Ever since he knew that the position in front of him was stationed by the Four Army Regiment, Luo He Shinjiurou, the commander of the 27th Division, had a constant stream of ambitions.

He finally had a chance to take revenge.

If we say that on the battlefield in North China, the division was the one who lost the most at the hands of the Sixing Regiment. I am afraid that no less than six Japanese divisions would pop up and say that they were qualified.

Among them, there must be the 109th Division. Since this unlucky child was stationed along the Changhan Highway, he was beaten up by the Sihang Group with his unlucky brother 108th Division, so that in the end, he would not say whether to sweep or not. As long as the 683rd Brigade of the 80th Army had coveted the county they occupied, they would be very satisfied.

Even in the end, the two divisions of the 109 and 108 were all scared when they heard about the Sixing regiment. They caught some guerrillas or intelligence personnel who claimed to be led by the Sixing regiment, and did not dare to hang them at the city gate as before. Many of them simply let go.

The Four Lines Group is a devil for other divisions, but it is even more of a nightmare for the two divisions nearest to them at the base!

Unfortunately, Yoshikiro, who graduated from the Imperial Army Non-commissioned Officer School in 1914, served as Chief of Staff in the 109th Division at that time when he thought his life was the darkest.

Can you imagine? An excellent imperial soldier who has served as the captain of the Shanhaiguan Grandmaster of the Chinese Army since 1934 and has always regarded China as a fat man, actually watched the Chinese infantry regiment suppress the Imperial Division and was powerless. What a grievance is that?

But everything on the battlefield depends on strength. The 109th Division cannot be defeated and will lose every battle. Even if it is a frustration, you have to endure it.

Fortunately, there was someone behind Luohe Shinjiurou. He only sank for a year in that extremely dark day. He was transferred to the senior staff officer of the Eastern Defense Forces Command and then to the deputy director of the Central China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy.

The Xingya Academy is a specialized agency responsible for handling matters of invasion of China. It is the commander of Japan's economic aggression against China. The Prime Minister of Japan serves as president, foreign minister, Tibetan minister, mainland minister, Hai Xiang and others serves as vice presidents.

It is precisely because of this experience that Luohe Shinjiro was promoted to the General Staff of the Chinese Expeditionary Army as Deputy Chief of Staff until 2 months ago, the 27th Division replaced Takeshita Yoshiguchi as acting division commander of the 27th Division, and was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Army on June 10 and officially became the division commander.

What Luohe Shinjiro didn't expect was that the first opponent he met when he served as the division commander was the one who woke him up from his nightmare countless times.

But this time, the Four Army Regiment no longer had the rugged Taihang Mountains as a barrier, nor did it have the powerful friendly army of the Eighty Army as a support. Instead, they had to face the siege of the 100,000 imperial army.

At this time, he was the commander of a lieutenant general division with an army of 22,000 troops.

There is an old saying among Chinese people: Cause and effect cycle!

So, the Japanese Lieutenant General, who was extremely excited but still calm enough, sent out four infantry brigades during the first attack.

Two infantry brigades formed a total of four rounds on the front battlefield of Huangchaling, and launched an uninterrupted attack on the front battlefield.

An infantry brigade was deployed on each side of Huangchaling, and it also formed four wheels at the level of infantry squadrons to attack the two wings.

The fire cover for them were 48 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 160 Type 96 light machine guns, 16 infantry guns, 24 mortars, and 130 grenade launchers.

Of course, there are also the most proud chariot troops of the Japanese army, including 12 Type 97 tanks and 6 95 light tanks, which belong to the 13th Regiment of the 3rd Chariot Division.

About 3,600 infantrymen rushed towards Huangchaling from three sides, but they were not like a group of locusts like Li Jiujin!

As Luohe Shinjiro thought, the strength of the Japanese was greatly enhanced at one time and another. However, after Huangchaling suffered at least 1,000 heavy artillery, more than 20 heavy aviation bombs and more than 4,000 other large and small artillery shells, it was already beyond recognition.

The 3,000-meter-long artificial cliff was collapsed dozens of places. The collapsed loess formed a slope that could be climbed at will. The deep trenches that buried 3,000 Japanese troops are now intermittent. It is difficult to drive Japanese infantry into the deep trenches like before, relying on these fortifications as before, they can drive Japanese infantry into the deep trenches and kill them wantonly.

The positions were densely covered with craters of different sizes. Many trenches supported by logs were collapsed by 150 heavy artillery, and even three 12.7mm heavy machine gun castles were hit by heavy bombs, leaving only a large black pit.

If Li Jiujin hadn't judged that the Japanese army's artillery preparation time would not be short, and that infantry would not charge in a short period of time, thus transferring most of the personnel and guns on the position to the reverse slope tunnel. Just 10 hours of artillery bombardment would have been able to kill the strong 3rd battalion with a half-destroy.

Even so, the observation posts that remained on the front line of positions also sacrificed 6 people and seriously injured 8 people. They were all still in the Yongguo fortifications that could prevent 105 howitzers, which shows how terrible the Japanese army's preparations for this round of artillery fire were.

To a certain extent, the fortification defense of the Huangchaling position is less than half of the previous one.

Facing such terrifying fire cover from the Japanese army and the one-time attack of 3,600 infantrymen, Li Jiujin, a veteran who had been in the army for almost 20 years, felt a little puzzled.

This feeling was the first time since the Sixing Group had completely gained a foothold in Taihang Mountains.

On the other side of Zhangjiashan, Iron Ebony was on the front line. This time, the Japanese lieutenant general prepared another 15 infantry brigades of nearly 11,000 infantry.

To a certain extent, Iwaaeon is more eager to capture the position in front of him than Shin Kyuro, who had just arrived here.

After all, the humiliation deep in Luohe Shinjiro's heart was left five years ago. Time is a good medicine to change any pain. From the increasing military ranks of Luohe Shinjiro, he did not pull all the 10 infantry brigades of his division to put them on the gambling table as soon as he came up. It was already obvious that although he wanted to take the position in one fell swoop, he still had some reservations.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! For Iwa Ever Wang, it is the position in front of him that devoured nearly 10,000 lives of his 116th Division in less than a month. This is a failure that he has never experienced in his military career.

The Japanese lieutenant general knew very well that if it weren't for the Army Base Camp's continued decline in morale to avoid temporary replacement, he, the division commander, might have reported his local work long ago.

He wanted to stay in a good place after the war without having to go back to his hometown to retire. His only chance was to conquer the south position and break through Hengyang City.

Therefore, Iron Ever Wang chose to take a desperate bet and pulled all the main forces of the 116th Division to the front line, forming a terrifying 6 wave attack group, which could ensure that within 2 hours, there would be continuous infantry attacks in front of all the high grounds of Zhangjiashan.

Iwa Ebony didn't believe that there was a unit that could withstand such high-intensity infantry advances after a one-day shelling of such large-caliber grenades as 150 and 105.

Indeed, at this time, the high grounds of Zhangjiashan were already full of devastations. The bushes that originally covered the hillside had long been bombarded into pieces. Looking around, they were all black.

The soil layer on the hillside has long been soft. When people walk on it, the floating soil can reach their ankles!

The 10th Division has laid a total of 3 infantry regiments, 28th regiments, 30th regiments, and 31st regiments, and 6,300 troops in the main positions on Zhangjiashan, Tiger-shaped Nest, etc. In this day's artillery attack, more than 800 people were lost, and the troops have been sharply reduced to 5,500, only half of the Japanese troops are about to start to attack.

The heavy machine guns used for defense are only 30, 90 light machine guns, and there are no more than 30 artillery types, which is far less than the 40 infantry guns, 40 mortars, more than 130 heavy machine guns and 290 light machine guns invested by the 116th Division to cover infantry charges.

It can be said that at this time, the Chinese soldiers on the south side of the city had only more than 6,600 troops, and their light and heavy firepower was completely behind the Japanese army. Their only advantage was that they were condescending and had trenches that had not yet completely collapsed.

At this time, the Hengyang Artillery Command was also very difficult to face the Japanese army's three-sided attack on Hengyang, and had to place all the mountain artillery fire support to the plains in the west and north of the city, leaving only the 32 gathered Type 81 mortars.

If it is an infantry division-level battlefield, it is definitely a happy thing for a commander to have artillery fire support with 32 mortars, but at this time, Master Ge, who is located in the division command, heard that there is no mountain artillery support and his face is full of bitterness.

"Check me to Director Tang." Ge Youcai spoke in a heavy tone.

The artillery command was no longer able to rely on it, so Ge ​​Youcai could only see if Tang Dao could help. Although the 12 mountain cannons of the Four Lines Regiment were under unified command of the Artillery Command, the Four Lines Regiment's Artillery Battalion still had a heavy company. Even if the 12 gates and 150 heavy force were uniformly given to the four gates in Zhangjiashan, it would be quite a help.

"The heavy-force company cannot move. I promised Li Jiujin and his 3rd battalion that whenever the Japanese army attacked 3,000-level infantry, the heavy-force company's 12 mortars will provide fire support to them with all their strength." Tang Dao refused Master Ge, who was asking for help very rarely on the phone.

Ge Youcai's eyes were even bitter, but he knew that Tang Dao had his own difficulties. The Japanese army used more than 3,000 troops to Huangchaling, while the total strength of the 3rd battalion replaced defenses in Huangchaling was only more than 1,100. The strength comparison between the two sides of the war was 1:3, which was even more disparity than the strength comparison of the more than 10,000 Japanese troops he had faced in the 10th Division.

If he were Tang Dao, he would have made such a choice.

"However, I just imported a few new artillery from the Americans before the war, and I have never been willing to use it. Today, the Japanese have invested a lot of money, so of course I can't hide it anymore. Since you have spoken, I promise you, 9 cannons and 6 rounds of volleys, to attack the Japanese troops on six positions from Zhangjiashan to Tiger-shaped Nest.

However, this new type of artillery has poor accuracy. When reporting that the coordinates of the shelling are required, it is better to be 300 meters away from our position, otherwise it will easily hurt our officers and soldiers by chance!" Tang Dao changed his mind and said again.

"Then thank Director Tang. I will ask your artillery battalion for artillery fire support based on the real-time battle situation." Ge Youcai's eyes were bitter and he tried hard to express his gratitude.

Although I finally got the promise of artillery fire support from Tang Dao, 9 small-caliber cannons and 6 volleys can do anything great, it is better to have it than not.

After hanging up the phone, Ge Youcai didn't call Fang Xianjue. He knew the personality of the army commander and knew that the positions on both sides of the west and north of the city must be extremely difficult. Otherwise, he would not have chosen to put the 30 most capable mountain cannons on the battlefields when he knew that the Japanese army in the south of the city had invested so many troops.

"Mad! The person dies and the eggs are up to the sky, just do it! Tell Zeng Jing and his team leader that Zhangjiashan is my cemetery. Don't be afraid of being lonely even if they die. I will never live a life, so I will accompany them here." Ge Youcai, who was holding his anger in his heart, threw his helmet on the table and issued a battle declaration to fight to the end of the 10th Division.

The second Hengyang Battle has just begun for a day and it has reached a white-hot heat.

The 3rd Division has invested more than 4,000 troops; the 27th Division has invested more than 4,000 troops; the 116th Division has invested more than 11,000 troops; and the 68th Division has invested more than 6,000 troops.

This is just infantry. If you include auxiliary troops such as artillery and armored soldiers, the Japanese army invested more than 30,000 troops in the attack battle at dusk on July 9th.

It accounts for nearly one-third of the total Japanese army's siege, but it has far exceeded the total Chinese army.

The Hengyang Security Regiment, which was originally responsible for the city's defense, was forced to gather to work as a reserve for the 3rd Division in the north of the city. The 2nd Battalion of the Fourth Army Regiment also arrived in the west of the city and acted as a reserve for the west of the city. The 1st Battalion of the Fourth Army Regiment, which had completed rest and recuperation, had also gathered at Yanhuifeng and was ready to support Zhangjiashan at any time.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! On this day, under the pressure of the Japanese army, Hengyang Command was forced to take out 90% of its power.

The first to enter the attack line was the 27th Division. There were still some machine gun castles on Huangchaling, and the flames sprayed out by the MG42 machine gun were still a nightmare for Japanese infantry.

However, as an old opponent of the Four Lines Regiment, Shinkuro Luo had long expected this. His way of dealing with it was not to let the infantry launch an "onboard charge". He knew that using military orders to drive soldiers to charge with military orders in front of such Germanic high-speed machine guns was undoubtedly suicide.

He almost transferred all the infantry artillery of the division to the area 1,300 meters away from the front line to cover the Chinese fire points. He did not ask that such direct aiming can destroy those annoying machine gun castles, but only wanted continuous artillery to interfere with them and could not continue to fire, even if it was to use gun smoke to block their sight.

For those Chinese infantrymen who have continuous firepower such as submachine guns and assault rifles in the trenches, Shin Kyuro also played tricks on the Western battlefield.

Only one-third of the nearly 100 heavy machine guns he installed on both wings were direct shots, and most of them were 1,000 meters away, and were projected.

It does not require accuracy. It only depends on the large number of machine guns and uses probability to kill Chinese soldiers in the trenches. Even if they cannot be killed, Chinese soldiers must not lie on the upper edge of the trenches and shoot on their infantry without any scruples.

These two moves are indeed useful. Faced with the continuous bombardment of dozens of infantry cannons, even if the castle is strong enough to withstand the 70mm infantry cannons' head-on bombardment, the splatters of shrapnel are not fun. The continuous strong smoke of gunfire blocks the view. It is difficult for the soldiers of the machine gun castle to continue to shoot continuously.

Even though the soldiers in the trench were not afraid of death, they would be somewhat worried about the Japanese army's bomb rain that was thrown from thousands of meters away.

The casualties of Japanese infantry at 300 meters away were greatly reduced, and the forward speed also increased a lot.

Fortunately, the Four-Road Regiment is not a battlefield. When they saw that the Japanese were playing like this, they wouldn't be polite. All 60-force ties 3 80 howitzers were, specifically bombarding infantry artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions thousands of meters away, completely giving up the suppression of infantry.

Smoke kept rising from the mountains and forests where the Japanese army was located. During the 20 minutes after the battle began, the losses of the Japanese artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions exceeded that of the first-line infantry.

"Appoint them to continue to suppress the Chinese positions at all costs. This is the last Chinese to fight hard." After receiving the casualties report from infantry artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions, Luohe Shinjiro's face remained cold.

He knew very well what kind of troops his opponent was. If they couldn't even counterattack, why did they suppress the two masters in the Taihang Mountains and huddled in the county and could not move?

It is useless to defeat such a terrible opponent with too many people. This has been proven by the Imperial Army in Taihang Mountains for several years and the blood of tens of thousands of Imperial soldiers.

Need to consume!

Yes, it means using the advantages of numbers and materials to engage in a war of attrition!

No matter how strong a buffalo is, if it keeps bleeding from its wounds, it will eventually fall down and become a lion's supper.

If it was a complete four-line regiment here, even if Luohe Shinjiurang is now the leader of the 27th Division, he would not have the confidence to win.

But here, there is only one of the Four Lines regiments, and he is fighting against the enemy with a division of 20,000 troops. He has enough manpower and material resources to fight with the other party.

Moreover, he was still waiting for the four-line group to be heavily imposed.

He knew that it was the killer weapon of the Four-End Group. Only when that thing appeared could he force out the true strength of the Four-End Group.

As the Japanese Lieutenant General who wanted to take revenge wished, 12 150-door reappeared, and shells fell on the battlefield, and black smoke rose. From time to time, the Japanese army flew up with violent explosions.

However, compared with the attack line with an overall width of 3,800 meters on the three sides of Huangchaling, the firepower of these 12 gates 150 is still too weak.

Luohe Shinjiurou can fully afford this loss, even if he adds 12 mountain cannons, he can accept it.

Then, a strange roar suddenly sounded in the air, which was a sound that had never appeared on the battlefield. The loud sound even suppressed the extremely fierce sound of gunfire on the battlefield.

The Japanese Lieutenant General involuntarily looked up and saw dozens of white marks flashing in the air, like waves stirred by sharks struggling to swim for food in the sea.

What is that? The same thought flashed in the mind of the Japanese army who were alarmed by the strange phenomena in the air!
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