In the following days, the Chinese and Japanese armies repeatedly tug-of-war between Jijingli and Kaicheng. The Japanese army finally failed to regain the position in Jijingli due to weak firepower. On the 18th, the Third Division of the Guards advanced to about eight kilometers north of Kaicheng and began to build a defensive position.

At this time, the main force of the Guards had completed the deployment of the left wing, right wing and central clusters respectively on the Jijingli to Zhongshali line according to Liu Shaoqing's deployment. In addition to the third division, which is now outside Kaicheng, as the right wing, the Seventh Division and 111 Brigade were deployed as the central clusters on the Longxingli to Jiuhuali line. The left wing cluster was Duan Qirui's Eighth Division, plus the Second Cavalry Brigade, the First 12th Infantry Brigade and the Heavy Artillery Brigade, a total of 30,000 people, responsible for the Jiuhuali to Zhongshali line.

Corresponding to the Guards, the Japanese army deployed the Third Division on the left wing, the Central Group was the Fourth Division and the Ninth Division, and the Eighth Division was deployed on its right wing. In addition, the Second Brigade of the First Division was deployed in Wenshan as a reserve force and responsible for protecting the supply lines and retreat routes of each unit.

On the 19th, the 3rd Division in Kaicheng received reinforcements from the 18th Brigade of the 9th Division of the Central Cluster, with a force of 23,000. It was replenished by a mountain artillery regiment. After the reinforcements, the 3rd Division began to launch a counterattack on Yang Yong's troops. At the same time, in order to avoid the main force of the 3rd Division being threatened from the flanks, the 6th Brigade of the 9th Division began to attack Longxingli, the only protruding part of the Guards. The 4th Division, as the core of the attack, launched an attack like Changfeng. The 2nd Brigade of the First Division and the cavalry brigade integrated by the first and fourth divisions as reserves, were ready to enter the Guards' defense line at any time.

Long Xingli was the first to bear the brunt of the Guards' defense line.

The 11th Brigade of the 11th Division of the 11th Division of the Guards was responsible for the defense mission. As the only protruding part of the Guards on the defense line, Longxingli has extremely important strategic value. From here, eight kilometers west is Kaesong, the main force of the 3rd Division, the Panmunjom stationed by the 6th Brigade, and the position of the 4th Division of the Japanese army in the southeast. For the Japanese army, if you take Longxingli, you can cooperate with the 3rd Division to eat Yang Yong's third division to the west; if you cooperate with the 4th Division to eat Muller's seventh Division to the east, and you can directly threaten Liu Shaoqing's army command center to the north. Therefore, whether it is the Japanese or the Guards, it is impossible to give up this place easily.

As soon as the battle began, the first line of defense was lost under the joint attack of two Japanese brigades.

The 11th Division was a newly formed division shortly after it was established. According to the original plan, the division should complete all training plans in September and officially became an army. However, due to the outbreak of the war, the division was sent to the Tangshan front line only after the first stage of training was initially completed. Although it performed well in Tangshan's encirclement and suppression of the Japanese Second Army, the Second Army was already in a state of perseverance at that time, so this division had not actually fought any war. This time, it was slapped by the Japanese army and the entire brigade was stunned and showed signs of collapse.

Fortunately, the 9th Japanese Division, which was responsible for the attack, was also mostly new recruits.

When the Japanese army expanded its army, they used the three-three system to expand the army. That is, 30% of the veterans in the standing division were drawn to form a new division, and then supplemented the shortage of personnel in the standing division, and then 30% of the veterans were drawn. In this way, each newly formed division would include one-third of the veterans, which to a certain extent guaranteed the combat effectiveness of the troops. But even so, 70% of the soldiers in the Ninth Division were still rookies who had first been on the battlefield and had not even participated in the exercises. This was the same as the 11th Division.

Therefore, the Ninth Division also suffered a lot of losses in the offense, and the recruits did not know how to preserve their physical strength during the offense, which made the Ninth Division's attack seem a little overwhelmed after taking down the first line of defense.

Cao Kun took advantage of this space to stabilize the second line of defense with difficulty. At the same time, he realized the problem of his division and urgently applied to Liu Shaoqing to send an additional veteran unit to reinforce.

Unlike the other two directions, the left wing of the Guards is now very leisurely.

"This is the voice of the 82nd force. It seems that the Japanese are weak and the sound of cannons can no longer keep up." The speaker was Feng Delin, who was born in Dalian Village, Wenxiang Township, Haicheng, Liaoning Province. This man joined the countryside of Haicheng at the age of 17. Later, due to disagreement with the bannermen, he threw himself into the Green Forest in anger. Because of his fair and chivalrous man, the local people called him the "Rank General". Later, the imperial court organized a new army in Shengjing. Feng Delin was passionate and abandoned the green forest and joined the new army. He is now a squad leader of the Eighth Division.

Following his voice, a young man next to him asked with a smile: "President Tuan, how do you know that the Japanese are not good?"

Feng Delin hit the boy's head with a slut, tilting his hat. "How many times have you said that you are not allowed to call the regiment chief in the new army, but call the squad leader!"

The young man didn't care about being beaten at all, and still stared at his big eyes with a look of desire: "Okay squad leader, just tell me."

At this time, another young man leaned over and said, "It's the squad leader, just talk."

With the second joining, the other soldiers immediately cheered: "Tell me, squad leader!"

Feng Delin was picked up by everyone and was immediately proud, so he said, "You have been two years late for joining the army and have not learned combat courses yet, so we will teach you in advance." As he said, Feng Delin straightened his body. "This marching is divided into offense and defense. Among them, offense is also divided into active offense and defensive counterattack; defense is divided into... divided into..." As he came here, Feng Delin had a little forgotten and quickly covered up: "Anyway, there are many kinds, I

I won’t say so much to you first. Let’s talk about this Japanese attack. The Japanese are taking the initiative to attack, so before the attack, they must be ready for attack. This offensive preparation is first of all, artillery preparation. That is, before the attack, use artillery to cover and strike the opponent’s defensive position, and blow up the opponent’s fortifications and firepower points preset on the defensive position as much as possible. At the same time, it can also kill and injure personnel and give psychological deterrence to the soldiers on the defensive position."

At this time, the first young man interrupted and said, "Squad leader, what is psychological deterrence?"

This young man is called "Lao Geda", which is Northeast Dialect, which means "the smallest". He was brought into the new army by Feng Delin, and he was eighteen years old this year. After joining the new army, the company commander gave him a name, Zhang Zuolin.

When Zhang Zuolin first dated Feng Linge, he was in Gaokan Town, Yingkou. At that time, he had injured his second brother and fled there and worked as a mate to sell buns for the boss in a big cart shop. Feng Linge, who was 9 years older than Zhang Zuolin, often checked in at the big cart shop where Zhang Zuolin was. When he saw Zhang Zuolin being clever and likable, he had told him many stories about the green forest heroes. At that time, Zhang Zuolin was full of respect for Feng Delin.

Seeing Zhang Zuolin ask this, Feng Delin said, "This psychological deterrence is to scare you. The enemy uses cannons to blow it up, and the sound of cannons will be thumping, which can scare you out of shit!"

The second young man immediately spoke: "Can this scare you? Squad leader, just make up, how loud is this sound?"

This boy is called Sun Liechen, two years older than Zhang Zuolin. Because he had sold horses before, he was nicknamed "Sun Horse Traderer". Sun Liechen's name was naturally only given in the new army.

Feng Delin kicked him with his waist and scolded, "What do you know? There is a saying in the team, "New soldiers are afraid of cannons, and veterans are afraid of machine guns." That's what you said. You hear that the cannons are low now, and that's a long way from a distance. If it falls on our heads, it will shake you to death! I'll tell you in advance. If the Japanese pass by us and start shooting cannons, no one is allowed to run away. As long as they stay in the trenches obediently, the shells will not blow us up. If they are afraid of running back, they will only die faster!"

After being kicked, Sun Liechen became much more honest and responded quickly: "Yes, yes. By the way, the new recruit you just said is afraid of artillery, and the veteran is afraid of machine guns. Why is this veteran afraid of machine guns?"

This question is very good. Feng Delin glanced at the boy with appreciation and said casually: "I just told you, don't look at the powerful shells, one big piece of shells, one big hole, one big hole, but this shell has two disadvantages. First, no shell will fall on the same place, so when shooting, you just need to find a crater and it will be fine. Second, this shell cannot be hit into our trenches."

Zhang Zuolin said strangely: "Why can't the shells hit our trenches?"

Feng Delin said: "It's still two points. First, the Japanese did not have heavy artillery. Their shells were not powerful enough. Our trenches were dug deep, so they could not collapse. Since they could not collapse, they would naturally not explode to death. Second, the shells were shot out, and it was a straight line. Even if they were arcs, the arc was very small and it could not reach us."

The new recruits didn't understand this explanation very well. Feng Delin wanted to make a good fight for them on a whim, but at this moment, a violent whistling sound came from the air.

The company commander's shout came from a distance: "Enemy shelling! Be careful of concealment!"

Feng Delin suddenly pulled the two young men beside him, and yelled: "Let's go down!" As he said, a shell exploded more than ten meters away!

This was the first time Zhang Zuolin felt the shelling. The huge roar, accompanied by the violent vibration from the land, made him feel that if Feng Delin had not been pressed under his body, his heart would have jumped out. Now he really knew what it means: scare you out of shit.

I don’t know how long it took, but Zhang Zuolin felt that it had been a long time since there was no sound outside, but Zhang Zuolin was still curled up on the ground and did not dare to move. At this time, a big foot kicked his butt, and Feng Delin’s shouting passed on to the ear: “Get up quickly, the Japanese are coming up!”
Chapter completed!