the creatures within the range die due to suffocation. It was a weapon that had never been seen before in that era. After the Japanese army was hit by this kind of anti-explosive grenade, a large number of soldiers died of suffocation, and the Japanese soldiers who witnessed these and survived by luck called this kind of shell "devil bullet"!

The 130 cannon fired only ten shots of anti-explosive shells per cannon, which completely collapsed the Sato detachment, and except for the dead soldiers, the surviving soldiers and Major General Sato Shozaburo only wanted to escape from this place where the devil existed. The pursuing fighters did not meet any resistance and pursued them for ten kilometers. When cleaning up the battlefield, the strange death of the Japanese soldiers made the soldiers of the independent regiment feel uneasy.

However, all the weapons, ammunition, and military supplies left by the Sato detachment were intact, and even dozens of artillery pieces were intact, which made the fighters of the independent regiment very rich. This matter was also gag-sealed by Li Yuanhong, but slowly this matter spread, and Wang Haitao was also put on a mysterious coat.

At the same time that the Akiyama and Sato detachments were attacked and routed, Ito Masaki's troops were also subjected to heavy artillery shelling. Unlike those two troops, Ito Masaki also had a heavy artillery brigade composed of 12 Japanese-style 150 heavy howitzers in his hands as a killer force that was not used.

Ito Masaki originally planned to use this force to strike at the city wall of Jingxian County, but now his own troops were bombarded by the long-range heavy artillery of the Chi Na people, and Ito Masaki couldn't care about hiding this heavy artillery brigade anymore, so he gave the order to counterattack. However, it took more than half an hour for the Japanese army's heavy artillery brigade to change from a marching state to an attacking state, which is still a well-trained Japanese army. Just when Ito Masaki's troops were about to be unable to withstand the shelling of the heavy artillery battalion, the Japanese heavy artillery finally completed preparations and began to counterattack.