In the sound of artillery fire for days, the attacking Chinese troops gradually stabilized, the troops of the three battalions were hidden in the dug trenches, when the troops stabilized, the artillery bombardment of the Japanese troops in the rear was also constantly decreasing, in order to cover the construction of the attacking troops, the artillerymen were almost continuous and long-term shelling, the artillery did not care, at most it took some effort, the artillery could not stand it, after the mountain artillery heavy artillery fired for a long time, it would not only cause wear and tear, and there might even be a situation of exploding.

The observers of the 27th Army and the artillery of the various divisions observed that the attacking troops had steadily established a position in front of the Japanese positions, and immediately ordered the artillery shelling to gradually reduce the intensity of the shelling until there was a ceasefire.

The positions of the 59th Wing of the Japanese Army were bombarded with hundreds of shells, 75 caliber Bofors Mountain artillery shells and 82 mortar shells attacked the Japanese army's current first position, 150 heavy artillery shells bombarded the Japanese army's depths, and the casualties of the Japanese positions on the first line reached more than 60 in the shelling, and the Bofors Mountain artillery fired nearly 200 shells.

In the normal artillery bombardment, as long as the basic civil fortifications can be seriously built, most of the 75 caliber mountain artillery shells can be immune, and during the Battle of Songhu, even some collateral units of the Central Army can build civil fortifications that can resist the bombardment of 75 caliber mountain artillery bombardments, which shows that it is not difficult to withstand the construction of 75 artillery fortifications, but the lack of training of many Chinese troops, coupled with tactical problems, has led to all kinds of shortcomings in fortifications.

The Japanese troops in the front-line positions were stationed for a long time, the fortifications were basically perfect, and the 75-caliber mountain artillery was of greater significance to the suppression of the enemy's first-line positions, and the lethal effect could only be said to be very average, in addition to casualties, several machine guns were blown up.

The Japanese troops in depth were much more miserable, bombing their 150-caliber howitzers, the heavy artillery battalion fired nearly 100 grenades, constantly extending the artillery range, the rear position of the 59th Wing was blown up in a mess, the wing artillery that was originally going to fire was reimbursed more than half of the cannon before it was fired, and the remaining bombs fell everywhere, killing many Japanese infantry and communication facilities, the wired telephone line from the wing headquarters to the front-line troops was blown up, the wing commander Itanishi Ryoichi almost lost contact with the front-line troops, and there were also bombs near the wing headquarters, Fortunately, the wing headquarters was well repaired, and the soldiers who were killed and injured were outside. 、

After the artillery bombardment of the Chinese army, Ibansai Ryoichi no longer thought of a counterattack, such a fierce artillery bombardment, he has not encountered it since the war in China, and what can be compared with it is probably only the artillery bombardment of the Shanxi local army during the Shanxi operation, and the Xinkou operation, the Jin Sui army concentrated a number of artillery regiments to resist the attack of the Japanese army.

Compared with the artillery bombardment of the 59th Wing today, the scale of the Jin Sui Army's artillery bombardment is larger, but the killing and wounding are far inferior, the Jin Sui Army is mostly equipped with 75 caliber imitation Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery, although the number of artillery is large, but the quality and shooting technology are very average, and the casualties caused to the Japanese army are not large, and the shelling of Banxi Liangyi today, the scale is not as large as when Shanxi, but the power and effect are not at all on an order of magnitude, Banxi Liangyi looked at the craters and tragic conditions that were blown out outside, Naturally, it could be judged that it was heavy artillery of more than 100 mm caliber that blew them up.

"Quickly restore contact with the front-line positions, send soldiers, order the front-line troops to rest and recuperate, and the forward commanders can temporarily act on their own."

Itanishi Ryoichi was not clear about the casualties on the front-line positions, the shelling of the Chinese army stopped, and he could not determine the specific movements of the Chinese troops on the opposite side, so he handed over the specific operational authority to the commanders on the front-line positions.

The communications squadron of the 59th Wing received an order from Ryoichi Itanishi, restored contact, overhauled communications equipment, and dispatched signal corps to contact the troops on the front-line positions, and the signal corps connected the blown up telephone lines and restored contact with the front-line positions.

In the trenches of the attack troops of the national army, from Zhang Wei, the two friendly battalion commanders, to the soldiers, they were all looking at the Japanese positions after the shelling, and the excited discussions of the soldiers came from time to time in the trenches.

"Look at the position of the little devils, they are all smoking, and now they are hurt by our artillery."

"It's really relieving, don't you know, if Lao Tzu had such a fierce cannon when he was fighting in Shanghai, maybe he would have to knock down a few more devils."

Shortly after the shelling ended, Zhang Wei and the two battalion commanders of friendly forces got together to discuss further action.

In terms of the length of the trenches, at least half of the troops of the small brigade were stationed, and heavy machine guns could be faintly seen in the telescope, indicating that the Japanese army was probably the main force of a brigade.

"Now the Japanese army facing the enemy is at least the main force of an infantry brigade, from the point of view of fortifications, the garrison must be far more than the first line of positions we captured, the Japanese troops in the first line of positions are at most two infantry squadrons, more than 300 troops, this group of guys in front of us, more troops, you can still see heavy machine gun fortifications in the telescope, what are the thoughts of the two." Zhang Wei took the lead in saying.

"The devil on the opposite side should be the elite main force of an infantry brigade."

"The Japanese are not moving, so we can't freeze here, let's fight."

The two battalion commanders each expressed their opinions, and they were all right.

"The little devil should be the main elite of an infantry brigade, what the two of them said is good, the devil is not moving now, and the people of our three battalions have also stabilized, we are the attackers, and I mean the attack, but it can't be like the previous one-on-one style of play, it's best to follow the normal attack method, first test the attack, and then engage in a general attack." Zhang Wei said

"Let's camp, our battalion's losses will be smaller." A battalion commander took the initiative to take up the errand of a tentative attack, and the smallest casualty among the three battalions was the preparatory battalion, which was also the unit that killed and wounded the Japanese in the attack, and also provided support and cover for the other two battalions.

"Cheng, it's hard work, now the chariot hasn't come yet, let's start as soon as possible and feint once." Zhang Wei nodded, and the other battalion commander of the 46th Division had no opinion, his battalion suffered the greatest casualties in the attack, and there was no need to fight for this feint.

The three men agreed, and the attacking battalion quickly prepared for battle, with the remaining units providing support and cover.

Zhang Wei When they had just completed the fortifications, in order to strengthen the firepower of the front-line attack troops, the 276th Regiment of the 46th Division transferred a platoon of the mortar company of the regiment to the regiment, and the three battalions that attacked originally had no mortars and heavy machine guns at all, and all of them were left in the rear on standby, and the mortar platoon that had been reinforced was just enough to provide a certain amount of fire support for the feint.