As soon as the devils of the second attack were defeated, the 28 guns of the devils set up in the rear opened fire.

This time 120-mm howitzers were also joined.

In the attack of the devil's puppet army just now, some of the new regiment's hidden bunker firepower points joined in, and the side-firing fire pressed the devil's machine gun to the point that it couldn't raise its head.

In the firefight, Shinichi's fighters also found that the puppet army was still the group of puppet soldiers, and there was no change in the slightest.

But this group of devils is really strong in combat.

The grenadiers of the devils were astonishingly accurate, and some of the grenades fired hit the machine gun fire point of the new regiment for the first time.

This group of tactics is superbly coordinated, the marksmanship is accurate and scary, and the machine gun firepower is also stronger than that of the devils of the second-line division.

Even if it has the advantage of firepower to suppress the devils, but in the attack of the devils, the new regiment also suffered some casualties.

Boom boom...

Shells fell on the positive slope positions of the new regiment, and the dense artillery fire shrouded the positions in the smoke of gunpowder.

And the Devil's 120-mm howitzer, under the command of the Devil's observer, was aimed at the bunker of the new regiment.

Because the mountain artillery, howitzers and heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army have not yet been shot, although the bunker is in a higher position, the devils do not dare to pull the 120mm howitzer over and aim for direct fire.

If you shoot from a distance, there is no way to guarantee the accuracy of a bunker like shelling.

It often takes more than a dozen shells to hit one.

Under the continuous bombardment of mountain artillery and howitzers, the bunker did not move.

These bunkers were all poured from a new mass of cement and steel bars seized from the devils, and all of them were built according to thickened standards.

Even a 150-mm howitzer had to hit one or two dozen shells in a row to have a chance to destroy it.

And the maximum caliber of the artillery of the new regiment attacked by the devils this time was only 120 mm.

In the field of view of the artillery mirror, Major General Saburo Miura saw that those 120-mm shells fell near the bunker and exploded, and even if the shells hit the bunker, they did not overturn it.

And when Miura Saburo couldn't see it, the new regiment of soldiers in the dark fort had already entered the tunnel along the secret passage.

Although the devil's cannonball can't destroy the thickened turret, the cannonball hits the bunker and explodes on the outer wall of the bunker, and the feeling is extremely uncomfortable.

"This is a reinforced concrete fortification?"

Saburo Miura's brow furrowed slightly.

The positions of the Eighth Route Army, which had been ploughed by the fort artillery and field artillery, were already empty, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army had already drilled into the tunnels, and the locust army was just wasting shells in vain.

The Great Japanese Empire was poor in resources, and one shell hit was one less.

Seeing that hundreds of shells were fired with little effect, Saburo Miura felt extremely tricky.

"Yes!" Chief of Staff Hiroo Ono put down the binoculars and exclaimed in an exclamatory tone, "It is indeed a reinforced concrete fortification, and it is thickened, and if you want to destroy this kind of fortification, you must use aerial bombs, or 150mm howitzers, to destroy it!" ”

Hearing this, Saburo Miura's brows furrowed even deeper.

He has seen a lot of this kind of reinforced concrete bunkers recently, and the First Army Iwamatsu Yoshio ordered a lot of them to be built around Taiyuan, and they are said to be able to withstand the bombardment of 150 mm heavy artillery.

"How can Eighth Road have so much cement and rebar?"

In addition to frowning, Saburo Miura also had deep doubts in his expression.

Although before the start of the war, the reconnaissance planes of the 2nd Division carried out a large number of aerial reconnaissance in the northwest of Shanxi, and the Japanese army also knew that the Eighth Route Army was building positions and hidden forts.

But I didn't expect that the dark bunker of the Eighth Route Army would be difficult to break through even 120mm howitzers.

Ono Binfu, who knew the inside story, said: "These cements and steel bars were originally assigned to the 36th Division by Lieutenant General Iwamatsu, the commander of the First Army, to repair pillboxes and artillery towers to blockade the new regiment, and later the 36th Division was attacked by the new regiment, and then thousands of tons of cement and steel bars were shot by the new regiment, and the 36th division was also heavily damaged. ”

"Yaga..."

Secretly scolding, Saburo Miura took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.

Even if you are defeated, even such an important material can be snatched away by the Eighth Road, and the troops of the First Army are simply a bunch of waste.

Now these materials have been built into reinforced concrete permanent fortifications by the Eighth Road, which will cause big problems for the 10th Division.

"How did the Eighth Route capture the thickened pillboxes and turrets on the side of the road?"

Saburo Miura's tone was puzzled.

On the side of the road from Heyuan County, he saw some fortifications, which were thickened pillboxes and turrets, which looked intact.

At that time, these thickened pillboxes and gun towers were not destroyed during the battle.

After the war, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang discussed and decided not to destroy the thickened pillboxes and turrets for the time being.

If the county seat is taken back by the devils in the future, the devils will definitely continue to be in those thickened pillboxes and turrets, and when the time comes, the new regiment will knock them down again, and it will be a big fortune.

How can you only do it once?

Ono Binfu said: "According to the Chief of Staff of the First Army, Major General Hanaya, the Eighth Route Army first used large-caliber heavy artillery to aim at direct fire, used smoke grenades to block the view of machine gunners, and the flamethrowers carried flamethrowers, and then captured those thickened pillboxes and turrets. ”

"Yo Xi!"

When Miura Saburo heard this, his face turned from gloomy to sunny: "This provides an idea for our attack, there is an old Chinese saying that if the third attack is unfavorable, use this tactic again!" ”

Smoke grenades, the locust army has.

Flamethrowers, locust armies also have.

Although there is intelligence that the new regiment of the Eighth Route is equipped with gas masks.

But Saburo Miura still wanted to give it a try, because when the 10th Division attacked the national army a few years ago, the use of poison gas bombs was almost invincible.

As for the kind of excavation method mentioned by Hiroo Ohno, it is too time-consuming.

According to reconnaissance, the Eighth Route has built many positions and pillboxes at a depth of more than 10 kilometers, and this is only the beginning, and there are still tough battles to be fought in the back.

In the field of vision of the artillery mirror, the Japanese fired hundreds of shells, but none of the hidden forts exposed by the Eighth Route New Regiment could be destroyed.

Saburo Miura coldly ordered: "Order, stop shelling, fire chemical bombs!" ”

The communications counter immediately called the rear artillery positions and gave the order to fire chemical bombs.

Dozens of seconds later, a sharp whistling sound swept overhead, flew towards the position of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and then quickly exploded.

This time, the devil fired the yellow and red bullets of the poison gas bombs.

The explosion of a red bullet can release a poisonous gas that strongly stimulates the respiratory organs, commonly known as a sneeze bomb; Yellow bullets, on the other hand, release erosive toxic gases, which can cause ulceration of the skin and mucous membranes.

At a position of about 400 meters from the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Two squadrons of about 400 devil soldiers, all wearing gas masks, have touched here and are ready to attack.

There are not many gas masks from devils, but they will not equip the puppet army, so all the devils in this attack this time are devils, and there is no puppet army.

I saw that poison gas bombs had spread over the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

The squadron leader of the devil suddenly became fanatical and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty the Locust! ”

The devils raised their rifles in their hands and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty the Locust!" ”

The excited and fanatical appearance was as if he had seen the locust with his own eyes, and the devil soldiers of the first division were more enthusiastic about bushido and worshiped the locust than the devil soldiers of the second-line division.

Then, under the leadership of the two devil squadron leaders, more than 400 devil soldiers with rifles scattered and quickly rushed towards the new regiment position.

……

"The devils have begun to attack, with a strength of about 400 and a distance of 380 meters!"

The new regiment was filled with poisonous gas, obscuring the view of the observation posts, but the observers at the commanding heights of the hill could get an unobstructed view of the devil's attack.

The observer immediately conveyed this situation to the first battalion with a low-power walkie-talkie.

With Zhang Dabiao's order issued, this time it was still two companies responsible for going out from the tunnel to defend the position.

"Put on a gas mask and tie your sleeves and neck tight!"

"Get into position!"

The two battalion commanders have a lot of combat experience and know the power of the devil's gas bombs, in addition to wearing gas masks, they must also not let their skin be exposed, otherwise they will be hit.

Within half a minute, all the fighters were ready, and with the order of the company commander, the fighters in gas masks entered the position from the pit with their weapons.

Although he entered the position, because the devil fired a poison gas bomb at the position, it was like a fog, and his vision was not good.

But.

The soldiers were still not afraid of danger, and they pushed the bullets into their chambers one after another, aiming in the direction where the devil came from, and their eyes were fierce.

……

Li Mancang, a 24-year-old machine gunner in the third company and one platoon of the first battalion, is a native of Tianjiazhuang, Hebei Province, and uses an M1917 Browning heavy machine gun.

The same heavy machine gun used by John Baslon, who shot more than 2,000 Devil soldiers on Kuah Island.

At this time, Li Mancang passed through the gap in the dark fort and quietly watched the ghost soldiers wearing gas masks and rushing towards the new regiment in the distance.

The group of devils was light and fast, and their attention was all on the new mass of positions shrouded in poison gas bombs.

During this period, the artillery unit of the devil continuously fired poison gas bombs at the position of the new regiment, so that the spread of poison gas could continue forever.

The front of the position was not flat, but there were many uneven dirt bags, some of which had been converted into thickened bunkers, and they were restored to their original state, and there was no abnormality to be seen.

This is a side-fire specially prepared for devils, and there are six more bunkers on the flanks like this.

As the devil entered the shooting range, Li Mancang asked the secondary shooter to push away the brick blocking the shooting hole, then pulled the bolt, opened the safety, and put his thumb on the firing iron of the heavy machine gun with a fierce expression.

With the sound of "gnawing and gnawing", the chain of 250 rounds was continuously eaten into the chamber, but when it came out from the other side, only the chain was missing.

The bullet was split into two parts, and the eggshell was thrown to the ground inside the bunker, but the bullet flew towards the devil infantry 150 meters away!

The machine gunners of the other six bunkers opened fire almost synchronously, and through the firing holes, Li Mancang saw that the unprepared devils fell in an instant.

Under the dense fire and machine gun fire, even the formation of the devils of the A Division was suddenly chaotic, and then fell in a pool of blood one by one.