After the defeat of the Japanese retreated, the positions of the 1st battalion were quiet, and this time the Japanese did not continue to launch artillery bombardment on the defenders' positions. Wei Dalin also took this opportunity to return the wounded and the remains of the sacrificed soldiers to the rear, and at this time, Wei Dalin felt a little tired. In just half a day's fighting, more than half of his battalion suffered casualties, and the task given by his superiors was to hold the position for three days.

Time passed little by little, and soon the sun was sinking in the west, looking at the sky, Wei Dalin estimated that the Japanese army would not attack again today, and after thinking for a long time, he gathered the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion together. Wei Dalin looked at the more than 200 subordinates in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Brothers, our battalion suffered a lot of losses in today's battle, and the order given by the brigade seat is to hold the position for three days, and we will fall into a bitter battle in the next two days. I believe that there is not a single misbreed in our battalion, and even if we sacrifice our lives here, we must resolutely complete the tasks assigned by the brigade. Do you have faith?"

"Yes! Resolutely complete the task!" A neat and loud answer shouted from the mouths of more than 200 officers and men. Wei Dalin looked at his eyes with a determined expression, and couldn't help but shout loudly: "Okay! If Little Japan wants to occupy our position, it will have to crawl over our corpses! Let me take you to fight to the death with Little Japan!" "Fight to the death!" The loud shouts sounded again.

Then Wei Dalin reorganized the more than 200 officers and men into two companies, and the only three 82-caliber mortars in the heavy firepower company and the remaining 12 60-caliber mortars were organized into a mortar platoon, and Zheng Changgui, the former commander of the heavy firepower company, was wounded and withdrew to the rear, and Wei Dalin handed over this mortar platoon to Chen Quan, deputy commander of the heavy firepower company, under the command of Chen Quan, deputy company commander of the heavy firepower company.

After the statistics, there was no shortage of heavy firepower in the first battalion, and now with the weapons of the heavy firepower company, there were still fifteen heavy machine guns and twenty-one light machine guns left, and there was plenty of ammunition. After Wei Dalin disbanded the fighters, he returned to the anti-artillery hole. As soon as it got dark, a group of men and horses came to the position of the first battalion with the people from the logistics office who delivered the meals.

The people who led the team came to the anti-artillery hole, and after finding Wei Dalin, they shouted: "Report!" Wei Dalin was thinking about tomorrow's battle, and this report alarmed him, Wei Dalin turned his head and saw that the person who came was Wang Nanshan, the commander of the regimental guard company. Wei Dalin saw that Wang Nanshan was a little strange, and couldn't help asking: "Nanshan, why did you come here?

Wang Nanshan replied: "Battalion Commander Wei, today's battle is quite hard, isn't it? Seeing that you have withdrawn more than 100 wounded and so many soldiers who have sacrificed their lives, we know that you have suffered a lot of losses today. This is not to send our guard company to reinforce you, the regiment ordered the guard company to fully accept your command, but must complete the task of holding out for three days. ”

Wei Dalin's brows furrowed after hearing this, he knew that the guard company next to the regiment seat was actually a reinforced company, with three hundred and forty people, all of whom were the elite of the regiment, and the weapons and equipment were even stronger, and the four 100-caliber heavy mortars that the regimental seat had taken a lot of effort to get from the division seat were equipped with them, not to mention that there were more than ten heavy machine guns, more than 30 light machine guns, plus one shell gun from Germany per person, except for the * used by more than 20 snipers, the rest were equipped with assault and guns, and their combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

Naturally, it is a good thing for the regimental guard company to reinforce itself, but the regimental guard company is responsible for the task of defending the regimental seat and the entire regimental headquarters, and they have gone to the position, so what should we do if something happens to the regimental headquarters? Thinking of this, Wei Dalin said to Wang Nanshan with a cold face: "Nanshan, you have come up, what should we do with the safety of the regimental seat and the regimental headquarters? I will call the regimental headquarters immediately, and your guard company must go back, and if you don't come up, my battalion will guarantee that it will be able to complete the task!"

Wang Nanshan smiled bitterly and said: "Battalion Commander Wei, the regimental seat knows that you will do this, he asked me to bring a message to you, the safety of the regimental headquarters is now taken over by the second battalion that has been withdrawn, you don't have to worry, you just need to think about how to complete the task, and then go back to see the regimental seat alive." Wei Dalin was stunned for a moment, and a warm current welled up in his heart.

At this point, Wei Dalin's opposition was useless, and with the reinforcements of the guard company, Wei Dalin firmly believed that he could better complete the task. The next morning, the Japanese shelling began again, but as soon as the shells exploded this time, Wei Dalin and his team immediately felt different. After the explosion of several shells, the shock to the anti-artillery hole was not comparable to yesterday's shell explosion, and the experienced Wei Dalin Li Liu judged that the Japanese army had used heavy artillery.

Indeed, under the orders of Commander Masaharu Honma, the independent field heavy artillery wing in the rear was ready for artillery bombardment, and the 12 Type 96 15O mm caliber heavy cannons and 18 Type 96 240 mm caliber heavy grenades and shells of the heavy artillery wing were neatly lined up on the artillery ground. Early in the morning, the Japanese observation balloon was lifted into the air, and the azimuth coordinates of the 1st battalion's position were reported to the commander of the heavy artillery wing.

After the Japanese heavy artillery began to shell, the explosion of a 50-kilogram projectile from a heavy cannon could still withstand the bunker and bunker, while the projectile weight of the heavy howitzer and artillery reached 185 kg. Fortunately, the soil layer above the anti-artillery hole was thick enough and reinforced, so it did not collapse, but many of the soldiers were shocked and blood flowed from their ears and noses.

The Japanese heavy artillery bombardment stopped for ten minutes, and just as Wei Dalin was about to direct the soldiers to enter the position, the observation post reported that a Japanese plane appeared in the sky. Wei Dalin withdrew the order to enter the position, smiled, and said to Wang Nanshan: "Nanshan, this little Japan really looks down on our battalion, this is both heavy artillery and aircraft, do you want to entertain these little Japan well, didn't you let them down in vain?"

Wang Nanshan also smiled and said: "Battalion Commander Wei, this little Japan is not good, it seems that he wants to take this position as soon as possible, how can we not let little Japan get his wish." As he was talking, the Japanese planes came to the sky above the position, and suddenly, the sound of aviation * explosion sounded on the position again. Forty minutes passed, and the Japanese planes had dropped all the * and began to return, and Wei Dalin led the soldiers to rush to the position.

After this bombardment, the position was unrecognizable, full of large and small craters, the original bunkers and bunkers were more than half blown up, only a few bunkers were lucky not to be hit by the support, and they could still be used, and only two or three bunkers could barely be used. As for the trenches and sandbag fortifications, it is even worse, the trenches have been blown up in many places, many places have become craters, sandbags are flying everywhere, and there are few intact ones.

The officers and men of the first battalion also experienced such a position, and without Wei Dalin's orders, they each selected a suitable position, or repaired it, or strengthened it, and the heavy machine guns occupied several intact bunkers and usable bunkers, and the rest of the heavy machine guns were erected on the edge of the trenches, and they just found some sandbags to make a simple sandbag fortification.

The officers and men of the first battalion had just hurriedly repaired their positions, and in the distance the Japanese infantry had already emerged from the trenches of the first position. Wei Dalin was still in a bunker, using a telescope to observe the Japanese troops that appeared, and after a while, the Japanese troops were assembled, and Wei Dalin also saw clearly that it was another Japanese infantry brigade that was about to attack this time.

Yesterday, Oda Ichiro Osa returned to the position of the 20th Infantry Wing and told his officers that before the attack tomorrow, His Excellency the Commander would send a heavy artillery wing to assist with heavy artillery, and that there would also be naval aviation planes to come to support, and that everyone should show the samurai spirit of His Majesty the Emperor and make sure to capture the positions of the Shina people.

Odaichiro's words had some effect, and the morale of his officers and men was raised a little, and in the morning, the bombardment of heavy artillery and the assistance of airplanes gave the Japanese soldiers courage again. Oda Ichiro sent another infantry squadron to attack, and yesterday's heavy machine gun squadron and heavy mortar squadron also carried out a covering attack at the same time.

As yesterday, the Japanese troops spread out into battle teams at a distance of 300 meters, and then covered and coordinated with each other to move forward. As soon as the Japanese troops entered the range of 250 meters, Wei Dalin gave the order to open fire. Today, Wei Dalin will use intensive firepower to suppress the Japanese army from a distance of 200 meters and destroy it. More than 20 heavy machine guns, dozens of light machine guns, plus numerous assault guns, guns, and semi-automatic rifles, after the entire position was fully fired, the metal storm formed by the bullets suddenly covered the attacking Japanese troops.

The Japanese obviously did not expect the defenders' positions to open fire so quickly, and they were unable to take precautions, and nearly 100 Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground at once, and the rest even crawled on the ground or hid behind bunkers and did not dare to move. Even so, the defenders used accurate marksmanship to continue to harvest the lives of Japanese soldiers. Oda Ichiro was also frightened by the fierce fire that erupted on the ground of the defenders, and after a while he came to his senses and ordered heavy machine guns and heavy mortars to suppress fire.

The fortifications on the position were so badly damaged that in the face of Japanese heavy machine guns and heavy mortars, the soldiers had little place to cover, and under the attack of Japanese heavy machine guns and heavy mortars, the casualties of the first battalion began to increase. Wei Dalin observed the situation on the position, and decisively ordered to concentrate all mortars and eliminate the heavy mortar positions and heavy machine gun positions of the Japanese army.

Chen Quan, who was in charge of commanding the mortar platoon, received Wei Dalin's order to immediately let the mortar platoon set up all the mortars, including the four 100-caliber heavy mortars brought by the guard company, and then measured the position of the Japanese mortar position and ordered the artillery to be fired. More than a dozen mortar shells suddenly flew towards the Japanese heavy mortar position, and then continuous explosions sounded on the Japanese heavy mortar position.

The Japanese army was defenseless, and the dozens of heavy mortar positions that fell and blew up at once were in disarray. Not only were twelve heavy mortars blown up, but an artillery squadron suffered heavy losses. In particular, the explosion also caused the death of the position*, which made the situation even worse, making the casualties of the Japanese army even heavier.