After everyone followed Tang Longzai to the command post, Tang Longzai said: "Little Japan wants to send someone to guide the plane to bomb my artillery position, so I will give him a plan." Battalion Commander Tang, you take a company of soldiers and choose a place before the arrival of the Japanese plane. After the Japanese planes came, they used smoke to guide the Japanese planes to bomb, and then found some tree trunks to camouflage a few cannons.

If the Japanese planes bomb successfully, they will definitely inform the Japanese troops in front of the position, and the Japanese army will definitely send a large number of troops to attack our position, and the artillery will also be used. Tang Longzai's words made everyone present smile.

Time was very tight, but there were many people on the mountain, and after an hour of hard work, a fake artillery position composed of more than ten fake cannons made of tree trunks, wooden stakes, etc., was completed, and there were dozens of dummies wearing military uniforms. It doesn't need to be much like it, it just can't be seen from the air. More than a dozen shells and explosives were buried on the fake artillery position, and Tang Yiming's smoke generating device was also arranged.

At half past eight o'clock, dozens of Japanese bombers arrived as scheduled, and Tang Yishi asked his subordinates to light smoke after seeing the planes in the sky from a distance. Three piles of smoke rose up on a flat ground in front of the top of the mountain. Such an obvious target, the pilots of the Japanese aircraft quickly discovered it. When the bomb exploded on the position, the pre-buried shells and explosives packets were exploded at the same time, and the position was blown up with smoke and dust, and the flames soared into the sky, and those fake artillery and soldiers naturally also exploded in all directions.

Dozens of planes dropped hundreds of bombs on the target, and only then did they fly around the bombed area several times and return to their homes satisfied. On the way back, the plane reported to the ground that the bombing had been successful and that the artillery positions of the Chinese had been completely destroyed. When Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, the commander of the 27th Division, heard the news, he happily said several times: "Yo Xi!"

Now that there was no longer the threat of artillery positions, the Japanese offensive began again, and this time the first wing once again sent an infantry brigade, and in order to strengthen the attack power, the commander of the Honma Masaharu division specially sent the independent mortar brigade of the other two wings of the division to the frontal battlefield. Anyway, the left and right sides are only diversionary attacks, and the two artillery brigades of 75 field artillery and 105 field artillery are enough.

Two separate mortar brigades, a total of thirty-six 150 mm heavy mortars, were all used to support the offensive of the infantry brigade. The 150 heavy mortars were still very powerful, but the firing range was a little short, and coupled with the characteristics of the mortars, the positions of these 38 mortars were placed on the positions of the 1st Wing attack.

Before the infantry attacked, it was still 20 minutes of artillery bombardment, and this shelling was not only the 24 150 field howitzers shelling, but also the 36 and 150 heavy mortars, under the wild bombardment of so many artillery, the explosions on the two positions of the 547th Regiment continued, and the dust and gunpowder smoke shrouded the entire position in the middle, and the female wall could not withstand such shelling, and collapsed in many places.

Tang Longzai stood on the 386 Heights, observing the Japanese shelling with a telescope. Tang Longzai looked at Li Guiyong, the commander of the artillery battalion beside him, and said: "Battalion Commander Li, can our artillery hit the artillery position behind the Japanese army?" Li Guiyong looked at it for a while and replied: "Brigade seat, the artillery position behind the Japanese army should be large-caliber heavy artillery, judging from the moment, it should be more than ten kilometers away from us, our 75 mountain artillery can't hit so far, maybe only the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery regiment can hit so far." ”

Tang Longzai said again: "Then, Battalion Commander Li, you ask the observer to calculate the azimuth coordinates of the rear artillery position of the Japanese army, and I will discuss it with the heavy artillery regiment to see if I can knock out this heavy artillery position of the Japanese army, otherwise the damage to the position by these heavy artillery is too serious, and after the soldiers enter the position, if it comes again, the 547th Regiment will suffer a big loss." ”

Li Guiyong called the observer and quickly calculated the azimuth coordinates of the Japanese heavy artillery position with the instrument. Tang Longzai returned to the command post with the bearing coordinates and sent a telegram directly to the front-line command in Hot Spring Town requesting the heavy artillery regiment to assist in the shelling. In the front-line headquarters of Hot Spring Town, Peng Zhang, deputy commander of the 92nd Division, was also anxious because of the rumbling explosions on the front position.

Peng Zhang was also discussing with Cen Qing, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, whether to use heavy artillery to support the 547th Regiment, Cen Qing said to Peng Zhang: "Deputy Division Commander Peng, it's not that I don't want to use heavy artillery to support, it's just that now we don't have the azimuth coordinates of the important targets of the Japanese army. ”

Peng Chang asked, "Then there is no way to support the 547th Regiment?" Cen Qing replied: "Unless you can know the coordinates of the important targets of the Japanese army, the shelling will be meaningful." Otherwise, I am not in favor of the easy use of heavy artillery. At this moment, Tang Longzai's telegram was delivered by the telegrapher. When Peng Zhang saw it, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly handed the telegram to Cen Qing.

In fact, in Cen Qing's heart, Tang Longzai, the brigade commander, is much more important than Peng Zhang, the deputy division commander, and now that he has Tang Longzai's telegram and the specific location coordinates of the Japanese army's heavy artillery position, Cen Qing will do it. Cen Qing didn't bother to say any more, and hurriedly took the coordinates and hurried back to the position of the heavy artillery regiment.

Twenty-four 150 field howitzers have stopped shelling, an infantry brigade has entered the assault position, and thirty-eight 150 mortars are still firing shells at two positions of the 547th Regiment. The Japanese infantry had already begun to attack, and the fighters of the 548th Regiment naturally came out of the anti-artillery holes and entered the position.

This time, Zhang Lingfu saw that the Japanese artillery was very strong, and he was not relieved, so he ignored Du Haifeng's dissuasion and went to the position in person. The Japanese mortars were still very dense, and the 150-heavy mortar was not small, and shrapnel was still flying everywhere on the position. Many of the fighters had already been shot and fell on the way to the position.

Zhang Lingfu and the two guards quickly walked towards a bunker and were about to enter the bunker, when a shell exploded less than ten meters beside them. The two guards shouted: "Be careful!" and rushed to Zhang Lingfu's body. After the dust and smoke cleared, Zhang Lingfu and the others were all half-buried in the soil.

The officers and men of the 547th Regiment, who saw this scene, shouted: "Tuanza!" Ignoring the shells that were still exploding, they rushed over and pulled Zhang Lingfu and the three out of the dust. All three of them had passed out, and a company commander in the crowd shouted: "Quick, send the regiment to the bunker first, and the medical soldiers come quickly!"

In the bunker, the medical staff was treating three people, and after Du Haifeng heard the news, the first thing he said was: "How is the regimental seat?" The medical soldier replied while rescuing Ye: "The regimental seat was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the foot, I can only stop the bleeding first, and I must hurry to the back hospital for surgery, otherwise my life will be in danger." ”

When Du Haifeng heard this, he said: "Quick, send a squad to escort the regiment seat down, and I will command it here." The medics asked, "One of the two guards of the battalion commander has already died, and the other must be sent down for surgery as soon as possible." What should I do?" Du Haifeng said hurriedly: "What should I do? Send more people to send all the seriously injured down, what else can I do?"

After watching a platoon of soldiers carry down more than a dozen seriously wounded soldiers, including Zhang Lingfu, Du Haifeng shook his head and shouted: "All enter the position, put little Japan closer, and give me a hard beat!" After shouting, he also rushed into a machine gun bunker in a few steps, grabbed a 54-type light machine gun, pulled the bolt, and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the approaching Japanese army.

Under the cover of dozens of mortars, the Japanese army approached the two positions of the 547th Regiment step by step along the road. After entering a distance of 200 meters, heavy machine guns and grenadiers began to fire, and the soldiers also lined up in offensive formation, firing as they advanced. The fighters of the 1st and 2nd battalions of the position were ready to return fire, and many of them used the craters and the collapsed women's wall as a support to set up their weapons.

When the Japanese army entered a distance of 100 meters, Du Haifeng shouted: "Hit! Hit Lao Tzu hard!" and pulled the trigger of the machine gun in his hand as he shouted. Light and heavy machine guns fired tongues of fire and rushed straight at the Japanese troops who rushed up, submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles were also fired at the same time, and the sharpshooters on the two positions had sniper rifles in their hands to pick up important targets in the Japanese army for sniping.

The Japanese troops also ignored the casualties and desperately rushed upward, but the firepower network formed by the numerous automatic weapons on the position suppressed the Japanese troops to a distance of about 100 meters. Soon the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the ground had been piled up, and in addition to the smell of gunsmoke, there was a strong smell of blood in the air.

The Japanese army had exhausted all their methods, but could not move forward, and the captain saw that his brigade had already lost more than half of its troops, and that the grenadiers and light and heavy machine gunners in the team had also suffered heavy losses, so he could only give the order to retreat. The Japanese army suffered heavy losses and retreated, and began to treat the wounded on the positions and clean up the remains of the fallen soldiers.

In this battle, only one battalion lost forty or fifty soldiers, and more than thirty were seriously wounded. On the one hand, Du Haifeng organized the soldiers to send the seriously wounded down, and on the other hand, he asked the soldiers to withdraw to the anti-artillery hole to avoid the next shelling by the Japanese army. This battle also caused a lot of losses to the first wing of the Japanese army, and after only two days of attacking, more than one brigade was gone, which made the wing commander Yago Sun Er also anxious and angry.

The division commander Honma Masaharu knew that this attack was not successful, but the Shina people did not launch another artillery bombardment, this result was still acceptable to him, in Honma Masaharu's opinion, as long as the artillery of the Shina people was destroyed, then under the numerous artillery of the imperial army, it was only a matter of time before the position of the Shina people was taken.