Itagaki Seishiro was obviously prepared for the attacks of Lincheng and Ishigawa.

This is an unprecedented tough battle.

The 20th Regiment of the 114th Division was divided into two, one of which was specifically designed to contain the 13th Division of the Central Army.

Another artillery brigade moved to the northwest of Lincheng.

Specializing in shelling the army that attacked Lincheng.

Under the suppression of the Japanese artillery fire.

Whether it was Guan Linzheng or Wang Zhonglian, both armies fought fiercely.

Seeing the position where the attack was successful.

Immediately covered by the Japanese large-caliber artillery.

Then he encountered a counterattack from the Japanese.

This made the Twentieth Corps, which rarely fought on the tough battles, very uncomfortable.

When the general was replaced at the last battle, Xue Yue replaced Tang Enbo. The desire for war within the 20th Corps was affirmed and supported. Those voices who suggested preserving their strength were suppressed because of the arrival of the commissioner.

One soldier will be a crotch, and one will be a crotch.

Xue Yue's determination to annihilate the Japanese's war spirit.

All military commanders made statements at the meeting.

If you fail, you will be successful.

The soldiers were generally very brave in fighting. Even the platoon leader rushed forward, picked up the bayonet, and fought with the Japanese on the position.

But Xue Yue was still not satisfied.

The attack starts at dawn.

After an entire 8 hours of attack, the east and west lines were not taken down, even Lincheng and Yicheng.

The Japanese fortifications are basically built in the wild.

If you continue to fight like this, you will definitely not be able to seriously damage this part of the Japanese army one day and one night.

The 11th Division has already advanced westward in two routes.

Bai Chongxi rushed to the front line. He commanded Sun Lianzhong and Feng Zhi'an to disperse the troops to both sides of the highway to fight one after another. He used mines and explosives, but he still couldn't stop the Japanese from constantly detouring on the plains, and the battle was extremely hard.

I don’t know how long it will take to make this rain. Today’s rain has fallen to the present, and there is no sign of the clouds dissipation. You can attack in the afternoon and in the evening.

If Lincheng does not break through, Zhang Desheng's 9th Cavalry Division and Yu Jishi's 74th Army cannot be developed, and they cannot detour to attack the rear of Lincheng.

"Guan Linzheng, what's wrong with Wang Zhonglian? When receiving the military order, he patted his chest and took down Lincheng for ten hours. Now eight hours have passed. The positions outside Lincheng have not been cleaned up, and the Japanese still show signs of support to Lincheng!"

The heavy weight of this battle was Lincheng. Xue Yue was anxious. After planning for so many days, the Sichuan Army paid a huge price, and waited for the right time, place and people.

Now I can't break through the first line of defense of the Japanese.

"Commander Xue, I called Guan Linzheng just now, and he went to the front line to command himself. Don't worry, just break through Lincheng!"

"How can we not be anxious? Maybe the rain will stop tomorrow. We cannot severely damage the Japanese army tomorrow morning. This battle is a huge joke!"

Xue Yue thought for a moment, then asked He Guoguang again.

"Guoguang, please contact Sun Zhen and Guo Xunqi. See if their artillery can suppress the Japanese artillery positions. Can Sun Zhen help from behind and attack Lincheng!"

"The 114th Division of the Japanese Army is still attacking Guo Xunqi's troops. The 14th Division of the Japanese Army had an attempt to cross the lake to Weishan Lake. Zhang Zizhong had already fought with the Japanese army. After Sun Zhen's cover of the northern and southern battle situation in Teng County, he himself transferred a regiment to reorganize Guo Xunqi's 50th Army. There was a shortage of troops. It would be inappropriate to let him attack at this time!"

At the critical moment, none of the troops affiliated to the Five War Zone lost their chains.

For the battle situation, I worked silently.

Both of them were a little moved.

No matter how moved the cruel battle situation on the front line is, the nerves of these two people are still tense.

Another hill passed, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

A corps of the Japanese reinforcements arrived.

The troops that had just broken into Lincheng were driven out by the Japanese again.

The outer periphery of the Imperial City on the eastern front is also not optimistic.

There is no assistance from heavy artillery with ultra-long ranged large caliber heavy artillery.

The Yunnan Army, Guizhou Army, and the small-caliber artillery of the 110th Division under Lu Han were all destroyed by the Artillery Corps of the 18th Division in the morning.

Two of the three coalition forces fought continuously, and once again suffered huge casualties. They had just touched the city of Yicheng.

The ten hours they made a military order to win the Lincheng Yicheng.

Nine hours have passed now.

Zhouzhuang can hear the sound of gunfire coming from Lincheng.

He Guoguang trusted the Sichuan Army very much and asked the Corps staff every hour to summarize the battle reports, and sent reports to the liaison officers sent by the Sichuan Army to Feng Tiankui and Guo Xunqi.

The Japanese drew a corps from Guoqideng Detachment to support the Lincheng battlefield.

Zhou Xiao judged that the 52nd Army and the 85th Army could not take down Lincheng on time.

He was complaining in his heart that the Twentieth Corps was too useless and only led out a gang of Japanese soldiers from their fortifications.

He and Feng Tiankui had already let the artillery stare at the 20th Field Artillery Regiment of the 114th Division of the Japanese.

At the same time, a brigade that fought artillery battles with the 13th Division had been moving positions between several backups.

The two were a little confused whether it was artillery support or to let the troops go together.

"Fight, Xiaoshan, the artillery brigade that the Japanese fought with the 13th Division is not far from us. I asked the troops to move forward and shoot them near the Japanese defense line. If I can't take Lincheng for two hours, the battle at night will be difficult!"

"I'll take the new 21st Brigade?"

To support Lincheng, Zhou Xiaoshan still doesn't want to expose too much firepower.

Now Luo Jialie and Nishio Shozuo are still fighting fiercely on the northern front.

Whether it is the light infantry breaking through the artillery blockade, the two divisions attacking from the front, and the 12th Division that deviates to the hills behind the western front of the former 128th Division defense line.

Almost all the close tactical points are fighting fire.

There are battlefields everywhere, and the Sichuan Army's vitality is consuming everywhere.

Su Hai escorted Chu Tianshu to the rear hospital.

Luo Liang returned to the team in the morning with two hundred people, and could be used as the main force of the assault. A small group of troops broke through the opponent's defense line and would not give the Japanese an impression that the main force of the 66th Army went south.

"Breaking the truth, let Zhen Mingyu take it!"

"It's best if Luo Liang takes the brothers of the secret service camp to tear the Japanese defense line. Just seize the hindshots of the Japanese Artillery Brigade. I'm afraid Zhen Mingyu won't do it!"

"Luo Liang can go. Before Zhen Mingyu set off, I will explain to him personally and ask him to take the New 21st Brigade to cooperate with him!"

What else Zhou Xiaoshan wants to say?

Sun Zhen accompanied Liu Xiang in.

"Tiankui, I see that the new 20th Brigade is gathering. We want to attack in advance?"

"There is no way. The Japanese's defense exceeded Xue Yue's plan. Their attacking troops in Lincheng cannot take down Lincheng as scheduled. The next battle will be difficult. Let's go and help!"

"I'll go, Tiankui?"

"You're still waiting to attack with me at night. In this battle of Lincheng, we have to use a small amount of troops to tear the Japanese defense line, so as to force the Japanese to ruin their own stance, so that the 20th Corps will successfully capture Lincheng without losing their attack, and the fighting style will be more strange."

Sun Zhen was not showing off, and Liu Xiang waved happily, letting Feng Tiankui let go.

The 20th Corps didn't know that the Sichuan Army was about to launch a strike on the two artillery brigades of the Japanese.

The battle was cruel.

Soldiers fell almost every minute.

After more than nine hours of attack, the two armies lost almost three regiments that had completed the establishment.

With Wang Zhonglian, Guan Linzheng personally arrived at the front line command post.

The commander of the 2nd Division, Zheng Dongguo, and Chen Daqing, commander of the 4th Division, went to the front line together.

Braving the artillery fire of the Japanese army, we urged the brothers to engage in the most cruel street battle with the Japanese on the newly occupied city wall.

The Japanese artillery was so hateful. The blocks to the south and southeast were almost taken down by the two armies.

The shells came again with a whistling sound.

Seeing that the brothers climbed down one after another, and were worried about being buried in the ruins, they had to wait for an opportunity to leave the city to hide.

At this moment, the artillery from the northwest direction fired, aiming at the Japanese artillery positions.

The shells were shot to help defend the Japanese artillery brigade in Lincheng.

Japanese mountain cannons with caliber or above 105 are also mixed with 150mm Japanese howitzers.

The explosion was earth-shaking.
To be continued...