Chen Guozhong's judgment was still accurate. At this time, the person who was forcing the Xiaobian River was most of the 30th Brigade under the 16th Division of the Japanese Army (those 33rd Regiment 2nd Brigade).

After leaving behind two squadrons of Japanese troops on the river beach, the main force advanced forward in the direction of Rory. During the march, the Japanese army continued to maintain the loose triangle formation well.

From the Xiaoba River beach to the Qianshou, you must first pass through a large area of ​​flat open space with a slightly higher terrain than the river beach, and then pass through a large depression to reach the entrance of Qianluoli Village.

At the junction of the flat and depressions, the Japanese army was hit by the fire of the Chinese army's mortars. This time, it was more violent than the last time. The Japanese army was not panicked. While organizing artillery fire to fight back, they were still advancing towards the depressions step by step. However, if you observe carefully, you can still find that the Japanese army's pace was much faster than before.

The commander of the Japanese army, Colonel Susun Kawashiki, was convinced that no matter what tricks the Chinese army was ahead, it would be impossible to defeat a brigade of the "Imperial Army".

Colonel Susukawa Shizuki knew that many troops from the 38th Regiment, the second echelon behind him were already climbing onto the north bank of the Xiaoba River. In order not to squeeze on the river beach with the follow-up troops and unable to unfold the troops, he could only lead the brigade in his hands to occupy the Former Rory, so that he could control the river beach and more effectively ensure that the main force of the brigade could cross the Xiaoba River smoothly.

In Colonel Susakawa Shizuki's artillery blockade, the Chinese army's artillery fire blocking was just a harassment operation, and its purpose was to slow down the speed of the Japanese army's advance. Even if the Chinese army in the former Rory could block the vanguard force under its command, as long as the subsequent troops could keep up, there would be no problem in winning the battle.

Judging from his experience in China's combat, if the Chinese army defended a place to death, it would probably have fought the Japanese army in a bloody battle on the frontline positions.

If you just want to hold back the Japanese army, you will mostly use this kind of tactic of sequential resistance.

Since the river beach position has been successfully taken down, what remains is how to deal with the harassment and war of the Chinese army.

He never expected that the 100 Independent Brigade would "overestimate himself" and launch a frontal attack on the First Brigade he personally commanded in this depression. Moreover, the purpose of the attack was to annihilate all his First Brigade.

"Captain Zheng, are your artillery battalion confident that after all the Japanese troops entered the depression, the first shot hit?" Cheng Jiaji asked Lieutenant Colonel Zhengzhong, the battalion commander of the Independent 100 Brigade.

In order to teach the Japanese army a painful lesson in the past, so that they dare not attack too rampantly in the next few days of combat, Cheng Jiaji took out all the capital of the Independent One Hundred Brigades.

"The brigade, no problem. In order to fight this battle, the observers have already divided each area on the trough and set their own position coordinates. As long as the Japanese army enters the trough, our battalion will be sure to attack that." Battalion Commander Zheng answered his commander with bloody eyes and gritted his teeth.

Zheng Chong was originally an artillery company commander in the Central Army, and one of the few guards who escaped from the dead city in Nanjing. Cheng Jiaji had only read and seen the inhumane "good" things the Japanese army did in Nanjing, but Zheng Chong had experienced everything personally. He had only a lot of hatred for the Japanese in his heart than Cheng Jiaji. He had the opportunity to ask the Japanese for some interest in his lifetime. At this time, his excitement was self-evident. (As for the capital, he had to go to Tokyo to seek it!)

For fear that the artillery battalion commander, who was deeply frightened, would be distorted and forgot to transfer positions in time and let the Japanese artillery on the other side destroy all the assets of the Independent 100 Brigade here. Cheng Jiaji hurriedly explained a few more words.

"Remember to fire eight shots at the depression first, the field artillery and mountain artillery will be quickly extended to the river beach. Infantry artillery war defense artillery will deal with the Japanese in the depression and shoot all the shells for me. Also, please note that the distance between artillery artillery should be large, and the position should be transferred every twenty minutes. I will leave the engineering battalion to your command, and I will be responsible for moving the cannons. In addition, I will also give you a company's communication force, and the telephone line should follow the cannon position. If you can't contact the front, use people to relay the message. In short, you must maintain rapid communication with the front at all times.

After leaving the artillery position, Cheng Jiaji returned to the 200th Regiment headquarters located in Qianluoli Village.

At this time, Wen Songyuan had already gone to the front, and most of the people from the 200th Regiment Army also followed. The entire regiment was empty, and only Qian Shen was still there and carefully looking at the map.

"Brother Weili, has Liu Yicheng's troops arrived?" Cheng Jiaji asked Qian Shen as soon as he entered the door.

Qian Shen replied briefly and powerfully: "The traveler has arrived. I just arrived."

When Cheng Jiaji heard this, he felt nervous for a long time before he could really relax. When he formulated this combat plan, he was most worried that Liu Yicheng could not assemble the majority of the scattered garrisoned supplementary regiments (the regiment headquarters and the two battalions.) within the designated time to join the war.

The total force of eight battalions of 45600 people (one of which was an artillery battalion, one engineer battalion, one special battalion, and five infantry battalions) was used to deal with the Japanese army with at least half of the regiment, and they required them to be eaten within one night. This battle was already difficult enough to fight. If Liu Yicheng's two infantry battalions were not in place, Cheng Jiaji could only fight with his teeth, but if that was the case, the result of today's battle would be even more difficult to say.

Cheng Jiaji said that he would not dare to lose Xiao Banhe, the only natural barrier that could still be used as a barrier on the first day of the blocking war.

The two of them didn't talk to each other anymore, just sat down on their own.

Both of them felt like a mirror in their hearts. The other party was waiting like himself, waiting for the first cannon in the depression.

On May 23, at 5:30 pm, after the first brigade of the 38th Japanese Army's 1st brigade entered the depression, the artillery battalion of the 100th Independent Brigade launched an artillery fire on the Japanese army with all its might. (The other two squadrons of the Second Battalion, which were on the same brigade as this brigade, were left on the river beach to cover the second wave of crossing the river.)

The artillery battalion of the Independent 100 Brigade is equipped with more than a dozen field cannons, mountain cannons, infantry cannons, and war defense cannons. The lethality of this cannon is not the same as that of a mortar. The artillery battalion had already roughly measured every piece of land in the depression. The cannon was so accurate that it was like standing on the head of a Japanese to throw a bomb.

Most of the artillery shells shot out from the first three rapid shots of the artillery battalion fell into the Japanese marching queue. Almost every shot could take away at least five or six Japanese lives while exploded, and one or no less than this number of Japanese troops were injured by shrapnel. (This is because the Japanese marching queue was very loose, otherwise the results would be much greater than what they are now.)

There was even a shell of German-made 75th Field Cannon that directly knocked down the flag of the 38th Japanese Army. The flag was naturally immediately blown to pieces, and most of the flag guards next to the flag were killed and injured. Colonel Susukawa Shizuki, the commander of the 38th Japanese Army, who was commanding the battle next to the flag, was also hit by shrapnel and was seriously injured in the abdomen. (The 30th Brigade was once the guard force responsible for the "safety" in Nanjing urban area. It was the command of the Nara hawker's son who burned tens of thousands of private houses in Nanjing on the grounds of keeping warm, burning 20,000 to 30,000 peaceful residents alive.)

The Japanese army, which temporarily lost unified command, scattered under the attack of Chinese troops like a sea of ​​artillery fire, attempting to avoid the artillery fire of Chinese troops.

At this time, dense gunfire sounded around the Japanese army. Under Wen Songyuan's leadership, two battalions of the 200th regiment (the night before had already been filled with a large number of combatants from other troops who were contained, each battalion had four companies and about 800 people.) Before the artillery fire had completely stopped, they launched a charge on the Japanese army. The troops commanded by Wen Songyuan were very cunning, and they did not rush forward, but launched an attack on the Japanese army with a strange firepower ratio.

At the suggestion of a battalion commander of the 200th Regiment, who had served as a company commander in the Sichuan Army Guo Xunqi's army, Wen Songyuan divided the vanguard into three rifle squads, three small cannon squads (equipped with daily grenade launchers and sixty mortars), and three submachine gun squads, and one company formed three companies to squeeze the Japanese army from three directions.

Facts have proved that this firepower ratio, which was very powerful in close combat, caused the Japanese to suffer a lot. The Japanese army, who were beaten up to the point of being beaten, were forced to concentrate in the center of the depression. Although the Japanese army, which formed a dense formation to defend, could temporarily effectively resist the attacks of the infantry of the Chinese army.

But he was killed and injured by the Chinese army's infantry artillery war and anti-cannons.

After a while, more than a thousand Japanese troops entering the depression were killed and injured in a very short time. Under the command of the First Battalion Leader, Major Kumamoto, the remaining Japanese troops wanted to attack the river beach, but were intercepted and killed and injured by the firepower of the first battalion of the supplementary regiment that had been penetrated to the left of the entrance of the depression. In addition to a small part of the Japanese troops rushing out to meet with Kawahara, who came over to rescue the First Battalion, most of them had to retreat to the depression to resist.

A group of follow-up troops that had just assembled on the river beach found that the vanguard was in a hiding place and rushed forward. When the Japanese army advanced to the flat open space, they happened to hit the death net of artillery battalion woven with wild cannons and shells, and immediately let the dense shells explode. (It was found out after the war that the two infantry squadrons of the 38th Regiment of the Japanese Army and its second subordinate brigade were on the river beach. The brigade of the Third Battalion led two infantry squadrons, including about 1,300 combat soldiers.)

The Japanese army was still waiting to attack forward regardless of everything, and there were shouts of killing sounds on the river beach behind him. It was the second and third battalions of the supplementary regiment and the special agent battalion of the brigade headquarters, under the leadership of Liu Yicheng, who came to the Japanese army from the direction of Xiezhuang, the upper guerrillas. They had already arrived at the designated location and had been waiting for an hour in the upper reaches of the Xiaoba River.

The Japanese artillery on the west coast were very fast and reacted in about ten minutes. The artillery positions of the Chinese army on the east coast began to be suppressed. Because the distance was too far, the specific location of the Chinese army's artillery positions did not cause much damage to the Chinese army's artillery positions at the beginning.

The Japanese artillery was not stupid either. Seeing that the retaliatory artillery attacks at the opponent's artillery positions did not achieve the expected results, they turned their guns to the supplementary regiment led by Liu Yicheng, a small Japanese army guarding the squad on the river beach.

The Japanese artillery fire caused great losses to the troops of the supplementary regiment. Among them, the third battalion of the supplementary regiment responsible for robbing the Japanese Pizza was the biggest loss. A whole company had no time to avoid the Japanese artillery bombardment, and all the Japanese artillery shells were slapped there, killing and injuring hundreds of people.

However, the third battalion of the supplementary regiment completed the mission, and the Japanese army's Pizza parked on the river beach were all destroyed. The Japanese army guarding the side of Pizza were also dead. The Japanese army on the other side saw that Pizza was about to be burned, and was furious and carried out an indiscriminate artillery bombardment on the third battalion of the team attacking the Japanese army's guarding Pizza. This shelling not only made no Japanese squad survive, but also caused more than half of the third battalion to be killed and injured. At the same time, all Pizza also sank the Japanese shells.

Fortunately, it was dusk at this time, and the gradually darkening sky affected the Japanese artillery effect. The fact that the main force of the Supplementary Regiment had rushed into the open space and had joined forces with the Japanese army's large group of soldiers and formed a group of troops, which made the Japanese army dare not throw the shells into the open space. The main force of the Supplementary Regiment did not pay a greater price at the Japanese guns.

The Japanese artillery could only turn the muzzle toward the artillery positions on the other side of the shore, but this is actually no worse than before.

This is mainly because the Chinese army's artillery often transfers artillery positions.

Unlike the Japanese artillery, the Chinese army's artillery was very familiar with the terrain of the east coast, and had a large number of communication soldiers to ensure their timely contact with the front. The shooting rate in the dark was much stronger than that of the Japanese army.

When the lights were held, the war situation in the East Coast was on the surface and was beneficial to the Chinese army.

Although the battle in the depression continued, the remaining two or three hundred Japanese troops were just dragging down time under the siege of the first main battalion of the next two independent 100 Brigades commanded by Wen Songyuan. (The first battalion of the supplementary regiment has been built and is blocking the Japanese troops from moving closer to the depression in the open space.)

And three battalions under Liu Yicheng were attacking the Japanese army in the open space from the direction of the river beach.

Although the Japanese army commanded by the deputy captain of the 38th Japanese Regiment, Oyama-ji Ichizakasa, also suffered a lot of losses, it did not hurt its vitality after all, and its total strength was nearly a thousand people. The troops of the independent 100 Brigade of the four battalions fighting against it had a great advantage in terms of number (there are 1,600 troops directly under the four battalions and one regiment.) However, among these four battalions, the battle between the first battalions and the special agent battalions directly under the brigade headquarters is reasonable, and the combat effectiveness of the two battalions is worse.

Under the crazy anti-Pakistan of the Japanese army, if the Chinese army had not had the advantage in artillery fire at this time, perhaps the Japanese army would have rushed into the depression to meet with the Japanese army of the First Battalion or retreated to the river beach to use artillery fire support on the other side until dawn.

The Chinese army's artillery fire was so happy that the Japanese artillery was not idle. Although it was not accurate to launch artillery attacks on unfamiliar areas in the dark, the Japanese army still rushed to the edges of the plains and river beaches.

This almost blind artillery attack by the Japanese army caused considerable trouble to Liu Yicheng's troops. From time to time, Japanese artillery shells that had blind cats hit dead rats exploded on the edge of the Liu army's rear guard troops, causing certain casualties.

In short, the battle situation in the open space is deadlocked there, and no one can do anything to anyone for a moment.

But Cheng Jiaji knew very well that this independent brigade was almost unable to fight.

Among them, the main force of the main force of the 100 Independent Brigade, the two main battalions of the 200 Regiment, which were fighting in the depressions, had almost one-third of the casualties. Even if they were trapped and suppressed, they were not easy to deal with.

The four battalions commanded by Liu Yicheng now have more casualties. Just the charge that rushed over from the river beach to cut off the enemy's back, the Japanese army had more than 300 brothers under the guns on the other side.

From the start of the war at 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, in just one and a half hours, Cheng Jiaji himself estimated that at least 1,300 casualties of the 100 independent brigade had been injured or killed, and perhaps this number was less.

Now there are about 1,200 Japanese troops on the east coast alone. With the independent 100 brigades, even if they eat up the Japanese troops in the depression, they will be unable to do so if they want to eliminate nearly 1,000 Japanese troops in the clearing ground in one night.

The 100 Independent Brigade is almost exhausted, and there is still more than one Japanese army on the other side of the shore. It is impossible for the Japanese army on the other side to rescue more than a thousand Japanese devils on the Xiaoban River, although the Japanese army's slashes have been destroyed.

But the Japanese army could also build a pontoon bridge on the river or look for ships along the river. Cheng Jiaji knew that although he had sent troops to confiscate all the ships on the Xiaoban River in the early morning of this morning. (Chen Jiaji didn't know that the Japanese army would come so much. But it was still necessary to confiscate the necessary homework for river defense such as riverside.) But in the Lianghuai area where the Shuiwang River is crisscrossing, it should be only a matter of time before the Japanese army could get a large number of ships.

Although it takes several hours to build a bridge or find a ship to the Japanese army, if the war still drags on like this, then there is still enough time left for the Japanese army.

If the Japanese reinforcements crossed the Xiaobian River tonight, the 100 Independence Brigade will not only not eliminate the Japanese troops on the Xiaobian River on the east bank, but also likely will allow the Japanese army to bloom inside and outside. If the 100 Independence Brigade will have to be destroyed by that time.

But to this extent, Cheng Jiaji couldn't even withdraw his battle at once.

"Jiang Feng is still in touch?" Now Cheng Jiaji could only expect Jiang Feng to get more people from the mouth of the Sui River. If that happens, he will have some capital to block the Japanese on the Xiao Sui River.

When he got the negative answer, Cheng Jiaji, who was so anxious that he was almost crazy, rushed to seek medical treatment and ordered Qiu Shaoyan to generate electricity for all Shangfeng and friendly forces who could contact him.

Cheng Jiaji didn't know that Jiang Feng was already on the way forward with his harvest.
Chapter completed!