Night.

The moon stars are scarce.

The engineer wing of the 10th Division took advantage of the darkness to find a position about 300 meters away from the forward position of the new regiment.

Then, the sappers of the devil began to dig forward with earthwork.

For the earthwork industry that excavates forward, the distance of 300 meters is not close, but the devil's sappers are highly trained, and the earthwork is a good job.

In addition to detecting mines, opening roads in the mountains, and building bridges in the face of water, the sappers also have the tasks of laying mines, setting up obstacles, carrying out camouflage, setting false targets, and building military projects.

Even the new regiment had a special engineer battalion.

Li Yunlong, who was inspecting the position of the first battalion, felt that something was wrong, and the silence around him was a little abnormal.

If he was the commander of the Japanese army, he would definitely send troops to attack and disturb at night, so that the new regiment of fighters on the position could not rest.

Then look for opportunities to seize positions at night.

If the devil comes to disturb after a while, then Li Yunlong is relieved.

Soldiers don't like silence, because the silence on the battlefield is full of greater dangers, and it predicts that there will be more fierce battles to come.

Li Yunlong intuitively realized that the Japanese army was preparing a more violent attack.

After a fierce battle for half a day, the casualties of the new regiment were not large, and the consumption of ammunition was not much, but the devils were not fools, and most of the losses during the day would attack at night.

With favorable terrain, sufficient ammunition, and strong firepower, it will be no problem to hold on to Dagu Town for half a month.

When the strength of the 10th Division is almost exhausted, the soldiers are exhausted, and the logistics supply cannot keep up, then the new regiment can launch a full-scale counteroffensive against the 10th Division.

"Shoot a flare and take a look."

Li Yunlong called a mortar group and ordered at the artillery fighters.

"Yes, Captain!"

The mortar crew quickly erected the 60mm mortar and then placed flares into the barrel.

Shout!

As a flare rose into the air, it exploded with a snap, and the surroundings were lit up as if it were day.

Li Yunlong took advantage of the flare to raise the telescope and look.

Although the surroundings were very bright, it was not daylight after all, and the devil sappers immediately stopped working, so Li Yunlong did not see the trench dug by the devil.

After about 30 seconds, the flares quickly dimmed, and the area around the position fell into darkness again.

"Flares are fired every 15 minutes."

Li Yunlong gave an order to the artillery crew, turned around and walked towards the tunnel, and then drilled into the tunnel.

Many soldiers in the first battalion slept in the tunnel, and Li Yunlong did not disturb the soldiers, and walked out of the tunnel with a flashlight and walked to the headquarters.

"Lao Li, did you find any situation?"

As soon as he walked into the headquarters, Zhao Gang came up with an oil lamp and asked.

"There is no situation."

Li Yunlong said with a serious expression: "I estimate that the devil may be restless tonight, and I have asked the first battalion to pay attention to it." ”

Zhao Gang said: "That's okay, you can sleep for a while, I'll watch here, and I'll call you if there's something." ”

Li Yunlong nodded, lay down on the chair, and soon lay down with a snoring sound.

Years of military career have made Grand Master Li develop the habit of being able to sleep at any time.

As a commander, you must keep a clear head at all times, because every command you give is a matter of life and death for many soldiers, and deep sleep is necessary.

Li Yunlong was awakened by a rapid and continuous cannon sound, and he jumped up from his chair: "Where is the cannon?" Where to shoot? ”

Immediately afterward, the sound of artillery and machine guns continued to sound rapidly.

Zhao Gang's gaze retracted from the direction of the first battalion position: "It's the direction of the first battalion position, and our artillery is firing." ”

The chief of staff grabbed the phone with Wang Dehou, quickly shook the handle, and then said: "Hey, is it a battalion, this is the regiment headquarters, what happened over there?" ”

"What did you say?"

"Okay, I'll report to the regimental commander."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Dehou reported to Li Yunlong:

"The battalion commander reported that the devil sappers dug the trench to a position within 40 meters of the forward position, and it was discovered by the soldiers of our forward position, and the battalion commander Zhang ordered the troops to fight a shuttle."

Li Yunlong said: "I'll go to the first battalion position to have a look." ”

After finishing speaking, Li Yunlong walked out of the headquarters quickly, looked at the watch in his hand, and there was only half an hour left before dawn.

Unexpectedly, after sleeping in the middle of the night, Li Yunlong felt full of energy.

Soon, Li Yunlong came to the headquarters of the first battalion on the top of the mountain with the guards and messengers.

"Zhang Dabiao, what the hell are you doing?"

"The devil dug the trench and didn't even notice it?"

Striding into the headquarters of the first battalion, Li Yunlong's loud voice sounded simultaneously.

"I'm sorry, Captain!" Zhang Dabiao hurriedly walked up.

"Damn, I'll drop the chain for Lao Tzu."

Li Yunlong snorted coldly, the battlefield is like this, no one can predict what will happen in the next moment.

"What's going on now?"

Li Yunlong walked to the observation position of the headquarters and looked down, at this time, the flare just fired by the first battalion had not yet been extinguished, and he saw that the open position of the forward position had been dug out by devil sappers and the trenches were criss-crossed, and the trenches were crowded.

Zhang Dabiao's tone was fierce: "It seems that the devils are going to attack along these trenches, but our battalion is ready for battle. ”

Li Yunlong's face was grim, the devils had encroached on the distance of less than 40 meters close to the forward position, and the mortars could only be fired vertically, the distance was too close, and the disemboweled shells were very likely to fall on his head.

……

At the same time.

In the headquarters of the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Saburo Miura, Hiroo Ohno, and Tatsuharu Yamaguchi were all about to smile crookedly.

Saburo Miura said: "I originally thought that the engineer wing would be successful if it could dig 60 meters away from the forward position of the new first regiment, but I didn't expect that if it was dug within 40 meters, the locust soldiers could continue to follow the trench and reach a position 40 meters away from the forward position of the Eighth Road. ”

Ono Hiroo said: "That is to say, the attack distance of the locust army has changed from nearly 400 meters to only 40 meters. ”

Yamado Taharu said confidently: "My 3rd squadron has reached the front, as long as the 3rd squadron smoothly enters the Eighth Route position and starts a white-knuckle battle with the Eighth Route Army, the follow-up troops of our wing will be able to follow the trenches dug out by the engineer wing and continuously enter the Eighth Route position until the position is completely occupied." ”

"Yo Xi!" Saburo Miura nodded happily: "Then let's start!" ”

……

In the headquarters of the first battalion of the new regiment.

As another flare went out, Li Yunlong quickly understood the thoughts of the devil commander.

He immediately said to the communication soldier beside him: "Immediately contact the Heavy Artillery Battalion and the 1st Artillery Battalion to carry out an interception artillery bombardment 150 to 200 meters away from the forward position!" ”

"Yes!"

The communications soldier immediately picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and called.

"Horn!"

As a red flare rose into the air, Li Yunlong understood that the devil's attack was about to begin.

In the trenches, the crosshairs of the various weapons of the new group of soldiers were silently aimed at the front, and no devils showed their heads.

The soldiers were in doubt, when suddenly a sharp whistling sound sounded in the sky, and dozens of shells streaked through the dark red trajectory in the sky and fell into the position fortifications of the new regiment and one battalion.

With the sound of a landslide-like explosion, the fire flashed and the smoke filled the air.

The artillery literacy of the devils was extremely high, and almost all the shells fell on the positions of the new regiment.

There was no shout of the charge, and after the fifth round of shells fell on the position of the new regiment, more than 200 devils of the 3rd squadron of the 40th Wing, who were lying down the slope, jumped up and rushed towards the position of the new regiment with rifles.

The machine gunners of the devils shot from a distance.

The new group of fighters who survived the shell explosion were not afraid, and returned fire with the firepower in their hands, beating the dozens of devils who were the first to break out of the trenches into a sieve.

As the devils threw dozens of melon grenades into the new regiment of positions, the firepower of the forward positions was more than half.

Immediately afterwards, more than 160 devil soldiers poured into the new regiment of positions.

Without hesitation, the fighters of the new regiment greeted the devil with bayonets.

Since it was not yet dawn, the soldiers who came out of the tunnel could not shoot, and would injure their own people by mistake.

The devils of the 10th Division showed super high stabbing skills.

Many of the soldiers of the new regiment and battalion were supplemented from various divisions, and some of the soldiers had only participated in the war for a few months and had not yet participated in decent white-knuckle warfare, and many veterans were transferred to various divisions to serve as squad and platoon commanders, and the overall combat effectiveness of the first battalion increased, but the level of white-knuckle combat declined.

However, as a battalion of soldiers continued to emerge from the pit and join the white-knuckle battle, the devils gradually became a little unable to support it.

That's when it happened.

The sound of artillery tore through the quiet air in an instant, and the shells of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Artillery and the Heavy Artillery Battalion of the new regiment fell from different directions on a strip of 150 to 200 meters from the forward position of the 1st Battalion.

With a loud bang and a loud bang like a landslide cracking the ground, the 50-meter area was blown into a sea of fire, and even the trench fortifications could not be passed through.

After more than ten minutes of white-knuckle fighting, the more than 160 devils who entered the new regiment's position were all wiped out.

Due to the heavy artillery battalion joining in the artillery fire blockade, the follow-up echelon of the devils did not pass through the artillery fire blockade area.

With three rounds of shells pouring angrily on the positions of the first battalion, the devil's fifth attack failed.

In this battle, the 1st Battalion finally caught two wounded devil soldiers who refused to surrender and were taken to the headquarters of the new 1st Regiment.

(End of chapter)