The second day of the Battle of Jiepai Village was the real test for the 145th Division.
The shadow of Japanese planes enveloped the green mountains not long after the first ray of sunshine shone on the first morning.
Neither the light and heavy machine guns in the central position nor the left and right wing positions made any resistance to air shooting.
It’s not that they dare not, but that they must live until the Japanese infantry rushed over.
Without these light and heavy firepower points, relying solely on the rifles in the hands of infantry would definitely not stop the attack of the Japanese infantry.
On the ground, silent!
The cross fighter jets with red suns at the tails were unscrupulously dropped bombs at an altitude of 800 meters above the ground, covering the entire position in the sky with flames and smoke.
Li Shoushan, who arrived in front of the central main position from the left wing position, looked at everything in front of him, and finally showed a look of satisfaction on his face.
After yesterday's battle, Li Shoushan, who found that the Sichuan Army on the left-wing battlefield seemed to have been transformed and had strong combat power, finally decided not to use any new tricks of "two-fist attacks", and instead started the old trick of restraining the central breakthrough with the two wings.
The ten bombers that the Japanese Navy took off from the warship were his ultimate move to break through the central government.
With Li Shoushan's military rank and qualifications, of course, he did not have the ability to call on the Japanese Navy's fighter jets. That was when Kiyosaki asked the Japanese Navy to send fighter jets to help through Yanagawa Heisuke.
The Japanese Navy itself was a supporter. Although it failed twice in a row near Baihe Port, it has finally eased its mentality in the past half month. In addition, the Chinese fighter jets have never been dispatched since that air battle, and their courage has become stronger. They have been more than 200 kilometers away from the aircraft carrier, and they do not send fighter jet formations to escort them. If the Chinese Air Force spares no expense, they will give them another time to ensure that they will sprinkle salt on the wounds of the Japanese Navy.
Unfortunately, Tang Dao knew that it was impossible.
Although the last victory was great, it was already the only remaining force of the Air Force. At that time, the senior management needed the entire Songjiang army to be alive. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of troops that were still evacuating were chased by the Japanese rank-headed rushing wildly, and the losses were probably not the future elites of the Air Force.
That's not because of how good the two lieutenant generals Wu and Guo are, but because they are obedient to the strategy of the entire battlefield.
But the small Guangde battlefield obviously cannot reach that level. Even those big guys are also very clear that if Guangde is lost, Wuhu will definitely lose, and Jinling's retreat will be completely cut off, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city have no way to retreat.
However, they still had fantasies that more than 100,000 elite troops deployed inside and outside Jinling City could block the Japanese army's troops.
No one knows what kind of intention the boss had to hand over the heavy responsibility of city defense to the commander who was unhelpful to "sustaining and dying with the city", and no one knows how the general did so that more than 100,000 elite troops could resist for only one week before the city was broken, and no one knows how they fled alone and left their commands who were still killing the enemy in blood.
That was undoubtedly the most tragic page in the history of the Chinese War, but they really did it.
Tang Dao, the Independence Battalion, and even the thousands of Sichuan troops guarding Jiepai Village, were just a small splash of water in the raging sea, and they could not stop this tragedy. The only thing they could do was fight.
Fight before oneself dies!
The thousands of arrogant Japanese naval bombers dived back and forth several times, dropping at least two tons of bombs, blew the defending positions into a pothole, like hell.
Nagano Tomomo was the captain of the bomber formation led by the team this time. Through the telescope, he carefully observed the Chinese position on the mountainside where thick smoke was emitting everywhere under the wings.
The jungle and bushes on the position were originally stripped off by yesterday's bombing and shelling, and the plane had already flown low enough that he could clearly see the corpses wrapped in black military uniforms scattered on the ground.
"Yo Xi! This bombing was very successful. The army and the horses and the mainland should be very grateful to the imperial naval elite for their efforts!" The Japanese naval captain nodded with satisfaction and boasted himself on the radio station.
"Haha! Captain Nagano, the army and the horses and the other soldiers should be looking up at the heroic posture of the Imperial Navy at this moment, and they are dazed!"
"The Army Ma Lu wants to thank him, but I will answer them on behalf of the Imperial Navy three words, no need!"
The Japanese Navy pilots who successfully completed the mission expressed their joy on the radio station.
This unchallenging bombing mission was too easy for them, like a public tour.
But I have to say that China is really too big. It has never seen Japanese Navy pilots with such a vast land in their lifetime, looking down greedily downwards 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 joy.
If the Japanese Navy pilots who were so proud that they would magnify their courage and move their flight altitude down by another two hundred meters, they might find that their bomb effect might not be as good as they imagined.
After spending a night, the trenches were dug in large quantities based on two trenches. The position was ravaged by bombs weighing more than 200 pounds. There were indeed many "corpses" wrapped in black uniforms of the Sichuan Army, which were unique to the Sichuan Army.
But if you get closer, you will find that the corpses are not bloodless.
It was the "scarecrow" made of branches and straw with a sudden inspiration from Tang Dao. He put on Sichuan military uniforms outside and placed them on the position in the early morning.
The huge air surge caused by the bombs, and these scarecrows in military uniforms were naturally rolled up all over the position. From a high altitude, there was no more corpse running away.
Because Lieutenant General of Sichuan Army had already set the tactics of "hot pot battle", he did not even put the observation post in the trenches, and the entire army hid in the dense forest behind the mountain early.
After this round of bombing, no one was killed except for more than a dozen soldiers who were injured by gravel falling from the sky.
As soon as the Japanese bomber group flew away, the soldiers who had already prepared were on standby. With a command, they would cross the ridge and enter the position.
Lieutenant General of Sichuan Army did not immediately give an order to enter the position. He and Tang Dao hid on the ridge and were observing the movements of Japanese infantry through a telescope. They were moving slowly, as if they were waiting for something.
Of course, it's waiting for the cannon.
Li Shoushan was cunning enough that ten minutes after the plane bombed, their cannon group began to roar.
This made the commanders at all levels of the Sichuan Army who were eager to enter the position and could not help but let out a cold sweat. If they entered the position in a hurry, they would be hiding in the trenches and being fired in vain.
However, the Japanese artillery preparations were much shorter than yesterday. In just fifteen minutes, their infantry moved. Three infantry companies and an infantry squadron, the combination of the Japanese and the Japanese, nearly 500 people rushed to the battlefield.
The signal flare was sent out, and more than a thousand infantrymen entered their respective positions through the traffic trench.
At this point, the cruelest day of the Battle of Jiepai Village has truly begun.
The Japanese army entered the front line of trenches without encountering any resistance.
But what they have to face seems to be a maze, a maze composed of trenches, with gunfire everywhere and resistance.
No one dared to jump out of the trenches to observe the battlefield. The higher places were occupied by China. At the suggestion of Tang Dao, dozens of veterans with good shooting skills were selected to serve as cold gunmen. They hid in high places and killed the Japanese troops who dared to be exposed to the trenches on the battlefield.
If you want to conquer a position, you have to occupy one trench and one trench, one position and one position.
No artillery or heavy machine gun is very useful here.
The two sides were close forces, and there might be enemies in the trench more than ten meters away. When hearing the movements here, several grenades or grenades were thrown over in succession, which would cost people their lives.
Is this a magical horse war?
The Japanese commander on the front line was a little confused!
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. They only need to put some more pressure on them, and perhaps they will completely collapse in the next moment.
But with the fierce gunfire on the position, half an hour later, the commander in front sent a signal for help. Li Shoushan and the two Japanese majors, who were drinking fragrant tea at the command center, were finally less calm.
What I saw in the telescope was a battlefield with smoke everywhere, like a pot of boiling water, fighting fiercely everywhere.
The imperial army was attacking resolutely, while the Chinese side was resisting tenaciously without any sign of collapse.
It seems that this is not the battlefield they imagined.
If they want to support, they cannot rely on cannons or heavy machine guns that have absolute firepower advantages, and only have the energy source to continuously send infantry.
Both sides of the war could only continue to add troops in the next period of time.
The position, like a chessboard, was like a small meat grinder, "grinding" the soldiers who were constantly throwing their commanders with cold hearts into corpses.
In just one morning, more than 500 bodies were transported back from the Japanese position.
But China has none of them.
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.
Chapter completed!