Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 591 Boiling water

The second day of the battle of Jiepai Village was the real test for the 145th Division.

The shadow of the Japanese plane shrouded the green mountains as soon as the first ray of sunlight hit the green mountains in the early morning.

The light and heavy machine guns in the central position and the left and right wing positions did not resist air-to-air shooting.

It's not that they didn't dare, but that they had to live until the Japanese infantry rushed over.

Without these light and heavy firepower points, the rifles in the hands of the infantry alone would definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Japanese infantry.

On the ground, silently!

Ten fighter planes with red suns painted on their tails dropped bombs recklessly at an altitude of 800 meters above the ground, shrouding the entire position in soaring flames and gunpowder smoke.

Li Shoushan, who arrived in front of the central main position from the left wing position, looked at all this in front of him, and finally showed satisfaction on his face.

After yesterday's battle, Li Shoushan found that the Sichuan army on the left-wing battlefield seemed to be reborn and stronger. Li Shoushan finally decided not to engage in any new tricks of "strike with two fists", but to use the old trick of two wings to contain the central breakthrough.

The ten bombers launched by the Japanese Navy from the battleship were his big move for the central breakthrough.

With Li Shoushan's military rank and seniority, of course he didn't have the ability to use the Japanese navy's fighter planes. It was Kunizaki who asked the Japanese navy to send out fighter planes for help through Yanagawa Hirasuke.

The Japanese navy itself was supported by a dozen. Although it was broken twice in a row near Baihe Port, it has been half a month, and the mentality has finally eased down. In addition, the Chinese fighters have never been dispatched since that air battle. , This courage has also become bigger. It is more than 200 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, and they don't even send a fighter formation to escort them. If the Chinese Air Force does not hesitate to pay them, they will come again, and promise to sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Japanese Navy.

Unfortunately, Tang Dao knew that it was impossible.

Although it was a great victory last time, it was already the only remaining force of the Air Force, and at that time the high-level officials needed the entire Songjiang army to be alive. Otherwise, the hundreds of thousands of troops who were still evacuating were chased by the crazily advancing Japanese army. I am afraid that the loss would not be Several future elites of the Air Force have arrived.

That's not because of the face of the two lieutenant generals Wu and Guo, but because they obey the strategy of the entire battlefield.

But the small Guangde battlefield is obviously not up to that level, even those big bosses are also very clear that if Guangde is lost, Wuhu will be lost, and the back road of Jinling will be completely cut off, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city will have no way out Refundable.

However, they still had illusions, thinking that the hundreds of thousands of elites deployed inside and outside Jinling City could block the front of the Japanese army.

No one knows what kind of thought that big boss had in handing over the important task of city defense to the general commander who "must live and die with the city" but is useless, and no one knows how the general did it Hundreds of thousands of elites only resisted for a week before the city was destroyed, and no one knew how they were so heartless and escaped alone, leaving behind the soldiers who were still bloody and killing the enemy.

That was undoubtedly the most tragic page in the history of China's war, but they really did it.

Tang Dao, the Independent Battalion, and even the thousands of Sichuan troops who are defending Jiepai Village are just like a small splash in the raging sea. They can't stop this tragedy from happening. The only thing they can do is fight.

Before you die, fight!

Ten arrogant Japanese naval bombers swooped back and forth several times, dropping at least two tons of bombs, blowing up the defenders' positions like hell.

Nagano Duyun is the captain of the bomber formation led by the squadron. Through the binoculars, he carefully observed the Chinese position on the mountainside with thick smoke everywhere under the wings.

The dense forests and bushes on the position had been stripped away in yesterday's bombing and shelling, and the plane had already flown low enough, so he could clearly see the corpses wrapped in black military uniforms scattered everywhere on the ground.

"Yoshi! This bombing was very successful, and the army millipedes should be very grateful for the efforts of the elites of the Imperial Navy!" The Japanese navy captain nodded with satisfaction, and boasted a lot on the radio station.

"Haha! Captain Nagano, the army millipedes should be staring at the heroic figure of the Imperial Navy in a daze right now!"

"Army Malu would like to thank you, but on behalf of the Imperial Navy, I answer them with three words, no need!"

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The Japanese naval pilots who successfully completed the mission expressed their joy on the radio station.

This kind of unchallenging bombing mission is too easy for them, like a trip at public expense.

But I have to say that China is really too big. The Japanese navy pilots, who have never seen such a vast land in their life, looked down greedily at this fertile land countless times during the flight.

Thinking that this land will belong to them or their children and grandchildren in the future, I can't help feeling happy.

If the ecstatic Japanese naval pilots had the courage to zoom in a little more and lower their flight altitude by another 200 meters, they might find that their bombs were not as effective as they thought.

It took one night to dig a large number of trenches based on the two trenches. The spider web-like position was ravaged by aerial bombs weighing more than 200 pounds. There were indeed a lot of black military uniforms unique to the Sichuan Army scattered on the position. Wrapped 'corpse'.

But if you get closer, you will find that there is no blood in those corpses.

It was a 'scarecrow' made of branches and straw by Tang Dao's brainstorming, and put on the Sichuan army uniform outside, and put it on the position in the early morning.

The huge air wave caused by the aerial bombs swept past, and these scarecrows in military uniforms were naturally swept up all over the ground. From a high altitude, it seemed that the corpses did not run away.

Because the lieutenant general of the Sichuan Army had already decided on the tactic of "hot pot warfare", he didn't even set up an observation post in the trench, and the whole army hid in the dense forest behind the mountain early.

After this round of bombing, no one was killed except for a dozen soldiers who were injured by the falling stones from the sky.

As soon as the Japanese bomber fleet flew away, the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time were on standby. As long as they were ordered, they would climb over the ridge and enter the position.

The Lieutenant General of the Sichuan Army did not immediately give the order to enter the position. He and Tang Dao hid on the ridge and were observing the movements of the Japanese infantry through binoculars. They were advancing slowly, as if they were waiting for something.

Naturally, it was waiting for the artillery.

Li Shoushan was cunning enough that their artillery group started roaring after 10 minutes of plane bombing.

This made the commanders at all levels of the Sichuan Army who were eager to enter the position could not help but wipe off cold sweat. If they entered the position in a hurry, they would be hiding in the trenches and being bombarded in vain.

However, this time the Japanese army's artillery preparations were much shorter than yesterday's, but within 15 minutes, their infantry moved. Three infantry companies and one infantry squadron, a combination of devils and two devils, nearly 500 people, rushed to the battlefield.

The signal flare was sent out, and more than a thousand infantry entered their respective positions through the traffic trench.

So far, the cruelest day of the battle of Jiepai Village really kicked off.

The Japanese army entered the first-line trenches with almost no resistance.

However, what they have to face seems to be a maze, a maze of trenches, gunshots everywhere, and resistance.

No one dared to jump out of the trenches to observe the battlefield. The higher ground was occupied by China. Under Tang Dao's suggestion, dozens of veterans with good marksmanship were selected as cold gunners. The Japanese who dared to be exposed outside the trenches carried out the killing.

If you want to conquer positions, you have to occupy one trench after another, one position after another.

No artillery, no heavy machine guns are very useful here.

The two sides are fighting hand-to-hand, and there may be enemies in the trenches more than ten meters away. Hearing the movement here, throwing a few grenades or grenades in a row will kill people.

Is this the magic horse fighting method?

The Japanese commanders on the front line are a little confused!
But Li Shoushan was still suppressing his joy. With the successful occupation of the first-line trenches, the will of the Chinese defenders to resist will definitely be weakened. They just need to put some more pressure on them, and maybe they will completely collapse in the next moment.

However, with the intense gunfire on the battlefield, half an hour later, the commander in front sent out a signal for help. Li Shoushan and the two Japanese majors, who were drinking fragrant tea at the headquarters, finally became less calm.

What I saw through the binoculars was a battlefield full of gunpowder smoke, like a pot of boiling water, fierce battles everywhere.

The imperial army is resolutely attacking, while the Chinese side is resisting tenaciously, showing no sign of collapse.

It seems that this is not the battlefield they imagined.

If they want to support, they cannot rely on the cannons or heavy machine guns that have an absolute advantage in firepower, they can only send in infantry continuously.

The warring parties, in the following time, can only continue to add troops.

The chessboard-like position is like a small meat grinder, 'grinding' the soldiers that the commanders of both sides put in coldly into corpses.

In just one morning, more than 500 corpses were brought back from the Japanese positions.

But China has none.

Because, no need, this is the front line and the last line of defense. Their lieutenant general and division commander is on the ridge more than 200 meters away.

Before this battle, he gave a lecture in front of the officers above the lieutenants of the whole division: "Regardless of life or death, before sunset, we will be in this position. Those who are alive will drop bombs and shoot, and those who are dead will be left to the brothers." Use them as a cover."

(End of this chapter)