Takeda Masayuki led the reserve to stand by 100 meters behind the attacking force, and Takeda saw clearly everything that happened in front of the position of the 3rd Squadron, and he was about to attack it, but the artillery bombardment in the village destroyed all this, and the Japanese troops who were attacking were forced to retreat back due to artillery fire.

The current battlefield situation, not to mention the right side of the road, Takeda no longer intends to break through there, and the second squadron of Mu Chao stationed there is also desperately resisting.

The center of gravity of Takeda's attack, on the left side of the road, the village position could not be attacked for a long time, and it was not easy to get close, and the outlying position of the village, which was the easiest to break through, was just about to achieve results, but it fell short, and the whole situation was very unfavorable.

Takeda Masayuki looked at the rumbling artillery fire and the Japanese soldiers who fought hard, and finally became anxious, he still had more than half a squadron around him, nearly a hundred soldiers, and his first brigade, after being ambushed by the teaching brigade, an infantry squadron lost its combat effectiveness, and there were only more than fifty people left, and these remaining soldiers were left on the road to take care of the supplies.

There are only two complete infantry squadrons left on Takeda's hands, and now the two squadrons of each of these two squadrons are attacking the positions of the teaching brigade on the front line, and they each leave an infantry squad to stay here as a reserve.

"Reserves, concentrate, attack the enemy's positions outside the village, and at all costs, attack them as well." Takeda ordered.

The adjutant of the brigade came to Takeda's side: "Your Excellency, the enemy's firepower is very fierce, not an ordinary Chinese army, we have attacked several times, and now even if these soldiers are lined up, they will not be able to catch it." ”

Takeda said anxiously: "Our attack is a failure, but the Kunlun Pass has been asking for help, the situation is more urgent than ours, if the reinforcements are not timely, the imperial army there can run out a few, quickly execute the order, attack!" ”

"Now the casualties of the enemy are not small, and they are also struggling, so they ordered the infantry artillery to increase the intensity of artillery bombardment, and strive to attack the enemy's positions in one go!"

Seeing that Takeda had made up his mind, the adjutant of the brigade no longer argued, the soldiers put obedience first, and as Takeda estimated, the casualties of the teaching brigade could not be ignored after a large-scale fierce battle, and the main casualties came from the third squadron, and the casualties could not be small if they were attacked with such a strong force.

Under the leadership of the adjutant of the brigade, nearly 100 Japanese officers and men who were in reserve rushed to the position of the 3rd Squadron, joined up with the Japanese troops who were fighting the front line, and organized a new round of offensive.

The 3rd Squadron, which had a rare respite, once again ushered in the artillery bombardment, as well as the Japanese infantry who shouted that they were loaded, regrouped, and charged............

The direction of the third squadron was tight, Zhang Wei could not sit idly by, in addition to artillery reinforcements, Zhang Wei rushed back to the village with people.

He Jinhai's engineer platoon had already been assembled, and when Zhang Wei rushed back, the dozens of soldiers were preparing weapons and ammunition in the fortifications and concealment departments in the village.

He Jinhai, Li Shaoyan, and Zhang Wei gathered here, and even He Kun, the leader of the heavy platoon, ran back, and the purpose of assembling the engineer platoon was, of course, to reinforce the third squadron, and now the position of the first squadron at the entrance of the village has completely stabilized.

Qiu Wei commanded the first squadron to defend in a disciplined manner, with sufficient firepower and strong fortifications, and the combat situation of the second squadron and the first squadron has stabilized, so Zhang Wei does not have to worry.

What is really worrying is the direction of Zheng Yiqun's third squadron, after the shelling, the Japanese army was bombed very badly, Zhang Wei thought that there was no need for the engineer platoon, who knew that the Japanese army reacted so quickly, the infantry on the front line was just bombed, and the reserves behind rushed up and attacked again!

The strength and artillery bombardment were more fierce than before, and according to this attack intensity, relying only on mortar support, the 3rd Squadron could not hold out for long, not only the main position of the 3rd Squadron, but also the communication trenches near its main position were also shelled by the Japanese 92nd infantry guns.

The Japanese infantry artillery squad also moved forward and shrewdly shelled the communication ditch.

"He Jinhai, how are the brothers?"

He Jinhai was fearless: "Don't worry, Captain, I have long wanted to fight with the little devil." ”

There are a lot of veterans in the engineer platoon, and Zhang Wei does not have to worry about these veteran soldiers of the engineer platoon for all kinds of problems that arise in the first actual combat of the recruits.

"Okay, then prepare to fight, the devil is obviously going to stare at Zheng Yiqun's third squadron, just now we hit this round of artillery over, and they were choked enough, it hurt at a glance, and now they are fighting back."

Zhang Wei looked at the bombed position of the 3rd Squadron in the distance, and said to the officers around him.

"I'll take the brethren with me." After He Jinhai finished speaking, he was about to get up, with a posture of leading people to rush immediately.

"Wait."

Zhang Wei stopped He Jinhai: "Don't go through the traffic ditch, there are bullets and shells everywhere now, it's too dangerous, wait until the Japanese army rushes closer, listen to my order for you to go up again." ”

He Kun, the platoon commander of the baggage platoon, got up and took a look: "Captain, if you put the devil closer, Captain Zheng and their position are afraid to be ......."

Zhang Wei's intention was to let the Japanese army rush closer, and even break through the position of the third squadron before launching a surprise attack, He Kun was worried that the third squadron would not be able to hold on.

"We have only one platoon in the reserve at hand, there are not many people, good steel should be used in the right place, the Japanese army is charging now, the shelling is so fierce, if you go up now, it is equivalent to adding fuel to the fight, and it is not very useful."

At present, the offensive and defensive posture of the 3rd Squadron and the Japanese army is basically a positional battle, and the Japanese army is desperately attacking dozens of meters in front of the position, and there is still a certain distance from the defense line of the 3rd Squadron.

At this time, it was useless to throw He Jinhai's engineer platoon in.

Moreover, the equipment of the engineer platoon is mainly based on close-range firearms, and the squad leader and deputy squad leader of each squad are equipped with 20 shots, and each squad has two flower mechanisms, so that the advantage of assault firepower cannot be brought into play in positional warfare, and submachine guns are not even enough to fight positional warfare with 20 shots.

Moreover, the soldiers of the engineer platoon are mainly veterans and have relatively rich combat experience, and now they are engaged in battle, and their excellent combat qualities cannot be brought into play.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Wei wanted to let the Japanese troops over, or even put the attacking Japanese troops in the position, and then give them a hard blow to repel them.

Only in this way can we use the assault firepower and quality to obtain the best combat results and inflict the greatest casualties on the Japanese army.

He Jinhai looked at Zhang Wei: "Where is the third squadron?"

Zhang Wei sighed: "Let Zheng Yiqun hold on again." ”

Behind He Jinhai, the soldiers of the fully armed engineer platoon squatted in the trenches, waiting for an assault amid the rumbling of artillery.