Wing Commander Oda Ichiro Osa, Wing Commander of the 20th Infantry Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, received an order from the division commander Shiro Makino, and immediately led his subordinates to move forward with the 16th Field Artillery Wing to replace the Taiwan Mixed Brigade. The 16th Wing of Field Artillery stopped after walking a short distance and began to choose a suitable position to arrange the artillery positions.

The wing commander of the 16th Field Artillery Wing, Yuo Inoue, knew that the Chinese army that was going to attack also had a large number of mortars, and although he did not look down on those mortars that were not very powerful, in order to ensure safety, the artillery positions were still set up outside the range of the defenders' mortars. Besides, with the range of the artillery of his own wing, it was enough to cover the defenders' positions here.

When the field artillery wing set up an artillery position, Oda Ichiro also led his men to the position of the Taiwan mixed brigade, and Major General Ishimoto Sadanao had been waiting for the arrival of the 16th Division with his eyes in wait. Don't look at Ishimoto Sadanao as the commander of the Major General Brigade, he really doesn't dare to be unkind to Oda Ichiro, the big Zuo, which is also the reason why the Japanese Army's A Division is superior.

To say that the Japanese army's first-class divisions, although they are far inferior to when the war first began, they are really not a little bit stronger than third-rate troops such as Taiwan's mixed brigades. Take the 20th Infantry Wing, for example, an infantry wing with four infantry brigades, a heavy machine gun squadron, a heavy mortar squadron, and a rapid-fire artillery squadron. The number also reached five thousand.

Not only that, but the quality of the individual soldiers of the two units is also quite poor, and a large part of the soldiers of the 16 th Division are veterans who have survived to the present day when the war first broke out a few years ago, and neither experience nor individual soldier quality can be compared with the soldiers in Taiwan's mixed brigades. After the handover between the two sides, Major General Sadanao Ishimoto led his men to leave, while Oda Ichiro led several captains to the high ground and observed the defenders' positions on the opposite side.

After observing for a while, Oda Ichiro said to the people around him: "Ladies and gentlemen, the fortifications of the Shina people are indeed very strong, and it is not so easy to blow them up, so I will order the artillery wing to shell the positions of the Shina people first, and the attack after the shelling is over will have to worry about you, please be." Several captains around him replied one after another: "Hey, Your Excellency Dazuo, please rest assured, our warriors will definitely take the position of the Chinese people soon." ”

Oda Ichiro nodded, and observed the defenders' positions for a while before leaving with a few captains. After a while, the shelling of the 16th Wing of the Field Artillery began. The power of those 75-caliber field guns is not great, and the power of the twenty-four 150-caliber * guns is much greater. Dense shells fell on the defenders' positions, and for a moment the ground trembled.

Chu Xifeng, who was staying in the anti-artillery hole, and several company commanders under his command were discussing whether the Japanese army would attack again today, and at this moment, the shells had already fallen. As soon as Chu Xifeng heard the explosion of the cannonball, his face changed. The sound of continuous explosions began, and the anti-artillery cave also felt a much stronger vibration, and the soil on the roof of the cave began to fall.

Chen Ergen, the commander of the first company, patted the dust that fell on his shoulders and said to Chu Xifeng: "Battalion commander, this explosion is not right, listening to this movement, it should be a large-caliber artillery shell." Chu Xifeng nodded and replied: "Yes, this should be a Japanese 15O caliber howitzer and artillery shell, it seems that little Japan has used large-caliber artillery." ”

Liu Ergen was startled and asked, "Battalion commander, can the fortifications above be able to withstand the bombing?" Chu Xifeng replied: "Those bunkers and fortifications are all reinforced, and they should be fine in a short time, but if the little Japanese bomb desperately, no matter how strong the fortifications are, they will not be able to withstand it." Liu Ergen asked a little nervously: "How to defend without fortifications?"

Chu Xifeng glanced at him and replied: "We can't hold it without fortifications? We still have weapons and faith! Let me tell you, without the order to retreat from the peak, we must resolutely hold the position, even if there is the last person left, we must be firmly nailed to the position for Lao Tzu, understand?" Chu Xifeng's words were shouted loudly, and all the officers and soldiers in the anti-artillery hole could hear them clearly.

As soon as Chu Xifeng finished shouting, the officers and men in the anti-artillery hole replied in unison: "The people are in the position! We will live and die together with the position!" Seeing that the officers and men under his command were like a rainbow, Chu Xifeng couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Okay! It was my soldiers brought out by Chu Xifeng!" The Japanese shelling lasted for half an hour before the artillery fire gradually stopped. From the observation post left above, news came that a Japanese infantry squadron was gathering and preparing to attack.

When an infantry squadron of the Japanese army attacked, Chu Xifeng would not pull the whole battalion into the position, and the task of defending the position naturally fell on the first company commander Liu Ergen and the first company, which made the other two company commanders a little surprised. Liu Ergen took over the task with a smile, shouted into the anti-artillery hole: "Follow me in a row!" and then took the lead in rushing out of the anti-artillery hole.

When Liu Ergen and the soldiers of the first company came to the trench in front along the communication trench, they found that the trench was seriously damaged, the original sandbag bunker was blown up in pieces, and a large section of the trench also collapsed, but the bunker and bunker were not damaged much. Liu Ergen put several heavy machine guns in the company in the bunker behind the trench, and when he saw that the Japanese troops had not yet come up, he instructed the soldiers to pick up the sandbags that had been blown up and move them over to build a bunker, so that the light machine guns could be mounted in the bunker.

As soon as they were done, the infantry squadrons of the Japanese army began to attack. More than 200 Japanese soldiers, under the cover of heavy machine guns, spread out in a straggler formation, bent over and walked towards the position. As soon as the Japanese troops entered the position 200 meters in front of them, Liu Ergen let the heavy machine guns block and shoot, and as soon as several heavy machine guns rang out, the dozen or so Japanese soldiers walking in front fell in response, and the other Japanese soldiers fell to the ground at once.

The heavy machine guns on the Japanese positions were even more cheerful, and the eighteen 120-caliber heavy mortars of the heavy mortar squadron also fired shells at the bunker where the heavy machine guns were located on the position. The power of the shells of the Japanese heavy mortars was still not small, and when an accidental shot fell in the trench, several soldiers were blown up. The heavy machine gun was also blocked by gunpowder smoke and dust, and its power decreased.

The Japanese troops lying on the ground climbed up and attacked forward while fighting back from the position. Liu Ergen immediately ordered all of them to open fire, and all kinds of weapons on the position were fired, once again suppressing the Japanese attack. As soon as Liu Ergen breathed a sigh of relief, he found that the Japanese army had changed its attack method. What was originally an attack in a skirmish line turned into an attack in battle groups.

A Japanese combat group consisted of six to eight people, some of which had a light machine gun, but those without a light machine gun had one or two grenadiers. As these battle groups dispersed, they continued to move closer to their positions using all available terrain formations. Liu Ergen sneered and said to himself: "Grandma's, this is all leftover from Lao Tzu's play, and you still take it out in the present world." ”

In response to the Japanese attack, Liu Ergen also assigned tasks to the soldiers on the position. A squad kept an eye on a Japanese group, and the sharpshooters in the company were responsible for knocking out the Japanese grenadiers and light machine gunners. As soon as the task was clear, the talented soldiers began to deal with the Japanese attack in squads. The combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers was much higher than that of the soldiers of the Taiwan mixed brigade, and although the first company had a clear upper hand in the battle, the casualties also increased significantly.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and after the Japanese infantry squadron suffered more than half of the casualties, it withdrew back, and the officers and men of the first company on the position also breathed a sigh of relief, and the Japanese army had two combat groups, and at one time they reached within 100 meters of the position, and Liu Ergen mobilized three squads of soldiers to wipe out the two Japanese squadrons.

When Liu Ergen withdrew to the anti-artillery hole with a company, a fully manned company had only more than 170 intact officers and soldiers, and the number of casualties reached more than 80, which also surprised Chu Xifeng. Chu Xifeng called Liu Ergen aside and asked Liu Ergen how the casualties could be so big, Liu Ergen reported the situation of the confrontation between the two sides just now to Chu Xifeng.

After listening to Liu Ergen's report, Chu Xifeng said: "Blame me for being careless, this is definitely not those little Japan who attacked in the sky, I'm afraid that if the little Japan transferred the 16th Division of the main force, the battle below us will be very hard!" After finishing speaking, Chu Xifeng asked Liu Ergen to rest, came to the telephone himself, and reported the situation to the regiment commander Wei Huang.

Wei Huang received the report and immediately reported it to his superiors, and it didn't take long for the report that the Japanese army had mobilized the main force of the 16th Division to participate in the attack was sent to the division commander Tang Longzai and the front-line commander and deputy commander Tang Renxin. Tang Renxin was looking at the battle map, and after receiving the report, a thought suddenly flashed in his heart. Tang Renxin thought about this idea carefully, and after coming to the sand table to deduce it again, he turned around and asked the guards to invite Su Zuxin, the chief of staff, and Tang Longzai, the commander of the 211th Division.

Su Zuxin and Tang Longzai came to the command room, Tang Renxin straightened up from the side of the sand table, and then said: "Chief of Staff Su, Division Commander Tang, I just suddenly had an idea, I came to you to discuss with you, see if it's okay." Su Zuxin asked with a smile: "Deputy Commander Tang has any good ideas, say it and listen to it." Tang Renxin also smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll talk about it." ”

Tang Renxin thought for a moment and said: "The Japanese army landed in Qinzhou Bay with no less than 70,000 troops, of which the 48th Division has been disabled by the 210th Division, and the combat effectiveness of Taiwan's mixed brigades is also not good. You say, if we inflict heavy damage on the 16th Division or destroy the 16th Division, what will happen to Commander Masaharu Honma?"

After hearing this, Su Zuxin said: "What's the matter? Deputy Army Commander Tang has a plan to deal with the 16th Division of the Japanese Army?" Tang Renxin replied with a smile: "I have a preliminary idea, but it is not perfect, so please come and plan it together." Tang Longzai said eagerly at this time: "What do you think, Deputy Division Commander Tang will tell us quickly!" Tang Renxin glanced at Tang Longzai, smiled and pointed to the sand table with his hand, and said, "Look here." ”