The second day of the battle at Jiepai Village was the real test for the 145th Division.
The shadow of the Japanese plane shrouded the green mountains not long after the first ray of sunshine in the morning.
The light and heavy machine guns in the central position and the left and right wing positions did not resist anti-aircraft fire.
It's not that they don't dare, but that they must live until the Japanese infantry rushes 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 Japanese infantry attack.
On the ground, there is no sound!
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 smoke.
Li Shoushan, who arrived at the main central position from the left wing position, looked at everything in front of him, with a look of satisfaction finally showing on his face.
After yesterday's battle, Li Shoushan found that the Sichuan army on the left battlefield seemed to be completely reborn and had a much stronger combat effectiveness. Li Shoushan finally decided not to use the new trick of "attacking with two fists", but resorted to the old trick of using two wings to contain the central breakthrough.
The ten bombers of the Japanese Navy that took off from the battleship were his central breakthrough move.
With Li Shoushan's military rank and qualifications, of course he did not have the ability to mobilize Japanese naval fighter aircraft. That was when Kunizaki asked the Japanese Navy to dispatch fighter aircraft for help through Yanagawa Heisuke.
The Japanese navy itself is a dozen auxiliaries. Although it suffered two consecutive defeats near Baihe Port, half a month has passed and its mentality has finally relaxed. In addition, the Chinese fighter planes have not been dispatched since that air battle.
, this courage has also become bigger. It is more than 200 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, and it does not even send a fighter formation to escort it. If the Chinese Air Force does not hesitate to do it again, it will surely add salt to 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 strength of the Air Force, and at that time, the top management needed the entire Songjiang army to be alive. Otherwise, the hundreds of thousands of troops still evacuating would be chased by the crazy advancing Japanese army, and the losses would probably not be
Several future air force elites.
That's not because of the dignity of the two lieutenant generals Wu and Guo, but because they are subordinate to the strategy of the entire battlefield.
But the small Guangde battlefield is obviously not up to that level. Even the big guys know very well that if Guangde is lost, Wuhu will be lost. Jinling's back road will be completely cut off, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city will have no way to go.
Can be withdrawn.
However, they still had the illusion that the hundreds of thousands of elites deployed inside and outside Jinling City could block the Japanese advance.:.
No one knew what the big boss had in mind when entrusting the important task of city defense to the useless general commander who "must live and die with the city", and no one knew how the general did it.
Hundreds of thousands of elites only resisted for a week before the city was defeated, and no one knew how they were so ruthless that they escaped alone and left behind their subordinates who were still killing the enemy in blood.
That was undoubtedly the most tragic page in the history of Chinese wars, but they really did it.
Tang Dao, the Independent Battalion, and even the thousands of Sichuan troops who were defending Jiepai Village were just like a small splash in the roaring sea. They were unable to prevent this tragedy from happening. The only thing they could do was to fight.
Fight before you die!
Ten arrogant Japanese naval bombers dived back and forth several times, dropping at least more than two tons of bombs, which blasted the defenders' positions into craters like hell.
Nagano Toyun, the captain of the bomber formation that he led this time, carefully observed the Chinese position on the mountainside with thick smoke rising from under the wings through the telescope.
The dense forests and bushes on the position had been stripped away by yesterday's bombing and shelling, and the plane had flown low enough, so he could clearly see the bodies wrapped in black military uniforms scattered everywhere on the ground.
"Yo Xi! This bombing was a success. The army and the mainland should be very grateful to the imperial navy elite for their efforts!" The Japanese navy captain nodded with satisfaction and boasted about himself on the radio.
"Haha! Captain Nagano, the army and the mainland should be looking up at the heroic appearance of the Imperial Navy in a daze right now!"
"The Army and Malu want to thank them, but on behalf of the Imperial Navy, I give them a three-word answer, no need!"...
The Japanese naval pilots who successfully completed the mission expressed their joy on the radio station.
This kind of unchallenging bombing mission was too easy for them, just like a trip at public expense.
But I have to say that China is really too big. The Japanese naval pilots, who had never seen such a vast land in their lives, greedily looked down at this fertile land countless times during the flight.
When I think that this land will belong to them or their descendants in the future, I can't help but feel happy.
If the complacent Japanese naval pilots were brave enough to fly a little further and lower their flight altitude by another 200 meters, they might find that the effect of their bombs was not as good as they imagined.
It took one night to excavate a large number of trenches based on two trenches. The position, which was like a spider web, was ravaged by more than 200 pounds of aerial bombs. There were indeed many black military uniforms unique to the Sichuan Army scattered on the position.
The wrapped 'corpse'.
But if you get closer, you will find that there is no blood in those corpses.
Tang Dao had an idea and organized people to make a 'scarecrow' out of branches and straw. He then put on the Sichuan Army uniform and placed it on the battlefield in the early morning.
The huge air wave caused by the aerial bomb surged through, and these scarecrows in military uniforms were naturally swept up all over the position. From a high altitude, it seemed that the corpses were everywhere.
Because the Sichuan Army Lieutenant General had already decided on the tactics of "hot pot war", there were not even observation posts in the trenches, and the entire army hid in the dense forest behind the mountain early.
After this round of bombing, except for a dozen soldiers who were injured by gravel falling from the sky, no one was killed.
As soon as the Japanese bomber group flew away, the soldiers who had been prepared for a long time went into standby mode. As long as the order was given, they would climb over the ridge and enter the position.
The Sichuan Army Lieutenant General did not immediately issue an order to enter the position. He and Tang Dao were hiding on the ridge and were observing the movements of the Japanese infantry through binoculars. They were advancing very slowly, as if they were waiting for something.
Naturally, they were waiting for artillery.
Li Shoushan was cunning enough that ten minutes after the plane bombed, their artillery group started roaring.
This made the commanders of the Sichuan Army at all levels who were eager to enter the position shed a cold sweat. If they had entered the position in a hurry, they would be hiding in the trenches and being shelled in vain.
However, this time the Japanese army's artillery preparations were much shorter than yesterday. In just fifteen minutes, their infantry moved. Three infantry companies and an infantry squadron, a combination of Japanese and Japanese soldiers, nearly 500 people, rushed to the battlefield.
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The signal flare was sent out, and more than a thousand infantry entered their respective positions through the communication trenches.
At this point, the cruelest day of the battle in Jiepai Village really began.
The Japanese army entered the front-line trenches with little resistance.
However, what they were facing seemed to be a maze, a maze of trenches, with gunshots and resistance everywhere.
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 to serve as cold guns. They hid in high places and attacked the battlefield.
Kill the Japanese soldiers who dare to be exposed outside the trenches.
If you want to conquer a position, you have to occupy it trench by trench, position by position.
No artillery or heavy machine gun is of much use here.
The two sides are fighting hand to hand, and there may be enemies in the trenches more than ten meters away. If they hear the movement here, several grenades or hand grenades are thrown over them, which can kill someone.
Is this a magical horse fighting method?
The Japanese commander on the front line was a little confused!
And Li Shoushan was still suppressing his joy. With the successful occupation of the front-line trenches, the Chinese defenders' will to resist will definitely be weakened. As long as more pressure is applied, they may completely collapse in the next moment.
But with the fierce gunfire on the position, half an hour later, the forward commander sent a signal for help. Li Shoushan and the two Japanese majors who were drinking tea at the headquarters finally became less calm.
What I saw through the telescope was a battlefield filled with gunpowder smoke, like a pot of boiling water, with fierce fighting happening everywhere.
The imperial army is resolutely attacking, while the Chinese are resisting tenaciously, without the slightest sign of collapse.
It seems that this is not the battlefield they imagined.
If they want to support them, they cannot rely on artillery or heavy machine guns with absolute firepower advantage. They can only continuously send in infantry.
The two warring parties can only continue to add troops in the coming time.
The chessboard-like position was like a small meat grinder, 'grinding' the soldiers who the commanders on both sides kept investing with cold hearts into corpses.
In just one morning, the Japanese brought back more than 500 corpses from the position.
But China has none.
Because, there is no need. This is the front line and the last line of defense. Their lieutenant general is on the ridge more than 200 meters away.
Before this battle, he had lectured in front of all the officers of the division and above: "Whether we are alive or dead, we will be on this position before sunset. Those who are alive will drop bombs and shoot, and those who are dead will be left to our brothers."
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