"Prepare for battle, meet the enemy!"

"Machine guns in place!"

In the dense artillery fire, there are Japanese soldiers coming and going everywhere, some are carrying weapons and ammunition, some are looking for their own fortifications, most of the Japanese troops and equipment in the fortress have been in place, each fortress has at least one Type 92 heavy machine gun, in addition, it is also equipped with one or two, and even three eleven-year light machine guns in some fortresses, which is commonly known as the crooked sub-machine gun of the national army as an auxiliary.

The commander of the Japanese position was a captain, and in charge of the entire position was a brigade of the 50th Wing, and the captain was not responsible for personally commanding the front-line, but handed over the command to his lieutenant.

This captain is called Kawashima, he has rich combat experience, and he has been entangled with the preparation battalion for a long time, and he was also on the front line to command the Japanese army's previous attacks on the reserve battalion and the friendly two battalions.

Needless to say, the result of the Japanese counterattack was repulsed, and more than 100 people were killed, and Kawashima was keenly aware that the other side was not an ordinary Chinese army. The 1,000 or so Chinese troops he fought with were much stronger than the opponents he had experienced in previous battles, especially the enemy troops who were holding the central position, and even inflicted heavy damage on the "imperial army" by throwing grenades at close range.

The central point, which was supposed to be a predetermined breakthrough point, was forced to shift the focus of the attack to the left flank of the enemy's position because of the large losses in the grenade attack of the Chinese army.

The attack on the left flank went smoothly, and at one point they entered the enemy's position, but in the end they were repulsed, and it was the reinforcements from the center that repelled them!

In the offensive battle, Kawashima, with his many years of experience, did not feel how strong the Chinese army on the left and right flanks was, and the real threat came from the Chinese army in the center, which dared to put the "imperial army" in a defensive battle and was able to organize grenade throwing at close range.

All this speaks of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army in the Central Division.

If Kawashima guessed correctly, before the large-scale attack, the Chinese army had organized a feint of dozens of people, and the tactics of this small force of feints were quite good, and Kawashima believed that although it was not as good as the "imperial army", it was not much worse.

In terms of tactics, the Chinese troops who came from the feint attack performed very well in terms of individual tactics and alternating cover between squads, and most of this small unit was also subordinate to the Chinese army holding the central position.

In the battle with the feint Chinese army, the enemy actually used a curved firearm, and the sound of the firing and explosion of this light curved firearm sounded very familiar to Kawashima.

The Chinese army does not have light mortars, and combined with the sound of explosions, it is the Type 89 heavy grenadier canister equipped by the imperial army!

The strength of only a few dozen people was equipped with two eight or nine grenadiers, and these grenadiers could only be taken from the hands of the "imperial army", and Kawashima could not help but sigh in his heart, I don't know how many warriors of the "imperial army" died in their hands.

Kawashima held up his binoculars to observe, and his command post was much safer than the foxhole, at least he could observe the situation in front of the position relatively safely.

At least a hundred Chinese troops opened the skirmish line and rushed in, soon coming within firing range.

Looking at his subordinates again, there were constantly falling bullets throughout the position, and the falling bullets were mainly concentrated near the foxholes near the neighboring fortress.

The Japanese soldiers who entered the foxhole were forced to lower their bodies, hoping to avoid shrapnel by curling up, the Japanese soldiers were not tall, as long as they squatted down, they could put their bodies into the foxhole, but the foxhole had no roof, and shrapnel entered the pit from time to time.

The soldiers of the preparatory battalion were getting closer and closer, Kawashima looked at the increasingly tense situation, and made a decisive decision, the decision to fire in advance, he had realized that the role of the foxhole would be greatly reduced, and the shells hit near the foxhole, which was obviously suppressed, and many people were suppressed in the foxhole and could not raise their heads, so they could only fire in advance, in exchange for distance, in exchange for the loss of firepower due to the shelling of the Chinese army.

"Fire now!" Kawashima yelled.

The signal soldiers around him took out their signal guns and fired signal flares into the sky, and the Japanese army's positions and fortresses were criss-crossed, and there were foxholes and standing firing trenches, and it was time-consuming and laborious to transmit orders verbally, and the field telephones could not be reached in the scattered fortresses, so the signal guns were the best communication equipment.

In the sky, a red signal flare was hit and slowly landed, and the body of the missile rubbed against the air, emitting a whistling sound.

The flare is the signal to fire, and it looks obvious. Even the Japanese soldiers inside the fort could hear the screeching sound of flares falling.

"Kill!" The Chinese army's shouting and killing sound became louder and louder, and the charging distance of more than 300 meters, the first company of the preparatory battalion that rushed to the forefront rushed through more than 100 meters, and the distance between the Japanese army's main position was about 160 or 70 meters, and the original plan was that the Japanese army's firing distance was about 100 meters, and the machine gun fire in the fortress could be brought into full play, but I did not expect the Chinese army's artillery bombardment to continue without stopping.

After Kawashima's order to open fire was issued, the Japanese troops in the fortress were the first to prepare, they had a relatively strong fortress as a shooting bunker, far stronger than the open foxhole, the Japanese troops in the fortress loaded the machine guns, aimed, and in an instant, eight Type 92 heavy machine guns and more than a dozen crooked light machine guns were aimed at the charging Nationalist troops, and the first to bear the brunt was a company.

The fortress located in the center of the Japanese position is the benchmark fortress of the Japanese army, and eight Japanese soldiers in the fortress are waiting for a Type 92 heavy machine gun and two crooked light machine guns.

The Japanese shooter held the grip of the 92 heavy machine gun tightly and did not fire immediately, and there was a Japanese corporal next to him, and the corporal was also qualified to control the timing of the fire when he was fighting, and although the commander in the position, Kawashima, gave the order to open fire, but in the Japanese army, which had a serious tradition of "going down to the top", it was not surprising that the corporal was a little slow to execute, or added a little of his own ideas to the officer's order.

"Fire!" The corporal delayed for more than ten seconds, and finally gave the order to open fire.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun spit out orange-yellow flames and fired at the onrushing Chinese troops, and the other two crooked light machine guns were on the left and right sides of the fort, responsible for the flank firing range, and the 92 heavy machine gun opened fire before firing. After the central fortress opened fire, there were forts on both wings, and the Japanese fortress group formed a tight network of fire and flew towards the rushing Chinese troops......

"Kill!" Shouting the sound of killing, the company that rushed to the front had spread out as much as possible, and dispersed the battle formation, but after a dense rain of bullets from the Japanese army, the soldiers of the company who rushed to the front still fell more than a dozen people at the moment of attack, and the blood marks flew up, and the bodies that bravely rushed to kill fell with them......