Twenty minutes later, the reconnaissance company commander Tang Shengbo suddenly appeared at the command department: "Chief of Staff, the Japanese army transferred an infantry brigade to leave the battlefield in two groups. Judging from the direction of their marching, the purpose of these Japanese soldiers should be to encircle us!"

Zhou Cheng snorted coldly and replied: "I was wondering just now why the Japanese only transferred two and a half brigades to attack us. If one brigade stayed near the artillery position and stood by, our next action would be troublesome."

"I didn't expect that the Japanese had such a big appetite and wanted to wipe us out in Zhujiazhuang... But I like that, the bigger their appetite and the more dispersed their troops, the greater the chance of us winning this battle."

"Order Liang Hongjiang to draw a reinforced company from the guard battalion to deal with the Japanese who were surrounded by the left wing of the battlefield. Wang Tieshan draws a reinforced platoon from the reconnaissance company and joins the reconnaissance team to deal with the Japanese who are surrounded by the right wing of the battlefield!"

"I don't ask them to wipe out the Japanese troops, but they must drag these two Japanese troops on the battlefield and cannot return here in a short time until we seize the Japanese artillery position!"

As soon as the two left, the roar of the plane "Wuh-buzz..." sounded above everyone's heads, and the sound became louder and louder.

Zhou Cheng quickly returned to the observation port and saw two planes less than 300 meters above the ground at first glance. The more he looked at the expression on his face, the more serious he was. He ordered very seriously: "Chief of Staff, immediately notify the troops on the battlefield to strengthen their concealment, especially the troops hiding in the castle. Even if the Japanese throw bombs on the ground, they cannot be exposed!"

At the Japanese army's front command, the radio operator suddenly put down his headphones and walked quickly to Colonel Ishida to report: "Sir, the aviation reconnaissance telegram has arrived!"

"The above said that the National Salvation Army has indeed built six defensive positions in front of us, and each defensive position has a battalion of the National Salvation Army, equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars!"

The adjutant beside him immediately praised: "Sir, you are so amazing. I didn't expect that the blocking position built by the National Salvation Army in front of us was exactly the same as you judged!"

"The six blocking positions, each blocking position has a battalion of troops, and the total is exactly two garrisons."

"If we can gather these national rescue troops in Zhujiazhuang, there will be no other troops in the National Saving Army's defense zone that can fight against us!"

Colonel Ishida laughed very happily, looking at the blocking position not far away with an excited command: "I can finally take revenge. I ordered the artillery troops to fire at the first blocking position of the National Salvation Army in five minutes, razing the place to the ground within five minutes, and then the infantry assaulted to fight for an attack and take it down!"

"The aviation force continues to be our eyes in the sky. If there is a National Salvation Army supporting the first line of defense, there is no need to report to the command center and launch an attack on the enemy directly!"

"Woooooooo..." There was a harsh whistling sound from the air, and three shells of different caliber accurately hit the first line of defense of the National Salvation Army.

"Boom..." The violent explosion sounded like thunder on the battlefield, and the pungent smoke and rolling smoke quickly spread around.

The heavy artillery shells are the most powerful. The smoke rising from the ground directly rolls up a mushroom cloud over the explosion point. The black smoke rising rapidly is much thicker than the mountain artillery shells.

"The Japanese have started attacking, and the first battalion of the pacification guards is ready for combat immediately!" Zhou Cheng stood at the observation post and ordered the front command of the National Salvation Army.

"Woooooooooooo... rumble..." As soon as the combat order came out of the command center, the second round of Japanese shells was smashed down with a scream.

There were as many as thirty-six shells flying over this time, twelve of which were heavy artillery shells. In terms of power and lethality, a large caliber shell was worth several mountain artillery shells, one explosion and one scattered, and the trenches were also razed to the ground during the explosion.

The explosion of "Boom..." was like thunder, deafening.

The smoke rising from the air instantly submerged the first blocking position.

After learning that the Japanese offensive troops were equipped with a large number of artillery, Zhou Cheng was ready to block the position by his opponent. But he did not expect that the opponent had achieved such an effect after only one round of shells, so Zhou Cheng himself was stunned by the shelling and it took him a long time to react.

But this shelling also made him happy.

Although the Japanese artillery fire was very fierce, they were all concentrated on the blocking position. The protagonist of today's battle was not the blocking position, but the machine gun castle scattered around the defense line.

They did not expose the target in the air reconnaissance just now, so Colonel Ishida did not know these threats. No matter how powerful the artillery fire strikes from the artillery troops could not hurt them!

After the shelling stopped in five minutes, the Japanese who had already touched a hundred meters in front of the formation began to assault forward.

Holding a gun and holding a light machine gun, he screamed and rushed towards the blocking position filled with smoke. His speed was fast and he was not vigilant at all.

The artillery fire just now was too fierce. Even if the national-savior army on the position was made of steel and iron, it would be blown into a pile of minced meat by such fierce artillery fire.

In the eyes of these Japanese and puppet troops, the subsequent battle is not as an attack as a cleaning scene, which may be more accurate in the description.

Every time the troops were about to fight a big battle, Zhou Cheng's expression was particularly serious, and today was no exception.

While observing the Japanese and puppet troops' every move, they ordered: "Notify the troops in the anti-aircraft artillery hole to enter the position immediately, block the Japanese under the prerequisite of protecting themselves, put them fifty meters in front of the position, and then all the castles joined the battle together, severely damaging the Japanese attacking troops!"

"Baoba...daoba..."

The blocking position soon heard the sound of rifle shooting and the small amount of machine gun strafing sound.

When the artillery was bombarded just now, the first battalion hid in the anti-aircraft hole in squads and platoons, so the time they left the anti-aircraft hole and entered the position was front and back, which led to their counterattacks being very messy.

In addition, most of the light and heavy machine guns equipped by the first battalion were hidden in the castle and the entire defense line was fired, and the attack was intermittent, which directly made Colonel Ishida mistakenly believe that his artillery attack had reached: the National Salvation Army on the position suffered heavy casualties in the artillery fire coverage, otherwise their counterattack guns would not be so chaotic, and the light machine gun shooting would not be so sparse.

You should know that the equipment of the National Salvation Army is well-known among the Chinese army in North China. It is not considered heavy weapons, and the number of light and heavy machine guns equipped with the same force is greater than that of the Imperial Army.

According to the intelligence provided by the military headquarters, a battalion of the National Salvation Army was equipped with at least three heavy machine guns and ten light machine guns. Now it only appears in three or four light machine guns, and there is not a heavy machine gun. The remaining light and heavy machine guns must have been blown up by the artillery fire just now!

Thinking of this, Colonel Ishida was more confident in the subsequent attack. He looked at the adjutant's murderous order: "Tell the offensive troops that there are not many people in the National Salvation Army on the blocking position, so that they don't have any worries and rush forward bravely!"

"The cover force strengthens the firepower output. We must suppress all the remaining national-savior troops on the battlefield in the ruins. This is a piece of fat that has been bitten into the mouth. We must not let them escape!"

"The artillery troops are ready to shoot and are ready to cover the reinforcements and retreating troops of the National Rescue Army with artillery fire..."

Under the firepower of nearly twenty heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, the blocking firepower on the defense line became weaker and weaker. The limited number of light machine guns had to stop shooting, and the sound of rifles was less than half. Sporadic bullets hit the offensive troops and were like itchy, without affecting their attack speed at all.

The eighty or nine hundred Japanese Japanese who launched the attack soon rushed to the front of the position fifty or sixty meters.

Many Japanese devils have already taken out their grenades and are preparing to rush forward for more than 20 meters before throwing them out. They first use their grenades to blow off some remaining soldiers of the national rescue army, and then rush up to fight with them for bayonets.

All this seemed to be very smooth, and the balance of victory was completely turned toward the Japanese.

Colonel Ishida held up a telescope to observe the battle situation. The more he looked, the happier he became. He felt that he had already won the attack and would not have any accidents again.

The closer the attacking troops are to block the position, the stronger the smile on the corner of their mouths, and the final victory becomes even further.

"Dongdongdongdong...dakdada..."

The sudden sound of machine gun strafing fire from the blocking position instantly broke Colonel Ishida's dream.

It's daytime now, and he can't judge the specific locations of these light and heavy machine guns by the gunfire, but their approximate locations can still be judged by the gunfire.

The smile on his face suddenly froze, and he shouted incrediblely: "Bageyalu, we are fooled!"

"The National Salvation Army hid a large number of firepower points on the blocking positions. The heavy machine gun squadron protected the attacking troops immediately retreated fifty meters, and the artillery immediately shelled the first line of defense of the National Salvation Army. Be sure to kill the machine gun firepower points just exposed by the National Salvation Army!"

Colonel Ishida's reaction was quick, but it took time to pass the order to the offensive troops, and the sudden firepower from the blocking position would not give them this time.

Thirty light and heavy machine guns can shoot together, and more than one hundred bullets can be fired every second. Wherever there are many Japanese, these bullets will fly wherever they are.

The two or three rows of troops who rushed to the front were the first to be hit, and they were swept to the ground in pieces.

Colonel Ishida could see clearly that many subordinates were hit by the same bullet fired by the National Salvation Army, just like a gourd, killing two or three of his subordinates with one bullet!

"The captain of the corps, the mountain artillery brigade and the heavy artillery brigade are ready to fire, but our offensive troops are too close to the blocking positions. In order to prevent accidental injuries, they dare not fire rashly!" The artillery staff hurried over to report.

"Captain of the regiment, there is a problem with the firepower point just exposed by the National Salvation Army!" the adjutant suddenly shouted.

"The mortars and grenade launchers equipped by the offensive troops have been firing. Many fire points have been hit by shells and grenades, but those fire points have not been destroyed and are still firing as usual!"

"It's a castle!" Colonel Ishida gritted his teeth and replied: "The National Salvation Army has built a large number of machine gun castles on its positions. Only mountain cannons and heavy cannons can destroy those castles. The shells shot by ordinary cannons are useless at all!"

"Order the mountain artillery brigade to fire immediately, and don't worry about accidental injury..."

"The offensive troops retreat immediately, freeing up enough space for the artillery troops to destroy the fire points on the positions!"

"The air force directly attacked the national rescue army on the battlefield to cover the retreat of the offensive troops!"

"They can carry out ultra-low-altitude bombing of the blocking positions of the National Salvation Army to avoid accidentally injuring the offensive troops!"

The front command of the National Salvation Army, from the beginning of the battle to the present, Zhou Cheng's eyes have never left the battlefield.

Seeing that the blocking position was blown up by the Japanese artillery again, the attacking troops took the opportunity to retreat, and Zhou Cheng also began to give orders.

"Combined with all mortars and grenade launchers that pacified the defensive positions of the garrison, the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops should be weakened as much as possible, and each cannon will be three shells, and retreat after the shooting!"

"The first battalion immediately gave up its position and retreated to the second line of defense!"

"The air defense company is ready for combat. The Japanese planes will definitely take the opportunity to bomb the blocking positions and cover their attacking troops to retreat! If we can destroy an aircraft, the next battle will definitely be much easier!"

After Chen Zhengyu gave the order, he looked at Zhou Cheng asking for instructions: "Would you like to let the artillery battalion participate in the battle?"

"They have locked in the Japanese artillery position and will definitely hit the starting lineup and severely damage the opponent!"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "They are not moving for the time being. The Japanese artillery positions have become our bags. Now firing cannons is like bombing our own things."

"Tell Battalion Commander Tan that his target is the Japanese infantry on the battlefield, not the artillery position!"

"The fighter plane has arrived, and I will naturally notify them to join the war!"

"Weng Mute..." The Japanese pilot who received the cover mission immediately lowered the flight altitude of the plane.

During the previous aerial reconnaissance, they flew over a low altitude of 100 meters, as if they were striking their powers above the head of the National Salvation Army, but they were not attacked.

Several pilots took it for granted that the ground national rescue army was not equipped with air defense weapons.

In order to successfully cover the attacking troops' evacuation from the battlefield and avoid accidentally injuring the attacking troops, several pilots decided to bomb the National Savior Army at an ultra-low altitude and directly threw the bombs to the firepower point that the National Savior Army had just exposed.

As the plane flew lower and lower, almost seeing the panic figure of the National Salvation Army on the ground, the pilot who led the lead began to look for the target of attack.

At this time, the plane was only more than 100 meters away from the ground. Except for air defense machine guns, light and heavy machine guns could fire bullets into this airspace.

"Dongdongdongdong...dakdada..."

Nearly ten tongues of fire suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese pilots, crossing each other into an airtight firepower net, instantly covering the plane.

"Bang bang bang..." Several bullets hit the fuselage, and a crisp sound of metal hitting it.

The pilot's face turned pale instantly, and he was so scared that he shivered. He quickly pulled the plane's joystick and wanted to mount the plane to climb to a safe height.

"Bang bang bang..."

The crisp metal impact sounds are getting denser, which means that more and more bullets are hitting the plane.

If a bullet hits the fuel tank, penetrates the cockpit, and hits yourself... the plane will definitely be finished.

Because of the rush, a large number of sweat had emerged from the pilot's forehead and he tried hard to pull the joystick.

But bombers are different from combat power. They are too bulky and have a slow climbing speed, making it difficult to rush to high altitude within one or two seconds.

However, the Japanese pilot was very lucky today. When the bomber rushed to a height of three or four hundred meters, although the wings had been sieved, the performance of the aircraft was not affected.

More importantly, this height causes almost half of the air defense firepower on the ground to lose its effect.

Faced with increasingly sparse air defense firepower, the pilot's pressure suddenly dropped, and he was very glad to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

It was almost time for the pilot to say that when he felt that he had escaped, a thick cloud of black smoke suddenly emerged from the engine.

The aircraft's power seemed to be affected, and its speed dropped significantly. The bomber, which was still climbing, actually drove its head toward the ground!
Chapter completed!