readx;? The Japanese shelled for 20 minutes only destroyed some trenches and sandbag fortifications, and even the concrete fortress did not suffer much damage, but Nakajima, who was eager to attack, still ordered the 20th Wing of the 19th Brigade to attack. Nobuaki Ohno, the commander of the 20th Wing of the www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion, set up a heavy machine-gun position and a mortar position 400 meters from the defenders' positions, and then had a squadron of soldiers attack under the cover of heavy machine guns and mortars.

After the Japanese artillery bombardment stopped, the defenders entered the position through the anti-artillery holes along the communication trenches. Although half of the soldiers still have old Hanyang-made rifles, a company can now have two Mack heavy machine guns, and a platoon can have one Czech light machine gun. The main thing is that bullets and grenades are very plentiful.

A squadron of Japanese soldiers formed a skirmish formation on the road, half-bent forward, and behind them heavy machine guns began to cover fire, while mortars were firing shells at the position. When the Japanese entered the first hundred meters of the position, two heavy machine guns in the fortress on the position first fired crossfire and began to block the road. Several light machine guns and rifles from the rest of the fortifications also began to fire.

More than a dozen soldiers of the Japanese army walking in front were shot and fell to the ground, and the rest of the soldiers were still bending forward to attack. After the Japanese heavy machine guns and mortars were adjusted, the fire was directed at the main fire points on the position. The attacking infantry grenadiers also fired grenades at several light machine-gun positions. After the targeted reinforcement of the Japanese firepower, except for a few forts, which were not affected much, the casualties of fighters in several light machine-gun positions and trenches increased.

It was like a few light machine guns behind the sandbags, and the grenades of the Japanese grenadiers hit very accurately, and one grenade caused many casualties in the sandbag fortifications where the light machine guns were located. Fortunately, the two heavy machine guns were not abnormal, and the road was blocked with crossfire, which made it difficult for the Japanese to attack within 50 meters of the position. The battle lasted for more than 20 minutes, and after losing one-third of the Japanese squadron, it retreated, and the defenders on the position also hurriedly helped the wounded down the communication trench into the anti-artillery hole.

In this first round of the encounter, the Japanese suffered nearly 50 casualties, while the defenders lost 21 casualties and wounded 26 people, which was considered a draw. The Japanese felt that several forts were in danger and had to be destroyed, so 12 105 howitzers aimed at several fortifications for shelling. In the anti-artillery hole, the commander of the first battalion was also not very satisfied with how the battle was fought.

With such a well-established fortification, there were still so many casualties, although most of the soldiers who died were new fighters, all because of the lack of battlefield experience, but it was a problem that the light machine gunners sacrificed several times. The commander of the first battalion said to the new light machine gunner: "You guys don't always hold the machine gun in one place and fire, that will be the target of the little Japan, if you want to survive, you have to be flexible, after firing a shuttle of bullets, quickly change places." Several light machine gunners nodded yes.

As he spoke, the Japanese shelling stopped, and the soldiers, with the exception of a dozen or so seriously wounded, took up arms and entered the position again along the communication trenches. Several fortifications were still not damaged by Japanese artillery fire, but sandbags and trenches were more damaged, and the Japanese came up with two squadrons this time, and as last time, heavy machine guns and mortars covered it, and the infantry attacked in a scattered formation.

When the Japanese army entered within 100 meters, the two heavy machine guns in the fortress began to shoot, and then the position was full of firepower, and the rifles in the hands of the soldiers continued to shoot at the Japanese army, and the light machine guns changed places after hitting a edge, and started a guerrilla attack with the Japanese army. The Japanese army is not a fuel-efficient lamp, when attacking forward, they can shoot with bent over, and their marksmanship is also good, and they will never shoot indiscriminately, while the light machine guns lying on the ground also hit the dust in front of the trenches, and the soldiers on the position will be shot if they are not careful.

However, due to the resistance of light and heavy machine guns to the Japanese troops, the Japanese troops still could not attack the first 50 meters of the position, and half an hour later, the Japanese troops left dozens of corpses and retreated. On this day, the defenders repelled five Japanese attacks, and there were 200 or 300 Japanese soldiers killed in front of the position. At the end of the day, the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, the Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 16th Division converged in one place.

The soldiers of a battalion on the defending position suffered one-third of the casualties, and after dark, the soldiers who died and the soldiers who were seriously wounded were sent down, and Wang Shuhuai, the commander of the 613th Regiment, personally came to the position to inspect it. What is stronger here than in Jiangyin Fortress is that you can still have a hot meal to eat at night, and the food is not bad, two white flour steamed buns for one person plus a pot of pork and roasted cabbage.

After eating and drinking, the whole battalion began to repair the fortifications that had been blown up during the day, although they knew that they would still be destroyed by Japanese artillery fire the next day, but they still had to be repaired. When the repair was almost over, it was past midnight, and the exhausted officers and men, after leaving their posts, entered the anti-artillery hole and fell asleep on the ground.

Early the next morning, before some of the fighters woke up from their sleep, the Japanese shelling began. This time, the experienced veterans felt that something was wrong when they heard it, and the Japanese artillery shells were much more powerful than yesterday, and they must have used larger-caliber artillery. They guessed right, this time it was the 1st Separate Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army that carried out the shelling.

This heavy artillery brigade now has two heavy artillery wings, one heavy artillery wing is equipped with 48 heavy cannons of the Taisho 14th type 150 caliber, the other heavy artillery wing is equipped with 240 heavy howitzers of the 96 type, and there is also an independent siege artillery brigade equipped with eight 320 caliber mortars.

As a strategic striking force, the independent heavy artillery brigades are all used in key battles, and this time the Japanese base camp has invested two heavy artillery brigades in Nanjing, which is determined to win Nanjing. Although Major General Kaichi Nagasaku, the commander of the 1st Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade, was dismissive of the outlying position in front, Lieutenant General Nakajima of the 16th Division repeatedly asked for help, and he could only use one brigade of 150 heavy cannons to help him.

The power of the 150 heavy cannon attack was indeed different, and in just ten minutes, the defenders' positions were in shambles, and half of the fortress fortifications that were helpless were destroyed. Seeing the scene in front of him, the commander of Nakajima's division was in high spirits, and immediately ordered the 19th Brigade to prepare for the attack. The order to attack was given to Nobuaki Ohno of the 20th Brigade by the brigade commander of the 19th Brigade, Tatsumi Kusaba.

The defenders also entered their positions after the shelling was over, and the positions that had been repaired in the middle of the night were bombed to a pulp, and several fortress fortifications were also half destroyed, and two heavy machine guns were also blown up. Faced with such a position, the first battalion resolutely entered the position under the leadership of the battalion commander, and when the fortress was half destroyed, two light machine guns were erected with intact ones, and when the trenches were destroyed, rifles were erected in the shell craters.

The Japanese, as yesterday, under the cover of heavy machine guns and mortars, several hundred soldiers of two squadrons bent over and attacked. Still within 100 meters, the position was full of light and heavy weapons, and several light and heavy machine guns braved the guns and bullets of the Japanese army, sealing the Japanese army on the road. Seeing that the defenders were still desperately blocking, the Japanese army was also anxious, and used the four 70 infantry guns in the wing to increase the intensity of the assist.

The number of casualties of the defenders on the position increased rapidly, and the firepower was suppressed at once, and the Japanese finally entered the 50-meter area, and the defenders threw grenades at the Japanese army, and finally the attacking Japanese troops could not resist the casualties and retreated, and the defenders on the position also breathed a sigh of relief. At the urging of the officers, the defenders supported the lightly wounded and carried the seriously wounded back to the anti-artillery hole.

After counting, only about 120 officers and men of this battalion were able to go to the position again, and more than two-thirds of the battalion suffered casualties. At this moment, reinforcements from another battalion of the 613th Regiment in the traffic trench came up. Also brought two heavy machine guns. With the reinforcements of this battalion, the commander of the first battalion was reassured.

The Japanese attack fell short, which made the commander of the 19th Brigade, Major General Kusaba Tatsuya, very angry, and he called the commander of the 20th Wing, Nobuaki Ohno, and reprimanded him, and then ordered Nobuaki Ohno's 20th Wing to take the position of the opposite Shina today. Ohno Xuanming Osa could only respond: "Hi!"

An hour later, the Japanese shelling began again, this time without heavy artillery, but only with a few dozen guns from the divisional field artillery wing. Twenty minutes later, the shelling stopped, and the officers and men in the anti-artillery holes quickly entered the position, this time with the defenders of the position not only numbering nearly 500 men, but also having three heavy machine guns and six light machine guns.

From the position, the road was densely packed with Japanese soldiers wearing khaki uniforms, and these soldiers also formed a straggler formation, and the Japanese heavy machine guns, mortars, and 92 infantry guns increased to eight opened fire at the same time, covering the attacking Japanese infantry.

When the Japanese troops were less than 100 meters away from the position, there was a cry from the position: "Fight!" All the light and heavy weapons opened fire at the same time, because the Japanese soldiers were more numerous and the formation was relatively dense, so the concentrated fire of three heavy machine guns and six light machine guns made the Japanese troops fall down at once. Inuno Nobuaki Osa, who was supervising the battle in the back, saw that the firepower of the Shina defenders on the position had suddenly increased, and immediately understood that the original defenders had been reinforced, and couldn't help frowning.

The Japanese attack was naturally unsuccessful, and the Japanese attacked five more times on this day, but under the desperate resistance of the defenders, they failed to go any further, and after dark, Ono Nobuaki Osa hung his head and came to see Major General Tatsumi Kusaba in frustration, and the reprimand was naturally inevitable, and by the way, he was slapped twice.

Under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the defenders on the position suffered heavy casualties, and the battalion that had just come up in the morning had lost half of its casualties in one day, and the original battalion was only less than 300 people. And the fortifications on the position were basically destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire, which made the two battalion commanders worry about how to hold the position tomorrow.