readx;? Early the next morning, the Japanese army was the same as before, and first carried out a half-hour artillery bombardment, but for some reason this time the Japanese army did not use the 150 heavy artillery, but only used the 75 mountain artillery and the 105 howitzer of the divisional mountain artillery wing to carry out the shelling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoShells of this caliber did not work at all for the Shapo bridgehead fortifications, which were much stronger than the Mae Po bridgehead fortifications.

After the end of the shelling, the defenders, who had suffered a single loss, did not immediately enter the position, but only a few fighters who observed the situation entered the bunker. The Japanese did not shell twice, but sent a squadron of soldiers from the 157th Infantry Wing to carry out a tentative attack. More than 100 Japanese troops, under the command of the squadron leader, bent down and carefully stepped onto the Shapu River Bridge.

When the Yan inspection post saw the Japanese army coming up, he began to call on a walkie-talkie. The soldiers of the first battalion and one company quickly entered the position under the leadership of the company commander Yuan Zhongzhong. Yuan Zhongzhong was originally the big boss of Tian Moshan, one of the eighteen mountain bandits in Longzhou County, and became the company commander when he took refuge in Wang Haitao, and the troops have been expanded twice in so many years, and the leaders of the eight mountain bandits who took refuge with him in Wang Haitao have basically been promoted to battalion commanders, and only he and Wang Yanwu are still company commanders.

This is all to blame for his mouth, he usually can't control it, and when he sees something unpleasant, he has to open his mouth to say it, and he lives up to his bandit name "Yuan Cannon" back then, and the result is not less offended. It's just that he doesn't care about himself, when he was still in the independent brigade, once Wang Haitao talked to him, he said to Wang Haitao: "Brigade, my old Yuan is a rough person, and he doesn't know a few words, but Lao Yuan has never served anyone in his life. Don't persuade me anymore, my old Yuan's temper can't be changed in my life." Wang Haitao had no choice but to go with him.

However, although this Yuan Zhongzhong is a rough man, he is thick and fine, as if he has a good marksmanship, needless to say that the two box guns in his hand are out of the game, even the semi-automatic rifle and submachine gun are also within 200 meters, and even Wang Haitao nodded secretly in this pistol. After Yuan Zhongzhong entered the position with a company of soldiers, he saw that the Japanese army had only come up in a squadron of more than 100 people, so he had an extra heart, and only let two light machine guns and one heavy machine gun prepare to fire, and the soldiers only let half of the semi-automatic rifles and a few submachine guns prepare to fire.

When the Japanese advanced halfway on the bridge deck, two mortars and two heavy machine guns were erected on the north side of the bridge, and the rest of the Japanese troops continued to move forward. When the Japanese army reached the south end of the bridge, only a hundred meters away from the position, Yuan Zhongzhong gave the order to open fire. Two light machine guns and one heavy machine gun basically blocked the bridge, while the other fighters aimed at the target and fired bullets.

Yuan Zhongzhong himself held a semi-automatic rifle and played the role of a marksman. Japanese heavy machine guns and mortars, as well as light machine guns and grenadiers from the ranks, joined the ranks of the retaliators. The soldiers also lay on the bridge deck and fired at the defenders in the position with the 38-type rifles in their hands. The two sides exchanged fire for twenty minutes, and finally after Yuan Zhongzhong killed one of the Japanese commanders, the Japanese chose to retreat.

One battalion and one company killed more than 30 Japanese soldiers, and one of them was killed and four were wounded. Yuan Zhongzhong saw that the Japanese army had retreated, leaving a few observation posts behind, and withdrew with the team. Half an hour later, the Japanese shelling came again, this time still without the use of large-caliber heavy artillery. After half an hour of shelling, the 157th Wing of the Japanese army came up with a large group of soldiers this time.

This time, not only a few mortars were erected on the north side of the bridge, but also four 70 infantry guns, as well as eight heavy machine guns. When the Japanese infantry had not yet reached the south end of the bridge, the Japanese heavy machine gunners and artillery north of the bridge opened fire. Eight heavy machine guns and more than a dozen artillery guns fired together, and the power was really not small. The defenders were pinned down in the trenches, and the soldiers listened to the bullets from the heavy machine guns whizzing overhead, and no one dared to stick their heads out easily.

Yuan Zhongzhong saw that this was not good, the soldiers could not stretch their heads, and the Japanese army did not take the opportunity to attack it, so he ordered all four heavy machine guns in the bunker to return fire and suppress the Japanese fire. As for the Japanese artillery, Yuan Zhongzhong wanted to use a few mortars in the company to kill him, but after thinking about it, he held back, now that the battle has just begun, there is no need to rush.

The four heavy machine guns in the bunker fired at the same time, and the four tongues of fire went straight to the Japanese heavy machine gun position, and the Japanese army was caught off guard and six of the eight heavy machine guns were dumb, and the two also hurriedly turned their muzzles, but without any cover, the two heavy machine guns did not hold out too much and were dumb for two minutes. The soldiers of the first company saw that the Japanese heavy machine guns were dumb fired, and they stretched out their guns from the trenches one after another, aiming at the Japanese soldiers on the bridge deck.

After taking out the Japanese heavy machine guns, the four heavy machine guns aimed at the Japanese artillery positions. The two armies were only separated by a highway bridge several tens of meters long, and the Japanese artillery position was only 800 meters away from the defenders' positions. The defenders' Type 67 heavy machine guns had an effective firing range of 1,000 meters, but the accuracy of shooting at a distance of 800 meters was a little worse.

The Japanese artillery position was strafed by the defenders' heavy machine guns, and more than a dozen artillery and auxiliaries were also killed. The attacking Japanese infantry did not have the cover of heavy machine guns and the support of artillery, and the killing and wounding of the defenders by light machine guns and grenadiers alone was limited.

In one day, the Japanese attacked eight times, killing and wounding nearly 1,000 people, but they could not advance an inch, and the defenders also sacrificed more than 30 people in a battalion and a company, and the fortifications were destroyed to varying degrees except for four bunkers. The commander of the 101st Division, Lieutenant General Masakaki Ito, had no choice but to ask Senior General Matsui Ishine to bomb the aircraft.

At this time, General Matsui Ishine was also under tremendous pressure, and it had been more than a month since he arrived in Shanghai on 23 August, and the troops had only seized a landing ground by the sea. However, many officers and men were killed and wounded, the battleship Izumo was sunk, and the flag of the 35th Infantry Wing was taken away. The 9th Division was disabled, and the 3rd and 11th Divisions were reduced by more than half.

Matsui Ishine could not understand how the weak, backward, and incompetent Shina army could become so difficult to deal with overnight? Moreover, the Shina army in front of him not only had advanced weapons such as heavy artillery, chariots, and anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns, but also a large number of automatic weapons in the hands of the soldiers. This level of equipment far exceeded that of the Imperial Japanese Army.

If the Chinese army was all equipped with this kind of equipment, then it would be impossible for the Great Japanese Imperial Army to defeat the Chinese army, let alone occupy the entire Chinese army. Although the base camp has now sent more reinforcements to itself and increased planes to help in the battle, there are many people in the base camp who accuse themselves, and some people even scold themselves for their incompetence and demand that the base camp remove them.

Taiwan's Shigeto detachment has landed, and the 3rd Flying Regiment is also stationed at Taiwan's airfield. The Shigeto detachment will join up with the rest of the 9th Division tomorrow and launch another attack on the town of Luodian defended by the Chinese Army, while the 3rd Division can also launch an attack on the flank of Luodian Town after recuperation. He will order two independent heavy artillery brigades, two independent siege heavy artillery brigades, and two independent machine gun brigades to attack Luodian Town together. As for the 3rd Flying Regiment, one flying wing was sent to support the Luodian direction, and the other wing was to support the 13th Division and the 101st Division. And the attack of the 11th Division was supported by naval guns and carrier-based aircraft.

After thinking about the map for a long time, Matsui finally made up his mind and conveyed these ideas to the various units in the form of orders. After the Japanese offensive force landed on the Shigeto detachment in Taiwan, it had reached five divisions and one detachment, and the number of artillery and auxiliary troops had also reached 180,000. It's just that less than 100,000 people are actually engaged in a frontal attack.

On 28 September, which was destined to be a cruel day, almost all the bombers of the Japanese army were dispatched early in the morning, and hundreds of planes, carrying aerial bombs of various sizes, flew to the front-line positions defended by the New 90th Division. At the same time as the aerial bombs were dropped, all the light and heavy artillery of the Japanese army also shelled the defenders' positions on the opposite side.

At this time, if you look down at the ground from the air, you will see that the new 90th Division runs from Wusongkou Fort in the east to Luodian Town, a seven-kilometer-long arc-shaped defense line in the west, and the ground with a depth of one kilometer is like a boiling pot. Flying smoke and dust covered the entire stretch of ground. The soldiers of the New 90th Division hid in various anti-artillery holes, and many of the soldiers were shocked to the ears and noses with blood. There was also an anti-artillery hole that was directly hit by a heavy aerial bomb, which collapsed at once, burying all the fighters inside in the hole.

Luodian Town was also bombed by Japanese planes, and the logistics warehouse and some positions in the town were damaged, but fortunately, after the counterattack, Su Zuxin withdrew all the heavy artillery companies and armored battalions in the town to Jiading, so that there was no loss. This bombardment caused the New 90th Division to directly sacrifice nearly 300 soldiers, and most of the fortifications on the front-line positions were destroyed.

The planes finished dropping the bombs and flew away, and the Japanese shelling stopped, and then the Shigeto detachment, the 3rd Division, the 13th Division, the 101st Division, and the 11th Division simultaneously launched a large-scale attack on the position of the new 90th Division on the opposite side. Here it was as ferocious as the attacks of the Shigeto detachment and the 13th Division.

Taiwan's Shigetto detachment landed just yesterday and, after joining up with the rest of the Ninth Division, first rushed across the Panjing River at a very small cost. There was only one platoon of soldiers guarding the Panjing River, and when they saw that the Japanese army was coming fiercely, and they didn't even have the same fortifications on their side, and the battalion commander only gave them to monitor the Japanese army, so they withdrew to Luodian Town after blocking the attack.

The Shigeto detachment saw that the Shina army had fled, and the detachment commander, Major General Chiaki Shigeto, could not understand why the Ninth Division had fallen to such a point. Chiaki Shigeto knew the strength of the permanent division, and he was not arrogant enough to think that his Shigeto detachment would be much stronger than the ninth division, but this kind of thing is not easy to ask, and he can only take one step at a time. So Chiaki Shigeto commanded the troops to chase them all the way, and only stopped the troops when they found a large number of fortifications of the Shina defenders outside the town of Luodian.