Originally, the unit of the Ryofu in the Miyagi stayed west of the Ming River, where there were hills that could escape the Chinese artillery fire.

But seeing less than 200 officers and soldiers who escaped by chance in the First Infantry Brigade, Miyaunuchi, who completely broke the defense, moved the corps forward in order to inspire the morale of the entire regiment, only 1,700 meters away from the Chinese position that was about to be attacked, completely below the 150-strong range.

The Colonel was so determined. In addition to the mountain artillery squadron with the farthest range, it was still about 3,500 meters west of the river bank. What else can I say about the rapid-fire guns and infantry artillery squadrons? They all approached the position to an area less than 1,200 meters away from the front line, which was almost the rhythm of fighting with the Chinese.

"When two tigers meet, the brave will win!" Although he is famous for his calculations, Colonel Ryosuke Miyasu is a typical promoter of the theory of decisive victory in martial arts.

He has always firmly believed that in the face of absolute strength, all calculations are futile.

The Chinese cannot win this battlefield, just like the Sino-Japanese War where the Empire is winning streak, which is the result of the Empire not yet giving its full strength.

Indeed, although Japan's dispatched troops in China have reached a scale of 700,000, the Kwantung Army still has nearly 600,000, plus the 56 divisions that have been constructed in the local area, from the data, Japan seems to have only taken out one-third of its strength to defeat China in the Chinese battlefield.

Don’t forget that war is a consuming monster, and it consumes not only money and supplies, but also people.

In fact, during the entire war, Japan invested a total of 120 divisions into China, with a total force of an astonishing 4 million, accounting for half of Japan's total recruitment.

The Chinese battlefield is like a huge swamp, which makes the so-called Japanese Empire's leg set out towards glory before it can even take its time to step out.

Of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, although the Chinese side slashed a sword against the wind and cut off one arm directly, the Japanese army still had an absolute advantage.

There is no need to talk about the advantages of hardware. The 1st Division, which is fully organized, has 30,000 troops, plus a 3rd Division, an infantry brigade of nearly 7,000 people, and two infantry regiments of the Public Security Army. The strength of the 43,000 army can be eaten alive, not to mention a special infantry regiment, even an infantry army and an army group can be eaten alive.

In addition, there is also the Japanese North China Army Aviation Corps, which is also determined to avenge the shame. In order to cooperate with the tactics of the Front Command, Major General Kaoru Kataoka, who was the commander of the Army Aviation Corps, assembled 10 flight squadrons, including 96 96 fighter jets and 12 old 93 heavy bombers, as well as 12 Type 97 heavy bombers that were just mass-produced and put into service last year.

The 96 fighter can only carry a few hundred pounds of bombs at most to do bombs. It is just a part-time job to do a 93 heavy explosion and 97 heavy explosion are real bombers.

The 93 Heavy Explosion was very low because of the frequent failures after participating in the war, and it has been replaced by the mass-produced 97 Heavy Explosion since last year.

The Type 97 Heavy Blast has a bomb load of 1000KG and a ceiling of 8600 meters. Driven by a 1024-horsepower engine, it can fly at a speed of 430 kilometers per hour even at a height of 4000 meters, and the range reaches an astonishing 2500 kilometers.

This is also the greatest confidence of Major General Kataoka Kusama who arrived in Pingbei City and promised Commander Tatianjun that he would definitely complete the bombing mission.

After talking about hardware and software.

This time, the First Division came to Zishan. Okabe Saburo, who knew his opponent was dangerous, had made sufficient preparations. Reconnaissance planes flew over Zishan from time to time and took a large number of photos of the actual terrain of Zishan.

When he was still in Shengjing, Saburo Okabe, who reorganized the division, built a purple mountain sand table in the combat room of his division headquarters.

Not to mention the mountain highlands, even the streams shown in the photos, Okabe Saburo, who is striving for excellence, ordered the General Staff to replicate them perfectly.

For more than 3 weeks, two major generals and brigade commanders of the 1st Division and 13 col-level officers would report to the division headquarters' war room every morning after completing the work of the headquarters.

Later, even if the infantry corps leader like Miyanuchi Ryoto closed his eyes, he could clearly draw the topographic map of the position he was attacking.

With absolute strength and so much emphasis, Miyanuchi Ryogo doesn't believe that the Chinese can win this time!

Except for the 1st Infantry Brigade, which was completely destroyed, all the other units of the 501 Infantry Regiment have arrived in the designated area and built field fortifications with the shells flying from time to time from the opposite mountain.

More than 20 artillery pieces belonging to the 501 Infantry Regiment were also ordered to fight back, but they all vented the artillery fire to the surface positions visible to the naked eye of the opposite mountain.

The flowers blooming on the mountain are to cheer up their own infantry. The Chinese people blast us, so we will also blast back!

Secondly, it is naturally paving the way for the attack behind. It can destroy more Chinese trenches and fortifications before the infantry attacks, and can also reduce infantry losses accordingly, right?

"Squad leader, what are the Japanese doing? Hitting us with this little cannon is just tickling us!" A Dong, who was located in the fortification of the observation post at the No. 5 position, looked at the mortar shell splashing not far away, and a strong disdain surged in his eyes.

Adong, who has been in the army for one year and two months, is not Chu Ge who is the first to go to the battlefield. He has seen both 150mm howitzer shells and 500-pound aviation shells. The power of 75mm mountain cannons and 70mm infantry cannons is naturally nothing in his eyes, especially when the positions have extremely complete fortifications.

Just like the observation post where he and Tu Yunsheng were, an embedded trench was cleverly dug out using the protrusion of the mountain. The outside was covered by steel rifles and reinforced concrete. There was a rock layer more than ten meters thick on the top. Unless the Japanese used cannons above 100 mm caliber, they would never be blown up.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Just now, a 75mm mountain cannon shell landed directly above the observation post. In addition to the huge explosion, the two of them felt a little dizzy and discomfort, and the observation post was unscathed.

"The Japanese are shaking the mountains and shaking the tigers, and they are also showing off their strength for us!" Tu Yunsheng, who has been promoted to deputy platoon leader and squad leader of the fourth squad, was not as optimistic as Adong.

Handing the telescope to Adong, Tu Yunsheng explained to his guards: "The artillery fire they are now showing is limited to mountain cannons, infantry cannons and mortars, which are artillery belonging to the Japanese infantry corps.

But look at the general strength of the Japanese army. The battalion commander killed a thousand people with shells and raids. How could a single infantry corps have so many infantry? This is definitely not the ordinary Japanese division we have worked in before. I am afraid that the force will exceed our imagination.

The Japanese are probably holding their ultimate moves right now!"

"Hehe! No matter how big the move is, the Japanese will come to attack our position. My gun that I just issued was waiting for the damn god!" Ah Dong was not afraid, but instead patted the gun on his back with anticipation.

It was a large rifle that was just sent to the infantry squad 15 days ago. The thick gun barrel and the thick bullet as thick as a chicken egg made Adong fall in love with it at first sight.

Given that Adong is now Tu Yunsheng's guard and his shooting skills are also among the top three in Class 4, Class 4 assigned him this shotgun named "Dragon Vain" by the regiment commander.

This shotgun, whose ammunition model has been changed in the design of the Tang Tuanhou, is actually not a new thing, but the famous Winchester shotgun in World War I. It is currently eating dust in the American cowboy arms warehouse.

Rockefeller had almost no effort to get these inventory from arms dealers, just like the US government after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 in time and space. It didn't even make any changes, but just carried it to China with a little maintenance.

The only difference is that the ammunition formula is slightly changed, with the addition of the "Dragon Breath Bomb" with a white phosphorus formula and more fragmented bullets with lead particles. No matter which one, as long as it enters the human body, it is destructive destruction.

One is that the wound will burn after being torn through passive energy, and the other is that it is made into a sieve by lead particles. Even if it is not hit by the vital point and does not die immediately, it is life is worse than death.

Tang Dao knew very well. On the Pacific battlefield in time and space, countless Japanese soldiers held bayonets, screamed, and then rushed to the American cowboys like a tide. This is the daily life of the American Marines. Faced with this daily life, the American cowboys' response strategy is not to raise the eight-piece and heavy machine guns, but to take out a shotgun produced by Winchester to deal with these crazy Japanese.

In the jungles and trenches on Pacific islands, this shotgun with a range of less than 100 meters has become a nightmare for the Japanese!

This is a firearm designed for jungle and trenches and urban street fighting!

As a shotgun soldier, Adong naturally tested this kind of gun on a special shooting range. At a distance of 80 meters, five wooden targets made of hardwood were shot into sieves by him.

After countless explorations and experiments, he could shoot out 5 guns in as fast as 7 seconds, which was simply a god block that killed gods and Buddhas.

With this gun, even if a small group of Japanese soldiers rushed up, he would be confident that he would kill them.

"You kid, when Wangwushan met you last year, why didn't you find that you had this characteristic? I was so excited when I heard that I was going to fight a big battle!" Tu Yunsheng looked at A Dong, who was full of confidence, and his eyes also had a sense of fighting spirit.

Tu Yunsheng was finally promoted to the second lieutenant in the middle of 39 years. Leng Feng originally wanted to transfer him to the 9th Company to be the main platoon leader, but Li Jiujin forced himself to stay in the 7th Company as the reason why he was not flexible in his legs and feet and was promoted to the deputy platoon leader in the 7th Company.

The squad leader became the deputy platoon leader and the second-in-command of the infantry platoon with 93 people. Tu Yunsheng's perspective of considering the problem was naturally transferred from a soldier to a grassroots commander.

But Adong's words reminded him that the so-called generals came to block the water and block the soil. No matter what the Japanese did, they would have to send people to come up in the end, and both sides used bullets and bayonets to see the truth.

I'm afraid of his eggs!

"Okay, let me see how powerful your baby gun is!" Tu Yunsheng laughed and patted Adong on the shoulder.

"Let's go! Brother Fu goes back to the tunnel to get some sleep. He didn't sleep well last night!"

"Squad leader, are you nervous?"

"What am I nervous? I'm just worried that Lao Cao will miss his wife and children again."

"No! I heard Uncle Cao snoring and making a sound..."

"You can't speak, so don't speak!"

March 8, 1940!

The 1st Division officially showed its fangs to Zishan.

Because Zishan belongs to the remnant lineage of Taihang, the mountain stretches very much, with an overall area of ​​more than 20 square kilometers. The 1st Division did not surround Zishan from all sides, but attacked from three directions.

The first attack group is the 501,502 infantry regiment belonging to the 1st Infantry Brigade, with a total force of 12,000.

The second attack group is the 503,504 infantry regiment belonging to the 2nd Infantry Brigade, which is in the northeast direction, with a total force of 12,000.

The third attack group is the 18th Company and the 34th Regiment belonging to the 29th Brigade of the 3rd Division and a puppet infantry regiment, which is in the southeast direction, with a total force of 10,000 people.

The Four Army Regiment has long built its own defense system based on geographical terrain. Except for the 1st Battalion, one company in the southeast of Shanxi, the other three infantry battalions were all the main forces.

The total length of the three defense lines exceeds 13 kilometers and have a depth of 1,500 meters. There are a total of 10 infantry companies, 6 artillery companies and 3 air defense companies.

Not counting as a reserve team, a 3,000-person security regiment, the Four Corps has invested a total of more than 6,400 troops.

Of course, if we add the four main groups of the 683 Brigade standby in the depths of the Taihang Mountains less than 18 kilometers away from the Zishan area and a main group of the Hebei-South Division, China actually has 23,000 people staying outside the battlefield and eyeing it.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! But according to the results of the discussions between Tang Dao and the leaders of the 921st Division, no matter how tragic the battle is, they must wait until both sides of the war are exhausted before they appear.

They didn't help fighting, but stabbed the last one.

Although Tatanjun and Okabe Saburo also considered the Eighty Group Army, they never expected that Tang Dao would be so amazing. They would rather sacrifice their hard work for several years than put all the 1st Division, which had just been seconded from the Kwantung Army.

Tang Dao really knew that this was his best opportunity before the outbreak of the Pacific War, an opportunity to wipe out the entire Japanese division, and it was also the best opportunity for the Four Army Regiments and the Eighty Army to shock the world.

Without exposing your strength, launching hundreds of thousands of troops to raid, you can beat the Japanese North China Front Army to cry.

But the premise for doing this is that the Zishan defense zone, which is less than 10,000 people, can block the fierce attack of more than 40,000 Japanese troops and make it shed all blood on Zishan.

After being held in for more than half a year, Tianjun will never be able to take out only one and a half divisions to get things done.

At 7 a.m., when the sky was just dawn, a brighter light burst out from Purple Mountain than the rising sun.

The Japanese artillery fired.

A gang of artillery 48 artillery pieces, 24 75 mountain cannons and 12 105 howitzers, 12 150 howitzers, plus the 4 artillery pieces belonging to the infantry gang, covered with all the artillery fire. Every second, at least 10 shells fell on various positions in Zishan.

The entire Zishan seemed to be trembling in the cannon fire!

But this is just a small prelude before the storm comes!

In the morning light, Yuancheng Airport, Baoding Airport, and Pingbei Airport, Japanese planes jumped into the air from the straight airport runway.

In addition to the 96 fighter jet with a size of 'petty' and still full of bombs, there is also a large 97 heavy bomber with a wing area of ​​70 square meters that can carry 7 people.

Captain Sasaki led 24 96 fighter jets that had already hovered at an altitude of 3,000 meters, waiting for the bomber group flying from Pingbei City to join them.

His superiors have revealed to him that if this battle is successfully completed, he will be promoted to the Army Major at the end of the month and complete the leap from lieutenant to assistant officer.

However, Captain Sasaki, who had experienced two years of war, was not as happy as he imagined.

Looking at the left and right portholes, the Imperial fighter jets, which were like bees, still could not bring a sense of security to the Japanese Army captain.
To be continued...